The World of Tanks Iceberg

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[@chems]

guys only like 14k more subs before i beat claus kellerman!!!!!!!!!!!

[@schwuppdiewupp7]

wicked

[@yankee1376]

As a wise man once said; "Stop being shit and your stats will go up."

[@Pyrpyr_2017]

69k more important

[@martinkca7078]

sad that he has more subs, but his most viewed video has the same amount as this video, which chems posted 6 days ago lol

[@snofrid8662]

Only 220 subs till 69420 😏

[@APC227]

Man that hurt to watch Good old WoT how much I miss you

[@Rzhevv]

HEY ITS THIS GUY FUNNI TF2 TANK GUY

[@_aragornyesyes_7171]

where videos

[@klaushauschen]

Funni tank man when u gonna return? :(

[@leon-ks9yn]

Its been too long, since i dont see that aregintian like painted abrams

[@d4ntheman]

yooo its the og!!

[@PhysicalGeneral]

This video is an absolute masterpiece in bringing everything together what WoT once was

[@l10r35]

I'm shocked it has only 70k views

[@l10r35]

*cough40k

[@Obietrice420]

He forgot a crucial fact tho when they tested p1000 Ratte and the servers suffered from it

[@MysteryT]

The nostalgia brooo!!! really well made video chems and thanks for the small appearance lol -MrE

[@squilliampills9851]

WoT blitz go brr

[@TTorkyy]

I played the game in 2010-2014. This video is a blast from the past. I really didn't know so many things have changed.

[@user-rg4sn9by7w]

Same here. I feel old now!😂

[@adodoes8770]

i played from late 2011, now didn't play for quite a while and i really forgot how many things changed. This video was a nice memory refresher. It used to be a good game

[@O_xyo]

Same now i play war thunder (i hate my life)

[@ediksuka]

15:53 the amx-40 was the last tank to get an hd model so thats was the easter egg to come with it

[@professorawesome]

Me looking at WoTs history: "It´s evolving, just backwards"

[@magnisha8094]

From 2017 yes

[@boudrauxmnxsty6871]

After invisible walls it's gotten exponentially worse

[@TophatnTea]

Devolving :(

[@jamesdow211]

arty being nerfed to shit almost justifies the tank powercreep and pay to win encouraging gold rounds

[@jinn-tonik]

Man, you probably never played with hexagonal barrels and the models that could not push each other or lift the tracks off the ground. The “from 2017 onwards” is probably true though.

[@NitroMike]

I love how this channel goes back and forth between ultra offensive memes to actual documentaries

[@chems]

I’m versatile

[@MrX-hz2hn]

@@chems Is that code for polyamorous?

[@irongeneral7861]

@@chems But you don't know that Belarus isn't in Russia?

[@grievetan]

​@@irongeneral7861i thought it's just a region (oblast) of Russia

[@GyroScopeGD]

35:02 I am now watching this in mid-late 2023 only to realize that the AMX 13FL11 was just recently added to the game. Maybe the french superheavies could be added at some point as well?

[@stytha]

As far as I remember, one or more of them was used in I think the original Leviathan event back in the days, or some special mode around that period of time... I specifically remember driving it on kharkov map

[@katzenware]

me, a War Thunder player, watching WoT iceberg videos: hmm yes, knowledge

[@mistertoy1]

also funny how he's confused about what some of the tanks even are in the video, but said tanks are playable in war thunder

[@ivanluca3512]

"Oh, interesting"

[@ImperialistJoe]

I remember playing this shit back in the day, when Type 59s were terror incarnate and T-50-2 were screaming around glued to the ground by the OG physics, eating artillery alive in every match.

[@BigIronEnjoyer]

Goddamn Type 59s were such complete bullshit back then. Better armor than most heavier, better mobility than most mediums, punchy gun that seemed to go through everything. I remember a game where there was a full platoon of them from some unicum clan, OTTER maybe, and I just said fuck it, alt-tabbed, and went and took a shit instead of playing that game. It actually wound up being close and we might have won if I hadn't AFK'd.

[@MUSIC7052]

@@BigIronEnjoyer 200mm front :D it is a joke now. Powercreep is real :D well i stoped playing years ago but this tank was so much fun. not good fpr the game but fun :D if you had it

[@mindstorm3854]

I remember playing like a noob, my artillery on swamps and being killed in the first minute... Quite deserve I would say today

[@PitchBlackYeti]

T-50-2's were the EBR's of the past

[@ChrisJones-qw7bn]

Circle strafing Heavies...take forever...but their turrets could never keep up.

[@yung69]

As a Lithuanian, I 100% agree that's how our most advanced tank looks like :D

[@Nightmare_52]

Lithuanian tech tree when

[@noahisawalkingl]

@@Nightmare_52 i wonder how a tier 10 tractor would look like

[@noahisawalkingl]

i am also lithuanian and i can also agree that we got a tractor and put a gun on it and that is our best ever tank

[@yung69]

@@noahisawalkingl Faktas seni :D

[@yung69]

@@Nightmare_52 When WG will run out of ideas and their game will be dying lmao, then they will add this piece of shit as a tier 8 premium...

[@thef2pexperience]

Dude, to have this all documented, edited and commented; it's insane work for which I want to show my respects. This must have cost you hours; but it was fun to watch and I learnt a thing or two. thanks a lot!

[@Ridonkulous05]

Loved this video. I also remember that one halloween event where you played either one of two French superheavies. There was even a working two-turret mechanic that it seemed WG was trying out, giving hope to those that wanted M3 Lee to eventually become playable.

[@ricardorosalez958]

the nostalgia 😂i just got

[@AS-nu8sc]

i remember this as well

[@_synix_2620]

fun fact: World of tanks blitz, the mobile version of WOT PC pretty much, has most of the same physics that originated in the old WOT game

[@ErisAlter]

We also still have a tech tree that's more similar to old versions of PC WoT, like the Obj. 263 and FV4202 at tier X You can still buy gold rounds with gold too lol

[@humblehubris7319]

No arty..... meme tanks, all chat, gravity mode, uprising, maps on the effing MOON

[@AAA-vs5si]

Can you still play blitz with the mouse on PC or not?

[@4frost316]

@@AAA-vs5si yes

[@ErisAlter]

@@AAA-vs5si It's still on Steam, so yeah

[@RatIceCream]

4:29 the Valentine 2 also has the same super pref MM as the B2.

[@uglyboi7521]

Churchill 3 or whatever, tier 5 premium also has that

[@Chem.Baroness]

@@uglyboi7521 No, Churchill III can see Tier VI

[@jamjestkowal]

@@Chem.Baroness It can, but it does get on top surprisingly often. It also seems to earn more XP than any other tank would do for similar effort.

[@Chem.Baroness]

@@jamjestkowal ikr, sometimes I loose in 4 seconds and still end up at the top

[@drakainequus7115]

Doesn't the Light VIC have it?

[@syllom]

Surprised that you missed to mention that arties could see any enemy's firing traces without being spotted, the higher the caliber the thicker the trace was. Then they disabled it and left only the arty traces to be visible for countering. Late to the party, not sure if anybody else mentioned it. :P

[@ImYourGeneral101]

I still have nightmares of the T18 one shorting me in my British medium 2 to this day

[@jinn-tonik]

An average NA player: “Wow, they didn’t have extra penetration shells for silver? That’s crazy!” Me, a Russian, who played from 2011 till 2017, thinking every minute: “Wait, they removed what? What, that tank/mode/friendly fire/map/mechanic is gone? That’s crazy!” A very enjoyable and nostalgic video for me, and there is actually much more about the game that can still be added! How about the fact that the game was so low-poly, that even all the barrels of tank cannons were hexagonal? Or that when they started to add “HD” models they were added incrementally, patch by patch, and the easiest way to tell the new models apart were, well, actual circles in the models? How about some old events - one of the first was a secret game mode that promoted the “White Tiger” movie, where if you would queue in a T-34-85 you would have a chance to get an match on Komarin, (since removed) where all the player tanks would be only T-34-85 and a white Tiger with like 10k health, and a damage of 750 would spawn to be defeated for a special achievement? Or old maps? The ones that were overhauled, like El-Haluuf? There was an insane steep hill to be climbed in the upper left corner, a hell for all the heavies. Or the fact that the dead tanks used to be immovable, and there were actual tactics that evolved strategic deaths in choke points, like sacrificing a light tank to block the thin road that overlooks the lake and the village on the, whatsit, Lakeshire? Lakeville? Oh man, the memories…

[@voidex136]

Yes comrade

[@thomasgianopoulos9774]

I am an NA player who started back in 2012 and I also was going oh right they did remove that, or shit I remember starting my grind for the Chaffee back when it was the end of the LT line. Also my dad played the shit out of his t18 back in the day.

[@KorianHUN]

I was surprised to see the list of removed maps in thos video. Those were all crappy maps most people hated but the matchmaking constantly used them.

[@rouymalic4463]

is someone here knew that tank angel icon appear if you kill a tank? I play this game since 2013 now currently on hiatus

[@BigIronEnjoyer]

The entire east flank on Serene Coast used to just not exist. You can see it at 34:05.

[@youtubiak]

Played since 2012 so i experienced pretty much everything in this video. I actually loved playing historical battles with crappy low tier tanks and hunting those big scary beasts, it was so rewarding. Unfortunately majority of players wanted to play high tiers so queue times for this mode were unbearable.

[@RedShocktrooperRST]

It was super fun when you had one really unfortunate guy in a King Tiger facing an entire team of Shermans. You had E8s, Jumbos, and 105 M4s

[@DaKea90]

When the historical battles were a thing, I was in contact with WG for some more historical stuff organized by the community (or by me) They were pretty hyped after looking at my scetches, and the talks were pretty advanced (like rewards for the best players or combining the replays into a documentary about this specific battle), but then the game mode got scrapped and I've never heard of them :D

[@gundamzeta3447]

@@DaKea90 like the people who designed a ship for wows and were in contact with higher ups about it being added then they added a completely different ship and said it’s the ship that was supposed to be your ship but we changed it with out telling you lol.

[@Ocrilat]

My experience with 'historical battles' was they were so poorly thought out that one side dominated...so most people didn't want to play the mode at all, and those that did mostly wanted to play the OP side...leading to long wait times, lowering the numbers even further. The low numbers were blamed for the inevitable cancellation.

[@gundamzeta3447]

@@Ocrilat it was probably better than historical battles on wows as the Germans never won due to their play style and you couldn’t use the Japanese except for Kaga only because the Germans didn’t have a CV while the Allies in the mode had a choice of 3.

[@stewy_4635]

I stop playing world tanks a long time ago. When you read out all my favourite maps had been removed that was depressing and also the way I got my Maus is different then how you get it know was cool. Also the fact that I have that rare medium tank which you mention with the m6 looking thing. That was cool too. Amazing video!

[@CoteVermeille0423]

Hi chems, I've followed you for a long time and stopped WoT for quite some time. Climbing really was one of the best gaming moments I had in WoT, thanks for the memories.

[@les07derEroberer]

The deepest lore: wargaming bought up the company that made the bigworld engine to stop having to ask them for licensing permission each update they released. Wargaming (which is a belarussion company coming from minsk) bought up a bank in cyprus to circumvent trade embargos on payment processesing between it and europe and america. World of tanks is one of the highest earning games rivalling WoW, LoL and the likes and has been consistently in the top 10 of highes earnings in games There is a picture of serb with MLP figurines and a picture of stalin behind him a few tanks used to have holes in their hitbox, meaning they couldnt be damaged in some places

[@yoko9477]

With the holes in the hitboxes. Some times it's still possible to find them, it's rare and happened to me once in the last 2 months. Yet I still remember the time when shooting a tank would make my shell simply disapper.

[@RedXlV]

You left out the Girls und Panzer cup that SerB is holding in that photo.

[@SmallPotato2313]

I remember m53/55 having such weird hitbox on the semi-turret that shells could literally fly through the tank and hit another person

[@konradb.3010]

Fun fact, in Wargaming's crusade against climbing and exploring "unfavorable" locations, they also changed the water physics to destroy all of your momentum and speed, locking players out of many islands and obscure hiding spots that they used to be able to visit.

[@thecoolestofthe834s2]

yes because it sucked to plya against and once someone was there there is no counter play

[@NeFjuS]

yep, the old spoting system and everything made it imposible to spot them @@thecoolestofthe834s2

[@Racko94]

That point about how the tech trees branched out hit me pretty good, since I had a few tanks that I was grinding out for the branch instead of grinding 3 separate lines up to that point. Took a break for awhile and look at a tank that is suddenly elite with 80k exp still on it like wtf

[@restonesociety8769]

AMX 13 FL 11 is now in the game :skull:

[@SPACECRUISER96]

In a month, I reach 10 years playing WoT and holy shit, all that old footage + the old garage background music you used. You gave me that much of nostalgia and you made me realize that the game I loved is long gone and it won't return... All those maps like Port etc etc, that depressing but cool in the same time garage. That mm, those tanks with weakspots. And not only that you made me remind the whole era, me coming from home after school. Thank you for reminding me what WOT used to be.

[@Stefan020]

Man.... I loved those old maps.. I was a mountain goat😂 after 10years I cant belive how much the game have changed.. When they remowed the WT Auf E100 I deleted the game for a month... now looking back at the game I wish World of Tanks wouldn't have ebrs, M-V-Y s and others.. this game was awesome back then, but now its a joke... I started playing when i was 5🙂

[@Lordy243]

Your comment just made me realise that in a few weeks it's been 9 years since I've STOPPED playing WoT. Damn the time flies by. But every time i see, what the game has become, I'm not sad about not playing it anymore

[@kylesmith4599]

@@Lordy243 same I quit 2-3 years before I grad high school. I’m 21 now. Kinda glad I got into making money rather than wasting my life on a game that would have turned to trash

[@briansanchez9899]

Yeah, i used to play it a lot, but then I quit because of work and school, not long ago i redownloaded the game and it's a whole different one, definitely not the WoT that i used to enjoy

[@MrTimeMaster2]

It just reminds you how little they have actually advanced the game.

[@bunzen0knatzen]

I remember playing this game when tanks couldn't fall or even lift off the ground. Fast tanks like the t-50 would just go up and down hills like rollercoasters. And then when you hit a cliff you would just instantly stop and maybe get stuck.

[@waterdotzable]

I remember when they removed the T-50-2 because it would constantly flip over after they added physics

[@justcallmened_]

@@waterdotzable then they added it again but not in the tech tree..

[@SatelliteYL]

Lol it was so anticlimactic drive at a cliff at 60 kmph and then just stop

[@martinbach7333]

I feel really old when I recognize most of the stuff that has either been removed or reworked. PZ. I C was my most favourite. Thank you for showing this. It has been many years since I stopped playing but seeing all of this brought pleasant memories of I was just a kid sitting in front of his first pc.

[@raumkhan4514]

God, I still remember when the old 8.0 update was first coming out, having actual vehicle physics instead of just being stopped at ledges seemed so mythical at the time. Crazy how different the game is now

[@umartdagnir]

19:13 - omg, your mention of the removed maps sent me into a full nostalgia mode.

[@DeathScrew]

i think some of the removed maps are in WoTb

[@hauptmann25]

I was there 900 years ago. If I remember correctly there were only 2 nations in the very beginning, Germany and USSR. Also only 2 or 3 maps, I believe. Also after the closed Beta they did a wipe and gave you credits for all the tanks you had researched but you kept crews. I know that because I still have an IS-7 crew despite newer having researched it after the wipe.

[@theboshow9697]

When I started, there was only the Americans Germans and Russians and I think there was maybe 8 tier 10’s in the game, and I joined when they had the ads for orcs vs tanks

[@Tonixxy]

@@theboshow9697 hah noob when i started T30 was American tier 10 heavy tank

[@xthetenth]

I remember launch day for the Americans, when the T29's 105mm was way way better.

[@hauptmann25]

@@xthetenth Atleast back then you could shoot the ears and other weakspots of tanks. WoT ruined the game in a way when they made Gold muni available for silver and removed the weakspots from tanks.

[@TheKopocko]

Are you sure about the wipe? From what I remember it removed everything. As I had to start from zero (had tier 9 at the end of beta).

[@boysenbeary]

This was pretty cool, awesome vid

[@yoshi5920]

35:02 guess who was just released on the game

[@bonehunter9766]

I was looking for this comment 😂

[@stromyXD]

​@@bonehunter9766same here lmao

[@Abracalyn]

The French super-heavy FCM F1 was playable alongside some other French super-heavy (Called "Stein") in the 2017 "Leviathan" gamemode. On the subject of testing things using game-modes, I can assume it tested multiple turrets / multiple guns, since the two turrets would reload, turn, and fire independently. (absolute gem of a game mode btw).

[@michaelvonbiskhoff7771]

The other one was the Char 2c. And yes, it was the best Halloween mode ever. I am still waiting for multi-turreted tanks

[@aminkhaled1534]

i think they would break the game lol. but still they dont have any armor. big shit in battlefeild

[@michaelvonbiskhoff7771]

@@aminkhaled1534 average Tog experience, tbf

[@aminkhaled1534]

@@michaelvonbiskhoff7771 yea but the thing is that french superheavys has the oppurtinity to shoot multiple shells at a time which can break the game and also french super heavys have decent armor of its time so if wg put them in tier 6/5/4 then they can actually have good armor and also i am pretty sure if wg realese them then they r gonna have high hp like tog

[@justsomedude7874]

@@michaelvonbiskhoff7771 the tog has some great DPM and massive hp tho

[@guvyygvuhh298]

Su 122 54 got nerfed into a ground a few patches after it was removed. The pre-removed stats look rather nice actually Lights have a 10% xp bonus from firing at HTs

[@flipeled]

that's because they were planning for it to be a tier VIII premium after it got removed, the original SU-122-54 had armor like a T-54 and had an improved IS-4 gun

[@boudrauxmnxsty6871]

Did not know that, gonna start targeting heavies.

[@guvyygvuhh298]

@@flipeled yeah quite a lot of t9+ russian tanks have the same 122mm gun The M-62 iirc, all with 258 base pen, 340 heat and 440 alpha The only one thats different for whatever reason is 430u that has 252 base pen

[@aynersolderingworks7009]

I was really pissed and still am pissed when they changed this line of Russian TD, I wanted su 122 54 so bad just for the cool factor and also su100m1 while having a poor gun had very good mobility compared to SU152, yeah better gun is nice but I miss being able to zoom around, even with equipment it’s quite sluggish

[@guvyygvuhh298]

@@aynersolderingworks7009 yeah. i miss the old 263, probably the most underrated t10 for the time, 3k dpm with 550 alpha, fast, heavily armored, gun was good too

[@Drummercommander]

Wow this video is an insane trip down memory lane! Haven't touched this game in years but I used to play this for years as well

[@dero2persil816]

Man you brought back my memories with this game, i forgotten all that bad stuff that was so good back then

[@CASCAR6200]

One time, you could blind fire TD's with arties, because you were able to see their shot-tracing

[@GodPain93]

not only that you could reliably do Counter battery fire my most fun thing to do in my Obj 261 (most accurate arty ingame at the time and i belive even now)

[@martinus_mars]

some additional things: - about branching lines, Pz. III/IV used to lead to the Hummel. this was when the hummel was still tier 5, leading up to the GW Typ E at tier 8 - there's a particularily interesting message in one of the decoration descriptions of this year's christmas event...i think it was something related to ice cream...it suggested 0.8.0 as being the "Vanilla" version of the game

[@some_canadian5385]

4:35 valentine II is another one the Pz. B2 isn't actually the only one

[@shitpostingsandwhich]

I've been playing WOT on and off for about 7 years it's pretty cool to have these memories brought back. It's sad seeing the current state of the game tho.

[@TheTurtleinariver]

This video unearthed memories I had long since forgotten. Played the game from launch until about 2015 on and off, usually checking in on major updates. Haven't really touched the game since 2015. I remember Karl mode, chaffee races, and the Fury tie in very fondly. Fury was the only premium I ever bought since it was just so cool looking.

[@ardie4]

Intriguing lore; chemical really went down a rabbit hole with this one. By the way the Karl mode was just an April Fool's joke even though they extended it for an extra week because it got good feedback apparently. I guess they listened back then.

[@boudrauxmnxsty6871]

I honestly wish they'd bring it back along with the is8 ball game mode. I had a lot of fun in those modes.

[@bartvanderzel4012]

The Karl gamemode was fucking epic

[@light161_]

mk1 event was best

[@Ak1M1223]

You could farm milions of credits in Karl Mode, 250k every game. Then first ever missions appeard and those were also OP, for 6 kills (unlimited battles) you would get 500k, I still remember it because I was grinding hard for first CW meta aka BC25t, 50b, IS7, T62A and T57h. I even have 1st campagain medal.

[@ardie4]

@@Ak1M1223 I kind of remember that. I still have the Karl medal lmao. It was a good joke; I wish WG still had a sense of humor.

[@AngraMajinu]

29:39 The ARL 44 used to have the second turret of the FCM F1, as stock turret. I never understood why the stock ARL 44 had that big, bird cage turret, but I think it was a remnant of that tank.

[@Ak1M1223]

It also still has premium ammo dmg meme. Back in the old days some tanks had premium ammo with higher DMG, ARL-44 and bathtub still have those.

[@noahisawalkingl]

The old ARL 44 turret is in wot blitz i think

[@miroslavtordaji1675]

ahhh...the old "dog house" turret

[@pikkuvarpunen-2.7182]

This brings back memories. I used to kit out my low tier tanks with equipment specifically for countering sealclubbers (which I identified with XVM), sought them in battle and made it my sole purpose to take them out of the game, even at the detriment of the outcome of the match (such as T18 drivers, with hundreds or thousands of matches in them).

[@rbStig]

21:10 music just brought back nostalgia. Thank you chems

[@yesnoob]

Oh yes i miss the arty from the old days. When you played in a city map and could use your arty like a TD and erase half the hitpoints of a type 5 with 1 shot.

[@masonsunderland8126]

you aren't talking about the old days if the type 5 is mentioned.

[@Malino8835]

Same

[@vietcongnva1197]

​@@masonsunderland8126 he probably mentions it as a scale of measure

[@DimitarKorchev]

@@vietcongnva1197 I still remember the day when I blocked a 2250 damage shell from the sky. Nice times

[@zannrebel1217]

​@@DimitarKorchevI remember back in the day my tier 8 Motherland could bounce Deathstar ap shells.😂 crazy times

[@freekill439]

Airfield-climb on the A/B line was OP in Clanwars. noone was safe in the heavy-area :) only possible if you got launched up there

[@DisgruntledDoomer]

So many memories of getting pushed there as the BC-arty. And even having 4 shells, that still did damage...

[@tobiassigsonne3871]

Climbs used to be my favourite part of the game!!

[@syharp281]

Good video, so many memories, you have a new subscriber from a currently dull and cold South Yorkshire UK

[@zack16saturday]

Watching this video bright so many memories of my first times playing this game back in 2012.. Or 2013.. i forget. But damn. I remember all of these patches and nerfs etc. I miss so many of those removed maps. Amazing video sir. Very lovely.

[@bluhorizon332]

35:47 the rockets on the side of the turret were literally called "TT-250 Tank Torpedo" and would technically be the biggest caliber in the game with a diameter of 420mm If it was added it would be a tier 8 premium obviously

[@distinctjackal9016]

You can play it in war thunder lol

[@skyscall]

@@distinctjackal9016 and the maximum depression for the tank rockets are +5 degrees, so the meme tactic is to back yourself into a building so you can actually shoot straight with em

[@distinctjackal9016]

@@skyscall or fall from a hill

[@thatww2nerd81]

@@distinctjackal9016 I've played it. The only thing those rockets are useful for is getting you ammo racked

[@distinctjackal9016]

@@thatww2nerd81 just like mines on ships

[@BigIronEnjoyer]

One of the biggest changes everyone seems to have forgotten about was the shot dispersion change made in 8.6 that basically made 25% of shots go right down the middle no matter how big the aiming circle was. This is when the "Hand Of Stalin" memes came about with people one shotting enemies across the map with an on the move snapshot from a KV-2. The global accuracy nerf a couple years later undid a lot of this, but those couple years were completely ridiculous. 8.6 also made some other big changes. Before 8.6, artillery was even more powerful, with much better reload times, aim times, accuracy and even more forgiving shell arcs. While artillery can be very annoying today, I think a lot of the extreme hate for it stems from these early times, as it genuinely was stupidly overpowered. Also before 8.6, the KV-2 had 152mm HEAT shells with something 300 pen and 750 alpha - those numbers might be slightly off and I can't find a source to verify. Point is, it was completely stupid and broken. As long as you actually hit, it was a a guaranteed penetration on everything you could possibly face, and a one shot on tier 4s and 5s. The HEAT shells on the various Tier 3/4/5 derp guns also had much higher penetration back then. The Jumbo Sherman with the 105 howitzer using gold rounds was actually super troll.

[@user-sm2nr3ot8z]

Man some of those old events are so nostalgic. I loved the 100-year-of-tanks-event, the one with the lava pools and the football event. Such great fun

[@Shadec1]

Light tanks used to stop at tier 5* before tier 8 Edit, i kept watching and you mentioned it. Great job. I started playing in 0.7.4 The big changes i can remember was 8.0, (physics) Wargaming devs used to participate in clan wars, they streamed the games and lost a bunch. Tank companies were ruined. Artillery had Hp and vision, and apcr... Wte100, kv1s, old hellcat, kv3/4 T-22 used to be absolutely broken... Most maps have undergone enormous balancing patches Artilley have a limit per match, though they had to limit them per match down to 5, then down to 3 per. We used to see upwards of 13 per side (you mentioned this as i am typing this- we would artillery rush and shotgun eachother) Gold rounds and consumables used to be gold only purchasables... "On-track" events began with the is-7 sometime after 8.5 - 9.0 or something The batchat 155 58 used to have a 5 round clip. Rip Tank soccer was fun, rocket league wasn't a big game back then...

[@halo48189]

I remember playing with the T18 as the american tier 2 TD before it was removed. Good times...simpler times...better times.

[@arthuraabakken1125]

i remember i got my best ever game in that tank, i won 1v10

[@halo48189]

@@arthuraabakken1125 A friend and I 2v10 in hetzers with the derp and won. I loved that little tank.

[@Straswa]

I remember those days. The first time I looked up the T18's weakspots.

[@OrmTostesson]

but also, every match had at least 3 T18s on every side

[@derpsturmpanzer1008]

Or the T-82 when It was a TD...

[@_hasta]

36:01 Busted out laughing of how bizzare it is. Then you said most advanced lithuanian tank. And now I can barelly type from my laughter because I am from Lithuania. great content

[@edniuhas3458]

same :DDD

[@_hasta]

@@pukalo just admiring good content, so go and cry about it

[@noahisawalkingl]

Well its true that is our most advanced tank

[@noahisawalkingl]

Ngl i wanna see a tier 10 tractor with a massive gun

[@_hasta]

@@noahisawalkingl tier 8 premium sounds better 😂

[@exoad]

this is a really interesting video, have been watching it 2 times now :) thx chem!

[@MoreAwsomeMetal]

Regarding the canceled maps, you also forgot to mention the map Icebound which was exclusive to the Ravage Mode (alongside with Ghost Town, which eventually made it back to the game)

[@windfrost8763]

The map "Mines" used to be called "Pagorki". One of the structures on the northeast part of the map was a doghouse. If ran over, a dog yelping could be heard. WG removed that sound file after complaints. Players from the beta (and I think the alpha?) got a special tank called the 'M4A2E4'. This tank is most likely the rarest tank you could actually get without being a CC. I still have mine. Arties used to have a bug where, after a small distance in the air, the round would instantly teleport and fall on the target, skipping most of the arc trajectory. The T23 Chems mentioned is now in the game as the T23E3, a tier 7 premium MT. The tech tree T23 top gun was a 105mm gun. The T34, as Chems mentioned, used to be a tier 9 US HT. When it was made a tier 8 premium, it had the stats it had as a tier 9 for a short while (and was, therefore, rather OP) Matchmaking was even more janky than Chems described. There used to be two templates: tier 1 and 2, then tier 3 and 4-5-6-7-8-9-10. This meant you could be fighting Mauses in your Marder 38T. There was a point where the German TD tech tree line ended with the Ferdinand. The T-54 and Type 59 broke the game for a long while. Matches were usually decided before the match started: the team with more of those two tanks won.

[@neonlight1214]

Also i remember back when wot was starting, wg made complete progress resets to every player, it happened at least twice as I remember. Would be pretty nice if someone can confirm when it was, maybe 2013 and less? ( this meant you had to completely start over again, and so did everyone)

[@catalintrandafir9736]

@@neonlight1214 if this happend it was way before 2013. I started playing in April 2011 and I never had my account reset. I was on EU though, maybe it did happen on some other server.

[@Hhh-j8o]

@@neonlight1214 that happened on console. I was a closed then an open beta tester for wot on the Xbox 360 in 2013. Only 2 lines, German and USA and they reset our progress twice in a short period, twice I JUST made it to the e100 then 😁

[@R.E.F]

@@neonlight1214 They did. I have been playing since the beta test on the EU server. When they released the finished game, so to speak, they reset all your progress. The reset made me pissed and I stopped playing for a while.

[@neonlight1214]

@@Hhh-j8o nope it was PC too

[@rolsiglodowiasty1424]

that feeling when most of your wot knowledge comes from 2011-2013 and almost every time he says "you probably know that", you dont but when he talks about something old and obscure, you treat it as something normal edit1: OH MY GOD i played project tank so much... i used BT-7 the most because its gun was literally broken it did over 200dmg instead of 20 (it was probably some programmers mistake) one time i took out three KV-1s (tier V) with my BT-7 (tier III) XD edit2: one thing that wasn't mentioned in the video (or i somehow missed it): you could go from M4A3E2 Jumbo Sherman directly to M6 that's what i did, and now i have M6, T29 and T32 but i never ever owned T1 Heavy

[@SmallPotato2313]

I did the same thing with m4e3a2 but you could go straight to t29 and skip t1heavy and m6 tho u would be forced to play with stock 76mm gun on t29 cuz 90mm was only on m6 I still havent unlocked t1heavy and m6 and i already own t32

[@rolsiglodowiasty1424]

@@SmallPotato2313 yeah you can go straight to T29 now, i think they changed it from M6 because it was too easy to get into 2 lines at once now you have to suffer a bit with a stock gun on T29

[@redmoon5175]

Impressive, very nice. Lets see the World of Warships Iceberg.

[@ApeX-sl6so]

It's crazy how the amx 13 fl11 shown in this video is in the game now. It should've stayed in the game files.

[@gangfire5932]

I've put about 35 battles into it and it's very good (but the AMX ELC bis (w/75mm) it was compared to is excellent.

[@PsychedeliKompot]

They removed so many of the really good maps. Windstorm for example was awesome. As was Northwest. And Port was fun as well. Windstorm and Port especially since they weren't just a symmetry fest like most other maps are. Also older versions of sacred valley were fun, before they kept updating it ruining it more and more until they eventually removed it. And I'll never forgive them for removing south coast without even trying to "fix" it. Like sure, it had some balancing issues. But I don't even remember it going through really noteworthy significantly different iterations. It was just suddenly gone.

[@joshuasutherland6692]

I miss windstorm & northwest so much. City & flanks were equally fun. My first ever game in the O-I exp back when it was a monster was on windstorm and I wiped floor with a high cal + 5 kills. Good times.

[@gmb4648]

Those maps where fun as fuck, but I gotta say that they were unbalanced like northwest

[@tesleywhompson9555]

Something to add on just seeing those old French super heavies, the first Halloween event with the Leviathan hell tank driving around, you were inside these French heavies with both turrets usable, was a fun mode for its first Halloween event

[@justcallmened_]

I actually miss that mode.. hope they will add it again in the next Halloween events .

[@reinbeers5322]

That was an actually fun halloween mode. And the dual turrets were great fun, wish the M3 Lee and others had gotten them.

[@noobwotplayer1644]

O man, just remembered that. It was fun

[@derpsturmpanzer1008]

Franken and Stein were beasts

[@aigeirosteam8432]

In that mode i got my first ever tier X tank the is-7 and i was the happiest person

[@csh5414]

If I ever need to fall asleep I’ll watch one of your videos.

[@FUTUREURL]

Omg, the flash backs are unreal, I wish they kept to what they were doing before. I miss it. The music and nostalgia hits hard in this vid.

21:25 - The big ensk! The devs actually was testing a new game mode, with waves of bots attacking players. Bots were obviously "Supertesters" (which I was back then in 2014), and the players were the devs themselves. We had a strict scenario to follow. Our goal was to capture all three bases they had to defend. Or to kill all of them. They could respawn for several times. What a nostalgia you brought up....

[@vuxluongw]

they later added this pve mode in as an event a few years back with actual bots this time. you would pick either the t34 and su100 or sherman and wolverine (iirc). i forgot what the mode/event is called but i swear it existed because i have like 3 2d styles for russian tanks and american tanks which i use it on my tier 8 premiums

[@water_sponsored]

that does sound like war thunder ngl

[@thecoolestofthe834s2]

@@vuxluongw fucking hated that mode they threw a bunch of unicums against noob and wondered why nobody got the items which then killed the game as its the first time event items were added to the shop

[@darionbalkaran790]

the fact that I can watch this and still get nostalgia is amazing.

[@krayxeez]

I’ve never felt so old… thank you so much for this video❤

[@93Krlos]

great video. Thinking about weird stuff on wot, that one bug that all of the suden made ur tank to go loco spinning or sometimes killing urself in the process. dark bug I guess

[@benku_6008]

Here a few things that used to be in Wolrd of Tanks that are still in World of Tanks Blitz or different in World of Tanks Blitz: -You can still talk to the enemies in wotb -You can still get climb to alot of interesting spots though you need someone to push you up for most of them -Tanks still cant completly flip in wotb -su 122-54 still is a tier 9 td in wotb and it still leads up to the obj 263 as a tier 10 + they both have good dpm -fv 4202 is still a British tier 10 med in wotb -there are alot of gamemodes that regularely return in wotb that arent in wot though there are some that dont return too -You can still get launched at alot of spots that havent been patched in ages -You can choose between paying gold ammo with gold or credits -T 18 and T 82 are still tds, prolly bc there are no artys in blitz -the normal K 91 in wotb has its turret in the middle and is a tier 9 premium -The "Renegade" on wotb is called T 54E2 as the tier 8 premium -alot of Branchover lines still exist in wotb like the tiger (p) -> ferdinand -> jagdtiger -T 44-85 exists as a tier 8 russian premium in wotb -there is no vk 100.01 (b) in wotb it is just called vk 100.01 (p) -the chieftain mk 6 is the normal tier 10 chieftain in wotb -the making of wotb wasnt started by wargaming but by "'DAVA Consulting"

[@black.baron_angel]

Eww Blitz

[@somedude8504]

T-44-85 is a tier 7

[@alexisgelis]

You didn't mention that blitz is 7v7 without arty, it's just a better game than pc

[@black.baron_angel]

@@alexisgelis excuse me…?

[@alexisgelis]

@@black.baron_angel I have played esports on WoT PC for more than 4 years now, the game isn't just fun anymore, the meta is toxic as hell and it's diving down in never ending depth. Blitz is basically 2012 PC but with actual improvements. Also the competitive scene has prizepools multiplied tenfolds, despite the playerbase being much smaller and the competitive scene being worse overall.

[@audasek25]

18:52 You cant hit people with such a nostalgia without a warning a tear came from my eye when i remembered the old world of tanks.

[@deliciousnoodles5505]

I played all most of those deleted maps before.... nostalgia

[@justcallmened_]

@@deliciousnoodles5505 same man.. same..

[@lcker6973]

21:07 MY GOD THIS MUSIC, THE MEMORIES NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO WHAT HAVE YOU DONE?!!

[@Schanyee2]

for the foc off i left a sub nice vid man

[@adwenda]

Fun fact, two of these multi turreted french super heavys playable during an Halloween event against the "Leviathan". Their names in this mode were Franken and Stein. Also #BringBackDragonsridge it was one of my favorites

[@AndreBrah]

oh man, i remember all the fun i had with the t18 tier 2 TD, 95% of tier 2 tanks couldnt pen its face, apart from other T18's that had the fast reload low alpha gun, the HE shell was so fun, only the british medium tanks couldnt be oneshotted, everything else was a 1blast 1 kill deal, good times

[@SetKat-Alex]

Saaaame, I really miss it :(

[@cathode5115]

yeah man, 3+ kills every battle

[@user-gi9mv6vb3k]

Yeaaaah,

[@mightypharaoh7586]

At-1(tier 2 russian TD) with the 76mm gun could pen the front of it easy.

[@user-gi9mv6vb3k]

@@mightypharaoh7586 Yeah, But When i Played at at T18 I never saw anyone truely kill me, i killed them like other tanks

[@charlie_box]

Nice video, "fun fact" is I remember 90% od these things.. so long I play this game.

[@zgoodt]

for some reason I forgot all about the fact I used to do the same climbing thing as well as forgot how painful the team damage era was.

[@CottonballSteve]

29:45 if I remember correctly a tank that looked like the FCMF1 was used in a Halloween game mode vs AI, where you had two separate functional turrets.

[@yeetingat100subs9]

Ah yeah, that was the best halloween mode they ever made, it was so good

[@berat.74]

I remember it. I fkin remember it! Damn this game is my childhood, when my dad downloaded it in 2011 I was just 8!

[@workphone303]

Really great nostalgia trip, I loved Chaffee racing. There was a glitch/feature where you could change the officer to a unskilled one and hang corners tighter, getting to the end much faster. Only a few clans knew and abused tf out of it like myself.

[@user-my2cv1df5q]

очень классный получился ролик, посмотрел на одном дыхание, даже не думал , что он идет 40 минут) респект, благодарю за контент!

[@VolTool141]

I remember when I played WoT, every low tier game I had, there was, AT LEAST, 2 or 3 T18, IT WAS SO ARMORED YOU COULDN’T PIERCED IT

[@Grumpy2Dumpy]

I can actually vouch for the AMX arty bug, there was also a bug with that arty specifically that allowed you to fire the gun behind you if an enemy was behind you while also being "in" your reticle

[@juniorthepegasus9359]

Man this brings back so many memories. I remember playing World of Tanks on minimum settings during middle/high school and it was my go to game aside from Team Fortress 2. The Races, the 8 bit Karl, the IS-8 Ball, ive been there. Over seven thousand battles, and I havent touched the game since 2016. Its a shame what greed did to the game, it still has so much potential, but Wargaming doesnt care about their community and continues to focus on lining their pockets. I used to really enjoy World of Warships too but, that as well has been falling apart. As for World of Tanks, I miss playing my Tog II, and loved the fury when it was added after the movie release. I dont think itll ever take off again, not unless some massive overhauls are done. "You were good son, real good, maybe even the best"-Soldier.

[@GerMorden]

Listing some stuff that goes unmentioned here for whatever reason. Agrimotor tractor is a nod to the most memetic vehicle of "Men of War", a strategy game that WoT is based on. Light tanks used to have +5/-1 MM, allowing ELC AMX to fight Maus. Then it was changed to +4, then to +3 and then light tanks got streamlined into what we do have now. Waffentrager E110 isnt the first boss battle that WG has added into the game. Back in 2012 there was a Wieber Tiger to go pair with the film of the same name, where players on T-34-85 had to face a unique Tiger P, driven by the dev with 14 thousands HP and teleporation abilities. Speaking of 34-85, it also had 100-mm gun LB-1 with great stats, which actually differs from the czechoslovakian variant. Pz. 4 Smalturm also was a tech tree variant.

[@benjaminpedersen6345]

Was really fun to watch. I remember it all and where here since the start. I remember seing an add on youtube and downloaded it 11 years ago on my crappy lap top. So i remeber all from the video.

[@tanksaawk]

This was an amazing trip down memory lane!!! Thank you so much!! I started back in September 2012 and it is to this day my most played game ever... I vividly remember so many moments, and I will cherish them forever Until they drove everything to hell and nerfed the ELCs penetration What a shame

[@justsomedude7874]

I used to love wot, and then around 2018 I just lost all my love for the game. I don't even remember what happened

[@SmallPotato2313]

Tbh i dont even mind the nerf of elcs penetration...i loved the mobility of the tank and its not what it used to be...before u could circle around even medium or light tanks nowadays freakin heavies outruns ya

[@tanksaawk]

@@SmallPotato2313 the ELC is my fav and most played tank, that's why I mentioned it xD But yeah, a lot of things got worse

[@berat.74]

@@SmallPotato2313 it was going with 65 km/h and it could reach that speed so much faster than today because of stronger engine, today it reaches 60 kmh max and since it has a shittier engine it can't turn or accelerate fast

[@nikolajjankov4779]

@@justsomedude7874 game just went to shit after 1.0 update

[@Lrosado691]

Wow, this brought back a bunch of nostalgic moments. I remember my favorite tank at those times was the tier 3 Cruiser 2 with the 1̶0̶5̶m̶m̶ 94mm gun.

[@SmallPotato2313]

Mine was elc amx (its name was later changed to amx elc bis) i loved how i can just circle around HT and fight 8 tier tanks and be a dangerous opponent if left alone

[@philippfahner703]

It was 94 mm not 105

[@Lrosado691]

My apologies, you're absolutely right. I didn't even remember it correctly 😅. Thank you.

[@stijn5783]

With the howitzer! 😊

[@berat.74]

3.7 inç howitzer

[@Skritza]

damn i completely forgot about sitting infront of friendly arty to tk them and rocking your tank. I took several long breaks from the game and i still have the rocking mechanic ingrained on my brain

[@barneyfromblackmesa4746]

I have fond memories of doing a hold out style missions that used to be in the game on south coast

[@otis2521]

Bro, this was so damn interesting! I really really would like to have a second part!

[@spacec0re78]

Honestly that's one of the best WoT videos I've ever seen. Been playing it ever since 2011/12 and even though I could have sworn I knew every nook and cranny about the lore of it, I learned some new things. Pretty sure you could even do a whole second video about it if you talk more about the community surrounding it like the SirFoch incident when the Chrysler K released, or that korean player that had over 10,000 games on the pre-rework ELC AMX. Have a wonderful day.

[@somniferousshark9786]

GD! That old battle prep music! Wow. Also Big Ensk is structured a lot like Ghost Town.

[@leo6659]

i actually watched the entire thing, damn its been a long time, suprised u didnt mention wt auf e100

[@yeetingat100subs9]

Probably the most entertaining wot video i’ve watched, i usually never watch videos about wot but this was incredibly good. You should make a part 2, or just some other video talking about nostalgic and interesting things about the game

[@DeadBaron]

I stopped playing around the tech tree redesign and was super confused when I tried the game again. Gave up when it became abundantly clear Wargaming didn't care about making a game, they wanted slot machines on tracks, and focused more on lootboxes and microtransactions than making a balanced game. All of the tricks to get people addicted using gambling mechanics are there, and once you see them it's hard to go back. RNG when you fire and where your round will go, RNG on how much damage you receive or if the round bounces, overpowered gold ammo (that sure you can buy with silver, but it will bankrupt you if you don't pay in), lootboxes, etc, etc, $$$$

[@fridaycaliforniaa236]

Sums up why I think this software (not "game") is a cancer

[@le4chehenry324]

Agree with everything except gold ammo making you bankrupt. You can play with full gold and food and not lose credits if you're running a credit booster. Premium tanks also earn you a shit ton.

[@cooooolnoone]

@@le4chehenry324 and how do you get premium tanks or credit boosters? right, you pay.

[@Hhh-j8o]

@@cooooolnoone I've never paid for credit boosters yet I have 300+. Also, I started running full gold and consumables recently too, because why TF not lol. I have over 50m silver and even with full gold and consumables with no booster, I still make a profit, and I'm slightly above avg, so why not? Though i still load 50/50.

[@zdinc7268]

IIRC Rivertown is an actual map on console, and it was pretty good, there was a heavy side dcraping corridor to the west above a waterfall, but an elevated open section that was dominated by mainly lights to the west of this meaning the lighter tanks could decide the fate of the heavy corridor. There was always a TD shootout across mid between the two towns, and there was a hull down position on the far east, that is vulnerable to flanking mediums on the centre east. It was a pretty fun map....If not for artillery being able to hit anyone just about anywhere except under bridges

[@isszegg6086]

old wot just gives me so many memories when i was playing with my dad the music all the old sounds graphics

[@Deathforge]

This video is like a nostalgia vaccine. Gives me all the memories of the game I once loved so much, and protects me from ever playing it again!

[@kappachungusballsack]

I miss the days where my good friend Xaneleon would post new climb tutorials. Good old days.

[@pomocnyinaczej4221]

[*] feel the same

[@littletweeter1327]

Old wot footage, music, maps, makes me sad that we no longer have that fun game anymore. But at least I got to experience it. Good memories.