So Yeah, This isn't really a review its more of my experiences after almost 1000 hours played, I wanted to write some funny review like oh my god this game ruined my life and vote positive but honestly I can't.

I started this game in late January and no lifed it for almost 1000 hours, I have Germany and Sweden ground trees maxxed out.
My stats are pretty decent with around 9500 ground kills and 6600 deaths, I average around a 4kd each match now that I've learned a good majority of the maps.

This game is not P2W it is pay to skip if that makes sense.
This isn't a very skillful game either it's mostly RNG based between teammates and where they go whether or not your round does enough spalling to kill the entire or enough crew or outright BS you.

An example of BS is when you hit a Russian top tier MBT in the lower plate and it gets the driver and engine but somehow completely misses the ammo which is in between both of them or when someone hits your Leopard 2A5 or above in the cheek, it pens and kills your entire crew, people call this getting gaijined but I believe there is some sort of SBMM mechanics similiar to how Call of Duty does it to protect lower scoring and people who spend a lot of money on premium tanks.

I know people won't like me saying that and I don't really care, my theory is if subpar developers like Infinity ward, Treyarch and Sledgehammer games can implement SBMM mechanics into their game then what is stopping Warthunder developers? At the end of the day if people like me did not get BS'd by bad players who spend a lot of money on the game they'd simply get rolled every game then eventually quit and Gaijin would lose money, Gaijin will not let that happen.

Warthunder has a cheating problem, most likely due to the anti cheat being Easy Anti Cheat, it's like having a gate but no fence to keep cheaters out.
I personally have run into a few cheaters who I have reported, not to Gaijin but to a Warthunder youtuber under the name of W.T.C.S who makes videos exposing cheaters.

I don't really wanna talk about revenge bombing or top tier CAS spam or SU25's 40km missile range and the best western SPAA's missile range being like 12k i'll let someone else explain all that trash.

Speaking from my own experience here Warthunder has one of the most toxic communities I have ever seen in a video game, if you are so unfortunate enough to get into a top tier game with USA on your side and god forbid they all get rolled because they W keyed straight towards the enemies in their brand new clickbait or AIM and you say ANYTHING negative in team chat towards the USA players you will get mass reported and chat banned.

Anyway I do not recommend the game but if you are curious give it a go it's free.
I will probably continue to play because I have no other game to grind right now.

So Yeah, This isn't really a review its more of my experiences after almost 1000 hours played, I wanted to write some funny review like oh my god this game ruined my life and vote positive but honestly I can't. I started this game in late January and no lifed it for almost 1000 hours, I have Germany and Sweden ground trees maxxed out. My stats are pretty decent with around 9500 ground kills and 6600 deaths, I average around a 4kd each match now that I've learned a good majority of the maps. This game is not P2W it is pay to skip if that makes sense. This isn't a very skillful game either it's mostly RNG based between teammates and where they go whether or not your round does enough spalling to kill the entire or enough crew or outright BS you. An example of BS is when you hit a Russian top tier MBT in the lower plate and it gets the driver and engine but somehow completely misses the ammo which is in between both of them or when someone hits your Leopard 2A5 or above in the cheek, it pens and kills your entire crew, people call this getting gaijined but I believe there is some sort of SBMM mechanics similiar to how Call of Duty does it to protect lower scoring and people who spend a lot of money on premium tanks. I know people won't like me saying that and I don't really care, my theory is if subpar developers like Infinity ward, Treyarch and Sledgehammer games can implement SBMM mechanics into their game then what is stopping Warthunder developers? At the end of the day if people like me did not get BS'd by bad players who spend a lot of money on the game they'd simply get rolled every game then eventually quit and Gaijin would lose money, Gaijin will not let that happen. Warthunder has a cheating problem, most likely due to the anti cheat being Easy Anti Cheat, it's like having a gate but no fence to keep cheaters out. I personally have run into a few cheaters who I have reported, not to Gaijin but to a Warthunder youtuber under the name of W.T.C.S who makes videos exposing cheaters. I don't really wanna talk about revenge bombing or top tier CAS spam or SU25's 40km missile range and the best western SPAA's missile range being like 12k i'll let someone else explain all that trash. Speaking from my own experience here Warthunder has one of the most toxic communities I have ever seen in a video game, if you are so unfortunate enough to get into a top tier game with USA on your side and god forbid they all get rolled because they W keyed straight towards the enemies in their brand new clickbait or AIM and you say ANYTHING negative in team chat towards the USA players you will get mass reported and chat banned. Anyway I do not recommend the game but if you are curious give it a go it's free. I will probably continue to play because I have no other game to grind right now.