War Thunder Vs World of Tanks Comparison - Which Game Is Best For You?
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- čas přidán 4. 03. 2022
- War Thunder and World of Tanks are the Big Two when it comes to multiplayer WWII vehicle games. While they are both based around the same concept, they are also incredibly different, with each game focusing on totally different aspects of gameplay to deliver vastly different experiences when comparing the two. Between the incredibly different graphics, monetization, and controls, these are two totally different beasts. With that in mind, which of the two should you play? Which is best for you? I go over all of that and more in my video - War Thunder Vs World of Tanks - Which Game Is Better For YOU?!?
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Notes that I had when creating this video, comparing both games:
- WoT will keep your tank in battle, making it inaccessible after combat until its match is over. In addition to this, you only get one life per match. In War Thunder, your vehicles are typically useable, even if you die in a match and the match is still going on. This is only typically not true when someone leaves when they have other vehicles that they can spawn into. Speaking of, in War Thunder, you have the ability to spawn into numerous tanks, regardless of if you're playing in arcade, realistic, or sim matches. This spawning is directly tied to how well you do, with positive actions, such as base caps and killing the enemy, resulting in more spawn points, of which will allow to spawn in more vehicles and, occasionally, use a nuke.
- Shots in World of Tanks are absolutely wild and have little to do with skill, whereas a skilled, and somewhat lucky, tanker in War Thunder can hit a tank while while on the move from nearly a kilometer away, with gun laying not affecting the dispersion of your shots, but rather only where your barrel is pointed.
- In my experience, the economy in War Thunder is far more favorable for the players, as matches in which I lose currency are almost unheard of with premium time, whereas in World of Tanks, it is quite different. While you can earn money, it is substantially less compared to the costs. Ammo in WoT is far more expensive in general.
- Different zoom capabilities in War Thunder vehicle, whereas World of Tanks vehicles are all the same zoom between 2x and 8x. For example, it is so specific in War Thunder that the Tiger II (P) has slightly lesser zoom due to different optics than the Tiger II (H).
- You cannot replace modules in War Thunder. For example, the cannon on every tank will remain the same and is not replaceable with a different cannon. In War Thunder, however, you can earn module upgrades that you earn by doing actions in matches that earn RP. For example, you can unlock new ammo types for your vehicle, a better suspension, more horsepower, night vision, etc.
- War Thunder has electronics to consider, such as thermals and night vision, which is not anything that World of Tanks has.
- War Thunder has artillery that you can call, whereas World of Tanks has usable artillery
- War Thunder allows you to use your secondary armaments, such as MGs or ATGMs, to attack enemies, whereas World of Tanks just lets you use your cannon. These secondaries can often times kill enemies in War Thunder, making them invaluable.
- In War Thunder, you have limited vehicle slots, whereas in War Thunder, you can buy literally every vehicle in the game with no issues. Where it limits you is in your crew spots, which directly limits how many vehicles you can have in a lineup to use in a single match at any one time.
- You can use SPAA in War Thunder, of which are often necessary due to the inclusion of close air support in War Thunder.
- Graphics in War Thunder are, from my perspective, better and are definitely more realistic. WoT has much brighter and more arcadey graphics. War Thunder also has accurate damage modeling systems, at least when compared to World of Tanks. For example, an ammo rack in the Tiger II is placed properly in War Thunder and will gradually become less of a risk of explosion as you deplete it of ammunition.
- World of Tanks seems like a front to encourage gambling from a young age, whereas War Thunder, while still monetized, at least focuses on gameplay much moreso than World of Tanks.
Some people might ask why I went over War Thunder a bit more than World of Tanks. This is simply because it has more to go over than World of Tanks. World of Tanks is a simpler game with fewer features, vehicles, and capabilities. Does this make it bad or worse than War Thunder? By no means. It's just a different experience. - Hry
World of Tanks gives you unrealistic suffering
War Thunder gives you realistic suffering
Well said
as a wot player,this is so true lmao
As a war thunder player I can confirm it
as a person who plays both, i can confirm
this is sad, but its true
“The economy in war thunder is far more favorable to the players”
*me crying as a Swedish main*
Edit: guys I was gifted some GE from a friend and got the moffett during a 50% off sale, out of debt finally :D
That statement is clearly a lie. It's very clear that he doesn't have a clue what he was doing in WoT and just recorded 3 game a was done with it.
r u enjoying strv 103?
@@xxch1coriaxx your right lose money if you dare to die at tier 8 or above and use gold is si fair
@@ivanrossi2699 tier 10 is hard to make credits if you don't have premium and don't play well. Tier 8 is way easier...
@@xxch1coriaxx if you have premiun if you dont use consimable if you dont end uptier at 10 if....
One of the reasons I prefer WT over WOT is the health system. Basically, it feels much more thrilling to one shot enemies in WT, while being aware you can get one shot easily as well. Another thing is the aiming, I found it so frustrating that I have to wait for the 'circle to get smaller', so I can get a shot. Searching for weakspots is awesome as hell too.
ah yes the circle aka the reticle bruh same im wot player before but switched to WT
Both things have a good and a bad thing.
Hp:
Pro: You can use some of your hp to kill a low-hp tank
Con: Oneshots are only possible if you play a low-tier tank with a big caliber
Circle:
Pro: a lot of fun when you have a giantic circle but still hit
Con: you don't always hit
Also, a reason to like wot it because your shell don't drop, which just give more comfort.
@@konigstiger9370 Yeah, WT is so much better, when you shoot with a KV2 point blank range at a M3 and you only get "critical hit" when the shell impact alone would have killed everybody inside that tincan.
@@ph8enix ot when you shoot from a 192mm FV gun on a 500 kg wheeled "tank" and you get a "armor not touched" lol
@@konigstiger9370it’s not supposed to be super realistic, it’s an arcade game.
I’d rather have an HP system and not get killed from a single shot in a bush
There is one HUGE difference which was not mentioned. Calculation of visibility is done server-side in WoT, and client-side in WT. This creates many conceptual differences. In WoT, enemy tanks might be sitting in the open but not rendered because of fixed visibility ranges, bonuses and penalties. In WT tanks are always rendered, even if they are just a single pixel 5 km away. In WoT therefore spotting is based on stats, and in WT spotting is based on player skill. WT arcade does have some stat-based spotting, but the ranges are big enough anyway that you can't just sit in plain sight and be invisible due to great camo stats like you can do in WoT. Also, server-side calculation in WoT makes it necessary for a great part of the bandwidth to be used for transmitting raycasting data, so it is likely impossible to have too many projectiles in the air at the same time. This is why WT can allow machineguns and autocannons, while WoT will likely never be able to implement them. WT's client-side calculation might give way to cheaters, this is likely why WT has a much stricter punishment, lifelong ban if caught using even one single cheat.
This is brilliant. You've went into the important technical details that I did not know. Thank you!
@@Tankenstein This is also likely the reason why in World of Warships only the main battery shells can be manually fired, and the AA fire graphics are there just for decoration, and the damage to airplanes is calculated indirectly. Yet in War Thunder every single machinegun bullet's trajectory is calculated, and they have to actually hit the airplane to cause damage.
@@LEWTSPEC not really, if we consider that some players are deliberately playing on ultra-low graphic settings, because they consider it can have some slight benefits.
That's only true in WW2 mode on WOT. We have true vision in CW mode, and so you will always be able to spot if you're keen enough. It also makes camouflage selection important.
Spotting in WOT was so annoying. Caused me to quit because of a player rendering in (while in a bush) and then instant killing me with a tank destroyer. It was a premium vehicle too (for the enemy) so I was extra salty.
Many times it felt like my tank commander should be able to see these guys but it just didn’t work out like that so I got pummeled.
War thunder = for depressed men
World of tanks = for kids
Lol nah I’m only 13 and I play both... actually 15
War Thunder-meat and veggies. World of Tanks- cake for breakfast.
Never before have I been so offended by something I 100% agree with
@@yankee1376 spitting straight facts there
@@yankee1376 yes, but the vegies are spicy and the cake is raw
its like comparing cs go and escape from tarkov, both same category but theyre totally different, you can compare wot and armored warfare because both games are arcade
Indeed, it's already quite different in term of gameplay although they have the same tanks.
AW have modern MBT and stuff while WoT uses the WW2 tanks.
@@GregorianMG wot has MBTs now
@@rexxmen what MBT's? the M60 is a MBT and its nothing special
@@reahs4815 they have modern tanks
Console WoT has a modern mode
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Another big difference is that WT is great for collectors, as you can keep all the vehicles you unlocked and bought. There are no garage slot limits forcing you to sell tanks you own.
also WoT is great for collectors, the garage slot is a limit only for new players
@@federicoeffe4 I have 104 tanks and 24 empty slots 😄
@@federicoeffe4 yeah, as long as you pay with cash
@@daviddiaz5815 Uh no, WG gives away free garage slots like candy.
@@nildzrecastellanos Maybe they should do away with them then, if they give them away so much...
Just another arbitrary, unnecessary system.
I think the biggest strength of War Thunder is that it can be reasonably realistic while still offering enjoyable gameplay. It strikes a nice balance between an arcade PvP game and a simulator which I believe lots of people look for.
“Enjoyable gameplay”
Apart from gaijin being gaijin, I agree the game is mostly enjoyable even if you don’t pay to win, mostly...
@@darracqboy I know people like to shit on Gaijin for the excessive grind, and with it the way to pay to skip it, but as someone who plays almost exclusively low tier, doesn't care about events and usually plays in bursts instead of every day, the game is fantastic in my opinion and one of the few that actually make me come back again and again for almost a decade now. And although I don't play all the time, I still watch content surrounding the game regularly, which probably means something.
@@SoundBubble Yeah, I play WoT for the high tier stuff, I play WT for the low tier fun. In WoT, the health bar and semi-realistic tank armor makes for some fun gameplay that really feels like boxing or something like that but with tanks. Hence, high tier focused fun; though mainly 7 & 8. 9 & 10 can be fun, but the sheer cost of ammo and repairs is pain.
Ah yes! Gameplay is so much fun when an enemy bomber flys through trees without taking damage just to divebomb you and drop a bomb that is only the size of a coke bottle that kills everyone in your tank from 10 feet away
I didn't experience any "enjoyable gamplay" while playing War thunder. I'm not proud saying this but i had more "enjoyable games" in world of tanks
I remember playing WoT for years, until one day I saw an ad for war thunder and decided to try it out. Crazy enough, what made me fall in love with the game was the fact that when I used the m3 lee, I could use the 75mm, the 37mm, and all of its machine guns and it just absolutely made me feel like a badass. War thunder immerses you and makes you feel like a real tank commander, from having to hide in bushes to ambush the other team too slowly creeping around a forest, knowing that one shot is all it takes to get you out. Because you have modules and crew members, you have to he weary of what you show the enemy, and what you can do to them as well. The same comes with the planes, where you could lose an engine or a flap, and now you have to struggle to find a way in which you will survive.
@Roon who shit in your cereal
@Roon I’m literally having a hard time understanding English because of you
For a fun change of topic because I can, remember The Mighty Jingles' M3 Lee review? Yeaaaaah... :D
Only for this i gonna try it
NOT IF YOUR GERMAN ONLY GERMAN MAINS KNOW WHAT GRIND IS
I like how gaijin handles things. Saw one of their updates in enlisted like "we redid these bombs because we had their specs set for 50kg of HE instead of 50kg of (forgot) which is a more energetic explosive filler" or an update like "we Changed the look of the Russian cape so it’s the proper style of cape for that point in the war". I love how they really shoot for realism.
Don't always congratulate them lol, they once threw out official documented modules because they read on a Polish magazine that the M1 Abrams didn't have a specific thermal sight (even though it did).
@@chuggon7595 ahh, yeah thats a blunder lol
gaijin dont make enlisted they just own the company who does.
enlisted is great buyt i cannot stand the fact that the T34 is soooooooooo much better than the PZIV. i just want to pretend im a nazi defending the HQ but the russian tank is soooo OP it only has one tiiiny little weak spot
Shoot for realism?
You ever shot a Russian tank drivers hatch?
one of the reason i prefer WT over WoT. the feeling of scale. the t-34-85 i play in WoT make me feel like i'm driving a car with gun, or the 20/30 mm guns are just toothpick. meanwhile the t-34-85 in WT gives me the "this feel like a tank" feeling more, and small caliber guns can pose a serious threat.
After switching to Wt from Wot i can day its been pretty nice. It's nice to be able to one shot, not worry about an aiming reticle cool down and not having enemies disappear right in front of you
I mean you can one shot in WoT too, just get the right tanks, but I can understand. Even tho its frustrating to get one shot, so that can be tilting.
WT has a few issues. CAS becomes oppressive once guided missiles become a thing, particularly with helicopters. Revenge CAS is a big issue that people just have to deal with.
AP with HE filler has a disproportionately high damage output compared to plain AP as evidenced by simulations.
Having extra spawns in WT is kind of a curse, since if the enemy has taken up some key positions on the map, it can be very unlikely to successfully dislodge them, and the areas between the spawn zones and the capture points are often kill zones on many maps, making respawning often suicide in a match. The game also punishes you for not respawning when possible by locking your crews for up to 10 minutes.
Finally, collisions work very poorly in WT for whatever reason. It’s as if only the server side even tries to do collision calculations, so players will awkwardly clip into each other and jiggle around when they collide.
WT was really made as an air battle game, and it shows. Though air battles are currently facing many issues with early jets with neither missiles nor flares facing jets with modern missiles and radar sets (it’s so bad that they just have to look at you, press a button, and you’re dead), and high rank props also face early jets, which leave the props incapable of doing anything except waiting for the occasional slip ups and mopping up damaged stragglers.
"The crossover event of the century"
😂 I love it.
Shooting carrots to inflateble tanks? YES! I hope they will bring this event back sometimes
*LIVE LONG AND PROSPER 🖖🏻*
Great video, but I disagree on the point of WT engines sounding similar. You can tell the difference between countries and tank models from bottom to top tier pretty accurately with practice.
Yeah idk how he got at this weird conclusion
absolutely. hell the other day I could tell what country I was fighting just from the engine sounds. I guessed it was an AMX-30, and I was right. I do think it is a little harder to tell at lower tiers though.
Honestly the only difference I ever can tell is whether it’s a ifv light tank or medium/heavy tank
Indeed, often times you can tell what tank may be around the corner just from engine sound. Especially in high tiers, Leopard 2A6, Abram's and T80's have distinguishable sounds
even if we take Japanese engines as an example, they sound MUCH noisy and especially
I have played both and I used to be a hardcore WoT sweat lord. I used to participate in CW and try to 3 mark my tier 10s. But after many years got a little burned out, so now i play from time to time in intervals. I also like WT, though I havent played as much because I had a hard time understanding how the diffrent ammunition worked, and the game was genreally harder to understand for me. But as I got older and started to understand it mote I got a liking and played a lot. But it eventuelly got to the same point as WoT and I dont play super activly anymore. Today I play and enjoy both games. They both have simular problems in my eyes and by being a fan of these two games means you will have to endure a bit of suffering. But I might be a little biased for WoT since I played since 2012 and WT only since 2016 but I really love both!
I would like to give you this advice: If your young and want to be copetitive in a game WoT is the go to. Being a seasoned counter strike player who has reached global WoT gives me competetive satisfaction and it feels great to outplayed opponets and win battles on your own.
WT on the other hand gives me a large history boner as a history nerd. The realism and historical accuracy is awesome and gives WT and experience unlike anything else. It is also extreamly satisfying when you are having a good game one shotting everyone in my way.
So if you are a competetive player play WoT and learn all the cool mechanics, if you are more laid back and want to play something realistic play WT. Both are great with friends btw :)
I think this is a good, accurate comment.
watch oxy's war thunder rankings that will help you understand the tanks alot
accurate
This comment is better than video itself.
Wot is also simpler
I've never seen gameplay for world of tanks out side of ads and I've played like 2+ hours of war thunder so I can safely say that both of these are the video games.
I found WoT way more frustrating because of their MM system. This is from a week ago, when I was giving both games a trial and decided WT was better. Even though I can still get 1-shot in WT, I've never really felt the seal-clubbing phenomenon like I did in WoT. Tiers 1-3 were really fun in WoT, but from tier 4, I had a bad time, especially with the artillery cheese.
I feel like wt is more painful but can be enjoyable
NGL I even though i had several tier 10 tanks in WOT by the time I stopped playing I loved war thunder much more because of skill expression. I hate that aiming "dispersion" that WOTs has because even though I knew tank weak points I would often loose because my gunner is drunk off his *** and couldn't hit the side of a barn
ya I am now a 3 tech tree veterin of War Thunder so I have seen the best and worst of what most players will deal with and before WT was a thing I played WoT and I can't stand how high they have to make your gunner, WT is all about that skill and knowledge but WoTs is all about the money you pay
Umm, seriously? Being constantly uptiered form the 1.3 onwards and facong tanks you can not scratch or see whule being oneshotted across the map is fun and not frustrating? At least Wargaming did something about it and you are much less put to +2 MM. In the oposite, Gaijin drunkards do not bother to do anything at all about it.
@@janpanek6284 war thunder is about skill, ex I can take the 4.3 Pz. IV into 6.3 and still walk out with kills
I have 20+ tier 10 tanks in WoT and started playing in 2013, I gave up on the game 2 years ago and moved over to warthunder
I did basically the same. I had probably around 10 tier 10 tanks. Warthunder is just so much more satisfying
Same I completed majority of tanks and premiums, ran a clan with my buddy jp, I'm happy with warthunder. I love realistic ground.
@@SpencerBaum the kills just feel more rewarding and after the HE rework in WoT I gave up. I had every tier 10 arty excluding Russian and it killed them
im changing now, the game is too paytowin, there is no historical tanks in the games
Same. I played World of Tanks since 2011. This year I started War Thunder and I enjoy both RB and Arcade modes! I still get one shot from no where but still learning.
The protection analysis is almost like it's own mini game in terms of fun. I've spent way too much time comparing armor vs shell types!
i once spent 45++ minutes testing my soviet lineup armor😂
@@ikmalrashad4122 i get it lol. I've been using the BTR-80A i think it's called. Has a nice lil autocannon on it
Can't forget test drive
I do that in WoT too, but sadly it not implemented ingame, but it is on extren websites, one of the things I wish WoT would finally bring into the game.
@@m4sherman375 got a new missile carrier unlocked and test range was invaluable to get a feel for how fast they travel/how responsive they are. I can't imagine taking a new vehicle into a battle without some testing
I’ve played my fair share of WOT and I enjoyed it years ago, but not so much anymore. I switched to War Thunder about 2 years ago and I haven’t regretted it. Even though WT isn’t super realistic I just like it a whole lot more due to it being less arcady then WOT. I love both ground and air arcade battles, but only ground realistic. There was definitely a learning curve that took time, but over quarantine I was able to learn how to become a solid player. Even when I stopped for months then picked up the controller and played it I still loved it. Now WT definitely has some problems and BS, but compared to how bad WOT was getting when I stopped even on the worst days I’d still rather play WT. I also love how it’s more skill than WOT especially in my favorite mode groun rb.
I like the tier system in warthunder better than world of tanks (we need the ohka as a plane tho which everyone has been saying for years). I felt like I had a shot to actually win while playing tier 2 and 3, which wasnt really the case for French and Japanese tanks in WOT
more skill is definitly debatable
@@teros7146 No it's not... what skills u require in WoT? Once you are a few years experienced player... you know few key places on the small maps... and you know the spotting system(Which is basic)... what other skills WoT requires? to poke out at the right time and do pew pew pew? Skill cap wise WT is miles and miles more than WoT... reason all the oldies are in WoT...
@@-saklo-2256clueless. I’d farm you in wot like a pig.
@@-saklo-2256 alone saying that the spotting mechanic is simple makes you seem to dont know shit. there are less than 100 players that actually understand how it works to the fullest, these can for example, when they get spotted pinpoint where the enemy is, whithout getting shot at, to be able to do that you need to know all the spotting ranges from all tanks and you need to know their camo percentage, but even if you know all that you still need to calculate the corresponding distances for all the enemy tanks. and this is just 1 mechanic, lets do not start with the HE mechanics, I could write an 10 page article only about the functionality of the HE ammunition. Also just knowing the key positions is useless, you need to understand your teams and the enemy teams strenghts and weaknesses to actually use the correct positions, without that knowledge you will never be better than slightly above average. Since I already am tired, lets just agree that both games have different kinds of skills required, and arguing wich needs more skill is pointless, ok?
Apparently the WOT armor pen system got oversimplified from it's older version when I used to play it. Old WOT was closer to Warthunder Arcade battles than the current WOT
even arcade in WT is more realistic than WoT
but why do some tanks have armor that shouldn't match reality like panther the mg port is strong as the frontal armor
In wot
@@MarksmanDynamics Only fools think WT is realistic... tell me which tank in the world shots the very next second they see an enemy over half a mile... like in WT? they need to count the distance... set the aim etc. perfectly exhibited in WoT via Aim Time...Also... which tank in the world relies on naked eye to take the aim... Arcade is the equivalent of radar and they modern communication system... And thirdly where the hell do you get 3 lives from...??? people who think WT is realistic are fools... LOL
@@-saklo-2256 3 spawns doesnt represnent lives, nobody said that arcade was a realistic game mode and the reaction time relies on thr gunner - in real life if a gunner is really skilled hell be able to make the shot just as fast with the naked eye (although he probably wouldnt do it because like snipers hell want to be 100% sure hell hit the first shot). Also WT gives you tools to make those calculations (default scopes and customizes scopes) players just dont use it because it takes too much time and also they miss a lot of times
I just hope that gaijin will add something like "WW2" and "post war" gamemodes, to seperate them, making the game more realistic
Why? Do you encounter Abrams while playing Panthers?
@@adrian_86 well not really but like, i plax tiger 2 ext. and its just full of things like leopards t-72 well i think you get it
@@honzamaugli5443 I agree with the Leopards, but there is no way you play Tiger 2 and there are t-72 in that battle
@@adrian_86 well probably no t-72's but i didnt have the game started for any better examples, and that was the only tank i relly remembered
@@adrian_86 the french ebr
It says something when I saw I could play WoT I downloaded it immediately but when I got in it felt different to how the ads made me think of it. So I downloaded WT & I got hooked in with the detail, arcade & realistic, and planes which I have fun for a long time not getting. Getting hook is important and WoT feeling less just made me not like it while WT has me playing and not wanting to spend any money but get new vehicles and look at them and learn.
That "Critical Hit" and "Target/Aircraft Destroyed" is pure ASMR and a dopamine shot.
I'll also take penetrations at the will of a snail over hitpoints and whatever in the GirlsUndPanzer heck that premium shell system is trying to do.
To me, it was always a problem of World of Tanks felt too linear. The varying levels of War Thunder’s battles with aircraft in tank battles, and anti aircraft vehicles namely. They apply more to battles then just simple, tanks rush each other.
Yes and 90MM weaker than 8.8MM. I was like wtf World of tanks even blitz making 90MM like joke.
Spooksten has showed me the light...planes during tank battles suck
@@RSTBKTat least it’s a free respawn, get two boats and a plane and you have 3 respawns in RB if you kill like 2 people. That’s cool for kamikaze attacks, I bring a bomber drop everything but one and then kamikaZe while dropping the last bomb. Ez dead destroyer
Im just gonna ignore everything but just the "ding" "Enemy target has been destroyed" and the writing "Target Destroyed" with the rewards written down... Thats such satisfaction and whoever designed that. God fucking damn it give him a medal.
World of tanks is a far more satisfying game if you play at a high level. There is nothing in warthunder that even comes close to getting your first Radley Walters, or Kolobanovs medals.
@@Orinslayer Nah, hitting a shot from far away at a moving target and taking it out instantly is fucking porn material in WT
@@nosferatustg7675 I think if you are more competitive minded Wot is more satisfying. But the one shot capability of WT with the presentation as you kill your target is more satisfying otherwise. Also keep in mind, in Wot, kills aren't the most important, because you get your reward based by your damage, while in wt you get your meaningful rewards after your kills.
@@Pmurder3 the actual meta make me leave the game definitely 1 month ago
@@AgentK-im8ke Well, it's definitely a soul killer in games.
Your analysis style and effort should be commended. You can do this professionally IMHO
concealment was the game breaker for me. cant deal with a tank in plain view disappearing because the 12 seconds is over.
how is that a bad thing ?
@@CortesevasiveWell its unrealistic for people who prefer more realistic game,
it has its good and bad sides, some like it some hate it. some love the mechanical part of it, other hate the unrealistic part of it.
liturally just played the game where tank in wide open disappears in front of my eyes, how is that a good thing? how does that make sense even for an arcade game. Oh look this incredibly large tank is sitting in a bush and you cant see it because he has cammo on? How is that normal? I have been playing wot for years I just tried WT few days ago and I cannot believe what I have been missing@@Cortesevasive
well yeah you need 2meter display and ultra hd settings to go hunt for pixels in wt.
Honestly whats the fkin point, just stop wasting time on videogames.
@@hmp01
for me the biggest thing with WT why i perfer it to WOT is how research is handled, in WOT you can only research the next tank with the pervous tank, where with WT you can use what ever tank you have, with the pervous tank just getting a bonus to the research. so if there is a horid tank you dont want to play you dont have to
Still a garbage system to what WT used to have. My favorite thing about WT early on was that you'd research an *entire row* of vehicles for every tier you advanced. They changed the progression system in WT years ago to make it a hundred times slower.
You mean the free EXP?
@@correctionguy3135 free exp is normally locked to a tank you need premium currency to get it off, WoT you do get some free exp in normal games but it isnt like how WT handles it, basicly with WT you can reseach any vehicle with any vehicle of that type (tanks for tanks, planes for planes), with efficency brackets
@@nitebones1 Free EXP in WoT is like a little extra EXP to research critical module of a tanks that you will really need for F2P.
In WT, it's nothing but useless resource, unless you can earn GE somewhere for F2P
I agree, as someone who is already entering tier 5 of the US in WT by how do I put this.... grabbing something called “Here is a low tier tank, I shall yeet it against MBTs.” The research in WT is absolutely bad, and the fact you can crossover the same tank rounds from the same gun, and have to research it as well just absolutely kills.
I was interested in tanks when i started playing WOT but health points made me burned out from WOT, so i started playing War Thunder and been playing arcade mode and loving it since. The game taught me a lot about tanks and aircraft. Sometimes i go back to the health point system but in Armored Warfare instead of WOT, to me Armored Warfare also seems to be an overall better WOT
lol same but I played wotb before and then got bored cause afk's and dumm nubs
is armoured warefare still alive? been thinking of trying it
For me, gameplay wise, the "Aim time" was the deal breaker. The time that you have to wait for the reticle to shrink.
Although the main reason was very backwards and stupid business model (Paying to play with a number of friends and premium ammo)
@@topbanana.2627 I just don't think about that part, i just enjoy the game no matter how many players play it
@@RMMLz Yes that is very true! I never really saw a reason why aim time was a thing
the test drive feature in war thunder is great! nothing like that in wot. great video!
the nature of WOT beeing more arcade makes it more dynamic and adds complex teamplay. if one or two guys in your team suck, the whole team has to deal with it, so gaining map control and thinking two steps in front is kinda complicated. knowing your tank, your role on the battlefield and how to act ist mandatory. the no respawn policy, the compected maps and faster gameplay make it more competative, while more unrealistic at the same time
faster gameplay? The Map design is most of the time something, where the team loses that first does a move, that makes it either a super fast game with no action at all, or a super slow game, where a few tanks decide the fate of the match. For example Prokhorovka is mostly dependent on the light tanks and if their are SPG's than those and the light tanks decide the match 80% of the time. One of WoT's biggest problems is their extremly slow paced gameplay. Even tho it may sound like a WoT hate, it really isnt, since I play both and have even more hours in WoT than in WT.
To be perfectly honest, low pressure cannons absolutely CAN be used to lob projectiles over buildings in War Thunder. But you don't have magical telepathic link with some guy on a magic carpet to make it easy. Won't be surprised if we'll get some drone-assisted laser guidance for some artillery pieces though, if only to encourage players to use SPAA more.
I'm just hoping we get optics like squads mortar sights for wt. It's pretty intuitive in that game
we did get drones recently
As if people need encouragement for spaa I'm honestly surprised at how many ww2 ostwind crews there are in wt half the time I die it's either a panther, tiger, or ostwind
I've gotten Calliope kills without line of sight. For example B is getting capped 800 meters away so I just lob some rockets that way and find an unlucky open top boy.
@@DFlaminberry At some maps like Finland and Frozen pass (Where you expect enemy from chokepoints) blind shooting of high caliber cannons might do the trick.
Spawn shooting is outright logic - and extremely trolly in RB since you can drop artillery instantly.
Killing the fast boy leroying his way to that sweet, sweet plane never gets old.
I would have to place a caveat on the new player experience from someone with 4778 and 9708 battles on both WoT and WT respectively. In comparison to the new player experience in WoT, the new player experience in WT is positively brutal.
Learning game mechanics in WoT is fairly linear with penetration, spotting, vehicle type, shell type and positioning being pretty intuitive. WT on the other hand, is really rough for new players. Arcade may be a tad bit easier due to the spotting system and hit markers, but once a new player presses that RB/SB button, the game becomes a totally different experience.
Weakspot knowledge, positioning, map knowledge, target recognition, shell types and penetration, shell drop, suspension shooting, module damage, audio cueing and keybindings for tanks alone take a considerable amount of time to become comfortable with- and I'm not even adding to this the skills you need to play aircraft and helicopters effectively for air support. Hell, juggling the information overload from visual and audio cueing alone, something that WoT lacks, takes a lot of effort to master. When comparing how I started between the two games, I can honestly say that it was only in WT where I actually got so disoriented that I drove right into the enemy spawn in ground RB.
If I sound like I'm discouraging players from playing WT, I'm really not. Despite the difficulty in mastering WT's game mechanics, it is some of the most fun I've had in a game to date. Although the skill curve is very steep, the game is far more satisfying than WoT imo. After all, it is only in WT where you can ambush and kill a Leopard 2A6, Abrams or T90A while using an M22, Puma or some other low tier tank. The lack of enemy markers as well as track, breech, and barrel module damage makes skill an equalizer for everything be they WW2, Cold War or modern MBTs.
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Haha your right. Killing a xm1 with early ww2 aa, with HE is always fun if it works.
Pro tip :want to play wt? buy a 7.1 Headset.
I respect your opinion mate
WT's new player experience on tanks is absolutely terrible. I tried making a new account for funsies to see what it'd be like since I haven't had zero progress on tanks since tanks were added. It's insanely unfun, holy shit. It's only remotely enjoyable when you unlock the ~2.0-3.0 tanks that can sorta move well and have a halfway decent gun.
Completely different on aircraft though. Personally I find starting aircraft lines to be very enjoyable and simple.
@@Kottery I start playing WT almost after release because of airplanes and it's still the reason I play WT but I have also some high BR ground vehicles an due to my experience the high tiers are the worst gameplay experience (mostly because of the maps which should be bigger without obvious spots from which you don't move whole game and you're still best performer in the match thanks to rangefinder). Right now I am playing wot probably more than WT probably because of about 11years experience, maybe because I'm a big patriot and I can't play lt 35 and 38 under Germany, and the third reason is probably that sometimes I just want to ride a tank which exists only on paper, to make it live and don't forget about someones work (and sometimes they're really interesting like lőwe, obj 257 or KV 4).
I definitely agree, I started playing war thunder in arcade mode and did fine, I switched to rb and it felt like the second I moved out of cover someone shot me from nowhere, took me a while to get used to it lol
Well, to camouflage your vehicle with bushes, branches, etc - yo uhave to pay real money in War Thunder. And it does give you an edge.
I might have to disagree with new user friendly. I believe warthunder has a easier entry period without regard to realism, br1-2 and sometimes 3 are both easy and a great learning area with a lot of variety. I do agree though that the volume of choice can seem overwhelming.
Summary:
War thunder: realistic suffering
World of tanks: arcade suffering
Yes
I agree with this
ive had 18.5k battles in world of tanks, i regret every single battle that ive wasted my time with
I have 1200 hours on War thunder, I regret every minute I spent
@@chanka6221 *Cry in 4000 hours of pain and suffering*
@@chanka6221 yes, but im not at the point where i regret WT play time.... yet
@@chanka6221 I have 3200 hours, still planning to grind more :/
Thanks for making this video, was wondering about World of tanks. War Thunder is definitely more my kind of game, love the historical components.
A month ago I tried playing WT Mobile since I don't have a PC, this was my first bite of WT experience. At first I was overwhelmed by how difficult it is to kill the enemy, but once you learned where their weak spot is, it becomes enjoyable!
The only downside of playing mobile version of WT is that you'll most likely to get a braindead teammates, it's kinda infuriating sometimes..
i hope WT mobile gets a ground realistic mode too. Its really jealousy yall start with a rank III tank😂
I've played WoT a lot, even earned money from playing it one time. Dropped it 3 years ago. I'll be honest, if you are a casual player WoT is generally better, specially if you have friends to play with. WoT actually promotes teamplay way more than WT, coz its a game a numbers. You can exchange HP for each other, focus fire targets, there is WAY more fun to be had in WoT if you have people to play with. WT(Playing since planes beta) has a much harder learning curve, its not difficult persay, you just need to know a bit more. Teamwork aspect in WT is also...not as fun as in WoT, simply coz one of you can get send to spawn from across the map in an instant. There are less mechanics that support it. IMHO.
even for casual the arcade mode of war thunder is better than wot.
@@davidjeanmichel8358 having played both I fully disagree
WoT and WoWS are rigged bullshit.
You cant even tell if your skills brought you the win, or the rigged mechanics.
Wargaming are greedy scammers.
In WT teamplay is a complete different thing, cause you can shield your mates with your tank and if you die, you can join in with 2 other vehicles.
Forget about WoT.....its bullshit, made BY complete idiots, FOR complete idiots.
@@TheOriginalShakuraz calm down bro its just a game,and those idiots you call have more money and skill than you,wot is still interesting after so many years i played war thunder for 3 years and got bored with it and then played it on console,its shit on console btw
@@DV-1701
WT is easy playable on a console.
Even i get the Job done, on the PS4.
I usually play on a PC, with mouse and keyboard.
But maybe you got bored after you plundered your mom's wallet, to pay to progress?!
Kids like you get easily bored, cause they wanna buy their way through their lives and dont like to put effort in something...
War Thunder is better in every way imo
ALMOST. Its a HUGE time sink, especially at the higher tiers, much worse than WoT ever was. If a person REALLY wants an Abrams or Challenger or T series, then they gotta be either REALLY good at the game and always be top of the team and win, or have no life to be able to grind all day.
@@cyanide7270 buy Turms
@@destroyerarmor2846 Bold of you to assume i didnt already own one ;) Ive played way too much and spent far more than i care to admit on this game....
I had to ram a Sherman with my Panzer III and shoot it point blank just to take it out a few hours ago lol.
Nah
Also love wt has planes and tanks and ships in one game for cooldowns and the one game overall is smaller than each game in the world of series.
WoTB has modes every once in a while, like uprising that when you die, you respawn with power ups, and gravity force that allows you to jump, its so fun! So I like to play WoTB on my iPad, but I like both WT and WoT. WoT was my childhood though.
I left WoT to find sth more challenging. It was so hard to adopt the machanisim of WT when you have zero armor and keep focusing on the minimap and died without awareness of what just happened , but after a week i became inlove with wt ❤️❤️❤️. Thank you for your useful information
I think this is the first time I've seen someone recognise World of Tanks Console's Modern Armour segment as a thing.
They have actually since added ATGM vehicles to that as well.
I thought he was gonna over look it 😅
wot console is really underrated
"They added atgms" is such a pathetic thing compared to the variety of weapon systems in WT.
The effort shown by gaijin in making war thunder is amazing
Especially this days... They are actually being very nice with updates
Yeah unlike wargaming which adds more pay to win stuff
@@Alayoss Talk about it.... especially in WoT Blitz, with bullshit like the Hybrid Nations, probably most snorted out from that cartel in Breaking Bad
Do not forget the bugs.
You forgot to mention one thing that is massively different between two game and that is the ability to research other vehicles with premium tank in War Thunder, this is not possible in WG games whether it is WoT or WoWS you can not research other vehicles with premium vehicle, they only give you extra money and XP which you need gold to convert it into free xp if you want to use it to research a tech tree vehicle.
This is one thing that makes WT also pay to win. In Wot premium tanks are mainly for credits but in WT you can just speed your way through tanks you dont like
@@iamthematti
No. That is not even pay 2 win, this literally doesn't affect the gameplay in anyway ?!
It is literally no different to buying premium account to increase XP bonus ?
Do you call premium account pay 2 win aswell simply because it helps you grinding tech tree faster ?
And it can't be P2W if it doesn't give you any advantage in winning a game.
More like pay 2 progress.
You get more bang for your buck with WT premium vehicles overall.
@@i_nameless_i-jgsdf youre absolutely right.
@@iamthemattiAlright, full respect
On the sounds, tank engines have different sounds so that makes it possible to identify a tank near you even if you can't see it.
If you turn off your engine to keep quiet the electric battery of the tank starts draining (if it has one) and if it drains completely the turret has to be hand cranked making it turn a lot slower (this also happens if your engine gets destroyed)
Engine sound recognition is hard however, as in you need to listen to them for a good while before being able to differentiate them. Getting a tank's location from sound is easy.
Also it's pretty neat you can turn on speed of sound which delays noise depending on distance (according to how long it would realistically take for it to travel that distance). It's pretty much a handicap especially in planes, but it's pretty cool so I use it
Wot or wt
@@rochitgurung9090 WT ofc
WT appeals to me more because of the aircraft I can use with the tanks nothing is more satisfying than using something like an F-4E to drop a line of bombs clearing the way for friendly forces
Been wanting to dive into one of these now that I have a proper setup and looks like War Thunder is the no brainer! Thanks, subbed
It’s all about what you want I think that’s what people are forgetting people can play whatever they want
Nice review. I have played WoT for many many years and just started playing War Thunder. I now have a new go to tank game that is hands down more engaging than WoT.
Very well said and put together. I’ve played both myself as well and I will have to agree that the realism is what drew me to WT and leave WOT.
Blitz with muffin
Same. WT has more to offer, but I enjoy both games a lot. I like to play WoT to not get one shot and have aim circles and fun arcade gameplay (even though their mechanics of spotting and stuff are complex), but I love WT for its realism and how much more they have to offer. Depends on your play style. I like both. It seems I'm in the 1% that likes both games lol.
Ah cool same for me, used to play WoT but switched as well.
But if you’re that type of person who just wants pure realism I would also suggest Arma or DCS.
On my experience economy in War Thunder is so bad you can reach a point where you can't play your tank because you have no silver lions to repair it
But here's the neat part: you can play another tank and make money, while still researching the next tank
If you're doing bad in a certain tank in WoT you're stuck playing it no matter what, unless you have enough free exp, but that might work once, maybe twice, especially at higher tiers.
Then play a different tank until you have the money.....
Yes, indeed. That's why they have the Reserve tanks that don't cost silver lions to repair. I stopped playing the US T95 because of the repairing costs. Now I play way much more the tier 1 with reserves and have so much silver lions to spare that I almost don't care anymore about repairing costs.
What got me to WoT was that it was the CS of tank fights.
The few mechanics it had were simple to understand and sinergized really well, with a low floor and a high ceiling.
The ONLY thing they had to do was to remove high-elo ammo and focus on making more maps, instead of dumbing down aim to a 'reticle's green, SHOOT' and going no2 on superheavs, adding 'new mechanics' by grabbing every nation-related mechanic and changing a 5 to a 3, or a 40 to a 32 in mag and intraclip reloads and putting it on another nation.
The tier system (more or less) worked a decade ago because you could at least hit some stuff with a bottom tier. Now try to shoot at a BZ-176 before it 1shots your t6.
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I don't know if warthunder is better, and I don't care. I only want it to succeed more and more so that someday this broken promise of a game dies.
Ive been playing war thunder for a while, its all about the mindset, the game can be very fun but it also has a step learning curve, and can be frustrating, but once you learn where to shot and how to position yourself, its just a pleasure to play, also when you reach the level of not missing a single bomb its just so satisfying to do also always remember top tier ≠ fun tier
World Of Tanks when u want:
-unfair match
-stupid mm
-make u day ruined
WT
-high Price repair Tank
-get Spammed bomb
-make u day more ruined
both sucks, embrace tanktastic
just play "tanki online" instead👍😁
That's the thing I gave up on wt as I don't have enough money to repair my tanks I every nation so it useless and meaning less to me now
@@ridosajayakan2262 man that brings back memories
@@ridosajayakan2262 no it fucking sucks mow
If you haven't already, please make a video about your opinion on required and recommended PC specs to best play War Thunder.
A basic laptop should work
That's a good idea! I might be able to do that in the next few weeks. I have a laptop and a main computer, plus an old computer that I used to use to play War Thunder, so I have quite a bit of experience on what specs work and which ones don't
@@Tankenstein Glad to help and I'll look forward to it and all the rest.
@@MaticTheProto Is that a 200 dollar or 1000 dollar laptop?
@@imnotusingmyrealname4566 I started playing it on a 350€ laptop (or cheaper idk) some years ago
One problem both games has is people who have highly skilled crews and have been playing for many years, seal clubbing new players. I'm playing with a new gun 2 cm, getting annihilated by a 10.5 CM Cannon. Let's just say it's starting off amazing
as a wot player, i've learn how WT work with your video so tahnk you ! But to make an more accurate comparison, maybe you should had ask a WoT youtuber that would had explain with as much detail the WoT mecanics that you explain WT mecanics
I will add to what was said in the video that was covered but I did not think was quite fleshed out enough. That is the aiming systems. In WOT you have a massive "gun dispersion" that can cause much frustration for players by the shells not actually going where you want them while in WT it is a lot more tactile in the way you may not need to barrel stuff an enemy tank to get shots to hit where you want them to. This also extends to allowing players to act off of their knowledge of weak points and such. You can know the weak points on an enemy tank and be shooting at them but have none of the shells hit anywhere near that location in WOT while in WT the gun dispersion is accurate to what it would be, very small deviations from shell to shell shots that only affect sniping except for maybe lower tiers where cannon technology was still developing and at that it is marginal deviation.
One other thing is going deeper into the respawn mechanic in WT having an Achilles heel that it does in turn allow enemies to spawn camp for easy kills in various modes. Even with the limited invulnerability protection it giives it is often not enough, and it is terrible in plane modes when it does happen (looking at you bf109's that immediately outclimb every other plane then spawn camp all game). It also happens if your team gets steam rolled in the tanks or if someone snuck past to a point where they can and this does not affect ship battles because it normally takes a lot of munitions to take a ship out unless they ammo rack you. In WOT there is no respawns so there are none of these issues.
I would say that if you are fairly good at games and are competitive WT is more for you, but if you are worse at games WOT might be better because you will not just get killed from some cheeky spot that you were not aware of. WT does have the arcade mode which is very good for introducing people to the game in a more arcade like environment that may help people having a bad day not do too poorly and being able to at least do something.
The monetary systems (dont feel like it was quite stressed enough), both games do have a tendency of having a tier or certain tanks that are very good for money grinding, where the rewards for doing stuff well outweighs the cost of the tanks and ammo. This is around the br 3-4 in WT for the most part but if there is a stronger tank in higher tier, due to the higher money multiplier it receives would make doing very well in a higher tier game much more rewarding than just grinding in the safer lower tiers, while WOT has a lot more of a money issue players have to contend with. This is not also mentioning the boosters you get for free from WT which honestly are better than the bonus for the first battle of the day for WOT. 10-30% boosters last between something like 5-20 missions which is better than getting all the bonus on one game but also you get to choose when to do that as well. I know for me it takes me 2-3 games to warm up in any game so I will never put a booster on immediately but this was forced upon me in WOT by not letting me choose when to get the stuff.
One last thing is that WT may loose a lot of fun for the heavy tank enjoyers like myself because of the shift that is also happening in real life and that is one thing Missiles. Anti Tank Guided Missiles from planes, helicopters, light tanks, and missile carriers are VERY prevalent in Higher tier gameplay of which makes me hate all open maps and love towns and maps that have more cover and hate all very open maps. The missiles make long range kills extraordinarily easy for the one who launched the missile as they would IRL and often can find positions where they can kill you but you literally can not kill them from which is highly irritating. Something that is funny about this is that very low br tanks like 1.0 tanks can often find success in these higher br games like 8.0 because the light tanks are very easy to penetrate and the lower br tanks having armor piercing high explosive rounds makes kills on light tanks like the BMP very easy to accomplish. And the Hatred WOT players have for artillery is the equivalent for hating enemy CAS but there is more one can do against the CAS with spaa than go through the entire enemy team to get their artys and that only if they do not shot gun you.
He did say about moving making it near impossible to hit but on some tanks the full aim in is still atrocious
I'm playing 5.3 BR and i already hate open maps, imagine when i get to the missiles.
@@Guigas_0234 i feel you bro. Gime a town and ill go to town. Gime a open map i cri
Me a BF-109 main that doesn't even know where the enemy spawn is:
*Confused screaming*
Ive been playing both game for 8 years switching between them every couple of months when i get burnt out. If i had to play only one it would probably be War Thunder. For new players i'd recooment the same. Lesser p2w experience, realistic gameplay, tanks planes ships and helicopters in one single game, all the ammo choices, almost nonexistent rng and custom user maps, vehicles and missions. These are the things i couldnt live without
P.S. Its definitely still a huge grind to top tier, but dont rush it. Try to enjoy all the vehicles from mid and low tiers and you'll have a great time
The almost nonexistent RNG in WT is not true, it has indeed a lot, but it is more easily avoided if you play right
Same for me. I play both on and off. I play more War Thunder now, but I still enjoy World of Tanks. War Thunder has more realism an more to offer in terms of vehicle functions. They also offer more vehicles, like planes. The other thing I enjoy about War Thunder more than World of Tanks, is that every tier is fun, and every vehicle is unique. I can enjoy the entire tech tree of a nation. In World of Tanks, I skip the low tiers as fast as possible to get to tier 6 through 10. And even then I play mostly tier 8-10 to get away from even tier 6. But I still enjoy WoT.
@@heliogonzalezsanchez8227 compared to wot it is nothing
WT is absolutely brutal to newbies so I'd say pick up WoT first. But yes, if only could play one game, I'd choose WT too
both of them have one thing in common
being able to drain your sanity
Idk about the accessibility to newer players. I tried getting into war thunder a few years ago after having played wot for years and I got very confused. I think I have less than 20 hrs in it though so maybe it gets easier. Very nice detailed comparison, but I'll stick to my occasional sprees in wot for now
It's very difficult to get into if you don't have friends to play with, even more so if none of them have played much war thunder before
I played both games for years and I'll say this, play both games for a week or month and see which one you enjoy more. Me personally I enjoy both games.
I played both and when I was quickly killed in WoT I was furious, but being 1shot killed in WT never make me angry. WT is more relaxing bc you have second chance in news vehicle and you too can 1shot someone.
I AGREE. WOT just feels more painful because you have only one chance to live.WT feels more relaxing because you can always come back with more tanks or planes
@@Little-bird-told-meI mean if you persevere you’re health till late game then you can trade with tanks that are lower health so it might be a skill issue
I hope WT gets a huge graphic overhaul like the HD patch on WOT or a better lighting patch at least. WT still looks like a 2015 game with all the mush and muddy-looking texture.
Just convinced me to try war thunder again. Loved it the first time but the complexity kind of scared me ngl, but I’m wanting to try again. Thank you for your guidance
Well said! I also played world of tanks for 2 years with T-10 heavy tank. Then currently I played war thunder since 2020 with a 8.0 BR soviet tank (T-55)
Enjoy modern tanks
Pretty good overview, though I would have put much more emphasis on how War Thunder is much more grind heavy. It will take much longer to reach top tier in WT and grinding just one tech tree branch is usually not enough for you to be competitive. You need to grind aircraft tech tree as well if you want to have proper effect in ground battles.
Yes, pros in WoT can grind a tier 10 tank in 24h.
@@mirromarnicco3162 i can do the same on wt
@@ivanrossi2699 I can't know is it true, but i don't belive you. Can you explain how?
Fastest i've grinded on WT to toptier going only one branch on was 2 months all F2P but you'll have to play the everyday while tryharding which is not fun
@@mirromarnicco3162 a tank not the entire line for that is like a week for the entire tree
In it's early days, WoT had best ever menu/garage music, I only know the songs as "ambient_garaz_1" and "ambient_garaz_2" as they were in the files, good times.
One of the best features of War Thunder over World of Tanks is being able to crate a lineup for the battle. In World of Tanks, many times I would pick my tank, just to discover that the map, and the matchmaking were entirely unsuitable to the tank I selected. Making many matches extremely frustrating. In War Thunder, if the map is better suited to sniping, you just made sure you have a suitable vehicle in your lineup and some diversity of choices.
Then there was the premium ammo. Some tanks were extremely unplayable without the premium ammo, but then you risked bankrupting yourself in the process. Pz1C anyone? ... :)
after over 30k battles in WoT i decided to give WT a try and boyoboy did it not dissapoint me, WarThunder is far superior in every aspect.
the playerbase in wot is just so toxic, i have the chieftain and 279(e) in wot and it just disgusted me if i got in a tier8 match because the enemy's were just sitting ducks..
Warthunder overall is way more teambased then wot because you really need your teammates where i wot you can carry a game by yourself
meh, not really. both are the same, both have toxic comunities, and you cant rely much from teammates in both games. so, yeah
@@onlyarandomusername i feel like we really have different experiences then..
@@onlyarandomusername I think are a wot fanboy
@@onlyarandomusername and chat is gone for that same reason :/
I would argue that WT is not really that team-based since you could just respawn and play for yourself.
In WoT, it's game number. Each tank have their own role and to succeed, need some degree of teamwork. LT spot and TD fire at them, MT flank, HT hold the line and breakthrough. SPG... uh, I hate this thing but they could stun your enemy and render it crippled for some seconds from long range.
I have played both, a lot. I played WoT way before WT, and it got me into WT. I have 14 t10s in WoT and many premiums I got for free. I love the game, mostly because I played it first. And it is fun, even if it's unrealistic. I also love WT and play it for it's realism (relative to WoT anyways), and for all of the accessories it allows you to use (msg, smoke grenades, etc.). WT also got me into Planes and sim. I play more WT than WoT now, but I love both games a lot.
ditto
i played wot so much i got basically every tank... i played trough the entire brittish tech tree in WT .... YOU NEEEED premium in wt while you dont really need it in wot, it will help a lot ... but its not necessairy such as in wt ... ALSO FUCK PLANES ... seriously fucking add ground only pls
@@duesenantrieb8272 True, premium helps way more in WT, although its very nice in WoT too. I actually enjoy CAS.
I’ve been playing WoT since Beta testing, and I’ve been playing WT since it was pretty new and only had US, Germany, and USSR. WoT has become frustrating as of late especially with the power creep of new tanks and premium ammo gets spammed all the time. So many heavy brawler tanks get smacked around anymore and are forced to hold back. While both games have strategies to their play style, WT is just so much better and has so much diversity, as well as making you learn different vehicles and what their strengths and weaknesses are. For example, a tiger II can hold a position effectively until you get flanked. In WoT a tiger II is cannon fodder to everyone that has premium ammunition.
Now I am around 2 weeks playing war thunder realistic ground battle mode and really enjoy it so much. I can hide, sneak, flank, compensating parabolic curve and it feels so realistic. Now world of tank feels so silly to play.
How are you doing now?
As for sound and voice acting... Absolute champion here is "Gunner, HEAT, PC"!
On top of doing great job with engine and gun sounds, the commander is awesome! For example, if you are watching enemy tanks passing by and not spotting you, his voice will be calm. However, if they stop and start turning towards you, he will be kind of jumpy...When their turrets start turning towards you, he will be a lot jumpy! And total screaming if the enemy gun is pointed at you...
I loved this detail!
Yes, actually I think that when it comes out it'll replace WT tanks part for me I would still play air battles in WT but ww2 era tanks will be WoT and modern tanks GHPC. I downloaded every version of it and it looks awesome.
I feel like you mention realism aspect in every single part of a video. I get that it's important for you personally, but for example gamplay section should focus more on things like "does it feel FUN to play", "is the controling the tank responsive", "how good are the maps" and many other things.
Still, a solid video, I learned few things.
I assume the OP is mostly using fighter jets, else he wouldn't talk about realism or simulator modes in WT.
Basically, Tanks , Bombers and Ships are multi-person vehicles - and for good reasons.
War Thunder Just Feels Better To Play.
@@Morale883 In any case does it run a LOT smoother than WoT that needs either VM or has to run on my old Laptop because it relies on Windows ( For which, behold! a 12 core 4GHz CPU with 32GB Ram are insufficient to run, but a 2.1GHz dualcore with 4GB is just spiffy )...
I was going to say the same thing, if he only mentions realism then play squad or arma or gunner heat pc I never understand that point
me and my friend tried both, and we like WoT more, it's just easier for us to play since we already used to arcade HP system, and we have other game to play, so dedicating time for learning a single game is not preferred, since i don't have time learning all the weak spot of every tank we might encounter, we just want to hop onto a tank, and shoot something.
Thanks for presenting the similarities and differences of each game,as I have both of them in my Steam library though not installed.
I've only played War Thunder, but gotta say I do like the zoomed out 3rd person view in WoT
I quit WoT in 2015 after grinding a new soviet AT branch only for it to get nerfed massively in the next update. It was not a surprise they even deleted a whole vehicle a couple updates later because they couldn't balance it, even though it was nerfed into oblivion already.
After that I have started WT, played a bit, and threw it into the bin for reminding me of wasting my time on grinding through vehicle trees only for them to get removed. Seriously reconsidering returning to WT though, because it really seems like Gaijin cares about the actual experience of playing their games instead of the experience of paying each time something flashy comes out.
I love it when people that are real bad in some game give public opinion on the same.
„Somewhat working knowledge of basic physics“. Sick burn
The most difficult for me when switching from wot to wt was not being able to see from where i was getting shot or even spotting enemies when starting on realistic tank battles, very frustrating for sure.
i think that playing wt after u played wot ... on a decent level ofc ... is way easyer ... i had no issues coming to wt whatsoever
Arcade is way more beginner friendly. Respect for starting on realistic
it is untill u play paper tank destroyer that needs distance and whenever u peek to shoot half the map sees u instantly @@ThunderPlayer_WT
"This allows for a much more precise..."
br compression: Am I a joke to you?
BR compression is still an issue and will continue to be so, but it is the exception and not the norm. Generally speaking you can take any vehicle at its BR and perform well so long as you play smart.
@@jonathonspears7736 Generally speaking. Because of course a sabre is meant to fight yak 38s
@@spyous7884 but imagine it will not be +-1BR, but tier ... enjoy getting stopmed He-162 by Mig- 21F or trying to penetrate Maus with Jumbo
@@AwdrevCZ Like WoT?
Thats why the tier system sucks. I agree the br is better, but not the best it could be
@@spyous7884 I agree it's not the best
war thunder membership condition: a contact in a defence manufacturer or defence ministry of your country so you can acquire classified information and then post it on the forums
I do both. What I play depends on my mood. Not being a skilled person, with lesser equipment, War Thunder I'm more often a one-shoted without having even seen the opponent.
The fact you got to tier 9 in 8 years says something
Agreed, I also moved from WoT a few yeas ago. Sim main now.. And while i will turn a profit in any vehicle tank or plane. I find my self going to lower teirs while saving cash for the toptiers, Never did that in wot. Then again.. 2600Wn8 probably helps. Well a 6-1KD in WT should net me way more than it does...
Fully Free to play accounts for both
@@jesperviktorsson8027 it helps, contrary to what people say the expirence from one helps in the other no matter how different the games are. Stopped playing WoT but I can tell you I miss not having to deal with Cas spam, and people being able to respawn after you own them. Yet I like not having to face OP BS paper tanks anymore, nor deal with the power creep.
@@Tigerman7warfighter fully agreed
I played WoT since closed beta but left when premium ammo was released (it was getting incredibly toxic too) and have multiple tier 10 tanks (and some quite rare premiums like the Type 59), I started War Thunder while it was in beta and have a couple of rares like the Tu-2 and a LaGG (not near my PC so I can't recall which variant), I used to enjoy the game when it only went as far as late war, early jets but have lost interest as the grind just became too much. I play WoWS now but have never touched ships in War Thunder.
Naval has gotten better but top teir still has massive repair costs
lol type-59 is not rare at all
@@alextinica7914 It was taken off sale years ago, take this and the natural player loss through time and rarity becomes a thing. I concede the point if WG sold it since I quit playing.
@@craigs71 actually they did put it on sale during the winter event they had. But you still don’t see them too often.
idk if you care, but recent reworks make naval in WT not the worst anymore... the grind is not helicopter levels bad, but its close (in rp gain per match). The system for targeting is really nice plus module reworks were interesting. The ships themselves... not bad. Bluewater is a bit annoying with larger vessels pretty much always curb stomping in downtiers, and everything in coastal feels like glass cannons with rockets on them half the time... aside from the queue times, I suggest booting it up every once in a while.
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it is rare but you can technically crew knockout in WoT, by of course as most would guess criting all crew members... i've experienced it a few times with the ELC Bis via Arty... ;-;
Coming from World of Tanks I can say that War Thunder is worlds superior! Much better balanced battles. Also that you get to play 3 tanks is so much better. Also progression is much faster and more fun. WoT feels like pure pay2play
Ikr
War Thunder is purer than pure pay to play
You also get to enjoy the process of researching vehicles and the thrill of unlocking a new OP vehicle. Ground realistic is also fun like arcade is.
I wish it had better craphics
skill issue
the amount of fun that you get when you know how to play war thunder is worth the time, war thunder is mainly about map knowledge, tanks weak spots, tanks playing style, awareness, and knowing how to give your team support in aircraft when you master these things you will have a ton of fun I promise .... and always don't play to grind just enjoy the tank or plane that you are currently playing with.
Um, map knowledge, weak spots, and awareness are pretty darn useful in WoT too...
I guess WoT players aren't so concerned about aircraft support because they are there to play tanks, not fly planes ;)
@@ballistyxwot4577 in ground realistic battle it's a must, but in arcade it's not important.
@@ballistyxwot4577 weak spots shouldn't be a worry for WoT players
i remember i found WT back in the days about half a month after the closed alpha/beta ended from some obscure youtube video back then the game only had planes but i had been looking for an aircraft game for a while since i did play WOT but felt like their air game just wasn't it so WT felt just like what i had been looking for, even after some years when they did add tanks to WT i felt like it wasn't really that great since early on WT's tanks felt like driving a drift car so i stuck with WOT for a while in that regard. but as we moved forward and the ground battles in WT got more flushed out i quit WOT.
I do sometimes wish that there was player controlled artillery in war thunder, no special camera mode like wot though. Having to range your target and then fire up. It would help a lot when it comes to stalemates around cover
There is player controlled artillery and always has been in warthunder?
@@GarlicDoggo i think he means the long ranged barrel high guns firing from a very long distance with the shells being fired high in the air and coming down to explode in somebodies tank
What ruined World of Tanks for me was the Matchmaking and the existence of Artillery. What ruined War Thunder for me was the grind.
Both made by greedy corporations both games should burn to the ground.
Thanks for coming to my TED talk.
Imagine a world where both companies actually cared for the people who played them.
I'd love to see a game without the pay to win stuff but only pay to progress (i mean, i can accept that. You can pay for the top tier tanks but you can't pay for knowledge of the game) so they will keep earning money.
A proper matchmaking system and two different gamemodes that separate the WWII tanks from the other tanks and without the stupid reparation cost system.
It would be awesome.
people always complain about how long it takes to get to the top vehicles in these games but thats the just nature of them. I got used to it pretty quick and I don't mind taking a few days for one vehicle.
You must be new to the game because top tier vehicles can take up to a few months per vehicle for a f2p player (depends on how hard you grind)
@@gamingkingdom1146 if you don’t play warthunder regularly it may take a month or two to get a vehicle (excluding helicopters) but if you end up playing it whenever you get the chance it will usually only take a solid 10-20 days (absolute maximum) to get any vehicle in the game. Helicopters though…. Please fucking kill me
@@luftwaff3ls714 it takes much more then that with no premium time
World of tanks:you can only play with tanks
Warthunder:you can play with naval, aerial and ground vehicles
I play both world of tanks and warthunder, they've actually update wot alot, for the t1 heavy in wot, its has 2 canons, 75mm/90mm and I want to say 30 mm you can now use both canons. Warthunder had that in there game from the start which is awesome, if I want to casually blow tanks up wot, but more competitive warthunder.
Wot-unrealistic suffering
Wt- realistic suffering