Gaijin Really Hates French Tanks

[@Spookston]

Decal link: tinyurl.com/42thwzv3 Q&A will be going up tomorrow :)

[@jurijstan7041]

2nd day of asking you to play P-47D-28

[@Idkwhattonamemychannelsoyeah]

Play ke-ni

[@JendaPtacek-hd1pt]

man with all respect i love your videos seriously ...you show what it can do etc but when you start crying about cas or non pen like really? man you playing for some time things like this really bother you still?

[@Unhistorical-qn6xt]

Is there a good way of farming silver lions? I only have Rank 1 Premiums.

[@freedomfighter2054]

Nobody likes the French. Not even the French.

[@KodaBriar]

The one French tank to not get solid shot Gaijin: "OVERPOWERED! SEND IT TO THE UPTIERS"

[@TheChillGamer-q5g]

why does he do this man

[@TwoChin]

I don't understand why the community lets Gaijin get away with it all, funny little guys will just keep on spending.

[@DrunkyBnnuy]

especially since french solid shot is very good, i don't get why they uptiered the batchat and this to 8.0 😭😭

[@tirushone6446]

"up with your BR!" - they said

[@MiGLifeCrisis]

HE CAN'T KEEP GETTING AWAY WITH IT

[@zockertwins]

1. Only good player play french tanks 2. French tanks overperform 3. French tanks get nerved 4. Only good player play french tanks 5. Profit???

[@leon-ks9yn]

LMAO

[@AlcaturMaethor]

I can only say that I am doing my best to lower the average skill level of french mains, with, I think, considerable success :D

[@saadharta8057]

@@AlcaturMaethor having decided to challenge myself with weird things, i started with the french tree... i can say that you're not alone lowering the average skill of french players :D

[@bramblesbramble6834]

Facing the 279 with French APHE continues to be a great way to simulate the experience of Sisyphus rolling the boulder up the hill

[@you_muppet789]

At this point it’s not Sisyphus it’s just Atlas

[@XanderTuron]

@@you_muppet789 I'd say the Atlas experience is attempting to carry the average mid-tier German team (or US top tier team) to victory.

[@crylater1488]

It's enough to see a T10M..

[@icaindianen]

3:45 never J out, waste the enemies ammunition out of spite.

[@spectre0969]

No, that gives them more SP

[@catt0215]

@@spectre0969 ok but it’s 10 times more annoying

[@Vivi-yw1eu]

Not just that, no matter how crippled you are the enemy wont move in past you until you're dead, it can be a few more seconds of holding position that matter for your team to move in

[@techpriest5452]

​@@spectre0969they still get the kill if you J out

[@Harry-wx3nf]

Still waiting for that lav-ad video

[@OperatorJackYT]

Real

[@SyedMohammed-eh7iu]

Fr

[@RedWave16]

thank you lol! i missed my chance to comment early today

[@ReubenPalmer-ct9rj]

4:00 cébre dë shēte 🗣️🗣️🗣️🔥🔥🔥 (come on do the aml 90)

[@fire_drake12.arc.24]

that thing is so bad now, its ridiculous that the entire turret basket is considered the horizontal drive.

[@JangoF12b]

90% sure if I remember right, the only reason half of the French ground and air stuff is at weird BRs is due to the fact of French win rates

[@plantenthusiast3052]

French players do be cracked.

[@kevinfitzpatrick5949]

​@@plantenthusiast3052If you can suffer through their low brs you can do anything.

[@plantenthusiast3052]

@@kevinfitzpatrick5949 Oh, I know (I'm a French player).

[@casualspawnpeeking3680]

You would be correct

[@spectre0969]

Statistical balancing, French players are usually better cause there’s less and it’s a secondary tech tree so everything is fucjing overBRed

[@radustefan8945]

first time hearing spookston talking french, traumatizing

[@retteip8276]

Fr

[@Sigmalini]

​@@retteip8276yes french

[@retteip8276]

@@Sigmalini i meant for real

[@retteip8276]

@@radustefan8945 he does not even has a french R

[@NoobyTheRealOne]

cible touchée!

[@NoneNotEvenSome]

One of the reasons I like the French tanks around this br is that they feel so smooth to actually play; the turret rotation on this thing is 16degrees more per second(20 vs 36, aced) than the 906. Love the vid spookyman

[@Orangejr36]

The most annoying thing about the French tank nerfs is that the Char 25t is explicitly the same gun from the Patton tanks but doesn't get APCR or HEAT

[@sniper321fire]

Gets better M82 pen and 4 sec reload so flank and 1 tap side shot is fun

[@gavinknott4602]

​@@sniper321fireone tap a 279 from the side

[@ronaldmcreagann6343]

@@gavinknott4602lmao

[@no-legjohnny3691]

​@@sniper321fire The problem is that every gun/tank becomes more fun &/or usable when you shoot enemies in the flank. But not every map really allows for that kind of play style now, do they?

[@Yourantsally]

​@@no-legjohnny3691also if everyone flanks, no one does

[@DeosPraetorian]

man gets a nuke with everything and im over here with 2k hours in and ive never gotten a nuke

[@Shade-.]

Im here with 1.5k hours, dropped my second nuke last morning

[@XTZGui250]

I had one with Super Hellcat but wasn't able to drop it 😢

[@reinyfrost3753]

Bro only plays the UDES and USH at a tier where he can get the nuke 😔

[@mattd7566]

I’ve only had one and it was in a 76 Sherman in a 6.7 uptier. Made it to the battlefield but was shot down. Had both enemies and teammates shooting at me.

[@dustyplayz]

Got my first nuke while playing the amx-13 in an up tier

[@horizontal-human]

It's the same BR as the Object 906 which is stabilized, with more pen APHE, HEAT-FS, and almost the same reload (4 vs 4.3), while being faster. Totally balanced

[@valeriucb6497]

And a lower profile too

[@F1delF1estasMC]

St-a3 is 6.7 with heat and the bat chat 25t with almost the same gun only fires APHE only and its 8.0

[@clonescope2433]

So you're forgetting something very important about the 906 it's Soviet. So it's more equal than others.

[@kimjanek646]

It’s got much better turret traverse though. He wouldn’t have killed the Leopard that shot him from behind with the Object 906. And it can also survive getting shot by planes or SPAAs.

[@bobthekangaroo8858]

Sounds about right

[@nattly6340]

the biggest french L is the fact that the DF105 was a joint venture between both france and germany, using the amx-13-105 turret, but only germany gets the tank and france dosnt even get the tank the turret is based on despite every part of it existing in game already...

[@danielschmidt7153]

I mean fair but they let the SK which is literally a DF105 Just from Denmark I think

[@nattly6340]

@@danielschmidt7153 1: its austrian, 2: its 8.7 and fires apfsds, and 3: BOTH NATIONS GET IT, INFACT IT WAS GOING TO *ONLY* GERMANY AT FIRST

[@yourlocalmilkman8481]

Spookston is really cooking with these edit

[@OllieTurner-h6x]

Its the new kidney I swear. The first few vids were a stark contrast.

[@atif1538]

a suprise to be sure but a welcome one

[@twentylush]

4:00 scariest spookston moment of 2024, speaking french

[@stefvdb1400]

Ngl, was not expecting him to pronounce it so good

[@joshharris2793]

7 seconds ago is wild; either way France has now lost a portion of their top tier identity with the addition of leopard 2s instead of leclercs just being accurate

[@MJRSoap]

And the Leclercs *still* dont have the DM53 equivelent.

[@Spidehman]

The top tier equivalent of the Sherman, truly big brained. Good thing the small starving dev team can reuse those polygons one last time to feed their families.

[@joshuamueller3206]

People who play France: EBRC Jaguar, ERC-90, Leclerc XLR, M48, M4A3E2 (76) W, D1, M16 MGMC, LVT-4 (20mm), LVT-4 (105mm recoilless), M8 HMC. Gaijin: Leopard 2A4, Leopard 2A5, Leopard 2A6.

[@joshharris2793]

@@joshuamueller3206 my first game as Germany this update was ruined by the crushing reality that I’m being stomped by Italy and France by leopards, now I’m not a Germany main by any means but seeing some countries better yet, feeling 2 countries lose their identity was extremely depressing, and the French players are not better off for it

[@YourLocalFrenchMain]

@@joshuamueller3206 Said this once, and I'll say it again, Gaijin will take any chance they can to just copy and paste a vehicle, instead of actually providing a unique vehicle like the EBRC

[@markusorpana5319]

Every occasion where the French are talked about in a negative manner, it always reminds me of that one old video titled "I love France!".

[@Mariuspersem]

"kind of overtiered" is the understatement of the century

[@kimjanek646]

It’s not. The game isn’t 3-4 nations anymore. Most post-war tanks have no armor and are easily killed with 90mm APHE.

[@Mariuspersem]

@@kimjanek646 german main spotted

[@giogiosepicchannel5195]

@@Mariuspersemalways so easy to spot them in the wild

[@kimjanek646]

@@Mariuspersem How about you explain by which standard the tank is overtiered?

[@motmot8879]

@@kimjanek646 low penetration, bad armor, no stabilizer, opponents that can easily shrug it off frontally and even sometimes side on, worse fire control that tanks at lower BRs... Do you need more?

[@Jigglypoundage]

As soon as you said you loved the French crew lines, I instinctively shouted Cible touché! Peak brainrot

[@peterptsd]

-french tanks are bad and overtiered -demolishes the entire enemy team

[@OperatorJackYT]

*Average Spookston video:*

[@rammywarrior4033]

That's just Spookston, a furry who plays WarThunder as a creator, so it's pretty much his job to be good at the game

[@adanakebap2731]

@@rammywarrior4033 TRVE

[@rojevil2829]

@@rammywarrior4033 he said he's not a furry

[@goldELIO1]

they are not bad if you know what you're doing, but they are definitely overtiered

[@einbaerchen2995]

1:03 bold of you to include the USA. For some reason I almost always loose the match when they are on my team...

[@DakotaofRaptors]

US teams are terrible at playing objective

[@Nunsey]

American mains always leave after dying once or twice

[@wallachia4797]

Because he's originally a US main. Objectively, US players are the worst thing you can have on your team and they're much worse than the German ones

[@Nunsey]

@@wallachia4797 true

[@epiclyawesomeguy]

@@wallachia4797 2 types of german players tiger 2 rushers jagdtiger players that obliterate half the enemy team and soak up most of the enemy ammunition

[@falfill2096]

Spookston: “More French tanks?” Gaijin: “No”

[@TogetherWeCanCreate]

0:15 Yup...

[@PorterDeason]

France players: do we have a good tank? Gaijin. Well yes but actually no

[@samuhell1804]

i love spookston saying "Cible touché"

[@temporarysam5657]

since you said the ratel 90 wasn't bad, you should play the objectively awful ratel version; the ratel 20. it has the same bad mobility as the 90, but with the same weapons as the marder IFV, which doesn't sound bad at first, until you realise you're expected to fight king tigers and jumbo pershings with 7 slow moving ATGMs and an autocannon that can't even pen a panther's side (day 18)

[@97Homeslice]

switch to aiming machine gun, then you can fire missiles without exposing any of your turret. Can abuse hills like the bradley with gunner view on.

[@fourche7]

You know who else gets APHE? -My mom- The Semovente 75/34 M43. It gets the same gun as the P26/40 and has comparable armor to the Tiger at BR 3.3.

[@pixel1312]

Why are we still here? Just to grind? Every night, I can feel my SL... And my GE... even my RP... The tanks I've lost... the crew I've lost... won't stop hurting... It's like they're all still there. You feel it, too, don't you? Day 37 of asking Spooskton to play with a controller.

[@UNPSC-0]

The moment at 14:56, I heard the prowler sound when I saw the ZSU, that was genuinely terrifying.

[@abderrahmenboukari4419]

Hey spookston, I've been playing war thunder for a year now and I just wanted to say you're one of the main reasons I got A LOT better in the game. Your videos are fire keep cooking 🔥

[@Swordgaming360]

Remember that "Certified LAV-AD moments" video? would really like to see something like that again

[@paper2061]

I love this thing, I had a 9 kill game at 9.7 a week or so back, its only at 8.0 because of french mains being better than average players.

[@otdewiljes]

As a mainly-French player I completely support this statement!

[@kronk9418]

French mains don’t touch grass.

[@epiclyawesomeguy]

@@kronk9418 so what? most of them will still be better at this game than you will ever be in your life, the "touch grass" excuse is just trying to make yourself look less bad than you are, go back to your pathetic tiger 2s or whatever nation you main

[@blyatland2440]

BABE WAKE UP! IT'S TIME FOR THE YEARLY AMX-50 SPOOKSTON VIDEO!

[@3ddiy405]

SK-105A2 is still waiting

[@TakenWithout]

2:28 chieftain mentioned! gameplay when?

[@cl3matis]

Spookston.... the Breda 90/53 calls.... the Italian 90mm beckons....

[@OptiPopulus]

10:05 Spookston genuinely not knowing the majority of the tank was pennable at the entire fight is rather alarming. The lower sides of the turret, rear of the turret, etc are all easy 1 shots vs APHE. He could have sent it into the hull first shot and gotten the kill. M60s, M48s, M26s, etc are all extremely easy hull side kills, especially because they make the armor weaker because "well it's lower and curved so who would ever shoot there??"

[@nicolayordanov9799]

Pathetic attempt number 78 at getting Spookston to play the Churchill VII

[@MinhNguyen-br3ij]

Always a good time when Spooky uploads a French tank vids

[@Deltaguy447]

French tanks: Exists Gaijen: And I took that personal! UP-TIERED!!

[@nickyboyo96]

Another video? Not complaining but caught a bit off guard since you already posted one a day or two ago. But I'm still happy!

[@lazqr]

babe wake up spookston dropped

[@JSawmill63]

Don’t know how there was ever a time where you didn’t make this style of content. Love it so much. Always entertaining

[@Ricktheminer]

Day #9 of asking for New STRV 103 challange: Since the STRV 103 can reverse nearly as quick as it can go forwars, you should play it in a "Archer style" meaning that you would reverse to the front and have to turn around 180° to engage the enemie.

[@Loplyful]

I love how Spookston uses old Roblox SFX. Most of these newgens don't even realize it, very good homage!

[@badinosaur0516]

You got more than 1 kill in a French tank? Your going to 12.0

[@red_bootz2994]

Day 149 You should play a tank with hydropneumatic suspension (recommend the MBT-70) But the catch is you have to drop the suspension as low as it can go for the whole match.

[@pilotmanpaul]

Last time I was this early, the IS-4M and eveyone had the 10.5cm King Tiger.

[@guyperson6567]

having a stroke?

[@eugenioberti7336]

Giorno 31 of asking spookston to play my favourite tank, the ikv 91-105. Decent mobility, VERY good cannon (Sweden rules) 🇸🇪

[@davidj9677]

War Thunder would be so much more fun if Gaijin did away with skill-based matchmaking Fun for normal players, that is. At this point I don't feel bad letting German players' win rates drop even lower

[@ThatMaus]

Day 45 of telling spookston to play the IT1. its a ATGM launcher on the t62 chassis, it has decent-ish mobility, the turret is squished. You can hide behind cover and shoot ATGM over the cover like a gremlin and you overpressure tanks (tho it can be rare, but it does happen without you realizing) and its MG is really werid. Also it has a cool reload animation.

[@SemoventeDa]

Giorno 38 of asking Spookston to play Lancia R3o (100/17), hates bri'ish. AVANTI SAVOIA, KEEP GOING!

[@ThePossiblyInsane]

AVANTI SAVOIA!

[@ManifestDestiny259]

Make him do it in only with hesh

[@RobertDurham-up4tq]

AVANTI SAVOIA!

[@An_00b]

AVANTI SAVOIA ❤ From 🇨🇭

[@Ledyuka]

Spookston speaking french -> music to my ears (and I'm french.) I have a little challenge for you, whenever you're making a french tank video, everytime you say the tank's name, you say it the french way. Reject "Ay-Em-Ex Fifty Tee-oh nintety slash ninety thirty" Embrace "AH-EM-HIX CINQUANTE TEH-OH QUATRE-VINGT-DIX SLASH QUATRE-VINGT-DIX TRENTE"

[@schnitzel_enjoyer]

13:44 Smartest arab player 14:50 Smartest arab player again

[@akirasitumorang6634]

Well to be fair, spook turned his engine off so the zsu won't know

[@JohnSmith-pm4ul]

Sent him back to Gaza twice

[@hausflur4453]

Well damn, these Intros are getting better and better! Love it!

[@Germanbychoice]

3:00 did mans say light tank or white tank lol

[@finlayward5534]

100% white

[@YuzukuKudamonoCH]

1000% white

[@kartikghora2212]

10000% white

[@sil2c]

100000% white

[@Kimew64]

3:58 (cible touché!) its mean (target hit)

[@axtoncam3661]

the soft deference for darkness for an up-tiered French tank in the outro is a nice touch to end the video.

[@GenesisAQUA]

You are a top notch KZbinr! One who doesn’t swear, rage, etc. Very humorous too. Maybe play the M22 at top tier? Thanks Spookston!

[@Ted_Kurt]

The editing on these videos is getting fancy. Props

[@LouisCauchy2]

Since it is soviet, Gaijin does not hate the Pr.1124. Still it can be painful to play, so just like you like Spookston!

[@rroutdooridaho6173]

I recently started playing the French tech tree and I was surprised at how much fun it is. The AMX M4 and the three AA around that BR range are a ton of fun. no armor on any of them but still fun.

[@rockyboi9360]

I somehow overpressure a 279 with a Sheridan... I did not know it could do that.

[@Mortarion32]

Spookston youre almost close of playing the AMX M4 and shred nonfrench tanks with its autoloading 90mm

[@OPEL71]

Your videos are too good, i watched almost all of them 😂

[@Headshot1st]

Spookston: has to fight t-62's also Spookston: "Im tired boss"

[@Idkwhattoputhereandbeoriginal]

YOURE FINALLY PLAYING THIS. I REMEMBER ASKING YOU TO PLAY THIS SO MUCH

[@Sabrowsky]

As a French main, I can say, yes, we suffer. You know what also suffers? M2A2 in BR 1.0 in the US tech tree, you should go and try it. (Day 8)

[@SargeM27]

YES! French video! Now play the AMX 13 FL 11 please! It's the same thing but at low tier

[@sgtjarot7913]

Hey Spooky Wooky. I just got my first ever nuke a few days ago in the M1A1 Abram’s and just wanted to let you know I have been a long time fan of yours 🤙🏻 love your vids

[@Gritty_03]

Pain. When this thing was added it had less of a ready rack and a slightly longer reload (if i remember correctly) and it was 7.3. Now it’s 8.0 and 8.0 France is literally just uptier thunder. Also day 8 of asking for the T-60, the original IFV

[@kingcraft213]

It's dinner time and spook uploads it doesn't get better than this

[@BobdaButcher]

You might want to revisit the Magach Hydra. While the new ammo boxes are stated to be only given to TDs and SPAA, the Magach Hydra has also gotten the ability to make ammo boxes. Could be funny possibilities with the rockets.

[@thomas.02]

I think there should be a spookston getting jump scared in war thunder compilation

[@randomguye4645]

8:13 another "spookston getting jumpscared" moment to the tally

[@derritter3873]

I can confirm this. I was spading my AMX-40 yesterday, and got a nuke with it, but in other games I’d get full up tiered to 10.7 and get obliterated.

[@bruhmoment3741]

For me this is one of the only actually enjoyable tanks in war thunder, almost got a nuke with it twice (counting one time where i got it but didnt have time to take off) and the APHE + autoloader is -absolutely cracked- great.

[@WarThunderTaco]

3:55 was my favourite part. Also it seems like spookston is so much happier or is that just me?

[@tumate45]

This bad boi helped me so much with french tree leveling. I even have the Somua to help out, but even though Somua has a bigger gun and more armor, the AMX50 is much more enjoyable, easier to get into sneaky positions and take out people.

[@temerityxd8602]

Same here, those two got me through most of the French tree.

[@_The_SCP_Foundation_]

SPOOKSTON! Even though we don’t play navy (yes it does exist) you need to play. It’s pain

[@temerityxd8602]

Interestingly enough this thing can actually kill a Maus If you hit it's hull side from close range with virtually no angling.

[@rawk7106]

Attempt 36 at getting Spookston to play the Soviet rank 2 ZSU-37 ratmobile

[@ryancrazy1]

3:15 snap shot was juicy.

[@megan00b8]

Ya know you should try the Ho-Ro in mid tier. Tank is basically balanced on any BR because you'll always be slow and die to a sneeze but kill anything you look at.

[@VFRSTREETFIGHTER]

I think it's time for a Spookston goblin, gremlin or some other creature decal!

[@thedungeondelver]

Also it's nice to see Gaijin sticking to their "Soviet tanks supreme" BS esp. with the T55.

[@tirvaygaming1330]

Spookston got little bit spicy with his editing skill lately huh?😂❤

[@colinvanniman5369]

Speaking of aphe, a tank that has really good aphe is the Italian P40 medium tank. Really trolly armor and pretty good mobility. (Day 18)

[@retteip8276]

YES he needs to play it again

[@colinvanniman5369]

He really does. He does so well in it too…

[@AbdullahFaragethe2nd]

with how quickly spooston likes comments i unironiclly imagine spookston is the kidna guy to post a vid and stare at it for a hour straight or is that just me (great vid btw)

[@TheSicilianErrorofColor]

Love any France gameplay videos, i had my first nuke with 8.0 France with a full uptier. I just love it! Thanks for the video

[@ouchythathurt7576]

Attempt 5: You should check out the French Vextra 105, its pretty quick and has a decent gun. I've had a lot of fun playing it and I think you'd enjoy it

[@XanderTuron]

8:55 Good to see that team mates remembering they have smoke grenades continues to be one of the absolute most annoying things in GRB.

[@Creamy141]

The bruh when you saw that VIDAR sounded like sheer disbelief it's the same BR as this lol You know what else sucks unless it's in the hand of a good player? The Type 87 SPAAG for Japan (It yearns for suffering)

[@afoxinafoxhole7891]

Day 77 of asking Spookston to play some of the worst spaa in game, the M19/42 dusters

[@thatonebattanian7593]

Love the vids even tho they make me feel crap seeing how easy you make it 😂 would love to see you play your personal favourite tank

[@griffinfaulkner3514]

I love how Scinfaxi has effectively become the nuke soundtrack.

[@Coco_artsy]

Man I did not expect to cross "Spookston screaming "Cible touché !" off my bingo card today 😭

[@lemaitredesjeuxdusort7526]

Hello Spookton, I've seen that many of yours subcribers wanted to see you make a video where you make a visit in a tank museum, I have a suggetion that might interest you if you decide to do so: why not do it in the tank museum located at the french city of Saumur ? it is one of the biggest tank museum in the world and was also the one who provided Gajin with the informations they needed in order to create the french tech tree in game.

[@zhongyiqian5176]

I can’t tell you how much I appreciate the c&c generals soundtrack

[@ChickenCurryYoinker]

You would love the Turán III and the Zrínyi I. The reverse speed is amazing and the gun slaps like an aggressive dad😂