I really didn't want to have to make this video guys, I'm sorry but there is so many new folks right now and they need to hear this. We will be digging deeper into some of the basics over the next couple months. Please let me know if you have any specific topics you want covered. Meanwhile, Gaijin makes a video on aircraft to win head ons with! Fml

5 things I’m probably doing wrong: 1.) Playing them in the first place

I was in a 9.0 match and someone ask where the airfield was to land. Yes he bought the premium jet and was in his 3rd match in his war thunder career. There is your failure, right there Gaijin.

Before I watch, here are the 5 things I think he’ll mention 1. Turnfighting 2. Climbing like a prop 3. Full commit headons 4. TURNFIGHTING 5. Not keeping speed up

translation to more vague terms: rule 1: nobody wins a headbutt rule 2: you can't make that jump without a running start rule 3: don't waste your potential on lowlifes rule 4: the deeper the hole you dig the harder to get out of it rule 5: don't try to 1v1 in a cage match

i'm blaming the premiums and you've hit all the nails on the head, jets are very frustrating currently

Im relatively new to my squadron and one day on discord theyre amazed that I can "read my enemies movements". Then I realized they have no clue the C key exists...

It's actually good to be dead with one kill nowadays - it's almost a win. Most of the matches I'm dead with 1-3 kills, and all my teammates are dead with 0.

*me, vibing in my spitfires:* Interesting

This might not only be applicable to jets, but most are also applicable to props. Also my take on climbing, climb to combat altitude, unless an enemy appears. If that happens, accelerate to combat speed.

Im digging the movie screen looking videos. Looks nice

Keeping cool and not hard evading everyone who might look at you for 0.2 sec takes time and experience to get the hang of, but it ties into situational awareness, and keeps you alive in the long run. I think getting the hang of that and managing my energy was probably the turning point in my jet game

Thx for making this video really. i had bought the Swift(my first jet) and i just kept losing matches, kept dying and losing money, but after watching this and applied it to my gameplay the improvement was so major, i went from not making any kills and just die to making 3 kills per match and win.Keep it up with the videos.

5 things your doing wrong with jets: 1 - playing jets 2 - playing jets 3 - playing jets 4 - playing jets 5 - playing arcade jets

I've started playing jet with France (not the best I know ) I've seen ur 2 videos abouts head on and C key , thx you for all the good advice , helped a lot ! keep the good work , I'm actually using the super Mystere with the AA nord missile and thx too you I get 1 or 2 kills every games , thx a lot ! need giving advice like that u are helping the community at your level !

Ive been playing for years, im terrible at jets, thanks for the videos, subbed. Tanks is my thing.

The one thing your doing wrong is actually playing top tier at all. Play mid and low tiers its much more fun im telling you this from experience

5 Things You're Probably Doing Wrong in Jets Number 1: You play Jets

Thank you, bobross ultrawide guy!

This is the pain of flying solo instead of squads

All fun and games until an I15 comes.

You really should have more subscribers! Keep up the great work

thanks for making good informative videos, good quality, and not having an annoying / overly loud voice really is unique these days ;)

"A jet with no speed is a dead jet."

Why does every youtuber think extremely long and LOUD intro music is required? Despite that, the video was basic but informative, I've gone from props to 10.3 instantly, my friend insisted that he gift me the F-5C so i could "Suffer as he suffers" and I was struggling to do anything but die. This advice helped a little. So thanks.

Number 1: playing jets.

recently discovered this game and absolutely loved it. it´s a fun "battle royale" thing but on a realistic scenario. still on 2 level planes (YAK1 and MIG3) and enjoy the "everybody shoots everybody" dogfight. except with the Nimrod damm this plane is slow you should thank God if you hit somebody. fight against an I-15 or a YAK1 is asking to be killed

"It's not a carrier plane" The wing: *NAVY*

Tip from me: It's better to stay alive with 2-3 assists then die with 1 kill. This same 5 mistake list is present in US prop planes.

The one problem i have with the first one is that every head on, if the enemy breaks off or doesn't commit to it fully, i can just shoot them as they turn, most of my head on kills are people trying to turn away during a head on.

Whooptie, I have nothing but respect for you, but I will keep doing “full commit” headons. I know how to do head ons, and when I pull off I always get hit. I’ve taken a Narval in a headon in a 162, and I wasn’t scared, and I came out undamaged. I can do head ons good, reliably. Amazing video, I will show everyone I know.

So basically : 1. You're not a propellor plane. 2. Du bist kein Propellorflugzeug 3. Angery German ranting

Thank you! I want to speak about those and many other Problems for long time. Tried to do it with different War Thunder KZfaqrs, but they decline to speak/make content about this kind of Topics for whatever reasons. Games consist of roughly two Systems: The Creators and the Customers/ Players. If the Creators do not want to change some stuff for better gameplay it is up for the Community of Players to change some things to improve the gameplay. Overall more intelligent and social behaviour but also many other things. Every individual Person needs to make our Environment better because thinking that others might do that is the biggest mistake. Maybe we can talk via Ts/Discord some day ;) Keep it on with the improvements!

I just started playing this game so im a tier 2 plane

Ur video give True advices but its easier to say "hey, play better !" when u fly a hunter or g91

Just wanted to say Im a fairly new player played on and off for a year barely just now getting into low tier jets 6.7 same wiht tanks and your videos help immensely

Thanks this helped a lot

I feel like new players dont know how to open up the game, like they dont know what to do. Should they rush? should they camp? should they just climb and hope for the best? these players need these kinds of videos.

this really helped me a lot as a new jet player

There's only one thing more frustrating than when I fly my phantom to 30k ft, just to see my entire team trying to turn fight on the deck (If you want to turn fight fly mustangs, 109s, and spits.), and that is when I come up behind an enemy chasing a friendly... I'm lined up perfectly going mach1.3.... 2mi out.... friendly does a 180 turn towards me.... enemy follows him into a sharp turn and my shot is ruined, forcing me to pull off and sacrifice all my energy if I decide to turn around and try again. I've baited so many people just by turning away from my team mate so that they could get on the enemy 6 and save my butt. It's not that hard because like he said, most players get tunnel vision on the one dude they're following. Help me help you and turn away from me, not in to me.

Number six: you’re playing jets way too much, go back to earlier tiers for some fun

Just got the panther, and between missiles and uptiers I need to get better. Thanks for the tips.

I'd like to add two things people shouldn't do in top tier matches. 1. Last second head-ons, because most of the time it's not much different than regular full commit head-on. Really annoying move and not really worth executing, but a lot of people do it. 2. (This one had to be here) Taking props into jet matches, because why not weaken the team just because two or three guys want to have fun.

This current meta is exactly why I like flying the swift f7 so much. It pretty much destroys anyone with no experience. Head-on? Try a fire streak missile from 4km away. If that misses enjoy the 2 Adens then (and obviously still pull off in time) Climbing? Did you say climbing? Well if anything climbs well it's this. I love getting someone on my tail and then showing them the power of that after burner. Only the f5 outclimbs it but you can stay out of that ones sights pretty easily and when you get to stall speeds you turn better Those cannons also make really quick work of anything that's going slow. In the meantime you can easily maintain well over 1000kmh i love it

“Don’t dive on your enemy” *proceeds to dive on enemy*

One thing people do wrong is get the F-86-A5 sabre thinking they're going to have fun with it.

I got my first jet after 4 years. I play this game since 2014. Gotta say, my first impression was "oh man, is this jet battle?" Not very satisfied. The player always either die in a headon or crash to the ground or collide eachother. Rare cases was, being team killed by a missile. And uh, my first jet was Me 163 B (MK108 ver) and at 8.0, this thing is hard to play. Idk maybe im not experienced enough or it just not fit in a "jet" battle, since the plane wasnt even a jet powered.

Man, I have the Mig9 and Mig15 and I flew for myself, got a kill and died, but since I watched this video I end top score with 3 kills or so. Keep it up with yhe great content

Thank you

I find the best thing number 2 is go in a test flight and find you angle of climb.

Play props AND don’t buy a premium jet until you have a 1.0KD

Its best to climb at about mach .8, just as you hit transonic drag rather than pushing it to 1000kph.

The problem is: even if you stay alive and help your team, you don't get many RP and SL, only if you get kills you get RP and SL

You forgot about the mistake of playing Warthunder nearly every day of my life lol

1:15 people dont realise that if they prioritise the team over yourself then you'll likely maximise the chance of winning because you can apply your resources elsewhere, and you get huge bonuses to rp and sl for wins. If you're desperate near the end of a winning match for points then kill AI. Also, headons are a valid tactic. The problem is just full commit. I use headons reliably to merge people who beeline towards me without thinking about positioning - makes sure we're on the same energy level and altitude, and means that they can't slot into me by merging with me on my side. It's easy to dodge headons by kicking the rudder and pitching sideways and then rolling under the guns of the enemy - they cant rapidly pitch down to get you. You also get a chance to get a cheeky pilotsnipe or damaging their engine in props which massively hurts their endurance.

Because of this summer sale I thought in my infinate wisdom, to buy a jet even though I've never played one before. I've watched plenty of jet videos and did a few test flights to get some of the basics, and the first game I saw it all. Players climbing like props, people focusing one target and leaving themselves on low energy states, people going into headons at every opportunity. 2nd game I played I almost had an ace, but the last guy crashed himself rather than die to my missle. That same game 3 of my team were in props including a pshooter. And I'll say this, fighting in jets speed is indeed life, in a down tier or even slight uptier the only advantage I really have is quantity of missles and my planes maneuverability, (guess what I bought lmao) but an uptier i feel so helpless due to supersonic aircraft everywhere, I cant run, and I'm outgunned, it's very frustrating having just taken off and an f104 is already on my ass

first thing that hit me was nostalgia from that music. Damn.

I appreciate this video, ive only just reached near top tier for aircraft, but am still not the best pilot. Ground battles are my expertise, but with this I can hopefully be better for both myself, and my team

When the intro music played I thought that my Spotify was playing lmao

jokes on you, I don't have jets unlocked yet

Top 1 thing people do wrong: Not killing the enemy I'm trying to bait for them in favor of diving after a burning flat spinning missing-half-a-wing phantom.

Thanks for the guide, done me a lot of good when flying jets.

Keep the good vids coming

Full comit head on's in a saber or mig is a kill for your team

Do a guide on TU-4 please

whooptie: its better to stay alive but do no kills than to be bead but have 1 kill me: has no kills and is also dead

The number of Hunter F.GA 9s that have stupidly fixated and blown all of their energy trying to outmaneuver my F-86F-2 is beyond belief.

thanks you that help me so not be too focus and don't loose dumbly energie because engine don't accelerate in the blink of an eye :/ well i have a lot to learn from jet

the reason why so many players do all of this is simple : jet matches usually last for not more than a few mins at max. sometimes the match is already over when the first enemy blobs hit each other. by then youre pretty much done if you re not flying a top tier aircraft. as an example the g91 in the german tech tree has no hope of ever winning any fight on its own. youre doomed without missiles to fight things like the lightning. youll get constant uptier. everyones faster than you and you cant really outturn anyone too. your retention is shit and then your only chance as a player new to jets is try to pop a few shots in headons and pull off. some commit too much because they know its probably their only chance to net some xp. people wont care about repcosts unless they fly a prop like the ta 152 or sth like that. its the god damn perma uptiers the useless aircraft and the game itself that seems to force people into doing such things. 9/10 games i play in the g91 are like that. you try to pop some shots in the headon watch your team getting slaughtered and then youre doomed to fly defensively for the rest and maybe just MAYBE someone is stupid enough to give you a reverse. even aircraft that are not bad by any means like the mig 15 bis have a big problem of facing constant uptiers not beeing able to play by their strengths and forced to watch their team getting slaughtered. so i can completely understand that some people just want a few xp points wich is the most important thing on jets. noone will care about the silver lions. people dont learn the strengths of their aircraft because theres literally 0 reason to do so in most matches. another problem is that the lowtier jets especially on the german side are a gamble. the me 262 is kinda ok the 163 is a pile of dogshit because everyone knows that youre running out of fuel soon so how should you learn anything if youre not having at least a small piece of light at the end of the tunnel. so you grind your way to the "more useful" ones like the mig 15 only to realize that by doing that you completely lack the knowledge on how to fight in this thing and even if you know how to you realize that in the end youre aggain prey to other jets that are simply better in every stat than you..... if they fixed the br issues you might wait longer for a game if only certain jets would be allowed to fight each other but in the end the playerbase would learn MUCH more slowly climbing their way up the ladder instead of skipping and then getting rekt aggain. for me i stopped playing jets at the g91 and the mig 15 as i dont find it pleasent to face constant uptiers when the difference between the tiers is SO MUCH bigger than on props while you also need so much xp for even the dumbest and most necessary eq. i enjoy flying high tier props like the ta much more than the jet madness and pretty much everyone i know thinks about this the same regardless of having high tier jets like the mig 21.

The problem I'm finding is that unlike props, because of the BR compression there is 0 learning curve... Immediately you're thrust into games vs higher tier jets who are all faster than you and have missiles especially the op premium ones. So there's very little opportunity for improvement.

No one: Warthunder: *the missle is launched*

I think everyone would benefit from more training material in the game; not just basic tutorials that only teach you keybindings, but tutorials that are essentially just missions. You only get better at something like this by doing it over and over, and if new players had access to repeatable single player missions that worked on established principles in the game and in real life, they could more quickly understand the basic functions and theory of the game.

some of these things could also be said about prop planes too

I know im going to get chewed out for saying this but War Thunder RB matches are a sweatfest. Enduring confrontation is just an ongoing match where u can do what you want vs doing the same strategy over and over. Vaas would be disappointed

Thanks for a video. And youv earned a sub. Watched a few other of your videos its good to see a pilot with some actual skill... I do headons at 1.8 i fire in 3 burts and at 1.1-1.2 depending on closing speed i break off and do a rolling reversal normally ending in a split s to get on thier tail.

Tip #6 tips 1-5 are useless provided you don’t get hit

Very nice video, as a new player to RB I'm glad you did this I learned alot !!

Here is another tip if your in a 2v2 dog fight and you kill one dont leave your buddies to go land and re arm and re fuel if you have a fully functional aircraft, even if your out of ammo the enemy does not know that help your teammate get that last kill by either baiting your buddy to get that last kill or ram the sob on the enemy team to get the win

I just got my first jet and this is super helpful thanks :)

Exactly. I FIND MYSELF THE ONLY ONE IN THE MATCH TEAM PLAYING and side climbing. Not to mention the kill stealing. Lately I’ve found myself to be either being chased down by the entire enemy team when the match starts because my whole team side climbed for no apparent reason or I’m the last man standing because I chose not to commit myself into being trapped.

Im still in 5.7 props and play like garbage but i wanna start jets the right way thx for the vid

I suck at Jets. Gonna put these into practice

really good videos man. my favourite jet is the f9f-8.

I don’t need to climb in a jet.... that makes so much sense

Another issue, when someone is in the F100D, you get 4 f4ej or migs behind you all trying to kill you. Then your team doesn't take the bait while they are doing 400 knots.

What would be a good gun convergence for a newbie in jets using a F-86F - 35 (my first jet)?

This helped me a lot Thank you. Please bring more tips on jet gameplay.

6th people with Phantom doing a dogfight against MiG - 21, 7th people with IQ 20 playing with Phantoms II

Your intros are the best man, so epic!

This was helpful. I prefer jets over props and it just sucks that the first ranks don't set you up for jet combat.

It happens on every battle rating just like I killed a fw200 on br 2.7 and it wasn't fully dead but falling to the ground and everyone just dove on it instead of attacking working planes just so they would get that kill

Things that i notice that jet pilots as early as they unlock missles completly forget about their guns

I feel like the main struggle for me is that I’m just ass at the game, and when I try to help the team I get no kills and get zero progress done on my research.

hey man, I was wondering if you could make the enemy color different (maybe red or yellow, something that contrasts the blue well) during replays? I'm colorblind and it's very difficult to tell the difference.

thanks for the vid mate.i subbed.

I do the old meta of staying on deck and rushing in my cl 13 but the whole enemy team gets on my six with faster mig 17s and teammates focus on the 1 or 2 people that ignored me. Current meta is cancer.

Me : play as a team will be great . Gaijin : ka50

8:45 That shot was _nasty._

the thing i have a real problem with is that you fly for 10 minutes actually getting to the fight and either the entire enemy team is dead already or everyone is alive and they all flock to you and theres no way to outrun US jets while in soviet jets at 8.7

Right before i played the g91 r3 i basically only played the do335b. And really all i had to do was take a similar mentality to the d0335b playstyle and apply it to the g91. - Keep your speed up because your acceleration isnt as good as any of the other planes. Dont do vertical turns because youll bleed too much speed. Dont commit to head ons because even slight damage can make merely flying a chore. Dont dive because you compress like a mofo. Climb at a rate where your still gaining speed. Dont spray and pray. - Im not a good jet pilot but at least i know the basics.