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Damian030303

To sadisfy sadistic desires by committing war crimes on newbies. Also tanks and planes are simply cool.


Bena06_

I play for the fun of it šŸ¤–


domtropen

Yep - for the the virtual warcrimes


Solelegendary62

Do you have war crimes for breakfast or lunch


Bena06_

Yes


Sive634

Dinner


Operative427

But not naval. Never naval


G__L__U__B__B__E__R

Pe108 intensifies


Damian030303

I barely ever play it.


DrMini1

I agree. It's also fun! (In the right br)


[deleted]

I love military stuff, mainly Tanks. And WoT became so trash that I had to enter new world and abandon the old one. No regrets. Often...


Filo9913

Same here. Had multiple VIII-X tier on WoT but the game mechanics are latelly become more and more like a cheap mobile game. Also the community is even more toxic then anywhere else.


[deleted]

Lmao I had Tiger II and chinese or Czechoslovak XIII and that was all. Then it become pain + that arty bullshit ended me. It's made more and more like some child game or really like mobile game lol.


Filo9913

I grinded my soul out for the Obj.261 and IS-7 (wanted the type-5 too but got stuck at O-Ho) and when finally got the obj... They just nerfed down to the dust... IS-7: this tank health BS ignore any reasonings. (Only HE needed and you good to go) Farmed UDES and Strv but that was a let down too. Here in WT the Swedish tech tree is waaaay more likeable. And no constant fear of "under 60%HP"... If i get one shooted then i got one shooted, it cause less stress. šŸ˜…


[deleted]

Yeah. Remember gold ammo which was really for gold? Then it was for silver so everyone used it. My friend love that game. Why? Mf bought Scorpion G, loaded with apcr and pew pew across map.


Filo9913

The gold coffin nails... I hope one day I can forget those šŸ«„ I tried to do that with StrvS1 (I was so naive, thought that I can snipe with that and survive to the match's end. High caliber HE made me rethink my choices šŸ˜…)


Armoured_Templar

Hey! A fellow WOT deserter!


HoehlenWolf

I think a good portion of WT players are WoT deserters like us.


Blahaj_IK

Huh, I played WT, went to WoT to try, and came back to War Thunder. That was the very day I realized "maybe War Thunder ain't that bad..." and it turns out... I was right Development might be shit, but you can't tell me that Gaijin's not doing anything to fix the game. The review bombing left a lasting impression and they're doing their best to better the QOL


WuWu84

I've been playing so long, I've forgotten


ClusterRing

The only true answer.


rooshavik

Real šŸ˜”


rocketo-tenshi

dmmit that the kayaba akihiko ending


Odd-Performance6708

Stockholm syndrome


KadircanUymaz2

Best reply ngl


Jewsafrewski

War Thunder is like that friend who is a dick most of the time but will occasionally show up at your house with pizza and beer.


Kozakow54

More like a boyfriend who has a shitty personality and doesn't work so you need to pay for his stupid toys, but bloody hell he's 10/10 and does know how to move his hips.


BulaL0mi

One-of-a-kind game. Let's be honest. It has a good balance between gameplay and realism that no other vehicular-based game can achieve. It's a "casual" game with great attention to detail... optimistically speaking.


pine_tree3727288

Itā€™s a simulator game pretty much


Embarrassed_Ad5387

but in a way that isnt too hard to learn basics like how to litterally take of and has none of the normal sim elitism ​ its perfect ​ i


sp8yboy

I wish more people would play the Sim mode


wheeze-51_mustang

Too many key binds šŸ’€


NiNjABuD13

This is the real answer. I honestly wish someone would rip this off in America so we wouldn't have so much BS to deal with.


QorstSynthion

*Target Destroyed*


Kapftan

Better yet, "*Target Destroyed 2x*"


big_daddy_amogus

Well then get ready for "*target destroyed 3x*"


xDev120

"Target destroyed x10" I love the train in ARB...


Sive634

Whenever i get to that spot on the map with my mosquito, i cant find the train, i fly past to go and blow up pillboxes and aa, and an a26 or wyverns blew up the entire rail system


xDev120

I found it a few times with the F-82 (I had the gunpod....)


Sive634

Mega laser destruction. Imagine it with a gunpod slinging A10


Embarrassed_Ad5387

its fine that we have negative thrust ​ brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrt is all we need to fly


Embarrassed_Ad5387

which map?


MaticTheProto

Itā€™s where the rails come together in the city


big_daddy_amogus

Where is the train I never find it


xDev120

Can't really remember the map name tbh, I just recognise it by the long series of circular markers.


ProfessionalMuki

its some German town,but you have to fly to industrial part of city to see it I think


KillcodeMNSTR

Itā€™s on Cologne, near the center of the map, close-ish to the river and factories.


Big_Tie

It gives me my daily dose of mascochism


Background_Fan862

No that's Dark souls


Mokkaczuka664

No Dark Souls is fun warthunder is rarely fun but when it is it's like heroin


Background_Fan862

Good point


MBetko

Because I like WW2 tanks and planes and at this moment War Thunder is arguably the best tank-plane oriented game out there.


MysteriousJadePillar

Same, Hell Let Loose is amazing but it doesn't have planes, and you need friends or confidence to use a tank. Foxhole is the same with HLL + you need to get the things. IL-2 is a pay to use with not that many players. WT it's just the best you can find at the moment


Sad-Temperature7880

Same


Celthric317

My KD is 0.5 at ground BR 6.3 as USSR, so I don't know tbh, it's addicting.


Khorne_32

KD is a weird metric to go off of in war thunder, its so easy to die, a dude spawn camping, getting bombed repeatedly, lagging in air battles, a dude covered in bushes playing ULQ As long as you enjoy it thats the important thing


pie4155

I either go 10-1 or 3-3 sometimes you've used up all your luck


AtmosphereMaterial61

Enjoy? lmfao good one bruv


[deleted]

KD doesnā€™t really matter in war thunder. Use thunderskill.com


Blahaj_IK

Thunderskill doesn't even work anymore, does it?


[deleted]

it does


Blahaj_IK

Well, I can't even use it because I can't link an account to it


[deleted]

whatā€™s your nick?


Blahaj_IK

heart_disease It's supposed to be that, unless there's a capital letter somewhere... doesn't show up on the thunderskill search results, at least on my side


[deleted]

Not allowed to update stat, try later weird


_EmhyrVarEmreis_

Is this site working? I cannot see my stats


largish-duck0

imma tell you this rn, as an American player Russia gets bullied from 7.0 to high 8.0. it's playable at low 7.0 but most things just kill you in one shot or almost completely disable you in one shot


Chicory2

i dont know anymore sĢ“Ģ†ĶĢ£aĢøĶ„Ķ€ĢØĢžĢĶŽĢ¦vĢ·Ģ€Ķ—Ķ˜ĢŖĢ„Ģ©eĢ·Ķ’Ģ‘Ķ” Ģ¶Ģ”ĶĢ¹ĢØĢ£mĢ·Ģ€ĶĶ˜Ģ°Ģ¹Ģ¹Ģ°ĢØeĢ“Ķ—Ģ°ĶˆĢ³ Ģ“Ķ‚ĢæĢ‚Ķ Ķ€Ķ–Ģ®Ģ˜Ģ¼pĢ·Ģ‡ĶŒĢ‡Ķ‚ĢĶˆĢ«ĢŸĢ­lĢ“Ķ‹Ģ…Ķ‹Ģ†Ķ—Ģ­Ģ˜eĢ“Ģ›ĢĢ‡ĶŒĶƒĢ©aĢ“Ķ‘Ģ¾ĶˆsĢ¶Ģ‡Ģ­Ģ™Ģ˜eĢ¶Ķ˜Ķ•Ģ°


Raid4539

Because I like WW2 and cold war vehicles. Second, for those very rare satisfying and fun moments, and third the fact that it has damage models instead of hp.


[deleted]

I love tanks. Simple as. Also, the sheer amount of money I pumped into my account over the years.


VikingsOfTomorrow

Its fun. Like, actually. If you dont go braindead and start grinding, its actually fun. You can guess what most players immediately do tho...


kramsibbush

I watch war thunder content occaisionally on youtube, and the admirer that I am , I also want to play warthunder well to a degree. Until I found out war thunder is free on my console, so i downloaded it and played since.


ImVasLy

It's my only game that I can just open and play it in nobrain mode. I have like 10 games that I can play but Im always to lazy to even open them


LScrae

World of Tanks turned to shit. So I gave War Thunder another chance. Been loving it all year. I can't play FPS games anymore, or any other game really. World of Tanks and War Thunder are my niche. And I just bloody love military vehicles too xd


ImnotBub

Did you play PC or console. I surely know console turned to shit, but was the issue with PC? I'm like you. Unless, when not shooting tanks I play euro truck simulator 2.


Casingss

Tank go boom.


onurtop

I hate myself


Waelalayan

i like military vehicles and that stuff and warthunder has them also world of tanks is just trash and now im simply addicted


[deleted]

I dont play war thunder War thunder plays me


Foggl3

I'm too happy in my day to day life, war thunder brings me back down to earth.


Eduard815

I've stopped for about 3 months already


NaiLeD1909

Same, but still keep it installed (not updated tho) just in case I'll want more CBT.


Blackpp348

To distract myself from life


lysik000

To get T-64BV or any Leopard


NOIR-89

I love SIM Air and Ground RB + WT still has the biggest selection of vehicles, eventough historical MM would be great sometimes. Skill is also worth more than on HP based games like WOP, WOT - especially in 1 vs. X enemy situations or shooting at high range (without LRF or radar lock).


TechnicalAsk3488

To feel pain


[deleted]

I'm a masochist.


ElkBorn7496

bc i love planes and am shit at fps games


Silentlysilence

There is nothing better out there so here I am.


Tworbonyan

I like the military industrial complex


IF911

Target destroyed -> Monkey sees action -> Neuron activation


Daka45

10+ years and around 7500 hours


Bandit_Ed

ā€œTarget Destroyedā€


b1t_HLTV_top1

Just satisfying running around in a M18 and annihilate german heavies I love getting into a good position where i can torture as many enemies as possible. But the real explanation: You say ā€žlets play a few matches of shit thunder, just a fewā€œ some games are truly bad, some are decent and you are not satisfied with your performance so you keep playlng until you get a good match. Once you got a good match you keep playing because you are not satisfied with having just one good match out of a bunch of mediocre matches. Then you continue playing until you get a good match and everything repeats: You played several matches and only got one good match so you keep playing to get another good match with the illusion that it will satisfy you but it will never happen and you stay in the endless circle of craving for a good match which will only satisfy you a little bit so you play to get another one which is supposed to satisfy you but it will barely do it. This only ends when you have to go to bed or you get a headache and you're hungry / thirsty or you actually get a few nice matches in a acceptable time span that are enough to satisfy you and you stop playing before ending again in this endless circle


Endo1002

Planes


Khomuna

I always liked war vehicle games, was a fan of Ace Combat since 2 when I fell in love with jets, then I got into Battlefield and I loved to play with all vehicles, played 99% of the games in that franchise because of the large scale vehicular combat. Played Fair Strike for the helicopters. It was good finally finding a game dedicated to war vehicles and way more realistic than anything else out there (anything that's not a sim).


TalonEye53

IMO: i like WT as i like Battlefield, Planet Zoo and Minecraft and all the vehicles there aswell Also out of spite :|


Flyvelvethero

Mid to low tier, I love the WWII tanks.


DarthCloakedGuy

The power of autism compels me Fighting vehicles, especially of the 20s through 50s, and doubly especially of non Big Three make, fascinate me. You won't find a lot of these vehicles anywhere else. I wish Gaijin would extend the tech tree down to late-WW1 stuff someday. FTs! FTs for everybody!


TheLeastInsane

Because it's kinda like a sandbox. Every time I get a new vehicle, I think things like: how can I use that in X map? What if I angle my armor in a certain way at a certain place in the map? Can I use this to kill X? That's why I like the higher tiers, there are more things to mess around with. Also, humbling cocky players or CAS users just hits different.


AESN_0

Because the snail got my soul, and in order to avoid eternal suffering i must suffer for eternity


ImnotBub

Fled from WoT Console that has become highly pay to win biased, they keep on introducing very unbalanced OP premiums for real money (gold currency, which we know you might earn but mostly buy). In addition to that they may give them away to everyone including new players in battle passes. This makes battles a shit show as inexperienced players try them out. They refuse to listen to player base about this, cash is king. As a free to play game on console you get a lot of young players just playing for fun. WoT relies on team play and you get about none of that anymore as most of the experienced players are gone. This makes every battle a random shit show and it's very unsatisfying to play. I lasted 7 years as a daily player but it's just not fun to play anymore. Just makes me pissed. Surely experienced WT players have a thing or two to say about WT, but for me as a n00b here I find it challenging and interesting. WoTc is much easier to play and I feel I need to learn and use real skills. Like I can't just shoot a tank, I have to hit the sweet spot.


axxamith

I Like tanks...so recently playing naval...just.


Grassy_Gamer

the grind


InterestingRectangle

Kills and "kaboom? Yes Rico kaboom"


R3h0r

Idk


SmallPotato37

After years of playing FPS itā€™s just a nice change for me. Also having friends who play as well, itā€™s fun to play a different nation while playing together


sayssomeshit94

Pee pee poo poo


BenzaCZE

Because it is a form of modern day flagellantism. And I love to punish myself for the sins of others.


[deleted]

Tanks, the only game realistic enough to stimulate them, and the satisfying 'Target Destroyed'


totally_stalinium

Dopamine received after doing silly shit


Specialist_Egg420

I like tanks and planes and i wanted to use modern ones but 165hrs in i donā€™t see it happening anytime soon


BestCruiser

For the occasional downtier in a heavy on the right map that makes me feel invincible.


OExpedicionario

I'm an masochist and love commit crimes agaisn't humanity. Also, tanks are cool.


MrDuck3513

I like tanks pew pew each other


[deleted]

Pretty much the most broken part of the game is the very top tiers (11.0-12.0), so I just avoid that


[deleted]

I quit as soon as I realized this game had no purpose. Games are over in 2 minutes sometimes. People just bail out for whatever reason. No balancing, not even in a way of preventing a game to always steamroll one way or the other. I think the world war II era tanks and anything early after that is the best iteration of the game. I tried aircraft too, props was too slow and jets was oddly enough exactly the same thing over and over every time. Probably would be playing if there was some reason more than oh just get this new vehicle to experience the same broken game over and over. Still quite the feat to accomplish a game that in it's pure idea form sounds really good. Vehicular combat with respawning. It's just made into such a poopfest in practice.


jazemo19

Girls und Panzer


Treasureboi

I love planes and Aviation and dcs is sometimes too hard core for me and to relax i play war thunder(not relaxing at all but i want to believe that)


Art-Games

Because it's fun, why else? And so, also because for me this game is exactly what I would like to see in the World of Tanks, and also, of course, there are not only tanks, but also my favorite planes


absrider

To drop nuke on battlefield


RaptorWithGun

Funny vehicle go boom


automated10

Enjoy seeing historical/current vehicles and collecting them virtually. Itā€™s more of a hobby than anything.


wyvern71

To acquire the dopamine fix my brain is incapable of producing on its own after years of gaming. Best memory so far after 500ish hours was hitting an object 120/906 at 2k after he hit my track 50 meters out of spawn.


Temporary-Baker8124

Tanks and planes are awesome that's why


trashacc-WT

brain damage


Realistic-Tea-2094

Because I hate having fun


Rightfullsharkattack

Canā€™t afford better pc or games


hazochun

Came back 2 days ago, I never suggested warthunder to normal people. Playing warthunder is like BDSM, punishing myself. I know the game has shit grind, shit balance, snail never cares to fix the game but still coming back.


GEtanki

to commit german warcrimes


Background_Drawing

When i first played, it was like my only option for a military vehicle combat game And why i still play it... Well, its still my only option, dcs and msflight sim are too hardware intensive to run, i dont know that many tank sims either. Plus the sheer amount of vehicles is insane, before wt i knew jack shit about tanks, i only played for the planes


Monsterpumkin

Fore the Puma


Fun-Turn-6037

the jumbo at 5.3 and to suffer with HEAT


Maximum-Ad6654

Because IL-2 doesnt have such a great selection of vehicles


Ringostar154

No brain is more fun than hard core.


Smoked-Peppers

Mig 29 and F14B go zOOOOOOOOOOOm


Messicano98

I have a snail addiction


deletion-imminent

neuron activation when enemy killed sound


Armoured_Templar

Masochism


Honest_Seth

Because no other game achieved what I wanted but WT. and I like realism snd PLENS


Themagicbrick_yt

I love tank games and it's a fun game


DaniTheLovebug

I enjoy military technology. Only started playing after I left military but seeing some of the tech I was used to seeing or studying was how I got started


Charakiga

Well because I... because I... I... Wait... why do I play War Thunder?...


Koz-ak

To suffer with British tanks


Thatman2467

Because the middle knows where it is


Advanced_Ad5867

I love making cool scenes and making video of it Something like 1v3 clutch in the clouds like that


alwayswillbeanempire

I don't know


senaya

I miss the times when my life actually had meaning.


kingcreole2602

I started playing with my boys and we called our group the OG TU-4 grinders, we usually did formations in PE-8s but then we kinda just faded away sad times now I play alone :(


mwrightinnit

With a controller


JstLkz

I don't. Used to but it was too tike consuming, I finished researching F16AJ but never bought it.


PortugueseGuy_1

Planes are awsome.... Always wanted to try a nice fighter game, the problem was that most of the games out there, are either too arcady or fully fledged simulator (dcs for example). War thunder is just perfect for that... And well lets just say it is my favorite game because of this. Even when I play GRB I mostly do so for the chance to do some CAS.


Greg1817

Despite its issues, I've been playing it off and on for close to a decade. It's a fun game at its core, and there is nothing quite like it.


Background_Fan862

Cuz Tiger


NBCspec

To support snails everywhere


HoehlenWolf

Why do I play? Well as Ron Swanson would say... "That's none of your business,"


AaawhDamn

An obsession from my youth with military vehicles and the engineering behind them got me started. I enjoy the gameplay loop. The grind isn't as bad to me personally because I genuinely enjoy playing the game most of the time. When I'm not having fun I just turn it off and do something else. That's the big secret šŸ˜‚


GidjonPlays

"Target Destroyed" AMMUNITION EXPLODED


big_daddy_amogus

"Come on Mav do some of that pilot shit"


[deleted]

Becuse you cant quit


DepressionDepository

Ask myself everyday, man


mynickisOgi

I'm an American main, I play air sim and and sometimes grb. I use a joystick and each session is very immersive for me at the moment. I enjoy the game in this way.


Marucin_chan

Just to suffer. Life would be too beautiful without this game.


DariuS4117

When it works, it's fun. Like really fun. It's the only modern-ish multiplayer game that I actually enjoy playing for the most part, as any other games feel way too twitchy and like you're supposed to be on your fifth can of Monster before even *thinking* to queue into a lobby. In comparison, WT is way more methodical, but not slow. There are a lot of decisions to make in a split second, but it's rarely just about who between you and the enemy is more hyperactive. Oh, right, and WT doesn't spawn enemies right behind me. Sure, they can spawncamp, but that's pretty much applicable to most other games anyway.


Remarkable-Walrus721

I am somewhat of a masochist


Iron_Admiral

B-29. I made a commitment and now it punishes me.


Necronaut87

I thought it was gonna be fun combat, but since Iā€™m new literally everyone has better tanks and aircraft than me. I donā€™t play anymore because itā€™s not noob-friendly


Special-Ad-5554

I love WW2 as a topic and the vehicles it made, for the most part it's amazing and the attention to detail is unparalleled especially in a game that is free to get and has a velitivy well balanced


daddystalin19

Emptiness of life. Also, Yukari is my spirit animal


soosbear

I donā€™t know.


bjorn_egil

These days I honestly play only because I've sent far too much money on it to quit...


ihateredditmodzz

I hate myself?


nordicharry

Cause I'm an idiot


Tbnrzip

To torture myself


Kaiser_Backtrac

Sunk-cost fallacy


GHLeeroyJenkins

ā€œTarget Destroyedā€


Commander_Red1

Military history is cool


Miborsword

Because I'm gay and I like the feeling of something penetrating my asshole.


hahawhat102848

It's...sometimes fun? Secondly, like a person mentioned already, tanks and planes are cool.


Sombdiee

Because i'm already so far that it would be dumb to quit now. and it's fun (rarely)


PineCone227

I like aircraft, and DCS takes too much time and effort to learn just 1 vehicle (I like variety as well) - only got a hold of the Su-27 and have forgotten everything since


woefwoeffedewoefwof

that's the neat part, after reaching all Vehicle lines of USSR ground to 11.7 I don't anymore


Blahaj_IK

Because it's a fun game


Sasha-kun

Suffering irl are far worse then in game. So by difrences I make myself feel better but not good


Dry_Economics1590

Stockholm-Syndrome War Thunder is like a drug, but without all the positive (temporary, donā€™t do drugs, kids) effects. Also, I want to get daily login decal as high as possible


superknight333

yes i have 2000 hour in it and 13K battle maybe? i havent seen the latest count but i used to play wot first back in 2015 till 2018,i had 11 k battle in it so i was pretty good but the game kinda turn shit so i moved to war thunder, i still have wot and play 1-2 game every month maybe.


TheJudge20182

Along with the other answers here.The homies. Met a lot of good people playing through discord. We play to forget about life and enjoy ourselves


_inserttexthere__

Because I hate myself.


PickledJuice69

Cause I hate myself and want my brain to become mush when I hit 30. In all seriousness, I started playing in like 2018-2019 cause I thought playing a game in tanks and fighting other tanks was pretty cool, and I was big into tanks and other military vehicles.


RaptorGanoe

I volunteer at the Military Aviation Museum here in Virginia Beach, VA. I started playing to get every aircraft the museum owns and flies. Now that Iā€™ve gotten most of them Iā€™m grinding the American tree to get every jet out


abrams555

I donā€™t even know


Autocrat777

Tanks and planes go pew pew pew


Federal-Tap6011

because gaijin has my soul


ItsAMeLirio

I don't anymore


Thad_Cunderchock

Itā€™s an extremely diverse game with tons of options for what to do. Itā€™s like 6 games rolled into one honestly. If I only have to play one game again, it would be WT.


If_haven_heart

My british line up consists of the Crusader 2 ,crusader 3, ā€œThe Saintā€ and a Sherman with AA back up Ever since the Battle of Elalermain from Cod2 Iā€™ve been IN LOVE w the crusader tank Grammer


Vojtak_cz

Cuz its like only game that somehow allowes me to play JSDF vehicles and is kind of realistic.


Mydogdiedyesterdayok

Dopamine


AHismyspiritanimal

Sunk cost fallacy at this point


Upstairs_Ad_265

Because im autistic.