/r/Warthunder

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This is a subreddit for War Thunder, a cross platform vehicular combat MMO developed by Gaijin Entertainment for Microsoft Windows, macOS, Linux, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One and Xbox Series X|S.

The game is based around combined arms battles on air, land, and sea with vehicles from the Great War to today.

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  • Flair your post appropriately after submitting. Unflaired posts don't get an upvote button and incorrectly flaired posts may be removed.

    • Do not abuse the NEWS flair. It is intended only for official War Thunder news from Gaijin sites and sources.
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    • Submitting low-effort posts of any kind in quick succession will lead to post removals and may lead to a ban. This is understood to include multiple posts by different users about the same topic
    • Visual representations of lootboxes are banned
  • Use clear titles. /r/WarThunder aims to make its content clear from a quick glance.

    • If your submission has an unclear title you should submit a top-level comment explaining the content.
    • Posts with "clickbait" titles will be removed.
  • No unrelated submissions. All content should be clearly relevant to the game of War Thunder and its vehicles.

    • Memes must be clearly visually relevant to War Thunder. This means just having a witty related caption or title is not enough. Be creative and tie it into War Thunder.
    • Posts of history entirely unrelated to War Thunder should be posted instead to /r/history, /r/aviation, /r/WWIIplanes , /r/AirCraftPorn , /r/TankPorn , etc. Posts made to promote other games will be removed.
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    • Memes may only be posted on meme days. These are: Saturday and Sunday. The timezone for cutoff is UTC. Note that memes visible during the non-meme days, but posted during meme days will not be removed.
    • Memes must be clearly visually relevant to War Thunder. Having a witty related caption or title is not enough and it must contain a vehicle or element from the game. Be creative and tie it into War Thunder.
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    • If posting NSFW material, tag it NSFW. No pornography.
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    • No abuse, harassment, racism, xenophobia, hate speech, discrimination, flame-baiting, trolling, nor general assholery.
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    • Posts of fanmail are banned. Private messages containing responses in languages other than English, slurs of any kind, or otherwise excessive levels of salt are not allowed.
    • Rage-bait decal posts are banned.
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    how to create your own decal discount war thunder

    I was just wondering how do you do that because I wanna create my own, and no, i am not doing custom skin.

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    2025/02/02
    01:39 UTC

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    What br would the V-22 be at if added to the game?

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    2025/02/02
    01:36 UTC

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    Help with twitch drop

    I redeemed the latest twitch drops and not a single one has appeared and I don't know if its just gaijin/twitch or if it me doing something, because with previous twitch drops they would apper on my account with in 5 mins of redeeming the twitch drop

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    2025/02/02
    01:35 UTC

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    Killed 4 out of 8 people with a bomber. No joke. (BR 2.7)

    Okay, so this game was like every other game. Usually I use my bomber as my first plane because I'm usually better at fighting than bombing. (plus it's more fun) So I go to bomb the ground forces, right? I successfully bomb them, but a Yak-1 starts pursuing me and damages me a little bit. My gunner takes them down. Then, another pursues, gunner takes em down, then 2 MORE pursue me and he takes them BOTH down!

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    2025/02/02
    01:31 UTC

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    Everyone knows the Sherman, what model/test bed is your favourite and why?

    Personally mine is the 75 M4A2. Think it looks the coolest with its turret and welded hull

    0 Comments
    2025/02/02
    01:27 UTC

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    What Am I Missing?

    Downloaded Warthunder for PS5 yesterday. I put 4-5 hours into it and made it to level 2 fairly easily. Then, I started to get reemed. Am I understanding correctly that after you reach each level, you are automatically put into matches with people who are essentially at the end of the next level? Point being I don’t even have a plane unlocked for level 2, and it seems like you wouldn’t even get a chance to use them all since you level out of the first tier so quickly. Was I supposed to bank my research points or something? It’s like 7,500 points to unlock the first fighter plane. Otherwise I’m stuck with my rinky-dink Snoopy biplane and a wooden glide bomber. I see you can select certain maps and BR but do I still get points if I do that? I am sure the game is great when you understand the mechanics of the upgrade system but I need help. Thanks in advance.

    0 Comments
    2025/02/02
    01:27 UTC

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    HMS Diamond worth?

    I recently got a 75% discount on the HMS Diamond and I was thinking about buying it since it’s a couple of bucks anyway. So should I buy as a SL printer or is it total bs?

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    2025/02/02
    01:24 UTC

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    Looking at specific players causes huge stutter and frame drops / more details in description

    Every few games there will be one or multiple players that ruin my games performance whenever I get close or look at them. Even their destroyed tank will continue to do this. It's not map specific and it's not triggered by huge crowds of players/destroyed tanks.

    My game could run 100+fps easily before this bug but was capped to 60 and basically never dropped below that. Now it still runs at 60 but the second I come across one of those weird players it dips to 10-40 fps while stuttering.

    This has been happening since they switched to Battleye 2 months ago and got slightly better over time as more people got the new AC.

    My theory is that because I was one of the first to get the new AC my game somehow had to cope with both Battleye and EAC at the same time. This happens a lot more at high tiers where more old players play that likely still had EAC. At low tier all new players have BE as their first and only AC so it doesn't overlap.

    This is not hardware related. All drivers up to date and always have been. I made no changes to the graphics settings. This has been ruining the game for 2 months now and has started over night without me making any changes.

    Did anyone encounter something similar or know of a fix?

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    2025/02/02
    01:24 UTC

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    What you guys would put here?

    2 Comments
    2025/02/02
    01:08 UTC

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    I have seen enough, add the aim 9x gaijin

    4 Comments
    2025/02/02
    01:04 UTC

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    how the fart do i properly use flares/countermeasures

    they rarely if ever work while i’m in the test drive

    1 Comment
    2025/02/02
    01:04 UTC

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    Got multiple friends to play war thunder then, well you know what happened after…

    (This is me just ranting, so please don't give me too much hate) (Not sure if I'm using the right flair)

    Got a couple of friends to play War Thunder which well you know what happened afterwards…

    I love Ground Forces, been playing since 2014. Had friends who wanted to try out War Thunder because they think tanks are pretty cool so I got them to download the game and do the tutorial for ground forces then try out an actual match.

    After a couple of days, they all left me to play air battles instead... The reasoning - "I don't know where to shoot the tanks" "Why am I so weak" "Why can't I take shots while the enemy deflects 10+ of my rounds", "I'm too slow". “Why am I getting one-shotted”, “My gun doesn't do any damage to the enemy”, I'm always getting bombed”, and “Can I level up my ground forces tech tree while playing air battles?”

    I try my best to explain how their tanks work, where to shoot the enemy with what rounds are best to use for each situation. While also explaining they need to utilize the strengths of their vehicles. But they all flocked to air battles because they say it's easier and more fast-paced. Then leaving the game entirely after that. One of them even bought the premium King Tiger on day 1!

    1 Comment
    2025/02/02
    00:58 UTC

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    I need some help

    I thought that the b

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    2025/02/02
    00:54 UTC

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    I need help before I have a stroke

    I need tips on how to get gud😭 i need to know how to angle my tank better how to evade a swarm of planes when 4 mfs decide they wanna tickle my butthole😭😭 an what rounds to use what vehicles to avoid and which ones to run towards etc any wisdom is appreciated I main Russia cause I started USA and idk if it was just bad on my part or the vehicles I was using but I literally struggled to get a single kill no matter if it was tanks planes or ships I play arcade all modes but usually only tanks or planes cause naval seems to be pretty dead but I’m almost into tier 4 tanks and on aircraft’s I’m half way done researching my first tier 4 plane

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    2025/02/02
    00:51 UTC

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    Why does this round feel so anemic? It weighs 3-3.5 kg heavier yet has similar performance to other apds at its br, sometimes feels worse.

    4 Comments
    2025/02/02
    00:51 UTC

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    I know it’s been here for a bit, but why do we have mine protection on tanks?

    Some of the top tier vehicles have a modification for mine protection, but we don’t have land mines, and I don’t think the naval mines quite have the same effect. I know there’s anti personal butterfly mines you can drop from aircraft, or there’s the thing they did in Battlefield 5 where you drop normal disk mines which never quite made sense. There’s tanks designed for explicitly carrying mines but we currently have none of those. It might make sense if now that we have deployable munition boxes to be able to set them ourselves but, I feel like that just leads to cheap and toxic gameplay.

    3 Comments
    2025/02/02
    00:46 UTC

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    whats going on with the game, its been going worse and worse

    - trapshot now makes shell dissapear

    - APCR got worse

    - volumetric got 500% more absorbing

    - planes can now make shots from AA ricochet

    - heat being absorbed by .... ?!

    - radar locking into just air

    - engine/transmission being shot but tank can continue straight ?

    -....

    wtf is going on ? i made a 120 APCBC shell disapear into 2mm metal plates so many times....

    1 Comment
    2025/02/02
    00:43 UTC

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    How do I control this? Where I can elevate the gun but keep the crosshairs on the target. I've seen it used by others before but only encountered it myself with laser rangefinders.

    2 Comments
    2025/02/02
    00:25 UTC

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    I Am Researching a Squad Vehicle, do I Have to Play That Specific Vehicles Nation? Or Nah?

    ^^

    3 Comments
    2025/02/02
    00:22 UTC

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    The Wind is absolutelly crazy 🍃

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    2025/02/02
    00:21 UTC

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    Please help me

    I cant find what I did wrong, I always stayed below 60m height while not being too low, you have to multipath AND notch now ?

    2 Comments
    2025/02/02
    00:17 UTC

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    Whats the most fun RB for you guys ? Mines got to be 5.0-7.0

    I wonder if people think like me i find it that War thunder after 7.0 is not as much fun and more of a piont and shoot kind of game. I prefer to take my tigers out and play lower BR !

    9 Comments
    2025/02/02
    00:15 UTC

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    Warthunder

    I’m fairly new to war-thunder, I’ve had it for about a year but played on and off because I wasn’t too interested at first but within the last month I’ve been hooked and enjoy playing. I main USA so fair and switch between Germany and Russia time to time, I’m looking for help with positioning I can get maybe a kill and an assist in air RB (rank 4) but always die shortly after due to bad positioning after an engagement, any tips or pointers?

    2 Comments
    2025/02/02
    00:09 UTC

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    How do you get the Moments of Valor: Australia skin?

    I played 3 games of the Leopard A1A1 to unlock the "Tempest" camo but it still has the locked icon, so I'm wondering how I'm supposed to get this? Does it get added to my account after the event ends or something?

    2 Comments
    2025/02/02
    00:07 UTC

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    In your opinion, with which nation is it possible to research the GRIPEN faster?

    As soon as GAIJIN launched the AMX A-1A premium in the Italian tree, I bought it with the intention of researching the Gripen, but a month later the geniuses at Gaijin destroyed its BR, making it much more difficult and boring to research the Italian tree with it.

    Today, which nation offers, in your opinion, the best premium vehicle to quickly reach the Gripen?

    https://preview.redd.it/2lietr73mmge1.png?width=1920&format=png&auto=webp&s=884463931b213f352192355c9ea5919e18248111

    1 Comment
    2025/02/01
    23:59 UTC

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    The Eagles are Coming!

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    2025/02/01
    23:42 UTC

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    GAIJIN FIX THESE GOD DAMN STUUTER, I LITERALLY CANNOT PLAY YOUR GAME

    I FINALLY RECORDED THESE FUCKING STUTTERS, THESE HAPPEN AT RANDOM TIME AND ITS SO GOD DAMN ANNOYING.
    you cant see it but im spamming my bino key and my shift key to try and fix it but nothing works, it chooses when it starts and ends and it has gotten me killed countless times

    FIX. YOUR. GAME.

    https://reddit.com/link/1ifjq8h/video/640tu9ct5mge1/player

    1 Comment
    2025/02/01
    23:39 UTC

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    Up tiering

    How come I am rank 5 yet I am being put up with top tier rank sixes?

    3 Comments
    2025/02/01
    23:38 UTC

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    Should I stop using WEP?

    7 Comments
    2025/02/01
    23:28 UTC

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