>>529537316
I know exactly how cheats work because I used to cheat heavily in games like CoD4, Crysis, PUBG, and Escape from Tarkov. I have seen both sides of it.
These days, anti-cheats do not ban you right away like they did in the past. Instead, they wait and stack up detections, then hit large groups all at once in ban waves. This way they catch more cheaters before the cheat developers can react and patch their software.
WT is a f2p game but it has real anti-cheat and active moderation. It is on the same level as games like Valorant or Apex Legends in terms of security. Of course cheaters exist. They always will in competitive F2P games. What matters is how consistently the developers fight back. Gaijin actually does that. They post ban reports regularly and they have been banning thousands every few weeks. That is proof they are not ignoring the problem.
If you really want to talk about cheater-infested games, look at Warzone, PUBG, or other F2P shooters with little to no account penalty and no real anti-cheat updates. That is where you see blatant aimbots every other match. War Thunder does not come close to that level.
Thinking every good player in War Thunder is cheating just means you have not fully learned the game yet. A lot of what looks like cheating is just good game sense, spotting mechanics, or experience. Once you understand how the game works under the hood, most of those suspicious moments make perfect sense.
Also go statwatch the banned account. MOST of them are lowlvls with a couple of matches onto their accounts, or stolen accounts abandoned 5 years ago that reappeared this *CURRENT MONTH* just to get banned.
tl;dr: no u
