You get no research points at all and there is literally no point in playing air simulator battles. I should not make more research points and sl in realistic battles than a harder game mode. Please tell me gajin has said something about fixing this ( I know they probably won’t ever and will probably just make more top tier premium packs)

Is it me? Or did the rewards in sim take a massive dump within the last year or so.

Even 30k with with prem seems low to me. I only died twice this match, landed after every useful action with least 2 kills between each one.

Since Alpha strike my radar text size hasn't gotten tiny making it very hard to read. Tried adjusting settings for radar size but nothing seems to change. Anyone got a fix?

The R22eR squadron and the hell let loose community TheLine are holding a Vietnam themed ground sim event this Friday, may 3rd.

It will consist of 4 or more ground sim battles, with a few extra rules, like the vehicle list and CAS restrictions. There’s also NO captured vehicles, and the list is semi-historical.

Attend 3 or more battles and get a chance to win 1000GE in a raffle with 4 prizes. Right before the sale as well, so a good chance to get some premium or a vehicle at a huge discount.

For the full description join the discord and go to the announcements tab

https://discord.gg/hSz3S8zf

I'm new to sim battles, playing my first round of air sim right now. Do you guys have any tips for me?

title sums it up.

https://warthunder.com/en/tournament/replay/199759040609791871

here is the replay around 8 minute, yak-15 player

Hey guys, I have never played WT sim with a joystick and I was asking myself if it really makes difference in performance compared to mouse + keyboard?

Had some extra money and decided to work on my WT pc account but didn't want to grind from biplanes all over again.

In fact I would much rather KMS than stock grind from biplanes in Air SB. Nah it's not that bad, but still I want something much more controllable and powerful.

P.s. sorry for the picture quality. I tried to take a pic of a curved monitor from my phone cause it won't let me upload from my Pc and it worked out about as good as you could imagine😅

https://discord.com/invite/PTgz6NvJ

looking for people interested in doing some regular fun races

Hi everyone!

I'm looking at getting a premium prop plane and I'm open to any nation other than USA as I have used that a fair bit. I want it to be fun to use and also good for earning. Any suggestions would be really appreciated :)

I am very new to both air sim and war thunder in general (lvl 11). In SIM, I generally have a hard time spotting enemy players, and I just saw that the BF110 G4 has a radar with a range of 8km. In SIM, I like flying strike aircraft like the BF110 series.

Id have to research it tho, and I am wondering if that will pay off. It is my target to finally reach jets, to have faster gameplay, and researching this specific airplane would not help in this goal.

Thank you for any tips!

Does anyone know how I bind my head movement to the movement of my mouse

I wanted to play some SB today and noticed that my mouse cursor was drifting to the right all the time.

I rebooted my PC but couldn't solve it. So I started a game regardless and was able to get into a plane even tho I was fighting the mouse cursor.
However I quickly noticed that my plane was pushing the right rudder quite hard. I had to trim the rudder -65% to keep the aircraft straight...

I later booted the game again without and controller attached and no pedals and again, cursor is driving and the virtual pedals are deflected to the right.

I booted the game again in 2D and voila! Game acts normal. Does anyone has the same problem?

System Q3, 4070 Ti Super

This guy has the same problem:

https://forum.warthunder.com/t/warthunder-vr-mouse-floating-to-the-right/102336

A reason why the Sim mode is so unpopulated in Warthunder is because the entry floor is too high (skill wise if your using mouse-joysyick, price-wise if your using a joystick). Thus not many of the THOUSANDS of players playing air RB can enter into the SIM gamemode without investing either time in learning mouse joystick, or money in buying a joystick setup.

Thus, I propose a solution:

Make mouse aim available for sim.

HEAR ME OUT, PUT DOWN THE PITCHFORKS. Mouse aim witha few caveats of course. Such as:

• Locked in cockpit view
• SIM-level flight model
• You pull too hard? Flatspin. You pull too many Gs? Wings snap off.
• You still need to adjust trim
• A limited version of the instructor.

I understand straight shots will be infinitely easier and so many other things which I assume will be problematic. But lets face it: Warthunder SIM is not really a SIM. Its so far from a study sim like dcs, and even something like IL-2. Its really just a "Realistic+" version of the base game.

Which is fine! But the mode is going to remain forgotten unless the player count goes up. And more players means more populated servers. And more populated servers means higher chance of changes to the mode.

I want to start a formal petition on the forums. trying to gauge reaction in here.

I'm thinking about unlocking more ships to get into Naval Sim, is it worth the time to learn/grind the vehicles?

When I play sim in VR (Quest 2), ground objects shimmer a lot, especially building. Which settings should I change to improve that aspect? I guess it's obvious for today's youth, but the last time I felt confident around graphic settings was when there were 4 options: resolution, gamma, textures quality and shadows quality. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ I assume it's going to be something to do with antialiasing, but there are something like 6 options for that only.

Aside from the big names like WingalingDragon, I have only found a handful few smaller creators: Training Days, Bob Dickinson, Bullet for My Enemy (who now only does DCS mostly), ect. I would love to know if you have more. Especially ground sim; I only found a few videos from Dollarplays from like years ago.

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I've recently noticed that all of Enduring Confrontation servers had much more Axis players on the low tier I play on.. and on top of that, they were also mixed with Soviets and Chinese - that's the usual faction combo that is played.
When flying around in an Axis fighter, I started feeling it perhaps gave us an unfair advantage because we had good low tier German, Japanese and Soviet planes combined on one side.

I decided that instead of joining this club of fighters roaming around and trying to find at least one Allied enemy to destroy, it's perhaps time to change sides and help the other (bullied xd) team.

I mean, at first I tried making a server on Tunisia/Stalingrad/Maginot Line where Soviets are with Allies because Germany, Italy and Japan had enough of great low tier airplanes on its own but I couldn't get 4 players to kick the room into starting XD

So, I had to join Allied teams from time to time if the sides were unbalanced.... and after digging into Allies' planes, a certain thought appeared in my mind... the thought that all of my aerial fights were just me having an OP Axis fighter xD

In the current 2.0 - 3.0 bracket I unlocked the 2.7 Typhoon.... it's been a rough experience. I didn't get a single kill yet. The biggest advantage of Typhoon is its engine but the fighter is pretty heavy, it needs time to get into the air and kinda it was hard to quickly adjust the fire, when I managed to hit someone - it was just a 7mm smack...

To unlock modifications, I tried to hunt some Survilance, Attacker or Bomber planes but I kept only smacking them with 7mms without much effect, sometimes after long time of falling down with smoke and no tail control, they got destroyed finally uhhh.... but I found it impossible to actually hunt down a nimble fighter who realised he's attacked by getting hit with 7mms, he'd just quickly do some shakey maneveur, he's gone and it's me who has to get away =,=

.. and with horror I found out that Axis enemies can keep up to me to smack me out of somewhere I cannot see out of the Typhoon's cockpit, so these high-speed dive-aways weren't always succesful, I had way more success previously in 3.0 Ki-44-II.

I bought the premium French 2.7 P40 Lafayette because of the recent sale and I see it being the most similar to Axis planes - good acceleration and can reach a good speed relatively fast and has a good maneveuriblity.

Now I remember a lot of the Allied pilots flew these P-40s and I remember being hunted by them, now I see why. But I feel I don't really know how to use this fighter.
I feel it would have a great potential in these energy maneveurs that Allied aces were always doing but all I can do is just usually diving away from my enemies, at least its performance was good enough for it that I was able to sometimes escape but not here on 3.0, I didn't escape in such an outstanding manner as I would do in Ki-44-II which I always flied on 3.0... and I didn't control P40 in the best manner, it flied a bit weird for me and I couldnt shoot anyone well enough resulting in me not getting any kills aswell, while in my team there were P40s doing fine amount of frags.
And about its guns - the Japanese 12mms felt more like cannons and these .50 cals are more like Machine Guns... but to give them some credit, Italian 12mm belts also have these exploding rounds but actually, I remember I couldnt destroy anyone with them and I was still doing better with the .50cals xD But it's also maybe about the amount, Italian mixing 12mms with 7mms doesnt feel great, you often miss the 12mms and hit with 7mm and you feel like you don't do damage, thats how it felt on mixed caliber Japanese planes too thats why shooting with them started to feel good only when they Japs started using 4x12mms on their planes instead of pew-pew 7mms, only German 7mms feel good honestly xD

Though, I will try flying this P.40 in future on 1.7 - 2.7 because I had some French airplanes unlocked by flying MSC 405 on 1.7 & 2.0 tiers as some time ago it was one of the rare fighters that had a cannon on T1 EC. I will try unlocking out of curiosity this French 3.3 M.B.157 as it's presented being a big engine fighter, I gotta try it out despite it propably (well, not hard to quess) being a pre-war french technology xD

So my experience so far was a rather horrible one + obviously flying without modifications made it worse but I kept flying Typhoon doing zones + missions and I unlocked the 3.0 Spitfire with 20 mm cannons.. at least it was some hope that I'll be able to destroy someone finally.

Well, I don't know if it's the default belt but I entered the match in the newly acquired Spitfire and I tried pounding one played-controlled Soviet attacker and one Japanese bomber.
I rate the cannons effectiveness around perhaps slightly worse than the Japanese 12mm Air Target belt.... I didnt destroy both targets honestly and I quickly ran out of rounds. After using all of my cannon rounds again, I managed to smack a Survi plane down but I didn't explode it immadiately like I sometimes did with other cannons, it had to fall down the sky in smoke.
I was used to 20mms just exploding people's wings or engines with one to two hits, maybe its these default belts of Hispano Suiza didnt have enough explosive power or something lol.

I wanted to use Spitfire to join the unusual (for me) experience of furballs instead of flying somewhere high and often missing the main action, going for dives then overshoting and then again and again resulting in not the best amount of frags, often close to zero xD But hey, at least I was flying safe XD
The match I entered though, there weren't enough players for a proper furball (not enough allied players).

So I've done what always annoys me when Im flying around 2K, its all the furballs being at 200-400m when Im too high to often spot them and I dont know where people are, often thinking enemies are somewhere else when in reality, there are heroic fights just below me xD And I see - Cover me (200m) from team members and it's - Oh right, I gotta get down.
So this time I flied at veeery low alt myself, the ground level and it kinda worked because propably just like me in the past, a lot of Bf-109s above me simply didn't see me and I flied around the zone with entire German team above me XD

The one thing that bothered me in Spitfire aswell was that the nose was going up in a very notable manner so I had to adjust the Pitch to a rather large -17% and I wondered if it didnt affect my Turnfighting ability when I'd be flying sideways and Pitching up (that has the mentioned -19% set), I wonder if it doesn't worsen my Turning ability.

Too bad that Soviets are always with Axis because they have a fun-looking 3.0 Hurricane with a good Soviet armament and it looks like this Soviet premium is a better Hurricane model than the GB's one + its turn on the stat sheet is also very good, it shows 15s.
I remember flying a Swedish 2.0 Hurricane and it was pretty OK so I wondere how this one would have been but it'd be kinda pointless to get it because the main point was to join Allies to fight against more active Soviets + Axis teams.
But at least the Soviet 20mms exploded stuff on its default belt as I remember because I had some of them unlocked from my Arcane/RB times. When I tried them in SB, I didnt know how to fly the YAK at all but the LAGG was pleasent enough, I mean I've checked the recently downtiered 2.0 LaGG and it's a great 2.0 fighter haha xD
About the Soviet cannons, it's pretty weird because they shouldn't be that good, irl it was a half-measure, basically it was if someone took the 12mm design and upgraded it to 20mm and just called it a 20mm cannon - guns done like this didn't have the best destructive power, I mean an upgraded machine gun wasn't the best "cannon" out there. I heard in reality they weren't doing as much damage as other ones, it wasn't the best Soviet design and I also remember there was some drama about it, propably involving the communist party as always in these soviet "dramas"....

But I quess making them more "realistic" wouldn't make sense balancing-wise because Soviet planes are literally made around their cannon xD

So, at least when all factions are mixed up, on 3.0 I can fly my favourite Ki-44-II because I'm not only fighting against poor Allies but against everyone XD Or in Fw190A-1 on 3.3.
I could kinda still fly Axis without this feeling if Soviets were my enemies so I'll perhaps again create rooms I tried to before where Axis is on its own in 2.0 - 3.0 and Allies have Soviets in the team.. maybe if I wait for a bit more and I'll get enough players to start :P

Eh, I also remember a fun plane being at I think either 3.0 or 3.3, it was XP-50, it has this amazing silver high-tech look and it's a small plane with 2 engines, I dont know how it flies but I quess it was very fast.. but now I see, it got up-tiered to 4.0 on SB lol... I think I would buy it with this sale if not this XD

I know there's XP-55 but oh boy, I remember enemy players scoring 25 kills with these, I remember it mostly when brackets weren't moving and T2 was just up to 3.3 and I tried to destroy these when it was doing weird alien-like maneveurs and evading everything, first of all its so expensive and second, I wouldnt be able to play like these guys so I feel like I'd waste its potential

Cheers, I hope you liked my story of suffering XD

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