Difference between revisions of "The Shooting Range"

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:''Tactics & Strategy:'' Tank duels, taking advantage of enemy weaknesses, mobility, and armor sloping.
 
:''Tactics & Strategy:'' Tank duels, taking advantage of enemy weaknesses, mobility, and armor sloping.
 
:''Science of War:'' Parallax error in third person view.
 
:''Science of War:'' Parallax error in third person view.
:''Pages of History:'' [[F4U-1A|F4U Corsair]] history.
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:''Pages of History:'' [[F4U-1A|F4U Corsair]]
 
:''Hotline:'' Missile accuracy and balancing, huge maps, new German Tier V vehicles, and [[P-40C|P-40B/C]]'s.
 
:''Hotline:'' Missile accuracy and balancing, huge maps, new German Tier V vehicles, and [[P-40C|P-40B/C]]'s.
 
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'''[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aBGRGu-o9us Episode 3]'''
 
'''[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aBGRGu-o9us Episode 3]'''
 
:''Special:'' The First [[:Category:ATGM vehicles|ATGM-Equipped Tanks]]
 
:''Special:'' The First [[:Category:ATGM vehicles|ATGM-Equipped Tanks]]
:''Pages of History:'' [[F2A-1|F2A Buffalo]] history.
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:''Pages of History:'' [[F2A-1|F2A Buffalo]]
:''Map Guide:'' [[Port Novorossiysk|Port of Novorossiysk]]
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:''Map Guide:'' [[Port Novorossiysk]]
 
:''Hotline:'' - Naval implementation, smoke launchers, External fuel tanks, the "Grand Slam Bomb" for the [[Lancaster B Mk I|Lancaster]].
 
:''Hotline:'' - Naval implementation, smoke launchers, External fuel tanks, the "Grand Slam Bomb" for the [[Lancaster B Mk I|Lancaster]].
 
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:''Pages of History:'' [[He 219 A-7|Heinkel He 219 UHU]]
 
:''Pages of History:'' [[He 219 A-7|Heinkel He 219 UHU]]
 
:''Tactics & Strategy:'' How To Deal With Spawn Camping
 
:''Tactics & Strategy:'' How To Deal With Spawn Camping
:''Map Guide:'' [[Battle of Hurtgen Forest (Ground_Forces)|Battle of Hürtgen Forest]]
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:''Map Guide:'' [[Battle of Hurtgen Forest|Battle of Hürtgen Forest]]
 
:''Hotline:'' More British tanks, Focke-Wulf P VII (Flitzer), P59 Airacomet, Russian Bias.
 
:''Hotline:'' More British tanks, Focke-Wulf P VII (Flitzer), P59 Airacomet, Russian Bias.
 
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:''Tactics & Strategy:'' Dive Bombing
 
:''Tactics & Strategy:'' Dive Bombing
 
:''Metal Beasts:'' [[Tiger II (H) Sla.16]]
 
:''Metal Beasts:'' [[Tiger II (H) Sla.16]]
:''Map Guide:'' [[Frozen Pass (Ground_Forces)|Frozen Pass]]
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:''Map Guide:'' [[Frozen Pass]]
 
:''Hotline:'' Dutch airplanes, adding the PTAB bomb, different sights for tanks, ammo weight, American Bias.
 
:''Hotline:'' Dutch airplanes, adding the PTAB bomb, different sights for tanks, ammo weight, American Bias.
 
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'''[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RuBjkyZT6Yw Episode 6 "Thinking Outside the Box"]'''
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'''[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RuBjkyZT6Yw Episode 6]'''
 
:''Pages of History:'' [[Wellington Mk Ic|Vickers Wellington]]
 
:''Pages of History:'' [[Wellington Mk Ic|Vickers Wellington]]
 
:''Tactics & Strategy:'' Using Binoculars
 
:''Tactics & Strategy:'' Using Binoculars

Revision as of 21:17, 16 May 2020

The Shooting Range is a series of video produced by the War Thunder YouTube Community for the purpose of aiding the player base on certain aspects of the game such as game mechanics, pages of history, Q&A's, tactics, strategies, and more.

Summary

Before the series aired on June 9th, 2016, Gaijin releases various of informative videos online separately. "The Shooting Range" is meant to be a compilation of various of tips and tricks for the players to use. However, the information presented in the series require experience in gameplay mechanics to understand, so the target audience is definitely for War Thunder veterans.

The Shooting Range airs every Sunday at 04:00 PM GMT (noon in Eastern time).

Playlist for the whole series can be found here.

Videos

Latest videos

Latest three videos!

Video Summaries

2016


2017


2018


2019


2020



Trivia

Format

The format of the show consists of 4 sections, 3 of which were from the following categories:

  • War Machines, Metal Beasts, Pages of History, Tactics and strategy, Special, Science of War, Tips and tricks, Challenge, Map Guide or Tank triathlon

while the 4th section always is the segment "Hotline". The current show (Shooting Range 2.0) started at episode 130. The main changes compared to the old format (episodes 1-129) are visual (graphics/audio/video quality).

Voice-over

  • Bruce is the regular voice actor of the show since episode 52.
  • Shawn (Thunder Show) used to voice the show during its first year (episodes 1 to 51).

Special episodes