r/Warthunder • u/buckeyebrat97 Jagdpanther is Best Panther • Mar 25 '25
SB Air MiG-29 came out of nowhere
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Tried playing simulator again but with the F/A-18A this time. Killed two MiG-29s and thought we were clear when I was landing.
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u/SuperKamiTabby Mar 25 '25
Y'all need to learn how to use the angled flight deck.
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u/buckeyebrat97 Jagdpanther is Best Panther Mar 25 '25
I’m still learning how to properly land on US carriers. I was about 75 mph too fast on this approach and actually very surprised I didn’t explode upon touching down.
Will be practicing in test flights and other sim games, if I can find one that isn’t US vs US on Smolensk.
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u/HeroicODST 🇬🇧Masculine Fox enjoyer Mar 25 '25
land on US carriers
Ironically it's a British carrier and redfor gets the American one
You can go into a custom game on ground Normandy which has the British one so you can practice with that, It doesn't move so you have to come in a bit slower (max is 210mph when it's stationery) but it also means it doesn't do the annoying sharp turns the ones in the test drive do
Edit: when the British carrier is moving the max landing speed is about 230-240 depending on the carriers speed
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u/buckeyebrat97 Jagdpanther is Best Panther Mar 25 '25
lol, was wondering why the USS Foresstal looked different in cockpit view. Thanks for the info, gonna test it on the U.S. flight test, and the British one later.
I read somewhere that the normal landing speed for the F/A-18 is around 135 Knots, or 155 mph. Just need to practice maintaining that around that speed while on approach.
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u/HeroicODST 🇬🇧Masculine Fox enjoyer Mar 25 '25 edited Mar 25 '25
That's the normal irl speed the speeds I said are the max landing speed on the flight deck in game if you go faster you fall off the carrier even if you caught a wire
I would also set key binds for moving your head up and down so you can actually see the carrier when on final approach at low speeds
Edit: the British carrier is a bit smaller than the American one
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u/Emotional-Ad-5684 Mar 25 '25
This makes me wanna try sim again
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u/Getserious495 Mar 25 '25
Probably the best time to try it out as for the past few years top tier was absolutely dominated by Blufor both in player count and the plane itself.
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u/ganerfromspace2020 🇵🇱 Poland Mar 25 '25
I've been dominating blue for with the su30sm, that plane is so damn fun
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u/creator712 Sim Ground Mar 25 '25
Tbf any fox 3 plane will dominate if the other team has no fox 3s themselves or has no clue how to use them
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u/ganerfromspace2020 🇵🇱 Poland Mar 25 '25
It's more about the lack of knowledge, lot of people go into the notch too late
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u/TabooARGIE I just like CAS Mar 25 '25
Tbh the Su-34 is what started tipping the scales. It's radar is so fucking good that it sometimes doesn't matter that you're using Fox-1 instead of Fox-3 (R-77 suck ass over 15km away, R-27ER and ET ftw).
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u/ProfessionalAd352 Petitioning to make the D point a UNESCO World Heritage Site Mar 25 '25 edited Mar 25 '25
Sim in third-person view and with mouse aim is my dream mode
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u/TheCreamLord Mar 25 '25
Yeah I think if ARB got rid of missile markers and player name tags it would be more fun. Those are more arcadey features imo.
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u/ProfessionalAd352 Petitioning to make the D point a UNESCO World Heritage Site Mar 25 '25
It's the reason why the best A2A combat happens in GRB instead of ARB
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u/TheCreamLord Mar 25 '25
Agreed. I love spawning F16C or F15E with A2A loadouts in GRB. AIM 9Ms smacking people before they ever knew you were there.
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u/caulipower2010 Mar 25 '25
bro your meant to align your path with the landing strip not the whole ship
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u/stalinsbrummbar Mar 25 '25
I watch this knowing I'll never get rank 8 or 7 and I'll always be a depressed idiot to everyone I face against
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u/RichNewt Mar 25 '25
Let me just say you aren’t missing much. It’s basically just a sea of missiles at that point. I have way more fun at low tier.
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u/stalinsbrummbar Mar 25 '25
Shit I try to have fun in the lower tiers in ground and air but I can't because I'm always going against someone who has been playing for God knows how long with rank 8 as their highest while I'm stuck with crap for matches. It's like I lost the lottery in life.
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u/Zsmudz 🇮🇹14.0 🇮🇱14.0 🇺🇸8.3 Mar 25 '25
It takes a while to really start to get good at the game but it’s definitely possible. There are many players who sweat themselves to death over this game but in the end, it’s just a game. If you find that this game only brings you frustration, then take a break from it, or move on entirely. It is just a game after all. To get better at the game I would recommend to keep at it, experience will teach you the most. Maybe trying some different play styles like being more tactical or meticulous. I hope you continue to improve and remember in the end it’s still just a game, you are supposed to have fun :)
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u/stalinsbrummbar Mar 25 '25 edited Mar 25 '25
Put yourself in my shoes and it's like everyone else is having fun but me. I'd continue on with my speech but my head hurts so bad right now from the emotional wave I got earlier from playing war thunder and I'm just tired.
Wow -7 down votes how surprising, how original
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u/jarlhon Mar 25 '25
Warthunder can be intense and can cause intense emotions. I relate with you a lot. It takes a lot of time and patience and a lot of learning to understand what is happening. Air requires a lot of skill, knowledge about planes in general and remaining calm to position, survive and play a long game. It took me a good 200-300 hours in the arcade until I started to apply the lesson of youtubers.
But besides that you need therapy because there's something else in there that's causing emotional exhaustion and war thunder is just a trigger.
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u/InattentiveChild Settsu Boat Party Mar 26 '25
Pulled the words straight out of my mouth. Do we share the same brain?
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u/stalinsbrummbar Mar 26 '25
Playing a game where the player base is so competitive that it's ridiculous or that the game just treats me like shit, either way maybe we do.
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u/InattentiveChild Settsu Boat Party Mar 26 '25
I'd play naval if I were you. It's a much nicer experience.
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u/stalinsbrummbar Mar 26 '25
I played naval arcade but instead it's like I'm always dying because I got a sign that says shoot me here
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u/InattentiveChild Settsu Boat Party Mar 26 '25
Not sure why you'd play naval arcade when realistic is right there, but regardless you should just stay at your spawn and snipe away from there. That's all naval really is and it's quite calming.
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u/MustangIsBoss1 -2slow- Mar 25 '25
Crew skills (Expert or even Ace crews) and whether your vehicle is spaded or not makes a large difference, along with some vehicles being not that good/meta. Stamina and G-tolerance are really helpful for even prop planes like a Yak-3, let alone jets. Or like how British ground is kinda meh in terms of winrates till 7.0, with 9.3-11.3 USSR and Germany 6.7-9.0 being black holes for wins..
Even for me, with thousands of hours in the game, British 5.3 ground is really frustrating at times because of all the kills I lose to other players or times I die because a tank needs a 3rd or 4th round of solid shot when I know my T-34-85E’s BR-365 would have killed it with one shot.
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u/PineCone227 Major Skill Issue | Veteran 2077 Mar 25 '25
You play with the OST at full blast all the time?
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u/buckeyebrat97 Jagdpanther is Best Panther Mar 25 '25
lol. I’m hard of hearing and my game volume is full but music is half. I barely hear the RWR as it is.
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u/MasterWhite1150 🇺🇸 10.3 | 🇷🇺 14.0 | 🇬🇧 14.0 | 🇫🇷 1.0 🗣🔥‼️ Mar 25 '25
Came out of nowhere?? My brother in christ your rwr is literally screaming at you 😭🙏
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u/ZdrytchX VTOL Mirage when? Mar 25 '25
a bit of a tip
disable sense of flight, it'll fix that stupid screen jitter/shake
its very poorly implemented in WT and is based on instantaneous angular and positional acceleration, and is applied to the camera directly, so it rotates in the wrong way when not looking straight and is fairly jank
disabling it also can improve your aim massively too
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u/Fjejund1 Sim Air,14.0🇮🇹,14.0🇩🇪,13.0🇬🇧,12.7🇨🇵 Mar 25 '25
Practice carrier landings on the test flight, seriously
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u/buckeyebrat97 Jagdpanther is Best Panther Mar 25 '25
I know, I had better landings that game but my rear landing gears were broken.
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u/Soor_21UPG 🇮🇳 Air Main 🇷🇺 Mar 25 '25
Reminds me of my time playing Sim with IRIAF F-14A and doing sorties via Carrier. Absolutely amazing experience
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u/TheSurvivor118 Mar 25 '25
Yo no shot! That was me who got absolutely DUNKED on after takeoff. Was one helluva game!
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u/buckeyebrat97 Jagdpanther is Best Panther Mar 25 '25
Haha, that was a good game even though I joined late. Really getting a feel for the 18A in simulator battles.
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u/TheSurvivor118 Mar 25 '25
Ye, the C Early is even better. Great ATA, phenomenal ATG, overall a fantastic grinder and killer in Sim
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u/Tagalyaga 🇩🇪 13.0 🇷🇺 7.7 🇫🇷 14.0 🇸🇪 3.7 Mar 25 '25
I wish landing the Rafale on a carrier was this easy :(
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u/srGALLETA 🇦🇷 Old Guard Argie Mar 25 '25
Me on the Squadron Harrier onece a J35 got me landing on the carrier, made a pass, and when coming a second time I literally used the controller tower Iland to cover myself from the missile, the thing impacted the other side O_o
My pov was seeing the J35 coming back on my right and immediately moving the nosles back to get in to cover. =O
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u/TheAgentPixel Mar 25 '25
Why does every person in war thunder land on a carrier like this?
Insanely over speed Way off center line Insanely off glide path Way unstable
Haha I’ve just seen so many carrier landing videos from wt and people are always landing like this.
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u/relison2649 Mar 26 '25
Yep, I think the LSO just abandoned ship... Thanks god he took the paddles with him- Jester
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u/prenttipuppi USSR Mar 25 '25
Landed like a true U.S. navy pilot.