Warthunder's History Of Complete Disasters

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Original title: Warthunder's Nightmare History of Controversy, changed on 20221119

[GSC-Operator-chan]

It's a shame you didn't bring up the Free Abrams pack that they eventually made as a sort of weird joke apology which included the XM-1, 13337 GE, the @realFreeAbrams title, and a special XM-1 decal, and ~9 days of premium time all for 60 USD. Superb deal really.

For those unaware, the joke in there is that 13k GE is about 60 USD, so for the value you were effectively getting the XM-1 for free.

[brentonherbert]

"Massively reduced the price of top tier upgrades"
*Looks at the 70k needed for 1 single upgrade for the Lightning*
Uh huh....

[xAlouette]

I think the Ukrainian and Russian flag conflict that happened has to be the best part of this video. The fact that players began engaging in political warfare on War Thunder is pretty interesting.

[MeowMeowMeowMeowMeowMeowMeowww]

"Got into trouble modeling the tiger helicopter" ... *slowly puts glasses off face* ... are you telling me there was a third time !

[feraltrafficcone]

Surprised you didn’t talk about Gaijin’s harsh nerf to SL and RP gains. Makes playing top tier basically unreasonable.
I once got six kills in a row, didn’t die once, capped a point, won the match, had prem account, and still only got 5.3K EXP. Mind you, this was 10.3. Plenty of times I’ve ran out of premium time and had to completely not play WarThunder, since almost no matter what, I’d usually come out with just a tiny meager amount of earnings, or I’d go into the red with SL and lose more than I won

[leafleap]

I remember when they planned to implement the crew healing mechanic, you would be able to carry medpacks or something and heal crew anywhere, this was later changed into the crew replenish mechanic on cap that we have today, although I think its possible to replenish crew whenever in Arcade.
Also for a time it was possible to control the tank with only one crew member alive, you could either drive or fire, but not both at once, so you had to move the crew member from driver to gunner and vice versa. It was not very long lived.

[vladimirsvec]

I would also add:, ,Fix the game in 1.91'' controversy and, ,stock APDSFS shells controversy'', I think these two are also very very important controversies in history of War Thunder.

[MadManchou]

When you started on the "demonitized" bit, I thought it would be about the 2019 (?) Black Friday sale ad, which portrayed an L3/33 surround by Black Princes, under the title "get ready to be blacked".

It caused quite the unrest on the forums at least (for no reason because of course if you understand the subtext you're old enough it's not shocking)

[armablign]

8:20
YES
IVE ALWAYS SAID THIS
it would be really amazing, if atleast, regional pricing was applied to the national flags. (I'm fine if GE, and prem, is not regional priced) at the very least, flag regional pricing would be a very welcoming change

[CreativeZachGaminglebestvids]

6:35 I have never in my life seen a single light tank help extinguish a fire

[allusivegore]

I agree with you on the fact that flag size shouldn't be limited so we can have some goofy looking tanks back but TK definitely should stay off, there is simply no need for it to be on and you're a lot more prone to accidentally TKing someone when you're in close tank combat than when you're flying far apart from eachother in the air.

Edit: Wth, wow 500 likes! Never had a comment reach that much. Thanks for the likes fellow defenders of the D point.

[monolitwoods]

I remember well the Free FPE and Parts, I watched the very same live stream. Then gaijin disabled comments on their channels, got rid of likes/dislike numbers, an got BVV's brother to make up some apology on their channel that soon got ripped by the community. To say it was a dumpster fire is a understatement. At least they did change it in the end, plus we got a "free" XM-1 Abram's. After that though I saw a lot less of Shaun on streams, maybe gaijin thought if they made a mistake like that again he would only fuel the fire, so sent the FSB to his house)) Also not a gajiin controversy, but anyone else remember a clan that was hated in the whole community? They had like a neo nazi leader and would teamkill every game, forgot their name as they seem to have evaporated from the game itself.

[mayonotes]

Because of how incredibly shady Gaijin is, I've basically stopped playing War Thunder in real matches. The game is already in a very horrible state to the point I just can't be bothered anymore.

[distinctjackal]

The moment when you realise you can get a free flag of usa by just playing American tanks

[zerrierslizer]

the only reason Gaijin wants consumables to expire is because it screams "we have lots of money, but we aint got enough. we dont NEED more, but we WANT more, and that is why fuck you is the next step."

[ryanwilbur]

I remember back in 2015 or 2016, there was a general chat feature where anybody in your region's server could chat. At one point in the NA server, there was a multiple hour long error that made it impossible to join a match. People started to spam general chat to the point at which Gaijin started banning multiple users, at first temporarily, but they quickly turned to permanent bans. In the aftermath, hundreds of NA players were banned, some just for simply posting a message. If memory serves, Gaijin did eventually allow you to try and repeal said ban after this blew up in their face. I'm pretty sure this is a big part of why general chat was removed.

[telurkucing]

The worst is in the past they allow team kill from tank vs tank in the early battle especially for mofo who repeately click left click at the spawn and blasted anyone spawn in front of him, Im not too much angry when they mistakenly team kill me with bomb while attacking enemy near me but getting killed without reason at start of the battles is the most mad part

[ThMkrn]

the thing about recon vehicles helping out with repairs and FPE is that the recon vehicle has to HAVE THEM UNLOCKED FIRST. A stock vehicle cannot assist with repairs and if it doesnt have FPE it cannot help with extinguishing.

[XF]

Matt with those 3d animated explanation, love it!

[frog]

Gaijin is not trying to be historically accurate if THEY DONT GIVE FREE FPE