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...