It's kinda like Escape from Tarkov in that regard. Playing it you swing between having the best time of your life to wanting to put your computer through a wood chipper... And the grind is much more bearable if you get a premium vehicle pack (preferably on upcoming anniversary sale), and that is by design to get more people to spend money. Also if there is one thing Gaijin deserves credit for, it's making an online game played by tens of thousands of people every day with basically no cheaters. There is quite a bit of bullshit in War Thunder, but not once have I encountered anyone I could even suspect of using 3rd party cheats. Cheaters are really bad for business and if Gaijin management cares about one thing, it's money.
Oh hey, it's Nordern, love his content. 1:14 That is Snazzy, he likes ducks. 2:40 That's Moti, the deaf Bulgarian who likes to abuse his desk 3:32 That's Monster, the Brit gal 4:15 Case in point with what I said about Moti. 4:47 Since Sean(I think) denies that his grandfather was Italian, I'm gonna say either French(because Vichy France), or Romanian, as they switched sides in mid to late '44. 10:24 Guess the property value's gonna increase now that the owners have that plane that can sold for the metal. 16:10 And yet the Sherman keeps on kickin', meanwhile you've got some T-34s where the hull shatters from a shell hitting one of them hard enough due to it being too heat treated. 17:28 If there were troops in that trench, the plane flying by would likely pick them up off the ground for a split second due to its velocity.
War Thunder is an odd animal on one game I got five tank kills with a mid level tank and took and held a capture point single handed making me feel like the king of world the next I got sniped by STRV before I even fired a shot in all 5 of my tanks and almost broke my keyboard in anger. To say I have a love hate relationship with it is a understatement but ether way it's fun to what Nordern and his friends dick around in it!