"Best tips for War Thunder (WT) I ever heard if you did not fly before in some other simulator games or you are IRL pilot tho I do not see why would those play war thunder since it is arcade game for people that never flew a plane or knew anything about them so here it goes : 1* It requires 1 year of gameplay to become an average player. If you think you are not up for it, delete the game right now. 2 *You need to be shot down 2 million+ times to realize how to avoid that and finally learn what you did wrong and what your enemy did right. Adopt that and start to use it, or maybe even improve on it. 3 * Learn aim first, and that is done in arcade, so play lots of arcade until you get good at aiming. Tactics you learn by playing realistic battles and being shot down trillions of times, doing the same mistake over and over until, again, you figure out what you are doing wrong and what your opponent did right. 4 * Stick to just a couple of planes. Remember, even real pilots fly only a couple of planes in battles, so you do the same." As soon as you did this congratulations you are now officially lost so much productive time from your life and are now average WT player welcome to the club! o7

I swear to God actually flying planes in war is easier than warthunder

Good guide. I have 20,000+ Air RB kills and my advice is 'fly to not die'. If you stay alive you'll probably get more points and kills as the skies thin out of fighters. Even the very best pilots will struggle when outnumbered by a swarm of 3 or more enemies. Don't bother with head to head kills. Although sometimes you have no choice, if you can avoid it do so and get yourself in a better position. Also don't fight at a disadvantage. Disengage if you can and, you guessed it get yourself in a better position. Apart from some very basic manoeuvres like an Immelman or Split S don't try to learn air combat manoeuvres and then 'force' them into your game. Every dogfight is different. You have to learn to fly instinctively and the best way to do that is just to try, try and try again. It's an unforgiving environment and there is no fast way to learn except experience. I also realise players want to get on to the better aircraft as soon as possible but I recommend flying at low tiers for as long as possible so you can pick up air combat skills. I usually fly an aircraft about 30 times in Air RB before I move on to the next aircraft. It's very important to build up a knowledge of the capability of your own and enemy aircraft and if you fly the same aircraft over and over again you will learn everything about it....which will come in handy later on when you meet an enemy flying the same aircraft. One last thing. Use the C key a lot! Always scan behind you, above you, below you, to the sides. Good luck, stick with it and you will get better.

i cant believe a simple beginner guide has made me so much better at the game already, while still ending up at around 10-8th place, i now manage to keep my plane alive

0:10 Bruh if only people actually took this rule to heart, simply having a wingman helps in any engagement no matter the invidual skill, the few times me and a friend were flying on ARB (we're better off as a tanker but have enough skill to atleast do CAS) we fly in formation with 1 above and 1 below and can always help eachother in case of an attack or just giving callouts

Thank you, this is the nowhere close to only part I’m bad with but it’s makes me a lot better

Thanks for this. I’ve been playing a while and I agree with every one of your points and it’s good to be reminded of the basics. I would like to add two things - 1. Prioritise fighters. For #9 in this list, the author went for a fat attacker. Not only, as demonstrated, did this involve tunnel vision but it left enemy fighters with more energy (higher and or faster). Going for the fat boys may get you a kill. Or on occasion, two. But you are depriving your team of a specialist fighter meaning your team is at a disadvantage. Sure, if that BTD flies in front of your guns, by all means, oblige him with some hot lead and high explosive, but if you need to slow down, lose energy or otherwise take your eye off the enemy fighters chances are much higher that you’ll have a target on your back and your team will lose. Deal with the fighters first, as a rule of thumb unless you are in an actual interceptor with an air spawn heading for spam/annoying bombers like the JU288, and you’ll get more wins and learn to dogfight so much better than peppering some fat boi who can’t do anything about it. And if you’re team has all done this (no guarantee there) you’ll be able to pick off the fatties afterwards, one by one without worrying about a P47 or 190 zooming down on you from a great height. Which brings me nicely to my second point - the best tactics and the best skill come from practice. I understood many of the points in this video from reading and watching tutorials quite early on. But I found it frustrating to apply. I knew what I should do, but often only after I was a fireball heading for the ground. I’m no super ace but I do alright now, especially considering my age, reflexes and eyesight. I have fun. I don’t count such things usually, but my K/D is above 2:1. Not that impressive but enough to make playing fun. And that’s not always easy in War Thunder. I got there by just playing and once I’d stopped caring about losing or being shot down, I could just go into game after game and slowly get better. Slowly learn how to apply the theory in this vid. It’s a cliche, but the only way to ‘git gud’ (urrrgh) is to do it. Again and again. Then like most things, and from what lots of other people have told me as well as my own experience, it clicks. Even after ages on a plateau of shit performance, suddenly the light appears over the crest of a hill and you’re having fun. And for free, here’s a bonus point 2b - if you’re having a truly bad day, as in bad compared to usual for you, shut the programme down. Gaijin’s business model is monetised frustration so if your performance is particularly frustrating that day, just stop. Pick it up again later, or tomorrow. Your mental health will thank you.

not sure if im even gonna play this game for long, or if its not for me, but this man deserves a sub and like for this video, first of all, the details boiled down to bite size information bits, with perfect graphics to illustrate, second the knowledge behind the video is so apparant, and the way u use explain stuff like kinetic and potential energy was something my teacher used 2 days to explain to some of the students, when the core of it is this simple. great work man

Bro this guy teaches me more then my entire science semester.

I've got over 400 hours in this game, and it is just now that I learned your convergence matters even with nose mounted cannons. I thought it didn't matter and they just went straight either way, since there's no overlapping to worry about. Edit: after playing a game of realistic in my F-5C, I actually got 2 kills, the first being with my cannons, no less! Learning that the distance is still at play changed how I look at aiming in air RB. I was always an arcade player until rank 5 for awhile. I've only been playing RB because it doesn't make sense for me to play arcade in a 10.0 br (10.3 for RB) when my next best jet is the F-86F at I think 8.3 br. At that, I've only been at it a few weeks.

Hi! Nice to see you here in the comments! Please share this video around if you found it to be helpful. This supports my channel more than you could ever imagine! :)

Thank you so much, this is the best guide I’ve seen. The others have been “try these easy tactics to get lots of kills” and I don’t even know what controls are good

Thanks for the tips, I really appreciate how simple you made understanding energy. Most tutorials I found make it overly complicated but yours was really concise and straight to the point. Keep up the good work!

Nice summary. Having played WT for a few years now, my friends and I try to teach these points to any newbs who will listen. I will be sharing this vid out.

This is actually the tutorial I was looking for

Just want to say thank you for this tutorial. I was really frustrated. I am still not where I'd like to be, but im much better than before because of these tips.

even though I'm kinda bad at air and always find myself get 1 shot by mostly any enemy I encounter this guide helped me a lot and taught me that running away isn't such a bad strategy (i retreat to my airbase after almost every kill but it still works)

I really like your videos man. entertaining, yet still straightforward and to the point. very clear and concise. breaks everything down perfectly so that a new person could easily pick up and give a good fight. keep up the great work!

Been playing since 2013 and have intuited much of this through playing the game, but always good to review the basics.

Danke, mein komradien! I'm so used to fighter jets with missiles that I have to learn the art of dogfighting. It's a lot harder to aim guns with ancient technology. Nowadays you get a reticle that follows your aim perfectly.

The options you give at the end of your vid is new to me and I think it’s awesome. Thnx for the intel.

This explains a lot of the theory well! Thanks so much, now to learn via practise

One of the best Guides i ever seen,helped me a lot.

As always mate great content, informative on the subjects of the air battle, and to the point, oh and we love Hans!!!

Beautiful. Simply beautiful. Definitely the best video I’ve watched today.

I'll try to implement these rules in air combat at "enlisted".... nichts desto troz, ein klasse video 😀

this guy did his homework

Thanks for the guide... just installed war thunder 2 days ago and did struggle on air battles...many thanks 👏

This was really good! Thank you!

This turned into a history class

best air combat video for war thunder, ever.

1:11 already lernt this in Physics class lol. Great video!

Great guide! Thank you for making this 👍👌

Outstanding breakdown thank you.

The other thing is, Try to also prioritize defending your friendly bombers in ARB, ESPECIALLY if you're in a maneuverable Interceptor, or Heavy attacker. Being up there and defending you bombers allows them to complete the objective and win the game faster than actually targeting opponents. If the bombers go down, the whole team goes down as I like to say. The other thing is, Don't be afraid to Turn Tail and run from an opponent. Sure they may get more energy than you and/or speed, But if they're an inexperienced, or less than average player, they will overshoot past you and if they miss shots, you now have a chance to take them down. Lastly, pay attention to how many players there are on screen, and where they are. You don't want to be directly under anyone, directly over anyone, or close to anyone near you. You want to be in a spot that allows for a 1v1 altercation, and let them be the initiator. If they come at you, you'll have to maneuver to get away from their nose, or to get behind them. And if you turn fight anyone, don't spray and pray, tap as little as possible, a small 1 second burst after every second your nose is in front of your target. Once you start getting those consistent "hit" anouncements, then spray (For those with machine guns like the 7.7-7.62mm machineguns) until your opponent goes down, or (if you got 20mm cannons or stronger ones) keep doing 1 second sprays until you get that fire on the wings/engine, or you rip a wing off, OR knock out the pilot.

I was just watching a video about war thunder that was so cringe but this one is clean, informational, engaging and practical thank you!

In some cases, you can try to trip up your opponent with an unexpected maneuver. I was in a dogfight, and the guy I was fighting did a forced stall maneuver, which ended up costing me the fight because it tripped me up.

Cooles Video sehr hilfreich werde deine Tipps beachten und die deutschen Kommentare im englischen Text sind der Hammer! Keep it up Abo und like iss da

great video on tips and tricks!

Extrem nices Video :D hat mir echt weitergeholfen! Weiter so!

Thanks for the tips!

This is a very good summary of the combat fliying and game's principles. Coming from the RL pilot.

In Germany, as you know, we say: Ehre alla!!!

Rule 8 is a good rule for life as well. Great video. Very helpful

Thank you, i'm new to the game and this video helped me out a lot.

Im only at br 2 now but I found myself using this energy method already. But research is where I tend to fail I never thought to just look at the specs for the other planes lol thanks.

This teached me more than the physic classes

Really liked this and haha the humour was good too.

0:51 I have a 1/48th scale model of that aircraft. It was flown by Josef Priller

I needed that guide sooo badly thx

Very helpful thanks i am not good at the game so this help me a lot!

Tbh, whenever I see a video with low view count I tend to assume that it's not the best but damn was I wrong. This was surprisingly informative, thanks :)

Thank you so much for this video! I've learnt so much (I am a noob)

Interesting and helpful. This is one of the more fun games I've played and hands-down, the most frustrating, non-sports game (I used to break controllers playing Madden). It's good if you have low blood pressure I suppose.

Thanks for the guide

I was here after Ian's video. Because of him, I downloaded the game. And it was worth it. Nice video sir... Thanks a lot

THE POWER OF AMAZING SENSE OF HUMOR AND KNOWLEDGE

Nice summary!

Bestes Video was dieses Thema angeht. Danke dir

Thankyou bro very helpful

LOL, I wish I'd found this channel before I started air battles on War Thunder :D I learned a lot of these lessons on my own, and died a bunch of times in the process :D

yayyy thanks for the plane vid:):):):)

Thanks for the help

You should make a video discussing deeply how to pick a plane that fits your preference. Great video Btw

Danke für das tutorial

The convergence info was the most helpful information I have found yet! Thank you!

the controls shown alone helped me start actually killing people, first game after changing I got 10 kills. Great vid.

Really like your content man! Could you write for each country what category their airplanes fit? For example American - Energy , etc

this video really helps i don't play war thunder but i do play X-Plane mobile and the same things apply now i'm at 82 victories

“Right in the middle sit the 109s and the yaks, which are very versatile, but rely heavily on your piloting skill.” That would explain why I prefer the FW-190 to the BF-109

I'm still trying to get into this game and these vids have been more than a little helpful. I love dogfights but its been a pill getting used to controls. When I roll over it sucks having to "fight" the plane wanting to go back to the neutral position sometimes. Been mostly stickign to arcade for the moment. REalistic battles take a while to get into combat and even faster to get out...the amount of play time vs the reward seems to balance out between RB and AB by virtue of volume Now if you could do a video on controls in a bit more detail, like, my current setup i think fires all my guns at once instead of seperating my cannons from machine guns

the fact i can say "this game will take half your life to fully learn" almost unironically is actually hilarious

Very good video. I wish it had been available when I was a noob. I wanna team up with Heinz!

What I find most difficult about AB is how when you aren’t already fighting and just flying across to try to get in the fight, by the time you get there, you’d already be spinning out because an enemy got you from behind.

super video, weiter so bro

very useful,

My uncles a navy pilot and he plays videogames with me every now and then. Hes said multiple times that flying an actual jet is easier than war thunder.

This was wery helpfull

This is sooooo helpful and fun! Thanks bro! Btw are u German?

Its funny to see this as a "War Thunder Veteran" who was way to stubborn to listen to anyone, and had to figure everything out by himself. Like i left every setting on default, and just learned how to fly by doing it, while changing settings when i ecountered problems. One example was the convergence settings (both vertical and horizontal): I never changed any of them, and kept the default 800m, with no vertical convergence. I just learned how to make it work, and now cant really change it, as it throws my aim of by a mile because i got used to estimate the the bulletdrop and can hit everything, no matter if im vertical, 45° up/down, upside down or going twice the speed of the bullet. Same goes for the Weapons: I have all guns on the same key (mouse left) and used my other mouse keys for bombs and rockets, and if i had to fire just one of the weapons, ill just use the 1-5 keys. Like no one else can play with my keybinds, but it works for me. Also i can fly a plane (manual) without one of the axis controls as i got my plane shot up so many times(like i can fly with out pitch, just with yaw and roll but it does not really matter wich one fails, but without roll its the hardest - landing is another story tho) It may have taken a long time, but i can challange everyone, with everything now.

good video flow

First game after watching this I got 2 kills which is insane for me thanks man

Little tip if your enemy shot you down and his flying straight towards you then u gotta crash into him bc you would crash so or so

6:10 *opens defyn's video about the plane

thanks for helping

Useful

Thank you

Good tutorial! Where would you categorize the R2Y2? It seems slow and hard to turn at the same time.. it's hell to get a good score for me

Very first recommendation, check your ping and shoot even further in front if bit high.

this guy shall be my new teacher

Super basic information here, but well laid out for new players! None of this advice matters like he said, if you don't know your enemy and know yourself. So take this all to heart but don't think that just watching a video will make you an ace. Memorize, Practice, and good luck fellow pilots!

man, I always forgot rule 8 and 13, thx for reminding me

Even as an intermediate player, this is still helpful to remind myself.

It's me second week on this game and I struggle A LOT in the air, i found it really hard

What about back turret gunners? I honestly think its a great flank for energy fighters, but I can't really aim them.

sheesh. Very fluent German. Also, this video helped lots. Thank you.

My biggest tip for air: teamwork makes the team work If everyone is flying solo and being selfish you won’t win, and winning gives your extra sl and rp. And helping eachother can give you easy kills and assists

this man has make me perform better

Oof I just started playing on Xbox but this video was still helpful keep it up

Geiles Video und hat mir wesentlich mehr gebracht als die Inder dies auf Englisch erklären