why are people so addicted to war thunder?

Have you ever seen a coughing baby and thought to yourself, hmm, I wonder how he'd perform against a hydrogen bomb?If the answer is yes, then I gotta tell you about War Thunder, the game that lets you play this exact scenario over and over and over again.Oh.Lee.

That was 800 kilograms?He did that to you?The coughing baby?

For the sake of my ad revenue, I do want to specify that this hydrogen bomb coughing baby scenario is entirely metaphorical, because there are no babies in War Thunder, apart from me, of course.And I can't drop a hydrogen bomb, because I only played tanks from World War I and II, which is several years before they even existed.

Brother, World War I?

They were taping grenades together to kill things?The fuck you mean a nuke?The World War I?One strategy to deal with trenches was digging under them.

But hypothetically, let's say I invited the world's greatest War Thunder player to the world's lowest possible battle rating.I'd say that's pretty close to the scenario.He's literally the hydrogen bomb and reserve terrorist, the coughing baby.It is deeply abhorrent to do this.Now this video isn't actually about babies or nukes because I have a much more important question to answer.Why are people so addicted to War Thunder?

Holy shit, I just ignited something in there.You're telling me that half of my friends are addicted to seeing white text on a red background?Are you for real, homeboy?Incredibly satisfying.

Incredibly satisfying to kill another aircraft.Aircraft destroyed or target destroyed text.We live for that.

I haven't touched this game since 2023, and it was about time for me to run it back, see what's new, and enter the mind of the average War Thunder player so I could answer this question.Somebody asked if LGBT is a new ammo type.Hey, War Thunder femboys, how many of you are answering this question required me to play it lowest tiers of matchmaking in every possible tank type, and most importantly, bring my dumbass friends along for the ride.I can't promise to impress all you War Thunder veterans because my gameplay looks like a low -IQ ape taught himself to fly with a Japanese flight manual.My B key, I got the right key.I got the right key.

Here we go, baby.

Oh, shit!

I got him!But I can't promise that this video contains enough loud noises to wake up my son from his afternoon nap and enough colorful jokes to land me on the no -fly list.

I remember one time this old fucking bastard in TSA asked me if I had a bomb in the Xbox I was bringing to an event, and I, like, how do you answer that?

Yeah, man.

Yes, I do But I said how could I fit a bomb in here I can't even fit any games in here Thank you to worth under for sponsoring this video now available on PC Xbox PlayStation and mobile yeah Target destroyed baby a game with over 95 million players 2 ,500 playable vehicles and most importantly zero dollars to install because it's totally free to play like ponies if i ever become president when i'm president everyone will get a free pony and they're like how are you gonna pay for the ponies to give their money he says no don't worry about it bro they're free if that's not enticing my silly ass is in the game and you can put me on your tank alongside your five waifu body pillows buy no cars real quick The last thing that you see before you get ammo racked in War Thunder.Half of you really love it and run it on every tank and half of you really hate it and make it your life's mission to blow it off my vehicle every round like a Five Nights at Freddy's jump scare.

As of right now, anything made by GM is just not...What is happening, dude?

This time we're getting even sillier because they just added my very own box of secret documents.So you finally have a place to shove all your classified government paperwork instead of, you know, posting them on a stupid forum to prove a point and going to jail for violating the Espionage Act.Outside the box, I've even got my very own vehicles with the LVT -A1 and the P -36C Hawk along with a custom emote that I cannot type because my keyboard doesn't have a numpad.

Bro doesn't know how to type his own emoticon.

Download War Thunder via my link below to get both my premium vehicles, the seal, the box, the decal, and new and returning playersthat haven't played in six months will also get an additional bonus pack of Silver Lion, seven days premium, rental vehicles, and a bunch more free stuff.Signing up is a good way to support me and a great way to avoid playing other free -to -play games that'll ruin your life, like League of Legends.It was this tweet that said, this cafe in Japan only hires people with Down syndrome.They quote tweeted it with Riot Games been doing this for years.Now let's get to the big question.

Why are people so addicted to War Thunder?I fucking hate War Thunder.Breach Candy is now playing War Thunder.I kicked off my quest by speedrunning the tutorial so I could gain as much premium currency as possible while my buddies caught me up to speed on terminology like overpressure.Lucky cut G. clue what is overpressure basically just so much concussive force that it turns the organs of everybody inside to liquid you know how a gun produces like gas and stuff to force something out of a barrel yeah imagine that at a hundred and twenty millimeters Now, ordinarily, when I make a video on War Thunder, the developer Gaijin gives me a press account, which gives me all the god -like high -tier vehicles and maxed -out crew stats, but I didn't want to do that.Personally, Chad, I really like playing on not -a -press accounts, so when that dude in the AA gun is just cranking his shit, it's super slow.

I mean, like, the AA gun cranking around to the right elevation is really slow, you know what I'm saying?

And by AA gun, you mean four machine guns tied together with a rope?Yes!

Yes!I knew we had to kick it low -tier the entire time for the sake of my buddies not rage -quitting the game after getting hit with some super -infuriating futuristic shell that none of us could pronounce armor -piercing high -explosive anti -tank capitalistic cap squash head variable time fuse composite rigid fin stabilize discarding stable tracer multi -purpose extended range fragmentation you're gonna be a fucking squash head you keep saying that and then people in chatter saying brotheryou're playing 1 .0 He has that written down no fucking shit I have that written down I chose the Soviet tech tree known for their ridiculous armor crazy firepower and unexplainable luck coming at the cost of terrible maneuverability questionable ammo placement and the world's worst case of depression Oh depression Oh, God damn it!The greatest game mode that mocks every other option is Ground Realistic Battles, or RB.Because it's not just tanks, it's not just planes, it's both at the same time.But, that meant that we had to play a bunch of air arcade battles to unlock the aircraft we wanted to use in Ground Realistic Battles, which was way harder than I anticipated.

No!Holy shit!My chat's saying, Badger, how do you feel about unforced errors?

Badger, how do you feel about train ran olive oil?What can we do about this?

I was live on Twitch at the time and we were getting stream sniped so hard that it felt like the entire server was against us and I was fighting for my fucking life.

Yeah.Okay.

You fucking moron.God damn it.Oh boy.I love being a streamer.The old saying in this game is there are no teammates, only enemies in blue.

15v15?Hell no, that's a 1v29.

Once we unlocked the aircraft we wanted, including the BBL and Soviet Dorito Moth, we started playing realistic battles at the lowest tier, and this is such a loony toon -ass rank, I don't think these players have monitors.I got hit by somebody.They're just ignoring me.Can they not pin me?What's wrong with them?Do they not realize I'm still alive, dawg?

What the fuck?Do they not realize that I'm still alive?It's strongly debatable whether reserve players are looking at the screen.We were incredibly worried that the skill level at reserve tier was so low that we might get banned for inviting legendary War Thunder YouTuber Spookston to our squad.Which, at the time, felt like inviting Master Chief to play paintball against some fourth graders.Yeah, you know they call him John Halo?

I got a buddy who, when the show came out, he called him Jimmy Rings.Nice.That is not Master Chief, bro.That is Jimmy Rings.Yeah.Dog, if you're at a convention and you see Master Chief and you say, oh shit, it's Jimmy Rings, I'm leaving the convention.

In case you don't know him, Spookson is the greatest War Thunder player in the universe that also happens to be a gay furry that doesn't like anime, which made him fit in with my squad like a glove.I simultaneously didn't know that you were gay and didn't like anime.Holy shit.

And a furry.I love like older anime, like if you've seen Patlabor, I love Patlabor, I love - Patlabor 2 is like the best movie ever!Yes.I don't like a lot of modern anime where it's like hyper fixated on cutesy moments, if that makes sense?Yeah.

Yeah.Yeah.Bird you can't say that Nodding completely agree.

I have gone completely true looks at her watch history It clearly took him a while to adjust to our voice call with like 13 people in it that were pestering him with dumbass Questions and even dumber ass answers.

I think we shaved off at least five IQ points Just just say your favorite round the Panzergrenade round on the tiger.

Well, that's pretty good I like the armor -piercing high -explosive anti -tank capitalistic cap squash head variable time fuse composite rigid fins Up until I met Spookston, I had primarily used the BT -5, which is a barely -armored light tank that's super light on its feet.Oh my god, I just hit, I hit the cleanest shot on the move.But Spookston introduced me to the RBT5, which is practically the same thing except for the hard R and the double torpedo armament designed to overpressure the shit out of anything standing in its way.to a wall.Don't ask me what the fuck a tank torpedo is, all I know is that it's a great way to turn somebody's birthdays off.The RBT is such a rare tank that you can't even buy it directly with premium currency.

You have to buy it off the marketplace, and I swear to god, War Thunder's payment methods will always make me laugh.

Every time have you seen those videos the the guys who go into like stores and they have the credit card and they've like duct -taped a cable and like a ps5 It's free just get out of my drive Yeah.

60 demidollars later and I was ready to crush my enemies into dust with some really, really fast -moving air.Which proved to be way harder than I expected because hitting a torpedo shot is borderline impossible with how much you have to lob it like a basketball and took me dozens of tries to get it right.This strat is absolutely fact -checked by real spoofs and patriots.

Buy the BMPT -72, up -tier that with your BT -5.

Yo, bad guy?Yes, I got a kill with the rocket!No way!I just over pressured his ass off the fucking bunker in the rock.

That was perfect.Damn.Talk about best round ever.The investment was worth it.We did it.The torpedo strat meant I was zooming around maps looking for anybody that was posted next to a wall, rock, or hard surface so I could use it as a backboard to turn six guys into ash in a single frame.

All right, buddy.Here we go.Here we go.

Oh, he's coming.

Yes!Oh my god, the over pressure!Oh my god, I did not even see blood come out.That is crazy the second the bomb hit the wall.

They just Look at that crater of the wall first thing I saw in chat was I don't think insurance covers that I Part of me wants to know how the hell overpressure doesn't kill my own crew and my own tank when I'm smacking a torpedo into a wall five feet away from their faces, but maybe the RBT -5 is just beyond science.Let's see if I can hit him with the big bomb.Yes!

Yes!Here we go!Here we go, baby!Come on!Yes!I got him right in the wall, baby!

Yeah, brother!

The RBT -5 gave me a great opportunity to learn other tanks because I did want to learn every tank type, and my favorite backup was always the 1938 version of the medium T -28.Got him target destroyed.Hell.Yes, brother.I don't have hard evidence as to why the t28 is so gas I just get so incredibly lucky with this thing.It's unreal engine five point 6.

We'll see about that, buddy.I'm going to go ahead and fucking destroy that.Tank destroyed.I just blew up from the undercarriage.I bounced.

Oh my god, he ricocheted.He actually ricocheted off the ground.That's very rude.

The game serves up ridiculously juicy targets on a silver platter like the A7V from World War I with the largest crew in the game.Which means one ammo rack and 18 guys are dead.Can I kill this guy?Yes, I can and he lit up like a fucking candle.Holy shit in the t28 I didn't even have to use my range finder to hit tanks across map.I just eyeball that shit and it somehow works my depression Wait, so real dumb badger is like at sniping ranges like this.

I got him crew knocked out.

Fuck your advice skulkers.

Fuck your advice.

He just said yeah, basically we're gonna kill you.

Yeah Once a week now, I have not eaten it in like over two.

I got another guy without range finding.Hell.Yeah, brother.I don't knowmy rate fine button is bro.

I just feel it out I did try upgrading from medium to heavy with the t35 which does have some serious firepower Oh my god from downtown I got him, but I just can't do heavy tanks man These things are such boats to move around in that I refuse to play war thunder at four miles per hour No, don't hit me my turret Yeah, bitch Baby crew knocked out, that was a perfect shot.When I wanted something heavy enough to delete enemies in a single click, I always went with a tank destroyer like the SU -76D, which is basically, what if I wanted a gun so big that I couldn't put it on a rotating turret?Holy shit.

From downtown, baby crew knocked out.

My final box to check was an anti -aircraft vehicle, and Spookston put me onto the Zut 37, which felt like shooting a five -round Glock when everybody else has got a sniper rifle.Yes, get another one with the Glock.Oh my god, I just performed a drive -by on that gentleman I've got a quad rail on my blender bus using it taught me so much about Penetration because a 37 millimeter round may not sound scary, but if you put it in the right spot, it can be horrifying Oh my god a single clock round Wow And even though it is significantly better against tanks than it is aircraft because the turret speed sucks if you end up firing enough rounds Sometimes you just get lucky leave them in Wings off please crash you're gonna crash.This is gonna be a kill.I'm gonna rub my hands together Yeah, brother.I busted that shit from the hip that was perfect.

Yes I was so lucky that one round just domed him I gotta go to be the final tank of my lineup was the medium tank

which in hindsight is hilarious.Yes!Target destroyed!This is such a survivable tank!Because the entire time, I was thinking to myself, wow, the engineering on this thing is really good for a Soviet tank.Yes, target destroyed.

Until I figured out, it's not a Soviet tank.It's a German tank that the Soviets stole.Yes, target destroyed, on the move slightly.And even with its German design, the Soviet spirit is still very much alive in this thing, because it burns enough diesel fuel to make a Duramax look like a Prius, and hills are a death sentence.And I'm not joking.It's my head!

It's my head!It's too fat!Toe?Are you for real?Badger, I'm gonna keep it real with you.You might be a chud.

Alright, push buddy, push.Oh my god, I'm such a fat fucking chud.Get me out of here.

You fat chungus.Okay, okay, hold on, hold on.Try to take it to the right.Alright, go, go, go.

Yes!

Learning all these different tank types and how best to use them rewarded me with the ultimate gift in the ground realistic battles game mode close air support Holy, he just did the same thing, that is such a big bomb, holy shit.In this game mode, the more tanks you destroy and the more points you score for your team, the more spawn points you receive, which means you can call in your very own customized aircraft.Hit that guy.I say customized because you have a ton of different payloads you can equip, which for me started with RS -132 rockets on a plane called the BBL.

Yes, I got him!

Target destroyed and I'm gonna miss that!Okay, I almost didn't miss it.Then I graduated to dropping bombs and you have no idea how powerful bombs are.In the clip you're about to see, Grouse and I both die to the same bomb while he's in a tank on the ground and I'm in a plane up in the air.That's how big these things are.Nah, we're dropping every damn bomb on B. Clear the fuck out right now.

Hold on, hold on, hold on.Let's get this right, Chad.

You're done, you're done.

OH YEAH BABY THAT WAS PERFECT I NAILED THEM HELL YEAH And once I had a taste for bombs I decided to go big and never go home I found the dumbest looking bomber at our tier which was a giant Soviet looking moth the DBL K and strapped on to 1 ,000 kgs for maximum impact.Okay, here we go.Here we go.Here we go.Here we go.I can do it.

Come on, baby YES!ARGH YOU DESTROYED IT DUDE!

I ABSOLUTELY FUCKING NUKED B, DUDE!You are part of the payload, I see the strats.What do you mean I AM the payload?

He is the payload, yeah.

Hey Badger, you're supposed to kill the bad guys.Did you see the B flag Dorito?Did you get a chance to see objective butters?

Literally the entire circumference was covered in gasoline, dude.

And I wasn't cratering myself into the earth for no reason, This light bomber was so heavy when I strapped two 1000kg's onto it that I literally couldn'ttake off from a runway, which means I had to book myself a one -way ticket.Okay, okay, okay.I'll try to hit him full speed.You ready?

Yes!Oh my god.

Because most aircraft can drop bombs then land back at base resupply their bombs and take off again But the DBLK was such a fucking chungus that it made this impossible I don't think you fuckers understand.This plane is so heavy right now.I might not be able to dodge the trees I swear to god I might not be able to dodge the trees Dude, I'm so heavy.Oh my god.I'm so full.Fuck no Which meant I had to spawn in the air there was no turning back and technically with two bombs I could have made two passes, but it's such a juicy target You rarely have that time and it's so much funnier to drop them both on one guy.

No, I see you dude This is gonna go great.This is gonna go great.You ready?Blow him up twin, please YES TARGET DESTROYED THAT WAS PERFECT I ABSOLUTELY VAPORIZED THAT DUDE Once I finally learned how to put timed fuses on my fab 1000 so I had time to escape my own blast radius, I can only describe the feeling as pure War Thunder magic.Yes sir!

That was perfect with the fuse I didn't blow myself up for the first time!Hell yeah!

You cannot kill me in a way that matters.I have already won do what you must human.I've already won Oh, this town is gonna have a bad day And after learning all these techs all these aircraft all these mechanics playing with Michael Jordan and getting bullied by twitch chat Badger you have a turret gunner badger.You have a turret gunner, and you didn't even use them I'm finally ready to end my lifeWhy are people so addicted to war thunder the fact that he's like planking The short answer to this question is of course white tax on a red background But diving a little deeper here every shell you fire in war thunder is an intoxicating combo of a three -pointer a coin Flip and a slot machine that makes for a special mix of luck and skill.Yes.

I just hit the nastiest shot This is especially obvious when firing a big round from a long distance, because much like launching a three -pointer, you don't know if it's gonna hit or not, and the anticipation is everything.And if you do hit the target, then it becomes a toss -up between penetration and non -penetration, adding yet another layer of anticipation.If you sink to three, and win the coin toss of penetration, then comes the slob machine where the game reveals what you've done.Maybe you knocked out a track and the enemy can't move.Or maybe you disabled their turret and they can't fire.Or best of all, maybe you hit their ammo rack and turned them into a bomb.

I just ignited somebody's whole magazine.

Every shell you send down range is a roll of the dice, because maybe you hit, maybe you don't.Maybe you penetrate, maybe you don't.Maybe you knock out the crew, maybe you don't, or maybe you hit all of the above.

Oh my god, I teed that dude up.

And that's only where the fun begins, because like you saw a few minutes ago, the more vehicles you blow up, the more spawn points you receive, which means you can call in your own cast and continue pounding the enemy from above.Okay, here we go, here we go, here we go.That's perfect.That should be good.That should be good.Let's look back.

Let's look back.Yes, sir!Got him!Then once you're done raining hell down on the enemy, you can either spawn another tank or another aircraft if you got the spawn points.Just like this.I got a double kill on one strafe.

Rinsing and repeating this process of spawn,kill, spawn, kill, until you've crushed your enemies into dust and overloaded your brain with dopamine from, you guessed it, red and white text.Bam, target destroyed.That is what makes War Thunder so damn addicting.Keep your wings on.Keep your wings on.

Come on, give it to me.Fuck it.Motherfucker, got them all.And the better you get at the game, the more this loop is conquered by skill instead of random chance.I just have to wait and just hope that I can lay it out.Yeah, brother the way was worth it like when spooks in his firing rounds downrange.

He is almost always going to hit the three It's never a coin toss because he usually knows if he's gonna penetrate and he has a reasonable idea of what component He's gonna hit when I'm firing rounds downrange It's much less skill and much more luck like lobbing up a three -pointer than a coin flip than a slot machine But when I hit all three the feeling is electric.I'm gonna hit this guy.Oh My god, I nailed him.That was perfect.Holy wrapping things up here.Thank you to war thunder for sponsoring this video available on PC, mobile, Xbox, and PlayStation via my download link below.

New and returning players that haven't played in six months on PC and console will get a ton of premium goodies, and everybody is welcome to get my vehicles and cosmetics.It's completely free to play, the link below or the pinned comment, and it's pretty hard to pass up free.

I'm watching my DarkRP mayoral platform.If I get elected, every citizen will get free cigarellos daily.

I'd pay two times tax for that.Honestly worth it.Just to make sure we get in the premium one.

I swear to God I would not feel bad about my tax bill if you actually spend it on some dope shit.

Dog, if I got fucking random grilled cheeses from police officers, I would love paying tax.

And that's about it, Dog.I would like to thank you so very much for watching my video all the way to the end and be sure to tune in next time when we Space Marine 2 maybe?Get off my ship, Space Marine!I don't know why I'm saying it like that when I control with the name Space Marine.is, but whatever.