I Spent 24 HOURS as a FREE-TO-PLAY Player in War Thunder!
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- Опубліковано 24 лип 2023
- Actual Tank Commander plays War Thunder as a free to play player for a full 24 hours. Playing War Thunder for free is easy, mastering War Thunder for free is painful.
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As a free to play player, I have real experience of how it feels to play without using money
me too
no hecking way!!! if youre a free to play player that means u play without using real money!? who would have known!
10 year been a free to play player, because is says free It means FREE
same
Same
I am a 2000 hour ftp player and I don’t try to grind anymore, I just play the tanks I want to play and accidentally unlock vehicles. I think it’s the best way to go through this game as a ftp as it’s way less rage inducing, and because I only play the vehicles I want to play I often have ridicules stats on some tanks, like 700 kills on the sturm tiger.
Edit: it is possible to fully do a tech tree as free to play as I got nearly all German tanks/planes.
Same for me but for Air RB; I've never thought about purposefully grinding, and instead just play what I feel like playing, and gaining access to new vehicles as a bonus
This way, playing the game is both more fun and less exhausting for me, so I see no reason to change
Same for me! Off and on F2P since 2014. Never cared much about the grind and just have fun in my limited free time now. Nearly have all of the US tree unlocked haha
Edit: it is possible to fully do a tech tree as free to play as I got nearly all German tanks/planes.
Mate you talking about 2000 hours playing to get one/two techtrees unlocked. Very good that you enjoy playing like that. But this game is a huge moneygraber for all people who are not so self controlled. "Normal" games cost around 60$ - in warthunder you get a vehicle for that money.
My way of f2playing is unlocking and fully researching every tank in every country. After dunno 1500 hours I'm at rank 3 in almost all countries and close to 4 in Germany.
That's pretty fun is it,killing the Sturm Tiger,just shoot it in the giant barrel and shell and BOOM! Actually armored vehicles should explode too,not just lightly armored vehicles. You can kill planes like that aswell. That will teach them;those spoiled arrogant diaper wearing babies (s) with their premium accounts or daddies or mummies creditcard. Lol. Always fells good taking out a 70€ tank or plane. EVIL LAUGH! Hehehehehehehe!!!! 😂
22:45 - The reason you can move with a knocked out engine is because with the new update even if you don't have parts, you can restore things to operation just severely damaged, that's the the difference between the stock parts and improved parts.
But wasn't that the case before the update, I remind multiple time before the update repairing my tank and getting damaged part but functionnaly. I really feel like we got scam
@@Snaox Even then, they made the economy more favorable. You run negative a lot less.
Before, if you had anything damaged, you would have to get on a friendly capture point to repair it. Or at least that’s how I remember it.
@@Snaoxbefore the Update you could only repair destroyed parts in Arcade. In Realistic you couldnt
@@weaboo274 even before the update if you had a part completely destroyed you could repair it to severely damaged for a long repair time, the exact same we have now, but yes going to a friendly point does allow you to fix it to the hp depending of your crew xp, they lied about the parts upgrade, it's the exact fucking same
Keep in mind you are preforming significantly better than a new player would
True
He said he didn't play since Jesus Christ was still alive, just pay attention at the video
@@Silly_Kaspa still has a great advantage over a brand new player.
not really
@@lurtzy_ Yes because a newer player wouldn't have lowered their ammo count like he did to increase survivability. They would've just gone in with a rack full of bombs waiting to blow up.
The M4A1 being infront of the M4 in the tech tree isn't necessarily chronologically inaccurate as the 'A1' part doesn't denote an upgrade to the tank. The designations are more to do with where that tank was made and which engine it used/was it a cast or welded hull. Most of the variants of the Sherman started production at similar times and were all produced (by different people) all the way through to the end of the war :)
hello fellow Sherman enjoyer, i see you have done your homework about the sherman
i appreciate the knowledge given to me regarding the Hona Civic of WW2 tanks, thank you
Have u watched Eta 320
I never understood why they didnt make all factories produce them to m4a3 spec. The other versions are far too under engined. Even the swedish tests done post war agreed. And less than 60mm of armor is pathetic.
@@robertharris6092because even with the resources of the whole country, you can only order so many engines at a time, and ordering from two sources, while complicating the logistics and maintenance, ensures that your orders can come quick
You still can knock your crew out but you have to go fast to do it 11:32 take me to tank school
I’m sorry is I can hit a breakable brick wall with a BT and I knock out my crew… yeah
@@Lost-in-thought940 oh I’ve just never hit something breakable and knocked my crew out it was always a tank or something else
@@Knightmare1127that’s how ramming kills in war thunder
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im a free to play player🗿
Same
What rank
I'm on level 5 currently only been playing a phew months
😢
@@Trainlover76 no like what rank of aircraft
I once had my driver get killed from hitting a rock.
LOOOOOL
The free low-tier premium vehicle is not a new addition, it's been a feature for a while now, at least 4 years. Still, it's definitely needed. Who knows where you'd be in your 24hrs without it.
You were able to research tier I and almost all of II in 24 hrs, which is impressive. That would seem promising for new players, but you have to consider that vehicles get exponentially more expensive by tier, both in terms of SL and RP. There are also more vehicles to research per tier. How long would you need to research all of tier III, let alone tiers IV, V, VI, VII? I know you're limited in time, but to truly evaluate the grind (and if it has improved) one would need to spend much more than that, as it slows down massively past tier II. Still, 24hrs is a substantial dedication for a video, and much appreciated!
Another factor is experience. You may have had a fresh start in material terms, meaning no SL, RP, Vehicles, Crew skills, etc., but one thing you can't wipe is your knowledge of the game. War Thunder is all about knowledge: vehicles and their weakspots, ammunition types, ballistics, maps and points of interest, how to spend your money and time, and much more. I'm not sure how "seriously" you played during this time, but with all of these advantages I'm sure you did very well, and much better than a beginner.
All of this is meant in the kindest way possible, and I thank you for taking the time to make this video. Still, I'm sure there's people out there interested in seeing how a truly new player would do in the same time, with guidance or without. Possible idea for a video, if you have the time or candidates for it?
Cheers!
I appreciate the feedback! And you're absolutely right. The grind definitely slows down after rank II but it also isn't as likely that players would reach that far on their first day. But the point you made about experience is definitely very strong. Someone with no knowledge at all of tanks or war thunder would have a much harder time progressing. I'll probably explore the grind issue more as war thunder makes more changes to the economy so I might have a look at your suggestion later down the line too
I can make a I’d someday because I am only at 2.3 in the USA tree and I am very bad at the game. I only understand a few things that help me win but they are basic consepts. Reply to me if you think I should.
@@Panzer_links. just watch some war thunder youtubers it helps a lot
fun fact, if you go to sign up but choose the login, you can redeem the remaining two vehicle options which means you can have the M2A4, the Galer's F3F-2, and the American boat that i don't give a fuck about on the same account without spending a dime
@@Panzer_links. listen to the other commentor Michael, it's very true
My account is from a time were the game wasn't even released, and I registered for the closed Beta when it was called "World of Planes". Tutorials gave way more Eagles and you could indeed knock out your crew by smashing into walls or rocks.
11:32 - Take me to tank school ^^
A fellow Old Guard!
@@9999AWC you can still die in LT and cars crashing in rocks and fences :)
Take me back to those times, when even early jets had afterburners modelled XD
@@johnrefe same with BT and the T50, it just require you to go full speed at unbreakable object with low crew level
Grind doesn't really start hitting until you're at around 5.0
*me struggling to grind the start of rank 2*
@@boravedat2931 how many kills do you get
The problem is once you get up to like rank IV vehicles, the repair cost can sometimes be higher than the SL reward for the match. Usually you'll have to play above average at that rank just to earn SL.
Can´t you deactivate auto repair? Or does that still cost silver?
not since the economy updates, also if you grab a year of premium account during the 50% off sales you never lose SL again even if you suck. But you can suck and still grind SL very very easily.
In a lot of Rank 3 Air arcade matches, it's pretty easy to consistently be top of your team since I think it's mostly full of newer players for some reason. Try that out and maybe you'll have similar results
as a f2p player i can tell you its rough ....you will see lots of wtf moments lol.
Ive been doing it for 2 years and still have not reached top tier
@@AlexMC7528 im five years in and only have tier 3 tanks in 2 tech trees
@@imablock16 1300 hours here and only starting to get into American 6.7 but I have fairly fleshed out low tier in several tech trees
@@imablock16i have 1 tier 3 in a year-actually 2 but its the m4a2
For 200 hours i reached Leopard 2k, ozelot, gepards and everything before tier 7. So if you have skill, nothing is impossible. However, the amount of stress in high/top tier made me quit the game, it's just not worth it. On tier 3 tho i was making 10+ kills 7 out of 10 games in arcade....from so much farm and domination i got complety bored of the game
I miss your old avatar 😢
Same :(
Same
Yeah there's no paw anymore :(
Fax
Same ):
As a f2p player with 3000 hours....... This is painful
As a f2p player i agree
As a player who did spend money with 4000 hours i have to agree
As a f2p with 1550 hours and some prenium vehicules and a t80um2 its not that painfull if you've no life........(gaijin took my soul help me)
Deadass, i've been a GRB player for 8 ish years and i only got to the IPM1, and now I'm an Air RB player.. waay better grinding rewards, and got some nations to rank 7 quick
As someone who hasn't played War Thunder in years, I'll take y'all's word for it.
depends on your armor thickness i remember doing it a couple of times ramming a giant oak full speed in a BT5 or Stuart damn near redding the whole crew knocking out the transmsion an taking of tracks depending on what part hits first
I kind of miss that mechanic strangely.
I killed myself once like that by driving full speed into a wall and was perplexed since i didn't know. 🤣BTW:it was Arcade?....
Once crushed a panzer in my kv1 by running him down a hill into a wall
i threw my pz 3 off a steep wall, hit a rock and killed my entire hull crew
still kinda implemented with track damage... I've had my track turned orange from slamming into a rock
There's a few reasons why the M4A1 comes before the M4 in the tech tree and one of it was pretty shocking.
The M4A1 used a cast hull and turret technique whereas the M4 Sherman uses a welded technique with different plates. During combat situations, crews and observers be it friend or foe soon found out that the welded tanks were better as when getting shot at, it just punches a hole thru the tank mostly with AP shells whereas with the M4A1 with it's casted shell would often just disintegrate upon getting hit and it doesn't cause just simple spalling but just straight up massive hull breaks if the molded process was fucked.
Not only that, with casted tanks, if they wanna add more armour, it's way harder with the shape the tank look like whereas with the "normal" welded tanks, it's easier to slap extra bolt-on armour on the tank as the tanks are mostly slab-sided which makes bolting additionals on it way easier.
As a f2p player, my suffering is immesurable
Despite all the issues and how much they ruined the economy recently (though they promised to fix it) the game is still a lot of fun, it's like one of those love/hate relationships that people keep coming back to lol.
The A number on shermans is engine/drive train designation, not a chronological one
The M4A1 is a modification of the M4 that has a cast hull becuase it was easier and cheaper to produce, but the cast armor has 2 big weak spots that make it worse than the M4, so that’s why
Back in the day you used to take fall/impact damage to your tank crew, also shooting the transmissions of tanks caused you tank to burn down and this was back when it was an instant burn down ammo rack style.
As far as I know it is still technically possible to knock your crew out by crashing into stuff, you just have to hit it VERY hard
As a F2P person, It's taken a bit over a year, but I now have 2 techtree's at rank IV (1 is almost rank V), and basically the rest at Rank III.
Tier 8 Modern Tanks and Jets grind 💀💀💀💀💀
As another F2P player, i play casually but i must have spent 15 days playing 3/4 hours to get 30% of a rank VI
@@cassaia7805*me barely touching rank 3 in a year*
@@boravedat2931 i know the pain i just recently reached rank 5 air and ground with china and rank 6 air and ground ussr, luckily with the next major update and the easier research that comes with it everything gets better
you're so lame. just pay for your tiers. no need to play for months in boring tanks
4:45 Yes its still a feature its just that u need to hit something that cant break like a wall or enemy tank its pretty easy to lose the driver and trans misson on the m22 if u ran a tank.
The game really picks up once you have the actual M4... It is a beast... Front angles and armor bounce like a heavy tank
I've needed a good ground rb youtuber to watch. love to see it
You're doing a million dollar job. Keep it up. This is the way
As for a challenge in any game in general. Here is my challenge to you. Enter the DCS A10C with the aircraft parked in a cold and dark state.... and get it airborne (without using the auto start feature)
Good luck!
as an old school pre tank player, you could accidentally knock out your loader by backing into a building. They just removed that aspect for balance since it was "unfun" compared to watching your lone tank driver try and drive whilst reloading a giant cannon shell and operating a turret.
11:32 take me to tank school (also you're a really great youtuber keep up the good work) 👍
1:36 There was tutorials for planes, and they had tutorials for tanks when they were added.
4:48 Correct. Don't know why they removed that feature lol
11:32 TAKE ME TO TANK SCHOOL!
You can damage your tank and injure your crew if you hit things at a high enough speed. It's not a feature that used to exist, it's a feature that still exists. You can also destroy enemy vehicles by crushing them or hitting them at high speed and even planes can destroy lightly armored vehicles by hitting them directly.
I know you get a little damage for sure still but I just remember the effect being so much worse.
About the crew vs wall portion, yes you could knockout your crew if you hit walls! I remember going downhill full speed in a tetra and upon impact with a chest high stone wall my tank exploded lol.
Free to play can be painful. Best $$ value I found was getting Prem time.
Only really started playing Ground Battles myself about Feb this year. In March/April, they had a special in Prem time. I got 180 days for half price.
Made life easier.
Just found your channel. Enjoyed this video. So I've subbed.
Glad you enjoyed it and yes, premium time is probably the overall best value for money (assuming you make the most of it anyway haha)
11:32- you better take me to tank school PanzerPaw, or I'll be sad I guess
Finally someone understands the pain we, f2p players have to go trough... (I am one of them and getting a KV-1 (ZiS-5) took me around a month of gameplay so like 1 year...)
it's $8 a month for a year of premium or half on a sale
@@atvkid0805but that costs money
@@vonknorring09a job:
@@vonknorring09 it's $8 for a month, normal person spends more than that on a meal for lunch
@@atvkid0805 That's $96 all at once.
You remember correctly, hitting obstacles used to knock out crew. it still can happen, but it's much more rare. I love flinging my tank off cliffs and not dealing with the falling damage from 50 feet of freefall in my armored coffin.
the crew can get knoked out still
I would say the actual grind in this game starts at rank 3-4. Before that you unlock so much it's pretty consistent.
M4a1 has less armour (more weakspots). i believe it also has a different engine but im not sure
Back in 2016 you used to be able to knock a crew out completely with hard impacts. Like ramming someone’s tank or visa versa
"I will play 24h without buying anything with real money, and that's something unusual."
Meanwhile me my whole life in wartunder:
F2p in war thunder isn't too bad for aviation, as I got to the phantoms for USA and GB for free and then got some premium time and premiums after that for the other nations. But ground battles is really really bad for F2p as the rewards are just so dismal
I have 770+ hours of free to play in the game... never spend a single cent! and yes, it is painful
Welcome to the grind
I seem to remember crew being knocked out back in the day. everytime a huge shell would hit and bounce your crew would be stunned/unconcious.
11:32- take me to tank school
thx to you i just watched a whole video about the Mandela Effect ( 4:43 )
Was it the one by Lemmino? Because that's one of my favorite videos
4:48
This is absolutely true. My first ever battle in ground forces, i drove my panzer 2 into a brick wall and knocked my driver out
Use your left and right brakes to turn. The m10 death toward the end might have been avoided using your brakes :) and remember to ace all ypur tanks, it reduces how much rp you need to grind out.
But if you have never played the game before its highly unlikely you will get this far in 24hrs. Still the rewards are much better now.
this is somewhat relevant advice to the video
in events you probably want to grind to get the cheapest coupon you can get so you can sell it on the market and buy stuff like golden eagles and other stuff
True! And even if you don't get those, the rewards from some events really can help reduce the grind a bit.
Cries in console player
@@PanzerPaw i made the mistake of spending all of my money on random crate keys hoping i could get more money after i had gotten the german KV-1 coupon instead of waiting for the price to lower on what i actually wanted
You still can damage things by crashing into the wall but it's wayy less than it is in real life and mostly works with very light vehicles like the BT-5
I dont play a lot of other NP games but I do just fine in my F2P vehicles in this game. I've since made a few lineups including paid tanks and got absolutely rekt. Paying for tanks is more of a style thing as you can get some unique vehicles not available in main unlock tree, but they're not OP. You can die just as easy in them and you can absolutely dominate using a free tank. All premes really do is give a reasonable bonus to in game currencey earnings and save you a few matches worth of grinding modules. Hope you enjoyed your time with the game
The goat strikes again
400+ hours and only at The D-5T T-34-85 11:32 - Take me to tank school
I played 4 days and just 70k silver lions away from getting t34-85 D5t
4:50 - I remember that! First match I had with the M22 Locust I hit a large container near I think A point on abandoned factory (the point on the hill top). Knocked out instantly when I barely tapped the darn thing
Going from WoWs to War Thunder is such a wild ass ride, trying to understand everything is nuts lol, so thank you for the help
As a F2P Player, I can confirm i have not earned any GE since the tutorial
Edit: you can get more GE from doing the other tutorials in single missions
You can't
I thought you could but apparently not. It only gives GE for the first ones.
Whatttt. I got 300 GE from doing the aviation, tank, and navy tutorials
@@CoolBluBoi how
Love your videos
I can’t lie you should have at least 1 million subs or 500k you deserve it
Grinding effing sucks buts its worth it.
As a former F2P for about 4 years till last year.
24 hours is nothing bro lol
Bro I've been grinding for 5 years and iam still at 9.3 granted I did grind America France and Russia but still f2p is hard
@@GRASS_FJ1 year and at 9.3 Russia ._.
@@GRASS_FJbut still you are correct
@@nijivl yea well I made the mistake of buying crew slots for all the nations so I decided to just ues them
@@GRASS_FJ Started out as Britian and got up to 9.7 as a F2P, China up to 9.7, Japan 8.7, Germany 7.7. and this is just ground. I play a fair bit of Naval and Air
All this and it took 3.4k hours till I got premium and actually bought my first premium vehicle (Challenger DS -_-)
22:47 if a module is destroyed and you dont have parts, it will autorepair to a barely functional state after a while
TMTTA - Take me to tank academy. Haha. I've been watching varies players for a while now. I am almost ready to play. Moving soon so will be busy but when I'm done, I'm in!
why is that experienced players suck at 1.0?
I kind of did it for the video to show that the first matches the game gives you are really easy compared to the real game. But what you're saying is pretty true. I think it's mostly because the way the game is played at lower BRs is quite a bit different and it's also easy to become dependent on all the tech that you have at the higher BRs. But that's just my guess.
I think that nearly every tank is the same at 1.0, everyone can pen you and you can pen everyone.
I've been playing free for years. It's not a problem.
Do not try to run too many crews, just makes it longer to spade any. I ran 3 and didn't add another until I got those full.
Use the crap out of boosters. Log in near the end of a "day", get a booster. Tank and plane assault, two more boosters, log out and back in when the day resets...for me it's around 6-630 pm. 4 boosters for an evening of playing...or 6 if you do the assaults again. Do the same thing a couple of days later.
the best use for your starter golden eagles is probably crew slots, although it seems you get less GE nowadays so it may not be possible
You get 140 which isn’t enough for anything worth it.
11:32 take me to tank school!
So I could be wrong but I think completing the other tutorials gets you more golden eagles
Also take me to tank school
When you begin you should turn auto repair off and grind all nations and save a lot of SL. Rank I usually does not take longer than 30 min to repair and you have 9+ nations.
Fun fact, grinding on AB mode you have more rewards than in RB and SB mode but AB mode are much harder difficulty compared to RB.
That's what the tip you may learning it cuz I've been playing it and didn't even realize it until I watched UA-cam short.
thats not true SB gains the most rewards and AB gains the least rewards because SB is the hardest mode out of all 3
You might get more kills and objectives in AB so it's possible but the reward multiplier is lower. So I guess it depends on how well you do in either mode, really
@@PanzerPaw i do belive the idea in that also is that AB games are typicaly shorter than other modes
You should play BattleTanx Global Assault on a N64 Emulator, it's one of the underrated underdogs of 3DO, campaign is 90s apocalypse story, but the multi-player is heaven.
11:32 TAKE ME TO TANK SCHOOL
the real grind starts from 6+ and the impossible 1 from 8 +... you didnt even scratch the surface haha. but i still like that cheerfull nature.
I remember it was a thing at one stage where you could knock your crew out if you hit some obstacles with your vehicle. Especially things like the Zis or aa guns.
Near the end of tier III is when you really smash into that paywall.
11:32 take me to tank school ! Yeet me to top tier Chaps
Imagine doing this for 5 years and just getting 3/4th through the soviet tank and air tree
I used to be one of these players and man how tough and rough it was.
If you are still free to play and haven’t sold your soul to the snail then keep it up. 😅
27:00 Good shot. take me to tank school
Been playing ground battles since the closed beta, took me only a year to get to the is2 once ground forces was public/when the economy was perfect and I've been stuck there ever since once they decided fun was not allowed xD. The pain is real when you stick to f2p, I refuse to spend a dollar to just to speed my way through. If you have friends to play with the game doesn't feel so painful though. I just play alone now since everyone has moved on.
11:32 Take me to tank school panzerPaw
I have never spent a penny on WT, but I have 19 million plus points, heading for 20, and most of my play is low tier. Love war thunder
The key to the grind is to not care about advancing quickly through the tech tree and to enjoy playing the low tier tanks
11:37 take me to tank school
Thanks for the video! Do you or have you played Crossout? I used to play that and World of Tanks but it has been years! I am gonna give this game a shot. God Bless!!
I used to play Crossout quite a bit actually. Haven't played in a while tho.
I will miss the little yellow guy that Panzer used to use
I have played WT since the introduction of tanks free to play. Its slow but its fun throughout the years.
Best use of your first 100 gold is probably the first cheap extra vehicle slot you can't buy with silver.
11:32 - Take me to tank school! plz!
4:37 I remember when I was playing an ASU-57 driving at high speed when I crashed into a tree and some of my crew members died, so no it is not Mandela Effect
11:32 - Take me to tank school
I remember playing the british tree when it came out with a buddy and he went down a hill in the tetrach and hit a rock at full tilt, died in spawn.
I love how bad it’s gotten that this is now a challenge
yes you can knock out your crew with a crash but mainly on Ground RB not arcade, and on a solid object not a destructible wall
Well I am playing War Thunder for about 500 hours and I just played normal until I got Tier 3. Because then you can join Fightergroups which gives you that XP to research Vehicles in upper tiers only thing you need to do is go to RB with a Bomber and Grind until you get a VI jet and make with that the jump over tier 4 and 5. Of course you play the Jet in RB so that the battles are a bit faster cause only 1 life
As a france main i can confirm free to play is actual hell
F2P War Thunder videos are probably the most relatable videos on UA-cam
yes it's much slow to grind, but for me being just a ftp player from the beginning till the part that all the things i want to get i have now, it's amazing, and i promise the good thing about it is you will be much pro than the players who buyed there way to the top, paying will just make it more faster but its just the same so dont be so left out just because you dont have the money or dont want to spend for games.