Tips / Advice for First Time Noob

[$trider]

Just installed it, any advice :3 ?

[bastion of pragmatism]

ignore everyone on this board crying and just have fun playing the game. it is really fun, either you will like it or you won't.
and don't rely on teammates in this game

[Jaes]

Run away. The Snail Lord will suck you in with the illusion of fun before it claims your soul and bind you to thousands of hours worth of game play (grind).

A more practical advice would be to have fun! Don't worry about grinding to the end of a tech tree. You will get there eventually. If you're not fundamentally enjoying War Thunder's game play loop, there's no point in going all the way to top tier.

War Thunder has a very steep learning curve. You will be eating dirt constantly while you're figuring out how to play the game. Death is a learning experience. Take opportunities to go "Okay, why did I die here? Did I not understand how the opposing vehicle works? Was I in a bad position on the map? What mistake(s) did I make that allowed the opponent to destroy my vehicle? Why didn't that tank die when I shot it 10 times?!?"

Don't be shy to ask questions about how deal with X, Y, Z vehicles/situations. There's a lot of experienced players that can give helpful feedback, but we always need to know what vehicle you're using and what you're struggling to deal with. There's can be so many nuances that advice can be unhelpful unless we know what's going on so tailored advice can be given.

Some general tips:

- Situational Awareness is king. If you're paying attention to what's going on around you, you're much less likely to get killed by a surprise attack.

- Know the maps. Know which side of the map are good spots and bad spots. Good spots = places with good cover and repositioning paths. Bad spots are places where it's easy to be sniped from good spots. If you know where the bad spots are, you can play around them or use smoke shells if you have them available when you're playing ground battles.

- Know your vehicle. If you know its strengths and weaknesses, you will know how to exploit its strengths while avoiding exposing its weaknesses. This may seem like a "No Duh" type of advice, but 90% of the time, you're dead because your opponent was able to take advantage of your vehicle's weaknesses.

- Know the enemy vehicle. You're going to run into plenty of instances that will make you go "How the heck do I deal with that?!?" Use the in game Armor Protection/X-Ray vehicle to identify weaknesses in an opposing vehicle's hull, where the crew sits, and where the ammo sits. Aiming for one shot kills is the norm of the game. If you know where to hit your enemy, you will know how to disable/kill them efficiently and avoid that "I shot it 10 times and didn't die" issue.

- Do not take full ammo loads. You will be significantly easier to kill through ammo racking. You'll adjust them based on the vehicle you're using. Most folks will base this on how fast a gun can reload, which isn't a bad measurement. Sometimes, you'll maybe just take 20 rounds total because odds are, you're gonna get exploded before running out is a concern.

- All aircraft are Energy Fighters. Speed is life, Altitude is life insurance. Unless you're a bomber. Don't play bomber other than to unlock them for your tech tree progression for aircraft.

- When in doubt, some nerd probably made a guide of your vehicle/nation. There's quite a few YouTubers/Content Creators out there that will have helpful tips and tricks for vehicles you're using. Struggling with air battles? Defyn is a great resource to improving your air combat knowledge and has probably created a video for the aircraft you're using. Need some help with tanks? Tankenstein has some pretty solid ground battles fundamentals to help with your play.

Good luck, have fun, and don't jump into making a top tier premium purchase right away. Just because they're modern vehicles or they have fancy missiles and smart munitions at higher tier aircraft, that doesn't necessarily mean you'll enjoy playing them.

[Vertumage]

Originally posted by bastion of pragmatism:

ignore everyone on this board crying and just have fun playing the game. it is really fun, either you will like it or you won't.
and don't rely on teammates in this game

This is strictly for ground battles:
- Stay behind cover, pop in and out from said cover
- Stick to the sides of the map
- Constantly flank from the side, then retreat back to the side of the map
- The armor of the tank you choose will determine how boldly you can play
- Generally choose tanks with high armor penetration, same goes for said ammo, be aware of the ammo you use, there are generally useless tanks that have no penetration
- AA does nothing short of the enemy plane facing you directly and coming at you
- Play arcade, if that becomes too easy, play realistic, if that becomes too easy, play simulator (if you play simulator, team killing and team damage is on)
- Stay in a group, become a murder-ball
- Premium tanks are the same as their normal counterparts, save for a select few
- Low BR is more fun than High BR

[$trider]

Originally posted by Game star:

Never read the discussions.
Pet a kitty cat

This.

[$trider]

thank you so far, for the solid advice gents

[ErickaUnlimited]

Welcome aboard, OP!

[gojag706]

Ignore the snail advocates, its too late and the only thing you can do is prepare for the infinite grind.

[Tankoslav Tepyatdesyatpyatovich]

The media and the community want to make you think air realistic and ground realistic are 90-95% of the game and the most appropriate way to play it, but following that way you'll get disappointed very soon, if not getting nervous, frustrated and mad in the worst case. We've got plenty of victims of the two modes here on the forum, screaming in futile attempts to be heard about RUSHN BIOS, balancing things out, cheaters, personal oppression mode, P2W, removing CAS from ground battles, making top-tier interesting to play as the place they've spent a lot of time, effort and money to reach only to be dissatisfied with its current state and so on.

Don't listen to RB and grinding to higher tiers ambassadors if you don't want to feel more pain than enjoyment, play the modes and events that actually work as games should: something that provides you with positive user experience, and you don't regret having spent your time on it.

[RXDimA]

prepare for a 1000 hour tutorial

[bean man]

May I add that if you decide to play ground battles:
• Use your MGs (by default, spacebar) on nearby trucks and lightly armored vehicles. Obviously, aim for the engine to do the most damage.
• On Realistic, you will lack the convenient cross that calculates the trajectory of your shot. To counter this, you will have to bind a key to the Rangefinder (I chose R) and an axis for adjusting the sight (I chose the scroll wheel). However, you won't have time to use your rangefinder, adjust your sights, aim, and fire in the heat of battle. The best thing you can do is guess how far away your target is based on experience, then aim and fire. If you're new to this, I recommend trying to defend an area, pointing your rangefinder at the ground where an enemy tank would appear, adjusting your sights, and waiting for someone to appear.

[xCrossFaith]

Run and don't look back.



Joking aside, the game is built against it but just play for fun, which means to stay away from realistic modes, try them and make your own idea about it, but I'd advice to stick to arcade or sim since realistic is pretty obsolete

If you stick with arcade for ground, don't trust the green cross marker all the time, it's pretty unreliable, make sure to actually learn where to shoot and which ammo type to use

Also keep in mind that if you plan to get to high/top tier it's not worth it since nothing in the game is designed for those vehicles

Play different stuff and try planes, tanks and ships from different nations so you can get an idea of what you like or don't like

Also there is no "bias" stuff, some nations are stronger on one thing, while others are stronger in others, and specially ignore the "but the winrates" ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥, because people who use that tends to think a high win rate on one or two br brackets are a problem, but literally 5 whole br's of high win rates are not depending on the nation.

[pro gamer]

-Dont take max ammo

-test drive tanks and practice how different angle makes armor stronger so you know where to aim

not mandatory but almost all tanks have somewhat the same internals so if you use the xray mode you will know how to 1 shot almost any tank

[YaBoiBeanz]

Originally posted by $trider:

Just installed it, any advice :3 ?

Leave while you still can.

The grind is awful and the game is geared towards whales. It's meant to annoy you into prying open your wallet instead of making you WANT to because you like the game and want to support it.

If you're still going to anyway, well, bewares of the enemies in blue (teammates)

[mesitylen]

Originally posted by $trider:

Just installed it, any advice :3 ?

its a framed game, just dont pay anything

[$trider]

is there any way of keeping my video settings after i close game?
i have to set it to borderless fullscreen every time i reopen. any fix?
game is fun so far :3