A lot of newbies to World of tanks have understood one aspect of using bushes: If you stay inside a bush, you can be difficult to be spotted. Bushes are excellent for passive scouting. However, bushes are not entirely safe. Let’s see why.
Firstly: If you stay inside a bush, and only move your turret, your camo-rating isn’t affected. If you have mounted a camo-net on your tank, it stays active. However, if you move your tank, your camo-rating drops,and your camo-net disables. (The net will enable again after staying stationary for 3 seconds.) There is one exception from this “rule”, and that is with light tanks. They have the same camo-rating while they move as when they are stationary. For all other tanks, your camo-rating drops. Basically, your camo-rating on the move is about 1/3 of your rating when you are stationary. If you fire your gun, your camo-rating is about 1/4 of when you are stationary.
Therefore: If you stay inside a bush to scout, don’t do anything, except rotating your turret to look.
The reason why your camo-rating drops when you shoot, is because everything around you, within 15 meters turn transparent when you fire your gun. The bush turns “invisible”, so to speak.
There is one way to avoid this, that you have to learn: If you move behind the bush, and the bush is 15 meters in front of you, it will not turn invisible. Well, then, how do you know if you are 15 meters behind a bush? If you go into sniper view by zooming in with your mouse wheel, and view in the direction you want to fire, and you can see the scenery/landscape beyond the bush, you are less than 15 meters from the bush. If you move backwards, until you only see the leaves on the bush, you are more than 15 meters away from the bush. You will still see the outline of any tanks that are lit up, though, but not other scenery, like houses or rocks.
So: If you stay 15 meters behind a bush, and shoot at an enemy, that enemy cannot spot you.
However, one also has to take into consideration proximity spotting. If an enemy is less than 50 meters away from you, you will still be spotted, also through houses and rocks, and, of course, if you stay inside a bush.
Staying less than 15 meters from a bush.
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