Harold Barrios

Interesting but it's very hard to enjoy War Thunder: -- So much free-to-play losers camping newbie rank matches while they already got 1,000+ or even 5,000 recorded wins -- Game publisher/developer does not prevent veteran players from farming their new fresh customers. That's a way to run down a business.

Can't be proud to say to anyone I've played World of Warplanes -- that game just has ZERO, no, none "Wow" factor. Every time I open and try to play it, I really wanted to enjoy but World of Warplanes itself do not want to be enjoyed by its player. -- There's the intermittent audio bugs issue (still not resolve) -- Sudden packet loss and ping spikes even while I used the server I'm located in (Asia) -- Steep difficulty spike when human players join in compared to CPU or Ai opponents. Apparently, the only players who stay & play World of Warplanes are the die-hard types who have achieved super high level skill in that game, so newbies have little to no contest against them. I was surprised the game doesn't "look and feel" like the quality I've seen in World of Warships. World of Warplanes music is dull, I had to zero mute the music volume. Why would any modern man want to listen to music themes fitting 80 or 90 years olds who lived in the 1920s era?

This MMORPG is being developed an indie game company and they publish it by themselves and through Steam. While a good clone of everything Mount & Blade, (except you cannot hire & command troops) the game's nation population balance does not work. The developers keep failing and failing again on nation balance. That may make the experience for players who join the dominating nation enjoyable but at the cost of burning out and frustrating players from the dominated nations. There is no limit to the number of people joining whichever dominating nation there is which makes the battles quantity-based "zerg" type. Another thing contributing to the said imbalance in population counts is the ability for any player to freely switch server regions either North America or Europe or Southeast Asia. It is common to see sudden surge of attackers joining from other servers supplementing the already numerous existing forces of a server's nation. Weekly updates are rolled out but said updates do not address the urgent concerns of the players -- seems those updates serve to satisfy the developer's whim on completing their game than trying to fix urgent existing game balance problems.

I recommend it to anyone who likes sensible use of their time in being entertained emotionally and intellectually. The film shows that not all "good guys" are good and not all "bad guys" are bad -- Due to the uncertainties and imperfectness of the world, everyone has their own reasons for their actions and life path choices.