How To Get BETTER At War Thunder [Air RB] | Altitude And Why It's Important

First Rendition of potentially a multi video series I may or may not make.
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[christoffermonikander]

Flies American planes. Sideclimbs for five minutes. Rest of the team is now dead and most of the enemy team is still at an higher altitude.

[hungryhedgehog]

"That's why you see every single person climb as high as they can at the start of a match"
tell me more of this fantastical land of milk and honey.

[kyle]

An important thing to note, there is such a thing as climbing too much. You dont want to have so much of an energy advantage that your plane cant take advantage of. Be aware of your max speed and when your controls start to lock up and you cant turn or pull out of the dive. If you have to bleed energy to get down to then go full speed on a dive, you went too high.

[lassesrensen]

I remember when I started playing this game back in 2013, it would always be a matter of which team could climb the most. It is so rare now to have dogfights above 5k meters and it seems like matches always end up like the one at 3:32.

[Thunderbox]

One thing NO ONE ever talks about is landing and taking off, it gives you a 50% bonus to RP and SL (or something, I don't know the exact number (I'm not a data miner OK)).
If you have time to RTB or kill 3 ground units, go for base you get more (but if you can do both then yeah, do that) but the most important part is the take off. If I remember correctly it was added as a way of giving bombers in SIM a reason to land and not just 'J' out after dumping bombs .





bombers finally did something good for the game

[garathminis]

So long story short... if you're playing an american plane, you will try to climb and by the time you have climbed, there will be 5-6 BF 109s above you waiting in the middle of the map.

Unless you're playing a King Cobra. Then you're on the same altitude, but there's 5 of them.

So buy a premium UFO...I mean xp 50 and grind out everything in it.

EDIT: But I do say, your video is good and your tips ARE valid. They are easier with some nations then others, this is embedded in the chore grind mechanic of the game. Keep up the good work!!!

[matthieuzglurg]

I have been playing ground RB since like forever as my last air RB battle was in like 2015 or so.

I recently decided that I wanted to play more planes (I already play them a lot in ground RB, but I wanted to only play those). The tech tree I was the most advanced in was the french tech tree, having to grind only one plane to get my first jet, and when I got it I was CLUELESS.

Like really, the best I could do in a match was taking down some AI planes or some ground pound.

Started seeking help on youtube, stumbled on your channel, started to apply the tips and things I saw in your vids (and some other creators as well) and I'm now comfortably pulling off 3 to 4 kills games in the MD 452 IIA (which I don't think it particularly good, but that's the best I have for now). I gotta say that that's oddly satifying to see a game from start to finish, actually using your skills and game sense towards really tipping the balance towards victory or defeat. In ground RB, there is so much player that even if you get 15 kills, you're not guarranteed to win at all and sometimes there is just so much you can do that actually getting kills doesn't matter. You'd get the victory sooner or delay defeat for a bit longer and that's about it.

[Glengooliebluu]

Bro big fan, and this video couldnt have come at a better time. Ive recently found the courage to play air rb bc of ur vids and im now making stupid lions and rp on that tech tree, thank you!

[Monke._._.]

Hey jet, I was in the stream last night and thank you for making this. Your the only creator I’ve found who gives good tips

[Nagib_]

There is another very important thing:
It's better to lose your altitude than your life

If multiple people are fighting you, don't go into a sustained turnfight. You'll die, period (unless you're flying a kawasaki). Instead, become faster than one of them and perform a "smashed barrel roll" maneuver. When done correctly, you will end up with flyable speed and an overshooting opponent

[floatingsandbox]

when you see those bf 109 above you, it feels like their above the earth's sphere of influence

[snottytoe]

Researching faster and getting more lions does not come from getting good, it comes from not being bad. If you can get atleast 1 or 2 kills a game, then you will usually get around 2k RP. But going on 5 kill games or so still seems to give about the same. Atleast for me thats usually how it goes.

[mrworldwide]

Damn, my guy uploaded the video I needed the most. Thx, keep the content coming.

[jschuh]

just a tip, try not to consider yourself a failure if you are only showing bad aim. if you are having good approaches, and are surviving for long time periods, your tactics are probably heading in the right direction. unfortunately your aim is what decides your score. just try not to be too brutal on yourself if you are at least able to get good placement and attack. aim will come with time and experience with the plane. also, get the hell out of arcade battles unless you are trying to unlock mods for multiple planes at once. all arcade is going to do is make you dependent on an aim reticule that isnt all that acurate anyways since it only considers where the enemy will be if they continue to fly straight at that precise moment

[Lancista]

*_For more than 5 years in War Thunder i've never touched an Plane once because i have been always scared (i just cannot aim properly without this helping dot on the Ground Radar Vehicles) but now i want to start my Sky Journey for zero with Germany but a im so bad at flying. This video gives me a Courage to flying! Thank You Sir!_* 🤗

[pedromedeiros]

I think the most important thing to learn is not altitude advantage, is knowing the planes, because if you don't know how the planes stack against each other you are not going to put that altitude and energy to it's best use, for example at 4:09 going straight up right there was pretty risky because even if you have more energy than him the P-36 is very maneuverable, has very low stall speed and has .50 cals, so if he wasn't engaged by the spitfire he could just pitched up for you and spray you down. You said that having altitude advantage is a huge advantage, you are not wrong, but again depends on the plane because say the enemy has a altitude advantage but he is in a bad plane like the S-199 and you are in a very strong plane like the P-39N, if you dodge his first past he is dead because the performance difference is so big that it doesn't matter if he has the altitude advantage if you are paying attention.

[prussianowl]

Is good advice, shows examples, and is concise. Great video!

[mastergator]

Prop fighting is the most fun I’ve had playing a game in years I’m not even looking forward to jets

[rafaelconceicao]

i got better in Ta-152H, mainly played this for 1.5 years and became almost immortal doing defensive flight and shutting down engine when on fire, get kills with stall fighting, vertical fighting, boom and zoom.

[adventureblender]

Bro you're a literal sniper in that plane. it usually takes me hundreds of bullets to hit someone