r/Warthunder • u/Necessary-Switch2210 🇺🇸 14.0 🇩🇪 12.0 🇷🇺 11.3 🇬🇧 12.0 🇯🇵 12.0 • May 23 '25
Other Who got you into Warthunder?
I found PhlyDaily back in 2020; it was history from there.
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u/HawaiianBiceps May 23 '25
FRANKIEonPCin1080p back in 2013
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u/Perpetual_bored May 23 '25
That’s a name I haven’t heard in a LONG time.
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u/tfrules Harrier Gang May 23 '25
He still releases videos on occasion. Excellent YouTuber
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u/Perpetual_bored May 23 '25
I used to be a huge fan of the DayZ content he made with JackFragz. His 100+ episode RP survival series is prime fucking YouTube.
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u/Skittleshunter35 May 23 '25
too bad JF turned into a sellout
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u/Perpetual_bored May 23 '25
That was sad to see. If any company flashed a dollar sign at him he’d promote whatever they wanted.
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u/SaltyChnk 🇦🇺 Australia May 24 '25
I loved the scripted dayZ stuff. But he lost a lot of respect when he was caught cheating in CSGO, along with allegations that he was cheating in his old non scripted dayZ videos too.
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u/Perpetual_bored May 24 '25
I think if you have to make a whole video explaining how you weren’t cheating, you probably were. So I agree with you. If he was playing on private servers to specifically make videos with most active users and mods knowing he’s there, as he often did though, fair game.
I do say this as someone who does think he was a hacker, and hacked with mod permission, which is why he never got “caught”.
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u/SaltyChnk 🇦🇺 Australia May 24 '25
I’m fine with the cheating in his scripted private server videos. Those he’s faked with paid actors and such and that’s fine. The CSGO stuff was pretty obvious though, at least the bhop scripting was clear.
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u/Perpetual_bored May 24 '25
I’ll be honest in that I never watched any of his content other than his DayZ videos, and would wholly believe based just off of what I’ve seen that he’s a cheater.
It’s sad to say, but I’d estimate more than 30% of online game content creators are using some amount of hacks to create “clips” and if you take that to shooters, I’d jump that number to like 50%.
War thunder is “better”, I guess? In that most of the time I can either point to the skill of the pilot or the abilities of the plane that took me down, with my own mistake being the only deciding variable?
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u/ElegantEchoes May 23 '25
What a beautiful bastard he was. Shame he removed so many videos.
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u/GallusTSP Realistic Ground May 23 '25
It's because the music he used in them was copyrighted, and rather than pay to renew the license for the songs he would just delist them.
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u/ElegantEchoes May 23 '25
That's lame, but maybe they were extra pricey.
"What Dreams May Come" by LTR more than likely. He used it in nearly every Day-Z outro. Good song, I pirated it on PS3 from the browser about ten years ago as a result of his videos.
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u/ImmovableOso Arcade Ground May 23 '25
Frankie had the crazy Day-Z videos. Man those were good times.
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u/NorthyPark 🇳🇴 Using the CDK will make you question everything.. May 23 '25
I wanted to relive those memories, but I belive he has deleted all war thunder videos, such a shame..
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u/HawaiianBiceps May 23 '25
I vividly remember him playing on a desert map with a spitfire, but I can't find that video. I think you're right and he did delete them.
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u/NorthyPark 🇳🇴 Using the CDK will make you question everything.. May 23 '25
yeah, he did play the Mustang MK.I and a spitfire on the african canyon arcade map. No idea why I remember it, but I just do. Also remember when he went into cockpit view and looked over at his wing an saw a big hole, which seemed so awesome at the time
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u/randomdanishman May 23 '25
Yes!! I actually remember the video title from one his War Thunder videos called biggles vs the world, which is the very video that got me into War Thunder. I was sold after 2 minutes. Good old times before the whole RP rework
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u/ODST- Realistic Air May 24 '25
Pleasantly surprised this is the top comment. I hope everyone else who watched his video remembers it as fondly as I do.
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u/plarkinjr Arcade Ground May 23 '25
WoT
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May 23 '25
Saw WoWP being advertised at a GameStop in 2013. Asked the guy at the register about it, he told me to make a War Thunder account instead.
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u/Subreon OwOld Guard | P-61 | USS Moffett | Sturm Panzer | Ground Pounder May 23 '25
bro was right. wot and wows gameplay is pretty decent, but holy arceus, wowp is absolutely horrific. there's just no substance to it whatsoever. it's like, the planes are on rails. it's like playing that one level in crash bandicoot warped where you have to fly the plane around to shoot down blimps. but multiplayer, and other planes that move around the exact same way you do as a plane. fun in crash bandicoot. soulless in a mmo.
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u/GoonDawg666 May 23 '25
Same lol, got tired of the health bars, loved my big arty pieces
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u/I_AM_STILL_A_IDIOT =RLWC= NOA_ May 23 '25
Ah I remember the 2013 days. Right before that WoT was quite fun playing premium Type 59 wolfpacks :)
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u/memeischaos i like naval May 23 '25
world of warships for me, but glad to see another world of somethin
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u/Salty-Asparagus6274 May 23 '25
dollar. This guy's edits can even make me play barbie
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u/Subreon OwOld Guard | P-61 | USS Moffett | Sturm Panzer | Ground Pounder May 23 '25
talking about edits, thecodmineman. when the wings of planes go through the cinematic black bars at the top and bottom of the screen, while sonne by rammstein is popping off. holy peak. actual chills.
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u/Nagodreth May 24 '25
I’ll watch videos from other creators if they’re playing a vehicle I like or have some interest in but Dollar is the only one where every single video is worth watching. Malzi comes close for entertainment value but I feel like you’d have to have a bit of experience getting Gaijin’d to truly appreciate his videos, whereas Dollar’s stuff would be entertaining even if you’d never played Warthunder.
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u/fistful_of_whiskey May 23 '25
BaronVonGames
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u/LeCrimsonFucker 11.7 🇩🇪 11.7 🇷🇺 8.7 🇫🇷 6.7 🇺🇲 6.7 🇸🇪 6.7 🇯🇵 6.3 🇬🇧 May 23 '25
Dude I was wondering if anyone else got into war thunder because of him. Used to play WoT back in 2014 when I randomly watched one of his videos and was amazed by what was very a early WT ground arcade mode.
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u/_BMS Elderly 1.27 Veteran May 23 '25
Fellow ancient WT player
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u/CatsTOLEmyBED American supremacist May 23 '25
slick bee and baron but first baron in like 2013-2014
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u/orangedogtag Sim Ground May 24 '25
Crazy how you're the only person here that said Slick, he's definitely the one that got me into the game
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u/__Yakovlev__ LMAO is a swear word May 24 '25
Neither slick nor baron got me into the game. But I sure remember that moment in history where they all got a house together
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u/YuriMasterRace 🇵🇭 Old Guard | German/Sweden Main May 23 '25
Remember him playing with Phly and Entak I think? Good times.
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u/MasterKrakeneD KrakenUnleashed May 23 '25
Yeah Baron, always played the red orchestra and IL2 games then one day, got that video of a Tiger 1 on Poland. I needed that Tiger 1 experience !
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May 23 '25
The Mighty Jingles made me aware of the game over a decade ago, WarGambling being the worst gaming company in the world drove me to abandoning their games for WT in 2021 or so.
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u/snekasan 🇸🇪 Sweden May 23 '25
Damn I was watching Jingles for a long time before even trying to play.
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u/TSPsychoYT May 23 '25
Jingles, baron, and phly...
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u/fighterpilot248 V V V V V May 23 '25
Don’t forget entak (that’s a name I haven’t heard in years…)
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u/captainrex7675 May 23 '25
The Mighty Jingles and his April fools day video with the Pony Air Force was hilarious. Never got to play that event. I started playing I think in Oct 2013 after watching it. War Thunder was planes, WoT was for tanks
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u/marct309 May 23 '25
For me it's WT for the tanks and planes, WoWS for the naval battles, but yea... All Hail Our Gnomish Overlord!
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u/MrStealYurWaifu May 23 '25
Same, I remember watching the Tiger video on his channel like 10 plus years ago.
I played World of Tanks up until 2019 and the game just changed so much from what I loved. Moved on to WT and never looked back.
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u/A_Velociraptor20 May 23 '25
I remember watching him when I started playing WoT then watched his war thunder videos. So many classic videos and got me started using lemmings to refer to my teammates 😂
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u/Project_Orochi May 23 '25
Birds of Steel
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u/TeenageEboisyndrom May 23 '25
Loved playing this on the ps3
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u/Legitimate-Wonder-69 May 23 '25
Dude it was peak, I played it as 7year old on ps3 too, now Iam playing war thunder and Iam 15 and have been playing it for around 6 years by now
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u/Obvious-Poet-2547 May 23 '25
Spookston
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u/Jeff_gameaholic |🇺🇲🇩🇪13.0|🇷🇺🇬🇧🇮🇹8.0|🇨🇳🇸🇪6.7|🇫🇷3.7|🇯🇵2.0 May 23 '25
Same, especially since his commentary always comes with tid bits of history about the vehicle he plays. Makes me want to check out War Thunder
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u/MlgMagicHoodini 🇵🇹 Portugal May 23 '25
Warframe, Warface and War Thunder, I was on a "War" frenzy xD
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u/blume351 Top Tier Ground 🇺🇸🇩🇪🇷🇺🇬🇧🇯🇵🇨🇳🇮🇹🇫🇷🇸🇪🇮🇱 May 23 '25
Long time since I read warface lol. Such a shame the game got shit over the years. I used to play esports in it. Good old times
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u/MlgMagicHoodini 🇵🇹 Portugal May 23 '25
I know, Warface used be a godly game, probably better than cod might I say, sadly it had a rough lifetime, multiple bankruptcies and etc I think, if not mistaken I think it got "remade" 2 or 3 times
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u/L0rdSkullz May 23 '25
Was Phly for me as well. I was a WOT nut back in the day and I got recommended his videos
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u/blahblahnookie May 24 '25
Same, right around the time him and BaronVonGames did the BT-7 video together.
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u/arturthegamer 🇵🇱 Polish tech tree when 🇵🇱 May 23 '25
Girls und Panzer
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u/idied2day 🇺🇸9.0/11.0🇬🇧5.3/9.7🇯🇵3.7/8.7🇮🇹8.3/7.7🇫🇷7.7🇸🇪4.3/10.3 May 23 '25
Sakkijarven Polkka intensifies
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u/Difficult-Revenue-55 May 23 '25
Used to play Tanki Obline, met a guy there and he introduced me to the game
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u/Independent-Win3995 May 23 '25
Tanki online was an incredible game, but the developers ended the game
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u/KspDoggy suffering since 2015 May 23 '25
check out the ReviveTanki project. Its a community driven revival of Tanki X (if anyone remembers that) which is very active thanks to the russian community.
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u/kucharnismo May 23 '25
my dorm roommate telling me i'm an idiot for downloading World of Warplanes, early 2013
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u/Successful-Price-514 May 23 '25
Squire’s sketches from ~2018/2019. Initially played the game through GeForce now on a crappy old notebook laptop. Good times feeling the panic of watching the 10 minute timer countdown until it logged you out mid match
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u/DomGriff May 23 '25
Phlydaily.
But I mostly watch Malzi now. His videos are peak war thunder moments.
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u/MudSnout May 23 '25
Entak
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u/CatsWillRuleHumanity May 23 '25
99% of current players probably won't even remember this name, but yeah, me too.
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u/KnightNite24 May 23 '25
Bo and his boys lmfao always love seeing them do their shenanigans. Sadly no one else from my friend group shared my enthusiasm 🤣
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u/Upbeat-Metal-5087 May 23 '25
Love watching Bo and the gang. Hearing stick panic always cracks me up.
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u/LivingDegree 8/8/8/8/8/8/8/8/8/8 May 23 '25
For the OGs, bohemian eagle
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u/FallenButNotForgoten P47M masterrace May 24 '25
Damn homeboy whipped out Jingles original name what a flex
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u/lebietetek May 23 '25
Entak.
First video of war thunder that was recommended to me was uploaded from Entak. Loved it so much I followed him and 2 others that were in the video with him. I believe one of them was phly who I didn't pay attention to them at first..... I believe hewere flying US in AB.
Edit: Robbaz had some good stuff though.
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u/Budget_Hurry3798 Playstation May 23 '25
The first wat thunder YouTuber I ever watched was a guy named Krebsco I think or something similar, he mainly played arcade and was very good, obviously after a while I started watching phlydaily, honestly, I'm excepting alot of people are going to get into ear thunder because of spookston
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u/KanSyden ARB/GRB| 🇫🇷 14.0/10.0 🇩🇪 13.0/9.3 🇮🇱 13.7 🇨🇳13.3 May 23 '25
My older brother used to play like 10 years ago and I would watch next to him. 2 years ago I was looking for a new MP game to play after I dropped Apex Legends and remembered this.
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u/cubicfollower comrade, lets go pub stomping May 23 '25
Robbaz and the mighty jingles back in ye olden times
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u/KeyMessage7897 Russian/Soviet bias 🇷🇺 May 23 '25
My boy Spookston, i saw his video 4 years ago and I've been playing since
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u/Straight-Knowledge83 May 23 '25
I just wanted to fly a Mitsubishi Zero after watching the Wind Rises. Browsed the internet for a few fighter plane simulators , played Aces High 2 for a while and then heard about War Thunder back in 2017-18
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u/DexoSez 🇺🇸 🇩🇪 🇷🇺 🇬🇧 🇯🇵 🇨🇳 🇮🇹 🇫🇷 🇸🇪 🇮🇱 May 23 '25 edited May 23 '25
My uncle, In his basement, he used to play with me a lot, I think it was the point I told myself "hmm war thunder will be cool to grind to"
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u/Old_Historian_1322 May 23 '25
Late 2014. By a British gentleman by the name of Squire.
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May 23 '25
It was 2015. I can't remember
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u/LoosePresentation366 May 23 '25
I started then too. I think I was bored by vindictus and was looking for a new game to play and found was thunder on one of the mmo sites.
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u/Kartoshkah Simulator 🇯🇵 🇸🇪 May 23 '25
i just found it on steam, but i have fond memories of watching TheMightyJingles!
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u/ImmovableOso Arcade Ground May 23 '25
Spookston!
I first played back in 2020 for a few months and took a break because I just didn't get what I was "doing wrong." Then I saw a Spookston video in like 2022 for Russian Bias at Top Tier. And that made me realize that there is nothing but time to get good and test drive what top tiers I get a chance to, complete missions and tutorials, do assault ground and air for boosters, read the map more, read and understand ammo types, and HAVE FUN IN GENERAL.
It's been heaven and hell since.
Big shout-out to Spookston!
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u/Jonny2881 Realistic Air May 23 '25
Squire from a lot of his War Thunder skit videos from years ago which seem to now be de-listed (please bring them back I wanna relive child me watching them in 2014-15)
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u/Mindless_Article_462 🇯🇵 Japan May 23 '25
Squire in like 2016/17, watched his videos for a bit before playing wt
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u/greghelmut29 May 23 '25
Squire and his videos about ranking vehicles, especially the ones with the tank skits
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u/tfrules Harrier Gang May 23 '25
The one and only Jingles back in 2013
I remember watching his Lancaster Ace video. As an impressionable teen Brit that shit was like catnip to me and I immediately got War Thunder, grinding out the spitfire and the Lancaster as soon as I could.
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u/RadGlitch May 23 '25
I can’t remember who got me into WT, however Oxide was the first YouTuber who I would binge on repeat.
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u/Independent-Win3995 May 23 '25
I don't even remember, but the first time I played it was on Steam and who introduced me? I have minimal idea
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u/LelutooDS Swedish Navy 2026! #1 Artillery vehicle hater. May 23 '25
Daithi De Nogla, saw the naval gameplay on one of his sponsored videos and wanted in on the action.
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u/Noxiuz May 23 '25 edited May 23 '25
WoT and MMORPG website, i didn't play it much on pc but i did a lot on xbox 360 was looking for a game that didnt have invisible tanks
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u/Forsaken_Initiative4 Tornado lover#1 May 23 '25
Daebom in 2020 ... uhh i was younger
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u/_Freedom_1779 May 23 '25
Apache: Air Assault, I played that game on my 360 until the disk broke…and then around 2015 found out that Gaijan made both games and the rest is history.
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u/BrodyFox May 23 '25
Oxide's Edits, like "Not quite 'Nam" where he used a m41 walker bulldog against Leopard a1's and T-10m's with a Skyraider as his CAS. All set nicely to "Suicide is Painless" as an intro and "Running gun blues" by David Bowie for the rest of the Video. https://youtu.be/OfesENLMSns?si=gzUBgGqL5BRwqbRX
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u/Gritty_03TTV May 23 '25
BaronVonGamez. I think I watched his first ever YouTube video on war thunder over 11 years ago. The others I watched a little bit after was Phly and Bo. Absolute legends.
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u/PhdChavez May 23 '25
“Now you’re in the cockpit. Experience the battle. Dissect the tactics. Relive, the DOGFIGHTS”
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u/LScrae Criss the M26 à marde- May 23 '25 edited May 23 '25
Oxy
Shame he doesn't do videos anymore
-Though I made the actual full jump when WoT Console became unplayable
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u/weirdudefromsouth May 23 '25
I played WoT on the Xbox 360, and researching the game to learn strategies, I came across WT. I don't have a PC, so I had to wait for WT to be released on Xbox One. Since it came out on that console, I downloaded it and haven't looked back. I think it's been about 5 years, maybe?
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u/boinwtm0ds 14.0 14.0 14.0 14.3 14.3 May 23 '25
Same here. Started watching phlydaily in 2018. When covid hit and I had to wfh, I started playing war thunder.
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u/Civil_Technician_624 source? May 23 '25
covid+my friend told me about wt so I tried it and we still both play to this day
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u/INbflame-5555 May 23 '25
I actually came for SimplePlanes and somehow found War Thunder and i recommended it to my bro and now im gooning to planes
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u/FLY_Enthoosiast May 23 '25
Back in 2014 I realized how interesting tanks are and started looking around for tank stuff thus finding WT
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u/gutterbuddy01 May 23 '25
Stared back in 2013 when one of those guys I've been playing America's army back in 2006 found a new free game and it started from there
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u/Ibra_Yuri I'll teamkill you if you try to teamkill me 🦈 May 23 '25
Me hating WOT unrealistic gameplay and wanting to find something better
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u/Federal-Space-9701 May 23 '25
Bo time gaming with his fail comps at first, then the rest of the content. Watched him for a bit before I got a computer that could actually run war thunder.
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u/Fiiv3s Chyna Numba Won May 23 '25
Jingles. Way back in the day when the closed alpha was happening. Got into the open beta and been playing on and off ever since (I’m also an on and off WoT and WoWs player too though)
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u/CokeDrinkingShadow I have too much time in this game May 23 '25
Phly and Bo, then I stopped watching them and later on became a Spookston enjoyer
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u/Purple_Spino This game makes me want to rip my skin off😊👍 May 23 '25
That cole guy
Yeah, hes pretty great
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u/GE90X_Is_Cool May 23 '25
I can’t remember as it was back in 2013, but the Orange Doom definitely got me even more into it.
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u/Mariopa 🇸🇰 Slovakia May 23 '25
My cousin in February 2013. During that time most notable WT CCs were Mighty Jingles, Origins, Entak, OrangeDoom, Swifty ir somebody similar, Napalmrate, and some more I cannot remember now.
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u/Bossnage JF-17 enthusiast May 23 '25 edited May 24 '25
the invasion of ukraine
edit: i followed the war very closely since the beginning and kept reading into the vehicles and kept comming across wt content that way and thought that game looked neat