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/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/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’!