TOP tip: do not play warthunder.

In addition to faster spading of vehicles using the backup, I always used them to save on silver lions for expensive vehicles I wanted to play if I was tight on SL or having trouble in the meta with the vehicle. You only get charged the repair bill if you end up back at the hanger with a dead tank. If you use a backup on a tank and survive till the end of the match, you have no repair bill. If you die twice in the tank, you only get a single repair bill for that tank. It has saved me millions of SL over the years.

Here's my tip for ground battles. Exercise patience. Sometimes waiting for the right situation is better than rushing into a bad situation. You can hunt instead of just attack. Depending on each battles circumstances.

Please add these two 1. Always pay attention to the map & kill feed. 2. If you are in a capable fighter in ground RB always focus on enemy CAS. I've been bombed lots of times with lots of planes in my team who didnt even care there are incoming enemy planes

Good tutorial, (as usual). Thank you for the continued content. My additions/elaborations: 1. Sometimes the best shot is the one not taken, or deferred. 2. Not only know your vehicles strengths and weaknesses, (armor, speed, etc), try to know your enemies strengths and weaknesses. 3. Gap - Map - Cap. Before the battle begins figure out where you sit in the BR, (full up/downtier, etc), what is the map, and what kind of battle it is, (how many/where located are the Caps). That will help in your decision making of what to take out and where. 4. Watch videos, (and support from the creators). 5. Join a squadron. There is a lot of good institutional knowledge in them and some decent communities. & 6. Have fun. Yes it can be frustrating and grindy, but ultimately these are 1st world problems. It is nothing more than a game where one will experience good and bad gameplay from one's self and others. Shake off the bad and enjoy the good. Wishing good games ahead to the community. r0

Much like hunting, sometimes the best thing you can do in this game is STAY STILL. Everyone is always in such a rush to drive around in their big shooty tanks. Stopping every so often and having a look/listen will often allow you to spot them before they spot you.

I’ve been playing this game since Ground Forces Beta. Here are my tips: 1. Always assume that the player that kills you is a cheater. Makes you feel unbeatable and pro 2. Call him out on that in chat and tell him KYS. This helps to vent frustration 3. Don’t play Gaijin events unless you are a unemployed single. They are pure frustration. It is easier to just buy the event vehicles later on if you really want it 4. Don’t buy newly released premiums. Wait 3-6 months till they have received their first nerfs (if any). 5. Don’t play this game with the objective to research top tier vehicles ASAP. It is grindy AF. Learn to enjoy spading vehicles. I haven’t reached top tier with any nation after 8 years of playing 6. Get premium time, it is not really a F2P game beyond BR 5.0ish

I've been playing since 2014, and I've realized that once you get really into this game Gaijin really prey on FOMO. That being the fear of missing out, and just take it from someone who wasted time in life-draining events for vehicles that aren't that impressive. If it's a personal favorite, and even if not that great in game, get it. Along with ones you truly believe will be beneficial to a lineup you already have, and not just think you may want someday. These last events have been so underwhelming I didn't participate and don't at all feel like I missed out. However, I got the Baltimore during the winter event a bit back and love it dearly and would've really been sad to miss out. Just have fun. As a long-time war thunder player it took me years to realize that fun will carry you through this game and events more than grinding because of FOMO.

I will give two bits of advice as someone who's even more of a nolifer than sako 1. don't over extend(this applies to ground air and naval) and 2. whatever you do don't panic or rage or get depressed/fatalistic about war thunder. It's just a video game. It's fine if it's exciting or gets your heart racing but don't let it get you into a negative mental space.

One of the most important: good situational awareness alone will get you through 95% of surviving battles.

A good tip that has gotten me a lot of kills and I have been killed by players doing this is listen. If you are in a hidden spot. Sometimes turn off you engine and listen. If you have headphones on they will help you to find targets by the sound of their engine. And if your engine is off you are almost guaranteed to catch them off guard.

Using backups while grinding does speed up the process. I also use backups on boosters to get the most out of the booster. Using a 500% booster with a backup on a vehicle your grinding makes life a little easier, as long as you don't get killed right away.

Air player here, having at least a 5 key mouse over a 3 or 2 key one is a godsend. Having your rockets and high caliber cannons quickly accessible on your mouse will make things much easier.

As a player since the air forces closed beta, I´d add one more: Do not try to be the first one anywhere, AKA use your less usable allies as meat shields. Its better if that poor dude gets killed and you get 5 kills than if you die and then he dies as well.

Only thing I'd add to that is with backups use them in the Premium zone 9.0/9.7. Rather than 1 spawn deaths, take a backup. Now you won't always need or be able to use it as top tier is very quick and the game can be gone by the time you die. But it's there as an option and you can be more hep to your team.

Another tip on Backup vehicle. Never use them on a plane which you fly only in Air RB

"Im not gonna insult your intelligence" Bruh its ok, there's nothing there😎

My Tip is relatively Simple; every Tank/Plane/Ship you unlock and Buy gets some Free Repairs. Put some Back-Ups onto them so you can not only use them twice in a Match, but also you won't need to pay for the Repairs for the first 10 or so Repairs (do note that you can save a Free Repair if you use a Backup and the Tank is still alive at the end without Damage)

Just recommended this video to my homie who is new to tanks. Thank you for the great video!

for me cool tip is to switch between what ur playing. if u grind some tanks and start to get frustrated instead of ragequiting just switch to planes or smth its a calming refresh sometimes

If you want to research new vehicles or grind sl always use a fully spaded vehicle. Preferably no lower than one rank below the tank you intend to unlock. You get a research efficiency boost on vehicles below or one rank above your vehicles current rank and if your vehicle is fully spaded you put all the earned rp into the new vehicle instead of dividing it between your vehicles modules and the new vehicle. You can see the specific percentages of sl an rp gained from a vehicle at the bottom of the stat card when you hover over it in the tech tree.

Thank u for going over round angles and filler I understand it better.i kept thinking higher pen was better Thanks for explaining

I love how no one mentions the number one problem with this game, your brainlet team mates ignoring the map and call outs and feeding all their tanks before 5 minutes, then you get the exhilarating gameplay loop of trying not to be spawn camped in the completely open and bereft of cover spawn points.

the point about getting a mouse with more then three buttons is more of a preference thing, I myself find using a keyboard easier bc I have been using it. I never have take my eyes off the screen bc I know where to press without even looking, alot of people who are fast typers do this regardless of whether they play games or not.

"I'm not going to insult your intelligence like that" Me, a German main: (still writing what he said before)

About the shells, and which one to use. I look at 500 meters, and 30 degrees to see which one is better overall

One thing i didnt hear you mention when talking about Binoculars is that if you hold down the spacebar, it aligns your turret with your bino view

Sako: You should learn your shells to be able to better combat other vehicles Kv2: H E

I find myself playing better when I'm actively listening for engine sounds and looking around corners and being extra cautious, and playing terribly when i just rush and don't have a plan. Sometimes i have a really good match when I'm in a good mood and sometimes 0 kills die after 30 seconds for 10 matches one after the other. Im really struggling with 5.3 germany because of op russians, they have alot of pen for their br, they pen my angled tiger from 1k + meters away

Number 1 tip I can give for ground battles is: listen to (enemy) engine sounds. I almost always have the drop on enemies just because I hear them coming. I seriously feel like 90% of the players just don't pay attention or play without sound. They drive around corners and get blasted back into their hangars because they had no clue. Also - if you want to win - play in squads and most important of all play for objectives. My solo play winrate sits around 65% and my squad winrate is over 90%. Having 1 tot 3 more above average players in a game makes ALL the difference. A solo player can only do so much.

If you can´t or don´t want to afford a programmable mouse, it already helps to reassign your most used keybinds to keys, where you know the position on your keyboard by heart and hit them without looking. By now, I don´t even have to look away from my screen to know which key I´m pressing. I recommend keys aboth space so z, x, c, v, b, n and m (on an english keyboard), since you can hit them quickly with your thumb and over time muscle memory will do the rest.

Wow, i guess that really helps, when you're getting for some reason chased by 3 bf109s, and you're a severely damaged p51

This entire time I’ve been hoarding backups because I forgot to redeem them 😂

My biggest difficulty is seeing stuff. I would get shot at, turn to the direction where the shot came from, and be like: where’s that guy??? And die

I have a mouse with a 12 button keypad on it. I have filled up all its keybinds and use them quite often. Easily worth the money.

Be patient , do not rush like crazy .Watch your corners and alleyways and learn how to ambush . Move if you missed your first shot because the is a high chance more than one enemy saw your flash . Turn off your damn engine and listen for incoming enemies and figure out where are they coming from .And use your binoculars before you “peakaboo” over a hill .

Stop, look, listen, feel. while in tank it’s helpful to occasionally stop and look around. I can’t tell you how many times I got kills simply because I stopped for a second to look around the map and screen

for ground battles i think the most important skill is map knollage, if u know the map u can do more than if u knew any other skill imo,

8:16 the mouse i have is the logitech g600, with 18 buttons on it, plus right and left click, plus an extra clicker that is called "g shift", it basically doubles the keybinds on the mouse, all the buttons can have 2 separate functions, one for when youre not holding down g shift and a different one for when you are holding down g shift. its $40 at the time of this comment. hopefully i explained it well enough.

I use control and yes I manage every key. Bind for arb and grb. Tip for controller users Set your controls no more then 3 buttons (2 recommended) D-pad and numbers are highly recommended when changing controls on controller For the majority of the time leave LB and RB stock.

1)Disable autorepair. If you need full roster of vehicles, you get prompt to repair them all anyway. We are looking at big numbers over time here, with 8-15k SL per nation tree a day being realistic without any edge cases. 2)Remember: it's barely a team game. Yes, you have teams, but you only prevail if you play it as free-for-all with assists provided when it is of any assistance to YOU. This grants you several basic rules. 2a)Never sit in the first line. Doing so gets you killed or damaged. Let someone else do the dying. 2b)Extend teammates life time by shooting those shooting at them. If they landed the first shot on your meat shield and he is not dead yet, you most likely won't get shot when you search the enemy (Most players will try to finish off the meat shield), giving you free aimed shot. Properly aimed shot = incapacitated enemy. Incapacitated enemy keeps your meatshield alive. 2c)Repair your meat shield afterwards, but make sure that you won't be shot doing so. If trying to help will get you in the open - leave the meat shield for dead and retreat back to grab new meat shield. 2d)If you have 2 extinguishers, DO use one on non-open top teammate, but only if he already spent his own. As cynical as it sounds, players who haven't unlocked their own extinguishers most likely won't be able to do much - their gun accuracy sucks, proper shells/shots are not unlocked, probably non-existent experience with the vehicle. 3)Get yourself some custom sights. Base sights game uses got atrocious range readings for shots without setting range on the gun. 4)Playing arcade, learn your anti-air machine gun. Players typically go into suicide dive in air vehicles in this mode, getting a critical hit against such enemies gets YOU a free plane point when they slam themselves into the ground. If your BR range sees a lot of open tops, go to sprinkletown. Enemy will quickly succumb to your hot loads and either switch to SPAAs (Which die to tanks rather easily and are still bullied by planes), switch back to closed tops (Which is least desired outcome, but you still get enemy with one less drop) or quit alltogether. 5)Have fun. If you don't have fun, stop playing war thunder and play something else, like yourself or Genshin Impact.

I have my most used functions within easy reach of my left hand. Q brings up my map for dropping artillery, space binoculars, r for repair, and things like that. Also, a few important things are programmed on my logitech G502 mouse like for my range finder, I just push down on my mouse roller. For me, I got most tanks and don't worry about grinding - I just play for fun (or for the frustration). I enjoy playing mid-tier the most. War Thunder takes a great amount of skill, unfortunately, a lot of the time, I think you are battling against the random number generator in WT. I know how and where to hit most tanks. I hover in the top 70% of team rankings, so I consider myself a decent player. Often, I can kill a tank with a single hit. Other times, I can hit that same spot from the same distance, same angle, same ammo etc, and nothing. It will bounce or cause minimal damage. I can hit it 5 times in the same spot and nothing. That is the frustrating part of WT.

I just started War Thunder a few weeks ago. I love it.

I love the universal backups the warbonds shop has. Honestly only thing worth getting from there imo

Just started playing and the bingo's tip is going to help me massively! Cheers dude.

I'm medically ill (a governmental illness beneficial) and I can promise you these are typical tips that we know about. The only true benefit is to learn which objects you can shoot through.

>I'm not gonna insult your intelligence and say obvious stuff >use your binoculars

for air RB. i have MB4 as my countermeasures and MB 5 as my launch missiles. RMB as fire additional guns and MMB On squad markers

My biggest gripe with a lot of tips is they assume you can either teleport or your enemies aren’t smart

Some great tips but one very important thing is awareness and exercising it wear a headset pay attention to engine noises around you in the sound settings you can lower the volume of the engine of your own vehicle to better hear your enemy pay attention to the sounds of guns aorund you and the muzzle flashes you can spot behind cover and dont forget to pay attention to the map and kill feed keep track of where your enemies died what vehicle kileld them and where they could be close to your ally dead body far from it snipping all that will help you know where your enemy is before they know where you are or can shoot you also study what cover can be shoot through and which cant so you dont end up in a bad spot and get killed by a shot that went straight through your cover always remember knowledge is power.

I play on console and I can say getting a mouse and keyboard has helped me a lot as there are way to many key binds in the game for a controller

All good until you meet a soviet tank with invisible armour. They can also bounce hits coming at 90 degrees and also their ammo doesn't want to explode. Your shell sometimes also likes to disappear somewhere inside a soviet tank. Soviet tanks engines also like to sometimes go stealth and on top of that if you manage to penetrate a soviet tank ( IF A PLAYER IS NOT SOVIET IP ADDRESS ) then your explosive shell doesn't really want to 'explode' inside a soviet tank.

Watching this after i uninstalled the game yesterday after 3 days of frustration. Installed it again today and will try again lol

Also another tip when you die, know how much ammo you have when you died and lower it a bit , it’s best to know how much ammo you need before dying to minimize ammo rack

my biggest tip if you want to grind fast is consistency. it doesnt matter if you gat one 7k game if then you get eight 0k games

one tip for me have fun above getting grind, it's ok and valid to play funny tanks like L3/33, puma, SiG, dicker, m22, bt7, SARC, and co. win 10k SL on rank 3/4 and squander it on lower BR for the lulz. also i play arcade coz i can't remember the tanks i spot in realistic

Fkn finally, use damn backups, even more important if you only have 1 tank (premiums lol), especially if you wanna grind since those premiums have the best RP rates too.

I knew about the universal backups, just not how to use them. Thanks for that as I've played a little in War Thunder, but with WG's changes in WoT coming I'll be putting my focus into War Thunder now.

A tip for light tanks ramming helps with stronger heavy tanks you can lift em up so they can shoot ya then u light them up

A personal tip from me: Reasigning important keys to comfortable positions and asigning some important functions in the first place

I feel so smart now because I have always known about buying backups even though I am not actually that smart

My tips are: 1. Dont take points unless it is very necessary. If you cleared the point - just neutralize it and move to a better position closer to enemy spawn. Friendly fresh spawnies will do the work for you on a secured point and get the spawn point they lost. While you can ambush rushing tank from enemy spawn. Taking points is not the main goal. Killing enemies is paramount. 2. If spawn point is camped - use another one. You would not brake the deadlock in 85% of situations. Use safer flank. I saw many times team killing themselves on a doomed spawnpoint without even a chance. And as a spawncamper - I feel very uncomfortable when you spawncamp and none spawns while whole enemy team is alive.

I haven't played in months but I'm getting back in and everything u said helped me alot thank you.

gaming mouse tip is very useful, I use the side button of my gaming mouse for smoke and binocular

Which mouse do you use?

If youre a free only player like me having some nice palette cleansing games definitely helps. I still play the Batman Arkham games and theyre nice to get away from war thunder for a while but theres even other really fun free games too. hell gaijin actually has a few awesome free games i like to play Enlisted and Crossout as well as War Thunder. I used to play star conflict i think its called but it wasnt my style

I usually play one of two stategies: eather I hide in a Flank or run around in the enemy half of the map. Most people don't expect you there and you can farm a lot of kills.

The penetration example could be better. The 365A has pretty much the same penetration at medium range and better at long. If the better pen on the 365K ammo continued past 500m, I'd still use it. 75g of filler is going to do the trick the vast majority of the time. I dummy people all day with the Panther, and it has 1/3 the tnt equivalent.

It also should be noted that you should make your take look like a tree, so you can peak effectiveness in urban combat.

My pro tip: Buying a 7.1 surround headset is kind of pay-to-win. Without having to buy a premium. It also costs more than a 60$ premium pack, but gives a constant boost to your situational awareness.

Top Tipp: Never play to win, play to shoot Enemies. Because with such randomised Teams you cannot guarantee a win. So get as much points and ignore the Main objective.

Iam sow glad i watched youre biginer tips wichs realy makes it easier to start out for me mostly the games menu and stuf in it bud also knowing the game machinics

Thank you for the tips. Loved them. I've ground out a lot of the german air units just using bombers. I'm a ps4 player that didn't understand key binding so I tried to stay in my limits. I had loads of fun but even now I often rage quit for a few months. Stick with it and it Is a lot of fun, just takes time. Not money.

9 years old and already a veteran, respect.

For the last tip my keyboard is muscle memory

I died before I could take a shot💀

Thank you, I had a mass of 257 unused universal back ups.

I think the shell picking is my biggest goof sometimes on certain vehicles.

Which programmable mouse do you recommend? How many programmable buttons do you recommend except the basic left/right and scroll wheel buttons?

What I learned as a "beginner" or "returner" (I played War Thunder when it got released) Never ever play on weekends if you want to grind stock tanks or crews! You get in the line of those players who knows only the W-Key and the left mouse button and the pro players. They know every spot and it seems like they know where you gonna be before you know it yourself. This lesson cost me a big drop on my winrate. And yes! For me winning is an essential part of playing games. 2nd big lesson for me. You fear an enemy tank? Learn the weakspots. Get better and the fear will disappear. My biggest fear was the T-34 ... now this tank is only dangerous on bigger distances (weakspots are small with low penetration).

9 years of playing. That hurt to read, I stopped playing 2020 for good. But I still like to dabble in the community from time to time

Actually, using a headset versus my usual 2:1 speakers I find is a huge advantage.

i can do most of my keybinds on my keyboard cuz after i get used to it, it becomes muscle memory and i dont need to look at the keyboard to press something

The Logitech G600 is amazing for war thunder. 12 key num-pad bult into the thumb rest.

oh, trust me, the universal backups are the only reason i give any sort of effort when grinding out the battle pass

Do you know what the bind is for binoculars on PlayStation?

Über brainy tactic: move only when it makes sense.

I really can’t tell if I’m bad, the enemy is lucky, my team is garbage, or my tanks suck. I’m at German ground arcade 2.7-3.0 and sometimes I get first and others I die with no kills

Thank you for this video and do you have some more tips especially for different art of tanks like how to play a sniper or a light tank

im at 8.3 britain and the suffering is real. aside from the falcon or the rooikat, there aren't really any potent 8.3 starter vehicles especially when you're consistently getting uptiered to 9.0. sure you've got the chieftains but they all use the same crappy solid sabots from 6.0, the olifant seems to be the only vehicle with an edge but that isn't accessible until you've unlocked the rooikat, and dont even get me started on britains atgm carriers. the vickers are like the little british leopards that could and the conqueror is probably the worst vehicle in that tier. im basically just working the falcon to death until i get the rooikat and eventually the olifant which i will use to grind out the rest of the filler vehicles (aka vehicles that aren't competitive at all and are basically just walls to make getting the good shit harder.)

Could you please tell me how you instantly change your targeting distance right after finding the range via binoculars?

I was not good in air rb but then after your guides and 2 games something clciked, and i started getting 1-2 kills per game

Ive been playing since 2012 and at least for tanks I sick. Planes I’m pretty good.

Great advice! War thunder can be frustrating, buts its still a fun game

U make good content, subbed.

yooooo im actually one of these "new" players i started when russia started its disastrous invasion of ukraine.. ive been improving all that time by myself and watching youtube since the game isnt very chat friendly and that one trick you mention about the custom battles practicing against AI to learn the mechanincs is one i found out about by myself and im super happy to see someyoutuber mentionning it in a video. nice one man cheers

Use backups for grinding sl with the moffett

Step 1 play soviet tree. Step 2 Profit. -An Italy main that recently got into the soviet tree.

Just came across your channel lol congrats on a new sub

what do you mean cannot afford a programmable mouse? The steel series 500 was 50 USD a few years ago, and the Reddragon chinese reproductions are less than 40 or 30.