Hey guys, due to how sensitive this topic is I fear my WT forum thread won't survive for long, but I'm still super curious on how this thing is looked upon by the entire community.

On September 11, a moderator posted this in the Chinese national forum. I have translated the notice myself with the original text under the translation. It has been 18 days with no follow up from the game officials and we are nearing the last day of September.

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Dear War Thunder Players:

We understand your concern, we also understand the deep connections the community has for the development of Chinese military technology and its glorious history. We respect the concerns players have expressed in their recent discussions, rest assured, we are listening to the voice of the community.

The Chinese Tech Tree has an important place in the game, and there is nothing that can change this. We have noticed the recent discussions and worries from the community, we do not wish to let these misunderstandings bring our players any issues. Thus, we are carefully analyzing the player feedback from numerous platforms, and we will give out clear, detailed answers for the most common issues. We estimate we will share our response with you in the latter half of September.

Thank you all again for the attention, support and patience. We have heard your voice, we will continue to try our best to bring you the best experience in War Thunder we can.

War Thunder Team

亲爱的战争雷霆玩家们：

我们理解您的担忧，我们也明白玩家社区对于中国军事技术发展及其光荣历史的深厚情结。我们十分尊重玩家们在近期的讨论中展现出的关切，请放心，我们正在认真倾听来自社区的声音。

中国科技树在游戏中有着举足轻重的地位。在此我们可以明确作出回答，没有什么能够动摇这一点。我们已经留意到了近期社区的讨论和担忧，我们不希望看到这些误解给玩家们带来困扰。因此，我们正在认真分析来自各个平台的玩家反馈，并尽快针对最普遍的问题作出清晰，详细的回答。我们预计将在九月下旬与您分享我们的回应。

再次感谢玩家们的关心，支持及耐心。我们已经听到了您的呼声——我们将继续努力，为您带来更好的战争雷霆游玩体验。

战争雷霆团队

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From what I have collected, the Chinese community is quite hyped (in a bad way) about how Gaijin has been “mistreating” the Chinese vehicles. A few examples being the sunken autoloaders on the modern MBTs, Top tier Chinese CAS having only 6 rounds of KH29T when every other nation has more and how Chinese MBTs have both low pen(577mm KE), slow reload(7.1s) and relatively thin armor at the same time.

This all has been brooding for quite a while now and complaints about this in communities and on social media has been continued for quite a while now. It seems the news about a Chinese vehicle joining the Japanese tech tree as a tech tree near the 80th Anniversary of the Victory of the Chinese People’s War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression and the World Anti-Fascist War finally blew the cap off.

Right now the original official announcement has its comment sections filled with mockery curses and the occasional rational dude who's still reasoning with Gaijin, it is quite confusing over there  so I wouldn't go there for actual info if you're not proficient in Chinese.

Does anyone have any thoughts? I don’t think much people outside the Chinese community knows about this.

You are also more than welcome to discuss under the topic I created on the forum: [https://forum.warthunder.com/t/anybody-got-any-thoughts-on-the-ruckus-in-the-chinese-national-forum/270889](https://forum.warthunder.com/t/anybody-got-any-thoughts-on-the-ruckus-in-the-chinese-national-forum/270889)

Anyone got any thoughts on the commotion in the Chinese community?