Nice review, I very much agree with most , if not all, your points of view! Hard to tell what is most misplaced at its battlerating; the ultrastrong, speedy and well gunned B-34 at 2.0, or the new Hellcat at 5.0, yes indeed the last one is very, very weak, like expected, at 5.0 arcade. Good to have you back, Sir!
I look forward to seeing what you have to say about the He-100 in-game. I've flown it myself in RB and have been relatively pleased with how it handles, though I agree that its armament is a lot lighter than I'd've expected it to be.
The "disappearing shell" bug I refer to in this video was, it seems, only for tanks - and apparently has now been fixed. For planes this is still another patch with concrete damage models and underperforming cannon. Though at least .50 cals (apart from the early belts) have been improved, so there is that.
Hey Long5hot - nice summary. Top quality as always. The ground pounding IS an issue but there are maps in the rotation that have longer battles. I feel anything BR 5,0 or less is ok to play and have reasonable matches. Top props (5.7 > 6.7) are a mess with bomber spam in arcade. I almost wish all players would fly just bombers to force Gaijin's hand. Imagine how quick you would research the tree with bomber payday's and no opposition. Keep positive and be open minded. There is still plenty for the game to offer. Hope to see you in the sky sometime.
Completely agree with your comments on groundstrike. Had a game the other day which lasted 3mins and 24 seconds in Arcade!! In fact the majority of Arcade battles are lasting about 5 mins which to be honest has stopped me playing the game with any regularity. Nice to hear your dulcet tones again Longshot. Come on Gaijin, stop the rot please!!
Oh wow, i thought i just saw a ghost! Seriously though, great to see you, man! As far as La-11 is concerned, it is another useless piece just like Tu-14... The plane is nearly identical to La-9, though heavier somehow, and has one less 23 mm cannon.. Who would want this plane? I don't know... only maybe as a collector's piece.. And what i can gather about the Ki-100 II is that again, it is identical to the original one, only with the tear'drop canopy.. I might be getting one, though.. Ki-100 is one of my favorites in the game.
Always a pleasure to see a vid. I miss flying with but I do understand your problems hope that I can see ya up there someday. Have a great day and happy hunting.
Glad to see you making videos again, well a video, but I can't really recommend the game at the moment. Nothing's changed, although there might be some light at the end of the tunnel with World War mode and a buncha other promises that have yet to become real. One thing you didn't mention but is pretty cool and useful is extra component info in the X-Ray view, like engine type and power output or gun type and caliber, etc. They also did technically change the Hellcat's model (not flight model); the F6F-3 had a pair of extra windows behind the canopy, and the F6F-5 version deleted them. I have been having a great time with the C-6, she's tough as nails and the flight model is not as bad as it might seem. The one and only time I've actually been shot down happened because some dude rammed me in a head-on, then respawned and crossed the map to kill me while I floated around without tail controls. The bomber spawn is nice, but in my experience the bombers all dive when they notice you're in a C-6 and I end up taking on a lot of single-engine interceptors instead. I know big twin-engine fighters are more my cup of tea than yours, but don't underestimate the Ju88 airframe. It's no super-plane but the German's didn't build it throughout the entire war in almost every possible role for nothing. I'm not actually flying regularly right now, and when I do fly I'm moving towards SB as my primary mode in any case, but if you do happen to see me online don't be afraid to say hello or send me an invite. Good luck and good hunting!
Long5hot! You're not dead! Now, now... I respect that it's your decision whether or not to play the game and I don't blame you, but it's scary when no one hears from you for so long. At any rate, always a pleasure, mate. And as far as the patch goes, well... I haven't had much time to play with it. Holiday travel and all that jazz. I HAVE however, had the chance to play (and spade) the He-100 and the Ju-88-C, and I can say this: The 88 is very much a bomber hunter (and in fact, I almost feel like Gaijin is trying to bring about a resurgence of the Heavy Fighter with this role specifically for Arcade, as they tend to be little more than 'hangar filler' for most people). The flight model isn't great, but with it's classification (and bomber spawn) it really helps mitigate that impervious bomber damage model. Also, at the time that I spaded it (which was two days ago) I don't think anyone was yet used to the idea of a Ju-88 at bomber spawn with nose cannons, as they were all too happy to oblige me with plenty of head-on opportunities. As a scrapper, it's not much (obviously) and like all heavy fighters, it relies more on it's elevator than it's rudder to get around, which means you need to predict where your target is going and use the keyboard to angle your plane in the right orientation, but for players that don't see you coming (or don't see you as a threat) their deaths are quite swift. I found the He-100 quite a joy to fly, in spite of it's lackluster armament (though personally, I feel the, as .30 cal rifles go, the German's probably have the best of the lot). It's turning wasn't the greatest, but it had that 'floaty' feel of the He-112-A0 and a fairly good rudder. In the three flyouts I've used it, I've taken down 18 enemies without the loss of a single plane. You'd be proud of me. I haven't had much chance to get a feel for the new American M2 belts, but the P-47 seems to swat planes out of the skies even easier than previously. know they're using the same belts they always have, but the .50s seem just a bit more effective after this patch. Anyway, hopefully I'll have more time in the near future to pick it apart a bit more. Glad to hear from you, and hope to hear from you some more!
Yes, sorry for being out of touch, I should have found a way to post videos - though not playing any games at all I really lacked content to put online ;) Real life has been a bastard this year - struggling to get by with sporadic casual jobs & in between times scratching a small income from the financial markets. I just haven't had the enthusiasm or energy for gaming that I previously did.
Well, shoot... I'm sorry to hear that. Hopefully things pick up for you next year. This year seems to have taken a toll on a number of my friends, though I've managed to make it through okay... I had some help though. All the same, glad you're still around, if nothing else.
Got the Ta 154. Its more fun than I thought it would be. I share your distaste for bomber spam. Always have. I spend a lot of time cleaning them up to elongate the matches and really its kind of impossible as they are very risky to engage now since they have gunners that no longer seem to miss. So I welcome this new plane to my German line up.
Very well made video, Longshot and well formulated and justified criticism. I agree to most of your views completely. Very nice to see you making videos again. In order for me to enjoy arcade in WT I had to completely quit the idea of "winning" in the sense of not going for ANY mission objectives appart from the occasional Arcade Power Cap just for giggles. This sometimes makes for very interesting matches that have nothing to do with the main game whatsoever: It has all become just a matter of shooting down planes, preferably those who are going for objectives, bombers, people who are on the lookout for duels etc.. It is so sad that Gaijin won´t listen to renowned and respected CZcamsrs such as the leader of this here clan, =DMH=, and many others when it comes to game design. Hope to see your more often in the skies nonetheless. I hope that this little not listed piece of mine may serve as a lil appetizer and advertisment for my concept of "game in game" for WT arcade and make you fly out more often, perhaps? We all miss you very much! czcams.com/video/cKj-xPbBfBw/video.html All the best to you, sir. Good Luck & Good Hunting! (°°)7
They just need to fix the freaking 30mm shells damage... Dude, really a 3 centimeter bullet hits a WING and all it do is a spark?!?!? those things cutted trough like butter historically, that without mention that the fist burst of 20mm left a mess of dead gunners on the bombers fuselage...
fighter cover is not what you need to be worried about....i think that was sarcasm. Gunner fire is what I would be concerned about. It''s almost to a point to where on certain bombers, I came at them from certain and different angles. and hell....there are just certain bombers i don't even mess with.....i fly a lot of german planes....just gotta learn the game.
Thank you very much indeed for the shoutout, i am really honored, my friend! All i can say about the skin, is that to anyone conserned, i have uploaded the initial 8k textures pack for the Ta 154, a somewhat more realistic and detailed version of the plane's finish as compared to the default 4K one. Download link live.warthunder.com/post/541529/en/
The He 100 is an absolutely awesome plane, and the weaponry is sufficient at its BR of 1.7. You should try it, it is a joy! Btw it was the fastest plane at its time for a short period.
That's the thing, for a plane with such an excellent FM, it deserves weaponry that would allow it to be rated alongside similar opponents at, say, 3.0 - rather than fighting biplanes. Especially as there's tons of evidence that the plane had a motorcannon. I believe Gaijin have mentioned reports that the MG FF caused too much vibration (which didn't stop them putting the Yak 9K into the game which had terrible issues of that kind), but the FF/M and 151/20 would have solved that problem. There's also documents saying that the later models had three 151/20s, replacing the two wing-root machineguns.
G'day Long, great to see another video from you. I will admit that I would rather see you enjoying a fly out with the likes of Jengar, than commentating on the latest patch. it's a shame you don't have a squad you like to fly with. Where just upload live com videos when you have fun destroying stuff. I just hope that what ever you do you enjoy doing it.
Hey in regards of the map fixes and balance fixes, gaijin said that they now plan on focusing on fixing the game, not adding content,so hopefully they will fix the bombers
I don't know if you remember me but I was very surprised to see a new video from you on war thunder. Tbh I completely stopped playing this game because of all reasons you mentioned in the video.The game is just not enjoyable anymore.Arcade is broken for airplanes which I allways enjoyed more than tanks. I remember the good times where I had between 8 and 15 kills per match in any mode and if it was air domination you could get even more.Now the games last 4 minutes and if you get 2 kills you can be happy.i started playing this game because of you and got very good at it also because of your videos and guidance.But gaijin screwed that up. I'm glad to see you again though
Oh hey since you mention the Ki 100-II, let me piss and moan about that for a second. The Ki 100-II is like a Ki 100, but whereas the Ki-100 is an endwar superfighter built in limited quantities in 1945, the Ki-100-II is an even better endwar superfighter with better cockpit visibility and an improved engine which (according to our buddy CL) looked great on paper but wasn't actually available for production. It has about a 30% increase in horsepower over the Ki-100, which is great because the original Ki-100 was artificially reduced to the share a BR as aircraft from the Battle of Britain, leaving a vacancy in the latewar era where it properly belongs. Now, with the advent of this new and improved version, the new Ki-100-II can come in and join the exact same BR as the existing one! Wait. What? Well, that's the outlook from simsville anyway. Your mileage may vary. Might actually be a good subject for a long5hot plane analysis. Salty much? Yeah I know. I'm just blowing off steam. At the moment my opinion is just based on the stat cards. I'll see what the reality looks like after I've played it for a few months.
Ah yes, that's always the way with new vehicle patches - you just know that some planes will be drastically overtiered, but others will be outright clubbers. Remember the FW-190 A$ at 3.3? Good times :) One thing on the Japanese late-war planes though - they were rarely as good as the allied equivalents, due to poor fuels, poor build quality, poor engine materials, poor pilots and rushed design/testing. An earthquake in 1944(?) really messed up their aircraft production & they never recovered. Hence I don't think its as simple as saying that its a 1945 plane, so it belongs at a BR of 6.0. Some of them will, and some will not. The Ki-100s are really just Ki-61s with a radial engine ad-hoc bolted onto the front, they're really obsolete designs by late war, but the Japanese were going with what they had. But having said all that, if the Ki-100-II is as good as you say, it definitely deserves an uptier. Then again, it could also be just a case of an initial placeholder FM which will eventually be updated/nerfed.
Time will tell. I will say, the existing Ki-100 already seems quite strong to me when I encounter them in sim. It does have the exploitable limitation of being not super fast in a straight line (even compared to the competition at 3.7)... but then again, you could say the same thing about nearly every great Japanese plane; their strengths tend to lie elsewhere. I know what you mean about Japan's late-war situation, and it's bound to create a historicity problem for even a well-balanced BR system. My comments about it being a 'superplane' may be a bit hyperbolic. Then again, it is based on things like this: "During March and April 1945 experienced instructors from the Akeno Army Flying School flew the Ki-100 in extensive tests against the Ki-84, which was considered to be the best of the JAAF fighters then in operational service. Their conclusions were that, given pilots of equal experience, the Ki-100 would always win in combat." (from the wiki; en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kawasaki_Ki-100) Anyway, whatever else bears out, it will always strike me as extremely fishy to have a premium with a 30% boost in horsepower share the same rating as its nonpremium counterpart. At least _one_ of these planes has got to be on the wrong rating.
I've always felt that the original Ki-100 was set to a too low BR at 3.7. I'm not great at flying and only play AB but I have a 53:1 K/D in 11 games it took to spade it. and the only death was when I accidentally put it in my 4.7 lineup and got a full uptier and got jumped while it was stock by an N1K2-J. I think it's OP at it's current BR.
I've died a few more times in this plane, but nearly always from bomber gunners setting me alight. Once I made the mistake of taking a head-on vs a Blenheim, and his single .30 cal lit me up ... but yes, at 3.7 its undertiered. Should be at least 4.3 in Arcade, not sure of the other modes.
I'm holding out for longer arcade battles in spite of the trend going in the other direction. It would be nice to see additional bombing required to win. Coming up against 4 man squads that end games in under 5 minutes isn't all that fun.
Nice to hear from you again. But as you mentioned, this patch does not change the AB planes meta. So I'm guessing you're not gonna be back. Now they've officially released the game I doubt anymore changes will be done to the maps or game modes. It's even been a while since I've seen an Air Domination map in AB. So I'm guessing your hope will be the EC and World War mode. Hopefully Gaijin will make some headway towards those game modes after the introduction of boats.
thanks longshot. I've uninstalled the game, I'm waiting to see if they fix the gameplay issues before I consider reinstalling it, watching your videos whenever they do come out saves the guesswork for me.
The He100 especially with its centrally mounted tiny armadment is great! (RB) It is the perfect trainer for FW D9-13 as well as for Sabers. And no it was never realy bild with cannons. beside other reasones the low armadment was a reason for it never beeing bild in serius
Yes I read about that - I didn't comment on it because I hadn't thought about its ramifications yet. I can imagine for bombing ground targets (as distinct from bases) it'd make it significantly harder.
Bottlekiller 3rd person gunner control is very much overpowered in rb and sim. That being said, the best way to fix it would have been to use a system like IL-2: BoS uses, not just getting rid of the crosshair.
Main reason I stopped playing War Thunder was the grind. It seems that when you hit Tier 4 you also hit a MASSIVE wall witch will take you hundredths of hours to actually go through. And frankly, I have better games to play that don't require grinding. (Rocket League being one such example, that game is just so good)
Did anyone else have the jittery frame rate while watching this? It might just be my old laptop with it's Intel i3 7th generation processor (it actually pulled warthunder without crashing which, if you didn't know, needs AT LEAST an NVidia graphics card, and an Intel i5 2nd generation processor, when I played it though, there was no framerate consistency)
i finally started getting the hang of my spitfires, and RB in general, and now they nerfed it... the float Carburetor is way more sensitive and the engine overheats way more quickly now.
Oh yea, american m2s are nice right now. American planes might just be the most effective way to kill bombers atm. Their DM might be tough, but DM doesn't matter that much when you've lit the entire bomber on fire....
Yes, but that's the problem - occasional weekend events don't cut the mustard. There's no reason why it couldn't or shouldn't be permanently available.
I absolutely agree, but I don't think gaijin is capable of that sort of wisdom just yet. In the mean time, I'm just going to take advantage of these events as they come and play other games. In a way I'm sort of glad War Thunder is increasingly unenjoyable; I would have never discovered competitive Team Fortress 2 if it weren't for gaijin's incompetence :P
Speaking of Gaijin's incompetence, their failure to leverage the creative people in their playerbase is simply bewildering. I mean, they made the CDK available which allows anyone to develop planes, tanks, camouflages and missions - its the same tool their own developers use to create maps. It seems pretty obvious that they either lack the staff resources to commit someone to working on EC and other maps full time, or that the developers they've given it too are incompetent. Fine, why not hold a competition for the community to come up with maps? There'd be plenty of submissions, out of which there'd doubtless be some absolute jewels which would promote excellent and varied gameplay. Gaijin could reward the winners with a couple thousand GE - even pay them a few hundred dollars which would be a fraction of the cost of paying their own developers, adopt the winning maps into the game - lots of goodwill is created, and everyone wins. But now, they keep the community at arm's length and persist with their own uninspired mission designs which seem to take forever to implement. It just boggles the mind.
long5hot Having been with the game this long and watching the gameplay slowly slipping away from the original vision throughout the development of the game, it kinda feels like watching your neighbors kid growing up into a drug addict. It's a tragic situation, but all you can really do is hope they do a better job next time. Honestly I've given up on War Thunder at this point, but I do think that there is a bright side, even if it's only for me. Now that I'm not spending my time grinding out new planes, I've got enough time to run a competitive team which involves getting to know new people, making a splash in a new community, and possibly even playing in the big leagues for money. Perhaps more people ought to boycott war thunder until gaijin becomes a little more responsive towards their community, or are forced to sell the IP to someone who does.
the american planes with incendiary belts now just make you explode,not set you alight,8x in 2 games today ive been 1 sot exploded by usa planes in my spits
Indeed he did - haven't gotten around to watching it yet. His video is here: czcams.com/video/1GSJgvGNgjQ/video.html Jengar's made one on the Cannoncat: czcams.com/video/NAChM_xFreI/video.html And Magz has a vid on the Ta-154: czcams.com/video/ffHepkYPXhc/video.html
hey longshot i think you did something wrong with rendering or the recording software was being weird because i did see a solid 60 fps in the bottom left corner so it shouldnt be your pc perhaps just recording software?
Yes, in the game the fps was smooth - I was surprised to see how jerky the resulting footage was. I'm really hoping its not a failing hard drive ... recording video does involve a lot of disk I/O.
What hard drive do you have (i'm not a computer guy and if you also arent i can ask a friend and ask him if the hard drive is still suitable for making videos)
Its a 3.0 USB SSD drive, which has served me well for 3 years - I'm thinking it may just be approaching the end of its life cycle. Not the end of the world, its easy to replace.
Glad to hear it's easy to replace. Because of this episode are you gonna make more now or are you waiting till War Thunder fixes more things? If you are gonna play more War Thunder will it be AB or RB
Well, there's little point making AB videos as the mode is quite broken in its current form. And RB requires a time investment that I just can't make, due to the real-life pressures of having to scratch out a living for myself and my family. It really sucks being in my late 40s and not able to find a job, but I know I'm far from being alone in that situation.
you were saying about Gaijin and "the no relief from terrible ground strike maps in AB"....It's arcade.....and honestly, arcade sucks. i think honestly, Gaijin is more focused on RB and SB matches and that is the way it should be. More of the adult players play RB and SB. Yes, AB is ok, I guess for like......getting research points for certain vehicles.....but AB is certainly where I would not put my time and effort into.
Well of course, if you don't play the mode, you won't care about it - and your condescending attitude toward it is quite typical I'm afraid. However Arcade is where most people start out, and is still by far the most populated mode. If the fun factor disappears from Arcade, which it largely has, then that will not bode well for player retention or for the future of the game. Which is something that should concern you as I seriously doubt WT would earn a sustainable income from just its RB and SB populations.
Typical? I just don't enjoy playing with children....because it is a free to play game. I don't thing Gaijin is looking to keep their AB playing lowbies.....because they play for free and never pay for anything. To me, it looks like they might be looking towards their older players.....the players who play RB and SB and also who pay to have maybe a week at a time of premium....or even a day or two...based on how much they got paid that week at work. I do care about the future of this game. I love this game and it is my number one game that I do put time into. Because of that tho, I do put money into this game. I beg to differ with your opinion on your view of sustainable income from "just RB and SB population". I happen to know quite a bit of people who do put money into this game.....and not one of those people play AB.
Now also.....I only really mainly focus on planes. I also see you to have a lot of skill within the flying aspects of the game. I believe once you started and stuck with the RB and SB of the game....you will never go back to AB. I do sometimes, (play AB) only to play to low level friends. you have a lot of skill. now take that to RB. I'm only writing you still because I do have respect for you as a youtuber and a fellow player of a game i sincerely enjoy.
Well, this is getting rather anecdotal. I know a lot of people who've put money into the game, and who btw are adults and behave as such, and play Arcade - or did before the mode went to rack & ruin. Most of them left WT, they didn't switch to RB. You can count me as one of them (I've put more money into WT than I'm comfortable with). Its just untrue that AB players are all free-to-play leeches. Indeed, they're more likely to try to unlock and spade every plane for every nation, hence purchase premium and buy premium planes to ease the grind.
All i know is this, The yak 3 is still a fucking UFO. I was boom and zooing in my p47, missed the shot at a yak 3 who was in a turn fight at the time. Started climbing away at 800 kph, 15 seconds later the yak 3 was gaining on me already... That piece of shit loses 0 energy in a turn now. From full on dogfight to climbing after a zooming p47 in 15 seconds. I was climbing at 15 degrees and started from the same altitude he was at. so around 1000 meters. This game is still completely unplayable because of overpowered planes like the Yak 3 This was warthunders last chance. Im fucking done with this steaming pile of shit of a game. It used to be great, but ever since br system was added balance has been worse than ever and never improving. Im uninstalling.
Grab any Spitfire and wreck him. Sometimes just don't dive on enemies, trust me, yak-3 is trash when compared to its opponents. I don't have any problems with yak-3s in P-47, i have no idea how you managed to get caught
In my humble opinion, the British and Japanese tanks are pure garbage, with the British being the worst. At least Japanese tanks can kill something, whereas, the British tanks can neither kill anything nor do they have any amour. In other words, a complete waste of time and money.
I saw Mr. bow & arrow in my notifications bar and jumped straight in here. Nice to see you again man!
Welcome back on active duty mate :)
glad you're back brother
Nice review, I very much agree with most , if not all, your points of view! Hard to tell what is most misplaced at its battlerating; the ultrastrong, speedy and well gunned B-34 at 2.0, or the new Hellcat at 5.0, yes indeed the last one is very, very weak, like expected, at 5.0 arcade.
Good to have you back, Sir!
Thanks for you input, nice to hear from you again. Say Hi to Mike, he's probably my fav skinner :)
I look forward to seeing what you have to say about the He-100 in-game. I've flown it myself in RB and have been relatively pleased with how it handles, though I agree that its armament is a lot lighter than I'd've expected it to be.
The "disappearing shell" bug I refer to in this video was, it seems, only for tanks - and apparently has now been fixed. For planes this is still another patch with concrete damage models and underperforming cannon. Though at least .50 cals (apart from the early belts) have been improved, so there is that.
longshot we missed you, where have you been :)
long5hot yea I also missed the vids
123Kitman before I watched his vids i was a noob
Welcome back long5hot!!!!!!!
I haven't played WT for months but it's always nice to see a longshot vid :)
Heya long5hot. Great to see you back, even if it's only for a little while. Nice to see an Aussie doing a great job.
Hey Long5hot - nice summary. Top quality as always.
The ground pounding IS an issue but there are maps in the rotation that have longer battles. I feel anything BR 5,0 or less is ok to play and have reasonable matches. Top props (5.7 > 6.7) are a mess with bomber spam in arcade. I almost wish all players would fly just bombers to force Gaijin's hand. Imagine how quick you would research the tree with bomber payday's and no opposition.
Keep positive and be open minded. There is still plenty for the game to offer. Hope to see you in the sky sometime.
Great to see another video from you. Hope everything is well and good.
Planes like the Hampton never gets much love (anywhere really) so I think its cool they have done it.
Completely agree with your comments on groundstrike. Had a game the other day which lasted 3mins and 24 seconds in Arcade!! In fact the majority of Arcade battles are lasting about 5 mins which to be honest has stopped me playing the game with any regularity. Nice to hear your dulcet tones again Longshot. Come on Gaijin, stop the rot please!!
We miss you Long5hot! Hope all is well
Oh wow, i thought i just saw a ghost!
Seriously though, great to see you, man! As far as La-11 is concerned, it is another useless piece just like Tu-14... The plane is nearly identical to La-9, though heavier somehow, and has one less 23 mm cannon.. Who would want this plane? I don't know... only maybe as a collector's piece.. And what i can gather about the Ki-100 II is that again, it is identical to the original one, only with the tear'drop canopy.. I might be getting one, though.. Ki-100 is one of my favorites in the game.
Always a pleasure to see a vid. I miss flying with but I do understand your problems hope that I can see ya up there someday. Have a great day and happy hunting.
So nice. Your videos are always a pleasure to watch.
Glad to see you making videos again, well a video, but I can't really recommend the game at the moment. Nothing's changed, although there might be some light at the end of the tunnel with World War mode and a buncha other promises that have yet to become real. One thing you didn't mention but is pretty cool and useful is extra component info in the X-Ray view, like engine type and power output or gun type and caliber, etc. They also did technically change the Hellcat's model (not flight model); the F6F-3 had a pair of extra windows behind the canopy, and the F6F-5 version deleted them.
I have been having a great time with the C-6, she's tough as nails and the flight model is not as bad as it might seem. The one and only time I've actually been shot down happened because some dude rammed me in a head-on, then respawned and crossed the map to kill me while I floated around without tail controls. The bomber spawn is nice, but in my experience the bombers all dive when they notice you're in a C-6 and I end up taking on a lot of single-engine interceptors instead. I know big twin-engine fighters are more my cup of tea than yours, but don't underestimate the Ju88 airframe. It's no super-plane but the German's didn't build it throughout the entire war in almost every possible role for nothing.
I'm not actually flying regularly right now, and when I do fly I'm moving towards SB as my primary mode in any case, but if you do happen to see me online don't be afraid to say hello or send me an invite. Good luck and good hunting!
Finally the king is back!
Long5hot! You're not dead!
Now, now... I respect that it's your decision whether or not to play the game and I don't blame you, but it's scary when no one hears from you for so long. At any rate, always a pleasure, mate.
And as far as the patch goes, well... I haven't had much time to play with it. Holiday travel and all that jazz. I HAVE however, had the chance to play (and spade) the He-100 and the Ju-88-C, and I can say this:
The 88 is very much a bomber hunter (and in fact, I almost feel like Gaijin is trying to bring about a resurgence of the Heavy Fighter with this role specifically for Arcade, as they tend to be little more than 'hangar filler' for most people). The flight model isn't great, but with it's classification (and bomber spawn) it really helps mitigate that impervious bomber damage model. Also, at the time that I spaded it (which was two days ago) I don't think anyone was yet used to the idea of a Ju-88 at bomber spawn with nose cannons, as they were all too happy to oblige me with plenty of head-on opportunities. As a scrapper, it's not much (obviously) and like all heavy fighters, it relies more on it's elevator than it's rudder to get around, which means you need to predict where your target is going and use the keyboard to angle your plane in the right orientation, but for players that don't see you coming (or don't see you as a threat) their deaths are quite swift.
I found the He-100 quite a joy to fly, in spite of it's lackluster armament (though personally, I feel the, as .30 cal rifles go, the German's probably have the best of the lot). It's turning wasn't the greatest, but it had that 'floaty' feel of the He-112-A0 and a fairly good rudder. In the three flyouts I've used it, I've taken down 18 enemies without the loss of a single plane. You'd be proud of me.
I haven't had much chance to get a feel for the new American M2 belts, but the P-47 seems to swat planes out of the skies even easier than previously. know they're using the same belts they always have, but the .50s seem just a bit more effective after this patch.
Anyway, hopefully I'll have more time in the near future to pick it apart a bit more. Glad to hear from you, and hope to hear from you some more!
Yes, sorry for being out of touch, I should have found a way to post videos - though not playing any games at all I really lacked content to put online ;)
Real life has been a bastard this year - struggling to get by with sporadic casual jobs & in between times scratching a small income from the financial markets. I just haven't had the enthusiasm or energy for gaming that I previously did.
Well, shoot... I'm sorry to hear that. Hopefully things pick up for you next year. This year seems to have taken a toll on a number of my friends, though I've managed to make it through okay... I had some help though.
All the same, glad you're still around, if nothing else.
Got the Ta 154. Its more fun than I thought it would be. I share your distaste for bomber spam. Always have. I spend a lot of time cleaning them up to elongate the matches and really its kind of impossible as they are very risky to engage now since they have gunners that no longer seem to miss. So I welcome this new plane to my German line up.
Well glad to see new video !!! I kinda missed the Air Domination mode now , always ground attack in AB is boring.
There's still air dom in the lower tiers - I really don't understand why they decided to remove it from 4.0BR and upwards though :\
longshot glad you're back :D
Very well made video, Longshot and well formulated and justified criticism. I agree to most of your views completely. Very nice to see you making videos again. In order for me to enjoy arcade in WT I had to completely quit the idea of "winning" in the sense of not going for ANY mission objectives appart from the occasional Arcade Power Cap just for giggles. This sometimes makes for very interesting matches that have nothing to do with the main game whatsoever: It has all become just a matter of shooting down planes, preferably those who are going for objectives, bombers, people who are on the lookout for duels etc.. It is so sad that Gaijin won´t listen to renowned and respected CZcamsrs such as the leader of this here clan, =DMH=, and many others when it comes to game design. Hope to see your more often in the skies nonetheless. I hope that this little not listed piece of mine may serve as a lil appetizer and advertisment for my concept of "game in game" for WT arcade and make you fly out more often, perhaps? We all miss you very much!
czcams.com/video/cKj-xPbBfBw/video.html
All the best to you, sir.
Good Luck & Good Hunting! (°°)7
Gajin needs to add more effective bomber hunters, not more bombers...
Birki gts seconded
They just need to fix the freaking 30mm shells damage... Dude, really a 3 centimeter bullet hits a WING and all it do is a spark?!?!? those things cutted trough like butter historically, that without mention that the fist burst of 20mm left a mess of dead gunners on the bombers fuselage...
there are plenty of Bomber hunters......yall just need to learn how to use them.
fighter cover is not what you need to be worried about....i think that was sarcasm. Gunner fire is what I would be concerned about. It''s almost to a point to where on certain bombers, I came at them from certain and different angles. and hell....there are just certain bombers i don't even mess with.....i fly a lot of german planes....just gotta learn the game.
Good to see you back, hope all well.
Hurrah he lives
Thank you very much indeed for the shoutout, i am really honored, my friend! All i can say about the skin, is that to anyone conserned, i have uploaded the initial 8k textures pack for the Ta 154, a somewhat more realistic and detailed version of the plane's finish as compared to the default 4K one.
Download link live.warthunder.com/post/541529/en/
Hi-res skin downloaded :D
good to see you uploading again bro, I was hoping you do
Geat to see you in WT again!
The He 100 is an absolutely awesome plane, and the weaponry is sufficient at its BR of 1.7. You should try it, it is a joy! Btw it was the fastest plane at its time for a short period.
That's the thing, for a plane with such an excellent FM, it deserves weaponry that would allow it to be rated alongside similar opponents at, say, 3.0 - rather than fighting biplanes. Especially as there's tons of evidence that the plane had a motorcannon.
I believe Gaijin have mentioned reports that the MG FF caused too much vibration (which didn't stop them putting the Yak 9K into the game which had terrible issues of that kind), but the FF/M and 151/20 would have solved that problem. There's also documents saying that the later models had three 151/20s, replacing the two wing-root machineguns.
Good to see you back in the pilots seat
Glad to see you back sir.
G'day Long, great to see another video from you. I will admit that I would rather see you enjoying a fly out with the likes of Jengar, than commentating on the latest patch. it's a shame you don't have a squad you like to fly with. Where just upload live com videos when you have fun destroying stuff. I just hope that what ever you do you enjoy doing it.
happy xmas LS...good to see you back
Hey in regards of the map fixes and balance fixes, gaijin said that they now plan on focusing on fixing the game, not adding content,so hopefully they will fix the bombers
Well, we can only hope :)
Though having said that, they have a ton of new content to add with the boats side of things...
welcome back. it's nice to have news from . come and play with NmY if u can
Heeeey longshot! it is good to see you again!
I don't know if you remember me but I was very surprised to see a new video from you on war thunder. Tbh I completely stopped playing this game because of all reasons you mentioned in the video.The game is just not enjoyable anymore.Arcade is broken for airplanes which I allways enjoyed more than tanks. I remember the good times where I had between 8 and 15 kills per match in any mode and if it was air domination you could get even more.Now the games last 4 minutes and if you get 2 kills you can be happy.i started playing this game because of you and got very good at it also because of your videos and guidance.But gaijin screwed that up. I'm glad to see you again though
Long5hot! Welcome back!
Oh, nice! Glad to see you back man!
Oh hey since you mention the Ki 100-II, let me piss and moan about that for a second.
The Ki 100-II is like a Ki 100, but whereas the Ki-100 is an endwar superfighter built in limited quantities in 1945, the Ki-100-II is an even better endwar superfighter with better cockpit visibility and an improved engine which (according to our buddy CL) looked great on paper but wasn't actually available for production. It has about a 30% increase in horsepower over the Ki-100, which is great because the original Ki-100 was artificially reduced to the share a BR as aircraft from the Battle of Britain, leaving a vacancy in the latewar era where it properly belongs. Now, with the advent of this new and improved version, the new Ki-100-II can come in and join the exact same BR as the existing one! Wait. What?
Well, that's the outlook from simsville anyway. Your mileage may vary. Might actually be a good subject for a long5hot plane analysis.
Salty much? Yeah I know. I'm just blowing off steam. At the moment my opinion is just based on the stat cards. I'll see what the reality looks like after I've played it for a few months.
Ah yes, that's always the way with new vehicle patches - you just know that some planes will be drastically overtiered, but others will be outright clubbers. Remember the FW-190 A$ at 3.3? Good times :)
One thing on the Japanese late-war planes though - they were rarely as good as the allied equivalents, due to poor fuels, poor build quality, poor engine materials, poor pilots and rushed design/testing. An earthquake in 1944(?) really messed up their aircraft production & they never recovered. Hence I don't think its as simple as saying that its a 1945 plane, so it belongs at a BR of 6.0. Some of them will, and some will not.
The Ki-100s are really just Ki-61s with a radial engine ad-hoc bolted onto the front, they're really obsolete designs by late war, but the Japanese were going with what they had.
But having said all that, if the Ki-100-II is as good as you say, it definitely deserves an uptier. Then again, it could also be just a case of an initial placeholder FM which will eventually be updated/nerfed.
Time will tell. I will say, the existing Ki-100 already seems quite strong to me when I encounter them in sim. It does have the exploitable limitation of being not super fast in a straight line (even compared to the competition at 3.7)... but then again, you could say the same thing about nearly every great Japanese plane; their strengths tend to lie elsewhere.
I know what you mean about Japan's late-war situation, and it's bound to create a historicity problem for even a well-balanced BR system. My comments about it being a 'superplane' may be a bit hyperbolic. Then again, it is based on things like this:
"During March and April 1945 experienced instructors from the Akeno Army Flying School flew the Ki-100 in extensive tests against the Ki-84, which was considered to be the best of the JAAF fighters then in operational service. Their conclusions were that, given pilots of equal experience, the Ki-100 would always win in combat."
(from the wiki; en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kawasaki_Ki-100)
Anyway, whatever else bears out, it will always strike me as extremely fishy to have a premium with a 30% boost in horsepower share the same rating as its nonpremium counterpart. At least _one_ of these planes has got to be on the wrong rating.
I've always felt that the original Ki-100 was set to a too low BR at 3.7. I'm not great at flying and only play AB but I have a 53:1 K/D in 11 games it took to spade it. and the only death was when I accidentally put it in my 4.7 lineup and got a full uptier and got jumped while it was stock by an N1K2-J. I think it's OP at it's current BR.
I've died a few more times in this plane, but nearly always from bomber gunners setting me alight. Once I made the mistake of taking a head-on vs a Blenheim, and his single .30 cal lit me up ... but yes, at 3.7 its undertiered. Should be at least 4.3 in Arcade, not sure of the other modes.
Great video man! I might actually play some War Thunder again.
I'm holding out for longer arcade battles in spite of the trend going in the other direction. It would be nice to see additional bombing required to win. Coming up against 4 man squads that end games in under 5 minutes isn't all that fun.
Welcome back!
Hudson FTW!
World War mode is coming out with ships I do believe
Nice to hear from you again. But as you mentioned, this patch does not change the AB planes meta. So I'm guessing you're not gonna be back. Now they've officially released the game I doubt anymore changes will be done to the maps or game modes. It's even been a while since I've seen an Air Domination map in AB. So I'm guessing your hope will be the EC and World War mode. Hopefully Gaijin will make some headway towards those game modes after the introduction of boats.
oh how ive missed your videos
woo! longshot i missed you bud
I once met a Sunderland at 2.7, geez that kicked my ass bad before I took it down with the help of 5 OTHER FRICKING FIGHTERS!!!
thanks longshot. I've uninstalled the game, I'm waiting to see if they fix the gameplay issues before I consider reinstalling it, watching your videos whenever they do come out saves the guesswork for me.
I'll keep track of what's going on - rest assured that I'll report any positive developments if/when they happen.
The He100 especially with its centrally mounted tiny armadment is great! (RB)
It is the perfect trainer for FW D9-13 as well as for Sabers.
And no it was never realy bild with cannons. beside other reasones the low armadment was a reason for it never beeing bild in serius
In this patch they also removed the 3rd person aiming reticle for bombers in RB.
An absolute dick move.
Yes I read about that - I didn't comment on it because I hadn't thought about its ramifications yet. I can imagine for bombing ground targets (as distinct from bases) it'd make it significantly harder.
Bottlekiller 3rd person gunner control is very much overpowered in rb and sim. That being said, the best way to fix it would have been to use a system like IL-2: BoS uses, not just getting rid of the crosshair.
Muddy Fudger
I was talking about the 3rd person bombsight reticle for the bombardier, not the gunner. Sorry forgot to clearly mention that.
Bottlekiller Ah that makes more sense
welcome back! re-subscribed (sorry I left)
All is forgiven Bub :)
Gj sir!
Main reason I stopped playing War Thunder was the grind. It seems that when you hit Tier 4 you also hit a MASSIVE wall witch will take you hundredths of hours to actually go through. And frankly, I have better games to play that don't require grinding. (Rocket League being one such example, that game is just so good)
Did anyone else have the jittery frame rate while watching this? It might just be my old laptop with it's Intel i3 7th generation processor (it actually pulled warthunder without crashing which, if you didn't know, needs AT LEAST an NVidia graphics card, and an Intel i5 2nd generation processor, when I played it though, there was no framerate consistency)
i finally started getting the hang of my spitfires, and RB in general, and now they nerfed it... the float Carburetor is way more sensitive and the engine overheats way more quickly now.
Check out the He219 as well it's like the 154 in a way
Oh yea, american m2s are nice right now. American planes might just be the most effective way to kill bombers atm. Their DM might be tough, but DM doesn't matter that much when you've lit the entire bomber on fire....
Its sad what WT has become, it could have been a great game. Removal of the BR system and back to the tiered system would be a great first step
do you guys also face the issue that everytime when starting a match, all ammo is set back to "default belt"?
Yeah its pretty annoying.
There was an enduring conflict event for rb just last weekend actually
Yes, but that's the problem - occasional weekend events don't cut the mustard. There's no reason why it couldn't or shouldn't be permanently available.
I absolutely agree, but I don't think gaijin is capable of that sort of wisdom just yet. In the mean time, I'm just going to take advantage of these events as they come and play other games. In a way I'm sort of glad War Thunder is increasingly unenjoyable; I would have never discovered competitive Team Fortress 2 if it weren't for gaijin's incompetence :P
Speaking of Gaijin's incompetence, their failure to leverage the creative people in their playerbase is simply bewildering. I mean, they made the CDK available which allows anyone to develop planes, tanks, camouflages and missions - its the same tool their own developers use to create maps. It seems pretty obvious that they either lack the staff resources to commit someone to working on EC and other maps full time, or that the developers they've given it too are incompetent. Fine, why not hold a competition for the community to come up with maps?
There'd be plenty of submissions, out of which there'd doubtless be some absolute jewels which would promote excellent and varied gameplay. Gaijin could reward the winners with a couple thousand GE - even pay them a few hundred dollars which would be a fraction of the cost of paying their own developers, adopt the winning maps into the game - lots of goodwill is created, and everyone wins. But now, they keep the community at arm's length and persist with their own uninspired mission designs which seem to take forever to implement. It just boggles the mind.
long5hot Having been with the game this long and watching the gameplay slowly slipping away from the original vision throughout the development of the game, it kinda feels like watching your neighbors kid growing up into a drug addict. It's a tragic situation, but all you can really do is hope they do a better job next time.
Honestly I've given up on War Thunder at this point, but I do think that there is a bright side, even if it's only for me. Now that I'm not spending my time grinding out new planes, I've got enough time to run a competitive team which involves getting to know new people, making a splash in a new community, and possibly even playing in the big leagues for money.
Perhaps more people ought to boycott war thunder until gaijin becomes a little more responsive towards their community, or are forced to sell the IP to someone who does.
the american planes with incendiary belts now just make you explode,not set you alight,8x in 2 games today ive been 1 sot exploded by usa planes in my spits
Bismark did a video on the he 100
Indeed he did - haven't gotten around to watching it yet.
His video is here: czcams.com/video/1GSJgvGNgjQ/video.html
Jengar's made one on the Cannoncat: czcams.com/video/NAChM_xFreI/video.html
And Magz has a vid on the Ta-154: czcams.com/video/ffHepkYPXhc/video.html
Please come back
hey longshot i think you did something wrong with rendering or the recording software was being weird because i did see a solid 60 fps in the bottom left corner so it shouldnt be your pc perhaps just recording software?
Yes, in the game the fps was smooth - I was surprised to see how jerky the resulting footage was. I'm really hoping its not a failing hard drive ... recording video does involve a lot of disk I/O.
What hard drive do you have (i'm not a computer guy and if you also arent i can ask a friend and ask him if the hard drive is still suitable for making videos)
Its a 3.0 USB SSD drive, which has served me well for 3 years - I'm thinking it may just be approaching the end of its life cycle. Not the end of the world, its easy to replace.
Glad to hear it's easy to replace. Because of this episode are you gonna make more now or are you waiting till War Thunder fixes more things? If you are gonna play more War Thunder will it be AB or RB
Well, there's little point making AB videos as the mode is quite broken in its current form. And RB requires a time investment that I just can't make, due to the real-life pressures of having to scratch out a living for myself and my family. It really sucks being in my late 40s and not able to find a job, but I know I'm far from being alone in that situation.
you were saying about Gaijin and "the no relief from terrible ground strike maps in AB"....It's arcade.....and honestly, arcade sucks. i think honestly, Gaijin is more focused on RB and SB matches and that is the way it should be. More of the adult players play RB and SB. Yes, AB is ok, I guess for like......getting research points for certain vehicles.....but AB is certainly where I would not put my time and effort into.
Well of course, if you don't play the mode, you won't care about it - and your condescending attitude toward it is quite typical I'm afraid. However Arcade is where most people start out, and is still by far the most populated mode. If the fun factor disappears from Arcade, which it largely has, then that will not bode well for player retention or for the future of the game. Which is something that should concern you as I seriously doubt WT would earn a sustainable income from just its RB and SB populations.
Typical? I just don't enjoy playing with children....because it is a free to play game. I don't thing Gaijin is looking to keep their AB playing lowbies.....because they play for free and never pay for anything. To me, it looks like they might be looking towards their older players.....the players who play RB and SB and also who pay to have maybe a week at a time of premium....or even a day or two...based on how much they got paid that week at work. I do care about the future of this game. I love this game and it is my number one game that I do put time into. Because of that tho, I do put money into this game. I beg to differ with your opinion on your view of sustainable income from "just RB and SB population". I happen to know quite a bit of people who do put money into this game.....and not one of those people play AB.
Now also.....I only really mainly focus on planes. I also see you to have a lot of skill within the flying aspects of the game. I believe once you started and stuck with the RB and SB of the game....you will never go back to AB. I do sometimes, (play AB) only to play to low level friends. you have a lot of skill. now take that to RB. I'm only writing you still because I do have respect for you as a youtuber and a fellow player of a game i sincerely enjoy.
Well, this is getting rather anecdotal. I know a lot of people who've put money into the game, and who btw are adults and behave as such, and play Arcade - or did before the mode went to rack & ruin. Most of them left WT, they didn't switch to RB. You can count me as one of them (I've put more money into WT than I'm comfortable with). Its just untrue that AB players are all free-to-play leeches. Indeed, they're more likely to try to unlock and spade every plane for every nation, hence purchase premium and buy premium planes to ease the grind.
No worries - its not a problem that we have different points of view on this. I respect your opinion and I'm grateful for you sharing it here.
All i know is this, The yak 3 is still a fucking UFO. I was boom and zooing in my p47, missed the shot at a yak 3 who was in a turn fight at the time. Started climbing away at 800 kph, 15 seconds later the yak 3 was gaining on me already... That piece of shit loses 0 energy in a turn now. From full on dogfight to climbing after a zooming p47 in 15 seconds.
I was climbing at 15 degrees and started from the same altitude he was at. so around 1000 meters. This game is still completely unplayable because of overpowered planes like the Yak 3
This was warthunders last chance. Im fucking done with this steaming pile of shit of a game. It used to be great, but ever since br system was added balance has been worse than ever and never improving. Im uninstalling.
Grab any Spitfire and wreck him. Sometimes just don't dive on enemies, trust me, yak-3 is trash when compared to its opponents. I don't have any problems with yak-3s in P-47, i have no idea how you managed to get caught
In my humble opinion, the British and Japanese tanks are pure garbage, with the British being the worst. At least Japanese tanks can kill something, whereas, the British tanks can neither kill anything nor do they have any amour. In other words, a complete waste of time and money.