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War Thunder: Planes and Maybe Tanks Too

The PC-451 performs surprisingly better when it closes the range to less than 2km and rakes every other boat is glorious 20mm freedom.
 


Not too shabby if I do say so.

PT-71 is great .50s are hilariously dangerous, especially with 4 of them forward mounted and with AP belts. The 20mm on the back I have HE belts on for shooting down planes.
 
Dirtnap said:


Not too shabby if I do say so.

PT-71 is great .50s are hilariously dangerous, especially with 4 of them forward mounted and with AP belts. The 20mm on the back I have HE belts on for shooting down planes.
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That is a crazy high score, or does naval just have a inflamed way of gathering score?

I'm jealous, typically, it would take 4+ air kills to get that score in air historic
 
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In Naval AB and RB you can get up to five spawns and enemy players will at least have three spawns, four to five if they have enough points for planes.
 
They also fiddle with the SP required for those planes, used to be 3600 was today suddenly 650.

The german R-Boot are grossly out of place at 1.7. They simply lack the speed to get anywhere useful at 1.7 in a useful timeframe most of the time. You can attack one cap with them and that's basically it - if you move off to another cap they'll be behind you.
I understand DD aren't faster but they atleast are expected to face similarly slow foes.
 
It also used to be you started with 3000 SP now you just start with 0. /shrug

German R-boats also have a plethora of crew and very stable guns. Also I think the 1.7 gets a 37mm that doesn't over heat when firing (unlike the Nasty and it's bofors) and a couple of twin 20mms
 
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The firing angle is bad as it practive will force you into maneuvers that are less than advisable if anybody else is shoot at you.
In practice, and I'm currently spading the R-Boots, they are immensely powerful if one can control the direction the enemies come from. As this depends on either getting into a position suited for this early or team members that are competent and thus plug other aproaches you often find yourself overwhelmed by enemies that are just faster as group and so mob you to death.
Even if you do have a good position and wreaked havoc at your location this does not help you actually win. What wins games is capping and the R-Boots are just too fucking slow rescue a cap. An S-Boot can just motor down to the next cap, stands a reasonable chance of gunning down most things it should encounter and then return to defend the first cap.
The R-Boot is halfway at the next cap when the first cap gets capped and now it's getting sandwich'ed.
Now you you might be thinking "But you have teammates, they do stuff too". To which I say: "Really? I would have been better of with bots today - bots at least try to cap all caps and don't spawn at the point that is being camped with torps fom three directions".
My teammates today were utter, utter garbarge. It's always bad when I'm in the top 5 of my team (I mean sometimes it's because I really was on a roll but usually...) but today my teams would not win. Just refused to. Never even close. Just being crushed time and time again.
 
Well if you're slow, just hang around at one cap. That's what I tend to do in the slower USN subchasers/patrol gunboats.
 
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When are they not? It is a good idea to assume that your team is bad unless you fly out in a group.
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Yeah, but I had a ~25% winrate, if that today, so my teams were more garbage than usual.

Of course the only teamkill I noticed was actually being done by me, with artillery, which really suprises me as there is always one or two people who's first reaction on spawn is to fire the torps and dump the depth charges.
 
Got my free Russian premium boat, it looks pretty underwhelming if you can't put those rockets to good use.
 
Playing WT for the first time, having a good time unlike my expirence in WOT. And uh...not to sound like a smug dick, but are half the people playing this game sniffing glue? I've seen Twelve dudes in one match, with three deaths, and zero score. An alarming amount of people not seeming to know they're supposed to be capping. And a whole host of rather dumb things.
 
asdx said:
Playing WT for the first time, having a good time unlike my expirence in WOT. And uh...not to sound like a smug dick, but are half the people playing this game sniffing glue? I've seen Twelve dudes in one match, with three deaths, and zero score. An alarming amount of people not seeming to know they're supposed to be capping. And a whole host of rather dumb things.
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Welcome to pubbies being pubbies. Don't worry, its still an issue even at the high tiers.
 
asdx said:
Playing WT for the first time, having a good time unlike my expirence in WOT. And uh...not to sound like a smug dick, but are half the people playing this game sniffing glue? I've seen Twelve dudes in one match, with three deaths, and zero score. An alarming amount of people not seeming to know they're supposed to be capping. And a whole host of rather dumb things.
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Are you playing air or ground?
 
asdx said:
Playing WT for the first time, having a good time unlike my expirence in WOT. And uh...not to sound like a smug dick, but are half the people playing this game sniffing glue? I've seen Twelve dudes in one match, with three deaths, and zero score. An alarming amount of people not seeming to know they're supposed to be capping. And a whole host of rather dumb things.
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Part is that you can just die on your first spawn but have lived long enough that your second and third spawn is already being camped.

But yeah, the amount of utter morons you play with can be frustrating.
 
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Oh, it's probably people getting one shot because of there thin armor and general low tier inexperience/idiocy.

Although getting one shot is a common thing across all tiers.

7/10 of the team dies in the first 5 minutes
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I've been surviving a ton of hits at low tier. Had a couple of insta death from larger calibers. But it's been nowhere near as "Instant deletion upon detection" that I suffered in WOT.
 
asdx said:
I've been surviving a ton of hits at low tier. Had a couple of insta death from larger calibers. But it's been nowhere near as "Instant deletion upon detection" that I suffered in WOT.
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Just curious, but what nation are you playing?

Truely, it depends on the the gun, the ammo type and where you aim as shot placement is very important.

Also, guns starting from the 75mm caliber tend to one shot so watch out for them, low tier pz4s are deadly along with the T-26 with the derp gun as they have bursting ap rounds.

There is also, the issue with autocannons at low tier where, with the correct rounds unlocked, harvest the tears of the inexperienced.
 
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FailLord said:
Just curious, but what nation are you playing?

Truely, it depends on the the gun, the ammo type and where you aim as shot placement is very important.

Also, guns starting from the 75mm caliber tend to one shot so watch out for them, low tier pz4s are deadly along with the T-26 with the derp gun as they have bursting ap rounds.

There is also, the issue with autocannons at low tier where, with the correct rounds unlocked, harvest the tears of the inexperienced.
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Playing American at the moment. Mostly because I want dat Abrams.
 
asdx said:
Playing American at the moment. Mostly because I want dat Abrams.
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Grinding shermans are going to be a pain.

Also rush research the m10.

Also the 75mm gun truck is fun at first tier although i'm don't remember its BR.

Also, are you interested in getting custom gunsights
 
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