im not sure i follow?
Yeah when I got my first 150 assists on a pretty short match I had to do a double take for a bit. I guess if you do tank support next to friendly infantry you can essentially farm assists pretty well, that’s how I figure it.
Tanks are bugged, you get loads of assists that make no logical sense.
its tank and aircraft,snipe with a tank,farming kills on new players are not some skill.
I see this every day
it does, because take the Panther for example, 5 crew, for each person you kill, its teh TANK that gets the kill technically, your crew, whom operate the tank, get assists for helping, so if you lose all your crew but 1 for example, you get 1 kill and 1 assist every time you kill someone, otherwise, you wouldnt be able to level up your other tankers
so thats why tankers get so many assists, because each of their crews get assists, so more crew = more assists
This thread kinda disheartens me.
Because those there are exceptionally good matches played with premium account AND premium units, with victory and multiple “best” bonuses. And yet, the XP reward is not that impressive compared to the scoreboard.
This leads me to think that, even if I buy premium units / account, my progress will STILL be painfully slow, since no way every match can be nearly as good.
So, unless there’s some kind of hard/soft cap to the XP you can earn in a single match, premium earnings don’t even appear to be worth it, for a medium-low skilled player who can’t expect to reliably top the scoreboard.
Edit: to put in perspective, my reference standard (no premium) is rarely being able to exceed 5k XP per match.
you get an assist per squad member inside the tank.
you have a 5 squad inside the tank, you get 4 assists per kill…
Yeah, but which battle results were needed to reach that amount of XP? The previous screenshots showed similar earnings being the consequences of ludicrous amounts of kills, assists and other activities, and battle scores from 7k to above 12k.
I could provide a War Thunder screenshot where, thanks to a ONE-OFF combination of particular game mode, good luck, victory, high activity, premium account, premium vehicle AND special bonus XP booster, I was able to rack up 245k research points. Except that was, admittedly, a more unique than exceptional occurrence, while in normal circumstances such rewards are simply unthinkable. Usually, you are happy if a victory WITH premium account AND premium vehicle provides even just 10% of that.
The progression with premium can’t be measured through results of exceptionally good matches, if one ISN’T exceptionally good a d can’t score that match reliably.
No way in the world will I ever reach 7-10k points on the scoreboard, when my average results don’t even guarantee always reaching 1k. (Yes, I suck and I live with it.) Tell me, how much would premium pay off with POOR results?
I don’t want premium to be a further boost to my ego when I single-handedly carry a natch, because that DOESN’T happen unless it rains dogs and cats. I want premium to be a consolation, an insurance (welfare, if you prefer) telling me that no matter how bad a match goes, I will make at least a tangible step forward in the progression.
For the last levels in any campaign you need 180K xp. If we take a match were i did bad(compared to my usual matches), won and I did not receive a “best xx” as basis, we can guess that with premium about 400-500 xp per match is viable for an avg player. Of course if you always do bad pointwise(i.e. you always end up in the 3-4 lowest spots of your team) it will still be unattainable. But in my opinion not progressing is deserved if you do not improve regardless of how much you play, Premium or not.
Coming back to the max 180k xp it would mean that you have to play 360-450 minutes for a single level up with our 400-500xp/min as basis. If a match goes around 15 minutes on avg. than you would have to play about 24-30 game to get a single level up.
Luckyily enough only the last 6 levels require 180K xp the 6 before that require 144K and it goes on and on like that. coming out at about 3mio xp for the entire campagne(the axis moscow campagne to be precise).
This would mean that our 500xp per minute would allow us to finish a campagne in something like 6000 minutes or about 100 hours. So something like 400 games.
Mind you those numbers are based on being absolutly mediocre with no improvement over the course of those 100h (which is rather unlikely) and useing premium, but no premium squads. If you use premioum squads even being mediocre will net you something between 750 xp/m - 1K xp/m with the parameters given above. Reduceing the required time up to half the time.
Since the xp threshold increases per level you would be able to farm about 1 lvl/hour until level 10 and 0.5 lvl\hour until level 15. From then on you would need something between 2-3 hours per level until you reach lvl 28, given you have an xp rate of about 1k per min.
Considering there are right now 6 campagnes you could, while playing absolutly mediocre, unlock everything in about 300-600 hours.
That seems pretty fair to me, even more so considering there had already been people crying about how easy it is to finish a campagne 2 updates ago.
Premium costs 10€ a month and gives you the same you get in most of those Shooter/Tank online f2p games, faster progression(normally by 2x) and some minor conveniences. Most of the older squads can be bbought for less than 20€ per squad(if you buy the bundles).
Thanks for the math. This is some sound advice, and yes, premium account is overall not that expensive, but nevertheless I’m planning to wait until there’s a seasonal sale.
(In War Thunder, during sales, premium account is usually 50% off, which means you can buy a whole year for roughly 40€. That’s one of the -rare- fair deals of that game.)
I don’t feel that maths as much.
With less than 80 h with premium I’m already at level 29.
Its all about how well u preform ingame
I had the premium squads but didn’t use them as much since I wanted to level my vehicles and normal squads first. But, 29 on a campaign is more than possible with premium in less than 60 in-game. Hours.
I started to using premium squads on last major update. I grind 180k in less than 10games. That’s pretty much as easy as it gets to level up.
Since, I m stuck at 29, I ill grind few k above the limite if possible, so when new levels are added I get them right away.
But, imo, after level 15/16 there isn’t much worth my time to grind for (since I use premium squads all the way now and they just perform good enough to grind me 20 to 30 k xp per game.
that score isnt that high, since airfield i make around 7k-8k base xp with axis. On win its around 25k xp with 150+ kills.