A quick note for people wanting to use fewer keybinds: if you bind a key to secondary weapon selection and another to fire secondary weapons, you can control all your suspended armament with the one key. For example, I use 2 to cycle through, and then the secondary weapon bind is Ctrl. Works for ATGMs, AAMs, and Rockets (and I use 3 to select ripple fire quantity for those)
This is good advice. I have almost all of the best helos in game and they're just not worth the pain, especially when grinding them means heli battles or using low tier helis in RB. Even with the KA50, it will take months to go from 8.3 to 11.3 in Russian helos. If you want it with the US, it'll be even harder. The flip side is that you'll be an ace by the time you get to the top and grinding the AH-1 is actually not awful in RB.
@@CharliMorganMusic Yeah I'm going through the pain through multiple trees, the one bit of advice I'll give to players who want them anyway is spawn in a mostly empty heli ec map with a few friends (hopefully on the enemy team) border hump to a far back spawn and farm them. it's the only practical way to get them
I have been playing tanks for years, I had a go at a Heli a while back and gave up pretty quick. After watching your tutorial i have to say i am now getting the hang of it. Great content, Well explained and executed. Thank you very much.
The altimeter he’s referring to with the IVSI instantaneous vertical speed indicator is AGL, above ground level. It doesn’t look like this UI has a true altitude indicating display which would probably be in the upper right corner.
Thank you for the cut and clear video, I appreciate that you also showed you key binds since I'm a complete novice to air battles in general and only play ground battles I didn't really know where to start. You made it extremely easy to follow and right to the point. Thank you so much!
I liked the vid! Now that everyone hopefully knows how to turn on the engine, do you think u will make a video on maneuvers or tactics you recommend for helicopters?
Shame that none of this matters since the grind for Heli's in ground RB is horrendous and Heli EC is unplayable for 8.0 choppers as it's filled with 11.0 choppers.
His control recommendations aren't great. A helicopter needs to be able to move and shoot independent of eachother, so I recommend mapping everything that touches your weapon systems to the mouse and everything else to your keyboard. Most of the time, you don't need this kind of reaction speed, but when a jet is charging you, you need to be able to identify, lock, start shooting, and get out of the way in less than two seconds bc that's the most you'll have. This control scheme he suggested is great for camping, but it doesn't work when people are actually capable of killing you.
I have KA50 i was cinfused at first bit then i realised gun is on right side so you have to expose it a bit and rockets only shoot when that big box covers the target.
@@CharliMorganMusic I wonder how many buttons your mouse has. I agree with your general opinion, but I for myself can't put every weapon bind at my mouse alone.
Sometimes I play custom battles and I see people flying helicopters and shooting missiles but when I take mine out it doesn't let me choose the suspended armament, never, but in normal random battles it does... Also it's more fun shooting them down with a WWII fighter or a biplane
I learned to fly an Apache in DCS for 3 months and barely scratched the surface. Here you are, basically playing a point-and-click railshooter instead, making it look super easy.
what you realy want is the "switch sight mode in cockpit" if you set your cockpit sight to rockets you will get a simpel single point of impackt. it is realy easy to accurately use rockets with that sight. i use it to kill with Mi-24 rockets from about 3-4km away. the Mi-24a is shit though. because it hase such a large target overlay that you cant realy see anytheng else than the overlay :D
Very thorough tutorial over a subject that's not covered by many, or even any other UA-camrs. Thank you for this Sako! Any chance you'd do a tutorial over the heli ECs?
I usually main ground and have all my controls down for that, but I don’t really play air as much. Can you make an air tutorial for top tier planes? I see how some people can change what weapons there using and I’ve never really understood it. I’m close to getting the T-2 so it would be nice to know. Anyways, thanks for this tutorial as there still was a few things I didn’t understand about helis.
so im trying to fly the helicopter not sure what im doing wrong but the only values im able to get for collective angle is 0% 47% or 100%? what am i doing wrong?
Is the sight stabilization keybind still able to lock targets with the new update? Ever since it came out when I press the Sight Stabilization key while hovering over a target it just disables it, even after resetting my controls and using the default keybind for it I'm just not able to get a lock.
Are the ka 50 vikhrs no longer guided?? I'm on console.. I set up the radar like you did and it did nothing.. Edit: I'm dumb.. sitting here thinking it was air to ground lock.. but it's sight stabilization.. man I must have looked like an idiot just rushing everything..
helicopters are so freaking strange in test mode its kinda fineish to fly but in normal battles the copter barly even wanna get hight / move forward i got my alouette since 1 year now nd its just pain so i dont fly her
I'm Canadian and actually like your accent. What part of England is that accent associated with? My ancestors are from Cornwall and sound nothing like that. 👍
Sako, How do i get to fire the 30mm on my apache in 3rd person? I can only fire it from gunner view, but i cant find the correct setting in the options for that
Americans : Air to Air Britains : Aior to Aoir Me a Canadian: Ehr to Ehr _ ( Good vid btw this helped me out I was so lost when it came to helicopters but thanks to this walk through I'm starting to get it and set up all the buttons)
Please help…I play on my Xbox one. I just noticed that when you showed your American tech tree it has multiple premium helos including the ah-64 peten. I only have the yah-64. Why do I not have the other coppers?
The Peten is an Israeli helicopter in real life, when they added the Israeli tech tree, they removed it from the US tech tree. I still have it because I bought it before they removed it. The YAH-64 and the Peten are pretty much the same
Anyone have a layout for PS4 controls? I can't fly them on there because the controls they give are all screwy making no sense, and they don't at least give a tutorial on it. Thanks for any help
Get premium time to increase rewards, focus on AI targets at heli ec. If you're getting spawncamped by a ka50, choose another spawn, they wont chase you. Loss of sight will make it so laser wont track you, ah1 is the best starter heli
hey i just watched your video i love it but i still have problem with the velocity vector sometimes he lock automatically on no where and i can't change that any tips ?
Hi , thank you for your video but make me confused Q is not forward and D is not back Q is swing left and D right ...... and i did copy yours forward is W and backwards is S... what you saying in that video at 04:50 is quite mess and i watched it like 10 times .......
when you lock on a target what does the circle mean , there aldready the lazer lock on ( square ) on the target and what does counter mesure do exactly and what are they the best suitable against
Chaff blocks Radar Flares block IR guided missiles. The circle allows you to make fine adjustments to the targeting system while still maintaining a track on the target. New helicopter guide coming very soon
Please tell us how to get that custom hangar you are using. You won't believe how many people dont know how to do this. Neither do I, and I have wanted one for years since I started playing this game.
we are mostly beginners here cant even aim properly to shot rockets or simply machine gun its soo challenging for me , i just unlocked copter but you fly with advanced level NATO one ... i only have machine gun and fking rockets mate ...
There's no need to bind a keybind for sight stabilization and disable sight stabilization, the sight stabilization is a toggle. You also don't need to bind external view, the Shooter (ATGM) keybind is also a toggle
A quick note for people wanting to use fewer keybinds: if you bind a key to secondary weapon selection and another to fire secondary weapons, you can control all your suspended armament with the one key. For example, I use 2 to cycle through, and then the secondary weapon bind is Ctrl. Works for ATGMs, AAMs, and Rockets (and I use 3 to select ripple fire quantity for those)
Thank you!! I hate having to sit there a remember which key bind is which
Nice one I'll give that a try.
@@d_kortmanIt Is soo good with controller, saves you 3 buttons! Makes engaging anything more intuitive and fun
I just blind all to space
@@hellothere9167 Everything. Space. Throttle. Pitch. Yaw. Fire. Lock on. Spacebar. Done-skees
"Don't torture yourself getting them" video ends
Lol he has a point there
This is good advice. I have almost all of the best helos in game and they're just not worth the pain, especially when grinding them means heli battles or using low tier helis in RB.
Even with the KA50, it will take months to go from 8.3 to 11.3 in Russian helos. If you want it with the US, it'll be even harder. The flip side is that you'll be an ace by the time you get to the top and grinding the AH-1 is actually not awful in RB.
@@CharliMorganMusic Yeah I'm going through the pain through multiple trees, the one bit of advice I'll give to players who want them anyway is spawn in a mostly empty heli ec map with a few friends (hopefully on the enemy team) border hump to a far back spawn and farm them. it's the only practical way to get them
If reeeealy want a heli just get the squadron YAH-64
*_I enjoy my AH-1Q Tzefa B_* 🤗
I have been playing tanks for years, I had a go at a Heli a while back and gave up pretty quick. After watching your tutorial i have to say i am now getting the hang of it. Great content, Well explained and executed. Thank you very much.
I'm pretty certain the altitude meter tells u ur height above ground and not above sea level.
Slip of the tongue
Can't you choose what it says
It’s above sea level for me
The altimeter he’s referring to with the IVSI instantaneous vertical speed indicator is AGL, above ground level. It doesn’t look like this UI has a true altitude indicating display which would probably be in the upper right corner.
I think It varies from nato to soviet
Thank you for the cut and clear video, I appreciate that you also showed you key binds since I'm a complete novice to air battles in general and only play ground battles I didn't really know where to start. You made it extremely easy to follow and right to the point. Thank you so much!
Thanks for watching :)
Top-tier tutorial, mate. Thank you very much!
I liked the vid! Now that everyone hopefully knows how to turn on the engine, do you think u will make a video on maneuvers or tactics you recommend for helicopters?
Falling off the sky is the A-129's thing! 50% of my deaths is do to engine failure; when i try do defensive maneuvers, or when i try to land.
As someone just unlocking a basic Soviet helicopter this actually has me more confused than when I began :s
Shame that none of this matters since the grind for Heli's in ground RB is horrendous and Heli EC is unplayable for 8.0 choppers as it's filled with 11.0 choppers.
Ground assault arcade is a decent way to lvl them up, since kills don't matter that much, as long as your team wins.
This was realy helpfull for me becouse i am trash at helis. Thanks.
Much appreciated mate. I've had the KA-50 for a while but have yet to figure out how to use it. This updated video will sure help.
His control recommendations aren't great. A helicopter needs to be able to move and shoot independent of eachother, so I recommend mapping everything that touches your weapon systems to the mouse and everything else to your keyboard.
Most of the time, you don't need this kind of reaction speed, but when a jet is charging you, you need to be able to identify, lock, start shooting, and get out of the way in less than two seconds bc that's the most you'll have.
This control scheme he suggested is great for camping, but it doesn't work when people are actually capable of killing you.
Why would you buy a vehicle you have no idea how to use?
I have KA50 i was cinfused at first bit then i realised gun is on right side so you have to expose it a bit and rockets only shoot when that big box covers the target.
@@CharliMorganMusic I wonder how many buttons your mouse has. I agree with your general opinion, but I for myself can't put every weapon bind at my mouse alone.
Sometimes I play custom battles and I see people flying helicopters and shooting missiles but when I take mine out it doesn't let me choose the suspended armament, never, but in normal random battles it does...
Also it's more fun shooting them down with a WWII fighter or a biplane
I learned to fly an Apache in DCS for 3 months and barely scratched the surface. Here you are, basically playing a point-and-click railshooter instead, making it look super easy.
Nice. I srsly needed this for the new Swedish helicopter’s when they’re out.
what you realy want is the "switch sight mode in cockpit" if you set your cockpit sight to rockets you will get a simpel single point of impackt. it is realy easy to accurately use rockets with that sight. i use it to kill with Mi-24 rockets from about 3-4km away. the Mi-24a is shit though. because it hase such a large target overlay that you cant realy see anytheng else than the overlay :D
I miss this intro thank you for bring it back sako✨✨✨
Very thorough tutorial over a subject that's not covered by many, or even any other UA-camrs. Thank you for this Sako! Any chance you'd do a tutorial over the heli ECs?
Bind your target lock and unlock to scroll wheel. You can then scroll over things until they lock.
I usually main ground and have all my controls down for that, but I don’t really play air as much. Can you make an air tutorial for top tier planes? I see how some people can change what weapons there using and I’ve never really understood it. I’m close to getting the T-2 so it would be nice to know. Anyways, thanks for this tutorial as there still was a few things I didn’t understand about helis.
Keybinds for “switch primary weapons,” “switch secondary weapons,” and “reset weapon selection.”
Thanks mate! Finally got started on some heli play and this video made the learning curve a lot easier to slide down!
The Aim 9l are very Dangerous
Your content is great and I always watch it for tips on things I don't know
this saved me 320,000 sl thanks bro
This was very helpful thankyou, You've earned a Subscribe
Also the aim 9L of the z has a huge boresight that the A10s doesn't hmm weird
"Don't bother unless it's a ka-50 or 52" - Rolls credits.
so im trying to fly the helicopter not sure what im doing wrong but the only values im able to get for collective angle is 0% 47% or 100%? what am i doing wrong?
Good video mate, thanks. Prepares me well for the Ka-50 purchase next sale ;)
My pitch only does from 0 to 47 to 100 what setting do I use to it can go to 50,55,90, & etc.
On the "edit axis" window, select "relative control" and assign the CTRL and SHIFT keys to increase and decrease value.
very very helpful. thanks a lot :)
Amazing Video, What I learned the most from was your keyboard setup - Could you share your entire setup on Planes and tanks aswell`?
Is the sight stabilization keybind still able to lock targets with the new update? Ever since it came out when I press the Sight Stabilization key while hovering over a target it just disables it, even after resetting my controls and using the default keybind for it I'm just not able to get a lock.
Very helpful. Well put together.
Well done Sako, I truly enjoy your content, Your humor and your consise review's and tutorial's are great.
Glad you like them!
The way you say flares is funny
what is an effective way to find / counter AA on the ground though? My flares dont really do anything either... even though i have flare priority.
every time I release my hand from the shift key, the coll resets. why?
This helped me a lot, cheers cobba
Glad to help mate
Are the ka 50 vikhrs no longer guided?? I'm on console.. I set up the radar like you did and it did nothing..
Edit: I'm dumb.. sitting here thinking it was air to ground lock.. but it's sight stabilization.. man I must have looked like an idiot just rushing everything..
Does anyone know if the helicopter’s tracking sector can be changed? If yes, how and what is the setting called?
Over it since 1776. Enjoy your new princess. Meagan is the best revenge 🤣
Thank you for this.
helicopters are so freaking strange
in test mode its kinda fineish to fly but in normal battles the copter barly even wanna get hight / move forward
i got my alouette since 1 year now nd its just pain so i dont fly her
I'm Canadian and actually like your accent. What part of England is that accent associated with? My ancestors are from Cornwall and sound nothing like that. 👍
Thankyou for the helpful video
Sako,
How do i get to fire the 30mm on my apache in 3rd person? I can only fire it from gunner view, but i cant find the correct setting in the options for that
Americans : Air to Air
Britains : Aior to Aoir
Me a Canadian: Ehr to Ehr
_
( Good vid btw this helped me out I was so lost when it came to helicopters but thanks to this walk through I'm starting to get it and set up all the buttons)
TY
hey just a heads up i have my volume MAXXED and you are still VERY quiet. I thought for a second the intro had no audio too.
Please help…I play on my Xbox one. I just noticed that when you showed your American tech tree it has multiple premium helos including the ah-64 peten. I only have the yah-64. Why do I not have the other coppers?
The Peten is an Israeli helicopter in real life, when they added the Israeli tech tree, they removed it from the US tech tree. I still have it because I bought it before they removed it. The YAH-64 and the Peten are pretty much the same
How to deal with planes as heli user without air to air missiles?
Awesome Guide
Will you ever do one for aircraft cause I’m struggling getting my settings right especially for the weapon section
Anyone have a layout for PS4 controls? I can't fly them on there because the controls they give are all screwy making no sense, and they don't at least give a tutorial on it. Thanks for any help
My advice would be to buy a cheap keyboard off Amazon, and use that
@@SAKOSNIPER Thanks
I think i can help you
whats a good way to level up ur first heli, im struggling alot with the ah1g and im just looking to get the mods for it
Suffer, really no other way
Get premium time to increase rewards, focus on AI targets at heli ec. If you're getting spawncamped by a ka50, choose another spawn, they wont chase you. Loss of sight will make it so laser wont track you, ah1 is the best starter heli
There is not a game mode for tech tree helis exept Ground Battles, if you have 8.0br or plus play that
Ah1g is the best starter heli, really puts the context of struggle of starter helis
If you're looking to grind it stock and have missiles... Try Ground Assault. I will be down to help with 8.0 GA later today
Sako I got a very important question, when I fire rockets from my heli the camera tracks the rockets how do I turn that off!???
I still don't get the er to er mode, what does it do?
hey i just watched your video i love it but i still have problem with the velocity vector sometimes he lock automatically on no where and i can't change that any tips ?
Hi , thank you for your video but make me confused Q is not forward and D is not back Q is swing left and D right ...... and i did copy yours forward is W and backwards is S... what you saying in that video at 04:50 is quite mess and i watched it like 10 times .......
Hey sako this is gonna sound dumb but if you fly a Huey in PVE help battles and l listening to fortune son it’s actually really fun
when you lock on a target what does the circle mean , there aldready the lazer lock on ( square ) on the target and what does counter mesure do exactly and what are they the best suitable against
Chaff blocks Radar
Flares block IR guided missiles.
The circle allows you to make fine adjustments to the targeting system while still maintaining a track on the target.
New helicopter guide coming very soon
@@SAKOSNIPER my brain hurt in high tier but thks for enlighted me
Please tell us how to get that custom hangar you are using. You won't believe how many people dont know how to do this. Neither do I, and I have wanted one for years since I started playing this game.
Sako
Do you have plan to do Tutorial for TANK AND JET ?
They need to seriously fix heli battles & lot of these starter helis should be in a 7.3-7.7 br
hey thats a really cool vid i appreciate it
Trying to figure out how to fly the mi 24p (german varient) without being smacked by adats or tungustas
It's a zebra, not a zeadbra. It's zoo not a zeadoo....
yay i like the original intro :D
"øir to øir" mode
Chaingun not a bushmaster. Good vid thx.
Wait can I ask? How did you get the AH1Z without actually grinding the tech tree? You just skipped a few helicopters can you tell me how this is done
Gaijin gave them me to review when they were added to the game
@@SAKOSNIPER that damn snail
anyone knows how to fix throttle? its stuck on 47% for me, i can only make it 0 or 100
Is relative control turned on in the throttle settings?
I can’t get any locks, and I don’t know why man..
could you make a video of your controls for ground and air i feel as if my keybinds are all over the place
we are mostly beginners here cant even aim properly to shot rockets or simply machine gun its soo challenging for me , i just unlocked copter but you fly with advanced level NATO one ... i only have machine gun and fking rockets mate ...
I really wanna get into this but it‘s complicated as hell
Custom battles, is there a way to set more ticketrs so bots dont end game in 5 mins? :c
So I just unlocked the helicopter. I can't find the view mode that you have set during camera controls. Is it something that unlocks with an upgrade?
Which view mode? Only helicopters armed with missiles have the gunner camera I think
altitude is not sea level but ground level
What are the top 5 helicopters in war thunder In air to air
Thats a weird control scheme at 4:49 lol
Hold on how did u skip rank VI? And go straight to rankVII 0:51
based on general WT logic - he had those now Rank VII unlocked before the others were added.
@@CutePoisonEU bruh I wish I could skip those toooooo:(
@@cjkcjk6933 buy premium! :D Or research the squad one thb
Me attempts to grind my Mi-4v in Helicopter battles : gets instantly raped by KA-50s
that heli was definitely the worst 400k SL I have ever spent in the game
Tank arcade assault helps
I love rank 5 ircraft
You guys in England are breathing errrrr?
Yes I’m uk
1,000th like! Godly tutorial. Mashallah lad!
HOW DO YOU LOWEER THE RPM OF THE MOTOR??!?!?! nobody mentuon this most important thing
You don't; helicopters use a constant RPM; instead, they vary the angle of the rotor blades
The mi24 is just the worst thing I've ever played, are all helis this miserable?
How you zoom in
At about 3 minutes. You called that an altitude meter.....its a VSI. A vertical spees indicator.
Would you mind sharing a link to your hangar?
There's no need to bind a keybind for sight stabilization and disable sight stabilization, the sight stabilization is a toggle.
You also don't need to bind external view, the Shooter (ATGM) keybind is also a toggle
You sure about that? I play Xbox and once you turn it off, it stays on until you’re out of LOS. It’s been like this for a good while now
uhr to uhr
@4:48 I think you said the wrong letters there..
here because war thunder doesn't have a dedicated heli tutorial for some fucken reason...
Is there auto hover?
can you do a vid on the m4a3e2
How do you go so fast in going like 2 mph
Your Heli might be in hover mode for some reason, idk
@@SAKOSNIPER nah it’s just I was trying to gain altitude when I was gaining 4m+ of altitude in a 8.0 heli but I figured it out
@@SAKOSNIPER gain speed as I’m gaining 4m+ altitude