War Thunder

>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

>Youtube Channel with Tutorials and Gameplay Videos
youtube.com/user/galahadgawain/playlists

>Steam community:
steamcommunity.com/groups/warthundervg

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

>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

>Chart displaying weapon effectiveness against ground units
docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1H1_cSnYKSKbU6Giql2bMDdFoXefeq6ENWuvjQbtquMs

>thread full of shitpositng
>3 new threads 50 posts before bump limit

>lots of legitimate game discussion
>845 answers and no one arsed to put new one up

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Essential: G-resistance, Stamina
Useful: Vitality, Awarness
Meh: Keen Vision
Gunner and Ground Service skills are useful only in Arcade, don't bother until you have pilot maxed out.

Also you can purchaise Qualification upgrade for crew (Expert costs only SL, but Ace costs GE). These provide significant upgrade to all skills, but only for that one plane&crew combination.

Ace is free after playing a plane/tank for over 9000 hours and gets cheaper with every milestone before becoming free

>doesn't have 'wtg' in the subject

How is making threads this fucking hard for you people?

Better than gravijew trying to hijack

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I have aced He-111, and are about 25k RP from having ace for P-51

What about gunner vitality for planes with turrets?

And what's the difference between g-resistance and stamina?

need a fix for whythe camera keeps locking up i the hanger

I guess from the wording in the game that stamina increases the time you can stay while the screen is blacked out before the pilot passes out. G-resistance seem to be how long it takes to enter that blacked out screen.

JUST
MAX
IT
OUT

G resistance increases how many Gs you can pull before they affect you at all. Stamina increases the time you can be under the effects of high Gs, and how long until the G timer resets.

Overall I think stamina is worth more. It's easy to "edge" the blackout if you fiddle with laying off the turn for short durations with high stamina.

Why would you handicap yourself by not playing on ULQ?

Self respect

>goundpounders will defend this as acceptable

>losong within 2 minutes

Dayyymm this game looks nice on ultra. Can the PS4 get that good?

warthunder.com/en/news/4232-special-tanker-s-day-specials-en/

>all this work for a slav m3 lee at tier 3

How generous

How much more RP does it earn?

battletime is just how long you were actually doing something
also
>people cry about groundpounders in arcade
>fly out A-20 (since I have no actual bombers past TBF)
>no one bothers me, when I fly along frontline machinegunning soft targets and dropping bombs on bunkers
>kill clueless Ki-something helicoptering above frontline
>2 more tards try to headon me
>I ran out of GTs to kill, go after trucks near airfield and finally AI AAA shots me down

>groundpounder proving the point

whats the earliest jet engine plane i can unlock?

just stop playing

>tfw i exclusively play spitshitters IIb-IX and club in arcade
>tfw 10+ kills every round
>tfw accused of hacking every other game
How can slav(e)aboos and jerrycucks even compete?

actually that was a win for our side...

Does this look like a fun game for anyone? This is fucking standard now.

If you don't contribute to battle, you don't get much battletime.
If you do nothing to prevent other side from winning, they will win easily.
Those 2 are not that hard to figure out.

Do you really think this fight was much longer than 2 mins? But sure, you keep thining everything is just dandy in AB

Yes? Maybe you should do the objective instead of flying in cricles waiting for a duel

yeah im a horrible human being for trying to climb for a minute to reach bomber height.

>the objective
>ending the game in >4 min
>fun for no one else but the two top bombers.

it's pretty standard T4 battle, when there's enough Do-217 or Halifax'es WEP-diving from 1st second and dropping bombs at 850km/h

Gaijin should either add wing tearing in arcade, or prevent planes from gaining speed once they reach wing-tearing speed.
>inb4 lol, no it's arcade
They added G-force blackout and controls stiffening in dive to arcade

Youre the only one crying, kid.

what am I looking at here?

>kid
Autist detected

Well every one else has left War thunder. Fucking playerbase is dropping like a stone, kid.

They should remove all bombers and attackers, and while we're at it interceptors since well no longer need them.

Then we can just have fights and heavy fighters to dogfi... oh right this isnt a dogfighting game and never has been.

T-64 destroyed by 125 mm HE. Lower glacis has no composite, so plate sent spall inside of tank, racking it up

What a shame, arcade shitters are leaving.

>yeah totally

Or just make matches longer than >4mins. Where every game gets ruined by two bombers kamikazing on their first run and then ending the game on their second dive.

Hell i remember when "enemy has lost all vechicles" was quite common.

But fuck me for wanting to actually play the game and not sit in a que just to play for a few minutes getting two or three kills at the most in the furball, or watch it end as i try to climb to meet the dive bombing B29s

Fuck you you metagamin math bomber

>waaahhhhh why isn't every match a 5 minute team deathmatch

Youre complaining once again about a specific br range and game mode.

Do this thread a favor and off yourself for being incompetent.

ops put my >

Does reactive armour not work against HE then?

Literally play RB if you want games to be forced 10 mins minimum

>specific BR range.
Its the same in T1-2 as it is in T3-4, not like you give a fuck about that do you?

So why are you getting your panties in a twist about someone complaining about bombers ruining AB then?

Could it be you are one of those bomber pilots who just care about the easy XP and hide behind
>RB is where the real game's at

>i love games that are 3 mins and two bombers gets reasonable xp

You are full of shit. Ive played early tier AB br ranges and its not over in 2-4 mins.

Stop making up shit you fucking shitter.

I thought you only played RB you autistic fuck

>im retarded and refuse to play objective
>why is this game not a dogfight simulator
>why is no one flying up to me to give me rp

thats not how ERA works
at all

ERA is only good against SC attacks (HEAT) while there are some Advanced ERA types that work against KEPs there arent any that work against HE because of the way HE and ERA works ERA only works against things penetrating it HE just splashes ERA away also slavs dont mount ERA on LFPs for the same reason they have weak LFPs in the first place : highly unlikely to get hit (according to statistics)
some later versions of T-64 and T-80 get a "skirt" in front of the LFP but im not 100% sure what its suposed to do (NERA maybe? or just a liner to pop HEAT before it reaches the tank?? )

>played

Shall we now have an english lesson?

>i enjoy being a selfish bomber prick stop pointing out my meta game

>autism intensifies
>i love being a smug fat fuck

>XP

Hello WG shill.

Here in WT we dont have 'XP' we have research points (rp) and silver lions (sl).

>literally every other game
>waaaahhhhh why aren't they playing the objective
>war thunder
>waaaahhhhh why are they playing the objective

>look at me be retarded and play arcade that has these issues instead of RB which doesnt.

>lol find the small flaw so we dont have to address the issue
Well could that be because suddenly every fucking game ends in 4 mins thanks to groundpounders, where earlier a game could be 15 min and go on until
>the enemy has lost all its vehicles

But i guess that would trigger your autism not being able to max out your rp gain from playing the bomber metagame

>Well could that be because suddenly every fucking game ends in 4 mins thanks to groundpounders
this literally never happens

meanwhile 99% of matches are 15 minute team deathmatch

>the main game mode is broken
>play in autism corner instead!

The main game mode is made for autistic kids like you with no patience. Please quit this game and rid yourself from our general.

>i only play RB
>AB is always >15 mins

Logic from a fat autist

>arcade

>16 posters

So tell me WG shill is this your first time on Veeky Forums too?

>no patience

I guess that's why you are defending the 3 minute bomb thunder games then

Conaidering they play the objective yeah.

If you want longer games you play RB and if you want never ending hide and seek dogfights play EC

>RB Korea
>Objective: help the tanks capture the airfield
>takes 25 minutes at best
>literally impossible to play because game-ending trucks appear 20 minutes into the match

>never ending hide and seek dogfights play EC

What did he mean by this?

You're such an autist its not even funny. Aspie?

You cant see that its fucking frustrating going in for some fun dog fighting only to see the game end after three minutes because some FAT AUTIST DECIDED TO BE A SELFISH PRICK.

But i guess the concept of "fun" is to abstract for you.

I play arcade and literally no match I've played ended in 3 minutes

>angry autistic kid posting

clearly didn't help this one. Modern tanks have spall liners where there's no composite, to prevent things like that from happening.

>where earlier a game could be 15 min and go on until
>the enemy has lost all its vehicles
literally happened only in Air Domi and (very rarely) in Frontlines, which combined make up maybe 15% of battles.

Vast majority of battles ended (and still end) with one side achieving objective. Source of current issues is significant reduction of GTs (from 70-something to sometimes as low as 24), and recent DM buff for all planes, which allows bombers to survive more hits, turning bull charge toward GTs into effective tactic.
Also, for some reason, bombers can still manouver just fine with lost tail control, so only total kill can stop them.

Reactive armor is there to defeat the meme beam of molten fuck you from shaped charges. It quite literally explodes it away, dissipating it's form and making it ineffective.

A small block of shaped explosives isn't going to stop a fuckheavy shell that exists to explode. It might soften in marginally, but it's like saying you can slow down a barreling, loaded 18 wheeler by driving head on into it with a smart car.


Ruskies don't put a lot of bother into their LFP because it's statistically the least likely place to get hit, and no one "aims for it" in real life.

>stock Sea Fury
>chasing Yak-3P at low altitude
>I'm right where he should want me
>he smashes himself into the ground

>parts module can repair completely damaged barrels and engines

Homefront The Revolution is free this week if any of you lads want to play

Do you realise how fucking frustrating this game would be if it didnt?

Crew skills were the worst thing to ever happen to this game

>completely damage enemy's gun barrel
>he repairs it before I can finish reloading
>he one-shots me

+10 GE!

What is that about?

Is a open world shooter, just figured you guys may want to relax a bit

and it's beyond shit.

p-please don't ruin this for me before it's even downloaded

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>playing a ground pounder

REEEEEEE YOUR RUINING THE GAME

il-2 isnt really a ground pounder.
More of a ground tickler

>A-20 and IL-2 fly from one end of map to another, bombing GTs
>both of them flying same path over and over, in the middle of map, under 1000 m
>for over 10 minutes no one bothers to go after them
>eventually they kill all GTs and win battle
gee, I wonder why the other team lost?

>tfw I haven't played since june, but come to visit the general every now and then

arcade players are retarded, don't bother arguing with him

>gunner suddenly in deadzone

I was confused by that also

premium tier V when?

STILL not getting torpedo hits!!

only just found out the marker goes green when im in range but i still didnt hit anything ;_; i aimed ahead and everything im sure my torps are on target

>3 ton bomb lands on carrier
>Hit

Get closer
like 1km close

drop from 1km or less

Yeah PT botes is pretty hard to play. Hopefully CBT makes it a bit easier as time goes on

also when you drop it this close turn away after you drop or the explosion will fug you.

is m46 worth playing

so green means nothing?

>closer
>H8k2