I Spent 24 HOURS as a PAY-TO-WIN Player In War Thunder!

[@pepimcpeepson]

Just FYI, Aufklärungspanzer literally translates into Scout-Tank :) Great video as always btw, just a pleasure to see your content

[@PanzerPaw]

I remember it was something to do with that lol. It reminded me of the command tanks in company of heroes.

[@CoelnMuehl]

Scout-Tank definitiv besser als meins und genauer .

[@killykiller480]

@@PanzerPaw did you forget to mention the penalty of tier difference. For example, you could see, that you wouldnt make 15k RP with the Leo 2in good Battle but more like 1.5k.

[@JustChillingbouh]

I spent 140 hours in war thunder, and it's true that you get stuck in rank 3 usa because you become either too broke or too bored... but I'm going free to play!

[@PanzerPaw]

USA tree gets way more fun with the M24 Chaffee and M18 tho. Because they're so fast! But you also get planes faster too

[@BottasPlayz77]

@@JustChillingbouh I got through rank 3 USA as a f2p and am now at rank 5 usa

[@astropenguin5448]

I'm an air player and was f2p until rank 3 us too, but then I started playing with some new friends a lot more and figured premium would be worth it given how much I have been playing, have stuck firm to no premium vehicles, just need to actually be able to make money

[@rickfastly2671]

@@BottasPlayz77 how did you do it?

[@BottasPlayz77]

@@rickfastly2671 just grinding

[@ComfortsSpecter]

3:07 The Historically accurate way Follow the Leader and Dive through the fog all the way down until You slam nose first into the Ground because Nobody updated the Weather report … Not the Best Day in Aviation History

[@CoelnMuehl]

i think the luftwaffe lost a relativ big amount on trainee pilots at Divebomber training

[@KyH-o7q]

@@CoelnMuehl that fusure considering even with no bombs you cant pull out the dive in time if your below 500 and have more than 300 kmh

[@MateBarnabasDorka]

19:17 if you think about it, you can spend $3600 on just two tanks on the marketplace (IS-7 and E-100)

[@Da_Roket_Reloader]

also other stuff such as planes like A1H and the BI, also other tanks like the obj 279 and amx 50 surblinde (also the roman helmet at almost 900 usd ;) )

[@ormbaggen]

E-100 aint worth it nowadays, if you want to earn silver and research as a new player dont buy any tanks or planes. Just play the game and actually learn to play, and buy premium acc.

[@r.ndomperson]

@@ormbaggen E-100 is absolutely amazing, but not 1k+ amazing

[@ormbaggen]

@@r.ndomperson yeah exactly, there are alot of premiums that cost at most 70 euro that are way more bang for your buck. But if the E-100 cost the same as the normal premiums it would be worth it.

[@_deqi.]

@@ormbaggen naval has cheap perms with a stupid amount of silver bonus as a player that plays naval and ground mostly when ever I’m low on silver I play naval to make easily and also naval is calm around rank 3 and below and I know we’ll because I’ve researched all three main naval countries which is USA,Germany,and ussr.

[@kevlar2536]

19:25 open long range maps at top tier are kinda fun until you kill somebody who doesn’t take it easy and respawn in a Plane and Helicopter

[@PanzerPaw]

...or a drone.

[@CoolBluBoi]

@@PanzerPaw You ever shoot down a drone with a drone?

[@VisionZR]

@@CoolBluBoi ... what?

[@paulking7019]

Why are so many level 50- 100s players playing rank 1? Are they this just that bad? I started playing this game free to play. I can tell you now that the people playing at Rank 1 are NOT new to the game. I will say that again. These players are NOT new to the game. I am a level 9 playing against level 100 players almost every battle. There are very few players at rank 1 that are even close to my level. Most are at least 15 to 20 levels above me if not much higher than that.

[@PanzerPaw]

Many reasons tbh. Either they're grinding out a new nation tree because they mained 1 or 2 to begin with, or it's just for fun. I'm in that 2nd group at least half the time. Top tier is its own thing, so I'm usually between ranks II and IV nowadays.

[@samhebrank1903]

As a lvl50, they’re fun, and also I’ve started playing other nations

[@van3158]

@@PanzerPawthats me, maxxed out US and RUS. Now working through france/uk and germany.

[@bisky9105]

-early levels are very fast to get. Other players at rank 1/2 being around 25-30 is decently normal. Especially if their main focus is testing out different nations and modes -some higher levels prefer the lower tiers (either cause no interest in modern vehicles or sealclubbing) -you need to start from eank 1 if you grind a new nation, unless you buy a high tier premium

[@OnceNorth._.]

@paulking7019 when you get higher tiers, you'll realise that those lower br's are the most fun, it's genuinely enjoyable sometimes to just relax and have fun playing at a lower br

[@thewittylark]

Something that's often overlooked regarding RP/SL rewards is time spent in the battle. If you spend 5 minutes in a battle, regardless of your performance, you'll earn less RP/SL than if you spent 20 minutes in a battle. Might balance out in the long run, but that's how it goes on a per-game basis

[@HyperactiveMelon]

The idea behind the economy basically is that RP mainly comes from time spent doing stuff and SL is mainly gained from the stuff you did. In short: RP is time and SL is skill.

[@thewittylark]

@@HyperactiveMelon Well said!

[@iraklimgeladze5223]

@@thewittylark After i figure out that I use fast tank to rush fast, if got kill good if not cheap repair and use slow tanks for long position battle

[@m.s.1925]

Basically a brocken radio does nothing it would be cool if they made it stop your ability to call in artillery but gaijin is busy eating their pickled cheeseburgers.

[@shiweicai4872]

@@m.s.1925 is it just me or does the bow gunner never fire?

[@m.s.1925]

@shiweicai4872 they made it so the bow gunners do as much of a difference as a broken radio and they can only call in artillery.btw if you are new I would suggest upgrading the radio operator AKA bow gunner so that your artillery strikes are faster and more accurate.

[@johngellare3507]

That's an oddly specific insult.

[@cjbrags1344]

A broken radio should prevent hit markers on enemies to your teammates AND disable scouting

[@sassychumpkins4639]

Eating their what?

[@fiklego_pl]

Funny thing in ussr tech tree is You can buy entire 10.0 lineup - 2s38, turms, t80ud and su25k

[@spencerfellows4724]

Russia is very pay to win in high tier. So many busted tanks that can't be matched in the tree

[@zdopezz3744]

Can’t be matched in the tree is deffo wrong but I know what you mean

[@Dg01065]

And i only need 2 more to complete my Prem 10.0 the Next sale will be used for it 😂

[@SyengSyeng]

2S38, T72 turms, T80UD, BMP2M (yes, its squad tank but you can just buy it for GE.) you can even go as far as the 10.3 premiums, such as the T72M2 Moderna (being around 340 dollars in marketplace) and the T80UM2. (Roughly 70) so, you could have 6 tanks for a 10.3 premium lineup.

[@Maple_Leefreal]

"as well as a stuka dive bomber" shows something that is definitely not a stuka

[@mrchambers31]

I grinded 80% of the Chinese tree using just the Ztz59a. Totally worth it

[@Comradivan]

I Playd 580 Hours as a free to play player. I reached finally toptier

[@homemmacaco6840]

Holy shit.

[@KyH-o7q]

i played about 400 hours free to play and then 1000 as a pay to win type thing and still dont have top tier but also i have rank 4 in 2 nations both in air and ground so russia and america with no premium and no vehicles and im in rank 7 german air and ground with premium vehicles also every nation i have rank 2 in for both air and ground and im still level 68 also i have all german ww2 tech tree vehicles and a premium jet the tornado

[@samhebrank1903]

I’m like 300-400 hours in and am at rank 6

[@USSWisconsin]

​@@KyH-o7q2200 hours, about 2 or 300 ftp 90% ftp in my time in ground beside prem account, have both f-15s the abrams 105 and 120S, kingtigers and researching ho 229, and am researching the t-72a while too poor to buy the 2 ranks 7s I have researched to get rank 8 ussr air, and then In Britain I'm rank 6 ground and 5 air.

[@M.e.o.w.d.y]

It took me 500 hrs just to research the leopard 1

[@MiliyZ-jl4cs]

did anyone notice his currency is CN¥ lmao

[@AeroSparrow]

Love these videos sm! Shows how different the experience is!

[@badpinkexe3660]

What I Have learned about grinding with Top Tier Premiums, the Factor "Time Played" is the Thing that gives the Most XP out of everything... Kills etc are a nice Bonus but the Time you live is deciding over your Grind

[@joaogomes9405]

Says a lot about how shit Gaijin is at balancing the game when sitting in the corner is more profitable than actually playing the game.

[@Alextz_Gr]

@@joaogomes9405 thats actually incorect. Activity * time gives RP. Meaning, yes, time gives rp but only if you do actions that give score in that timeframe. So even tho the actuall actions dong give much, the activity that come from them does. I play since 2013 and i was always skeptical for the reason why rewards have to be so complex

[@joaogomes9405]

@Alextz_Gr so sit in a corner and spot enemies

[@paranparanovic3923]

14:30 you are looking at the research incorrectly, that amount counts both research of vehicle and mark of distinction. For the Leo 2A4M you only had mark if distinction there since only 390 RP went towards the vehicle.

[@Volpeusz]

he does and thinks many things incorrectly, he is very mid player

[@corvuscorax5775]

I used to play WT years ago - eating pickled cheeseburgers o.c. - mostly grinding airplanes - I really wanted that Horton - only to find out that playing it sucks cause it always got tiered against 50's jets. but it was more or less the same thing - do objectives, contribute to the win, survive, and make kills of opportunities always was the fastest way to grind.

[@RevDeuce]

9:20 "Could potentially spend more than $10,000 or more..." *stares in F2P mobile gaming where he knows people who have spent hundreds of thousands on one account/one game*

[@PanzerPaw]

Oh yeah nothing can beat some of the craziest mobile game MT earnings lol

[@cyanide7270]

0:59 thats a very Bansai looking Stuka there. You feeling Daijobu?

[@OCDCOMMENTS]

My partner has always been free to play and has 0 premium tanks. She’s currently at 8.0 in the German tech tree and all of her tanks are spaded.

[@VIKING-VIKING-VIKING]

Damn bro that sounds horrible, buy your girl some premium before she goes insane 💀

[@redamber483]

wait , girls play war thunder?

[@OCDCOMMENTS]

@@redamber483 Yep 👍 Well I persuaded her to play with me :)

[@nfortin24]

lol, try the US tree and you'll see how bad the game can get.

[@de_anubis]

1:56 Aufklärung means reconnaissance.

[@xXturbo86Xx]

The term "P2W" is used very loosely nowadays. Paying for premium account isn't P2W. It just speeds up the progress even if you're playing only with regular vehicles. Pay to win is buying specific vehicles that give you advatages over regular ones and actually help you WIN, and there is some in WT.

[@user_imyarek]

Crew upgrades are pay to win too

[@masonharkness6437]

Tip for new players: play one game each of the PVE mode for gb and ab, depending how far you get into the battle you can get two 10%-200% boosters on top of the login bonus so you can get up to 3 boosters per day

[@johngellare3507]

Problem is, nobody plays the fucking gamemodes.

[@Volpeusz]

@@johngellare3507 well maybe you dont and you just assume but people fucking play this gamemodes

[@joaogomes9405]

@@johngellare3507 And the gamemodes aren't fun in the slightest. So no, don't do that unless you want to burn yourself out

[@justTyping]

PvE is kind of okish, when you get over that the enemies have kind of laser guns and hit you as soon as you are in line of side. no matter the distance. Unfotunately you get so less money.

[@Volpeusz]

@@justTyping do you just said you get so much less money in pve?

[@Jello_Criminal]

Heat from a tank will heat up a camo net. If you are talking realism the reason the camo net works is becasue a tank will find a place to hunker down, shut the engine off and wait. Rolling around in a active battlefield will negate any heatsink a camo net provides.

[@PanzerPaw]

Look up the Saab Barracuda camouflage system for the Leopard 2. While you are right that traditional camo nets will absorb and radiate heat, the barracuda system that the 2A4M and other Leopard upgrade packages have are intended to mask all kinds of signatures including thermal.

[@Error-5478]

19:20 If you include the market place vehicles, I'm betting it's well over $10,000

[@Josiahtoi]

great video man who new how much money you could spend on a game (also I am 90% sure that Chinese AA gun at 43:30 was me bc I was shooting at a trigger that was on the opposite side of a rock to me on the same map)

[@chatchaweewong1071]

Love your content, I played this game on and off for 5 years now, I am still on the rank 3-4 generally :)

[@effortless1701]

Quite fun to watch! Thank you for the video mr.pickled cheeseburger :D

[@slid883]

39:00 i think it just stops the calls from your team or something newer player but every time ive had damaged radio i never here the air calls or anything

[@FraimBlitz]

Its actually 15:36 not 7k for low tier vehicles, it 2k for research only

[@Simon-tr9hv]

They are intentionally throttling max rp you can get, as long as you get like 1 to 2 kills you will get close to 6k to 7k, even if you get like 12 kill, dropped the nuke, at most you can get is around 9 to 10k rp

[@zaidanmujahid6567]

@@Simon-tr9hv Yeah, It's kinda demoralizing tbh, I would play 1-3 matches and just drops it cause it only gets me so far

[@German-Mumin]

Sometimes yes sometimes no, I recently had a match with 11 kills one cap and on assist and made almost 30k ex.

[@ninetenduh]

As someone who only played French tech tree in war thunder, they don't just struggle on low tier. The only times they don't struggle is when they get the Sherman's, the rest of the way it's nothing but struggle.

[@KyH-o7q]

i grinded all the way to top tier Germany with the leopard pzbtl but i also got it when i was in rank for research and also the total cost of all German premium non-market place vehicles is $1 313.17

[@thybonheng1485]

And you will get unlimited protection from gaijin

[@lennickscfr.6867]

@@thybonheng1485 this is wrong I bought a personal offer wich randomly spawns and gaijin still hates me

[@Snailworshiper]

TBH the RU-251 is the only premium i’ve ever bought and it was the best purchase i’ve ever made

[@PanzerPaw]

It's really such a fun tank

[@Snailworshiper]

@@PanzerPaw i know great to bully heavy’s with if you know what your doing

[@michaelcox9855]

The thing with those German low tier 20 mills are that it is absolutely necessary to aim properly. If you know where to shoot, and you can single tap, you can kill a tank with 2 to 3 rounds. This makes them devastating as you can take out several ranks with no reload.

[@flosegfauch5900]

that ricochet at 19:50 is insane

[@rUSTYfrfr]

8:54 if the nets were laid flat over the crew grenades could still just land right on top of them, having them up would cause them to bounce away

[@gazz1mill]

I watched a Panzer Paw vid and he said "comment a line with pickled cheeseburgers in it, et là.😊

[@LakuzG]

Day one of asking Panzerpaw to make a series of videos of the best tanks at every br bracket

[@PanzerPaw]

Like a tank tier list? Not a bad idea actually 🤔

[@LakuzG]

@@PanzerPaw yes but also a showcase of twelve vechicles

[@Chernobyl-zy5vf]

Evidence for free to play players don't give up when you unlock the felling is the best

[@NotAGepard]

I effectively bought my way to the Pershing, M-109, King tiger, and bought basicly every US top tier premium, the Tiger SLA, Leopard PZBTL, Leopard 2PL, and the Tornado IDS. This all happened within a month, but at least it was when I had my skill boost.

[@Sleepy_Cakepop]

I think talisman is a good invest especially for tanks you like. I bought some for the Japanese TT and it saved me a really good amount of time. And if course pickled Cheeseburger

[@th3turb0lag]

You got about as much in 24 hours as I've gotten in 1.5 years. Wow.

[@Bundesadler8032]

Aufklärung=Scouting Panzer=Tank

[@mcguirereid7226]

war thunder has this thing where if you're playing a much higher tier and researching a much lower, i think at 4 tier difference you get -90% RP for those vehicles

[@OG_Tom]

$10k?! You're dreaming! It's a lot more than that if you include all the vehicles that have been removed from the game now lol

[@Yukon.72]

About recoil, you need to try flying jp heavy fighter planes, esp one with i think 57mm cannon. It literally almost stops when shooting

[@omarohida9266]

War thunder is pay to progress not to win

[@jumal150yx2]

You cleary don't know about research rank minus. Because if you research rank 1 vith rank 5 or up you get only 5% of rp into your vehicle that you got in the match

[@Strongpoint_S]

There is no research rank minus for premiums. One of their advantages.

[@blazerunner2051]

7:00 Amongst my favorite tanks in the game, I remember playing with 7.0 players and got kills!

[@thatonewtplayer]

"Did u feed The Snail?"

[@TheLiquidAtom]

Been free to play since the market appeared. Have infinite premium account, buying all the bundles and premium vehicles whenever i want. Sure the event vehicles are bit annoying to get, but its worth it.

[@NotAGepard]

My first top tier match was in my first top tier premium: the Leopad 2 PZBTL. It was on that one map with the broken castle and the B point I. The wide open so no one goes for it. I went to the C point to help out my team and while I was capturing it, my tracks were broken, I popped smoke, several ATGMs hit me, breaking everything except for my turret traverse and my crew were fine. My blowout panels saved me and I even killed an ATGM vehicle after the smoke died down. Then I died to a T-80BVM that got a shot to the side of my turret.

[@nedthomas3000]

18:50 but triple A games are guaranteed to be sh*t now

[@ChrisJones-fm6wp]

I've had a great time grinding out Germany through rank 4 using th KW-1C. Add the Puma, Wirbel, and VK to the lineup as you unlock them and it's a great time.

[@Somerabdomguyfromgermany]

7:00 so um strumpanzer comes from the verb Stürmen in german wich refers to word that i think dosent exist in english and its like entering a building or something else and just killing and shooting everything, and panzer just means tank so technically it is for short range if anyone has something to add please say it!

[@sammylogan7228]

For the first 1000hrs I put into war thunder I didn’t spend a dime on the game. Then I finally bought premium and it was so nice to have that progress boost. I had 1000hrs playing mostly America and still only being at around 6.7.

[@Ampromorr]

If you want to grind the german tree as a newbie i suggest immediately going for both tiger and panther bc they both are op

[@totallylegit4092]

There are a few areas where you can get like 3-4 vehicles in a very close br range that you can grind some lions with.

[@Stele_X]

i’ve heard somewhere that when a gaijin employe was making the new eurofighter typhoon model for the game they dropped a pickled cheeseburger on the mouse of the pc they where working on

[@PixelPlayslLP]

to 15:17 the main debuff is the Vehicle Research if you look how much of that 7k went into the next vehicle to unlock you amybe get the same XP you get lesser into the Vehicle research of the Prozentual Reduction to rank downs

[@justTyping]

For this progress it took me around 100h to get there with no premium but finishing all tanks. I mostly have new tanks researched before I finished the old ones. I also keep buying the first training with SL. But SL seems to be an issue sooner or later. It is pretty hard to learn the maps since they change so often and it is hard to get to now them when every shoot can kill you.

[@andrásGyalog]

Next time ,buy the tornado and/or a premium heli/heli in the tech tree ,if youre doing 24h premium

[@mrassassin3726]

Meanwhile me at 6.7 after putting 1,151.5 hours and still have not spent a dime no premium of anything and no packs

[@javionburke8250]

When your radio is broken it takes longer to call artillery on said enemies (or very annoying teammates)

[@vojtapergl858]

The best idea would be buy a tier 4-5 premium lineup with 3 tanks and one plane at least. For example the german m47, ru251 and premium tiger 2h as a backup (only 6.7) and a do335. Or russian t44-122 t34-100, su122p and yak3 vk107 or m46 tiger, t29, m26t99 and a2d

[@eduardoborges506]

"free" 2 play games are anything but cheap. They are the most expensive to play.

[@Smokasaurus]

@@eduardoborges506 astute observation

[@eduardoborges506]

@@lazylad9022 A premium account, a premiu vehicle of whatever rank you are trying to grind unless you want to spend ungodly amounts of time grinding a line, and/ir talisman. But yea... Super cheap

[@ComfortsSpecter]

That doesn’t sound very Uncomfortable Infact that sound’s pretty Vibey if You Know which vehicles to pick

[@rangerpyron]

How funny is that, i just watched a war thunder ad while watching a war thunder video. What a coincidence 🤔

[@LoganMaqueda]

really great video, something you should try in the future is using the 15cmSLG (first German¨tank destroyer¨) in BR 5.0-5.7, i personallly have killed many heavy tanks one shot

[@NestoriWasTaken]

also, if the goal of the video is to be a pay to win player, you should need to make the most busted lineup you can make with money, a good one would be either the KV-1B or KV-1E (KV-1E is a old event tank, thus being unobtainable)

[@simonjunge2587]

A HE can bounce if the detonator doesnt hit the target but the side of the shell does

[@jcbuk2us]

$20 for 4 months? Honestly that's not bad

[@leonardorodrigues827]

It could go from M2 medium, the tank with more than seven 30-caliber machine guns and the M2A2 with two machine gun turrets, one with 50-caliber and the other with a 30-caliber machine gun. I like these tanks from the interwar period, they are strange and curious and draw a lot of attention.

[@csii6478]

You should also make a note you loose half of the rp to the marks or distinction until you finish it then the research gets better if you were a new player

[@nuteven7156]

I’d watch a whole series of this 😂

[@dannybroughton6444]

7:33 never underestimate that thingme and a buddy we were playing 7.7 germany arcade and someone brought that monstrosity into the battle and he used the overpressure mechanics and the rangefinder to kill mbts and late war german tanks.

[@lucjanositz9625]

Most normal warthunder player weekend

[@Tronnus]

FYI Aufklärungs Panzer means Reconnaissance tank so yeah, scouting!

[@toasterhothead3312]

“You could potentially spend $10k on this game”…my brother…think like 20k-30k I know

[@SandysAwesome]

21:41 you hit it’s ERA which caused the shell to disappear I believe

[@dagingernut9521]

Reason you got 7k in that lower game when comparing is because majority of that xp when to your air tree not the ground tree where in the top tier you got 8k to just the ground tree

[@Wise_picknick]

44:02 Its really good in ground rb and my record kill with one bomb was with it it was 7kills with one bomb and one of those was a plane

[@evemaniac]

you dont need to stay in the capzone to decap. Its allways a good thing to make yourself a line up, pairing a couple of tanks from the same BR together and you said you can not do anything against drones from the ground. Well there is a tree in every nation as far as i remember called SPAA(Self Propelled Anti Air)😁

[@Somerabdomguyfromgermany]

2:17 aufklärungspanzer means clarity tank bit i would rather translatw it to scout tank

[@a3liwa]

you should play free to play keep up the good work!

[@kiri0_]

I personally think that the very first German tank that you were using was supposed to be a scout as it looks like it has a familiar turret and it's built for speed no armor so I think it was an early scout car type vehicle so yeah I think we might have been really early and just the beginning of the war not a lot of fancy tanks were made so there's no need for the crazy armor or crazy guns so yeah

[@warthunder_jan_]

I don't know how you missed with the sturm panzer, yesterday I shot like 10 meters away from a T28 and that thing blew the f up

[@Ray03826]

Ive been thinking about buying turm 3 for Germany and this just made my decision thx panzer

[@PanzerPaw]

The Turm is also a good option. Good gun, good mobility. It's a higher BR (8.3) so you might have the odd heli and ATGM to deal with. But, no drones. So that's not so bad.

[@victoriajohnston5648]

the next time you play the tiger 1 make sure you angle I like to put the gun over the corner of the Non slanted sheet of metal

[@DerRosarotePanter]

8:00 how did this ricochet it was a HE ??!

[@tsugumorihoney2288]

lol, ignored Pz II DAK, one of the best lowtier premium vehicles ...

[@ssuuss539]

YO DUDE I WAS IN ARCADE 6.0 AND A AIR BATTLE STARTED AND THERE WAS I KID YOU NOT A FREAKING A-10A YES A10 IN 6.0 ARCADE GROUND BATTLES

[@Optimisticlizard]

I think with the first few games if you buy a top tier tank all the bots are rank 1 it might be an old bug so i dont know i dont feel like blowing 60$

[@KillerSniper55]

With that ZTZ-99 you shot the add on armour block that sits on the front if the turret so you didn’t actually hit the turret.

[@Spooky_-jm2jw]

I personally would have chosen the leopard 2a4 panzerbatallion or the Turm III, cuz it is hella op

[@MichaelMckinnon-q6e]

Refers to Ju-87 early in the video and proceeds to show a Mitsubishi Type 0 Fighter (A6M) Reisen even though it shows the Ju-87 later

[@Serpently-Sloth]

Is no one going to question that bullet he shot at 19:50

[@kennethmasters9329]

Nice video and I ate a pickled cheeseburger for lunch.