After years of open beta development the game had a controversial Steam release in March as a pay-to-access game that was otherwise free with their own launcher, now has relaunched as completely free.
The game uses the War Thunder engine and imports their models for a realistic theater of war with planes, tanks and infantry.
Wait, its on Steam now? I don’t have to use their Gaijin launcher anymore?
Many games on steam are purchasable/downloadable/installed through steam, and then default to opening up whatever launcher the game normally uses.
In some cases you can customize or skip this with an additional parameter on runtime, but for any game that requires you to be … some kind of logged in to the game’s own user management system, usually this does not work, occasionally it can get you banned by the game.
tl:dr; steam probably just launches the gaijin launcher that then launches the game.
Top steam review for your reading pleasure:
Good thing about this being on Steam is they can’t delete discussions that even mention pay to win, right? (NVM they banned me from discussions for mentioning pay to win and let their shills attack me and call me mentally ill without banning any of the toxic people who actually broke the TOS)
Game has so many unique mechanics that are pay walled with absurd prices: rocket tanks, paratroopers, flamethrower tanks, extra vehicle slots so you can spam 8 vehicles in a row while free players only get one, etc…not only is the game blatantly pay to win but they also renamed the Steam release to the original name of the game so they could justify deleting and hiding all the negative reviews from their initial failed launch, fraudulent damage control anyone? Intent to deceive customers isn’t acceptable, devs please remove pay to win or face a review bombing. AGAIN!
Focus should be to fix the AI bots and progression and remove pay to win instead of just simply adding more content only the whales can enjoy or use…not to mention the silver economy is so bad the game devs are being FORCED to admit the predatory monetization/progression was so horrible they can’t even hit 1,000 players at launch. Not to mention they claimed to have tens of thousands of active players on their website but suspiciously have less than a 1,000 after a full Steam launch?
Do yourselves a favor and leave a negative review and dump on this dev team, they deserve it and it is the only way gamers can fight back against this kind of nonsense.
I understand games need to make money, but breaking a game and selling the solution isn’t an acceptable way to run a business. Would you buy a car from a dealership that breaks your car on purpose and then sells you the solution for an absurd price? Don’t support pay to win it is anti gamer and anti gaming, the industry will become miserable and milked dry if we continue to give dev teams like this a single cent.
Gaijin has ruined many awesome games with pay-to-win monetization. They’ve got great game devs under soulless leadership.
Back before my pc was stolen, i tried to play this on linux.
Doesn’t work, is not supported.
Sometime later I got around to watching gameplay vids on YT:
Yep, pay to win as fuck, classic gaijin in the sense that you can technically progress if you play the game like Cartman plays WoW, but the game is designed to make that so frustrating that you cave and start paying.
Tons of bugs with lag and netcode, the AI is basically braindead, issues with clipping through objects and the world. Game balance is basically fucked.
One thing that stuck out was that… when you progress, and purchase uniforms or weapons or what not for your squad… those are not shared amongst your squad members. You have to progress each individual squad member.
