The Achilles heel of WoT remains the abysmal maps, abysmal optimization (get a new pc lul) and horrid play of pubs. Horrible pubs don’t hold you back in WT — 5 kills and you get massive exp, win OR lose. (and no, I’m not a WT fanboy; I’ve played both, and currently I spend all my gaming time in Titanfall)

Not only planned – by the time War Thunder entered closed alpha stage, we already had at least one WoT supertest screenshot leaked from early iteration of garage battle.

On the idea of WT vs WOT, who really gives the shit. WT has and will have things that WOT does not have, and WOT will come out with stuff that WT wont have. It is all personal preference and no game is better then the other because the whole idea of “better” is a persons personal preference. The ONLY comparable things you can logically argue with these games is 1. Performance and 2. Graphics/Audio.

And if WT:GF hadn’t come along most of these ideas would’ve remained just ideas for months and years to come. As is evidenced by the incomplete number of higher poly models, i.e “Look we have graphics too!!!11!1 (and to the art team – > MAKE MODELS FASTER)”

I have to give it to WG for opting with Physical Based Rendering though, that is where next gen is going

Simply leave your buildings at level 4. No one can even touch you or your buildings unless they are level 5.

The reason being is that right now Gaijin has this stuff before WG did because they didn’t have to spend time adding the things that WoT has been adding. WoT was concentrating on adding Japanese and French and British and Chinese tanks and adding different branches to their game then they went to add the new mods and the new visuals.

Gaijin put in 3 nations then before worrying about adding other nations they went for graphics and game modes
WoT put in 7 nations then worried about graphics and more game modes.

And no WoT is not suddenly adding all this stuff because Gaijin added this stuff. WG had these game modes and graphics updates planned for this general time before Gaijin EVEN announced they were making a tank game. Companies don’t just suddenly decide to do things like update graphics and add modes simply because another company is doing it. They plan these kind of massive updates LONG LONG in advance. Companies make three year, five year, ten year goals. They plan to do things long before they ever start to even looking at how to do that thing.

So no Gaijin has nothing to do with anything WoT is doing. These are things that were planned far in advance before WT:GF was even announced to the public as being near alpha version