Recent reviews by Ekiprax

So after ages of waiting for this game, and very little said about it, it has amazing potential to be an absolutely STELLA!!! RTS tactical game.

However as it stands currently its an unbalanced and unfinished mess, troops behave erratically sometimes just flat out refusing to shoot at things in direct line of sight and within range (not helped by the lack of a LOS tool), as well as just walking in circles sometimes. Buildings when occupied by enemies seem to be almost invincible, then when using specified shock troops to dislodge them you will take 80% casualties rendering that unit useless for the remainder of the mission, basically meaning even basic troops can hold against incredibly advanced and upgraded troops. flip the coin however and even your most dug in soldiers in a entrenched building will seemingly get one shot out of nowhere an incredibly frustrating experience when you have spent 5 missions levelling up a sniper unit with good gear only to have it in stealth mode get deleted by an enemy you cant see. these are just a few of the gripes I have with just the mechanics of the RTS portion

Step outside of this and to the main campaign map and you have a poorly thought through and half finished game, half the sites are un-visitable or you never get any side-quests to go there. you have to Guess how much supplies you need before moving to a new sector meaning you can literally have a campaign end because you dont know your next missions distance away from you. the unit variety and upgrade potential is lacking to say the least for a asymmetrical tactical RTS

The game play loop seems to priorities and promote careful and methodical game play but then punishes this on the large map by forcing you to disband or sell the troops you've carefully accrued just to get to the next mission...

All in all if your looking to pick this up maybe wait 6-9 months when the devs or community have released some patches or mods to either balance the gameplay or introduce QOL improvements.

I fail to believe anyone has completed this game on the realistic mode without having to either reload or play though the missions before hand on a easier difficulty so they know whats in store. as playing through this blind on realistic is literally impossible.

i have sunk 1000's of hours into this game played since beta! god knows how much money spent, and gradually as I am playing over the years i just detest the game more and more taking larger and larger breaks last one being 4 months without playing. coming back last week to see if the new updates have made anything any different if there are new modes ? bug fixes?

nope simply the grind is harder, premiums more expensive and just carbon copies of already existing vehicles, no new style maps or features or even game modes. simply same old broken warthunder. the best bit is instead of the devs ever listening to the player base they actually decide to try gaslight the player base into thinking there opinions are not valid and that the devs really do know whats best despite the player base tanking in numbers over the last year. almost like every decision they have made has driven more and more people away! hmmmmm coincidence ?

so yeah this is the final time i put warthunder down, cause i will not be picking it up again. shame cause the core of the game and its niche is second to none, no other game can give you the warthunder feeling but at the expense of your sanity and wallet i do not recommend this game, go play armoured warfare if your looking for modern vehicle combat or DCS if you want realistic jet combat.

Dont even bother picking this game up at the moment, your unable to play any match made games, 2,000 people play this on average and cant find a single match, when you do it takes 3 mins to load hits 99% then says you loose connection to server (i have checked its not my PC or internet as i have run this on other PCs i own and Other internet providers)

Havnt even be able to play the game at all havnt even fired a weapon as of yet so Dont buy complete money grab

total trash at the moment game freezes every 30 seconds, frame rate drops to almost 20 when its not freezing , loading takes an age no matter ur specs, and the gunaplay is bassically bF4 if ur looking for a modern shooter buy BF4

As a massive fan of starcraft and RUSE and CC2, this game is jank , love the orignal but this forces you to use weird controls and bizzare camera sytem with no map to click on for fast camera movement, it will sometimes randomly select units you are not in control of, overall if this was polished off and wasnt such a harsh enviroment of a RTS id love it.