CUSTOM LOADOUTS in War Thunder are OP - AD-4 in War Thunder

It's been a while since War Thunder added Custom Loadouts. It came with the A-10 and various other vehicles but now it's finally starting to be added to some earlier aircraft.
Custom loadouts in War Thunder are OP, in the case of the AD-4 Skyraider, this thing was normally limited to either bombs or rockets but now it can take ALL of them making it a force to be reckoned with!
The AD-4 in War Thunder is now a MONSTER!
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[@OddBawZ]

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[@Imzeboss]

109th try, please play the T-28e or the T-80(light tank) in USSR 2.3 br. They are fun and you have no videos on them tanks

[@ragingstorm_15]

Monquito 6 uncle toms? There Brit nuke rockets

[@IkeThemage]

How do you switch between your special weapons. I have a 12 side button mouse and it’s hard to use the last 3😂

[@undersandpaper8541]

Pls keep it insnae on the thumbnail lmao.

[@IkeThemage]

@@undersandpaper8541 it does not say it in the thumbnail. And maybe learn spelling lmao

[@swissfreek]

I know this video is mostly about the plane, but a small rant with regards to the light tank: I feel like when I'm in a light, my reason for existence is to scout the hell out of the enemy team, in order for the heavies and planes to have markers to kill. It drives me absolutely bonkers when I'm in a heavy or a plane and my whole team is running around in lights, and not one of them is making any effort to scout a damned thing. Shoot at that tank all you want and maybe you'll get some kills, but scout it first so the rest of us can support! More than likely wherever that guy is, there's another one in his general area. It makes the team so much more effective than having to wander around the battlefield hoping to run into something before it runs into you.

[@scotttill3847]

Same. I am a light tank main. I scout even if I am going to engage the enemy I scouted in the off-chance that someone kills me. I get the intelligence assist and the spawn point reduction to bring out CAS. I've had 20+ scouts in matches quite a few times yet got very few assists because my team is not pushing to the front lines.

[@junkers3824]

Gaijin really needs to sort out the teamwork problem in war thunder, like give players incentive to actually work together by increasing the rewards you get for doing stuff like scouting, helping teammates repair or put out fires, and maybe towing teammates out of danger (I’ve done that a few times when I still played the game). And have an updated tutorial that teaches players how to effectively work with your team, and maybe something like a better voice chat system to quickly communicate with teammates rather then taking a few seconds to type a message in chat. But knowing Gaijin, they’ll probably never implement something like this because they’re either incompetent or think it won’t give them money.

[@scotttill3847]

@@junkers3824 I agree. You do get benefits from teamwork but most people don't want to play WT as a team game. It's a bunch of lone wolves. Yeah, I will occasionally have one of those "carry the team" try-hard matches, where I am doing everything I can to win the match (usually in spite of my team's insistence on losing) and those can be really fun *(and sweaty), but I would rather get some help. TBH, when I start a match, I check the scoreboard to see if there are any "stacked" squads (2-4 people playing together, not randoms), since I know they have the ability to talk to each other in voice chat and mark positions with squad markers. Lone wolfing is sometimes the way to go. If you solo-cap an objective, you get all of the SL, RP, and spawn points...if you have team-mates on the cap, your earnings are reduced. This is why you see people taking Pumas, M-22's, and BT (and R3 T20 FA_HS rats) tanks into higher tier matches...cap rush to get a solo cap, maybe get a kill or an assist afterwards, and then hop into CAS.

[@thegangster3366]

I used to uptier my M5 Stuart to 4.0 such a fun little scout. I always end up play my Chaffe like a medium. The Stuart is my favorite light tank Because it actually feels like a light tank.

[@Skip.8221]

Scouting and repairing definitely needs to give better rewards

[@arbiter5853]

20:50 had me laughing with how the MM rockets were glitching out of their pods

[@AceDupuy]

Hey Odd I'm not sure if you're aware but there is a setting that sets your aircraft to automatically jettison the rocket pods once they're empty. This will help you survive a bit better in your attack aircraft if they get jumped

[@funfactor4528]

Where can you find that in the settings?

[@bramcolmer9259]

how, plz tell me it would be so usefull

[@MrJob91]

Its in the menu and then press alt f4 to bring up the jettison pods settings.

[@BMWMGT]

@@MrJob91but make sure you activate all the one game boosters first to jettison them faster

[@scotttill3847]

@@MrJob91 Alt F4...wow, you are a funny guy. Errybody knows that closes the program in Windows, schmuck.

[@bushboi]

From one guy that loves the AD platform to another, thanks for this, and here's to a tech tree A-1E in the future

[@wathog01]

They are really the balancers for the Americans at this BR. Leaving it alone it'll just eat up the tanks one by one. And leave it to a skillful pilot who knows how to rocket snipe, even SPAAs are no match.

[@g3arjammer837]

I’m hoping more so for the A-1J to get added to the tree. So we have the last version of the Skyraider in the tree

[@ODST_Parker]

Bombs with FFARs was the first thing I thought of when I saw the new loadout releases. It's not quite as insane as the A-1H with even better bombs combined with Zunis, but it's definitely an improvement.

[@thatguysky123]

This is one of the best birthday gifts, my man. Thank you for all you do for us. You're amazing 😀👍🏼

[@OddBawZ]

Happy birthday!

[@therelatablegamer7012]

happy one day ago birthday

[@xmannkiller]

i love the rocket pod glitch where when you did the pull up the rockets leaves the pods through the bottom. 6:10 just look at the pods, looks funny

[@tomgerard4211]

Odd sending a good 20 rockets off the rails, and then casually saying “hold that” and showing us a pinpoint bomb drop as an afterthought had me far too excited. Once again, a masterclass of armour and CAS 23:31

[@GaiusCaligula234]

"pinpoint" is a bit of an over-exaggeration, don't you think

[@tomgerard4211]

@@GaiusCaligula234 I know if I tried to make that drop I would’ve blown myself up, pinpoint to me! :)

[@fireseriousgaming8658]

gotta love the rockets clipping out of the rocket pods at 6:10

[@Mr.LDF1]

You should check out the am-1's bomb load. You can have 3 2000lb bombs with lots of 250lb bombs or rockets.

[@ndinoguy6845]

I'd rather take the magnetic mines, as they have very large amounts of explosives for how light they are (they have 500 kg worth of TNT and are lighter than the 1000 lb bombs), while the 2000 lb bombs + extra bombs or rockets gives you the flight performance of a garbage truck.

[@realhebplus1871]

@@ndinoguy6845 that's smart, but I'm most likely crashing into the ground after/before/while I drop my 9000lb load

[@swissfreek]

7:17 The Mighty Mouse rockets render outside the canister. Nice work, Gaijin...

[@ArcticWipeout]

The Skyraider is such an awesome plane. The A-1H is so fun aswell.

[@nimibestgirl9649]

Hey Odd! I love your videos! They are much more cheerful (and/or painful really depends on the vehicle) than others imo. Idk if its just because of the way you talk during the videos or if its just a personal preference but they kept me entertained for pretty much 1-1.5 years now and I never missed a new upload since I joined but there is one small little thing that botheres me for quiet a while now and that's a distinct lack of love for the russian SU-100P or how I like to call it the ASU-100. Compared to the ASU-57 it isn't nearly as small but it has a somewhat comparable mobility with a maximum speed of 65 kp/h going forward and ~21 kp/h in reverse and it also has a very deadly high velocity 100mm D-50 gun that reloads like an 85mm gun and an even more deadly grenade: the BR-412D with almost 170mm of pen at 500m at a 30° angle that can reliably pen and one shot any vehicle at its BR (with some exceptions being the Tiger II H, Jadgtiger, T26E5, T32, M48, the Tortoise and some others). The shell flies at almost 900 m/s making it very easy to aim at long ranges and with almost 100g of TNT in the shell its a mere wonder if the target survives a successful center-mass penetration. The SU also follows the teachings of no armor = best armor and can therefore be quiet survivable if the enemy doesnt carry HE, HEAT or BESH but its biggest downsides are the frontalyl mounted engine and transmission so you have to expose your front in most situations and the lack of gun depression with only *negative 4° of gun elevation* **!Disclaimer! I didn't test every vehicle from 5.3-7.3 and I only tested the ufp at 500m so most tanks still have giant weak spots like the turret or the lfp !Disclaimer!** I enjoyed your video as always and I'd really love seeing the SU-100P on your channel in the near future as it is a very overlooked tank imo and it deserves some more attention. Stay safe and don't forget to give your computer a treat so that it doesn't die again! Edit: Sorry for the text wall

[@obsidianjane4413]

@6:15 Reported for gluing extra rockets to your pods. lol

[@martinboniotti423]

You should check the AM-1 with custom load

[@jacobcheung4115]

23:55 “hold that for me” 😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@ttt2---763]

They are definitely insnae

[@Stale_Mahoney]

i think that allowing the planes to carry what they did historically and then balance them after the new performance is better than giving us loadouts we won't would make implementing planes easier as well i suppose as they only need the hardpoints and what to be able to carry

[@jordannutt2238]

Bawz you should really enable automatic pod drop, for expended mentions, it would have save you tons of roll time in the 2nd game, bc you were hanging on to two hvars and had 8 empty MM pods

[@canned__meat]

Always a pleasure to watch you fly. Great video Odd!

[@MrOlliewally]

I did this a couple of days ago with the AD 4 used all rocket types available on the pylons and 2000 bomb it is a killer combo

[@BallisticAero]

This BR is near perfection, without going past 6.3 you can have so much fun in exceptional usable vehicles and the fights can be long and personal. Very memorable BR

[@smolwavingsnail9028]

This thing and the french corsair are my arch nemesis in war thunder. There's a reason I have the tag anti air and am very accustomed to seeing the wing breaker in my results at the end of the match

[@iamstin1705]

Combo vids are my absolute favorite. Way to go with another heater of a video Odd

[@zanzibarzamfir276]

love the tank plane combos, cas is like the icing on the cake in the videos.

[@rastaboy_gamesnstuff7778]

Quick info, bingo is when you have just enough fuel to make it home to land, "Winchester" is when you are out of secondaries

[@danielecattabriga2168]

Thumbnail typo… insane not insnae

[@tommyradabaugh6893]

Absolutely love your CAS videos!

[@RamielNagisa]

It's probably a part of watching it not playing, but I heard the Tiger that got you; right side audio while you swung to engage the panther. lol

[@20jamjar]

Odd, how do you do you not hear a tiger THAT close? 4:49 lmao

[@clarkson2189]

what skill man awesome specially that plane battle there

[@LooseSnake348]

I have this drinking game where every time Odd says the phrase, "D'ya kno that?", I take a shot.

[@OddBawZ]

Please don’t hurt yourself! 😂

[@ExcavationNation]

It's so cool that these are me and yours favorite

[@k3rc4]

Definitely the best flying I've seen out of you, Bawz. Good sht!

[@ThelVadam7777]

The ostwind 2 is probably my favorite anti air in this game, it is so powerful. All you need js one shot to kill a plane, it has two cannons, decently high velocity, and doesnt have to reload. So good

[@stephenallen4635]

Youd love the coelian then

[@ThelVadam7777]

@@stephenallen4635 yeah probably Cause then i cant just get mislled or cannoned to death as easily

[@themilkman8554]

6:42 Look at the rocket pods... the rockets are clipping through. lol

[@Armoredcompany]

I love that I'm not the only one with the graphical bug where the rockets actually come through the outside of their pods when they're pulling hard turns. The ZUNIs in my A-1H do the exact same thing and it drives me nuts every time. That P-51 got you killed, even with how god-tier .50 cals are he didn't have enough angle to get into the turret reliably, you did. He should have flown further out in front of him without shooting to make him turn his turret away from you. You had the cannons and rockets to do the job.

[@TomPrickVixen]

The AM-1 with the custom loadout is even more deadly in naval, too bad there is no longer a 5.7 lineup for the US! Not to mention the A-1H with Zunis, napalm, and 2000lbs bombs on 6.3!

[@tmseh]

Nice homage to Walker, Texas Ranger. How much armor can Chuck Norris's fist penetrate? All of it.

[@stagoo8529]

great video as expected fun and u learn stuff and at 18:52 Ah yoo

[@orinjnanu2924]

Naval mines are silent when dropped and have a larger explosive mass than the 1000lb. They can be nasty

[@efethecaptain6]

4:51 You can hear the Tiger, Odd.

[@ninnikuu8663]

Please do more CAS videos. What such enjoyment to watch you fly a CAS plane.

[@kirstinpluck5278]

I have just noticed that my f4u and my p47 get g suit modifications as well as my m42 gets nvg. All st 4.7!

[@rhystaylor851]

mad props to that Ostwind 2 for cutting down all that allied CAS

[@abitofapickle6255]

This is still a small snippet of what the skyraider can carry. Even though the A-1H can carry more, the AD-4 still carried the same ordinance. I'm still waiting for that. Skyraiders are rad.

[@dankboi2278]

I wish I had those but damn the grind is insane, I'm only 3,7 on planes

[@abitofapickle6255]

​@@dankboi2278The skyraider is a awesome plane. You'll love it

[@dankboi2278]

@@abitofapickle6255 man im on 7.0 usa and i do not have the patience to grind planes

[@The_Gabinator]

1:32 just realized the third pylon from the left is missing.. interesting. Floating mighty mouse moment

[@bugrahancakmak4390]

Omg Odd, you are soo accurate with thouse rockets, great video as always

[@elgenerico6263]

I most enjoyed the time when he said "it's loadin' time" and made the fattest possible loadout

[@computer3255]

try the f105d with custom loadouts, you can carry 2 bullpups 2 3000 pounders and 6, 750 pounders. if the enemy doesnt have spaa you literally have enough ordinance to wipe their team, on a mach 2 capable jet

[@jordannutt2238]

There are so many "cas" options that you are forced into playing to play with your ground br, so now being able to strip unneeded load and perfect a setup like OMFG what's the AD-1 mauler looking like now???

[@Boom-my3tj]

keep up the great work ozz

[@mathew4485]

The typo makes it so much better ❤

[@honglong7764]

A new OddBawZ video. My day is perfect thanks to you ^^

[@draysoncrook4898]

Do A-10 with as many 20mm pods as possible

[@krypticpanda6670]

I actually enjoy these plane focused videos a lot more, especially as someone who doesn't do props

[@player12gaming89]

I wish there were custom loadouts for the A-4. It's a squadron vehicle, so you can get it for free but it sucks because it doesn't have a loadout with both bombs and missiles (and a few other problems) That one little fix would make it so much more viable

[@samh5190]

thank you Odd !!!!!!!!!!

[@TonnyH21]

4:50 how did you not hear that loud tiger engine?🙉

[@OddBawZ]

That's a Panther Engine down the bottom of the cliff underneath the Tiger. The Tiger engine goes "chug chug chug".

[@dandomine]

If you make a movie you can fully load the AD-4 with Napalm.

[@oskarnilsson0712]

One thing i notice now when i watch this video is how you easely get like 3-4 kills while i struggle to get more than 2😂

[@rockdragon3]

"as long as it doesn't unbalance the wings" fun fact, you can unbalance it, i tested it on my AU-1, just loaded up one wing with 500lb bombs and nothing on the other. it still let me fly, though it would constantly sideslip to one side and when i pulled up hard it tried to corkscrew me. but yeah, you can pretty much go hog wild on it and make the silliest loadouts you want

[@cheeseducky8132]

“Enemy spotted” lol😂😂😂

[@elijahchilds3730]

Looks like a king tiger, smells like a king tiger…….MUST BE A PANTHER 😂

[@XSpamDragonX]

AM-1 gets an even more absurd loadout and can use it's flaps and airbrake at the same time without any interference.

[@dbap5293]

My personal loadout is 2k lb bomb 2 tiny Tim’s 3 Mighty Mouse tubes per wing and 6 hvars

[@davidbonds3202]

The AM-1 Mauler can now carry three 2000lb bombs, all single dropped. It's lovely

[@pauln6917]

Ah, the Spad. I wish those were still in use.

[@LugborG]

Challenge time! The Japanese A7M2 has unguided air to air rockets. Try to shoot down a plane with them.

[@Joe_Mama77]

Finland mentioned

[@bobybot9320]

i know it's really close to the bulldog in the tech tree, so you might not want to drive it for your next video, but please try the m56 scorpion, i'm sure you'd love it as much as i do. it's fast, stupid looking, and powerful, easily in my top 5 of all tanks i almost forgot: the ontos and t92 are 6.7 as well, it's a crazy lineup if you like light armor

[@cassiusmorton7172]

Oddbawz!!! Pleaseeee do a video on the t18b-57! It’s such an insane 4.3 cas plane

[@branojuraj9063]

Hello Odd, Just love your videos and your scottish accent (no homo tho) keep up great work, you are my most fav WT youtuber

[@volatile100]

I just hope the P-38 gets its rightful (and historical) loadout of 2 independently dropping 2000lb bombs. Only the last P-38 can carry bombs, and they're 1000lbs.

[@marckugler4298]

CAS is definitely too cheap to spawn, it should be double the SP cost, especially with custom loadouts

[@tikityler1386]

It should also have to take of from the runway. I'd be so fucking happy if it did not exist. CAS gameplay in GRB is cancerous.

[@Illness.og.]

No. PuhhK you it’s fine the way it is.

[@berserkerpride]

These tiers of CAS are probably why the US teams do okay with shermans at such high tiers. You can kill them easy, but they'll get ya.

[@jamesjohnson8924]

I would also add, limit the amount of ammo you take into battle, its the difference between being a firework show and surviving minor penetrations

[@dyeshan221]

There is a setting in the options that automatically drops empty rocket pods like those. I have no idea if there is a performance increase afterwards though.

[@The_Irish_Fox]

Yes performance increases when the dead weight is dropped

[@dyeshan221]

@@The_Irish_Fox good to know..I have it turned on to drop the dead weight but wasn't 100% sure if it worked.

[@kirishima638]

How is your new pc working out? Is it the same one repaired or did you get something else?

[@noahthegod2391]

I wish they would add custom to corsairs, id like my 2 1000s and my hvars with the 20mms

[@warthunderplayer1753]

Love this video❤

[@Orodreth888]

Well then, looks like I need to take out the Volksjäger for this one.

[@mac0073]

whats the setting to be able to select what rockets you wanna fire???

[@redbarrelentertainment]

"A massive load, dude." 10 second silence

[@thedamddino4893]

Imo to counter CAS, make fighters without payload to be cheaper in SP.

[@paulbridge6063]

Mad first game, would love to know how you honed your CAS skills, because I am lucky just to drop a bomb or two. You seem to be up there for ages.

[@kerberos623]

He has done vids where he show his bombing tehnique

[@paulbridge6063]

@@kerberos623 really. Have not seen that one

[@TheSkinass]

How do you free look and control the plane same time? Is there a setting i am missing?

[@Caktusdud.]

I think there's definitely a place for this feature. I mean it isn't going anywhere anyways, anyhow. Gaijin should just go all out and put it all pretty much every aircraft in existence. Their is quite a few aircraft I can think think of that could do with it. Multi role aircraft would love it especially. So there's that I guess.

[@danburrill8716]

Possibly a pity they don't have the loadout of the AD-4B - a Mk-8 nuclear bomb, delivered by over-the-shoulder toss bombing. It was mostly just a political power-play by the US Navy, but they did build about 200 of the planes and 40 Mk 8 bombs (which had no safety systems and were set off by a black powder time fuse).

[@halfasoul4088]

I love this plane, now I love it more

[@domminykbarker4437]

So we just gunna ignore that the rockets are going threw the cover????

[@rafaszymaniewicz1991]

'There's a fu*cker wolf!'

[@101deathcore]

what headphones are you using to hear sound direction so well.

[@hueni3893]

10:14, it looks like a king tiger, it smells like a king tiger... ITS A PANTER

[@syruswilliams3661]

Of course when I stop playing they finally add custom load outs to my favourite planes

[@OptimusBananas]

wow a chicken reference... gotta get him back on here

[@mackspowers5522]

could you do a vid on the yeet delete cannon the Spj fm/43-44?

[@fire_drake12.arc.24]

Seriously, only playing for fun is the only reason i havent quit after 7 years. When i dont feel like im having fun i just close the game and do something else instead of forcing myself to suffer.

[@notaname1750]

Odd getting good tier battles. Me who gets constant uptierd from 6.7-7.3. 😢🔫