Avoid These Five Noob Mistakes While Playing War Thunder 

always mark where you last saw an enemy on the map. ever since chats removal you can easily tell which players use the map and which dont. the map is very very useful.

My biggest rule that helped me is the "Don't play again" rule. I see new players die to a tank they don't know how to kill and say to themselves "how is that tank fair against mine?". and just press "Play" again. Before playing the next match, find the tank that killed you, test the armor, and compare it's stats. You can find weakspots and learn strengths/weakness of vehicles this way without the need for a youtube video every time. If you press play again you will be killed frustratingly in the same way in the future until you learn both your tank and the enemy tank. It only takes a minute or two minutes and you will have learned a bunch that would normally taken hours of gameplay without looking at the menus this way.

Red Baron analogy is insanely true, lower tiers, there are usually around 5-6 people spraying a PBY while an enemy I-15 picks each and every one off one by one because they are too busy chasing a bomber

This video needs to be featured on WT's account. Especially number 5! Self-centered players just ruin an awful lot of sessions with this mistake in particular

The unfortunate thing about number 5 (helping allies) is that if you are participating in the constant grind event that is the battle pass and warbond shop (tied in as well), tasks usually promote self-centered play almost all the time (except for specific tasks). Basically war thunder is in constant event mode which unfortunately does not promote team play very much.

I disagree with point 1, you should play the BR's you enjoy and ignore the grind, it will help your sanity. Also slower research helps slow down the vehicle purchasing, so you will grow your SL balance.

Good advice, thanks! I'd add that you'll occasionally get a coupon for a premium plane either as a daily login reward or a battle trophy. Some of them aren't worth using but I've had coupons with 50-75% off, most recently 50% off the Mustang Mk.1A which has a great SL multiplier and sits in rank 3 meaning I can play it to research all British props.

One of the most helpful tips Ive been given as a newbie is to just pick someone at the start of the game and follow them around as their wingman just making sure you have another player close by as often as possible really makes a huge difference in both deterring attacks on you and putting you in better positions to get kills on the enemy.

I never knew using a higher tier vehicle to backfill previous tier stuff had such a crazy malus to research rate!

Bit of an addendum here to the tip regarding high-top tier premiums: If you decide to purchase a ground prem, *Take a note of the round types you have and their penetration values.* Just because HEATFS has a higher pen than APFSDS doesn't mean you should use it. And on that note, just because you have sabot doesn't mean you simply point and click on every enemy you face: *Aiming for weak spots is still important*

another tip- when playing air rb in a vehicle below than BR 2.3, avoid the mid map AA at all costs, they are extremely buffed and will kill you in 2 shots if you get within 3 kilometres of them

Don't stop in the middle of a road unless you are engaging an enemy...spread out unless you want to be carpet bombed like a Russian convoy. Don't stop right behind another tank, you are preventing them from backing into cover. Don't try to hill snipe using Russian tanks, you don't have the depression and you likely have another nation on your team that has good depression (Like the UK or Germany). Don't spam 'attack the D point' or other worthless commands at the beginning of the match; people will mute your radio and when you really need backup, no one will hear you. Don't call for backup if you are sitting in the enemy spawn detection zone...you are a scumbag and should die alone. When you spawn, look around real quick if you plan to dart off in some odd direction...no one likes getting crashed into by some lunatic who wants to camp a hill behind spawn (better yet, just wait for the initial spawners to push out so you can do that). Apologize if you bump somebody and send them spinning out (but for christ's sake, spread out so you are not bumping into them to start with). If you are playing a slow heavy tank, let the speedy bois go first. Don't get butt hurt when you can't get to points to capture them if you are playing a slow tank. No one will wait for your slow arse!

Bonus tip: play for caps, not only for kills! :)

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Sorry man, but I say that the "B1 ter" is no longer worthy starter, do to the tank past the maximum BR where its gun(s) still be effective, even when its uptiered by only 0.3 BR. And it can face with tanks like the KV-1s now. Just another one of those premiums that lost its value do to statistics based BR base.

I learned getting a high tier premium without a lineup the hard way with the TURMS but I got along and now I have most of the Russian tech tree researched, and the funniest thing is I have a positive K/D in the turms as well

I've been playing the game since 2014 and here I am watching a bigginners guide To the new players this just shows how difficult the game can be

I grinded from 2.7 to 9.7 in the US air tech tree with the f-5c, its a very good idea since you only get 1 spawn in air RB

Wow! I really thought it was gonna be super basic stuff 99% of the players already know, but I actually found great information I'd want to hear! Amazing video, loved it!

My dude, you're a legend! The way you give advice is so easy to take in and simplified compared to so many other videos I've seen. I started playing War Thunder probably a year ago or so. Sadly my Xbox broke and I was still only in tier 2 for tanks & aviation (played with the different countries for a while). Probably only got a month or so in here and there. I recently put my Xbox in for repairs, and downloaded WT on my PS4 to get some practice. Literally every single tip I've seen from this channel has upped my win rate considerably. Pretty keen to get my Xbox tomorrow so I can play with my normal group, definitely won't be a liability anymore. 😁

3:23 I went from rank III to rank VI buy buying the A-10 and the XM-1 (GM) I was crap at first, but after a couple matches I got the jist of it and now I'm pretty good It depends on the adaptability of each person, but I still would recommend against spending any sort of money on war thunder, I had just been given a gift card with a $120.00 on it and was like "why the fuck not"

i have to disagree with the fact at 9:10 .I have great stats but my winrate is at 56 % ,because as usual my team is camping at the base (because repair cost problably)or goes for one flag and then to the enemy spawn instead of the other capture areas. Those people who cry of the repair cost are to 99% those sniper players

Learned so much. Thank you!

Very helpful bro! Tanks a lot, subbed :)

The only Pemium Vehicles that I would say are truly worth their cost are the KV-220 and the KV-1C. Ah, Allies. Most of the time they infuriate me, but from time to time, there is an Ally that I would die for.

Great info on tiered premium vehicles, i didnt know of the xp penalty.

Hi Tankstein. Glad I came across your channel as me and a few good friends are struggling a bit at Warthunder. The info here really helps out and I'll be sure to see you on the battlefield some time. 🤙

Thank you so much man. I am quite far in the game but I am always open for new tips, ideas and ways of thinking and I believe this will help a lot.

My 6 year experience says this: Never get out of your way to help others if it’s not safe or if it ruins your plans. Never trust your team, the only use for them is to let you know were the enemies are and aren’t. Also they can be used as bait to know if it’s safe to cross a road or something. I agree with the other tips

As WT player, this is very good tips, also consider making guides for each level of player skill, maybe for intermediate or pro players and such.

Good content so I had to subscribe,good luck tank

Great advice! Thank you... I have subscribed so I can learn more from you. 🙂 Cheers

I've been only playing for about a week and helping my allies is one of the things that seems to help me win matches and get sl

Helping allies is important tbh... I was playing a new vehicle at tier 3 then i caught fire without FPE but 4 tiger tank passed beside me without doing anything

That’s great ! I’ll use that information!

Just discovered your channel today, and I love it my dude. Great videos keep up the awesome work!!

Tip 6 should be: No matter the suffering, make sure you keep your wallets safe.

5th, i totaly agree, i feel like my win ratio would be way better if only my team would work together, not just 3of us trying to do so, like so many times i see people just ignoring repairing, or killing a guy with no breech while there is a guy shooting me.

So, I started warthunder about half a year- a year ago. and your vids still help a lot. thanks! and keep making em ;)

Thanks Tankenstein you always have helpful videos

I've been finding lately that all the abrams seem to have paper armor lately. M1a2 seems to get 1 shot a hell of a lot lately and definitely doesn't do the same damage as the user or German mbt at top tier

I tried to help a p.40 on my team with repairing and the enemy killed him but he came a helped me later in the match because I tried to help him and we stayed near the other the rest of the match

Great video bro , 👍 thanks

good video. good advice. thanks!

Also, Spawn Camping is really really bad and for crap players to get scumbag kills. Let’s try to change the scum play and not spawn camp. I’m sure this puts off players, old and new, from playing. And don’t use “map design” as an excuse, it’s just plain doing the wrong thing. Thanks for your video and advice Tank, please promote honourable play in our community.

I love how almost all tips round back up to the grind _if only gaiijin didnt become a bunch of money hungry freaks and kept the game playable for f2p players_

Love your content keep it up!

Wow I did not know about No.1 ,thanks for the tip!

Playing WT since 2014, just wanted to hear what tips you had for the newer players. Pretty solid, loved #5! So many people need to hear this and understand. o7

Spawn camping is a big problem in the lower tiers underneath five seven I think gaijin needs to add anti-tank weaponry that is AI controlled along with anti-aircraft weaponry on all of the spawn points so planes can't spawn bomb and tanks can't spawn camp

Solid video! It's great advice for newer players.

Just started playing this game a week ago, I was slowly beginning to break rule one- so thankful for your sharing your experience with us noobs!

i wanted to grind the russian ground tree, so i looked at the 2 options (t55 am1 and t72 turms) so i got the t55 purely because of the fact i will be able to get a linup for that vehicle much faster.

For beginners I'd recommend getting a premium vehicle or two at around tier 3. Make sure they are similar BR and watch a few reviews to know how to use them and if they're shit. My reasoning for this is: 1. You don't have to start playing at the usually boring super low BR vehicles that are ugly biplanes or terrible looking box tanks 2. You can grind out a variety of early vehicles really fast to have different options and a nice lineup really fast 3. The low BR premiums are really cheap so the investment isn't huge 4. You don't go right up to facing players with often thousands of hours in the game, after paying 50+ dollars for a jet or tank you suck at playing. 5. You get to naturally learn how to use stuff like night vision and thermals, missiles, range finders, etc. And for jets, they play entirely differently to props, and you have to make keybinds for all kinds of shit, like 5 radar actions, secondary weapon swapping, firing rockets, missiles, bombs, counter measures, using thrust vectoring on some jets, and an entire set of keybinds to control manually guided missiles. 6. You get to learn the maps for ground, in less punishing tiers. At top tier, if you take a wrong path you're often dead instantly because tanks can spot and shoot from over 2 kilometers, at a moving target, while still moving themselves. 7. These are still premiums, so the repair costs are very forgiving, and the SL multiplier makes you more able to keep playing without buying premium account time. I started out that way, and it turned out I really liked the game and after spending hundreds of hours for almost free, I decided it would be worth it to buy a year's worth of premium time from a sale, and got myself a top tier premium (F-5C) from another sale, to grind a new nation after I had already learned to be okay at top tier in both jets and tanks.

Number 5 is a great. I have died countless times bouncing shells off an enemy tank trying to get the kill.

I subscribed just because ur name is Tankenstein and great video!!

I love playing this game. I used to play that OTHER one (WoT) but wanted to get into aerial combat and have not been disappointed. My only frustration is with learning how some of the ground assault missions work. I try to hit F1 while waiting for the countdown but there’s never enough time before you’re thrown into the game. There is SO much information available that sometimes it’s overwhelming.

"spend more money lmao" this video is like an elaborate joke. then you show yourself gambling on stream and I can finally see the clown makeup

Your videos are high quality, my man. Keep it up 👍👍

good tips hope the channel grows very large (:

Don't play high tiers

One of the most effective wt guides, good job man

Superb advice for beginners, well done!

love these kinda vids just watched one of your vids for the first time and its just so helpfull😃

This is very helpfull!

THANK YOU for mentioning the starter packs. The British tier 2 starter pack is AMAZING value at half price, so that's my last Christmas present this year! You are probably the only RU-vidr I subscribed to this year.

Thanks for the tips

Grateful for the tips

Love the tips, one thing I started doing, after my last death, rather than bailing out of the game, I follow my surviving teammates, watch what they do, sometimes try to warn them about enemys, but thats only if they read my comment. Great videos!!!!

I know this video is turning old, but thx for making it. I didn’t know about the tier rp part 1:35

Excellent video. I've been playing for about 18 months, I'm halfway up the American, German and Swedish trees, and Tier 2 on a lot of the other trees and I still learned a couple new things from this. I am playing casually, arcade only and for fun though. I guess I am a fairly okay player though. Usually finish a match with 5-7 kills and only 1-2 deaths unless I get uptiered. I like to help repair and extinguish fires on allies as often as I can, or tow them out of danger if they're immobilized or get overturned. Completely agreed on the point that helping teammates makes for a better match and better chance to win. It's the same logic behind why I love playing medic on games like Killing Floor 2. I can keep the team alive, and still get kills.

Thanks for the video.

Subscribed and liked! You definitely need more subs for these tips

Thank you for the information on rp for tech research!

that double 109 cracks me up, a county who was losing a war and was totally running out of everything so the decided to stick two of their valuable aircrafts together in order to make one that doesn't work quite as well as either would work by itself

#5 tip is the PRO TIP! Great video, man!

I love the first hint is basically “spent irl money on this f2p game, otherwise you get a 70% tax on your research points when researching outside your tier”. Like, it’s a fair hint, i hate that gajin does the tax when researching lower tier vehicles, but like, the entire point of that tax is to challenge the player to get better, and to make sure they’re good enough for the tier they’re going into. P.S. with good enough for the tier i mean… barely scrapping by, like maybe 1 assist/tank destruction at most.

Subscribed!

congrats on the 40k subs man.. keep it up and can you please do some game play vidz.. 👍👏

I was about to buy some more premium vehicles but you’re right I should wait till a sale lol thank you 🙏🏽 you’ve gained a new subscriber

Here with the notifications as always! Keep the epic content coming brother! Quick request though as I’ve not been able to find one anywhere, would you be willing to do a gunner guide for bombers and strike aircraft and the like? It’s the only thing I seem to keep struggling with…

Im sorry,i watched like 10 of your videos and realized i wasnt subscribed,i am now and appreciate all the help with the hints and tips👊

you are a great youtuber i love watching you

One thing about not wasting SL by buying vehicles early: You do need to buy a certain amount to progress through the techtree. if you don't wanna have a tree on standby at rank 3-4 for months bc you haven't bought enough vehicles from that rank yet, you'd waste tons of RP if you play your high tier premium there, so at least buy the minimum amount to progress.

Hey congrats on 40k subs!! :D

well, not downloading seems to be the best option i guess. every time i install it, i make a few games, mostly air battles, get focused by everyone in every match and just uninstall again

Pretty good video, a good tip to add is to ensure you get parts or fpe before anything else as it’s a life saver tool.

Solid advise, could you do one about optimal camouflage use?

good vid as always

What a perfect guide! iam a pretty experiencent player but if i had seen this video before i started playing i would now be even better! 10/10

well perfect video for a guy that just lunch the game for the first time WP on that one love it (i started playing in 2013)

👍 great advice. Especially buying into a high tier and helping out allies. Question. New to WT. what control setting would I look for. I want to keep the camera/gunsight set at zoomed in. Not hold a key to maintain the zoom. What control do I need to change please?

Awesome also great advice lol I run into my enemy who have tunnel vision .. my teammates like me since I’m like that plus they always support me and my win ratio is 50%

It's funny that when you say, "Never focus on a single enemy, no matter how enticing it might be, especially if other allies or enemies are around", you then mention "the reincarnation of the Red Baron on the enemy team". Because the Red Baron himself got killed when he violated that rule, which he knew well! (Earlier in his career he suffered a severe head injury, which likely caused brain damage, and that may have affected his judgment in his final days.)

Great video

Been playing the game for about 8 years now and I still fall for the tunnel vision sometimes. Also for number 5, I go off of the vibe of the match. If I type “good luck” and no one reciprocates then I can assume that the whole team is going to focus on themselves rather than help each other. And the funny thing is too is when it’s those games my team always loses, so you’re absolutely right! A team that helps each other always wins

i always glue my eyes to the mini map and that seems to work really well

To start off, I have a premium account and I main Britain Air RB. On the research bit, it does work well if you’re with a premium account, and it’ll help some if you grind in low tier vehicles for over a year. On the enemy picking bit, helping your allies is good, in low tier AC-RB you can give it a couple seconds and ask if they need help (pc/console keyboard). And if there is the NPC and enemy chasing your friend scenario, take distance into account. Because that bomber getting chased by a Bf109 is on their own if they’re past 5 km and at 4km altitude. Be smart. Stay close to your wingman/battle buddies.

Did the first guide using leopard I to research tier 1 AA thanks for the tip lmao i wouldve wasted my time researching the AA

As someone who is interested in joining in on (I hope) the fun, and doing some research. This kinda melted my brain.