Same for me. Currently I do not have time to play WOT but there was a time when I played Steel Hunter and I had ton of fun and completely forgot about the random battles.
@@pan4909 I have a main account i do that, my alt is called SirArty and thought it'd be funny to only play SPG's XD before they disabled team kills, people would teamkill me every 3-5 games for playing "Only spgps" it was amazing XD
I give credit to WG for creating these fun/different modes. After playing WoT for 8 years I can say that these modes are the ones that prevent it from becoming stale. I still remember the Chaffee races, the Footbal mode, the space mode (with those ball tanks) and so on. Frontlines was nice as you played with your own tanks, Steel Hunter is nice because you can play a different mode than the regular TDM/CTF we constantly do in random battles and, simply, do not give a damn about the outcome as it's a fun mode. Yes, I want to win but as it is a FFA mode, the frustration about your team not doing what it is supposed to do is simply not there and that is what makes it amazing!
I am one of those ones for whom Steel Hunter is the most fun game mode in WoT. As a single tank fighting for yourself only, you are the sole master of your game, not beholden to the misplays of teammates. Every win or loss in Steel Hunter is my own success or fault. This makes it, for me, more satisfying than regular matches.
You miss/don't pen a single shot or you low roll your shots because of RNG and even a perfectly timed repair between the enemy shots won't save you and you are sent back to the garage without any mistakes made and perfectly played. Or my other favourite is when you engage an enemy because you see on your long range radio that nobody is close by and you fight hard and win and a 3rd party randomly joins in out of nowhere to kill you and reap the benefits. It is just so much out of your control that I no longer have fun in this mode. The first iteration of Steel Hunter was the most fun I had in world of tanks ever but these newer version just don't cut it. The skills and abilites are tied to tanks, the upgrade paths are less diverse. Everyone equal? I wonder how long that will last with this new rental tank mechanic. My bet is next time they will sell the vehicles for money.
I always liked the idea behind Steel Huners but I could never really get into it, Frontline feels like a way better game mode to me, just wish it stayed around for longer.
I really like this mode and I want it permanently because diverse gameplay to spice up the game. This is good for a break from the random battles when you get bored.
Honestly I have no fucking clue why wg doesn't just keep frontline, steel hunter, ranked and everything else constantly available. They made content, and then they don't use it most of the time?
Regarding the ghost shell incident, I don't think it prevents WoT from being a competitive game, as Melee, a pretty competitive fighting game, has the phatom hit mechanic that frustrate a lot of players but don't manage to deter them from competing in tournaments. Bugs be damned, if the game is fun people will play it, and if the game is competitive people will compete in it !
Not a chance in hell, at least if you mean competitive as in E-sportslike. The game has too much RNG and the disprsion is too large its impossible to exert enough control/skill into the game for that type of setting. This game will (and as such has) also never been tournament-worthy because of that. Why do you think all those other game don't have this rediculous RNG, or more plainly.. random-chances
Quickybaby forgot to mention that you can remove the acid effect with a repair kit, same goes for the electrical discharge after you manage to escape the zone, so if you are a skilled player that knows what they are doing, both abilities are not a big threat to you, i have played the Bai Lang a lot and there were only about 5 guys who actually knew how to deal with the acid effect which is kinda sad to be honest.
Steel Hunter is so much fun, the large maps are great and really beautifully made. The new map is fantastic, played it three times and won two of those games!
I loved old game modes like first chafee race or football game mode. It was great to play with friends in platoon and just drive around and get fun, more fun than with random battles.
Bái Láng most likely refers to the characters "白狼" which means "White Wolf ". Ironically, in front of the tank, the paint says "虎 Hǔ" which means "Tiger". lol
My unpopular opinion, I really like steel hunter. There's a mode where it's unironic that it's you versus everyone else. I like the added variety with this iteration as well. There's a tank for every playstyle, and different strategies for getting ahead and winning. It's satisfying to go head to head with players with the multiple microbattles throughout each round. Absolutely agree, the rental system this go around is dumb; and I do wish the rewards were at least enough that I felt I was putting myself behind in battle pass progression if I am playing steel hunter instead of random queue.
Tips for steel hunter: Always take higher engine power, always take longer range radio, auto loaders are really good usually. Gwolf: take the 4 round auto loader (broken), Bai: use the derp and combo with acid shell, sneak up shoot then run then sneak and repeat.
@@louiswinterhoff334 I’ve tested both and longer range literally covers massive distance compared to short + 90% of players say they will use it more because of a lower cool down but no one does+ when you use it your ping pops up in the map so it wouldn’t be so smart to constantly ping your location and only see a small radius around you.
i've been playing the Huragan, and it is OP, if played well, it can out perform some tanks early which can help later on with late game matches. my path is radio range, dynamics, magazine, double armour and magazine again. i have won most of my games like this but i did try the rotation for turret and the other magazine, and still claps tanks if you pen
This new game mode is the most fun for me. Finally a game mode where I can make credits instead of losing them. Also a game mode where I feel like everyone is equal and they don't have some 54%+ win ratio tank that I don't have and bully me with it. Along with bond equipment 5 skill crew and field mods. As a player who does not have these types of advantages over others and plays tanks that are at best 51% win ratio, this game mode I find very fun
I once had the flank of a KV-4 in my type 59 and was no more than 100m when I shot at it. The shell missed and after reviewing the replay, the shell went in the space between the back or the turret and the hull. I felt very lucky.
@@pa5287 I haven't played this mode much, but after having spend some more time with the mode I have to say Frontlines is infinitely more fun. The tanks in this mode, and then specifically the differences in level are utterly broken. Not to mention some of those abilities. I dont remember which one has the thing that completely cripples mobility but that is goddamn nuts. Tanks cant drive nor turn for fuck... What a broken and shitty mode this... The map skrinkage actually is the least worst part of it on second thought.
I was able to get first in the Varyag 7/9 times, but as soon as people started renting the new vehicles, I just kinda stopped playing since they’re a little OP.
I love steel hunter: No tomato teammates ruining your 'team' game, no worries for stats ie WN8 or WR... You die hop in another tank and have fun with no pressure.
I agree with QB's assessment apart for the fun part. I actually get a lot of fun playing Steel Hunter! No economy or close to none, no impact on stats, and all players at the same level at the start. It can get addictive :) even though it would have been nice to have more rewards (e.g. battle pass points) from it.
There are actually a few problems with this video, I think QB as a content creator in general is slipping a little bit. 1: QB, how did you not notice that when you rewinded the replay it looked like a level 1 tank again? 2: QB evidently did not watch the video WoT released about the game mode. Acid Shell CAN be defeated with a repair kit, but not a recovery. 3: QB gave his opinion on whether or not Steel Hunter has worthy rewards, and not on whether or not it was actually a fun game and a good experience, he should have done both. 4: 39:22, QB has essentially said that this is not what makes WoT appealing to people. And I agree that it is not regular gameplay that most people will be used to. And QB, that is exactly the point! Steel Hunter is SUPPOSED to be a unique experience, it is SUPPOSED to be different from the rest of WoT. In my mind Steel Hunter is designed to refresh the players that have gotten bored with conventional gameplay. Many people can sit down an play WoT for hours, but sometimes, maybe just sometimes, you need a change of pace, you need to sit down and play Minecraft instead for a little while to change the gears in your brain so it doesn't get all rusty.
The acid shell is not that powerful since you can remove it with the repair kit ('3' key) And the reload time of the repair kit is about 15 seconds I believe, so you are almost always sure to be able to remove this acid instantaneously.
Honestly looks pretty fun. I like the idea of them adding more gamemodes, i always will enjoy the random que but it can get old after a while (10 Years)
For me personally the mode is quite fun and at the moment I feel a bit addicted, maybe like Dez feels XD but so often I died to a Beowulf, it's not even funny... I think it's a bit too strong. And as well I think the starting position aren't the best, so often I start in a crowd of people, not rly able to do anything in the fifght... But much fun still and I like it
I think Steel Hunter is a nice game mode, it needs a lot of skill to master and it's fine when the matchmaker gives you a rough time. Sure it's not profitable but games are meant to be played for fun. We often forget this inside wolrd of tanks
The type 5 weakpoint hatch has completely been ghosted, 5 perfect shot I put in to one and 5 times it passed straight through like nothing was there, this game really does piss me off.
I hope wargaming makes this gamemode a separate game. It can be creative seeing that you can make up many tanks and upgrading the tank, having multiple pathways is very cool.
Maybe a upgrade in video quality won't hurt, most(100% of them) of your videos look grainy and pixelated unless you reduce the video screen size. To the ones that think 1080 is still good, it was a must in 2012 that was 10 years ago.
Im starting to run into these people who are teaming up in solos for the whole match and its starting to make me really hate this mode. (they are dropping together a lot of them were from same clans)
I stopped playing Steelhunter a year or two ago, bc the tanks like the raven and harbinger just seemed to be able to pen me every shot. I would play Walkure or Varyag, go for the armour loadouts, and still get penned every shot.
On the Asia server with so many Internet cafe players. The stack a game and then run around pick off stragglers as a pack and then take it turns to win.
I'm just glad they don't force me to play it to get rewards I can't pass up like they did with Front line a couple of years ago. That got to be a chore after a while.
It's incredibly stupid that literally 3/4 of the tanks, even some of the old ones, are locked and have to be rented with some stupid currency. Why is this even a thing???
You may personally find WoT at its most enjoyable when playing together with other players, but I really don't want WG to stop making these more solo-oriented game modes. Even though any sane person wouldn't blame their team for dying when they are not at fault, there is always that element of toxicity between "allies", even though in the current 15 - 4 simulator you often find yourself competing with them rather than working with them. As a result, it's surprisingly refreshing to play as well as you can and only have your own poor tactical choices hindering you instead of Steve a LT throwing his tank in the first minute of the battle where you can do nothing about it. One thing you forgot to highlight is that Premium Account players will also receive 50% more hunter seals, so they will be able to enjoy their favorite tanks more often and have to grind less overall.
@@juanzulu1318 From what I understand they are a currcency you can use to "rent" the vehicles besides the 3 default ones. So in essence, I am referring to the play-to-play grind as QuickyBaby called it.
@@thomaskoutsoukis8976 i am still confused. Cant u grind with the 3 default tanks not as fast as with 5 or six tanks available? Is there a daily a lock on vehicles maybe?
@@juanzulu1318 I think you can grind with any vehicle as much as you want. But many players probably prefer (and/or perform MUCH better in) one of the rental vehicles, but they have to play the standard vehicles first in order to afford to rent their favorite.
Obviously I'm super late but whatever. I've also got a lot more play time in steel hunters as it's my favorite mode in this game and I've made whole spreadsheets about these tanks. Additionally its been weeks since this round has been out so QB also probably has changed options if he's played more Steel Hunters. 1. So the steel seals are only a problem if you dont want to play steel hunters. Spend a few games with each trial tank then you can easily get keep your favorite 1 or 2 of them unlocked for play the whole time with about 4-5 games a day in this mode. 2. The Huragan is downright busted. But I think you're build is a bit wrong. At teir IV you should go for the auto loader. It has more DPM and enough damage in the clip to take down all the mediums and lights without HP upgrades and with luck or any ability thr heavies as well. Additionally the harugan with the 5 and 6 powers active can 1 clip anything with the HEAT shells at max level. So good luck winning in a 1v1. 3. Bai lang is not the fastest, the Arlequin got a huge buff and its fast engine now goes at 90 with the power engine still going at 75. Otherwise I think you've got the Bai lang just about right. The Derp gun is actually super good IMO the HE guarantees the corrosion trigger and the reload is very fast considering. Generally I think the Bai lang is just slightly better than the Arlequin. 4. The Beowulf i think you have mostly wrong unfortunately. Only because you were playing in the first few days. The tank itself is fairly good, but both of its abilities are SO BAD against experienced players. The 5 key is a RING not a circle you can sit inside the ring and just face hug to completely ignore it. And the 6 key hardly heals anything if your opponent choses to not shoot at you. For clip tanks you just reload when you see the heal pop and for non clips you just wait. 5. In general Steel Hunters does have a problem. All of the gun options for the tanks at the end have very similar DPM (light tanks are the exeption) this means that all of the auto loaders will get a DPM advantage proportional to their clips reload when going into a fight on full amo. Which for some tanks can be up to 22 seconds. 5.1 Arlequins HE clip gun has stupid DPM but both shells are HE with not great pen. The AT MG is slightly lower DPM than the medium tanks but still better than the heavies with good pen. And the double gun has marginally better pen but the lowest DPM by a huge margin just so it can have a 980 double shot. 5.2 The HE gun has great HE DPM but the AP DPM is only okay with terrible pen, but at least it gets through all that spaced armor. The clip loader is good with acceptable pen and DMP tied for the top DMP heavies. The ROF gun is better than the double gun but you sacrifice dmp for 20mm more pen than the clip loader. 5.3 the harbinger is weird AF. The auto loader have way higher DPM if you only use the top of the clip. But they don't benefit from the ROF increase from the berserk. Since the intra clip doesn't decrease. Sorry for the rant but thought I'd put my info out somewhere xp.
I am in complete agreement with Quickybaby at the end there. I played a grand total of 2 battles. The first battle I finished in 3rd place in that Russian looking thing and the 2nd battle I finished in 1st place with the little Frenchy thingy. After both those battles were over, I was so bored. It looks like Mad Max took over WoT and that, to me personally, is 100% the greatest thing that could ever be! I adore WoT and I absolutely LOVE the Mad Max franchise! So this seems like it would be a match made in Heaven for me. But it really isn’t. I wish that I could have these Mad looking tanks in the random battles or on the Frontlines. You know, something with more TEAM PLAY. I hate battle royals. I tried my hands at PUBG, CoD, I even tried Fortnight(for like five minutes). All of them just sucked. Huge open worlds with no fun to be had, aside from the few times my shot would go through an unsuspecting players head. Thank you for this very informative video, Mr. Quickfingers! Personally, I will stick to my guns and keep on playing the random cues. Y’all have a great day! Stay safe everyone and good hunting!
That 8 round autoloader was disgusting! Great video, I was contemplating playing it to help with the battle pass, but I think I'll skip it. I don't pay often or well enough to go into a mode that gives less points. Thanks!
finally someone talks about how auto aim sucks on high ping, on the asia server 80% of the time there is not enough people in the aus server for good queue times so i join the hong kong severs but auto aim doesnt work, it can miss shots the have no conceivable way of missing
I like all game modes that dont show in your account win rate. Im just an average player with under 48% after 12k and 50,5% wins after 32k games. and my opinion is that the lifetime win ratio is the source of most of the toxicety in the game. The gameplay and attitude is just so much more relaxed. I dont like stressing myself even more after a hard day.
It always made me laugh too how WG blames your internet on Ghost shells...ghost shells have been a thing since launch of WoT's....just always funny whenever I see my shell go right through a tank at point blank range, I always think of WG's post about it on World of Tanks forums. Claiming that it's the 1k+ posts that were complaining about Ghost shells; that it was their connection and not because the game was buggy lol. So yea, that ghost shell was defiantly disgusting Quackybaby, should of been a hit! But other than that, I recently returned to World of Tanks and I have to say it's still fun like always, I might give Steel Hunter a try myself at one point, looks pretty fun!
or just the varyag...mobilty (horsepower) at first lvl then same stuff. but you got minefield...everyone loves mines wants to hug them. if not push them in
90% of your games in this mode won't end up like this. You're more likely to get yolo'd by a single tank and farmed by a tank behind you than to have a good game like this. This game mode is absolutely tragic.
Of topic comment, I would like that steel hunters was a apart game from wot, it could perfectly be one, I loved it past years but I'm in a position where I don't want to download wot again, also nice skills
Bored of this Mode, but thankfully WG have been pretty lenient on earning the collectibles requiring to do just 12k damage and being in tge top 10 in 3 games over the course of 15 days.
Good thing you didnt ram raven with bai lang, I slightly touched arlequin with my track and i killed myself while tryint to slow him down. And thats how you call Wareg ? its how it supposed to be named ? i thought it was pronounced War+egg.
That's because they often hide and let other tanks fight each other until those are almost dead, so they don't have to risk losing any hitpoints themselves. In the random queue, you lose many games with that playstyle because you aren't supporting your team. But in Steel Hunter, there is no team to support, so that playstyle is actually very good.
If QB is right with the electric discharge causing 70 damage in half a second… that equals about 8,400 DPM
How much is the cooldown?
@@mattschm5486 40 seconds
I personally love steel hunter. I find it stupid fun, and I play it over the random battles most of the time.
Same for me. Currently I do not have time to play WOT but there was a time when I played Steel Hunter and I had ton of fun and completely forgot about the random battles.
Same, only time i can use other tanks besides SPG's in my SPG only account because well, it dosent get added to your tanks played record lmao
@@WyldWolfDragon now there is a statistic showing your steel hunter games, why play arty? real tanks are more fun
@HabboElite S I just find spg only players odd
@@pan4909 I have a main account i do that, my alt is called SirArty and thought it'd be funny to only play SPG's XD before they disabled team kills, people would teamkill me every 3-5 games for playing "Only spgps" it was amazing XD
The arlequin still has that anti tank machine gun, which makes it fun to play
but it still gets shit on by almost everything
It also has a meme huge dual barrel gun which is at the very least very ridiculous
@@enfernobruh ironically, 8 out of my 9 wins so far have been in the Arlequin
HE cannon is fun to play
its the worst tank tough
I give credit to WG for creating these fun/different modes. After playing WoT for 8 years I can say that these modes are the ones that prevent it from becoming stale.
I still remember the Chaffee races, the Footbal mode, the space mode (with those ball tanks) and so on.
Frontlines was nice as you played with your own tanks, Steel Hunter is nice because you can play a different mode than the regular TDM/CTF we constantly do in random battles and, simply, do not give a damn about the outcome as it's a fun mode.
Yes, I want to win but as it is a FFA mode, the frustration about your team not doing what it is supposed to do is simply not there and that is what makes it amazing!
Nicely said! I can't agree more!
I am one of those ones for whom Steel Hunter is the most fun game mode in WoT. As a single tank fighting for yourself only, you are the sole master of your game, not beholden to the misplays of teammates. Every win or loss in Steel Hunter is my own success or fault. This makes it, for me, more satisfying than regular matches.
Plus everyone is equal, no OP premiums, no paid for gold rounds and so on
You miss/don't pen a single shot or you low roll your shots because of RNG and even a perfectly timed repair between the enemy shots won't save you and you are sent back to the garage without any mistakes made and perfectly played.
Or my other favourite is when you engage an enemy because you see on your long range radio that nobody is close by and you fight hard and win and a 3rd party randomly joins in out of nowhere to kill you and reap the benefits.
It is just so much out of your control that I no longer have fun in this mode. The first iteration of Steel Hunter was the most fun I had in world of tanks ever but these newer version just don't cut it.
The skills and abilites are tied to tanks, the upgrade paths are less diverse. Everyone equal? I wonder how long that will last with this new rental tank mechanic. My bet is next time they will sell the vehicles for money.
I always liked the idea behind Steel Huners but I could never really get into it, Frontline feels like a way better game mode to me, just wish it stayed around for longer.
I really like this mode and I want it permanently because diverse gameplay to spice up the game. This is good for a break from the random battles when you get bored.
Honestly I have no fucking clue why wg doesn't just keep frontline, steel hunter, ranked and everything else constantly available. They made content, and then they don't use it most of the time?
unless you play raven, raven players dont deserve rights
Well, I’m going to say that if you can upgrade the bai Lang then it is absolutely BROKEN
but not when you are in 1v1 and the enemy is a max varyag.
I only played the bai lang 2 times and i won both
Regarding the ghost shell incident, I don't think it prevents WoT from being a competitive game, as Melee, a pretty competitive fighting game, has the phatom hit mechanic that frustrate a lot of players but don't manage to deter them from competing in tournaments. Bugs be damned, if the game is fun people will play it, and if the game is competitive people will compete in it !
Not a chance in hell, at least if you mean competitive as in E-sportslike.
The game has too much RNG and the disprsion is too large its impossible to exert enough control/skill into the game for that type of setting.
This game will (and as such has) also never been tournament-worthy because of that. Why do you think all those other game don't have this rediculous RNG, or more plainly.. random-chances
Quickybaby forgot to mention that you can remove the acid effect with a repair kit, same goes for the electrical discharge after you manage to escape the zone, so if you are a skilled player that knows what they are doing, both abilities are not a big threat to you, i have played the Bai Lang a lot and there were only about 5 guys who actually knew how to deal with the acid effect which is kinda sad to be honest.
And the acid effect stuff is written in the description page of the event ! ;)
Steel Hunter is so much fun, the large maps are great and really beautifully made.
The new map is fantastic, played it three times and won two of those games!
Quicky baby excellent catch on the discharge and fever combo on the Huragan!
But does one really want to be a discharge expert? 😂
I loved old game modes like first chafee race or football game mode. It was great to play with friends in platoon and just drive around and get fun, more fun than with random battles.
Chafee races lost a lot of their charm when WarGaming tried to make a production of it.
@@StarkRaven59 so true man. First iteration was great, but as always wg want to earn more
Bái Láng most likely refers to the characters "白狼" which means "White Wolf ". Ironically, in front of the tank, the paint says "虎 Hǔ" which means "Tiger". lol
The Bai Lang is my favourite tank in Steel Hunter. The final derp gun upgrade is soo good. And the little drone tank is really funny
My unpopular opinion, I really like steel hunter. There's a mode where it's unironic that it's you versus everyone else. I like the added variety with this iteration as well. There's a tank for every playstyle, and different strategies for getting ahead and winning. It's satisfying to go head to head with players with the multiple microbattles throughout each round.
Absolutely agree, the rental system this go around is dumb; and I do wish the rewards were at least enough that I felt I was putting myself behind in battle pass progression if I am playing steel hunter instead of random queue.
Tips for steel hunter: Always take higher engine power, always take longer range radio, auto loaders are really good usually. Gwolf: take the 4 round auto loader (broken), Bai: use the derp and combo with acid shell, sneak up shoot then run then sneak and repeat.
I prefer the shorter range radio
@@louiswinterhoff334 I’ve tested both and longer range literally covers massive distance compared to short + 90% of players say they will use it more because of a lower cool down but no one does+ when you use it your ping pops up in the map so it wouldn’t be so smart to constantly ping your location and only see a small radius around you.
you can't remove the acid shell effect with a heal but you can remove it with a repair kit
i've been playing the Huragan, and it is OP, if played well, it can out perform some tanks early which can help later on with late game matches.
my path is radio range, dynamics, magazine, double armour and magazine again. i have won most of my games like this but i did try the rotation for turret and the other magazine, and still claps tanks if you pen
This year arlequin is so good
This new game mode is the most fun for me. Finally a game mode where I can make credits instead of losing them. Also a game mode where I feel like everyone is equal and they don't have some 54%+ win ratio tank that I don't have and bully me with it. Along with bond equipment 5 skill crew and field mods. As a player who does not have these types of advantages over others and plays tanks that are at best 51% win ratio, this game mode I find very fun
huragan with the massive autoloader is op
steel hunter awesome i just hate that some of the vehicles are stuck behind a play to play wall.
I once had the flank of a KV-4 in my type 59 and was no more than 100m when I shot at it. The shell missed and after reviewing the replay, the shell went in the space between the back or the turret and the hull. I felt very lucky.
You can remove the Acid Shot by repair not heal
The one thing I hate about steel hunter is how quickly the map shrinks.
its just a boring mode like frontline,,,same shit
@@pa5287 I haven't played this mode much, but after having spend some more time with the mode I have to say Frontlines is infinitely more fun. The tanks in this mode, and then specifically the differences in level are utterly broken.
Not to mention some of those abilities.
I dont remember which one has the thing that completely cripples mobility but that is goddamn nuts. Tanks cant drive nor turn for fuck...
What a broken and shitty mode this... The map skrinkage actually is the least worst part of it on second thought.
I was able to get first in the Varyag 7/9 times, but as soon as people started renting the new vehicles, I just kinda stopped playing since they’re a little OP.
steel hunter is my favorite game mode ever in world of tanks, because this is only game mode that im not suck at it
You are not suck at Steel Hunter, but you might be suck at writing.
im bad at english im sorry :"(
@@neofoxre078 everyone is bad at english, no worries
WG just named a tank after an anglo-saxon poem
Arlequin 10shot rules.
I love steel hunter: No tomato teammates ruining your 'team' game, no worries for stats ie WN8 or WR... You die hop in another tank and have fun with no pressure.
31:20 you can use the repair to remove the acid
Btw BaiLang means the white wolf.
And it bothers me that it says "tiger" in the front of that tank lmao 🤣
In fujian chinese, bai lang means bad guy.
Nice name WG.
I swear to god everytime i play this gamemode i ended up getting bashed by multiple enemy tanks no matter how safe or aggressive i play
I agree with QB's assessment apart for the fun part. I actually get a lot of fun playing Steel Hunter! No economy or close to none, no impact on stats, and all players at the same level at the start. It can get addictive :) even though it would have been nice to have more rewards (e.g. battle pass points) from it.
There are actually a few problems with this video, I think QB as a content creator in general is slipping a little bit.
1: QB, how did you not notice that when you rewinded the replay it looked like a level 1 tank again?
2: QB evidently did not watch the video WoT released about the game mode. Acid Shell CAN be defeated with a repair kit, but not a recovery.
3: QB gave his opinion on whether or not Steel Hunter has worthy rewards, and not on whether or not it was actually a fun game and a good experience, he should have done both.
4: 39:22, QB has essentially said that this is not what makes WoT appealing to people. And I agree that it is not regular gameplay that most people will be used to. And QB, that is exactly the point! Steel Hunter is SUPPOSED to be a unique experience, it is SUPPOSED to be different from the rest of WoT. In my mind Steel Hunter is designed to refresh the players that have gotten bored with conventional gameplay. Many people can sit down an play WoT for hours, but sometimes, maybe just sometimes, you need a change of pace, you need to sit down and play Minecraft instead for a little while to change the gears in your brain so it doesn't get all rusty.
The acid shell is not that powerful since you can remove it with the repair kit ('3' key) And the reload time of the repair kit is about 15 seconds I believe, so you are almost always sure to be able to remove this acid instantaneously.
Honestly looks pretty fun. I like the idea of them adding more gamemodes, i always will enjoy the random que but it can get old after a while (10 Years)
For me personally the mode is quite fun and at the moment I feel a bit addicted, maybe like Dez feels XD but so often I died to a Beowulf, it's not even funny... I think it's a bit too strong.
And as well I think the starting position aren't the best, so often I start in a crowd of people, not rly able to do anything in the fifght...
But much fun still and I like it
I think Steel Hunter is a nice game mode, it needs a lot of skill to master and it's fine when the matchmaker gives you a rough time. Sure it's not profitable but games are meant to be played for fun. We often forget this inside wolrd of tanks
The type 5 weakpoint hatch has completely been ghosted, 5 perfect shot I put in to one and 5 times it passed straight through like nothing was there, this game really does piss me off.
I hope wargaming makes this gamemode a separate game. It can be creative seeing that you can make up many tanks and upgrading the tank, having multiple pathways is very cool.
Steel Hunter is like horror movie for me, I can't even click battle.
i like how when he replays the first game in the polish tank that the model gose back to standard xD 8:35
Maybe a upgrade in video quality won't hurt, most(100% of them) of your videos look grainy and pixelated unless you reduce the video screen size. To the ones that think 1080 is still good, it was a must in 2012 that was 10 years ago.
Im starting to run into these people who are teaming up in solos for the whole match and its starting to make me really hate this mode. (they are dropping together a lot of them were from same clans)
I stopped playing Steelhunter a year or two ago, bc the tanks like the raven and harbinger just seemed to be able to pen me every shot. I would play Walkure or Varyag, go for the armour loadouts, and still get penned every shot.
You can stop the acid shell with your repair kit
8:45 when qb rewinds, the replay displays the wrong tank for what he is playing, pretty weird!
On the Asia server with so many Internet cafe players. The stack a game and then run around pick off stragglers as a pack and then take it turns to win.
I like the arlequins funny double gun and ball thingy. Also arty can sometimes do 570 or more damage lol.
you can remove acid using the repair kit
I'm just glad they don't force me to play it to get rewards I can't pass up like they did with Front line a couple of years ago. That got to be a chore after a while.
A backstabber, sneaky Chinese... how on point that design is.
I like Steel Hunter no worries about awful random match ups, win rates etc but rewards should be better particularly the Battle Pass points.
It's incredibly stupid that literally 3/4 of the tanks, even some of the old ones, are locked and have to be rented with some stupid currency. Why is this even a thing???
You may personally find WoT at its most enjoyable when playing together with other players, but I really don't want WG to stop making these more solo-oriented game modes. Even though any sane person wouldn't blame their team for dying when they are not at fault, there is always that element of toxicity between "allies", even though in the current 15 - 4 simulator you often find yourself competing with them rather than working with them. As a result, it's surprisingly refreshing to play as well as you can and only have your own poor tactical choices hindering you instead of Steve a LT throwing his tank in the first minute of the battle where you can do nothing about it.
One thing you forgot to highlight is that Premium Account players will also receive 50% more hunter seals, so they will be able to enjoy their favorite tanks more often and have to grind less overall.
What have the steelhunter seals to do with the speed of the grind?
@@juanzulu1318 From what I understand they are a currcency you can use to "rent" the vehicles besides the 3 default ones. So in essence, I am referring to the play-to-play grind as QuickyBaby called it.
@@thomaskoutsoukis8976 i am still confused. Cant u grind with the 3 default tanks not as fast as with 5 or six tanks available? Is there a daily a lock on vehicles maybe?
@@juanzulu1318
I think you can grind with any vehicle as much as you want. But many players probably prefer (and/or perform MUCH better in) one of the rental vehicles, but they have to play the standard vehicles first in order to afford to rent their favorite.
So when do we get this?
I've never played in this Steel Hunter mode....am I missing out? I mean, I'm no noob. Been playing since 2014.
QB talking about ping at 108 and that's normal for me
Obviously I'm super late but whatever.
I've also got a lot more play time in steel hunters as it's my favorite mode in this game and I've made whole spreadsheets about these tanks. Additionally its been weeks since this round has been out so QB also probably has changed options if he's played more Steel Hunters.
1. So the steel seals are only a problem if you dont want to play steel hunters. Spend a few games with each trial tank then you can easily get keep your favorite 1 or 2 of them unlocked for play the whole time with about 4-5 games a day in this mode.
2. The Huragan is downright busted. But I think you're build is a bit wrong. At teir IV you should go for the auto loader. It has more DPM and enough damage in the clip to take down all the mediums and lights without HP upgrades and with luck or any ability thr heavies as well. Additionally the harugan with the 5 and 6 powers active can 1 clip anything with the HEAT shells at max level. So good luck winning in a 1v1.
3. Bai lang is not the fastest, the Arlequin got a huge buff and its fast engine now goes at 90 with the power engine still going at 75. Otherwise I think you've got the Bai lang just about right. The Derp gun is actually super good IMO the HE guarantees the corrosion trigger and the reload is very fast considering. Generally I think the Bai lang is just slightly better than the Arlequin.
4. The Beowulf i think you have mostly wrong unfortunately. Only because you were playing in the first few days. The tank itself is fairly good, but both of its abilities are SO BAD against experienced players. The 5 key is a RING not a circle you can sit inside the ring and just face hug to completely ignore it. And the 6 key hardly heals anything if your opponent choses to not shoot at you. For clip tanks you just reload when you see the heal pop and for non clips you just wait.
5. In general Steel Hunters does have a problem. All of the gun options for the tanks at the end have very similar DPM (light tanks are the exeption) this means that all of the auto loaders will get a DPM advantage proportional to their clips reload when going into a fight on full amo. Which for some tanks can be up to 22 seconds.
5.1 Arlequins HE clip gun has stupid DPM but both shells are HE with not great pen. The AT MG is slightly lower DPM than the medium tanks but still better than the heavies with good pen. And the double gun has marginally better pen but the lowest DPM by a huge margin just so it can have a 980 double shot.
5.2 The HE gun has great HE DPM but the AP DPM is only okay with terrible pen, but at least it gets through all that spaced armor. The clip loader is good with acceptable pen and DMP tied for the top DMP heavies. The ROF gun is better than the double gun but you sacrifice dmp for 20mm more pen than the clip loader.
5.3 the harbinger is weird AF. The auto loader have way higher DPM if you only use the top of the clip. But they don't benefit from the ROF increase from the berserk. Since the intra clip doesn't decrease.
Sorry for the rant but thought I'd put my info out somewhere xp.
Steel hunter is the only mode I play for fun. Much better than frontline.
This is all so complicated that I'm never going to play this sort of game.
I am in complete agreement with Quickybaby at the end there. I played a grand total of 2 battles. The first battle I finished in 3rd place in that Russian looking thing and the 2nd battle I finished in 1st place with the little Frenchy thingy. After both those battles were over, I was so bored.
It looks like Mad Max took over WoT and that, to me personally, is 100% the greatest thing that could ever be! I adore WoT and I absolutely LOVE the Mad Max franchise! So this seems like it would be a match made in Heaven for me. But it really isn’t. I wish that I could have these Mad looking tanks in the random battles or on the Frontlines. You know, something with more TEAM PLAY.
I hate battle royals. I tried my hands at PUBG, CoD, I even tried Fortnight(for like five minutes). All of them just sucked. Huge open worlds with no fun to be had, aside from the few times my shot would go through an unsuspecting players head.
Thank you for this very informative video, Mr. Quickfingers! Personally, I will stick to my guns and keep on playing the random cues.
Y’all have a great day! Stay safe everyone and good hunting!
That 8 round autoloader was disgusting! Great video, I was contemplating playing it to help with the battle pass, but I think I'll skip it. I don't pay often or well enough to go into a mode that gives less points. Thanks!
finally someone talks about how auto aim sucks on high ping, on the asia server 80% of the time there is not enough people in the aus server for good queue times so i join the hong kong severs but auto aim doesnt work, it can miss shots the have no conceivable way of missing
Frontline Gamemode? 6:26
Beowulf was one of the weird tank looking here in the mode... (imo)
I like all game modes that dont show in your account win rate. Im just an average player with under 48% after 12k and 50,5% wins after 32k games. and my opinion is that the lifetime win ratio is the source of most of the toxicety in the game. The gameplay and attitude is just so much more relaxed. I dont like stressing myself even more after a hard day.
The ring of fire isn't as good once you figure out you can just sit in the middle of it and not take damage...
im pretty sure in the WOT video it says use your 3 repair kit to stop it
Prefer Dynamic over Top Speed for them brawls.
I can't wait to ram all these new tanks in my Walkyrie
When qb get just as much ping as you do when you actually live in NA 😭
him getting less ping than me on the na server while i am a Na server player.......
Fiber Optics technology, baby.
QB you know that you can remove acid shell with repear kit
It always made me laugh too how WG blames your internet on Ghost shells...ghost shells have been a thing since launch of WoT's....just always funny whenever I see my shell go right through a tank at point blank range, I always think of WG's post about it on World of Tanks forums. Claiming that it's the 1k+ posts that were complaining about Ghost shells; that it was their connection and not because the game was buggy lol. So yea, that ghost shell was defiantly disgusting Quackybaby, should of been a hit! But other than that, I recently returned to World of Tanks and I have to say it's still fun like always, I might give Steel Hunter a try myself at one point, looks pretty fun!
or just the varyag...mobilty (horsepower) at first lvl then same stuff. but you got minefield...everyone loves mines wants to hug them. if not push them in
Did 20k today with bai lang, only get 2nd place. Feelsbadman
I actually love the steel hunter more than frontline.
Thanks for the review.
90% of your games in this mode won't end up like this. You're more likely to get yolo'd by a single tank and farmed by a tank behind you than to have a good game like this. This game mode is absolutely tragic.
happens frequently in steel hunter (ghost shell)
I miss original Steel Hunter
why after rewind, your tank looks different than before?
I think repair kit removes acid shell
Jus wondering is steel hunter a tank battle royale game mode?
Of topic comment, I would like that steel hunters was a apart game from wot, it could perfectly be one, I loved it past years but I'm in a position where I don't want to download wot again, also nice skills
Who knows why there is no cooldown timer in the replays? How to turn it on
And now with a pay-to-win function!
Welcome to warthunder ghost shell's. 20:40
Bored of this Mode, but thankfully WG have been pretty lenient on earning the collectibles requiring to do just 12k damage and being in tge top 10 in 3 games over the course of 15 days.
Best. Ghost. Shell. Ever !
Good thing you didnt ram raven with bai lang, I slightly touched arlequin with my track and i killed myself while tryint to slow him down. And thats how you call Wareg ? its how it supposed to be named ? i thought it was pronounced War+egg.
QB do you already have a T-Shirt with "luckily" on it? You use the word a lot.
is that a rendering glitch because his maxed out tank went back to stock at 7:52 when he re-winded the video or did I miss something
It's a replay bug. There are tons of those, although the replay system has existed for a very long time already.
what is the key to check the modules during a battle
The key you attributed to display the campaign missions (for me it's 'N')
@@funny.box. Thanks
qb how are you able to play on the NA server?
do you have seperate accounts? or is it possible to use the same account on NA and EU?
I’m in the US and I get around 90 ping on na servers
Am I the only one who has started to notice a lot of 43-46% wr accounts that just out of the blue started to play like unicum level..?
That's because they often hide and let other tanks fight each other until those are almost dead, so they don't have to risk losing any hitpoints themselves.
In the random queue, you lose many games with that playstyle because you aren't supporting your team. But in Steel Hunter, there is no team to support, so that playstyle is actually very good.