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 😏

[@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.

[@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.

[@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.

[@РоманБекиров-с4м]

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)

[@plutoidrepublic2765]

play like 5 battles again for funny, just try. its cool

[@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

[@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

[@yeetingat100subs9]

@@irongeneral7861it’s a russian puppet state so

[@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.

[@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...

[@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

[@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.

[@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

[@restonesociety8769]

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

[@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).

[@xenobackpains5800]

As a war Thunder player, i can confirm that WOT is a weird game with weird players

[@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

[@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

[@rbStig]

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

[@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

[@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.

[@Wawawalulu]

@@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]

@@Wawawalulu nope it was PC too

[@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!

[@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

[@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

[@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...

[@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

[@gabadaba5436]

i would love to see a tractor with no armor, shit speed, but like a 200+mm naval gun bolted to the front with like 3000 alpha and 500mm pen. Shit accuracy so it cant snipe, longer than arty reloads, tier 1 health pool, etc. Be pretty fun to play for a few games before you get tired of shooting once the entire match.

[@Rolsig]

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

[@Rolsig]

@@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

[@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..

[@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...

[@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.

[@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.

[@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

[@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

[@nfdhje38743m]

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]

@@nfdhje38743m and how do you get premium tanks or credit boosters? right, you pay.

[@Wawawalulu]

@@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.

[@ShapeshifterOS]

Fun fact: WoT console got the Brummbar and a line all the way up the the Sturmtiger. They're all equally stupid durp tanks, but very weak armor and slow.

[@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.

[@otis2521]

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

[@Washinyot]

WoT died for me when they removed climbing, it added freedom, now you are forced to go to same 2-3 spot in a map like moba

[@bodybuilderjohn9007]

6:30 omg, all the memories from this old tech tree, missing the old wot, remember games with even 10 + arties in both team or with lovely t-50-2 meeting Maus and Is-7

[@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.

[@vuxluongw]

12:54 i used to lowkey be a big fan of quickybaby's tank company vids. actually enjoyable the way he was chilling with his fans/clanmates while legit play the game because he wanted to and not because of the money. oh how the mighty have fallen.

[@RedShocktrooperRST]

I used to have a great time because a WGNA guy, MajorRampage, would hop on for a few hours every friday. 500 gold for everyone on the opposite team if they matched against him, 1000 for beating him. Easy way to fill out the queue.

[@bernhardlangers778]

Ah, this game was so much fun back in the day. And I still maintain that arty was balanced back then. It could be counter fired based on tracers and suffered from rng. Then again I was able to sling ap through window frames on ruinberg and Himmelsdorf. And I will always fondly remember platooning up with two random guys in t8 and 9 arties and completing the "deal 40% of your team's damage, win, survive" mission for the T55a - first go - on Himmelsdorf. Then they nerfed the class into oblivion, made mediums the be all and end all....

[@navisolim]

Could have limited arty to 3 per team...

[@thatperson656]

whats so scary is quitting WoT for 7 years and counting, and finding out that a bunch of tanks and features are removed or changed...

[@generacionmarttin]

As an old, very old, WoT player, this video brings me lots of memories from the gold days. Played this game since it's second anniversary or so, 2013, and I with my friends have gone thru so much in it. Literally every update, every removed map, every new thing you mentioned, I experienced it first handed [except the said first two years and since 2018 when I stoped playing it]. Thank you for making this video up, and sad that every update this game just get worse and worse. Those summer nights of 2014 will never came back.

[@havoc82nd18]

I feel the same as you, I started in 2012 when there was first tv publicity in europe, and stop playing in 2018.

[@lasiuk]

5:57 - actually light tanks used to have +4 mm - tanks like luchs or m5 stuart could be on tier 8 battles without playing in platoon

[@vincenttarroux115]

I don't remember but you could check which tanks you destroyed with your tanks. When I checked luchs I found some T8

[@_gungrave_6802]

When they made mountain goating impossible I loved it. The people who supported mountain goating were idiots who liked having an unfair advantage because NONE of the maps were designed to be played that way and as such all mountain goating positions were severly unfair. Hell not even any arty could hit people in most mountain goating positions which shows how broken they were.

[@TeutonBS]

cry

[@Bigbacon]

what big ensk shows is they could make each map have different sizes based on the tier being played in the round. So T1-4 could get small ensk, all others get big ensk.

[@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.

[@yoshi5920]

35:02 guess who was just released on the game

[@bonehunter9766]

I was looking for this comment 😂

[@stromyXD]

​@@bonehunter9766same here lmao

[@Myrskylintu]

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).

[@-_Hatred_-]

I knew something like 95% of these facts, but it was still interesting to watch, and to return to the old WoT atmosphere. Especially since I don't play that game anymore.

[@agent74113]

man, i miss some of those old maps that aren't in rotation anymore. Also speaking of tech tree changes: i got my Maus by going through the VK 45 line.

[@tankadar]

I play this game since 2013. Yet I was utterly shocked by a lot of things, never heard or saw them before

[@marcoblo2489]

Tier 5 Chaffee vs IS-7 and others tier 10 was awesome tbh

[@ricdias3208]

I had one of the best games of my life where someone got mad and told them where I was I was. i got on all chat and told the enemy, a tog and m41 where I was and their options to deal with me. i informed them just how boned they were. I was in a vk tiger 2 stand-in

[@tablesizeproductions4360]

I know this will probably never be seen but just wanted to contribute some information regarding Project Tank. The game was seemingly renamed at some point to Ground War - Tanks. Its most recent update was in 2023.

[@MayBeSomething]

16:58 When you were assigned to a tank crew, but wanted to be in the air force.

[@lcker6973]

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

[@drrocketman7794]

I played artillery in WoT back when it was fun. I recall getting a lucky hit on a tier 6 heavy from my tier 4 US arty, and killed it in one shot...and he screamed at me in chat for the rest of the game

[@julian281198]

Its so fascinating to see what have wot have become, since i stopped playing when they removed (my beloved) t50-2. Every "used to" to fact is basically how i remembered the game

[@jort281]

I hated them for killing 50-2. They even brought it back to tease me but it's just slow now 🐌. EBRs tho kinda neat

[@zeeshanahmed9296]

The French super heavies were the two tanks in the leviathan game mode , looks slightly different yes but the same basic model I believe

[@_bushwacked]

@25:47 is historically accurate. They really did produce a handful of fully functional tanks with that hull but many different turrets/guns. It went nowhere however, as the M60 project outperformed all of them.

[@lucaalencar4577]

There's an old screenshot of the E-10 using some kind of low-suspension, the IRL project apparently was supposed of having a changeable suspension, and maybe it was the precursor to the siege mode many (MANY) years ago

[@raptor7364]

Now this was a fun video to watch. The nostalgia hit so hard while watching all the old replays and game modes. I also feel proud to be Polish right now lol.

[@mgn567]

when they added physics that allowed tanks to flip, you could flip up artys by pushing them spamming Z in front of them

[@darciel466]

A brilliantly made film . Some things even surprised me

[@nfdhje38743m]

Damn I was wondering why there were no World Of Tanks iceberg videos, but then I remembered: this community is shit. Thank you chems for bringing us the good stuff as always. Unsubscribed.

[@vodka4gaben]

Rule 5

[@vodka4gaben]

@@nfdhje38743m "Thank you chems" Do not acknowledge the individual

[@nfdhje38743m]

@@vodka4gaben unsubscribe from chems, do not acknowledge the individual

[@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

[@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!!

[@RandomPerson-ob1hk]

0:54 I remember a long time ago when I still played this game. On console, before WG just let it go, some guy in a panzer 38t was fooling around and kept shooting us and he got lit up it was funny

[@war4peace1979]

4:29 „The Panzer B2 740 is the only tank in the game with superpref” The Valentine II would like a word.

[@SpeedyCraft51]

Incomplete fact about super-premium-MM: The Valentine II (tier IV soviet LT) also has it, not just the Pz B2. But those two are the only ones.

[@yeanwang3594]

I played in beta ~10 yrs ago. My first tech line was the USA medium tank, played T23, old Patton…Aww this bring back so much memories.

[@uzzijr_7384]

31:51 well that actually makes sense beacuse the Ferdinand is also a Porsche powered and prob designed Tank as the Tiger (p). and its also named after the founder of porsche lol

[@TheGrippinOriginal]

- 0:29 WoT is developed by Belorussians (Minsk), not Russians. - 4:30 Pz B2 is not the only tank, Valentine II has the exact same matchmaking - 25:47 Visually yes. Armor wise, No. - 29:57 M26 Pershing, not T26. - 31:19 Object 279 and Object 279 early are two different vehicles, the normal one is not in the game (yet).

[@c_i_7365]

ya think he doesn't know this, dumbass?

[@TheGrippinOriginal]

@@c_i_7365 I can't care what he knows or not - I never liked him -, I just pointed out all the misinformation.

[@Covah86]

Straight up. Wargaming was founded in Minsk and by a guy called Victor Kislyi who is Belarussian-born. Took you less than a minute to get something wrong. Well done.

[@Ghent_Halcyon]

So basically, world of tanks was better when it was older. I already had the feeling. Thanks for confirming.

[@leemcmahon2548]

The game wasn't better but it was more fun, where as now it is better than it used to be and not so much fun...hope that makes sense .

[@Ghent_Halcyon]

@@leemcmahon2548 this does make sense.

[@stevemc01]

27:45 Turns out they might've held back the KTTS in order to put it in the Waffentrager Portal RNG.

[@con10000000]

you missed that the e10 had hydropneumatic suspension. I recall there being images or vids of it going up and down and it was cancelled because they couldn't make the suspension work or balance it. You also forgot the rarest fact of all, tds are actually more annoying than arty and should be restricted to 3 a side.

[@pomocnyinaczej4221]

there was video of this tank on map called: Mannerheim Line.

[@vladimir_k_bestplayerna1217]

I've been around long enough to know nearly everything in this video, and I also genuinely find tds to be more annoying than arty. Especially strvs.

[@IonKattTMCE]

One thing I find funny is the use of “shitters” as an insult in this game. I don’t see it as much but i used to see it a lot and haven’t seen it in many other games.

[@eniff2925]

Yes, there were some crazy high xp games in tier 5 lights shooting tier 10 tanks but the player xp record was calculated differently, it only counted base xp back then. Now it also counts premium account bonus which is kinda weird imo.

[@subby280]

As a guy that's only been playing WoT for a few years, I miss the old WoT.

[@jackrobber2527]

Never forget that you could get premium ammo at half cost (credits and gold) back in patches 8.XX when there were consumable sales!

[@xdlmao7880]

1:34 cold war potrayed by a gaming chat

[@Brzeczyszczykiewicz_Greg]

I like how chems is mostly shitposting, but at the same time the longer videos are really well-made. Appreciate the work.

[@___3052]

I didnt play WoT since 2014, when i was 9 years old and its wery strange to hear about some things that considered like only old players remember but for me its how WoT always lokks like

[@BacOnatorHD]

great video, an absolute masterpiece of showing people what WoT once was and that it was better in the past good old days.......

[@CalgarGTX]

Big Ensk was planned for the PVE mode where players would have to defend against waves of attacking bots. And SU-122-54 didn't suck it was one of the most comfortable TDs to play.. also you missed the part of the skycancer timeline where it had both 2k dmg shells and insane dmg splash, worst offenders being us T92 and brit CGC

[@andressedillo2023]

If only you knew how scuffed the console version is, basically a whole different game at this point

[@dogneely]

This made me nostalgic for what the game used to be. So glad I switched to warthunder though.

[@TTBIKER]

same :D WT team

[@Jaysin999]

Lol i tried warthunder, sooo many controls lol n my pc just shit sooo, cant do WT

[@NavGTI]

If we're reminiscing, I want to add that the 9.3(?) light tank update is one of the best ones ever, I loved all the new light tanks and it made me competent in all types of scouting - essential knowledge for a good player. I loved the Bulldog, LTTB, T-54 ltwt, Ru 251, WZ-131 and more. They butchered them. They're fun to play but mostly feel like low armored meds than LTs. I bought back the Ru a while ago and couldn't enjoy it, when I used to love it. That's where the problem with the LT nerf was, they made them lose their core value: punching above your weight stats wise, except for view range. Not to mention my baby the ELC AMX. Still on #2 most played tanks for me with over 1k+ battles and over the last 1-2 years I only added like 5 battles to that count. They absolutely destroyed it to a messy tank, when it used to be an absolute weapon. I sincerely hope next years Well Deserved Reward is a tier 6 ELC AMX that has the exact stats the pre-nerf one had. That would be well deserved. Because after the lackluster S. Hellcat and the very lackluster S. Chaffee, the VK 28.105 is actually really fun.

[@cooldownboi3890]

remember when mt25 had the crazy 37mm gun? good times

[@NavGTI]

@@cooldownboi3890 i think it was actually a Chems video (correct me if i’m wrong) where somebody approached a Borsig in an MT-25 with that gun, Borsig fired and in its reload the MT-25 just sprayed him from full HP to 0. Absolute gold content.

[@SmallPotato2313]

Damn i hope every year that they will return elc amx into 6 tier with previous stats...i loved that tank and had most of my games on it nowadays its just there nerfed into nothing...would rather accept being in tier 8 mm than play todays version of it

[@letacodilesupreme6445]

@@NavGTI might've been Awesome Epic Guys (AEG); they have an MT-25 autocannon compilation

[@jumpingphantom]

the old ARL-44 had a goofy looking stock turret

[@TheJonesLP1]

29:47 just look closely, the 2C bis is even classified as a Tank Destroyer, not a HT 31:16 amazing how the 277 and the 279 came into the game later as Tier 10, but in fact still perform like Tier 11-12

[@justcallmened_]

279 was a mistake man.. my man is hiding his weak spot while spamming gold ammo.. its annoying while u are playing with tier 8 and this guy can penetrate you everywhere

[@whyage3473]

My dad plays WoT since 2010 and i only waited for the invisble walls, not the ones keeping you from climbing, but from falling off from cliffs. I also played it back then and when it was added that you could fall down cliffs my 12 year old self was hyped as FUCK because it made this so much more realistic and i would usually just find the highest points to fall off in my BT-2. Good times.

[@pavelperina7629]

Hmm, I'm quite sure that artillery used to be more accurate before patch 8.5 likely in May 2013, it was able to do damage to tanks behind the rocks or buildings by splash and there were tracers. So it was possible to hit unspotted TDs. With one time repair kit, I remember being outplayed by Comet in my Leopard PTA, that had like 17s reload ammoracked and turret traverse was absolutely horrible so when I was ammoracked and tracked, he just circled me. About 3-5-7 MM - i don't think it meant you were never top tier. Remember that in 2013-15 there were many players having fun with Hetzers, PzICs, T18s, Hellcats, KV1S, but WG nerfed all low tiers that were fun or OP and removed most of maps from low tiers. No one plays them since them. When you choose to play T7 tank, you are in a queue for 40s and then you are matched against tier 8 or 9. Tier 8 does not see tier 6, unless it's xmas (but opposite is not rare).

[@christopherestes6760]

16:29 love my combat car, I played that WAAAAAAAAY too much when it came out lol 19:01 I only got to play on this map MAYBE 3 times before I "took a vacation" from tanks. omg 25:27 I remember seeing that happen at least twice a day, usually the arty would turn blue OR get banned.

[@levi7581]

Ah, good ol World of Tanks, the bane of my fathers existence some 8 years ago... now I have to find our old account and see what happened to our beloved tanks such as the E100 which made my dad almost throw the keyboard out the window 😅... but he did love playing the classic Tiger I and always was mad when I secretly played and ruined his win %... simpler times

[@I_m_p_r_e_z_a]

18:35 This is possible. I tested this with my friend and i used the E75TS. He did around 800damage and set me on fire once aswell but this was like a year or two ago excellent video by the way. Love this and WoT finally gets an iceberg video :D

[@schuhsuppe7228]

I saw a RNG no comments video doing exactly this. In the video the gun for a very quick tome rotated 180 degrees, faced back, shot the tank behind and swapped forwards instantly again. I cannot tell wich video it was but it was around 5 years ago

[@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

[@armandorodrigues144]

actually: belarusian CEO and founder + russian financial backing + multinational dev team + main development studio for WoT was always located in Kyiv (Ukraine) for obvious reasons they had to move all the developers from Kyiv to Cyprus, they also decided to leave both russia and belarus and their games will be marketed on those countries by a licensed partner

[@martinxxcz2919]

So much nostalgia, still remember when arty ended at t8.

[@_Barkion_]

Me: A World of tanks iceberg? nah, i've seen those befo- *notices that chems made it* okay nevermind i didnt saw any of those before