Is the Booster Meme actually true?

[Dreiiizehn]

I've activated a 500% booster for the first time and have never played worse. I'm talking zero kills, zero point, two deaths and then return to hangar multiple games in a row, even though the game shows hitmarkers and damaged parts on enemy planes. Normally i'm at the upper middle of the leaderboard with 1600-2500 points.

[Lucky_Star_Fan]

It's not true, it just feels that way because you're focusing on it. I do prefer the 10x20%s since they are less susceptible to this though.

[mogami_99]

Ursprünglich geschrieben von torindechoza:

it is false. I couldnt care less about boosters. Sometimes i let them expire without using them.
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3042082114

You be you. Seems a waste of an asset. I wonder how much of my 50 million lions I owe directly to boosters. I play every single battle with at least 1 Sl and 1 RP booster. (16131 realistic battles)

[mogami_99]

Ursprünglich geschrieben von Lucky_Star_Fan:

It's not true, it just feels that way because you're focusing on it. I do prefer the 10x20%s since they are less susceptible to this though.

actually how I keep track of battles. I try to finish my tasks before I run out of missions on my 10 mission boosters. Then I can use them the next day as well.

[TRK]

For me when I pop a booster it is either a good match with some kills and awards to go around or I play like an Esports player

Then again you get matches like yesterday where I popped a 200% SL and 75% RP after having a streak of good matches and I face off against the snails finest with perfect movement against my team of new-born dribblers in baby's first match (4.3 btw)

[MissNurseXochi]

Ursprünglich geschrieben von VVaЯF0xу:

Idk, but it feels true. Very similar to my expirience.

because it is

[torindechoza]

Ursprünglich geschrieben von TRK:

For me when I pop a booster it is either a good match with some kills and awards to go around or I play like an Esports player

Then again you get matches like yesterday where I popped a 200% SL and 75% RP after having a streak of good matches and I face off against the snails finest with perfect movement against my team of new-born dribblers in baby's first match (4.3 btw)

wouldnt it be better to have bad teammates?
if your teammates are better than you they will beat you to the treat.

[Legion]

Over the 10 years I've been playing WT I've lost count of the amount of good and bad matches I've had with a big booster running and I'd safely say that they have no direct bearing on the outcome of the match, what does have a drastic effect on the outcome of the booster itself is YOU the player!

Countless times I've seen players the moment the match starts crying in the chat about how the game deliberately gave them a full up-tier (most matches are full up-tiers as is 2bh!) because they activated a big booster and how it's now a guaranteed loss because their tank 'cant do '. So from the get go they've started with a negative attitude and expect everything to go badly from the start so they either end up trying 'too hard' to compensate and overextending or play too cowardly because they are afraid of the up-tier and the moment it goes wrong in any way whatsoever eg, they get killed, non penetrating shot its all the boosters fault and they stop trying in anyway or just leave the match after 1 death. Thusly begins the 'using boosters cause losses' meme...

I mostly just use my big boosters in just the Heli PvE or Naval battles nowadays, one good match with a 100% SL booster can easily net me a good 200k+. Some of the best results I've had from boosters have come from matches where I entirely forgot I had any running. Do not sleep on some of the orders either, some are rather easy to win and if you activate them at the right time you can guarantee to win some of them easily and they pay out a nice chunk if using a booster, I earned 168k SL from a order the enemy activated in the USS Moffet match below for example
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3164999099
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2933146364
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2441252153
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3165074277
Ed:Typo

[ospholis]

Ursprünglich geschrieben von Fal:

500% are meant to be used on Heli PVE easy 400K SL in 30min as for the RP ones i dont really care since i dont play hightier outside events so grinding means nothing to me anymore

DO NOT use them in heli PVE, they only last 30 min thanks to gaijin nerfing heli PVE a while ago

[Legion]

Ursprünglich geschrieben von ospholis:

Ursprünglich geschrieben von Fal:

500% are meant to be used on Heli PVE easy 400K SL in 30min as for the RP ones i dont really care since i dont play hightier outside events so grinding means nothing to me anymore

DO NOT use them in heli PVE, they only last 30 min thanks to gaijin nerfing heli PVE a while ago

Good luck getting the max use out of a booster in a typical ground or air match VS the entire 30 minutes of use you get out of Heli PvE. Dunno if your on about something else but heli PvE lasts far longer than 30 minutes unless you're on about length of the boosters?
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3155612669

[Shyue Chou]

Psychological.

[Smokey]

Everyone knows Gaijin sends AI death squads to hunt you down when you activate a booster

[TRK]

Ursprünglich geschrieben von torindechoza:

Ursprünglich geschrieben von TRK:

For me when I pop a booster it is either a good match with some kills and awards to go around or I play like an Esports player

Then again you get matches like yesterday where I popped a 200% SL and 75% RP after having a streak of good matches and I face off against the snails finest with perfect movement against my team of new-born dribblers in baby's first match (4.3 btw)

wouldnt it be better to have bad teammates?
if your teammates are better than you they will beat you to the treat.

With bad teammates you'd never win matches and matches one get you more RP + SL which helps the grind, plus you may have challenges or quests dependent on you winning so...

And without good team mates instead of you hitting clips on the other team you'd have to spend that time defending caps or you will die to tickets but in the context of the final scenario I gave about 4.3 it was air and if you don't have good team mates on air you will find yourself with half the other team on your tail and creating death blobs and whoever has the better death blob wins the match without question

[TRK]

Ursprünglich geschrieben von John:

Everyone knows Gaijin sends AI death squads to hunt you down when you activate a booster

Big Brother is watching you....

[War Thunder Leaker]

It is only if you let it be, BUT it's consistent as it seems that you get worse luck whenever you activate a big booster

[hsf_]

Ursprünglich geschrieben von mogami_99:

400% booster

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2830413003

But that's Naval, where you only have to spawn and you get 20k SL.