War Thunder Air Sim is Kinda Fun for Cold War?

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War Thunder Air Sim is a game mode that no one talks about but I have been finding myself having fun with it, much to my surprise. It does offer some fights that you simply can't experience anywhere else and that is compelling
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@Enigma89 Месяц назад

I know people will jump in here and complain about the grind and say that air rb is more efficient - if you do then you do not get the point of this video. I do not care about the grind. I play to just experience some fun and War Thunder air sim has some unique things that the other games do not. I just play the same 2-3 planes I have and I don't really care about unlocking other planes. I just play to play. I hope that some people who have WT who never play air sim, feel like they can try it and experience something new. Enjoy!

@Wolfhound_81 26 дней назад

Interesting point, the issue is tho, you first need to get through that grind to get into the cold war era ;)

@Enigma89 26 дней назад

@@Wolfhound_81 You can just buy a premium jet.

@malayanvolunteersairforce8635 26 дней назад

I grind just to get the F-4E Phantom. Been playing SB with it for some time. I just dont care of grinding further. I have fun flying F-4E in Enduring Confrontation BR 10.0 - 10.7.

@engineer1941 26 дней назад

Biggest problem with Air Sim is that it has absurd repair costs matched with rewards based in intervals which are hard to offset without premium planes. One time i wanted to have bit fun in tier 5 lost 250k SL in one game (i had 3 kd) preventing me from playing since i couldnt spawn any more.

@AxiamWolfe 26 дней назад

@@engineer1941 There has been a massive nerf to repair costs, and buff to SL rewards some time at the start of this year apparently. I'm currently at Tier 4 props and each spawn is just 10k in cost. I earn that back just by getting barely anything done; one air kill is enough to turn a profit per life during my stock grind through the tech tree, and that is before even calculating in premium time.

@RazerTheDuck 25 дней назад

>get in Mitsubishi T-2 >argue with the ground crew for ten minutes on why I need a singular rocket pod equipped on the right wing >morbidly traumatize the trainer in the back by pulling 13G’s in a dogfight >missile launch >cut burner and extend flaps >do a maneuver that reduces the lifespan of the aircraft by 50% >realize rockets don’t fire over mach 1 >die got a gf and haven’t played warthunder sim in almost a year, addicted to japanese trains now

@konna6130 25 дней назад

that is so accurate. its fun when you meet all-aspect guys and forget you are too fast.

@chieftainmk_11 25 дней назад

Fellow Japanese train enjoyer! My man!

@richarddo7881 25 дней назад

Since you have a gf. I'm not sure if recommending you to watch Maitetsu (or read it) is a good idea

@zinnsoldat6493 20 дней назад

Mf escaped Gajins slavery😭

@r1zmy 20 дней назад

Japanese trains are the goat

@BigWumbo 25 дней назад

To me WT sim is a nice casual game to unwind after work. It has less fidelity than IL2 and DCS but it gets the general idea of air combat across. I think WT Sim has a lot of potential filling the sim-lite niche but it’s not a popular mode so I doubt the snail will develop it.

@Enigma89 25 дней назад

It's an interesting place to play for the snail if they focus more on it

@-pr0vat70 25 дней назад

100%

@kajmak64bit76 22 дня назад

It's not popular because they make wrong decisions and make it worse and also make economy worse And the entire Enduring Confrontation mode... including Heli Battles EC Are developed by a single guy and he's a NAVAL MAIN who apparently hates Cold War tech lol

@KeepZeeZ 13 дней назад

@@Enigma89 I would like to believe that you could help us--the diehard WT sim community--by continuing to shed light on the mode... Coming from IL2 & DCS, I do believe it could become something very special if it were only given a little more love...

@networkgeekstuff9090 25 дней назад

As DCS player I have to admint that as life goes to having less and less time with carrier/family I am now more often on WT than DCS as it offers much more for the 30-60min free time slots in the evenings. I no longer fight control scheme, no longer fight performance issues of DCS or lua scripting and if you know energy fighting concepts, you can actually dominate majority of WT sim games. I play exclusivelly VR and sim mode and the key to happiness is to ignore the grind because by there is actually more fun in props and early jets as these ranks offer the most skill based fights, top tier with all aspect and radar missiles is only about positioning and catching people off guard and is generally much less skill based.

@marty4286 24 дня назад

WT's systems are surprisingly sophisticated. You mentioned radar, but missile seekers (and countermeasures, and counter-countermeasures) are also intricately modeled with no RNG. The values of the simulated parameters aren't super realistic (hence why I said 'sophisticated' instead), so you have things like especially effective flares and chaff and exaggerated multi-pathing for radar missiles, but it can be a satisfying experience regardless of all that and the simplistic flight models

@DaveyCooter 24 дня назад

The nice thing about War Thunder is you don't have to worry about remembering controls for 20 different planes. The gigantic selection of aircraft also makes sim fun, because you never know what you're going to run into

@HueWave 25 дней назад

on the flares being too strong part, its because the game actually models the heat flares produce and how it dissipates in the air based on the atmosphere shit, in DCS its just a esoteric RNG Dice roll based on the number of flares/chaff dispensed and the velocity etc etc

@jadensweetwood9246 26 дней назад

I feel war thunder sim needs some work, yet i feel it shouldnt be underestimated. Its good to breakaway from DCS every so often. Plus the choice of airframes is great!

@Enigma89 26 дней назад

It would be really interesting if someone took the WT Sim mode and put it in DCS because it would actually be a pretty good server. It's a fun game mode.

@MoleUK1 25 дней назад

@@Enigma89 This has been my argument since day 1 lol. Sim EC has a lot of neat little gameplay loops that keep it dynamic and fun. idk how doable some of those events would be in DCS, but I always found the little events were great at bringing players to particular points on the map to create interesting engagements. Even just the CTF events. Gotta stay within a certain point under a certain altitude for X amount of time to win. Creates an incentive not only to win a fight but also to hold a point and survive long enough for someone else to come in and change the balance in your favor. Gaijin show very little interest in advancing or promoting Sim EC any further than it currently stands. Been that way for like 5 years now.

@kcz1093 25 дней назад

@@Enigma89 flaming cliffs 2024?

@giannizen3775 24 дня назад

I’ve been playing war thunder sim for 3-4 years, and I can tell you that Cold War WT sim is insanely fun. The variety of jets you can find and all their quirks and strengths come together in such an amazing way. Tons of “sleeper” aircrafts that people don’t usually run such as the British Phantoms with RR spey turbofan engines can become true dogfight monsters in the hands of the right people. It’s so much fun to engage in 3-4 people fur balls of MiG-21’s, Phantoms and Mirages. And don’t even get me started on the amount of toxic banter that can go on in the chat, it’s just glorious. I enjoy top tier quite a lot aswell and that’s what I mostly play, but I always come back for some Mirage F1, MiG-23 and F4 every once in a while

@ClankerWanker 22 дня назад

WE NEED THE SNAIL TO WORK ON SIM

@BlackbirdDrozd 25 дней назад

As a VR/sim player of WT (but not exclusive) I have to agree here. Just ignore the grind people, the most fun is anyway in the low-mid tier fights, the moment you reach all-aspect IR missilles and radar missilles it is anyway becomming much less skill based (as low tier is pure energy fighting focused) and only based on possitioning and catching people off-guard to fire a missile at them. So ignore the grind, you will have a lot of good fun just playing props and it will teach you things that DCS didn't managed to teach me in a decade (the energy fighting I mean). Also the top tier systems modelling is weird, WT devs don't really want to model the more modern planes instruments properly so in VR I am stuck with a holographics radar hud on my left. So a bit immersion breaking, but props and early jets dont have this immersion breaker.

@alessandromenegollo7957 22 дня назад

Quick heads up, the radar and rwr virtual display can be disabled in the settings, I usually disable them when I'm flying the Su27 or the F15 because they are already present within the MFDs of the aircrafts

@BlackbirdDrozd 22 дня назад

@@alessandromenegollo7957 Oh, thanks! Didn't know that. I hope that RWR and Radar are two separate settings because on F4 Phantom/Mirage2000 (the highest BR I play as above that I do not like the gameplay) these planes do not really have RWR display in cockpit modeled. So I just need to disable the radar.

@alessandromenegollo7957 21 день назад

@@BlackbirdDrozd They are indeed two separate settings, you can find them as "Use radar HUD in cockpit" and "Use RWR HUD in cockpit" both under options->air battle settings, glad i was of help!

@akagalaxy_4403 25 дней назад

i love ground striking in sim, not for the grind (I've finished the trees i play the most) but simply because i enjoy it. Despite the small amount of players its one of the only modes to have specific objectives for each kind of player. Ex. destroying convoys, attacks, recon ai, trike ai, intercepting other players, striking specific parts of enemy airfields to alter how they function, and attacking carriers to remove it as a take off point all together. and that is what keeps me playing .air rb is the same thing constantly, but you have options in air sim and i wish more people played it to give it the attention it deserves

@benji112GAMING 25 дней назад

I really do love DCS, but war thunder is my go to TBH, usually I get home from work and I put on my VR and jump into SIM for a few hours, Right now i am Flying the F-4 and I have been having a blast. I know SIM mode isnt "efficient" for the grind, but most of my trees were unlocked because of the fun I have in it. Thank you for covering this!

@ArtyTheBasedGod 25 дней назад

Air sim is really fun What I need though is for them to add the option to have helicopters

@Enigma89 25 дней назад

Would be kind of huge actually

@linecraftman3907 26 дней назад

enigma please don't force me back into the hellhole that is war thunder

@Enigma89 26 дней назад

I duno what to say, I had fun and i am finding myself wanting to dabble in it occasionally. I just have been too busy with work to play longer formats. WT does offer something the other games don't.

@biggie10101 26 дней назад

@@Enigma89how much is the holy snail paying you

@mickes1362 25 дней назад

@biggie10101 probably he need some wt coins? for his grind😂😂

@Enigma89 25 дней назад

@@biggie10101 The Snail did not pay me for this video lol

@tmo_117 25 дней назад

Go back go back the snail calls

@networkgeekstuff9090 25 дней назад

2:30 also does much better job with IR missiles modeling as well compared to DCS. The amount of suddle differences between different IR missile models is just insane and the heat signature and flares popping affecting them is modeled in excelent and transparent way(thanks to recent replay mode that shows seeker tracking and why particular flare worked vs not worked in confusing the IR missile seeker).

@duffmangames6997 24 дня назад

I'd watch more of these WT air sim vids, this was cool :)

@spacekraken666 23 дня назад

Mirage 2000, MiG-19 and MiG-23 are in the game, AV-8B Plus getting added this update, all we need now is the Strike Eagle.

@paint_thinner 25 дней назад

Once I got into Air SIM in warthunder, I frankly can't go back to the other game modes, it's just more rewarding and you can be a dedicated ground pounder and actually HAVE FUN

@Spicysauced 25 дней назад

What I can say as a 10 year War Thunder sim veteran is, that this mode can either be the end of the sim dark age - or the dark age in person. It highly depends on the BR your're playing at.

@Enigma89 25 дней назад

Some people are asking if I was paid for this video. I was **NOT** paid for this video. I am a WT CC partner but this happened after I made this video. I had already made this video, I typically try to keep 4-8 weeks of content in a bank as a back up for when I get busy. The recent stuff with Razbam has made me want to diversify my risk a bit, for the sake of the channel so I asked them to become a CC partner. I was already playing more WT because I have been so busy with work. May as well get the Snail's blessing if I am playing their game more.

@IronDuke39 25 дней назад

when the day comes, and it will, that WT SIM goes deeper, the air for DCS will become ever tighter. WT sim with GCI/AWACS, VOIP etc... WT has the potential, the technology and the resources.

@TheDAWinz 25 дней назад

WT Flight models are usually decent to pretty good across the board, and anything out of place gets bug reported until its fixed (unless the documents are restricted, like the SU-27 bleed rate). Another thing is that countermeasures are very accurate, down to the rise time of flares, along with accurately modeled seeker behavior it makes flaring IRCCM missiles a skill instead of a random RNG diceroll like in DCS.

@blanchbacker 25 дней назад

I still can’t believe DCS hasn’t done anything to compete with WT IRCCM and flare/chaff models. It’s embarrassing

@mzaite 25 дней назад

@@blanchbackerDCS is bound by its ancient foundation code.

@skykingdash8 25 дней назад

I started playing WT arb & sim in December after watching a bullet4myenemy video where he said he got good at dogfighting in WT. I sucked at dogfighting in ECW so I tried it out. I also wanted to fly the Mig 23 before we got it in DCS (which we probably never will now). I'm now completely addicted to WT and havent even touched DCS in 6 months.

@_Addi_ 22 дня назад

You should try using you airbrake more often to slow down on those rolling scissors. Usually does the trick for me.

@mey.tomhero4876 21 день назад

I have to say the MiG-21S is genuinely one of my favorites for Sim. Its great and I love the power the engine gives out, really lets you stand on your tail in a lot of situations other planes wouldnt let you.

@ItzCPU_ 25 дней назад

Well said, my favourite thing about warthunder sim is the variety of things you can end up facing

@jordonbiondo2403 25 дней назад

I really feel that greatest thing WT or other sims offer is a streamlined approach to game modes, match making, scenarios etc. I really want to just get in and do a thing, a focused thing, that my whole team is doing. Sometimes a packed DCS server feels like 50 people all playing separate games where some other players just happen to render on their map. I've been playing a lot of VTOL VR lately and was surprised to find that other players communicate and coordinate at vastly higher rates than I've ever seen in public DCS and I think this is mostly due to the nature of the missions available. It's very easy to know what your role is, what your objective is, who else is going to be doing that and what others are doing. That was a long winded way to say, yeah, it's funny how a scoreboard and a currency grind (or an easily accessible objective list in VTOL VR) can actually make a game better when it promotes objective play and teamwork. WT Sim is a great time.

@SportDCS 25 дней назад

How DARE you shoot down an A-4!

@RedTail1-1 25 дней назад

When people aren't just diving into airfields non-stop...

@haubentaucher8382 24 дня назад

That is when an event is running that requires players to get activity points in aircraft. I tend to avoid playing SIM during that time.

@jimlthor 24 дня назад

I've never seen that one time in the last year

@skeelo22 12 дней назад

@jimlthor it's usually during events on the ru and eu servers

@AxiamWolfe 25 дней назад

I'd bounced on and off WT air AB and air RB on a few occasions. Recently though I had a change in mindset since getting my VKB Gunfighter and a center stick mounting solution: just VR Sim Battles. Oh boy has it kind of been a blast jumping into japanese planes and turning and burning. Even if progress is slower than getting good at gaming air RB, even just one Enduring Confrontation session after work nets me a couple of good fights that leaves me satisfied. or dive bombing destroyers with 800kg bombs, that's neat too.

@AxiamWolfe 25 дней назад

Almost at jets on the tech tree too. Looking forward to flying the Sabre, considering that in ECW I mainly fly the MiG-19 and F-5E.

@branbon2691 25 дней назад

it makes me wish we had a proper sim mode for ground vehicles that actually encourages objective play the way air sim does.

@Hadgerz 2 дня назад

All your points about the variety of airframes are spot on, it can sometimes give a choice paralysis vibe where you can just sit in the hangar and get overwhelmed deciding which nation to play, factoring in whether the top BR is 11.3 or 11.7 (i don't play any higher now fox3s are in). Maps like Winter Stalingrad, Zhengzhou and Tunisia are great for the interception bomber-hunting gameplay loop, to the point that it can turn into a tower defense game firing fox1s at all the zombers trying to exploit the points earned by mighty mouse rockets.

@Vogelchen 26 дней назад

The only thing I dont like about WT air sim is that there is no GCI/AWACS that makes getting ambushed really frustrating sometimes, but other than that I had waaay more good fights in WT than in DCS and the downtime between deaths is also not very big which is nice if you just want to do some fighting.

@biggie10101 26 дней назад

Its easier to get good fights in an arcade game than in a simulator ;)

@jordancourse5102 25 дней назад

The maps are very small so there isn’t really a need for it. I’m a WT air sim main and I’d like for that QOL but the maps would need to be bigger.

@IMJUSTABANANA 25 дней назад

@@jordancourse5102 The sim maps are really too small for modern jets , f14 can just take off and see enemy airfield

@Vogelchen 25 дней назад

@@biggie10101 eh DCS is also just a game just slightly more realistc. Dogfighting works the same in both. I spend hundreds of hours in both games and fights in WT are simply more fun and interactive. I might get more kills in DCS but slinging a missile at an unaware player or flares just simpy not working is just not as much fun as a dogfight in WT where this happens way less.

@kizvy 25 дней назад

I recently got into air simulators, and man playing air sim in war thunder at like 10-11.0 is a blast

@panzerothelake2178 26 дней назад

I personally love war thunder air sim as well as DCS. As you’ve mentioned numerous times in previous videos, the full Fidelity nature of many DCS modules means they’re much more complicated to learn in war thunder the far more simplistic approach to modeling aircraft allows for a huge variety from pre wwii all the way to almost modern aircraft. This enables so much variety in flight styles. But one thing that I personally love about war thunder is the numerous models of the same airframe, for example the sheer number of MIG 21s in the game with huge different capability levels.

@devdream9277 25 дней назад

Also there is just more aircraft in war thunder, and they have complexe damage model (compared to DCS atleast)

@LeLe-pl8jq 24 дня назад

Thank you for showing WT some love

@l.lehrer7124 25 дней назад

DCS aside, I play WT a lot ---in WT I've had amazing fights both in jet and prop. I don't think these fights are boring because it employs patience and skill to make the kill and others its right place right altitude.

@jimlthor 24 дня назад

I've gone back to DCS after playing only WT Sim for months, and could tell that my BFM had improved immensely. It's legit

@jimlthor 24 дня назад

Ive been playing the shit out of WTSim for the last year. Unlocked USA, USSR and Germany up to 10.0 jets. It runs so much better than DCS in VR.. Hoggit likes to shit on it.. but i doubt anyone plays it. Also, if you dont know, you can choose what room you play in to make sure you're in a populated lobby

@TeamUnknownRacing 11 дней назад

so i just started playing sim, not new to game just sim, some reason, i have absolutely now audio related to missel locks etc, is there a setting i am missing somehwere?

@Splomf 15 дней назад

You should be able to set IAS (Altitude Compensated air speed) in the HUD settings. It'll make it much easier than relying on speed measured in relation to the ground. Another thing is that Flaps in WT can be really weird. I would almost never advise you use your Flaps in a rate fight. It will almost always result in a worse rate-fight performance.

@serdarsimsek9147 25 дней назад

I thought war thunder sim was only my guilty pleasure...

@DingoTactical 26 дней назад

Lol I started watching your videos to move off war thunder Sim to DCS. Just when I thought I was out, you drag me back in!

@hralch1234 25 дней назад

Being a little bored of the units I like to fly in DCS, I went for Falcon BMS, and then for War Thunder Simulation Battles and I am having a lot of fun, grinding units like the Mirages the Kfir, Hunter, F-8, F-15A, F-16A. I have even lost all shame happily Giving them my money for Premium accounts and other units. But yeah I would prefer spending mu money on units like those if they were available on DCS

@lexthemystic3541 25 дней назад

Thank you! Someone who talks about War Thunder Simulator instead of just RB! It’s heavily slept on, but I find it the most fun I’ve had in that game.

@Cellinia. 25 дней назад

I just got into warthunder sim a few weeks ago and I had a lot of fun playing 11.0 and above in my murika planes.

@steeltribe3967 26 дней назад

Nice video, I had given up on WT but will give it a go as it looks much nicer these days. Also, probably something I can play when travelling with a single joystick on a laptop.

@dadssimulations 25 дней назад

Some of the gun sights in VR warthunder are all shimmering and shit anybody know of a fix?

@whataboutbob1000 25 дней назад

Is it me or is the audio/play speed faster than normal? I checked the UI controls and its on normal.

@House_of_Schmidt 17 дней назад

I wish we had RB EC. Air RB right now is aweful.

@MobinBrown 25 дней назад

cold war era is the best br range currently due to the limited weapon and sensor performance. The Difference radar makes is cool too. Planes without countermeasures become viable again due not really needing them as most deaths are due to sneak attacks.

@rex669 25 дней назад

One of my best fights was first gen Mig-21 Fish bed Vs F4-II. The first gen mig is little under powered but it so much lighter other jets it can do some crazy stuff even with its limited weapons. We got into a nice rate fight and I won. In really hope this game mode gets some love!

@Red9_Channel 25 дней назад

Its those times when you dogfight 1 guy for 5min keeps me at Air SB. The whole games in Air RB are like 5min nowadays.

@MiG21fanboy 25 дней назад

The j7d, a mig 21 mf with a better and gets magic 1's and pl5's is amazing in the 10.0 10.7 bracket of sim

@SkyDawg91 25 дней назад

The problem is that you can't just start in the Cold War era. You have to grind your way up to those planes, which takes absolutely forever. If you could just have access to any aircraft you'd like to fly, the game would be so much better.

@Enigma89 25 дней назад

You can just buy a cold war plane

@SkyDawg91 25 дней назад

@@Enigma89 ....sure, for the mere price of $70, which is insanity.

@majorborngusfluunduch8694 25 дней назад

@@SkyDawg91Yeah $70 dollars for a pixel plane that's not modelled like DCS module is outrageous. I wish Gaijin would just pull the band aid and split the game into Cold War half and a WW2 half, like how World of Tanks on console does it.

@SATORI_111 25 дней назад

@@majorborngusfluunduch8694 And what about modern jets which is the appeal to most players and gives them the most money? stupid comment even though I hate Gaijin

@majorborngusfluunduch8694 25 дней назад

@@SATORI_111 The "modern" jets are Cold War aircraft dum dum. The F-15, F-16, and F-14 are from the 70s. The F/A-18, Su-27 and MiG-29 are from the 80s. Even the F-22 is a product of a Cold War era program meant to replace the F-15. As for more modern planes than those, the Cold War is sometimes argued to have never ended. At the very least, we're in a second Cold War now, so the name can still apply to newer jets when we get them.

@justthetip7 25 дней назад

I already got out of that crazy house once, you cant make me go back!!

@dubstepmachine4430 25 дней назад

Air sim is great fun but it has things that need some changes like the introduction of more enemy AI convoys, air patrols/ strikes missions, and AWACS. It gets pretty empty as the match goes on sadly. Another issue is the way they balance teams. RedFor gets France, Japan, Gemrany, and sweden at times which leads to a lot of instances where you're facing off against Phantoms, mirages, F5s, and F104s which gets very confusing, especially if you have some on your team which you always will. There's also the matter of not being able to use MFDs inside the cockpit which ruins immersion for those of us that really want to play sim more seriously for fun without having to learn all of DCS

@dubstepmachine4430 25 дней назад

Helicopters are also extremely slept on in simulator sadly, they're in in air sim, only ground sim which is a bit chaotic because you're having to defend against SAMs and also tank main rounds because of how easy it is to shoot down helicopters with mouse aim

@HighClover 20 дней назад

I'm a warthunder player I used to.only to the "realistic battles" mode kinda a half way point between arcade and sim, after watching alot of your dcs vids and other channels I wanted to get into sim like combat but never had the funding or time to learn dcs so I started playing sim mode in WT and have never looked back I'm happy to see you show off this mode 😀 mabye I'll catch you in a lobby sometime I hope to see more of this on your channel in the future.

@DessertUnicorn 26 дней назад

Some people play games for a combination of fighting and then getting the satisfaction of the runway appearing in front of you as you line up your course select needle with your tacan or whatever nav ur using.

@defenderbwe 25 дней назад

Man you gotta try this in VR, its looks and runs so good xD And getting those snapshots is a lot easier (and crashing into the ground a lot scarier lol)

@JustSomeGuy489 25 дней назад

The thing that really peeves me when it comes to sim in this game is all the planes that share tech trees of nations that verse each other constantly. It's annoying for target I.D. and you end up with less dissimilar air combat.

@Enigma89 25 дней назад

I tend to agree, it does make it a bit tricky for IFF especially without radars

@JustSomeGuy489 25 дней назад

@@Enigma89 I had a random thought about a potential solution; What if each vehicle had an individual 'allignment' that you could then assign to a special inter-national lineup for sim and possibly other gamemodes requiring multiple vehicles like the ground battles? E.g. Axis and Allies for interwar and WW2, East and West for cold war and today. This would also allow for some more interesting lineups, and possibly even encourage people to experiment with the more obscure trees to diversify their lineups. Opening up lineups like that might be a nightmare for balance though. And it wouldn't counteract things like the premium beutewaffen. Just a thought I guess.

@loneirregular1280 25 дней назад

Honestly agree in a way. I like DCS for its modern aircraft. FF modules are awesome for modern jets that benefit from it (say the F/A 18 is amazing to play in DCS) BUT anything before is I think overpriced as FF modules. For that WT is a nice break.

@RW-zn8vy 25 дней назад

Not the f4 it’s definitely worth its price. Same with helicopters.

@loneirregular1280 25 дней назад

@RW-zn8vy true that. The WSO has his own mini game in the back seat, somewhat same applies to the Tomcat. Different folks, different strokes, though. I am still saying that some of the analogue aircraft are a little bit overpriced / overcomplicated for many. I can still see some hard-core fan of a plane to appreciate the FF model of an older aircraft. There is a reason why I am eyeing on the Mosquito, the Sabre or the Mig-15; and the Mig-21. But many of the older aircraft dont really benefit that much from being FF in DCS, or might be holding players back, for them, War Thunder might be a good pick. I like the quick combat aspect of War Thunder for times when I dont have too much time at my disposal. In DCS things take time, Im not saying this negatively though. Thats the thing I like in DCS. Byt I dont always have 1+ hour available hehe.

@mariolazarov509 25 дней назад

No please, I just broke my crippling addiction to this game, I can't go back

@mzaite 25 дней назад

Where does it sit on a scale of pre-JANE’S Microprose with 1 being amiga Strike Eagle 1, and 10 being strike eagle 3 on a Pentium 2 with a Voodoo2 card?

@thurbine2411 26 дней назад

It’s fun because I can fly my Swedish jets and at least it sometimes feels a little realistic but would rather have all these planes in dcs somehow

@ilejovcevski79 26 дней назад

If only their business model was less atrocious.... and worked a bit on their flight models too, but the first one is more important IMO, aside from that i actually like what they did with the damage modeling and seeker implementation

@M0LOCK 25 дней назад

WT sim for me only loses to DCS/Falcon BMS in some very small details...

@warfarelooselet 26 дней назад

RCSM makes it more immersive when it comes to sounds

@Enigma89 24 дня назад

Whats that

@TheDAWinz 24 дня назад

@@Enigma89 It's a soundmod that you can download on WT live

@alpenfoxvideo7255 25 дней назад

My last days in war thunder were in sim, but I found it extremely clunky, even though there the F-4E was a beast. Modern stuff was unplayable.

@jordancourse5102 25 дней назад

I mostly play too tier air sim but lately I’ve been playing 10.3-11.3 (Mirage F1C, MiG 21Bis, F5E). It’s a good balance of tech but you can get some really good dogfights too. I’d like your opinion on top tier air sim from an “outside” perspective. WT’s sim community is fairly small and Gaijin neglects sim like it’s a plague. Currently in top tier air sim the matchmaking is extremely unbalanced due to ghost lobbies (where a player joins and leaves while the match is going and when he leaves his name is still on the leaderboard which counts as a player on the team and it allows the opposing team to stack) causing 1 team to outnumber the other. Right now the blue team (US mostly) out numbers the red team (Russia, China) because yes the NATO based planes are more popular and the Aim-9M spam just further adds the incentive to play the planes with those missiles because right now they have no smoke and if you know you know…

@case.98 25 дней назад

war thunder for me is a pretty cool game, i gave it up though because i got bored after i unlocked the 4th F4U Corsair that was only slightly different from the previous ones… but i may hop on again in the future

@SATORI_111 25 дней назад

Playing different tech trees or researching different lines may help

@connla 21 день назад

I still stand by that WT air sim (and just air sim) would be in a much healthier space and have little effect on the rest of the war thunder 'economy' if they entirely disconnected it from the free to play model and just let sim players outright buy access to it and every air vehicle as a stand alone package (either as a separate game, or in the current game) The truth is the crossover of sim and RB/AB players is a lot smaller in air battles then in other modes, beyond times people were abusing sim for grind (when bomber pilots use to gunship in sim to make easy lions/eagles) the actual current player base are quite far apart. So you wont lose any substantial amount currently in the grind if you offered them every plane and upgrade but only in sim and I think there is a further player base out there for a 'DCS lite' they just dont want to be forced into some awful grind model. We saw this with IL2 BOS. When it originally launched they stuck in little grind bars for every plane to unlock camos and loadouts and the player base revolted. They ended up making bank of it by basically charging more for players to just skip it by buying the premium edition, but they stopped doing it for all later versions. Ground forces has always been different, the difference between sim and RB ground forces is a lot more nuanced and since its inception the two modes have functionally competed over the same player base (it's why ground forces never got a enduring confrontation for it's sim mode like air did) so no chance in hell they'd ever offer the same deal for sim ground. Perhaps this is functionally what the upcoming VR focused War Thunder spin off will become (Aces of Thunder). If they are smart they would try to avoid putting a grind in that title and make it a sort of middle point between VTOL VR and DCS/IL2 . Though at the moment from what I've read it's very ww2 focused atm and also a ps5 vr exclusive title, I suspect it wont be for long, and that someone in Gaijin is trying to get it to work with the meta quest 2/3.

@user-if4zv5nj5m 26 дней назад

For me, dcs and wt fit different roles. Dcs is a more serious stuff, where you dedicate the whole evening to play the game and make other plans around that. Wt is when you have an hour or two and feel like getting in a cockpit. Or if I'm tired and want to just fly without using my brain

@b_n_z2929 25 дней назад

i got into aircraft combat simulators because of War Thunder. Abandoned WT because Gaijin's dogshit business model, to learn DCS. Now ED is trying their hardest to make me switch back to War Thunder.......

@Enigma89 25 дней назад

It's joever

@skeelo22 12 дней назад

Finally, someone gets it. I always have gotten shit for playing sim, especially at the cold war brs (8.0-11.0~) because everyone thinks it's just e8ther props or top tier.

@vitomodic9138 26 дней назад

i play the tomcat in sim, its alright but when uptiered it has no chance, sim itsself is alright but can be frustrating if the br bracket isnt in your favour

@trentlangford9050 25 дней назад

Maybe one small point is that I feel like war thunder sim vr is not as intuitive to me as DCS VR, but that could just be experience

@Pekins_ 22 дня назад

I wanna play WT really bad but I cant stand the ww1/2 grind, it doesn't appeal to me at all, is paying cash for premium jets the only solution?

@Enigma89 22 дня назад

Basically

@treanttrooper6349 19 дней назад

It will be good to see you out there Enigma o7 If you see a Lightning out there, Beware 😉

@user-ho1fg8xm3i 17 дней назад

WT is decent, but the grind is just ridiculous, and I gave up on it years back, I just play what I have now and again, and have no interest in grinding further. The economy non premium means that unless you are a good player you will be forever broke.

@Altra2503 25 дней назад

The only thing that suck in WT air sim is when an airplane event is on, Zombers are back to sim to grind and it can get really toxic real quick

@lequidam8827 25 дней назад

The only game mode worth playing in this game

@CrazyboyZ213 25 дней назад

Yes, we need more people playing sim in war thunder, and the key to stay sane while playing wt is to ignore the grind, just grind to whatever plane you want then just enjoy, don't mind the top tier, it sucks

@ChucksSEADnDEAD 22 дня назад

>ignore the grind >just grind The absolute state

23 дня назад

I think I have to try WT sim again. I tried it many, many years ago and noped out then, but I should give it chance. But I'm very far from cold war jets...

@kimbonzky 26 дней назад

Love the cold war fighter in WT sim, best mode for some fun

@Yvarov 23 дня назад

Finaly someone mentioned warthunder airsim.

@tickinq 23 дня назад

Honestly biggest thing that keeps me from enjoying WT is the grind.

@Enigma89 23 дня назад

Don't grind, just play

@pierre1714 24 дня назад

When i look at my DCS friends list in steam, i see a lot playing WT. It is the game everybody spit on but everyone plays secretly. 😂 In reality, it is a great game and the haters from the DCS community are just plain ridiculous.

@ChucksSEADnDEAD 22 дня назад

The biggest WT haters are WT players. You cannot achieve burning hatred for Gaijin without being personally invested in the game.

@user-zu8hp9es4c 15 дней назад

I honestly don’t know. I question why I play flight sims.

@BlackbirdDrozd 25 дней назад

Why are you using flaps when you are diving, which effectivelly brakes your speed/energy gain from the descent the most, and don't use them at the top of the loop when the flaps can give the biggest increase in turn rate for the lowest energy loss penalty (because you are already slowest). In my oppinion you should do the opposite and just try to make the bottom curve more shallow to not hit the ground. I usually do the opposite and then have guns on target on descent much faster.

@Enigma89 25 дней назад

Typically I do this when I do not care for speed. I do not know what the corner speeds are all in the jets in WT so I was really just going for nose position.

@Tabaskospecial 16 дней назад

Most of my 3500 hours in war thunder is in sim

@stevehenderson3432 25 дней назад

If they would put some effort into improving it, it could be something special. They’re sitting on a gold mine but refuse to add anything interesting to sim.

@ericw2674 24 дня назад

For sure fun

@mrgarland5210 21 день назад

Mirage F1C/CT is my go to

@orleansjunky4074 25 дней назад

I would agree BUT.... vr feels warped like a fish bowl. Hurts eyes/brain after a few minutes

@scaterz9778 25 дней назад

why cant they have germany on the other team? like with usa together why is germany only limited to eighter fight with ussr or fight with ussr and italy and france

@user-qn3xu5ee3t 25 дней назад

People can make their own lobbies with maps of their choice. For example, you can pick Korea map, choose USSR vs USA and no other nation will spoil the gameplay

@englishcrab 25 дней назад

i love warthunder sim so much

@PotatoeJoe69 24 дня назад

I want to play sim. I really need a HOTAS

@squishface80085 25 дней назад

Someone in my discord pointed this video out to me. Just going to leave a comment as I mainly play War Thunder Sim. As far as the DCS comparisons go...War Thunder does the whole "being a game" thing a lot better than DCS while DCS does the pilotage and in the cockpit experience better. Generally speaking, I think the standard of gameplay in War Thunder might be a little better across the board just due to not having as long of a learning curve to get the basics down. I don't have to manage systems as aggressively in War Thunder and I can focus more on nuances of dogfighting, situational awareness, etc...and it is also likely that the guy I am fighting is at least further along in that learning curve. On the other hand War Thunder sim has all of its own problems. The way that BR ranges work in sim is that there is always something that is best for the daily bracket...and players will gravitate towards that. Also there is a pretty stark range of BRs that are occupied by grinders and very small games where getting into a fight takes awhile...and the opposition is not all that interesting. It takes awhile to understand how the sim community thinks to actually find the games where active players gravitate to. As far as flight models go...from what I have observed and tested...Gaijin does make an honest attempt at modeling things accurately. Just recently the Mirage 2000 has gone through a bunch of changes to try to get the plane to more closely match its EM diagram...but because accurate modeling of aircraft is hard...nothing ever matches up 100%. In general I would describe WT flight models as being more consistent across the board in DCS insofar if something is inaccurate...it is consistently inaccurate across multiple flight models.

@TheDAWinz 25 дней назад

Nuh uh modelling aircraft isnt hard i bought a scale model kit and painted it in like 6 months!

@elkrumb9159 25 дней назад

Hi Beer Man

@Enigma89 24 дня назад

Thx for the thoughtful reply

@engineer1941 26 дней назад

Air sim is very good mode but shame it was abandoned. They fired dev(or he quit) that was working on it in 2021 and since then it is broken and nobody looked into it. Also shame stuff like radar gunsights are not working on 90% of planes all of that can be fixed easly since it was working few years ago.