War Thunder - Ground Forces Open Beta

Holsterbau · May 16, 2014 02:33 PM

About time, the only relevant part of the game is now open for beta testing. Anybody else thrilled?

cipher · May 16, 2014 06:02 PM

While I haven't tried it of course, I just can't see it being as fun as the plane aspects of the game. Hopefully they'll more or less prove me wrong

rtil · May 16, 2014 10:18 PM

not particularly thrilled.. i mean i've played war thunder and it was alright, didn't really blow me away or anything. i never once thought to myself i would have rather been on the ground shooting at planes. i'm not even sure if that's what this is , but if it is i think i'll give it a pass.

soup · May 17, 2014 02:33 AM

its not wolfenstein, im not interested

SrsSam77 · May 17, 2014 02:40 AM

Quote from: soup on May 17, 2014 02:33 AM
its not wolfenstein, im not interested

^that
also, you don't get to play as a grunt, not interested.

Holsterbau · May 17, 2014 09:56 AM

Quote from: rtil on May 16, 2014 10:18 PM
not particularly thrilled.. i mean i've played war thunder and it was alright, didn't really blow me away or anything. i never once thought to myself i would have rather been on the ground shooting at planes. i'm not even sure if that's what this is , but if it is i think i'll give it a pass.

It's about destroying tanks. Each faction has an AA truck/halftrack, however, so you have a possibility of shooting down planes and even some really paper-thin tanks with those. Otherwise it's just tank destroyers, light tanks, etc.

rtil · May 17, 2014 10:35 AM

well i like tanks. but i don't like world of tanks. so maybe i'll try it and hope it's not like world of tanks.

Holsterbau · May 17, 2014 10:53 AM

World of Tanks is awful because it started literally like this: Wargaming.net are in the process of making a generic fantasy MMO with a crappy MMO engine. Then one guy added a T-34 next to a knight and his friends thought it was hilarious, but some idiot thought "oh this is a GREAT idea let's make a tank game." They changed the plan to a tank game instead of a generic fantasy MMO, but they didn't change their engine.

This creates a million limitations with no apparent boons. It is true that they purchased the developers and the engine after a while, to access the source code, so they could remove a few tiny bits like an absolute speed limit (for vehicles) and a few tweaks, but some things cannot be changed without completely scratching the entire game and starting all over: tiny maps, projectiles having no volume and piss-poor physics. This is probably why you didn't like that awful game.

War Thunder, on the other hand, has enormous maps and there is no view range mechanism. I am sure that you were frustrated in WoT because of your commander apparently being a mole that cannot see farther than a few yards.

Not much else I should say, War Thunder is just technically more advanced and appropriate for what it tries to be. World of Tanks is not, it runs on garbage.

rtil · May 17, 2014 12:35 PM

there's a lot of reasons why i don't like world of tanks, and i think my thoughts echo yours. it doesn't feel like they know what direction they want to take the game in. there's the f2p grind element, but then they want the game to be an esport, yet the game is full of imbalances. for a game all about tanks it could be a hell of a lot better.

zwimmy · May 17, 2014 11:30 PM

Quote from: Holsterbau on May 17, 2014 10:53 AM
World of Tanks is awful because it started literally like this: Wargaming.net are in the process of making a generic fantasy MMO with a crappy MMO engine. Then one guy added a T-34 next to a knight and his friends thought it was hilarious, but some idiot thought "oh this is a GREAT idea let's make a tank game." They changed the plan to a tank game instead of a generic fantasy MMO, but they didn't change their engine.

why does this not surprise me lol