Aircraft are balanced by "battle rating" (BR) which is an average of your best three aircraft. Having a friend on voice comms is a huge advantage - such as dragging up pursuing enemies to drain their energy for your wingman to finish with an easy shot. Energy management matters a player with a height advantage has a speed and manoeuvre advantage I tend to climb energetically whenever it is safe to do so. ![]() Real air combat maneuvers work - yo-yos, Immelman/Split S, scissors all seem to come intuitively, and I am working on spiral climbs and hammerheads. Realistic and sim games can exceed 45min.+ My focus will be primarily on arcade, as I think it is friendliest to the time-strapped dad gamer with 5-10 minute games. 109s and Zeroes flying alongside and against Spitfires, Yaks, Mustangs etc), while realistic and sim stick to historical line-ups. In arcade you can mix up planes of all nations (i.e. I'd rate them as satisfying rather than mind blowing, although there is something that just feels "right" as sparkling tracers pour into a 109 which suddenly belches white smoke, or your plane glinting in the sun as it rolls, contrails feathering behind at 6000m. You can import custom skins if you have a favourite pilot's paint job you want to imitate. Tanks are even easier and more intuitive. In arcade (which I play) I can fly with a mouse, spacebar (bombs), mouse click (shoot) right click (look around) and extra controls (WASD - elevators and rudder) with throttle bound to mouse wheel. There is arcade, realistic and sim modes - each with increasing complexity (and game length). In teams of a dozen or so, players contest territory (occupying "hotspots" or capturing airbases) or try to destroy ground targets or similar. Quite a few Youtubers come from down under. I am going to focus this review on Air Battles, Arcade Mode as that is the one I have the most experience in, though there is tank battles and (soon) coastal forces.įellow Aussies seem active in War Thunder. Faced with the choice of a 5 minute game with human players, or no game at all (as long games are out of the question) I tried it again. I now have kids - and my ability to play games is measured in minutes not hours. I preferred IL-2: 1946 (which still is better if you want to just try 400+ WW2 warbirds). Back then, I was a bit of a sim snob, and disliked the keyboard and mouse setup of arcade. It's even relatively kid-friendly (my 4-year-old spectates and offers advice like "shoot that one, daddy!") Actually, there's something for everyone. It can be played single player, co-op or multiplayer. It comes in a range of difficulty from arcade (5 minutes of pew pew with a keyboard and mouse minimum controls) to full sim (spend 5 minutes starting the plane's engines using joysticks etc). It is undemanding on the reflexes, and favours tactics and cunning. It runs on a laptop or a complete potato PC. It is about WW2 tanks, planes and (soon) coastal forces like MTBs and S-boats - sometimes mixed together on the same map. The full changelog is available on this page but, as usual, be warned that there's an impressive amount of data to go through.War Thunder is free. In addition to the aforementioned M1 KVT premium package, the update also comes with a pack that includes the export version of the Su-25TM attack aircraft, namely Su-39. The aforementioned list of new military hardware includes highlights like the F-14B top-tier naval jet, the rank VI M1 KVT tank (premium, USA), the first Indian tank ( Vijayanta), two new locations ( Iberian Castle and Franz Josef Land), new aircraft weapons, as well as a rather long list of minor tweaks and fixes. This major refresh of the game includes new and updated visual effects for rockets/missiles, afterburners, and flares alongside new hit marks on ground vehicles. The list of changes focuses on the arrival of the first 14 ships belonging to the French naval forces, but there are over 50 new and updated vehicles overall, and there's much more than them, as usual. ![]() Although it took a while for it to finally arrive, War Thunder 2.27 "La Royale" is finally available and there's plenty of new stuff for every fan of military hardware enjoying this title by Gaijin Entertainment.
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