Yes mate, I actually found this game on a semester break while I was looking for a online chess game back in Beta…I ran across this game, and believe me, Im not a gamer, and I was like Wow! This is the only game Ive ever played.
I always loved planes even as a kid.
Maybe youre one of those last two or three at times, and a pesky enemy…all working together to kill their ***'s…I will agree with you, its satisfying.
But have been in the “just get an airkill” crowd too, and so I appreciate everyone’s opinion. Luckily, I dont have to do that anymore.
Thank you so much for your contribution mate and Good Luck to You.
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No doubt, good luck mate
If I’m trying to farm mission score for an event, then I just aim to do what maximizes mission score earnings. The grinding planes I use are:
F-104C: Great for base bombing and destroying lots of ai targets in a short amount of time, in addition to being ok against other planes.
AV-8C: Similar to F-104C, but larger focus on killing players than killing ai.
F-8E and Fw 190 D-9: Both extremely good fighters with good strafing ability
A-10A Early: Depending on the map, and how it plays out, you can easily get 2k-3k mission score in a single game by destroying convoys. Best case scenario, you get Afghanistan and your teammates push the enemy team back to their airfield, providing loads of uninterrupted low-risk ground pounding time.
If I’m playing just to grind a plane or playing for fun, I generally search for either the easiest target (a low slow plane or base bombing/groundpounder) that isn’t being attacked by teammates, or the most threatening target (e.g Su-25, Mig-21, Spitfires, and T-2s)
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For me, to survive the ridiculous furball period and check if my team also does
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I typically just go into the fray and see what happens.
But given a choice between targets to engage, my priority is always-
- Assisting individual teammates. So getting people off friendlies even if it’s very risky. The exception is I don’t intervene in fair and even 1v1s
- Engaging priority targets for victory. So the most dangerous opponents typically or the ones with the most potential impact
- Staying alive. So if the team doesn’t need me to jump a dangerous target I’ll stay away, stay alive, and come back later at a better opportunity
- Most easy kills. All else equal then I just want as many points as possible
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Nobody in War Thunder is looking to get kills. Each player’s goal is to earn research points and money. Every player does what they think will earn them the most in the least amount of time. Therefore, bombers dive towards the bases, fighters take bombs and head straight for the bases. Nobody climbs. To summarize: the objective is to maximize research points and money in the minimum amount of time; everything else is secondary. 😊
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Thank you for that mate, it really does depend on a lot of factors doesn’t it? When I have a silver lion bonus activated, I fly about three different planes…but yet even still, Im like you know what, we are not going to win this battle unless such and such happens…
That may seem to be a bit of an ego for a player with a k/d ratio about 50%, but when I was a strictly airkill mate it was very dang good.
NOW, Im at the point I dont give a ^^^^, but yes I can see what youre saying dude…I fly every plane I skipped over because they were not that good, just to see what they can do.
But I have a couple of what I call “Killer Planes” that when I hop into them, I feel like nothing can touch me except for my OWN mistakes, and then, and the Zero for me is an example…I will attack every OP Yak 3, 9 I see…because I know for the team, maybe not so skilled, they cant do anything with me despite their performance below 3000m.
It really depends doesnt it, what the parameters of your goals are.
Thank You for your contribution fellow mate, very interesting and true.
The “Furball” at any BR is a MF… I look at it in some planes and enter and some I dont…
Everyone flies differently, hence the arguments on which plane is best, but Im one to skirt the furball and look “to drop”, on the unsuspecting.
I look around a lot, but I do not do well in the furball
That is why I asked this question. Because I know every pilot or tanker, ship captain is different.
I can tell you mate, I dont care about RP, grinding, silvers or any other financial matter in this game, never have.
I play for fun, and everything else will happen. But lets dont digress, because I used to not have every plane I wanted…and flew some crap I didnt want to fly…(mid tier Phantoms, US), but luckily I have a good job and so I bought my way through that stank.
Thank You for your contribution mate…we all play and fly for different reasons.
But let me say this, when Im in one of my Zeros, or a Sabre, most likely players just going for SL or RP are going down. Its Doc Holliday vs Johnny Ringo then.
Depends what mood I’m in really, usually I play the game for fun, so I’d just want to dogfight people, not care about kills or victories, but, like last night I was 200k RP away from the MiG-29 so I decided to actually try for once and smashed it out in two hours, but I don’t really enjoy grinding RP.
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Air isnt just deathmatch?
The Yak-7B is definetly like that for me. Easily one of the most overpowered planes I own in WT.
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Indeed, those are the planes we have, unique to everyone, that does anything you want it to.
It depends on my mood. My biggest clutch was 7 vs me, i won. But that was on props, a little bit difficult to do it in jets.
Also, depends what i’m trying to do. If i’m doing tasks , focus on the tasks and the easiest way to do them.
Kill bases , something i use as bombtruck it is… F-104C or F-4E premium Japan if i want to semi-grind an minimize the cost. However, the game doesn’t stop there, if i can damage someone or take him down i will -after playing the objective.
Kill X player vehicles task,i play something that favors that work and not over 13.0 BR which the game becomes a clusterfk of missiles.That works to wins though. You can see Mirage III is up for the task, i’ll play the occasional SARH which at this BR 10.0 most vehicles can’t contest or even be aware because they don’t expect it. Then the ISR one with 2 long range IR, 9Gs, can make great dive from nowhere attacks. F-14s can do damage, MF.1 if played well, M2K , 21SMT …
If the task is winning though…I’ll play decoy. Doesn’t pay much, but i can make it work better this way … i’ll get the activity either killing planes or if i can’t manage (because flying defensively) , i’ll make sure to go for GTs if numbers get thin. However, i trust myself playing decoy, with a semi-competent team , they can just toss missiles in everything following me , i look the positions and set up kills easier for them. MF.1 is very good at it (flares for days) , enough speed , no need for crazy manouveurs , good for 1 pull (all you need for the set-up) . In general, you pick CMs in a fast machine, play good defense …it’s easier to create aces , than achieve aces without any co-operation. And if aces come for your team , you’re closer to winning.
Also, i don’t care about K/D. My F-100D was a bombtruck at start , it was 1:4 K/D, but ground me the whole t5/6 with tali. Somehow, i changed it to a fighter at some point… now it’s 1:1 and helped me for the most part of t7. So , i don’t really care. My F-4E was 2:1 K/D , turned it to a bombtruck after a point, went to 1:1. So it depends.
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I prefer winning but if we’re clearly not going to win I will go for kills/score/RP/whatever.
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Fun, cool dogfights and a good entertaining battle, regardless of kills or win.
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That is a cool as hell remark,…thank you so much for your contribution mate, I have played on both sides of the coin, but that is a well thought out answer.
I dont like to argue in topics I post, they are usually yes or no questions, Well done mate, I completely get it it.
Good Luck in your upcoming battles.
LOL, I do too man
It felt so satisfying, the other night.
I was fighting a P51 in my Zero, of which I fly about three of them at different BRs, this was the the Zero 5.3 OTSU.
He was clearly a smart pilot, using his speed and nipping at me, he was the last member of his team. Zeros are slow and I couldnt catch up to him, but then another Zero showed up, he was an Ace too!
I was like , “Okay, 2 Zeros and both are Aces, we are going to get him” And sure enough it took about 3 more minutes,and the P51 got smoked,…and that was when I came up with this topic bro…
We both let off our smoke, mine is red and flew until the battle ended, he messaged me later and told me he was from France, (Im from US), and I thought that was just the coolest thing.
You know what, I grew up in the Bobby Knight era in Indiana…thats a hard answer bro. YES!
I was watching a Michael Jordan video on YouTube and he spoke of his time playing for Bobby Knight on the Olympic team…and he said it was weird, hearing his coach, after playing for his at North Carolina,
he said, “All those old men were talking about beating their ass”,
Well done mate, bro, I like your attitude, I wish we could play on a air team together.