The important thing to know is that in arcade battles, this is NOT a flight sim.

Not sure if I ever get involved beyond dicking around in arcade battles, but I am feeling some burnout in WoT after grinding pretty hard for the last couple of months, and this is a really refreshing change of pace. It's a lot of fun and I am probably going to drop some $ on it. World of Tanks had an arty special over the weekend and I wasn't interested in playing every game with 5 arty on each team, so I decided to try out War Thunder after hearing a lot of positive things. There's only a EU server at the moment but I didn't have a problem playing at all. I can definitely see myself wasting a crap-ton of time on this game, haha. The graphics are beautiful and the game is a lot of fun. I just played Arcade and used keyboard + mouse for controls (I have a Thrustmaster T-Flight HOTAS I'll have to try though) and it worked very well actually. You can play Arcade mode, Historical Battle, or Realistic mode IIRC. I don't know a ton about the game yet but it seems they will also add in ground and naval warfare at some point. If you've played Wings of Prey it is similar (same maker? the theme music is the same I think), but it's an MMO and has an unlock tree and upgrade feature not unlike World of Tanks. I've watched a few videos from KrebsCOHO on this game (War Thunder) so I decided to try it out last night. I did a search for this game but didn't find anything, so I apologize if this is a repost.

War thunder vs heroes and generals