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"Going Left" has been a thing since Warthunder introduced realistic airbattles battles in 2013-2014. Early Air RB maps such as Sicily, or even older maps like Landing at Hokkaido, Airfields on those maps were set up so that when a team took off "Straight Out" off their airfield and climbed to altitude, the Opposite team would most likely always been on their RIGHT. Therefore, "Going Left" especially during early prop plane maps and matches became ESSENTIAL because climbing/staying left gave climbing fighter aircraft the BEST chance of climbing above their opponent before starting an engagement. As time went on, more and more players picked up this trend, eventually "Going Left" and staying with the team also became a safety in numbers kind of benefit where if you went RIGHT instead of LEFT with the team, you would be caught alone and jumped by the entire enemy team and would get an early return to hanger. Warthunder Air RB players then have this ONLY GO LEFT mentality stamped into our brains muscle memories from the beginning of our Air RB career and as we continuously play and grind, by the time we get to top tier jets, we don't even think about where to fly off the airfield except to the "Left". But thats just a theory 😅

Not sure why the going left started, but it continues because generally if you go right you get 1v5ed and ganked.

About everyone going left; Not too sure why it started, probably with the small maps way back but the reason it’s still around is because sticking by your team you will survive for a lot longer. If you go to the right you will just get hyper focused by the whole enemy team.

12:22 I don’t know why it made me laugh the way he instantly got into the parachute 😂

I’m an f-15c maintainer and seeing this come to the game makes me so excited I can’t even put it into words

In rocket league there left man goes for break on kickoff too. Its just an unspoken rule where if you dont follow it, you learn pretty fast from harsh consequences 😅

I also have been racking my brain about all the players going left, i think its to do with the spawns. However if most of a team is together on the left they fly swat whoever goes right then win 😂

Airfields tended to face left back in the day so when they started facing head on, it just kinda stuck in the minds of the older players, and the newer players caught onto that.

I started playing sim battles recently and I’m hooked. I was just tired of the fur ball of aircraft and missiles in RB and wanted actual dogfights. I think the f15 will be amazing in sim.

Thanks for the daily Phly once again. You really help my depression you have no idea bro!. I love you and your family phly, thanks for being a awsome human

Multiple factors as to why everyone goes Left: 1. If you go Right currently you will get headons with the entire enemy team. 2. Due to the old maps, going left gave you more sideclimbing ability compared to going right which in old maps was the direction of the enemy airbase. 3. Jousting Mentality, assuming most if not all players are right handed (mouse) its the natural proclivity to lead with the less dominant side (ie left ) You see this a lot in games of chicken where both sides have a nuetral understanding to veer right if they chicken out. Or in jousting where both sides set up as to have their shield closer to the divider. 4. Dexterity of Keyboard fingers, your pointer finger (your most used finger) is usually on D and E which will usually involve you going left at the start to maximize the amount of time you may go right later in the match. 5. Gun placement (modern vehicles) on most modern jets like the F-16 the gun is usually on the left making it naturally easier to fire on targets on the left whilst not risking running into them as much. But in the end the main reason everyone goes left is simply due to spawn placement and maximizing the distance between eachother, most people don't want to be killed early into the match so maximizing the distance you are from enemy spawns gives you more time to fly (Most AFK players are usually flying on their left). As a test, after takeoff, fly perpendicular right as fast and as low as you can and once your team is a good ways past the secondary airfield, slowly start turning back in. Most players will be looking right to spot enemy players by the time you barrel in from their left. ( I used this a lot on A-10's when I used the Mig 21R-13).

That intro was ridiculous!😂 Made me spit my water.

12:21: The whole time I'm yelling: "Steve! Flares! Use flares!" And then yeet. 🤷

Been loving the 5 minute battles at the minute 😂

Aweomes Phly, now you should hop in the F-15E in DCS with me for contrast

I love your videos man, keep it up

Gaijin trained us all to go left from the beginning. its part of the brain washing program lol. All airfields were slanted left since the beta lol

Back in 1982 British Airways Flight 009 flew through volcanic ash. All four engines flamed out, but luckily the pilots were able to glide the plane down safely. The engines weren’t after-burning but the engines would probably die in an f-15 before they ignite anything left in the ash

About the left side rule, lets just say there is a reason carriers have their tower on the starboard side ^^

Finally someone pointed out the mystery of top jets climbing left and props climbing right

The little tangent about corn and calories 🤣🤣

The smoke out of volcanoes is ash, not gas. Or maybe there’s some gas but as far as I know it’s mainly volcanic ash and like other ashes and sand, it does not ignite

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5:12 i'm left handed and always go to the right, you're onto something

Dam bro really dissed him when he pancaked 😂😂😂

"I don't know why we put up with it for so long" Because that's how RWR works in reality...

Yes “Left climbing” is very frustrating for some of us. How ever my theory is that it is a well established technique used by a squadron of fighters to better set up for engagement while also keeping numbers. From my research 7/10 fighters who venture head on or towards the right end up focused down by the enemy team. Major skill is required. 16:22

Phly, you should be more worried about the volcanic ash fouling your engines :D

I also asked myself the question about why so many go left xD but it seems to be conditional... like, this happens most with jets and faster planes, it doesn't happen on every map, like the city map has a drift to the right, and it's also kind of self-enforcing... the more that go left the more will go with them... because when you go right, I soon found out at the beginning, you die fast... since there are nearly no friends and all your enemies went to that side since that's their left. So breaking the cycle is nearly impossible. Many maps also have a layout that's making it more advantageous to go left, like Golan Heights. I think it's a combination of all those things.

Phly, I think you'd love to play the of(ph) 40, its a spaghetti mbt with spaced armor and a laser rangefinder at 8.0! Day 33

9:24 One guy crashed, while another shot down a friendly on the enemy team 😂

That intro, damn🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅

im so glad phlys back 😎👌

lol best drum in the history of drums LOL

Finally someone playing the F15 properly

3:20 not every jet has this sadly, just the more modern ones seem to not pick up friendly RWR, I believe my Phantom FGR.2 was picking up friendlies on the RWR. (Also rip the 12.3 phantoms still without the 9L having to fight the new aircraft 🤣

why don't you use the SRC PD mode, the SRC only is really sensible to chaff =w=

You said corn, now all I can imagine is Einstein the talking parrot as the pilot of the 15. 🐦

When you research the F15A using the F15A:

@PhlyDaily There is a really cool feature which is missing from the beginning of War Thunder! Wing condensation. I please you and everyone to start talking about it so Gaijin introduces it finally after 10 years. It is just for a better visual experience but it would make the game so much more fun!!!

DemonLord of the round table i pray for your success

You should also descent while notching, to drag the opposite missile down to more dense air so it will lose its energy faster. Plus notcing really only works if you have terrain as background to blend in so the seeker has harder time keeping the lock. Not sure if missile aerodynamics and radars are modelled right in wt thought.

This is it bois the beginning of the end eagles everywhere

Love bow over the years. The game went from ww1 to current vehicles.

I noticed the whole left thing a while back, really interesting

I always go right or mid but im left handed, it is funny seeing 90% of every team go left

Come on phly, you launch morales them you break out and chaff to escape the missle 😂

Funny what you said about most people going to the left ad they are right handed,. The statement holds some truth as in the UK we drive on the left hand side of the road as back in the day when we were to joust on horses being on the left of the enemy would mean you can you your right hand, the strong hand to attack

5:00 I think it must have been 4 years people started to do that, it's just like habit now xD

In real life: 104:0 kill ratio, F-15 is undefeated for a reason.

I always go right!! Left handed brain!!

Most Players go left because if you go right you'll run into the bulk of their team with no backup

9:01 idk why, but I’ve noticed in this patch it really likes putting USA and Japan together against everyone a lot

The F-15 Strike Eagle is going to be a beast.

If Phly is up in a jet, who's watching the streets?

There’s goes that kill ratio

So much potential in this game and fights are still fought at minimum ground level

i think you can climb up for bvr at the start just straight in. Once you got spiked you go cold and get back to your team blob but above them.

anybody else notice that f4c at 2:03, feels bad taking a flareless f4 into toptier lmaoo

The reason everyone goes left is because EVERYONE GOES LEFT. If you go right thats the enemy teams left so you will be head on with the entire team. The rule of going left is to make a somewhat fair fight where we all converge mid map

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What are your key bindings? I'm new to top ish tier and not sure how to bind all the radar and all that stuff.

1. Left side based are nearer 2. Head on is not most preferable so Fighters tend to go also to the left.

Teams don't even care about the sun but all pilot who knows about air combat would use it.

You brought up everyone going left. Well on that specific spawn on Kamchatka, everyone goes right for me (I play mostly 11.0 f4e). And on the enemy's side, they themselves all go left from their perspective. This way from your perpective, you and the bunch of the team that went right all meet headon with enemies on the east side of the map, around the volcanos. For me in my f-4e against russians with better all aspects, this is a death sentence, so i almost never got to bomb or even get any kills. I noticed this pattern today, and started going left, and often im the only person who does so. This results im me getting my bombs off, along weiht a garunteed 2-3 kills. And if I spawn on the north side of Kamchatka, I flank the opposite way, right. Since I made this change, it's actually making me so good in F-4e, and I consistntly get 1-3'd place in the team with multiple bases and enemy planes killed. And as far as my observaitions go, this behaviour of most players meeting on the right side of the map ONLY happens on Kamchatka map too lol. Idk why, but it's interesting, and I do exploit this knowledge, having discovered it.

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i remember going left because the majority were going right a long time ago, but now everyone knows it and is just used to going left

Im guessing the f18 hornet might be the next high teir jet for the USA

Heater ferris camo ftw 👌

They need matches with fewer players. More 1v1 interactions

if you're cranking and trying to hit someone before they hit you, maneuver while you crank, keep up the speed and you'll bleed the missiles energy far quicker, I like to change crank direction completely if I have time and that way the missile will go from leading me to chasing me giving me valuable seconds for my missile to connect or for things to develop further

I can’t stand how the sushi jet gets its own Russian turkey feathers and f15 gets “F16 ENGINE COPY PAIST ON F15 MUST MAKE MODEL QUICK”

I’ve always gone right, it’s bad because it’s usually me versus the whole team

5:02 i go left because the enemy will go left, i think its subconscious for most since going right often ends in getting jumped by multiple enemies and creates negative stimuli the brain naturally anticipates and tries to avoid.

I know that when the air maps where smaller people would go left to have more room for radar missiles, but now people still do it so i have no clue anymore.

Irl most f16 also take off to the left since since it easy on the hand

I dont know how about others but i tell you my story if u are interested, on lower BR i always went right since i was about to bomb enemy bases and since left ones were always first destroyed it was only option that left but as i climbed on higher br i started to cross path with whole enemy team so i moved left despite missing bombing points... Only time i go right is with f-14

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Love the content Phly, keep it up! Combo time, non premium p61 black widow and m4a2. Attempt 273

phly,, can you show me how to proper plfy the f104 ??

I wonder if some sort of staggered spawn could string out players and give some separation and avoid the cess pool?

How do I look around in a tank with a commanders aim system? Cause pressing C will open it, and I can't look around. Help is appreciated

They really need to add the amraam to the f15a. It is so handicapped having the sparrow compared to even a 120b, let alone a 120c

Phly has been watching Hank Green on tiktok based off of that corn and fire comment

People go to the opposite side of each others airfields and it originated back when the f14 came out cuz of the aim54s

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has afterburners on wondering why flares are not workin.. lol

How do you have the Christmas background, I dont

I take off to the left because usually the enemy run way is off the right so i take off in a sort of notch

Fun fact f-15 has 104-0 kill ratio :D

How do you get fallow missile camera? Keybind?

i never thought of it that way. i am left handed and i always go right

😂😂😂😂😂 I like it

14:30 I did that with ej Kai once, shot at a radar contact… turns out I killed an aim54 with a sparrow lol

So close to unlocking. ❤❤

The most gangster aircraft of all time

The reason to fly left is to have enough distance for you and the enemy and plan out the attack. If you go straight, you are going to have a higher chance of getting into a Furball. And if you fly right it's literally a death sentence and you have most of the enemy team chasing you.

Phly, feel like suffering? Go play the M1A2 Sep right now. Holy shit 😂

It’s a good theory but for me it depends on what side the enemy airfield is and where they spawn then that’s when I’ll go the opposite direction