Why Are You Like This...

[@Game_R_Lettuce]

Some people just want to watch the world burn, Smigol

[@benbased7740]

I recently became a supervisor at some state facility. They asked me If I knew anything about mental asylums. I said as much as anyone I'd ever met. They asked me how much I know about people with mental disabilities. I said I play War Thunder. They said welcome aboard.

[@smigoltime]

That's basically like being asked if you had a gun in your hand before at a shooting range, and you respond that you're a 1st, 2nd WW, Korea and Vietnam war veteran

[@satagaming9144]

"I have a theoretical degree in physics"

[@grognard23]

I have concepts of a plan.

[@grognard23]

@@satagaming9144 Okay, Mr. Fantastic. 🫠

[@baraka629]

"I know a guy that knows a guy"

[@MrKumi]

that first SPAA Is dreamybull with the ammount of rope he's shooting xDDDDDD

[@kaanboss]

I fucking spit my coffee all over my keyboard Lol

[@DarkSoul1992]

Damn. 💀

[@pompefunebri7119]

Diabolical comment

[@hasnicktir5310]

You albanian n. XDD

[@thomaszhang3101]

Can someone explain?

[@AHM1386]

tells the n word 5sec later same person says: "i report you" just wow

[@czester9991]

Real free speech

[@Coltara]

the n word melts liberal brains, more gamers need to start saying it

[@SuiSideex]

normal word like other words lmao

[@flyboymb]

I checked his account. Bro has the pass.

[@SaxyPlayer96]

"tells" the n word? jfc

[@darealsherlock8026]

3:06 Peak wirbelwind shot

[@corporalcorgi4948]

Smigol once again proves that he is indeed, a human ballistics computer.

[@adiarka4543]

Literally how, I could never…

[@Redstoneprofi01]

Average german spaa. Somehow they give you luck, when i play the zerstörer, i can snipe the people 1km away flying in a totally different direction... And when i play against germany then playing a plane is impossible, every german spaa user is somehow insanely good, sometimes i get hit by the first shot at 2 kilometers altitude while flying 400kmh 😂

[@wolfgangkolber381]

@@Redstoneprofi01 I can do pretty well with the Ostwinds, but I've never understood why people like the Wirbelwind. Definitely not saying it should be lower, it's fine where it is, but I find it incredibly difficult to use.

[@Redstoneprofi01]

@@wolfgangkolber381 It's always personal preference, you learn the ballistics of one spaa and get good with it, then switching will be hard. Some are better with the Ostwind's bigger gun, some like the Zerstörer more because it has a higher firerate. I'm quite good with the german 20mils, the SdKFZ spaa, and the zerstörer but it's basically entirely personal preference, all german low tier spaas could also be taken to 6.0 and all perform the same depending on the user

[@MegaJani]

1:38 The best part about these is seeing the regard rip their flaps moments before crashing

[@ShidenJ]

6:57 -7:55 "UHm uhm actually 🤓🤓☝thats my base target" seriously it feels like being in kindergarden, after he said the word and then say "i will report you" is funny.

[@theoutcastraven9777]

The thing that's even more hilarious is that the Fw-200 (I think that's who was sperging out) could have easily checked the teamlist and seen that Smigga had no bombs and was just fucking with him, yet he was too retarded to do that... Truly incredible. Every time I think about coming back to WT I see stuff like this and think "ya know what, nevermind."

[@benbased7740]

The most whiny chud interactions in this game are between base bombers and other base bombers.

[@poopstick924]

​@@benbased7740 I shot down a guy who was flying his bomber on the deck for some reason. He started bitching about why I was going for him when he was leaving everyone else alone lmao. It's always so funny when people complain that you're trying to do pvp in a pvp game mode

[@derkaiser9881]

@@benbased7740 Space bar gamers

[@axellopez9601]

The thing is, smig didn't even have a bombload, he was arguing over nothing XD

[@kubajackiewicz2]

Dont worry it gets even worse with jets lol, average F-14 pilot is so dense it generates additional gravity pull that extends effective range of your missiles against it

[@smigoltime]

Getting ace games in Ki-84 against tomcats made me realise this

[@kubajackiewicz2]

@smigoltime I used to frequently take along a friend in a Chaika biplane to 11.7+ BRs Air RB, of course half the team tried to shoot him down as "troll" but the real trolling was the fact that he consistently ended up no lower than halfway through the leaderboard by score even if that was entirely by dodging and getting an assist (it's very easy to avoid missile and gunfire with a Chaika)

[@Squood]

You can consistently win a BVR joust against the F-14A IRIAF using Fox-1’s because they stupid.

[@puff7145]

Ah, the life of an AA player. You must choose: Go AFK Shoot at something 5 miles away and waste all your ammo to not die of boredom

[@GuyHoldingABird]

and leaning in to see whether that dot on your screen is a plane or a speck of dust

[@RADIOaktywnyy]

Air rb now is something else , i never saw so many people with mental disorders in one place , throwing all energy away for a head on , going straight up and dying or bomberd killing eachother for 11 additional points . Nie polecam

[@smigoltime]

I've been playing a lot rb lately and I haven't seen a single person properly climb. Everyone doesn't even bother, they just stay at sea level

[@RADIOaktywnyy]

@@smigoltime due to this some br's Like 6.0 are super boring and for some straight up unplayable , most players a just dumb bombers doing everything they can to bomb base or even some ai units and then crash. I consider myself lucky if my team has fighters at all , but then again most fighter will go for one kill in a headon and that will be enough for then , i have never seen such desperation for kills in air RB

[@damiankuta9554]

@@smigoltime most people doesn't know how to play, it always end you have to fight with multiple opponents, when your team decide to go to sea level and destroy some bots or single attacker; that sucks so much

[@WashedSotta]

@@damiankuta9554 dont forget the people who do climb and u start believing this could be a decent team for once and then they all dive for the first spotted enemy attacker on the deck. like why waste 6 mins climbing only to throw it away at first sight

[@CyborgDoge]

@@smigoltimeik half my team just dies from that

[@Wikarian99PL]

5:26 The best is when you see these shots far behind and then magically one of them nuke your whole plane

[@yatokami7907]

I used to think this was because Gaijin (realistically) gave different velocities to different rounds, so the non-tracer rounds might have a higher velocity and be landing "invisibly" while the slower rounds with tracers fell far behind. However, I only recently learned that for some reason, all rounds in a belt travel at the same velocity as the first round type in that belt. So, I guess it's just desync?

[@Endermann111]

@@yatokami7907they actually gave all shells in tank belts different velocitys. its only for aircraft that the first in the line is the one velocity that every shell after it uses

[@Wikarian99PL]

@@yatokami7907 it would be a little strange if the tracer round has different speed than the rest, what would be then a point of using them if they fly somewhere else

[@yatokami7907]

@Wikarian99PL IRL tracer rounds do tend to have slightly different ballistic characteristics from their non-tracer counterparts. At most combat ranges this doesn't matter (i.e for the combat ranges of an assault rifle this difference is negligible) because they usually have the same muzzle velocity, and only tend to decelerate at a different rate, however for anti-aircraft guns firing at longer ranges, this disparity tends to become noticeable.

[@yatokami7907]

@@Endermann111 Really? I thought it was for all autocannons. So all SPAA shells do have their own ballistics modelled?

[@kingwein89]

I've never seen a WT video that is so deeply relatable. When people call it the "daily grind", this is exactly what I think of. Stupidity in this game needs to be punished more severely, as in more has to be at stake. I don't know if that means greater repair costs, longer que times, longer crew lock. Or maybe it's the complete opposite and success needs to be greatly rewarded. I think of games like IL2, Squad 44, even Day Z where failing is incredibly punishing in some way, and success is a huge serotonin dump. Somebody help us

[@smigoltime]

I'd remove crew lock completely from the game myself, but I agree with the rest

[@kingwein89]

@smigoltime that's what I normally say because it never stopped me from leaving early. But I'm also desperate

[@RealStitchie]

Definitely success. Getting whacked randomly because of your team being dogshit is not fun and should not be super punishing. What are you gonna do, work with that wirbelwind player in the first video?

[@nattly6340]

@@RealStitchie yea that. im so sick of losing in first place...

[@me262_is_my_life5]

sometimes i believe that they think the ammo is like an active radar homing missile and will automatically correct its trajectory to hit the target lmao

[@hubril7921]

tbh it feels that way when you play on CIS servers, espeacialy 50cals feel like they have a proxy fuze of a phoenix

[@HunterSteel29]

@@hubril7921 I only play with CIS servers in the mix when its like middle of the night for me, so I can get quicker MM Times. But I swear that some of those players did something funky to their game.

[@Atlas_M]

1:06 POV: you are in Berlin, early 1945, the squadron was sent to engage a group of B-17s and the new recruit (an underage kid) hits this move on takeoff (clear skill issue moment)

[@PineCone227_]

This is the first time I've seen smongol miss any shots

[@LilGravyJones]

I like to think of myself as a pretty descent player. Few thousand hours, nice K/W. But I see myself in some of the individuals on show here, and that's why I can never be the best.

[@coldenttube9904]

I'm afraid the "3/4 of the team diving from 4km to the deck after a single bomber/strike aircraft" syndrome is here to stay for good

[@gurde3596]

3:49 imagine just casually doing your scout mission turning around and then seeing an 8 tonne cruise missile behind

[@derkaiser9881]

2:52 "CAS is so op this game is so bad it's all planes!!!!!" For real though before aircraft get proper guided ordnance, SPAA and CAS are both equally deadly to each other. That's my 'hot take' of the year lol

[@alexturnbackthearmy1907]

Not on 7.0-8.3. Most planes have zero of anything that can reliably hit on long range (other then bomb tossing. Blind.) and spaa have radar, which allows them to just sit in some hole, wait till plane comes within certain hit range and gun them down before they can do anything. And then 9.0-9.3 when most planes still dont have countermeasures, but spaa already have guided missiles (thankfully stinger is as good as ground based aim9b).

[@LordTomi2011]

Yeah, it is honestly a massive skill issue for the playerbase. Both can be just as powerful as frustrating depending on the situation. SPAA can easily and rapidly delete numerous CAS aircraft in your average WT match, but then again I have fond memories with the Bf 109 K-4 where not only was I hunting down the enemy's CAS planes, whenever the skies were clear I'd start hunting their SPAA and open-top vehicles. I don't think people enjoyed it much lmao.

[@derkaiser9881]

@@alexturnbackthearmy1907 Stinger might not be the best, but there are situations where it is completely unavoidable. Also the Strela exists lmaooo

[@derkaiser9881]

@@LordTomi2011 262 Jabo is super good at that, too. MK108s basically overpressure every open top in the game with a single burst. But at 7.3 there's some nasty SPAA.

[@alexturnbackthearmy1907]

@@derkaiser9881 So is aim9b. Still pretty trash.

[@pedrotrivelatoferreira2776]

Thank you for reminding me of why never to come back to this interactive psychological torture audiovisual experience

[@matatorn161]

I understand the guy in bomber. It’s so annoying when you ping a base and someone is still going for it. Too bad he didn’t realize you didn’t have any bombs

[@Majima_Nowhere]

Respecting base calls is good manners, but not a written contract. Most of the time it's first come, first served.

[@Mmjk_12]

@@Majima_Nowhere yeah but you'll have a fuckin idiot that will take your base when there's 3 others to choose from.

[@BichaelStevens]

@@Majima_Nowhere Nicqua 10km behind me: "UKHM ASHKSHUALLY THATS MY BASE 🤓🤓🤓" yeah ok Snorlax

[@gurde3596]

Such dedicated SPAA gamer in the beginning. He understands his duty and it's importance to the comrades that surround him. Let us all salute this man with respect

[@DarkSoul1992]

Many regarded migers today.

[@cheesuschrist5017]

smigol is once again besieged by the imbecility of the general population

[@GuyHoldingABird]

Average braindead SPAA players shooting at planes 3 km away, exposing their location and asking to get strafed. Man I swear these guys make us good SPAA players look bad

[@anthonynielsen3867]

Idk how you did it but I insta liked the video with the "They're taking the hobbits to Isengard" outro. Felt like I got mind controlled.

[@Meatshield-gi1bl]

In all of about eight minutes you've perfectly encapsulated the feeling of playing this game for longer than 5 years. It's depressing, man

[@nattly6340]

to be fair, the spaa at the start did their job perfectly, you didnt get a chance to attack

[@smigoltime]

@@nattly6340 I could, but I wanted to record them

[@LovableCoolGuy]

Being so bad at the job that you actually succeed because the enemy is too busy laughing at you.

[@nattly6340]

@@LovableCoolGuy hey man a w is a w lamo

[@xikaios17]

The fact you use Asche zu Asche in a 8 bit, fricking kills it for me. Or maybe its the fact you listen to heavy industrial music while flying german air busting snapshots does it . Either way i love your videos. Its the only reason i keep playing, makes the grind worth it. To be like the one and only Smigol. Much love brother from L.A. 🔥❤️🇲🇽🇲🇽🇺🇸

[@EmpressKaligosa]

Those SPAA players are the exact idiots who will go onto the forums (or god forbid the reddit) to cry and piss their pants about how CAS is so op and needs to be removed. Now i don't play top tier so top tier SPAA/CAS balance means shit to me but for WW2 era fights, what is so difficult to grasp about the concept of holding your fire until the aircraft is closer and tunnel visioned on their target. But hey if they don't wanna learn then its more kills for the rest of us who actually know how to use SPAA. Rant over, great video as always even if its nearly getting a brain hemorrhage at the state of this games playerbase.

[@assassinationman999]

thanks for the upload, smigga. very cool!

[@iusestrategy9845]

Your plane looks like it bumped into a wall before it took off

[@rkkastarshina3989]

dude the thumbnail is even funnier when you're German, since "Mäuselchen" is like the even cuter form of "Mäuschen", which is already the cute form of the word Maus

[@0GTXR]

You have to consider that this game is filled with children and the elderly, they're physically unable to play better than this

[@grognard23]

Hey now, I might represent this remark. (I am pretty much blind in one eye and if you have bushes, I will likely not spot you unless you are moving)

[@0GTXR]

​@@grognard23 Which is why I don't get mad anymore when I see teammates/enemies underperforming You are already doing your best

[@grognard23]

@@0GTXR My average seems to be about 1.5:1 KD in GRB and probably 1.25:1 in ARB. I reckon that isn't too bad for an oldster who's going blind. That said, it's fun whether I get 7:1 or 1:3. Sometimes frustrating but you just move on to the next match. If teammates are too frustrating, go play another game for a while. It happens to all of us I reckon.

[@Shizwiz]

that bombing target clip sent my sides to outer solar orbit

[@TheGrace020]

5:13 its like you are in a psych ward but is the lest regarded one and you have to deal with all the mongs around 💀

[@kubajackiewicz2]

Jaszczur was indeed one of only suitable reactions

[@SomeOrdinaryJanitor]

seeing this makes me think my skill hasn't actually increased, just people have gotten worse

[@KekusMagnus]

If you combine the IQ of all SPAA and bomber players you'd be lucky to get a number over 10

[@Pioneer_DE]

That AA in the beginning could be me the way it misses every shot

[@yatzeegamingop]

Last week i was flying my he162 and there was a kikka in the enemy team. He was always faster than me but he never attempted to dogfight me, he kept boom and zooming. We fought 1v1 for 12 minutes until the time ran out. I had pure concentrated dopamine rushing in my veins. Thanks random kikka player for being a good player.

[@cheopatius2579]

I stopped playing this psychotic game in 2021 and I have not regretted that once. It felt like I had stumbled into the class with the 'special' kids.

[@AkiUwUx3]

As someone who's been in a paychiatric hospital more than once, can confirm.

[@spacewurm]

Even in arcade mode a good portion of players are blind even know enemies pop up on map. They of course never look at map.

[@Wikarian99PL]

2:52 You forget *Lets stand on spawn whole match while our team is losing and do absolutely nothing, beside wasting ammo (now with ammo boxes)

[@Real_Claudy_Focan]

Challenging and challenged are only 3 letters apart. 3, like the amount of their braincells.

[@ExplosiveTofu]

7:08 is truly the pinnacle of bomber gameplay

[@WashedSotta]

that song encapsulates what my feelings are when i play Air RB

[@The_Boastful]

It's even worse in Warthunder Mobile. I can't tell you how many times someone in a tank with smoke grenades in front of me has gotten shot at once - not even damaged, just shot at - and immediately popped smoke and blocked both our lines of sight Like. I can't freaking help you IF I CAN'T SEE THE THING SHOOTING YOU

[@GuyHoldingABird]

"That's my base" mfs when I hit them with the "Idk man, I don't see your name written on it"

[@BrownCow445]

i feel your pain in each of these clips

[@JSDFEnthusiast]

If there was a survey to find the average IQ of War Thunder's playerbase we'd get a negative number.

[@AirsoftFaction]

For a long running game the player base needs to be studied how they seem to Never Learn the game.

[@theofroidevaux9844]

3:46 Clearly an example of the F8F being extremely undepowered, Gaijin should drop it to 3.0 smh my head

[@ShikamaruXT]

Lol Has no bombs or rockets, marks a base. Dude goes bananas

[@zoltantapai3716]

I don't know why but I meet more and more people who won't mark their bombing targets in air rb and then start complaining when I mark it and start going for it. They are not even new players either so no clue how they don't know what is going on.

[@Majima_Nowhere]

Whenever I start losing confidence in myself, I boot up War Thunder. It reminds me that no matter how dumb I may be, there's always the zombies playing ARB to make me look smart.

[@Orodreth888]

I get these AAs all the time. I am at 2-3km and they try to get me. Dude's rounds explode 800m below me. Why...

[@mockingbird0901]

You know, that bomber towards the end the only had like 5 minutes or so to turn. Think you're asking a bit much from them

[@Better_Bread]

Had a guy like that in an f-20 who got angry at me for ‘stealing his base that he marked’ (I was stock grinding an f-15A) 7:14

[@cookiecracker2]

Okay some plane flown by "hotgirlsnearu" kamakazing you is acutally hilarious

[@NotVeryUwUofYou]

It really is quite something that you keep finding these specimens. I can look as much as i want and not getting something quite like this.

[@smigoltime]

I get them every single game

[@NotVeryUwUofYou]

@smigoltime give me some of that magic, i wanna see the tomfoolery that i would love to call something else too which i'm sure you know what but youtube is well youtube.

[@imana3808]

I call it easy grinding. Every enemy is brain dead… and teammates too… wait…

[@Skullsplitter217]

Got me as a sub now. Nice video

[@XxSnom16]

love how the first few seconds instantly made my dumbass think it was The Song That Plays In The Level Colloquially Known As 4-S

[@KK-yt6in]

Jaszczur na końcu to po prostu chefs kiss

[@irritatorgoner1087]

can someone refresh my oldness? Was war thunder this braindamage back in the day, like, 2014 for example?

[@KekusMagnus]

Not nearly as much, I remember the game being very competitive back then. Especially at top tier, the average player was much smarter

[@tRoll_out]

Only US prop players were brainrot at that time. Now everyone's brainrot

[@smigoltime]

Nowhere near. Games would often last 30-50 minutes because people weren't that stupid

[@volodymyr_budii]

What about 2022? Thats when I dropped WT and I am not sure it was THIS braindead before. Though stupid AA players shooting at you from 4km away was a thing I remember.

[@Majima_Nowhere]

It was always the case that half the team would dive on the first attacker they see and leave you in a 1v7. Or full commit into a headon and ram the enemy. It's just that now they're the only players left so it's even worse.

[@besslavniyublyudok3389]

Also why ppl just crash into the ground or become an easy target for someone else when i'm trying to fight them. That's super annoying

[@OptiPopulus]

Smigll messing with the bomber in chat was funny

[@2Eil]

The one where you were juking them and they rammed you was valid though lol. Also, if it's player's first nation, not knowing how to use AA can be excuse to a certain extent. Just not the ones who constantly shoot when they aren't getting hits.

[@filyaphilanthropist112]

I never needed a therapist before, until I played germany at 6.0 Its just feels like a every second player have autism(no offens) and they always blind or deaf or both at the same time

[@grognard23]

Everyone is blind at one time or another. I watch Spookston, 8Bit Dane, Oddbawz, Turny, Dollarplays and some others and everyone manages blindness, even the best. That said, some of us are more likely to have the issue than others, true enough.

[@SeductiveWalrus]

I can assure you as an actual autist that even autism doesn't cause that.

[@grognard23]

@SeductiveWalrus Well, they say it is a spectrum. You are perhaps just on a different part of that spectrum than some of us.

[@SeductiveWalrus]

@@grognard23 while i am on the spectrum its as an added joke about how shit people are at this game

[@lazyvideoproductions2979]

MIDI was not what i was expecting. I guess I should use MIDI for music as well...

[@alexgibbs3580]

I like to imagine spaa players that shoot at planes from 3km raging when their rounds don't hit you even if you fly straight

[@grognard23]

Then there's me, flying about 2.5K away from a BTR-152 and, with no sign of tracers, get blotted out of the sky in one hit. (without just braindead flying straight, maneuvering and somehow blundering into the millisecond burst they put out randomly)

[@dubmeisterxd2133]

and somehow, by the grace of god, they are ALWAYS on my team.

[@viggeneer]

A guy called smiglet sold me fent once

[@Grinzlow]

Before the boycott people would wait at caps and there was genuine comradery and honour amongst players now it’s just a giant free for all and half the time people don’t even help repair tanks and those that do half of them are only in it for the SL.

[@Juho-uf8si]

7:20 i keep doing this even while not in a bombers haha its so funny

[@AirJimInCT]

Watching this really makes me appreciate how much of a learning curve there is for WT and why I’m never changing over from 1946 Edit, actually scratch that, the reason I’m staying on 1946 is because there are far less objectively brain dead idiots over here. Cheers!

[@PuffTheMagicDragon11B]

I do that in AA that has tons of ammo just to get people to try and strafe me from the air. I get a ton of kills baiting CAS like that

[@Cavernsparten]

The return of midi sehenzuct.

[@Sturmovik1946]

You know when the Rammstein cover comes out there's gonna be some seriously braindead clips Also lol that Ostwind crew aiming skill

[@LokiV_WT]

You're not the only one smigol, after 3,000 hours I have found my sweetspot which is 10.3-11.0 ground rb. believe me, the teams there are probably worse than what you have seen with low levelled morons thinking they can somehow compete with high tier and teams being thanos snapped within 6 mins because gaijin refuses to deal with the 1 or two death leavers. good luck and keep making videos man, they are a blast to watch

[@TinyBearTim]

Justified crash-out tbh

[@BoarhideGaming]

Over my 11 years of playing this game I have come to realise that 90% of the playerbase were genetically modified by Gaijin to be as braindead as possible while still retaining the ability to breathe independently. It's truly a marvel of modern medicine.

[@biaaszinterneta1050]

Bro casually admitting to being Polish at the end

[@Real_Claudy_Focan]

5:00 i consider them as "spaced armor"

[@Archivial]

The special force of War Thunder

[@cola-warthunder]

4:05 That's more like the damage I'd expect from 2 7mils

[@2_sniper23]

the virgin base bomber vs the chad dogfighter

[@fanis1414]

This is I feel one of the biggest problems of the game that gets little to no attention. Most teams are like this. Literally brainless bots. No thoughts, head empty. It feels like a miracle when you get a team that has the capacity to communicate. It ruins the game a lot more than people think.

[@twandepan]

probably because of how repetitive the game can be. People’s brains just turn off after a while.

[@maxamillion9111]

the guy at 1:31 is my type of playstyle

[@loreseer9553]

(checks vehicles) yup, germany teammates

[@phasma287]

Well well well look whos stealing the bomb bases 🤨

[@phasma287]

Joking

[@b17flyingfortress92]

"He's got to be hacking!!"

[@mateuszk3812]

People be saying that RB takes skill just to end up making AB bots look useful

[@Pioneer_DE]

3:47 by pressing Alt tab after taking off, I do it quite a lot

[@smigoltime]

Ye but it was mid game, and I was right in front of him the whole time

[@JLS-ti3lb]

We need more videos of this I find this super entertaining cause I thought I only see this with German mains

[@jacobhehr9489]

4:25 MINE MINE MINE *insert seagull noises here*

[@951kilo8]

I've been playing War thunder for almost 10 years, and quitting it is one of the best decisions I've ever made in my life

[@PanPanModelling]

As someone who has played WT I can confirm that the psychiatric hospital is better.