To be fair, 90% of War Thunder's gameplay is bounce, non-pen and shatter due to Gaijin not understanding physics and horrible volumetric models. A 15 mm piece of WW2-era sheet metal is not bouncing an 11 kg projectile travelling 1 km/s, no matter Gaijin's opinion.* *This is a real scenario of me firing at a BT-7 in the AMX M4 and it bouncing off the side.
In case you're ever in the mood for pain again, here's a challenge Use an agile (optionally wheeled) vehicle, but you're only allowed to use manual transmission
I imagined Spookston and Oddbawz walking up to a pile of sand on a beach with shovels, and when they try to dig into it, the shovel bends and the sand makes a comical *tink* noise.
Attempt 52 Challenge: For high tier support a nations MBT with its respective APC/IFV counterpart (ie Abrams/Bradley, T90/BMP2M, etc.) Challenge is keeping the other player alive and supporting it without stealing kills (breaking barrels, tracking, repairing, etc) it being a random should help make it interesting.
*Happens to look at the top-view x-ray in the bottom left corner at* 12:14 Ah, finally, the game actually shows the true, non-euclidean damage model of the vehicles. Now I can see the random bit of space-time that keeps swallowing my shells.
Dearest Spookton, I trust this missive finds you in good health and high spirits. I write to you with a humble request and a sincere hope that you might find it within your heart to oblige. Wouldst thou, kind sir, consider partaking in the noble endeavor of playing the Leopard C2A1? Such a pursuit, I am convinced, shall bring much merriment and camaraderie to our endeavors. Awaiting your favorable response with bated breath, I remain, Yours most faithfully.
As an avid player of the 103's this is basically how I play. The shovel is actually very useful the trick is just to be efficient with them. Getting just a little pile in front of your lower glacis anywhere on any map is huge. To make one, you move back and fowrth until you've made the little coke line of dirt in front of you then go back to aiming. Turn off hull aiming when moving and digging.
I know it won't protect you from almost anything but a little hill can mess up enemy's deapth perception, even if they have laser rangefinder sometimes you can appear further out than you are. Saved me a couple of times in object 292.
i heard you hate british vehicles, vehicles that do no damage and vehicles that are basically CAS magnets, so i think you should play the ratel 90; a gigantic british light tank with no armor, that only gets 90mm HEAT with a 7 second aced reload and that somehow always gets strafed by planes before it's even allowed to leave spawn (day 88)
The Stridsvagn 103 is one of those rare vehicles where I actually recommend bringing full ammo. You reload so fast and are likely to fire just as fast that it becomes quite necessary and if you’re playing it right, you will not be ammoracked a whole ton. Also, slinging HESH is funny with the 103.
Spookston you gotta play the AMX M4 since its an ultimate menace of 6.7 with its autoloading 90mm with PCO-50, you need to honor every french mains that carries their teams from downtier to full uptiers by playing the AMX M4
Day 102 You should play a tank with hydropneumatic suspension (recommend the MBT-70) But the catch is you have to drop the suspension as low as it can go for the whole match.
I wish there was a mode like this is war thunder, where you have to be tactical and set up positions and stuff and like actually work with ur team and air players and stuff idk
Like actually coordinate ambushes and things like that on larger scale maps, not just rush around everywhere with tanks and get bombed instantly idk how to explain properly but im sure people will understand what i mean
i have an idea for the challenge that will be not painfull at all haha :) in USSR tree there is a tank SU-5-1, its maximum ammo capacity is 8 the challenge is to get 8 kills (or maybe even more!) with this tank in a single match 8 bullets, 8 kills
Bro bring a couple of HESH in the 103. The HE isn't enough to take out medium tank roofs (only 23mm pen) but the HESH (127mm) can easily take out people who leave their roofs exposed.
New suggestion, historically accurate Churchill VII. It was a 6 pounder shot from a Churchill VII into the turret ring of Tiger 131 which forced the crew to abandon the tank. I'm sure that the snail will have no problem modelling this and you'll have a breeze fighting 5.7 German tanks.
Play the Fiat/Ansaldo M11/39. It has everything low tier Italy has to offer. Bad armor, bad speed. The 37mm gun has APHE, but its casemated. Best of luck. (attempt 8)
Trenches have actually saved my life a few times in the T72/T80, if you need to take a point thats in the middle of a field it can help to smoke and hunker down
Ever since I saw Oddbawz’s video about the Strv 103, I can’t help but crack a smirk every time it reloads. 😂 Can’t wait to see what other challenges you’ll do.
The zt3a2 is such a sad vehicle, the rockets 1/3 of the time nose dive into the ground, 1/3 do their own thing, and the other third actually go where you aim, good luck for it to do damage and no be absorbed by the optics
Challenge: Pick a location on the map, once you decide on a location you can not move from it (or change angle of your tank), and you may not shoot unless in the chosen location.
An interesting thought. Keeping the dozer in the entire time. Spooks hates slow tanks so this is gonna be a woozie one. Another issue with this is that everyone will know where you are due to the trail you leave behind!
Me, a german, spends a sh!t tone of time in test drive with tanks that have a dozer blade and basically remove all the grass and everything else…and turn wt into a farming simulator
Next Challenge... Use T-34 76mm or a KV-1 76mm and alternate through ALL round options, and you are not allowed to waste rounds (E.g. firing HE off into the middle of no where).
broken feature bloat in war thunder is so real volumetric entrenching hull aim as a whole drones spotting because it barely works with mechanics from bloody ground arcade battles the entirety of naval
There's an obvious evolution here. You, Odd, and Phly (once he's moved in) take turns playing the bulldozer tank and build bunkers for the others to fire from.
Wouldn't be nearly as bad if the holes weren't like 0.3 meters deep. The holes you can dig are so small that it's a surprise if it even covers the lower plate of a tank. Wouldn't be nearly as useless if you could dig until only your turret is visible.
Since you're doing a lot of swedish tanks lately, you should do the strf 40B/ 9040C Love seeing your videos, always the first on my list when i get home
I played the T-72B the other day and the trench I made on Arctic as a joke actually saved me. I was getting shot by a 120S, which should be able to pen me anywhere basically, but because I was notched upwards thanks to the trench, it failed to go through.
bro spookston can you do warthunder tutorials if you havent. youre like my idol at this point. best vibe. best memes. best gameplay. best video. this is the jackpot of warthunder youtubers. maybe do Locust in top tier (but i guess you've probably done that". or do the weird Chinese premium SPAA, the QN506. anyway have a good one. maybe try getting a kill as a biplane cas
Check out Odd'd channel here: youtube.com/@oddbawz?si=26i7S-fKD0gmxGbp
Ct cv 105
Cmon play the t50
THE BEST CHALLENGE HEJA SVERIGE!!!!!!!!
Day 147 of asking for the Type 74 G
Play the IS-4M, Spooks
Finaly, Warthunder but you remove 90% of the gameplay
So a normal warthunder match
To be fair, 90% of War Thunder's gameplay is bounce, non-pen and shatter due to Gaijin not understanding physics and horrible volumetric models.
A 15 mm piece of WW2-era sheet metal is not bouncing an 11 kg projectile travelling 1 km/s, no matter Gaijin's opinion.*
*This is a real scenario of me firing at a BT-7 in the AMX M4 and it bouncing off the side.
@@Nick-rs5ifwell that’s what hull break used to solve, but that also wasn’t working properly
@@Nick-rs5ifGaijin just uses a flat 7x the armor's value for a caliber to ignore armor angle and penetrate regardless.
@@kommandantkillcode it should be 2.75x tbh
5:54 spookston verbally processing scottish for three seconds before replying
Hahaha the silence of gears turning
damn it was perfectly clear to me
Like, wtf happened to the bottom left model???
Finally that one guy can be satisfied at watching spookston suffer
Its me
666 likes scary lol
@@Chris-m-m02 yeah, dont let that guy cook again
In case you're ever in the mood for pain again, here's a challenge
Use an agile (optionally wheeled) vehicle, but you're only allowed to use manual transmission
The french EBR has 10 gears
The dozer dude finally got his long awaited peace
I imagined Spookston and Oddbawz walking up to a pile of sand on a beach with shovels, and when they try to dig into it, the shovel bends and the sand makes a comical *tink* noise.
Attempt 52 Challenge: For high tier support a nations MBT with its respective APC/IFV counterpart (ie Abrams/Bradley, T90/BMP2M, etc.) Challenge is keeping the other player alive and supporting it without stealing kills (breaking barrels, tracking, repairing, etc) it being a random should help make it interesting.
I second this.
Do it
Spookston should do it with odbawz fr
you should have hope. give it some time. spookston cant ignore the stupid challanges anymore
The 8.0 warrior
12:19 did anyone notice how the kraken awoke in Spookston’s tank if you look down at the bottom left?
And at 14:19
yea, but it's historically accurate
Vibey
It did it all throughout the vid
ye i saw it, hilarious gaijin moment
FINALLY
HE DID IT
THE WORLD IS (W)HOLE AGAIN
HALLELUJAH, I can die peacefully now
With all the digging, maybe the declaration should be, "the world is hole again!"
@@Steamrunner objectively better.
Then it broke again 🎶
Dad?
'dozer compliant sand' is the goofiest thing ive heard all day
Classic gaijin that you couldn’t even use the feature in the sand lmao
the treads of the tank had more effect than the dozer in that sand
iirc it's because for some very strange reason all the terrain on that map is counted as asphalt
>implement feature to cash in on hype
>feature is half baked and sometimes straight up does not work
typical
*Happens to look at the top-view x-ray in the bottom left corner at* 12:14
Ah, finally, the game actually shows the true, non-euclidean damage model of the vehicles. Now I can see the random bit of space-time that keeps swallowing my shells.
Was also wondering about that too
it's back again here 14:20 idk why lmao
its not a bug its a feature
Dearest Spookton,
I trust this missive finds you in good health and high spirits. I write to you with a humble request and a sincere hope that you might find it within your heart to oblige.
Wouldst thou, kind sir, consider partaking in the noble endeavor of playing the Leopard C2A1? Such a pursuit, I am convinced, shall bring much merriment and camaraderie to our endeavors.
Awaiting your favorable response with bated breath, I remain,
Yours most faithfully.
Least socially awkward British person:
bro thinks this is 1700s england
Hr department ass comment
Bro is talking in 1600s (British moment)
Bro thinks he's Shakespeare
"I'll build anywhere"
"Can't build there, sir"
"Wood stocks are too low, sire"
Pop cap reached, build additional houses
MADE IN THE US OF A
As an avid player of the 103's this is basically how I play. The shovel is actually very useful the trick is just to be efficient with them. Getting just a little pile in front of your lower glacis anywhere on any map is huge. To make one, you move back and fowrth until you've made the little coke line of dirt in front of you then go back to aiming. Turn off hull aiming when moving and digging.
especially since theres this weird spot where sabot rounds will go under the transmission and directly to the ammo
I know it won't protect you from almost anything but a little hill can mess up enemy's deapth perception, even if they have laser rangefinder sometimes you can appear further out than you are. Saved me a couple of times in object 292.
"coke line"
4:07 being able to shoot into the enemy spawn after a few seconds drive is the peak map design
Finally, the guy can rest. It’s even become a sort of tradition in the comment section
this video needed to happen.
I can finally rest
I should not have had to scroll this far to find your comment.
HECK YEAH!
🎉
salute
12:23 When an eldritch god casually decides to mess with your tanks geometry.
And again at 14:19
The guy that was asking for it can finally rest now
The tens of millions of tanks that have driven over the warthunder sand have compressed it into a sheet of solid glass.
Giorno 228 of asking Spookston to play Semovente 75/46 M43.
MY ARMY WILL NOT STOP, DO IT NOW, AVANTI SAVOIA!
AVANTI SAVOIA!!!
I think it’s just you. But I know he will do it at some point
AVANTI SAVOIA!
AVANTI SAVOIA!
Avanti Savoia!
Yes Spookston, you have appeased the Dozer Blade's hunger. You may rest for now.
Until the blade hungers for more...
i heard you hate british vehicles, vehicles that do no damage and vehicles that are basically CAS magnets, so i think you should play the ratel 90; a gigantic british light tank with no armor, that only gets 90mm HEAT with a 7 second aced reload and that somehow always gets strafed by planes before it's even allowed to leave spawn (day 88)
It also accelerates like a boat, isn't .50 proof, and gets HE as well
I fucking love the Ratel, one of my favorite wheeled IFVs
@@pipopoikapelaa5468 All praise be to the Struggle Bus.
@@HunterSteel29 Battle bus got that Sisyphus energy.
Crazy because the ratel 20 was one of my earliest ATGM launchers and I smacked with it
"Multidimensional trench 🗣🔥"
That's a hole
Poor odd, he didn't deserve this
0:30 is the funniest reaction image and audio i have ever seen from any of your videos you had me giggling through my whole wt match 😂 love your vids
That one guy finally got his dream
Snail: adds borderline unless gimmick mechanic.
Also Snail: won't let you use it on some maps.
The man can finally rest knowing it happened
The Stridsvagn 103 is one of those rare vehicles where I actually recommend bringing full ammo. You reload so fast and are likely to fire just as fast that it becomes quite necessary and if you’re playing it right, you will not be ammoracked a whole ton. Also, slinging HESH is funny with the 103.
Spookston you gotta play the AMX M4 since its an ultimate menace of 6.7 with its autoloading 90mm with PCO-50, you need to honor every french mains that carries their teams from downtier to full uptiers by playing the AMX M4
Challenge: you cannot move, you have to get a friend to tow you around, your friend must always tow you.
but the friend isnt allowd to use his gun to make it more "fun"
Idea: Play a Tank but shift manually (in the Z menu there is a gearbox option to shift with keys instead of the game doing it for you)
Day 102 You should play a tank with hydropneumatic suspension (recommend the MBT-70) But the catch is you have to drop the suspension as low as it can go for the whole match.
HE DID IT! WHAT A MADMAN!
Nice video Spook! Now for the "grave-digger" challenge where you "bury" your kills in a dozer trench.
Video 84 of asking Spookston to play the LAV-AD with HEAT
2:55 excuse me that is called a Joshua Tree. 😁
the digging guy finally got his wish fulfilled by spook
I wish there was a mode like this is war thunder, where you have to be tactical and set up positions and stuff and like actually work with ur team and air players and stuff idk
Like actually coordinate ambushes and things like that on larger scale maps, not just rush around everywhere with tanks and get bombed instantly idk how to explain properly but im sure people will understand what i mean
2:22 Spookston jumpscare
It didn't scare me your message popped up the second it happened 😅
"I hate sand. It's course and it's rough and it gets everywhere!" -OddBawz and Spookston, first match.
14:18 what the hell happened to your damage model in the bottom left corner? lmao
i have an idea for the challenge that will be not painfull at all haha :)
in USSR tree there is a tank SU-5-1, its maximum ammo capacity is 8
the challenge is to get 8 kills (or maybe even more!) with this tank in a single match
8 bullets, 8 kills
Bro bring a couple of HESH in the 103. The HE isn't enough to take out medium tank roofs (only 23mm pen) but the HESH (127mm) can easily take out people who leave their roofs exposed.
What a good friend. Making someone suffer with you❤❤❤
New suggestion, historically accurate Churchill VII. It was a 6 pounder shot from a Churchill VII into the turret ring of Tiger 131 which forced the crew to abandon the tank. I'm sure that the snail will have no problem modelling this and you'll have a breeze fighting 5.7 German tanks.
Dozer Guy can finally rest now.
Play the Fiat/Ansaldo M11/39. It has everything low tier Italy has to offer. Bad armor, bad speed. The 37mm gun has APHE, but its casemated. Best of luck. (attempt 8)
Seal clubbing in M8 HMC when?
A couple years late bud
@nesyboi9421 he played the other M8
The madman. He actually did it. I've been hoping he'd eventually do this for a good long while now.
9 sec ago and that dude finnaly got his whish
Trenches have actually saved my life a few times in the T72/T80, if you need to take a point thats in the middle of a field it can help to smoke and hunker down
No way some dude in a BTR 80 said the Wedge should be removed. The absolute audacity of that man.
Ever since I saw Oddbawz’s video about the Strv 103, I can’t help but crack a smirk every time it reloads. 😂
Can’t wait to see what other challenges you’ll do.
The dozer guy can finally rest in peace (but I can’t DAY 27 OF ASKING SPOOKSTON TO PLAY THE PHONG KONG T-34)
Day 57 of asking Spookston to play some of the worst spaa in game, the M19/42 dusters
You should play the obj268. The APHE can go through the UFP of a tiger 2, it's hilarious
The zt3a2 is such a sad vehicle, the rockets 1/3 of the time nose dive into the ground, 1/3 do their own thing, and the other third actually go where you aim, good luck for it to do damage and no be absorbed by the optics
Challenge:
Pick a location on the map, once you decide on a location you can not move from it (or change angle of your tank), and you may not shoot unless in the chosen location.
I love how you picked the flattest tank in the game for this, despite the fact it has a completely fixed gun.
lmao, I love how you chose to sabotage yourself even further by picking a tank without a turret
12:15 it seems Spookston has manage to break his damage X-Ray just a wee bit 😂 in average Spookston style
Day 1 of asking spookston to play the tech tree leopard 1 because it doesn't have a stabiliser and no laser range finder
Attempt 174 asking Spookston to play the 7.0 T92 (funny APDS and HEAT launcher)
An interesting thought. Keeping the dozer in the entire time. Spooks hates slow tanks so this is gonna be a woozie one. Another issue with this is that everyone will know where you are due to the trail you leave behind!
Try out the M1 KVT, it has a really cool backstory imo and is my favorite 'variant' of the M1 in all of warthunder
Me, a german, spends a sh!t tone of time in test drive with tanks that have a dozer blade and basically remove all the grass and everything else…and turn wt into a farming simulator
I've found that you can dig some pretty OP hull down positions with the German T-72M1, in a full diwn tier you're basically invincible
Attempt number two of getting spookston to play a British tank he likes.
I saw that comment awhile back and saw that spook liked it. I've been waiting for this video for too long lmao hell yes.
I've been waiting for this vid for so long, thank god its finally here.
Spookston, would love to see a video on the flarakrad, its the most 'unique' vehicle in the game
Fun fact: there is a crater in Normandy right outside the b point that the 103 can sit in that is part of the actual map
Next Challenge... Use T-34 76mm or a KV-1 76mm and alternate through ALL round options, and you are not allowed to waste rounds (E.g. firing HE off into the middle of no where).
I dig with the 103 sometimes when I'm over watching an area. It can work but it's so finicky and situational that it's almost not needed.
War Thunder is a game I really want to enjoy, but never will. Thank you for playing it so I don't have to.
Nothing beats the wedge in a target rich enviroment. Love that thing so much.
I saw this pop up and chuckled, never thought he’d be mad enough to do it
I completely forgor that the 103 even had a plow, truly incredible swedish ingenuity
I liked the part where the sabot phased through the fox, destroyed his rear wheel and you didn't get an assist.
broken feature bloat in war thunder is so real
volumetric
entrenching
hull aim as a whole
drones
spotting because it barely works with mechanics from bloody ground arcade battles
the entirety of naval
There's an obvious evolution here. You, Odd, and Phly (once he's moved in) take turns playing the bulldozer tank and build bunkers for the others to fire from.
Yes! Finally! I've been waiting for this video
You should try the m5a1 stuart at 8.0 to get a nuke with it.
the guy who kept asking for this was like a legend at this point
Wouldn't be nearly as bad if the holes weren't like 0.3 meters deep.
The holes you can dig are so small that it's a surprise if it even covers the lower plate of a tank.
Wouldn't be nearly as useless if you could dig until only your turret is visible.
IT TOOK HIM SO LONG
MAY THAT ONE GUY WHO ASKED FOR IT FOR MONTHS REST
Since you're doing a lot of swedish tanks lately, you should do the strf 40B/ 9040C
Love seeing your videos, always the first on my list when i get home
Only left turns allowed and only right turret traversal allowed, and you have to use a slow heavy chonker.
LUNCH SPOOKSTON!! Here's a challenge idea, take Bkan and 75/25 with proxy and HE. You're now the best AA at 6.7 and you can top-down light vehicles.
Spookston: "I can't really see him."
Also spookston: *turns on night vision.*
I played the T-72B the other day and the trench I made on Arctic as a joke actually saved me. I was getting shot by a 120S, which should be able to pen me anywhere basically, but because I was notched upwards thanks to the trench, it failed to go through.
This man can finally get some piece of mind knowing that he has finally tortured Spookston with his challenge
uhhh the xray in the corner what 14:43
bro spookston can you do warthunder tutorials if you havent. youre like my idol at this point. best vibe. best memes. best gameplay. best video. this is the jackpot of warthunder youtubers. maybe do Locust in top tier (but i guess you've probably done that". or do the weird Chinese premium SPAA, the QN506.
anyway have a good one.
maybe try getting a kill as a biplane cas
This is unironically the first time I've ever seen someone actually use the dig function