Pilot Reacts to War Thunder

Welcome back to another episode of Experts React! In this video, top-notch pilot and friend of Gamology David Gregor watches and reacts to War Thunder. War Thunder is a comprehensive, free-to-play, cross-platform MMO game that's dedicated to aviation, armored vehicles, and naval craft from the early 20th century and through to some of the most advanced combat units available today.
The game offers players a chance to take part in major battles on land, in the air, and at sea!
Check out the episode to get a look at the game through the eyes of a real-world pilot, and find out just how accurate (or not) this game is, how technology has evolved over the years, and what it's like to fly the skies!
War Thunder is based around combined arms battles on air, land, and sea. According to the game's creative director Kirill Yudintsev, it is the only game that encompasses all three of these experiences in one gameplay session.
Vehicles range from pre-World War I naval vessels, from the interwar period and the Spanish Civil War for tanks and aircraft to the Iraq war and beyond, with an emphasis on World War II as well as an emphasis on the Vietnam War and the Cold War.
Players can control aircraft, ground vehicles, and warships from the United States, Germany, Russia, Britain, and Japan, as well as nations with smaller militaries or less prominence in conflicts, such as Italy, France, China, Sweden, and Israel.
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Pilot REACTS to War Thunder

[@mphukto]

Not a single frame of simulator mode which is the most realistic mode WT can offer. And air arcade gameplay, well, thats a gamolohy moment.

[@unknownsoul9300]

lol

[@_Cetarial]

Who’s gamolohy?

[@blackfox7448]

@@_Cetarial seems like a spelling issue, g and h are close together xd

[@blackfox7448]

Maybe the guys that sent the clips didn't had footage of simulator lol

[@Nightleader]

Simulator mode still isn't realistic.

[@Xiphactinus]

Up next: reacting to stat padders, airfield AAA abusers, passive 4-stacks, mid-map AAA, ridiculous ticket bleed, M163s being in propeller aeroplane battles, invisible missiles, BR compression, and the 25 minute timer being too short.

[@richie_0740]

up next: ww2 tankers that was forced to face mid cold war tanks, EBR users, and ghost shells

[@bmac7643]

@@richie_0740 Jumbo 76 vs T-54 and Leopard 1 💀

[@Darktotaled]

@@richie_0740 i get hate when playing the ebr even though mine is the poor man's one that has no pen at 5.0

[@snowchi2792]

@@bmac7643 meanwhile Germany mains who almost got the M48C2 moved down to 6.7

[@NickThePilotUSA]

Stat padders? Lol I know of a very popular wt streamer who does that

[@galedono]

Just for the record, the archive footage at 1:06 is of Douglas F4D Skyrays, not F-4 Phantom IIs.

[@gre3nishsinx0Rgold4]

It's good to see him more fluid and more relaxed. And just chilling analyzing the video. My biggest problem is. There was only a few planes he talked about.

[@illya2022]

3:26 Interesting to hear things that has to come out only from someone who actually experienced it. Also he really loves saying “roller coaster times a thousand/million” doesn’t he? xD

[@chechnya1395]

Have him look at footage of simulator battles in war thunder!

[@MrSuba47]

They should have shown more air RB fights with ww2 early jets, where there is no lead indicatior and no reload, and you have black outs and wings can break off or tear off depending on what you are doing.

[@HandlesSuck123]

Should've shown off Sim. That's Warthunder at its best.

[@ray_rg23499]

I absolutely love how the first thing mentioned is the sheer use of afterburner. Says a lot about how top-tier is played.

[@Silent_Summit]

Literally the first thing he says is a pilot error, you have to have a key bind to put radar in “standby”

[@cheesyfromindonesia9969]

He did it ladies and gents, he sold his soul to the Snail!

[@MrToasty8705]

I am interested to hear your comments on purely SIM videos from War Thunder. The sim community is on a complete other level compared to Arcade and Realistic battles. Arcade mode give you a ton of information on screen including a lead indicator to help you shoot down planes within 800 meters. This lead indicator goes away in realistic air battles and the realistic physics is turned up to 11. Sim mode requires a HOTAS setup as well as programming buttons to all of the planes functions/features.

[@The_Radio_Check]

as someone who used to fly WT Sim.... it comes nowhere near close to programming all plane functions you could also fly it with mouse and keyboard

[@bradenhagen7977]

Definitely overselling WT Sim but I agree, they should review that instead.

[@HandlesSuck123]

You can still play WT sim with a mouse and keyboard, but yeah. It's a whole different game than arcade mode. As someone who plays DCS, IL2, and WT, WT isn't all that far off and does a pretty good job at introducing new players to the flight sim genre.

[@patriktoth6258]

​@@HandlesSuck123Its late,but i always say Wt's "Simulator" mode is a golden path for those who don't want to spend days in DCS to learn about a plane,but want the feeling of an arcadish simulator 😂

[@ImotekhtheStormlord-tx2it]

this gentleman's face is gforced to the oblvion

[@John-mf6ky]

😂😂😅😅

[@n1co2017]

More explanation air arcade: you have more thrust, your aircraft is more maneuverable, your pilot is less susceptible to g force, you have respawns, you get the friend and foe indicators (red and blue name tags) and there is a lead indicator inside of 800m. Small maps. air realistic: your aircraft has the exact same stats as in real life mainly thrust and maneuverability, your pilot is more susceptible to g force, there are friend and foe indicators and there is no lead indicator at any range. Mid sized maps. air simulator: your aircraft has the same stats as irl like in rb, your pilot is the same, there are no friend and foe markers and no lead indicators, you are locked to first person, you are almost forced to use a joystick. Large to Huge maps. for all: you can make your pilot or defensive gunners more tolerant to g force with crew skill which i guess would be like training and you can make theme tolerate high g’s for longer periods of time, all aircraft with the info that isn’t classified have their exact irl load outs for the most part.

[@rampantsamurai4972]

Can you guys please get Princeton Parker to react to The Mortuary Assistant gameplay. I feel like that would be a cool video.

[@frenchie6139]

Damn this was pretty cool

[@asbjornflindt618]

Why dont you show the simulator mode ?? Instead of realistic mode. When your getting a real life pilot to check it out?

[@blackfox7448]

Maybe the users that sent the clips showed here didn't had experience in simulator, maybe next time could happen xD

[@BADBADGER18]

1:04 expert says f4 (phantom) video editors put f4 (skyray) 2 very different aircraft 😂

[@darthtytherous2107]

We should see him react to a dogfight in DCS from somebody like Growling Sidewinder.

[@The_Radio_Check]

already did that

[@shubhamjuvatkar4023]

Did they literally just last match from Arcade Air Battle. Wtf Gameology 😂😂😂.

[@il1680]

Next up: Flat earthers react to Universe Sandbox

[@ggiven9102]

should show him war thunder in simulator mode

[@linussyren9221]

Most of his points would have been solved if it was SIM footage. Real pilots probably get more out of it from that. RB is nothing like real air combat, but it is fun.

[@Japan_flag]

This is the reason why i want to play war thunder but i cant because i dont have a pc

[@haydenagnew]

Its on console as well and mobile

[@xsociall]

I Subscribed because I like how people reacting to their own job in a game or stuff I like it 👍

[@Makarov13778]

Got a warthunder ad before watching this lmao

[@robsche5130]

Kirshenbaum footage :o

[@AviationFan365]

Imagine if he sees the air crafts that was leaked

[@HyroX2307]

More of this with Spec Ops pls

[@andtit8408]

1. Fencers watch dmc Devil May Cry. 2. Racer is watching Flatout 2. 3. Architects are watching A.I.M. 2 Clan Wars.

[@PopCat_Ace]

This is definitely a big upgrade compared to the footage we've seen in tankers react, which in my opinion was quite bad. Also that last Spitfire footage looks very old. If you guys are looking for somebody who knows a couple of things about the game and can record footage in 1080p60fps on high quality settings please contact me.

[@darknightgamingyea8910]

Bruh where’s air sim…

[@GiangSon007]

Ship Commander REACT to War Thunder when ?

[@Ogishapur]

Yep

[@adrienadrestia2356]

Waiting for enlisted reaction

[@yokoNa678]

They should do DCS which is far better than war thunder.

[@hansantos08]

I waited for this video for so long, thank you Gamology

[@Rainaman-]

Why not show footage from sim mode?

[@KiloNeverWarThunder]

Beware of the snail 🐌

[@Jayjay-qe6um]

Next, sailor reacts to War Thunder.

[@natrod7679]

in war thunder there is a simulator mode in this it's more realistic

[@VivyX2]

man this uses some old footage

[@benferrisinverts4198]

Sim battles are more acurate try them!!

[@Darcstar-du3dh]

your reacting to realistic i think you should do it with simulator

[@noahsawesomevids422]

Awesome 😎

[@melli_yt3790]

bro last clip is arcade

[@shawhavy]

Gbu8 bomb there

[@FINE319BIK]

Лол, на русском канале гамолоджи просмотров больше, чем на основном

[@henry1354]

DADDY DAVID YEHHH

[@jagdpanther5877]

Ayo

[@british_history_guy]

wtf

[@imirazuke3516]

Wait until he sees some Belkan Bullshit or Russian Bias

[@ryxga6392]

Guys, hear me out. What if, Gamology made a channel called Animology or something like that and made Experts react to Anime? I mean there are so many different anime for everything, like medical anime or psychology, survival, sports and so much more. I would love to see that tbh

[@Iforgotyiuexisted]

No

[@virusj216]

these edits are so weird.

[@evangalinsky2499]

Get better footage please

[@recorepro]

MORE WAR THUNDER

[@SteviePonder123]

DCS

[@MidnightSlayz]

@@SteviePonder123 ah, you beat me to it

[@edwardrod605]

👍

[@Terepin64]

Relax your tits, it's just a game.

[@MidnightSlayz]

@@Terepin64 relax your tits it’s just a comment

[@SuddenFool]

It's great to see him be more comfortable in these videos. His joy and excitement for aircrafts and aircraft combat gets to shine through :)

[@ilovepanzer3930]

Should’ve shown him the simulator battles, that’s what war thunder really offers

[@ShadowMoon878]

Actually, Spitfires have a very high rate of fire. The pilots are taught to only shoot in small bursts coz they will run out of bullets in just 15 seconds if they hold the trigger. Hawker Hurricanes have lower rate of fire so they are able to shoot longer. Can't compete with long range fighters like the DeHavilland Mosquito or the P-38 Lightning though. They have enough bullets to turn a bomber into Swiss Cheese.

[@cheesyfromindonesia9969]

Those British 7.7mm rounds are Armour Piercing Inciendary Tracers?

[@isni1946]

hurricanes and spitfires use the same guns tho, I believe hurricanes just have more ammo.

[@syfer866]

Hurricanes Mk.I and II and Spitfires Mk.I uses the same Browning .303 machineguns and both have eight of them. So the rates of fire are the same. However the ammo in total are both different. If you are referring to the earlier cannon armed Spitfires then it makes sense. Both of those two Hispanos have 60 rounds per gun on a drum magazine (later belt fed and more ammo)

[@cola-warthunder]

@@cheesyfromindonesia9969 no, atleast in war thunder they are Ass Piss Irrelevant Trash

[@setesh1294]

the spits and hurricanes actually have the same guns.

[@thatdudeinasuit5422]

One example of the specifics of warheads he refers to in 1:49 is the Expanding Rod Warhead used in the Red Top missiles used by the English Electric Lightning in game. Where a series of metal rods are welded together and packed in around the explosive charge of the missile in a cylindrical manner so that when the warhead detonates the rods fly out forming a Web of metal rods flying at supersonic speeds towards the target that on impact serve to cut the aircraft apart.

[@chaddusmaximus4938]

.... The British are something else

[@mikewizz1895]

I wonder if that's modelled in the game or not

[@Aidan-fw1xr]

Of course the British come up with some way to incorporate knives into their bombs! Lol

[@kommandantkillcode]

@@mikewizz1895I think it is, but at the very least, that missile has some of the highest explosive mass for any missile in the game, even more than quite a lot of air to grouns missiles.

[@TheNewOrder-DaysOfConflict]

Now we need a masochist to react to German Vehicles players

[@sircuffington]

"Masochist REACTS: Try to leave spawn surrounded by German and American teammates in 1.0-3.0 BR"

[@Cecil97]

oh boy i was waiting for this one. also point about the ammo count, some planes may have similar ammo count just with much lower rate of fire compared to modern weapons.

[@ironduke5058]

Have him look at Sim battles that's way more realistic he'd probably be only that.

[@Nightleader]

Sim still isn't realistic.

[@squillz8310]

@@Nightleader "way more realistic" is what he said. Which is true. It's more realistic than arcade and realistic battles. Sim is still "Arcadey" by flight Sim standards. This is common knowledge.

[@efethecaptain6]

Air RB is the worst showcase for warthunder to show aircrafts, you need GROUND RB, or even better ground simulator, that's where real dogfights happen in a more REALISTIC way. No "reds are bad blues are good..." Sad.

[@ambasing638]

Keep it up more of this!

[@fabiusmaximus3382]

i don't mean to be rude, but what he said related to combat is all old info for experienced warthunder players, could you get him to talk about pilot maneuvers for dogfighting and cas more? possibly something that could be useful to players of the game. also, getting him to play the game would be very cool, I'd like to see how well he fares.

[@astral6749]

2:38 alright who put that there?

[@Acejak1234]

For real, every time they do a video about air combat games they do the most stupidest edits, this doesn't even make sense compared to what he was talking about

[@flakc9634]

There is no Sim, sim is extremely realistic it’s the most realistic mode, it’s literally like DCS with out the need to download vehicles and has the variety of vehicles from modern to like 1910s and different maps that may be similar or not that similar to the real life locations of the battles, it even has “alternative history” maps so you may not want to be the actual team your country or the country you play on.

[@John-mf6ky]

Is sim really that close to DCS? Honestly, never new. I'm a noob when it comes to WT and have only really stuck to ground vehicles.

[@patriktoth6258]

​@@John-mf6kyLate,but WT Sim is more arcadish than DCS.

[@Nightleader]

Yeah war thunder's aviation ain't that realistic especially when you can pull 9g's while doing loop-de-loops in a fairy sword fish located in afghanistan.

[@Mario-rl5fx]

well they had it set to arcade mode instead of simulator mode which is the most realistic

[@SteviePonder123]

@@Mario-rl5fx like that changes anything

[@Nightleader]

@@Mario-rl5fx Simulator mode still isn't a simulator. you don't have to manually start up the engine or manually change the mixture on your aircraft.

[@oco8783]

@@Nightleader you can do full real engine control in sim

[@handtomouth4690]

@@Nightleader ...actually you can do that stuff

[@yake222]

he's from the east coast

[@John-mf6ky]

You guys kinda dropped the ball with this one by not doing realistic or sim battles.

[@TotallyNotAFox]

Well, it was all arcade footage, why no realistic battles?

[@kirshenbaumPlays]

Hey! Nice to see a real pilot reacting to my videos! Thank you!

[@John-mf6ky]

Bruh, why didn't you play sim or arcade? Lol

[@el_androi1203]

Why do they have such old footage.

[@woolexpo2064]

They should have shown simulator mode, but there isn’t much going on when it comes to combat

[@20919alex]

Play in Simulator mode

[@locofrint878]

This... this is what I've been waiting for.

[@rizalkhafidin1471]

Project Wingman?

[@Nikotheleepic]

Next time do simulator mode, stop showing arcade stuff for the lemmings to keep entertained

[@MonkeFlip2000]

would be much better to use simulation battle

[@kaikart123]

This game made actual tank crew post confidential document of their tank just because they have an argument about the tank in-game model with someone their forum. Any active military personnel should never play this game and join the forum.

[@SimonSenaviev]

Yes because the game is to blame for someone's idiocy 🤡

[@Nikotheleepic]

Based profile and profile pic, my dude I hate this new handle thing

[@MrSnipes1]

I wish war thunder was good on ps4 and not need a really good system

[@Bluestripsenclavelove]

WAR PAIN

[@Dan_NYCZ]

More WT please

[@silversilver9598]

Play the sim mode please

[@a_catfish5180]

That has to be the most confusing way to explain a dumb bomb…. It’s an unguided bomb so it just like dropping a really scary lawn dart from the plane

[@charliew4112]

Every negative about it not being realistic is possible in the game it’s just the footage was too bad

[@yonnaay]

he should react to sim battle

[@waffle-ir2fn]

no sim battles? common gameology L

[@chugachuga9242]

2:38 What in Orville Wright’s name is that?

[@pefiofpersia2492]

10:51 man I wish. Sad spitfire Mk. IX noises

[@nimrodgyurko]

Show him simulator!

[@ridosajayakan2262]

next try world of planes 😬

[@georgevasilopoulos5359]

nice

[@samuraisoros5846]

pilot of what?

[@Ricklet0ons]

More war thunder!

[@jaisson1090]

Put him play dcs carrier

[@Falkriim]

Very interesting

[@NguyenLyubyuStrana]

Warm thuder my favoutryet gayme

[@NyteStalker89]

This dude needs some education… the phantom was extensively upgraded by US branches with lgb systems.. the phantom was officially retired in 2016

[@Frozander]

To be honest, from all the arcade-y things about War Thunder, ammo count and weapon selection is probably not one of them. Especially if you look at the aircraft he checked out.

[@lukajalo8635]

i don't want to say that war thunder is bad or anything, i'm a big enjoyer myself (glory to the snail) but it's kind of not realistic to have a pilot react to war thunder, like yeah i think war thunder is very realistic to the point where it's not nerdy, like DCS is nerdy in my opinion, it takes like 10-20 minutes to get ready and take off so in that way it's too realistic and nerdy i would say but like for an actual pilot to react to it, hell yes dcs is better for that

[@misterthemad994]

You should have shown him some simulator gameplay in addition to realistic gameplay.