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.
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.