The New Best Abrams
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Sorry if I seem a bit less enthusiastic than I usually do in these videos, was quite sick when I recorded this and really wasn't in the mood to play the game.
With update Danger Zone, Gaijin added the Australian M1A1 AIM to the American tech tree as a squadron vehicle. This means that any player, regardless of level, can buy their way into top tier. Not only that, but the M1A1 is one of if not the best M1 in War Thunder. Compared to the M1A2 it has a less potent round and no CITV, but I consider the AIM's superior gen 2 thermal sight to be more than a fair tradeoff. I think it's the only American MBT to have something besides gen 1 thermals, except for maybe the M60 AMBT.
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Ah yes, the most OP thing in the game.
Gaijin's massive incompetence.
& the wallet.
*GREED
@@CatWithAOpinion & Russian bias
Gaijin has actually gone and gave everyone a free Abrams, but the parts and FPE and general mods grind is still horrible. They're just mocking us at this point
Concidering that GEing squadron tanks is generally cheaper than a premium.. it's basically a free abrams
ironic
Glad I quit war thunder a while ago
@@jackgamer6307 but it doesn't have the premium multiplier
@@_invencible_ still much cheaper and faster than grinding through the whole American tree to reach the Abrams
@@_invencible_ Make money with the moffet, research with the XM-1
like everyone else
I'm excited to see Spookston getting closer to snapping and accepting that Gaijin genuinely want us to suffer because they think it's the most profitable strategy for this game and just start treating them like the buggers they are in his videos.
Gaijin is truly a trash company.
yo spoon king its me vtmc
I'm loving this live commentary, really shows u Spooskton isn't serious all the time. Lmao
Woah we have the same pfp
Most based pfp besides Gigachad.
One of my fav funny comments from spooskton was when he did the puma vid “I’m playing a FPS, they are playing survival horror”
@@Mister-Chief lmaoo, I just watched that vid lol. I remember that moment.
Dub PFP
can we take a moment for that player who pushed him into safety and sacrificed who knows amount of SL for his repair cost for him just to save him :D*
i think the M1 abrams? costs like 5 k? when your playing 9.0 and up its mostly not to make money
@@loganwalker8537 i think its just the stock model if it is fully spaded like my t80 BVM it would be a lot higher... T80 BVM already eats my SL in some matches.. i hope gaijin would do something about this absurd repair cost
@@apPaulpie BVM players have no right to complain about repair costs
I feel like he did not intend on dieing, but a heroic sacrifice just the same.
@@panzerkampfwagenviiimaus2187 T-10Macho is not 9k silver kitties for repair. While it was only 2.500
According to Gaijin, Russian MBTs use ammunition as armor, and it works really well. In real life, of course, we see how Russian MBTs use ammo as rocket fuel for launching their turrets into the stratosphere.
Honestly, russian mbts aren't badly designed, they were just designed for the cold war, not modern times, so let's just stop this joke
@@MaskFky no
@@audittlivereaction1964 no what
@@MaskFkyRussian tank turrets go whooooosh
Game is fucked
War Thunder has a huge problem with ammo hitting moving things. And I'm not talking about moving things relative to the ground, I'm talking about moving things relative to the center of mass of a vehicle.
I think this started with volumetric shells, but I'm not really sure. I just remember this issue appearing in about the same time frame.
How many times do I struck the turret bussel ammo rack or a rotating turret and it does nothing
How many times your round hit the very tip of a gun barrel while the turret is moving and the rounds just dissapear into oblivion without damaging the barrel at all ?
It's so often that I decided to test it myself : when I'm in a 1v1 fight, I mess up my shot and I know that My opponent has a shell in the breech before me (either because he didn't fire in the first place or he has a faster reload that I do), I just giggle the turret. It's not all the time, but pretty often, his shell will just do nothing because he hit somehting (the turret, or the gun) that was rotating while the shell hit it and the game just has a brain fart and deletes the shell)
I think this is why russian tanks are so resilient to ammo rack : contrary to NATO tanks that almost universaly have their biggest ammo rack in the hull, in a fixed position with sometimes the ready rack in the turret (There is exceptions to that, but for example, Type 90, Leclerc, Leopard 2 have this config (that can be kinda neglected by only taking the ammo neede to fill the ready rack)), In russian tanks, the main ammo stowage compartment is the carousel. And the carousel is moving with the turret, which is almost always rotating except is the dudes goes in a straight line and not moving his camera, or if he's shooting someone and has his gun locked on his target.
I don't know how this issue still hasn't been fixed, volumetric shells have been around for a long time already
No only with Russia vehicles they glorify them and then say that’s how they are in real life
no russian bias here tovarish )))))))))
That's why I always just aim for the turret ring first. It usually doesn't eat shots in my experience even when rotating. This will lock the turret still and probably kill half the turret crew, letting me aim my next shot on a non-moving turret.
@@cristobalalvarez5491 only american main said that, Russian tanks in game are super mediocre if you try it.
The comment does make a point.
This issue even applies to ZTZ96 & 99, & noone is glorifying it.
@@black_thunder2159 I don't know, I think the ZTZ tanks look kind of cool
5:20 I once made a post on reddit about why it there's no crew member operating the TOW, was told that it would be 'too easy to kill', dumbest shit I've ever heard since every other vehicle with a TOW launcher like that has a guy operating it.
uhh pretty sure it's because that's not how it works. iirc every crew member of the Wiesel 1A2 can perform all of their duties from *inside* the vehicle. Nobody has to stick their head out to fire. The TOW launcher is remotely operated
In some American tanks, I receive hits that cause my ammo to explode despite it not even being hit. Basically if any part of my tank is penned, it automatically caused ammo to explode despite it not being a part that was hit. Meanwhile, Russian tanks don't explode when their ammo is hit directly and even destroyed. The Russian bias is real.
russian bias has always been real. anyone who says it's not is trolling
Idk, in my case, when i get hit in the ammo in the autoloader, the ammo goes boom always. Maybe the guys in the vid had plot armour or smth like that.
@@_invencible_ When most people are talking about russian bias(T-34's KV's being OP, low repair costs, russian tanks catching rounds that should pen [volumetric], etc.), it's not real. But in cases like this one, it is very clear.
@@alexmaximus9134 like the opposite of a paid actor
@@katyusha1283 says someone who's username literally is katyusha. I'll take that with a grain of salt
something I noticed playing mainly russian MBT's is that the 125 mm create little to no spall even when penetrating frontal armor. And russian tanks are also eating shells in the ammo, mostly BVM's 80U's.
Thats because Russian MBTs were artifically modified to have zero spalling upon penetration by Gaijjin. They buffed all russian mbts after the M1 was added, for no discernable reason
Bruh
@@honkhonk8009 Yeah, Even when facing each-other The russian MBT's ammo rack creates no spalling, and doesnt detonate when destroyed most of the time, as I just tested it today. Smaller APFSDS's (anything under 90mm's), have had this issue for ever, I don't know why gaijin wont fix it but now it seems to effect all APFSDS. I hope it's just a bug and not a "feature".
For me a ammo shell gets yellowed and I’m instantly dead in t-72s and t-80s
@@honkhonk8009 "for no discernable reason"
yea spall lining and metal shields that protects ammo is totally not a reason
this is just russian bias
5:49 F in chat for the Abrams who pushed Spook to save him from the guy shooting his side while he was repairing/recrewing.
y'know i've noticed that the turms doesn't seem to enjoy the smae "invincible ammo" luxury as the tech tree russian top tier vehicles, i'm not complaining that it DOESN'T but i am curious as to why given that it could boost sales if it did and the tech tree ones (mostly) didn't.
It's syrian, that's why
@@alum202 that might actually be true... and that's worst part.
probably to boost russian winrates with out being able to be called p2w sellouts its my guess, the turms is already a great 9.7 great gun, good armor, literal gen 3 thermals, ok ish reload and the best part of russian tanks is that they dont need crew training to be viable within warthunder at top tier, auto loaders make it easy to where anyone can pick up a turms and be relatively competent in the fact of 9.0s but thats about it I just think its to not have the turms be a horrendous nightmare for the 8.7s out there that have to deal with them on a regular basis.
It’s a T-80 thing
@@BlackHawk21ification Yeah fr
Spooks, I'm surprised you didn't see the new changes, Gaijin removed the ability to ammo rack top tier Russian MBTs
The devs also have become more aggressive towards criticism so be careful not to get banned.
Full Russian bias move there.
Russian mbts on the battlefield: "a rock has collided with the ammo rack, our turret will now take a fantastic trip to the stratosphere".
Russian mbts in WT: "I see you have shot me 5 times, perhaps another shot will strike true".
Reason why i love War Thunder ~ i fired might 6 rockets from my stormer HVM into a enemy heli none of them hit even when they literally goes through the heli middle part under the blades.......
If i renember the distance was like 2,5km or something like that, and it was not just that situation cus i had simullar things happens when i was shooting Ka-50's
The premium Leo 2 and Challenger are signs that Gaijin's current business model is falling short, resorting to minimalist cosmetics rather than unique vehicles or variations.
I feel that the main target customers are the players that don't want to bother grinding top tier to get their favorite mbt, so instead of adding more niche or less known top tier vehicles they just go "Hey, if you gives us money you can play the abrums, leopard 2 or challenger right now". I hope that gunner heat pc releases soon so tank enthusiasts can play modern tanks without having to choose between paying 60 bucks for one tank or grind for like 1000 hours
@@ougioshino6940 GHPC is only gonna stay within the scope of 1970s-80s AFVs (only vehicles in service anyway) so it may not be the type of era some people are interested in
that being said i'm sure most people who got WT for the modern tanks only care that it's an Abrams or Leopard 2
thats actually a real thing with the back deck depression, a real abrams doesn’t allow full depression in the rear goes into a mode that protects main gun from hitting
How is there a literal war going on showcasing the shittiness of Russian armor and yet they seem invincible in the videos you put up.
He literally got gaijined two times, one shot like ten t72 alike tanks and proceeded to say they're broken
Aren't they getting killed by atgms
@@faustoreyna8096 javelins mostly, from what I know so yes, but also worth pointing out that that’s a top attack missile so it takes the path of least resistance so to speak.
Gotta say the amount of excitement I feel when these videos get released is unparalleled 🙏
3:16 When the Russia Bias is so bad that even Spookston broke character lmao
muh freebrams
badgjur
M1A2 is still better, I'd say. The M829A2's reliable spall is irreplicable with any other APFSDS shell in-game.
Man Spookston is one of the most Chill war thunder players and RUclipsr, it's very hard to make him angry
no hes probably very angry at the game inside
Can confirm. I’ve been in Australia for 3 months and haven’t seen a single kangaroo, but those goofy looking birds are everywhere.
gotta head out into the outback or outskirts. For us here in WA, there’s a SHIT LOAD down south in Margaret River, it’s a driving hazard. Kangaroos are one of the biggest reasons why you see bull bars on every fourth car here in Australia, they deal some serious damage if you’re highway cruising and you hit one at 110km/h
You've been in Australia for three months and spent the whole time in cities? Get out there man, no one should be coming to Australia and missing out on the nature.
@@MisterFoxton Nature is scary, I saw a spider as big as my hand.
it seems like playing the m1a1 aim is the experience that us players used to have when the m1a2 just came out
like its going up against the same tanks as the a2 did when it released
As an Australian it is great to see that Spookston has heard of the famous Bin Chicken or Ibis as it is known. He probably saw the Bin Chicken song on youtube!
Respect to TheOneBunnyBoi at 5:45, despite the name, the greatest of heroes was he.
i was actually dying laughing when i saw that, what a hero
Bro,Props to that Abrams who pushed you to safety!
Now that technically is a free abrams...
3:24 That is what some call "Russian Bias".It i time you stop being in denial,Spook.
Say, Spookston, have you heard the Dev’s response to Russian MBTs not ammo racking? They claim that Russia coats their ammunition in *diesel*, thereby allowing the classification of it being “Wet Storage”.
Ah yes, the flammable liquid coating an explosive charge should not go off when hit with almost molten steel. I’m sure the crew enjoy huffing fuel fumes all day long inside an enclosed space.
I sure wish the community could make decisions on what happens in the game
As someone who grinded till top tier I’m glade I did as their is a lot I’ve learned from lower tiers that if I bought into top tier I never would have learned
Today I saw a level 8 with this tank in ground rb... this explains the win rate rn
I know, old video but i reckon having purchasable top tiers is a good thing, like me, that has played the game for 1k hours and still doesnt have any 11.0's can choose to play that rank if i really really want to. That and it keeps the tiers alive for that reason
5:50 teammate of the decade
5:50 "Get down, Mr. Spookston!"
On that t80B you hit ammo and it didn't blow up. It isn't really a bug or anything but when the t80 (and maybe t72 idk) carries less ammo than what fills the autoloader some of the shells just don't explode even though the ammo is still there on the xray
"YOU CANT KEEP GETTING AWAY WITH THIS!!!"
4:07 it's almost like it's a feature
It's actually fun when you have all upgrades for it and you play reckless while also having a great feild of view
5:50 that mans sacrifice shall not go in vain
Love the Command and Conquer Generals music in the background.
Can we just talk about the guy who tried to push him into cover at the cost of his own life instead of just shooting the tank. That guy is the hero of special Ed he's basically forest Gump
Good to see more of my countries tanks in the game tbh
One tank that I love using now, even with it getting moved up from 9.3 to 9.7 is the Radkampfwagen 90. Wouldn't mind a video on it.
5:52 a true hero
This problem could litteraly be solved if gaijin made the vehicle requirement needed to access a certain rank apply to buying premiums and squad vehicles as well
Gaijin need to change how Squadron vehicles work. Squadron vehicles should unlock ONLY when you have that tier unlocked in a tech tree. So for the Leo 2 PL and M1A1 Aim. They only unlock when you've unlocked 10.7 on a tech tree OR they allow you to research the squadron vehicle but don't allow you to purchase it until you've gotten to that tier.
Bought this immediately, been thinking about getting all the abrams so this was the perfect drop. the AIM is fkn amazing!
IT IS AN IBIS SIR NOT A BIN CHICKEN
I feel like they did something to the spalling. I use the 3BM42 and i forgot when was the last time i one shoted somone from the side. Spookston we need an investigation
I was thinking about coming back to War Thunder, but this video warned me.
Same. Except worse because I wouldn't have spaded tanks to play in. If I ever have that desire to play I remember what 8.0+ is like with stock HEATFS and no parts.
it would have taken me two years to unlock KE-W.
It took me two months because I bought it.
I love this tank, i loved it when I first got it, but i am now addicted to it
aw hell yea more command and conquer soundtrack!
im getting real strong muh free abrumz vibes from this
5:45 The real friend
That other Abrams that pushes you behind the building and sacrificed himself is a legend
i regret to inform you that the gun depression on the abrams is indeed accurate the system wont allow you to depress any further to prevent barrel strikes to the rear engine deck
I can't really fault players for buying top tier tanks, it's really annoying but those are the coolest tanks and the grind to get them normally is soul crushing
I really liked this gameplay video because it's sounds like a one sided therapy session
Fucking love the C&C background music !
For vehicles to cover. I recommend playing the T-26 Super Pershing now that they set it to 6.7
Hey at least we get our free Abrams finally
I'm questioning if trees should despawn at all.
5:51 he sacrificed himself to save you
As an Australian wt player I am happy that this is a premium tank especially since the Australian military use it, now I want the AsLAV but that'll be years for gaijin to make that happen
As an aussie im happy the tanks in the game, love the comment bout the bin chicken. Having played star citizen makes me laugh when people say WT is broken. Keep up the good work and love the vids.
5:50 there goes my hero, watch him as he goes
As an Australian I'm still definitely happy to get this, but I'm not paying for it! I'll wait out the research.
ahh...tree...the bane of my existence, as much as i love using them as cover but they also block 90% of my view and kill me cuz i didnt see where the tank is located as i know i heard their engine there
that "DONK" sound tho lol
video idea: if the Type 74 was historically accurate (tho idk if the Type 74 is interesting enough to cover it in a video)
My man putting destiny music in the intro
I miss the kill montages
I remember when they artificially nerfed the ammo rack on the T-series.. it was very very obvious.
(Multiple ammo bits turning black but not blowing up.)
This is the best Abrams in game because of it's thermals
6:53 I mean, you did just smack multiple light vehicles previously with that same lightweight APFSDS shot, and it did little to nothing. What do you think a kinetic penetrator that relies *solely on an abundance of armor to do damage* will do to a helicopter, something that is mainly empty space?
It literally doesn't matter. A helicopter controls it's direction with it's rear rotor. If the rear rotor is gone, you just lost all control, and should spin around like a fidget spinner on an air compressor. But in WT? It's fine. They can even deplete all their missile stores before going down!
@@alreadyblack3341 Yes, and you think the shot will be able to take out a small rod in one of the most empty parts of the helicopter? Again, it's already simulated for when your tail rotor mechanisms are hit, and if it is you completely lose control of it. And yes, hi entirely missed it while firing a KINETIC MUNITION made for COMPOSITE ARMOR.
@@TheArcticFoxxo
6:42
Watch it again buddy, he didn't entirely miss it, lol.
You can see clearly in the footage that it has a tail rotor before he shoots it. He shoots it, gets a critical hit, and the next time we an see it clearly it has no tail rotor. And it was dumping all of it's missiles, IN A DAMN NEAR STRAIGHT STRAFE.
Unless the helicopter is flying sideways to screw with how it's perceived, and yet it's still firing it's rockets at the direction it was going right before it was shot.
"Yes, and you think the shot will be able to take out a small rod in one of the most empty parts of the helicopter?"
At that point, it doesn't matter. The immense force of a 120MM round, regardless of type, will shear clean through any plating mounted on a helicopter and take large chunks along with it. Would HE of any variation be a better solution? Yes, but again, it's a 120MM round.
In much the same way a shotgun slug does to the human chest cavity, you have a very soft and thin surface for a very dense and fast projectile to smash into. And you think it's going to just hold because it'd over-penetrate?
"Again, it's already simulated for when your tail rotor mechanisms are hit, and if it is you completely lose control of it."
And yet the amount of times I've seen "uncontrollable" helicopters still kill multiple tanks in a row, and a few times seen helicopters flying without tail rotors, is 1 too many.
But it's all simulated, right?
"And yes, hi entirely missed it..."
At least don't lie to my face when the video is just a scroll upwards, man.
They should just give you the option to select an era to start in (ww2, cold war, modern war) since a lot of people, me included aren't in the mood to grind 1 year on one nation branch to get to modern vehicles when i can just go play some other game with accurate tank mechanics and don't have to grind through hours and hours of tanks to get to them.
but how is Gaijin supposed to make money off of borderline fake premium vehicles if you don't have the obligation to buy them
yer not wrong about the bin chickens lmao
3:23 Ironic that this is coming from an HSTVL fan.
The *REAL* _FREE ABRAMS™_ by Gaijin Entertainment®
AUSSIE AUSSIE AUSSIE OIOIOI
About the gun Depression over the back of the tank, when the leopard is in stab Mode than ist limited to +5 degrees that's actually a thing in real life
I can't wait for gijin to grow the BALLS to remove microtransactions and make their fucking game $70.
People forget that at the end of the day gaijin needs to make money because it’s a free to play game
love these small gameplays
2:02 there are alost certain bushes that are machinegun proof. i blast them with 50cal and they dont fall over... its gotten me killed plenty of times
1AR Bonecrusher skin or die, Spook (big up my brothers in the AIM SA's, straya gang strong)
3:38 that is ussr bias my lad, something you denied exists like 1 year ago or something, well here you are
I miss the days usa and nato counties whould own top tier before turms and squadrons where a thing 😢
Its practically an M1A1 HC, they always release the tank as basically broken or stronger then nerf them later
"you saw the ammo destroyed". You hit not the powder, but the round itself, which would probably be just kinetic rounds all around the carousel, so if the spall doesn't ignite ammo on the floor, then.. what should happen ?
From what I’m seeing he’s shooting at T-80’s and their carousel has the powder sitting vertically and the shell sitting underneath horizontally. So spook is right to bitch here those tanks should have gone up.
Test driving for days
Gun depression limits that gaijin put is dumb. Take the Leo 2a4 and the Vickers mk7 for example, both use the same chassis, but only one can fully depress it's gun while aiming backwards
Oh fuck he knows about the Bin Chickens
my dumbass tried to click "rewards not collected" and then paused the vid instead and i was just like wow, i slow
I feel like gaijin decided to do a gaijin moment, its like no armor best armor logic from steelguru
I am entirely disappointed with the lack of entire M1A1 AIM teams. I usually see 2 maybe 3 per match, meanwhile on USSR it's TURMS-T Teams for days
Muhfreebrums