how to switch weapons in war thunder

#5 Dec 11, 2013 @ 11:54am Video Card: NVIDIA 1060 with latest proprietary drivers (not older than 6 months) / similar AMD (Radeon RX 570) with latest proprietary drivers (not older than 6 months) with Vulkan support. Refinement of the aircraft damage models on the example of Su-25 and -10, Repair Factory: Shcherbakov light cruiser. Once you start flying the plane in the mission you can't change your loadout until the mission is over. in your hangar select a plane, go to weapons tab mouse over where it says offensive 7.7mm you will get a drop down menu if you mouse over a type of ammo rack universal, tracer, stealth etc. Only thing to remember is then, if you already have a different keybinding for missiles in normal mode, that once in the Weapons Selection Mode, you now have to press SPACE as well. Locknload what you REALLY need in battle! There's also "Switch Radar Search on/off" which I think you also need to key-bind. Have you ever loaded the wrong kind of ammunition or accidently picked torpedoes when there were no ships to hit? However on second thought it could easily be added to the hanger itself. It is a good suggestion of sorts. I want to fit both the aim7 and aim9. Hover your mouse over a locked upgrade and a box will show the RP required to unlock it, a Buy icon underneath will show the cost in gold eagles to immediately purchase it. When I brought up this topic he didn't know that you could change planes/load outs either so I guess they haven't. Depending on the plane your using you might have bombs + rockets for one or the other. It is recommended to check your surroundings and ensure that there are no enemies in the vicinity, as it can be significantly more difficult to attempt to control both missile and aircraft at the same time. It's one of the many "tricks" that you somehow must learn in this game that you either find by accident or have to ask. In the subsequent minor updates after the Wind of Change major update release, were planning to introduce customizable weapon loadouts for War Thunder aircraft within the allowable weight and types of weapons for the given vehicle. Machine guns. There are two key functions of the ballistic computer: Constantly Computed Impact Point (CCIP) and Constantly Computed Release Point (CCRP). For more information, please see our Note: This is ONLY to be used to report spam, advertising, and problematic (harassment, fighting, or rude) posts. 20112022 Gaijin Games Kft. You repair and reload and everything then when your finished and waiting there leave the plane. The types of ammunition available will depend on the weapon calibre and country selected. For a brand new plane, you wont be able to change any of these. By rejecting non-essential cookies, Reddit may still use certain cookies to ensure the proper functionality of our platform. Depending on what everyones flying its quite possible theyve got much bigger guns (e.g. The weapons on your planes in hanger are part of the current MM process for team member selection. Can someone explain to me the proper process? All trademarks, logos and brand names are the property of their respective owners. Air-to-ground missiles (AGMs) were added to the game in Update 1.79 "Project X" with the AGM-12B Bullpup. Small bombs (50kg/100lb) have to be very precisely placed, they do little splash damage, larger bombs give you a bit more leeway, particularly useful if youre intending to bomb from altitude where strategic targets need heavy ordnance to destroy them. Once you have a bit of a feel for different maps and game types, you can tweak which plane you start with and its weapon load. For example, maybe if you have a wing or engine blacked out, it counts as a crash? Without steering input from the player, the missile will behave like a simple unguided rocket. Attack drones feature a similar view. And the warning about unbound actions is kind of redundant now that this is a thing, wish there was a way to disable it. All trademarks, logos and brand names are the property of their respective owners. All trademarks, logos and brand names are the property of their respective owners. The aircraft points a target-illuminating laser onto the desired target and when the missiles is fired it will fly automatically towards the laser point on the target. Press question mark to learn the rest of the keyboard shortcuts, Boeing XF8B, sexy US Contra prop Gaijin plz. The new weapon selector is very nice imho. By As the names suggests Flight Performance upgrades to components like the radiator and compressor improve the performance of the aircraft in flight, Survivability options improve your chances of surviving a battle (though really quite marginally, you get a slightly stronger and lighter airframe rather than super-adamantium armour). Yeah, I just assigned all the other buttons to a random useless button I'll never press. 1kg = 2.2lb, so as a very rough rule of thumb you can multiply or divide by 2 to get a general idea of comparative bomb loads, or type a phrase like 500lb in kg into Google and its handy-dandy converter will give you a more precise figure. Changing a bomber to low Kg and higher number of bombs would be good if alot of pillboxes AAA and armored cars are present. OS: Most modern 64bit Linux distributions. My first impression is this would really mess the MM which already has some issues. New comments cannot be posted and votes cannot be cast. That might be what has been confusing me, i dont believe ive had enought spawn points to spawn another fighter since the cost jumps up. Though, as per the old maxim, quantity has a quality all its own, I tend towards the other maxim that bigger is better and would opt for the 100kg or 250kg options. Cookie Notice The Weaponry options are less Olympian in their ideals; Improved Air-to-Air Combat Effectiveness isnt such a catchy motto, even when translated into Latin (Google Translate suggested Aris amplio-ad-caeli certamen efficaciam, and struggled with some of my alternative ideas like MOAR DAKKA). If you can get nicely lined up on a road packed with a column of vehicles it can be glorious to drop a long string of bombs down it, but irritatingly the enemy are seldom generous enough to lay out their forces in nice, geometric, easily bombable patterns. I wouldn't hold my breath waiting for it to come in near future though. The key set for Maximum Value will pitch the plane up and the key for Minimum Value will pitch the plane down. You can only fire either cannons (using the key "2) or MGs (using "1"), but if you have different types of cannons/MGs you will fire all of them anyway #4 Olsun Dec 11, 2013 @ 8:08am If you press "1" your shoot your primay weapon. The torpedo will have travel time so lead moving targets. I honestly thought that the mechanic was just removed or something. I tried to key bind it but it doesn't work. New guns, like flight performance components, tend to grant a slight improvement to e.g. Aerodynamics, physics, engineering. This site uses cookies to analyse traffic and for anonymous statistics. Espaol - Latinoamrica (Spanish - Latin America). When you press Pitch Up/Down or Yaw Left/Right while in flight, it will temporarily disable Mouse Aim while you're pressing the button. When you select the plane in the mission or under modifications at the menu screen, there will be a drop down menu for Secondary Weapons, where you can select, bombs, rockets, torpedoes or additional guns depending on the plane. Plane, bike, hiking. The SACLOS guidance system improves on MCLOS by having a device that calculates correction commands such that the gunner only has to point the sight of the targeting device at the target, and the appropriate correction commands will be performed by the device. Press question mark to learn the rest of the keyboard shortcuts. It's a really great feature, helps a lot with aircraft with multiple missile types or other ordnance types. So outside the mode you have e.g. The battle button appears above the selected plane as well as in the lower right hand corner. Processor: Core i7 (Intel Xeon is not supported). ZiS-30) or for casemates (ex. To use torpedoes you generally have to be at low altitude and going relatively slow and a target line will appear to show the path of the torpedo when you launch it. No humiliation involved here. KnightErrant_, October 22, 2016 in Realistic Battle Discussion. What I've used for a while is binding rocket/bomb salvos to their usual buttons I use, then binding firing/dropping individual ones to "zoom+normal-button". All trademarks, logos and brand names are the property of their respective owners. Thanks from my side also. Add some colour to your garage of deadly hardware with these War Thunder skins. Thanks, at the price of complete embarrassment I now know more than I did 5 minutes ago. The best part is that you can chose, with mixed load, what can be dropped first. As with aircraft ranks, you need to purchase a certain number of upgrades in each tier (shown on the left) before you can start researching items in the next tier. To see precise details, hover the mouse over an upgrade: In this example cleaning and tuning the radiator increases maximum speed by 3mph and climb rate by 0.2m/s; its unlikely youll notice a massive difference in a fight, especially in Arcade battles, dont be too worried about upgraded opponents having an insurmountable advantage, but every little helps. By There's new settings so you can fire all of your secondary weapons with the same button. Stay tuned to our news and change lists! All trademarks are property of their respective owners in the US and other countries. A tag already exists with the provided branch name. Could this be the reason that i spend half a game shooting one target and another airplane destroys me in 2 shots? I myself haven't really checked on the tutorial, Today has just been one thing after after another Thank you for tip, Changing weapons and load-outs on the airfield. Its like 496 i think to spawn the plane w/o rockets and then like 1080 or something to spawn another one. I have a friend how started playing recently and did the tutorial. Now you can choose the plane again in the normal respawn menue and you can change ammo and loadout. However, half of the games I'm not prompted to return, and the other half my new configuration doesn't equip. On the second row are the weapons: Offensive Armament (standard guns), Secondary Weapons (bombs, rockets, torpedoes, gun pods), and then the ammunition load of guns (Offensive 7.62mm in this instance); the precise options vary from plane to plane, the I-15bis just has one set of machine guns, other fighters can have weapons of two or three different calibres with separate upgrade options, most bombers also have turrets. Press J to jump to the feed. Heck, if you're in a match right now, this video is quick. Some planes and AGMs however have IR or thermal imaging and can be used at night and have better targeting quality. 20112022 Gaijin Games Kft. I then discover that I also need to assign a key to the 'Exit selected weapon mode' option to be able to fire the missile I have chosen using the 'Switch secondary weapons' option, because whilst I can lock the target, I cannot fire either missile unless I have pressed the 'Exit selected weapon mode' key. I land, repair (as in, wait the 30ish seconds), the screen turns black and the plane is reset at the beginning of the runway, then I hit options and "abandon plane." If I have the option to re-launch, I change my armament from nothing to 20mm cannons. Nah, they just hired Mike Tyson to work on the keybindings. More information >> keys 1-4 drop/use machine guns , cannons , rockets , bombs, when you are in the hangar you have to equip different secondary weapons weetad you can't have bombs rockets torpedoes and weetads all at once. Backup plane allows you to use the aircraft twice in an Arcade battle, potentially handy if you have a particular favourite but by no means essential. Often an additional targeting pod is needed for this, which will take up one pylon. Add a Comment. I discover that I need to assign a key to the 'Switch secondary weapons' option to be able to choose which one I fire. Are you flying in Simulator mode? Similar to researching new aircraft, you select one of these upgrades to research, and then gain RP towards unlocking it each time you fly the aeroplane. Dirty_Rooster, October 25, 2020 in Air Force Academy. That's actually really nice and handy, I just wish there was a "Fire secondary weapons series" button so there would be no need to bind two additional buttons just to be able to fire salvos of rockets and bombs. Video Card: Radeon Vega II or higher with Metal support. (if selected). There is a setting, but you'll have to play around with the key bindings to what you're comfortable with, of course. Switch r adar search on / off. For example mirage can carry 2xMagic and 1xR530E. After youve kitted yourself out with new weapons and ammunition on the upgrade screen, you can change the load of your plane before going into battle using the Secondary Weapons and Offensive 7.62mm options on the initial map/select screen. You had no way to know without asking. MCLOS guided missiles are typically guided either by physical connection to the launch platform by a wire, or by radio waves. All trademarks, logos and brand names are the property of their respective owners. and our What do the different types of rounds do on an ammunition belt? This is a subreddit for War Thunder, a cross platform vehicular combat MMO developed by Gaijin Entertainment for Microsoft Windows, macOS, Linux, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One and Xbox Series X|S. Powered by Invision Community. The weapons on your planes in hanger are part of the current MM process for team member selection. Ammunition unlocks are what I like to unlock first, "Offensive 7mm" in the above screenshots. The torpedo will have travel time so lead moving targets. Talisman gives an RP bonus for the aircraft, worth considering in the higher ranks, but not so vital at lower levels when research comes quickly. I am a trained US Air Force fighter pilot and I keep stalling the Pea Shooter on every mission. Now there are no planes for me to shoot at and 20mm air targets are useless against pretty much any ground vehicle with a roof. This can allow for much easier and more accurate targeting than MCLOS missiles with fine adjustments using the mouse, but means that ample time should be given to allow the aircraft to pull up after the missile has struck. Right now it's bugged for helis so if you select a weapon you lose your aimpoint. "Swith secondary weapons" well done Gaijin for once again proving you do zero quality control. Underneath those are the upgrades that need to be researched, four tiers grouped into Flight Performance, Survivability and Weaponry. Missions with multiple bases for instance is a good time for rockets to hunt bombers with, or kill ships Destroyers and Light Cruisers. And I can engage the weapon selector, to drop any ordinance of my choice (and shoot with all gun if applicable, but I am bombing / rocketing, so no reason to be picky) and then revert back to the old system. Beam riding missiles are operated using a radar or laser beam to guide them to the target. just keep disassembling them, basically you get like 8 free disassembles (to get repairable parts or material) and then once you used them all you can start assembling them, although it means you have to grind for the material now with the only way to get material is by earning a loot box per 2500 points. Processor: Intel Core i5 or Ryzen 5 3600 and better, Video Card: DirectX 11 level video card or higher and drivers: Nvidia GeForce 1060 and higher, Radeon RX 570 and higher, Processor: Core i5, minimum 2.2GHz (Intel Xeon is not supported). All trademarks, logos and brand names are the property of their respective owners. Now the IMPORTANT PART: Switch Primary Weapons - this control will cycle through any combination of your cannons and machine guns and display your selected weapons with a >> symbol next to your ammo count display (you can select your main cannon, secondary machine guns or both at the same time, just play around with it for 10 seconds and you will get what I mean) Switch Secondary Weapons - this control does the same, but for your ordnance. Okay so is there any way to change a plane's load out in RB without spawning in a backup vehicle? The Ballistic Computer is a system found on some modern aircraft and helicopters used to aid the player in the delivery of unguided air-to-ground munitions. This is more an issue for me in ground RB. This is a subreddit for War Thunder, a cross platform vehicular combat MMO developed by Gaijin Entertainment for Microsoft Windows, macOS, Linux, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One and Xbox Series X|S. RPM value in brackets is the rate of fire when synchronized (fired through propeller blades) . Learn more about our. Make sure you have a fully repaired and fully rearmed aircraft, (You may have to land again), hold J to bail out on the runway, and you can respawn after changing your loadout. During battle, what button is generally used to switch between bombs, rockets and torpedoes? The thinking is that it wouldn't be particularly useful, iirc hull MGs are only modeled on tanks that have no other machine guns otherwise (ex. Alt + T: Selec t radar target to lock on. Is there a way to shoot each separately but not have to go into the weapon selection menu and switch weapons, it takes a long time. I unlocked the Sparrow missiles. On paper it's awesome but actually trying to use it yeesh. All this makes targeting and guidance much easier and even allows for moderate changes of aircraft movement at the same time. Alright sorted, to choose what missile I want, I press the 'Switch secondary weapons' key, and then to be able to fire that missile, I need to exit the selected weapon mode. To use torpedoes you generally have to be at low altitude and going relatively slow and a target line will appear to show the path of the torpedo when you launch it. The game is based around combined arms battles on air, land, and sea with vehicles from the Great War to today. By accepting all cookies, you agree to our use of cookies to deliver and maintain our services and site, improve the quality of Reddit, personalize Reddit content and advertising, and measure the effectiveness of advertising. I'm PS4 if that has any impact on performance. I don't know of any backups being spent or not. A quick tutorial on how to swap your loadout whilst in a match#WarThunderTutorialGet free Golden Eagles with the apps for android! Issue 3 of the War Thunder Community Magazine. There are three main types of weapon upgrades: new guns, ammunition unlocks, and pylons. My question is this: am I dumb and completely misunderstood what happened in the videos I saw or am I dumb and I did it the wrong way? 0. Would a joystick be better? By rejecting non-essential cookies, Reddit may still use certain cookies to ensure the proper functionality of our platform. There is a setting, but you'll have to play around with the key bindings to what you're comfortable with, of course. Unlike Aviation. The cumulative effects of a full set of upgrades is more noticeable in Historical and Full Real battles.

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how to switch weapons in war thunder