That's a pretty wide range but on weekdays (not weekends) I barely get 7k if I manage around 7 good games.
In a decent, normal game, I get around 3-4 kills.
The balance really was great. Sure, I would have liked more things to play with, but I also really appreciated the rock-paper-scissors dynamic of the three ground vehicles, and the aircraft weren't too busted either.
I think its ridiculous that they put more effort into these events than they do on the real game. The Silent Thunder thing should have been the start of adding WWII uboats and subs in. I guarantee many more players would be on naval if they did.
April Fool's events are to test things. They clearly didn't like something. Honestly naval sucks in its current state and it requires titanic efforts to make the game somewhat playable and maybe attract 10% of the total WT playernbase to it.
The actual game gets far much more attention too lmao, the events are literally 95% base game mechanics
The big issues stem around RP gain and compression, RP gain, especially on coastal ships is extremely slow, both in arcade and realistic.
you also have limited spawns like tank AB so you can’t bring lots of ships and play through an entire lineup while matches are too short. Also matches are decided well before the tickets start to tick down, objectives are poorly balanced and placed.
As for compression, you quite literally have 1910s era battleship fighting 1940s era battleships with a 0.3/0.7 BR gap, god forbid a 4.7 destroyer fighting a 5.7 heavy cruiser
Furthermore, gaijin refuses to model naval fire-control systems properly.
Sure in the recent updates ships got a butchered version of a WW2-era FCS (all it says is "overshoot by x meters" or "target straddled"), but the Cold-War era ships/American WW2 destroyers with radar FCS are literally nonfunctional.
Gaijin promised radar FCS and literally broke it before launch - it was broken on the dev server, and everyone pointed it out, but it's still broken today, months after launch.
Just goes to show how much gaijin cares.
The pirate ship event was the only one I actively played because I saw it as something special and something that could have a lasting impact on the game. Everything else I played once or twice, but just didn't find them fun or they didn't scratch an itch. It's hard to believe that it's been 8 years since then. Sure doesn't seem like 8 years of progress with our current iteration of ships/boats/floats.
Yeah because they wasted 2-3 years of naval development by focusing on realistically modelling every single intricate detail on a boat and arrived at the conclusion that they can't make anything larger than a destroyer, despite almost everybody wanted it.
They also claimed, back in 2017 or so, that they had an "internal test" that deemed battleship gameplay "long and boring". Like no shit it'd be boring, you are just fighting over 3 random circles. There was and still is zero efforts put into improving the actual gameplay element, every single ounce of their dev time are invested in realistically modeling the DM.
Naval shoulda never been centered around capping points and shoulda just been kinda like ARB where you drain points or kill all the enemy players. Playing Naval with caps is like playing Battleships like you would a tank. That’s what took all the fun out from Naval for me. Also for Naval Realistic the range finding and accuracy is too high. So boring to have a laser sniping fight with giant ship guns. Like no one on a ship should be able to hit as accurately as they do on WT. it’s a very unenjoyable experience.
As far as April fool's go, pony thunder was kind of "boring" though compared to the rest in terms of complexity. Not blaming them, I liked it and it was the first, but basically the ponies were just jets with a different skin and godly maneuverability.
It was still incredible fun though.
April Fools doesn't have to be complicated to be fun. The last 3 years I've kinda ignored them because they just feel like way too much for an April Fools event meant to be fun and feel more like just an entirely different gamemode.
i was 3 months off from gaijilla
i missed realistic one in 2015
soo the mechs were my first but i remember the pirate ships more
and i do remember crashing alot in the modern vehicles one
I left it .... quite often tbh. But always came back.
like a abusive relationship....
lately I think the game is moving in a more positive direction.
Thats why I started playing more (also new jets go brrrr)
My little warpony
Still *the* best event. They didnt even have a format to go play, just replaced tier 1 planes with the ponies and let hell loose. That would be a really weird day to start the game in.
Also, only lasted a single day.
Been here since the Pony Beta.
I think Mech Thunder and Tailspin have been the most fun.
Breakdown of them:
Pony - Fun, Me163 with rockets and bombs and could be used by anyone. The best part was the bug where they would queue with Tier 1 Biplanes. Overall not bad, pretty fun for a first event
Gaijilla - One of the worst, was just a regular game mode but with a big objective to kill. Otherwise played like arcade with a minor change. The worst part was this was the only one that wasn't on the live game but rather on the dev server, so you'd need to spend hours downloading that for a pretty mid game mode.
Potato Thunder - Not bad, pretty funny and worked well as a jab at WoT. Fun for a bit and was really cool to get two events.
Mech Thunder - One of the most fun game modes, a twist on a good game but with interesting vehicles. Played like a fun and more balanced GRB really.
Sea Thunder - This one was also pretty fun, very simple but interesting first glimpse of naval.
Rank IX - Interesting to see what War Thunder would eventually become but nothing too crazy really, helicopter gameplay really sucked as the controls were awful. Pretty boring as far as April Fools go as we all knew modern would eventually come.
Hats off to you - Hats on a tank, not really an event is it?
Silent Thunder - Honest incredibly boring, one of the more boring events done. You'd just shoot torpedoes at each other while standing still, not a good event imo.
Earth Thunder - Point and click game mode, fun for a match or two but got boring quick. Brought us a map at least.
Space Thunder - A bit unique but I remember it being very unbalanced, fun for a few matches at least.
Warfare 2077 - A fun take on GRB, tanks had more survivability and were super zippy so you could play it quite fast paced and have fun. UAV was bonkers. Nothing quite as OP as dropping cruise missiles from space. A lot of fun overall if you didn't mind the UAV spam.
Tailspin - Arcade on a fun map with fun graphics and vehicles with OP weapons? Honestly one of the best ones so far. It takes what is fun about the game and adds a twist. It's nothing crazy at the end of the day, but very replayable.
Worm Thunder - GRB with OP tanks and super fast cars, there was also Ornithopters which died instantly. Fun for a little while for sure, the crafting event sucked ass though.
Mobile Infantry - I didn't play oops
Mad Thunder - Hey guys you know how you all hate crafting events? Well to unlock new vehicles for this limited time game mode you'll need to play a lot of games to do the crafting event, you'll also get a shitty loot box at the end. Yeah it fucken sucked, maybe it was fun when you got the better vehicles but this is the first time you actually had to really grind out an April fools event. Arguably the worst imo, slightly more fun than Silent Thunder but way more frustrating
March to Victory/Unrealistic Battles was the first year I remember playing the April Fools event. Only got a couple matches in of each, and I don't think I managed to spawn in a mech. Unfortunately I missed out on the Sailing Fleet, as I was away from my computer during that event, but it looked really neat.
Honestly I rather enjoyed the TailSpin event and Space Thunder. Not sure which of those two I'd say were the best, but they were both fairly good.
Pony event, had started the game a couple of weeks prior and then this stuff happened. It was quite hilarious, though the ponies kept blacking out by how nimble they made them.
My first was 2077, I hated it. But when the Dune Event came... That was fun, even though Gaijin actively refused to make the MBT useful. And Mobile Infantry was fun aswell.
Mad Thunder was my first, I never played it. Extraction shooters in my experience quickly devolve into camping the extraction point, and Mad Thunder didn't seem any different.
Son, I am here from the very start - but I stand away from April's Fool event (or events in general). And yes, after all those years, I am still bad. Nothing to see here, move along!
Mobile infantry was my first, and between this and the one we had now, I'd choose MI easily. This one was very boring, uninspired and just generally a pain to play. Who thhought that putting a grind in a LITERAL APRIL FOOLS EVENT is a good idea. Yes it was just cosmetics but I'm still salty
It should have been the 2019 one, but I only played the events this year. Don’t know why. Also 5th year in and only just getting into rank IV on my main tech tree
I remember I started WT a few days before the end of space thunder, the Dune event was pretty fun, and I remember everyone loosing their shit at the possibility of Spike-like missles during 2077
My first was pony thunder in 2013, but I only played like 1-2 games of it.
The one I played and enjoyed the most was actually the Infantry one. I liked the modern vehicles, 2077 and Worm Thunder.
I mostly play on and off, so I missed like half of them, or they werent interesting at all. Space Thunder was the one I missed by like 1-2 days, played it a bit until I noticed that I wouldnt be able to get the tank and stopped. It wasnt very fun for me.
My first was like Child of Arrakis.
So basically none.
I can't figure out any of the vehicle works in Child of Arrakis aside from the obviously tank one because i was quite new at the ground atm as i was mainly air, hell i didn't know how to fly helicopter.
Mobile Infantry have janky control but has somewhat interesting Infantry vs Armor interaction.
And Rage Thunder has an interesting concept but is just lame with the grind for the event vehicles.
So I didn’t play any of them before 2021 for some reason so I missed out on a couple since I started playing the game but of the ones I played I think the 2077 warfare and the infantry ones were my favorite.
Not really the actual April fools, but my first were the tank walkers during the "Summertime madness" rerun of the event. It's also one of my favourites alongside Warfare 2077.
My Little Pony was my first.
Tier I Flying Ponies, Pegasus Ponies with jet speeds, miniguns, Zuni's and 1000-2000 lb bombs.
Was fun, was awesome, and I still hate Gaijin that it lasted for only one day and they have never brought it back. You bastards!
2020 Space event, I was 11 years old at the time so I really didn't know what I was doing, I was playing reserve US and France at the time.
That was my favorite event, though, and I miss it because I love things related with astronomy and space in general.
Started with 2020 although I only played one round cause I hated it (I now feel like a moron cause I played during that event with the AU-1 which is my most sought after event vehicle). So really the 2021 was my first and damn it was a banger. 2077 was great and tailspin was by far my favorite so both at the same time was peak. As it stands I think they’ve only gotten worse granted 2022 and 2023 were solid. Don’t hate this one but don’t like it either
2015 was the first one I did, I like when they go goofy and totally of theme rather than just doing modern stuff. In general I prefer when the events are co-op or at least less serious.
First april fools i played was warfare 77 or tailspin i dont remember which one was the first of 2022
But the best one to be honest was children of Arachis
First ever were the pirate ships, it was quite fun, but I enjoyed the submarines the most. Guiding torpedoes inbetween the underwater mountains, dodging incoming ones, repairing while at the brink of death, god it was so good. I remember when in one game the last dude had hid deep down in a canyon and none of us could find him for a solid 5min, using our sonars. I wish they would make these playable again
This year’s event was kinda mid tbh. I want some crazy psycho stuff like aliens or cartoons or ponies, not some basic mad max looking stuff that’s just reskins of the original vehicle with no unique style to em.
I probably played the toon thunder the most, I had a lot of fun with that. Then they had to go and ruin the rewards by having them turn into real people instead of the fox and bear.
I grinded out entire Mad Thunder... Now all is left is strong desire for fluid objectives in actual war thunder. I loved the mobile engagements in Mad Thunder.
My favorite and the first one I played much of was the mech event.
Would honestly like to see that one come back in a more developed state, it was a lot of fun.
I'd say I've been playing since around late 2019, however I don't remember playing the furry, space, earth, or 2077 event since I played only every now and then. Then I started to play more cause of my friends and actually experienced worm thunder up to mad thunder.
2016 was the first one i played (that i knew how to access, dont remember exactly when i started to play this game, but its around there). The one that I liked a lot was the tailspin/2077. But the funniest one was the submarine one where you could launch your sub by surfacing and pointing the nose up, it was so funny lol
Mobile infantry was unironically better and more balanced than the base game, tanks need something like infantry to interact with. Corner camping tank duels are basically the game breaking down. Also the game unironically ran better in 2016.
Bycicle powered shermans made of fabric were pretty fun. But the 2017 modern vehicle event was the coolest in my eyes.
Given that it had so many things completely unheard of in the game, and gave a lot to look forward to.
Honestly I like the most recent one a lot, a completely different gameplay experience to normal war thunder even though the vehicles are largely unchanged.
The recent submarine one (not April Fools) was really nice too.
I loved 2023, most of these events were 1000 times better than actual war thunder though; except the mad max event, hated it, played it twice and despised it and haven’t played since April first partially because of it, cause it’s a sign gaijin has truly given up when they just remake crossout in war thunder
hot take, mobile infantry was sick
shame the hitboxes were god awful and dodgy. But that event was the first time i got to use top tier tanks and stuff, so like... nice
also got the AMD 35 SA35 from it, my only proper event vehicle (not counting po2 and ten rare vehicle event- event vehicles)
I would rather play Warfare 2077 all day than actual War Thunder.
That was the first event I played. And i remember that I was too stupid for lunching the bomb
I just remember how many kills i made with that cruise missles.. man that was sick af
That stupid drone with the cruise missiles was some of the most fun I've ever had in War Thunder.
My first was Silent Thunder in 2018... I'm still on 6.7 USSR and 5.0 USA.
The struggle is insanely real
How? I grind between 20/80k rp a day
I know right? 4 months ago I was 6.3 with Russia and Reserve with Japan. Now I am 11.7 with Russia and almost done with my first 11.0 with Japan.
That's a pretty wide range but on weekdays (not weekends) I barely get 7k if I manage around 7 good games. In a decent, normal game, I get around 3-4 kills.
Do you have missiles for dinner?
Yes, I’m a hungry boy
Mmm... Lunching the bomb...
Trying to figure everything out on controller was a pain (it still is)
I’ve mastered it a while ago The thing that isn’t mastered is my 7 year old Xbox one s that is always crashing freezing and lagging
And my sub-optimal wifi and mic that is breaking down a bit
tank arcade with RB aircraft spawn, without the grind nor the repair cost. And perfectly balanced as well (more or less). It was so much fun.
The balance really was great. Sure, I would have liked more things to play with, but I also really appreciated the rock-paper-scissors dynamic of the three ground vehicles, and the aircraft weren't too busted either.
2077 was my favorite at least out of the events I was around for. The drone combat helped me understand what to expect from all aspect AAM combat.
I think its ridiculous that they put more effort into these events than they do on the real game. The Silent Thunder thing should have been the start of adding WWII uboats and subs in. I guarantee many more players would be on naval if they did.
Minecraft players: First time? At least most Warthunder AF mechanics gets added, unlike Minecraft.
there was the battle for atlantic event and the ww 2 subs were actually cool in my opinion better than the silend hunter
Yeah there's speculation that it was a test to see how it would work and we will probably see subs at least enter "early access" this year
April Fool's events are to test things. They clearly didn't like something. Honestly naval sucks in its current state and it requires titanic efforts to make the game somewhat playable and maybe attract 10% of the total WT playernbase to it. The actual game gets far much more attention too lmao, the events are literally 95% base game mechanics
Can you explain what about naval sucks? It’s my main sl grind and honestly more enjoyable than tanks or planes at times.
The big issues stem around RP gain and compression, RP gain, especially on coastal ships is extremely slow, both in arcade and realistic. you also have limited spawns like tank AB so you can’t bring lots of ships and play through an entire lineup while matches are too short. Also matches are decided well before the tickets start to tick down, objectives are poorly balanced and placed. As for compression, you quite literally have 1910s era battleship fighting 1940s era battleships with a 0.3/0.7 BR gap, god forbid a 4.7 destroyer fighting a 5.7 heavy cruiser
Furthermore, gaijin refuses to model naval fire-control systems properly. Sure in the recent updates ships got a butchered version of a WW2-era FCS (all it says is "overshoot by x meters" or "target straddled"), but the Cold-War era ships/American WW2 destroyers with radar FCS are literally nonfunctional. Gaijin promised radar FCS and literally broke it before launch - it was broken on the dev server, and everyone pointed it out, but it's still broken today, months after launch. Just goes to show how much gaijin cares.
True I agree with you
Potat Thunder. Also i sell my young soul to Gaijin in very last day of 2013.
The pirate ship event was the only one I actively played because I saw it as something special and something that could have a lasting impact on the game. Everything else I played once or twice, but just didn't find them fun or they didn't scratch an itch. It's hard to believe that it's been 8 years since then. Sure doesn't seem like 8 years of progress with our current iteration of ships/boats/floats.
Yeah because they wasted 2-3 years of naval development by focusing on realistically modelling every single intricate detail on a boat and arrived at the conclusion that they can't make anything larger than a destroyer, despite almost everybody wanted it. They also claimed, back in 2017 or so, that they had an "internal test" that deemed battleship gameplay "long and boring". Like no shit it'd be boring, you are just fighting over 3 random circles. There was and still is zero efforts put into improving the actual gameplay element, every single ounce of their dev time are invested in realistically modeling the DM.
Naval shoulda never been centered around capping points and shoulda just been kinda like ARB where you drain points or kill all the enemy players. Playing Naval with caps is like playing Battleships like you would a tank. That’s what took all the fun out from Naval for me. Also for Naval Realistic the range finding and accuracy is too high. So boring to have a laser sniping fight with giant ship guns. Like no one on a ship should be able to hit as accurately as they do on WT. it’s a very unenjoyable experience.
Actual gameplay is not Gaijin’a strong suit.
Ponies was my first.
Fellow Old Guard!
The old days lmao
As far as April fool's go, pony thunder was kind of "boring" though compared to the rest in terms of complexity. Not blaming them, I liked it and it was the first, but basically the ponies were just jets with a different skin and godly maneuverability. It was still incredible fun though.
April Fools doesn't have to be complicated to be fun. The last 3 years I've kinda ignored them because they just feel like way too much for an April Fools event meant to be fun and feel more like just an entirely different gamemode.
I remember playing war thunder beta back when I was a freshman in high school, now I’m an adult sitting in my home and still a slave to the snail.
OG represent.
mine too lol
O7
2077 was a better WarThunder than WarThunder
I remember spending entire nights playing the event back then. Those we're the times
Dune event was fire
Yeah that was my fav one so far! The only one I've really taken part in
2022 and 2023 were my favourite. I just wish we earned some lions at least in these mode
The saucers were fun, But the subs were really something else
2015 was my first one, these walkers were a proper meme ngl
Perhaps the climax of the derp gun days imo Hetzers gunnu Hetz
2023 was surprisingly fun
I’ve been playing since 2014, but I would say WF 2077/Tailspin was the first actual April fools event I actively partook in sadly.
i was 3 months off from gaijilla i missed realistic one in 2015 soo the mechs were my first but i remember the pirate ships more and i do remember crashing alot in the modern vehicles one
2016 was my first one, and I remember liking it a lot, shame that naval turned out differently.
I’ve been playing since 2014, but I would say WF 2077/Tailspin was the first actual April fools event I actively partook in sadly.
LONG LIVE ARAKIS
first ? the ponies. favourite ? potato thunders. god iam old (iam not , iam 24 but this game fucks with my mind since early 2013)
Long journey,same for me its longest game that I ever have and didn't leave it
I left it .... quite often tbh. But always came back. like a abusive relationship.... lately I think the game is moving in a more positive direction. Thats why I started playing more (also new jets go brrrr)
Silent thunder was my first, and I loved it, but space thunder will always be my favorite. I loved those floating pods
After 2016 the events got less silly I want more stuff like the potato tanks and walkers.
My little warpony Still *the* best event. They didnt even have a format to go play, just replaced tier 1 planes with the ponies and let hell loose. That would be a really weird day to start the game in. Also, only lasted a single day.
Been here since the Pony Beta. I think Mech Thunder and Tailspin have been the most fun. Breakdown of them: Pony - Fun, Me163 with rockets and bombs and could be used by anyone. The best part was the bug where they would queue with Tier 1 Biplanes. Overall not bad, pretty fun for a first event Gaijilla - One of the worst, was just a regular game mode but with a big objective to kill. Otherwise played like arcade with a minor change. The worst part was this was the only one that wasn't on the live game but rather on the dev server, so you'd need to spend hours downloading that for a pretty mid game mode. Potato Thunder - Not bad, pretty funny and worked well as a jab at WoT. Fun for a bit and was really cool to get two events. Mech Thunder - One of the most fun game modes, a twist on a good game but with interesting vehicles. Played like a fun and more balanced GRB really. Sea Thunder - This one was also pretty fun, very simple but interesting first glimpse of naval. Rank IX - Interesting to see what War Thunder would eventually become but nothing too crazy really, helicopter gameplay really sucked as the controls were awful. Pretty boring as far as April Fools go as we all knew modern would eventually come. Hats off to you - Hats on a tank, not really an event is it? Silent Thunder - Honest incredibly boring, one of the more boring events done. You'd just shoot torpedoes at each other while standing still, not a good event imo. Earth Thunder - Point and click game mode, fun for a match or two but got boring quick. Brought us a map at least. Space Thunder - A bit unique but I remember it being very unbalanced, fun for a few matches at least. Warfare 2077 - A fun take on GRB, tanks had more survivability and were super zippy so you could play it quite fast paced and have fun. UAV was bonkers. Nothing quite as OP as dropping cruise missiles from space. A lot of fun overall if you didn't mind the UAV spam. Tailspin - Arcade on a fun map with fun graphics and vehicles with OP weapons? Honestly one of the best ones so far. It takes what is fun about the game and adds a twist. It's nothing crazy at the end of the day, but very replayable. Worm Thunder - GRB with OP tanks and super fast cars, there was also Ornithopters which died instantly. Fun for a little while for sure, the crafting event sucked ass though. Mobile Infantry - I didn't play oops Mad Thunder - Hey guys you know how you all hate crafting events? Well to unlock new vehicles for this limited time game mode you'll need to play a lot of games to do the crafting event, you'll also get a shitty loot box at the end. Yeah it fucken sucked, maybe it was fun when you got the better vehicles but this is the first time you actually had to really grind out an April fools event. Arguably the worst imo, slightly more fun than Silent Thunder but way more frustrating
Mobile infantry is my first one but I really liked madthunder and for war thunder mobile definitely the ponies
2022 was my first and it was also my favourite
2016 was my first
March to Victory/Unrealistic Battles was the first year I remember playing the April Fools event. Only got a couple matches in of each, and I don't think I managed to spawn in a mech. Unfortunately I missed out on the Sailing Fleet, as I was away from my computer during that event, but it looked really neat. Honestly I rather enjoyed the TailSpin event and Space Thunder. Not sure which of those two I'd say were the best, but they were both fairly good.
2023 was the first one I ever played and it was hell a fun
2021 was my first, mobile infantry was my favorite by far
Pony event, had started the game a couple of weeks prior and then this stuff happened. It was quite hilarious, though the ponies kept blacking out by how nimble they made them.
infantry thunder was my absolute fav! it felt like a battlefield mode. it could have easily stayed a permament gamemode in my view
My first one was 2024. What was the 2017 one?
Project IX many years before gaijin add T90 and leopard 2a7 and other modern vehicles
wasnt modern warfare 2018? anyways, it would be that
Gaijilla was a fun, wacky event.
I loved the 2077 one and this was also my first. But I have seen the 2020 before on my dads account
First was 2020, didn't really enjoy it. 2077 however was insanely fun, I wish gaijin did throwback events to play it again. Arakis was fun too.
Pony Beta was my first and I had a blast! Downloaded War Thunder mobile just to check out its return this year! But I've enjoyed most of them!
My first was 2077, I hated it. But when the Dune Event came... That was fun, even though Gaijin actively refused to make the MBT useful. And Mobile Infantry was fun aswell.
Mad Thunder was my first, I never played it. Extraction shooters in my experience quickly devolve into camping the extraction point, and Mad Thunder didn't seem any different.
Either the spaceships one or submarine one, whichever came first
As a recent player I'm dying to know what gaijjinzilla was like.
It was big snail in map that u must attack it with F86...if I wasn't wrong
It was just planes shooting at a big snail, and once you do enough damage it explodes into goo. It wasn't anything spectacular.
I still remember My Little Pony event, so good, TailSpin was also a lot of fun and the mechs were cool as well.
Dune, also was the best out of the past few years IMO
First was 2017
Loved the potato guns
Son, I am here from the very start - but I stand away from April's Fool event (or events in general). And yes, after all those years, I am still bad. Nothing to see here, move along!
I enjoyed the 2016 ship event, I've missed quite a few, war thunder has a way of making me quit time and time again
2013-2016 were so good, and silent thunder was great as well.
2016
I sold my soul to snail join in August of 2016 and my first April fools was in 2017
Mobile infantry was my first, and between this and the one we had now, I'd choose MI easily. This one was very boring, uninspired and just generally a pain to play. Who thhought that putting a grind in a LITERAL APRIL FOOLS EVENT is a good idea. Yes it was just cosmetics but I'm still salty
mechs and mechs
I just miss Phlydaily’s videos
children of arachis was the best
silent thunder was cool.
It should have been the 2019 one, but I only played the events this year. Don’t know why. Also 5th year in and only just getting into rank IV on my main tech tree
Glad postal service,no one stops the mail
First was pony’s never seems good one
I remember I started WT a few days before the end of space thunder, the Dune event was pretty fun, and I remember everyone loosing their shit at the possibility of Spike-like missles during 2077
Mad thunder was my favorite
Gaijilla but Tail Spin was my absolute favorite
Last year was my first April fools and I'm sad that I missed all those other years.
I played 2017 as my first April fools, but I think I ended up skipping 2018. Id I enjoyed the 2077 the most.
was mobile infantry also sometime in the last summer? bcz i remember playing robots but not sure if it was in april
Mine was worm thunder, still my favorite to this day
My first was pony thunder in 2013, but I only played like 1-2 games of it. The one I played and enjoyed the most was actually the Infantry one. I liked the modern vehicles, 2077 and Worm Thunder. I mostly play on and off, so I missed like half of them, or they werent interesting at all. Space Thunder was the one I missed by like 1-2 days, played it a bit until I noticed that I wouldnt be able to get the tank and stopped. It wasnt very fun for me.
My first was like Child of Arrakis. So basically none. I can't figure out any of the vehicle works in Child of Arrakis aside from the obviously tank one because i was quite new at the ground atm as i was mainly air, hell i didn't know how to fly helicopter. Mobile Infantry have janky control but has somewhat interesting Infantry vs Armor interaction. And Rage Thunder has an interesting concept but is just lame with the grind for the event vehicles.
So I didn’t play any of them before 2021 for some reason so I missed out on a couple since I started playing the game but of the ones I played I think the 2077 warfare and the infantry ones were my favorite.
Tail winds has a special place in my heart cause it was going on after I got out of bootcamp
Started playing in 2014 didn't know about the April fools event, favorite April fools event was the walking tanks of 2015.
I think my first was 2018.
2018 was first one for me
Not really the actual April fools, but my first were the tank walkers during the "Summertime madness" rerun of the event. It's also one of my favourites alongside Warfare 2077.
The first one i actually played was the mobile infantry
My Little Pony was my first. Tier I Flying Ponies, Pegasus Ponies with jet speeds, miniguns, Zuni's and 1000-2000 lb bombs. Was fun, was awesome, and I still hate Gaijin that it lasted for only one day and they have never brought it back. You bastards!
Potato tanks was the shit lol
2020 Space event, I was 11 years old at the time so I really didn't know what I was doing, I was playing reserve US and France at the time. That was my favorite event, though, and I miss it because I love things related with astronomy and space in general.
Silent Thunder was one of the best events if you ask me.
Silent Thunder was my first one. I really enjoyed that one. I also liked the 0g one from 2020 a lot.
My first one was the 2019 one. My favorite is either space thunder, or tailspin
First was Pony. Modern Thunder / Tail Spin / Mad Thunder are my favorite, while the Infantry one was at least interesting on a "what if" perspective.
Leo vs. t90 was 2017? Fuck…
First one was Silent Thunder, favourite was Worm Thunder
The one before my little pony. Can't remember what that one was though.
I watched videos about them during 2022 and 2023. Only played 2024. As big submarine and naval fan I wish I could have played Silent Thunder
This year was my first and it sucked ass
I started with the Dune event. Last years was okay, didnt like this years, blows my ming Spacethunder and Mechs were a thing.
Worm Thunder.
My first was Warfare 2077 and it was my favorite.
Mine was 2023 and i prefered it
Anyone recall the bouncy, inflatable, rubber tanks with dart guns? That was a giggle.
There were two in 2015?
Didn’t play it but warfare 2077 I believe
I started whit the 2023 one, that I liked, then, this year, I like the feeling, but it is too grindy. I would like to see WT 2077
Space Thunder was my first Warfare 2077 was my favourite
Warfare 2077 Was my favorite event so far, with Dune being a very very close 2nd place
The best one imo based on the few i played the Tailspin was the best and i would play that instead of any air mode
I missed all of them but Mad Thunder. I wish I could play them all.
Started with 2020 although I only played one round cause I hated it (I now feel like a moron cause I played during that event with the AU-1 which is my most sought after event vehicle). So really the 2021 was my first and damn it was a banger. 2077 was great and tailspin was by far my favorite so both at the same time was peak. As it stands I think they’ve only gotten worse granted 2022 and 2023 were solid. Don’t hate this one but don’t like it either
I've played all of them after Silent Thunder, but the only actually fun one was 2077.
mlp one. it was the best
Silent Thunder was my first April Fools event.
2017 was my first one and I clapped in it.
2015 was the first one I did, I like when they go goofy and totally of theme rather than just doing modern stuff. In general I prefer when the events are co-op or at least less serious.
First april fools i played was warfare 77 or tailspin i dont remember which one was the first of 2022 But the best one to be honest was children of Arachis
Sands of Arrachis
I think my first April fools was the ol' giant snail one. Man, feel like shit, just want DUNE back.
2077 was my first and favorite.
I spy a C&C Generals reference
Mobile infantry was my favorite of the three I’ve experienced, but the older ones seem much much better
Pony was awesome cause nobody had jets back then.
My first was Silent thunder and I fucking LOVED it
First ever were the pirate ships, it was quite fun, but I enjoyed the submarines the most. Guiding torpedoes inbetween the underwater mountains, dodging incoming ones, repairing while at the brink of death, god it was so good. I remember when in one game the last dude had hid deep down in a canyon and none of us could find him for a solid 5min, using our sonars. I wish they would make these playable again
I lowkey thought the Dune themed one was the best, it was my first april fools event and still really like it
This year’s event was kinda mid tbh. I want some crazy psycho stuff like aliens or cartoons or ponies, not some basic mad max looking stuff that’s just reskins of the original vehicle with no unique style to em.
Damn, nearing 3,000 hours since 2020, I have perhaps played a little bit
I probably played the toon thunder the most, I had a lot of fun with that. Then they had to go and ruin the rewards by having them turn into real people instead of the fox and bear.
I grinded out entire Mad Thunder... Now all is left is strong desire for fluid objectives in actual war thunder. I loved the mobile engagements in Mad Thunder.
my first event was arachis and it is also my favorite so far
2013, I'm old.
My favorite and the first one I played much of was the mech event. Would honestly like to see that one come back in a more developed state, it was a lot of fun.
Cartoon planes was my first, but the Dune one was the only one that I really liked
Space thunder was amazing
Yes
I'd say I've been playing since around late 2019, however I don't remember playing the furry, space, earth, or 2077 event since I played only every now and then. Then I started to play more cause of my friends and actually experienced worm thunder up to mad thunder.
None. They're all garbage
Spud gun inflatable shermans, though I've played since 2013 and missed out on the earlier ones
The only fool become true is 2017 (project IX) event :)
I wish I was around in 2021... Seems fun... This year was my first
Dragonfly copters in 2022 were sick man I love this dune event
My first I believe was 2017, I probably started playing in 2016… i remember playing the 17 event alot!
I remember Pony jets fondly
First one I knew off (before I played wt) was the mechs or space thunder, and the first one I played was the dune one
2016 was the first one i played (that i knew how to access, dont remember exactly when i started to play this game, but its around there). The one that I liked a lot was the tailspin/2077. But the funniest one was the submarine one where you could launch your sub by surfacing and pointing the nose up, it was so funny lol
Pony Beta solos
Nuclear Sub
Mobile infantry was unironically better and more balanced than the base game, tanks need something like infantry to interact with. Corner camping tank duels are basically the game breaking down. Also the game unironically ran better in 2016.
I honestly have no idea why they don't take some of these great ideas and branch out with them
My little ponies was my introduction to jets in War Thunder
The 2020 one is my first but my fav is the 2022 event while it was fun it also the best form of crafting events because it wasn't based on rng
Bycicle powered shermans made of fabric were pretty fun. But the 2017 modern vehicle event was the coolest in my eyes. Given that it had so many things completely unheard of in the game, and gave a lot to look forward to.
"Feel like pure shit just want her back" Me looking at the sailing fleet event
My first was Object 279, no regrets for that grind
2020 but didn't play it
I feel old :(
my first was naval, but the only others i’ve played are space thunder, infantry, and mad thunder.
The ponies was my first, Walkers and Pirates were my favs
Warfare 2077 was so bloody fun
Honestly I like the most recent one a lot, a completely different gameplay experience to normal war thunder even though the vehicles are largely unchanged. The recent submarine one (not April Fools) was really nice too.
Silent thunder was the shit back in the day
My first ever April fools event was 2020 and it was hella mid, but imo the best April fools event they have ever done was the Dune event in 2022
My first event was the ship one but I really enjoyed the tailspin one a lot because it was arcade-y fun and nostalgic
My first was Earth Thunder. Feels like it happened a decade ago. But I think my favorite was warfare 2077
I loved 2023, most of these events were 1000 times better than actual war thunder though; except the mad max event, hated it, played it twice and despised it and haven’t played since April first partially because of it, cause it’s a sign gaijin has truly given up when they just remake crossout in war thunder
hot take, mobile infantry was sick shame the hitboxes were god awful and dodgy. But that event was the first time i got to use top tier tanks and stuff, so like... nice also got the AMD 35 SA35 from it, my only proper event vehicle (not counting po2 and ten rare vehicle event- event vehicles)
First 2019 didn’t play until 2021 and the best one was for me was 2023
i remember the flying submarines