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dogshit mode
catch my vikhr...
>>562187574t.
>>562034094
It's boring when everybody instantly leaves
)))))))))))))))))))))that entire match didnt even count
>play 40 minutes to get 13k rpbrilliant
>>562187749keeeeeek
>noooooooooo you can't enjoy things, you have to be a miserable fuck who hates everything and anything, your brain is lying to you!!!!lmao
why do i have this saved and what is this
This event sucks ass. What even is balance?
>PLEASE chimp out
>>562187971pinpoint
I think it's fun. Finally something where you can ground pound
>>562187971
>>562187912You would have gotten several times that amount by just chimping out in RB and head-on'ing the first person you see
>>562188020You can PvP without the match ending in 5 minutes too, it's so much better than ARB.
>recycle 40 items>game glitches out and just deletes themkek
so do they have a reason it's just america and russia beyond wanting people to pay or what
>>562188060doubt it, 400k (700 with premum) in an hour for just afk launching at retards is easy mode
This game mode would be more fun if the U.S. got F4's and the soveit side gets Mig23's at most for fighters. Fighting against F15's and 14's is horribly unbalancedYou also lose connection for some reason pretty frequently.
>>562188143>>562188153>finally join a match>connection to the server lost
>>562188163god forbid half the playerbase isnt forced into fodder vehicles
pity i dont care for (and suck at) jets past ~8.x because i do really like the bear/buff. coping for squadron variants i guessevent seems (as far as i can tell) fairly well set up, tweaking balancing is probably in order but they were changing the WW1 event on the fly too, so itll probably be 'finished' by the final stage
loving the event
>no join in progress for the eventcome on
Why can't I put harms on my f-16?
I try to hit things with GBU-8 on f-15 but they always miss even if the bomb should be "locked" on enemy
How do you test fly the bombers?
This gamemode is GREAT
my points aren't counting up in the achievements tab
Yeah I don't want to play this event.
>>562188903it's aight
This shit is stupid as hell.
>>562188981come on the megaton nuke it's too kino
in todays episode>airfags get to play air ec yet again but this time with three more explosion sprites>roughly 70% of the playerbase calls it shit >server hamster has been fucked to death
>fire HARM>intercepted by a billion SAMs>if all the SAMs are dead it's intercepted by shilkas and BMPsthey literally do not test anything ever, do they
>bongoloids crying in the devblog for their shit planeslmao
Is anyone getting matches?
>>562189250No.
>>562189250i just got oneit immediately booted me with PL77%it's dead jim
Do I need to keep a lock on TV bombs?
>>562189179Should've built better SHORAD.
>>562189250servers are dead as hell
>ARB faggots love this.>It's EC but retarded and ARB faggots genuinely love it.
>>562188912mine neither
>>562189326no
>>562189396Yeah I'm sure a basic-bitch team deathmatch without so much as respawns that's remained unchanged for 13 years is SOOOOOOOOOOOOOO much better.
Unleash megadeth over the F-14s with your MiG-29
>>562189396I'm one of the biggest ARB faggots and I HATE THIS SHITTY MODE WITH A BURNING PASSION FUCK YOU AND YOUR 3.0BR SWING YOU FUCKING BANAN NIGGERS
>>562189179AI controlled SPAAs are death machines and they refuse to fix it for some fucking reasonlove getting my ass raped by radarless SPAAs in helicopter PvE
>>562189506catch my fakour
>>562188319>>562188143did yo umake sure to check join in prog matches?
>>562189502Who said anything about TDM
Don't worry the second event is going to be greatRight?
I have decided that someone who doesn't have any actual planes can do this>pick f4>drop sparrows because nobody is going to above 100m>fire sidewinders to make people dodge and then gunfight them>get killed by SAMs until you get a nuke, at which point you can start playing the game
>>562189458How do I control the weird black and white camera I need to use to drop the bombs? It always points the wrong way and it is very hard to look for targets even if they are right in front of you
I'm stuck in the opration processing mines, send help.
>>562189396How is this worse than EC? It's its logical next step that's the same premise except better realized.>>562189571>balance = modebased retardYou could have this mode with normal BR balancing or Sim's rotating BR brackets.
>>562189396As a casfag I kinda like it
You can use zoom to see the target better.
>join event>flied forward a bit>rwr, hug the ground>got shot down by OSA-AKok
>https://warthunder.com/en/news/9760-event-deep-strike-attack-and-defend-important-infrastructure-en>Air War>As with the SEAD event, we’re using Deep Strike as a testing ground for ideas that we’re exploring in a new type of operation for World War Mode, called Aerial Warfare. In this event, players will only control aircraft (ground vehicles will be controlled by AI), and the focus will be on aerial combat and strategic objectives. We’ll tell you more about Aerial Warfare at a later date!
>>562189928the skill of american pilots
>>562189805>How is this worse than EC?Because of the RB pay to win spotting mechanic.
>leveling your crews is pay to winkeeeeeeek
>>562190115Meant for >>562190037
>>562190037>RB mode plays by RB game ruleswoah...also I'm sure dying out of nowhere and having absolutely zero idea what you're merging with until it's too late and the matchup is already decided is very fun (I play Sim and it's not, alongside the lack of mouse aim it's the worst aspect of the mode)
>>562189928>join event>look at the map>use my brain and spawn further back>watch as blueniggers drop from the sky like flies
>>562190224and how are you planning on killing anything from back there
I have no idea how to use ATG weapons
do you have to get the 7700 points in a single match to get all the points?
>6 min in queue reeee
This event is dog shit.
>>562190157no one tell him all the crews are aced
>>562190219It's more fun than getting dogpiled by 15 guys who spotted you visually from all directions across the map while you have zero indication that they're even there.
>>562190224>from the skyFor all intents and purposes I was walking on the ground.
played the eventits dogshiteverything respawnsthere are 20million spaas and every single one you kill just respawns
>>562189595im doing my best
>Nukes don't make any sound.
>>562190817>be deaf and retarded
>>562190573Only the pre-made ones?
Got no american planes past rank IVGot only two Russian planes for it. The 25 PD and the Khazak su-25 - both stock.How fucked am I?
>>562190953both work pretty well
>f14 with ARH allowed>f15 fine>not even the base su27 for vatniks???
>>562190948naturally yes
>>562190840>be genuinely autistic
>>562190592Spotting isn't magic, if you were spotted, that means you were near enemy units, be that players or bots. Also>15 guysThe engagements in this mode aren't anywhere near that big thanks to infinite respawns from multiple airfields spreading the players around the map fairly evenly.
>>562191008I'll give it a go again in a while. Mostly spent my first match getting my shit turned in by those Chinks in Iranian F-15s.
>>562191038NAFO safers o algo.
>>562191235F-14's*
>>562189572Same thing in naval, my lagg got raped by a japanese 75mm from 6.4km
>change one loadout>locked into infinite processing operationbravo
>>562191342just last thread someone was crying their barely flarable fox2s were not good at some niche method
>>562191634Are Chinese angry or the hamster is dead?
This is so fucking boring>a billion SPAA that shoots down anything you lob at them>at most you get 4 ARM's (shot down by said billion SPAA)>only get ARM's on shit platformsAre they retarded???It's not even worth my time to try and fight other players as there's so much SPAA the moment you lift your finger off the deck there's 8 missiles heading your way
>>562191814hamster is being abused right now
you get points for dying, all you need to do is die a lot
>>562191232That doesn't change the fact that I can be detected at twice the range that I can spot people.
Christ the chinkpard is a fucking death bubble once you unlock the AHEAD rounds
I can't log on.
>>562192181Use the website store to buy some golden eagles.
>>562192057IRST and AHEAD is a great combo. Shame it's no longer 8.3
kinda fucked that soviets can't use Su-27 when US can use F-15s and Fakors
>someone on YouTube makes a video about how Gaijin is secretly using Viking anti cheat to take screenshots and read your files while you play war thunder>Someone on the forums ask about it>That stone faggot immediately locks the thread and bans anyone else making a thread about it and admits that they are using Viking anti cheat, something they NEVER disclosed beforehttps://forum.warthunder.com/t/will-we-get-a-statement-about-this/316441Hmm
>>562192057AHEAD shells are good now? Last I checked people were crying they were borderline useless.
>>562192276good idea
Is that bad for pidors or the player count is bugged?
>>562192438They're also tracerless so castrannies have no clue I'm shooting at them, also the radar control screen gives you fucking aimbot>>562192648They're guetto HEVT but they're very, VERY good
>>562192824>literal hydrogen bomb (mutts) vs coughing baby (soviets) "balancing"gee i wonder
>>562192635I'm gonna be honest with you, I don't care. Anton could be fucking my wife and I'd still play war thunder.
>>562192648They were always good on the chinkpard due to the very high RoF
>historical matchmaking is bad when it doesn't favor me :^)
>>562193026it's because the soviet pilots are hydrogen bombs of humanity
>no Su-27>"""historical"""
>>562192824sovicucks are getting a taste of reality (they don't like it)
Can anyone get into a session?
>>562193203>1985>1974
>>562193026>1/10 expert crews
>>562193285So I take it you refuse to use flares or 9Ms on your F-15A?
>>562193392im using the iranian f14 dummy
>>562193450it's a shame i never bothered to spade it at launch because it's entirely and completely unplayable stock at 13.0
>>562192651I almost can't believe they're selling this utter shit for money, but then I remembered it's Gayjin.
>Click on a preset>"Processing operation"
>>562193530>2 fakours stock>>unplayable
>>562193605It gets 2 Phoenixes stock you retard
The hamster is REALLY dead
>>562193729yea my mistake, you are still launching them at people who dont have the chaff key bound in this gamemode
>>562193364Nigga I barely make ends meet as is. Such is life when you buy talismans instead of premiums.
>>562193605i wish it got fakours stock
>historicalNone of this actually happened.
TEC has shaved his beard, should have kept it though as it hid his chins.
>>562193803yeah that's a nice headcannon that doesn't happen everit's unspadeable in the current environment
TUPOLEV WON
Is Nuclear Option better than this?
comrad ivan is using hamster as cocksleeve please understand)))))))
PROCESS MY OPERATION ALREADY
>>562194131Than what?
>>562194131>no mouse aim>barely any planes>the planes that are there are gigasoulless made up nearfuturesloppaThis mode mogs it so hard it's not even funny.
>>562194128я им кoнкpeтный cлaвянcкий пpocтpeл cдeлaл
>>562193530Pretty spadeable in the even, though. Doing it right now. At least if you get good RP returns, my first match still hasn't ended. I get plenty of kills.
This event is so china coded. I've played 3 rounds and the top scorers are the chinksects that can stomach base bombing for hours.
>>562194125just play the gamemode and see
>>562194440I got first place without bombingjust kill everyone
I like how shit like the faggotrad and the osa doesn't care about shit like multipathingVery fun to play against AI units like that!
>>562194513They both fire IR missiles retard, no shit you can't multipath them.
Am I in the queue or not?
>>562193567Those two packs are a pretty good deal for the GE alone
>>562194603yes
>>562194592You are so goddamn retarded
>>562194131>half arsed joke event>early access since 2023idk man
>>562194685Why doesn't it show how many players are in the queue?
>>562194716Apparently yes, I heard "Osa" and thought about "Strela".
>>562194809Don't ask questions that are not in your best interest.
xaxaxaxaxa
>>562194512I can't. I'm playing russia. Even though I have an aced IRIAF with a 2.5k/dI either need to grind a new rank6 jet or get one trhough the event. After playing this garbage for an hour though I think it's just going to be quicker to grind the techtree
>>562194840Anyways neither the osa or the roland cares that you're glued to the deck to try and avoid it and all the long range sams in the distance
>>562194603Why are the RB battles locked now?
>>562194245>no mouse aimWhy???
>>562194995more questions will get you in trouble, little pidor
>>562194131Significantly. Better AI, better target variety, bombers that aren't just memes, helicopters, every plane actually matters and has a solid variety of loadouts
>>562195087Gaijin patented it. I'm not exactly sure how IL-2: Great Battles and Project Wingman got away with an almost exact copy of it though.
>>562194739You tell me because I can't see the joke
>>562195115Why is the-AAAAA MY KNEES AAAAAAAAA
Been stuck here since 5min
>>562195246Five more minutes.
>hooo you dont have iriaf or f15? too bad
Servers are down?
I joined a random game just to see if it's even possible and now I can't leave.
>>562195402don't worryif you remain inactiveyou'll be returned to menu
>>562195330It can't carry nukes so who cares?
>spend 17 minutes waiting for a game>Spawn>Allied bugman in f14 rams me and deletes my left wing
>>562195454The message is gone but I'm still here.
>>562195486Retard.
Do I want to grind for the bombers?
>>562194334Idk what you're smoking nigger it's unplayable garbage stock in the event too
>>562195643You want to delete the game and start a family.
>blue side>f-15, f-14, f-18, f-16>red side>mig-29, yak-141all shitting it uprestrict these BRs gaijinplease don't listen to evil chinks who want everyone to be powercrept into 14.3
>>562195942NATOtrannies:>haha very historical and actually balanced, that's how the matchmaker should've always been, eat shit vatnigs!also NATOtrannies:>wtf why can't i get into a match? queue up and be my target practice NOW!
>>562196154Holy brainrot.
>>562196154>>queue up and be my target practice NOW!
>>562195942I wanted to ask about that.You can't use SU-27/33 for it?How about MIG-25PD? I could cheese this soviet side with R-40
>never do planes because its for fags>april event is to get a free bomber which sounds fun>take off>fly for 5min>some missile kills me>fly for 5min again>die without ever seeing an enemy>rinse repeathow long will it take me to get the plane?
>>562194931maybe I got lucky but I got first place with a mig29 by r27ing everything that moves. I spawned the tu after getting 2500sp and waiting a little bit.
Very good
>>562196610The Yak-141 does this even better as it gets an actual radar with excellent angles instead of a microwave oven and a workable FM. Can also take more radar missiles, though they'll be shittier than the two ERs.
>>562195618Now try that in game
>>562196817I dont want to stock grind it
>>562196854No.
mode would be balanced better if it was limited to the prescribed planesPeople dropping in F-15s, MiG-29s and Su-33s kinda fucks it
>>562196595a death is ~20-40 point iirc7700 points per stage (twice if you want both planes)
>>562196524everything that isn't listed as "forbidden" in the battlerating bracket is allowed
why is the IRIAF in the american tree? it makes no senseit's like giving russia an ukranian abrams with the ukraine flag in the background
>>562196880>Su-33Both the Su-27 and the Su-33 are explicitly forbidden.
The two teams are just head butting in the middle of the map.
>>562196963because the iranians directly bought it from the americans
>>562196963>"it makes no sense" >proceeds to make an argument that it makes perfect sense
>>562195942i thougth this is suppose to be CAS/SEAD event?why are people playing it like ARB?
I don't think I can make it back
>>562197125>i thougth this is suppose to be CAS/SEAD event?You're thinking too small, it's a full-on evolution of EC as a whole, not a mere small-scale testbed for an inconsequential gimmick.
>>562197213why couldnt you nuke
>>562197309I did, and then landed
my favourite april fools event was not this one
>>562197370when I nuked I won the match
The F-14A IRAF is such a useless NIGGER plane stockWHO THOUGHT THIS SHOULD BE 13.0 WITH 2 FUCKING 9JS AND 2 FUCKING PHOENIXES??
>>562197437What did you bomb? I destroyed airfield one
>>562197054...which happened before the revolution, and the IRIAF was heavily modified by modern iran they should just move it to the russian tree instead
I shot so many RAD missileshow come it hasnt land onceam I suppose to go just fly rock and rocket again like in older SEAD mission?
>kill enemy>get 100 pointsare you fucking kidding mehow long do you have to grind this shit
>>562197125>why are people playing it like ARB?half the players are indians or other browns and don't understand the idea of tactically taking away the petals of defence so they just ARB
>>562197487the main base monte frio C9
>>562197503that makes no sense
can the fucking ai sams fuck off
>>562197608Oh, maybe I should've gone for that. Going for the forward one got me three air kills though, which was funny
>>562197565>if you bomb youre chinese>if you pvp youre indian or brown???
>neither osa nor flarak give any fucks about multipathing>and since they've got their radars folded on main they don't succumb to anti radiation missiles>and they will target them anywaycool
>>562197564go for ground targets like intended brown monkeyit's much better than deathmatching
>>562196914So it's gonna cost me a million silver to get the plane.Ye nah.
>>562197672you can kill them
>>562195723works on my machine
>>562197718oh buddy. just fly straight when you spawn the nuke carrier.I got 2 kills with the nuke because jets went after me
lol
oh come on
Fucking HARMs locking on every radar except the OSA right in front of me
>>562197898>wing repairHEY NIGGERI HAVE NOTHING BUT 2 FUCKING NIGGER9JS AND 2 NIGGER 54ASTHIS SHIT IS UNUSABLEEVERY RED NIGGERDOG IS SLAMMING R27ERS MY WAY
>>562198027russian bias
>>562198063>join a match>kill an osa or two>leave
>>562198189dumb mutt
>>562198228you're a mutt
>ALERTtoss bombing works because the AI can't target bombs like they can missiles or guided bombs because ???
MONEY
>US players>spawn in F-14/15 and just play ARB>RU players>have to spawn in their fighter to fight retardmutt cause their SEAD plane are just pinata>people just play ARB until they have enough point to spawn nukethis mode is kinda retard
i do not understand how to play anything above rank 6 with jets, this event is unplayable
>RWR pemanently shrieking because the S300s at the very far back bases lock and launch on you the second you're wheels up
>>562197898IRIAF genuinely feels like cheatingYou just takeoff, send 4 Fakours at enemy airfield and can instantly go land, there's zero chance that once they go child mauler they won't find some poor faggot trying to takeoff.
As predicted by me, ARB EC is just two teams trading kills in the middle of the map for 3 hours.
>>562198486Everything you learned up to this point is rendered useless.
>>562198228DuMb MuTtOKAY NIGGER FUCKING PLAY THIS SHIT WITH THIS TRASH FUCKING STOCK LOADOUT AND REPORT BACK AS YOU'RE TIED INTO THE KEK CHAIR FOR AN HOUR
>>562198607as long as we have HUD spotting, it will always be that wayit needs to be limited to something under 2km or so for it to ever be interesting otherwise people will just fly at red dot on screen, take their headons and then respawn or leave because the average war thunder gamer has severe ADHDits why props suck because nobody wants to climb so every fight is under 2km
>>562198534I only just researched the Fakours, but even with the normal AIM-54As it was working pretty well.
>>562198665dumb mutt
Fucking premium niggers keep teamkilling me with radar missiles
>>562198607And that's a good thingNow remove the cancer spaa spam all over the map so we can actually with planes
US is easy, but what's the best USSR aircraft for the mode? Does the tech tree MLD get the nuke, or only the in event lineup version?
>mig29 vs f14
>>562198791pipe down mutt
>>562199016XDright right the R-27ER's and R-73's are very hard to use against F-14'sand other lies piggies tell themselves
>>562199026nigga im cumming in your wife
>>562199127nah the battalion commander is cumming in your pidor ass for disobedience
>>562196990>>562196990>>562196990>>562196990>>562196990>>562196990>>562196990
>>562198757Something about the nametags just lobotomizes people and they don't see anything else.
All me btw
>>562199376because everything else is unreliable until you get aesa radars
>don't have any american or russian air unlocked>zero premiums boughthow fucked am I?
>finish the event>no score awardedThe fuck?
yeah I guess I wont bother with the event bomberlike sure its cool but I dont know if I can keep playing this dumb mode
>there are goyim who will grind both bombers
>>562199773works on my machine
is it bad that I enjoy frogfoot the most?I basically feel like those frogfoot you seen from the clips i wonder what kind of rockets do they use in those?
Can you bring your own phantom and put a nuke on it? Or do you have to use the event one?
>>562200324The latter.
how do i release the lock on antirads?i don't want to target the s300 radar in novosibirsk, i want to target the osa 8km away
Shit so bad it makes me miss the Garfield badminton.
Event worth bothering with for a newer player? My only planes are 3.7-4.0 USSR and 4.0 USSR tanks
>>562199364Load a premium plane you don't own.Go in protection analysis, do a test shot.Save the .blkLoad the .blk in notepad and change the line object:t="###" to say>object:t="b_52h"or>object:t="tu_95m"Save it. Load it ingame, still using a premium planePress "back", can test fly it now, or save it to wishlist so you don't have to do this shit again
>>562200636sorry to be the one to tell you this but the osas do not use their radarsthey just know where everything is and fire at it
>>562200773you can spawn jets even if you don't own them
how am I supposed to do this when playing with sovietsmig-29 with 6x500kg bombs?
>>562200858whatever man, osa, buk, doesn't matterI know they're fucked, my question still standsi want to lock a buk, not the 23mld, does that work better?
>>562194131As someone who has literally never played a jet beyond 8.3, I'm having a lot of fun with the preset jets.
>>562200878just shoot down niggas
>>562199748You get a selection of aircraft and loadouts to choose from, it's serviceable.
>>562200924same key to despool a mavalt+c for me, might be default, idk
>>562201002you get 100 rp per shot downthis shit is too slow
>>562201049alright cheers king
>>562198207>wait 2 hours for the match to end
>>562201083if you want rp just play regular arbshooting down 30 players will give you around 5000 points and you can just do that twice for your 7000
>>562188163It's a fucking April Fool's event you dipshit.
its cool but I dont think I will grind this
>>562201191you can grind points for the event outside of the event?
Nice game
this new mode is like 5-10x more fun than Air RB, can't wait for it to never show up again
>>562201526? No
>>562201191dont forget to grind both side too pidor!!
>>562201561rar, rumao
>>562201630Then I don't get it what you mean by >play arbYou mean to do this event in arcade?
>>562199748Your problem will be not knowing how to play in a missile infested environment. But if you play tactically, you can manage.
erm what if we just dont expand capacity of serverings during peak playercount event?
>processing operationNice game wiggers
>>562201579I'm like 99% sure it's the Aerial Warfare mode they were testing components of in the SEAD event last year. A lot of the assets used in this have been added in unrelated updates and datamined ages ago so I really don't think this is the end of it.
>>562201860>you get 100 rp per shoot down>if you want rp just play regular air realistic battlesthis mode does not give good research point rewards, silver lions rewards are finekilling players is a very easy way to grind the event because everyone is either new or just grinding by bombing
>processing operationnah. I'll just play something else.
Are the servers shitting themselves?
>>562200843neat, thanks
>>562202615april first
>ask for B52 for 1 year>it's finally addedAlso what the fuck is this new Captcha? I don't watch those gay-ass animes.
>>562202784you got the jojo captcha too?
>>562202784peak r*ddit post
>>562202891yep
War Thunder's equivalent for this? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0fCpAuxrQ_I
>>562199962i want the B-52 atleast
>>562202784
>>562202615i failed the "pick only women" captcha
The event sucks. It's just players farming noob kills in their 12.7 aircraft and then dropping nuke to end the game. There is nothing you can do to stop them except shoot teammates