The New Best Abrams

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Sorry if I seem a bit less enthusiastic than I usually do in these videos, was quite sick when I recorded this and really wasn't in the mood to play the game.
With update Danger Zone, Gaijin added the Australian M1A1 AIM to the American tech tree as a squadron vehicle. This means that any player, regardless of level, can buy their way into top tier. Not only that, but the M1A1 is one of if not the best M1 in War Thunder. Compared to the M1A2 it has a less potent round and no CITV, but I consider the AIM's superior gen 2 thermal sight to be more than a fair tradeoff. I think it's the only American MBT to have something besides gen 1 thermals, except for maybe the M60 AMBT.
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[@scorpionevo880]

Gaijin has actually gone and gave everyone a free Abrams, but the parts and FPE and general mods grind is still horrible. They're just mocking us at this point

[@OneGuyIKnow]

Glad I quit war thunder a while ago

[@_invencible_]

@@jackgamer6307 but it doesn't have the premium multiplier

[@scorpionevo880]

@@_invencible_ still much cheaper and faster than grinding through the whole American tree to reach the Abrams

[@warriorhobo3935]

i will die knowing, that we got so far as to free abrams but........ *still no Parts /FPE*

[@spicynoodle7419]

Gaijin pls add a $30 package that unlocks parts+fpe for all tanks in the game

[@YeEpIkAiYeI]

Ah yes, the most OP thing in the game. Gaijin's massive incompetence.

[@CatWithAOpinion]

& the wallet.

[@MaxRavenclaw]

*GREED

[@WonkyTonkBotty]

@@CatWithAOpinion & Russian bias

[@chanute4041]

Spookston 5 months ago: “As far as the bias angle goes, I just don’t see it…” Spookston now: “Uggh Russian tanks are so handheld.”

[@michaelgalloway1359]

ikr I was just thinking that when he said that maybe he finally realized

[@Alelip1000]

top tier isnt the whole russian tree

[@P.G13]

Maybe Russian tanks are just better then western tank lol it not that hard to see a T-72 destroying a Abrams tank 🤷‍♂️

[@michaelgalloway1359]

@@P.G13 not even gaijins just picking favs and literally removing the big caveat of Russian tanks because it’s helps their bottom line

[@P.G13]

@@michaelgalloway1359 or maybe you’re not that good at the game…lmfao like guys we keep doing this over and over again there is no Russian bias! Study the vehicles your playing. Pro and cons. Strength versus weakness. Like come on who would win a bradly or a T-80…hmm

[@sicsempertyrannis6541]

"It does not effect russian tanks as much as it should" Pepperridge farms remembers when the T-64A was added and went sky high at the lightest hit Pepperridge farms also remembers russian mains whining incessantly about it, until Russian MBT ammo was artificially buffed to withstand more hits

[@mekolayn]

So players were crying because game was realistic?

[@waterdamagedtextbook9858]

@@mekolayn tankies complaining that Russians tanks weren’t as strong as they simped them to be

[@MysteriousOct]

Ah yes gaijin. Artificially buff russian mbt ammo and realistically nerf italian ones 👍 👌

[@texasslingleadsomtingwong8751]

But then Ukrainian war shows reality is far off of Russian autoloaders in game. I can't imagine gaijin growing enough hair on their testicles to implement such a mechanic.

[@Natalya-Barsukova]

Mostly what I’ve gleamed from these sorts of conversations is that they’re filled to the brim with a bunch of hyper-nationalist fuck boys. You just want to fulfill fantasies of being unstoppable killing machines popping turrets off Russian tanks left and right with US teams coming out victorious every single time in the name of ‘realism’

[@XSpamDragonX]

I'm excited to see Spookston getting closer to snapping and accepting that Gaijin genuinely want us to suffer because they think it's the most profitable strategy for this game and just start treating them like the buggers they are in his videos.

[@LenonPeh]

Gaijin is truly a trash company.

[@gigachad5565]

yo spoon king its me vtmc

[@thatoneguy4459]

I'm loving this live commentary, really shows u Spooskton isn't serious all the time. Lmao

[@burningpotato9447]

Woah we have the same pfp

[@thatoneguy4459]

Most based pfp besides Gigachad.

[@Mister-Chief]

One of my fav funny comments from spooskton was when he did the puma vid “I’m playing a FPS, they are playing survival horror”

[@thatoneguy4459]

@@Mister-Chief lmaoo, I just watched that vid lol. I remember that moment.

[@f-35_enjoyer26]

Dub PFP

[@apPaulpie]

can we take a moment for that player who pushed him into safety and sacrificed who knows amount of SL for his repair cost for him just to save him :D*

[@loganwalker8537]

i think the M1 abrams? costs like 5 k? when your playing 9.0 and up its mostly not to make money

[@apPaulpie]

@@loganwalker8537 i think its just the stock model if it is fully spaded like my t80 BVM it would be a lot higher... T80 BVM already eats my SL in some matches.. i hope gaijin would do something about this absurd repair cost

[@panzerkampfwagenviiimaus2187]

@@apPaulpie BVM players have no right to complain about repair costs

[@joshuamueller3206]

I feel like he did not intend on dieing, but a heroic sacrifice just the same.

[@worldoftancraft]

@@panzerkampfwagenviiimaus2187 T-10Macho is not 9k silver kitties for repair. While it was only 2.500

[@Raptor747]

According to Gaijin, Russian MBTs use ammunition as armor, and it works really well. In real life, of course, we see how Russian MBTs use ammo as rocket fuel for launching their turrets into the stratosphere.

[@MaskFky]

Honestly, russian mbts aren't badly designed, they were just designed for the cold war, not modern times, so let's just stop this joke

[@audittlivereaction1964]

@@MaskFky no

[@MaskFky]

@@audittlivereaction1964 no what

[@Ghostdrone25]

@@MaskFkyRussian tank turrets go whooooosh

[@squidy4082]

Game is fucked

[@coupergiuliano7486]

Spookston is probably the first non-Aussie I've seen who knows what a bin chicken is without having to be told, hats off to him.

[@kartushkaportato8301]

to be fair he probably has had it explained to him in the past lmao

[@matthieuzglurg6015]

War Thunder has a huge problem with ammo hitting moving things. And I'm not talking about moving things relative to the ground, I'm talking about moving things relative to the center of mass of a vehicle. I think this started with volumetric shells, but I'm not really sure. I just remember this issue appearing in about the same time frame. How many times do I struck the turret bussel ammo rack or a rotating turret and it does nothing How many times your round hit the very tip of a gun barrel while the turret is moving and the rounds just dissapear into oblivion without damaging the barrel at all ? It's so often that I decided to test it myself : when I'm in a 1v1 fight, I mess up my shot and I know that My opponent has a shell in the breech before me (either because he didn't fire in the first place or he has a faster reload that I do), I just giggle the turret. It's not all the time, but pretty often, his shell will just do nothing because he hit somehting (the turret, or the gun) that was rotating while the shell hit it and the game just has a brain fart and deletes the shell) I think this is why russian tanks are so resilient to ammo rack : contrary to NATO tanks that almost universaly have their biggest ammo rack in the hull, in a fixed position with sometimes the ready rack in the turret (There is exceptions to that, but for example, Type 90, Leclerc, Leopard 2 have this config (that can be kinda neglected by only taking the ammo neede to fill the ready rack)), In russian tanks, the main ammo stowage compartment is the carousel. And the carousel is moving with the turret, which is almost always rotating except is the dudes goes in a straight line and not moving his camera, or if he's shooting someone and has his gun locked on his target. I don't know how this issue still hasn't been fixed, volumetric shells have been around for a long time already

[@cristobalalvarez5491]

No only with Russia vehicles they glorify them and then say that’s how they are in real life

[@hbalint1000]

no russian bias here tovarish )))))))))

[@RedVRCC]

That's why I always just aim for the turret ring first. It usually doesn't eat shots in my experience even when rotating. This will lock the turret still and probably kill half the turret crew, letting me aim my next shot on a non-moving turret.

[@black_thunder2159]

@@cristobalalvarez5491 only american main said that, Russian tanks in game are super mediocre if you try it. The comment does make a point. This issue even applies to ZTZ96 & 99, & noone is glorifying it.

[@cheyannei5983]

@@black_thunder2159 I don't know, I think the ZTZ tanks look kind of cool

[@shakybill3]

5:50 My heart goes crazy for team mates like that, gotta love them!

[@falschesdeutsch4349]

And the worst is that spookston let him died. He didn’t go forward when his motor was repair. This is very sad

[@CssHDmonster]

man, its kinda sad, it kills everything perfectly fine until it hits a russian mbt then the shell does nothing

[@templardisciple3387]

Yes...Russian bias at its finest

[@simeontinkov4939]

Idk but I’ve noticed it’s a bug that’s going around with all ammo rn for some reason like I’m playing low teir and shooting the ammo still sometimes does nothing idk what happened

[@honkhonk8009]

Gaijjin artifically modified all the Russian MBTs and tanks, to have zero spalling whatsoever. Apparently the devs did it cus their feelings got hurt when their marketing department added the M1 abrams back then. They kept it like this ever since

[@simeontinkov4939]

@@honkhonk8009 Idk I remember it wasn’t like this before it’s probably a bug they’re gonna fix and what do you mean zero spalling I one shoot Russian tanks all the time while playing with Germany?

[@the_enforcersav]

@@honkhonk8009 not true

[@leonpeters-malone3054]

As much as I don't play this game, there's always something good about seeing an Australian vehicle and Australian camo.... We know how to make a good vehicle. We've made a few additions for comfort. And they even did some old jellybean. Brings a tear to my eyes.

[@kousand9917]

Isn't 99.9% of the vehicle just the American design and the Australians did near nothing to it?

[@coatofarms4439]

More like 98~%. They have some changes to it but the majority of the tank is the same.

[@jasonglebe3235]

@@kousand9917 They painted some nice kangaroos on the sides.

[@ricobrown6630]

As a kiwi i just physically cannot like this comment no matter how hard I try.

[@akitsujimura526]

Sadly enough, the camo Spook is using in the video is a custom skin other players can’t see. The current default camo for the AIM has a lighter shade for the dark tan which isn’t how it looks on the current servicing AIMs in the ADF. Gaijin wasn’t even able to do that correctly.

[@tomsonlarrson3318]

The amount of times I have shoved a round into a Russian tanks ammo carousel and had it detonate, but fail to do anything to the tank is astounding.

[@jayburn00]

In some American tanks, I receive hits that cause my ammo to explode despite it not even being hit. Basically if any part of my tank is penned, it automatically caused ammo to explode despite it not being a part that was hit. Meanwhile, Russian tanks don't explode when their ammo is hit directly and even destroyed. The Russian bias is real.

[@_invencible_]

russian bias has always been real. anyone who says it's not is trolling

[@alexmaximus9134]

Idk, in my case, when i get hit in the ammo in the autoloader, the ammo goes boom always. Maybe the guys in the vid had plot armour or smth like that.

[@katyusha1283]

@@_invencible_ When most people are talking about russian bias(T-34's KV's being OP, low repair costs, russian tanks catching rounds that should pen [volumetric], etc.), it's not real. But in cases like this one, it is very clear.

[@_invencible_]

@@alexmaximus9134 like the opposite of a paid actor

[@_invencible_]

@@katyusha1283 says someone who's username literally is katyusha. I'll take that with a grain of salt

[@milicijaofficer6611]

something I noticed playing mainly russian MBT's is that the 125 mm create little to no spall even when penetrating frontal armor. And russian tanks are also eating shells in the ammo, mostly BVM's 80U's.

[@honkhonk8009]

Thats because Russian MBTs were artifically modified to have zero spalling upon penetration by Gaijjin. They buffed all russian mbts after the M1 was added, for no discernable reason

[@Commander_35]

Bruh

[@milicijaofficer6611]

@@honkhonk8009 Yeah, Even when facing each-other The russian MBT's ammo rack creates no spalling, and doesnt detonate when destroyed most of the time, as I just tested it today. Smaller APFSDS's (anything under 90mm's), have had this issue for ever, I don't know why gaijin wont fix it but now it seems to effect all APFSDS. I hope it's just a bug and not a "feature".

[@calliope9040]

For me a ammo shell gets yellowed and I’m instantly dead in t-72s and t-80s

[@Glebasik148]

@@honkhonk8009 "for no discernable reason" yea spall lining and metal shields that protects ammo is totally not a reason this is just russian bias

[@something_001]

Remember when the M1A2 was meta for two patches and Gaijin smacked it with a 12k repair cost?. The BVM has been in game for a year and it gets buffed every other patch.

[@michaelgalloway1359]

Yup they handed one of the best tanking nations in the game a good vehicle then slapped it with the rep cost hammer and are now working to tank Americas win rate with the AIM and the stupidity of putting in a top tier prem, Gaijin just needs to fix ammo spall and have russian ammo when its hit actually do something because Ive been in hit my fucking blow out panels a dozen times and each time my tank combusted thanks to gaijin meanwhile the T80 I shoot can fucking care less such bullshit.

[@spliffy98]

The Type-93 (that Toyota truck with stinger missiles) now has 12k repair cost.

[@Dracorex235]

@@serch3ster The higher the cost, the less you want to take the tank out, because if they kill you, even if you destroyed an average amount of enemy vehicles, you still loss SL.

[@evanharris7335]

I throughly enjoy your videos as well as commentary. I have been an operator on the m1a2 sep v2 abrams for the better part of a decade and also attended/pass abrams master gunner school. I would love to be able to reach out to you and provide insight on actual vehicle behavior vs the game and maybe provide so good content or conversation points for future videos! If interested let me know and we will work on the best way to communicate! Keep up the good work

[@PerciusLive]

I think talking to ArmorCast/ScottishKoala would also be good too. He does cover tanks and aircraft pretty well on the ArmorCast channel and has done a video on the Abrams iirc

[@mrfun177]

The whole russian ammo not detonating seems to have been happening the last few weeks especially, even on low tier a lot of their tanks will simply have their ammo dissapear when it should detonate. But then again gaijin has a track record of handholding russian vehicles. Still remember the bullshit of when the XP-55 was released which whole gimmick was being able to outclimb everything but the fairydust engines of the yak still could outclimb the XP-55 easily.

[@nahuelleandroarroyo]

Russian fughters out accelerating p51/p47 or catching them on a dive, totally beating the joke of their playstile, if you even get to a nice altitude on the first place

[@sillylittleowlguy2392]

I remember diving out from a fight with a yak-3 in a P-38L, blowing past his rip speed by 100 knots, and then maybe a minute later he’s outrunning me by maybe 30-50 knots. It’s absolutely wild how BS Yaks are.

[@andrewgause6971]

Yeah, its almost like they realize most of their customer base is Russian and/or they're trying desperately to deny how horribly that carousel has been killing tank crews in a certain special operation...

[@purevsurenbyamba6105]

I swear russia bribed gaijin to buff their tanks

[@andrewgause6971]

@@purevsurenbyamba6105 Gaijin accepted funding from the Russian ministry of Art and Culture years ago. They're contractually forbidden from portraying Russian stuff in a negative light.

[@galaxlordcz3933]

5:20 I once made a post on reddit about why it there's no crew member operating the TOW, was told that it would be 'too easy to kill', dumbest shit I've ever heard since every other vehicle with a TOW launcher like that has a guy operating it.

[@collander7766]

uhh pretty sure it's because that's not how it works. iirc every crew member of the Wiesel 1A2 can perform all of their duties from *inside* the vehicle. Nobody has to stick their head out to fire. The TOW launcher is remotely operated

[@arandomredarmykomrade9529]

y'know i've noticed that the turms doesn't seem to enjoy the smae "invincible ammo" luxury as the tech tree russian top tier vehicles, i'm not complaining that it DOESN'T but i am curious as to why given that it could boost sales if it did and the tech tree ones (mostly) didn't.

[@alum202]

It's syrian, that's why

[@BlackHawk21ification]

@@alum202 that might actually be true... and that's worst part.

[@michaelgalloway1359]

probably to boost russian winrates with out being able to be called p2w sellouts its my guess, the turms is already a great 9.7 great gun, good armor, literal gen 3 thermals, ok ish reload and the best part of russian tanks is that they dont need crew training to be viable within warthunder at top tier, auto loaders make it easy to where anyone can pick up a turms and be relatively competent in the fact of 9.0s but thats about it I just think its to not have the turms be a horrendous nightmare for the 8.7s out there that have to deal with them on a regular basis.

[@cutthroat795]

It’s a T-80 thing

[@alum202]

@@BlackHawk21ification Yeah fr

[@hklassehutten1476]

Spooks, I'm surprised you didn't see the new changes, Gaijin removed the ability to ammo rack top tier Russian MBTs The devs also have become more aggressive towards criticism so be careful not to get banned.

[@GenFalcon]

Full Russian bias move there.

[@Viktor-fl5mv]

Russia has tanks that were modernized after 2000, even after 2010, Israel got the Merkava Mk4M, France got the Leclerc SXXI, Germany Leopard 2A6, China ZTZ99A, Japan Type 10 and the USA M1A2 from 1993 and the Australian export M1A1AIM, which is an escape from the addition of US M1A1SA, M1A2SEPv1/2 with better armor and the M829A3... And there is still M1A2SEPv3 with NGAP and M829A4 ...

[@cristobalalvarez5491]

And m1a1 fep it could be 10.7 with its trophy and m829a2 to deal with the Russians ka50 and their tanks oh and armor was better than the a2 in game

[@kousand9917]

M829A4 from what I've heard is not in production yet

[@MS07B3-G0UF]

@@kousand9917 it’s in active service….

[@spakes6561]

@@kousand9917 it and HEMPT are in active service and being fielded.

[@honkhonk8009]

Not to mention Russian MBTs being artifically coded to have zero spalling whatsoever, in contrast ot western MBTs. Gaijjin got exposed doing that, and no one gave af. Their marketing department and management isnt very biased, but the devs? Jesus bruh.

[@alexc3504]

5:49 F in chat for the Abrams who pushed Spook to save him from the guy shooting his side while he was repairing/recrewing.

[@jasonirwin4631]

Russian MBT I real life: hit the ammo turret turns in to progress resupply vessel. Russian MBT in war thunder: ammo is extra armor.

[@dustysandals5466]

least nationalistic russian game dev's

[@cloudysoup9056]

irl Russian tanks still the most destroyed Tank in the 21 century (and no im not pointing at Ukraine conflict)

[@worldoftancraft]

@@dustysandals5466 Of course we will ignore the year ago Jorman r-ape of everything by leoChitoRats and Geee-91s. Indeed. Very nationalistic is when I had 30% winrate.

[@aceinternational4788]

No in real life the Russian armor is superior over nato tanks that’s why they don’t need blowout panels

[@92HazelMocha]

Irl Russian mbt's are almost entirely killed by shaped charges, which will pretty much always set off the ammo. Never seen an ammo explosion from sabot.

[@LilKittyKat-C]

I can hear the pain in Spook's voice when shooting and failing to kill a Russian MBT

[@tomsonlarrson3318]

Watching ammo detonate on a Russian tank and have nothing come of it really reinforces the fact that Russian vehicles get their own dev team

[@alum202]

@@tomsonlarrson3318 Or maybe, just maybe. Russian Bias is actually a thing.

[@pomelo9840]

@@alum202 that's what he said, just a bit more gallantly.

[@RedVRCC]

@@tomsonlarrson3318 they don't "detonate" when they disappear, sometimes for some bullshit reason ammo has a chance to be destroyed without exploding at all. It's more common with tiny rounds without HE filler but sometimes will happen with darts from MBTs

[@petelazarus3229]

@@RedVRCC Silence you Russian Ork, we've all seen how them turrets get sent to Mars when the Ivans inside fart on the ammo rack.

[@datubbyhoneybadger4223]

Watching you play top tier makes me remember why I hate playing top tier (teammates, getting gaijined, too fast paced, and although not shown CAS). Its a partly a skill issue and partly I dont want to sweat too much playing the game. At least I have light tanks to play around with.

[@mrfun177]

Cas is also a massive problem in low tier, gaijin should just make a mode that is tanks only just like how air is air only. It's not fun playing italy or japan and constantly getting shit on by russian fairydust planes.

[@dassatisfan]

Fast paced toptier lol, everytime i check the map 2/3 of capture points are not capped and enemies/friendlies generally only camp 100 meters away from spawn. its boring

[@bullreeves1109]

I love how after all these years the (In game) Abrams still suffers from the rear facing depression stoping a solid 1-2 feet above the engine deck.

[@honkhonk8009]

tbf its not that bad for the abrams irl. irl, those tanks werent designed to be used like this. If a tank has to swivel its turret a full 180 to shoot in the first place, there is something wrong with your tactics.

[@bullreeves1109]

@@honkhonk8009 I’m talking about the In game Abrams’ issue of artificially elevating the barrel higher over the engine deck than necessary. Instead of it being able to depress all the way flush when needed, like with other tanks in game and in IRL. I guess I should have specified the In game Abrams.

[@honkhonk8009]

@@bullreeves1109 true

[@casematecardinal]

​@@bullreeves1109 I think the pattons all have that problem aswell

[@eddycolangelo]

@@casematecardinal yes, they do

[@Leopardts]

Being Aussie I couldn't help laugh out loud when you suggested we used bin chickens instead of kangaroo's on our military equipment. I'm not even sure how you know about them and you're also not wrong xD hahaha

[@Warmaker01]

I've never played this game but watched some videos here and there over the years. I knew it was focused on WWII era stuff originally, so when I saw 1950s and later 1960s Cold War era stuff being added, I was very surprised. Also sort of sly on the devs' part to put this on sale in time for the 4th of July weekend here in the USA. I'm sure the money is raining down.

[@DrForrester87]

Honestly, I use top tier in custom battles if I want to just dick around but I stick to WWII mostly. That's the stuff I was interested in when I joined the game and I could foresee problems on the horizon when they started moving beyond WWII.

[@honkhonk8009]

Its canada day too. they didnt add anything damn.

[@hexo1580]

Gotta say the amount of excitement I feel when these videos get released is unparalleled 🙏

[@wonderwaffle5858]

2:03 honestly i think the game could be a lot more interesting if trees never disappeared, like world of tanks. i think it would make dynamic concealment a lot more interesting, but that’s just me

[@milicijaofficer6611]

Problem is people with low quality graphics abuse it and trees vanish super fast for them. So they get the kill on their opponent

[@lukaswhite362]

Until you start getting pounded from the bush and can't see them but due to their perspective, (the visible gaps between leaves is how) they can see you.

[@zoroverse8358]

@@lukaswhite362 Well it is realistic. And well you can also do that.

[@milicijaofficer6611]

@@zoroverse8358 I didn't know humans had a sixth sense of 3rd person

[@zoroverse8358]

@@milicijaofficer6611 Never said humans did. It just makes it easier to drive. And it gets rid of the problem of having to play the part of multiple people at once. But i dont see any problem with having dynamic trees, that dont just magically sink into the ground. And simulator battles doesnt have 3rd person camera.

[@ragingassassin6659]

Great video as always spookston. Gaijin could make it where you can't get squadron vehicles until you hit that tier. But who are we kidding, they're never going to do that. Any teaser for the next video?

[@TackleTheDog]

5:56 what a brave man! Sacrificed himself to save you 🤣🤣

[@sushiman3817]

I'm so glad I'm not the only one who has been seeing Russian mbts just not ammo racking consistently since the new update. It's like 1/4 just don't do anything

[@MareWT]

Nor Tiger ll H... it often doesnt ammo rack it

[@clearhoodgsr9147]

thats actually a real thing with the back deck depression, a real abrams doesn’t allow full depression in the rear goes into a mode that protects main gun from hitting

[@teatanks6481]

The premium Leo 2 and Challenger are signs that Gaijin's current business model is falling short, resorting to minimalist cosmetics rather than unique vehicles or variations.

[@ougioshino6940]

I feel that the main target customers are the players that don't want to bother grinding top tier to get their favorite mbt, so instead of adding more niche or less known top tier vehicles they just go "Hey, if you gives us money you can play the abrums, leopard 2 or challenger right now". I hope that gunner heat pc releases soon so tank enthusiasts can play modern tanks without having to choose between paying 60 bucks for one tank or grind for like 1000 hours

[@harveyknguyen]

@@ougioshino6940 GHPC is only gonna stay within the scope of 1970s-80s AFVs (only vehicles in service anyway) so it may not be the type of era some people are interested in that being said i'm sure most people who got WT for the modern tanks only care that it's an Abrams or Leopard 2

[@electronicfoxie]

Russian mbts on the battlefield: "a rock has collided with the ammo rack, our turret will now take a fantastic trip to the stratosphere". Russian mbts in WT: "I see you have shot me 5 times, perhaps another shot will strike true".

[@VarenvelDarakus]

i seen atleast 4 times where APFDS went into ammo and failed to damage anything in russian ammo carusel , i dont mean "destroying ammo" but hitting carousel (vanishing) and then going out behind it in just this video.

[@michaelhowell2326]

I'm still waiting on the M1A2 SEPV3 with TUSK package. Of course it needs OR, HE with proxy, HEAT and the Super Sabot.

[@oddball1999]

"needs" hahaha nice meme. if you need more pen on the m1a2's top round then you don't belong at top tier bud. aim? maybe?

[@leminhquocvinh9486]

SEPV2 is already good all top tier US needs compared to other nations is better thermals and CCITV

[@cregg9895]

youre getting a bit needy bro

[@hydrixs6996]

@@oddball1999 if it's a tank sim that's based on realism, then it should have everything it has irl. That so bad to see, or hard to admit the Abrams is just better than every other tank?

[@michaelhowell2326]

Apparently a few of you aren't getting that it's a simple wishlist. When you build your perfect car and price isn't an object, do you settle for simple beige Honda with no extras?

[@Geniusinventor]

Man Spookston is one of the most Chill war thunder players and KZbinr, it's very hard to make him angry

[@gangsterism]

no hes probably very angry at the game inside

[@GoldRaven-oe4by]

I sure wish the community could make decisions on what happens in the game

[@Bolino2]

Reason why i love War Thunder ~ i fired might 6 rockets from my stormer HVM into a enemy heli none of them hit even when they literally goes through the heli middle part under the blades....... If i renember the distance was like 2,5km or something like that, and it was not just that situation cus i had simullar things happens when i was shooting Ka-50's

[@Zenturion7]

M1A2 is still better, I'd say. The M829A2's reliable spall is irreplicable with any other APFSDS shell in-game.

[@nikasmits2509]

Spookston i have just a great idea for the "tanks" that should be added series. the 2cv GHAN1 20mm cannon for aa use or 75mm recoilles hesh lobber for tanks

[@casematecardinal]

the skink. I want the skink!

[@joshharris2793]

I feel the kangaroo and emu fit australia just fine, theyre on our coat of arms for a reason neither can walk backwards

[@lilzenongene]

As someone who was stuck with jm33 for a long time as my best round, it hurts to see people call a 500+ round not the best

[@_Zekken]

Literally repeatedly penning shots my Type 90 could only dream about ever penetrating, at the same BR. Sigh

[@lilzenongene]

@@_Zekken gott love balance, 481 pen at 10.7? Excellent it needs no buffs. 583 at 10.7? Clearly well balanced.

[@aflyingcowboy31]

@@lilzenongene and then you look at the HSTVL and your logic goes out the windows.

[@lilzenongene]

@@aflyingcowboy31 the HSTVL is an outlier, and it's balanced by a semi-automatic gun

[@aflyingcowboy31]

@@lilzenongene and the Type 90 is balanced by a 4-second reload, which is why I brought up the HSTVL, quick reload = Gaijin not giving you a better round until it's needed as a quick reload is extremely good for a tank, even then there is no real difference between Type 10 and Jm33 pen-wise i.e. that round pens the exact same places that JM33 does and it won't pen the exact same places that JM33 can't (except for British tanks), there is no overall difference, every tank at top tier has the same weak points, LFP, aim around cannon breach, or for the US/Germany aim anywhere other than the turret cheeks, which you could already do with JM33, hence why the HSTVL is at 10.7 even though it has an 8.0 APFSDS round. I mean cmon man, your type 74s at 8.7 get a better round than every 8.0-10 US tank (bar the M1128) so stop going on about balance, there is more to tank balance than just how good a tank APFSDS round is, take the IPM1, for instance, it basically went up .4 of a BR because it reloads 1 second quicker than the M1A1, the Type 90 reloads 1.30 seconds quicker than the IPM1 and still 1 second quicker than the IMP1 when used by an ace crew. JM33 and Type 10 both do the exact same thing, but for whatever reason, you actually think there is a discernible difference gameplay-wise, also flat pen isn't that important for APFSDS, 30 and 60 degree pen stats are.

[@WarBomb117]

if someone trys to push u out of a situation like that use the towing mechanic it helps not only with pulling something but also if u try to push a mate or destroyed vehicle still wouldnt safet him in this exact moment F for that brave Team Mate

[@meerbee2910]

I swear I saw some of these russian tanks taking sabot directely to the ammo clips on the WT subreddit Edit: I was wrong, but same damage pretty much

[@Vulkanprimarch]

As an Australian it is great to see that Spookston has heard of the famous Bin Chicken or Ibis as it is known. He probably saw the Bin Chicken song on youtube!

[@RealestGoober.]

muh freebrams

[@tungabunga4107]

badgjur

[@LucasN0015]

Can confirm. I’ve been in Australia for 3 months and haven’t seen a single kangaroo, but those goofy looking birds are everywhere.

[@Crunchy121]

gotta head out into the outback or outskirts. For us here in WA, there’s a SHIT LOAD down south in Margaret River, it’s a driving hazard. Kangaroos are one of the biggest reasons why you see bull bars on every fourth car here in Australia, they deal some serious damage if you’re highway cruising and you hit one at 110km/h

[@MisterFoxton]

You've been in Australia for three months and spent the whole time in cities? Get out there man, no one should be coming to Australia and missing out on the nature.

[@LucasN0015]

@@MisterFoxton Nature is scary, I saw a spider as big as my hand.

[@yaksparrow2493]

I noticed after this update that russian tanks when they are getting their ammo shot its doing nothing but before this update it was a consistent 1 shot if you even shot into the general area of the ammo rack. The amount of russian hand holding is getting really frustrating. I'm not playing top tier anymore purely and simply becuase I'm so sick of getting killed by players who should died to an ammo rack shot but it now just hits their fuel rank and turns the ammo carousel orange. Russia is clearly clearly being hand held by gaijin and given an almost unfair advantage over everyone who doesn't play Russia.

[@steweygrrr]

Something something Russian dev team something something "No, our tanks aren't immolating their crews en masse due to a design -flaw- concession that's been around for decades" I hate to bring real life events into games, especially ones as tragic as the above reference, but it does seem to me that said events are affecting the game that has a very large Russian audience being subjected to a very intensive propaganda campaign about the state of their armed forces.

[@liamjackboo174]

As someone who grinded till top tier I’m glade I did as their is a lot I’ve learned from lower tiers that if I bought into top tier I never would have learned

[@BarkBarkImShark]

Honestly, I've just been avoiding top tier completely. It's just too much of a mess right now with the AIM, PL, and premium 2A4. I swear "Low tier fun tier" becomes more and more true with every update. I'm also predicting that in 2 or 3 years Gaijin will stop updating the tech trees completely and will only add paid vehicles.

[@a_catfish5180]

5:51 respect to that guy for seeing you were disabled and sacrificing himself trying to push you to cover

[@juawei1940]

"russian tanks are so handheld" what a great way to put it lol

[@ArctrooperHavoc]

It's actually fun when you have all upgrades for it and you play reckless while also having a great feild of view

[@thisisaduck]

Do you think it would be possible to split the match making into players above and below level 50 or something along those lines to stop noobs and veterans playing in the same top tier matches?

[@laminatd8063]

i dont and probably never will understand how top tier is fun for people at all i keep seeing gameplay like this and i could never get any enjoyment out of that

[@rockdragon3]

"it's like their main weakness isn't working properly" gee, who could possibly guess why? it's not like it's been discovered that the armor of the top tier Russian tanks doesn't spall at all too. man if only SOMEONE could find ANY possible reason why a Russian company would have it in that game that Russian vehicles would have hidden stats that make them better than any of their counterparts.

[@iain-duncan]

That Abrams pushing you into cover was a hero

[@Logisticious_gg]

How is there a literal war going on showcasing the shittiness of Russian armor and yet they seem invincible in the videos you put up.

[@shatteredskull7221]

He literally got gaijined two times, one shot like ten t72 alike tanks and proceeded to say they're broken

[@faustoreyna8096]

Aren't they getting killed by atgms

[@phantomhobo7432]

@@faustoreyna8096 javelins mostly, from what I know so yes, but also worth pointing out that that’s a top attack missile so it takes the path of least resistance so to speak.

[@ryerial7723]

Bro,Props to that Abrams who pushed you to safety!

[@Real_Cheese1]

Australian tank 🙏

[@DartStebz]

it seems like playing the m1a1 aim is the experience that us players used to have when the m1a2 just came out like its going up against the same tanks as the a2 did when it released

[@naamadossantossilva4736]

3:24 That is what some call "Russian Bias".It i time you stop being in denial,Spook.

[@ImperatorClass]

Oh wow, that troop marking on the back left of the turret is staggeringly realistic

[@phat3330]

On that t80B you hit ammo and it didn't blow up. It isn't really a bug or anything but when the t80 (and maybe t72 idk) carries less ammo than what fills the autoloader some of the shells just don't explode even though the ammo is still there on the xray

[@tsilfidis1996]

Now that technically is a free abrams...

[@Dennis-vm6lu]

You can hear the depression in his voice after 2 games of top tier. This is not exclusive to the freebrams and american teams and deserves a video all on its own.

[@jonharper4478]

Love the Command and Conquer Generals music in the background.

[@4TL45_40K]

No firsts for anyone

[@spectralcobra6916]

They should add a lock on some premiums/squadron vehicles that unlock after you pass a certain level. That would get rid of the problem with level fives at top tier.

[@lazylime8046]

Why doesn't Gaijin just add a system so you can choose the lowest level you want to queue into a game with, and have the maximum level be limited to 20 levels higher than you? So new players don't face pub stompers, and people can choose not to play with people who buy into top tier and make the game unplayable? Oh, wait, they'd make some BS remark about queue times.

[@TheMeanLemon]

In reality the more knowledgeable and usually more experienced players say they would not mind extra queue times and waiting a bit longer, but in reality the large majority of players complain about the queue times if they have to wait for longer than two minutes

[@katyusha1283]

There are level 100 players who are bad at the game, same time there exist some low level players that play really good. MM should be based on performance/recent performance, not level.

[@lazylime8046]

@@katyusha1283 Never said people don't buy their way to higher levels, but this would be a middle-ground that Gaijin may consider if someone brought it to their attention. It requires almost no effort nor thought. Having to queue for performance would suck, since you wouldn't properly be able to improve if your teammates are always terrible, you may just give up as a new player. It'd be easier and in the long run better to just separate them based on levels. There are great players at all levels of the game, but this will sort them out a bit.

[@meinfraulein6902]

the fact that this thing is at the same br than the arietes and is better in armor, speed and while being equal in firepower and sights and there is the chance that it goes down in br because a lot of newer players are playing it just blows my mind.

[@Creeper99PL]

> "Russian tanks are so handheld" Literally the only tanks that explode when their fuel is hit. Not that it's realistic, they just do. They don't even burn. They just go boom most of the time. Not to mention abysmal mobility and gun handling apart from two Soviet tanks in the entire MBT part. How are the Soviet MBTs handheld again?

[@TheIke444]

Respect to TheOneBunnyBoi at 5:45, despite the name, the greatest of heroes was he.

[@BryanPlaysAlot]

i was actually dying laughing when i saw that, what a hero

[@shatteredskull7221]

Spookston be like: >*One shots 20 t72 alike tanks* >*Gets gaijined twice* >Yup, Russian tanks are op

[@RRAAZZAA]

1:33 I have never been so offended by something I completely agree with

[@elgalletita_1366]

At the beginning of the video: "This is fun 😊". At the end of the video: "This is not fun".

[@SPACECOWBOY_Hej]

Bought this immediately, been thinking about getting all the abrams so this was the perfect drop. the AIM is fkn amazing!

[@tareekellis9583]

shoutout that abrams that gave his life for spookston

[@EliteCeez]

Liked for shouting out that Honorable Abrams that tried to push you instead of shooting/towing you away lol.

[@user-njyzcip]

I'm so glad that spooks also know about the magnificent Australian bin chicken

[@skl-1371]

All you saw there wasn't from yesterday it goes even to 4 or 5 updates before, yeah absolutely this game works on a fundamental level.

[@jackoplays_1438]

That other Abrams that pushes you behind the building and sacrificed himself is a legend

[@mufasah342]

there is nothin at this rate that will not stop gaijins business practices.

[@BentCheeks]

At 7:00 unfortunately it is a accuracy thing, just like on the leopard the Abrams has a FCS limitation that elevates the barrel when you’re near the engine, it’s a back deck limiter or a “Heckabweiser” as the Germans called it

[@Blandy086]

The Kangaroos on the turret is representative of the Royal Australian Armoured Corps M1A1 AIM's and all combat vehicles within the ADF. Every vehicle will have a Kangaroo silhouette on it somewhere. The Kangaroo and Emu are prolific throughout the ADF in emblems as they are two native animals that can't walk backwards.

[@faceripper77]

KEW definitely underperforms. So now every map is a choice of: do i take the round thats going to kill things or do i take the beautiful gen two thermys

[@mobiiuz129]

The X-16 lab theme at the beginning was very fitting.

[@Marth667]

"It's like their (russian tanks) primary design concession and it just doesn't affect them nearly as much as it should in this game" - Spook 3:32 You heard it here first folks! Spook finally realises that gaijin has bias for russian MBT's after previously denying it even exists.

[@moomoo7706]

The ammo not exploding on the Russian MBTs reminded me of the time the ammo did not explode in the KV-1S when I shot it.

[@craziun4292]

I know, old video but i reckon having purchasable top tiers is a good thing, like me, that has played the game for 1k hours and still doesnt have any 11.0's can choose to play that rank if i really really want to. That and it keeps the tiers alive for that reason

[@dictolory]

whoever sacrificed themselves to push you to cover deserves a medal

[@hibikiverney4146]

Love the use of c&c generals soundtrack

[@CrimsonWingz13]

This problem could litteraly be solved if gaijin made the vehicle requirement needed to access a certain rank apply to buying premiums and squad vehicles as well

[@SteelxWolf]

Dead City music in the beginning from S.T.A.L.K.E.R. has me thinking the MonoLIT is protecting the mindless T80s

[@mr.abrams9885]

5:50 that mans sacrifice shall not go in vain