I am pretty sure how you deal with panthers is just hit the cheeks but closer to the breech, never on like that volumetric mess, especially on the right one (left from the perspective of panther). It always gets the gunner and maybe if you have enough explosive mass get all the turret crew and if you have like 180> grams you can just overpressure the crew, even the two in the hull. It has never failed me. In past I used to shoot at the volumetric mess but now I hit the cheeks close to the barrel and breech.
They can just remove volumetric shells, it doesnt work right and is ill suited for simulating how it would work irl. A tank's turret ring should'dn't be it's strongest point.
In warthunder, because of volumetric the ideal tank would be one with a lot of small holes that just absorb shells somehow, like a sponge, or maybe a lot of spikes.
@@russman3787yeah, but it shouldn't be able to bounce cannons like 75mm and bigger. The kinetic energy of a shell would just kick the hatch inside the tank along with the shell.
Chad Comet coming to save you against the numerous Pathers is about right. Every British tank coming up aginst a german vehicle must know EXACTLY where to hit and even then it is a coin toss whether any damage is done.
1:40 I believe this is because they made it so replacing the loader won't reset the reload anymore. On most tanks it's a good thing but with a particularly long reload it's slower.
How does it not reset the reload anymore? Maybe it doesn't reset the animation, but the 23 seconds he counted with the was the full reload of the 122mm. And that's not counting the halfway progress the animation was showing in the reload.
@@alexmaximus9134 It used to restart the reload once the loader was replaced by another crew member. Basically if your loader died at the same time as you fired and your 5 (now 10) second reload was nearly finished and you had an ace crew that replaces the loader in 9 seconds, you'd have to start the reload over when there's only 1 second left and wait your normal 5 second reload as well.
@@nooneisback I mean I play sweden so they were on my side but jesus christ its like xp-50 or ground rb, pain to deal with. So fast and can flank enemy team killing 7 people in an instant.
Watching that 122 get eaten by the Panther turret actually made me laugh Cause when in the Panther it never happens to me, I just die:( Love the video though:)
prob cuz of angle a panther took 88mm tiger shit twice cuz angling also tiger h and e have less pen with their turrets than the panthers (tigers have around 150 panthers around 180mm)
5:05 - 5:14 this is exactly how almost every encounter for me against a panther goes while using the 122mm on the IS-2, i legit start questioning reality. For whatever reason the panther's mantlet has the magical ability of straight up absorbing the 122 shell, and it caused me some big rage moments
Stop aiming for the mantlet then 😭😭 I used to try turret shots but ever since I gave up doing that my life has been so much better. I sometimes aim for the hull MG port even when I don't have to just for funsies
@@Ballistics_Computer i do mostly aim for the hull when i get the chance, but when i can't i try to get shots into the turret, and then like i said the mantlet magicly absorbs it, and it's quite annoying when it happens xd
As a new player who doesn't have a 120mm high BR vehicle, I've just accepted that Panthers are invulnerable from the front. They just have a Kraut magic force field on there.
Hahaha I feel you. At the risk of being "one of those guys" I do have a tip for you against them; the bottom left and bottom right corner of the turret. There's a small bit of flat turret exposed around the mantlet in those corners that many more tanks can easily punch through. Very fun when you take out the gunner first, kraut players tend to not know what to do when their armor doesn't bounce the first 2 shots into them lols.
Don't think the other two guys said this, but the Coaxial MG port is softer than the rest of the mantlet so if you get a good hit on it you can pretty much clean out a panthers turret in one shot
Ok so are we gonna ignore the commanders port (can't spell the name of it) just shoot there with APHE,APHEBC,or high caliber HE and the turret crew would be knocked out same thing for the tiger H1 or shoot the side armor its rather thin and 90% of tiger/panther players are very overconfident hopefully you find this helpful
Update: I've gotten pretty good at dealing with them now. The turret cheek weakspot is a useful one, and a lot of germany players are just oblivious so if you have better positioning you can get side shots on them quite handily. They're still really strong vehicles tho.
A lot of people sleep on the ARL-44, I find it to be a very good tank. The Panthers are technically superior to it in most aspects, but I have much better scores while playing the ARL while I can barely get an even 1:1 KD on panthers.
Even though the commander replaced the loader, the the reload time is calculated when the cannon first starts to reload and does not get updated by new loader replacements. So the trick would be to bring at least one other type of ammunition so that you can force a reset after the the loader gets replaced, you'll loose a few seconds, but overall a lot more time will be saved.
The little intro bit, switching from Mozart's Ave Verum Corpus to the modern War Thunder OST, was a great touch. Really takes me back to the good old days - I had been playing for about 3 months before the Ground Forces Closed Beta began.
@@DatBoi_TheGudBIAS so you are telling me a piece of the track and the drive sprocket are enough to prevent a 122 from going trough the lower side of a tiger... sure buddy keep on dreaming
@@jussi8111 The little return rollers on some USSR tanks can stop tank shells with similar/same amounts of penetration completely when they are giving full broadside (to borrow a ships term), so why not ^^
As an IS 2 player I must say that volumetric is kinda weird in the game recently. But 122 mm is still a very good caliber, it's so easy to one shot anything.
Hey Spookston could you do a video on the Italian AB 43? It’s a low tier Italian armored car with a good gun and is extremely fast, and it’s also reasonably small. It’s one of my favorite vehicles in the game
I could go for that. You don't really see it used that much. I mean most of Italy is slept on but for such a fast armoured car with such a nice gun, you'd think more people would at least sealclub with it
this whole video just hammers home how bad it feels to play long reload tanks nowadays, gets caught on any bit of armor and they reload 4 times before you reload once
Hoping you will play the Object 685, it’s a light tank so it will be perfect for you, has a very nice APHE round, dart round for more armored targets, and sits pretty good right at 8.7. My boy doesn’t get enough love
i bought this tank YEARS ago and it used to have something like an 18.5s aced reload with almost no dispersion, tiger 2 level zoom, and excellent armor performance. its not bad in any regard, in fact its still ridiculously fun at 6.3, but it gets power creeped so hard by 7.0-7.3 which is what you often face between leopard and M48 spam.
Now that you got frustrated about the T-44-122 reload speed you should try his smoller brother the T-34-100. The gun is equally deadly and with half of the reload speed much more enjoyable than the T-44-122. It's an extremely overlooked tank in my opinion and deserves some love. Also I think the tank looks pretty dope but that's just my opinion.
It is overlooked cause it's premium and not the cheapest. Had the T-34-100 been a regular tt tank it would be the most played T-34 of the family. However it would had stayed at 6.7 knowing Gaijin.
Because of frustration with rounds not fusing on light tanks, I have learned to shoot for engines or breach blocks. But it is ridiculous considering how much damage a 122mm round would actually do to the interior of a tank even if it doesn't fuse.
yeah, i'd like to see that, too. i recently unlocked that and tried playing it and i suffered a lot. then i remembered that when i was facing it, it was still sitting at 6.3
The T-44 is one of my favourite tanks in the game. While the gun can be a bit inconsistent sometimes, if you get into a good position you are very deadly Btw you should try the ST-A3, I think it's a very interesting tank
@@signs80 I kinda agree, however the ST-A3 also has a 6 second autoloader, a pretty good HEAT-FS round and I think it also has hydraulic suspension, the M26 does not
@@samuelkiral It does have HEATFS which is okay, not great but it does give some option for sniping. It doesn't have the hydropneumatic though, that's only on the STB-1 and later. The reload is solid, an aced M26 has a 7 second reload though which is why I said it's like an M26 with a rangefinder lol. It's not horrible but it's also not a particularly good tank either. No harm in playing it though
Volumetric working as intended Also (day 3 asking) you should try the Japanese STA1/2/3/Type 61 (they're all kinda the same), decent mobility, good gun and great sight magnification makes them pretty fun to play.
1:41 pro tip: if you have a long reload like this, and the loader gets replaced before the loading process reaches 50%, just switch to another shell and back.
9:24 I wonder if that M36 actually got hit. I remember getting overpressured by artillery in the M36 and thinking 'Gee, I wonder why the 101st bothered to dig foxholes in bastogne, since artillery shells magically kill anyone nearby even if protected from fragmentation'.
5:08 that shot IRL would probably blow the entire right turret side plate off as well as deleting any molecules inside the turret but for Warthunder it's only a minor inconvenience.
Regarding the longer reload after swap, my explanation of the logic behind it is the commander is not a professionally adept loader. Then this makeshift loader takes more time to reload.
"you know that you'd get more RP playing the objective right?" You see Spookston, it's not about winning, its about getting that little dopamine rush every time you see red text.
the shot into the panther mantlet around 5:00 didnt pen because your shell skid across the hullroof, you can see you damged the vision port in the hull as it was traveling
That hit on that Panther on Alaska is why I always just shoot the hull on Panthers, especially since the 122 can just go through their hull like butter even at distance
About that panther, seems like you hit the machine gun. Sometimes they just eat the whole round, happens with the MG port of the Jumbo (and I suspect all MGs on tanks) as well.
That shade of pink, in my limited experience in game modding, is usually an untextured object. It's meant to draw your attention during development so the devs fix it before launch. I'm guessing it's a reflection map, possibly even a skybox thing. It's also possible the upper floors of that apartment are untextured and pink, but that their lighting engine doesn't ignore untextured objects. That sounds weird, but I've seen weirder.
Reminds me of the T-34-100. I bring it up to 7.7 and it still pens almost everything, it's kinda OP IMO. Also if you don't want teammates to drive in front of you, try sitting on the side you're firing towards. In your video they physically didn't have any space except where they went, had you been shifted over to the other side they would have been able to pass you without blocking.
Yeah except, it depends on ergonomics in the turret, Not just what type ammo it fires. But the T-44-122 was not accepted into service because it didn't carry enough ammo, AND had a Long reload.
13:58 To be fair, if you're playing a Panther and something hits the back of your turret without doing anything, it's usually not worth trying to fight it
Every time I aim for an opponent's hull, 90% will end up landing on and stopped at the driver's vision block even though I am not at all going specifically for it.
As a T44 enjoyer, I forgot how squat it was until I saw you compared to a T-34-85 at 7:12. Its like the difference of a 6' guy vs a 5'11" guy in those memes, seriously wtf. It looks like someone asked, "Comrade, how can we improve already perfect T-34?" and some designer was like "We put in Hydrolic press da!"
This is one of the best premiums at 6.3 due to all around good performance. It can front pen almost anything while retaining decent mobility of a medium tank
T34 100 by far outclasses this, and so do many others. The 44 122 is by far one of the worst imo since you pay real money for worse armor, longer reload and weaker gun than the tt variant.
@thunderousavenger2382 Actually, the gun isn't weaker - it overmatches sloped armor much better than 100mm counterpart. 122mm can front pen panther through upper plate, while 100mm often bounces. Same with jagpanther. T-44-100 also has to struggle with worse matchmaking (BR 7.0) and abysmal gun depression. IMO tanks are more or less equal in their respective BR, but I prefer gun depression and armor overmatching over the slightly faster reload time
the "bug" with the panther turret is just people aiming to wide on the turret plate hitting the joints that hold the mantlet. if you go into armor viewer and look at it from the side you can see its like 200mm of flat plate holding the turret mantlet up. its literally the thickest possible part of the panther
Ah the IS-2/T-44 hybrid. Edit: the Tiger could have been using the dead panther as a shield. Ive done that while using tanks that have weak lower plates
@ 1:35 your reload took so long because you were mid-reload when the crew positions changed. The game does not dynamically adjust the current reload time like that. In this scenario, you would have had a shorter reload time by switching to HE and back to AP(If you carried HE), because when you switched back to AP, it would have recalculated the reload time to account for the loader being in place. Weird i know but this is how the game works.
7:36 i believe there is a theory that says that all american style maps arent made in america and they are actually USSR's training ground to train invasion of us thats why these cities are in the middle of nowhere in the forest or desert beacuse there arent actually in america
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We love the IS-6
nice
Your voice sounds AI generated in this video, at least in the beginning.
i love his editing, specially from 5:00 to 6:35
day 42 of asking you to play the Chi Ha Navy Short Gun
That panther that stopped your shot is infuriating. It's been a problem with the panther since volumetrics. Really wish they can fix it.
if it keeps happening I think I might get heart palpitations
That problem also exist with is1 and 2 where a perfectly aimed shot at turret cheek bounces sometimes. Wish they can fix both
@@Spookston Fighting a panther physically ages me. I have developed high blood pressure :/
I am pretty sure how you deal with panthers is just hit the cheeks but closer to the breech, never on like that volumetric mess, especially on the right one (left from the perspective of panther). It always gets the gunner and maybe if you have enough explosive mass get all the turret crew and if you have like 180> grams you can just overpressure the crew, even the two in the hull. It has never failed me. In past I used to shoot at the volumetric mess but now I hit the cheeks close to the barrel and breech.
They can just remove volumetric shells, it doesnt work right and is ill suited for simulating how it would work irl. A tank's turret ring should'dn't be it's strongest point.
That moment he shot the weakest part of that panthers turret and it did absolutely nothing just made me shrivel up in pain.
In warthunder, because of volumetric the ideal tank would be one with a lot of small holes that just absorb shells somehow, like a sponge, or maybe a lot of spikes.
or just made of optics
@@arthurman415or T-34 driver hatches
@@russman3787yeah, but it shouldn't be able to bounce cannons like 75mm and bigger. The kinetic energy of a shell would just kick the hatch inside the tank along with the shell.
@@russman3787
Look at a picture of a t-34 driver hatch opened, the shell only has to break a few centimeters of steel in the sides of the hatch
@@russman3787 not with the amount of power a shell has. You severely underestimate it.
Chad Comet coming to save you against the numerous Pathers is about right. Every British tank coming up aginst a german vehicle must know EXACTLY where to hit and even then it is a coin toss whether any damage is done.
Coin toss? More liked a rigged casino
1:40 I believe this is because they made it so replacing the loader won't reset the reload anymore. On most tanks it's a good thing but with a particularly long reload it's slower.
It's atrocious on the M60A2
I remember dieing a lot because of those resets
Reloads should be sped up after getting the loader back.
How does it not reset the reload anymore? Maybe it doesn't reset the animation, but the 23 seconds he counted with the was the full reload of the 122mm. And that's not counting the halfway progress the animation was showing in the reload.
@@alexmaximus9134 It used to restart the reload once the loader was replaced by another crew member. Basically if your loader died at the same time as you fired and your 5 (now 10) second reload was nearly finished and you had an ace crew that replaces the loader in 9 seconds, you'd have to start the reload over when there's only 1 second left and wait your normal 5 second reload as well.
5:00 made me laugh hard enough that my post-op nurse told me to stop before I slipped a stitch, 10/10 editing, I'd love to see more like this
I remember getting a test drive for this thing a year or 2 ago and I was an absolute murder machine
it was one of my first premiums, probably grinded half the soviet tree with it
@@Spookstonmy first premium was the sav when the Swedish ground tree first released, another vehicle i did stupidly well in at the time
@@sharkk127i despise people who use the sav
@@reinni2968 Then boy do I bet you loved the week when Gaijin re-released the SAV for sale. Every Swedish team was just 8 SAVs.
@@nooneisback I mean I play sweden so they were on my side but jesus christ its like xp-50 or ground rb, pain to deal with. So fast and can flank enemy team killing 7 people in an instant.
Watching that 122 get eaten by the Panther turret actually made me laugh
Cause when in the Panther it never happens to me, I just die:(
Love the video though:)
prob cuz of angle a panther took 88mm tiger shit twice cuz angling also tiger h and e have less pen with their turrets than the panthers (tigers have around 150 panthers around 180mm)
5:05 - 5:14 this is exactly how almost every encounter for me against a panther goes while using the 122mm on the IS-2, i legit start questioning reality. For whatever reason the panther's mantlet has the magical ability of straight up absorbing the 122 shell, and it caused me some big rage moments
Stop aiming for the mantlet then 😭😭
I used to try turret shots but ever since I gave up doing that my life has been so much better. I sometimes aim for the hull MG port even when I don't have to just for funsies
@@Ballistics_Computer i do mostly aim for the hull when i get the chance, but when i can't i try to get shots into the turret, and then like i said the mantlet magicly absorbs it, and it's quite annoying when it happens xd
My first game on the IS-2 had a panther mantlet absorb a 122mm at point blank range
Made me question whether the panther is op or IS-2 overtiered
forgot the side skirts
Never, ever aim for the panther turret when you're face on, precisely because of this bullshit. Aim for the gun, take it out and then flank.
As a new player who doesn't have a 120mm high BR vehicle, I've just accepted that Panthers are invulnerable from the front. They just have a Kraut magic force field on there.
Hahaha I feel you. At the risk of being "one of those guys" I do have a tip for you against them; the bottom left and bottom right corner of the turret. There's a small bit of flat turret exposed around the mantlet in those corners that many more tanks can easily punch through. Very fun when you take out the gunner first, kraut players tend to not know what to do when their armor doesn't bounce the first 2 shots into them lols.
On the sides of the panther turret a flat spots you can pen or turret ring
Don't think the other two guys said this, but the Coaxial MG port is softer than the rest of the mantlet so if you get a good hit on it you can pretty much clean out a panthers turret in one shot
Ok so are we gonna ignore the commanders port (can't spell the name of it) just shoot there with APHE,APHEBC,or high caliber HE and the turret crew would be knocked out same thing for the tiger H1 or shoot the side armor its rather thin and 90% of tiger/panther players are very overconfident hopefully you find this helpful
Update: I've gotten pretty good at dealing with them now. The turret cheek weakspot is a useful one, and a lot of germany players are just oblivious so if you have better positioning you can get side shots on them quite handily. They're still really strong vehicles tho.
The ARL-44 and EBR make a pretty good 5.3 wombo combo; they're polar opposites, but they're currently my favorite French vehicles
I second this stuff
The ARL44 is insane but it gets bombed SO much.
A lot of people sleep on the ARL-44, I find it to be a very good tank.
The Panthers are technically superior to it in most aspects, but I have much better scores while playing the ARL while I can barely get an even 1:1 KD on panthers.
ARL-44 is nice, but I do occasionally get annoyed at the certified solid shot moments.
@@_Zekken penning the flat side of a KV-1 at 600m just to get a fuel tank and orange crew member 💪🏻💪🏻
This tank and the T-34-100 are some of my favorite tanks to go out and have fun in.
Maybe try the t-34-100 next?
Even though the commander replaced the loader, the the reload time is calculated when the cannon first starts to reload and does not get updated by new loader replacements. So the trick would be to bring at least one other type of ammunition so that you can force a reset after the the loader gets replaced, you'll loose a few seconds, but overall a lot more time will be saved.
10:59 That sound edit mate, never gets old, always put a smile on my face :D
what's the name of the sound?
Day 64 of asking Spookton to play the M3 GMC
M3 = best low tier.
@@Gravity-. the M literally stands for Menace
@@dasyak1179nuh uh
@@Gravity-.it’s undoubtedly the Stuarts: fast as hell, low profile, tall enough to go hull down, decent pen, and surprisingly survivable
Yay
The little intro bit, switching from Mozart's Ave Verum Corpus to the modern War Thunder OST, was a great touch. Really takes me back to the good old days - I had been playing for about 3 months before the Ground Forces Closed Beta began.
Hello Mr vonel, glory to Arstotzka!
5:09 and 6:12 are the certified soviet 122 moments
6:12 Was a track shot lol
U should have picked the first panther turret eating the shot
@@DatBoi_TheGudBIAS so you are telling me a piece of the track and the drive sprocket are enough to prevent a 122 from going trough the lower side of a tiger... sure buddy keep on dreaming
@@jussi8111 yes lmao, look at the angle
@@jussi8111 well it says it has 1.2m fuze delay...
@@jussi8111 The little return rollers on some USSR tanks can stop tank shells with similar/same amounts of penetration completely when they are giving full broadside (to borrow a ships term), so why not ^^
This has gotta be the best edited video I've seen of yours this year, that shit with the jadgpanther was absolutely hilarious!
I'm surprised you didn't mention the driver's hatch weakspot, it's one of the few things (other than the reload time) holding this tank back.
just don't get shot ezclap
Just put bushes lol 5head
@@Spookston 😂
As an IS 2 player I must say that volumetric is kinda weird in the game recently. But 122 mm is still a very good caliber, it's so easy to one shot anything.
just like much other guns on this b.r. don't
Always love the videos Spookston, definitely one of my favorite content creators.
11:04 dat turret toss
Hey Spookston could you do a video on the Italian AB 43? It’s a low tier Italian armored car with a good gun and is extremely fast, and it’s also reasonably small. It’s one of my favorite vehicles in the game
I could go for that. You don't really see it used that much. I mean most of Italy is slept on but for such a fast armoured car with such a nice gun, you'd think more people would at least sealclub with it
The absolute funniest thing this video is Spookston genuinely perplexed at what the shit that Tiger was doing at the beginning
yep, I felt it when you talked about BS aura, I love it when the side of a bvm eats 3 xm885 gelta3 (gaijin edition) turns and kills me
Thank goodness the T-44-100 provides an improved version of this playing style.
9:19 "Eek!" - Spookston 2023
Sat watching Red Wrench Films' new IS-6 video then this notification pops up. Get out of my walls Spookston.
no
:(
2:15 tbh he really had no other way to go tbh
I'd love to see a video on the ASU-85.
10:17 Spookston not even noticing the hellcat dying
6:30 i like how a lot of russian premium tanks at that br are just them messing around with the 100mm and 122mm guns on different tanks
this whole video just hammers home how bad it feels to play long reload tanks nowadays, gets caught on any bit of armor and they reload 4 times before you reload once
Speaking of heavy tanks with big cannons, the M103 would be a neat tank to make a video on
3:48 Spookston picking the worst possible place to shoot a Panther when he can just pen the hull. Been there before, brain stop working.
Hoping you will play the Object 685, it’s a light tank so it will be perfect for you, has a very nice APHE round, dart round for more armored targets, and sits pretty good right at 8.7. My boy doesn’t get enough love
i bought this tank YEARS ago and it used to have something like an 18.5s aced reload with almost no dispersion, tiger 2 level zoom, and excellent armor performance.
its not bad in any regard, in fact its still ridiculously fun at 6.3, but it gets power creeped so hard by 7.0-7.3 which is what you often face between leopard and M48 spam.
Now that you got frustrated about the T-44-122 reload speed you should try his smoller brother the T-34-100. The gun is equally deadly and with half of the reload speed much more enjoyable than the T-44-122. It's an extremely overlooked tank in my opinion and deserves some love.
Also I think the tank looks pretty dope but that's just my opinion.
It is overlooked cause it's premium and not the cheapest. Had the T-34-100 been a regular tt tank it would be the most played T-34 of the family. However it would had stayed at 6.7 knowing Gaijin.
it is a much better tank, but it's at 7.0, rather than 6.3
nevermind, thought you said t44-100,
Because of frustration with rounds not fusing on light tanks, I have learned to shoot for engines or breach blocks. But it is ridiculous considering how much damage a 122mm round would actually do to the interior of a tank even if it doesn't fuse.
I would love to see you play the normal T-44 that has the 85mm cannon :)
yeah, i'd like to see that, too.
i recently unlocked that and tried playing it and i suffered a lot. then i remembered that when i was facing it, it was still sitting at 6.3
Thanks Spookston for another banger video hope you feel better now! :D
The T-44 is one of my favourite tanks in the game. While the gun can be a bit inconsistent sometimes, if you get into a good position you are very deadly
Btw you should try the ST-A3, I think it's a very interesting tank
Interesting = shit
ST-A3 is kinda shitty, it's basically a worse in every way M26 but with a rangefinder
@@signs80 I kinda agree, however the ST-A3 also has a 6 second autoloader, a pretty good HEAT-FS round and I think it also has hydraulic suspension, the M26 does not
@@samuelkiral It does have HEATFS which is okay, not great but it does give some option for sniping. It doesn't have the hydropneumatic though, that's only on the STB-1 and later. The reload is solid, an aced M26 has a 7 second reload though which is why I said it's like an M26 with a rangefinder lol. It's not horrible but it's also not a particularly good tank either. No harm in playing it though
The source engine sound effects always get me😂
Volumetric working as intended
Also (day 3 asking) you should try the Japanese STA1/2/3/Type 61 (they're all kinda the same), decent mobility, good gun and great sight magnification makes them pretty fun to play.
1:41 pro tip:
if you have a long reload like this, and the loader gets replaced before the loading process reaches 50%, just switch to another shell and back.
Day 12 of asking spookston to play the amx 30 AuF1
9:24 I wonder if that M36 actually got hit. I remember getting overpressured by artillery in the M36 and thinking 'Gee, I wonder why the 101st bothered to dig foxholes in bastogne, since artillery shells magically kill anyone nearby even if protected from fragmentation'.
Nice Tank mate
thanks i grew it myself
@@Spookston 💀
5:08 that shot IRL would probably blow the entire right turret side plate off as well as deleting any molecules inside the turret but for Warthunder it's only a minor inconvenience.
You may or may not find the Strv 103 more infuriating due to hull aim finickiness. Would love to see that!
At least that thing has a very fast reload, almost impenetrable armour for AP shells and a lot of penetration.
the strv 103 is so easy lol, it takes a couple games to get used to but then it's fantastic
Regarding the longer reload after swap, my explanation of the logic behind it is the commander is not a professionally adept loader. Then this makeshift loader takes more time to reload.
Day 2 of asking for War Thunder navel
When Gaijin forgets your a RUclipsr and not a regular player so they slap you with the non killable panther syndrome
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Also love how you put the time spent loading for the last section, really translate how it feels using these kinds of vehicles.
"Are you serious?" "YOU HAVE GOT TO BE KIDDING ME!" I can feel the emotion in that entire sentence lol.
6:10 Im not the only one thats seeing wierd pink, green and blue patches throughout the game
4:05 okay but like… that CAS kill took some balls, bro brought a duck and actually got a kill with it
2:24 when you play Atomic Thunder but it's the ENTIRE team only going C
“It’s just so nice to be able to one shot everything”
What every tank crew member irl wishes for
5:05-5:41 sums up pretty much 90% of my war thunder experience
6:05 because war thunder devs loved the barbie movie so much they wanted to make buildings pink
"you know that you'd get more RP playing the objective right?"
You see Spookston, it's not about winning, its about getting that little dopamine rush every time you see red text.
I swear spookston out here being flabbergasted when he gets a hit that doesn't kill an enemy when I'm out here happy i hit someone's track
the shot into the panther mantlet around 5:00 didnt pen because your shell skid across the hullroof, you can see you damged the vision port in the hull as it was traveling
I just realised what the monkey in the neuron activation meme felt like when i heard the tf2 crit sound after years
That hit on that Panther on Alaska is why I always just shoot the hull on Panthers, especially since the 122 can just go through their hull like butter even at distance
About that panther, seems like you hit the machine gun. Sometimes they just eat the whole round, happens with the MG port of the Jumbo (and I suspect all MGs on tanks) as well.
the Germans discovered how to make stalinium but only used it on the Panther's mantlet
That shade of pink, in my limited experience in game modding, is usually an untextured object. It's meant to draw your attention during development so the devs fix it before launch.
I'm guessing it's a reflection map, possibly even a skybox thing. It's also possible the upper floors of that apartment are untextured and pink, but that their lighting engine doesn't ignore untextured objects. That sounds weird, but I've seen weirder.
"Volumetric working as intended, and not in need of any adjustment." - Gaijin
Reminds me of the T-34-100. I bring it up to 7.7 and it still pens almost everything, it's kinda OP IMO. Also if you don't want teammates to drive in front of you, try sitting on the side you're firing towards. In your video they physically didn't have any space except where they went, had you been shifted over to the other side they would have been able to pass you without blocking.
I remember when this video was called the mini is6 back in my day... a whole 30 minutes ago lmao
I believe the reason the T-44-122's reload is so long in general is because it uses 1 piece ammunition, which is even modeled.
incorrect, one piece ammunition is quicker to load than 2 piece which is what the 122 uses
Yeah except, it depends on ergonomics in the turret, Not just what type ammo it fires. But the T-44-122 was not accepted into service because it didn't carry enough ammo, AND had a Long reload.
7:15 God Bless the person who came up with such amazing food...
A friendly reminder during that Alaska, dont hesitate to shoot Panther's front hull with 122, it has enough pen in that distance
I love how in this video you can still see the reload even if the clip changes
13:58
To be fair, if you're playing a Panther and something hits the back of your turret without doing anything, it's usually not worth trying to fight it
Every time I aim for an opponent's hull, 90% will end up landing on and stopped at the driver's vision block even though I am not at all going specifically for it.
Panther side armour: "no please im to weak"
Pather mantlet: "UNLIMITED POOOOWEERRRRR"
As a T44 enjoyer, I forgot how squat it was until I saw you compared to a T-34-85 at 7:12. Its like the difference of a 6' guy vs a 5'11" guy in those memes, seriously wtf. It looks like someone asked, "Comrade, how can we improve already perfect T-34?" and some designer was like "We put in Hydrolic press da!"
spookston do u ever play air?
This is one of the best premiums at 6.3 due to all around good performance. It can front pen almost anything while retaining decent mobility of a medium tank
T34 100 by far outclasses this, and so do many others.
The 44 122 is by far one of the worst imo since you pay real money for worse armor, longer reload and weaker gun than the tt variant.
@thunderousavenger2382 Actually, the gun isn't weaker - it overmatches sloped armor much better than 100mm counterpart. 122mm can front pen panther through upper plate, while 100mm often bounces. Same with jagpanther.
T-44-100 also has to struggle with worse matchmaking (BR 7.0) and abysmal gun depression.
IMO tanks are more or less equal in their respective BR, but I prefer gun depression and armor overmatching over the slightly faster reload time
one way to fix not penning panthers is by shooting straight at the upper frontal plate, it goes straight through.
We need a dedicated t92 video
7:02 roughly spookston. And to this day I still question how I killed an IS-2 from the front with those same guns in the Ostwind 2.
4:19 yea but it's a 2.3 BR plane that can be shot down with lmgs.
the "bug" with the panther turret is just people aiming to wide on the turret plate hitting the joints that hold the mantlet. if you go into armor viewer and look at it from the side you can see its like 200mm of flat plate holding the turret mantlet up. its literally the thickest possible part of the panther
Ah the IS-2/T-44 hybrid.
Edit: the Tiger could have been using the dead panther as a shield. Ive done that while using tanks that have weak lower plates
the 122mm is the best dopamine generator. no other cannon comes close to the satisfaction of using this
you should play the Conway because i heard you like volumetric
@ 1:35 your reload took so long because you were mid-reload when the crew positions changed. The game does not dynamically adjust the current reload time like that. In this scenario, you would have had a shorter reload time by switching to HE and back to AP(If you carried HE), because when you switched back to AP, it would have recalculated the reload time to account for the loader being in place. Weird i know but this is how the game works.
The comet paying attention and coming to help while you reloaded though ✨
i love this line of WT content creators joob, spook and pink with these daily uploads i have a constant line of content to watch
5:05 we have same reaction man, 122 on panther is just awful sometimes
Holy crap, I almost forgot that I even bought this tank years ago! Thanks for bringing my attention to it,Spooks.
Me: I wanna spade ISU-122 and ISU-122s while researching the rest of Rank IV.
Panther turret: I'm gonna end this man's whole career.
7:36 i believe there is a theory that says that all american style maps arent made in america and they are actually USSR's training ground to train invasion of us thats why these cities are in the middle of nowhere in the forest or desert beacuse there arent actually in america
Bullets when a turret moved .05 mm the moment it hits: “uhhhh let me be clear”