I can't catch a break.

[hsf_]

I'm a reasonable player, not brilliant not awful just reasonable. I understand where to shoot, what angles are most likely to bounce, what positions are obvious, what ammo works best against what armour etc.

But for the last week or so, I am simply unable to amass any kind of good game play, at all... I usually have 3 or 4 games a day where I feel like I am playing well, but I'm not even having that. It's quite literally just been a solid week of nothing but utter ♥♥♥♥.

Wtf is happening? I feel like I did when I first started playing, just sitting there confused every time I get killed.
I mean I know that there are matches where I cringe at how I played, but I look back at the replays from this week and for the most part it all looks fine... I just can't kill anything, my team mates all act like single line coded bots, there is no one spotting mean while the enemies are playing like they're a well drilled squad and we end up getting pushed back to our spawn and can't get out.

To give you an idea of what this feels like, Go and play Doom Eternal on the easiest difficulty, then without your knowledge someone flips it to ultra nightmare and you get gibbed every 5 seconds.

[♠Gamer3106♠]

I'm stuck at around 40K SL and not progressing for at least 5 days, so I totally understand your pain

[gulyas]

Make opportunities, watch your fellow potatoes making a stand behind cover and go flank their attacker, or do other direct actions that capitalize on the work of others.

[hsf_]

It's also great, bouncing APFSDS off of a Dardo, which is made of paper...

[hsf_]

Originally posted by gulyas:

Make opportunities, watch your fellow potatoes making a stand behind cover and go flank their attacker, or do other direct actions that capitalize on the work of others.

No I've decided that I'm going to bait them all, I'm just going to be an utter ♥♥♥♥ every single game and just bait everyone until I get banned for passive behaviour. ♥♥♥♥ it.

[Beblokis]

Originally posted by hsf_:

I'm a reasonable player, not brilliant not awful just reasonable. I understand where to shoot, what angles are most likely to bounce, what positions are obvious, what ammo works best against what armour etc.

But for the last week or so, I am simply unable to amass any kind of good game play, at all... I usually have 3 or 4 games a day where I feel like I am playing well, but I'm not even having that. It's quite literally just been a solid week of nothing but utter ♥♥♥♥.

Wtf is happening? I feel like I did when I first started playing, just sitting there confused every time I get killed.
I mean I know that there are matches where I cringe at how I played, but I look back at the replays from this week and for the most part it all looks fine... I just can't kill anything, my team mates all act like single line coded bots, there is no one spotting mean while the enemies are playing like they're a well drilled squad and we end up getting pushed back to our spawn and can't get out.

To give you an idea of what this feels like, Go and play Doom Eternal on the easiest difficulty, then without your knowledge someone flips it to ultra nightmare and you get gibbed every 5 seconds.

Everyone hits the wall at some point in any game or activity.

My advice, go for planes. No need to constantly play ground vehicles.

[Jaes]

Originally posted by NATO_ftw:

Everyone hits the wall at some point in any game or activity.

My advice, go for planes. No need to constantly play ground vehicles.

I think this is really important to point out. If you feel like you're running into a wall constantly and going nowhere, do something else. Vary your line ups, revisit old line ups you enjoyed, do something new you don't normally do. It really helps.

[Beblokis]

Originally posted by Jaes:

Originally posted by NATO_ftw:

Everyone hits the wall at some point in any game or activity.

My advice, go for planes. No need to constantly play ground vehicles.

I think this is really important to point out. If you feel like you're running into a wall constantly and going nowhere, do something else. Vary your line ups, revisit old line ups you enjoyed, do something new you don't normally do. It really helps.

Indeed. I really enjoy playing older vehicles now as I can really set up my lines fully and its just fun.

[Aquanox]

Its because of the premium store sales. All the nubs are playing usually one and done or just charge in like USA high tier does.

[♠Gamer3106♠]

Originally posted by hsf_:

Originally posted by gulyas:

Make opportunities, watch your fellow potatoes making a stand behind cover and go flank their attacker, or do other direct actions that capitalize on the work of others.

No I've decided that I'm going to bait them all, I'm just going to be an utter ♥♥♥♥ every single game and just bait everyone until I get banned for passive behaviour. ♥♥♥♥ it.

It's not a war crimes if the teammates don't survive to tell anybody

[Ponto]

Originally posted by ♠Gamer3106♠:

I'm stuck at around 40K SL and not progressing for at least 5 days, so I totally understand your pain

I'm sitting on a growing chest full of silver lions currently sitting at just over 230 million and growing daily. I cannot understand your pain but know full well that it is a L2P issue.

[FizzyElf]

Originally posted by hsf_:

I'm a reasonable player, not brilliant not awful just reasonable. I understand where to shoot, what angles are most likely to bounce, what positions are obvious, what ammo works best against what armour etc.

But for the last week or so, I am simply unable to amass any kind of good game play, at all... I usually have 3 or 4 games a day where I feel like I am playing well, but I'm not even having that. It's quite literally just been a solid week of nothing but utter ♥♥♥♥.

Wtf is happening? I feel like I did when I first started playing, just sitting there confused every time I get killed.
I mean I know that there are matches where I cringe at how I played, but I look back at the replays from this week and for the most part it all looks fine... I just can't kill anything, my team mates all act like single line coded bots, there is no one spotting mean while the enemies are playing like they're a well drilled squad and we end up getting pushed back to our spawn and can't get out.

To give you an idea of what this feels like, Go and play Doom Eternal on the easiest difficulty, then without your knowledge someone flips it to ultra nightmare and you get gibbed every 5 seconds.

I'm having the same problem when I play with a squad and for a few days after. I join up with a group of friends, we are all decent but not great players, and then we and the rest of our team get torn to pieces and lose most matches in around 6-7 minutes. Then once I leave the group I get destroyed no matter what mode, nation or BR I play for a few days and after that its as if nothing ever happened. Normally in a bad match I make around 2000 SL, no kills, no caps maybe a few assists and a ton of bounces. In a bad match with friends and right after it around 400-800 SL per match. I can't really figure out why this happens though, I mean everyone on our team plays normally and me and my squad make between 2-4 kills per life on our own but once we join up its like the game difficulty spikes and no one is safe. I just played with some friends yesterday and have been unable to even use my CAS without being swarmed by enemy players let alone respawn on the ground, I'm being spawn camped 2 minutes into the match unless I hold off 5 players or more on my own (they chose almost the same route every time so I know where they are on some maps) which being someone who makes between 2-4 kills per match they will always have at least one more tanks than I can stop. My last match was me facing off against not 1, not 2 or even 3 but 7 players, 5 of which were driving T30's and T34's (american T34's), one was a Pershing and one went AFK half way through the fight in a tank I've never seen before. I failed to stop them because I'm no MVP, but the point is I almost never see this level of force and teamwork used until I play in a squad, if I do its match after match of one vs all hell, so your DOOM analogy is pretty accurate.

[Nomad]

Go for War Thunder official channel at YouTube thats a lot of tip videos right there and its exactly what you need

[hsf_]

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2536350496

This literally sums up my game. I'm in a plane, calling for help all the time, flying NEXT TO TEAM MATE AIRCRAFT and OVER TEAM MATE SPAA and they do nothing...

The SPAA is busy shooting a tank(and died) and the plane just ignored me and carried on shooting ground targets with 12.7mm guns. Because that's ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ useful.

In the mean time, I've got two enemy G.91s DOING WHAT THEY SHOULD DO and chase me down... This happens in most games and I'm ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ sick of it.

[FizzyElf]

Originally posted by Ponto:

Originally posted by ♠Gamer3106♠:

I'm stuck at around 40K SL and not progressing for at least 5 days, so I totally understand your pain

I'm sitting on a growing chest full of silver lions currently sitting at just over 230 million and growing daily. I cannot understand your pain but know full well that it is a L2P issue.

I make between a 100-200K SL a day and I fully understand the pain of getting stuck for days on end (usually it's my own fault but sometimes its the game). In an okay match of 4 kills plus all the other stuff I do is worth between 10-20k SL at rank 3 and 4, way more for rank 5-7. even in bad matches (if I'm not in the squad low point) I still make more than I lose but even so I've been below 100k SL before and was stuck there for a long time.

My advice would be to grow your SL to 100K and then consider that 0 SL or your "zero point", to give more detail, say you want a tank that cost 150,000 SL and you have your 100k zero point, you don't need to grind 50k more SL but 150k SL (meaning you need to reach 250K SL) so you can by the tank, this system is designed to prevent repairs from destroying you because you just bought a new vehicle and are almost out of SL, with this system you always have a reserve of SL so repairs don't wipe out all your SL. For me I consider 500K SL to be my zero point, This means its almost impossible for me to fall below 100,000 again and it means repairs will never threaten me, I can bring out top tier tanks and jets for hours in RB and never do a thing but die match after match and my little zero point would save me from debt for quite a while. In your case I wouldn't do something as extreme as me, 100k is perfectly fine and will allow you to repair most vehicles without issue for a few terrible matches at least.

hope this helps your SL troubles a bit

[FizzyElf]

Originally posted by FizzyElf:

Originally posted by Ponto:

I'm sitting on a growing chest full of silver lions currently sitting at just over 230 million and growing daily. I cannot understand your pain but know full well that it is a L2P issue.

I make between a 100-200K SL a day and I fully understand the pain of getting stuck for days on end (usually it's my own fault but sometimes its the game). In an okay match of 4 kills plus all the other stuff I do is worth between 10-20k SL at rank 3 and 4, way more for rank 5-7. even in bad matches (if I'm not in the squad low point) I still make more than I lose but even so I've been below 100k SL before and was stuck there for a long time.

My advice would be to grow your SL to 100K and then consider that 0 SL or your "zero point", to give more detail, say you want a tank that cost 150,000 SL and you have your 100k zero point, you don't need to grind 50k more SL but 150k SL (meaning you need to reach 250K SL) so you can by the tank, this system is designed to prevent repairs from destroying you because you just bought a new vehicle and are almost out of SL, with this system you always have a reserve of SL so repairs don't wipe out all your SL. For me I consider 500K SL to be my zero point, This means its almost impossible for me to fall below 100,000 again and it means repairs will never threaten me, I can bring out top tier tanks and jets for hours in RB and never do a thing but die match after match and my little zero point would save me from debt for quite a while. In your case I wouldn't do something as extreme as me, 100k is perfectly fine and will allow you to repair most vehicles without issue for a few terrible matches at least.

hope this helps your SL troubles a bit

Also take a shot of Tea every time I say "SL"