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Survivor award requires you to get more kills than any other players of both teams. You need at least 5 kills and have to survive the battle (you can't die). This is my favorite award in the game.🤗

@@_Poul_ mean is it rare?

@@Warfield_vrc Yeah, it's pretty rare. I always love to see this award.

If you angle it properly, then yeah, the armor can work surprisingly well. I also like this tank a lot, it's pretty easy to play and I often have a good results with it. I usually judge vehicles this way: how easy it is for me to get good result with it. If I can repeat good results often, then the vehicle is good.

@@_Poul_ Haha that's a good standard! You'll probably love the KV-1E/B then lol, even a noob like me can get decent results with the KV-1E.

I know what you mean, but with how the game is set, you will never face only enemies at your BR. It will always be a range from one BR to another BR. That's just how War Thunder matchmaker is set. It doesn't even try to make a battle at the very same BR. In this plane, when I faced planes at higher BRs I simply couldn't do anything. This plane doesn't even have countermeasures, and AIM-9Bs are very easy to dodge or flare for higher BR enemies. I had a lot of bad games with the F4D-1, when the matchmaker decided to put 10.0 BR planes against me, and this is surprisingly common situation because of premiums. There are planes that can work even in uptiers. But for me, the F4D-1 is not one of them. And I tried to state this fact with the limited space in the title of this video. Originally I wanted to write "only works in downtiers", but no space for that.

Thank you! I'm an Arcade player, and I switched to Air Realistic only to progress in the event. Because of the event multipliers, it's easier to do the event in Air Realistic than Air Arcade for me. I don't think the multipliers and the score should work this way, but it is how it is.

Thanks! This plane seems easy to play and I had a few good results with it. I worry about everything, because I'm a new player in Realistic and jets. I normally prefer propellers in Air Arcade, where I have more fun. But for the Air event I switched to Air Realistic, because I can complete the event quicker there.

@@_Poul_ I see! And I need to agree that low tier arcade is definitely fun. Well good luck on the event!! 🫡

@@Artemis-VIP The event is already done, but thank you! It was my first event fully completed in Realistic. And it worked surprisingly well, and I even spaded a few planes.😄

Well, I played Air Realistic, because it's easier to progress in the Air event in this mode. You don't really have to do much in Air Realistic, and your score and especially RP is amazing for very little actions. It's also not as hard to play Realistic as I thought it will be. I heard many times before how "easy" Arcade is, and how "hard" Realistic is. I don't see this to be honest. Often it's even easier to get the 1st place in Realistic than Arcade, at least for me. I still have more fun in Arcade, so I will surely prefer this mode. But maybe I will play Air Realistic more in the future, we will see. It's not that bad, maybe a bit boring for most of the battle, but it's playable. I had a bit of fun in some Air Realistic battles. The biggest problem is, I don't have experience here, so I often break my wings when turning and do silly things, because I don't know what is possible and what isn't. I also usually avoid 1v1s, because I have no idea how to dogfight in Air Realistic and jets. But I don't think this is unusual for a new player.

@@_Poul_ not readin that

Hello and welcome!

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I think most players just don't enjoy playing SPAAs. In some battles, for the most part of the battle you don't do anything with the SPAA. Especially after the recent changes to Ground Arcade, you have much less planes spawning in the air. Also the rewards for the SPAA are pretty bad currently. If you want to complete an event, it's simply better to play a regular tank.

That would be a good idea, if not the fact I don't have any fighter like that. I normally don't play jets and I normally don't play Realistic game mode. So I'm pretty much a newbie here. And I don't even have late jets from the tech tree. I only play squadron and event jet planes I own for now. Maybe some day I will grind jets, we will see. From my perspective, the R60MK is the best missile I tried so far. I simply love this missile. It's extremely easy to use and forgives many of the mistakes I make as a new player. This is one of the main reasons why I like this plane so much. And even as a new player I can progress in the event quickly with this plane. BTW: I play Air Realistic, because I don't like jets in Air Arcade. I spaded all propellers in the game in Air Arcade, but I'm not playing jets there, because they are very chaotic and just too fast for my taste. Jets are definitely funnier in Realistic, but I seriously hate a few things about battles there. Especially the fact you can break your wings in many planes by turning too sharp at high speeds - that's simply not fun. The Su-22M3 is very forgiving with easy flight model, so I don't have this problem. That's surely another reason why I like this plane so much.

@@_Poul_ well air RB is so much fun in higher tiers because of the relative fast pace gameplay, and also one kill feels like victory and 3 kills make you look like a god for a second, it is so much fun I recommend you try it more.

@@mazenemad2083 I agree it can be fun, and I see this in some of my battles. The problem is, as a new Air Realistic player, it's really hard to understand some things. I'm especially bad in dogfighting, I just don't feel this in Realistic and jets. Because of that I die a lot, often without any kills, and this can be frustrating. But I understand it's just part of the learning process. Like you said, I'm even happy when I get 1 kill in Air Realistic. From the other hand, in Air Arcade 1 kill is nothing.

In the settings controls, in the common area if i dont tell bullshits You should find « activation of the camera control by mouse » And place it on your C key on your keyboard And your ready, have a good day

I just use the C key to look around. I control the plane with WSAD keys, so when I turn I usually hold the S key, and then look around with the C key (while holding the S key whole the time). It's not that hard to learn this, it will just feel strange at the beginning, but you will learn this method for sure.🙂 You can use the Test Flight to practice this. PS: When you start turning and keep holding the S key, you can also just look around with your mouse, without the C key.

Oh, because not everyone uses QWERTY keyboard layout, my keys are set like that: W, S = Pitch axis A, D = Roll axis C = Mouse look activation

Because I couldn't reach the bases before enemies got close. I could of course drop all the bombs, but this doesn't guarantee you will be able to outmaneuver enemies anyway. I'm playing with a stock vehicle, so my turn time, acceleration and speed is not the greatest. I can't really do much to avoid them, I can only try and hope they will miss their shots. And if I manage to do that, I want to have these bombs, because they are the easy score for me. My chance to get a good score from bases and ground units is higher than from dogfights, especially in this plane. So I'm basically risking a bit more, because I don't want to get rid of that potential score. And you can see it worked very well at least in this battle.

@@_Poul_ Yes, stock grinding can be very painful.

The reload speed is simply a way to balance this vehicle. But yeah, it's crazy you can literally replace a broken barrel faster than reload the gun in this tank.😄

@@_Poul_ Yep, it's painful shooting someone's track and actually having them repair and run away before you can shoot them again.

Wow, you have a very good eye! I had to check this time a few times to notice him. I thought he was above me, I didn't expect him so low and so far from me.

I don't think this Vautour will be good for SL farming. Maybe try the tech tree version first and see how effective you can be with it? In Air Realistic the biggest problem of this plane is that you start at the airfield, and you are so slow, that before you reach enemy bases, all of them will usually be destroyed already by your teammates with much faster planes. In Air Arcade as you said, you definitely need to have some luck in the battle to survive. And sometimes it's hard to even reach the base, if enemies decide to split, go to sides and block you. So I don't really recommend this Vautour, it's better to keep your money than buy it, try it, see how bad it is and never touch it again. Maybe some day the devs will give it air spawn back, so it will at least have some use in Air Realistic. But right now it's pretty much a useless plane.

@@_Poul_ There's also the fact the IIN is the Vautour variant that was designed as a heavy interceptor, it's why in-game it has AA.20 Nord missiles. It's such a big aircraft though, it doesn't have the agility to go after fighters unless it's boom-n-zoom ambushes. And even then, the Nord is a manually guided missile, it seems reliable only at short range against targets that are not maneuvering.

It works fine in Air Arcade, but you have to remember in Arcade the most important skill is the ability to read the situation and predict where the enemies will go. You definitely don't want to go where plenty of enemy planes are heading, they will kill you for sure. This Vautour is still a bad plane, even in Air Arcade. I normally don't play jets in Air Arcade, so I'm not sure is it better to stay high or low here with jets. I only played a few Air Arcade battles with this Vautour and my results were better here than in Air Realistic. I'm not sure if that's because I just suck in Air Realistic or because I know Air Arcade better. After all, I spaded all propeller bombers in the game in Air Arcade. That's a huge experience that definitely makes playing bombers here easier for me.

Well, in most battles I played with that Kfir C.2 I simply died without doing anything. And it's not even my awareness issue, it's more that I don't know how to avoid missiles. Especially radar guided missiles at high BRs. I watched some videos on YT how to do that, but when I try to repeat the move it usually doesn't work for me. And it's really annoying when you have like 5 battles in a row where you just die and you don't even know what you did wrong. I wish War Thunder had some training mode, where you can learn how to avoid different missiles shot from different angles. Learning in battles is really not easy, at least for me. IR guided missiles are not as much of a problem, as flares are usually very effective against them. With the radar guided missiles I have huge issues, they very often completely ignore chaff. I also don't know which planes use which missiles and so on. There are just a lot of problems, when you play as a newbie. This battle here was one of my best battles with the Kfir C.2, but it was still nothing special. That's why I chosen this video title, it's more about my personal struggle to play at this BR.

Hey! Thanks for the recommendation. I will definitely check this guy. I watched some Air Realistic videos from Defyn recently, but everything he does looks so easy, and when I try to repeat something, it just doesn't work for me.😄 I have to say though, I only play Air Realistic and jets because of the current event. So I'm trying to learn something, exp some planes and progress in the event at same time. Normally, I'm an Arcade player and I prefer Arcade, because I have more fun there. But I don't like jets in Air Arcade, they are too fast and battles with jets are too chaotic. I could just play propellers in Air Arcade to get the event done of course, but I have all propellers in the game already spaded. So playing jets in Realistic gives me the RP for vehicles on top of the event progress. I think this attitude makes sense, but it's pretty hard for a newbie to get any good battles with jets, especially I normally don't even play Realistic. Anyway, thank you one more time for your comment. Have fun in the game!

@@_Poul_ Happy to help. That's why I recommended this channel to you. You already know the basics (moves, tricks, mind games) within the chaos of arcade battles, so it's just a matter of modifying the recipe according to the RB environment. Watching Defyn pays off in the long run. You'll suddenly find yourself applying his methods 6-8 months down the line. At least that is how it worked with me. Jet RB is all about positioning. You need to strike a balance between staying away from the main action (never be the 1st guy the enemy sees) and staying near enough (so that you can help clean up distracted enemies) at the same time. If you fail to do the 1st, you'll die early. And if you fail to do the 2nd you'll find yourself 1v7 cuz your team died and now the match is over. I am sure you'll learn very quickly. It's just a mixture of aggression, tactical positioning, and situational awareness. Good luck ... 👍🏼 🤞🏼

Oh come on, I only killed 16, and my teammates actually stole 6 more kills!🤪 No, I'm joking about stealing kills. I'm an Arcade player, I don't really pay too much attention to this kind of things.😈

Yup, it's just not a good tank overall. Maybe you can count decent armor as an advantage, but even the armor is not that great and can be penetrated. I wish the flamethrower was more effective especially against light vehicles. With how it works, MG is a much better option anyway.

Yeah, that's the problem. I can't call HEAT a useless shell, but APDS shells are so much better at this BR, and some vehicles already have APFSDS shells here. I don't mind bad armor, especially when you have the mobility. But bad shell is definitely a big problem.

Imo, many Russian tank destroyers are good. With the Object 268 you can go to the front line. You just have to avoid enemies with HEAT and stronger APDS shells and you should be fine. Tanking shots also means additional score, and I played this vehicle during the event.😉

Not only the most, but also at least 12 kills. There were challenges in the past and there are some tasks that require to get this award. This award is definitely not easy to get.

@@_Poul_ I just need this achievement to get my hands on the platinum trophy 😭 any tips?

@@_Poul_ just this achievement in my way to platinum🥲

@@makozen3457 You need a plane with good guns that can kill enemies quickly. It's also better to do this on lower BRs. That's why This Sakeen works so well for me, it's a relatively low BR plane with very good guns. It doesn't turn very well, so you should avoid 1v1 situations with it. It's better to stay behind and above your teammates and attack enemies that decided to attack your teammates. Overall getting 12 kills isn't easy. I would recommend to just wait for the next Air Event (it starts in 4 days) and then just play the game normally, just with good planes/lineups. There is a chance you will get the Hero of the Sky award without even thinking about it. When you focus on this specific award only, it can be hard to get it, because you will be frustrated every time you die or you will be close to 12 kills and the battle end. So instead just focus on the event progression.

​@@makozen3457 Good luck!🤞

In Air Arcade or Air Realistic? Also with jets or propellers? Assuming you are talking about Air Realistic and jets, I don't have the experience with jet bombers (I only played S.O. 4050 Vautour IIN and without an air spawn imo it's absolutely useless), but strike aircraft seems to be fine. I had a lot of fun with this Jaguar E. But I don't have much experience with jets.

@@_Poul_ Sorry, I forgot some details. I meant both Arcade and Realistic, with jets. Sad to hear the Vautour is bad, will look elsewhere if I want to buy a premium jet.

@@pihip I normally don't play jets in Air Arcade, but base bombing is a very good way to get RP in Arcade. It's only a question, can you avoid enemy fighters? And for that question I have no answer, because I simply don't have enough experience there. I know it's possible to get good battles there with base bombing, because I tried this and had one amazing battle: ruclips.net/video/CAcPWkZD9pQ/видео.html But I really can't say how often you can get such battle. For the RP, Air Realistic seems to be a better option, and it's much easier to avoid enemies there. Keep in mind in Air Arcade everyone see you from 11-12 km. In Air Realistic only from 6 km, so you can actually hide there if you fly wide enough.

@@_Poul_ The spotting thing is what worries me. I know bombing ground targets and bases provides relaxed gameplay and pays reasonably well but from (brief) experience at low Ranks one has to be lucky not to be chased by fighters, and flying low and using terrain as cover sometimes is not enough (tldr it feels like a feast-or-famine experience).

@@pihip With the base bombing there will always be luck involved in both game modes. You fight not only with enemies, but also with teammates. When I played Vautour, my teammates were actually the biggest problem. Before I could even reach any base, in most battles I played all enemy bases were already destroyed. Usually by teammates, who played with very fast fighters with bombs. I don't know why the devs removed air spawn for bombers at high ranks in Air Realistic, but this made Vautour completely useless. It's just too slow and it has no chance to reach the base in any reasonable time. It's also very easy target for enemy fighters. It definitely makes more sense to just use fast fighter or strike aircraft with good bomb load.

I tried Ground Realistic a few times, and I'm pretty bad there. Without markers, I have problems with spotting enemies, especially when they are standing still. I also play with speakers, I don't like headphones, so for me it's really hard to locate enemies by the sound of their engines. I also find Ground Realistic a very stressful experience, but that's probably because I just don't play it normally. So I feel like there is an enemy behind every corner, and it's just not a pleasant experience. For these reasons I try to avoid Ground Realistic. From what I know the RP difference between Ground Arcade and Ground Realistic is not that huge (like in Air battles), it should be something around 50% more RP in Ground Realistic. But yeah, battles there are longer, so you can often get more RP for battle time. I don't like the fact that Ground Arcade players are punished only because battles are shorter in this mode. In my opinion this doesn't make sense and it's not fair.

Thank you, but I'm definitely not the best. I only upload my better battles here, that's all. I wish more players did this to be honest, because this is a good way to learn things like how to position yourself, how to aim, how to behave in different situations and so on. And I'm trying to learn too, I always watch my battles before uploading them just to see what I did right and wrong. This is how I improve, and it's definitely working for me. This doesn't mean I do everything right, and I feel there is huge room for improvement for me, especially in Ground battles. It's the hardest game mode for me, especially I have to remember all the weak spots in this mode (which I'm not very good at). For me it's much easier to play Air Arcade or Naval Arcade.

Yeah, I'm pretty sure they will soon move it there, based on stats.😄 I don't know if you saw, but the Ki-84 hei already is at 7.7 BR in Air Arcade, which is a joke. It faces proper jets at this BR. First jets with missiles are not much higher (Sea Vixen is at 8.0 BR!). Balancing by stats sometimes fails completely.😒

Yeah, the effectiveness of APDS mostly depends from the caliber of the round (which hugely affects post-pen damage) and angled penetration. For example, the Strv 81 has relatively poor APDS, because it's a lower caliber gun (83 mm) with not the greatest angled penetration (107 mm at 60 degrees from 10 meters). But if you look at something like the Magach 3 (ERA), it uses much better APDS with higher caliber gun (105 mm) and much better angled penetration (134 mm at 60 degrees from 10 meters). For me, the Strv 81 is poor and not enjoyable to play at 7.7 BR, but the Magach 3 (ERA) is actually pretty good at 8.0 BR. So it really depends a lot from the round. Some APDS rounds are actually good, but most of them aren't. I usually don't like APDS on guns with a lower caliber than 100 mm.

@@_Poul_ yeah the russian 100mm and the 105mm apds are good, but with the Strv 81 you dont even need to shoot in a full uptier against anything 8.0+ when not using apds. The apcbc is the better round but the tank is too slow for flanking so it can't shine mostly. Had a few good Games and against Tanks that arent Armor monsters the apcbc is just devastating and a almost oneshot garantee

I like the KV-2 to be honest. Playing this vehicle is quite a unique experience. The only big problem is the very long reload time of the gun.

Yeah, but to be fair, many SPAAs at this and lower BRs are like that. And most of them have worse guns.😉

@@_Poul_ BTW, love what you're doing, keep it up. Fun to see AB.

@@joelamb9540 Thank you! To be honest, I only upload my better battles here. Everyone can do that. I like Arcade the most, for me it's funnier than Realistic.

​@@_Poul_ I don't have the eyes, ears or reactions to play/enjoy realistic.

Yeah, that's a very good point.👍

What do you mean? The video with the SKR-1? I already have a few SKR-1 videos on my channel: ruclips.net/video/pkS9L36ueqY/видео.html ruclips.net/video/c3QYYw9KIo0/видео.html ruclips.net/video/V5W2Pbo2qjU/видео.html ruclips.net/video/4RFavabVQQY/видео.html

If you want to grind the event in rank 1 and 2 vehicles, they have to be tagged as "event vehicles". Such vehicles have golden text "Event vehicle" written on their stats card.

@@_Poul_ So in this case my BT-7A is the only low tier vehicle I can use to grind out the event.

@@andsoiderparound9909 Yes, but at 3.7 BR you can already find some rank 3 vehicles that can be used for the event anyway. For example, in the Japanese tech tree, you can crate a rank 3 lineup with BR 3.3 vehicles. You can also do the same with the Italy, France and Sweden (3.3 - 3.7 BR rank 3 lineups).

Yup, I see this from time to time. I played some battles in Air Realistic this year, and I saw there teammates who decided to team kill a few players at the airfield "for fun". I completely don't understand how you can have any fun doing this.

A long time ago, all radars were working perfectly fine in the game and didn't really have any problems. The devs decided to change that, and I suspect it's related to realism. But I don't know how accurate radars are in reality and if what we see in the game is realistic or not. I sometimes see some weird things, like a perfectly visible plane on clear sky and my radar can't even follow it properly, which looks weird to me. Of course I know radar is not about optics, it's about radio waves. But we don't even have advanced "stealth" planes in the game yet and some radars are already very bad and not really doing their job. I guess that's how the devs decided to differentiate the "quality" of the radar.

Yeah, the talisman drop rate when you play with rank 1 premiums is crazy. I exped every rank 1 premium plane in the last month and I received at least 1 talisman in every nation. I think in total I got 14 talismans, just by exping (mark of distinction) rank 1 premiums! That's seriously crazy. BTW: The battle score counts for the event, not the RP.

Yeah I agree. I also played a few battles with the HEFI shells, and with their relatively low speed, they are really poor against fast-flying jets. This SPAA won't be any fun without HE-VT shells.

Yeah, of course not every player is like that. I just had this situation yesterday, so I uploaded it. It's a bit sad that I had a good start of this battle and it ended up like that, but it is how it is. I don't really play sim. I mean, I played some Ground Sim battles and it's definitely not a bad game mode. I just overall have more fun in Arcade.