r/WarthunderSim

I have been wanting to grind Japan and might get the F-2A but I love the cold war era in war thunder Sim (or to be honest anything below Fox 3s) and am now wondering whether this Phantom is any good at 10.7? I cannnot find any recent information about this thing. I am also wondering about the premium sabre at 9.3 also so any info on how good that is really helpful.

I recently upgraded my PC’s power supply unit from a 650watt supply to a 1250 watt supply because I was fairly certain that issues I was having with getting my VR set working were tied to having basically zero excess power to work with after powering the other pc components.

I then went looking for VR optimization guides and came across this guide.

After following the guide and messing about with my in game graphic settings to get VR stable and usable, which it’s almost there, I found that the FPS I was getting in normal 2D games had almost doubled from 80-100 with most settings maxed to an incredibly stable 140-145fps with the same settings. Note that I am not using frame generation and DLSS 4.5 is on with up scaling set to native. Basically all settings are maxed except for ray tracing which I’ve left off.

I am no computer expert so I cannot say which settings that were changed suddenly allowed my performance to double but my intuition is telling me that it was the changes to graphics settings in the Nvidia control panel (my system was already using the Resizable BAR thing, don’t ask me what that is).

If you have an Nvidia GPU and want more FPS, try to follow this guide regardless of if you’re using VR or not, and let us know if your game visuals and performance improves.

And if you’re more pc literate than I and can point out which settings change(s) made such a difference, please let us know!

Put on your cope-glasses on *With decent rewards for destroying them*

Back a few years ago bases had two gun SPAA defending them and they were removed because it was dumb when you were just minding your own business and get slapped by a terminator AI Gepard that you didn't know was there. Now SPAA is less likely to target you if you don't have A2G weapons and most top tier fighting happens out of SPAA range anyway

We've now got GPS glide bombs, POI bombing, super guided missiles, ARMs so I see no reason why aircraft should still just be strapping themselves with bombs and flying in a straight line towards targets on a map. No thought behind sorties and no coordination between teammates just mindless zombing.

I could go on about how bases should actually as detailed as in NT with Ammo, Fuel and vehicle Depots but thats too much to ask for a forgotten mode

Hey guys, VR user here. For a long while I’ve been ignoring the radar in the cockpit for every jet that has it, and the way I’ve been selecting radar targets is by cycling them. I was wondering if:

1. Do you guys use the radar in the HUD or the cockpit? Is there any advantage on learning how to use the latter aside from immersion?
2. Is there any way to efficiently select a radar target without cycling? Like being able to select the target I want at once without cycling through every entity in the radar.

Thanks!

Wife bought me the HOTAS 5 for war thunder since she sees me play on my controller, only issue is theres only a preset for the HOTAS 4 and the throttle is unresponsive. Is there a fix for this or do I just have to pray gaijin updates to the HOTAS 5?

Hey anybody got tips on how to use countermeasures (flares/chaff) most effectively? Seems even when I use them when someone’s tracking me I’m still getting turned into shrapnel. I noticed in the spawn menu you can change intervals , the amount of countermeasures released , etc. so I was hoping to hear from some of y’all what works best for you to evade enemy missiles?

I spend the majority of my time playing between 2.3 and 5.7, I’ll play early jets every now and then, but I’ve never played pre-war props in sim before.

I tried out the P-36 today and it was an absolute blast to fly. What planes have surprised you?

Hello! I am a decently experienced sim pilot (a few hundred hours) but only in high tier jets. I have been trying my hand at prop tiers, specifically ~3.7-5.3, and I’m really struggling. Spotting is tricky, especially with how many of the cockpits are constructed (I usually fly Italian planes), and I’ve been having a hard time getting guns on target, mainly when the target is below the nose and I can’t easily judge how far to lead. I’ve also had some issues with actually aligning the guns, mostly with how the planes seem to overreact to the smallest of twitches. Thanks so much! I’m looking forward to being able to avoid the premium su-30 spam.

I’m up to the J35 Draken on Sweden and the super sabre on US but I do own the premium F5. Im a beginner to sim but not to the game and have played air RB for years however im fully inexperienced to cockpit flying and sim in general. I love planes that can ground pound heavily with a shit ton of ordinance and if possible destroy bases in one trip. My main think however is I feel like I always need an on board gun. With those requirements what would be the best jet for me? I don’t mind grinding a bit to get any specific jet but If possible I’d like to keep it to Cold War and before BVR if possible. Tysm for anyone who responds and please let me know what I’d be best suited for (idk if this is relevant but I’m on ps5 with the thrustmaster HOTAS 4)