How to Not Suck at Dogfights In Top Tier (Also Wall Hacks... War Thunder Has Wall Hacks now... )

I solo q lobby by using wall hacks and backflipping through bullets.
This is part 1. Part 2 will explain how to not get murdered by seagulls.
Here is the link to how to Avoid Missiles:
• How to Avoid Literally...
Here is the link to how to shoot people in the face (head-on guide, with the A-10s):
• Shooting A-10 Players ...
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[@itacticlesnowman726]

Man as someone who plays ground arcade it’s so nice to have someone show that arcade isn’t for noobs and requires skill.

[@RedFail1-1]

Lmao... Sure.. Point and click and click again takes so much skill.

[@itacticlesnowman726]

@@RedFail1-1 I play ground arcade but I’ll assume you play air because of your profile pick. So how about you get a top tier air arcade lineup and play it. Hell maybe even record it and upload it. It ain’t just “point and click” .

[@jojomaster7675]

It requires some skill, as does any PVP game, but that amount of skill is significantly less than rb does and much, much less than sim. It especially requires much less game knowledge. In ab, the game goes a lot of stuff for you. You don't need to remember much about other vehicles, you don't need to know how to properly aim or position yourself. All incredibly important things in rb. Sim then takes that and adds another layer of complexity, giving you yet again less information and thus significantly increasing the game's complexity, creating both a higher skill floor and ceiling. And of course, due to these higher skill floors, the avrage rb/sb player will be more experienced than the avrage ab player. I never really played ground ab much, cause imo it's simply just not fun compared to ground rb, but I did start off the game playing a lot of air ab. I've only recently gotten more matches in air rb than ab. But I still haven't touched it in over a year and I'm not planning to. Sure, ab has it's advantges of being faster paced, requiring less concentration and being less infuriating if you screw up, but rb is much more rewarding, allows my skill to grow and, most importantly, lets me research faster. TLDR: Yes, ab requires some skill, but rb is a more complex gamemode and is thus much more difficult. I would reccomend switching to it as soon as you feel comfortable in ab.

[@itacticlesnowman726]

@@jojomaster7675 yea I messed up in the fact that I didn’t specify I was mostly talking about top tier air. In low tier air what your saying is true but in top tier you do have to worry more about position enemy planes and skill sets if you want to do amazing. Sure you can do well if you’re a noob but it will be due to luck. Btw I am basing this off of what I’ve seen from this guy. www.youtube.com/@Aoeilaeiepae Which is way I don’t feel confident talking about ground or low tier air. Also sim is just a whole different beast. People who play that are just insane.

[@Aoeilaeiepae]

​@itacticlesnowman726 yeah I mean, the benefits incurred by me are conferred on my opponents too. Arcade requires a different skillset than realistic, and skills are often invisible to those who don't have them. In particular, you need to figure out ways to attack other players without getting shot down yourself (because theres so much stuff flying through the air in arcade - waaaay more than realistic). That requires knowing the planes, positioning, and psychology. Doing ok in arcade requires you to know two of these things, doing great requires all 3. In realistic, it's 1 and 2, respectively. So people who only understand the planes hop in realistic, and then look down on arcade because they don't have the skills to do well in it.

[@gunpo3644]

Dude what is the lore behind your name im so curious? Also love your content. I never thought I’d enjoy air arcade at top tier but I guess its actually a ton of fun.

[@4T3hM4kr0n]

it's Pig Laten, that much i'm certain of.

[@redfang136]

This boom and zoom method works great in low tier air arcade battles too. I regularly come back to my SBD-3 with gun pods to rain hell on enemy planes and flee back to recently respawned allies

[@ihave2space]

The finnish bf 109 got uptiered

[@Sweeps_]

although i have 1600+ hours ingame your content is still very entartaining and btw you have very good and seamless editing style.

[@Aoeilaeiepae]

You have about triple my playtime lol

[@Sweeps_]

@@Aoeilaeiepae crippling addiction to war thunder(masochism)

[@timogavril6934]

@@Aoeilaeiepae I don't want to sound rude but that legit sounds fake. You have the skill of 10 irl well trained pilots and you tell me you have about 600 hours in the game?

[@Aoeilaeiepae]

@@timogavril6934 Yeah I just checked. It's about 27 days total over the last 10 years or so that i've had my account - so closer to 700 than 600, actually. The game is mostly about your ability to recognize and understand key concepts. If you can do that quickly, you can do well. People can spend a long time playing this game and not learn anything.

[@lawfulpotato]

As someone who has just unlocked their first T2 plane, this guide is very helpful, thank you Aoeilaeiepae!

[@G4b1210]

use the rocket pods as flares, they are really usefull

[@phlymolo9279]

Thought you were meme-ing in the description about the "wall hacks". Was pleasantly surprised.

[@nick4754]

Id like to see you make a guide for an aircraft thats an underpreformer (f4c) as compared to the underteired aircraft like the mig21s

[@Aoeilaeiepae]

That is the plan, and I got some footage for stuff like that (Mirage F1C for example). But I want to make a guide on the fundamentals first. Otherwise I'll just repeat myself a lot.

[@nick4754]

​@@Aoeilaeiepae👍 (I was traumatized by the mig 21s when I was a 7.7 American player because I kept getting untried into a party of 3 of them using it solo to get it to 8.7)

[@Aoeilaeiepae]

@nick4754 well the jump from rank 5 to 6 is the most brutal in the game, since that's when you first encounter good missiles. If it's not the MiG-21S, it would been something else. But yeah ... I also shove my MiG-21S into an 8.7 lineup.

[@Zamoski]

imagine not being one of your subscribers

[@Aoeilaeiepae]

There are good players and then there are players who aren't subscribed to my channel :P

[@Tutel_lover]

Amen

[@yers7638]

Can you make a guide on low tier planes? For example ambushing the enemy in arcade battles, i cant do it for some reason. The enemy would just instantly see me and obliterated me.

[@apendragon53]

Man, I always wanted to get into top tier air arcade, but it just seems too hard for me… I wish you created discord community of top tier plane ab players where I could get some help from experienced guys…

[@TeamValkyrie2023]

Some of our squadron members might be into top tier air arcade. I do top tier air to spade planes because I can use back up and spawn twice

[@ceriousgaming6392]

Me thinking 6-0 is pretty good in TTAA This man dropping a team wipe casually. Still waiting to run into you eventually. Not that I look forward to it... But I'm sure I'll learn something.

[@Femers214]

Any tipps on ranks to 3-6?

[@doctorothon]

can we party up so i can just ground pound to grind out modifications

[@jillkang6526]

How to not lose dogfights at top tier: TL;DR: Don't dogfight.

[@Epic_candle]

Can you play Su-27 in AAB? Want to see how strong it is in arcade

[@Aoeilaeiepae]

I will within the next few weeks. I gotta grind it out and stuff.

[@SpaceMochi2673]

you should make a video playing air realistic or simulator

[@TeamValkyrie2023]

Furthest radar missile kill I've made its 13km with aim7. Sometimes they actually work 😂. I think it's more a problem with the f4s radar than the missiles

[@Enteropy23]

remember guys he didnt upload this video he is on a ship or smthn

[@Aoeilaeiepae]

I set it to autopublish before I left lol.

[@kubo7]

Wow slinging r3rs on flareless planes in game mode with no ground clutter, what a peak of gameplay right there

[@Epic_candle]

Those are just radar 9B, move to dodge

[@Aoeilaeiepae]

@@Epic_candle every plane looks OP when you fly it to its strengths.

[@apendragon53]

Any tips on Tornado F3? I’ve heard it’s a great interceptor, but idk how to play to it’s strengths 😭

[@Aoeilaeiepae]

@apendragon53 I've never played the tornado, so take this eith a grain of salt, but here's what I can say: 1. By rank 8, the selling point of interceptors is generally their speed, not their climb rate, because the sky is so dangerous. That's means low-level boom-and-zoom while hiding in the terrain. It had a ton of countermeasures, so spam those when you're out in the open - yes, before anyone can even launch a missile at you. It'll delay your opponents ability to get a lock on you to begin with. That delay buys you time to escape. Terrain is cover, and if you can get behind terrain before someone can hit you with a missile, it costs you very little energy to defeat a missile. That let's you keep your speed up. And a fast plane with decent missiles that's good at weaving through the terrain is a goddamn nightmare to kill. If you're on a flat map, use speed and distance to give the enemies a wide berth - they likely wont attack you if theres closer targets. You can then hit them with Skyflash missiles at range or (if there's a small number of enemies) rush them with AIM-9Ls. 2. It has 4 AIM-7 derivatives and 4 AIM-9Ls. I don't know how janky the radar is, but assuming it isn't, my guess is it would play very similar to the F-15, but with weapons one step below it. 3. The best players almost always crowd the highest BR (currently 12.3). So you will face mostly uptiers until BR 13 planes come out. Your life will get easier if you ditch the tornado for a lower BR lineup, or if you get a higher BR plane and use the tornado as your backup.

[@YoRHaUnit2Babe]

Arcade is FAST as fuck.

[@Kalomalo4]

i have this plane but i nev er tried to play it in arcade gonna try today (also i got 3k hours in this game and i grinded to top tier help me)

[@realmxs]

nice name

[@jetnavigator]

I am shocked at how good the radar is on the mig21 compared to Japanese phantoms.

[@Aoeilaeiepae]

Early radars have less controls to screw with. Go watch the F-15A video from last week- there's a radar tip that might help you at the beginning :D

[@jetnavigator]

@@Aoeilaeiepae interesting. If you don't have a Japanese phantom, try the adtw in a test drive. The radar is horrendous and I find that I have to be pointing up to get a lock. If the ground is anywhere near ahead of you, even at far distances and well below it won't lock.

[@drybeans0000]

it must be because its arcade so the game ignores ground clutter im not really sure tho

[@Aoeilaeiepae]

@@drybeans0000 oh it definitely doesn't ignore ground clutter

[@drybeans0000]

@@Aoeilaeiepae i just tested it and it definitely ignores ground clutter. it doesnt even show the ground clutter meter on the radar sign on arcade. try it yourself

[@Bentlygaming254]

You really said I’m the guy at the top lol

[@ChristochatBTW]

I like to play the f4j so people can't immediately go to "you're carried" whenever I use your techniques

[@Aoeilaeiepae]

What do you mean?

[@ChristochatBTW]

@@Aoeilaeiepae Basically when I play Air arcade and use the techniques you do. When people get salty in chat, they usually don't point out the fact that I'm playing the F4EJ Because the F4EJ Isn't usually a dog fighter and is actually kind of trash. I ain't even gonna lie

[@ChristochatBTW]

@@Aoeilaeiepae I just noticed in a lot of your videos people try to Claim that you're carried by your plane Even though you're a really skilled player

[@Aoeilaeiepae]

@ChristochatBTW *starts video by shooting down 3 other MiG-21s* *people leave comments saying it was all the plane*

[@jetnavigator]

Wow those RP rewards are insulting for 18 kills!

[@Aoeilaeiepae]

Oh, I was inefficiently researching the SU-27. Triple it and you'll have the real figure.

[@Aoeilaeiepae]

Rank 6 jets get triple efficiency through rank 7. Su-27 rank 8. But hey ... it definitely the most fun way to grind rank 8 lol.

[@_Mattz1nho]

So where in this video do you dogfight?

[@Aoeilaeiepae]

I was energy fighting throughout the whole video - that's a form of dogfighting. This video was to teach the core principles of dogfighting. Next video is turn-and-burn dogfighting. This is a 3-parter - TTAA is very complex.

[@_Mattz1nho]

@@Aoeilaeiepae epic

[@KjllShot]

So your the reason everyone is using the mig21s, I've been 'exploiting' this premium for ages and all of a sudden the lobby's are flooded with them

[@llavrovulcanll1066]

this has to be rage bait lmao

[@Aoeilaeiepae]

Funny ragebait, evidently

[@KjllShot]

3:35 you dropped the lock slightly too early that's all

[@Clb9000]

Love the channel, but genuinely, the reason you aren't growing at the rate you should, is because of the atrocious name. Like dude, if I have to spend 5 min to spell let alone remember the name? Nah. Love the vids tho

[@akidafloof]

MiG-23ML Guide if you could $28 Bucks is $28 Bucks screw you Gaijin get scammed from your own sale when I spend... $120 on vehicles... hhhh....

[@Aoeilaeiepae]

Oh dear god make sure its in an 11.0 lineup, not a 11.3 lineup. The best players crowd into the best jets at 12.3. They can only get downtiered, so 11.3 is constantly uptiered. 11.0 is not. You can fit an 11.3 into an 11.0 lineup.

[@akidafloof]

@@Aoeilaeiepae MiG-23 Su-25BM because f*ck the haters it was 17 bucks MiG-21S and a random prop plane because why not

[@akidafloof]

@@Aoeilaeiepae also i got basically zero tech tree planes for ussr, only got em for usa but the highest vehicle i've seen is an f-16a that i swatted out of the sky with an R-24R

[@Aoeilaeiepae]

@AkiDaFloof If you put the SU-25 BM and MiG-23ML in your lineup (2-plane lineup), your br will be 11.0. However, if you put the MiG-21S and/or the prop plane in your lineup, it will go up to 11.3. The way Gaijin calculates BR is kinda asinine, but it's possible for a low BR plane to increase your BR, and that screws a lot of people up. As for the missiles, the R-24s are good. The R-60M is very easy to flare, but it's very maneuverable. It will mow down people at very close range, or people without flares. Or you can use your R-24s, and them spam your R-60s at everyone and hope they aren't paying attention, then pull out to reload.

[@akidafloof]

@@Aoeilaeiepae Gaijin's average Br lineup be like: I've been maining RB 10.7 for so long that suffering is my life now all the way to level 50 with no top tier still, because the second I got my F-5E Tiger II and was supposed to get the Jet Powered Title, the F-16A was added and rank VIII screwed me

[@puff7145]

How to do well in air arcade: Step 1: Fire radar missiles at 1940s planes Ok I guess?

[@thatguy4305]

lets not forget that in addition to having unlimited ammo, the flight model lets you pull of things that are simply not possible. air arcade is not a simulation to any degree and 90% of your maneuvers wouldn't work with a realistic flight model, negating the claim to arcade needing "more skill". you might be one of the best arcade players, but at the end of the day the average realistic player is still more skilled at combat flight simulators.

[@Aoeilaeiepae]

Aight ... if the average player can do it ... Go ahead and kill the whole team by yourself and send me the video.

[@shinanodafloof4491]

I'm doing to be honest, top tier air arcade is not war thunder's most difficult game mode

[@Aoeilaeiepae]

In realistic, you must understand the planes. In arcade, you must understand the planes and how to mess with people. Its too chaotic otherwise. Stay tuned for guides on that.

[@shinanodafloof4491]

@Aoeilaeiepae by looking at your videos all you do is fire radar missiles at clueless level 15 F4S players straightlining at 2K alt. You don't have to understand your plane in arcade, which you demonstrate admirably by calling the MiG-21S a bad dogfighter.

[@Aoeilaeiepae]

@shinanodafloof4491 lol if you saw me fighting F-4S players, then I'm probably slinging AIM-9Ms at him. That's not a radar missile (but clearly I don't understand the game). Also, if all someone had is an F-4S, then they'd leave after I killed them once or twice. That means I couldn't rack up a huge body count off of those guys alone. Besides, my jets are 1.3 BR above them - I don't see many F-4s standalones, since our BR barely overlaps. Oh, and I should clarify - dogfighting usually means turn-and-burn dogfights, but occasionally means any plane vs plane engagement. Like most people, I generally use the word in the former sense, but occasionally in the latter, and the intended meaning should be clear from context. However, when someone says a plane is a good/bad dogfighter, that is talking about its ability to turnfight. The MiG-21S has shockingly bad energy retention, so it is not an effective dogfighter. That's why you don't see me turnfight with it here - I'm using it to illustrate key concepts, which I will expand upon in part 2. I'm glad I could help a new player such as yourself understand what a radar missile is, and whether or not the MiG-21 can dogfight. But hey, if you think that's all I'm doing is skill-less missile spam... then please, go kill an entire top tier air arcade team and send me the video.

[@maresybears]

The MiG-21S is a shocking dogfighter, brother, and I no-life this game. Would rather try my odds with the MiG-19 🤣@@shinanodafloof4491

[@Aoeilaeiepae]

​​@@maresybearsit has a very good turn rate, but no energy retention. So, yes, it turns, but it only gets one shot at you and then it's a sitting duck for you or anyone else. If one tries to turnfight you, just focus on dodging the first burst instead of matching its turn.

[@pa008]

11:58 "I.. I'm the guy at the top" 😂💀🤌🏻