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What the hell is this Atomic Thunder thing, and whats the point?
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Jul 11, 2023 22:58
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i think it's supposed to be fun but seems like a mega grind to get what, a profile pic?
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Jul 11, 2023 23:45
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Cimber posted:What the hell is this Atomic Thunder thing, and whats the point? It looks like some kind of thirst trap for people who still think Russia strong memes are funny. And the point is to get thirsty nerds to grind for jpegs of robot girls.
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Jul 12, 2023 00:05
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It's a crossover with Atomic Heart, which was a sort of mediocre Bioshock-but-with-USSR-futurism aesthetics. It's a grind for a couple decorations and loading screens/profile pictures. The mode is fun enough I guess but you don't make SL or RP in the main game and the rewards don't exactly warrant the kind of grinding necessary to get them.
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Jul 12, 2023 00:38
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Punished Ape posted:It's a crossover with Atomic Heart, which was a sort of mediocre Bioshock-but-with-USSR-futurism aesthetics. But you can get boosters!
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Jul 12, 2023 01:52
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It’s also a way to try out high tier tanks without premium or a bonkers grind.
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Jul 12, 2023 01:55
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Cimber posted:But you can get boosters! How good are they though? I can see Gaijin weighting the trophies towards orders or backups, or like a 10% x10 SL booster. Not really worth grinding 20k points just for that.
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Jul 12, 2023 02:24
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Cimber posted:What the hell is this Atomic Thunder thing, and whats the point? I get the feeling this event was supposed to run a few months ago when the game released. It seems like a non-sequitur at this point.
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Jul 12, 2023 02:42
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Tergaso posted:I get the feeling this event was supposed to run a few months ago when the game released. It seems like a non-sequitur at this point. I guess they couldn't decide which april fool's event to do so they just did both but delayed this one https://warthunder.com/en/news/8177-atomic-thunder-meet-the-lineup-of-unique-soviet-robotics-en
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Jul 12, 2023 10:40
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How do you target the AI naval base things? If I look at it my reticle just bounces all over the place making it almost impossible to aim even if it's relatively close.
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Jul 13, 2023 04:16
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The bases are destructible? I thought they're just a stage hazard
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Jul 13, 2023 08:12
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yeah they die really quickly but it's super fiddly to get your guns to actually aim at it. coastal ships can just call arty on them.
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Jul 13, 2023 08:26
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I think they count towards Terror of the Sea but I'm not sure.
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Jul 13, 2023 10:13
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Has gaijin ever said anything about do anything about these naval bot clans? Like every match has 3 of these -shoti- clan naval bots plus a few extra random naval bots.
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Jul 15, 2023 07:06
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I'm playing a P-39 in Air RB, I get a Spitfire on my tail. Is there anything I can do or am I just hosed?
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Jul 16, 2023 03:04
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Shallow dive, peace the f out, climb.
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Jul 16, 2023 03:42
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appropriatemetaphor posted:Has gaijin ever said anything about do anything about these naval bot clans? Like every match has 3 of these -shoti- clan naval bots plus a few extra random naval bots. I feel like this stuff is approaching critical mass. I can't speak for naval, but in the last handful of ground matches I've seen passive SPAAs parked in spawn, guys aim snapping perfectly to distant tanks, tracking players through mountains, etc. And they're old accounts with tens of thousands of matches, too.
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Jul 16, 2023 04:28
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Punished Ape posted:I feel like this stuff is approaching critical mass. I can't speak for naval, but in the last handful of ground matches I've seen passive SPAAs parked in spawn, guys aim snapping perfectly to distant tanks, tracking players through mountains, etc. And they're old accounts with tens of thousands of matches, too. it's pretty bad, around 1/4-1/3 of the naval teams (depending on team size are bots like this:  if they auto lock you you're dead because their accuracy is really good, but otherwise they're totally oblivious. like I've had a parade of bot ships sail right by me at like ~2km while I kill them one by one but they're just shooting away at something 10km+ away
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Jul 16, 2023 06:15
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I thought gaijin disabled AI main gunnery? Is it back?
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Jul 16, 2023 06:36
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Farecoal posted:I'm playing a P-39 in Air RB, I get a Spitfire on my tail. Is there anything I can do or am I just hosed? Nfcknblvbl posted:Shallow dive, peace the f out, climb. Pretty much this. The only thing a Spitfire can generally outrun is a Zero, and the P-39s are all pretty fast even if they have poo poo for acceleration. Big recommend to head for the deck though; His high altitude performance is almost certainly better than yours.
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Jul 16, 2023 20:07
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MrYenko posted:His high altitude performance is almost certainly better than yours. p-39 dot txt
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Jul 16, 2023 20:46
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i'm bad at rockets so proud of this one: https://i.imgur.com/MSTns3S.mp4
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Jul 16, 2023 22:08
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I decided to try jets again, sticking to the 8.0 and below bracket. The F80 C10 variant is very deceptive. It looks like the F80-A but it accelerates much faster. I pulled off some pretty impressive games already and I'm not even spaded.
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Jul 16, 2023 23:15
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Der Waffle Mous posted:p-39 dot txt It's why we sent all of ours to Russia for lend-lease.
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Jul 17, 2023 00:42
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It really pisses me off when I am playing AA that I can kill a plane, but he can somehow still drop a bomb 3 seconds later on me and kill me back. I mean, c'mon.
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Jul 18, 2023 01:28
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Cimber posted:It really pisses me off when I am playing AA that I can kill a plane, but he can somehow still drop a bomb 3 seconds later on me and kill me back. I mean, c'mon. War Thunder made a CG video advertisement about how you should always be killing the enemy, even when you are hopelessly destroyed already.
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Jul 19, 2023 05:26
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Cimber posted:It really pisses me off when I am playing AA that I can kill a plane, you should really be thankful that someone didn't know how to fly 
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Jul 19, 2023 05:41
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Cimber posted:It really pisses me off when I am playing AA that I can kill a plane, but he can somehow still drop a bomb 3 seconds later on me and kill me back. I mean, c'mon. Planes can also shoot other planes after they are 'dead'. It's funny to get smoked by somebody and then send an IR seeker after him as he burns smugly away
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Jul 19, 2023 09:08
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I killed a stray enemy Yak at high altitude and started diving to go after other planes. A few seconds later I was pilot sniped and I watched the Yak plummet past me, spewing flames. I couldn't even be mad.
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Jul 19, 2023 12:54
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Thief posted:you should really be thankful that someone didn't know how to fly I do decent with my Ost 2, and can usually get 2 or 3 plane kills a match. Usually I get killed when the plane I just destroyed kills me after. :/
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Jul 19, 2023 16:04
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You didn't kill the plane. You just made sure it can't fly much longer. Killing the pilot will disable control immediately.
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Jul 19, 2023 16:09
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Farecoal posted:I killed a stray enemy Yak at high altitude and started diving to go after other planes. A few seconds later I was pilot sniped and I watched the Yak plummet past me, spewing flames. I couldn't even be mad. It's always Yaks for some reason, just instantly domed out of the cockpit.
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Jul 19, 2023 19:48
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Not sure I like these new hit sounds, machine guns especially. Sounds like I'm being aggressively coughed at
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Jul 20, 2023 00:53
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Yeah new MG audio in air battles really had me confused when I briefly logged in today.
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Jul 20, 2023 03:52
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This is what, the 5th patch in a row they've changed sounds?
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Jul 20, 2023 06:10
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People were mad enough about them that they reverted them.
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Jul 20, 2023 14:43
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Amazing. Last night was the first time in a long time I've actually been able to reliably pin point enemy locations by their engine sounds.
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Jul 20, 2023 14:54
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Replace all the ingame sounds with the ones from the old '1942' arcade game. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Em7UwOOBvlA
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Jul 20, 2023 14:55
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Lovely Joe Stalin posted:Amazing. Last night was the first time in a long time I've actually been able to reliably pin point enemy locations by their engine sounds. I almost never have a problem hearing enemy engines or which direction they're coming from, the main problem is that they change the drat sounds every other patch so I never know how far away the engine sound is Really makes me feel like a cyber-ace when I can find enemies just by the sound of their idling engine even after they stopped
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Jul 20, 2023 14:57
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Yeah I have that problem as well. It just so happened that the sounds they had in yesterday seemed to click intuitively with me straight away for distance and direction. I think their sound design may actually be the most frustrating thing about this game. Both the overactive sound engineer, and the somehow persistent bug where sometimes tanks and planes are just silent when right next to you.
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