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I estimate elevation marks for the first shot, but if I'm way off I'll use manual zeroing.
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Same, I also changed the control settings so that manual zeroing is bound to the mouse wheel. It's really quite useful in pre-laser designator stuff.
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Manual zeroing is nice since you can make a mental note of some guy who’s been peeking around a corner so whenever they show you can pop them spot on. Also, the zeroing will take the trajectory into account if your vehicle is sitting at an acute angle.
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Jan 5, 2024 06:48
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Nfcknblvbl posted:Also, the zeroing will take the trajectory into account if your vehicle is sitting at an acute angle. Nice this is exactly what I was worried about.
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I use elevation marks and can generally eyeball it up to 800m but after that will usually find a piece of terrain to pre sight for when someone pops out.
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I can never get the hang of rocket drop to eyeball it correctly while doing CAS, I always end up hitting the general vicinity, even with a maxed out pilot.
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Jan 5, 2024 09:36
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It varies by rocket and position on the wing. It is silly.
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Jan 5, 2024 09:52
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Tiny Tims especially can be deceptively frustrating for a new player that hears about them as a super-rocket; they take a second after launch to really leave their hardpoint so if you're thinking "I shouldn't get caught in the explosion so I'll pull away immediately" you'll make your rocket fly off in the wrong direction and kill gently caress-all. You've got to account for that delay, launch slightly earlier than you would otherwise, and then pull away once the rocket is safely off your craft.
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I can barely hit things with a 20mm cannon flying right at them, rockets seem like a non starter to me. I unlocked the battle pass Breda and it’s exactly what you expect - by far the best gun of any vehicle I’ve played at BR 4.0 but you are constantly getting your crew machine gunned. Good mobility though.
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Warbadger posted:Personally I think they just need to have better oversight on the national advisors/leads. Some nations (USSR/Germany/Sweden for example) usually get very favorable interpretation of vehicles, unique mechanics, and quick fixes when they perform badly. I would like to know more about China scandal.
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I found the guy who never bothers to angle his Tiger. Reading this gave me an aneurysm and now you can have one too.
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Trimson Grondag 3 posted:I unlocked the battle pass Breda and it’s exactly what you expect - by far the best gun of any vehicle I’ve played at BR 4.0 but you are constantly getting your crew machine gunned. Good mobility though. The low-key best thing about the Breda 90/53 isn’t even the gun. It’s the rangefinder. Being able to get accurate ranges out to arbitrary distances in a second or two is pretty amazing, and I think it’s the lowest BR rangefinder in the game.
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YaG-10 (29-K) has one at 3.3
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Farecoal posted:YaG-10 (29-K) has one at 3.3 Welp, I know what BR I’m going clubbing in later.
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Is it 2.7? It should be 2.7 in the Swedish ANTI.
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The Oldest Man posted:That's a lot less fun when you're constantly uptiered into guys who have ir sights so they will usually spot you before you spot them, pen you frontally without even aiming, and then you're just dead because you can't aim when your engine is out My first Strv 103 match of the day.  I J'd out to get my nuke, it was too late though, and the game ended. I don't get uptiered much at 8.0, and I think a lot of the recent BR changes have to do with this.
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Got 6 kills in my first match with the Bkan 1C. Might be a fluke but it feels a bit silly (I like it)
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Lately it seems German players aren't the only ones with no situational awareness, luckily. https://i.imgur.com/yi8T7Ha.mp4 I'm starting to think my M4A2 76W is cursed. I do really well in the M4A1 76W (which is a god tier tank with no lineup to go with it) despite being fully uptiered pretty much all the time, and I do really well in the M4A3E8 76W which typically fights at its BR level or slightly above. The M4A2 76W on the other hand despite not being really much different from either of the other tanks I am guaranteed to get blown to bits in the first few minutes without ever spotting what killed me. I'm continuing to spade the F4U-4B Corsair and I'm thoroughly enjoying the hell out of this plane; it's definitely up there among my favourite planes with the Bf-109 K4 and Spitfire LF Mk IX. I'm so used to having a single motorcannon or a couple of Hispanos so having 4 cannons and an ammo pool of 984 rounds that I can just unleash until whatever I'm shooting at dies is extremely cathartic.
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Trimson Grondag 3 posted:If you don’t know - you can click on a target in bino mode and it will line up the gun for you (you will still have to adjust for range after but much faster still). I didn't know this, just tried it in a test drive. Oh my God this is so good. Thank you.
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Not having TWS at top tier is great.
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I'm having a blast with low tier France atm. No bullshit, no missiles, no lasers, no jets, I just trundle up in my fat B1, watch the drat fool who gets in my way plink at me, and then give them the mercy of a quick death from like a metre away.
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Lord Ludikrous posted:The M4A2 76W on the other hand despite not being really much different from either of the other tanks I am guaranteed to get blown to bits in the first few minutes without ever spotting what killed me. I have this exact same issue whenever I try to get research done on a new tank. Like some kinda of "no-fun-allowed" curse.
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Action-Bastard posted:I have this exact same issue whenever I try to get research done on a new tank. Like some kinda of "no-fun-allowed" curse. See when it comes to new tanks I have the opposite problem. Like the first couple of games with a new vehicle I'll do amazingly well and think "wow that was fun, this tank is really good, im going to spade it". Then after those first couple of games the "honeymoon period" comes to an end and afterward I'll promptly have my arse handed to me on a platter time after time after time.
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If recall, the A2 diesel Sherman has a competitive top speed with the A1 and A3 versions but sluggish acceleration. Particularly from a dead stop. It makes playing the positioning games the Sherman excels at harder to pull off.
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Jumped back into this after years away through Steam and it set me up with a new account, which apparently I can't link after the fact but decided starting over would be fun anyway. I forgot they start you out against bots and I was thinking my 14-1 round was hot poo poo. Embarassing.
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So I've been considering getting back into this game for a while (last time I really played was back in like, early 2014) to do high-tier jet stuff but didn't want to grind all the way up (I had just unlocked rank IV before I had stopped back then), but decided to jump in with this winter event reward for planes being a Mirage 2000. Ended up deciding to be That Player and buy my way into top tier with the F-4S when it went on sale and it has been a hell of a lot of fun: https://i.imgur.com/WCvg09M.mp4 https://i.imgur.com/tdHrMga.mp4 https://i.imgur.com/QiXNsIu.mp4 https://i.imgur.com/vlRArtv.mp4 (sorry for the gif spam (not actually sorry I love this dumb brick))
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RandomBlue posted:Jumped back into this after years away through Steam and it set me up with a new account, which apparently I can't link after the fact but decided starting over would be fun anyway. You can log out from your player profile in game and log back in on your real account.
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YF-23 posted:You can log out from your player profile in game and log back in on your real account. Good to know, thank you.
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YF-23 posted:You can log out from your player profile in game and log back in on your real account. Where is this? I can't find an option to log out anywhere on the Steam version. e: These are the only options on the player card:  I can't use bind email to connect to my main account either and War Thunder help for connecting your Steam account to an existing Gaijin account says it can't be done after you've actually logged in with the Steam version. Worst case scenario I can just download the client from their site and run it that way I guess. e2: Found I can run the launcher from the game's Steam install dir and it'll take me to the login screen when I start the game that way. Steam doesn't see I'm playing the game that way but it's probably a good thing it's not tracking my time in this game. RandomBlue fucked around with this message at 01:32 on Jan 9, 2024 |
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Is there some sort of stratagem for defeating a Scharnhorst? Or there're just literally invincible and naval is a forgotten mode
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appropriatemetaphor posted:Or there're just literally invincible and naval is a forgotten mode This is your answer. Boats is bad, and War Thunder should have stuck with their initial plan to do only coastal. I'm sick of trying to have fun in speedy PT boats only to be wrecked by some destroyer from 5km away. I only play boats when the Battle Pass requires it, and I hate every moment of it. My queue times in arcade boats has been 5+ minutes so that's definitely a bad sign. By the way, I got this done yesterday. I'm freeeeee! 
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I doubt there was ever a chance of coastal-only naval, larger ships and different classes are too iconic. Sometimes I dream about a fun, popular naval mode with sane BRs and research rates, but it morphs into a nightmare of grinding out hundreds of thousands of RP for an extra Bofors while ships of the next class look on, laughing.
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appropriatemetaphor posted:Is there some sort of stratagem for defeating a Scharnhorst? Long Lance it.
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I’m dumb America with poo poo torps the bureau of ordinance gave me 
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RandomBlue posted:Where is this? I can't find an option to log out anywhere on the Steam version. Oh weird, I have a "Switch User" button to the left of "Change Nickname". But I've also been playing this (through steam) predating them adding options for automatic steam accounts so maybe it Just Knows.
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I love the Ontos. It's made 6.7 USA a lot more bearable
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7.0 USA is where it’s at. The T92 and F-84B-26 hit just right.
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appropriatemetaphor posted:I’m dumb America with poo poo torps the bureau of ordinance gave me Are you high enough in the US tree to have BBs or postwar CAs?
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Farecoal posted:I love the Ontos. It's made 6.7 USA a lot more bearable I could never get the hang of the Ontos, but weirdly I do fairly well with the Japanese type 60 SPRG.
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Madurai posted:Are you high enough in the US tree to have BBs or postwar CAs? I’ve got the Mississippi then next highest are Fargo and Cleveland at 6.0 I believe. Been dragging the 5.0 destroyer with the highest torpedo load. But by the time I realize a Scharn has killed the whole team the game is done.
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