War Thunder - Game review

Well been playing it a week now and thought id do a review and try to get you ground pounders into the air war !!



So first up my thoughts overall and what its all about ...... ITS AWESOME !!!

Warthunder is a WW2 flight battle MMO that has varying levels of difficulty based around the control systems so if you want an arcade type game it fits the bill but if you want something tougher then yu can ramp it up all the way to full realistic flight with fuel mixing, trim adjusting and wind/weather effects.

At the moment I am playing it in the arcade battle mode and must say it is the smoothest and most fun flight battle game I have played. The gfx and physics engine is precise and has so far no lag issues at all. This means what you shoot at is there and when you learn your leading fire you can pick off engines with ease depending on the targets skills as a pilot to evade fire.
When you first pick up your flight stick there is a bit of tweaking and things to learn before you will get it but I can help with what I have learnt so far and have an easy control system set to get you going so dont get disheartened if yo ucant hit anything at the start it will come very quickly once you have keys set.

The main bulk of the game is dogfighting but there is also a sizeable amount of ground attack and area capture targets involved which add a few new dimensions and tactical challenges and also coming with the full release is the ground and naval games so not only flight but tanking and sailing will be part of it.

Levelling is very much like world of tanks but has a subtle couple of differences that are really good.

You have your account level which adds skills to you as a pilot such as "Keen sight" : further range vision & "G Force Tolerance" : obviously you wont black out as easy.
These are learnt with XP you gain in any nation aircraft so always remain with you.

I do find the leveling is a lot easier and fairer than in Tanks where if you help in killing an aircraft you get a sizeable chunk of reward and attacking ground targets gives good rewards. I have only been playing for about 4 days and already at tier 7 in one nation and 4 in another so it doesnt take long and there are a couple of tricks to it.

There are tons of different missions from Historical co-op missions to dogfighting team missions etc etc so its not just the same battles to do like in tanks and heres somethings coming soon to War Thunder :

Full world of tanks style tank battles check out an example tech tree below to see all the shiny stuff coming :

Example tank tech trees





Also full Naval tech tree coming soon with carriers for air support
wooohooo !!!

Found nice video explaining crew skills might come in usefull for us noobs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TnWsMTFkGwU

I got it downloaded last night and it was simple to pick up and play.
Username in it is obviously Malfius
I will get my mic sorted and get on TS Thursday

nice one mate im going to do a fun tourney for us with set planes as a laff and to improve us and get us ready for tourneys

Was enjoying the dog fights before they packed the pc, missus was laughing at my head ducking action.

hahaha nice

head ducking you say, you havent seen anything until you have played chivalry