Idiots Guide to F-14A in War Thunder
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- Опубліковано 25 вер 2024
- Im Tired of no one covering all this, im mad and gonna lay it out so even the dumbest war thunder player can understand.
I didnt get too technical with explaining pulse doppler because end of the day it does not matter, shoot things head on, sideways bad
sorry for stuttering or brainfarts I made this at 2am and felt like yelling because im tired of watching CCs fail to cover a lot of this or explain it.
also excuse my allergies, flaring up
His voice temper tells me he got pissed at everyone not knowing how to use the f 14 lol
Mostly CCs and Gaijin putting this stuff out there and watching people we are supposed To trust for info and gameplay tips fail to have the most basic of understanding of the systems before they make a video on it. How many times did I see phly launch pheonixes in pulse doppler mode or out of range? Too damn many. Someone had to compile the info and this was a spur of the moment video I took bascially in one take I just cut out some loading screens and a random chunk where I went on a tangent not specific to the aircraft
@@Klaus_Klavieryes you're so right and God forbid you try to correct them accept tankenstein he open to new information. TEC put a video out on grinding the f-14 he did good in his own way but dismiised the radars on it say basically not to use TWS it serves no real purpose and couldn't understand why he would rip his wings. You should watch it "grind from unmodded to spaded"or something like that said to also fly low with it and his understanding of how radars works is not in line with what you have said.
the pure energy of aggression is amazing
you can realy hear he is sick of bad f-14 players
@@mexfu5142 true, I mean when the F-14 it’s pretty obviously a SUPER strong aircraft only outdone by the top tier Chinese jets, entire teams of them should not be losing as hard as they are. When the MLD came out it smacked everything else around without mercy and if you played Russia you were winning often. The same cannot be said for F-14 pilots, but it’s not them entirely to blame, it’s a lack of understanding of the systems in game and that I’ve figured out thanks to the only two real “Community Contributors” in my eyes, that being “Tim’s variety” and “Seeker Head” both of those guys are super informative and taught me a ton of shit from their videos but even they haven’t spoken or really touched on some of the finer bits of radar, Tim made an updated video about it super recently and it was REALLY good but it was missing a couple important things that I touched on here, it also doesn’t help the default radar setting conflict with TWS and make it look buggy when in reality it’s working as intended
i still rewind that video because that
Bout to comment the same
Yes so angry..so so angry 😡
Thank you for making this guide, somebody shared it with me and this was really well laid out. You did a great job laying out the TWS stuff, which is something I will admit I struggled with at times when learning to play this jet.
I came here because I kept losing locks with the sparrows and it was killing me. Is that around the same as you?
@@spikedthenuke7383 do you know wich controls you need to sleev the radar
how do u even find the sleev, slew or whatever?@@joeldanielsson1116
Yo bo time
hi bo
Alot of things:
1: this is the best tutorial ive ever seen for war thunder, straight to the point, telling you what to do at the start, no obnoxious or shitty intro, no pre tutorial commentary about their gfuel sponsorship
2: explaining stuff and referring back to stuff you said during gameplay
3: actually showing gameplay of said tutorial, instead of cutting off the tutorial in a test flight
thank you for this, ive seen so many crappy tutorials which i have to skip through to get to the point.
I do it for the good of the playerbase. I want to show people the way I WISH someone would have showed me. Sometimes it’s better to understand something in simple terms and how to make it work, rather than a long winded 30 minute lecture of the history of pulse doppler and the exact method it works, rather than how to use it effectively
@@Klaus_KlavierGaming i respect that dude, i recently got the f-14 and such, came looking for a tutorial and stumbled across yours, you helped me so much in just this one video, teaching me the different radars, the 5 stage afterburner, and how to play in an actual match, thanks alot dude
@@Klaus_KlavierGaming and yeah, we dont need to know the radars history, we want to know how to use the radar EFFECTIVELY, content creators think players care about the history of the tech when we just want to get to the point its unbelievable, thanks again and ill make sure to check out more of your content :))
Showing/discussing the gameplay which doesnt degenerate into "Watch my epene. I'm so good. Don't you wish you were as uber as me?" like the content creators who are partnered with Gaijin, and i hate all of those douche bags.
@@Klaus_KlavierGaminghow can i move that slew on my radar im on ps 4
I will ne so happy if u tell me
this should be mandatory viewing for every F-5C freemium or ground battles main who bum rushed the tomcat and now have 0 clue as to how to be a semi-useful top tier air RB player
That’s why I dumbed it down lol, digestible for even the biggest mouth breathers imaginable
You would actually be pretty decent at jets if you went from zero and used the f5c to grind to the f14. It's just that much of a grind lol
@@PSNGamer it’s exactly what I did, props are boring to me, jets are exciting. Usually WT players fall into two camps “WWII/Korean war tech only” or “Vietnam and newer tech only” I’m pretty much in the latter camp myself
I should also mention USA is my latest tree due to the tomcat.
My unlocked vehicles were basically the Mig-21MF (that was Germanys top tier at the time, Russia didn’t have the BIS yet), next I went for F-4EJ cuz someone told me it was better than American F-4E, then I got the F-5E several months after it came out, I jumped back into Germany for the F-4F, Then I went for the MLD, and most recently back to USA for F-14, and if you ask how the hell I did all that in about 1k hours it’s all premium time and premium vehicle spam.
You gotta throw money at snail to keep your sanity, anyone who doesn’t spend money has a stronger will than me that’s all I can say
@@Klaus_Klavier Do you possibly know how to lower the zoom in feature for aircraft. When ever I zoom in I feel as tho it zooms in too much to the point where leading shots in zoom is hard. Especially in jets RB matches.
@@AbyssViber1028 I actually haven’t ever tried to lower the zoom amount before, I normally don’t use zoom at all. I even forget it’s there most of the time TK be honest
Angry PSAs - this is the power of Gaijin. They can milk the rage out of people like no game developer on earth.
I dont know about that. Massive (devs of Tom Clancy's Division 1 and 2) are REALLY good at making people angry. I heard they lost 65% of their playerbase at one point.
Great guide, I felt like I had to raise my hand for questions 😂
If you got any questions let me know I can elaborate more if you want, I dumbed stuff down specifically for the average war thunder player and what they need to know. I can explain a lot more in depth or whatever on anything
@@Klaus_Klavier will do brother, subscribed.. Great info, and easy to understand teaching style. Had no clue about the afterburner levels and neither did my buddies🤘
@@Klaus_Klavier also, sent a lot of randoms whining in pubs and friends over to this video!
@@willfarrell6083 good to hear man. Glad you got something out of it. That’s what I was hoping for. I’m not trying to be like TEC and make a 20 minute video talking about the history of pulse doppler radar I just want people to know when a bad time to launch their missile is and when a good time to launch their missile is and why the radar can’t see things sometimes. That was my main goal but the afterburner thing is a huge thing too, most afterburning jets have a two stage afterburner actually, the viggen and draken have 3 iirc then F-14 has (supposedly) 5
Can you show us all your key binds?
dude, this format could seriously take off, this was no bullshit, no sign up, no cc advice for the idiots who wanna get better but dunno where to start. as a student, i demand more lessons
Well I’m honestly tickled so many people really like it. I probably will make this into series
@@Klaus_KlavierGaming it’s got a niche within the war thunder community man
Most inportantly: NO begs for likes and subscribes, which earned him a like and sub. ;)
Holy shit this is the best Warthunder tutorial ever made, will rewatch it after F14 event
Watching it after getting the f14 RN
@@laifamohammed3571 same lmao.. went from an ayit to an f-14
The moment you mentioned the fuel consumption when explaining the afterburners, I immediately thought of Final Countdown.
Tomcat Pilot: We've got two thirsty Tomcats, whaddya got?
Refueling pilot: I got the hard stuff!
2500 hours in war thunder and I'm just now realizing radar has a TWS mode in this game
Tomcat and Viggen are only ones with TWS currently, Viggen got it when Tomcat was added
“thanks for coming to my ted talk” omg i love this guys energy you just got a sub lol
The aggression is amazing lmao its like a mean coach that you hate but the point is that you are actually learning something
you sound more pissed off then my sophomore year math teacher who divorced 3 times over a 4 month period. great video
WHAT
I absolutely despise players that spam AIM-54s at the beginning of the match. The AIM-54s don’t bulldog until about 9miles so it’s just a waste of a missile since you’ll just lose lock anyways.
you and me both, I dont advise more than 2 of them
When the update first came out for me as a viggen player it was fucking terrifying watching like 4 missiles being launched towards my direction until i noticed that noone of the aim54s even hit amything
@@fishyfish6050 psychological warfare
This is the exact video I’ve been trying to look for. Thank god there’s someone who understands what people like me are looking for….I searched “radar for dummies war thunder”
He sounds like my dad trying to teach me math, I’m loving the aggressive approach with this video. It’s probably the best WT tutorial I’ve seen in a while.
I think this is what a dad feeling like teaching his kids math probably FEELS like lmao
Better than Philly in usefulness
Bit of an a**hole comment,don’t ya think? “Philly” isn’t really the sort of guy you go to watch for tips and tutorials💀
@@theegunpro4561 phly is just a hype man it’s what he’s good at, making a dumb clickbait thumbnail and being the human equivalent to Aussie Shepard, overly hyper energy.
He’s a very good player, I won’t deny him that but in terms of tips and tricks and teaching people how to do things he’s not very good at it.
The best tutorial ever made related to Warthunder
I had been struggling to play the F14 and use AIM7's well for so long. I watched this video and got 3 kills first game after, tried several other guides before this too. By far the best guide I've come across.
I have been struggling with the F14 and this really laid it out. thank you for keeping it simple and right to what you need to know. im finally playing it like it should be played and getting kills. thanks!
i've had too many games of people complaining about how they got the tomcat and it sucks, so they're going back to their F-5 and such, and i'm glad someone's finally explained how to use the tomcat so i don't need to hear it. personally i've been avoiding top tier because of these things, but at least now i won't need to listen to people being stupid while i grind the chinese tech tree.
I don’t blame you. I hate facing other F-14s, when I get the rare unmixed battle I feel SO much more powerful and free because I can use my high altitude weapons and look down advantages to much greater effect.
how does he slew the radar on the tws like that? because idk what control to look under to find that
@@ramonlujan2377 it’s right in the first bit of the video. I didn’t explain what the settings did I just told you to “trust me” but the setting you want to have off is the “cyclical Air radar targets” the one I show right in the beginning of the video. Then there are a couple of keybinds you’ll have to set. It’s an axis set of keys (I used numpad) you can also use arrow keys but you need to set the axis for “horizontal radar” and “vertical radar” if you type either of those into the keybind search feature like you seen me use it’s going to be the only results. If you have any questions feel free to ask
Despite me not even having the tomcat the afterburning stage has helped me as i never knew that there were more than 2 on most aircraft
And some of the stuff in the video has now helped me to counter enemy tomcats as a viggen player
SIR, YES SIR! NOW STOP SCREAMING, SIR!
😂
gaijin will have to start releasing user manuals with every new feature they add lol
Great way to explain it. I was lost till I found this video! We explained stuff the same way in the Army.
“Keep the Booger Hook off the Bang switch until you are ready to bring the hate”
Are you a relative to Nick Herr by any chance? Just curious
This guy is literally a drill sergeant and it's glorious.
This is by far the best tutorial i have ever seen on a F14
I am four, I am stupid. After this guide. I may be 5 but certainly not the bottom of the team anymore.
I love how mad he is
Actually makes me feel stupid
So basically when it comes to actually flying in a match just fly high, notch, shoot missiles and then clean up what’s left?
correct
Man uses B-scope radar. Based.
I'd argue the manual target selection is a tad too clunky for actual usage, and the meta of small maps and fast furballs means it's difficult to use the manual target selection to its fullest (great for EC maps though). Plus, all of this is why the Tomcat had a WSO operating the whole system anyways.
It'd be nice if the auto cycle and manual selection mode was switchable in flight.
I'm still a bit skeptical about the multi-stage afterburner's actual existence, the scroll wheel causing weird things to happen with the throttle is a known thing (in arcade, scroll wheel will allow you to push non-WEP aircraft through every percentage point from 100% to 105%). I feel like multi-stage throttle would warrant an announcement from Gaijin and some sort of UI update (even given their reputation for crappy feature inplementations).
Was hoping for an insight on the functional difference between the PD and PDV modes (yes, I know one is speed-based, the other probably does other radar filtering), but oh well.
I actually have the answer for you. It’s the same mode actually but information is presented differently. PDV just SHOWS you the dead zone with the thick line across the bottom and it ignores distance but rather faster targets appear higher and farther away from the blind zone and targets slower and closer to the blind speed/zone are just above it. It ignores distances…if that makes any sense
regular PD does show velocity it shows distance and velocity is shown on the HUD, not in radar screen…at least not clearly. The velocity can be guesstimated by the line that shows you the trajectory of the aircraft. The longer the line the faster it’s moving. However PDV is simply a more in depth mode for looking at what’s the fastest target
I agree it’s harder once the furball develops but at that point I’m in in 9km ACM mode anyways as it’s even more reliable than the cyclic lock. Without this RIO ability TWS is nearly unusable
THANK YOU SO MUCH!!! This has made the stock grind SO much easier!!!
I’ve got a 2.4 KD in the f14a and I’m almost ace crew with about 500 kills. Pretty spot on, personally I don’t carry Phoenix’s I usually bait 7F’s, pick off peeps in furballs, and force 1v1’s when I can. The 14A is pretty solid but if you want to have a great time in it learn what it’s strengths and weaknesses are. Also keep in mind you have a massive heat signature so if you find a PL-5, Magic 2, or even a r60 / 60m coming turn off afterburner throttle down to 95%, maneuver / flare but you have to at least be going Mach so you won’t bleed too much speed. Don’t rely on chaff unless I want to break a lock early on before the SARH missile fires. I see a lot of guys cry about chaff being useless when they get hit by a SARH. 7F, R24r, I think E2 / sky flash ignore chaff. Also master going cold and do not roll and pull on your elevator when ur wings are swept back above 75% you will rip same as similar to the phantoms / US jets
This^
You have tips to how to defeat spaded tom cat in ejkai?
@@soto1649 learn to crank first of all. I could make a tutorial on it but there are a ton already. In a nutshell flip the aircraft to one side once you see the missile coming at you then using A and D keys flip the opposite direction you were just Turning and turn the other direction now, if you time it right and do it right the missile will lead one direction and not have the ability to pull that hard back to lead you in the reverse direction. Lot of people are really good at it. I’m not great at it and only works sometimes for me. But cranking will help prevent getting sparrowed and usually you can keep the lock while cranking so if he doesn’t do it you’ll kill him and his missile will miss. Now currently you have zero chance in a dogfight. That’s just a sad truth. However the EJ Kai is one of the fastest phantoms top end wise and you can beat the F-14 if you keep your energy you should be able to keep hauling ass in the direction you were traveling and if he turns he will lose too much speed to catch you and you have to disengage at that point. His top speed isn’t quite as good as a phantom and his power to weight is certainly worse so he will struggle to catch up. If he tops out on speed or climbs a bit he might begin to catch you but he’s more sluggish than you are so your best bet is get separation and NEVER engage in close range dogfight, your only hope to to learn to crank and pray he’s the typical war thunder player
I like the no bullshit approach, thanks for showing off the tomcat.
The Military like manner of explaining is nostalgic as fuck, love it.
Thank you for teaching me how to use the f14 before I unlock it today. I don’t want to be a useless F14 like half the players.. :)
I still have a bit before I get the tomcat and I am stuck grinding in a a-10( I bought it at first for trolling my friend in Custom battles) and I am trying to be a better player in jets
Holy fucking shit I have been looking for a month trying to find a good tomcat video and I have finally found it thank you for actually showing and giving the best tips I’ve heard. Wow man. Easy subscription
Thx man i thought it was weird that most people say don't fight long-range and only hug the ground like you don't have long-range radar missiles.
Dude: I’m explain like you’re stupid.
Me: THANK YOU!
Me, who plays Props and early jets only: hMMmM iNtresTINg!
I feel like warthunder has come to a point where there is way toomuch keybinds, For me the biggest hurdle for flying the F14 was putting actual keybinds down...
Try DCS then. You'll see how not true that actually is.
I have keys that do multiple things yeah it’s nutty
@@rwduece122 Atleast in dcs you can interact with the cockpit to reduce the amount of BS you have to bind... kinda...
Welcome to modern aircraft. They're complicated "weapons systems", they're a long way from the simple "fly and gun" days, and a lot of this shit isn't automated IRL.
Thank you so much for this, helped me understand a lot of shit I never knew existed.
I like how this gives tips for using other jets too with basics about radar use. I'm glad I found this it's really helpful
Normally you can turn off the ground clutter filter meaning you could pick up notching targets with the awg-9, problem is over land you are gonna get all the ground clutter, over sea this technique is golden
It's not that the radar doesn't see notching, it sees your aircraft, but as your speed is relative to the speed at which the ground is closing on the radar resulting in the computer filtering it out automatically
@@midnightanimal708 right but I’m putting it in simple terms :) it’s not so much how it actually works, it’s just what the average person needs to know so they aren’t like “WHY NO LOCK THIS THING SUCK”
That slice on the MiG’s wing was smooth asf.
This is the third time I'm watching this video and I don't even have f14 and I don't want to play f14. It's just that I love how he talks and explains things and I love the title of the video hahahahhaahaha
Could you do a complete flying guide, I trust your voice.
He sounds like a mad yet sophisticated Ben Shapiro
Also the f14 has ridiculous energy retention if you manually extend the wings anywhere below 1000km/h
It’s a blessing and a curse, it often times causes me to lose the one circle because it actually overshoots and they lose more energy in the turn and they get inside my turn radius and kill me.
@@Klaus_Klavier You shouldn't be going one circle in the F-14 anyways. Two circle is where the Tomcat really shines.
@@Monarch683 it only turns into a two circle AFTER the one circle and if they clap your cheeks in the first circle you never make it to the second one, see what I’m saying?
@@Klaus_Klavier No it doesn't? It all depends on which direction you and your enemy turn. Adjust accordingly to try to go two circle when you enter the merge.
Taught me a few new things about the tomcat! Thanks mate! You earned a new sub!
Great video, but maybe I’m three. Have mouse wheel set to throttle, but it goes into stage 1 and no higher. Have played with settings under throttle axis, but no joy. Will you help me out, please?
Stage 1 afterburner (which I’ve heard called “Half-terburner”) doesn’t look different throttle wise the only way you can tell it’s on is by the sound change and fuel consumption and notably only being able to get JUST ABOVE mach 1 (usually mach 1.05 is max speed on halfterburner)
Bros got that Weatherman in the middle of a tornado type vibe. Great vid.
😂 that’s how it feels to always play top tier like I do
Thanks for the tip about the radar settings. Helps with my lag since I’m on console.
I didn't even know about the afterburner
When I get the tomcat In a week, screw phoenixes, I’m takin 2 9H’s and 6 sparrows baby
Dude literally cut the wings of the Mig just to show a point, savage
tells to play it as "old day phantoms", "high alt interceptor", then proceed to dive right for the first enemy
but guide was good bro thanks
Lmao you got me there but plans changed quickly when the fight developed and I had to adapt and that’s the name of the game isn’t it?
@@Klaus_KlavierGaming totally understand XD
There are so many content creators telling people that TWS doesn’t have IFF 😂 thanks for the tips!
i have used jets and some radars before for a year or 2 but i still cant get my F-14A IRIAF to show me the launch window or and green squares with the corners in my game i have to manually hard lock them with a solid green square.
idk if im still doing something wrong or its just the new tomcats radar being off
haha thanks for the guide man! I'm having a huge amount of trouble with the cannon as it's angled in a very weird way xD this made me feel more like an idiot, but at least I learned something!
It’s okay, if you played a lot of the F-104 you’d have a better time with the gun and I didn’t play a lot of F-104 only a little bit of it so the side chin cannon is very weird
@@Klaus_Klavier Yeah the cannon is mounted kinda weird but we better get used to it because that's how it's gonna be from here on out for the majority of aircraft.
@@zackbobby5550 makes me wish I played the 104 more
im a top tier italian player so im used to the f104. i am researching the f4j so almost at tomcat and this video was pretty helpful cheers mate!
It's almost like we already have throttles that go up to 110%. I don't understand why the throttle isn't delaminated from 0%-105%
I wish everything in the world was explained like this
Now if only the Magic 2s and Mirages would f off so I can actually use the advice in this video effectively
Yeah this was before them, they are scary to deal with for sure.
I’ve only had 2 games where I’ve been able to use the F-14s speed and dive rate effectively, 1 one before and 1 was after I watched this video. Every other god damn time, I got screwed because the Mirage 2000s just beat me to high Alt or flank the entire map, but I get told it’s a “skill issue” and not the Mirages and Magics being OP as balls
You should continue making tutrorials for these things. This is the best tutorial I have ever seen.
I probably will in the future. Been busy with work and I am getting married soon so my life has gotten a lot busier since I made these tutorials
Yo wtf. I did *not* know you could manually slew the radar pipper in War Thunder. And I've been playing since 2014.
It’s not terribly useful outside of TWS but with TWS it’s a must. The cyclical targeting thing at the start is what allows you to do it. But then you can’t auto lock someone by looking in a direction and pressing lock anymore you’ll forever have to get a pipper on them and lock them. I wouldn’t turn off cyclical targeting for anything without TWS personally. But the B-Scope radar which is “rectangular Radar” I can’t say enough good things about it
just got the thing didnt have a clue how it worked, now have a clue how it works, ty
thats the spirit we need in this fucking game, great tutorial and great tactics in the air, more players like Klaus :)
Unfortunately all you talked about were the Phoenix missles which you didn't want to take with yiu in the first place.
Man i need that thumbnail for my meme folder
You really did this for idiots lmao. WEP settings at the beginning and everything. I literally said “You really think I’m stup-… oh” 😂
If you close the wings, you don't have to rely to much on afterburners to accelerate.
first jet with grindiong the event tomcat felt like a idiot not able to shoot, thanks so much !!
This is great honestly, it's embarrassing to watch youtubers fly at tree top level with mach 2 capable aircraft and then try to lecture others about how to fly correctly. #bring back flying.
A guide for the most braindead plane in war thunder?
WT models PD improperly. western PD radar is automatically adjusted to ground speed of 0 (to filter out the GROUND clutter), not relative speed to the aircraft.
Thank you very much, you just helped me (the dumbest and worst war thunder player)! before the guide i made a kill every third game with that plane now i can do at least 2 kills every round.
I just unlocked the Tomcat and want to learn how to spam Phoenix
Thanks so much Klaus, this helped me a lot, I’ve had jets for a while but just kinda switch radar on, got a lock and hoped for the best. The only question I have is, I switch to TWS, but it says “TWS HDN”. I press my radar lock button but doesn’t work.
Many changes have happened since this video, TWS HDN is “track while scan; head on” which is fancy way of saying it’s best for head on targets this distinction was made for the Yak-141 and Mig-29 who have a separate TWS mode that is a little better against notching targets but worse against head on targets which is now called “TWS”
As for the lock button it’s not the same as it used to be, in my other video on my channel you’ll see more of my key setups you have to manually slew the radar on the radar screen over the blip you want to attack, then click lock when it’s over the radar return you want
Hello fellow Iona avi.
I don`t even play War Thunder but this video is good. good explanation of the F-14 Avionics.
Do you have a list of your keybinds? Sweet vid!
I can make an export of them once I get home from work
@@Klaus_Klavier That would be sweet. Thanks man!
I sent them but I think UA-cam didn’t like the media fire link in the comments and auto-killed it
This man definitely got killed by friendly f14s in simulator lmao
Pfft please, the Aim-9H loves it when friendly tomcats are in the area. I’ve been on both the receiving end of it and the guy who watched a perfectly good missile veer off target and tk because a friendly flew in too close out of nowhere
best way to explain anything fr
Thanks so much for this guide lol. Absolutely zero nonsense. Just got this plane and was totally lost before watching this!
Thank u bro i fr thought u had wway more subs cus of the good quality
idk what I'm doing wrong but I can't seem to get radar locks in any mode, and whenever I do its always an ally. Tried SRC PD, PDV, TRS, ACQ, ACM...all nothing except allies
Tbh I haven't played in a long while so I did need the radar settings
this is the kind of brutal teaching people need 😂
People in the comments say it actually helped and honestly that makes me happy, if more people utilize this aircraft to its fullest potential not only are they going to enjoy it more, I’m going to enjoy it more
@@Klaus_KlavierGaming agreed, I’ve saved this vid for when I unlock the plane and then I’ll rewatch it. Lots of the tips sounded familiar from my time flying it on DCS 👍🏻
Not sure what the settings are suppose to do but I went from being able to lock and swap targets to being unable too.
Probably the best how to video I've ever seen you should make a series of this type of stuff
I was pretty sure this video would fall flat but a lot of people seem really like this style. I’m thinking I may try to do a series on it. It originally was a one off just because how complex the F-14 systems are compared to anything else but if people really like the style I don’t want to disappoint lol
@@Klaus_KlavierGaming yeah I mean you seem to know so much how things work like I never knew the 54's way of tracking you are also really good at explaining things clearly
You sound like a natural army instructor. I like your video
The casual air-to-air melee kill on the mig :D
Nice Guide but doesnt cyclic target switching also provide information about the range of the missile? Cyclic target switching also automatically tilts your radar to the direction of the enemy, allowing you to keep the tws lock while dodging or maneuvering
Cyclic target switching does nothing but automatically try to grab the first thing it sees when you press “lock radar target” in my case I use “T” and “Numpad 2” since my radar tilt is “Numpad 7 and Numpad 9” the slew is controlled by the rest of the keypad. “8,5,4, and 6” which are basically like an extra set of WASD to me and 7&9 act like Q and E so I set those up to fully control the radar
Also that does not automatically tilt your radar. So there is a new setting obviously with radar tilt and if you turn that off you can manually tilt your radar. However when you TWS lock someone with manual tilt the aircraft will still automatically track that target wherever it goes. The manual lock and manual tilt become automatic once you acquire a target it will follow it until it loses it. But the actual original acquisition is all manual, if that makes any sense.
Basically with tilt and cyclic targeting off it’s like the early days of radar. If there is a blip and you press lock it just nabs them. Now however you are assuming a FULL RIO position and have to jockey the radar a bit but it allows MUCH more freedom and accuracy of locking what you want at the cost of more complicated gameplay
The target info is actually the rectangular radar option also called “B-Scope” that big square radar shows the information much better than the default V Shape radar, it’s harder to read, the maximum and minimum ranges are not as clear, it’s more cluttered. The B-Scope is LARGE and allows much clearer acquisition in TWS, a cleaner launch window that’s easier to read and always on screen. It’s only downside is the rectangular radar is large and unsightly. But I’d rather my radar be easier to use, massive, and ugly than tiny, hard to read, and a launch window scale that goes off the actual radar so you can’t see your launch range or how close you are to it until it’s ACTUALLY in range
@@Klaus_KlavierGaming I can see the significant benefits of this in much larger maps such as EC, but I have found that most of the time, the games are on smaller maps where assuming the full RIO position gets very complicated as I also have to watch out for incoming enemies and missiles while keeping track of where the hell my radar is going
@@thunderphenol that’s what the ACM boresight mode is for. You click that and wham whatever is on your nose gets locked. Let’s you have the best of both worlds. You don’t need RIO less than 9km and it’s too hard to use less than that. Hence why I don’t use all that stuff close up. Once I can visually see red names it’s time for ACM boresight mode anyways.
I can't get the green lock that you're talking about - at least not in TWS-mode. Only in ACM mode. What do I do wrong?
Also just plain old useful for good radar at the start
Ok I think I almost have it working how do you move the two vertical green lines and lock on to something on the radar
how do you move the 2 lines in the radar window tho? sry but im actual idiot
Don’t worry that’s why I’m here to help. My newest video on the channel is updated on the newest version of radar including radar tilt and goes back over how to move those little lines. Please check it out I think it will help a lot since radar has changed since this video went live
cyclic targeting isnt that bad; just a little annoying sometimes. Plus, I'm not sure what bindings I would even sue for the x and y axis for the manual radar locking lol
Oh wow TWS does have IFF, lol even the guide that explained IFF to me didn't explain that so i assumed it didn't LOL.
Ive always wandered what it would be like to watch ben Shapiro play Warthunder lol
LMAO, “Hypothetically speaking you are supposed to keep tracking a target with track while scan when firing an Aim-54, because logically why else could they call it track while scan, because you are tracking while scanning it’s real simple folks”