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So are any of the earlier posters still playing this or has the novelty worn off?.

I am still playing myself but the match making they broke is taking the shine off it a little.
 
I play several hours most nights. Absolutely love it.

It can be a bit slow paced at lower levels, but once you get used to how to play it's pretty fun. There are several ways to play, so I don't get bored.

Feeling braindead? Grab tier 1-6 British fighters and get stuck into the furball, you can just spin like a top whilst schooling German/US planes.

Want to feel like god for a while? Grab a Bf109/Fw190 and climb in Historical. Dive on people and blast their helpless ass to hell.

Historical is much more skillful, so if you're finding Arcade to be a bit mind-numbing or irritating, it's worth a go. Just get a decent plane - Spitfire IX and Fw190's are superb, a P-47/P-51 work well, but at lower levels a Corsair or Bf109 F-4 are more than good enough. You have to play smarter - ie climb and use energy/speed/altitude properly, rather than just flying at the first enemy you see. You'll die a lot to start with, but once you get a kill you feel like god.

The matchmaking is broken, so you can't just dive in with any old plane at the moment - you'll end up completely out-gunned. But if you choose a decent plane yourself then you can have a lot of fun. The 109 F-4 is only tier 7 and is one of the most effective planes in game (Climbs like a rocket, is very fast, turns reasonably well and it's single cannon is still plenty enough to dispatch any enemy you're likely to find)

My advice:
1) Quit any game with jets in, it stops being fun.
2) Don't take a bomber. They're fine to use in Arcade to grab some quick ground kills to make money, but they don't "work" properly yet with the game mechanics
3) Play Historical, it's far more realistic and the rewards are better - I can get 100k lions per battle if I do well. A single kill will get your repair costs back. Plus you can just leave planes to repair, because even if you didn't make any money you only get through one or 2 an hour (rather than arcade, where you can lose 8 planes in a 20 minute game).
4) Learn your plane. If you're in a Spitfire, you can out-turn anything apart from a Zero/Biplane. If you're in a Fw190, you can dive away from anything. Once you know the characteristics of most planes, you can change your strategy to suit the situation.

I'm CY6_Audigex in game, feel free to add me if you want a wingman or someone to introduce you to Historical.
 
Audigex said:
I play several hours most nights. Absolutely love it.

It can be a bit slow paced at lower levels, but once you get used to how to play it's pretty fun. There are several ways to play, so I don't get bored.

Feeling braindead? Grab tier 1-6 British fighters and get stuck into the furball, you can just spin like a top whilst schooling German/US planes.

Want to feel like god for a while? Grab a Bf109/Fw190 and climb in Historical. Dive on people and blast their helpless ass to hell.

Historical is much more skillful, so if you're finding Arcade to be a bit mind-numbing or irritating, it's worth a go. Just get a decent plane - Spitfire IX and Fw190's are superb, a P-47/P-51 work well, but at lower levels a Corsair or Bf109 F-4 are more than good enough. You have to play smarter - ie climb and use energy/speed/altitude properly, rather than just flying at the first enemy you see. You'll die a lot to start with, but once you get a kill you feel like god.

The matchmaking is broken, so you can't just dive in with any old plane at the moment - you'll end up completely out-gunned. But if you choose a decent plane yourself then you can have a lot of fun. The 109 F-4 is only tier 7 and is one of the most effective planes in game (Climbs like a rocket, is very fast, turns reasonably well and it's single cannon is still plenty enough to dispatch any enemy you're likely to find)

My advice:
1) Quit any game with jets in, it stops being fun.
2) Don't take a bomber. They're fine to use in Arcade to grab some quick ground kills to make money, but they don't "work" properly yet with the game mechanics
3) Play Historical, it's far more realistic and the rewards are better - I can get 100k lions per battle if I do well. A single kill will get your repair costs back. Plus you can just leave planes to repair, because even if you didn't make any money you only get through one or 2 an hour (rather than arcade, where you can lose 8 planes in a 20 minute game).
4) Learn your plane. If you're in a Spitfire, you can out-turn anything apart from a Zero/Biplane. If you're in a Fw190, you can dive away from anything. Once you know the characteristics of most planes, you can change your strategy to suit the situation.

I'm CY6_Audigex in game, feel free to add me if you want a wingman or someone to introduce you to Historical.
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nice post.
I'd love to play Historical but I just don't have the time or want to make the effort to get out the old throttle and joystick, configure all the Saitek profiles etc etc etc :(

I used to hardcore play IL2 1946 and other sims but these I just love hopping into arcade mode after work and pwning with my mouse in my British props!

In historical battle though, isn't the 109 E series preffered over the F? The is faster more agile aircraft no?
 
I downloaded this on the strength of the views on here but I've not played it yet got a couple of questions.
Can I use trackIR in game? I'm so used to using it with Arma, CLOD & rise of flight that I'm not sure I could go back to air combat without it.
Is there an in cockpit view? I've only seen the external views in screenshots but first-person would be my choice.
Are micro-transactions a big part of the game? if so can you still get everything that's on sale for nothing just by playing the game for a decent length of time?
 
Divinious said:
I downloaded this on the strength of the views on here but I've not played it yet got a couple of questions.
Can I use trackIR in game? I'm so used to using it with Arma, CLOD & rise of flight that I'm not sure I could go back to air combat without it.
Is there an in cockpit view? I've only seen the external views in screenshots but first-person would be my choice.
Are micro-transactions a big part of the game? if so can you still get everything that's on sale for nothing just by playing the game for a decent length of time?
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Yes you can use TrackIR
Yes there's in cockpit view but not for bombers (yet).
Yes microtransations are there and like most F2P games with pay models, it's a very very long grind to get everything. I think there's a few aircraft you can only get by paying but they are all middle tier.
 
I was really enjoying this game but I just gave up after that 6gb patch as it is soo slow to DL.
I did the game pretty quickly but when this patch came out it starts at 2-3mb/s then drop to 20kb or under and frustrates me. :/
 
This game has really surprised me, been hooked on it for weeks!

Something very satisfying about using the canon on an Airacobra to rip through a bomber like the HK6...

Currently only flying arcade with m/kb but thinking of starting some historical battles soon and I've seen it mentioned that a joystick would be useful, any opinions?
 
I thought that might be the case, I've been eying up the x52 and the pro version for a while now - will have a shop around and see what I can get! Thanks
 
Rezolve said:
I thought that might be the case, I've been eying up the x52 and the pro version for a while now - will have a shop around and see what I can get! Thanks
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If you don't want to spend that much then theres some great options including Logitech Extreme 3D Pro, Thrustmaster Hotas X, Thrustmaster Flightstick X, Thrustmaster T1600M and Saitek Fly 5.

Any of the above is perfect for war thunder, and if you run out of controls just use the keyboard! I use the Extreme 3D Pro and its fantastic.
 
weyland yutani said:
I haven't played this much but would like to get into it properly though I feel rather lost. Whats the best way to rank up and what are the best factions and aircraft to focus on?
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Well first of all "what are the best factions and aircraft to focus on" is not the way to get into it......

Just start playing and if you're having fun you will find your preferred faction and aircraft and the ranking up will come quite naturally.
I started with the British and haven't even touched the other factions yet.

There's three game modes; arcade, historic battles and full realism.

You can use your mouse and keyword to fly in arcade and historic battles.
Think of arcade as your CoD equivalent. It's a fun dogfight fest where everyone gets dumped pretty close to each other on the map. You can respawn as many times as you have aircraft slots. You need to buy those slots and train up the crew that occupy those slots so that the aircraft can perform better.
So you buy slots > by aircraft for the slot > train crew for the slot > upgrade the aircraft

Just about everything can be bought with in game currency but it becomes a massive grind around 30 hours in and you will be tempted to pay real money. Still a lot of fun though.
 
I have a T16000 that's barely been use in a year, might try the historic/full realism later but I always found the twist rudder a pita. I did try the stick in arcade mode a while back but it severely hinders you when others can just mouse aim at you.
 
Yea save the joystick for historic/full. Mouse doesn't have the advantage like it does in arcade because the FM's are more realistic. Just gotta deal with sorting out your stick profile. Pretty sure you can turn off twist for rudder.
 
weyland yutani said:
Yeah might use arrow keys for rudder though in CloD I'd use them for trim.

Got to say the game looks and runs great and the arcade battles are definitley fun.
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Yea if you're used to trimming, prop pitch and the works then HB/full real battle is for you. A lot more intense and of course time consuming.
I want to get back into that but haven't had the time like the IL2 days in Hyperlobby. Sooooo I'm just rocking the mouse in arcade mode.

The warthunder subbreddit is pretty active too and there's a reddit squadron as well since the warthunder devs launched the feature.

http://www.reddit.com/r/warthunder
 
Well I was so bad at combat in CloD with full realism I ended up just playing it like a Sessna flight simulator so trimming. prop pitch, mixture was easy, massive workload in combat though so might just try historic mode at most in WT :o
 
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