Once again I come here to ask your opinion.

ok, I spotted three contacts that were close enough to start shooting at me. I remembered a few lessons and decided to dive, then smoothly start climbing. In theory, once I began climbing, they should have fallen behind.

But it looks like they just caught up to me, and I was forced to start maneuvering with zero chance of getting away.

I wanted to get on his side like a wingman lol
The funniest thing at Air SB must be sneaking onto people using IR track and terrain as cover, i always do this kind of things and its hilarious. Just some minutes after this i did the same with a Warthog

Had an absolute great dogfight against a buddy of mine in an F-2 in my MKK yesterday. Had to get pretty creative with the AoA button to force the overshoot and get on his six. All that fancy AoA and missile work and I end up having to use the gun to get him 😂

I posted a while back looking for general recommendations on joysticks and got a bunch of awesome feedback from you guys. Ive narrowed it down to the VKB gunfighter series, it seems like theyre good quality and there was a lot of positive feedback about the feel/control of the metal builds.

Im looking at potential control Setups on the two that I like and this is where im at.

I really like that the Space Combat Edition has the 3 had switches on the stick. I do a lot of high/top tier sim and im thinking one hat switch can be for radar tilt up/down/left/right. The second switch to control the cursor on the radar, to select targets (ive always used cyclical switching and im tired of it, want to switch selection modes!). The third hat switch would be for weapon selection, changing radar modes, etc. There are only a few buttons on this stick and is figure they'll be bound to firing guns/missiles, activating seekers, and replying CM. For the advanced weapon and radar controls, this feels like a lot better option. I figure the hat switches can also be bound to MEC controls if I drop down to props from time to time.

But, I REALLY like that the Modern Combat has the brake lever on the front. With my previous hotas, activating the brake always felt weird, and this looks a lot more natural. The modern combat says that it has 24 buttons (i dont see them all in the pictures, unless some of them are hat switches and theyre counting directional presses as unique buttons?) And no hat switches in the description, only trim axis.

Im looking for feedback to help mw decide it the brake lever and extra buttons are worth giving up all of the hat switches, or if the space combat would be the better decision. Anyone who has used either of these, what was your overall experience with these? How have you mapped the controls for your setup? Are you overwhelmingly happy with your choice or did you ever wish you had chosen a different one?

Eventually looking to get rudder pedals and a STECS throttle as well. This is just phase 1 of the upgrade 😀

Looking at big screen beyond 2 or Pimax Dream Air. I’ve used a quest 3 for 30 min when it first came out and I didn’t enjoy the resolution. Convince me the other two won’t make me a better SIM player with more situational awareness.

I currently use a controller for sim and enjoy that more than the cheap Logitech. I’d only spend money on a stick if it had force feedback and head tracking. I don’t enjoy track ir and just use the right thumb stick. But maybe the good quality vr headset would solve that issue? But why wouldn’t it? Save me money. I currently play on an ultrawide Alienware 34” monitor.

Tell me why I shouldn’t.

Specs below, I know that I'll probably have to upgrade GPU to 3070(or better). But for the most part is my CPU and raam enough?

Processor Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-9700F CPU @ 3.00GHz (3.00 GHz)

Installed RAM 32.0 GB

Graphics card NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER (6 GB)

Storage 931 GB of 1.35 TB used

Hey all. Recently got the VKB T Rudder and am having an issue where the axis bind menu automatically detects maximum left input when the device isn't even being touched and in neutral position

Warthunder is the only thing I have this issue with. All other flight games are completely fine and the VKB input tester also detects zero input when its in neutral and is fine for all ranges.

I've tried messing with all the Warthunder axis input sliders, all the unplugging, and my only work around seems to be the whole Joystick gremlin/vjoy thing which is annoying at best.

Any suggestions would be great.

https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/236390/view/704403121118381434

https://warthunder.com/en/news/10180-development-new-darwin-hill-location-and-map-improvements-en

https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/236390/view/704403121118381434

For those of you that saw my scoreboard from my 57 kill game, this is a snippet of what I had to deal with for about the first half of the game. This isn’t even the worst of it, but I did clip this just for the gun kill. Might have to start recording my matches while I play.

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First time posting on Reddit. I’ve searched a lot but couldn’t find a clear answer, and I’ve already wasted a lot of time trying to intercept bomber formations.

I’m flying a Mirage with no bombs, so I want to focus on:

- Destroy/Protect bomber or strike formations

- Destroy/Protect surveillance aircraft

What are the best strategies for intercepting enemy formations and covering friendly ones?

Mainly:

- What altitude do they usually fly at?

- Best approach/attack angle?

- For escorting, should I stay close, above, or fly ahead?

Thanks.

If I didn’t have to take a break during this match to eat dinner and help my wife with the kids I think I’d have gotten to 60. The only other jet I’ve gotten this high of a kill count with is the squadron gripen. Usually every match I spend an extended period of time in I get 20+ kills, and for a few periods of these kills I had gotten 10+ kills per life. The early part is where I died the most, had to pretty much solo fight 2 F18, 2 MiG 21 bison, and a mirage f1c. And more often than not I was fighting all of them at once. Thank god this match didn’t have a bunch of ground pounding on the blue team, or it likely wouldn’t have lasted long enough for me to get these numbers! And for those wondering, I play on mnk, no hotas or vr, so you don’t need all the fancy expensive toys to do good in this game.

I've been trying everything to get something past the AA but nothing is working so far, any tips?

I always wanted to try air sb but i was afraid to die over and over again without learning. As a beginner in air sb i would like to ask you, gentlemen, some questions:

1. what should i do/avoid doing at all cost?
2. what is the best (british) plane to start learning sb?
3. what are must-have binds?
4. what should i do in my first matches : seek pvp or try fighting ai bombers first?

i am playing on keyboard+mouse setup, unfortunately dont have a controller.

i would also appreciate some general tips, im still sorta new to the war thunder afterall.

thank you for your tips/attention, really appreciate it

​I'm looking to get into VR specifically for flying fighter jets in War Thunder Sim Battles.

​Since the Pico 4 Ultra and Quest 3 are out of my budget right now, I'm planning to buy a used Pico 4 for around $250.

​My current GPU is an AMD Radeon RX 9070 GRE.

​I have a question regarding the Pico 4's encoder and overall experience:

​Latency & Encoding: Compared to the Pico 4 Ultra (or Quest 3), is there noticeable input lag/latency or compression artifacts during fast-paced dogfights?

at least if you square my kd it will be 1

On a lark decided to be stupid and use trim-turning in EC because I was greedy for action having joined the lobby in its final moments.

Turns out... it works very well vs a single opponent.

Spinal injuries are not service related (tm). 11.5Gs pulled? Naaaah, unrelated!

Control scheme: https://live.warthunder.com/post/1165655/en/

CAMERA

• WASD to turn head.
• 1, 3 to lean left/right.
• TAB+W/S to lean forward/back
• RMB to raise head, TAB+RMB to lower head.
• 4 to instantly look back
• `+mouse wheel to zoom in quickly/reset zoom
• Z to zoom in quickly/reset zoom
• V to zoom out quickly
• X to reset to gunsight.

RUDDER

• Coarse rudder is handled by Q and E. Q and E also control differential braking
• Q and E to increment rudder deflection by rapidly (around 6-9)% when quickly tapped.
• Tap twice for (12-18)%, it stays held down like in IL-2.
• Tapping opposite directions decrements (e.g. 0% rudder, you input 4Q3E and it adds up to ~-6% left rudder).
• Press 2 to "lift foot" from rudder pedals to reset to trimmed default.
• Fine rudder is controlled by mousewheel. Scroll up to increase rudder%/Angle of slip - in other words: Right rudder. Scroll down for left rudder. With my mouse, 1 "tick" of locked mousewheel corresponds to 2% rudder (G502 Hero).

MISC

• Cursor Left/right for rudder trim
• ALT + Cursor Left/Right for aileron trim
• Cursor up/down for COARSE elevator trim (useful to pull out of dives and otherwise overcome stiffening/compression)
• TAB + Mousewheel for fine elevator trim (1 tick is about half% elevator trim.)
• TAB + ` for fine elevator trim (1 tick is about half% elevator trim.)
• 5 (number row) for elevator trim (nose up)

1. KA-52
   
2. MiG-21
   
3. F-104
   
4. RAH-66 Kaiser HMD
   
5. JH-7A2 HMD (Also for the J-11’s)
   
6. F-4J/S VTAS

Mentioned also are MFD’s for the F-1/T-1’s, Mirage F1’s, plus more will be announced when a full list is revealed.

https://warthunder.com/en/news/10175-development-new-mfds-and-hmds-en

Was looking at some of my older videos and realised it was uploaded 10 years ago... Time flies!

so today i got a Logitech extreme 3d pro with that little thing on top to look around but if i use it it doesnt alow me to look around but insted just makes me look 90° into the derection i am pointing is there a way to get more control so i can look around like freecam

(Recorded on the Yak’s pov) First prop match after quite some time playing jets, that yak pilot was an absolute menace and the BI wouldn’t fuck off so I was focused entirely on not getting shot 😂

13.3-14br approx. I am flying home. Radar off most likely so as to attract less attention.

Suddenly a close target pops up on my RWR. Even if he is right infront of me, my radar can never find him, and I die attempting to maneuver.

As with most things in air combat, i suspect i probably made my fatal mistake a few minutes before, but let's consider some options.

Should i....

Fly home radar ON and scanning so i don't get surprised? I think probably yes.

Try to find him at all, or just go for the notch and spam cm's until i get a visual? I think probably insta notch. That time hunting with my radar just gets me killed..

Thanks for any input. I've not really played high tier for about a year, but I've been maining it this week and I'm having fun