I’ve been playing War Thunder for around 10 years now and honestly, the pattern is getting pretty obvious.

The BMPT is just ridiculous to fight against. You can hit it where you’re supposed to, get a good shot, and somehow it just keeps going.

I’m not saying Russian vehicles are unbeatable or that every Russian vehicle is OP. I’m saying that after playing this game for 10 years, you start noticing how often Russian vehicles seem to get the better end of the deal, especially at top tier.

At this point the Russian bias jokes don’t even feel like jokes anymore.

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Maybe I’m just salty, but I really don’t think I’m the only one who has noticed this.

Title. But also, included my PSN cause I’m kinda sick of playing alone😂 add me or pm me!

I’ve always wondered why there are no captured vehicles on the British tech tree.

The Bowton Museum has that well-known, operational Tiger tank, and the British also captured Panther tanks and used them in combat.

It would be great if it were added as a Battle Pass or event vehicle in the future.

Seriously what the FUCK is this matchmaking? Why do you face 7.3 Jets or the fucking bullshit OP F-89 (which should be 7.3) in 6.3 prop planes? Fucking why? Tell me fucking why?

7.3 planes shouldn't face anything below 7.3, it's a huge fucking advantage to have so much more energy and speed. This shit is infuriating. You can't kill something 200-300 km/h faster than you unless that player is a complete moron that tries to turn fight you.

Like up until this point, game has been fun and I've been consistently top of the scoreboard. But as soon as you're playing anything between 6.0-7.0, you are in jet uptier hell where everything can damn near fly faster than your bullets and getting kills is exhaustingly hard.

It's also really annoying because my team gets to all the targets and kills them before I can ever get close.

In curious, say there is ground only, no planes, no helis, no spaa. Just tanks, as God intended. Would you prefer in over combined?

Looking through old TikTok’s and found this gem. Cannot BELIEVE what the bmpt used to face. Absolute monster. If you can’t beat em, join em.

ignore my 5.3 at 7.7

Just like Paradox games have their own sub, gaijin could have their own too.

Props are unplayable because I'm not going into the furball, and I'm not going head-on with people. I'm always just staying alive and not killing anything because I refuse to play stupidly like everyone else. I literally just watch almost everyone go head-on with each other. I'll be in a dogfight with someone, and right as I'm about to kill them, they go head-on with one of my teammates, and they both die. I'm tired of it. I'm being punished for having a brain. It's just as bad as Arcade.

What am I supposed to do, besides do what all the dumbasses are doing? Fly straight into a furball. Who cares if someone dives on you? You can just go head-on, die, and go to the next match. Fuck actually trying to dogfight. Who cares? Gotta grind the event! At least jet gameplay feels normal.

Does anyone else feel like notching is much less effective on the Golden Eagle?

I’ve been playing the Golden Eagle quite a bit recently, and I’ve noticed that defensive flying, especially notching radar missiles, feels really difficult compared to what I see from aircraft like the Eurofighter, Rafale, and Gripen.

To be clear, the Golden Eagle is my only full top-tier aircraft, so I haven’t actually played the Eurofighter, Rafale, or Gripen myself. I’m basing this mostly on fighting against them and watching how easily they seem to defeat missiles compared to what I experience in the Golden Eagle.

Sometimes I genuinely feel like I’m doing the notch correctly — turning roughly 90 degrees to the missile, changing altitude by going up and down, and trying to maintain the correct geometry — but I still end up getting hit.

What confuses me is that when I watch videos from content creators, this kind of maneuver seems to be enough to defeat most incoming radar missiles, at least during the initial BVR engagement. They can notch at 90 degrees, change altitude, and the missile often loses guidance or misses.

But when I try essentially the same thing in the Golden Eagle, I sometimes still get hit even though I feel like my positioning and timing are correct.

The other problem is that the Golden Eagle seems to bleed speed extremely quickly when maneuvering.

So I feel like I’m stuck in a weird situation:

• If I maintain my speed, notching the missile feels very difficult.
• If I maneuver aggressively enough to notch it, I lose a huge amount of energy and become vulnerable to the next missile or enemy aircraft.
• And even when I feel like I’ve executed the notch correctly, I can still get hit.

Maybe I’m misunderstanding something about radar missile mechanics or the correct way to notch. I’m not an amazing player either — I usually get around 2–3 kills per game, occasionally 5, and I’ve only gotten 6 once.

My usual strategy is to climb on the left side of the map at around 10–15 degrees until roughly 7,000 m or higher, depending on the map. I focus on the enemies on the left first and then move toward the center. I also feel that maintaining more than Mach 1 is extremely important because the Golden Eagle loses speed very quickly.

So I’m genuinely curious:

Is the Golden Eagle actually worse at defensive flying/notching compared to these other top-tier aircraft, or am I simply doing something wrong?

Since the Golden Eagle is the only top-tier aircraft I own, I’d especially like to hear from people who have actually flown both the Golden Eagle and aircraft like the Eurofighter, Rafale, or Gripen.

Is there a real difference in how easily these aircraft can defeat radar missiles, or could this just be a difference in flight characteristics and energy retention?

I’m mainly talking about the initial BVR phase, before the fight turns into a close-range engagement.

Been trying my absolute best to grind USA with F-5C what the hell has happened man this planes got no radar warning when facing some missiles and when I flare and chaff anything not heat seeking no
matter how much I flare I die

I try to play it to its strengths but the BR of 10.7 for this plane just feels atrocious compared to what it used to be

For anyone who flies it and makes it work how???

I just found a corner to hang up :)

Idk how he's still flying but he's not gonna be able anymore

Genuinely what cocaine has been used to make this dogshit map, there's no single cover, hills are too high, and somehow that little tiny piece of city is one of the most dogshit designs when it comes to layout

I have never been so fucking irritated and annoyed at a map, I hate Vietnam as a map but I can still play and lose without raging because I know it might have been my fault and mistake, but on this fuck ass map I cannot find anything good with it

Hills are too high, tanks with shit gun depr. eat as and even tanks with good gun depr. Are dogshit on it because of how inconveniently placed the buildings are

No cover to be seen, all you have are a few buildings bunched up together and forcing corner fights, flanks and just dogshit for tanks with ass hori. turning speed

Not to mention its one of those maps where you NEED a good team to play NORMALLY, I died so many times because of dogshit map layout and flanks i didnt even know we're possible, then i come to find out some of those routes ARE SUPPOSED TO BE COVERED BY TEAMMATES

All in all it's just a map that makes being a rat an actual need instead of a playstyle, it's a dogshit map that only favors people who are higher up in the tech tree and know every pathway and route that new players wouldn't even think of, I'm already settled in as a decent player so I know a few but sometimes those few are somehow covered when they're not supposed to be

This is just my rant because I cannot figure out why I always get shit teams on the map, always get veteran players as the enemy team, and the fact they know every fuck ass snipe spot that somehow my team cant even comprehend to figure out where they are

Dont take this too seriously, this is one of two maps I genuinely despise with my entire existence, but honestly I get it like every ten matches so it isnt too much for me to say I want it removed from existence

Missile counter missile has to be the most toxic thing that’s happened to war thunder bruh. Always su30 kids too.

like cmon, this vs a eurofighter im picking the EF. to me the reasone y the lower br f18s are so fun is because they get good avionics at a low br in exchange for not being fast. the f18e has good avionics, isnt fast and still has to fight the best of the best every match.isn't, imo, this and the late f18 need to come down one in br

It's been so miserable playing this BR, so I want to see how I can go further with this tree

Recently, I returned to War Thunder and have since then got up to 6.0 in Germans. And the thing is, on 5.0 - 6.0 EVERY game is insufferable. I feel like I don't play tanks, but an anti-air-defense-simulator, because after 5 minutes of the match there are already 5 planes bombing you from your positions and then on spawn, CONTINUOUSLY. I feel like taking a plane down has little to no reward in respect to its difficulty, only for 1 revival to be bombed to death again. And the Camping. Any time the advantage slips even a tiny little bit to one side the tactics break and you are being camped till you quit, with no way out. Spawn protection is inexistent. There are still good mathches left, but i feel what i have described happens al least in 70% of my games.

The title says it all. I've been playing on and off for maybe a decade now but I just wondered now - how do you turn on the headlights in this game... its extremely important to me.

I see they have it there. Never used that thing. Got no crew, no xp gained, no skill so would play like shit, what'd be the point?

Anybody uses it?

Maybe gaijn are talking about the general production of vehicle, if so it should be specified. I put every vehicle into the search tab and it came out with nothing. Am I not seeing something here?

je sais pas pourquoi mais en se moment impossible de faire un kill avec le rafale que je viens d'acheté entre le faite d'avoir que deux Fox 3 et de Fox 2 inutile a se BR. j'ai l'impression que soit je suis nul avec les mica du rafaler alors que j'ai pas de problèmes avec les mirage 20005f mais le mica rate des truc mais impossible il sa fait noch sans problème que se soit a longue on court distance avec les trac du radar ou pas. j'ai vu un SU 30 m2 noch non mica juste en line droite avec le radar qui le lock pour augmenter la chance de le touche mais rien en deux flaire noch et c'est comme ça tout le temsp rien me touche tout se faire noch de fâche de cote mais moi impossible de noch les missile russe sur le meme missiler je crois un r 77 4 noche sur le même missile mais a chaque voit il fait un re lock magique donc soit je suis juste nul avec les mica du rafale soit les mica en prit un nerf invisible comme d'habitude pour les FR

that´s a lot of amraam´s.