The Soviets knew that the war would over long before they'd get the t-44 mass produced. So Stalin said - "IS-2 and T-34 are good enough to get the job done, we will stick with those until Hitler geht kaputt"
It such a refresher from other content creators when I see you having fun in a random game with community members. Out of all the content creators communities I have joined yours is the nicest, friendliest, and most help I have ever seen. You should be proud of the great community you have created and awesome videos you make. We love you Justin!
The Merkava is my favorite tank as well! I'm waiting for the tech tree to be released so I can start grinding and you videos have been helpful insight on what is to come, thank you! 👍
I think that the lights are hitting the tank from all directions and because of that there are no shadows except below the tank as the light can not get under it that well, that happens in real life too.
WT doesnt have real dinamic global illumination. The engine doesnt know how to handle the so called "Night shadows" and that what is causing those shadow artifacts.
True like M1A2 has unpenetrable cheeks even by top shells same with Leos Lecrercs Challies evenT series but Merks and Arietes get paper armor even tho they are top tier and not light weight mbts like Type 10... if armor is classified they can make random numbers on these tanks but choose to make some of them shit for some reason
@@einar8019 Actually the merkava uses Slera on the armor department. That's a mixture of NERA that Leopards use etc with ERA that you see a lot in russian tanks. So yes, it should be able to Withstand APFSDS at least in the turret, like the leo or the abrams.
I get shot through the thickest part of the turret every second game from every distance, you can occasionally let a round or two bounce but if you opponent knows kinda where he has to shoot, you’re one shoted easily. -7 depression and the fact that you’re bigger than 2 t80bvm‘s put on top of another make the rest of the - for me - reasons to not play it. I spend money to get to the mk4m bc I’m such a fan of those vehicles and I waited months for the update in pure agony 🤣 but I really regret it and I could talk for pages on why I’m upset over the merkava 4 tanks…
i really like the tanks design, but holy is it garbage compared to the Russian and German MBT's, it has literally 0 protection against darts, which is by far the most common ammo you will encounter at top tier
@@BryanPlaysAlot I think it’s not particularly the design, it’s more the values that gaijin gave it which makes it crap. I mean you definitely should bounce every apfsds flying from 0 degree angle towards your turret, no matter if you shoot center or high or even low. It had about ~700-800ish mm of protection against KE in the Test server (correct me if I’m wrong) which was perfectly fine. And the protection against chemical warheads is also pretty much none if you play the 4B. The APS of the 4M is also sometimes pretty inconsistent, I really often die to frontal shots by Russian Heat-fs. Not to mention the khrizantema rockets, they are an overkill anyway even if they shoot the tandem warheads they just have to touch you somewhere and your whole crew dies magically just out of respect for Russia…
@@BryanPlaysAlot they are garbage since Gaijin cares only for Russian Tanks so... Also they have badly modeled both hull and turret armor, since the Merkava doesn't have a common NERA on the hull and the turret should have more KE protection. But what we can do when the NERA KE value is less than fabric rubber? (Check the forum section about Israel, i'm waiting for a possible buff or fix to play the MK4s but i've little hope for that ...)
That's a freaking beautiful surprise, keep up the good work my king! 👊 By the way, big congrats on 40k subs, I truly hope you get to reach 100k and maybe even more this year, you deserve it!
I don’t think there is anything cringe about what you said - IF Israel and Syria engaged in a modern tank battle - The Merkava and Turms would go head to head - great video and amazing first game!
The turret armor needs a major buff and some on the hull. The reload rate also needs to be same with western MBTs. Legit the same 120mm gun, same blow out Panel placement. Unless it was a trash autoloader, which it doesn’t have it. It only has a rotational ammo feed behind the blow out panels that connect to the secondary ammo loads
i kinda can see why they did the reload time 6.7 but as a merkava 4 former loader they train you all the time to do less then 6 sooooo idk i guess they can improve it.
Fun fact those two rounds behind the engine bay are stored in armored cells that are fire proof... And obliviously none put those rounds irl operations with these tanks..
Justin, the reason why there's no shadows is because of those flood lights pointing in all directions pretty much, seen it on construction sites the lights around just I guess simply cancel out the shadows cast from the other lights hence why you see them underneath
@justinPlays. Can you talk about the germany Puma witch is 9.0 is first then the TAM, 8.7 on the tech tree and that its wrong placed. Its weird since ive seen it and im trynna get the begle. TY
i really like the tanks design, but holy is it garbage compared to the Russian and German MBT's, it has literally 0 protection against darts, which is by far the most common ammo you will encounter
I tried grinding isreal to get the mk4 but the premium merkava is so bad in my opinion purely because of fire power, 9.0 with M111 is so bad especially since my luck is so bad I get uptierd every dang time so I'm just a giant paper tank for T-80B and turms
Lmaoo, the merk mk2d is amazing, as a 7 year warthunder vetran i love it, yes the round is lacking but its pretty much aim at weakspots like almost every other tank.
You gotta remember that the russian armor is kinda broken aswell, the ERA on the TURMS is acting like relikt at the moment and is stopping kinetic rounds so that might be why your struggling, but you just gotta aim for the weak spots, that front sprocket when its facing you just of centre from the front, or the lower glacis on the T72 is an insta kill so just play smart. And remember it could always be worse, you could be using a Leo 1 with actual paper armor😂
@@MiG21fanboy Amazing? You lack armor,speed and penetration power. Armor only works against idiots who doesnt know where to shoot and even if they dont know but have powerful ammo you’ll be most likely dead. The only good thing about this tank is the 40 degree horizontal speed. Btw bein 7 years of veteran at this game doesnt prove anything, i saw many plebs even tho they joined 5+ years ago.
Here we have top tier players making derp faces for their tanks and i try my damndest to make my tanks look immersive enonugh with decals and camos to look realistic
Can you do a video on the centurion mk 5 AVRE. I really enjoy bonking people in it. I almost got a nuke, i had 2000 spawn points. I would like to see what you think of it
Still waiting for a major fix or buff to the Mk4s armor😓 But probably it's never gonna to happen, too bad i've grinded the whole Israeli tree for using two cardboard tanks against Stalinium or Putinium tanks...
1 death leave...well tbf, the 1st game map is a hit or miss, u either do so well in it or extremely bad in it so it best to quit now and save ur silver lion, it not worth it
7:36 The T-44 was actually developed and tested during WW2, the only reason it wasn’t used was due to the T-34-85 being easier to produce.
The Soviets knew that the war would over long before they'd get the t-44 mass produced. So Stalin said - "IS-2 and T-34 are good enough to get the job done, we will stick with those until Hitler geht kaputt"
It such a refresher from other content creators when I see you having fun in a random game with community members. Out of all the content creators communities I have joined yours is the nicest, friendliest, and most help I have ever seen. You should be proud of the great community you have created and awesome videos you make. We love you Justin!
>gets bullied in cap
>drops a nuke on them
best revenge so far
the ready magazine is sort of semi-automatic. it is meant to dispense a gunner/commander selected round to the loader.
The Merkava is my favorite tank as well! I'm waiting for the tech tree to be released so I can start grinding and you videos have been helpful insight on what is to come, thank you! 👍
I can just imagine the amount of heat the driver must endure by sitting right next to the engine block
We have an air conditioner that we attach to our suit
In winter the driver’s compartment is one of the best places to sleep in.
@@zeromarker what if the AC gets damaged? Is it still possible to drive without a refrigerated suit?
@@alanhoff89 Yes.
At the end you get used to it.
you have a fan too that helps
@@alanhoff89
He was reversing so much this video I thought he was playing a French tank
I think that the lights are hitting the tank from all directions and because of that there are no shadows except below the tank as the light can not get under it that well, that happens in real life too.
Not quite so in WT I believe, especially when Flares are out in night games, its incredibly inconsistent. But its better than a pitch black game!
WT doesnt have real dinamic global illumination. The engine doesnt know how to handle the so called "Night shadows" and that what is causing those shadow artifacts.
@@d_daniel6263 Wonder if they'll ever add raytraced lighting
@@invalidcreations That'd worsen the already bad performance by a significant amount.
I'd love some more Challenger 2 or Leclerc gameplay.
They need to buff the armor on Merkavas they arebreally lacking in protection.
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True like M1A2 has unpenetrable cheeks even by top shells same with Leos Lecrercs Challies evenT series but Merks and Arietes get paper armor even tho they are top tier and not light weight mbts like Type 10... if armor is classified they can make random numbers on these tanks but choose to make some of them shit for some reason
@@jPlanerv2 ariete is paper irl, merk isnt that armoured either(against KE) and you would need sources to get the armour changed
@@einar8019 Actually the merkava uses Slera on the armor department. That's a mixture of NERA that Leopards use etc with ERA that you see a lot in russian tanks. So yes, it should be able to Withstand APFSDS at least in the turret, like the leo or the abrams.
Congrats on 40k subs bro, keep up the good work😎👍🏻
I get shot through the thickest part of the turret every second game from every distance, you can occasionally let a round or two bounce but if you opponent knows kinda where he has to shoot, you’re one shoted easily.
-7 depression and the fact that you’re bigger than 2 t80bvm‘s put on top of another make the rest of the - for me - reasons to not play it.
I spend money to get to the mk4m bc I’m such a fan of those vehicles and I waited months for the update in pure agony 🤣 but I really regret it and I could talk for pages on why I’m upset over the merkava 4 tanks…
i really like the tanks design, but holy is it garbage compared to the Russian and German MBT's, it has literally 0 protection against darts, which is by far the most common ammo you will encounter at top tier
@@BryanPlaysAlot I think it’s not particularly the design, it’s more the values that gaijin gave it which makes it crap. I mean you definitely should bounce every apfsds flying from 0 degree angle towards your turret, no matter if you shoot center or high or even low. It had about ~700-800ish mm of protection against KE in the Test server (correct me if I’m wrong) which was perfectly fine.
And the protection against chemical warheads is also pretty much none if you play the 4B. The APS of the 4M is also sometimes pretty inconsistent, I really often die to frontal shots by Russian Heat-fs.
Not to mention the khrizantema rockets, they are an overkill anyway even if they shoot the tandem warheads they just have to touch you somewhere and your whole crew dies magically just out of respect for Russia…
@@BryanPlaysAlot they are garbage since Gaijin cares only for Russian Tanks so...
Also they have badly modeled both hull and turret armor, since the Merkava doesn't have a common NERA on the hull and the turret should have more KE protection.
But what we can do when the NERA KE value is less than fabric rubber? (Check the forum section about Israel, i'm waiting for a possible buff or fix to play the MK4s but i've little hope for that ...)
@@Sh-epard same
That's a freaking beautiful surprise, keep up the good work my king! 👊 By the way, big congrats on 40k subs, I truly hope you get to reach 100k and maybe even more this year, you deserve it!
I don’t think there is anything cringe about what you said - IF Israel and Syria engaged in a modern tank battle - The Merkava and Turms would go head to head - great video and amazing first game!
The turret armor needs a major buff and some on the hull. The reload rate also needs to be same with western MBTs. Legit the same 120mm gun, same blow out Panel placement. Unless it was a trash autoloader, which it doesn’t have it. It only has a rotational ammo feed behind the blow out panels that connect to the secondary ammo loads
i kinda can see why they did the reload time 6.7 but as a merkava 4 former loader they train you all the time to do less then 6 sooooo idk i guess they can improve it.
also, the merkava 4 can fire LAHAT missiles in real life (laser guided I think).
Fun fact those two rounds behind the engine bay are stored in armored cells that are fire proof... And obliviously none put those rounds irl operations with these tanks..
there's light's all around it. the only shadow you'd see is under the tank
Justin, the reason why there's no shadows is because of those flood lights pointing in all directions pretty much, seen it on construction sites the lights around just I guess simply cancel out the shadows cast from the other lights hence why you see them underneath
GG, that nuke game was fun!
Was waiting for this video since the update came out happy it did tho keep it up Justin 💯💯
Cant wait for the russian T-90M! Been my fav looking tank irl
I really love her look as well. Especially the nets under her cheeks. But I expect T72B3M to appear before her
Is Merkava still under BETA test? I don't think Gaijin correctly modelled its armor yet.
Gaijin doesn't model armor correctly in general.
that was a best clutch
15:44 Well Israel literally fought Soviet/Russian weaponry then most western nations, Pretty logical.
I think the next big vehicle I’m impatient and excited for is the MIG-29
Indestructible? With the engine and the fuel tank sitting on the front?
Alright.
WOW Justin that first game...
Type 10 merkava4, i only need bmpt t90m ztz99a and leopard2e to be very happy
"We can't afford to pay 30k sl for full lin up in top tier so we gonna play with 1 tank only"~WT player
yo dad, jus came across this channel. It’s been a long time, miss u dad, hope you’re doin well
@justinPlays. Can you talk about the germany Puma witch is 9.0 is first then the TAM, 8.7 on the tech tree and that its wrong placed. Its weird since ive seen it and im trynna get the begle. TY
i really like the tanks design, but holy is it garbage compared to the Russian and German MBT's, it has literally 0 protection against darts, which is by far the most common ammo you will encounter
funny how the t44 ate the 600mm pen and the only thing u took is his track xD
Bro there are spotlights shining on it from the side.
The sun is over the horizon and there are spotlight. Of course the shadow is underneath 🤣
Wich differences between Merkava4 Baz and Merkava4 LIC variants ?
I tried grinding isreal to get the mk4 but the premium merkava is so bad in my opinion purely because of fire power, 9.0 with M111 is so bad especially since my luck is so bad I get uptierd every dang time so I'm just a giant paper tank for T-80B and turms
Lmaoo, the merk mk2d is amazing, as a 7 year warthunder vetran i love it, yes the round is lacking but its pretty much aim at weakspots like almost every other tank.
You gotta remember that the russian armor is kinda broken aswell, the ERA on the TURMS is acting like relikt at the moment and is stopping kinetic rounds so that might be why your struggling, but you just gotta aim for the weak spots, that front sprocket when its facing you just of centre from the front, or the lower glacis on the T72 is an insta kill so just play smart. And remember it could always be worse, you could be using a Leo 1 with actual paper armor😂
Sounds like a skill issue. M111 is perfectly fine for 9.0.
@@murkser4149 at 9.0 its kinda meh as its an 8.3 round, but with the merkava's survivability its alright
@@MiG21fanboy Amazing?
You lack armor,speed and penetration power.
Armor only works against idiots who doesnt know where to shoot and even if they dont know but have powerful ammo you’ll be most likely dead.
The only good thing about this tank is the 40 degree horizontal speed.
Btw bein 7 years of veteran at this game doesnt prove anything, i saw many plebs even tho they joined 5+ years ago.
Here we have top tier players making derp faces for their tanks and i try my damndest to make my tanks look immersive enonugh with decals and camos to look realistic
i'd like to war with you if there is real war, just feels positive vibe
M1128 Stryker when?
Man, I love the Merkava by a lot
M322 is the CL round so pretty pointless to nerf it if the merks get a better shell anyway
i mean the shell was overperforming compared to what it should pen
the type 10's fuel for some reason likes to blow up, and that thing is already bad as it is.
Can you do a video on the centurion mk 5 AVRE. I really enjoy bonking people in it. I almost got a nuke, i had 2000 spawn points. I would like to see what you think of it
So cool of you to cap one point on stalingrad then rush our spawn with all your PUMA teammates
Yes, that is entirely my fault that the PUMAs rushed your spawn. Please use other outlets to vent your frustration rather than my videos.
@@JustinPlaysTV Alright I'm sorry. Just annoying
@@bigolbrainworm219 I fully understand. Seeing them be braindead and immediately rush the spawn left me with no choice but to follow
@@JustinPlaysTV I don't think I have ever seen that many hostile markers in my spawn before lol
is this a custom skin?
why does that get m338 when the strv 122 cant even get m322
The Strv. 122s have the best armor of any MBT currently in game.
Still waiting for a major fix or buff to the Mk4s armor😓
But probably it's never gonna to happen, too bad i've grinded the whole Israeli tree for using two cardboard tanks against Stalinium or Putinium tanks...
We can say you merk the enemy team the first match
If you want something fun to do use the Katyusha at 5.3+ XD overpressure make it OP i even blond killed a Abrams in one tap lol
Where be my bluest of tonks sir! D:
Bonk
You already booli him on stream, you need to do this here too? Dayum.
@@raizencore Yes! I also Booli him in Discord! >:D
1 death leave...well tbf, the 1st game map is a hit or miss, u either do so well in it or extremely bad in it so it best to quit now and save ur silver lion, it not worth it
Please help with the M551 and the M60A2 :D
Keep forgetting i have aps
Not watched the vid yet, going to assume he eats hella rounds in that op ass tank
Pretty much!
EQ pls
🇬🇧🇬🇧♥️♥️🇮🇱🇮🇱
U are overreacting, man chill a bit, u gonna live longer
I won’t lie the merkava is the easiest mbt to kill