FCM was my first heavy tank after unlocking all the lights in the game and wanting a fast premium medium (shh, it's a medium), and I absolutely loved it for at least a couple years. By the time the accuracy nerf happened, it was already mediocre as hell due to literally being a worse version of same-tier mediums in almost every stat. Then suddenly accuracy nerf made the gun handling feel 100 times worse, and now it's just painful to play for me. Now I only bother playing it when I have prem time, credit reserve, AND really need money, so it's actually worth it. But even then I only play it while my M41 goydog is in battle.
Well, judging from WG policy for the last few years, the patterns seems to be... buy a premium, wait for power creep and buy a new premium recently introduced to be competitive.
Unfortunately people will buy anything that the devs will put on the market therefore this pattern will unfortunately continue until it stops making WG money.
LOL!!! I share your frustration SF..... I spent a fortune buying this beast, absolutely loved tooning up with mate who also had one and was looking forward to seeing it buffed with the HD update. I should have known that it would get castrated.... can't have special matchmaking tank have any meaningful improvement. Thanks, as always for the no BS review.
Great video as always. Maybe make a video. Comparing all the tier 8 premiums, what to buy for fun/credits. Like i have is-6 and Fcm, and i like to play my IS-6 but i find i make way more credits per game in my Fcm because i tend to shoot to much gold in my IS-6 to make it work.
I agree with the statements 100%. Back then I loved this tank but it got stealth-nerfed and the difference was instantly noticeable when I played it, now the tank is just trash. But of course another russian premium heavy (257) is on it's way now, so hey, nice job comrade!
In the past 3 years , I have play the T-34-3 and the FCM a lot . And I found out that after the buff the T-34-3 is just a much better premium tank then the FCM . Although the T-34-3 have a much worse aiming time and accuracy , that gun actually have a quite nice handling. And of course , FCM's camo sucks most of the time and get arty every time .
I just love the t44-100. I rather play that one in tier 10 than an is6 i tier 9. You make so much money! Would I have bought it for full prize? No way. But it sure was worth the two tokens I had to buy. KV-5 is hillarious too now. You should review that one (it wont prob. be sold again but who knows). It will all be laughs and pawnage. I dont drive that one for the silver though, just for the joy of stomping poor players and enjoying life. :)
Ola Justin I feel bad for either the newbies getting stomped by kv5 or the kv5 driver for getting wrecked by my t32. R.I.P battalions of radioooerators.
Jurek Dekarski Well, its situational. As long as you dont load skill ammo I might bounce a lot more than you think. =) Since the buff it now got silly armor but you can never stand still in the kv5 and that makes ppl bounce so much its just hilarious. =) But good players will pen and its a slow machine so its still restricted to its uses of course. But its fun to take it out once in a while and hope for reds and yellows and to be top tier. =)
Couldn't believe they buffed the R2D2 to 140mm armor, but as a KV-5 driver, it makes me happy at the same time. Would have preferred they buff the ground resistances instead, though. A faster, more nimble KV-5 would be so much fun.
FCM is my only tier 8 premium tank. Cunning plan to train AMX autoloader crews. Guess I'm screwed. No intention to pay 40 euros for powercreep. Come on Wargaming, give the FCM some lurrrve.
I think special MM still means a lot. Not fighting trier10s means a lot. Plus the some armor it gets is usefull for bullying lower trier meds. It's a frustrating tank for sure but it is better for wining games just because of MM.
Could you do a new video about the M46 Patton? It was red in your list and i could buy it but i wasn't sure wether this would be a good idea. RIP 50T, got it myself and i don't like to play it, mostly due to the gun which cheats on me too often.
go look for M46 on RUclips and you will find more than enough awesome and epic replays. M46 basically is the best and most versatile T9 med there is. good DPM, epic gunhandling and depression, awesome viewrange and good mobility. only downside is the 218 pen which u can compensate with 265 apcr pen
Wargaming knew they would be releasing a new premium French heavy so they nerfed the FCM into the ground without adding it to game notes so that FCM owners would ditch the tank and buy the new premium. They are just worried about money like always. As long as they are making a profit, everything is working as intended.
Can you make a video about the firefly, because I thing it's an amazing tank with it's gun, it's hull is nothing impressive and rather slow but that makes it also a great firing on the move tank!
They did "Buff" it,and by buff,I mean give it a bunch of stupid useless bullshit,which,the ONLY good thing from that joke is the GD,because 80 fucking shells it can TOTALLY fire all of in a match,Right? Spent 3k games on that hunk of garbage,one of the best players on the server in it,and I can say the T34 is an all-round better purchase. (Doesnt help that ShillPhantom keeps saying its good,and the fucking droolies believe him to the end)
Johnny Rockmax Yeah, they gave it GUN ELEVATION, so tomatoes standing in the middle of el haluf can pretend to be arty Man I love that company. I really do.
Funny thing is CDC has same shitty hull traverse/moving dispersions and even worse turret traverse dispersion, and Baguette is also faster(which affects dispersion). So yeah same gun on medium tank actually handles slightly worse than on heavy despite hard stats telling you otherwise. Just WG being WG.
I don't think that the buff to the conqueror really ended up moving the needle much, on corridor maps you have a giant juicy hull to penetrate, and then on open maps you're a giant arty magnet. Turret armor buff just allowed it to have more of a niche, the open map artyless games.
BigPrank Gaming and 10 degrees of gun depression. Combine that with decent peek-a-boo abilities and you have a very good ridge/hull down fighter. 212 pen is good if not very good for a tier 8 medium. It's mobile enough to go places and retreat/flex if needed. It has enough armor on the turret to not get penned by most HE shells (unlike the CDC). It's not an object 140 in terms of carrying potential but it has some potential in contrary to many other premiums.
Cyclopath He made it official on Mingles with Jingles last week. Rita's followers might have gotten the news earlier, because she had apparently shown the ring in the stream.
FCM used to be my favorite premium as well, have over 1000 battles on mine but powercreap really made it lose its apeal... for money making i only play the skorpion now, no point im playing anything else really
Wait for the T26E5, seriously. The T34 is about as bad as the Lowe which says enough. This new heavy tank will be vastly superior to the T34 in almost every way.
Krzysztof Dudek Well no, not entirely similar because your gun hits for 400 damage and you have good gun depression. But the problem is that it's prety much just as slow as the Lowe, has outdated DPM (1600 while all new premiums have ~2000DPM) and has generally just been powercreeped.
Cobra6 Gaming Thank you a lot for the explanation! I think I'll wait for the new heavy tank to come out. Until then I'll focus to train Soviet med crew on Rudy for the time being hah.
The ONLY reason to buy a T34 instead of T26E5 is that T34 can be bought for gold on 15% sale every now and then. So if you have tons of gold lying around, then why not. If you don't have gold lying around, there is absolutely no reason to buy T34.
I gotta say you saved me from buying this tank. I really want a French heavy crew trainer so I guess I'll wait for the AMX 1949. And instead get either a T34 or maybe a t54 mod 1.
honestly depends on your playstyle and how an experienced player you are. T 54 mod 1 is very noob friendly, and even better in the hands of a good player. But STA-2 is better than T54 mod 1 due to its mobility and flexibility regarding gun depression and gun handling. I can't recommend m4A1 rev. I haven't tried CDC but i reckon its something like STA-2 but faster although bigger and worse armor. I'd reckon STA-2 is best out of all of them.
Blessiade Well I'm on the Chi to for the japanese meds but I have mostly tier 9 mediums like the 46 patton, t54, and e50 so I have some experience playing mediums but the 54 mod 1 seems so epic.
Pholiage Yeah ! I m running in my m41 walker bulldog at 72 kph ! Its so fast arty can never ge..... BOOOOMMMMMM , oneshoted ! Its was my falt , I was camping in the front lines doing zig zag at 72 kph ...
Brad Rolim didnt u know arty has 5% rng? Where all other tanks have 25% RNG. also 45-48% arty players even have 3% RNG. It feels that way. 72kph moving zigzag hit on the move by arty with a reticle as HUGE as a skyscraped. Made me wonder if they truly have 5% RNG/dispersion. I have more horseshit RNG on my 140 than arty players have most of the time..
French 90mm HE shells are terrible for use against arty. I've noticed that as well in my CDC, you'll never pen those. It's much better to just shoot AP
FCM was a bit too strong. I think it just fits in better and as you stated it yourself: it's still a good tank but not the best. "Buhuu!" The thing I am more concerned about when it comes to the powercreep is that more and more tanks tend to be played the same. And to be honest: I think the FCM started this trend.
WG has compensated the preferential mm by allways putting me in bad teams. I cant remember when I was in a team with better win% than 35% last time... but im not bitter.;)
me to I get that a lot in all my prm tank in my fcm it me and some t7 ht . and tham it is6 is3 is3 is3 and some t7 ht and on a city map and its a 35% rig mm at its best
They buffed other tanks because they could not fuck with fcm 50t pref MM, so WG tought:" hey lets screw our customers who pay our sallary by screwing with the money they spent and make they're prem tanks play like dogshit" stupid game developers...
Kenzor and now they throw in the skorpion G and that new us heavy (it's gonna be OP if the current stats go live) that are way better than their tech tree counterparts. Dolla dolla bills ya'll
What new US heavy? I have not read anything yet. Could u reply with the name of it? Btw i own Skorpion G and i can say it has excellent gun for tier 8 but anything else is regular, nothing special in my experience so far ~ 120 games played.
this tank used to be good. Of course when i got it, it was already on the downhill and it really bummed me out. Spent alot of money on this tank, it just is sad.
0.36 accuracy! They nerfed it even more! For fuck sake! Prem shell costs 4800 credits and does 240 dmg, while defenders premium shell costs also 4800 credits, but deal almost double damage with 440 average dmg.
But hey comrade, let's start a trend of introducing Premium tanks that are way better than their regular counterparts - if not better equally good but earn more credits so full premium round loadout won't hurt anymore. Examples? Skorpion G14, Mutz, STA2, M41 90 GF.. Of course the upcoming T26E5 and AMX M4 Mile. 49 Money money money cyka blyat!
I don't really get praising the Revalorise which is worse in almost everything except the alpha and it doesn't get limited MM. The corridor meta and and Russian bias nerfed this tank, but it's still a nice machine as long as you don't pretend to be a heavy tank.
sta2 was pretty good with that ridiculous gun handling dpm and gun depression, and its now op after the massive buff i have not played the fcm for years since the aim time is retarded plus the power creep everyone new tank has enough pen to auto pen u while bullshits like is3 and is6 got buff another tank that suffer (suffer a lot more) is the type 59, since it came back to the store (only for a while) it was repeatedly nerfed, the HD buff did improve its armor on paper but it reality it is the fucking same, no retarded buff like the E5. I just got my WZ120 and finally realized how shit is the type 59 mobility, an IS3 accelerate faster than a type 59 and you dont circle tanks in this thing (except germany heavily armored impenetrable OP idoit proof heavies) , gun is reatarded, its a fucking derf gun 2.9 seconds aim time the aim circule is as big as the 122mm on the wz120, pen is non existence with a dpm of maus. sta2 is much better tank all u need is drive into the type press auto aim and spam shots into the hull. fucking power creep. still winning a lot of games though, but thats due to experience but not the tank (player since beta).
thanks for honesty it is russian game and they care only about how good the russian tanks are? IS3 build 1945 has aweome turret movement very weird game
Well looking on that list: Tiger 2 is still crap, KV 4 crap, VK Auf A was never buffed, for 4 years now. Ferdi has more HP as T28 but still crap TD. T34 and Lowe, two crap, with old stats, worse then FCM 50 T. And ofc WG find that 112 had way more armor in front then 113, and they buff it, cuz reasons. As for tier 9, M103 new HD was big buff. Still you have weakspots, but turret front is way better then E75 crap. So Foch, JT , T95 still bad TD, and many armor dependent HT like E75, VK, Type 4 still easy pen by HEAT cuz reason. And fast HT like 110, IS 3, T-10 have better turret armor then most armored HT of their tiers....this is so stupid.
KV4 isn't crap. Its armor is definitely still effective, even when not top tier. Gold spammers are an issue, but gold spammers are an issue for any tank that doesn't have paper armor. You have better dpm than the t32, excellent pen, and a good .36 acc. And after grinding through the Church VII and the BP, a 30kph top speed doesn't even sound that bad to me. Just get somewhere you can sidescrape and then you're good.
I find terrible gun handling a french thing, everytime I fire a french gun the have to let it fully aim which takes 5 seconds to start and than 3 seconds later I can pray to RNG.
Especially true for the French TDs. It's so bad that it's laughable. For example, AC48 apparently gets THREE times worse gun handling with its 120 mm gun compared to ISU with its 152 mm BL-10. Sure, the gun handling of the smaller guns on AC48 is better, but even with the stock 90 mm, the gun handling is still worse than BL-10. I mean... WTF!?!
the sta-2 sees tier 10 on a /3rd of its games. you are idiotic complaining about it having a better gun than the fcm, because you are missing on somehing absolutely HUUUUGE! The FCM50T can carry any game the mm will throw at your face: unlike any other premium tank there isn't a single map/matchup/situation where you can have no impact on the game. That is stricly not true for any other premiums: either you have tier 10 games where if you don't have a competent team to support you are fucked, or you have preferential mm but 175mm of penetration and you are fucked as soon as an E75 or an IS3 pops in front of you. Have fun playing your Sta-2 vs 110E5 and obj140, we'll see how that great gun works for you. There is no point in comparing the fcm to any premium with standard mm: it is better than any of them BY DEFAULT. In fact the fcm belongs to its own catergory up there with the type59 and pz2j by design: you have all the tools you need to hard carry any game and there is no arguing that they are the absolute best for pure winning power. there are so many crap tanks like the tvp vtu who have guns many times worse than the fcm AND still see tier 10. Please stop bitching around that your favorite tank didn't recieve a buff unlike many others (did you REALLY put the T95 in the list of powercreep? I mean, REALLYYYYY?) .
"Butt hey comrade, lets buff armor of IS-3 again, because fuck you, beach!" 😂
best part
is3a
2O mm+ on pikenose on is3 pls.
my FCM experience consists mainly of missing every shot i take and getting frontally ammoracked right after using my repair kit.
and also having your turret jammed
I had a game like that. 15 misses in a row.
I hated my FCM until recently... then changed my setup of using Stabs+Vents+GLD and it seems to be working much better now in terms of gun handling !!
FCM was my first heavy tank after unlocking all the lights in the game and wanting a fast premium medium (shh, it's a medium), and I absolutely loved it for at least a couple years.
By the time the accuracy nerf happened, it was already mediocre as hell due to literally being a worse version of same-tier mediums in almost every stat. Then suddenly accuracy nerf made the gun handling feel 100 times worse, and now it's just painful to play for me.
Now I only bother playing it when I have prem time, credit reserve, AND really need money, so it's actually worth it.
But even then I only play it while my M41 goydog is in battle.
I tried this and so far it has been better. Never thought to take off my rammer. A 10% DPM loss that isn't realized if you never hit anything
Well, judging from WG policy for the last few years, the patterns seems to be... buy a premium, wait for power creep and buy a new premium recently introduced to be competitive.
07jaworski07
I'd even say that some are borderline OP, like fcm used to be and the scorpion g is atm.
Unfortunately people will buy anything that the devs will put on the market therefore this pattern will unfortunately continue until it stops making WG money.
Wrong one word: 112
112 removed from giftshop and ingame buying..... BEFORE the buff of course.
This gives me hope. They should do the same with the FCM.
"You peek, you shoot, you bounce or miss and then you fuck off" Nice words. The truth behind this thing.
i need a drink of water after all this salt in this video.
Have a tequila instead.
have a snickers
And washing my ears with soap
every time i see a videos of foch he always sounds like he's having the shittiest day ever. XD
I love you videos Foch, you keep it real, concise and classy; unlike those other guys who are two pumps and done. Keep it up brother!
Still waiting on that AMX 40 review
Is it HD tho?
i heard its gonna get a monster buff when it comes into HD in next patch
Make the duck of doom great again!
the most awful grind in wot...
GHKiwi - you haven't grinded T34 then.
LOL!!! I share your frustration SF..... I spent a fortune buying this beast, absolutely loved tooning up with mate who also had one and was looking forward to seeing it buffed with the HD update. I should have known that it would get castrated.... can't have special matchmaking tank have any meaningful improvement. Thanks, as always for the no BS review.
240 alpha with that kind of gun control is just frustrating to play
"It's only slightly (50%) worse than IS-3 and ISU-152. It's perfectly balanced."
"...enemy tier 8 players who were just running around like headless chickens i can farm..." Such sirfoch-y :D :D :D
Hi TheFoch!!
I really enjoy your channel and congrats on 50k subs!!! You deserve it :D
keep it up :)
Great video as always. Maybe make a video. Comparing all the tier 8 premiums, what to buy for fun/credits.
Like i have is-6 and Fcm, and i like to play my IS-6 but i find i make way more credits per game in my Fcm because i tend to shoot to much gold in my IS-6 to make it work.
I agree Foch
I agree with the statements 100%. Back then I loved this tank but it got stealth-nerfed and the difference was instantly noticeable when I played it, now the tank is just trash. But of course another russian premium heavy (257) is on it's way now, so hey, nice job comrade!
I don't recall the Foch getting buffed. The mini turret got an armour buff, but the side armour and rangefinder took heavy nerfs
In the past 3 years , I have play the T-34-3 and the FCM a lot . And I found out that after the buff the T-34-3 is just a much better premium tank then the FCM . Although the T-34-3 have a much worse aiming time and accuracy , that gun actually have a quite nice handling. And of course , FCM's camo sucks most of the time and get arty every time .
I just love the t44-100. I rather play that one in tier 10 than an is6 i tier 9. You make so much money! Would I have bought it for full prize? No way. But it sure was worth the two tokens I had to buy.
KV-5 is hillarious too now. You should review that one (it wont prob. be sold again but who knows). It will all be laughs and pawnage. I dont drive that one for the silver though, just for the joy of stomping poor players and enjoying life. :)
Ola Justin
I feel bad for either the newbies getting stomped by kv5 or the kv5 driver for getting wrecked by my t32.
R.I.P battalions of radioooerators.
Jurek Dekarski Well, its situational. As long as you dont load skill ammo I might bounce a lot more than you think. =) Since the buff it now got silly armor but you can never stand still in the kv5 and that makes ppl bounce so much its just hilarious. =) But good players will pen and its a slow machine so its still restricted to its uses of course. But its fun to take it out once in a while and hope for reds and yellows and to be top tier. =)
Couldn't believe they buffed the R2D2 to 140mm armor, but as a KV-5 driver, it makes me happy at the same time.
Would have preferred they buff the ground resistances instead, though. A faster, more nimble KV-5 would be so much fun.
No you don't
Skull Helmet I guess you're one of those heavy tank drivers... off to the beach with you! :P
Foch playing with such a high res but war gaming still haven't found a way to scale the gui circClap
everything changed when the fire nation attacked
nice player name on the hummel
nice amount of credits
and did you start using a new filter? the colours in the video seem to be more clear
FCM is my only tier 8 premium tank. Cunning plan to train AMX autoloader crews. Guess I'm screwed.
No intention to pay 40 euros for powercreep. Come on Wargaming, give the FCM some lurrrve.
too damn straight, you've read my mind
Aýáńtíká Róý tmhara fav premium konsa hai? 😝
I think special MM still means a lot. Not fighting trier10s means a lot. Plus the some armor it gets is usefull for bullying lower trier meds. It's a frustrating tank for sure but it is better for wining games just because of MM.
Could you do a new video about the M46 Patton? It was red in your list and i could buy it but i wasn't sure wether this would be a good idea. RIP 50T, got it myself and i don't like to play it, mostly due to the gun which cheats on me too often.
go look for M46 on RUclips and you will find more than enough awesome and epic replays. M46 basically is the best and most versatile T9 med there is. good DPM, epic gunhandling and depression, awesome viewrange and good mobility. only downside is the 218 pen which u can compensate with 265 apcr pen
or just click on that little seal pic next to that guys comment and watch his own replays, he is a decent player ;)
thx mate...just checked stuff and gonna check your videos as well after the other nice guy mentioned it. cheers
Buy the M46... its one of the best T9 meds
2180 pen? You're complaining about 2180 penetration?
Wargaming knew they would be releasing a new premium French heavy so they nerfed the FCM into the ground without adding it to game notes so that FCM owners would ditch the tank and buy the new premium. They are just worried about money like always. As long as they are making a profit, everything is working as intended.
Can you make a video about the firefly, because I thing it's an amazing tank with it's gun, it's hull is nothing impressive and rather slow but that makes it also a great firing on the move tank!
I've been waiting for a soft stats buff on the FCM but I guess hell hasn't frozen over yet?
Well, what about promised Lowe buff? I like that german cow but it's so insanely sad to see it getting rekt by everything at its tier
They did "Buff" it,and by buff,I mean give it a bunch of stupid useless bullshit,which,the ONLY good thing from that joke is the GD,because 80 fucking shells it can TOTALLY fire all of in a match,Right? Spent 3k games on that hunk of garbage,one of the best players on the server in it,and I can say the T34 is an all-round better purchase. (Doesnt help that ShillPhantom keeps saying its good,and the fucking droolies believe him to the end)
Johnny Rockmax Yeah, they gave it GUN ELEVATION, so tomatoes standing in the middle of el haluf can pretend to be arty
Man I love that company. I really do.
There will be another lowe buff, WG said the plan on making premium tanks more competitive, and the skorpion G was the first step in that reaction.
There had better be, the Lowe only excels at being a chai sniper
Andrzej Bigos
>ignoring that they buffed the gun depression to 8 degrees
Ahahah nice Russian assent at the end!! I can see he is really pissed off, ahahaha I'm sorry Foch! ;)
Do the 112. Its a hole new tank now
Funny thing is CDC has same shitty hull traverse/moving dispersions and even worse turret traverse dispersion, and Baguette is also faster(which affects dispersion). So yeah same gun on medium tank actually handles slightly worse than on heavy despite hard stats telling you otherwise. Just WG being WG.
I don't think that the buff to the conqueror really ended up moving the needle much, on corridor maps you have a giant juicy hull to penetrate, and then on open maps you're a giant arty magnet. Turret armor buff just allowed it to have more of a niche, the open map artyless games.
Because weak hull armor is a problem when you have turret armor, gun depression and a great gun (cough T29 cough).
Before I quit it was becoming more and more rare to actually find places to use the turret armor, and like I said, it's an arty magnet.
hello Foch, Can you do a 112 HD review ?
"And now it's me versus arty which I'm gonna speed up" to around the actual speed of an ELC? SP1C? :)
You think the STA-2 is a staple of it's tier? Why? Don't get me wrong it's an okay tank but it's sluggish and has no armor. What makes it special?
Rubashow it has better soft stats than the FCM, better gun handling and also the 3rd best Dpm of all the t8 mediums as far as I know
BigPrank Gaming
and 10 degrees of gun depression. Combine that with decent peek-a-boo abilities and you have a very good ridge/hull down fighter. 212 pen is good if not very good for a tier 8 medium. It's mobile enough to go places and retreat/flex if needed. It has enough armor on the turret to not get penned by most HE shells (unlike the CDC).
It's not an object 140 in terms of carrying potential but it has some potential in contrary to many other premiums.
It's gun + Soft stats shit on any other tier 8 Med and some heavies.
The gun. Excellent handling and decent pen with AP, great HEAT with good dpm.
It's a faster and more accurate FCM?
Jingles is getting married. Quickybaby is already married. When are you getting married sirfoch?
Is this a proposal?
Jingles getting married? Wait what??? Where did you hear something like that?
Cyclopath He made it official on Mingles with Jingles last week. Rita's followers might have gotten the news earlier, because she had apparently shown the ring in the stream.
FCM used to be my favorite premium as well, have over 1000 battles on mine but powercreap really made it lose its apeal... for money making i only play the skorpion now, no point im playing anything else really
I need an American heavy crew trainer, is it a good idea to buy T34 when the new heavy tank, T25E4, is just around the corner?
Wait for the T26E5, seriously. The T34 is about as bad as the Lowe which says enough.
This new heavy tank will be vastly superior to the T34 in almost every way.
Cobra6 Gaming Ok, thanks. I already have the Löwe and I don't like it so if T34 is similiar, I'll pass.
Krzysztof Dudek
Well no, not entirely similar because your gun hits for 400 damage and you have good gun depression. But the problem is that it's prety much just as slow as the Lowe, has outdated DPM (1600 while all new premiums have ~2000DPM) and has generally just been powercreeped.
Cobra6 Gaming Thank you a lot for the explanation! I think I'll wait for the new heavy tank to come out. Until then I'll focus to train Soviet med crew on Rudy for the time being hah.
The ONLY reason to buy a T34 instead of T26E5 is that T34 can be bought for gold on 15% sale every now and then. So if you have tons of gold lying around, then why not. If you don't have gold lying around, there is absolutely no reason to buy T34.
This is still a pretty good buy on console.
foch can you do a guide on what are the best premiums to get?
Skorpion G, IS-3A, or the upcoming T26E5. Buy one of those.
I gotta say you saved me from buying this tank. I really want a French heavy crew trainer so I guess I'll wait for the AMX 1949. And instead get either a T34 or maybe a t54 mod 1.
Or a T26E5 if it comes out anytime soon.
don't buy T34... Not competiable at all.. T54 mod 1. I just 3 marked that tank and is a very safe option, especially as top tier.
Blessiade Would you recommend it over the CDC, M4A1 Rev., or the buffed STA2?
honestly depends on your playstyle and how an experienced player you are. T 54 mod 1 is very noob friendly, and even better in the hands of a good player. But STA-2 is better than T54 mod 1 due to its mobility and flexibility regarding gun depression and gun handling. I can't recommend m4A1 rev. I haven't tried CDC but i reckon its something like STA-2 but faster although bigger and worse armor. I'd reckon STA-2 is best out of all of them.
Blessiade Well I'm on the Chi to for the japanese meds but I have mostly tier 9 mediums like the 46 patton, t54, and e50 so I have some experience playing mediums but the 54 mod 1 seems so epic.
I m late ! Time for a joke : Arty only works for players with more than 3000 wn8 becouse its too hard to play please buff !
Blah. Here's a good jk. Unicums are supposed to be able dodge arty
Pholiage Yeah ! I m running in my m41 walker bulldog at 72 kph ! Its so fast arty can never ge..... BOOOOMMMMMM , oneshoted ! Its was my falt , I was camping in the front lines doing zig zag at 72 kph ...
Don't worry... I'm working on a mod which will mark unicums for an arty. Satan's off.
Brad Rolim didnt u know arty has 5% rng? Where all other tanks have 25% RNG. also 45-48% arty players even have 3% RNG. It feels that way. 72kph moving zigzag hit on the move by arty with a reticle as HUGE as a skyscraped. Made me wonder if they truly have 5% RNG/dispersion. I have more horseshit RNG on my 140 than arty players have most of the time..
...then what is ur favorite tank???
French 90mm HE shells are terrible for use against arty. I've noticed that as well in my CDC, you'll never pen those. It's much better to just shoot AP
FCM was a bit too strong. I think it just fits in better and as you stated it yourself: it's still a good tank but not the best. "Buhuu!" The thing I am more concerned about when it comes to the powercreep is that more and more tanks tend to be played the same. And to be honest: I think the FCM started this trend.
den let.s play is3 all day
WG has compensated the preferential mm by allways putting me in bad teams. I cant remember when I was in a team with better win% than 35% last time... but im not bitter.;)
me to I get that a lot in all my prm tank
in my fcm it me and some t7 ht . and tham it is6 is3 is3 is3 and some t7 ht and on a city map and its a 35%
rig mm at its best
They buffed other tanks because they could not fuck with fcm 50t pref MM, so WG tought:" hey lets screw our customers who pay our sallary by screwing with the money they spent and make they're prem tanks play like dogshit" stupid game developers...
Kenzor
and now they throw in the skorpion G and that new us heavy (it's gonna be OP if the current stats go live) that are way better than their tech tree counterparts.
Dolla dolla bills ya'll
What new US heavy? I have not read anything yet. Could u reply with the name of it? Btw i own Skorpion G and i can say it has excellent gun for tier 8 but anything else is regular, nothing special in my experience so far ~ 120 games played.
Kenzor T26E5
Cheers for the info. Will look into it. Have a good one
It's basically a Super Pershing that moves like a proper medium tank, but without weak spots, and can pen stuff without gold. It's crazy OP.
Good. Tell everyone it's crap so I can keep farming WN8
this tank used to be good.
Of course when i got it, it was already on the downhill and it really bummed me out.
Spent alot of money on this tank, it just is sad.
Sarin Highwind I can still do consistently well in it, but i just dont seem to get the monster games anymore that i got in the past
haha I bought a t34 and its still the daddy
0.36 accuracy! They nerfed it even more! For fuck sake! Prem shell costs 4800 credits and does 240 dmg, while defenders premium shell costs also 4800 credits, but deal almost double damage with 440 average dmg.
a small part of me wanted the hummel to snap shot you after your failed he round just to see your reaction
can cope with armour buff of is3 if they nerfed gun handling, atm it snapshots way too easily
I love how demeaning Foch is towards wot in his reviews
6:31 for the long story short Kappa
...hmmm
This either reason why i am doing bad in this tank or i am just really suck on tier 8.
LAL..Foch do some moar E5 comments, pls. :D
But hey comrade, let's start a trend of introducing Premium tanks that are way better than their regular counterparts - if not better equally good but earn more credits so full premium round loadout won't hurt anymore.
Examples?
Skorpion G14, Mutz, STA2, M41 90 GF.. Of course the upcoming T26E5 and AMX M4 Mile. 49
Money money money cyka blyat!
it's not just this tank that is terrible now, it's every french tank past tier 5, they all get murdered by the soft stats.
I don't really get praising the Revalorise which is worse in almost everything except the alpha and it doesn't get limited MM.
The corridor meta and and Russian bias nerfed this tank, but it's still a nice machine as long as you don't pretend to be a heavy tank.
Cool videos, well, that taught English ...
P.S.RUSSIA
Im ammo racked with almost every shot in the FCM and constantly hit by arty because of the shit camo
sta2 was pretty good with that ridiculous gun handling dpm and gun depression, and its now op after the massive buff
i have not played the fcm for years since the aim time is retarded plus the power creep everyone new tank has enough pen to auto pen u while bullshits like is3 and is6 got buff
another tank that suffer (suffer a lot more) is the type 59, since it came back to the store (only for a while) it was repeatedly nerfed, the HD buff did improve its armor on paper but it reality it is the fucking same, no retarded buff like the E5. I just got my WZ120 and finally realized how shit is the type 59 mobility, an IS3 accelerate faster than a type 59 and you dont circle tanks in this thing (except germany heavily armored impenetrable OP idoit proof heavies) , gun is reatarded, its a fucking derf gun 2.9 seconds aim time the aim circule is as big as the 122mm on the wz120, pen is non existence with a dpm of maus. sta2 is much better tank all u need is drive into the type press auto aim and spam shots into the hull. fucking power creep. still winning a lot of games though, but thats due to experience but not the tank (player since beta).
So wargaming bring out replacement Heavy so screw the old one ?
i consider this medium tank didnt play it for 5 months shittiest mm i had in ages
thanks for honesty
it is russian game and they care only about how good the russian tanks are?
IS3 build 1945 has aweome turret movement very weird game
what fcm needs is an IS3 hull. then we could get used to the shitty gun
CDC has worse softstats and on top of that, no armor that is capable of blocking HE-rounds. go figure...
names tier 9s that got buffed and does not mention VK B....Foch you trolling us?
Well looking on that list: Tiger 2 is still crap, KV 4 crap, VK Auf A was never buffed, for 4 years now. Ferdi has more HP as T28 but still crap TD.
T34 and Lowe, two crap, with old stats, worse then FCM 50 T.
And ofc WG find that 112 had way more armor in front then 113, and they buff it, cuz reasons.
As for tier 9, M103 new HD was big buff. Still you have weakspots, but turret front is way better then E75 crap. So Foch, JT , T95 still bad TD, and many armor dependent HT like E75, VK, Type 4 still easy pen by HEAT cuz reason. And fast HT like 110, IS 3, T-10 have better turret armor then most armored HT of their tiers....this is so stupid.
tiger2 aint crap...il play that over an is3 any day
RAY RAY Nah, wait for Foch review, and see. So many Tiger 2 on randoms, cuz its Op right ?
KV4 isn't crap. Its armor is definitely still effective, even when not top tier. Gold spammers are an issue, but gold spammers are an issue for any tank that doesn't have paper armor. You have better dpm than the t32, excellent pen, and a good .36 acc. And after grinding through the Church VII and the BP, a 30kph top speed doesn't even sound that bad to me. Just get somewhere you can sidescrape and then you're good.
***** U have paper turret front, 180 mm, who need gold to pen it.
T32 has insane turret, gold wont pen it.
ares354 ares354 And yet, no one ever shoots me there. People just don't think to shoot something that's famed for its armor in the turret front.
I find terrible gun handling a french thing, everytime I fire a french gun the have to let it fully aim which takes 5 seconds to start and than 3 seconds later I can pray to RNG.
Especially true for the French TDs. It's so bad that it's laughable. For example, AC48 apparently gets THREE times worse gun handling with its 120 mm gun compared to ISU with its 152 mm BL-10. Sure, the gun handling of the smaller guns on AC48 is better, but even with the stock 90 mm, the gun handling is still worse than BL-10. I mean... WTF!?!
100mm autoloading guns are a joke too, look at the USA vs french when clipping
+Rickard Shen I especially cringe at the Foch 155 for having the same gun handling as the Fv215b (183), despite it having A 155mm GUN.. D:
***** WG logic
The FCM is a real shitbox. One of the most frustrating tanks I've ever had the displeasure of driving.
I'd trade it for a T34 in a heartbeat.
meh I like guns with a lot of alpha probably cus I'm a noob ;)
and of course t34 didnt shoot u for 4 times yeeeeeeeeeeeeeeees:D gg
I was thinking of getting this tank but the price is a fucking rip off even if the game is free
I think even T-44-100 is better than this tank.
the sta-2 sees tier 10 on a /3rd of its games. you are idiotic complaining about it having a better gun than the fcm, because you are missing on somehing absolutely HUUUUGE!
The FCM50T can carry any game the mm will throw at your face: unlike any other premium tank there isn't a single map/matchup/situation where you can have no impact on the game. That is stricly not true for any other premiums: either you have tier 10 games where if you don't have a competent team to support you are fucked, or you have preferential mm but 175mm of penetration and you are fucked as soon as an E75 or an IS3 pops in front of you. Have fun playing your Sta-2 vs 110E5 and obj140, we'll see how that great gun works for you. There is no point in comparing the fcm to any premium with standard mm: it is better than any of them BY DEFAULT. In fact the fcm belongs to its own catergory up there with the type59 and pz2j by design: you have all the tools you need to hard carry any game and there is no arguing that they are the absolute best for pure winning power.
there are so many crap tanks like the tvp vtu who have guns many times worse than the fcm AND still see tier 10. Please stop bitching around that your favorite tank didn't recieve a buff unlike many others (did you REALLY put the T95 in the list of powercreep? I mean, REALLYYYYY?) .