There are NO Cheats in War Thunder!

[@Spicysauced]

All sarcasm aside, cheating is indeed a big Problem in War Thunder, with Gaijin even admitting it themselves by Publishing lists of banned accounts regularly. There are pages like this where people can buy cheats freely like on a market, see for yourself: elitepvpers.com/forum/war-thunder-trading/ I have chosen to specifically show this page, to make clear this is not a tinfoil hat theory, and because this is my channel where I can educate people as much as I want. Malicious players are actively using, selling and trading cheats and War Thunder's EAC does f*** all against it, as all Anti-Cheat programs, because it's always technologically behind the curve. The ultimate goal of this video is to make players aware. How to report a cheater: - Go to warthunder.com/en/tournament/replay/ and search for your name and match (the ingame report feature is NOT where game masters look first, so use the page!) - With WT open, click start replay and observe - Next to the player name on the page, there is a "!" button. Click it, select a category and write a short meaningful summary of what happened.

[@SotGravarg]

"elite"pvpers is an oxymoron, if you need cheats to be good, you are not an elite player.

[@Spicysauced]

@@SotGravarg True, but they think otherwise. It's one of the oldest forum for trading cheats, has been around forever.

[@SotGravarg]

@@Spicysauced Yeah, it looks like it's one of the first websites ever.

[@CyberneticArgumentCreator]

They are banning people who bot, not the people hacking for an advantage in matches. Gaijin literally does not care about these cheaters.

[@deffmeatbechard8620]

Not gonna lie, until the 5th minute of this video.. everything you're being sarcastic about is very realistic level of skill level. I have 4000 hours in this game, I get nukes daily but Im still far from the best player. But I know that when I'm primed, everything until minute 5 is perfectly achievable. I don't think you understand that replays do not replicate sights properly. Theres no delay when you sight in, theres no jitterness. I scan for targets, scope in and out constantly. and when something is moving its extremely easy to spot at 4000 hours even if its just the gun of a BTR moving in a bush halfway across the map. All your sarcastic "perfect hits" are all very reasonable hits... Like I mentioned, theres players way better than me at this game, I've gotten ATLEAST 100 nukes, and I dont compete in warthunder tournaments because Im so far from the players that win them. I dont have an fps background and although im good, Im not great at aiming. You do have to understand a CSGO pro would make all of this a complete joke in warthunder, theres just not many FPS background people playing warthunder. The level thing... is a joke. If someone were to get mad at me for creating a second account, and play top tier with it... holy shit get good at the game stop complaining just play, improve on your mistakes and focus on you...

[@TheVikingzTV]

I've noticed some suspicious shots especially recently. Usually from players with Chinese usernames.

[@xBaristaPaul]

ive been playing more and more with chinese players on EU servers. lagging the shit out of everything. and rubber banding shots. wierd shots so i fully believe you

[@Emanuele-j2e]

​@@xBaristaPaullagging is becoming a pain in the ass, I tought it was my wifi, that its alwas been good but now i understand

[@SewerynPas]

always the ccp insurgents

[@mechfox]

Some players who use cheats just use chinese usernames since the stereotype + it makes your name harder to search. Even when they cannot speak chinease

[@TheVikingzTV]

@@mechfox I'm sure that's part of it but Chinese culture literally encourages cheating.

[@ZigaZagu]

Not silo'ing Chinese players in their own server, one of the worst decisions made by gaijin.

[@boxx5511]

chinese did have their own wt server but the chinese servers closed after some time

[@kiss4luna]

There was. But the service was running by a Chinese company tencent and they just ruin it.

[@ZigaZagu]

@@kiss4luna I know. They need to make a new one.

[@egWyte]

i wish they added a new chinese server so i dont have to play with that much cheaters anymore and i also wish their alphabet gets removed because they can fit a whole novel in their names.

[@cupidoo7724]

if you can read his name, it is '' I lock people's cannon breech '' lol

[@Spicysauced]

You're right. I speak a bit of Chinese but didn't even bother to translate actually. Basically stopped after "wo" (I) and just called him Mr. Shampoo.

[@rpscorp9457]

WT has been e-sports ready since 2009.

[@sarttee]

[@evemaniac]

Yoda would be proud, the amount of players with jedi like powers in this game is very high.

[@jintsuubest9331]

Must have been really good gaming chair and gamer supplements.

[@sefin84]

like in every game. People are trying to persude you that modern gamers with less than 1 year experience can beat 30 years of experience and have 100% surgical precision and reaction with reflex of a viper... these modern gamers are built differently and did beat biological limitations of human body. They are basically super gamers... 🤣

[@oiltunaking]

sales ruined 9.3 to 11.7 brackets, us servers infested w chinese players in type 90s, christians ii, t80ud and 2s38s dying or cheating

[@Spicysauced]

I experimented because I had a similar idea, and turned the US servers off, but the problem in general persisted. Its not just US servers, its the whole game atm and I feel like nobody talks about it (hence the video).

[@xBaristaPaul]

its EU and US. infested by them.....

[@HassanAchieved]

Don't forget pzbtl i hate that thing

[@giannisv.4472]

@@xBaristaPaul CIS too I think. Stopped playing there cuz of that

[@muha0644]

The firewall of China is there to protect the west from the hordes of Chinese netizens with too much free time...

[@Skillot888]

that boy was scanning like a damn radar

[@taggoeshere]

Unfortunately only the tip of the iceberg. Lovely video!

[@NikolaiMihailov1]

The cheating gets worse the higher BR you go. I could be hiding somewhere with my LOSAT and I get slapped from across the map.

[@Wolfpack611]

0:31 "A level 37, a very new player" Me, a level 38 who started playing War Thunder 4 years ago: Wait what? Edit: its because im f2p, or at least was

[@Spicysauced]

That just means you have spent about 24 hrs +- in actual games. To compare, I have spent 68 days in fighter planes in simulator battles alone since 2013. For levels its not relevant when you have made your account, but how much time you've spent and as a result how much RP/progess you have made. Our Mr. Shampoo in question from the video has made his account on 29th of October 2024 and is now actuall level 48 after about 800 battles.

[@Wolfpack611]

@@Spicysauced I added up my total time (I dont have steam so i cant see it that way, i have to go through the player card and just add up the hours) and got to around 600 hrs in battles (doesnt count just being on the game), so ig i just dont play as often as other players, most of the time i just sit in the hanger thinking about if the "To battle!" button is even worth it 😂

[@wasntprepared]

​@@Wolfpack611 levels are slow when playing with no premium time and vehicles i was level 50-55 ish playing wt on off for 7 years xD about 800 hours,once I got a premium pack plane I was leveling like it was nobody's business

[@deauthorsadeptus6920]

​@@wasntpreparedSame deal years in wt, only level 48. Several tech trees to jets. Got to level 100 only when grinding german then top tier (F-104, F4).

[@superbuster11]

I met a cheater in air RB a year ago. He was new player. After 2 or 3 months he was lvl 100. Using only one premium aircraft with bombs drop bot.

[@sarttee]

i like the people who track my tanks through entire towns when im hiding behind a hill for 3 minutes and my engines off

[@yawis8925]

I play since 3 years and was todays years old to learn, arcade battles are playable without anticheat

[@SK1PP3R88]

Clear skill issue, Reddit told me so.

[@RealSabbergesicht]

And here i am ... trying to convince me low quality graphics are the worst problem in war thunder .... sadly there will always be cheater in a game, guess its what we have to deal with

[@Spicysauced]

ULQ is cheesy when you have a computer that could run higher graphics, it's only intended to be used on low end machines. Gaijin could lock this feature to a certain set of GPUs, like for example internal Intel integrated ones.

[@RealSabbergesicht]

@@Spicysauced i understand the need of low graphics but i kinda doubt there are many computers out there that realy need it. if you pc isnt able to render a tree or bush in the distance its fine ... but it shouldnt be able to render a tank there as well ;)

[@talon9639]

@@RealSabbergesicht mine does

[@Sethy1ST]

​@@RealSabbergesichtMine needs ULQ, when i tried LQ my fps dropped from 40fps to 15

[@DontStealMyNoEffortName]

@@Sethy1ST Your computer must be very old if it's struggling that bad

[@WTCheatShaming]

Sales always bring in an influx of problematic players

[@johnroscoe2406]

Your "Airwolf" reference gained you an immediate sub! :D

[@danielgilliland48]

2:30 he was pre-aimed before getting over the hill, he knew exactly where that light tank was through the hill

[@imnobody42069]

Tbh i'm so bad i don't think i've seen any cheater in my 1000 hours of war thunder i just think they're all just better than me

[@aligator2150]

Same, i have never met a 100% sure cheater in +2k hours...

[@Sercer25]

I've played over 9 years, I maybe saw 1 or 2 for the last 7 or so years. However in the last 2 years, I've seen hundreds. Something is obviously wrong, Gaijin likely isn't paying for anticheat or 'downsized' their hacking protection budget. Back around 2017 or 2018 it felt like I was facing bots (War Thunder was pretty low in popularity around this time). Gaijin has always been pretty shady. I haven't played in a year.

[@Danny.Duns1]

​@@Sercer251-2 years ago gaijin intergrated chinese players with the global playerbase and as your observation tells us, the amount of cheaters we all see has increased

[@Sercer25]

@@Danny.Duns1 It's a shame, I've met a few Chinese players who are legit and very good. They have a weird gaming culture where the better your hacks are, the better you are regarded as a player.

[@Drakuer11]

I've had suspicions, but never enough to confirm a cheater. I'm not a good player, but I have 8k hours played, I have been called a cheater maybe 6-7 times, I never cheat online games.

[@r3d648]

They don't even try to hide it bahaha

[@GWFires]

tbh if you find someone like this. stop respawning. just leave after the first death. A short match = zero xp. As WT hardcaps the exp gain after 5 kills. What matter the most is the playtime.

[@Seraphinus112]

1 or 2 people countering a cheater by this wont do much, its convincing the rest of the team to screw the cheater over

[@APOLON-bm7ym]

"and now he shoots at the dead tank, cuz he is really that angry" 😂😂😂

[@tacticalturtlez4906]

I mean. Some of these shots might be suspicious for a seasoned player, but for a new player? Yeah, that’s definitely got some stuff going on.

[@BiasedOpinon]

Some of these shots???😂 you're delusional

[@krylatich]

I can't help but notice that there was a drone up for the whole match as well as a couple of vehicles with a reconnaissance feature...

[@ravenmiller6376]

The way of the Shampoo is hard to master, this player obviously has done their training well

[@Spicysauced]

We can't do anything about Shampoo supremacy :(

[@imadsolh8276]

i dont think he’s ever used shampoo

[@nicolasalexander408]

And washed their hair thoroughly! 😅

[@BlackShadow657]

yeah its pretty common, I've even seen live streams of people using cheats on TikTok for WT and other games its rampant.

[@Pastameer]

Nice gaming chair he has

[@csirke9822]

Clearly not cheating, it's a combination of a good headset (probs Sennheiser) and gaming glasses. Oh and a little meth to enhance his reaction time

[@D4RKMA7TER]

cheats have been in this game for a VERY long time at least since when tanks were still new to my memory, anyone would thinks otherwise is delusional. If there is a multiplayer game there is probably cheats for it somewhere. There are people who make their own private cheats after all there are entire communities for that type of stuff.

[@southwestwings8510]

I have noticed a more frequent amount of nukes the past 3 or 4 days also...

[@DontStealMyNoEffortName]

Stay out of North Korea then

[@potatosoup19129]

I drop one nuke a day on average. Its not as uncommon as you think, especially with the current state of 10.3+ matches.

[@kean1983]

wow and he is chinese :D

[@cossackfalco]

their ESP awareness are god like... very human

[@daansukano]

I saw some people in my games lately the past week too that has been killing me somehow impossibly but oh well, most was chinese names and I just couldn't say for sure but when looking back at the replays they are really suspicious lol

[@zoul5700]

Yeah I come from a competitive background in R6 and the cheating there has always been pretty bad. I more or less could tell when a player was cheating just based on how they moved or what they were looking at and it had always felt like war thunder has had a huge issue with cheating. I think the problem is way worse than people talk about, gaijin is just not that big of a company compared to other developers so the amount of resources they can give to the issue just isn't gonna be anything near what other more competitive games get. The amount of resources other studios invest in anti-cheat is pretty huge and some games still have insane amounts of cheaters so I am assuming a bit here that the cheating in war thunder might be comparable if not worse than these games when it comes to cheating.

[@liamseven1604]

wonder if they'll ever take away the controller cheats known as lock on target love snapping on to aircraft from like 13km away with no radar or irst on my tank, oh also works through terrain and trees. only work on flying vehicles but ive been called a cheater a few times for that.

[@haotianwang7032]

Man he's got all his funny business on his nick name , woaisuopaoshuan means "I love locking on canon breech" in chinese. What a gay

[@Spicysauced]

是的，我刚刚知道。🙃

[@haotianwang7032]

@Spicysauced they are everywhere (((((

[@ZzMrMaxzZ]

Saw a T32, sniper ppl through the whole forest, kill my LT at 1.3km after less than 60s after battle start, and kill other 2 from different base direction after less than other 60s.

[@APOLON-bm7ym]

Tbh, I had 4 kills in my first RB match. But, those were kills from upto 200meters, at 6.0. These shoots on the move, through bushes and all... How come there isnt some AI that monitors every game, which would say "no, thats not humanly possible"

[@greywulfe9153]

😂😂😂😂 Best evidence of cheating I’ve seen so far.

[@neekniggit3606]

Sarcasm, wrote a song about it, like to hear it? Here it goes...

[@lordhickory3322]

I gotta find out what gaming chair bro is using…

[@Spicysauced]

Nah gaming chair only makes you faster, not aim better

[@lordhickory3322]

@ What is it then? Good Keyboard and Mouse? /s just to be sure

[@Eranshahr-Forever]

i also fought a IS-2 {1944} 6.7 and he reloaded in less than a second he shot me twice like he was a ZSU i was baffled

[@nicolasalexander408]

Took me 8 years to get level 100 and to be honest I'm still not that good....I play for fun, not mental illness....oh and I have hobbies and a life as well.....lmao, maybe if my Dad was chairman mao then things would be different?

[@ScrapLab]

now he's lvl 50

[@oscarmmayi]

His ammo rack is all you need to know🤣

[@Phalanx_User]

I hope you reported this guy

[@Spicysauced]

Sure, ingame and via website.

[@nicolasalexander408]

So if you see someone get stupidly high scores then more than likely they are cheating?

[@BBRAIN1977]

Not everybody :) Just check the replay of that match to be sure if it was legit or playing with a epic gaming chair

[@Omega_Mark]

You got gaijined.

[@sukhoifanboi]

me and my friend also ran into this guy a couple days ago and we both also made videos on him, my vid is private tho i dont want it making my yt page look sloppy

[@fablearchitect7645]

No game is really imune to cheats these days

[@itsmewafflecat5052]

there are good players, then there are bots and esp users

[@rumi.137]

thats sad

[@kulwiederbach9993]

Met him today still cheating like there is no tomorrow.

[@bobcat5261]

Fastest solution is to add chinese servers back and region lock them again

[@subjectc7505]

Cheating is sad ☠️

[@zakirbakar3540]

There is no war in ba sing se

[@nikolaperic6307]

This commentary is way too good lmao 5:11

[@Mountainmonths]

yeah that sort of garbage is why I uninstalled

[@angus3963]

All his shots are dead center, and the twitching on the barrell and snapping to an enemy at tthe last split second are dead give aways of aim botting.

[@Seraphinus112]

Cheating will never be fixed, too much of an income for gijan each time they get banned (average value of premiums cheaters buy are 200-600 usd)

[@DontStealMyNoEffortName]

It's almost impossible to completely get rid of cheaters since by the time you do make a counter, there's already a workaround. It's an issue with almost every online game with cheating problems

[@deauthorsadeptus6920]

​@@DontStealMyNoEffortNameWhich is why server-side anti cheat is superior. Just need to set it up correctly so it doesn't ban you if you are just that good.

[@Kabosky]

for many reason the cheater have aim bot or eventully is having no push back when shoot a bullet and the worst is the person have stalinium but by cheating not lucky

[@LDoglas]

this cheater is blatant cheater theres loads of cheaters that don't show they are doing it but occasionaly show they bad side been playing war thunder for quite a while mix of planes and tanks

[@LEgacy0811]

Bro We might need some Chinese name to improve our gaming skill 😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@Spicysauced]

Changing from Spicy to 小辣. Actually kinda cool 😅

[@fuyukim5250]

Chinese ID, no surprise

[@underdoggoethe8971]

Yes, he just was zatt gut. 😅

[@Crazyosis]

Look at the barrel what he backs up it looks like is aim botting bouncing to targets

[@letsfindout7674]

i quit playing after 1600 hrs cuz of the cheaters, games are supposed to be fun.

[@Hamzah.162]

Ive been playing the game since 2016 and i never saw any cheaters ever. I did see bots but thats it. The games anti cheat works well i guess

[@BETTER.ART.]

I just played a match with this player and he keeps doing THE SAME shit. Means he still hasn't been banned... what a shame

[@ItsMeRockyT]

How did he have the Maus already?!!!

[@BETTER.ART.]

You know you can buy yourself up to top tier right? Plus the Maus is not a new tank.

[@ItsMeRockyT]

@@BETTER.ART. His account is only level 37...Seems like he would have to have a lot more leveling done to get the Maus and then research it, too. I dunno...I did that 10 years ago. I guess I'm remembering it wrong.

[@miguelgiffoni8931]

Despite he has shot everybody and hit, no one could see him on top of the hill... he is a master...🤣

[@maddose4232]

I never understood the pleasure of cheating, u know all ur stats and gameplays are based on a lie, but i guess some people are just these delusional to think they have any merit on the games they win cheating..

[@thegermanslayer5265]

I cant play...I have skill issue😢 8 years and cant kill noting lately....they always know where i am...plus uptier and bad team members😅 is so bad I need a psicologist

[@Shiraumere]

But EAC just works

[@natyeo3240]

Also he has alot of shells (probably because hes taking aim so fast and has cheats)

[@d8zvevoh879]

I would of died at spawn

[@obsidianjane4413]

User woaisuopaoshuan account created Oct 29, 24. So not even a month old and obviously a "reborn" cheater from the last ban wave. I guess they don't learn.

[@gumbie6959]

Ya we know its taking place, there be another person who post vids of cheaters ever day or other day and Giajin is working on it. But we know how these things can be. An his no scanning his controlling the auto aim so it doesn't look like his cheating as bad report him and add the video he will end up on the ban list and lose the account. An the bouncing Sight is a dead give away that his cheating also because his trying to keep it looking like his not cheating it really pisses me off.

[@MarkDrisch]

Lmfao 😂

[@Sercer25]

I quit playing over a year ago because of obvious and not so obvious hackers, just got sick of these fresh accounts somehow playing like 9+ year veterans (like me). WT hasn't been fun for a long time.

[@DontStealMyNoEffortName]

that could also just be a veteran player playing on a new account

[@Sercer25]

@@DontStealMyNoEffortName It's true, but there are some circumstances that are just BS and experienced players get the feel for whats a good player vs a cheater. I had a friend who hadn't played in awhile and someone hacked his account and botted him to 100 and his account was sold. Gaijin eventually got around to it and permanently banned the account.

[@C.I.T.R.O.N.K.A]

so sad

[@Dave-PL]

Lot of players uses the Arcade battle mechanism on Realistic and Simulation, which showing the enemy and aims on them. That's why, years ago I tried tell many times to Gaijin to remove Arcade mode in this game. They even banned my Forum account for some time. This is scam company. Don't pay them even single penny.

[@Sky_King7]

I dont understand why with all the banning gaijin has been doing that people keep doing this. Are they so rich that if these fresh accounts with tons of newly bought premiums get banned that they don't care?

[@deauthorsadeptus6920]

They are selling these accounts, after all you need only one or two packs on discount, few weeks to top tier, and you get all of your money back and make few times more.

[@Sky_King7]

@@deauthorsadeptus6920 I cant imagine it taking only weeks to grind a whole tech tree, but then again if you're getting 10+ kills a game maybe so. Don't the people who end up buying these accounts realize the ban risk?

[@deauthorsadeptus6920]

@@Sky_King7 Oh, they do. Also they farm that fast, cause they do it 24/7 non-stop. And also don't play full games, get a base, couple of kills, 3-5 minutes in and out. And then there is navy, where premium ships get ridiculous rewards in SL, so you can farm it first and then use most braindead bombing farm script, it will work for RP, and still have millions of SL to spare. Its even easier nowadays, when repair cost is so low for AFK gameplay, that you can legitimately recoup it by bombing one base once in a while in a premium plane and still get RP.

[@deauthorsadeptus6920]

@@Sky_King7 In short - it's a numbers game, and some premium cheese.

[@Welshman001]

Hey, Yeah this guy is a mess. Made a vid about him the other day

[@Welshman001]

Also from my vid, he does it very blatantly

[@DerRusher]

No need to he racist towards chinese, anybody could name himself this way... Actual chinese players would probably have chinese characters instead of the regular ABC stuff as their name

[@priestofvanedu5433]

This guy is just cracked with it. Skill issue

[@timmyvolta1592]

Money money money Gajin just cares about Money, chinese only want to win they have a very special way of thinking about cheating and winning. Cheaters are Scum and i dont even get how they enjoy the game there is nothing to achive if you cheat.

[@TheEliteGrim]

No, that is cheating because bypass EAC. Why think there was a 5k account banned in one day, so yes, he can be cheating. You're just not even watching close, and you are not smart, too, to tell differents

[@rpscorp9457]

??????

[@TheEliteGrim]

@rpscorp9457 he was killed by a cheater using script cheat that bypassed EAC for one that turret locked on to him and moved very slow and top that person on pc not on xbox or ps5 where they have aim assists where if someone spot it will track for short time pc don't have that and it lock on soon got in range of script.

[@TheEliteGrim]

Also, the VPN bypassed the ip ban, and mostly everyone got a ban buying an account or making a new one.

[@aligator2150]

I have +2k hours and have never reported anyone for cheating. I don't deny there are cheaters in wt, but its not even close to games like cs or tarkov. You guys need to stop crying, cheating is not a big issue in this game. If you want to excuse your skill issue, point at wallet warriors and lvls 100 playing low br. And play top tier, chaters wont reach that br without getting banned.

[@Spicysauced]

Anton is that you?

[@TeamValkyrie2023]

You really have an issue with level 100s playing low br? Don't we have a right to grind other nations or have fun in our first vehicles? Cheaters won't reach top tier? Dude what u smoking? I want some! Cheaters can buy a high br premium line up and be in top tier tree in no time but sure, u keep believing no one cheats 😂. Hell, kilawest posted a video showing the cheats being used. It's gone because gaijin made him remove it. I've seen the cheats before he took it down.

[@rpscorp9457]

Bro..ban waves keep getting larger and larger..just look at the trend over 2020-2024. There are massive amounts of cheaters at top tier. Ill trump your 2k+ hours with almost 6k+ hours. There are cheaters just using ESP since they dont need aimbot at top tier and another set of players just spotting everyone on the other team and rarely firing a shot. The low IQ cheaters are blatant using ESP and Aimbotting like the guy in this vid, and eventually will be swept into a ban wave. The savvy people will cheat just enough to flip a game and no more...and if they are squad'd up yeah.......gl. Despite almost 6k, knowing the maps, knowing the vehicles and other mechanics.....1.4 KD on thunderskill overall and im only 2 to 1 ratios on a handful of vehicles.

[@ChristopherAllen-d3z]

This comment was from the CCP

[@oberthepioneer]

Also a +2K hours here, and I have to disagree with you on this one. Top tier is infested with cheaters, especially among premium tank players at 11.7 like the Clickbaits, Type 90, etc. They literally thrive on premium account to progress faster and perhaps sell the account as fast as they could before the ban wave comes for their name. Cheating has become a major problem ever since they decided to merge Chinese server with NA, EU & CIS. Prior to that, I had never encountered cheaters before. However, nowadays, it is very frequent, and I'm tired of people like you trying to normalise cheaters. IT IS A BIG ISSUE. If you deny that, then you are pretty much a complicit yourself. Just because it's not as frequent as game like cs or tarkov, its gets a pass. The earlier we address this issue, the better!

[@mskiUSMC]

What module did this guy put on that tank to auto lock enemy players?!?!?!?!?! What nation is that?!?! You know when you'd play games with your brother as a kid and you'd beat him or even start to get ahead of him and he flips the board and throws the dice/controller? Those are the kids that grow up to cheat in video games.

[@freakynoobn]

269212256673687549 replay id same guy day later or so.

[@mskiUSMC]

I think this woaishocumsuckerpan is SOOOO good, he should go to Ukraine and show off his skills there!