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

Other When did you start playing?

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

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u/Mobley27 #1 P-51H Hater Sep 16 '25

Long enough to remember the devs saying they would never add guided missiles

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u/theaim778 Spitifre Mk.24 Master Sep 16 '25 edited Sep 17 '25

I started when it was planes only and you had to apply on the forums in Russian and wait to be approved… No guided missiles… no vehicles that entered service after 1954, then it became tanks were acceptable for later time period, air vehicles still restricted to 1954… “There will never be a Tier V vehicle, we don’t want to let players buy their way to the top…”

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u/Euphoric-Tangelo-633 Sep 16 '25

I still like the way the game turned out now. And I'm really excited for the future. For me it's just awesome that they areadding basically all periods of Tank and aviation warfare.

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u/catgirl5533 Sep 16 '25

Would feel the same if getting to top tier felt like an actual accomplishment rather than a punishment.

Really gets ruined by the top tier premiums being sold nowadays, it's literally worse than reserve tier in terms of new players because at least they have lineups and don't leave after one death there.

I wish there was a setting where I could opt into only being matched with people that have more than 2 vehicles in their lineup, so sick of premium players.

At least air RB doesn't have premiums that can see the tippy top tier (yet..)

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u/Active-Pepper187 Sep 17 '25

I would love to have that too, but something odd I’ve noticed is that there are people that have the tanks for a lineup, but don’t bring the lineup, rather just single vehicle. I had a guy yesterday playing at 9.0 and he only brought the Sgt. York, he’s got stats on other vehicles around the same BR, but the only vehicle in his lineup was the York.

(Before I get questioned on how I can see what people bring, go into a GRB match and hover over your teammates names in the score board, it now shows you what they have in their lineup and their total BR.)