i need help with this… i recently started playing, i come from WOT, got bored playing that and now im here.
ill be talking about Ground Combat.
The thing is… i feel like this game is 0 friendly with the new player and is too inconsistent. i would say that the game is horrible but its probably a skill issue. I get one shoted 9 out of 10 times. the only one i dont get one shoted my gun gets destroyed so i cant fire back. i one shot other people 50% of the time. the rest it bounces or kills some of his crew members but they can always 10/10 fire back so im dead. many times i flank, shoot tanks in the back and they survive or even bounces and im just dead. shermans are unkillable on the front i cant pen them with any tank and im at 6.3 battle rating on the german tech tree.
so i guess i suck at the game, im asking for help before i just uninstall the game, i already paid premium and bought some premium tanks, BTW ive been playing only realistic lately but the experience is the same on both game modes.
thank you for the help
Sure I would be happy to provide some of my own experience. I recently have played quite a lot of 5.7, So we should be able to understand eachother :)
What vehicles do you usually play in your german lineup?
every time you cant kill something go look at that tank in the tech tree, preview it, go to armour
click protection analysis
select whatever tank you want to kill the tank youre looking at with, what shell, and the range
and the click protection map and youll see where you can penetrate from the angle that youre looking at and if you click somewhere on the tank youll simulate a shot against it and see what it would kill
unlike in wot guns in warthunder actually hit where theyre pointed so learning weakpoints is rather important
Jesus. None of us who started were good at the game. It just takes some time to learn the maps, learn player habits based on those maps, and where and how to shoot other tanks. Buying premiums, what BR?
Personally I prefer 8.3 and below with about 5.7 to 8.0 being my sweet spot as it has a good balance of tanks/SPAA vs CAS.
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Like everyone did, eventually came from World of Tanks, just get yourself a good line-up, with friends if possible and play the game. You may want to play the game for the rewards and whatever you feel like but this is asking for pressure. Play normally, leave the match if you don’t like the map or leave the game after an hour session is more than understandable.
There’s no strategy, there’s no sidescrapping or crazy angles, fast vehicles or whatever you saw in World of Tanks, none of this works reliably, you can and will get flanked, the maps weren’t designed with tactic in mind, that’s why you’ll find pointless spots with no though behind its role in the map strategy and play. Make sure to shoot first and don’t get too much excited, play slow, check the corners and thrive.
im playing with the tiger H1 and the Panther mostly
oh this is cool i didnt know, thank you ! ill try it
Tiger H1 is good, just have to be aware of some fatal flaws. The cupola is a shot zone, and the smoke dischargers on the side can hamper certain shots when trying to angle. I prefer the Pzgr round, although it has less pen, it carries more explosive. Although it’s a heavy tank, I’m still careful as you’ll generally be facing M18s who can easily pen you from the side. Don’t carry a full ammo load, pack a few HE shells for SPAA or open tops (also use your MG).
Panthers, I prefer the Panther A for it’s faster turret traverse. Otherwise it’s got a good gun, but it’s reverse hampers your ability to back out of trouble so plan your spots and shots.
I generally use the Waffentrager, as it’s got a great gun at it’s BR. It’s slow, and open topped, but it’s gun elevation can be used to counter CAS if you time your shots. This vehicle isn’t a spawn camping machine but used right it can be a good sniper.
Also do you play arcade or realistic? I started arcade but left early on as I prefer the no enemy markers. It takes some time to get used to seeing tanks, but once your eyes and ears get experienced it’s not a big deal.
After that, just understand that Gaijin are be bias as hell, and they do tend lack the ability to use logic and common sense at times.
Otherwise, just keep playing and try not to move up to quick until your comfortable and built up some SLs. It’ll get real expensive to buy vehicles and modifications as you push into the higher BRs. I generally unlock vehicles and wait for the 50% periods they have throughout the year to minimize the costs.
welcome fellow WoT refugee. i made the jump back in 2022. While a lot of experience carries over you do need to apply that experience in a different way.
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Firing lines are still important. While most maps arent the sniper camping hellfests WoT maps are usually nothing but having a good position is still king. Once you learn maps you will find you naturally do a lot better.
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crew skills. They suck but dont suck as bad as it was in WoT as each crewslots skills transfer 100% to another tank if you use that same slot rather than having a pentalty to grind through before the vehicle is playable
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Dont expect to survive getting shot. Theres no vehicle HP (crew and components technically use HP but thats a game limitation) and if you expect to die you will naturally play safer and therefore smarter. However keeping aggression up is still very important.
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weakspots matter a lot. if your gun cant penetrate much armour or doesnt do much post pen damage (solid shot instead of the overperforming death nuke that APHE is) learning where crew is places in a tank and where to shoot to hit them is really valuable. a good rule of thumb is that the gunner sits on the left side of the turret on russian style tanks but are on the right with western/nato tanks however it does vary from tank to tank. if youre not sure shooting the tanks canon out always works.
spot right next to the mantlet is thinner to fit the traverse drives in. Theres also the hull machine gun slot on most shermans to shoot.
- Your ammunition choice matters a lot. Dont use APCR, its trash. sacrificing some penetration for more TNT in your APHE is often worthwhile. Bringing HE or HESH for open top tanks is valuable (however i dont personally do that) APDS and HEAT is wildly different on every tank so be careful. most APFSDS acts the same for the most part.
my next reccomendation would have been to not do that until you know you want to play long term, Especially high tier premiums.
The higher in BR you do go, the most complicated vehicles and mechanics at your disposal become, the same goes for the enemy team. working your way naturally though the tech trees of your choice teach you them better than anything else can.
I also reccomend playing more than one nation even if its only for a while and only to arounf 6.0 BR. it gives you a good insight into how vehicles you will face are meant to be played and whats weak about them, so you can predict how they will come and exploit the weaknesses.
You only have 300 battles and you skipped the whole fun of low tiers? Why would you do that?
when i started playing, i was still in a br of 7.0 so bad, i wanted to strat over from reserve. Its important to know YOUR and the enemy wakspot.
Only the jumbo is the problem. If your using the 88m gun, shoot at the mashine gun port, if your using the 75mm gun, you will have enought pen to shoot him on front. If you keep playing and keep watching videos you will become good. Here is a good video about positening and how to get better from the youtuber angrytexan88: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J9mKPKoNU6A
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J9mKPKoNU6A just keep watching youtubers videos and how to
its also better as other people metion, playing acrade is your key to become better. I still played arcade in rank 3. once u feel your to good at arcade, start play realistic. Of course you will suffer, but keep playing, in the end u will master GRB