How do I stop having a skill issue?

How am I this bad at the game? I can’t do ANYTHING. I’ve just had probably 6 or 7 matches where I don’t do anything. I can’t. I have been playing this game for almost SEVEN years. I SHOULD be good, but no matter what I do I am always the worst player on my team. Sure I’ve gotten 20+ kill games before, but generally, I get one, and today I can’t even get that.

This is for both ARB and GRB I can’t do EITHER. Props I can do easily. It’s the easiest in the world. The most fun too, but I want to progress the game. I want to get better at ground because most of my mates are ground mains but GRB is such a difficult gamemode. I don’t understand. How does a D-5T pen my 200mm plate? God knows!

No matter what advice people gives me, I always lose. “Be more careful” plane whacks me and I don’t have a single kill because I don’t play offensively. “Be more aggressive” Yeah I die immediately because of the M22 that bounces my Pershing’s M82 shot then flanks me and ammo racks me. IT’S IMPOSSIBLE. Jets is the same, I can’t ever flare a missile but the enemy can always flare mine. I. Don’t. Get. It.

Please someone, how do I be good - without the usual rubbish advice that never works?

May i ask what your average relative position is?

From what i can see you are actually performing a fair bit above average so this might just be a bad streak in combination with focusing to much on the negative results (which is just a built in human survival mechanism/reptile brain thing, bad experiences stick better to memory as those are biologically more important for survival).

As for actual tips those depend on what vehicles you are playing as most vehicles have their own small tips and tricks for how to utilize them better.

My personal general tips though:

Ground RB:
I have found the best results when playing neither extreme of aggressive/careful as a blanket but rather situationally instead. So start aggressive to get to a good spot then be careful to try to pick off those who are aggressive all the way at the start of a match. once those are gone (either shot by you or your team) then time to start pushing again and be aggressive towards those who are careful all the way (and/or those who are careful at the start but get impatient). It’s so very situational that there really isn’t “one good strategy” that always works.

I have also found that spawning SPAA relatively early has worked out better as you have time to move from spawn before the wall of CAS appears early mid-match, you then have a better position as those planes will likely be looking for SPAA in spawn (where you are no longer at) and you have an easier time ambushing them. Spawning SPAA when there already is 3+ planes up at the same time will increase the risk of getting knocked out in spawn while only taking down 1 plane if you are lucky and fast before the spawn protection runs out.

Air RB:
Depends heavily on the BR, any jet with IR missiles but at or below ~11.0 BR (but this works for many other BR’s as well, just not for the really high ones where radars are way more likely to spot you and shoot you down at altitude) does surprisingly well if you go out just a tad bit slower than the rest of your team, climb to just below where the contrail appears (differs from map to map but mostly around 5.5km plus/minus 0.3km) and then diving down to behind the base bombers that rush bases at the start. No need to dive all the way down either, as long as you are behind them and above them you can fire a IR missile at their engines decreasing the risk of flares working and increasing your chances of not being seen as you come from above. Then climb again and repeat once more (i usually get one or two of these opportunities per match at those BR’s).

After that it highly depends on the plane, but doing zoom/boom after that as well still works in many situations where the enemies are in a large ball together with your allies and you dive in and gun down the slowest of the enemies and them fly out (don’t get baited into turn fights early, you’ll just be food for their teammates that do what i just described). At this point in the game IR missiles (and radar as well for that matter) are almost always a no go, to high risk of teamkills. If you still have missiles save them for when there is way less enemies (and friendlies) and you can more accurately judge the risks of accidental teamkills to shoot a missile at a slow turn fighting enemy or one that has just exited the main area and is trying to fly back to base to re-arm.

General RB:
No matter the game mode, keeping a cool head and staying patient has (at least for me personally) paid of more than anything else, don’t go for the first target you see (unless they have already seen you). It’s often better to wait for a better shot a few moments later than to take an unnecessary pot shot at an enemy that didn’t even know you were there and miss or not do enough damage, instead of waiting a few seconds and having a free shot at weakspots because they turned a bit.

Of course you’re gonna have matches where you get knocked out having done absolutely nothing, those are unavoidable, best you can do is aim for less of them and try to not let them get to you emotionally, you can do everything right and still have those matches. Not worth beating yourself up about it. Aim for a higher average instead of great games all the time as that realistically isn’t achievable.

Sorry for the wall of text, i’ve tried to space it out best i could :)

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In the team? 1 - 5, but that doesn’t mean I’m good.

Maybe? But it seems so common now, ever since I got a better PC my results have tanked. Hahaha I’ll go back to 30 FPS guys it helps

I see, I’m quite new at GRB tbh as I’m an ARB main but hey, thanks.

I’d spawn SPAA more but I really kinda suck at it unless people are right next to me, really slow, or coming head on.

I use this strategy quite heavily but it only really seems to work with the MiG-23ML in my opinion, the crazy stupid R-24T + IRST combination is crazy, but the fighters of Japan and Britain which are my mains are a bit harder to do this with, Japan is stuck with 9P and Britain’s 9G is okay but the aircraft that carry them low enough for that are bricks and slow.

Thank you lots, I just find it difficult to keep a cool head after one match, I love this game, I really do, but I tend to go into a match (and because I’m rusty) I do badly, which makes me upset, which makes me perform worse. I tend to do much better goofing around with friends but they’re all asleep when I get home from college :/

No no I appreciate it, sorry for taking up your time, I went back to 3.7 ARB and cooled off a bit. Props is definitely my comfort BR because it’s so fun and it’s easy, tbh it’s almost too easy atp. People don’t try enough it’s sad.

GRB has a bunch of mechanics that punish aggressive play, which is the default for most people.

Hit markers and even worse scouting gives away you position to the entire enemy team, scouting follows you for like 30 seconds even if you move, and worst of all CAS gets to see this.

3rd person camera/binos without a physical commander exiting the vehicle means that you can sit behind a building, behind a hill, or in dead space and just wait for something to come out, make sure its safe pop out and collect your kill.

You want to get to a spot where you have good sightlines behind cover to abuse these mechanics, that ideally also has a covered route of escape if things go south, and of course the knowledge of all these spots on all the maps and spawns. This applies to flanking as well, when you flank you aren’t just going on a rambo suicide mission, you are trying to get into a spot like this behind enemy lines without dying on the way. And generally unless its a specific map sitting in 1 spot all game isn’t going to work, need to know when to move, and where more aggressive or defensive spots are from the start of the game neutral/flank spots are based on if you are winning losing etc.

And sometimes you might get into a good spot, and 90% of the enemy team spawned the other side and you are met with a dilemma, do you keep sitting there and maybe see nothing or move and pray there isn’t someone on the other team doing the same team and the first person to get bored and exit loses.

You need to be able to read the minimap, make decisions when to move when not to, how to move, where to move etc. and its not something that really comes just by playing. Average player can die because they screwed up a shot, maybe they shot t34 UFP in a panic and if they just waited a second and went for breach they would of lived, this makes sense and its something that most people can be conscious of and improve on. Most people are not going to die and start thinking about how they positioned, moved etc. and just either blame the vehicle being OP or blame campers etc. and if you can’t be conscious of your mistakes in this regard you can’t ever get better at them.

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Appreciate it. I’ll take your advice next time I start war thunder up :) thank you both have a good night

If you REALLY want to learn GRB and are willing to put in the time you can look at these videos while you are climbing in props or something to kill time.

The channels that post these also have general tips for playing the game besides map specific stuff. Other than this it just comes down to knowing tank weakspots and mechanical aim skill. Which is not easy, but its a lot more straightforward to learn.

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