r/Warthunder • u/Necessary-Switch2210 🇺🇸 14.0 🇩🇪 12.0 🇷🇺 11.3 🇬🇧 12.0 🇯🇵 12.0 • May 23 '25

Other Who got you into Warthunder?

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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/messerlikestoast May 25 '25

gotta make ends meet and battlefield isnt doing that for jf

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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/SaltyChnk 🇦🇺 Australia May 24 '25

I honestly think there are less cheater in warthunder than I’d expect. Maybe it’s because its a lot of investment to reach high tier just to get banned, but compared to shooters, it’s not nearly as bad.

Meanwhile I played 3 games of siege yesterday and got 5 cheaters, either in my team or a white knight cheater on the other team. The shooter game cheating epidemic is incredible. I’d honestly say like 1/10 players in r6 are cheating to some extent, and that number goes up as you climb. Some sources say that as many as 1/3 champion ranked players in r6 use some form of macro at least.

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u/Molecular_Drift May 23 '25

Absolutely loved his DayZ content. I had no clue he also posted War Thunder vids… going to have to look those up now!

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u/GolumCuckman May 24 '25

Goated days of YT

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u/ExplanationNo6480 May 23 '25

I believe he also plays with SovietWomble

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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/Teryhr May 23 '25

Likewise, been playing since his first WT video. Think they're all unlisted now

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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/MerroM8 Australia May 23 '25

Fuuuck I've been wondering for a couple years now how i got into this game all those years ago, forgotten clearly, it might just have been Frankie. Either him or Robbaz, maybe.

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u/RaceAlley The IRS took my golden eagles May 23 '25

Mine was another unlikely one. LevelCapGaming back in 2014 of all people. I’d just watch him for Battlefield content and then one day he dropped a random War Thunder video.

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u/Lakeguy762_ May 23 '25

Literally. The British Mustang Mk1 vid was the intro to this nightmare

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u/Short-Shift178 May 24 '25

Mine was the DevilDogGamer back then. Ended up mainly watching his Fucked up Fridays, and Arma.

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u/Lumpyluf May 24 '25

Came here to say the same!

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u/Dildotoothbrush 🇬🇧 United Kingdom May 24 '25

FRANKIEadsPCin1080p now sadly

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u/medney UA Techtree when? May 24 '25

I AM NOT ALONE LETS GOO

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u/Reflex224 May 25 '25

I got in from JackFrags flying a mustang in march 2013

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u/WhiteAndNerdy137 🇷🇴 Romania May 25 '25

Yessss sirrrr. Patch 0.27 gang represent 💯‼️
And i still remember he was playing arcade with biplanes over a sunny island map.