The Ultimate War Thunder Iceberg

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  • čas přidán 28. 05. 2024
  • What are the player revolutions? Does War Thunder give people D*pression? Do they really have official War Thunder body pillows?
    This is the Complete War Thunder Iceberg Explained: War Thunder's History, Hidden Features, Historical Accuracy, Drama, Gaijins Business moves, a lot of lore and knowledge.
    Sources and Links to used videos: docs.google.com/document/d/1V...
    Huge thanks to Luis for editing the video and all collecting the sources for it here in this document. You’re the best!
    Music Used:
    Tomodachi Life Music - Mii Maker
    Killing Floor - Witness Prevention
    DSi Shop Theme
    Animal Crossing - City Folk Gracie Grace
    World of Tanks - Battle Music
    Georges Bizet - Les Toreadors
    The Legend of Zelda: Majora’s Mask - New Wave Bossa Nova (Pitch Shifted)
    Edvard Grieg - In The Hall of the Mountain King
    Kevin MacLeod - Local Forecast
    Apocalypse: The Second World War Soundtrack - The Trap
    Portal 2 OST - 9999999 (Pitch Shifted)
    Dark Souls III OST - Vordt of the Boreal Valley
    Cars: RaceORama - Ornament Valley
    Ape Escape 3 - TV Station Fortune Telling
    Portal 2 OST - The Courtesy Call (Pitch Shifted)
    Mozart - Lacrimosa
    Killing Floor - Wading through the Bodies (Pitch Shifted)
    Apocalypse: The Second World War Soundtrack - Farewell To Peace
    Apocalypse: The Second World War Soundtrack - Liberation
    Chapters:
    Intro 0:00
    Top 0:42
    Just Beyond The Surface 5:08
    Shallow Waters 10:55
    Pretty Unknown or Wild 17:48
    Obscure and WTF 23:17
    Theories and INSANITY 28:16
    The Depth... 32:53
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  • @ianNotShort
    @ianNotShort  Před měsícem +632

    What else should I make an Iceberg video on?
    *Additions / Corrections:*
    -Stalin secret picture was user made
    -Nukes don‘t require 20 kills, you can do it with less.
    -Vehicle preview images feature was removed
    -Gaijin was created in Russia, but is now located in Hungary

  • @BlueLightningHawk
    @BlueLightningHawk Před měsícem +1962

    You don't need 20 kills to get a nuke... you need 2500 spawn points. Which is impacted by other things like capturing points and assists. You see people get them every now and then.

    • @dawkon990
      @dawkon990 Před měsícem +209

      He is talking about first nukes that was added to WT: the AB nukes

    • @hunk8562
      @hunk8562 Před měsícem +20

      ty @@dawkon990

    • @svx4477
      @svx4477 Před měsícem +66

      does he even play the game? it really doesnt feel like it

    • @matusviskup9624
      @matusviskup9624 Před měsícem +32

      I think that those 20 kills he mentioned are meant for AB becouse in RB you need 11 kills to get a nuke, and yes as mentioned above you can get the nuke by other means than kills but, kills are the fastest way. Correct me if im wrong, i have never had a nuke in AB... And yes nukes arent that rare, i got nuke 3 games in a row... and every 5 games or so someone will drop a nuke. Another factors are teammates, they sometimes decide the game isnt ending yet and shoot you down(never happened to me personaly but i heard few stories), or just enemy looks at the score board and spawns in a plane before you can spawn a nuke to shoot you down once you spawn... And now with reacent update if you get close to spawning a nuke(i think above 2000 sp) the nuke button will apear in your hotbar.
      Sorry for my grammar mistakes if anyone gets triggered by that.

    • @kacpermalina308
      @kacpermalina308 Před měsícem +4

      so you need only to critical damage 40 players XD

  • @bpop2148
    @bpop2148 Před měsícem +968

    In addition to detail: Aircraft with a clock in the cockpit tells you the time on your computer

    • @gustav4351
      @gustav4351 Před měsícem +14

      Is it? I think it is the time of the game world map, I remember when I was in a night map and the clock was at 10:00 PM while in real life here it was daytime

    • @bpop2148
      @bpop2148 Před měsícem +25

      @@gustav4351 No, it should be the time thats on your pc

    • @gabrysmichalek4281
      @gabrysmichalek4281 Před měsícem +4

      ​@@bpop2148 Okay that starts to get scary

    • @GAMER123GAMING
      @GAMER123GAMING Před měsícem +15

      @@gabrysmichalek4281 Not at all. Many games use the time on your PC

    • @datziklegendz1225
      @datziklegendz1225 Před 11 dny

      He’s right

  • @Ask3lad
    @Ask3lad Před měsícem +149

    Easy way to skip the "Grind" is to sell your soul to the Snail and market their game to millions of people world wide💀

  • @Izual001
    @Izual001 Před měsícem +40

    On the decal size limit: I read that back then some players put huge black decals on their tanks to look like they are already destroyed and Gaijin implemented the size limits to prevent this exploit.

    • @Hashiriya985
      @Hashiriya985 Před 18 dny +2

      ive been there.. been playing WT for a looooooong time now, i think the only game ive spent more hours was Skyrim... so yeah that is true

  • @TenPatrik
    @TenPatrik Před měsícem +825

    7:04 sadly the image thingy for vehicles got removed , its sad they gave every vehicle a soul now its just a 3d models image

    • @Soldo66666
      @Soldo66666 Před měsícem +105

      Yeah it was so nice to scroll through the tech trees

    • @AlRizz187
      @AlRizz187 Před měsícem +75

      for real i hope they bring it back as an option. liked those.

    • @slavsit7600
      @slavsit7600 Před měsícem +69

      its also very cool to see the image quality get better as you go down

    • @SoIset
      @SoIset Před měsícem +3

      o7

    • @leef9242
      @leef9242 Před měsícem +16

      Yeah idk why tf they changed that

  • @Tepid24
    @Tepid24 Před měsícem +6

    Important point from someone with a modest 4.3k hours in the game, been playing since ~2016, almost exclusively ground forces and 100% free to play: The game actually becomes fun when you don't care about the grind. You don't need that jet, you don't need that MBT. The most memorable round of Warthunder I've ever had was getting 24 kills in a Matilda 2. I could not care less about my T-80U or T-90A, as long as I get to throw in a few rounds in an M24, or T-34-85 or Pz IV F2. The game is at its most enjoyable at the 2.7-6.7 range. If you're playing Warthunder because you're a super-fan of >insert modern combat vehicle/plane< and that's all you want out of the game, Warthunder is not the game for you. There are other games for that, more specialized ones, with smaller playerbases, but they are what you actually want.
    Also, diversify. Swap what nation you play on a regular basis. Yes, it will turn the incredibly slow progress even slower, but it will actually keep the game fun, rather than a fruitless chase after something that will likely end up disappointing you. It will also make you a better player, giving you a much better understanding of your opposition. And it's an easy fix for the "bias" problem. Play a nation that you think is overpowered and you will very quickly discover that it is likely just as painful as what you were playing previously. Some nations have a good showing at every BR range, the more minor nations tend to have some holes in the range where they're weakly represented, but tend to make up for it in other areas.
    For anyone wondering how much research you can get done playing in this way, after the aforementioned 4.3k Steam hours spent primarily in Ground RB, these are my highest rated vehicles in the respective tech trees:
    USA: 7.7 (M48A1)
    Germany: 8.0 (Leopard 1)
    USSR: 11.3 (T-80U)
    Great Britain: 8.7 (Chieftain Mk.3)
    Japan: 7.3 (Ho-Ri Production)
    China: 5.0 (Object 211)
    France: 6.7 (AMX M4)
    I don't play Italy, Sweden and Israel. Yeah, it's kinda ridiculous that after over 4k hours I don't have any tree maxed (especially considering I rarely touch two thirds of the game in the form of air and sea battles), but I have had the USSR tech tree at completion before, but that was from the time of the T-10M being the top-ranked vehicle until the early T-64s and T-72 were added. Past that I took a major hiatus from WT and I doubt I'll research the T-90M and T-80BVM any time soon, since I'm having much more fun playing China at the moment. The M4/M24/T-34 lineup is effective, fun and fairly easy to reach. After that I've also been enjoying the US 6.7 lineup a lot. Anyway, all this to say that you don't need to invest thousands of hours to have fun in Warthunder, quite the opposite, the more time you invest, the harder you have to keep your perspective on how you can actually enjoy the game.
    Sidenote, the entire third of the game that is naval battles has to be considered pretty low on the iceberg, seeing how few people play it and how rarely it is mentioned anywhere.

  • @dreadedbreadbed3705
    @dreadedbreadbed3705 Před měsícem +19

    Aracde...arcade...arcade.

  • @Camilo_Z
    @Camilo_Z Před měsícem +355

    Ending hit like a freight train

    • @epikberman7756
      @epikberman7756 Před měsícem +21

      That ending hit me hard

    • @friendlycomradeivan5393
      @friendlycomradeivan5393 Před měsícem +21

      Really made me think, with all it's flaws and gaijin's terrible practices, War thunder doesn't deserve and shouldn't ever be shut down

    • @tobiascolman.__.1913
      @tobiascolman.__.1913 Před měsícem +6

      The ending was like Call of duty World at war ending

  • @toasterhothead3312
    @toasterhothead3312 Před měsícem +184

    Everyone grinds to top tier…once they get there…they reach true enlightenment and go back to mid or even lower tier for fun

    • @mazdarx-8rotary.97
      @mazdarx-8rotary.97 Před měsícem +1

      so true

    • @user-jy6cn3jy8g
      @user-jy6cn3jy8g Před měsícem +9

      Well that’s actually not because top tier planes are not fun but mostly because it has literally the same game mode as low tier planes with one little difference - at low tier anything that is further than 1-2km from you can’t do anything to you while at top tier you literally can be killed by a missile from 50+km and the biggest map is only like 100x100km with 32 planes that potentially can take 2-4 of these missiles.
      So the other way is play sim, top tier sim is actually muuuuuch more fun than RB just because most of the time it has “realistic” amount of players in matches(4-6 total) which is much better but still maps are way too small for these planes

    • @thatoneguy1741
      @thatoneguy1741 Před měsícem

      My exact situation lol

    • @Red-Magic
      @Red-Magic Před měsícem +3

      Honestly the "grind" of War Thunder is so often overemphasized. There is no real grind, its all based on YOU. And theres no reason to go through the tiers anyways. The game is fun and plays fine at tiers 1 and 2 and 3 just fine. Going higher changes nothing, youll still have tanks in BRs higher, and BRs lower than you. Its dumb to "grind", just play the game normally

    • @user-jy6cn3jy8g
      @user-jy6cn3jy8g Před měsícem +4

      @@Red-Magic well there’s a huge difference actually. For instance if you face 2.0 plane in 1.0 plane or if you face 5.0 plane on 4.0 plane or even if you face 8.0 plane in 7.0 plane it won’t be much harder to win and it definitely will be doable. But if you face 10.3 plane with all aspect missiles in 9.3 subsonic flareless plane it is a different story, you can win but it will be much harder and in most cases will depend on your opponent skill, not yours. Or if you face something like F-15J in F-4J you literally will have less than 0 chances to win. And the only way to evade situations like this is to get top tier plane that will never face planes that are muuuuch better than your plane until new planes are added and then you get these new planes etc etc

  • @onerustydatsun951
    @onerustydatsun951 Před měsícem +30

    The key to happiness in War Thunder is to disregard the grind and enjoy what you already have.
    I’m perfectly content at British Air Force at 2.7: two spitfires for dogfights, a hurricane as backup, a Typhoon for BnZ and bomber hunting, a Beaufighter as a light bomber/torpedo/pounder, and a Wellington for dropping cookies. I dont need anything more. My friends ask “don’t you want Hispanos?” I say “sure, but my enemies will have them too and I already do just fine with my .303 Brownings

    • @BleedingSnow
      @BleedingSnow Před 28 dny +2

      I started a few weeks back and same, another factor as with all games is competitiveness, playing for fun, not for winning or getting the next tank.

    • @dutchlogitechclan
      @dutchlogitechclan Před 25 dny +3

      This is called copium fyi

  • @StealthCloudchaser
    @StealthCloudchaser Před měsícem +4

    I want to add that there is also a secret Hangar Music that randomly might start playing when you have Italy selected, Yes, Bella Ciao is still in the game and it is a random super rare event that can happen and you can listen to it on the hangar.

  • @Panzer_links.
    @Panzer_links. Před měsícem +300

    7:02 Apparently, the weather affects shell velocity. The colder it is, the more your shell will drop.

    • @Polterbun
      @Polterbun Před měsícem +25

      Yeah it also affects certain flight performance too apparently. Not that you can really notice haha. Cool that it exists, feels like one of those legacy features from a time when devs would just "add cool stuff" without having to think if it would actually matter.

    • @piscessoedroen
      @piscessoedroen Před měsícem +40

      ​@@Polterbunit's very noticeable in spain air battles. While on the literal desert maps you obviously sweat tf out of your engine and quickly heats it up, it's still not as fast as when playing in spain where even if the weather is just tropical, the humidity is high and planes overheats after 5 minutes of full throttle

    • @Polterbun
      @Polterbun Před měsícem +11

      @@piscessoedroen Yeah lol, you reminded me of that. Spain was always weirdly mega hot. I wonder if humidity effects engines like it does me lol? You'd think a desert would be hotter, but I know that humidity is a crazy modifier at least for me irl.

    • @ultimatechad8738
      @ultimatechad8738 Před měsícem

      @@Polterbun Fuck you mean you can't notice it, half the props in-game fly like bricks in hot maps but perform exceptionally well in cold ones. Get your facts straight before you say random bullshit like that

    • @drugsmadilla
      @drugsmadilla Před měsícem

      Bro said weather affects shell velocity

  • @Rickardo9828
    @Rickardo9828 Před měsícem +172

    The mindset that the game can't be beat is one that is all too common, and for good reason, it's easy to just hate the grind and think that it's the only goal, and that's because of the way the game is set up and how it makes money.
    However, to those who seek enlightenment, one can find the answer to what beating the game truly means, it is to realize that playing what's fun is the true victory of War Thunder. To achieve a state of higher being and enter nirvana, one must detach themselves from the grind, and play the tanks and planes that they find fun, only then will the suffering end.
    I have been playing the game free to play for years, and during that time I have unlocked hundreds of vehicles, but never did I feel disheartened and sad, for I just played the game for the fun of it, never for the sake of the grind.
    Head my teachings, share them with those in need, and you shall find peace beneath the cosmos....
    at least until the nerf the thing you find fun :)

    • @Panzer_links.
      @Panzer_links. Před měsícem +7

      Honestly, same. I have bought premium vehicles, it no premium time or any of that. I just want some vehicles and play with those. I wanted and abrams and they have a premium abrams. I want a Pershing and unlocked it after a year. I also wanted the Sherman 76 and got it on my way to the Pershing. I just play to get what I want to mess around with. Never have I tried to grind to the top, just til I got my favorite tanks. Now I’m happy. This is the only reason I still play.

    • @catritonix
      @catritonix Před měsícem +5

      this kinda mindset only works for as long as vehicles you enjoy are ww2.
      I hate ww2 and don't want anything to do with pre-60s stuff so i kinda HAD to grind to get to the fun part.

    • @southernofculture
      @southernofculture Před měsícem +1

      heratic the weight of your sins shall stay your feet and you will be left behind every tank every plane then and only then will god except you in to the kingdom of heaven lay down your money give your credit card number brothers left your hands praise the snail.

    • @RaggleFraggle916
      @RaggleFraggle916 Před měsícem +3

      Woaaah WarThunder Buddha showing us the path to nirvana

    • @KekusMagnus
      @KekusMagnus Před měsícem +4

      incredibly cringe opinion, the original Warthunder content (pre-1953) is the most realistic and best modeled. The physics engine, game-modes and maps are designed for those vehicles, not for the modern crap. The most skilled players play WW2 exclusively, because high-tier is a poorly designed unbalanced shitshow

  • @pedrim5969
    @pedrim5969 Před měsícem +4

    37:06 Da Real lore of Warthunder são os amigos que fizemos pelo caminho

  • @dti1312
    @dti1312 Před měsícem +3

    Hilarious that dozer blades are super obscure when there was an entire update (Ground Breaking) focused on them lmao

  • @poggyfroggy_isntmine4596
    @poggyfroggy_isntmine4596 Před měsícem +333

    for the is3 clip at 10:24, they were all shooting the strongest part and the comment section was annihilating the original poster for his stupidity

    • @woober3480
      @woober3480 Před měsícem +35

      but for a game supposedly all about realism, theres no way that is3 wouldve survived, armour integrity is a real thing, the is3 is only cast armour too, not composite or anything
      but yes, not the best clip to show russian bias, wouldve been better if he showed the any of the later war anything or t-34 mantlet black holes

    • @poggyfroggy_isntmine4596
      @poggyfroggy_isntmine4596 Před měsícem

      yes but this is a video game if we are talking about realism half the tanks would have destroyed engines/transmissions before they reached the battlefield@@woober3480

    • @sethschneider9764
      @sethschneider9764 Před měsícem +13

      ​@woober3480 i do wish armor would weaken if you shoot the same place multiple times, but even with that, a t26 has almost no chance of going through an is 3 from the front. Theres a reason nato developed a 120mm that fires heat and apds to counter it.

    • @priyansnhughosh4431
      @priyansnhughosh4431 Před měsícem +4

      @@woober3480 i wish we had armour integrity mechanic in this game

    • @sule.A
      @sule.A Před měsícem

      Tigers used to eat rounds

  • @cutelittlemf
    @cutelittlemf Před měsícem +530

    *Gaijin logic:*
    *If youre unemployed you have time to grind everything.*
    *If youre working you got money to buy progression.*

    • @jerichostevens2711
      @jerichostevens2711 Před měsícem +29

      I can't disagree with that logic...

    • @skgamer-zs6en
      @skgamer-zs6en Před měsícem +14

      meanwhile
      wargaming logic:
      If ur unemployed you spend money on gold in order to win matches
      (frick grinding you need to make in game purchases in order to get good matchmaking. wargaming matchmaker is rigged putting you in trash matches during events,or using boosters in game or trying to complete daily missions)
      if ur working you spend money on gold in order to win matches.
      honestly coming from world of tanks to war thunder i dont think war thunder is that p2w when compared to other military games like world of tanks, world of warships, world of warplanes.u guys have the game in good hands.
      litreally world of tanks is full of rng let me tell you what is based on rng in 1 battle:
      1.teammates that you get
      2. spotting range and range of getting spot
      3.damage dealt
      4.if u hit the tank or not
      5.if ur tank takes damage like fire damage or ammorack explosion
      6. if u deal damage or just make a part of the tank critical (which unlike war thunder critical track and other stuff is useless)
      (if u spend gold or buy a new premium or collector tank the matchmaker automatically puts you in winning games for the first 8-15 battles depending on what tank you have purchased and by what means).this made many players leave and they went to war thunder nowadays the player count on wargaming games is soo bad that new players get bots instead of other players can confirm it when i was using a new alt account which was grinded to the point where there were no bots in my older account.

    • @cuhyotepowered1201
      @cuhyotepowered1201 Před měsícem +8

      Gamer logic:
      The game is free so game was made free right? It doesn’t cost anything to develop the game and keep it running right? So the game should be marketed towards kids and basement dwellers with 0 money so they keep not spending money.

    • @Camilo_Z
      @Camilo_Z Před měsícem +7

      @@skgamer-zs6en that sounds fuckin trash, never knew wot was in that state

    • @skgamer-zs6en
      @skgamer-zs6en Před měsícem +3

      @@Camilo_Z it is

  • @fembill
    @fembill Před měsícem +134

    For the Advance Australia theme, it was originally intended for Australia, thus why some Australian vehicles have the theme, but it was switched to Germany after the original Germany theme, Ride of the Valkyries, was was replaced due to I think Copyright stuff.

    • @kilotango6726
      @kilotango6726 Před měsícem +15

      Advance Australia? More like Advance Austria

  • @3Rzeczpospolita
    @3Rzeczpospolita Před 3 dny +1

    War thunder grind is like taxes. You can't run away from it and if you try you won't succeed.

  • @skatingaviator
    @skatingaviator Před měsícem +2

    the fact that i knew war thunder lore 5 months after starting playing before watching this is crazy

  • @PlayerAfricanChieften
    @PlayerAfricanChieften Před měsícem +102

    Don't disturb the snail and its fanatics

    • @STGMORRISON
      @STGMORRISON Před měsícem +14

      Your damm right I got it to a agruement over tanks with one of my classmates and I deleted his house with a Cobra atack helicopter

    • @PlayerAfricanChieften
      @PlayerAfricanChieften Před měsícem +8

      @@STGMORRISON i have talked with people who has several thousands of hours in the game and gave it a bad review, plus they keep trash talking about the game, but when I tell them the game is bad, they suddenly Switch sides and defend it, these people are conflicted addicted fanatics junkies

    • @ianNotShort
      @ianNotShort  Před měsícem +5

      haha I won't

    • @VinceGatling
      @VinceGatling Před měsícem +2

      ​@@PlayerAfricanChieften many free games are bad but addictive. Everyone who plays them hates them but doesn't stop because they're addicted.

  • @fembill
    @fembill Před měsícem +102

    Quick note on War Thunder Nukes. For GAB, you need around 15 kills for a nukes if I recall. But for GRB you need 2500 SP.

    • @Lexus-fo3ey
      @Lexus-fo3ey Před měsícem +3

      It depends i nuked 3 times in GRB and i had around 9 to 12 kills everytime

    • @fembill
      @fembill Před měsícem +2

      @@Lexus-fo3ey yeah, I’m GAB it’s 15 I think, but for GRB it’s 2500 SP.

    • @NathanPa-xo3zj
      @NathanPa-xo3zj Před měsícem

      ​@@fembillis it possible to gain 15 on GAB? I might never had a match that lasted as slow as possible to gain 15 hit

    • @sampanyofella5832
      @sampanyofella5832 Před měsícem +1

      yeah it used to be 5000sp so around 20 kills and they changed it within a few months if I remember correctly.

    • @fembill
      @fembill Před měsícem

      It’s kinda rare, but doable.

  • @wildonshow
    @wildonshow Před 2 dny +1

    Bro forgot about the basement guy💀

  • @OFFsider__
    @OFFsider__ Před měsícem +1

    Best iceberg video I have ever seen... just amazing... good job ian

  • @SCP--J-mo8hj
    @SCP--J-mo8hj Před měsícem +37

    the fact that stars are astronomicaly accurate is really neat, i noticed it a few weeks ago while in a test drive, i was curious to see if they had put attention to this detail (astronomy is one of my hobbies) and when i saw that i could see Orion and the pleiades i instantly knew that meant the night sky was fully modeled

    • @rags417
      @rags417 Před měsícem +1

      I used to play Operation Flashpoint from when it came out in 2001 and I was stunned as it was the first game I had ever played that had accurate skybox (ie stars, solar positions, phases of the moon), weather and dynamic sound effects. I am glad that WT does it too.

  • @AstroGamer_da_real
    @AstroGamer_da_real Před měsícem +78

    the stalin camo was user made bro

  • @KristopherSleege
    @KristopherSleege Před měsícem +2

    Fun fact about the first wave of body pillows in game; they're made by a youtuber called Daebom.

  • @tmo_117
    @tmo_117 Před měsícem +1

    Haven’t played War Thunder in a while and “Attack the D point” woke me up like a sleeper agent and now I want to play again

  • @1nvis25
    @1nvis25 Před měsícem +47

    April fools for 2017 was actually inasne if you played a ton back then... this was the era when there were no modern era vehicles.

    • @twurtle12hd39
      @twurtle12hd39 Před měsícem +5

      I love their April fools events cause they’re almost always really cool ways to test new features which is such a cool way to do it. Gives people a good way to test things while not changing the actual game before the features are completed

  • @TipsyLim
    @TipsyLim Před měsícem +28

    The TRUE LORE:
    How to get unconscious by a 152mm shell

  • @nyadesu7781
    @nyadesu7781 Před měsícem +3

    The ending is strong, unusual and thought-provoking. Nice video 👍👏✨

  • @Thekakarote96
    @Thekakarote96 Před měsícem +2

    I knew about most of the stuff, but still fun to learn some things I didn't know, like the bomber exploit update, or the flying churchills !

  • @veryyes8561
    @veryyes8561 Před měsícem +32

    A bit more about the music:
    -The original hangar music isn’t a lab original composition for the game but a Mozart piece (IIRC).
    -Fittingly for the Russian devs/composers, a lot of the music added for the ground battles is very Russian or Soviet in nature with all the percussion and low brass, which is a really great theme not just for the Russian tanks but the WWII era for ground battles in general
    -“Advance Australia” is the German menu theme but also plays for Australian vehicles too (or at least it used to? Haven’t played in a while)
    -There are old themes for the UK that have since been replaced. Both sets of music are pretty good though, although the older music is more evocative of old war thunder and that image of a strapping British pilot with some sense of nobility about him. The new music is much more imperial and grandiose.
    -The new top tier music pieces always begin with a minute or so for a quiet section that allows for the battle to get started or for planes to get in the air.
    -The actual war thunder theme was absent from the game for some time after the New Power update and its new theme song (the one with synth and drums at the start). Now, the old theme plays after a nation menu theme finishes (they used to loop) and then goes through other songs from the soundtrack.
    Also, the only (intentional) photorealistic person in the game is on Bong’s P-38, which has a picture of his wife Marge as it did in reality.

    • @KekusMagnus
      @KekusMagnus Před měsícem +4

      The original hanger music was a playlist of 5-6 different tracks, one of which was Beethoven's symphony #7

    • @thisherehandleIdospout
      @thisherehandleIdospout Před 26 dny +2

      @@KekusMagnus 'Beethoven' and 'based' both start with the letter 'B'. Coincidence? Hah... I think not 😎

  • @Szalami
    @Szalami Před měsícem +46

    ATTACK THE D POINT!
    I've been spamming it for a decade. Help.

  • @tiziocaio8657
    @tiziocaio8657 Před měsícem +3

    you forgot something big: War thunder doesn’t have wind

    • @bafalconbafalcon3184
      @bafalconbafalcon3184 Před měsícem

      ahhh yes it does,watch the tree's in ground rb,and contrails,etc,etc.

    • @tiziocaio8657
      @tiziocaio8657 Před měsícem +3

      @@bafalconbafalcon3184 it doesn’t have wind that affect planes

  • @_NaLo_
    @_NaLo_ Před měsícem +1

    12:30 as an "Old Guard" player, the grind was slow and painful even back when MiG-15 was top tier.

  • @petermikus2363
    @petermikus2363 Před měsícem +17

    The basement guy truly is a chad.

  • @moomoo7706
    @moomoo7706 Před měsícem +16

    right when it said "days before May 2023" (21:25) it cut to a War Thunder ad for me lol
    hilarious timing

  • @swaffelsmurf424
    @swaffelsmurf424 Před měsícem

    dude, DUDE, I got a Warthunder advertisement like midway through the introduction. that's the first ad for warthunder I've gotten in years

  • @holleymalchow2939
    @holleymalchow2939 Před měsícem +1

    it can be required for the barrel to be moved up depending on how cold the map is even if the enemy is still at the same distance

  • @hxhvd
    @hxhvd Před měsícem +12

    I have seen exactly 3 war thunder players in real life. Sharing such a fact about yourself is the same as condemning yourself to damnation.

  • @GVM-Pixy
    @GVM-Pixy Před měsícem +11

    i wake up everyday and thank god for not being a WT player

  • @Chastity_Belt
    @Chastity_Belt Před měsícem

    Dozer blades actually acts as extra armour. But also it's hurting mobility by adding extra weight and you can actually stuck if you dive from the hill and stick into the ground with dozer blade.
    It makes actual sence to have dozer blades on some vehicles like Centurion AVRE because it makes front hull armour inpenetrable for most enemies. On Leopard 2's dozer blades slightly increases protection against chemical rounds, but it's also reduce mobility very noticable.

  • @Nikko3001
    @Nikko3001 Před 20 dny

    Every time I play War Thunder, I will refer to it as "Feeding the Snail". Thank you for this documentary.

  • @pablo3995
    @pablo3995 Před měsícem +11

    I got 5 war thunder ads while watching this video

    • @pandaspora7383
      @pandaspora7383 Před měsícem +5

      Gajin is watching

    • @KIKO00752
      @KIKO00752 Před měsícem +2

      Quck tip if you want to watch CZcams without ads just watch on TV

  • @pablo-luke0623
    @pablo-luke0623 Před měsícem +1

    This video bring me some sanity , I'll go back to the grind.

  • @mioleser5184
    @mioleser5184 Před měsícem

    That was entertaining as hell, thank you !

  • @game2gether115
    @game2gether115 Před měsícem +10

    You Don't need 20 kills for a nuke, my last one was with 11 kills, 4 assists and 2 caps, and I even died once

  • @nilatastic1261
    @nilatastic1261 Před měsícem +10

    i have been looking for that song, and who knew just watching this would let me find it, thanks

  • @floridianempireproductions7532

    Maybe the real D point is the friends we made along the way

  • @degubooi798
    @degubooi798 Před měsícem +2

    *crashes an airplane on a iceberg*: Oh ok

  • @neromastic4512
    @neromastic4512 Před měsícem +6

    I've realised how much I loved Cold War Vehicles from War Thunder after looking them and they History up.
    The Game taught me more about History then a History Teacher.

    • @connivingkhajiit
      @connivingkhajiit Před měsícem +1

      So true! The history behind the Conqueror in particular is really fascinating to me.

    • @aregulargenericname8794
      @aregulargenericname8794 Před měsícem

      Because your history teacher is supposed to teach a bit of everything, get the fuck outta here with that mmmmmm bullshiiiiiiiiit

  • @joshgray8377
    @joshgray8377 Před měsícem +3

    By the way there was also a player strike on war thunder, where a lot of players including myself just didn’t play the game for either a day or 2. Maybe even a week. They also had their favourite and best supporting content creators basically go against them with few also striking. It was beautiful.

    • @_ichsanni8294
      @_ichsanni8294 Před měsícem

      Yeah, the boycott thingy which Gaijin responded by releasing 2 dakimakuras for logging in

    • @joshgray8377
      @joshgray8377 Před měsícem

      @@_ichsanni8294 which did nothing from memory

  • @benpurcell4935
    @benpurcell4935 Před měsícem

    The grind to get to the top has been reduced significantly from the first time I started playing. I can remember a time where over half of the vehicles weren’t in the game yet. I remember when Naval finally got added. I played for a few years and made it to the standard Shermans and have since ground to top tier in a couple of nations.

  • @casualguy634
    @casualguy634 Před měsícem +2

    As someone who has been playing since 2016 (and only got to jets last year) this video is pretty well made!
    Some things I'd like to add :
    • The old War Thunder channel narrator, Bruce, got ousted from his position after narrating a pro-Russian propaganda video about the Ukraine War
    • Some notable community members has passed away (2and900 for example)
    • War Thunder community dramas (like that one giveaway drama)
    • Daebom (need I say more?)
    • Extensive history of cheating (wallhacks, automated rangefinding, etc)
    • Thunder Show (a series on WT official channel) used to reward people for making the best comment on their videos, the reward was 2000 GE (I won once 5 years ago :>)
    • The Kursk map was hated so much Gaijin overhauled the map entirely after it got consistently excluded by the map voting feature, there's also some renowned removed maps like White Rock Fortress for example.
    • Speaking of maps, the old test drive map also takes place on the old Kursk map (and vehicles didn't respawn back then so it's possible to kill every single vehicle)
    • Some vehicles have been removed for one reason or another, the Maus for example got removed because of balance issues, there are also three German tanks (Coelian, Tiger 2 105, and Panther II) that got removed due to them behind ahistorical
    • You could create your own missions in War Thunder, called user missions, there are some notable user missions, Ace Thunder for example, a series of user missions that had F-15s before F-15 was a thing
    • And speaking of missions, War Thunder has a campaign mode, although it's pretty much abandoned now and no one plays them (but they still sell a campaign pack IIRC)
    • Matches were more historical back then, vehicles and maps mirrored actual battles from WW2 and Cold War, this has since changed as more vehicles and nations are introduced
    • War Thunder has a mobile version, called War Thunder Mobile, it's not very popular though, but the Ponies event from all the way back in 2013 is now taking place in the game (as of April 2024)
    • War Thunder helped create a movie once, in 2016 Gaijin joined funding on the production of the film Panfilov's 28 Men, the movie had a scene where a soldier throws an AT grenade onto a tank that is a reference to War Thunder's most infamous trailer
    • If you ever want to experience the old War Thunder from the pre-2014 days, go play Birds of Steel, it's an old game by Gaijin that would _become_ War Thunder later down the line
    There's a lot more but these are the ones I can remember off the top of my head

    • @Delapadation
      @Delapadation Před měsícem

      On the topic of cheating. There was an interesting post on Reddit from a self admitted cheater revealing just how bad of a problem this is.

    • @pbluma
      @pbluma Před dnem

      I've had my account since the beginning of 2013 and I don't know half of this stuff. lol at the part about Panther 2, Gaijin has plagued WT with so many cold war crap since then I don't even know how to enjoy rank 3 and 4 anymore.

  • @blob643
    @blob643 Před měsícem +15

    Fun fact about War thunder rule 34....
    90% of it is from a single and popular artist in the Warthunder Community

  • @InevitableD34th
    @InevitableD34th Před měsícem +3

    34:00 He never says he got it from playing WarThunder. He only says he got it from playing video games.

  • @gergelybalogh1033
    @gergelybalogh1033 Před měsícem

    the fact that i got a world of tanks ad while watching this is crazy

  • @Noobixm-GGD
    @Noobixm-GGD Před 16 dny +1

    That ending hit me harder than the enemy sturmtiger sending orbital strikes across the map.

  • @Warchunder_
    @Warchunder_ Před měsícem +7

    Bro got gaijind

  • @onyxhyrdax7271
    @onyxhyrdax7271 Před měsícem +3

    Your point about nukes is a little miss leading, as you don't strictly need 20 kills to get one, it's actually a set amount of spawn points which don't strictly come from kills, but hits, scouts, assists really anything and the points needed also varies depending on which battle ratting your playing.

  • @atvkid0805
    @atvkid0805 Před měsícem +1

    For 1 year of premium is $50 when there's a sale, if u play the game then just buy it & you'll get to top tier in no time.

  • @elbowdestruction9691
    @elbowdestruction9691 Před měsícem

    I sunk 4000 hours of my very limited time that I have on earth into this game. Watching your iceberg on it was like taking a walk through my childhood. I remember so many memories. All the friends…The grind…The fun…The pain…This game gave me a lot. But I also gave it a lot. It stimulated my curiosity about historical battles and warfare. I kept learning and growing up and eventually I joined the army. I loved and hated it but it in a wild way maybe it made a good impact on my life. Thank you War Thunder Community.
    I’ll always cherish those memories.

  • @toasterhothead3312
    @toasterhothead3312 Před měsícem +18

    12:17 nukes take about 12-14 kills btw…how long did it take for u to make this? Cause the vehicle icon thing changed awhile back…and yes I am a little Sadge about this lol

    • @Bl2ckout7556
      @Bl2ckout7556 Před měsícem

      I think I’ve done it with only 10 kills, but also other things like assists and base caps to get enough spawn points

    • @lector-dogmatixsicarii1537
      @lector-dogmatixsicarii1537 Před měsícem

      @@Bl2ckout7556 Dude had like 7 kills one time. I hate the nuke mechanic so much for the f466it farmers ruining an otherwise fun match.

    • @KekusMagnus
      @KekusMagnus Před měsícem

      @@Bl2ckout7556 got one with 9 kills yesterday, capping flags and assists make a big contribution

  • @nilatastic1261
    @nilatastic1261 Před měsícem +22

    Great vid havent watched it yet tho
    Edit: im 7 minutes in, and i feel like attacking the D point

  • @th35ictor
    @th35ictor Před měsícem

    I think that War Thunder someway is an interactive museum, I mean, at least for me, it is because whenever I am playing I have a Wikipedia page on my other monitor studying the vehicle, the usage of it and the context of the world when it was manufactured, so yes, a perfect way to acquire knowledge while having fun sometimes.

  • @Nomad111.
    @Nomad111. Před měsícem +1

    This is the best War Thunder video i ever watched. i laughed my way through the whole thing.

  • @therealspeedwagon1451
    @therealspeedwagon1451 Před měsícem +21

    I find it odd that Gaijin doesn’t allow swastikas in War Thunder for German vehicles yet they’ll allow stickers that say “For Stalin” “blood for blood” and “death to German enemies” all in Russian and Czech. You should’ve also included that.

    • @mazdarx-8rotary.97
      @mazdarx-8rotary.97 Před měsícem +4

      they do allow swastikas in game you won't get banned for using a historically accurate user skin

    • @aregulargenericname8794
      @aregulargenericname8794 Před měsícem +8

      ​@@mazdarx-8rotary.97because no one else can see the user skins

    • @nikolaideianov5092
      @nikolaideianov5092 Před měsícem

      ​@@aregulargenericname8794well at the time it was introduced you could

    • @Alicornanon
      @Alicornanon Před měsícem

      It's a ruzzian company so Stalin is a good guy for them.

    • @cryzieee
      @cryzieee Před měsícem +3

      cuz it is literally banned in germany.

  • @fatalwt
    @fatalwt Před měsícem +13

    Slight Correction: For a nuke in arcade you need to kill 15 players (not including the points you gain over time)
    In Realistic you need around 10 kills, and also some captures and kill assists, I had 2400 SP and only had 9 kills, but I had 2 captures.

    • @fabioartoscassone9305
      @fabioartoscassone9305 Před měsícem

      9 kills annd using temmates as baits all time. very very funny, is it?

    • @fatalwt
      @fatalwt Před měsícem

      @@fabioartoscassone9305 real

    • @fatalwt
      @fatalwt Před měsícem

      @@fabioartoscassone9305 what?

    • @fledthehunter5293
      @fledthehunter5293 Před měsícem

      @@fabioartoscassone9305 Its not his fault all the German mains only look forward.

    • @fabioartoscassone9305
      @fabioartoscassone9305 Před měsícem

      @@fledthehunter5293 i see russian players runnign to spawn points. when u have a russian in same team, loss is SURE

  • @wanmuz8819
    @wanmuz8819 Před 29 dny

    Who could've guessed that a snail could reunite and destroy our mutualship with just a game

  • @RocketGruntMiguel
    @RocketGruntMiguel Před měsícem

    the ending gave me chills thanks for the awesome video

  • @Desurcirar
    @Desurcirar Před měsícem +6

    Literally Martincitopants Video Beginning, I love it!

  • @user-ts7wd2gb9c
    @user-ts7wd2gb9c Před měsícem +17

    One of the most underrated CZcamsrs I ever seen keep it up

  • @user-tx6pm1xu9d
    @user-tx6pm1xu9d Před dnem

    3:07 realistic / historic as possible be like: "sweden fighting ww2 in simulators" "finland on allied side in simulators" "finland fighting finland in simulators"

  • @Prado2507
    @Prado2507 Před měsícem +1

    nice vid! you deserve more subs :)

  • @Lizardmium
    @Lizardmium Před měsícem +2

    I was waiting for this one :D

  • @vageeshagunawardene9566
    @vageeshagunawardene9566 Před měsícem +3

    I love the video. Thanks!

  • @YesMinister
    @YesMinister Před měsícem

    A seriously thought-out and entertaining history of WT. Thanks.

  • @splatterdaysaint9024
    @splatterdaysaint9024 Před 22 hodinami

    Dude this video kicks ass, i want to see more of your content
    \

  • @Hugo_H24
    @Hugo_H24 Před měsícem +3

    Yay Ian uploaded!

  • @Tien-Chi
    @Tien-Chi Před měsícem +5

    Bro please stop, gaijin is a Hungarian company that happened to be founded in Russia, they don’t even have offices in Russia I’m pretty sure. The main office is in Hungary dude stop

    • @houston4ik
      @houston4ik Před měsícem

      Uhh. Gaijin developers live in Russia. Russian government supports Gaijin. Gaijin sponsors a lot of things in Russia that are connected to history and military equipment such as films, games and other stuff. Main office location has only economic purposes. Bruh.

    • @pbluma
      @pbluma Před dnem

      @@houston4ik ok if that's true then I want actual bias when it comes to top jets. Gaijin had a moment of weakness when they nerfed the SMT or what.

  • @Wojlolpl
    @Wojlolpl Před měsícem

    I the subject of music, we can not forget old war thunder had such masterpieces like Symphony No 7 in A major, Op 92 II, Allegretto by Beethoven. There was nothing like siting in the hangar watching your BF109 G-2 while blasting this music in your headphones 😢

  • @Sira_Kackavalj
    @Sira_Kackavalj Před 19 dny

    Every time Advance Australia starts playing I can already hear prop plane engines firing up and machine gun fire in the sky

  • @east4246
    @east4246 Před měsícem +7

    I've only meet one War Thunder player irl, AND HE WAS AN ITALIAN MAIN. OH LORD THE BOT PLAYER THEORY WAS REAL

  • @KyvenTheWarPine
    @KyvenTheWarPine Před měsícem +861

    like this comment if you hate gaijin

    • @KyvenTheWarPine
      @KyvenTheWarPine Před měsícem +13

      damn you gaijin

    • @Aircraft_with_Chin
      @Aircraft_with_Chin Před 20 dny +18

      The snail is coming for you 💀

    • @DS_mogame
      @DS_mogame Před 17 dny +5

      THE SNAIL IS COMING
      THE SNAIL IS COMING
      THE SNAIL IS COMING
      THE SNAIL IS COMING
      THE SNAIL IS COMING
      THE SNAIL IS COMING

    • @KyvenTheWarPine
      @KyvenTheWarPine Před 17 dny +3

      @@DS_mogame let them come, I have canadian geese on my side. (aka the most hateful and demonic thing to exist)

    • @TicTacEnjoyer
      @TicTacEnjoyer Před 16 dny

      TRAITOR

  • @spyfan62591
    @spyfan62591 Před měsícem +1

    21:39 I served in the 2nd revolution, note, I didn't serve on the review bomb front, I served in the don't play it and when you do play it don't spend any money on its front. tell that to my grandchild in 70 years. won't even know what war thunder is.

  • @pavelgaming5470
    @pavelgaming5470 Před měsícem

    i work a lot with its mission maker and the game has built in calendar that adjusts height of moon and sun together with starts based on the map and geographical location, you can even change date and all of the celestial bodies will moverealistically

  • @Shadicals
    @Shadicals Před měsícem +24

    Bro said "ARKAD" instead of "Arcade" xD

    • @I-I464
      @I-I464 Před měsícem +5

      its just his accent man

    • @Shadicals
      @Shadicals Před měsícem +2

      @@I-I464 I know, I am German myself, but he doesn't even try.

    • @ianNotShort
      @ianNotShort  Před měsícem +1

      @Shadicals sorry my man. I know it's supposed to be pronounced Arcarde, but now it's too late 😭

    • @I-I464
      @I-I464 Před měsícem

      @@ianNotShort hi bro love ur content its just amazing

    • @Shadicals
      @Shadicals Před měsícem

      @@ianNotShort All gooooood hahahahaha

  • @mohamadlin
    @mohamadlin Před měsícem +3

    2:20 So free to play huh? Don't you think that all the unrecoverable time that this black hole has stolen from my life is more valuable than money? 😭😭😭

    • @piscessoedroen
      @piscessoedroen Před měsícem

      Free to play as in the snail is free to take your soul if you play this for too long

  • @eatafox
    @eatafox Před měsícem

    My interactions with arcade players normally go like this "Oh yeah.I love war thunder.Let's play some games.Why the hell do I only have one plane"

  • @thesnazzycomet
    @thesnazzycomet Před 4 dny

    Hi Ian - you probably won’t see this but I wanted to say your video inspired me to make my own iceberg video!

  • @Barlius
    @Barlius Před měsícem +3

    Happy to help!

  • @AiRbU380
    @AiRbU380 Před měsícem +3

    I always spam in chat "Attack the E point!"
    :)

  • @Astolf0_
    @Astolf0_ Před měsícem +1

    30:12 Don't ask Daebom what he does in his free time.

  • @Red-Magic
    @Red-Magic Před měsícem +1

    Honestly the "grind" of War Thunder is so often overemphasized. There is no real grind, its all based on YOU. And theres no reason to go through the tiers anyways. The game is fun and plays fine at tiers 1 and 2 and 3 just fine. Going higher changes nothing, youll still have tanks in BRs higher, and BRs lower than you. Its dumb to "grind", just play the game normally

  • @GoldLion-ei4pz
    @GoldLion-ei4pz Před měsícem +6

    11:50
    Incorrect you don't need 20 kills you need ~2500 mission score. So about 10 kills without dying (still possible whilst having death) ALSO fun fact. You can bring the cost of the nuke down with the "Airstrike" modification on light tanks!!

  • @halo99yo
    @halo99yo Před 24 dny +3

    Why does he say "arcard"

  • @viktorsmiowski9523
    @viktorsmiowski9523 Před 13 dny

    Man I am impressed. Increadible video, good job.❤

  • @TUX_Official
    @TUX_Official Před měsícem

    new military recruiting strategy: enlist in the military and you get full access to everything in war thunder for 1 year