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That's why you should never rush in like a maniac an keep your self hidden. Try to play like you would do when you play infantry. Keep yourself hidden and protected and only come out or go full in when possible
Chiming in years later, I always run gunner SOFLAM. Being able to laze any target for the rest of my team adds another variable to our tank’s force multiplication. The number of times I’ve lazed the helicopter harassing my team’s armored units just to watch it get smashed by laser-guided missiles within seconds is comedy gold. In a straight up tank duel, it can give my driver early warning of threats. It lets me actually do something when there’s no infantry to defend against, and just be another piece of the puzzle contributing to my team beyond keeping my tanker alive. I’ve honestly found that the gunner laser is just as deadly for enemy vehicles as the tank itself.
HMG tip: fire it like you would a DMR. Medium range, headshots, fire and steady, then re-aim. If you just hold it down full auto you won't hit anything.
There is a glitch if you are infront of a Type 99 MBT shoot at the top so your shell just straves his top and the shot comnects as if you just shot in his back. Meaning 50 dmg + Mobility kill
I generally have 2 different playstyles when it comes to tanks: if you are soloing, then be aware of your surrounding and check mini-map, don't get greedy and maintain distance (of course I don't mean camping in the back). Find holes in enemy lines and flank enemy tanks. Pick easy to moderate fight. if you have a squad mate, then you can be more aggressive and start to hunt down people, back up for your squad mate to repair when damaged. repeat the cycle and start farming!
Tom Henderson with the tanks skills 🔥🔥🔥. Another thing to notice is angleing your Tank always to 45 degrees in every fight helps a lot to with the 1v1 cuz u receive less damage than perpendicular shots and also helps to not get glitch shot in the sandbags!
I am a recent BF 4 player. Like were talking a month tops thanks to some friends. I learned a few things here. Like for example, tanks have their own loadout options
If you find yourself losing in a tank fight, being one shot behind or something, I found it really useful to literally just ram into the enemy tank from slightly on the side. This will lift up the enemy tank and you get below it, and they just won't be able to shoot you at all and you can shoot their bottom and win. Works every time
Great video! The turret speed on PC is unreal, can imagine it makes fighting tanks as infantry alot more difficult than console. Only other tip is an obvious one but is to make sure you have mechanic perk on your engineer class, something I always forget to change haha EDIT: also I'm pretty sure you take more damage if you have boost on/full speed so that's something to keep in kind, especially on larger maps
Damn.... using a mouse with a tank looks so broken. That giant cannon just flicks around with ease. I’m a console player so I have no idea if PC players are bothered by it or not.
its just how it is. you get used to it. it still doesn't stop a bad driver from getting ganked by a few engineers. I wouldn't mind a realistic traverse speed in exchange for fewer lock on rockets
@@berengerchristy6256 I just meant if the tank cannon is able to be flipped around like a baton, then the speed should at least be looked at. Im great in a tank on console, and when I watch this video, I feel like I’d be a god on PC. No one can get behind you. And you can shoot a chopper out of the sky and then hit someone prone right in front of you in a split second lol
So I've switched to really only two loadouts and I go back and forth depending on the map. I always use thermal vision and incendiary. 1st: HE shells, HMG, Active Protection, Autoloader. I use this on Infy heavy maps like Zavod, Prop or when I'm really wanting to farm haha. HE Autoloader is just crazy good!! 2nd: AP Shells, HMG, Smokescreen, Thermal Camo. I use this on most vehicle maps like Rogue. Smokescreen not only hides shots from being shown on the mini maps while in the (Area of Effect) for 6 seconds but it also it forces minimal damage to all sides of the tank when shot with dumb fire AT. So with Smokescreen you can pop smoke and then shoot, you will not show on the minimap when you shoot. Especially if you're spamming inspire by seat switching you become a ghost tank. Also the recharge is 12 seconds so it's only down for 6 seconds. Tonk2stronk (Tank-Ace) told me about it a few years ago.
Also a Tonk apprentice with over 300k kills. I would second these load outs. If you want to turn a game into 3D chess use Thermal Camo, you can basically bait everyone, but it’s an entirely different way to play. The only difference is that I use LMG. Only because LMG keeps you off the mini-map and I play solo and infantry aggressive.
Very cool that you don‘t soely focus on jets/helis to master! I love to play every single vehicle & infantry in bf4. The game has still so much to offer in diversity. People that just get good/pro in a single particular vehicle and stick with it miss out on a lot of fun the game offers. Edit: Would love to see you master the RCB on the naval strike maps! It‘s extremly viable against pretty much everything if used right (salve-burst, tv)
For the first time ever I actually liked the product offered by the sponsor of a video.. Installing OGX now. Oh and nice vid, Silk. Ya Aussie git! Luv from a South African
A lot of the time for anti vehicle play I like to use Staff Shells as my secondary. You don’t even need to have line of sight on a tank to hit them, if they’re behind a Boulder on Golmud or behind a wall on Zavod it’ll lock onto them as it’s flying by and basically do a 90 degree turn into them and typically immobilize them. It’s like a passive lock Missile so they don’t get the alert until a split second before it hits. Also it’s got unlimited range with zero drop so you can basically snipe vehicles from the other side of the map. Good vid as always 👍
I used to use gunner SOFLAM on open maps and i'd get my mate to use the tank shell that can act like a missile when a target is painted. Choppers hated us.
Another good tip would be to remember that the tank shells have an arc and will drop, its useful for when tanks and vehicles are sitting just behind a mound or a hill you can let the shell fall into them.
Yo silk just gotta say content is going to another level. Keep it up my dude. Recently switched from console to PC so love to see a vid about mastering the basics on PC..my aim is potato RN so need all the help I can get. Props bro, keen for bf6.
@@SilkOCE cheers cob. Keep grinding YT, love seeing Aussie content. Your vids have already helped me with the switch to PC and I've squaded with some of ya top plays Aussie players. Good on ya for not just showing but promoting players and highlighting their skills but also trying to boost their views/subs. Good on ya bro. Edit: hope you can collab with ark or jfrags to reach more peeps. Ya content is great and ya play style is second to none.
I seriously disagree about the AP shell vs sabot. Back from the symthic days (RIP 👏), we know that the slight buff to velocity is what gives the edge. That, and shooting just above the roof of an MBT for back-shot damage is much easier with the sabot. I will say, canister + AP is DISGUSTING on CQC maps. Second seat and HMG are to deal with infantry and help clean up vehicles you hit with the main gun. I really like the smoke due to breaking locks and preventing crit damage, and it has a much longer uptime due to the massive cooldown on APS. Once again, map dependant.
you think from wrong angle. in a tank its not your job to fight tanks, its your job to farm infantry. fighting tank reduces kpm, reduced kpm = less ticket loss for enemy and more map control. best you can do as a tanker is reduce enemy tickets around contestet flags, denying reinforcments, secure map control, help infantry secure point, move somewhere else, repeat. just keep enemy tanks at distance, and if they overextend kill em, while beeing in a favourable position (within your team) yourself, so you get the advantage when enemy tank forces a fight. AP and HMG is a versatile loadout for that
@@certaindeath7776 Your job as a tank driver is not to farm kills. A tank is one of the most valuable assets in the game, if you want to use it effectively, you cannot constantly run or hide from other tanks, you will have to take them out, before you try to farm infantry. Otherwise, if people play like this, they will not advance and lose the game by ticket bleed, unless the other team is simply incapable of objectively using their tanks. Basically, as soon as one tanker decides to end the circle jerk of tanks camping, farming and not engaging each other, you will be forced to play his game. And playing into someone else's gameplay is always a bad decision, if you are trying to win. It makes you rather predictable.
I honestly use Sabot for the better ballistics and faster projectile When I find myself on wide open maps like Op Firestorm I'm usually hitting tanks from the opposite ends of the highway, and when they shoot, their shells are slow enough for me to avoid Also keep in mind that, depending on the density of helicopters and their skill, it is very possible that you can 1 shot or 2 shot one with your Canister shells if you don't have much experience leading them with your main shot. Cheers from a tank try-hard, love your content
One area I think that is not talked about in BF is camo choices for corresponding maps. Snow camo with a nice worm pattern is pretty versatile on tanks and helis in multiple environments. That camo choice can sometimes gave you the edge you need to win. By remaining a little harder to see. Red patterns in snowy maps is a big example of what not to do. Snow White for helis in Shanghai maps is the bees knees. Dark urban for tanks and helis in Dawnbreaker etc.
I prefer the sabot shell because the main threat for me is air vehicles and sabot makes it easier to shoot down especially helis. AP is better than the sabot for infantry, but I usually am able to deal with infantry with the HMG, so I don't really need the AP. Quite often I choose the camo because it makes air vehicles to give you less attention. Often times I try to use the tanks long range capabilities to my advantage, stay out of areas where I can get attacked from several angles, but in looking into areas where lots of action is happening.
I love driving the tanks on BF4, I'm quit agressive too, go in Rambo style. Quit satisfying when you get the tank in the air and land going high speed. I'm pretty good as a tank driver and i also have the same load out. You mentioned about the HMG i'll give that a go next time about short bursts see if that will improve my accuracy. Thanks for the advice, thumbs up.
Present your armour(front armour facing biggest threat), angle armour (don't know if it does anything but it's engrained in me from WT and WOT), allot of RPGs can be dodged because of how crazy the acceleration is. In a tight situation, tank fight u can shoot, pop aps, jump out quick rep while aps is protecting you or shoot ur rpg at them and hop back in
I guess to each their own preference. I love to use the tank as an AA as well, so sabot shell's speed really does the trick when gunning down choppers and jets. Also if your aim is on point, sabot shell for 1 hit infantry kills from distance also work well. I never had any trouble fighting other armor with it either.
I use canisters alot. They one shot infantry at very long ranges, but the reason I use them is consistent heli and jet hits.. they will tear through heli's like butter and are very easy to hit.. give a try. Nice vid silk!!!
Very solid tips. I do think that for HC specifically, Sabot and LMG are a better choice than AP and HMG. Mostly because there is no passive health Regen for Infantry or vehicles. The velocity of the sabot makes it very easy to control engagement distances, and it's my opinion that baiting the enemy tank into missing a shot does more to help your relative dpm than doing a few extra points of DMG per shot, it's also MUCH easier to hit aircraft with the sabot. Difference of opinion aside, the best tip you gave here was about pillaring and baiting shots. If I could give only one tip to a new player in BF4, it would be that you should use cover in a tank just like you would as infantry, and that the less exposed you are the longer you'll live.
@@andrewhackney6286 Bro the game was 100% balanced around Normal and the playerbase for HC is like 10%. no one cares about hc. Its the reality of things. Btw the best hc loadout would be he and staff.
Play long range against infantry (Guided Launchers are not a common pick) ALWAYS place your front armor against your enemy. Know your playstyle: Are you going Anti Tank or supporting a friendly infantry push? You have a fast engine, try catching the enemy offguard.
Just wanted to say thanks for all the tips for airplanes in bf5 thank you so much I went to a stupid pilot to a good pilot. Respect. Also I'm pretty surprised that you are interact to much with your followers or subscribers keep up man!
Excellent video. You can be the best driver, but without reps you going nowhere. Gunner on main Canon' 6. Throw extra incendiary on heavy traffic corners to avoid flank. Basically I believe, without a good gunner, you're screwed. Hardest thing is-don't be afraid to retreat out of range; unless being rep during battle
I prefer to use Canister But it depends from the maps and environment around you.. if I'm playing on huge map such as Golmud.. i used Canister, if i play on Propaganda i used .50 CAL cuz close combat to avoid RPG,SMAW, even C4
I do love videos like these and always learn so much, so thanks Silk for that. However I've noticed players always like to give tips and tricks on using these vehicles fully loaded rather than how to start out and tips for gaining score and xp when the vehicle is level 0. Which I think would be really helpful to a bunch of people
What I did is get kills and XP as a passenger, that way driver still has geared out tank and you just get unlocks from the minigun/turret kills. Recently unlocked IRNV on tank and I've never driven a tank.
maybe its just me, but I see a little bit longer with irnv. And on for example Golmud, I gun almost only planes and helis between points. Uses soflam to stress them when/if they turn back. It doesnt give much kills at all, but helps the team alot sometimes.
and I always use smoke grenades when Im engineer. Instead of driver having to find cover for me to repair, it just sometimes saves us with some smokes around.
lmg + HE shell and eventually smokescreen on propaganda is so cool I'd recommend you try ;) Smokescreen spam to avoid getting immobilized and lmg+HE because it just shreds infantry on short range. Ennemy tanks not a problem since you will look for infantry engineers support anyway
Good video and tips but DUDE! You ran away from like 6 reppers! They will save your bacon, use them or they'll stop helping you cuz you just drive off every time.
How to tank.... sit back and rack up kills with the zoom view or abuse the op thermals if you need to get close. Then when you finally die, hop straight into another one like everyone else does because there's too many. Oh and decouple the turret makes driving much easier imo. Shit gets boring though just running around in a tank all the time. I wish more people did infantry only without humping a hill with a sniper rifle
There was a similar bug in bf3 that only appeared if you pressed the sprint key when your tank was hit on that spot, but I don't know if exactly the same thing in bf4
Tips to win every tank battle: have a gunner who helps you. It becomes 2vs1 and even as a mediocre tanker you will win over people who are much better but alone. Your gunner has to jump out to shoot rockets and repair. Even better, have a whole squad that is just focused on helping you and you will even win 1 tank vs 2 tanks. I've done my part of LAV play in BF4 and it helped me a lot to learn to drive blindly: on Siege I could drive backwards at full speed and make the corners with perfect timing without having to look behind me. So i could keep firing at the enemies in front of me while driving to safety at full speed. -> Hope they fix tank gameplay in BF6. My biggest problem is the repairing while being in a fight, it simply gives teams (tank + gunner) such a huge advantage that a tank playing alone stands no chance. I understand they want to promote teamplay, but frankly onyl a tiny part of players play as a team. So as soon as a half-decent squad appears they often dominate the server and wreck the balance. For tanks the solution would be simple, at least for BF5: make repairing a tank a cycle for a supprt players similar to how the tank self-repairs. You need to do the complete cycle to gain 20 health and if you get hit in between you start over. That way you cant have a tank camping anymore with 2 supprt players behind it and nobody being able to kill it.
When I first started playing bf4, many years ago, I was awful in tanks and thought they were so underpowered. After lots of experience, they are so good
Tanks are pretty busted. I always get frustrated with new tankers who are scared to push objectives, I guess they have PTSD from engineer ambushes. Gotta use the armor to win ultimately
personally i use sabot, canister, aps and thermal camo only as vet bf tanker, thats my loadout, and i hardly lose 1v1 or even 2v1 tank fights, and real bf tanker dont need a autoloader for a tank figts :)
@@SilkOCE I use thermal camo because a lot ppl (myself including) use thermal sights, and I had SO MANY tanks just pass right next to me or I flank them rly easy, ppl tend to tunnel vision hard with them thermal sights
A great fix for op thermal sights would be that only a narrow scope/sector of the whole vision would be "thermalised". Or just shorter range like IR sight. Or maybe it should be made slow to get ready. Or it should get blurry for a moment after your shots.
Does anyone check their maps in hard-core mode? Always always always reference your map or designate squad mates to calling out targets, while moving, hold the option button, and then tap R1 or L1, good way to see who's where on the map, squads are the way to go.
On Xbox it feels like war thunder tank fighting with the constant turning speed and everyone moving slow since everyone uses the joystick movement. So I just sit on a hill and shoot at planes and helis
Please try using the canister shell, been using it lately on Xbox and it’s pretty good despite the lack of precise shots. Would be insane to see you use it 💪🏽
Great video Silk! When it was released I thought it was a gimmick but after some use the hover tank has a special place in my heart. Learned how to use it and mastered it, outright deadly. Take down heli's and jets, infantry doesn't have a chance, gotta love the hover tank. As a trackball user I feel the trackball gave me a big advantage using the hover tank. As a master tanker If I wanted to really own a server I'd hop in an LAV equipped with tow and zuni's. Hell the mobile AA is a beast in the right hands, I preferred the 20mm and zuni's. I preferred the NV optics in vehicles for spotting mines and other explosives. I use smoke in all the vehicles - it takes you off the mini map and prevents you from being spotted for a brief period of time, works for my aggressive play style. Hover tank ownage th-cam.com/video/4tANFSzMxcs/w-d-xo.html LAV 74 - 0 th-cam.com/video/lfgHjP6WgUk/w-d-xo.html
What about tank ramming? When you are in a 1vs1 situation you can still win it even if you didn't shoot first. What you have to do is ram your tank at not full speed Into the front of the enemys tank and have a small hole infront of the tank or have the enemys tank stand in a small ledge which happens often. You will get under the enemys tank an he won't bei able to shoot you. You then just have to drive further into the tank and shoot all your shells Into the underside of the enemys tank while he is really confused because he can't move and shoot back. You also didn't mention angeling your tank when fighting with helicopters (also with ledges or holes) or using roofs for lock on and aircraft defence. Great Video and Gameplay!
I mean, its very hard to do and its a bit different on all 3 tanks. He never used it in the video because its hard to pull it off unless the enemy is litterally still in front of you
@@IlNamelessKinglI yeah that's true the Abram's is almost impossible to hit it on just cause the top is so flat but as silk said just turn on an angle most decent tanks mains will race you on a 45 half the time
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Anytime I hop into a tank, everyone is an engineer lmao
There was quite a few enemy engineers this game later on for sure
@@SilkOCE I did see that, some of them had some really good shots on the tank
Yeah everyone’s an engineer on yours and the other team except they don’t give repairs🥲
@@rybeast22___51 Lol it's like you play the game, totally agree
That's why you should never rush in like a maniac an keep your self hidden. Try to play like you would do when you play infantry. Keep yourself hidden and protected and only come out or go full in when possible
Chiming in years later, I always run gunner SOFLAM. Being able to laze any target for the rest of my team adds another variable to our tank’s force multiplication. The number of times I’ve lazed the helicopter harassing my team’s armored units just to watch it get smashed by laser-guided missiles within seconds is comedy gold. In a straight up tank duel, it can give my driver early warning of threats. It lets me actually do something when there’s no infantry to defend against, and just be another piece of the puzzle contributing to my team beyond keeping my tanker alive. I’ve honestly found that the gunner laser is just as deadly for enemy vehicles as the tank itself.
Loved being a tank menace in bf4, insanely pogged for bf6
Tanks are super strong. No doubt they'll be good in BF6
@@SilkOCE dont have the back of the tank turned towards infantry or tanks
@@SilkOCE They just gotta be... my Shameless Bias towards them demands it!
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Sorry friend
Step one: abuse the totally not broken speed of the 60 ton vehicle
Step two: get eleventy million kd ratio
Not wrong
Also abuse OP thermal optic.
Bruh
To be fair the type 99 tank can go up to 60mph I believe and the m1 Abrams can go up to 40 or 45mph
@@luxuriouspubes doesnt matter lol shit needs to be changed for good gameplay. Thankfully thats changing in bf6
Thermal vision is OP. Add in a mate in the turret spamming the OP Incendiary and everyone dies.
Yep BF4 thermal definitely is op imo
Before they nerfed it Omg...
I prefer night vision as it works much better with seeing through smoke for whatever reason. Smoke effectively blocks all view of therms
HMG tip: fire it like you would a DMR. Medium range, headshots, fire and steady, then re-aim. If you just hold it down full auto you won't hit anything.
Yep that's a good tip
It's so satisfying to still be able to play BF4 in OCE all these years later, and still have a dedicated TH-camr.
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There is a glitch if you are infront of a Type 99 MBT shoot at the top so your shell just straves his top and the shot comnects as if you just shot in his back. Meaning 50 dmg + Mobility kill
Yes I mentioned this in the video. Works against all tanks
5:54 I couldn’t stop laughing with that miserable suicidal Javelin guy
Me: gets in tank
The 8 engeniers with RPGs and 5 recons with c4: My time has come
I generally have 2 different playstyles when it comes to tanks:
if you are soloing, then be aware of your surrounding and check mini-map, don't get greedy and maintain distance (of course I don't mean camping in the back). Find holes in enemy lines and flank enemy tanks. Pick easy to moderate fight.
if you have a squad mate, then you can be more aggressive and start to hunt down people, back up for your squad mate to repair when damaged.
repeat the cycle and start farming!
Good tips!
Dude I can't stop watching your videos, love to see educational BF4 videos even these days!
Glad you like them!
Tom Henderson with the tanks skills 🔥🔥🔥. Another thing to notice is angleing your Tank always to 45 degrees in every fight helps a lot to with the 1v1 cuz u receive less damage than perpendicular shots and also helps to not get glitch shot in the sandbags!
Always always front towards enemy like the claymores writing
I am a recent BF 4 player. Like were talking a month tops thanks to some friends. I learned a few things here. Like for example, tanks have their own loadout options
Dude I'm happy that your channel is getting recommended to me, you're living my dream (BF+content creation)
Remember when the tank could double shoot cannons it was awesome
3:20 "So getting right into the video, were not gonna waste any time."
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If you find yourself losing in a tank fight, being one shot behind or something, I found it really useful to literally just ram into the enemy tank from slightly on the side. This will lift up the enemy tank and you get below it, and they just won't be able to shoot you at all and you can shoot their bottom and win. Works every time
0:44 I shouted and screamed I was having orgasm till you end it that Masacre with Tank was epic
Great video! The turret speed on PC is unreal, can imagine it makes fighting tanks as infantry alot more difficult than console.
Only other tip is an obvious one but is to make sure you have mechanic perk on your engineer class, something I always forget to change haha
EDIT: also I'm pretty sure you take more damage if you have boost on/full speed so that's something to keep in kind, especially on larger maps
Trueee I always forget that perk. It's really useful for sure.
Damn.... using a mouse with a tank looks so broken. That giant cannon just flicks around with ease. I’m a console player so I have no idea if PC players are bothered by it or not.
its just how it is. you get used to it. it still doesn't stop a bad driver from getting ganked by a few engineers. I wouldn't mind a realistic traverse speed in exchange for fewer lock on rockets
@@berengerchristy6256 well hopefully the tank speed isn’t like how it was in BF4. them thangs were fuckin MOVING.
@@bigalest7228 I don't have a problem with the tank speed myself, though I haven't played bf1 or bf5. I think they're in a good spot in bf4
@@berengerchristy6256 I just meant if the tank cannon is able to be flipped around like a baton, then the speed should at least be looked at. Im great in a tank on console, and when I watch this video, I feel like I’d be a god on PC. No one can get behind you. And you can shoot a chopper out of the sky and then hit someone prone right in front of you in a split second lol
@@bigalest7228 that's just how pc is. as someone who moved from xbox to pc, mouse and keyboard is better
06:00 Nice tank drift skills as well:)
Tokyo drifting out here
That drift at 6:00 tho
Awesome to see you shred more than jets, great video
Thanks !
I play bf4 since it came out and still learn some tips watching these videos, glad i found your channel!! 💪🏼👏🏼
So I've switched to really only two loadouts and I go back and forth depending on the map. I always use thermal vision and incendiary.
1st: HE shells, HMG, Active Protection, Autoloader. I use this on Infy heavy maps like Zavod, Prop or when I'm really wanting to farm haha. HE Autoloader is just crazy good!!
2nd: AP Shells, HMG, Smokescreen, Thermal Camo. I use this on most vehicle maps like Rogue. Smokescreen not only hides shots from being shown on the mini maps while in the (Area of Effect) for 6 seconds but it also it forces minimal damage to all sides of the tank when shot with dumb fire AT. So with Smokescreen you can pop smoke and then shoot, you will not show on the minimap when you shoot. Especially if you're spamming inspire by seat switching you become a ghost tank. Also the recharge is 12 seconds so it's only down for 6 seconds. Tonk2stronk (Tank-Ace) told me about it a few years ago.
Also a Tonk apprentice with over 300k kills. I would second these load outs.
If you want to turn a game into 3D chess use Thermal Camo, you can basically bait everyone, but it’s an entirely different way to play.
The only difference is that I use LMG. Only because LMG keeps you off the mini-map and I play solo and infantry aggressive.
Very cool that you don‘t soely focus on jets/helis to master! I love to play every single vehicle & infantry in bf4. The game has still so much to offer in diversity. People that just get good/pro in a single particular vehicle and stick with it miss out on a lot of fun the game offers.
Edit: Would love to see you master the RCB on the naval strike maps! It‘s extremly viable against pretty much everything if used right (salve-burst, tv)
Yeah sure I'll definitely cover the RCB at some point
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Cheers!
literally the same setup i use
it 100% helps to have a gunner who gives good call outs and kills pesky engineers (thanks stepdad)
A lot of the time for anti vehicle play I like to use Staff Shells as my secondary. You don’t even need to have line of sight on a tank to hit them, if they’re behind a Boulder on Golmud or behind a wall on Zavod it’ll lock onto them as it’s flying by and basically do a 90 degree turn into them and typically immobilize them. It’s like a passive lock Missile so they don’t get the alert until a split second before it hits. Also it’s got unlimited range with zero drop so you can basically snipe vehicles from the other side of the map.
Good vid as always 👍
I used to use gunner SOFLAM on open maps and i'd get my mate to use the tank shell that can act like a missile when a target is painted.
Choppers hated us.
Another good tip would be to remember that the tank shells have an arc and will drop, its useful for when tanks and vehicles are sitting just behind a mound or a hill you can let the shell fall into them.
Another tip is that the m1 Abrams is the only tank that can ram and flip other tanks. Super cheesy, but it’s very effective in a pinch.
Yo silk just gotta say content is going to another level.
Keep it up my dude.
Recently switched from console to PC so love to see a vid about mastering the basics on PC..my aim is potato RN so need all the help I can get.
Props bro, keen for bf6.
Grats on the PC. Might do a more general tips video soon
@@SilkOCE cheers cob.
Keep grinding YT, love seeing Aussie content.
Your vids have already helped me with the switch to PC and I've squaded with some of ya top plays Aussie players.
Good on ya for not just showing but promoting players and highlighting their skills but also trying to boost their views/subs.
Good on ya bro.
Edit: hope you can collab with ark or jfrags to reach more peeps.
Ya content is great and ya play style is second to none.
I’ve been playing the tanks in this game for years. Great tips
I seriously disagree about the AP shell vs sabot. Back from the symthic days (RIP 👏), we know that the slight buff to velocity is what gives the edge. That, and shooting just above the roof of an MBT for back-shot damage is much easier with the sabot. I will say, canister + AP is DISGUSTING on CQC maps. Second seat and HMG are to deal with infantry and help clean up vehicles you hit with the main gun.
I really like the smoke due to breaking locks and preventing crit damage, and it has a much longer uptime due to the massive cooldown on APS. Once again, map dependant.
Fair enough. This loadout is consistently used by the best players in 8v8 though with a few slight changes here and there (stealth Camo, reactive etc)
you think from wrong angle. in a tank its not your job to fight tanks, its your job to farm infantry. fighting tank reduces kpm, reduced kpm = less ticket loss for enemy and more map control. best you can do as a tanker is reduce enemy tickets around contestet flags, denying reinforcments, secure map control, help infantry secure point, move somewhere else, repeat. just keep enemy tanks at distance, and if they overextend kill em, while beeing in a favourable position (within your team) yourself, so you get the advantage when enemy tank forces a fight.
AP and HMG is a versatile loadout for that
@@certaindeath7776 This makes sense, at the same time, I just ptfo and kill everything, got a great gunner and sabot can take out Air support easily.
@@certaindeath7776 tanks are supossed to do both of those things in my opinion
@@certaindeath7776 Your job as a tank driver is not to farm kills.
A tank is one of the most valuable assets in the game, if you want to use it effectively, you cannot constantly run or hide from other tanks, you will have to take them out, before you try to farm infantry.
Otherwise, if people play like this, they will not advance and lose the game by ticket bleed, unless the other team is simply incapable of objectively using their tanks.
Basically, as soon as one tanker decides to end the circle jerk of tanks camping, farming and not engaging each other, you will be forced to play his game.
And playing into someone else's gameplay is always a bad decision, if you are trying to win. It makes you rather predictable.
I honestly use Sabot for the better ballistics and faster projectile
When I find myself on wide open maps like Op Firestorm I'm usually hitting tanks from the opposite ends of the highway, and when they shoot, their shells are slow enough for me to avoid
Also keep in mind that, depending on the density of helicopters and their skill, it is very possible that you can 1 shot or 2 shot one with your Canister shells if you don't have much experience leading them with your main shot. Cheers from a tank try-hard, love your content
One area I think that is not talked about in BF is camo choices for corresponding maps. Snow camo with a nice worm pattern is pretty versatile on tanks and helis in multiple environments. That camo choice can sometimes gave you the edge you need to win. By remaining a little harder to see. Red patterns in snowy maps is a big example of what not to do. Snow White for helis in Shanghai maps is the bees knees. Dark urban for tanks and helis in Dawnbreaker etc.
I think this is the first sponsor that actually got my attention and will use thanks for letting me know about it!
I prefer the sabot shell because the main threat for me is air vehicles and sabot makes it easier to shoot down especially helis. AP is better than the sabot for infantry, but I usually am able to deal with infantry with the HMG, so I don't really need the AP.
Quite often I choose the camo because it makes air vehicles to give you less attention.
Often times I try to use the tanks long range capabilities to my advantage, stay out of areas where I can get attacked from several angles, but in looking into areas where lots of action is happening.
Yeah that's definitely effective too
if helis are your problem then use AP and canister, canister absolutely shreds choppers and jets if you can hit them.
“With his advice and my idk” shit had me dead buddy.
I love driving the tanks on BF4, I'm quit agressive too, go in Rambo style. Quit satisfying when you get the tank in the air and land going high speed. I'm pretty good as a tank driver and i also have the same load out. You mentioned about the HMG i'll give that a go next time about short bursts see if that will improve my accuracy. Thanks for the advice, thumbs up.
Present your armour(front armour facing biggest threat), angle armour (don't know if it does anything but it's engrained in me from WT and WOT), allot of RPGs can be dodged because of how crazy the acceleration is. In a tight situation, tank fight u can shoot, pop aps, jump out quick rep while aps is protecting you or shoot ur rpg at them and hop back in
Angling armor does in fact help. Shots landed not at 90 degree angles reduce the damage significantly.
A really useful tool is the range finder. It is located on the bottom of the screen and I use it like a sniper rifle.
5:58 sick drift mister
I want more people to do it on purpose, it's fun and if there's a tank on the other side you can get a rear shot with no chance of countering it
6:00 that drift cleaner than most highschool kids could do
No gamers were hammed in the making of this video... "physically" 😏
Mentally is a different story
silk the ultimate tank also the ultimate tank counter
The duality of man
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I guess to each their own preference. I love to use the tank as an AA as well, so sabot shell's speed really does the trick when gunning down choppers and jets. Also if your aim is on point, sabot shell for 1 hit infantry kills from distance also work well. I never had any trouble fighting other armor with it either.
I use canisters alot. They one shot infantry at very long ranges, but the reason I use them is consistent heli and jet hits.. they will tear through heli's like butter and are very easy to hit.. give a try. Nice vid silk!!!
Yeah they're very good. I just can't get them to be consistent against infantry. Especially if you have a gunner though they're amazing
Ive always used sabot shells and love them
I only use them for big open maps, but most such maps aren't fun for me in the first place.
Silk road the only good map for it
@@iPlayOnSpica why big maps ?
@@squidy4082 AP Shell does the same damage but with wider blast radius, making it easier to use on infantry.
@@iPlayOnSpica so why is the sabot round even a thing
Very solid tips. I do think that for HC specifically, Sabot and LMG are a better choice than AP and HMG. Mostly because there is no passive health Regen for Infantry or vehicles. The velocity of the sabot makes it very easy to control engagement distances, and it's my opinion that baiting the enemy tank into missing a shot does more to help your relative dpm than doing a few extra points of DMG per shot, it's also MUCH easier to hit aircraft with the sabot.
Difference of opinion aside, the best tip you gave here was about pillaring and baiting shots. If I could give only one tip to a new player in BF4, it would be that you should use cover in a tank just like you would as infantry, and that the less exposed you are the longer you'll live.
No one takes Hardcore seriously bro lmao
@@IlNamelessKinglI Plenty of people do. Simply because you don't like something doesn't mean that others don't.
@@andrewhackney6286 Bro the game was 100% balanced around Normal and the playerbase for HC is like 10%. no one cares about hc. Its the reality of things. Btw the best hc loadout would be he and staff.
Yeah pillaring is literally essential
Play long range against infantry (Guided Launchers are not a common pick)
ALWAYS place your front armor against your enemy.
Know your playstyle: Are you going Anti Tank or supporting a friendly infantry push?
You have a fast engine, try catching the enemy offguard.
Just wanted to say thanks for all the tips for airplanes in bf5 thank you so much I went to a stupid pilot to a good pilot. Respect. Also I'm pretty surprised that you are interact to much with your followers or subscribers keep up man!
Excellent video. You can be the best driver, but without reps you going nowhere. Gunner on main Canon' 6. Throw extra incendiary on heavy traffic corners to avoid flank. Basically I believe, without a good gunner, you're screwed. Hardest thing is-don't be afraid to retreat out of range; unless being rep during battle
I prefer to use Canister
But it depends from the maps and environment around you.. if I'm playing on huge map such as Golmud.. i used Canister, if i play on Propaganda i used .50 CAL cuz close combat to avoid RPG,SMAW, even C4
2 Silk vids in 2 days, Christmas came early
Grind time
I do love videos like these and always learn so much, so thanks Silk for that. However I've noticed players always like to give tips and tricks on using these vehicles fully loaded rather than how to start out and tips for gaining score and xp when the vehicle is level 0. Which I think would be really helpful to a bunch of people
just keep playing and level up
What I did is get kills and XP as a passenger, that way driver still has geared out tank and you just get unlocks from the minigun/turret kills. Recently unlocked IRNV on tank and I've never driven a tank.
Seeing the off season on ur play list 😍🤙🏾🙌🏾
Fireee
I can’t track very well using the HMG so if that’s the case for anyone else in here I highly recommend the canister shell
Yeah this is a really good point
maybe its just me, but I see a little bit longer with irnv. And on for example Golmud, I gun almost only planes and helis between points. Uses soflam to stress them when/if they turn back. It doesnt give much kills at all, but helps the team alot sometimes.
and I always use smoke grenades when Im engineer. Instead of driver having to find cover for me to repair, it just sometimes saves us with some smokes around.
lmg + HE shell and eventually smokescreen on propaganda is so cool I'd recommend you try ;) Smokescreen spam to avoid getting immobilized and lmg+HE because it just shreds infantry on short range. Ennemy tanks not a problem since you will look for infantry engineers support anyway
Me: Playing in a tank
The entire enemy team: And I took that personally
your opening shoulda been “Hi my name is Silk, and welcome to my MasterClass.”
Canister shells are really good against helicopters. It does a pretty good amount of damage against them.
Good video and tips but DUDE! You ran away from like 6 reppers! They will save your bacon, use them or they'll stop helping you cuz you just drive off every time.
True
How to tank.... sit back and rack up kills with the zoom view or abuse the op thermals if you need to get close. Then when you finally die, hop straight into another one like everyone else does because there's too many.
Oh and decouple the turret makes driving much easier imo. Shit gets boring though just running around in a tank all the time. I wish more people did infantry only without humping a hill with a sniper rifle
There was a similar bug in bf3 that only appeared if you pressed the sprint key when
your tank was hit on that spot, but I don't know if exactly the same thing in bf4
Tips to win every tank battle: have a gunner who helps you. It becomes 2vs1 and even as a mediocre tanker you will win over people who are much better but alone. Your gunner has to jump out to shoot rockets and repair. Even better, have a whole squad that is just focused on helping you and you will even win 1 tank vs 2 tanks.
I've done my part of LAV play in BF4 and it helped me a lot to learn to drive blindly: on Siege I could drive backwards at full speed and make the corners with perfect timing without having to look behind me. So i could keep firing at the enemies in front of me while driving to safety at full speed.
-> Hope they fix tank gameplay in BF6. My biggest problem is the repairing while being in a fight, it simply gives teams (tank + gunner) such a huge advantage that a tank playing alone stands no chance. I understand they want to promote teamplay, but frankly onyl a tiny part of players play as a team. So as soon as a half-decent squad appears they often dominate the server and wreck the balance. For tanks the solution would be simple, at least for BF5: make repairing a tank a cycle for a supprt players similar to how the tank self-repairs. You need to do the complete cycle to gain 20 health and if you get hit in between you start over. That way you cant have a tank camping anymore with 2 supprt players behind it and nobody being able to kill it.
Love vids like these!
When I first started playing bf4, many years ago, I was awful in tanks and thought they were so underpowered.
After lots of experience, they are so good
Tanks are pretty busted.
I always get frustrated with new tankers who are scared to push objectives, I guess they have PTSD from engineer ambushes.
Gotta use the armor to win ultimately
The sabot round is awesome in hard-core!
Thanks for the info.
Ah now *this* is some of the tank farming i was commenting about on the most recent video
personally i use sabot, canister, aps and thermal camo only as vet bf tanker, thats my loadout, and i hardly lose 1v1 or even 2v1 tank fights, and real bf tanker dont need a autoloader for a tank figts :)
Autoloader comes in clutch tho! What load out do you use for the Lav?
Fair enough. I would argue that you don't need thermal camo as you can just unspot the tank whenever you want
@@SilkOCE I use thermal camo because a lot ppl (myself including) use thermal sights, and I had SO MANY tanks just pass right next to me or I flank them rly easy, ppl tend to tunnel vision hard with them thermal sights
A great fix for op thermal sights would be that only a narrow scope/sector of the whole vision would be "thermalised". Or just shorter range like IR sight. Or maybe it should be made slow to get ready. Or it should get blurry for a moment after your shots.
Imagine someone breaking the Geneva convention by direct impacting you with a 120 mm armor piercing tank round
When I saw that you like j Cole I was about to sub but forgot that I already subed to you lol
Does anyone check their maps in hard-core mode? Always always always reference your map or designate squad mates to calling out targets, while moving, hold the option button, and then tap R1 or L1, good way to see who's where on the map, squads are the way to go.
May you upload videos in how to properly fly attack jets on battlefield 4 on Xbox one?
I don't have an Xbox sorry
HMG really feels like the most powerful thing you can mount into a tank.
The one thing you might want to always do as a BF4 tanker is never go in without infantry or any kind of external support.
What recording software do you use, your quality is really good
Obs. Settings are pretty much 1440p, cqp14, max quality
@@SilkOCE whats your pc specs like?
On Xbox it feels like war thunder tank fighting with the constant turning speed and everyone moving slow since everyone uses the joystick movement.
So I just sit on a hill and shoot at planes and helis
That clip in the beginning is so lucky. 15 times our of 20 you get C4'd immediately
Please try using the canister shell, been using it lately on Xbox and it’s pretty good despite the lack of precise shots. Would be insane to see you use it 💪🏽
Been watching ur channel for sometime and forgetting to sub .. i just did love the content and looking for ur next battlefield gameplay
Great video Silk!
When it was released I thought it was a gimmick but after some use the hover tank has a special place in my heart. Learned how to use it and mastered it, outright deadly. Take down heli's and jets, infantry doesn't have a chance, gotta love the hover tank. As a trackball user I feel the trackball gave me a big advantage using the hover tank. As a master tanker If I wanted to really own a server I'd hop in an LAV equipped with tow and zuni's. Hell the mobile AA is a beast in the right hands, I preferred the 20mm and zuni's. I preferred the NV optics in vehicles for spotting mines and other explosives. I use smoke in all the vehicles - it takes you off the mini map and prevents you from being spotted for a brief period of time, works for my aggressive play style.
Hover tank ownage
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Thermal is a must for the tank and chopper gunner
What about tank ramming? When you are in a 1vs1 situation you can still win it even if you didn't shoot first. What you have to do is ram your tank at not full speed Into the front of the enemys tank and have a small hole infront of the tank or have the enemys tank stand in a small ledge which happens often. You will get under the enemys tank an he won't bei able to shoot you. You then just have to drive further into the tank and shoot all your shells Into the underside of the enemys tank while he is really confused because he can't move and shoot back.
You also didn't mention angeling your tank when fighting with helicopters (also with ledges or holes) or using roofs for lock on and aircraft defence.
Great Video and Gameplay!
Only thing u can add is switching to the gunner seat. Maybe watch some vids of calzaghe as he's one of the BEST
Yeah thats something I've started doing. Definitely recommend Calzaghe though he's amazing
Get a mate with soflam in the gunner and guided shells as your secondary and kill all he hellish and tanks. It 2 shots a tank. Super op
You know my Raleigh boy J Cole hits different
This looks like a challenge...Silk 1v1 me brah.
no tanks no jets no guns.
Just you vs me and some amazing mid air kicks.
You're on m8
The heat sensor is OP
Surely you make a video about the attack boats next. They were good fun too.
The glitch shot shhhhhhh lmao
I mean, its very hard to do and its a bit different on all 3 tanks. He never used it in the video because its hard to pull it off unless the enemy is litterally still in front of you
@@IlNamelessKinglI yeah that's true the Abram's is almost impossible to hit it on just cause the top is so flat but as silk said just turn on an angle most decent tanks mains will race you on a 45 half the time
Hahaha very op
Thanks for the greast tips
No problem!
I'll love to see pro chopper vs pro tanker/boater double vision.
Maybe soon
Is it worth talking about laser guided and gunner soflam for big maps like golmud etc.
Nah not worth at all imo