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"Just spawn AA" isn't a thing about respawning when you have low SP, but CAS players saying it when they kill your MBT from orbit, because AA is the only thing that "can" counter them. Tho then AA gets targeted by CAS with 13KM range missles, and can't do anything, but lets just ignore that right Gaijin? :)
I've had someone in chat actually say 'holy shit a Surblinde' when I pulled it out once. Unfortunately I use it more as hangar decoration than a combat machine these days.
I got Red Desert like 2 or 3 weeks ago, but it was about a 4-6 month period between the last time I got it, Dunno where WRF went tho, *hopefully* they'll make it better.
Just a bit of clarification about the Free Abrams thing. It wasn't people asking Sean for free things. It was because there was a pretty massive movement on the forums and reddit to get Gaijin to either lower the cost to research parts and FPE or to remove them as researchable modules completely (thus giving them for free) and it was basically just people spamming the Devs about "Free FPE and Parts!" in every venue they could. And during Sean's stream they kept doing that in chat and him being woefully disconnected from the grind of the game (being a content creator actually working for Gaijin and thus being able to just have everything spaded all the time without grinding) and also biting into the company line quite hard, he got really upset about that and basically called everyone spoiled little children and said "Free FPE and Parts, Free FPE and Parts, why don't we just give everyone a Free Abrams while we're at it!?". You know... because he was a twat. (Sorry about that last part, but he really was. It was essentially the "let them eat cake" version for WarThunder.)
Yes and the aftermath I'm not so sure what happened to Sean, but the Parts and FPE became "cheaper" than other modification RP costs, and they are selected as top priority default pick for vehicle modification order. Back then, all FPE and Parts had to be selected MANUALLY after purchuasing the vehicle (The default was Tracks as it was on the very top left corner of the list), and they costed just like any other modifications!
In my time of doing 7.7, the only time i ever see an E-100 is when i take my own out to battle lol. I can also testify the E-100 has a hidden stat gaijin never posted. It comes with a 15% buff to teamwork haha
@@CyberneticArgumentCreator The sideskirts also massively help with any form if explosions too, granted they hardly ever survive. I've had very few games where I lost one side entirely,
i think the funniest part about the leaked documents is the fact that the chinese one for a new apfsds round was actually worse than most of the current apfsds shells the nation currently has in game. so that person leaked documents for a shell that wouldn't have helped the nation at all
@@CyberneticArgumentCreator yes, but you can't tell Gaijin that. Because China and Russia are "balanced". I mean look at the T-72 Sweden got and the Leapord 2A4 right above it in the tech tree. The T-72 supposedly has better rounds than the tank that it progresses into, and more modifications to boot.
@@CyberneticArgumentCreator kinda like why i dont get why the VBC for example is 8.7 and a gen 2 thermal WMA (Chins wheely prem) is at 8.3 its just nuts that even with new br changes soon it still just sits there
23:40 the e-100 is not regularly sold at all. I dont think one has traded hands since 2019 and before that they were still EXTREAMLY rare on the market place.
All of Japan is lacking armor, and the type 74 just feel like a Leo 1 with engaged handbrake but they have some cool tanks in the line, just bought the 2 type 90 and they are so nice with the 4sec autoloader, worth the grind imho
One thing that could be on the list. There was a time, when you could knockout tank crew and the tank didn't explode, so while playing Sim Battle it was common to see tank on you right, get a panic attack to realise it was wreckage that wasn't destroyed by explosion etc.
A little extra for the free abrams part, it went downhill very fast for gaijin as they began to disable comments and dislike button on their channel. They then got BVVDs (lead dev) brother for a "apology video" where he tried to explain why the playerbase was wrong (he looked like he was at gunpoint from Anton and Kirill). Eventually after tonnes of backlash from CC and posts they decided to lower the RP a little for FPE and parts, but still held their original stance. Shaun was also seen a lot less, in fact I think he is only used for voicing some videos or dev steamers as a translator at most before they replaced him and Bruce with the new guy.
Oh yeah I completely forgot until I read your comment. He didn’t mention Bruce was taken off due to voicing Russian propaganda and justifications of the invasion of Ukraine. And holding the political stance that they were right in doing so. He was like the cool grandpa of the WT community until he showed that dark side. Now that’s iceberg worthy.
@@Deuce_and_a_half Dark side my arse. While the invasion of Ukraine was (and is) universally bad, all Bruce did was voice one video on the subject. It’s like getting annoyed that a US TV show host said favorable things about the Vietnam War. Also the new narrator that they’ve replaced him with has a voice that sounds like the average war thunder player (i.e., an autistic 14 year old)
WOO! Once again, firmly entrenched at the bottom of that iceberg as an Italy main! I swear, I will spade every single vehicle in their air and ground tech trees eventually. Once I get the VBC out of the way, it's on to my first Ariete.
Dying to one of the removed tanks (except the maus) is one of the few times I'm never annoyed I died because I know the player who has them is almost certainly much better than I am because of how long they will have been playing
I'll add this slight correction about the Ho229 statement. By the time the war ended the prototype has been somewhat tested by the germans and there are records of it performing against other german aircraft like the 262 and so on. It was mostly plagued by mechanical problems that were around every other german machine so that wouldn't reflect on the gameplay. Later it is believed that allies did extensive testing with it so it was very much a real war machine that just didn't make it into production and therefore the combat. At worst I can see it being added as a premium nowdays.
The way I see it, Sim mode IS the game. Arcade and Realistic are just practice modes to get players up to snuff. I wish they didn't bury it beneath the lobby UI. I feel like more folks might be inclined to play it, and then maybe the matchmaker will find me someone to play with this Christmas.
I've got the feeling, that overpressure has been tweaked (nerfed) recently. What used to be an instakill by the Brummbär on KV-1s is now doing nothing but a "hit", with a bit of luck a damaged gun barrel or tracks. Also bombs, if not landing just right next to the tank, now tend to only cause damage to tracks, gun barrels and sometimes engine and/or gearbox but the crew is intact, at least in my experience with heavy tanks. First noticed this when the Strumtiger has been released...
With the Kugleblitz, and the change to the German AA tech tree, I can actually provide some information. Back in the day, when Ground Forces was in testing, Germany only had a single AA vehicle. That being the panzer 1 chassis with the AA gun on it. At the time, a user by the name of Katyusha, proposed an entire technical tree for the German AA. The user didn't just say "do this this and this" but actually provided information on everything. From the vehicle's build dates, how many were built, if they actually saw combat, and so on. This included the Panther Coellian, which even then Katyusha noted was a 'paper' plan, but that they couldn't really find anything that fit otherwise. Gaijin in turn took what Katyusha had proposed, and working with them, implemented it. All the way up to the Kugelblitz. They actually brought them on as an advisor of sorts, working directly with the developers to hash out the details of the old german AA line, strengths, and weaknesses. Interestingly, there was one other proposed vehicle, which didn't get very far in the development phase. The developers loved the idea, but at the time, the game technology wasn't such to make the vehicle actually work. That vehicle was the "Flak Maus." The FM was proposed to have a pair of long barreled .88 mm guns in the turret, with the ability to elevate almost to a 90 degree altitude. Ideally, the gun would have had used only shrapnel rounds, with the research being first a 'timed' round, and then later a proximity fused round. However like I said, at the time, the game technology wasn't there to make it happen. There was also a fear of players using the then 'top tier' AA gun to fight tanks, which wasn't in line with what Gaijin wanted at the time. As thanks for the information, Gaijin hired Katyusha as one of their technical moderators, and modified their account, unlocking every single vehicle in the German AA line that Katyusha had proposed.
About the D point: it was a funny event in some map back right after the beta endend in 2014. A never-seen-after JU-52 transport plane would spawn and crash leaving some documents behind that became the dinamic created D point. If you captured it, it dissappeared and it ate a chunk from the enemy red bar. It made possible to overturn 100% lost battles, it was pretty fun to sometime make a last do-or-die cavalry charge.
I'm also remembering that Carpathians used to have AI tanks in the north, the same map would've also had the plane that would drop something, and it would turn into the D point. Barrage balloons on Normandy would give points too back then and would count as an air kill IIRC. There was also this removed game mode for ground forces, I forgot the name, but it was kinda like a weird Rush gamemode from battlefield.
Kinda wish you talked about AI in ground battles on maps like carpathians and jungle, maps being reworked like volo or kursk or gaijin removed dead tanks from places like berlin, the removed "break" game mode (throwback), bomb targets in ground rb, and I guess for a more general war thunder iceberg, the war thunder assistant app that had gambling among other things. and OF COURSE war thunders brief "battle royale" mode. There was more I thought to add but I can't seem to remember
You forgot the ai tanks that you can kill to get points during AB matches back in the day, and the balloons on Normandy that you can machine gun to get points
The only person I know who actively plays the E100 is Dollarplayz. But outside of his videos. Never came across one in the 4+ years I have been playing. But IS-7 I swear I get one almost every other match
It was only good when both teams were full of casual players "just having fun". If you had 1 or 2 people who knew the perfect rollout and early game spot to take with the correct vehicles, the game was literally over. A BMP at that bridge part could kill the entire team as they left base on half the map from out of line of sight.
Foliage is a big problem especially in RB & Sim, not just because of the excessive use but also because they can be placed in spots where it would block driver & gunner sigts, i wish they limited it to just one piece of usable foliage & just placeable in certain spots.
I think you missed something very important: uptiers. I have over 3000 Ground RB battles (most of which are as Germany), but out of all of them, I have been majorly uptiered all but maybe 20-50 times, downtiered maybe 5 of those... I main Germany, but I can never do well because I'm always completely out of my performance class. People say that Panthers (5.3-6.0 BR) are overpowered, but that's not the case when you only go against 6.7-7.0 BR vehicles. I don't know why I get uptiered so often, but it is definitely unacceptable. If there's a way to decrease your chances of an uptier, could you please make a video on it?
Me trying to hold myself back when I hear someone say "Stridswagen" instead of "Stridsvagn" (There is no e in either the name or the pronunciation) For those who couldn't figure this one out, it's referring to the Swedish name for tanks (Stridsvagn) and how some people add in an e in the pronunciation when trying to say the word in English.
*Raises up hand slowly* I like Italy tanks. And love the PSO....the wheeled vehicles make me want to rip my hair out at times(Cen-105R).... but other times i have a blast with them.
Just started a few weeks ago and Italian tanks were my first choice, I kinda left that grind to grind laterally but I'm back on it and the 2.7/3.0 Rank II grind is pretty tough, just waiting for the Turan III rn
I always have the view of content creator/partner of any games to be disconnected in the community because they get everything for free and don't need to grind anything.
E100 it’s not rarest. Rarest it’s soviet airacobra q15. It’s less than a 100 in game, most owners didn’t play game in years and it’s so obscure that people don’t even notice when it’s show up in battle. If you see it in battle it’s equivalent to see a unicorn irl.
Hi tankenstein! I love the video, but I wanted to point out that new players can still play the french reserve tanks. My account is only about 2 years old but I can play them. All you have to do is reach rank 2 in the tree and the vehicles are instantly unlocked besides the AMC34 which needs to be researched
i really like how you keep saying that you never see the Erzats M10, Pak Puma or Herman the German Sherman. while those are some of my most played tanks of all times
@@lector-dogmatixsicarii1537 it's "free" in the sense that you purchased the golden eagles and the "abrams" was part of the pack but the price wasnt more than the normal golden eagles price
@@wafflecopter9296 Except you didn't just want the GE, lol. That's just a cope. It was specifically marketed as "Get Abrams for FREE" in the material. Imagine shelling out for gaijin to degrade you and forget everything that happened.
Real bottom of the iceberg: Ka50 first spawn with full loadout, IS6 pay2win spam , IS7 event, traction nerf, cas, ghost shells, selling high tier premiums, ghost nerfs/buffs Those are the top toxic things that ruined the game in some way and there is probably more.
Should have added GF map design to the list. I really find the maps in WT to be overall bad. Like if i did a tier list it would be 1 or 2 maps at B tier and the rest at C and below. But also how different the opinions are on maps personally im not a big fan of city maps(maybe has to do with like its 20 of them with maps that are heavily focused around a town like certain versions of Hürtgen forest.) but some people love them. for personally the city maps really dont play that different for each other and how it kinda makes armor a bit useless when everybody fights at point blank instead. Is not that mind CQC but i feel maps are way to focused on that type of engagement distance while i personally want maps more focused on realistic combat ranges for their tier. for example i like red desert i like how big it is and still allow for alot of sightlines that doesnt dominate the map and the amount of different routes you can take to get into position.
I'm far from being experienced but I main Germany and sure, sometimes I get bat teams or just get bullied in matches but overall it's not too bad, When I play my USA tanks it's pretty much similar
i’ve played germany for about a year now got every tank and i always find my self in teams filled with leo 2 premiums and they always are 1 death leavers the struggle is real but when u have a good team germany is undefeated
When they added "The sons of Attila" update a lot of Hungarian player started to play with Italy cause of the update, and it refreshed the Italian player base
I'd say the rarest vehicles are the content creator ones from the TH-camr cup from a few years ago. Only a few people have them, which are Slickbee, Oxy, Oddbaws iirc there were some others i don't remember. If you only count purchasable vehicles, the Surblinde is rarer than the E-100 and if you include planes, the He-162 with the 30mms. Other rare vehicles are the ones that got removed many years ago, more specifically the Italian planes in the German TT and the super copy paste vehicles that were added just to get the Guinness record. The decal size was capped because people were covering themselves with black decals to fool the enemy into thinking they were a destroyed tank.
The fact that friendly fire got sadly removed in tank battles told me everything I needed to know about the missing grown-up mentality of the crowd attracted to that game mode... Low and behold, by now the playerbase in this game has clearly deteriorated in terms of skill and sometimes even intelligence. One evidence of that is when when Gaijin's decisions to reduce rewards by removing proximity score, and other ways, to gain RP/SL, was only opposed by a smaller group of players and somehow more people were talking about the simultaneous plan of Gaijin to put timers on wagers and backups (granted backups was somewhat a biger deal, though not as much as the further reward reduction).
SIM battles really aren't hard, idk why people think it would be. Yeah there's no nametag, but the teams are always the same so all you have to remember is what german and russian tanks look like (hint: they all look the same, from panzer 2 to tiger, panther to tiger 2, and t44 to t80BVM, they literally ALL look the same). That and common sense is basically 90% of the gamemode, other than that it's regular RB.
There are, in fact, nations in that mode other than Germany and Russia. Its that oversimplistic mindset that encourages teammates to kill French, British, Japanese, and (domestically produced) Italian tanks such as the Breda 501. It is a plague on the mode, and not knowing what all vehicles look like in a given matchmaking bracket is a quick ticket to ruin someone elses entire match while getting oneself banned from matchmaking for excessive teamkilling.
When a group of veterans get together to destroy everything, with lost tanks and retarded levels of knowledge, skill, incredible tactics and teamwork. That is when I get out a meme tank and do anything to kill one of them.
Ha, I'm the opposite with SPAA. I love to spawn SPAA, especially if I have one that fits the BR well. Absolutely hate CAS, so it can sometimes be more satisfying to drop a juicy cas player before they can accomplish much, than tanks.
When test driving the amx 13 ss.11 at night,wait a while and a bomber repeatedly spawns and crashes. I’m not sure this is limited to the amx 13ss11, but it happened to me.
30:29 they would of always introduced the HO-229. the line that they could only add it when they did is BS because it came out in 1.43, same as the T-35 and cannonberra
I almost had it, I was sleeping when the tournaments were going on, but someone @everyone about it on a war thunder discord so a lot of people on that discord have it, I still hate myself for not staying up for 20 more minutes lol.
@@thekrimsonchin6023 aw man, that rly sucks, just for the future I'll recommend this, I can't remember it's name but there's a chrome extention that auto redeems drops and channel points, so if you can grab that then you don't need to grab future drops manually c:
I used to play war thunder when i was in midle school. I stoped playimg it 2 years ago and now I feel realy old simce I have seen all the changes you mentioned and I propably have a lot of the german and other countries vehicles that were removed. Damn when did I get this old? Any way thx a lot for your video. I still love this game where national clasified documents get leaked just to win some argument against a 10 year old on the internet.
No hassle abt never having gotten a nuke. I never got a nuke myself, but only because I keep forgetting to use it and spawn in with my CAS instead, mustve happened a dozen times by now already haha
I remember the chineese APFDS i saw it in reddit, it looked like all of the APFDS sadly i didnt understand anything that was in the paper i also thought about taking a SS to save it
The problem with T34 Prototype and German Sherman is they went on sale at like 8am for Europe so it was 4am in the US and by the time we wake up for these sales their already sold out
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why dont you talk about all the cheaters in the game that use ESP... that should be in the video at the very bottom, oh wait because sell out.
"Just spawn AA" isn't a thing about respawning when you have low SP, but CAS players saying it when they kill your MBT from orbit, because AA is the only thing that "can" counter them.
Tho then AA gets targeted by CAS with 13KM range missles, and can't do anything, but lets just ignore that right Gaijin? :)
AMX-50 Surblinde, a tank so rare it was forgotten even in an iceberg video
I've had someone in chat actually say 'holy shit a Surblinde' when I pulled it out once. Unfortunately I use it more as hangar decoration than a combat machine these days.
@@Armaros101you should bring it out more, it deserves to be seen more
I didn’t even notice White Rock Fortress and Red Desert got removed from rotation until you mentioned it rn. I haven’t seen those maps in a bit.
I got Red Desert like 2 or 3 weeks ago, but it was about a 4-6 month period between the last time I got it, Dunno where WRF went tho, *hopefully* they'll make it better.
@@americanhat3766 same
I think it is because people complained Red Desert was too big, yet people keep asking for bigger maps lol
Actually red deser is here i playd it with Leo 2av. But the fortres is gone l.
Red desert wasn’t removed, you can only get it 9.7 and above.
Just a bit of clarification about the Free Abrams thing.
It wasn't people asking Sean for free things.
It was because there was a pretty massive movement on the forums and reddit to get Gaijin to either lower the cost to research parts and FPE or to remove them as researchable modules completely (thus giving them for free) and it was basically just people spamming the Devs about "Free FPE and Parts!" in every venue they could.
And during Sean's stream they kept doing that in chat and him being woefully disconnected from the grind of the game (being a content creator actually working for Gaijin and thus being able to just have everything spaded all the time without grinding) and also biting into the company line quite hard, he got really upset about that and basically called everyone spoiled little children and said "Free FPE and Parts, Free FPE and Parts, why don't we just give everyone a Free Abrams while we're at it!?".
You know... because he was a twat.
(Sorry about that last part, but he really was. It was essentially the "let them eat cake" version for WarThunder.)
dont be sorry, he was fucking trash and deserved it.
@@FirstSpearDefense Not sorry that I'm saying he was a twat, just sorry that I'm saying stuff like that here.
That is exactly how i remember it.
Yes and the aftermath I'm not so sure what happened to Sean, but the Parts and FPE became "cheaper" than other modification RP costs, and they are selected as top priority default pick for vehicle modification order.
Back then, all FPE and Parts had to be selected MANUALLY after purchuasing the vehicle (The default was Tracks as it was on the very top left corner of the list), and they costed just like any other modifications!
@@osscar-nh2vm I have not seen or heard Sean in a long while...
In my time of doing 7.7, the only time i ever see an E-100 is when i take my own out to battle lol. I can also testify the E-100 has a hidden stat gaijin never posted. It comes with a 15% buff to teamwork haha
The E-100 side skirts are better than the Maus's side armor until they break because of volumetric. They can stop APFSDS at 45 degrees.
i met a e-100 once and i couldnt pen it at all due to having stock heat shells only. there was no way for me to kill it at all lmao
Just after 10th anniversary i saw E-100 3 games in a row, i have never been so lucky
@@CyberneticArgumentCreator The sideskirts also massively help with any form if explosions too, granted they hardly ever survive. I've had very few games where I lost one side entirely,
They didn't actually remove the old french reserve tanks, you can still research them by unlocking french rank 2
i think the funniest part about the leaked documents is the fact that the chinese one for a new apfsds round was actually worse than most of the current apfsds shells the nation currently has in game. so that person leaked documents for a shell that wouldn't have helped the nation at all
...meaning the current shells implemented in the game were hilariously overpowered relative to what China actually uses.
@@CyberneticArgumentCreator yes, but you can't tell Gaijin that. Because China and Russia are "balanced". I mean look at the T-72 Sweden got and the Leapord 2A4 right above it in the tech tree. The T-72 supposedly has better rounds than the tank that it progresses into, and more modifications to boot.
@@CyberneticArgumentCreator kinda like why i dont get why the VBC for example is 8.7 and a gen 2 thermal WMA (Chins wheely prem) is at 8.3 its just nuts that even with new br changes soon it still just sits there
I didnt realize they removed white rock fortress, it's too bad, I love that map.
I actually really liked that map at mid/low tiers. Needed work on the spawncamping though.
@@JoviaI1 very true but tbh a lot of maps do
Was cool but horible over 3.7
23:40 the e-100 is not regularly sold at all. I dont think one has traded hands since 2019 and before that they were still EXTREAMLY rare on the market place.
It feels weird having played the game for so long I know all the iceberg stuff, but only being top tier in Japan. The grind is pain
That sounds exactly like my experience. But I’ve basically finished Japan, so now I’m just trying to decide what next.
@@derritter3873 france
What you get at top tier? Die from the sky bombing without any counter in your punny tank.
@@derritter3873 I switched to france after japan and its the best choice i have ever made
All of Japan is lacking armor, and the type 74 just feel like a Leo 1 with engaged handbrake but they have some cool tanks in the line, just bought the 2 type 90 and they are so nice with the 4sec autoloader, worth the grind imho
One thing that could be on the list.
There was a time, when you could knockout tank crew and the tank didn't explode, so while playing Sim Battle it was common to see tank on you right, get a panic attack to realise it was wreckage that wasn't destroyed by explosion etc.
A little extra for the free abrams part, it went downhill very fast for gaijin as they began to disable comments and dislike button on their channel. They then got BVVDs (lead dev) brother for a "apology video" where he tried to explain why the playerbase was wrong (he looked like he was at gunpoint from Anton and Kirill). Eventually after tonnes of backlash from CC and posts they decided to lower the RP a little for FPE and parts, but still held their original stance. Shaun was also seen a lot less, in fact I think he is only used for voicing some videos or dev steamers as a translator at most before they replaced him and Bruce with the new guy.
And they didnt even thought about lowering thé boats parts and fpe
That are a lot more painful that tanks to grind
Oh yeah I completely forgot until I read your comment.
He didn’t mention Bruce was taken off due to voicing Russian propaganda and justifications of the invasion of Ukraine. And holding the political stance that they were right in doing so.
He was like the cool grandpa of the WT community until he showed that dark side.
Now that’s iceberg worthy.
@@Deuce_and_a_half Dark side my arse.
While the invasion of Ukraine was (and is) universally bad, all Bruce did was voice one video on the subject.
It’s like getting annoyed that a US TV show host said favorable things about the Vietnam War.
Also the new narrator that they’ve replaced him with has a voice that sounds like the average war thunder player (i.e., an autistic 14 year old)
WOO! Once again, firmly entrenched at the bottom of that iceberg as an Italy main! I swear, I will spade every single vehicle in their air and ground tech trees eventually. Once I get the VBC out of the way, it's on to my first Ariete.
Dying to one of the removed tanks (except the maus) is one of the few times I'm never annoyed I died because I know the player who has them is almost certainly much better than I am because of how long they will have been playing
I'll add this slight correction about the Ho229 statement.
By the time the war ended the prototype has been somewhat tested by the germans and there are records of it performing against other german aircraft like the 262 and so on. It was mostly plagued by mechanical problems that were around every other german machine so that wouldn't reflect on the gameplay. Later it is believed that allies did extensive testing with it so it was very much a real war machine that just didn't make it into production and therefore the combat. At worst I can see it being added as a premium nowdays.
The way I see it, Sim mode IS the game. Arcade and Realistic are just practice modes to get players up to snuff. I wish they didn't bury it beneath the lobby UI. I feel like more folks might be inclined to play it, and then maybe the matchmaker will find me someone to play with this Christmas.
I've got the feeling, that overpressure has been tweaked (nerfed) recently. What used to be an instakill by the Brummbär on KV-1s is now doing nothing but a "hit", with a bit of luck a damaged gun barrel or tracks. Also bombs, if not landing just right next to the tank, now tend to only cause damage to tracks, gun barrels and sometimes engine and/or gearbox but the crew is intact, at least in my experience with heavy tanks. First noticed this when the Strumtiger has been released...
least biased russian tank
somehow it tanks kv2 shells to the back of the turret
You didn’t mention the old Battle Royale mode. I loved that mode. So much fun.
With the Kugleblitz, and the change to the German AA tech tree, I can actually provide some information.
Back in the day, when Ground Forces was in testing, Germany only had a single AA vehicle. That being the panzer 1 chassis with the AA gun on it. At the time, a user by the name of Katyusha, proposed an entire technical tree for the German AA. The user didn't just say "do this this and this" but actually provided information on everything. From the vehicle's build dates, how many were built, if they actually saw combat, and so on. This included the Panther Coellian, which even then Katyusha noted was a 'paper' plan, but that they couldn't really find anything that fit otherwise.
Gaijin in turn took what Katyusha had proposed, and working with them, implemented it. All the way up to the Kugelblitz. They actually brought them on as an advisor of sorts, working directly with the developers to hash out the details of the old german AA line, strengths, and weaknesses.
Interestingly, there was one other proposed vehicle, which didn't get very far in the development phase. The developers loved the idea, but at the time, the game technology wasn't such to make the vehicle actually work. That vehicle was the "Flak Maus." The FM was proposed to have a pair of long barreled .88 mm guns in the turret, with the ability to elevate almost to a 90 degree altitude. Ideally, the gun would have had used only shrapnel rounds, with the research being first a 'timed' round, and then later a proximity fused round. However like I said, at the time, the game technology wasn't there to make it happen. There was also a fear of players using the then 'top tier' AA gun to fight tanks, which wasn't in line with what Gaijin wanted at the time.
As thanks for the information, Gaijin hired Katyusha as one of their technical moderators, and modified their account, unlocking every single vehicle in the German AA line that Katyusha had proposed.
That's very interesting
Ground arcade is nice, I think it’s fun and kinda like a zombies mode and the boosters are helpful for the grind
About the D point: it was a funny event in some map back right after the beta endend in 2014. A never-seen-after JU-52 transport plane would spawn and crash leaving some documents behind that became the dinamic created D point. If you captured it, it dissappeared and it ate a chunk from the enemy red bar. It made possible to overturn 100% lost battles, it was pretty fun to sometime make a last do-or-die cavalry charge.
There is a tournament called air gladiators 4v4 where there actually is a D point at a sertain stage of the tournament too
can confirm red dessert is still in the game. 18:00
I see it all the time. Especially in SRE
Nice! I watched your aviation iceberg explanation video and loved it, was wondering when the tank one was coming. Looking forward to watching this!
Many of their April Fools events have been fun, but nothing will top the year we could play as the Walker Tanks
Saw a e100 In a match. Was in a maus. It was glorious
I'm also remembering that Carpathians used to have AI tanks in the north, the same map would've also had the plane that would drop something, and it would turn into the D point. Barrage balloons on Normandy would give points too back then and would count as an air kill IIRC. There was also this removed game mode for ground forces, I forgot the name, but it was kinda like a weird Rush gamemode from battlefield.
Kinda wish you talked about AI in ground battles on maps like carpathians and jungle, maps being reworked like volo or kursk or gaijin removed dead tanks from places like berlin, the removed "break" game mode (throwback), bomb targets in ground rb, and I guess for a more general war thunder iceberg, the war thunder assistant app that had gambling among other things. and OF COURSE war thunders brief "battle royale" mode. There was more I thought to add but I can't seem to remember
You forgot the ai tanks that you can kill to get points during AB matches back in the day, and the balloons on Normandy that you can machine gun to get points
I played 3.3 br and got 14 kills 0 deaths 2500 spawn points 😊
This is something I never knew I wanted in my over 4 years playing WT but since its here now I'm satisfied.
Played Red Desert last week, but very rare but yes, White Rock, didn't even realize it. They can get rid of Mozdok at any time...
Was expecting something like "unparalled toxicity" at the first or second tier considering the teammates and enemies ive been getting
Teammates are the kind of enemies in this game, that you should'nt kill.
They did give out "free abrams". It was a pack where it was $50 of ge and a xm1 for $50
About the removed french tanks
The Ha-Go was also removed
yeah the removed french tanks are in the tech tree just they are above the reserve tier vehicles and are available for research.
It would be cool for War Thunder to launch a tools to see how rare vehicles are based on how much player base proportion have them.
The only person I know who actively plays the E100 is Dollarplayz. But outside of his videos. Never came across one in the 4+ years I have been playing. But IS-7 I swear I get one almost every other match
12:23 Regarding that, ive Seen a Clip where a T-34 or IS has been killed because a Sturmtiger Rocket Had gone through its barrel
Love the Centis, 7.3 with Action X, 5/1, Mk3 and AVRE, along with Fat Centurion Carnarvon is just :chefkiss:
18:22 Don´t feel like playing against other players... Yes, the horrible High Tier Stock Heat-FS grind for example
been playing for 3-4 years and have only ever seen on E-100 in a kill feed, never seen one alive ina match.
I’m still depressed about white rock. It’s an amazing map and way better than at least half of the maps in the game.
It was only good when both teams were full of casual players "just having fun". If you had 1 or 2 people who knew the perfect rollout and early game spot to take with the correct vehicles, the game was literally over. A BMP at that bridge part could kill the entire team as they left base on half the map from out of line of sight.
Foliage is a big problem especially in RB & Sim, not just because of the excessive use but also because they can be placed in spots where it would block driver & gunner sigts, i wish they limited it to just one piece of usable foliage & just placeable in certain spots.
I think you missed something very important: uptiers. I have over 3000 Ground RB battles (most of which are as Germany), but out of all of them, I have been majorly uptiered all but maybe 20-50 times, downtiered maybe 5 of those... I main Germany, but I can never do well because I'm always completely out of my performance class. People say that Panthers (5.3-6.0 BR) are overpowered, but that's not the case when you only go against 6.7-7.0 BR vehicles. I don't know why I get uptiered so often, but it is definitely unacceptable. If there's a way to decrease your chances of an uptier, could you please make a video on it?
funny how no one also talked about the Excelsior lol, i have one and i played it quite a lot, good tank
Me trying to hold myself back when I hear someone say "Stridswagen" instead of "Stridsvagn" (There is no e in either the name or the pronunciation)
For those who couldn't figure this one out, it's referring to the Swedish name for tanks (Stridsvagn) and how some people add in an e in the pronunciation when trying to say the word in English.
*Raises up hand slowly* I like Italy tanks. And love the PSO....the wheeled vehicles make me want to rip my hair out at times(Cen-105R).... but other times i have a blast with them.
Italy reserve tanks suck ass and the French ones are better change my mind
It fun to use the as 42/47 at top tier
Just started a few weeks ago and Italian tanks were my first choice, I kinda left that grind to grind laterally but I'm back on it and the 2.7/3.0 Rank II grind is pretty tough, just waiting for the Turan III rn
I always have the view of content creator/partner of any games to be disconnected in the community because they get everything for free and don't need to grind anything.
You forgot to mention hullbreak and that there were also bots in PVP ground battles.
one time I was in a custom with a Maus and some guy with an E-100 just popped up and starting following me for about 20 minutes lmao
I've recently had a top-tier match on red desert, though it's still an incredibly uncommon map
weird that i have seen the E-100 a lot in my 6+ years of actively playing the game
E100 it’s not rarest. Rarest it’s soviet airacobra q15. It’s less than a 100 in game, most owners didn’t play game in years and it’s so obscure that people don’t even notice when it’s show up in battle. If you see it in battle it’s equivalent to see a unicorn irl.
26:40 you forgot the ec-665 Tiger
Hi tankenstein! I love the video, but I wanted to point out that new players can still play the french reserve tanks. My account is only about 2 years old but I can play them. All you have to do is reach rank 2 in the tree and the vehicles are instantly unlocked besides the AMC34 which needs to be researched
Awesome vid 🔥
I've seen one E-100 in a custom battle half a decade ago
Strange, I've seen dozens of Hermanns in AB since the sale.
Potato tanks were probably the most amusing dig at World of Tanks I've seen, though you forgot to mention that they had a health bar.
Damn you have to be really unlucky not to have gotten a nuke yet, im below average and somehow managed to get 2 of them.
i really like how you keep saying that you never see the Erzats M10, Pak Puma or Herman the German Sherman. while those are some of my most played tanks of all times
20:30 I think “Just down SPAA” is more of a response to people complaining about CAS in the forums
The free abrams pack was basically a 10k golden eagles pack that included an abrams at no extra cost. Making it "free"
So you basically paid for two Abrams at a slashed markup...
It was car salesman enticement, not actually free.
@@lector-dogmatixsicarii1537 it's "free" in the sense that you purchased the golden eagles and the "abrams" was part of the pack but the price wasnt more than the normal golden eagles price
@@wafflecopter9296 Joke is on you, you still paid to get it.
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@@lector-dogmatixsicarii1537 well it kind of is "free" if you just wanted the golden eagles
@@wafflecopter9296 Except you didn't just want the GE, lol. That's just a cope.
It was specifically marketed as "Get Abrams for FREE" in the material.
Imagine shelling out for gaijin to degrade you and forget everything that happened.
Real bottom of the iceberg: Ka50 first spawn with full loadout, IS6 pay2win spam , IS7 event, traction nerf, cas, ghost shells, selling high tier premiums, ghost nerfs/buffs Those are the top toxic things that ruined the game in some way and there is probably more.
Should have added GF map design to the list. I really find the maps in WT to be overall bad. Like if i did a tier list it would be 1 or 2 maps at B tier and the rest at C and below.
But also how different the opinions are on maps personally im not a big fan of city maps(maybe has to do with like its 20 of them with maps that are heavily focused around a town like certain versions of Hürtgen forest.) but some people love them.
for personally the city maps really dont play that different for each other and how it kinda makes armor a bit useless when everybody fights at point blank instead. Is not that mind CQC but i feel maps are way to focused on that type of engagement distance while i personally want maps more focused on realistic combat ranges for their tier. for example i like red desert i like how big it is and still allow for alot of sightlines that doesnt dominate the map and the amount of different routes you can take to get into position.
It has been tested that the m1a2 sep can pen 1400 mils of armor..includes killing the Leopard 2a6 through the front turret..
Killing an E-100 in sim battles was the scariest but also satisfying thing I’ve done in war thunder
you still can kill friendly tank in ground rb with planes and I was expecting AI tanks in ground battles somewhere in bottom iceberg.
You can also do vice versa with a stray spaa bullet
@@CNTMPLTR True
they didn't remove french tanks, i got them less than a month ago while i was starting to farm the french tech tree
I'm far from being experienced but I main Germany and sure, sometimes I get bat teams or just get bullied in matches but overall it's not too bad, When I play my USA tanks it's pretty much similar
i’ve played germany for about a year now got every tank and i always find my self in teams filled with leo 2 premiums and they always are 1 death leavers the struggle is real but when u have a good team germany is undefeated
There was also a leak about the Tiger Helicopter
i was just looking for this video yesterday and boom, look at that
I play Italy 🇮🇹 so I can't spawn with anti air, it was already my first choice at the start
This really made my turret tingle!!!! thanks!
When they added "The sons of Attila" update a lot of Hungarian player started to play with Italy cause of the update, and it refreshed the Italian player base
"attack the D point!"
Thanks for explaining the 'D point'
I'd say the rarest vehicles are the content creator ones from the TH-camr cup from a few years ago. Only a few people have them, which are Slickbee, Oxy, Oddbaws iirc there were some others i don't remember.
If you only count purchasable vehicles, the Surblinde is rarer than the E-100 and if you include planes, the He-162 with the 30mms.
Other rare vehicles are the ones that got removed many years ago, more specifically the Italian planes in the German TT and the super copy paste vehicles that were added just to get the Guinness record.
The decal size was capped because people were covering themselves with black decals to fool the enemy into thinking they were a destroyed tank.
As an italian main, im both sad and happy that Italy is on this list, we exist, but our population is just rare, even in lower tiers.
I kind of miss White Rock Fortress. It was the first map that I did will playing a M4 Sherman.
The fact that friendly fire got sadly removed in tank battles told me everything I needed to know about the missing grown-up mentality of the crowd attracted to that game mode... Low and behold, by now the playerbase in this game has clearly deteriorated in terms of skill and sometimes even intelligence. One evidence of that is when when Gaijin's decisions to reduce rewards by removing proximity score, and other ways, to gain RP/SL, was only opposed by a smaller group of players and somehow more people were talking about the simultaneous plan of Gaijin to put timers on wagers and backups (granted backups was somewhat a biger deal, though not as much as the further reward reduction).
SIM battles really aren't hard, idk why people think it would be. Yeah there's no nametag, but the teams are always the same so all you have to remember is what german and russian tanks look like (hint: they all look the same, from panzer 2 to tiger, panther to tiger 2, and t44 to t80BVM, they literally ALL look the same). That and common sense is basically 90% of the gamemode, other than that it's regular RB.
There are, in fact, nations in that mode other than Germany and Russia. Its that oversimplistic mindset that encourages teammates to kill French, British, Japanese, and (domestically produced) Italian tanks such as the Breda 501. It is a plague on the mode, and not knowing what all vehicles look like in a given matchmaking bracket is a quick ticket to ruin someone elses entire match while getting oneself banned from matchmaking for excessive teamkilling.
I’ve only seen the E-100 twice. It was so cool ngl
Very large decal sounds fun, why did they removed it?
Friendly fire is still on in tank simulator battles, learned that in an unfortunate way
Damn it I should have gotten that T-69IIA. I remember looking at it and being like “yea soon I’ll get you” then it went away… lol
I played a game recently that had like 5 e-100s all together. Scariest thing I’ve ever seen.
When a group of veterans get together to destroy everything, with lost tanks and retarded levels of knowledge, skill, incredible tactics and teamwork. That is when I get out a meme tank and do anything to kill one of them.
Ha, I'm the opposite with SPAA. I love to spawn SPAA, especially if I have one that fits the BR well. Absolutely hate CAS, so it can sometimes be more satisfying to drop a juicy cas player before they can accomplish much, than tanks.
i had red desert last time i played sim with the leo 2AV (around 2-3 weeks ago)
When test driving the amx 13 ss.11 at night,wait a while and a bomber repeatedly spawns and crashes. I’m not sure this is limited to the amx 13ss11, but it happened to me.
30:29 they would of always introduced the HO-229. the line that they could only add it when they did is BS because it came out in 1.43, same as the T-35 and cannonberra
Oh wow, I actually own the chi-ha kai TD because I saw a WT youtuber who talked about it on a community post, never realised it was rare at all
I almost had it, I was sleeping when the tournaments were going on, but someone @everyone about it on a war thunder discord so a lot of people on that discord have it, I still hate myself for not staying up for 20 more minutes lol.
@@thekrimsonchin6023 aw man, that rly sucks, just for the future I'll recommend this, I can't remember it's name but there's a chrome extention that auto redeems drops and channel points, so if you can grab that then you don't need to grab future drops manually c:
@@akettle7359 I see, let me know if you do remember it again. Can't seem to find it on the chrome extension page for some reason, probably hidden.
I used to play war thunder when i was in midle school. I stoped playimg it 2 years ago and now I feel realy old simce I have seen all the changes you mentioned and I propably have a lot of the german and other countries vehicles that were removed. Damn when did I get this old? Any way thx a lot for your video. I still love this game where national clasified documents get leaked just to win some argument against a 10 year old on the internet.
On the topic of Sherman’s you forgot the most important Sherman. Herman the German Sherman …..
It’s even funnier when the collieon legit is a real tank, just didn’t enter service, and remained a hull and turret.
No hassle abt never having gotten a nuke. I never got a nuke myself, but only because I keep forgetting to use it and spawn in with my CAS instead, mustve happened a dozen times by now already haha
@Tankenstein, you need a decal in game so I can support you that way!
I remember the chineese APFDS i saw it in reddit, it looked like all of the APFDS sadly i didnt understand anything that was in the paper i also thought about taking a SS to save it
The problem with T34 Prototype and German Sherman is they went on sale at like 8am for Europe so it was 4am in the US and by the time we wake up for these sales their already sold out