It takes some time to learn possible locations where enemies can be. In reality most of time you will need to pre aim and wait for them to come. You will get better, just be patient bro
My problem is i see everyone dead in the game even with a bit of flame colored object near an alive tank i will think he is dead and same when he is even slightly grayish or near something gray and boom he is dead to me until he kills me.
When you suspect a vehicle is nearby, park your tank, and press i. It turns off your own engine. This makes it harder for the enemy to listen and know where you are while you can focus where the engine sound is coming from
playing since 2014, and it wasnt till 2020 that I found the setting. I really like the gunner sight, but it can be a problem when the barrel blocks some of the view.
Like how people complain about this. And play for ages and not a singular time thought “maybe I should look up how to change this” skill diff on the real
this is why I ALWAYS check any kind of settings in every game I play because I find it so useful for me to improve the perfomance, indeed I always had this setting disabled
Playing since 2013 and I still didn’t know until a week ago - it’a a default setting - it’s really annoying when your tank gunner sight is not zeroed to the gun 7 br above tanks Germany - it’s best to set it off - good video mate 👍 also camo won’t effect your sight I always wondered how other tanks got me with all that camo over gun sight ??!
Benn playing since 2015 and I myself use the gunner's sight, and mainly just adjust for parallax myself. Never actually knew about that setting so thank you. That'll make putting bushes on my turret less "blinding"
@@benshaw576 when adding new vechicles they often don't put a lot of effort into putting them into the right brackets, sometimes forget about stuff and they also butchered the rewards quite a lot
@@rommelthedesertfox3089 parallax (in this context) is the offset of the sight from the barrel meaning that one could be aiming for a weakspot through the gunsight and not hit said weakspot by virtue of the gun being offset
I actually turned this setting on for myself because I like the challenge that it brings. Sure it’s gotten me killed in situations where the barrel sight wouldn’t, but it adds to my immersion.
When I was new to the game the most game changing thing I found almost 3 months later was that you could into the games coding and setup engine controls for planes with 2 or more engines like you could set 1 engine to 100% and have the other one turned off
Also don’t forget another huge disadvantage is “grass in gunner sight”. You can chose to disable it so when you are hiding and decide to peak your view won’t be blocked.
Best things I found from settings are "not joining active battles" and "set target for squadron" Even when I'm not playing with friends, I constantly use set target to see if corner has faulty hitbox or if I want to use artillery more accurately
This is going to make the leopard 1 to a1a5 grind soooooo much easier since you need perfect accuracy for long range sniping and the leopards use the upper commander cupola area sight to aim making long range sniping a trial and error too much left or right or over or under shot hell bearable. (Using the improved rangefinder with not barrel sights makes the gun behave unpredictably)
This setting was on by default when i first joined, back in 2015. Never had an issue with it, until i played the casemate TDs. I still use it from time to time at lower BRs. but learning to use it helps immensely with 1970s+ tanks, as they have commander sights and fire controls
I've played off and on for many years when I first started the sight was at the end of the barrel. After a year or so break I came back and figured it was changed for everyone. I've gotten so used to it I might leave it not sure now lol
There is an advantage by using the sight as its intended, With this sight it gives the player better angle of attack and acquisition of target, it also gives a more authentic feel rather the default sight, I personally play with the setting on and I recommend you learn as learning the paralax you will hit targets a lot better and when you want to go to simulator mode you are trained
I actually had that off by default, but turned it on because its much more immersive for RB and also because then I dont have to readjust for when playing SB and back to RB
the biggest game changer for me was when i learned that autorepair could be turned off, i went from literally going into losses every day to making some decent money. i think i turned it on when i just started playing, then deleted wt a then after some time got into it again
My game started with the cannon aim, but i decided to play with extra balls and placed the aim cam placed on the real optics, i got soo used to it that i developed an auto calculation between aim difference and target distance, hit any and every target no matter what right where i want it, if u want to get better, play harder, learn faster
Had this optuon when i came back to playing the game a few months agom it frustrated me so much, but got it eventually figured out. Wish I came across this much earlier!
Believe it or not it's quite the advantage to view through gunners sight on more modern and cold war tanks where the optics are above the gun. You can safely hide almost the entire tank behind a hill and engage really really long distance enemies from total cover
Bro I'm 2.5k in got almost all nations to 6.0 tanks and I haven't changed this and still average 6 kills a match but thanks I never knew what it improved
I have turned on mine cause I just want to, adds more immersion to me and I'm completely used to it capable of landing close up small target shots and also distant ones without even using the ranger finder. Of course this depends with what tank i'm using.
I turn this on when playing some vehicles. Like the Bradley, since the gunner sight is on top of the tank by the TOW launcher. So you can fire and guide your missiles while most of your vehicle is hidden.
It should be mandatory for Realistic Battles. I remember back in the day when Realistic Battles was Simulator Batttles (Full Real Battles) but with 3rd person. It was absolutely perfect. Then they introduced markers and mixed battles and it really destroyed the original intent.
All of those who played war thunder should definitely ues this. with the barrel blocking half the sight it makes it feel more real. And it's fun to use
I’ll be honest, on PC you can use all of your machine gunners at once, but if you are on Console, you have to set it on either a keyboard or replace another button with the machine gun button, but it only sets itself to one of them if you have several
This can be very helpful for shooting around corners. I was wondering why I wasn't hitting anything, only to realize that the building was in the way, and the gunner was sitting to the left of the cannon barrel.
There’s actually way way more than this that sets new players back. Like for example that you’ll be 1 tapped with 7.62 mgs as a new player but a player with maxed crews will survive 5 shots of a rheinmetal cannon when he’s only driving an m8. Also everybody should change their view distance to yards since that’s what scopes are sighted in, for some reason game starts in meters despite having no correlation to your scope
Would love some shorts on the different radars, missile types, how they work, pros and cons. I can't stand with skipping through 30 minutes of video to get what I need and miss the important stuff in-between.
@@ChipsAhoyMcCoy I do as well but I don't know why my aim 9's for the phantom just explode In the air before reaching the target. And all the ones I do see are for PC not console. This is about the only professional style page that gives easy directions for what to change and what they change.
In my 600 hours of war thunder, i played half of it with real gunner sight. Because i didn’t knew the gun barrel view was a thing. The amount of times i missed a shot because of that offset you get from what you see and where your barrel is pointing is just painful. I realised this when i bought bushes. It was covering gunners view and thats when i started doing some googling caz in other videos people could see perfectly with bushes. Damn it was like discovering universes deepest secret lmao 😩
I turn it on at times because some strong tanks have their optics above the whole tank making peeking over a hill or slope to snipe easier like the Challenger 2 early models
A weird thing with the game, is this should automatically be on for the Challenger 2 series of tanks even in simulator, because the gun sight is literally above the gun directly.
This was set to yes for me although my only problem with it was with the French M4A1 as for some reason the barrel would fly around randomly in the gun sight
I had about 200 hours into the game before I learnt this Always questioned how people playing could shoot through windows and small openings as I could never do it I noticed it most on the Leopard 1 at 7.3 as the gunner sight is so far detached from the barrel
In air battles I turned the free look activation from the c key to alt, so it frees up my other fingers for maneuvering with the thumb doing the free look
Another big one is the rangefinder and range sight adjustment buttons. I play on xbox so my binding for the rangefinder is right stick than I adjust the gun sight distance with lb+dpad up or lb+dpad down and it also will tell u the distance it's set to in the top left corner of ur sight and the other side will be the rangefinder range so if ur using say a us low tier tank with a worthless scope that cant see close to the mil dots this is a very useful technique
i actually have this setting turned off by default and turned it on myself because i love using the gunner sight
Some people do like it better. I only use it if I am in sim battles.
It’s a fun bit of realism
I use the gunner sights because I find it more challenging and fun
Same. Its kinda the point of playing a tank game. If i wanted an easy shooting game, just go play an FPS.
Same. Mine was default turned off. I turned it on for the same reason as yours.
I played the game for 3 years before I found the “uninstall” button. Really helped me improve 👍
Yeah since doing that my K:D ratio increased dramatically
Can I have your account then
My problem is that I can't notice an enemy quickly and my aim is slow :(
😟
Try listening, you will be able to hear anyone coming up on you with headphones
It takes some time to learn possible locations where enemies can be. In reality most of time you will need to pre aim and wait for them to come. You will get better, just be patient bro
My problem is i see everyone dead in the game even with a bit of flame colored object near an alive tank i will think he is dead and same when he is even slightly grayish or near something gray and boom he is dead to me until he kills me.
When you suspect a vehicle is nearby, park your tank, and press i. It turns off your own engine. This makes it harder for the enemy to listen and know where you are while you can focus where the engine sound is coming from
I have played this game for 5 years and never knew about this. First game after changing I got 15 kills before I died.
I assumed camera from tank gunner sight was only a sim thing as I've never had it on in realistic for about 5 years aswell.
@@jasonbrewer6714 it's been an option for years now
I like seeing the gun barrel. It adds to the game.
Not to sound pretentious but you should play Sim battles if that’s the case.
@@ObiWanStromboli I do sometimes. Just depends on my mood.
Makes me feel like a hero when I can hit the machine gun socket on a jumbo
Same.
The biggest disadvantage is the crew training. Absolutely massive advantage that cannot be overcome.
playing since 2014, and it wasnt till 2020 that I found the setting. I really like the gunner sight, but it can be a problem when the barrel blocks some of the view.
And the shell not hit right on the mark too
But youre suppose to aim after you found the target
@@have_no_idea ok i talk about how bad the aim system in sim mod was
@@FRFFW im talking about barrel blocking the view
@@have_no_idea oh ok YoU sUpPoSe To AiM aFtEr tArGeT
I see this is all about gun barrel
Like how people complain about this. And play for ages and not a singular time thought “maybe I should look up how to change this” skill diff on the real
I actually like the gunner sight. Just kinda fun to watch the barrels recoil
I use both the driver(yes there's an option for this within settings) and gunner sights when playing it adds realism and I love it
As a console player I use driver sight to keep my barrel in position when moving over harsh terrain
I’m a bit late to this but there’s also a commander view port you can use as well
@@erkthenothing5499 oh damn that is a strat honestly I could use
Same, it’s just so cool
realism in an arcade game lol
this is why I ALWAYS check any kind of settings in every game I play because I find it so useful for me to improve the perfomance, indeed I always had this setting disabled
Playing since 2013 and I still didn’t know until a week ago - it’a a default setting - it’s really annoying when your tank gunner sight is not zeroed to the gun 7 br above tanks Germany - it’s best to set it off - good video mate 👍 also camo won’t effect your sight I always wondered how other tanks got me with all that camo over gun sight ??!
Benn playing since 2015 and I myself use the gunner's sight, and mainly just adjust for parallax myself. Never actually knew about that setting so thank you. That'll make putting bushes on my turret less "blinding"
Honestly I do wish this was just locked on for RB at least for a time
Play sim then
@@tibinicle Gaijin has murdered sim sadly
@@oniichanmk7346 unfortunately
@@oniichanmk7346 in what way? It hasn't changed in years
@@benshaw576 when adding new vechicles they often don't put a lot of effort into putting them into the right brackets, sometimes forget about stuff and they also butchered the rewards quite a lot
Been playing war thunder for 5 years at this point, only now figured this out. Thanks man
Glad it could help.
Theres is so much im just learning, and ive played for about 8 years now and clocked almost 3000 hours
Well there is never a better time to start than now.
I love my gunner sight, especially my t-34/76 ones, plus it actually feels immersive
Barrel: takes up half an inch of the screen.
Him: it’s a MASSIVE disadvantage
Having to compensate for parallax is the main disadvantage
That is not the point
some tanks barrels actually takes up a pile of screen
@@E.hexzorwhat’s parallax
@@rommelthedesertfox3089 parallax (in this context) is the offset of the sight from the barrel meaning that one could be aiming for a weakspot through the gunsight and not hit said weakspot by virtue of the gun being offset
I love using the actual gunners sight makes me feel like a true tabker
I actually turned this setting on for myself because I like the challenge that it brings. Sure it’s gotten me killed in situations where the barrel sight wouldn’t, but it adds to my immersion.
Are u playing sim
When I was new to the game the most game changing thing I found almost 3 months later was that you could into the games coding and setup engine controls for planes with 2 or more engines like you could set 1 engine to 100% and have the other one turned off
You can do a lot with all manual controls. But most people wont ever need to use those.
Also don’t forget another huge disadvantage is “grass in gunner sight”. You can chose to disable it so when you are hiding and decide to peak your view won’t be blocked.
Best things I found from settings are "not joining active battles" and "set target for squadron" Even when I'm not playing with friends, I constantly use set target to see if corner has faulty hitbox or if I want to use artillery more accurately
Nice use of the realistic German sights, found it much easily to see what im aiming at when not obscured by range marks. The triangle shape is so good
I really liked using that sight but I had to stop because it was outdated. I wish someone would make an automated version of it.
@@ChipsAhoyMcCoydude how did u get those sights like what setting it is?
This is going to make the leopard 1 to a1a5 grind soooooo much easier since you need perfect accuracy for long range sniping and the leopards use the upper commander cupola area sight to aim making long range sniping a trial and error too much left or right or over or under shot hell bearable. (Using the improved rangefinder with not barrel sights makes the gun behave unpredictably)
This setting was on by default when i first joined, back in 2015. Never had an issue with it, until i played the casemate TDs. I still use it from time to time at lower BRs. but learning to use it helps immensely with 1970s+ tanks, as they have commander sights and fire controls
I've played off and on for many years when I first started the sight was at the end of the barrel. After a year or so break I came back and figured it was changed for everyone. I've gotten so used to it I might leave it not sure now lol
i'm not new but it does look kinda fun seeing the tank barel when useing a scope, i might try it when i'm not playing serious aka (%90 of the time)
Remember the old days when u had to switch the gears by yourself?
There is an advantage by using the sight as its intended, With this sight it gives the player better angle of attack and acquisition of target, it also gives a more authentic feel rather the default sight, I personally play with the setting on and I recommend you learn as learning the paralax you will hit targets a lot better and when you want to go to simulator mode you are trained
I personally have this on because I am all about the immersion, not about winning.
I actually had that off by default, but turned it on because its much more immersive for RB and also because then I dont have to readjust for when playing SB and back to RB
the biggest game changer for me was when i learned that autorepair could be turned off, i went from literally going into losses every day to making some decent money.
i think i turned it on when i just started playing, then deleted wt a then after some time got into it again
I just started getting into ground battles after only playing air battles for a solid 3 years
thanks for this tip
I’m like you, though I switch around but mostly play air now. It’s nice to have a break and go to ground for a bit.
My game started with the cannon aim, but i decided to play with extra balls and placed the aim cam placed on the real optics, i got soo used to it that i developed an auto calculation between aim difference and target distance, hit any and every target no matter what right where i want it, if u want to get better, play harder, learn faster
Had this optuon when i came back to playing the game a few months agom it frustrated me so much, but got it eventually figured out. Wish I came across this much earlier!
Believe it or not it's quite the advantage to view through gunners sight on more modern and cold war tanks where the optics are above the gun. You can safely hide almost the entire tank behind a hill and engage really really long distance enemies from total cover
Bro I'm 2.5k in got almost all nations to 6.0 tanks and I haven't changed this and still average 6 kills a match but thanks I never knew what it improved
I have turned on mine cause I just want to, adds more immersion to me and I'm completely used to it capable of landing close up small target shots and also distant ones without even using the ranger finder. Of course this depends with what tank i'm using.
Now i actually want to use gunner sight to feel the pain even more
When i first played warthunder
I didnt even know how to use binoculars nor how ranging works 😂. Just kept on estimating based on the missed shots
I still jus guess. I’ve actually gotten to the point where I feel a tingle when I know is bout to hit
But the IMMERSION!!!
I have had warthunder for 6 years, played it most in the last 3 years. And I didn't know about this.
Glad I could be the one to teach you this.
I turn this on when playing some vehicles. Like the Bradley, since the gunner sight is on top of the tank by the TOW launcher. So you can fire and guide your missiles while most of your vehicle is hidden.
i already tried disabling this setting, but the muzzle flash disturbing me, so i turned that on again 😆
Leaving it on is makes it feel more real
It should be mandatory for Realistic Battles. I remember back in the day when Realistic Battles was Simulator Batttles (Full Real Battles) but with 3rd person. It was absolutely perfect. Then they introduced markers and mixed battles and it really destroyed the original intent.
All of those who played war thunder should definitely ues this. with the barrel blocking half the sight it makes it feel more real. And it's fun to use
I’ll be honest, on PC you can use all of your machine gunners at once, but if you are on Console, you have to set it on either a keyboard or replace another button with the machine gun button, but it only sets itself to one of them if you have several
I purposely have this setting on because I love hardcore
I sometimes use it just to not destroy everyone when playing low tier stuff .
You are a good man
Why can't everyone be like you
I like to keep it on for realism despite all its drawbacks
This can be very helpful for shooting around corners.
I was wondering why I wasn't hitting anything, only to realize that the building was in the way, and the gunner was sitting to the left of the cannon barrel.
I've only been playing for 2 years and didn't know this... thank you so much.
Happy to help!
I had it off but I turned it on. I was a battlefield and COD player so seeing the barrel of the cannon was something I was used to.
There’s actually way way more than this that sets new players back. Like for example that you’ll be 1 tapped with 7.62 mgs as a new player but a player with maxed crews will survive 5 shots of a rheinmetal cannon when he’s only driving an m8. Also everybody should change their view distance to yards since that’s what scopes are sighted in, for some reason game starts in meters despite having no correlation to your scope
Would love some shorts on the different radars, missile types, how they work, pros and cons. I can't stand with skipping through 30 minutes of video to get what I need and miss the important stuff in-between.
I'm not that technical I just lock things and when they get within range of my missiles I fire.
@@ChipsAhoyMcCoy I do as well but I don't know why my aim 9's for the phantom just explode In the air before reaching the target. And all the ones I do see are for PC not console. This is about the only professional style page that gives easy directions for what to change and what they change.
After 1.5 years of playing war thunder i have never realized that this was a option
Thanks
Thank you very much!
Mine was turned off. Having the gun barrel makes u predict trajectory of a bullet or shell easier. Thanks!
In my 600 hours of war thunder, i played half of it with real gunner sight. Because i didn’t knew the gun barrel view was a thing. The amount of times i missed a shot because of that offset you get from what you see and where your barrel is pointing is just painful.
I realised this when i bought bushes. It was covering gunners view and thats when i started doing some googling caz in other videos people could see perfectly with bushes. Damn it was like discovering universes deepest secret lmao 😩
I like having this setting on because it’s kinda cool
I personally use it because i like the feel of it, but it does put you at a disadvantage.
Me who never disabled it and gained a multi-kill: I have no weaknesses.
the m3 bradley actually benefits from using tank gunner sight as it is much higher than the barrel and can let you use atgms over a hill
I think that a lot of the top tier vehicles have their gunner sights more directly lined up with the gun.
Yeah I played like this for the first 800 hours or so. Shit was rough
I honestly feel like the gunner site should be a requirement. Would be kind of cool I think
I love gunner sight on. Make me slow aiming & sometime make me being bad aiming but that is more realistic
You can also DL other custom settings for most tanks especially German tanks.
I turn it on at times because some strong tanks have their optics above the whole tank making peeking over a hill or slope to snipe easier like the Challenger 2 early models
M4 Sherman was a fucking pain in the ass back when I was new. Been playing since 2017 and I never knew this was a thing
Me turning it on to have a more realistic experience
To be honest I prefer it because it feels more "realistic"
I played like this up until like 5.0-6.0 I thought it was only something for modern tanks
To add onto this, you can also download custom gun sights. Some might not be realistic, but are definitely more competitive
It should be MANDATORY to play with gunner sight view on RB as it is on SB.
I agree
Yeah but if you play with the true sight position thats massive giga chad energy
i played like this for my first 3 years and ngl dont turn it of in the beginning that just makes you a way better sim ground player in the future
A weird thing with the game, is this should automatically be on for the Challenger 2 series of tanks even in simulator, because the gun sight is literally above the gun directly.
For some tanks it is like this automatically.
... Oh my lord... 2 YEARS AND I DIDN'T KNOW!!!
There are people that have played the game a lot longer than you that didn't know.
You just saved me from hating my centurions, thank you o7
Glad I could help
I still have this enabled I’ve been playing for 3ish years and just learned this, Thank You
If I recall correctly, it's only turned on by default in Sim, and I'm not 100% sure if you can even turn it off there.
I've plenty of comments here and on Tiktok of people that had this on without them knowing but yes it should only be on in sim by default.
I thought he was going to talk about the grass in Gunner sight
I have a video on that too. th-cam.com/video/LlVfaQYRtkk/w-d-xo.html
This was set to yes for me although my only problem with it was with the French M4A1 as for some reason the barrel would fly around randomly in the gun sight
Honestly in both RB and Sim you should be forced into the historical gunners sight position.
Ohhhh that's why I keep hitting the wrong spot I aim for
I had about 200 hours into the game before I learnt this
Always questioned how people playing could shoot through windows and small openings as I could never do it
I noticed it most on the Leopard 1 at 7.3 as the gunner sight is so far detached from the barrel
In air battles I turned the free look activation from the c key to alt, so it frees up my other fingers for maneuvering with the thumb doing the free look
Looks like I might need to turn it on. More realistic. Just discovered driver view lmao
Should be only option in RB, after all it’s impossible to put a sight directly in the barrel
Another big one is the rangefinder and range sight adjustment buttons. I play on xbox so my binding for the rangefinder is right stick than I adjust the gun sight distance with lb+dpad up or lb+dpad down and it also will tell u the distance it's set to in the top left corner of ur sight and the other side will be the rangefinder range so if ur using say a us low tier tank with a worthless scope that cant see close to the mil dots this is a very useful technique
I honestly had this on for the longest time and still do. I did start disabling it at higher tier though cause the quick sniping is just insane.
Honestly i like to have it on since it kinda reminds me of il 2 tanl crew
It's actually better when using the M3 Bradley bc the gunner sight is higher then the gun barrel camera.
Ty guy. I'm fighter pilot and I thought it was normal. The first time I played the tank side.
I use the gun from gunner sight always in combo with historical scopes lol feels good
I wish sim battles gave you a more realistic looking scope. Then we would have the whole package.
Same
@@ChipsAhoyMcCoy yes that would be great
How do you get the historical scopes?
It also allows you to put bushes all over the front of your tank
IT DOESN'T MEAN YOU SHOULD
its good when you have good shell velocity or are fighting close range. otherwise hard to aim and compensate for range with
They should force tank gunner sights for realistic battles
This sucks for new tiger players because when you sim for the Sherman jumbo’s mg port you fucking miss at close range lol