/wtg/ - War Thunder General

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>Official Site:
warthunder.com/

NOTE: You get given a premium aircraft for your first victory in game!
Need a faster download? Switch Language in Launcher.

>Wiki with Release Trees and General Tactics:
wiki.warthunder.com/index.php

>Fan created skins, missions, locations, fictions etc...
live.warthunder.com/ (Warning! Pure weeaboo and horsefucker autism abound)

>Ammunition Types
wiki.warthunder.com/index.php?title=Category:Ammunition

>All the Air RB/SB maneuvers you would want to know + Engine thingamabobs:
steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=200974026

>Every Airplane Instrument Panel translated
mediafire.com/view/q4nybrogygdchdb/ND's_aircraft_reference_guide.pdf

>Steam community:
steamcommunity.com/groups/warthundervg

>vg chatroom:
Type " /join vg " into chatbox.
If prompted for a password, use "memes".

>Here is a teamspeak channel (You) can use
ts.gonnahate.org

>Joystick Comparisons:
xbitlabs.com/articles/multimedia/display/joystick-roundup_8.html

>DIY Headtracking
pcgamer.com/how-to-build-your-own-ir-head-tracker/
ebay.com/itm/161710468074

Other urls found in this thread:

b-29doc.com/2016/07/23/video-beautiful-video-footage-from-first-flight-chase-plane/
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas_XB-19
twitter.com/SFWRedditVideos

1st for boipucci

wew lad

Bernie called for a rolecall vote tomorrow. We still got a chance. I propose we start a custom battle game to celebrate in WT, no ts aspies allowed

>past three games
>5.3 claps
>facing 6.3 enemy
>flank
>bad angles
>miss by inches
>rounds just meme all over the place
>near impossible to frontally pen enemy
>can't even more from flank position because there are always 3 tigers waiting for me to come out

they know i can face 4.3 tanks too right? 5.3 would be really nice :(

>posted from my troublesome to operate easy 8

How good was this fighter?

>An overall assessment of the effectiveness of the Ki-100 rated it highly in agility, and a well-handled Ki-100 was able to outmanoeuvre any American fighter, including the formidable P-51D Mustangs and the P-47N Thunderbolts which were escorting the B-29 raids over Japan by that time, and was comparable in speed, especially at medium altitudes.
I'd expect it to be 5-5.7 BR.

Movement doesn't really matter that much in this current meta. What mattes is cannon power and I gotta say when this happens it's annoying.

>literally a worse ki-61

>le speed is everything post

>Movement doesn't really matter that much in this current meta.

meantime hellcat is at 5.0 br

did you meme them to meme?

With a completely nerfed cannon.

it literally is

There's a reason why le turny turny japs got btfo by fast burgers late war

because burgers outnumbered them

Is it the same reason le turny turny japs also got btfo when they were also faster than the allied Buffalos?

Anime and tanks I guess. . .

memeing them good friend

You know what really grinds my gears?
That no one ever even tries to fly defensively.
Every time me and my teammates find ourselves at high alt with a slight disadvantage they all dive to the deck the moment they get a an enemy on their six and I find myself alone up there. Every single match.
They get the first step right but then forget that they actually need to do something with the alt they've gotten.
I honestly prefer having people that don't climb at all on the team.

Have a 190.

This is the prestigious and elite fighter pilot Adolf Galland's Bf109F-2 that was modified with wing mounted 20mm cannons along with the main guns already in the nose

>tfw never because why have that plane when you can get more shitty tank premiums and whatever crap is being give away in this shit event

Thanks Gaijin. . .

Most players unironically think defensive maneuvers don't work and just give up when they're in a plane that is fast but can't climb and see a plane that can climb but can't go as fast

There's a reason why some of the fastest burger planes are at pitifully low BR

How the fuck do you balance RB air for bombers? I've been playing this shit since beta and i keep coming back asking the same thing. I don't even fly bombers, but they are either cannon fodder or annoying time wasters in matches. Never in between.

Gaijin has made it clear that the only vehicles worth playing are bombers with OP defensife armament

See: Tu-4, Il-28

>5-5.7 BR
>Tier 3

I mean I'm memeing them GOOD

>tier
>meaning anything

>German Tanks
>balanced
lmao
They are literal tinderboxes. There is no point in taking them until Gayjin gets over their shitty bias and actually makes them fun to play
>inv4 MUH NAZIBOO
Germany is literally objectively worse than all the other factions. Disregarding facts with pointless memes is just childish.

>posted from my kugelblitz
meanwhile you have provided 0 facts to support your argument

So, basically, only bombers that can shoot down aircraft are worth using because RB air is all about which team can shoot down all the planes. It could be an awesome 15 minute furball or 45 minutes of chasing some scrub b-25 around the map, doesn't matter because ground targets just don't matter aside from a few maps.

What I'm saying is, if you fly bombers regularly, kill yourself and save everyone some time.

>A6M5
>A6M5 otsu
>Ki-61 hei
>Ki-61-II

What exactly are you getting at?

>awesome 15 minute furball
Fuck off back to arcade where you belong

>unironically whining about the second best tanks tier 1-4

>the game needs another premium
No.

literally german tanks are easy modo

Diving is a defensive maneuver, and it usually works, that's why people do it.

Why are you complaining about premiums? WT isn't even pay to win

The axis had some of the most relevant and well known aces yet there STILL aren't any tier 4 ace premium planes

>and it usually works
It doesn't. All it does is put you in an even more shit position.

How do i ta152 H1?

It only works when you actually put all that gained kinetic energy to good use

Hold J, play a dora.

Like flying away and leaving the enemy alone up high so that they have nothing better to do than dive and start fighting your low-altitude teammates, then coming back with an advantage?

Howdy newfriend,

It seems like you've accidentally replied to a meme post. We here at /wtg/ wish you the best but ask that you lurk more and learn the thread culture before responding to a repost. Remember to have a good time with your buddies at /wtg/!

How do I d9 then?

Go fast
Never go not fast
Abuse your superior roll rate to outmaneuver enemies

>diving doesn't work
okay lad

>blow all your energy
>be at low alt afterwards
>enemies all above you now instead of some
>man, that maneuver sure helped me

>chase spit in the vertical in my dora
>get a few hits
>dive
>spit tries to follow me and rips
>I get credit for the kill
they fall for it every time, it's hilarious

>by converting your potential energy into kinetic energy you have lost energy
Wow, I hate physics now!

This

Kinetic energy is what wins dogfights

Which no one ever does, read my fucking first post again

by making you harder to turn

How do I B-25 without getting shot down every single fucking battle?

>turning is the only way to maneuver

This is the average war thunder shitter

Get better at using your gunners.

>ULQ
Get gassed.

By not flying that trash and instead flying the peanut butter and jelly.

So what do you suggest, diving in the direction of your teammates till you're at near max speed which is higher than their max speed, extend until they turn away, and then climbing back up?

God no wonder this thread is 99% tanks. You retards are too stupid to figure out how to fly a plane.

>mouse and move

literally for retard

Please tell me how diving all the way to the deck from 7k is useful.

>literally point and click

If you play arcade you need to leave wtg

You are NOT welcome here

>flying without using the keyboard

You are the retard here

Are you guys talking about tanks or about planes cause I can't tell.

Tanks? Yeah.

>if you use a tactic you must be using it wrong like a moron!
t. you

Planes

wow, you gotta control your elevator, rudder, and flaps from time to time, so hard.

Holy shit who the fuck said anything about diving all the way from 7km to the deck

lmao i have like 1000 arcade battles with my ufo-190

what you gonna do about it??

How is diving all the way to the deck a tactic?
How does it help you?

Sorry to trigger you friend. I just like to keep my FPS as steady as possible.

ATGM are a favorite of plane users because the controls are exactly the same, mouse and drag

The very post that started the discussion
>they all dive to the deck the moment they get a an enemy on their six

Must suck having shit reading comprehension.

How does ULQ benefit you in planes?

Tanks REQUIRE two hands at least.

You literally only need a mouse to use planes.

Everything is way clearer and easier to see

just try it, you won't want go back to higher settings unless you're autistic

Okay so what additional output is needed for tanks other than point and click, WASD, a few number keys, change view, and occasionally machine gun? That's basically the bare minimum for planes.

>You literally only need a mouse to use planes.
lmao do you only play arcade or something

I only play RB

After you take off the keyboard isnt necessary, so I just masturbate while flying to the combat area

not even good bait tbqh

>you don't use bombs or rockets, look around, fire his cannons and MGs separately, change view, deploy combat flaps, not to mention MEC

>After you take off the keyboard isnt necessary, so I just masturbate while flying to the combat area
>what is engine control
>what is gear
>what are flaps
>what are air brakes
>what is small and large caliber gun control
>what is rudder control and tail control
>what are rockets
>what are bombs

>replying to obvious bait

>teammates run into airfield leaving me alone with a bomber
>go to land and J out but then the nigger who's been ground pounding the entire game and I can't find kills me

Epic.

Why didn't you put up a blind hunt and shoot him down while he was still groundpounding?

Restored B-29 Takeoff footage: b-29doc.com/2016/07/23/video-beautiful-video-footage-from-first-flight-chase-plane/

Being there, I can tell you that the B-29 is definitely a fuckhuge plane

>use 500% booster
>obviously get up tiered
>literally just want to kill myself
>forgot that i can just turn on my freedom
>toggle that freedom on and start going burger mode
>let that dank ass freedom ring
>still shit RP gains

ok :(

WT doesn't give you a real appreciation for how fuckhuge planes really are.

That's a big plane.

Why did they take so long to raise the gear? Or was it just super slow?

why didn't we get the B-19 aagain?

Apparently they had a warning light that went on and so they had to land immediately
Before they took off, they had to fix the bomb bay doors because they were stuck open
Shows you how reliable US WW2 planes were ))))))

If you're talking about

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas_XB-19

then good because fuck prototypes.

Because 2x37mm is just unfair. But tu-4 will be fine at 6.3 amirite?

we have Ho 229s, german napkinwaffles

Where do I go to buy missed challenges? I'm not seeing it anywhere.

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