Having not done a game play commentary in a long time, I decided to do one while showing off a new event called airfield assault, where I got a decent amount kills and had quite a lot of fun!
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00:00Hello everybody and welcome back to another episode of War Thunder.
00:03Now today I want to look at a new event that's just been announced.
00:07Airfield Assault Arcade Battle 6-16 players.
00:10In order to win in airfield capture mode the team has to capture the central
00:14airfield and then the airfield of the enemy.
00:16Basically you've got three airfields, your base here, enemies and a central one.
00:21And it works basically the same as normal events
00:24or normal domination. You have to capture the enemies, well you have to hold the
00:28majority of the airfield so you have to capture the enemy's airfield and the
00:31central one. Now first of all I should apologize if
00:35the sound's a bit weird. I'm using my Turtle Beaches and
00:38basically to control the sound you have to do it through the laptop.
00:41If you try to adjust it through War Thunder it just doesn't work until you
00:45get to or you know the differences are so
00:48minuscule you can't tell until you actually mute it at which point
00:50the sound goes away. But we'll just skip this bit and get
00:54straight into the game. So we're in the game, you can see
00:58I've actually taken a few reserve tier aircraft just to fill out my
01:03loadout or lineup because basically I think
01:06you can't take bombers or heavy fighters and I always keep the last few as
01:10heavy fighters or bombers so I can you know be ready to do whatever in
01:15any of the games. So I've got a few of them.
01:20Oh apparently the sound's just muted, the engine sounds entirely at the moment.
01:24I'm just gonna pause it two seconds. Ah there you go.
01:27I do apologize, it's weird I did just sort this all out in test flight it was
01:31working perfectly. Must be different aircraft,
01:34different engine noises. So here's our base or there's the middle
01:40base. I think you have to take the middle base
01:41before you could take the enemy's bases. So you can see here our team's already
01:46taken zone A and now we can take zone B.
01:50Or maybe our base just wasn't showing up because
01:54it's not our objective. I think I'm understanding it a bit better now.
01:57It's P-51. All right first kill of the match.
02:02Oh no, can we get him? Of course we can.
02:06Right, I thought the enemy was dying. I thought they were right in our
02:12town for a second there. It's all right we need to capture zone B.
02:16There's a lot of enemies down there I'm not sure we're gonna be able to get them.
02:21So I think we're probably best at top cover at the moment.
02:24This guy seems to be our... He's got the Focke-Wulf 190 but I'm not
02:29sure he's gonna be able to kill him but I don't want to
02:32steal his kill. Then again this guy just started going for
02:35the 112 so I probably stole his kill a little bit.
02:40Well I got an assist but all right probably shouldn't be doing
02:44this but I'll get a few shots off.
02:49Ah shouldn't have, damn it. The problem with the Japanese planes is
02:54they have very low velocity cannons so at long ranges they do tend to be
02:59rather useless.
03:04I got lucky there I usually can't get any kills in the Ki-84
03:08let alone two or three. So so far we've captured... Oh the enemy
03:14has retaken A we just need to get to B.
03:18And again the engine sounds quite quiet again it must be just
03:21for different planes that the settings are. I do apologize about the sound I've
03:26been trying to fix it for the last... Well I say I've been trying to fix it I
03:29haven't really had a chance to fix it properly. It's because
03:34basically I've only got... It's something to do with the HDMI ports I think.
03:38I have to put it through a USB... The USB things that can take like
03:43multiple USB plugs and to get it working even
03:47otherwise you if you plug it straight into the laptop it's just
03:50large buzzing noise which obviously you don't want.
03:54That's right A6M we probably should be climbing this isn't
03:59that good a diving aircraft it but it's better than the previous Japanese planes
04:03at diving but or better previous naval planes.
04:08The army planes the Imperial Japanese Army are generally very good at diving
04:12er planes. Oh Jesus nearly got him. Right I'm gonna pull off there we don't
04:18need three... What we don't need two people after
04:21one plane. We need to be keeping our eye on A.
04:27Oh it's flying past on fire and with a wing missing.
04:32See if we can get the typhoon.
04:37Now this is how things usually go. Right pull off pull off before they
04:42can get us. Ah too late.
04:49Right that's so that's how most modern planes gone. Next up is
04:56take the bombs off. I use this I always use the middle one as a sort of fire
05:00bomber. I usually take a few bombs just drop
05:02them on targets and you know go to fighting
05:05normally but obviously no ground attack in this
05:09mission. The thing to remember with most airfield domination just in general is
05:14that there are ground targets and they can actually cap the airfields and
05:17prevent you from capping. I know that should be quite an obvious
05:20thing but you'd be surprised even at higher tiers how many people don't
05:24realize that and just you know start talking in the chat how
05:27they can't capture the airfield and it's broken or
05:30you know what there's an enemy tank sitting there.
05:34That's right we've taken out four enemy aircraft at the moment.
05:38Oh actually top of the leaderboard that's a nice change.
05:43Now perhaps I should have bought some bombs just to drop in the airfield.
05:47Oh no he's crashed. Well crisis averted.
05:52It's a fine line to tread when doing these missions between
05:56capturing the airfield and holding everyone off from you know the enemy off
05:59from the airfield. I have a tendency to just single-mindedly
06:03go off the airfields and that doesn't really go well. Although if you're
06:08in a bomber there isn't much else you can do
06:10other than just dropping bombs on it periodically to stop the
06:13enemy getting it. Right uh didn't expect the F-82 to come out of nowhere.
06:19Used to have a very bad reputation that aircraft and
06:23somehow it's I don't know if they fixed it or something but it's finally quite a
06:27good aircraft. Now unfortunately after that match I
06:30lost quite badly. I took the biplanes out and predictably
06:33was slaughtered without achieving anything of note.
06:36Um got good results something like 32 000 lions
06:39won the half thousand rp which when you remember I took the biplanes out which
06:43would have like halved how much you got um you know in
06:45the overall result. So I'm gonna oh wrong button. I'm gonna try it again
06:50as the Americans. I keep nearly doing that um keep
06:54clicking to battle. I'll do one more battle.
06:57We're going to take the F-4U out. As you can see we've got the mono planes the
07:01reserve planes um and one half decent plane um
07:05half decent for reserve anyway. The reserve.
07:11So we're going to take the F-4U out and apparently it's already started. Oh great.
07:16Right so I'm just going to gain some height.
07:21Off we go. Voila. Right one and a half thousand meters.
07:28Now right we're against F-8Fs and
07:34Spitfire. Oh my god. How am I looking at the distance if I've got this?
07:39Uh so your standard vehicles uh Spitfire Mark 5C might be a little bit
07:44low. Um it's a 5.3. Mine's
07:49I can't actually check what my F-4U is. That's annoying.
07:53I can't really check there either. Seems a bit pointless to let me
07:58tell me what the other planes are but not what my own one is.
08:01Yeah but overall it seems to be about a rating 5.7 to 5.
08:07Or 6 um yeah between 6 and 5 at the moment.
08:12Right I don't want to no I don't want to give up my height advantage too early.
08:18Although oh we've got a guy no I did have a guy going for B.
08:22I could go after this Spitfire but that 109 seems to have been covered so
08:27I'm gonna
08:29gonna dive in. Sorry if the commentary has been a bit
08:33um not very good. This is the first gameplay video I've done in
08:37what must be months. Just haven't had a chance really.
08:40Well I've had time but not time for proper commentaries.
08:44Plus I just haven't had any good matches.
08:48Right his wing's crippled so I'm gonna go for this guy.
08:53He's you know I don't get the kill yet but
08:57oh he's crashed. I'd rather get the assist and make sure the enemies
09:00and you know get another enemy than just get a kill and the other enemy gets
09:04away free.
09:07Usually quite good at dodging but not today.
09:12But our pilot got away. Now some people do
09:15tend to not um you know they just let the pilot die like they don't bail out
09:19but um I always try and get the pilot out because it does say on the repair
09:24includes crew I think or something along those lines so
09:28I don't know if your crew getting out changes things like
09:31repair costs. I have noticed some very wild
09:34variations of repair costs there must be some truth to it or
09:39I mean I don't know it seems like it seems like planes can take
09:42get killed and still have different amounts of damage like
09:45you know sometimes it was crashing the ground and you have like a thousand
09:48silver line repair bill if you just scraped the ground but if you like slam
09:53into a mountain it's like three thousand so there must be
09:56crew and the amount of damage you took must factor into it somehow.
10:01Right on missiles. I'm not going to keep the missiles
10:04so I always fire them off anyway so I'll fire them off at a
10:09somewhat easy target even if I did miss him.
10:13Right another F-82 but this guy no Spitfire's going after him.
10:18This Spitfire's going after our Spitfire so he's our main target.
10:24Oh he's already oh 0-1-0-9.
10:29It seems I've let someone onto my six. I'm not gonna get out this
10:35right.
10:38P-47 next hopefully that'll do a bit better.
10:42Oh can we yeah there we go. Oh no we're still here.
10:47Sometimes you can respawn quick enough or click to respawn it'll just disappear
10:51before crashing. I don't know if that helps either.
10:54I'm not going to take any rockets or bombs
10:58because that will slow us right down and not something I want at the moment.
11:05Now usually I use the P-47 as a ground attack aircraft it's only recently I've
11:09stopped putting bombs on it and it is a very
11:12nice aircraft um you know it's very good I've heard a lot
11:16of people saying it's very good they've had they've got like ridiculous
11:19kill death ratios with this thing I could never understand why
11:21like even after I dropped my bombs and rockets it was
11:25just felt really slow and oh no the enemy are going for our
11:28base right gotta stop them. That's the annoying thing if they start
11:33capturing it and then they're stopped it will still
11:35at least take it off of you rather than you know reset.
11:40I'm meant to use this as a boom and zoom not a turn fighter but
11:45since he was doing a you know being a good target.
11:53Right a few shots off and turn and dive.
11:59Right combat flaps just to keep us off the ground. I'm not going to turn fight
12:03him obviously because that would be stupid but
12:06I want to get in a position where he's got you know turn around
12:10fully you know make him think I'm going to turn fire and then
12:14fly away at full speed.
12:19See if I can't get this guy.
12:23Yep it's long range shooting but
12:28yeah he's on fire I'm gonna let him burn out before I get myself drawn into any
12:32and yeah another assist but you know like I said I'd rather than dead and
12:36be alive you know I'm not going to chase the enemies down to the
12:40edge of the earth and get myself killed in the process for one
12:43kill. I'm quite happy taking the assist.
12:48Right so we've got we've protected B well almost should I go for A?
12:56I mean obviously I'm going to protect A or cover A but I can't
13:00I'm not gonna that's the annoying thing about taking the high tier aircraft I
13:03never want to risk them in a landing but obviously yeah
13:07somebody's got to land and
13:11may have to be me right.
13:15Now I don't keep the landing flaps deployed permanently because
13:19that produces quite a lot of lift but you know just for win.
13:24Trying to lose speed.
13:28I've got to try and do evasive maneuvers while
13:32being shot at and landing yeah like I said there's a reason I that's
13:37the reason I don't generally try to land with my higher tier
13:41aircraft because it just goes horribly wrong. I should have
13:44stayed in the air and
13:47really fought off the enemy but maybe I can
13:52somewhat redeem myself. Again this one's got oh god it's hard to
13:57this is really hard to control. We've got these little debris things and
14:02yeah I'll get a good fire few of the battle.
14:05Going to speed not A that was not as far as I thought.
14:09I'm not going to actually go head-on with him but we could get a few bullets
14:13into him maybe start a lucky fire.
14:18Right let's pick up some speed pretty quick.
14:22You know at least make him think he's under attack I mean he knows he's under
14:25attack but you know you might rush and do something
14:28silly. Oh god I didn't see him at all.
14:36It feels like it's weird when that people you stealth ammo just looks like
14:40they're exploding. Oh no no no no that's not good not good.
14:47This gun isn't particularly great but when the enemy's capping you fire
14:50everything you have at them. The good thing about these lower tier
14:54aircraft they're quite good at turning.
14:58Which the enemy higher tiers have a lot of trouble dealing with.
15:03I suppose that's where the trolling bit comes in well some people think it's
15:07trolling. I'm not even aiming properly am I?
15:11All right gear down yeah we crashed but oh aircraft destroyed.
15:17Hercules oh that's good Beowulf as well wow I've got it was like
15:237,000 for the first one 5,000 12,000 silver lions for one kill.
15:31Oh maybe that's the oh wait got bombs uh yeah maybe that's another reason
15:37why it's seen as trolling. Um we're gonna keep the bombs actually
15:40just for the minute we only lose five miles an hour and
15:45they're only tiny bombs I'm gonna just you know drop a few on the airfield
15:48just in case you know maybe I'll get there and then
15:52enemies capping won't be able to take them down with my machine guns but
15:55hopefully I can give them a nasty surprise with the bombs
15:59and be a hell of a laugh at least.
16:04Check out the telescope on here. I love how
16:08looking through a telescope just eliminates the engine noise.
16:11Right put yourself in some little isolation chamber when you look through
16:16there. Right I don't know if he's landed or not
16:20but
16:23oh yep he is I probably misjudged that completely.
16:32Oh the bombs were just great. Oh so it's not like the I was wondering
16:37if it's going to be like the tank one um
16:40tank game mode break uh it's something similar to this but as soon as you
16:44lose your airfield um the whole game ends like it just
16:48you know instant loss for the uh team who lost their base but it seems
16:54this is more like traditional uh airfield domination
16:59barely it's going a lot faster than I expected to though
17:02um seems to be in between the tank mode and the whole airfield domination because
17:07yeah it's not an instant loss but it's not exactly
17:11going down very slow I think we're gonna lose this match yeah
17:15lost most of our team I'm pretty much you know I'm the only person left well
17:22we're gonna go down we're gonna go down fighting
17:27not obviously I'm not just gonna make it easy for them that'd be stupid
17:32oh uh slow too soon all right see if we can at least ah damn it
17:38I suppose at those speeds we were never gonna
17:40recover that might as well just wait for the
17:44timer to run out oh oh we have still got someone left
17:48we'll see how long they last against the entire might of the enemy air force
17:56apparently not very long um although to be fair I didn't last much
18:01longer than the rest of our team all right just wait for the timer to go
18:08whether they got all our planes I don't know I think they pretty much did
18:13so we got Hercules Beowulf oh it was 2000 not 7000
18:18so we came out of that with 20 000 silver lions um
18:22and as you can see the inefficient research really hampers things
18:26you know uh that was 985 but then 72 705 um but we got Beowulf and Hercules and
18:33professional too so we did quite well uh what did we get
18:38got the engine injection for the f2a which I've been meaning to do for a long time
18:45because I've been compensated for it all I had to do is fly one battle but I could never
18:48be bothered to take it out so I'm just gonna buy that now
18:52but um yeah hopefully that was a good episode um you know I hope you enjoyed it hopefully you
18:57hope you got a bit of a insight into the new game mode
19:00uh it's not the best episode in the world but I wanted to do some sort of gameplay commentary
19:04haven't done one in such a long time and you know with this coming out seemed like a good
19:09enough time is there any so um yeah thanks for watching hope you enjoyed the episode
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19:18yeah once again thanks for watching I'll see you next time