Its still a good game and I understand they are answering to a larger customer base than just us armor nuts. Nut ,Personally I find the update to be a step backwards. Especially that simulator battles are now “events” and I sometimes don’t have the vehicle slated for the event. “Realistic” NOT battles are now mixed adversary WOT style and not playable for me.

What's the difference between simulator battles and realistic battles, I've played some of the realistic battles and it seems okay.

In SB you have only the commanders view from the cupola, the drivers periscope and the gunners sight. Plus you are only facing enemy vehicles and there are no map icons.
You have to make sure you identify your targets carefully as they have no tags either...

Comming from steelbeasts(game wise) that's what I liked about warthunder.
In the "sim" mode it was pretty similar in vehicle handling.

Now that sim mode if "off", no need to reinstall it :-(

Not a big loss to gajin though. Never intended to spend money. I only wanted to provide a dynamic target for "spenders" ;-)

How do you access the drivers periscope?

You have to bind a key to its use because by default there is none.Same goes for binocular view.Binocular view is the most important one.

yep, go to the views tab to bind it... also, I forgot to mention the bino view too

Thanks folks !!

You could always try SB Pro PE.

Oh. No. Wait.

Defiantly bind the Binocular View. Its a little awkward at first but worth getting used to.
Advantages:
Magnified view from the commanders position so you get a better look over hills etc than you do in the gun sight.
Rotates faster than turret so you can scan faster when needed.
When in bino view hitting the left mouse button orders the gunner to traverse to your view. Right Mouse button takes you to the gun.

So your scanning with the binos and id a target, hit left mouse, wait for the gun to lay on, hit right mouse, adjust for range and fire.