The Most Frustrating Tank Destroyer
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There are tons of different Soviet casemate tank destroyers in War Thunder, but the SU-122-54 is probably the pinnacle. It has a relatively fast firing 122mm like the IS-2, workable armor, and good defensive armament. You won't be getting a nuke every game, but it's alright.
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The Most Frustrating Tank Destroyer
Think I might do an Arma challenge video sometime
I dare you to try War thunder Mobile
@@Official_Figsvtowy2 i only did that to get the sherman and other thing lets just say it was soul destroying
use the chally 3
@@Official_Figsvtowy2that would be funny
That would be sweet you should try hell let loose though
Shooting something with the soviet 122 only for it to do nothing or get snagged in volumetric is the War Thunder equivalent of buying an ice cream and then immediately dropping it.
xD I laughed so hard at this
Tbf it prolly just didn't fuse in time on that first M41 (fuse delay is 1,2 meters)
I agree, but the first time I was reading your comment I was too distracted to up-vote having a flashback to every single time this has occurred. I am a Soviet Vehicle Main, though the ISU-152 is more my speed for point-and-delete vehicles.
It’s more like, as you’re about to take your first lick of ice cream, the clerk/store owner pisses themselves, slips on their own piss, and on the way down they knock your ice cream out of your hand, then tells you they’ll try to stop pissing themselves as they pick your ice cream up and hand it back to you
@GermansRuinedWT I remember my 7.0-9.7 ussr grind and I cant say I had much fun, but I do have to agree the T-44-100 is both an exception to that and highly underrated.
The fact that that jumbo player calmly and deliberately shot exactly where he had to on a tank that is played very rarely is incredible.
I'm pretty sure he's done one of two things: Has a really good gaming chair, or he's studied every tank's weakspots extensively
Jumbo player 🗿
What continually amazes me, is US players getting the most overtiered most straight useless tanks at their respective BR's,
and then being forced to pull litteral god mode shit like that to get a smidgen of the kills other tanks get.
Most US players are just dudes who dont wanna swap out to another nation and continue the grind once they realize how fucked the US tech tree is.
@@williamnixon3994 there's a third option: Gaijin himself guided his shell into the right trajectory
That's about on par for Jumbo players.
It took me way too long to realize that this and the asu-85 are two seperate vehicles lmao
Asu is basically a baby SU
@maxomat4319 It's more like a cousin. Since the Su series doesn't get the cannons the ASU's get.
@@aiedenoldstien9751or the armor
But how? The ASU-85 has almost no armour. The SU-122-54 does have decent armour.
@@alexmaximus9134I thought the asu had decent armor and I was either unlucky if I non-penned or lucky if I went through
The Soviet 122 is either hit or miss. You either annihilate tanks with 200gr+ of explosive, or *the snail* screws you over
i once hit with it the side of Panther turret and it bounced (which I'm sure that wouldn't happen in real life)
Fun fact the 800 grams of the 128 does not even half that guns Dmg somehow and pens less as well somehow even though it pens 70mm more
The problem with the 122 is that if you don't oneshot the enemy, you're basically screwed because of that reload. And while the pen is good, it's not really good enough to make up for the reload, especially with the volumetric reliability. Couple that with the fact that there are other guns in the same BR range that have equal or greater pen while still having solid post pen, like the long 88, and its just not a good gun.
105mm and almost 1kg of tnt in HEAT and it does "Critical damage" every time, and then, you see a hecking @as kicker T-44-100 with only 65g of tnt and it oneshots you in cupola.
that jumbo really said "fuck volumetric" and hit the 2cm weakpoint anyway
Hearing the chair creek at 5:55 really just sells how ass that jumbo's shot was lol
Attempt number 15 at getting Spookston to play any tank with a dozer blade, the catch is, he has to dig in before he can engage targets. Movement around the map is allowed, but he has to dig in again.
digging enthusiast
Aka ww1 roleplay
How many tanks have dozer blades?
Diggi diggi hole! Dig dig a hole!
I nominate the 2S3M for this challenge
6:00 Rare moment of Spookston getting outplayed, and its by his favourite tank, the fucking Jumbo lol
Fun Fact: Field Marshal Zhukov lived in my street a couple houses away. The house he lived in, here in Vienna, still looks the same.
Proof?
@Twiggo_The_Foxxo Documentary "Österreich 2" narrated by historian Hugo Portisch
Such a tank destroyer couldn’t even think about, defeating the mighty British conqueror…… the best tank ever created
i cant figure out if you are being sarcastic or not
@@ArchieAshfordThe fire control and commander’s ergonomics were very very good for their time. A commander could look for a target, range find it, lock it in, and the gunner would automatically know the exact distance and position of the target. I’m not sure if the IS3 and T10 even had a magnifying sight for the commander. I don’t know about other aspects of these tanks though, but there’s my 2c
@@peterl3417 Soviets were good at stealing technology at that time in history. Too bad their political establishment never invest in top notch equipment for conscript. Cannon fodder at best
@@ArchieAshford😅
@@robertharris6092 it did but didn’t work above 23mph , maybe km idk
5:40 man that jumbo must be extremly lucky. hopefully there are no mods who assist finding that spot.
He is just a chinese cheater. game full with chinese and russian cheaters.
That was extremely sus
There is influx of "modders" in RB after the mass killing.
The player might have a lineup with the SU-122-54 and meticously check all potentional weakspots for a perfect gameplay... yes... there are people (who might be my classmates) who do this. Expect the Unexpected.
@@fabianmichaelgockner5988 it reminds me of that weird weak spot on SU-85 where L-63 can pen lol, found out about it from Spookston video
Y'know what tank destroyer is the opposite of frustrating? The AS-42/47.
He already played it
He played the 20mm version, the guy asked for the 47mm version
@@humzaakhtar9208 ah mb
Speaking of useful HMGs, a fun challenge would be to play the BTR-152A or the newer BTR-152D. 2 (or 4) 14.5mm guns with 49mm of pen are really strong against both planes and tanks at low tier.
Not to be the nerd 39 stock but idk
I’ve had a lot of fun lately playing the 2C bis at top tier. You should give it a shot, it eats more darts than an Abrams.
Also hope you’re doing alright man
Always good to see a spookston video to spice up life in barracks! Was just thinking about when another upload would be out earlier today!
that damn frontal armor gets me sometimes
and then I stare for 3 seconds knowing my fate
One feature I would like to see in WT is the option to range multiple weapons at the same time. For example, if you Range the 75mm with the M3 Lee for 500m, it will use the same elevation on the 37mm and have the gun way overshoot. So it would be nice if you had the option, so that ranging 500m, would also range 500m on all non-coaxial guns.
3:00 Spookston would be the type of guy to range find a Tutel at point blank range ☠️☠️
*spookston knowing all the weak spots to one shot people
*random guy in jumbo knowing the weak spot on the SU 44 122
“Wait a minute” - spookston meeting his match
Thats not a 44, and not a 54 122, its a SU-122 54.
You should play a lineup with the ARL-44 and EBR - they're basically polar opposites, but they're a blast in 5.3, even in an uptier
You mean before Gajin grabs the whole French tree and shakes it up for literally no reason.
I don't know about that. Arl has bad damage, bad reload, meh armor and is very slow. Ebr can be fun, but penetration is terrible for this br
@@michaelc9155 The EBR is very potent if you can flank. It is very quick and the reload is great. Pop out, fire one or two shots, then run away and repeat.
in what world does the ARL have bad damage, we're talking about the big 90mm one right? the one I consistently one shot panthers with through the ufp?@@michaelc9155
one of my fave party tricks of the ARL is it's ability to steer from a dead stop super fast, it can swing itself around shockingly fast for such a big tank, I often find myself in situations where light tanks will rush me, to try and get close to overwhelm me, but I'm nearly always able to out turn them and get a shot off, feels so cheeky.
That situation with the m36 is my full war thunder experience every time I play. Playing the game perfectly only to put myself in a position where I don’t have 1 degree of depression, or hit a invisible wall I can’t see through the gun sight
You know what’s also frustrating ?
Csaba
We love you Spook
The situation with the Jumbo, seems like most likely, one of two things. 1, maybe he really did mean to aim right there, and that little smidge of knowledge just worked really well to his favor. After all, with a 75, at least from my experience, you gotta make your shots count. Or 2, it was purely luck/accidental. It seems like her was aiming right for where the camera sits for you, so, he may very well have been aiming to either hit the barrel, or more likely been trying to hail mary a shot for the breech, and just got a lucky/accidental miss, that popped right through that little perfectly available spot.
Either way, i see this as a win, not only for him, but for you and frankly the rest of us. Since sure, we all COULD go and check that stuff our selves, but because it happened here, it means more people will learn about it, and for someone like me who may not use or encounter this 122 all that often, now if i ever do, and i have something a bit "underpowered", if nothing else, i can give it a go.
I got a kill like this today. Second battle of Alamein or whatever. A super Pershing’s lfp at 800m with the tiger h1. Pure luck with a pot shot
I love the su-122-54, one of the best tanks for its br imo
5:08 love how he said nothing he was just dead silent, not knowing how to react to that X)
Spookston I beg, please play the crusader mk.3
If you want some extra challenge it can preform pretty well as a light tank even at around 5.3
I hate 122s for the comically slow reload but this is actually pretty damn good considering that it's only one second longer than a t44-100
5:40
When a man faces a beast for long enough, he learns how to win against it.
4:29
"I dont think i even had anything to eat today." Truly a very soviet moment.
method acting
I'd just really love to see more low-tier planes. Like the P-66 Vanguard for the US & the WM-23 Ezüst Nyíl for the Italian tree (Labelled as a Hungarian vehicle, or course).
I personally wouldn't mind seeing the Hungarian Heja (or whatever name they used on their Re 2000 copy) and P-35 for the US (since there is a Swedish one)
I'm surprised that there isn't more Hungarian aircraft in the game for the Italian tech tree.
Loved seeing Spooks go from highly prospective of the tank in the beginning to 'conflicted' at the end after everything he went through.
Also Spooks, I managed to get your decal, slapped it on all my tanks and surprisingly got CAS'ed more yet survived more than I had before. Thanks for the magic buff!
Jumbo mains do really know every weakspot in the game
Spook got killed by that jumbo and he lost his nerve.
8:18 the ammo explosion made a crater, and the tank just fell into the crater it made
5:51 that jumbo has played the soviets before. Every time i play, that is the only shot the enemys can appear to hit
On paper it has good armour, in practice, it gets killed if someone even looks at it
Bro that jumbo shot just made my jaw drop.
The gun is great.
Auxillary 122 mm is also decent.
“Volumetric isnt broken”
Also volumetric: 5:50
3:03
Barrel shooters when their barrel is shot out (suddenly its not a good mechanic anymore)
5:32 Looks like a “weak spot” that Zenturion7 would make a video on. I.e. ain’t no way that’s not a bug
I recently spaded it. It's fun but as you said it often doesn't work, but whenever it does work, it's absolute chad of tank destroyers. I also use APDS+HEAT-FS combo because at this caliber 4,5kg APDS is quite effective and at 6.7 you often meet tanks which aren't easily penned by 122mm APHE/APBC and that extra velocity and penetration power often saved my life
5:30 I learned something new
that jumbo does his armor protection research gah dayum.
6:10 rare occasion Spooks got mental meltdown gameplay 😂
9:05 Spookston has PTSD about CAS now.
It would be fun to see you do a vid on the 90/53 m43, it only has 8 rounds but if you're skilled you can do ridiculous amounts of damage
That double 14.5 absolutely eats things, one of my favorite casemates because of it
Honestly seems like the MG is more fun than the tank itself 😂
Spooks: "Depress... Depress!"
Tank Game: "But you're already depressed maybe you should get help."
Once more suggesting Spookston should try the DF105 for the weird combo of marder and french turret.
Loved the video but that kill on the M36 @14:14 is just my life in the U.S lineup at that BR. So because of this I would love to see you play the either of the U.S M36's.
After they changed the iconic 122 sound there was almost no reason to use it. The reload is terrible, pen is meh, damage if the later volumetric doesnt mess with it is great but, an 85mm or 100mm does it about the same with half to 1 third the reload.
You gotta play the way meaner younger brother. The SU-122P. The same 122 as the IS-2 1944 but at 5.7. It can bounce 88’s pretty reliably and will absolutely clown on tigers and panthers.
you should try out the Rooikat Mk1D! :D
-76mm apfsds is pain- i mean, uh, 76mm apfsds always oneshots any tank and always kills crew when hitting them directly, and always spalls more than aphe does, and always explodes ammo when it hits it
Yeah it totally doesn't just fly right through a tank making just a singular crew member yellow ...right?
@@zeepherunope, never not at all
Ayyy spookston nice video I love watching your videos it cures my boredom
That Jumbo player is just built different.
Death of Stalin is such a good movie, I want to rewatch it soon
Attempt #2 at getting Spookston to play the Churchill 1. Crazy armor for 3.3 and the gun is... Surprisingly workable
Video idea: the Chieftain! It's slow, but atleast it sounds cool.
On a sidenote, i love the way you've mixed depression and fun in those videos. Never fails to brighten up my day. Cheers!
Day I lost track, for the type 61
At least try to keep track of your damn thing dammit
3:39 you know you say that its a opening for people to do exactly that.
After that jumbo death, I would have just left the game for a week
now you need to make an su 122 54 video lol/ subbed to you as well
I think I really enjoy spookston playing a vehicle with a really good machine gun. Very satisfying seeing him daka stuff.
0:07 they were? When I think about casemate td's I normally remember the German ones Like the StuG or the Jagdpanzers.
Well that's your opinion? And people have different opinions?
Makes me wonder if that jumbo had a hack that targets penetrable spots and it was just that pixel sized spot that was like the only spot.
6:56 me when playing this game
I find it funny you end up playing it like a lot of World of Tanks players usually do with their Russian/Soviet casemate TDs when their team collapses; just running around trying to sneak up and being cheeki breeki.
Would be really cool to see you use the IT-1 it is one of if not the only Russian vehicle with 10 degrees of gun depresson
Scratching my head that Spookston hasn't done a SARC video
I already asked this before but I wonder what spookston thinks of the M-SHORAD being in War Thunder. Basically a LAV-AD with a 30mm instead of the 25mm (I think it’s 25.) Also has Stingers and Longbow Hellfire missiles.
6:04 i think the reason that shot went trough is bc he hit the shot right on the rivet witch makes sense
Play the T35 Day 106
your videos got me back into war thunder
I'm sorry for your loss
Day 69 (nice) of asking Spookston to play the t-35
When you play the Jumbo 75 you learn to shoot pixel sized weak spots
damn back in the day at 5.0 use to club in a downtier hard now gets constant uptiers to 6.3 it has to be pixel accurate or or its eaten alive.
bro waited 80+ days to spookston play the tank I admire that patience
It’s an amazing long range sniper with its HEAT-FS and APDS combined with the 2+km rangefinder
I just love the use of 'The Death of Stalin' in the intro bit. It's such a funny semi-historical comedy that I wish that more people have seen it.
Too bad it's banned in Russia (I think) because the Russians can't take a joke about their past.
Zhukov is also a sore subject for the worship of the Supreme Soviet. For whatever you can say about him, they moved to bury him quick, because he was popular with the army, had a relationship with the "other side", and was not fully onboard with the speshul Cold War operation thing. Not a template they would want catching Z's.
I love when Spooks 选择消失at the end.
3:01 "You shoot my gun, I shoot yours."
17th day on my journey to convince Spookston to play the Rafkampfwagen 90
"That is insanely dumb."
No, Spookston, I think that was insanely smart.
Honestly a 75 Sherman knowing where to pen an SU-122-54 frontally is a feat in of itself.
It never gets old watching Spookstons jump scares.
That Jumbo was probably just as surprised it worked. truly a Gaijin moment
@Spookston When you have the hiccups, say out loud and very calmly "I am not a fish." It's stupid but it works.
I’ve gotten to the experience level where, similar to you and oddbawz, pretty much 75%+ of all my deaths are due to revenge bombers in planes and not due to tanks. That’s why I like this vehicle because the 14.5 really does a number on planes.
Fun fact: the movie where that Zhukov moment is from is actually inacurate. Its not that he has too many medals, he actually has less medals than irl because the director didnt think it would be belivable if they gave him the correct number
Also Spookston at the End: You can't do this to me , do you know much i sacrifice !
2:56 here we see teh infamous doom turtle, who often faces tortures to both track and barrel. Now fortune finding its favor, it track and barrels a youtuber for later consumption.
3:07 I find Soviet tanks fairly survivable. Their WWII heavies, in particular.
I can’t believe I got killed in a spookston video with a metal pipe falling sound effect to my death. Tis truly amazing
The metal pipe sound effect is now mandatory in your vids for our daily serototin intake.
This is my favorite TD tbh, I love the armor mg and gun, the lineup with 4 is2s and a t34-100 is so much fun
I wish Gaijin would watch your videos just to see and fix all the messed up problems in warthunder. you are one of the few who actually show it happen and its all too common of an occurrence for a competitive game.
That jumbo has mad respect from me.
spook you got me started playing this game about 2 weeks ago. I don't know if I should thank you or curse you.
Frustrating? 400 games, 65% wr, 125 air kills and 900 ground kills for a little over 300 deaths says otherwise.
Fucking love this tank. And most of this was done before the br changes.
Oh god. That Daimler at the start of the video was me.
i absolutely love this tank same with the 279, the Russian casemates are absolutely fun, but when i saw the 75 jumbo oneshot you like that, i just couldnt even begin to believe thats possible with such a low penning gun. if that happened to me i would just leave the game and eat a bucket of icecream at 2:46 AM.