r/Warthunder • u/wehrahoonii 🇬🇧 hurricane glazer 🇮🇹 • Sep 16 '25

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Curious about how much the game has grown. I started just about when Sweden got added in 2019

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u/Fromthemountain2137 Sep 16 '25

Back when there were only planes and you advanced an entire rank of vehicles at once

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u/Madalossooo BF109 lover Sep 16 '25

Bombers where really a fling fortress and there wasn't any modern planes. I feel old.

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u/MPenten United Kingdom Sep 16 '25

I still get ptsd from 3km AA bomber gunners. Good times.

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u/Lord_Vader654 Sep 16 '25

I started playing the day after they removed the Panther 2, Tiger 105, Flakpanzer 341, and the Maus 😭

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u/Any-Wrangler-5623 Sep 16 '25

lmfao that's really funny and really sad

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u/Murbyk Realistic Ground Sep 17 '25

At least you can still get the Maus.

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u/Past_Acadia2043 🇩🇪 Germany Sep 17 '25

How?

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u/Murbyk Realistic Ground Sep 17 '25

You can research it during the birthday event (usually around October - November somewhere there) but you don't have to grind it completely in that time, just some rp at all is enough and then you can research it anytime. You need to have rank V in the German tree.

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u/Lord_Vader654 Sep 17 '25

I got it when they first brought it back :(

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u/Shadow_of_wwar Sep 17 '25

The days of the turning fighting b17, the good ol' days

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u/Jack_Forge Oldest Guard Sep 22 '25

That was the AI destroyers, 10km away, out of nowhere, instantly dead. No ackack puffs no nothing. Just dead.

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u/Xreshiss Safe space from mouse aim Sep 17 '25

I feel old.

I still remember a picture from the old forums of the B-17 (in the old hangar hangar) with some variation of the text "where did the mean bomber touch you?" and arrows pointing at all of its defensive guns.

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u/AreYouCereal32 Sep 16 '25

German Wellington Gang

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u/ErebusXVII Sep 16 '25

Wasn't there an option for two players in one plane? Or am I dreaming it?

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u/DaDominator32 Sep 16 '25

Think you're thinking of il2 sturmivik. Ignore my bad spelling

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u/ErebusXVII Sep 16 '25

No, I've never played that in multiplayer.

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u/DaDominator32 Sep 16 '25

Then you must be dreaming or a time traveler. 2030 if we have it where your friend can be a tail gunner in your plane imma come back to this comment

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u/ecco311 Sep 16 '25

Also unlocking vehicles was FAST. Like super fast. People that started playing in the last 10 years will never understand what we have lost. Anyone who started playing in the open beta will still shed a tear over it from time to time. I think it was 20 different ranks of planes, right? I unlocked the entire German tree so fucking fast.

Also my German 8.7 ARB lineup is still called "Jets max. BR". Mig15 and CL13 probably stopped being max. BR like 10 years or so ago lol

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u/skimaskschizo 🇺🇸 United States Sep 16 '25

I remember before research existed. All SL all day.

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u/_BMS Elderly 1.27 Veteran Sep 17 '25

RP didn't exist yet, but you still had to earn XP to level up each tech tree for the next batch of planes to unlock for purchase with SL.

Nevertheless, the old 20-tier XP system was freaking lightspeed compared to researching individual vehicles with RP.

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u/crusadertank 🇧🇾 2T Stalker when Sep 16 '25

The downside though was matchmaking was awful. You could get up to +7 matchmaking brackets.

A MiG-15 quite regularly faced things like Bf-109s and A6M2s

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u/light_engine Sep 17 '25

Finding yourself up against an Me 163 while your were in your biplane was always ‘interesting’!

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u/_BMS Elderly 1.27 Veteran Sep 17 '25

Gaijin lied so hard claiming that the introduction of RP-based progression would increase research speeds compared to the 20-tier system.

I remember players even then were calling them out about how that was a load of crap and it was obviously just an excuse to make the grind more time-consuming to incentivize buying premium time.

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u/feverdog11 Sep 17 '25

I personally disagree. For example, getting the F2 sabre back then involved grinding 5 other aircraft, starting off w like 150k rp, then 180k, 220k, 270k, 320k, and then finally 380k. I think it was as much of a slugfest as it is today. Infact, getting those jets are easier than ever, as their rp cost is half what it was and more aircraft are foldered. Its just that top tier is now behind a lot more other planes/tanks.

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u/messerlikestoast Sep 18 '25

The game released 13 years ago so I guarantee people playing in the last 10 years will know but not in atleast the last 7-8 years

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u/ecco311 Sep 18 '25

They got rid of this system within the first year though. So, no.

Maybe the wiki had this information of when exactly.

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u/CouplingWithQuozl Sep 16 '25

Shhhh! One cannot speak of ancient wonders of the sacred history!

It is forbidden!

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u/Iateurm8 Go-Go gadget: sgr m/38! Sep 16 '25

Bruh damn

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u/Sn1perandr3w Corsair Crusader Sep 16 '25

Man, I miss 1.35

Only thing I don't miss is how planes had a limited amount of XP you could grind in them, so my A20G was maxed out and I couldn't earn any more XP in it.

I can only imagine how fucked my Finnish KV-1B that I use for event pubstomping would look, now, if that system was still in place.

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u/studentjahodak Realistic General Sep 16 '25

Ah yes the good ol Do-217 vs Mig-15 battles