10:13 if anyone is curious why the total views and watch time are so much lower, there are two answers. My updated guides (which pull in huge numbers) dropped much later in the year in 2024 than they did in 2023, and I also published fewer videos overall during the year.
Aw man, hope you're doing alright, just know that your videos are appreciated, it's hard to get no-nonsense vehicle review videos on YT. The algorithm is relentless, but hopefully you'll be boosted more next year.
@@bilalsadiq1450 Oh yeah, doing fine. I'm a numbers guy so I'm pretty impartial with the stats, even my own. :-) I'm still blown away (in a good way) with how successful the channel has been - I honestly never even expected to hit like 5000 subs or anything, so even if my numbers take a huge dip its still good in my book!
I think you know this already but I think it’s mainly because your videos aren’t relevant to everyone at every time, for example your vehicle reviews are extremely useful, but only to players who are looking to play that vehicle or do play that vehicle have incentives to watch the video. Other channels just do slop with flashy editing to increase retention and they get a ton of views, but please don’t be demotivated by the stats, you have done unmeasurable good for the war thunder community and we will always count on you to inform us on how to use the latest weapon systems
I really hope they get you a special exception. It's really crazy that low quality channels that sometimes literally steal other peoples content get access, and you don't, with how high quality your videos are... Also, your videos really help! While I'm taking a break right now, your video on the Mirage III really helped me get the plane down pat in Air Battles. I really appreciate how good your videos are, Tim!
@@BunnyDahlia i really feel like they could at least popularise every new revision of radar video Most i know they do is reposting some youtubers videos on their VK (something like russian analogue of facebook)
@@Вольфрамище They directly ripped off Tim's radar tutorial a year or two ago, along with vids from a few other CCs. Sadly, Gaijin is more likely to compete with their CC community than help promote them.
I’m glad you mentioned the overstimulation in top tier. I’m trying to grind the F15J modifications and the amount of beeping starts to bleed into my nightmares
as stupid as this might sound, when I played war thunder with sound, I ended up hearing bombs dropping around me randomly, like the whistling, which is why I dont play war thunder with sound anymore
Personally, I really am glad to find Tim's channel that has helped me a lot since the beginning when I got my first actual top tier jet and knew nothing about radar. That's where Tim spawned and saved me from getting 0 kills every match and helped me to get 3 kills at least . Thanks for the guides and reviews Tim, love you mate
It gives me an enormous feeling of satisfaction to hear stories like this, where my vids made a tangible difference and helped someone out. Thank you so much for the kind words.
@@timwillis4063 My hope/intention is that folks can have more fun with the plane if they have a little context for it beyond just being an SL/RP grinder.
I for one would be a MASSIVE fan of a dedicated UN tree. Make it a bunch of semi-historical UN Peace Keeper skinned vehicles under the operating nations flag. Not EVERYONE hates your idea Tim!
Core audience member here 💪🏻 I see a Tim video, I click, I watch, I enjoy - love your content brother, it’s my go to for any questions I have about the game! As for the tanks and lower BR videos, I understand there’s an analytical element to it but as a viewer, I’d love to see it, I’m not quite at the super jets yet, I have a few early jets like Mig 15 or 262, but no where close to the Sus and F14s of the top tier - I would love to hear your thoughts and views of lower vehicles, how to play them etc and especially on ground vehicles, maybe even a little live gameplay mixed into the review so we can hear your thought process when playing and so on, keep up the content boss 🙌🏻🙌🏻
Would love to have guide missile Frigates/Destroyers added, however don't now how well they would do facing WW2 Battleships noting the massive armour they pack with the current naval BR compression. The transition from BBs to cold war DDs will be interesting
Can I just say that your channel is extremely underrated. You deserve so much more engagement, everyone who plays this game would benefit from your videos. Happy holidays Tim!
Honestly Tim not only deserves to be part of the Partnership Program, but imagine if we get that awesome blue crest as his decal. I want that decal in game!!
I'm thinking another strike is in order for 2025, and it should be very early next year, like late February at the latest. It seemed to work pretty well last time. The difference this time is that we link videos from WT creators, like Tim, like this one to show exactly what needs to be added, what needs to change, and what should be left alone. Great video Tim, keep up the good work!
I found your channel via your guides on top tier mechanics, Radar, guided bombs, missiles etc. They're by far the most helpful Videos out there. Then i stuck around for your reviews. Keep up the good work, really love your content 👍
Honestly been taking a break from the Warthunder grind for the better part of this year, but I always watch your vids when I see a new upload to keep up with the game's updates
For me, your videos have filled the gap left when Oxy stopped uploading so frequently. Just a really chill atmosphere while learning how to not get murdered in the shiny new vehicle I just got. I mean I think I watched the F-104J video a dozen times until it clicked and got better. Repeat that with most planes I've unlocked, a few more content creators and I'm somewhat decent now! Anyway, merry Christmas everyone!
Hi Tim! Personally, love your content and share your content with friends! Your plane reviews are amazing and have helped me make the grind easier. Keep up the great work and keep releasing fantastic content. You’ve earned the recognition and I hope your channel keeps growing
This is the best war thunder channel easily. I discovered it early this year, went back and rewatched every single review, including those of vehicles I don’t plan on researching or already have. Nobody does it better than you Tim
Thanks for the video and for all the great content this year! Youre the best Tim, and my number one source for WT. Thanks again and I hope you end the year on a good note and start 2025 off right!
i think that the BR Cap for both Air and Ground should be up at 18-20.0 at this point. Give WW2 Heavy tanks breathing room, give those early props like the P-40 some time to shine, get the P-39 to a more resonable BR. This would really be helpful for the jets though, letting the early guns only jets have games without any missles. Also get naval up to like 11.0 by now, there are times where my ship litterally cannot hurt an enemy. Highest ship in the lineup is 5.0 and I will end up facing a ton of ships that I cannot hurt at all unless I sling HE that does more surfface level damage while his shells go right through my armor and detonate my ammo.
Big man tim you are the man, you are saving my ignorant ass in wt so much and youre consitent on your uploads which i find respectable, thank you for being my wt wikipedia
Tim we appreciate ypir effort. Back in the day when I was stuck at phantom tier (for America), your videos helped me a lot to navigate my playstyle. Thank you so much 🙏
For what it is worth, I am a big fan of your prop reviews. I know they don’t do as well as top tier aircraft (Don’t worry, I still watch those videos too. I love the history portion that’s included in all the videos), but your prop reviews are what brought me to this channel. I guess I am one of the few WT players who enjoys WWII props and gunslinger jets. I could probably get into top tier if it wasn’t such a “Charlie Fox” and a massive sensory overload like you mentioned. Until the snail fixes top tier, and I mean actually fixes it. I can’t see myself even trying to play it for the foreseeable future. But my ramblings aside, I am here to stay to support the channel and appreciate your hard work and effort. Thank you for all the awesome videos!
I have three things that I would love to have in game Firstly your decal, because who doesn’t want it? Secondly Air RB EC, I know everyone keeps going on about it but it could give some of the struggle buses a bit of breathing room, like the flareless battle bus that is the Su-17M2 for example And lastly it would be nice if Gaijin filled out the mid tiers, there’s so many funky things they could add
9:56 U-boats being implemented is something I think would be great. The Battle for the Atlantic was the single most fun part pf Warthunder for me almost of all time. A attack and defend type of game-mode that has unique gimmicks and abilities with many different startegies to use. If it was realistic battles I would have had even more fun, and I can only dream of it in a simulator battle.
Honeslty the best reflective take on the state and future of Warthunder. I want it to be better so, so bad, but Gaijin seems to play it safe and play for the money.
While I do agree with your mention about Gaijin adding too many sub tech trees, when I logged on this morning I nearly cried with joy as I saw all the guided weapons and fun planes now in the Japanese Air Tech Tree. Have a Merry Christmas, and a thousand thanks for all the fantastic content this year!
This is probably one of the best War Thunder channels I've ever watched, and I'm not just saying that. Most other wt channels appeal to brain rot and second hand memes cause' that's what a majority of people are watching. You on the other hand are for a more mature and intelligent crowd. Unfortunately, I believe that the majority of wt players are not the brightest bulbs on the display. Thanks for always uploading vids in the morning, I love basically watching the news before work haha. Keep up the good work Tim!
My channel's "edutainment" niche is certainly a niche, and outside the screaming-meme-head brainrot meta ;-) (Except my J-11 april fools review from this year lol)
EVERYTHING you upload brother! Love your stuff, and I link you to everyone whom is stuck in War Thunder. Tim brother let me tell you from all the vids I uploaded for 15 years. 30 seconds or less do the best! That is dumb there is no info or help in 30 seconds. That is what ADHD fidget spinner tide pod kids can watch. You can't please the algorithm.
I found this channel mid 2024 and have watched around 80% of your uploads since then. I've been into WT for a lot longer, but never as "intense" as this year. What I like most about your videos is the calmer and often times more detailed reviews, added with the fact there's not a lot of delay between the release of a new plane and your video about it (even if it's just a temporary dev server review)! I would watch your ground content, since I'm trying to get into it more myself (the grind is so painful though). Please don't hold back on that if you feel like doing it:) Last but certainly not least: I'm a bit ashamed to admit this, but I have only just now subscribed... Why? Because I literally hadn't noticed I wasn't subscribed yet! I always get your videos in my recommended feed (or look up your channel myself), so personally I've never had any issues finding your content. Silver lining: You gained a new sub today that is already a loyal viewer :p Thank you for the content this year, I hope next year will be even better.
Yo bro, I want to say thanks for all the videos you posted this year, you pump em out like gold, you are an amazing yt so keep it going, I watched every video from you since 2022 so you don't disapoint and I know that
A part of my fears 2025 is the last great year for War thunder before we see a massive player drop just by how little popular modern jets are left. Just a random thought. Love your videos and happy new years!
Honestly, the worst part of all the nation sub-trees is when a bunch of new vehicles pushes the goalpost of tip top tier farther. 3 months ago I was one vehicle away from getting to top tier ground in France, now I'm four away. They added over 600,000 RP to my grind
8:07. I think that could work. I was also thinking that there’s a couple SAM sites around the map and if you get enough spawn points. You can go and operate it. Instead of just having 1 of the vehicles in the lineup
Always enjoy your content Tim, your 'edutainment' format is really refreshing - particularly with prop reviews. Not to mention your radar and ordnance overviews are invaluable and I'm always coming back to them! I cannot however agree with more tech trees, I don't have it in me to grind more crews. The flaws of the crew system is something I'd wish more people would notice: accumulating the xp is egegriously slow and 'Ace' crews provide a significant advantage while being unreasonable to achieve for free. On the other hand, Gaijin's tactless placement of subtrees (and their insistence on only 5 research columns) is indeed a nightmare. Merry Christmas ~
Interesting and accurate recap ! Thanks for researching and putting out great content :) For context personally I became a subscriber when I was trying to start actively researching how to use more advanced plane systems. After that I didn’t watch regularly for a while until FOX3s came along. I love the format of your videos personally! I guess one reason people don’t watch everything is probably that they’re only interested in the reviews of planes in their tech trees, especially the ones they want to grind, not much to do about that… maybe doing a segment framed on how to defeat said aircraft ? You kind of already do that but through the lens of the pilot of said plane trying to understand drawbacks I guess actually… idk ! Personally that’s one reason I do watch the other aircraft reviews. Also on another note I’m glad the post dev-server Rafale looks a lot better overall ! Eager to see your review :). My biggest wish for 2025 would be more gamemodes, more varied gameplay! I think it’s a shame how much content they have that gets used in the same old gamemode that hasn’t changed in forever!!! With all that said, cheers and happy holiday season things !!!
WOULDA love to see WWMODE THAT DOESNT SUCK. WAR THUNDER= VEHICLE VENDING MACHINE. As founding father OF BOFSS , we need more game modes in my opinion, we especially need these modes for squadron battles, they should make squadrons great.
Its nice to see your thoughts on where this game will be heading in the future, I think it would be nice for Gaijin to finally add the big naval ships from WW2 like Bismarck, Yamato, etc before we get on to missile firing cold war era ships, a Bismarck would make me want to play naval a whole lot more for sure
Re: Ground battles and CAS As a ground main, I don't mind CAS, I think they are a good addition to the gamemode, the issue is the disparity between the ability for CAS to score easy kills vs the ability for SPAA to effectively counter them. Some of the SPAA can't effectively counter what they'd see, an example is the ASRAD vs the Q-5L. Or some of the higher end CAS with range outside of ground render distance, when your own vehicle only has a tracking system, not a search system. It's primarily an issue with higher tiers in my experience, and at that point it's somewhat of an issue of "A good CAS player will always be able to beat a good SPAA player, unless the SPAA player has one of the really good vehicles.", though it's difficult to pinpoint the exact issue, it feels like a vehicle balance issue. On that same thing though, there are some SPAA platforms that are basically near instant wins against any CAS attempts, and after around 10.3, it feels like it's an either or situation, rather than a battle of skill for a lot of vehicles. God this comment got a lot longer than I thought it would, but regarding the SL and RP issue, I don't think SL is as big of an issue anymore (not to say it's not an issue at all, having just spent half of my SL on a new vehicle), the repair cost thing has most certainly helped, but grinding out a top tier ground vehicle with RP... is a process. It slows down a lot after about rank V, in my experience, and feels very geared towards you being able to dedicate several hours every day to the gamemode.
Just some thoughts, I am one of your subs that only really plays top tier air, I watch your guides and reviews that relate to that. I like your voice and personality so I would totally watch more of your videos if there was something that wasn’t a guide on a vehicle I don’t care about. I would love to watch you simply playing the game and speaking to us about your thoughts or strategies. Or really any other creative video about any game that I play. I’m still gonna watch your fantastic guides and reviews that pertain to my play style, but in terms of trying to grow a channel, I don’t think just doing those is gonna be enough. There just isn’t enough content, often enough, to cover consistently.
The Queue time excuse its a bold lie imo, compression is a big reason for players to want to get the next vehicle in line since its always someone with a better plane that you, if there was no compression players would just enjoy one vehicle in one BR braket and probably would not care about unlocking the next one as much
Tim, if I may make a suggestion: One content creator I LOVED when I got started was Oxy. His series going through individual tiers of ground vehicles and giving them ratings was invaluable to me when I first dipped my toes into ground battles. I would have loved to have the same thing for tiers in air, but no one did it. If you could make reviews of different air trees, with a video that spends roughly an hour per tier and dedicates 3-5 minutes per vehicle, giving a short description, pros and cons and whether they are worth it for air RB, I think that could give you massive growth.
I've had an idea for something similar, but its going to take a lot of time (clock time) to produce. Unfortunately, the time commitments of my "IRL" dayjob (I work in Information Technology) keeps me down and dramatically reduces what I'm able to do here, sadly.
I wholeheartedly agreed with wanting carriers on air rb maps, its like, whats the point of even playing the f-14b nowadays when its only real gimmick isnt usable in the main game-mode
Tim and the Snail have both forgotten about Helicopters, would love to see something done with them in 2025. Also 100% agree with you in top tier air RB, imo it needs rework from the ground up to be less of a cluster
I would love to see them add some sort of EC pve mode, like heli pve but with all vehicle classes present in the game. Would be nice if i could actually utilise the flexibility of the vehicles on offer.
They need to do different modes, rush mode, defend mode, 1v1 duel mode for aircraft battles. Team Death Match with Cap points like Battlefield and drain tickets but now you respawn forever. Match doesn't end until the tickets reach zero.
I super agree, there is a MAJOR lack of air battle maps that has ANY boats. and this comes from someone who mostly play tanks, but it so odd that you have several naval planes, but never any carrier take-off or even naval targets to strike. As for Tech Trees, its more to our, the players, advantage that stuff is added as sub-trees instead of as new tech trees. considering that you dont have to restart your crew slots skill/training level.
Subtrees seem like a way to just copy and paste every other country's vehicles into each other's tech tree, albeit with minor differences regarding ammunition and loadout (if any). Random Soviet vehicles appearing in the British tree because India was once a British colony is an example of this. I'm less torn up over Thailand as the vehicles are mainly western, although politically it makes no sense for it to be in the Japanese tree other than 'nearest neighbour'.
I don't mind a few being scattered here and there to fill major gaps in the lineup (nobody could argue Japan didn't have major gaps...) but it seems like they're going to just keep adding more and more until all the tech trees are 80% the same.... :-\
Cool vid! Got a question for next time if your takin them lol. If they were to change the game mode's (Or Add game modes). What do you think they would likely change or add? (mainly the RB mode's but any of em are cool)
Couldn't be happier with BVR Ship gameplay with Helis and ASM missiles. Also, I hate the small nations being add as a filler as well. I never asked for Hungary in my Tech tree, and now since I got the Typhoon, I'm never touching Gripen again. And just FYI, I watch almost every video of yours, except low tier or Russian vehicles
9:37 i think there are a few reasons why most people do not enjoy naval battles 1: its bugged, i often sees dead ship randomly floating above the water battleship models need to be fixed, theyre broken rn 2: its just guns everytime, you start with destroyer guns fighting destroyers, and then crusier guns fighting crusier armour, at last we have battleship guns but fighting battleship armour, which basically as the br grows higher the slower the battle will be since you dont get to use battleship guns on destroyers and saler ships which make players feel like even at top tier theres no difference 3: air power is not right, using a single aircraft againest a big ship is just unrealistic, irl we have a squad or even mutiple squad of planes striking at the same time. one plane charging at a big ship is just not a effective way of playing, the aircraft most of time will be destroyer before even dropping the bomb. 4: range, and i feel like this is the most important one so far. at destroyer or crusier stages, people would want to be firing at point blank range or closer range to hit lots of shots continewsly, but right now fights take around 10-15 km away it is even hard to see the enemy clear at that range, and the shells takes like 20 second to reach the target, if they move you miss, you will also need to keep adjusting the range and stuff every shot. it is alreasy hard to hit the enemy, and even when it hits, it does not do much. I play world of warships, im not saying thay game is good or anything but imo fighting where you can see the enemy, and can actually be doing a lot of damage to the enemy is where we like
You know, now that we're on the way to 2025, aside from the F/A-18 Hornet, I only have like a few "true" vehicle wants: A-4M late, Mirage IIING, F-106, and some additional F-16 variants :D
I’ve been saying this in forums forever. The sub tree problem can be solve by making regional tree, this can also make the copy paste problem go away. For ex we can have the east asia tree with japan korea and china in it, with this we can delete all those copy paste vehicle in china. Or we can have the central&east europe with for example austria hungary poland etc. maybe the south asia tree with india vietnam thailand singapore. This regional tree method i assured that it’s going to solve many current problems.
I am 100% with you i regards to the subtrees. The different tech trees are starting lose almost all of their uniqueness. Everyone gets an F-16, everyone gets a Gripen, everyone gets a T-90. I want these trees to be radically different form each other and i want certain iconic vehicles only available in a small number of tech trees.
>I want these trees to be radically different form each other and i want certain iconic vehicles only available in a small number of tech trees. why tho? we already have mixed battles so all uniqueness of trees is lost this is just gatekeeping for no reason especially as grind in wt is awful, starting new tree from zero just to get your favorite jet/tank can take many months or even years for f2p players for example lets say i would love to fly Rafale but im still rank1 france, it would literally take me months and months to unlock it meanwhile there is sliver of hope that as India has them it may at some point come to British tree which i already have unlocked fully also, sub trees allow certain nations to remain competitive, for example, sweden in the future without sub trees would be locked to grippen and grippen only (and realistically there is only 1 more variant to be added) while everyone else is flying their f35s and other stealth 5th gens do you really think its a good thing for the game if some nations are just objectively worse forever? why would anyone start playing that Swedish tree if they know they are stuck without proper top tier and without being able to compete with others?
@@wapniak666 Why? Because it's boring and bland if all the tech trees are basically the same. I mean if you are going that route, why bother with different nation tech trees at all? Why not dump all the vehicles into one big mega tech tree? I actually really like your example. Why would anyone play Sweden if the highest aircraft is the Gripen? Because the Gripen is cool as fuck and if the tech trees were actually unique, the Swedish one would be the only place you can get the Gripen. Who says all the tech trees need to go from 1.0 to top tier? Israeli tech tree starts at mid tier, why not have other trees that don'*t go all the way to the top?
@@theincrediblefox that argument doesn't make any sense since we have mixed battles even without single sub tree in the game you are already paired with and against every nation including your own in some cases on top of that, again without sub trees, aircrafts like f16 would appear in multiple nations in the future you are going to have f35 in most western trees anyway, in fact, if we remove sub trees then only sweden and france dont have f35 taiwan wants to buy f35s so without sub trees you would have it even in chinese tree >Who says all the tech trees need to go from 1.0 to top tier? Israeli tech tree starts at mid tier, why not have other trees that don'*t go all the way to the top? people who play this game? people grind and play because of what is at the top > Why would anyone play Sweden if the highest aircraft is the Gripen? Because the Gripen is cool as fuck that's really great except that once grippen is not top tier sweden would be considered a dead end tree >if the tech trees were actually unique it doesn't matter, you already play mixed battles, there is literally nothing unique from gameplay perspective whats the difference between playing swedish grippen vs swedish grippen compared to playing swedish grippen vs hungarian grippen there is none you can argue about mixed battles, but they are already a thing and wont be removed (for good reason) any argument about uniqueness is turned moot the moment mixed battles were introduced to the game
@@wapniak666 Chill buddy. It's fine, you don't have to agree with me and i don't have to agree with you. We also don't have to subscribe ton each others arguments for them to be valid. Personally i find mixed battles irrelevant to this conversations because it's not about the vehicles you face in battles but about the vehicles in your tree and how the tree feels to play. Also you shouldn't project your own opinions on everyone else. Only because you would consider sweden a "dead end tree" if it doesn't go all the way to the top BR, doesn't mean everyone else will too. And guess what, for a really long time exactly this was the case for germany yet it still was the third most played nation in ARB. Take a breather, consider the possibility that people can disagree with you but still have a valid point. Have a good day and cheers.
I gave the snail some heavy feedback that when they add the F-18 they should start with the early models instead of jumping right in to something like the 18C - this preserves the hype, and also gives them more they can add later without the later additions being "meh, we have better Hornets already". Sadly, we're likely to see the superhornet first.
@ The A/B models are severely lacking in capabilities that would put them on par with other top tiers. Making the C the default and bringing the Rhino in a later update would be a better move imo
@@crispy_338 My suggestion was basically "Its ok to start at the A, because a new plane doesn't need to push the meta when it comes in. You don't HAVE TO introduce it at the top BR." ... but I'm sure whichever version we get will just be more powercreep.
@ Yeah I guess that’s true. The MiG-29 and Su-27 base models weren’t that great on release. I doubt the C will be anything crazy. On par with the F-15, just better AoA at low speeds and better one circle performance
Aw man, if they made EW aircraft, I imagine the player's would have an incentive to fly in formations to avoid the Fox-3 spam. I'd definitely fly Jamming aircraft to support supersonic bombers
You and matawg should get codes and decals matawg is a fun and very consistent "news" channel and you are the informative in depth channel AND the staple of my learning in this game
War Thunder should add a Carrier Air Assault like Air Assault, but in PvP. One team consisting on defending the carrier, even the carrier self defensing itself, and the other team only objetive to sink the Carrier. But Only Naval Fighter Jets can be use on the ship.
The overstimulation is really a problem for people like me working on a field where I have to process huge amounts of information. I can't play top tier without getting my mind tired after a few couple matches. Also, last Christmas after almost one year playing, I've got to top tier American Trees, but sinc then I couldn't complete any other trees, even in Naval trees, which I usually progress very fast. I have Italy, Sweden and Britain air up to early jets, USSE/Russia and Israel, I'm just shy of that, ground to level III or IV, and Naval made barely no noticeable progress since last year. Because not only the overstimulation is tiresome after a day's work, but also because whenever I'm making progress, new stuff got added to the threes and griding them halts time on evolving beyond a certain point.
I don't have a very good opinion of the dark skies channel. The vids there are **full** of misinformation and factual errors, plus the over dramatic hushed-tone voiceovers with the reality-show style background music really don't sit well with me. Sorry man, I know some folks like that channel, but I'm not one of them.
10:13 if anyone is curious why the total views and watch time are so much lower, there are two answers. My updated guides (which pull in huge numbers) dropped much later in the year in 2024 than they did in 2023, and I also published fewer videos overall during the year.
Aw man, hope you're doing alright, just know that your videos are appreciated, it's hard to get no-nonsense vehicle review videos on YT. The algorithm is relentless, but hopefully you'll be boosted more next year.
@@bilalsadiq1450 Oh yeah, doing fine. I'm a numbers guy so I'm pretty impartial with the stats, even my own. :-) I'm still blown away (in a good way) with how successful the channel has been - I honestly never even expected to hit like 5000 subs or anything, so even if my numbers take a huge dip its still good in my book!
I think you know this already but I think it’s mainly because your videos aren’t relevant to everyone at every time, for example your vehicle reviews are extremely useful, but only to players who are looking to play that vehicle or do play that vehicle have incentives to watch the video. Other channels just do slop with flashy editing to increase retention and they get a ton of views, but please don’t be demotivated by the stats, you have done unmeasurable good for the war thunder community and we will always count on you to inform us on how to use the latest weapon systems
I really hope they get you a special exception. It's really crazy that low quality channels that sometimes literally steal other peoples content get access, and you don't, with how high quality your videos are...
Also, your videos really help! While I'm taking a break right now, your video on the Mirage III really helped me get the plane down pat in Air Battles. I really appreciate how good your videos are, Tim!
@@BunnyDahlia i really feel like they could at least popularise every new revision of radar video
Most i know they do is reposting some youtubers videos on their VK (something like russian analogue of facebook)
@@Вольфрамище They directly ripped off Tim's radar tutorial a year or two ago, along with vids from a few other CCs. Sadly, Gaijin is more likely to compete with their CC community than help promote them.
@@mortexic4939 I'm going to "take the 5th" on my feelings about this topic....
I’m glad you mentioned the overstimulation in top tier. I’m trying to grind the F15J modifications and the amount of beeping starts to bleed into my nightmares
as stupid as this might sound, when I played war thunder with sound, I ended up hearing bombs dropping around me randomly, like the whistling, which is why I dont play war thunder with sound anymore
Personally, I really am glad to find Tim's channel that has helped me a lot since the beginning when I got my first actual top tier jet and knew nothing about radar. That's where Tim spawned and saved me from getting 0 kills every match and helped me to get 3 kills at least . Thanks for the guides and reviews Tim, love you mate
It gives me an enormous feeling of satisfaction to hear stories like this, where my vids made a tangible difference and helped someone out. Thank you so much for the kind words.
@@TimsVariety its an honour , I still remember the phantom FGR2 review 3 years ago , feels like yesterday , thanks alot . 😄
He also does a great job with the history snipits, main reason i started following
I second that.
@@timwillis4063 My hope/intention is that folks can have more fun with the plane if they have a little context for it beyond just being an SL/RP grinder.
I for one would be a MASSIVE fan of a dedicated UN tree. Make it a bunch of semi-historical UN Peace Keeper skinned vehicles under the operating nations flag. Not EVERYONE hates your idea Tim!
you know what else is massive..?
Core audience member here 💪🏻 I see a Tim video, I click, I watch, I enjoy - love your content brother, it’s my go to for any questions I have about the game! As for the tanks and lower BR videos, I understand there’s an analytical element to it but as a viewer, I’d love to see it, I’m not quite at the super jets yet, I have a few early jets like Mig 15 or 262, but no where close to the Sus and F14s of the top tier - I would love to hear your thoughts and views of lower vehicles, how to play them etc and especially on ground vehicles, maybe even a little live gameplay mixed into the review so we can hear your thought process when playing and so on, keep up the content boss 🙌🏻🙌🏻
Would love to have guide missile Frigates/Destroyers added, however don't now how well they would do facing WW2 Battleships noting the massive armour they pack with the current naval BR compression.
The transition from BBs to cold war DDs will be interesting
Absolute Charlie Fox had me laughing way too hard
Merry Christmas and a happy New YEAR, Mister Tim!! Many stable views, more subs that you can count, and plenty new channel members! And health.
Can I just say that your channel is extremely underrated. You deserve so much more engagement, everyone who plays this game would benefit from your videos. Happy holidays Tim!
Honestly Tim not only deserves to be part of the Partnership Program, but imagine if we get that awesome blue crest as his decal. I want that decal in game!!
Thanks for another great year ! I don’t even play anymore ( due to grind as mentioned). But still come for the amazing plane videos :) keep it up man
We love you Tim
I'm a huge fan of your channel. Subscribed a couple months ago and love the details, user guide, and other tanglible tidbits you share. Keep it up.
Thanks Tim! For all the great videos throughout the year! Happy Holidays!
Thank you so much!
15:01 feel you there brother
I'm thinking another strike is in order for 2025, and it should be very early next year, like late February at the latest. It seemed to work pretty well last time. The difference this time is that we link videos from WT creators, like Tim, like this one to show exactly what needs to be added, what needs to change, and what should be left alone. Great video Tim, keep up the good work!
Thanks for another year of content
I found your channel via your guides on top tier mechanics, Radar, guided bombs, missiles etc. They're by far the most helpful Videos out there.
Then i stuck around for your reviews. Keep up the good work, really love your content 👍
Honestly been taking a break from the Warthunder grind for the better part of this year, but I always watch your vids when I see a new upload to keep up with the game's updates
For me, your videos have filled the gap left when Oxy stopped uploading so frequently. Just a really chill atmosphere while learning how to not get murdered in the shiny new vehicle I just got. I mean I think I watched the F-104J video a dozen times until it clicked and got better. Repeat that with most planes I've unlocked, a few more content creators and I'm somewhat decent now! Anyway, merry Christmas everyone!
Hi Tim!
Personally, love your content and share your content with friends! Your plane reviews are amazing and have helped me make the grind easier.
Keep up the great work and keep releasing fantastic content. You’ve earned the recognition and I hope your channel keeps growing
Love the channel viewership insights. I'll watch everything and as a console ground main loved your ground vehicles
More are coming, eventually.
Dude I really love your vids they are by far the most informative and well produced war thunder content, and I never miss one
This is the best war thunder channel easily.
I discovered it early this year, went back and rewatched every single review, including those of vehicles I don’t plan on researching or already have.
Nobody does it better than you Tim
Thank you so much for the kind words.
Thanks for the video and for all the great content this year! Youre the best Tim, and my number one source for WT. Thanks again and I hope you end the year on a good note and start 2025 off right!
I don’t even play this damn game yet I watch your videos all the time. Here’s to a great year ahead, Tim! 🎉🥂🍾
i think that the BR Cap for both Air and Ground should be up at 18-20.0 at this point. Give WW2 Heavy tanks breathing room, give those early props like the P-40 some time to shine, get the P-39 to a more resonable BR. This would really be helpful for the jets though, letting the early guns only jets have games without any missles.
Also get naval up to like 11.0 by now, there are times where my ship litterally cannot hurt an enemy. Highest ship in the lineup is 5.0 and I will end up facing a ton of ships that I cannot hurt at all unless I sling HE that does more surfface level damage while his shells go right through my armor and detonate my ammo.
Big man tim you are the man, you are saving my ignorant ass in wt so much and youre consitent on your uploads which i find respectable, thank you for being my wt wikipedia
Tim we appreciate ypir effort. Back in the day when I was stuck at phantom tier (for America), your videos helped me a lot to navigate my playstyle. Thank you so much 🙏
When you make quality content like this you’re darn right I’ll watch anything you upload! 2025 is going to be something…..
"They'd never screw something up..." the sigh, I can feel the disappointment
Edit: First! and I love your video's Tim!
For what it is worth, I am a big fan of your prop reviews. I know they don’t do as well as top tier aircraft (Don’t worry, I still watch those videos too. I love the history portion that’s included in all the videos), but your prop reviews are what brought me to this channel. I guess I am one of the few WT players who enjoys WWII props and gunslinger jets. I could probably get into top tier if it wasn’t such a “Charlie Fox” and a massive sensory overload like you mentioned. Until the snail fixes top tier, and I mean actually fixes it. I can’t see myself even trying to play it for the foreseeable future.
But my ramblings aside, I am here to stay to support the channel and appreciate your hard work and effort. Thank you for all the awesome videos!
I have three things that I would love to have in game
Firstly your decal, because who doesn’t want it?
Secondly Air RB EC, I know everyone keeps going on about it but it could give some of the struggle buses a bit of breathing room, like the flareless battle bus that is the Su-17M2 for example
And lastly it would be nice if Gaijin filled out the mid tiers, there’s so many funky things they could add
9:56 U-boats being implemented is something I think would be great. The Battle for the Atlantic was the single most fun part pf Warthunder for me almost of all time. A attack and defend type of game-mode that has unique gimmicks and abilities with many different startegies to use. If it was realistic battles I would have had even more fun, and I can only dream of it in a simulator battle.
I had an absolute blast with the BFTA event, I've frequently asked the snail to bring it back again.
@ Yeah nice and also a thanks from the greater wt community for being one of the creators to actually try talking sense with the stubborn snail god.
And thank you for trying to talk sense into them
The channel recap was unexpectedly interesting, really loved that segment. appreciate the transparency
I'm a (retired) politician, I'm habitually transparent. :-)
@@TimsVarietyreally? Never knew that
@@cookie14467 I served 5 terms in mid-level elected office here in the USA.
@@TimsVariety i dare say a virtue that isn’t very common in today’s politicians 😂
Thank you for all your reviews and tips Tim. Merry Christmas and happy new year!
Honeslty the best reflective take on the state and future of Warthunder. I want it to be better so, so bad, but Gaijin seems to play it safe and play for the money.
While I do agree with your mention about Gaijin adding too many sub tech trees, when I logged on this morning I nearly cried with joy as I saw all the guided weapons and fun planes now in the Japanese Air Tech Tree. Have a Merry Christmas, and a thousand thanks for all the fantastic content this year!
This is probably one of the best War Thunder channels I've ever watched, and I'm not just saying that. Most other wt channels appeal to brain rot and second hand memes cause' that's what a majority of people are watching. You on the other hand are for a more mature and intelligent crowd. Unfortunately, I believe that the majority of wt players are not the brightest bulbs on the display.
Thanks for always uploading vids in the morning, I love basically watching the news before work haha. Keep up the good work Tim!
My channel's "edutainment" niche is certainly a niche, and outside the screaming-meme-head brainrot meta ;-)
(Except my J-11 april fools review from this year lol)
EVERYTHING you upload brother! Love your stuff, and I link you to everyone whom is stuck in War Thunder. Tim brother let me tell you from all the vids I uploaded for 15 years. 30 seconds or less do the best! That is dumb there is no info or help in 30 seconds. That is what ADHD fidget spinner tide pod kids can watch. You can't please the algorithm.
I found this channel mid 2024 and have watched around 80% of your uploads since then. I've been into WT for a lot longer, but never as "intense" as this year.
What I like most about your videos is the calmer and often times more detailed reviews, added with the fact there's not a lot of delay between the release of a new plane and your video about it (even if it's just a temporary dev server review)!
I would watch your ground content, since I'm trying to get into it more myself (the grind is so painful though). Please don't hold back on that if you feel like doing it:)
Last but certainly not least: I'm a bit ashamed to admit this, but I have only just now subscribed... Why? Because I literally hadn't noticed I wasn't subscribed yet! I always get your videos in my recommended feed (or look up your channel myself), so personally I've never had any issues finding your content. Silver lining: You gained a new sub today that is already a loyal viewer :p
Thank you for the content this year, I hope next year will be even better.
Yo bro, I want to say thanks for all the videos you posted this year, you pump em out like gold, you are an amazing yt so keep it going, I watched every video from you since 2022 so you don't disapoint and I know that
A part of my fears 2025 is the last great year for War thunder before we see a massive player drop just by how little popular modern jets are left. Just a random thought. Love your videos and happy new years!
Love the channel, hopefully one day the snail will grant a decal and I can show my support in game. Happy holidays Tim!
Easily the best War Thunder channel out there. Wish you luck going into the new year, man.
Love you Tim! We're getting that Logo in there.
Honestly, the worst part of all the nation sub-trees is when a bunch of new vehicles pushes the goalpost of tip top tier farther. 3 months ago I was one vehicle away from getting to top tier ground in France, now I'm four away. They added over 600,000 RP to my grind
Core audience gang!!
8:07. I think that could work. I was also thinking that there’s a couple SAM sites around the map and if you get enough spawn points. You can go and operate it. Instead of just having 1 of the vehicles in the lineup
Glad to be part of the group who watches every vid. o7
Always enjoy your content Tim, your 'edutainment' format is really refreshing - particularly with prop reviews. Not to mention your radar and ordnance overviews are invaluable and I'm always coming back to them!
I cannot however agree with more tech trees, I don't have it in me to grind more crews. The flaws of the crew system is something I'd wish more people would notice: accumulating the xp is egegriously slow and 'Ace' crews provide a significant advantage while being unreasonable to achieve for free. On the other hand, Gaijin's tactless placement of subtrees (and their insistence on only 5 research columns) is indeed a nightmare.
Merry Christmas ~
One of the many subsystems that has not scaled well and needs to be reworked.
Knowing Gaijin, we’re going to be having SU-57s and F-22s at 14.0 in like a year
Interesting and accurate recap !
Thanks for researching and putting out great content :)
For context personally I became a subscriber when I was trying to start actively researching how to use more advanced plane systems. After that I didn’t watch regularly for a while until FOX3s came along.
I love the format of your videos personally! I guess one reason people don’t watch everything is probably that they’re only interested in the reviews of planes in their tech trees, especially the ones they want to grind, not much to do about that… maybe doing a segment framed on how to defeat said aircraft ? You kind of already do that but through the lens of the pilot of said plane trying to understand drawbacks I guess actually… idk ! Personally that’s one reason I do watch the other aircraft reviews.
Also on another note I’m glad the post dev-server Rafale looks a lot better overall ! Eager to see your review :).
My biggest wish for 2025 would be more gamemodes, more varied gameplay! I think it’s a shame how much content they have that gets used in the same old gamemode that hasn’t changed in forever!!!
With all that said, cheers and happy holiday season things !!!
Hello, one of those how watch everything you upload. Like your replays very much, they are so helpful.
if you wanted to just make video about military history id be so down to watch that. The history segments are my favorite. happy holidays
Finally someone gets my name right the first time!
At top tier i play on like 5% volume just to focus.
Tim iam your fan , I watch every video you upload
2025 will bring you more and more views and subscribers ...🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉
WOULDA love to see WWMODE THAT DOESNT SUCK. WAR THUNDER= VEHICLE VENDING MACHINE. As founding father OF BOFSS , we need more game modes in my opinion, we especially need these modes for squadron battles, they should make squadrons great.
Yaaay it's here
Its nice to see your thoughts on where this game will be heading in the future, I think it would be nice for Gaijin to finally add the big naval ships from WW2 like Bismarck, Yamato, etc before we get on to missile firing cold war era ships, a Bismarck would make me want to play naval a whole lot more for sure
Re: Ground battles and CAS
As a ground main, I don't mind CAS, I think they are a good addition to the gamemode, the issue is the disparity between the ability for CAS to score easy kills vs the ability for SPAA to effectively counter them. Some of the SPAA can't effectively counter what they'd see, an example is the ASRAD vs the Q-5L. Or some of the higher end CAS with range outside of ground render distance, when your own vehicle only has a tracking system, not a search system.
It's primarily an issue with higher tiers in my experience, and at that point it's somewhat of an issue of "A good CAS player will always be able to beat a good SPAA player, unless the SPAA player has one of the really good vehicles.", though it's difficult to pinpoint the exact issue, it feels like a vehicle balance issue. On that same thing though, there are some SPAA platforms that are basically near instant wins against any CAS attempts, and after around 10.3, it feels like it's an either or situation, rather than a battle of skill for a lot of vehicles.
God this comment got a lot longer than I thought it would, but regarding the SL and RP issue, I don't think SL is as big of an issue anymore (not to say it's not an issue at all, having just spent half of my SL on a new vehicle), the repair cost thing has most certainly helped, but grinding out a top tier ground vehicle with RP... is a process. It slows down a lot after about rank V, in my experience, and feels very geared towards you being able to dedicate several hours every day to the gamemode.
Just some thoughts,
I am one of your subs that only really plays top tier air, I watch your guides and reviews that relate to that.
I like your voice and personality so I would totally watch more of your videos if there was something that wasn’t a guide on a vehicle I don’t care about. I would love to watch you simply playing the game and speaking to us about your thoughts or strategies. Or really any other creative video about any game that I play.
I’m still gonna watch your fantastic guides and reviews that pertain to my play style, but in terms of trying to grow a channel, I don’t think just doing those is gonna be enough. There just isn’t enough content, often enough, to cover consistently.
The Queue time excuse its a bold lie imo, compression is a big reason for players to want to get the next vehicle in line since its always someone with a better plane that you, if there was no compression players would just enjoy one vehicle in one BR braket and probably would not care about unlocking the next one as much
Tim, if I may make a suggestion:
One content creator I LOVED when I got started was Oxy.
His series going through individual tiers of ground vehicles and giving them ratings was invaluable to me when I first dipped my toes into ground battles.
I would have loved to have the same thing for tiers in air, but no one did it.
If you could make reviews of different air trees, with a video that spends roughly an hour per tier and dedicates 3-5 minutes per vehicle, giving a short description, pros and cons and whether they are worth it for air RB, I think that could give you massive growth.
I've had an idea for something similar, but its going to take a lot of time (clock time) to produce. Unfortunately, the time commitments of my "IRL" dayjob (I work in Information Technology) keeps me down and dramatically reduces what I'm able to do here, sadly.
I'm all for your idea of having an additional tree for minor nations
Keep raising the issues with the game, youre our voice to an extent
I wholeheartedly agreed with wanting carriers on air rb maps, its like, whats the point of even playing the f-14b nowadays when its only real gimmick isnt usable in the main game-mode
Tim and the Snail have both forgotten about Helicopters, would love to see something done with them in 2025. Also 100% agree with you in top tier air RB, imo it needs rework from the ground up to be less of a cluster
I haven't forgotten - a review of the SuperHind is coming soon.
I would love to see them add some sort of EC pve mode, like heli pve but with all vehicle classes present in the game. Would be nice if i could actually utilise the flexibility of the vehicles on offer.
They need to do different modes, rush mode, defend mode, 1v1 duel mode for aircraft battles. Team Death Match with Cap points like Battlefield and drain tickets but now you respawn forever. Match doesn't end until the tickets reach zero.
I super agree, there is a MAJOR lack of air battle maps that has ANY boats. and this comes from someone who mostly play tanks, but it so odd that you have several naval planes, but never any carrier take-off or even naval targets to strike.
As for Tech Trees, its more to our, the players, advantage that stuff is added as sub-trees instead of as new tech trees. considering that you dont have to restart your crew slots skill/training level.
Subtrees seem like a way to just copy and paste every other country's vehicles into each other's tech tree, albeit with minor differences regarding ammunition and loadout (if any). Random Soviet vehicles appearing in the British tree because India was once a British colony is an example of this. I'm less torn up over Thailand as the vehicles are mainly western, although politically it makes no sense for it to be in the Japanese tree other than 'nearest neighbour'.
I don't mind a few being scattered here and there to fill major gaps in the lineup (nobody could argue Japan didn't have major gaps...) but it seems like they're going to just keep adding more and more until all the tech trees are 80% the same.... :-\
Lol, also Tim its DJ Akers, not D JAkers. For next year!
Noted! :-)
Cool vid! Got a question for next time if your takin them lol. If they were to change the game mode's (Or Add game modes). What do you think they would likely change or add? (mainly the RB mode's but any of em are cool)
Odds of a Yugoslavian tech tree or sub tree anytime soon? I want to fly/drive some of those oddball vehicles!
For top tier I wish there were larger maps, with smaller player count on each team. Like 4v4 or 5v5 max
you and spookston are on a war path rn, and I love it
Couldn't be happier with BVR Ship gameplay with Helis and ASM missiles. Also, I hate the small nations being add as a filler as well. I never asked for Hungary in my Tech tree, and now since I got the Typhoon, I'm never touching Gripen again. And just FYI, I watch almost every video of yours, except low tier or Russian vehicles
9:37 i think there are a few reasons why most people do not enjoy naval battles
1: its bugged, i often sees dead ship randomly floating above the water
battleship models need to be fixed, theyre broken rn
2: its just guns everytime, you start with destroyer guns fighting destroyers, and then crusier guns fighting crusier armour, at last we have battleship guns but fighting battleship armour, which basically as the br grows higher the slower the battle will be since you dont get to use battleship guns on destroyers and saler ships which make players feel like even at top tier theres no difference
3: air power is not right, using a single aircraft againest a big ship is just unrealistic, irl we have a squad or even mutiple squad of planes striking at the same time. one plane charging at a big ship is just not a effective way of playing, the aircraft most of time will be destroyer before even dropping the bomb.
4: range, and i feel like this is the most important one so far. at destroyer or crusier stages, people would want to be firing at point blank range or closer range to hit lots of shots continewsly, but right now fights take around 10-15 km away it is even hard to see the enemy clear at that range, and the shells takes like 20 second to reach the target, if they move you miss, you will also need to keep adjusting the range and stuff every shot. it is alreasy hard to hit the enemy, and even when it hits, it does not do much. I play world of warships, im not saying thay game is good or anything but imo fighting where you can see the enemy, and can actually be doing a lot of damage to the enemy is where we like
i would really like a ground focused update, i love aircraft and all but we went a full year without a proper ground update ;/
You know, now that we're on the way to 2025, aside from the F/A-18 Hornet, I only have like a few "true" vehicle wants: A-4M late, Mirage IIING, F-106, and some additional F-16 variants :D
I’ve been saying this in forums forever. The sub tree problem can be solve by making regional tree, this can also make the copy paste problem go away. For ex we can have the east asia tree with japan korea and china in it, with this we can delete all those copy paste vehicle in china. Or we can have the central&east europe with for example austria hungary poland etc. maybe the south asia tree with india vietnam thailand singapore. This regional tree method i assured that it’s going to solve many current problems.
I would love that logo in the game I would definitely support to get it
I am 100% with you i regards to the subtrees. The different tech trees are starting lose almost all of their uniqueness. Everyone gets an F-16, everyone gets a Gripen, everyone gets a T-90. I want these trees to be radically different form each other and i want certain iconic vehicles only available in a small number of tech trees.
>I want these trees to be radically different form each other and i want certain iconic vehicles only available in a small number of tech trees.
why tho? we already have mixed battles so all uniqueness of trees is lost
this is just gatekeeping for no reason
especially as grind in wt is awful, starting new tree from zero just to get your favorite jet/tank can take many months or even years for f2p players
for example lets say i would love to fly Rafale but im still rank1 france, it would literally take me months and months to unlock it
meanwhile there is sliver of hope that as India has them it may at some point come to British tree which i already have unlocked fully
also, sub trees allow certain nations to remain competitive, for example, sweden in the future without sub trees would be locked to grippen and grippen only (and realistically there is only 1 more variant to be added) while everyone else is flying their f35s and other stealth 5th gens
do you really think its a good thing for the game if some nations are just objectively worse forever? why would anyone start playing that Swedish tree if they know they are stuck without proper top tier and without being able to compete with others?
@@wapniak666 Why? Because it's boring and bland if all the tech trees are basically the same. I mean if you are going that route, why bother with different nation tech trees at all? Why not dump all the vehicles into one big mega tech tree?
I actually really like your example. Why would anyone play Sweden if the highest aircraft is the Gripen? Because the Gripen is cool as fuck and if the tech trees were actually unique, the Swedish one would be the only place you can get the Gripen. Who says all the tech trees need to go from 1.0 to top tier? Israeli tech tree starts at mid tier, why not have other trees that don'*t go all the way to the top?
@@theincrediblefox that argument doesn't make any sense since we have mixed battles
even without single sub tree in the game you are already paired with and against every nation including your own in some cases
on top of that, again without sub trees, aircrafts like f16 would appear in multiple nations
in the future you are going to have f35 in most western trees anyway, in fact, if we remove sub trees then only sweden and france dont have f35
taiwan wants to buy f35s so without sub trees you would have it even in chinese tree
>Who says all the tech trees need to go from 1.0 to top tier? Israeli tech tree starts at mid tier, why not have other trees that don'*t go all the way to the top?
people who play this game? people grind and play because of what is at the top
> Why would anyone play Sweden if the highest aircraft is the Gripen? Because the Gripen is cool as fuck
that's really great except that once grippen is not top tier sweden would be considered a dead end tree
>if the tech trees were actually unique
it doesn't matter, you already play mixed battles, there is literally nothing unique from gameplay perspective
whats the difference between playing swedish grippen vs swedish grippen
compared to playing
swedish grippen vs hungarian grippen
there is none
you can argue about mixed battles, but they are already a thing and wont be removed (for good reason) any argument about uniqueness is turned moot the moment mixed battles were introduced to the game
@@wapniak666 Chill buddy. It's fine, you don't have to agree with me and i don't have to agree with you. We also don't have to subscribe ton each others arguments for them to be valid.
Personally i find mixed battles irrelevant to this conversations because it's not about the vehicles you face in battles but about the vehicles in your tree and how the tree feels to play.
Also you shouldn't project your own opinions on everyone else. Only because you would consider sweden a "dead end tree" if it doesn't go all the way to the top BR, doesn't mean everyone else will too. And guess what, for a really long time exactly this was the case for germany yet it still was the third most played nation in ARB.
Take a breather, consider the possibility that people can disagree with you but still have a valid point. Have a good day and cheers.
Getting EuroCanards before the Hornet is criminal
I gave the snail some heavy feedback that when they add the F-18 they should start with the early models instead of jumping right in to something like the 18C - this preserves the hype, and also gives them more they can add later without the later additions being "meh, we have better Hornets already". Sadly, we're likely to see the superhornet first.
@ The A/B models are severely lacking in capabilities that would put them on par with other top tiers. Making the C the default and bringing the Rhino in a later update would be a better move imo
@@crispy_338 My suggestion was basically "Its ok to start at the A, because a new plane doesn't need to push the meta when it comes in. You don't HAVE TO introduce it at the top BR." ... but I'm sure whichever version we get will just be more powercreep.
@ Yeah I guess that’s true. The MiG-29 and Su-27 base models weren’t that great on release. I doubt the C will be anything crazy. On par with the F-15, just better AoA at low speeds and better one circle performance
Snail laughing heartily for dropping the update today
Aw man, if they made EW aircraft, I imagine the player's would have an incentive to fly in formations to avoid the Fox-3 spam. I'd definitely fly Jamming aircraft to support supersonic bombers
You and matawg should get codes and decals matawg is a fun and very consistent "news" channel and you are the informative in depth channel AND the staple of my learning in this game
Tim, if you ever offer private mentoring sessions in WT, I would rather give you the money I usually spend with the Snail in GE.
Anyway, im sure your decal will look good on rafale, will make it as soon as get rafale
War Thunder should add a Carrier Air Assault like Air Assault, but in PvP. One team consisting on defending the carrier, even the carrier self defensing itself, and the other team only objetive to sink the Carrier. But Only Naval Fighter Jets can be use on the ship.
The overstimulation is really a problem for people like me working on a field where I have to process huge amounts of information. I can't play top tier without getting my mind tired after a few couple matches. Also, last Christmas after almost one year playing, I've got to top tier American Trees, but sinc then I couldn't complete any other trees, even in Naval trees, which I usually progress very fast. I have Italy, Sweden and Britain air up to early jets, USSE/Russia and Israel, I'm just shy of that, ground to level III or IV, and Naval made barely no noticeable progress since last year. Because not only the overstimulation is tiresome after a day's work, but also because whenever I'm making progress, new stuff got added to the threes and griding them halts time on evolving beyond a certain point.
8:31 I agree with you
Im enjoying your content with planes maybe could be expanded to tanks too
I've got a few tank reviews up, planning to do some more, just a matter of finding the time.
10:56 we love you too :)
13:52 Have you considered a collab video? I feel that you would make a great match with Dark Skies.
I don't have a very good opinion of the dark skies channel. The vids there are **full** of misinformation and factual errors, plus the over dramatic hushed-tone voiceovers with the reality-show style background music really don't sit well with me. Sorry man, I know some folks like that channel, but I'm not one of them.
I really hope they introduce new game modes next year, this cant go on for longer with these modern toys