Ground RB Tips to Improve your Gameplay and Grind in War Thunder
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- čas přidán 27. 05. 2024
- These are some of my biggest tips I have learned over the 1000s of hours I have played War Thunder. These tips will apply to you even if you are a beginner or a person who plays War Thunder a ton.
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0:00 Intro to ground forces
0:40 Importance of Lineups
3:31 Binoculars and Commander View + Commander Aim mode
7:24 How much Ammo to take +ammo racks
9:21 Squad Pings and how to use it as a solo player
11:29 How to tell what BR bracket you are in
13:33 Sound is one of the most important skills
15:44 Map Pings and Basic Map knowledge
17:32 Bad Habits in War thunder to stop + 3rd person shooting
19:57 When to relocate positions
21:43 LEARN WHEN TO USE SMOKE
23:40 What is your biggest War Thunder Tip?
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Another tip would be to listen to your crew, the crew actually spots tanks and tells you usually the approximate bearing and distance to the target and sometimes even what the target is
TİGER, 12 OCLOCK. RANGE, 700 (rangefinder says 800) i shoot 700 and its spot on!
I felt that but my crew speaks russian and I don't speak Russian
My crew speaks German so I can kinda understand them, but when I play Russia I can’t understand shit
@@Mjstas TREIBSPIEGELGESCHOSS GELADEN
@@miromadrid4641set your game to english and your crew to use games language instead of their own and every country will speak american/brittish english
10.0 player here, here are some tips I've learned:
- Flank, don't be predictable.
- If you peek a corner and some is there, there's a good chance they saw/heard you so do not peek out again.
- Never peek with your barrel facing the open corner, if your barrel is shot, they will bum rush you.
- Don't be the first guy to make the move, if you have a good position, hold it. Wait for the enemy to make a mistake.
-You need to camp when you're in a good spot.
-Turn off your engine whenever you can. You'll still be able to move even if you just start your engine.
- Put yourself in the position of your enemy if you're in a standoff, be aware of your surroundings, where you can be killed from, especially if you're in an urban setting where there's many openings.
- Shoot down planes/helicopters whenever you get the chance.
- Don't let your teammates die, you will not clutch the win if all your teammates die. Help repair when you can, tow them to a safe position if you have to.
- Don't take just a single ammo type, you mostly need APFSDS, but do take HE (especially if it's high penetration). This is because some light tanks tend to survive many dart shots (example being Wolfpack).
- Take your time, play with a friend, this game can either make/ruin your afternoon or whenever you play. I struggle with this one personally, I get too invested in a match just for it to go to shit, and it messes with me. The people who you fight might be your allies in the next match so don't hold grudges.
saying 10.0 player here doesn’t get you far 10.0 and 10.3 is the major premium player range, your advice is pretty much what you learn when you start playing the game and the shoot down planes/helicopters whenever you can i heavily disagree with that will give your position away immediately and i am a 11.7 Germany 11.3 Russia, 12.0 Japan and pretty much at least 5.0 in every nation, so yeah i think i know a thing or two about your advice being something you learn pretty early on
@@ishouldbedead4950 I mean, much of the advice I gave can be applied to any BR battle. I just think that people should play the game more seriously and carefully so that they don't have a bad experience.
Best war thunder pro-tip
Don't go above BR 6.7
I would suggest not to go above 10.3.
@@guron24610.3 is the best BR in game prove me wrong. Everything there has mostly the same capabilities and only ever really gets down tiered
Pre 9.0 ground is resident sleeper, don’t listen to this boomer
@@J.G.WentworthI just prefer high tiers to be honest. I mean I play US GRB and am liking the ability to pen anything I see. I mean it works both ways but if I’m in a good spot then I have a lot of fun. My games always go snipe until a flank opportunity opens and then see if I can get some kills off flank or a cap. It doesn’t always work out but it’s gotten me into higher tiers pretty quickly playing that way due to there being a lot of players who don’t pay as much attention as they should.
@@Rempai420counter point: premium one dead leaver spam
Another thing with the squad ping is you can use it to estimate long distances if you don't have a rangefinder, especially in a lower br and also to get a better sense of a map you're not familiar with, pinging a place and looking where it is on the map
I have squad ping and rangefinder bound to the same thing. That would be one of my own tips
that's big, nice tip
The absolute greatest asset is a good headset I would have never gotten a single nuke if I didn’t hear the enemies flanking or just hear where they are anyway
Except when they pop out of nowhere without making any sound
@@Skyrim279yeah I wish that didn’t happen
@@Skyrim279
true, but good headset is still vital imho. It still helps in many situations, just not always when it should.
What has accelerated me from a decent player to a pretty good one imo is switching up tactics on maps trying new angles and generally playing ,,stupid'' and going in at the right time can net you insane killstreaks and singlehandedly win the game sometimes, playing capable medium tanks like the lorraine, t54s, leopard, etc really helps improving situational awareness and map knowledge if you're always going to your trusty old camping spots you'll never improve and your impact in the game won't be enough
Good tips too. Going rogue and just between the hills and popping among them can be so fun.
Yeah players are very predictable in war thunder. Fortune is for the bold though if you risk it for the biscuit it just might go well if you play your cards right and most importantly use your ears 😂
Just going to put this out there, just because you do not have an actual squad friend, doesn't mean you SHOULD keybind it to less used keys, it is 100% helpful to use squad mark with binoculars to mark and then open mini map to ping the mark to notify other teammates the enemy tank is there on the exact location you spotted them even when that squad mark is invisible to your teammates.
I think the best tip is to enjoy playing the game and actually grinding not miserably
For me, I like to keep my speed of sound on, it's always cool to hear the sound effects of the GAU-8 coming 1 second after my teammate gets obliterated.
The smoke on is so true, lemme paint a picture of something that happened to me
I was playing Sherman 76, I’ve got a teammate next to me and am lining up for a shot when bam, he gets hit in the driver, and lets out all of his smoke
I’m blind, he’s blind, but the enemy had me lined up so he took me out and them my teammate.
Some people need more then the help we can give them
Recommend binding squad marker to the same button as laser rangefinder
I don't see the benefit in high tier
@@gandalfdafavela1044there’s a lot of game before you get to top tier
One less key press I have to press hell yeah thanks
5:57 One thing to note; while your gun reticle (small circle) may be visible in binocular view, your shell can sometimes get caught on terrain or objects because of volumetric, so it is important to adjust for how you think your shell will interact with the terrain, but not overextend using this feature.
7:42 There are a few tanks where it doesn't really matter how much ammo you carry. Some tanks (namely the late 76 shermans with the wet ammo storage,) have very small profile ammoracks, and are very unlikely to be blown up unless somebody is actively aiming there. It can be worthwhile to store a few extra rounds, but find having a bunch of smoke shells at your disposal is a great tactic
I think the situational ammo loadouts best fit with my ARL-44. Since it shares a similar first stage ammo storage as the tiger 2, its easy to blow up when faced from the side, unless you're taking like only 6 or 7 rounds. There is also an extra ammo storage that lines the backside of driver and machine gunner in the hull, and since the hull is so armored, nothing but the most penetrating rounds get through. Unless a turret penetrating round overpressures, every APHE shell's explosion and spall can actually be soaked up by the hull ammo storage, and it actually acts like additional armor inside the vehicle.
Ofc, almost all other vehicles do have to worry about vulnerable ammo racks, but it may be worthwhile to observe where your ammo is in test drives, and take as many as you believe is safe. Worst case scenario, you can always take less if ammo detonations are still a problem for you
22:00 Smoke is generally situational, but 1 rule I go by is only use defensive smoke as your last hope. Basically, if you are unable to fight back and have no friendlies around, only then use smoke.
Smoke shells are also an important note. Sure, you can use them like smoke grenades, but they are actually really great for blinding a enemy positions as well. I've found great use for them on my jumbo, using the low profile ammorack yet large storage and having upwards of like 20 smoke shells ready to lob at an enemy that is at a threatening position or distance. Its a tactic I've rarely seen used, yet it is suprisingly very effective.
really fps like mindset.
i use it similar way. especially on potentially camped passageway. Smoke is crucial for crossing to the sides or middle of camp friendly map like berlin
Another great use of smoke is to use smoke shells to help you cross sight-lines. Or to blind an enemy in a camped out position. Of course bearing in mind of your teams needs and capabilities.
Play the game for ten years and memorize all the sniping spots on the map
Also don’t push ahead of your team alone. I see so many ppl race out ahead and just die. Move with the team. Wait for your team to spawn to see if the majority went to one side. You don’t want to be the only one going C if the whole team went A.
I agree.
I see a lot of times a bunch of guys drive back to a cap separately and get killed one by one.
Sometimes a 5 second pause to let another fellow catch up and you both overwhelm the defenders
Sometimes sticking to a flank that’s not being trained by the whole team isn’t a bad idea though. I find myself taking back ups in my line up to the opposite side of the map that the majority of my team is on, usually in a light tank, and getting good scouts and good kills because the enemy’s just aren’t paying enough attention to that flank. It nets easy kills in 2nd spawn on open maps and can get you your CAS especially if you die early which can always happen no matter how good you are. It’s just a part of the game.
I'd rather race out a head and possibly just die then play with the team, get no kills, and waste a massive amount of time. I'm more likely to get kills that way before the entire enemy team gets wiped before I see them. It's better to die quickly and go back to hanger to get in another game then waste the whole game getting nothing. I'd probably play definitely if I didn't only have very limited amount of time to play so every game where I get no rp is a massive waste for me.
@@TainyaGaming Patience can net you a lot of kills on a flank though, if you’re unseen going down a flank and you just sit behind a building where you know they’ll drive by, it’s easy picking from there.
love how every tip video I find they are always using top tiers. yeah like ima just download the game hop on 11.7s.
Don't buy the premium Leo 1 at any nation unless you want to suffer. You won't see any down tier at all, and you will almost always get sucked to 10.0/10.3 BR.
9.3 is a decent line up for both Germany and Sweden. I enjoy using the LEO 1A5NO with T-72A, Strv ect.
Most important thing: Go to controls / common, asign a key to "show mouse curser" / in match you can click directly on the minimap / use this to actively communicate enemies to your teammates. Also, if you are repairing and an enemy is close by, report it via click on the minimap. I've seen people complain that nobody helps them repair - dont expect it if you can not tell where to expect the enemy from. I'd rather let you die than go in to help you blindly and risk getting killed in the process. You can even report where you have been killed from during the few seconds after the killcam.
I've been playing war thunder for over 10 years now and I think your guide videos are some of the best I've seen. There isn't a lot that you said that I really learned anything from just because of how much experience I have but these are all great things for new/unexperienced players to know. As for smoke, I find that the cannon smoke shells are underused. It is a great way to block your opponent's site allowing you to push up and/or push to a better location. I use it a lot for helping me to advance towards a capture point that I know is highly contested, get on the point, and get out before they can find me.
One more thing about the squad ping is that it allows you to accurately mark a team ping by sight instead of guessing where it is on the map.
And I would add that bringing a lineup to respawn with increases your rewards and speeds up the grind by getting more wins. You can even get free kills while getting spawn camped. The biggest contributor to poor rewards and a painful grind is leaving after one death.
Smoke saved my life yesterday when I was fighting against two tanks. Managed to flank one and kill him, other one died a bit later. On light tank I am using smoke when I am retreating from position and I know I may be shot in the back, so I am using it to cover my movement back to different position.
Very nice hints, thanks for clip :-)
Man I love your videos. I just found you about an hour ago I've seen 3 videos and they're all damn good. It's awesome that you coach players, you're the only war thunder streamer I've came across that actually coach and not just play and talk shit. You gotta follower outta me in 3 vids. Keep up the bad ass content brother!
Smoke is my pet peeve too. I forget I have smoke when my vehicle even has it.
Great stuff...thanks man...
Some great tips there bud, I was an alpha tester so been playing a long while, I think your line up is so important to helping your team win. I have so many games where I see 1 or 2 deaths and players gone, you get 2 tanks and a AA with out even doing anything but dying (This happens to most of us some times). An AA can get you back in the game, at low level the Russian bread Van (ZiS-12) has got me so many caps and back in the game to help for a team win. Have as many crews as you can, I go with 8 or 9, One bomber, One fighter, 2 light, 2 med, 1 heavy, 1 AA and TD, then you can pick what the map and battle needs. This will help you plug holes in the line or get that cap for the win. See you on the battlefield. FuBaR-Lordlyn
Lesh trot new vid luv em mate keep up the good work
An old ish pair of headphones made me so much better, especially in cities or reduced visibility, like forests. It make the game more fun as well
also an addition to the squadmarker stuff if you dont know the distance mark them and use the grid squares on the map to gauge your distance.only recommended for tanks with long reloads.
I only use smoke shells to try and disrupt a distant enemy. Usually, if they have me pinned down, I'll try to smoke between us so I can move to another place without getting shredded the second I pop out.
Whenever it comes to this video, I think it’s good😂.
15:22 speed of sound actually does make a difference. For vehicles like SPAA or helis it means you can't hear a fast jet coming towards you until it has passed you, which is a disadvantage. Turning it off is the best way to go in terms of maximizing performance but its also really cool to have on lol
I've been accused of wallhacking cause I heard an opponent coming and been ready before they see me, I held 2 cap points on Breslau by myself and went on a 10 kill streak thanks to being able to hear the enemy tanks
Started getting into the game. Have an ok match. Arcade is fun sometimes. Lots of hits few kills. Realistic, I use binos and most the time just get shot from people out or sight. I play slow and stay with team and I’m the one who gets killed. Pain in the ass, trying to get next Pz4
Best advice, no need to got map knowledge just 60fps and go to mid beetween a and b or b and c.
The happiness i felt when I realized i can have fun while playing rb instead of arcade (it took 4 matches to get a good one)
The worst thing about the game is not dying. It is the silver grind.
Once or twice a year you can buy 1 year premium at 50% off. Doing that will remove the silver grind because with premium you can not go under 0 silver in a match. Meaning in most setting you will gain silver and you can play whatever you want and how you want without negatives to the silver account.
WHO IS TURNING OFF THEIR MINI MAP ?!?!
👍. Good advice. Never really bothered with knowing what br match I was in. Until I watched this. Dam. Run 30 matches in the ru. Mostly 8.3 / 8.0. The odd 7.7 battle. No 7.3 matches. Ru. Not a 8.0 / 8.3 tank. Ran a few others br’s. Dam I get uptiered a lot. Usually .7 to a full br higher. No wonder the armour & guns on most tanks I run mean absolutely nothing….. yeah map pings. Wow. It’s one thing that is just about nonexistent in rank 3 & above. I’ve lost count of how many times I’ve died because the team doesn’t ping reds…. Doing a vid on capping bases & vehicles can move forward…. It’s becoming the meta not to cap & the blue team can’t move or just forget that the vehicle can actually go forward. I don’t care if players / bots camp, but if they haven’t moved for 5 mins…. Well then u know it’s a bot…
looking at the minimap I feel is the most important, how many times have I died because a teammate did'nt take the second it takes to look at the map ping
hey now with germany got leopard 2a7v and will get boxer plus eurofigther in the future do u think it will be better or is better right now then sweden that has gripen, 122s and gripen e in the future
Germany will be the best NATO nation in game once they have all vehicles. Eurofighter is better than Gripen and Leo2a7v+ is better than Swedish Leo2a5
And if u have commander fire enabled and ur gunner is taken out u will be able to fire without having to wait for the game to switch for u
I listen to music while playing tbh, as a german main, i am already legally blind and deaf, so its not like ill get any worse
if you ever feel like you're not doing well or improving after you've started playing ground rb, dont feel bad about it. It takes a long time to get better at GRB and even longer to get used to the vehicles that you're gonna be using and facing against. Sometimes you'll have a insane killstreak and get 5 kills and sometimes you get sniped from a spot you didnt know existed, for that, try going to those spots yourself, learn it and see if its something that your tank can or cant do.
This game is annoying and addicting, guides like these are not gonna make you better instantly, at the end of the day, its the amount of effort in learning from your mistakes and trying new things that will make you a better player in any modes.
Maybe you should do a smoke Tutorial 🤔💯✊🏼👍🏼
OH MY GOD THANK YOU SO MUCH I CAN FINALLY GET OUT OF 5.0 AMERICA
honestly, unless i know that the enemy is disabled or hasnt noticed my present, I never 3rd person shoot just because it makes my fps worse as i have a potato laptop and most of the time as i play chinese tanks the vertical speed is really bad
that is true one of those things I kinda forgot about when making the video is people with lower end PCs the shot delay from low FPS will most likely make you miss.
@DawgIVLife nah it's all good unless it's really bad you can still 3rd person shoot just that not as great as great as other people
What I would like to know is why every time you switch tanks that you have to buy a new crew?
I have the SteelSeries Arctis 7 and i can hear everyone very clearly and i can hear the exact posision the enemy is in if they are close enough. I strongly reccomend this headset and it is wireless
9:35 (Subtitles) "if we you know don't have any edging people"
They should force speed of sound to be enabled that's crazy
no
i keep getting shots that don't kill, or i disable a tank and a second guy shows up and kills me, idk what to do
British?
ngl tho. I sometimes get the first shot off but I realised, (not sure about higher BRs), that almost all the time when I shoot someone and they shoot me at the same time and we are supposed to trade (for example my T-34 shot a 50mm Pumi), they shot will just vanish if I die but theirs wont : L
I once killed a heavy tank with my light tank rember when u lack armor SPEED IS KEYYYYYYY
How do you get in realistic ground battles
I dont get people not using Binos, i use them all the time to see at a range over an obstacle at a distance
1 tip get the m18 go bihinde the enemy and enjoy
5.1 audio so you know exactly where the sound is coming from.
If you hear somebody say "Attack the D point", just quit back to hanger. That team is going to lose and they are not worth your time.
The most deadly enemy in the game are the poorly designed maps that screw up your aim and mobility.
For me personally, if I’m not the first or second kill. I’m doing something right😂😂
how did you get that digital camo?
which vehicle?
@@DawgIVLife 12:50
@@loveisbutpain on the War thunder market its called "AGS Experimental Dualtex Camouflage Pattern"
@@DawgIVLife thank you and dang it's for us only. I seen China had something similar. I'd like to get that kinda cammo for China and USSR.
dont get revenge bombed and to do that dont kill anyone
Don't just buy your way to top tier, you're ruining other player's experience.
be a king, bring 4 spaa's and rest anti aircraft fighters
What’s up guys anyone playing today. I’m 6.0 and lower on arcade ground battles. Ps5
I bring like 14 to 17 rounds
Nice content 😊
6:01 bro my aim is easier when using the Binoculars
Ground grind needs rebalance, air is better but ground still too hard
Can you be my teammate? No player in the years I have played has listened to any of my pings or have pinged themselves.
lineups LOL, just play single tanks and leave after death xD
so if u have more money for headset u are better player ........ Thats why i dont like sounds in this game
9:15
Absolute worst take ever, capturing points is one of the best sources of RP for grinding
How do you combat the massive amount of Chinese cheaters in the game?
Be better then the cheaters which tbh is not that hard to do.
@@DawgIVLife If you say so.
@@iamperplexed4695 just asking why do you think there is a massive amount of Chinese cheaters? Never really find people who can prove it
@DawgIVLife My dude, I play every day. One day Gaijin announced they have banned 40,000, Chinese accounts. Not 40 000 total accounts, just Chinese accounts. That's more than most games get daily active. I am online when this happens and I can see the difference in the user count. Again, because I play every day and I know how many people play at which time of day, like a normal online game. THE VERY NEXT DAY, that user count is right back to its usual number as though nothing had ever happened. 40 000 accounts is 1/3 to 1/5 the average daily user peak in WT. Thats just one example of such things occurring. How much more proof is necessary?
@@iamperplexed4695They didn't ban 40k accounts that was a rumor that was started actually go look at the ban report and also look up what Confirmation Bias is and learn to look out for it.
I hate how the ww2 tanks feel more agile than cold war and modern tanks.
Crap,realy!
Latency is the single most determinant in a duel between equal skilled players which renders WT"s game engine a pretty dated game.
14:38 female voice... really? Despite that liitle slipe greate guide
Whats wrong with the female callouts?
I disagree with the stuff about smoke, if you are hit and smoke will make it harder for the enemy to shoot you, you should use it if you have it. If your team mates are so close to you that your smoke annoys them or blocks them from shooting, they are too close (spacing is important to avoid cas strikes, allows the covering of more angles and makes it harder for the enemy to observe/target multiple tanks at once). Smoke is something that people don't use enough.
Here is a tip for you, don't play the United States if you expect to be treated equally by the developers.
M1 Abrams vs T64B days would like a talk
@@DawgIVLife ya I’m talking about the modern day lol, and the US tech tree constantly has unequal br placements.
@@MD-wn4ui examples?
@@DawgIVLife M48, Jumbo shermans, M735 APFSDS, both SEP Abrams, M41A1 not having heat when all other’s due.
@@MD-wn4ui I mean I agree M48s suck
Jumbo Sherman 75mm and the 76mm both when they are put at lower BRs dominate those BR brackets.
M735 isn't just a American round many nations suffer from the lower pen Japan China the round it self doesn't feel terrible but at the same time M735 was never a lol pen APFSDS anyways meaning you had to aim for weak spots specially on tanks like the T64B etc.
The problem with the SEPs in general is the upgraded packages they get do not matter in the scene of War Thunder. RPGS are not a threat nor is IEDs. Wish instead they would have added the variants that where suppose to be tank vs tank like the V3 with a APS system and no add on armor like a tusk package.
M41A1 does not have HEAT because Gajin uses ammo as a balancing tool. if it had heat it would have been the same BR as the T92 before it was moved up to 7.0 At 6.3 its able to be in a better lineup to help support it. If not at the time you would just take the T92 over it every time.
In my opinion realistic battle should be better made , first of they have completely killed the game , EVERY sniping spot has Been removed from all maps . They have made it “ call of duty “ style , forced front assault style . No skill anymore , no flanks , no sniping spots , no fun . Now it’s all relied on is close combat listening for enemies engine (this is completely unrealistic you
Can NOT hear anything when inside a tank ) . Also spotting while
Getting shot , you are visible to entire enemy team on mini map and first person . The game has gotten a whole lot arcade WOT style and it sucks . I miss when flanks and sniping spots existed, that required true skill. Tank warfare are NOTHING like this . This is all so childishly CQC fighting . For example a leopard is made for long distance or medium distance fighting , taking our advancing Russian tanks . Not rushing into the middle
Of a city and listening for engines ( again you will never hear it ) you would have to get outside the tank shut the engine and then infantry kill’s you
ur expecting to much from gaijin bro just play squad cuz than u wont have to cry about smthing gaijin wont return and technically not EVERY sniping spot has been removed idk what maps u have been but there are still sniping spots unless ur talking about ones with cover and whatever
Not reading all that, I like close quarters
@@thepilotbob5624I can TLDR his response to "Gajin removed all the cheesy sniping spots that you can't counter without CAS and can potentially just spawncamp the whole game for easy kills"
GARBAGE GAME!
but you still watch the video...
THIS IS THE WORST FUCKING TIPS EVER