Hi guys, Let me know if this was helpful or not. Should I have focussed on something special more than I did? Did I forget something? What was the most helpful thing in this guide? etc etc...

The most difficult part of aiming is that you have to consider how to lead the target while compensating for your own direction of travel. It is very realistic for sure.

Came back to Naval after a two years hiatus because Ground RB had beome so unbalanced and toxic. Took me about a month to learn all of this just by playing. Once you get the hang of it you can determine your range and lead before you have a firing solution. Especially satisfying in ships like the Glorious.

This is the video I was specifically waiting for, I really enjoy naval but sometimes I feel like I have no idea what to do

I would say the most difficult part for me is to not always follow the cheveron that shows the middle of the ship, but to aim infront/behind it to get the ammo detonation

Ripple fire if ur in ships with fast reload rate. (I mained America) it is very effective at getting hits and kills if u pay attention to the fall of ur shots.

Thankfully it didn’t take me long to learn how to hit targets consistently, but I had to come here to learn what components I should actually be aiming for as I’ve put it off for far longer than I probably should have 😂

Biggest thing to me is making sure to reduce the distance by 200m. Can be more can be less depending if one is getting closer (so reduce aiming distance more with fast ships going straight at each other it can sometimes be up to 700m less aiming distance from calculated distance), approx steady (keep distance as game suggest with maybe 100m less to hit the water line), and slightly increase if enemy is getting further away.

Torpedo guide. I suck with torps. PLEASE. Almost forgot my manners

Yesssss, more Naval love!!! Thank you, Man Also... Love the Beethoven's Alegretto nostalgia! ❤❤❤❤

Thanks for the great vid. It's been awhile now since someone did a good break down on aiming in navel. More vids like this are a great help. Keep up the good work.😊

Thank you for your super useful guide, I am now able to feel more confident to play Naval RB and deal tons of accurate damages and lots of kill assists.

I highly recommend this video as it's the right starting of the right way to learn how to play with the navy in war thunder. Much respect to you my friend, this is such a great video!

This is the guide we needed.

Always good to come back to fundamentals, this helped me relearn basic aiming after a few months long hiatus!

This is super helpful, going to go and play about with all this, thank you

I'm a little slow in discovering your channel, but good to see someone making naval vids. I wanted to comment (even though this is a few months old) and add a tip you seemed to have missed: Direction correction. You'll find it in the control settings for naval, and it allows you to manually adjust the horizontal position of the shell drop indicator relative to the carat. It makes aiming a lot easier as you can simple line up the lead indicator and aim carat and adjust the shell drop left or right to put the rounds where you want them. But it is most incredibly useful when aiming during turns as it allows you to compensate for the drift of the shell drop indicator by bringing it back where you want it. I use a Razer OrbWeaver, so I have d-pad under my thumb that I have bound to distance and direction correction, but you could either bind it to the arrow keys and bind right contol or num-pad 0 to fire or bind direction correction to mouse thumb buttons if you have them.

Well done and well explained. I've been playing since the start of the game but this really really helped... Thx

This guide is just Perfekt! Keep it up

Excellent info! I shared this with my Squadron mates. Thank you

Greadt guide, thank you

A very helpful guide, thank you

Thanks a lot for this awesome guide!

A problem i have with aiming in naval is that the distance jumps. lets say a target is 8.96 km away i can hold my mouse still and the distance still changes to 8.98 then to 8.94 it is a bit annoying. does have anyone a fix for this?

Currently I play mostly navy, battles are less painful.

I ve been playing naval for a long while now and still I havent understood a thing about it. You d easily mistake me for a bot player. First of all I dont understand what the conditions for getting a kill are, sometimes you shoot someone over and over and he never dies, sometimes he randomly dies with a few salvos. Also, what the different shells do exactly and what you should use is not really clear for me.

Many thanks, its help alot :D

9:20 This is all i needed, it is impossible to play ships without being able to target

I wish i had a squad in naval. Its never fun to do my best and still lose because the rest of the team is just bots who leave after 1 death.

Got yourself a sub commander

You can disable the torpedo lead indicator by pressing the torpedo mode button. Mapped to Q

you are a god send im new to naval at lvl 100

Me playing NAVAL: STAY IN THE CIRCLE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I am already pretty confident in my aiming abilities, good video though!

"On the Zehnertastatur in german" broke me xD Sehr schön, gefällt mir ^.^

Shhh 🤫 that’s all I have against premium spam.

I feel you on the 1 Mil SL video. How does the algorithm not take off with those?

If your new, just go for long range engagement and try to hit the enemy ships bridge. If you knock the bridge out they cant aim. This make it easy for your team to finish off the ship.

Napalm: this is how you Naval Me: point gun and go boom haha

Pressing Q will enable the torpedo lead indicator, and pressing it again will remove it as per your comment at 11:35. Hope that helps.

it is very helpful but explain me one thing full 200mm HE salvo from Ijn kako does not kill a PT boat

I hate the follow bullet camera I find it very distracting and its always disabled for me. yet I get between 10 to 15 to 1 KDA in most premium cruisers.

How to spot a naval player? By his 312 million SL haha

I play only acade battles since realistic mode is way to difficult , and even acade I still find myself having a super hard time to actually hit the target were I want it .

good tutorial helped me a lot!!

Brilliant!

100 crew ACE is apparently the meta, this game mode is unplayable unless you pay and grind to earn the ridiculous high crew ranks.

For me I am constantly struggling to even have any idea where to aim vertically because there used to be a reticle that shows you where you’re supposed to aim has two of them: one on the horizontal axis, and one on the vertical axis. A year or so afterwards, they got rid of the vertical reticle for no explicable reason. I’ve even had a fight the other day against a Kavkaz and my shells would constantly fly over the shop no later how lower and lower I aimed. It is extremely frustrating as almost every guide either was done with the aiming hud that no longer exists, or is a guide that doesn’t help me in the slightest by going “oh adjust your settings”. Which does not help as I had no issues aiming prior to the removal of the vertical axis reticle. The aiming in this video against ships less than 4 km away. My issue is that my shells never fly to where they were supposed to vertically and hitting anything beyond 5 km is near impossible. Meanwhile the enemy team flawlessly hit me constantly at 8+ km. I think this guide isn’t so much an aiming guide but more of a “where should you hit the enemy ship” guide. The vertical aiming issue has been plaguing this game for me for over a year. And I know that the horizontal line on the green reticle when aiming definitely isn’t where those shells are going to land, because 9 times out of 10 they either fly way over that or just fall extremely short. People shouldn’t have to wait for guided by player’s when Gaijin should update their tutorials because they explain nothing and the fact the aiming gif has gotten changed countless times to the point the tutorials and player guides are outdated. Oh and I wouldn’t be surprised if anything in this guide is even in the one I’m playing because I’m stuck on console.

When I move my mouse the distance still changes….

Great video. I enjoy much and also learned how to aim. Please let us know about crews. What is the most important factors to develop. Thank you

From my experience To hit target at Same position asap, I use ranging shot fire one by one until complete salvo this is useful when try to hit the ammorack of bigship and more chance to direct hit smol boat (You can setting turret raging shot too in Control Menu that Ratte show in the 4:48)

What's the best key binding for an xbox controller for the distance correction? Right now I'm using LB+Dpad down and up. But I don't know how to modify how much it changes the range or how fast it repeats!!! The aiming correction gets waaay off really really fast.

What is a CAP? How are the "zones" divided?

I learned everything in this video with pure experience didn't watch even a single guide

why i cant shoot the main guns with LMB and when reload just RMB the auxuiliary? why i have to swap to auxilary weapons to shoot them?

Very nice. Gaijins ranging always threw me off. Also if gaijin would just remove the compensation for your own movement and change the gunnery to something more akin to WoWS, more ppl would get a hang of it.

Do you have the problem when aiming where the green aiming reticule bounces up and down (as well as the distance) even without you moving the distance correction up/down? I will try to aim at waterline of boat but it may suddenly start quickly jumping above/below the boat. It happens randomly it seems and it also happens when trying to aim at terrain, such as aiming at an island to shoot a boat on the other side of the island.

What happened to crosshair lighting? I cant find it now.

make video of warship naval arcade battle aiming realistic off

Which nation has the worst ships? and why

yea that doesnt help if your hitting every time and still doing no damage even though your penetrating the armour

15:02 how to use this option? I can't find it

15:00 I noticed you can follow your shells all the way to the impact, but my camera stops a few hundred meters before, why is that?

I hit one ship like litterally 60 times and it didn't die

I still wish we had the old system back. The new one is so clumsy. Haven't played a naval match since "Direct Hit" went live and Flipped Stug quit.

Any help with tactics? I can do well if im allowed to leave spawn but thats hard when playing a 5.0 destroyer against bigger ships. I constantly get focused down as soon as i spawn by a CL

@Napalmratte how do you make it so the fall point reticle and you “Looking reticle” in aiming mode follow it when locking onto a target because for me it stays with the target which is annoying and it messes me up

Bro just casually has 500,000,000 SL

The crew are inside the boilers 😂

What button do i actually press to get the grey torpedo lock ? Can only get the green aim

HOW DO YOU HAVE SO MANY LIONS

What button do you use for zoom, since you use the mouse wheel for range correction?

thanks for that, i just wish they would stop resetting all the controls on major updates. how do you explain enemy ships firing and tracking you from the far side of an island or hill when you cant lock on them!?

Hello, I can't see the number of the distance for the target when a Island is in front of me. There is a solution for this?

how to follow the shells

Hi man sorry for the spam I'm not a bot, I recently got the IJN Yubari and I'm new to ships, I know everyone suggests the Moffet but I like Japanese ships, I am struggling with it abit and I haven't seen any videos on it. may you please showcase it at some point?

I set my scroll wheel to set correction, but when i do it in a test drive nothing happens. I lock onto target, scroll my wheel but green circle stay still, what should i do?

Wait a second. Is there any option to turn off auto ranging solution after target lock? Because it often not precise and I manually correct it with *mouse wheel*, but auto ranging reject my changes back and I alway battle with auto system. BTW, thanks for guide, long awaited.

I used the green circle to aim but i need look at the bottom just to hit something and i cannot see anything and i am on the 10 kill wager and i still can't hit anything cause i keep missing

Der Aiming Guide ist zwar gut aber für mich uninteressant. Spiele ja nur AB mit der Marine und das auch ziemlich selten seit 6 Wochen. Kann auch so aus dem Gefühl inziwischen anvisieren ohne nachdenken einfach so nach Bauchgefühl raufhalten und meistens liege ich recht gut oder nur knapp daneben.

This would only be helpful if naval was playable and not broken and bot-infested. I'm sick of planes one-bombing freaking battleships, enemies easily draining your crew in just a few shots, and ammoracking that obliterates the entire ship.

There is no logic in naval battles. It's just a random generator that does whatever it wants. It's pure suffering when you have to do some sort of shipwork

There is a lot of auto aim players..arcade or realistic

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thank you for trying but the system is far to complicated ,the ships are far from real so why all this stuff to hit something , why not have it like wow ships where all the good players learn to hit ships from any angle you need to do some skite shooting

Hallo

How to aim in naval: Step one: don't waste your time on naval Step two: enjoy

Do this in any other ship than Scharnhorst thx. Idiotic.

I think the bullet follow camera is awful because it spends your time watching it and doesn't let you hold Rmb for quick shots. I can play naval battles pretty well, ı generally become the number one player in session and ı always keep this option off. What is important is learning your ship's bullet characteristics (speed etc), predicting the enemy's movement and making quick estimations. If you can do this, you can destroy half of the enemy team and gain nice money/ research points. My nick is, oguzturk209 , if you want, you can send friend request.

I got a free ship in the recent battle pass. I guess I should do something with it