why does that cheiftain have a turret that doesn't nicely smooth out to the hull to make a nice fit?
Jonathan Diaz
nth for not spawning in the meteor f3 and f84 if there are 8.0s in your team
Jaxon Phillips
Xth for hyper-shitposting
Wyatt Torres
It's called Stillbrew
Jonathan Edwards
>move down ground targets in my Bf 110 >Corsair trying to fight me at ground level >I evade it easily >and another 2 attempts >eventually he loses all energy, while I turn and blow him with 20mm I probably should laugh, but that was just embarrassing to watch
Ethan Parker
do you have to have airplanes of certain ranks to do certain summer tasks? If so, where can you see the requirements?
Xavier Parker
If you can't kill a La-15 in your F-84 you need to fuck off back to arcade.
Jayden Kelly
+6000 GE!
REAL QUALITY POST THERE!
William Reed
Feeling awful generus today, aren't we, mr Gaijin Community Manager?
Adrian Peterson
The F-84 is much worse than the La-15 in everything but top dive speed.
Austin Harris
La-15 guns are a bit ass, too.
Gabriel Cruz
>implying .50s aren't ass against jets
Anthony Taylor
>trying to carry but being bullied by a kid
Isaiah Powell
They shred Hortens and 262 to dust.
Brayden Torres
M3s are usually okay, I just hate M2s.
Xavier Fisher
(you)
Daniel Lewis
>5 fighters out of 12 players
why do people play anything american but hispano P-51s?
Juan Reed
It's six fighters, seven if you consider a P-61 a fighter.
Dylan Thompson
>getting called a cuck by a 14 year old
Cuck
Wyatt Morgan
Reminder that if you put a rear Ho-103 on a plane and reached a speed in excess of 885.6 the shell would still be moving forwards rather than backwards!
Aaron Long
Thank you for that simple, concise explanation of addition!
really made me think
Ethan Harris
Because hispanostangs climb like ass and overheat doing it.
Samuel Rivera
Just unlocked the Ho 229 and got 5 kills my first game, were you guys lying to me this entire time?
Asher Morris
I'm trying to set up MEC so I can control the radiator to achieve superior climb rate and top speed. In auto the radiator is automatically CLOSED during WEP, which would make sense if you were at high speed but during initial climb it just means that you almost immediately overheat. Under normal 100% the radiator is pretty wide which means that even at good speed you're still wasting a lot of drag on cooling that you don't need.
If I turn on MEC, then have buttons to make pitch, mixture, supercharger, all go back to auto, can I achieve a situation where I'm basically in auto engine controls except I get to play with the radiator?
Carter Roberts
Yes
Blake Robinson
b-but i did fine in my ride
Kevin Brooks
so even if you don't get enough marks of distinction you can still buy the pinups, right?
Grayson Morris
>the p-38 lightning is a decent fighter
in your dreams maybe. its big like a barn, goes down in two shots, doesnt turn and doesnt roll, the only thing it can do is strafe really fast.
pretty much a free kill everytime i see one in a match
at least they have laser cannons. also its not like at that battle rating people go into space, and the plane still retains energy like a champion. i once fought off 3 spitfires in an hispano p51. shit is reliable and works
Chase Sanders
>play WT on PS4 (controller) >actually pretty good >get bullied and teamkilled because people think I'm automatically a shitter
Any other Sonyggers here that have experienced this feel? I felt like some black person in the 50's.
Xavier Ward
I know that feel bro. In GF people just ram into me all the time for no reason.
Joshua Turner
Are you in JG508 user?
Dominic Russell
>It's a KV-2 positions itself in front of you episode
Bentley Wood
No
Robert Thompson
Does your mother know you're consorting with these hot opinions?
Anthony Sullivan
>warthunder >playing not shitposting about it L M A O M A O
>not blocking or shooting him >warthunder
KYS
Brody Jenkins
>having to carry >having fun in war thunder
literally a meme
Oliver Bailey
damn you must be a loser in real life
Justin Moore
I want to roll over his fucking retarded euroskeptick redpilled face with a amx13
Gavin Bell
>take a p51 >give it good guns >reduce it's br GAININNNN??????????!?!!!!??!?
Samuel Ramirez
Don't you have job applications to write, Cameron?
Gavin Price
why is vegetable the Saipan so dumb?
Jayden Clark
Not your blog
Hudson Turner
Why do the Jap cannon and MG feel so...weird?
Samuel Thompson
technically still at war with japan ))))
Thomas Gonzalez
They're low energy.
Nathaniel Young
Does anyone know if gaijin had any like, community managers or whatever I can sleep with to get GE?
Luis Scott
I enjoy the J2M and KI, anything all Ho...but when I combine the two ala A6M it just kind of throws me off from the differing ROF I suppose.
Jose Scott
Nah
Connor Rodriguez
Have you tried turning on vertical targeting?
Ayden Baker
No, I've heard both good and bad about it. Do you use it for Japs?
Asher Bennett
>shoot a 30mm grenade at a fighter jet >"hit" >get hit by a single bullet from a 50 cal >my entire plane just explodes
Aaron Martin
PHONEPOSTING LOL
Josiah Cooper
If I'm using a plane with 20s and 30s or a Ki-45/102, yes. Just remember to aim below your target if you get closer than you've set your convergence to.
Owen Foster
>be bad >get good >win
Chase Hall
I'll try it out, thanks. I usually use 250m for .50 cal, 300m for Hispano and Ho, 400m for 151 and ShVAK. I'm still grinding my first jet so I don't know how that will work out. Probably a Meteor since I prefer the Brit 20mm.
Luke Smith
i've never in my life been shot down by a P-38 and everytime i engage one it either flees away in a dive or dies in 1-2 shot.
how do you even get killed by one?
Joseph Johnson
>8446 points
that's pretty good user. probably the highest i've seen here yet
Ian Green
It's pretty hard, 2bh.
Sebastian Morales
LoL PHONEPOSTING
James Hernandez
Not him, but I've had some success with rope a dopes in them, as well as surprise attacks on someone chasing an ally.
Basically have to fly it like a Zero and don't ever let yourself take a single bullet or else you're going down in flames. The one benefit it has is the setup of the gun platform.
Christopher Young
Who is this mong with his phone posting gimmick it's real silly lads.
Ayden Lewis
Yes, rank 3 aircraft minimum. If you go into your player card, under the achievement tab there is a section for the summer event
William Young
Man, these plane RB maps in tank custom battles are the best shit ever
Jacob Baker
F O R R E E
Jose Hall
>with a tally on the plane too
t-thanks
Asher Rogers
thanks, too bad the only tier 3 planes I have are bombers
Ryan Edwards
i love Ho-5s, i feel like they're almost on shvak tier of lethal. ki-43s and la-5s have my favourite gun style and i feel like aiming with them is just so natural. 30mm japanese shells travel real slow but when they hit they rarely just spark the plane and often atomize it in 1 shot.
japanese 50cals a shit tho. A SHITTT
type 99s also a shit. they dont deal much damage compared to Ho-5s and the fact they're always wing mounted means by default that they're worse.
also i have this weird feeling that the J2M2 works well with 2xtype 99 but the J2M3/4/5 with 4x20mm arent anywhere close to twice as lethal
Jayden Thompson
PLOP
Asher Young
...
Brayden Perez
did you know there was a P-38 project that mounted 4x M4 cannons from the P-39 for a total of 120 37mm shells? 4x37mm cannons shooting like a death battery put on a fast platform like the P-38 would've been GOAT
The P-38 looks like a wasted good design to me, the front of the aircraft is basically empty anyway right? why putting 4xM2 and a single 20mm? couldnt they mount like 5x 20mm cannons and shread anything with it?
Jonathan Hughes
Because the War Thunder meta did not factor in to design decisions in real life?
Jace Rogers
i'm not talking about the game now, i'm talking about actual reality. in the real world, the p-38 was a good plane, while in warthunder its shit. that depends on the difference between how real pilots flew the plane and how enemies perceived it. if i fly a zero i can easily fend off any dive from a P-38 making him overshoot me pretty much indefinitely long: there's nothing he can do to catch me unless someone else joins in and i get distracted. while in reality cooperation brought successful use of these tactics, in the game a single P-38 cant do shit agains pretty much anything in 1v1. while the P-38 is a plane based on teamplay and support, a japanese zero can support itself and make kills without other planes assisting him in the way. this makes it an inferior plane compared to what it actually was in reality because the game cant replicate his greatest strength
Logan Ramirez
what is A-36?
Justin Sanchez
I think the claps (at least the army) didn't use 20mms so much because they never quite managed to work out the reliability issues with early hispano models, and .50s were servicable, so there was no point developing alternatives, unlike what the bongs did with their hispanos.
Leo Bailey
You know War Thunderâ„¢ is keen on keeping things as realistic as possible when it comes to vehicle modules right? It's very unlikely a plane in game that is bad was good in real life.
Juan King
I think the star goes away if you use your free namechange while logged in on a pc
Michael Gonzalez
I want to adopt Illya!
Brandon Turner
>be greatest and strongest military and industrial power in the world >fight a war with the easy of not worrying about your own homeland >print million and millions of 20mm rounds for switching to cannon armament >be COMPLETELY inapt and never manage over the course of the entire war to produce a single reliable 20mm design
i mean, what were they even trying to do? how come every shithole had 20mm cannons working but the greatest weapons producer in the world couldn't figure out how to fix a single misfire problem on a gun?
Hudson Sanders
>New job that has long hours on some days >This War Thunder event
I'm so salt. There's no way I can do it.
Landon Roberts
Even without a job and absolutely nothing to fill my days I absolutely refuse to do this retarded event.
Asher Bailey
pretty close. They didn't feel autocannons are needed for their fighters, since it's not them who had fight off heavy bombers. Because of that when first batch of domestic-made Hispano clones turned out to be a failure, command was like "it's ok, we're not in hurry anyway". Plus don't forget American hardon on standardization. And it would be hard to find class of vehicle that didn't use M2, which means ammo supply was virtually unlimited.
Austin Murphy
This. Fuck that shit.
David Lopez
The short answer is that .50s worked great so there was no real incentive to find a replacement during the war. They had good velocity, a good rate of fire, were effective against the aircraft the USA had to shoot down, and planes could carry vast amounts of ammo. It also helped that the M2's ubiquity in the ground and naval forces simplified logistics.
Ryan Price
>not picking up at least the pin up girl you like the most
>caring about fucking decals in current year Custom skins are the beginning and the end of vehicle customization.
Owen Sullivan
>test flight no longer lets you select external munitions if you don't have the hardpoints unlocked, even in "reference" selection rude desu
Isaac Sanders
these ones look good. also lots of vehicles dont get the luxury of having good skins
James Turner
You need to control everything that didn't have auto settings irl, so it depends on the plane. learning to use MEC is great, american planes in particular get way better.
Joseph Rogers
Stillbrew armor package, it's hard to find chieftains today without it, unless they are export chieftains.
Cameron Robinson
Desu I fucked around with it earlier and it's surprisingly better than I expected, the menu just appears really daunting because some of the control names got engrish'd. I made one button to toggle auto engine controls on and off, one to toggle auto-radiator, and one each for radiator open/radiator close. Works perfectly, I can WEP a K4 up to like 5km before it goes yellow when I open the radiator all the way. I also didn't expect the controls for multiple engines to be so simple, you just map one key per engine to toggle controls for it on and off.
Isaac James
nice I've considered making a tutorial, but decided against it because lmao fuck wtg
>2016 warthunder.com/en/news/4151-special-operation-s-u-m-m-e-r-en/ >4 premiums >can only get 2 (tank + plane) >both tanks are shit >tigercat is meh, Fw189 isn't even modeled inside and so low BR it doesn't matter >shitty decals >RNG boxes that will likely mainly give boosters instead of discounts and talis