Recent reviews by BoddaN

This game is pretty decent, until you reach the "cool" and fun high-tier vehicles.

If you love grinding and wasting money, this is the game for you.

It takes a really long time unlocking new vehicles at the top tiers, and don't be surprised if you're losing Silver Lions (in-game currency, SL for short) while doing so. The research and money rewards are just way too low. Add to that the fact that you have to upgrade modules of each vehicle, and some of those modules are essential for even playing the game, and not having the upgrades is known as the stock syndrome.

There's been a lot controversy lately regarding those module upgrades, since the Spare Parts and Fire Protection Equipment (FPE) modules have to be researched, and researching them on top tier tanks may take 30 games each, while also losing SL. Tanks are virtually useless without these upgrades, if you're hit, you're out. Not having other modules such as ammo types and engine upgrades can be compensated by having skill (aiming for weakspots, driving more cautiously), the lack of Spare Parts and FPE cannot. (The introducation of huge maps make it so that it's hard to know where the enemies are so you can get shot from anywhere.) Thus many players spend real money on Golden Eagles (GE, in-game currency) to get these modules and to regain the lost SL, or they simply quit the game out of frustation.

Until they fix the research and SL gains/requirements and remove/change the Parts and FPE system, don't get into this game.

Here are some videos and forum threads if you want to know more about the controversy:

https://www.reddit.com/r/Warthunder/comments/9jdrog/rwarthunder_fpeparts_megathread/
https://forum.warthunder.com/index.php?/topic/427247-the-great-fpeparts-discussion-thread/&
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o4yr59jm2WQ
https://youtu.be/Z_YZ8An-A5o
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-EQlvd-RANI (Controversial video from the devs)

The game itself is great, but with the recent update I've really gotten tired of Valve's greed for money. They keep adding unnessecary bs things just to make money (eg. graffiti, stattrak music kits). And they don't seem to listen to the community.

For a long time people have wanted stuff like 128 tick servers, but what did we get instead? Sound updates, skins, skins, music kits, skins and more skins. Do we really need all that stuff? The sound updates were okay, but were they really needed?