This weekend:


Join us this Halloween and show the battlefield just how much of a monster you can be! Race into the next tier of armored vehicles with +50% reputation and credits on ALL battles this weekend, from Friday, October 30th at 7:00AM GMT, to Sunday November 1st at 6:59AM GMT.

Trying to decide if I like the game, War Thunder is starting to get on my nerves and I won't go back to WOT. Name in game is Tempest45, please invite to the battalion if anyone is still playing.

A few of us are still playing and enjoying it.
I was thinking about checking out War Thunder again, it got about a 7 GB update this week.

I'll send you an invite when I get home Discord. I'm enjoying the game, particularly to co-op missions. Join up tonight, I'll be on. The PvP is actually good too, but pretty unforgiving. The nice thing is that you can level your vehicles in PvE before taking them in PvP.

Having done WOT and WT I am having trouble with the spotting system, which although similar to WOT is still kind of strange.

So, every vehicle has a "view range" and a "camo factor", both of which can be buffed when your crew levels up, and you get various upgrades.

The way cam and spotting relate is as follows:

ViewRange - (ViewRange * CamoRating)

So for example the XM800T has a rough view range of 500m and the Leopard 1 has a camo of 0.10. So the Leopard would be spotted by the XM800 at 450m in open terrain.

The white circle surrounding your vehicle on the minimap shows your view distance and can give you a feel for how close you are to a given contact, and helps you guestimate as to wether you may be detected. The good news is that if you are spotted, the game will alert you. This means is probably time to get out of dodge, as arty/missiles/bullets are on the way.