War Thunder vs Il-2 1946?!?!

[Raven Morpheus]

Heh. War Thunder. Pfft.

I went to the trouble of downloading a client via steam sometime last week, played it for a while but got rid of it.

It seems to boil down to "To Battle" mode and I think to do well in it you need to pay a lot of money. It's another in a long line of pay to win titles, but just happens to be war plane oriented.

Although I do have my settings in IL2 somewhere between hardcore and arcade (e.g. I don't turn off all the views, I don't use realistic navigation, I don't use limited ammo/fuel although I probably could and should do) I think IL2 is just far better than my brief experience with WT.

The only thing WT has over IL2 is that the graphics are better.

Now, although I'm not that keen on games set in the Russian front theatre of operations, I am eagerly awaiting Battle of Stalingrad, that looks real good and as the Rise of Flight client seemed to fly nicely on my PC I'm hopeful BoS will also. Just can't afford to buy into the early access program at the moment though. I'm hoping they treat it like the original IL2 though and release expansions with PTO and perhaps some BoB content...

[IceFire]

I downloaded War Thunder the other day. It's interesting and the graphics are nicely detailed but it isn't IL-2 1946 by any means. They are barely comparable. One is a free to play grind fest with pretty graphics and quick action. The other is a serious simulation with 10 years of addons and development... it may be showing its age but it's still the king of WWII aviation simulators for now.

Battle of Stalingrad is promising. I'm playing the early access right now and it's REALLY well done. I hope its a success and features and content continue to be added.

[Notorious M.i.G.]

Originally Posted by IceFire

a free to play grind fest with pretty graphics and quick action

More or less.

It's a shame, because War Thunder has a great selection of aircraft, beautiful visuals and sound, but when it comes down to the meat of it....ugh. I want to like it, but it's absolutely no fun to me whatsoever.

[Treetop64]

Tried War Thunder for a few weeks. The conclusion I came to is that, despite it's visual prettiness, it's garbage compared to IL-2. If anything, War Thunder shows just how incredibly good IL-2 is, and further ignited my passion for it. The only real enjoyment I got out of War Thunder was with tanks on the Kursk map in Simulation Mode. Everything else is a shoot-em-up arcade fest on claustrophobic maps.

Really no comparison between the two. War Thunder caters to those looking for quick action with dazzling visual effects, and little else. However, if pretty visuals are the only priority for you then by all means go War Thunder.