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Zylen posted:I have a question regarding experienced gunners. My bomber has one experienced gunner, but two gunners total, which means I take a penalty to crew skills. Will the second gunner become experienced over time or do I need to save up 240 crew points to increase the number of experienced gunners I have? Yep, gotta pay to upgrade your gunner count to the same as your plane or you suffer a penalty (it's pretty high). The cost also goes up the more gunners you have. I'd suggest making one crew your 'gunner plane crew' and dump into the gunner stats. Or just buy eagles.
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What does the "Reward Bonus" mean in each plane? I have no clue.
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| # ? Dec 13, 2012 19:26 |
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Sgt. Anime Pederast posted:What does the "Reward Bonus" mean in each plane? I have no clue. You get extra money and XP for kills and such for flying certain planes. Guess which nation's planes have the highest? (Start's with an R)
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| # ? Dec 13, 2012 19:31 |
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XP/silver rewards are adjusted per plane, presumably because killing 12 dudes in a Catalina is a lot tougher than in a Hellcat. e: gently caress
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| # ? Dec 13, 2012 19:31 |
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Took out a B-17 using some rockets, they rock all them bombers socks  Also got up to the Yak-7 and boy, that 20mm cannon is my new best friend. One request tough: I want to see kills awarded for stuff like the enemy crashing due to leaking fuel - shot a CAS up real good but he crashed into the ground before I could turn around for the final pass and I got nothing for it  (Incidentially I crashed 3 times out of 4 in one match due to fuel leaks, goddamn) Some XP for ramming kills would be nice too.
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| # ? Dec 13, 2012 19:59 |
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Srebrenica Surprise posted:XP/silver rewards are adjusted per plane, presumably because killing 12 dudes in a Catalina is a lot tougher than in a Hellcat. No wonder I get retarded amounts of XP just by flying around like an idiot and shooting down people with my gunners in a catalina!
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| # ? Dec 13, 2012 20:09 |
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On the other hand, I like intentionally crashing when overly-damaged so no one gets credit for shooting me down. I feel it balances out the one hit deaths I usually experience.
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| # ? Dec 13, 2012 20:11 |
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Panzeh posted:You get extra money and XP for kills and such for flying certain planes. Guess which nation's planes have the highest? (Start's with an R) My Hurri Mk I is current showing a +45% reward rate, to the average 5-10% in the SOVIET RUSSIA tree. Seems odd that a fighter that decent in its tier is getting such a boost. I liked the Russian tree up until the LaGG-3, but the reload rate on the cannon really forces you to aim well as a single .50 is basically useless. And I don't do that. On the other hand, the 7.62s on the previous planes were basically click and watch a WALL of bullets appear 500m in front of you. I'll have to grind harder and see what the Yaks are like. Overall though, I really like the game, makes WoWP even more laughable then it was before I tried it. I find that the Bi-planes and low tier stuff can hold their own pretty well even against higher ups, because most of the pilots in the game are terrible anyway. Occasionally you catch someone in a MiG-15 who can actually fly it though. That's not enjoyable. Mazz fucked around with this message at Dec 13, 2012 around 20:20 |
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I return with gifts from the test server! A wonderful new glossy sheen to all planes.  Shots of the highest tier of each of the new planes!    Removal of all but one of the Gladiators!  A new Korean War type map!   Edit: Whoops forgot to add. You can now buy a "Talisman" for your planes for gold. It adds a 100% bonus to experience earned on that plane. For my Me-410 it said it would be about 1100 gold. Starter planes are 80 gold. I didn't get to try the squadron function but it is there. There is hardly anyone on the test server to even coordinate with to try it. Edit 2, Edit Harder: I got some shots from the forum of the new water which looks awesome.  
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That HE-112 is a beautiful aircraft. Seriously gorgeous. Have they given any hints as to how many planes they are planning on adding? Maybe WoWP selling point will simply be a massive variety of aircraft, similar to what Warbirds (and maybe Aces High) did.
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| # ? Dec 13, 2012 20:25 |
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BillyJoeBob posted:Edit: Whoops forgot to add. You can now buy a "Talisman" for your planes for gold. It adds a 100% bonus to experience earned on that plane. For my Me-410 it said it would be about 1100 gold. Starter planes are 80 gold. You can pay to make a plane premium, essentially. That sounds amazing; I'm so getting that for my Catalina 5a.
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| # ? Dec 13, 2012 20:32 |
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Dammit. So much for me resisting the urge to buy some eagles. So have any of you bought premium planes yet? How are they?
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| # ? Dec 13, 2012 20:38 |
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Those pictures and the premium plane thing was something from the dev server, as in it's part of the next update, not something live now. There's a scheduled downtime tomorrow morning for the US, afternoon for Europe. That might be the update time.
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| # ? Dec 13, 2012 20:45 |
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Sgt. Anime Pederast posted:I can't hit a loving thing with bombs, but flying in a huge rear end boat is so much fun. Wish there were less boat haters though, and that I had the b17 already. Depending on your aircraft and altitude, there's a big rear end targeting circle that shows up on the ground that tells you exactly where the bomb is going to hit.
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| # ? Dec 13, 2012 20:50 |
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Perick posted:Dammit. So much for me resisting the urge to buy some eagles. The Havoc is my favorite. 4x 50 cal. in the nose, 4x 500 pound bombs (and a level bombsite), and two tail gunners - one above and one below. I stay up high on anti-bomber duty and drop 111's and flying boats all day long. If there aren't any, I've gotten pretty good at leading the moving targets on the ground. Against MG armed planes behind me, I hop to F6, and then it's a race to see what gives in faster, one of my engines, or your will to live. (SO FUNNY when they break off, because I hop back to the F4 view and give chase...) Occasionally, I'll get the opportunity to stoop like a hawk on someone and blast their Spitfire out of the sky before they knew what hit them. Totally the second best $15 I've spent on a game this month. (The Walking Dead being the best, but that was $25.) Bolow posted:Depending on your aircraft and altitude, there's a big rear end targeting circle that shows up on the ground that tells you exactly where the bomb is going to hit. Kenny Rogers fucked around with this message at Dec 13, 2012 around 20:59 |
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Bolow posted:Depending on your aircraft and altitude, there's a big rear end targeting circle that shows up on the ground that tells you exactly where the bomb is going to hit. It's a little too big for the 100lb bombs. Maybe you'll get a little XP from a ground target hit if it's in the reticule but you need to be a surgeon to get a direct hit. It's yellow to me and turns red for a quarter-second when the crosshairs directly cross a target. 500lb bombs solve this problem, however.
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| # ? Dec 13, 2012 21:07 |
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I'm really starting to warm to the Pe-3bis It's such a nice stable firing platform that it just wrecks poo poo despite perhaps not having the beefiest of armaments 
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| # ? Dec 13, 2012 21:39 |
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Highlight of my first couple of games was shooting down some guy who proceeded to crash into and blow up two friendly ground vehicles. whoops.jpg
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| # ? Dec 13, 2012 21:44 |
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Pimpmust posted:I'm really starting to warm to the Pe-3bis I love the Pe-3bis so much. Its fast, has a nice turret on the back, has 2x 12.7mm and a 20mm and a very nice bombload. I don't see what's not to like. I switched off to the Pe-2 though since I make more money in that.
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| # ? Dec 13, 2012 21:46 |
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After two lackluster rounds in the peashooter I managed to get enough XP to rank to get the Buffalo so at least now I'm in a decent plane for a couple of minutes before I get shot down.  Also I tested the missions which seemed nice but the annoying part I noticed is that they only give you full rewards for two or three after that you've hit a limit. Which is kinda annoying when I suddenly found myself playing in a campaign.
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| # ? Dec 13, 2012 22:27 |
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Someone in the WT forums posted an overview of the new hangar features in convenient video form. Highlights include the squadron/friends list finally being in, a new store setup, new planes, and custom battles, which are like the training rooms in WoT except with bots if there aren't enough people. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nh1sif7077A
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| # ? Dec 13, 2012 22:31 |
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For crew experience on fighters, is it even helpful to dump experience points in the gunner slots so you can get the qualification/expert training?
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| # ? Dec 13, 2012 22:45 |
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Really enjoying this so far, anyone have tips on high altitude bombing? I cant seem to get a grasp of it.
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| # ? Dec 13, 2012 22:49 |
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Xii posted:Really enjoying this so far, anyone have tips on high altitude bombing? I cant seem to get a grasp of it. Check to see where your bombs are on the plane, if they are under the wings, you should not be using the center of the bombsight to aim, more like the ticks to the left and right. Use a bigger bomb.
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| # ? Dec 13, 2012 22:52 |
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Do free repairs regenerate over time?
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| # ? Dec 13, 2012 22:55 |
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Holy gently caress are the early german planes bad. I ranked Brit to 5 and russian to 3 and decided to rank germans to 3 and wow. Their rank 1 and 2 fighters get absolutely garbage armaments. 2 MGs with slow fire rates and piss all for ammo capacity? I do better with the german beginner planes than the falco or the G50s. Admittedly I'm a bit spoiled by the brits getting 8 guns at rank 2 and the russians with their psychotic ROF. Gonna stick with it till rank 4 and see if it gets better, since the rank 3 planes are more agile but still have poo poo weaponry. Glad to see even the historical blurb agrees that the Italian-made planes had woefully ineffective weaponry.
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| # ? Dec 13, 2012 22:58 |
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How come it's taking me minutes to shoot down planes even with cannons while half the time I get one shotted by random spitfires? Should I be leading to the left and right of that indicator to hit their wings instead of fuselage?
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RosaParksOfDip posted:Holy gently caress are the early german planes bad. I ranked Brit to 5 and russian to 3 and decided to rank germans to 3 and wow. Their rank 1 and 2 fighters get absolutely garbage armaments. 2 MGs with slow fire rates and piss all for ammo capacity? I do better with the german beginner planes than the falco or the G50s. Admittedly I'm a bit spoiled by the brits getting 8 guns at rank 2 and the russians with their psychotic ROF. Gonna stick with it till rank 4 and see if it gets better, since the rank 3 planes are more agile but still have poo poo weaponry. I love the Brit tree, its awesome. That HurricaneMkI in early game is probably the best rank 1 plane there is. EDIT: Just tried the German starters, jeez you weren't kidding. Xii fucked around with this message at Dec 13, 2012 around 23:39 |
| # ? Dec 13, 2012 23:36 |
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What was my last tree to try and level to 4? Russians. What's my favorite nation turned out to be? 
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| # ? Dec 13, 2012 23:50 |
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drat, how the hell are you supposed to level up past 4? After your free golden eagles disappear gaining xp for your nation is a bitch.
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| # ? Dec 13, 2012 23:55 |
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Psychosis 01 posted:For crew experience on fighters, is it even helpful to dump experience points in the gunner slots so you can get the qualification/expert training? I'd say yes, but more so later on. +30 reload speed by leveling up gunner skills is cheaper than just leveling up reload speed normally. And as for German planes, they really start out crappy. I got up to rank 4 and still find them crappy. At least the Americans get the FA3 Buffalo and the Kitty Hawk at rank 3 and 4 respectively, making them actually playable (Kitty Hawk is probably my favorite plane so far). Going to work on Russia next and see how that goes.
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| # ? Dec 13, 2012 23:56 |
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I learned the hard way that you shouldn't attack a Tu-2 or Beaufighter in a Peashooter. Instant shoot down.
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| # ? Dec 14, 2012 00:05 |
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Would anyone mind quickly going over the differences between this and world of Warplanes? I've played a bit of the closed beta for World of Warplanes, and thought it was fun, not great though. Sorry if this has already been covered in this thread, I'm currently reading through it.
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Orv posted:What was my last tree to try and level to 4? Russians. Wait till you get the IL-2 and start obliterating everything in your path. 650rpm 20mm cannons are 
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Smooch City posted:Would anyone mind quickly going over the differences between this and world of Warplanes? I've played a bit of the closed beta for World of Warplanes, and thought it was fun, not great though. Sorry if this has already been covered in this thread, I'm currently reading through it. To quote this handy guide. quote:British Tend focus on dog-fighting and large caliber bombs, Their aircraft are generally Fast; averagely sized and have lots of guns. The bombers for the British are generally under-gunned but have turrets in good locations.
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| # ? Dec 14, 2012 00:22 |
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Woo, finally got my desert skin unlocked for the Hurricane II.
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| # ? Dec 14, 2012 01:03 |
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PhantomZero posted:drat, how the hell are you supposed to level up past 4? After your free golden eagles disappear gaining xp for your nation is a bitch. I laughed heartily at this, the real grind begins at rank 10. I'm currently rank 16 and that rank alone requires 3,160,00 XP points to advance to rank 17.
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I've never played an airplane simulator at all, much less a combat sim, but War Thunder has been keeping me busy almost nonstop since I picked it up. This game scratches an itch I've had for a long time and if you're not an airplane nerd and just want to shoot some beautiful planes, you'll probably have a killer time too. From what I've heard in mumble, even the airplane nerds are having a good time, so there's that, I'm currently sitting through the world's longest final exam presentation of projects and I'm so very eager to get back in the keyboard cockpit.
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| # ? Dec 14, 2012 01:18 |
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What channel are people posting up in on the CTS mumble?
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| # ? Dec 14, 2012 01:34 |
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Raged posted:Do free repairs regenerate over time? I didn't see anyone answer this: free repairs take a certain amount of time based on the specific plane. This time is listed if you hover your mouse over the plane. By default, planes are auto-repaired at the end of a mission and it deducts the lions from your account, though it's a very small amount for early planes. This is a plane-specific cost. You can disable this but you would then need to choose different planes to fight with. A mid-rank plane like the Yak 3 takes nearly 11 hours to repair for free, but costs 2,664 lions to repair. If you were to get just a few kills with it, ground or planes, you've made a profit. It's not until you get to the late planes that you ever have to worry about something like that. The MiG-15 is a rank 20 plane that take 18 days 12 hours 40 minutes to repair for free or 21,240 lions obviously you have to so a bit better to pay for a death of a MiG-15. As I understand it, only planes destroyed in a mission have to be repaired, damaged ones don't.
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