How Top Tier Is Different From Low Tier In War Thunder

Though top tier is now almost more filled with noobs than low tier, there are still tons of differences. In this video, I go over (only semi-seriously) five of those differences.

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Video Title: How Top Tier Is Different From Bottom Tier In War Thunder

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[Tankenstein]

It seems like some people are salty about one part in particular. I'm not saying that cheaters in War Thunder don't exist. They do, and there are FAR more than there should be for a game of this size, but there aren't nearly as many as people claim in your typical in-match-chat. I was exaggerating for sake of the video, but what I meant is that I wish people would only call people cheaters if they KNOW that they are. Calling everyone a cheater because they killed you makes it so that legitimate claims of cheating are taken less seriously by the community and (hopefully not) by Gaijin. Don't cry wolf, but definitely be aware of them, because there are plenty of them.

[khalilmqds]

Low tier is like trolling each other yet no one seriously angry and keep having fun

[xFizzle]

as someone who just started playing recently, its funny to me that lvl 100's complain about noobs buying premium jets, but then choose to go into rank 1 matches even with more vehicles unlocked to club seals.

[Hextor]

The main difference in fun between top and bottom tier is that in low tier you can mess around and not have a care in the world and if you have a bad game then thats not an issue. Meanwhile in toptier you have to be full attention constantly otherwise you will be sniped by someone across the map and if you have a bad game you will now never financially recover with the insane amounts of SL costs which means that your too busy trying to break even in a match instead of having fun

[tianhaoju]

Unsurprisingly, the lower the tier is(except the actual top tier), there are more players who finished four or five trees and do absolute slaughter
They were nicknamed "Brezhnev" due to the amount of medals on their game profiles, and the lower the tier is, the more likely there are no actual new players but swarms of "Brezhnev"s

[Bergebis]

I feel like the game really peaks just before cas gets overpowered, in the 4.7-8.0 range. With a few exceptions like the SU-11, most vehicles are relatively balanced, maps don't turn into thermal snap snipe fests, and you have fewer 1-death leavers.

[vadimyakus]

Important thing to mention: stuff like ghost shells and random damage us much much more sensitive and frustrating at the top tier. The price for every mistake is extremely high.

[ravenouself]

You forgot to mention that the M22 is a menace no matter at which BR it appears.

[warrenwattles]

Naval low-tier adds an interesting wrinkle. Bottom tier bluewater starts at BR 2.7 with most nations at 3.0 or even 3.3. To round out their line-ups, a new player has to use reserve coastal, which starts at 1.0. So you have a mix of 1.0 and 1.3 small boats mixing it up with up to 4.3 and it's almost guaranteed to result in seal clubbing through no fault of the higher players.

[joseSanchez-ejoh]

Past 7.3 i just don't have as much fun

It becomes a game of endurance and attendance, either your team quits first or they quit first and that determines matches within a couple of minutes

[hike]

I wish gaijin would enable a game mode that is restricted to lvl 100 or within that range. It's a whole different game when both teams are aware of what they're doing and how to do it.

[saltiestsalt]

I play since 2013 and am Rank VII in almost every nation. I almost never touch top tier anymore. Low and mid tier is where this game is most enjoyable by far.

[viniwizi]

Low tier actually requires skill for sniping, ambushing an generally knowing the map, moving around. While top tier is a point and click experience, unless you are using an ifv or playing any nation other than russia( you need to aim for weakspots, but russian mains can pen you anywhere)

[joeyjo-jojuniorshabadoo]

One thing that frustrates a lot of players at every tier is the RNG in this game. At lower tiers, it's ricochet RNG and at higher tiers it's ammo and fuel explosion RNG.

[HIFLY]

The issues that plague top tier are starting to come to lower ranks. I had a booster on for GE and I just had to get a kill and win. Not hard so I was playing 5.7 ground RB. We were winning until we had 6 people in planes and me + 2 others in tanks and we lost all caps. As I had a chance to get premium currency, I went in chat and asked whats going on? Why do we have everyone in planes? 1 person said he rather fly than play tanks and another said he has no more tanks because he only brought 1 tank and a plane. Its happening as low as rank 3 now

[stockrappy]

I have hoped back into war thunder and brought a friend with me this time and before he even downloaded the game we had an agreement to stay at 5.0 or lower for so many reasons and we have been having a great time.

[DefinitelyNotAnAddict]

What I've noticed with spawn camping at top teir is because of the rounds and guns being able to range and hit at 3-5km easily and the maps aren't designed for top tier few seem like that you can snipe with Sabo at 3 km almost ever

[kiwikian]

In my own opinion the main difference in enjoyment is most definitely balancing. Full Uptiers at say 2.0 or 3.0 don’t kill the fun as much as a the pure misery you experience being fully uptiered at 8.0 and above. As I was grinding out the US tech tree I can vividly remember how the constant full uptiers in the m60a1 and the m1 abrams made me genuinely hate playing.

[rushi]

I am a newer player with a little over 1000 battles. I have almost all tanks 100% spaded at rank 4 and bellow in US tech tree.

I grew to love the shermans, but now I really struggle with the non-stabilized guns in rank 4 and 5.

Thus I am somewhat eager to get to rank 6 as I currently do well enough in my XM-1 (which I only play when I have backups, and I use M163, M41, M36B2 and T34 along side it.

Had a blast blowing up much higer BR light tanks with the T34 xD

[Rin-hwjr]

I'm fairly new to the game. About a month or so in and I'm currently at 7.3 in the British grounds tech tree. I see myself as an average player since I come from world of tanks (they aren't very similar but if it weren't for that game, I wouldn't have been able to learn the layout of war thunder rather quickly). The only reason I'm grinding towards higher ranks is because I want to get the black night. After I achieve what I want, I'm sticking to 8.0 or lower. That or I grind some other line that interests me.

It truly makes me think how a player like me already knows most of the mechanics of this game while other players who I have seen in game that have more "experience" under their belt get absolutely destroyed, that or yolo up a random road just to get killed off and then proceed to leave the match after dying once. Reminds me a lot of world of tanks and it's player base.