THIS IS THE WORST EXPERIENCE OF MY LIFE - Pvkv IV in War Thunder

The Pvkv IV in War Thunder is a Swedish Medium Tank that's barely a Light Tank. Sweden in War Thunder are known for their weird designs that really work well. Imagine my surprise when this thing turned out to be an ABSOLUTE DISASTER!
First off, yes... it does have 179mm of penetration at 3.7! But, none of that matters when the APDS shell from the Pvkv IV hardly does any damage. Couple that with its really poor angle pen performance which means you'll struggle to take care of T-34 KV-1 and Shermans, I think you get the idea!
However, the Pvkv IV cannon is not the issue. The issue is that it's slow, has worse than no armor and the gun handling is the worst of any tank in the entire game! Although it was bad, I did have a lot of fun in this thing trying to struggle my way through games and it did yield some really funny moments in War Thunder!
I hope you enjoy! :)
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[@piotrekczaja]

No

[@chiefpapos]

​@@piotrekczajarude

[@wellheat7883]

it can't be THAT bad

[@NeonDucker]

Meaby someday

[@swissfreek]

@@wellheat7883you would think that but…

[@chiefpapos]

This is one of the funniest Bawz videos so far, watching him lose his mind as he shoots down planes is hilarious. He has such a contagious laugh

[@Shinzon23]

He's like the diametric opposite of spookston

[@19421986lonewolf]

I love it how he can pull that off consistently, but can't play an SPAA designed to do that to save his life.

[@pranaygupta6688]

​@@Shinzon23that's what makes their collabs amazing

[@Shinzon23]

@@pranaygupta6688 Yeah he's even able to make spookston seem happy for a change

[@legolite45]

Jerma

[@herrhav0k]

4:09 Can we just take a moment to gaze upon how god awful the trees look? They are truly spazzing out in the most unnatural way. It looks like they're being attacked by 360 degrees of wind

[@_InkGod]

i dont get why gaijin decided that those epileptic looking trees were a good idea

[@DavidEye01]

That's hilarious

[@DanSpam225]

the hurricane trees that dont render properly half the time and after 100m suddenly stop moving.. only gaijin could think thats good.

[@TheGXDivider]

M.J Fox trees.

[@mt4798]

Disco Ents. They are so distracting that I can't play the game with them freaking out.

[@dphalanx7465]

The sudden conversion of a crappy light tank into the deadliest SPAA of the match was the highlight of the video. Congratz to you, Odd! 🥳👌

[@Mohenjo_Daro_]

I was choking on my pizza when he got the second kill XD

[@leafleap]

I love how the smoke coming off the destroyed tanks are tranquilly drifting in one direction, but the trees are bobbing, weaving and shaking in every which way like hurricane winds are blowing, and yet then trees maybe 30 meters away are completely still.

[@zzbudzz]

Yes ..in war thunder land the wind is completely random. One side of the map is tornadic winds blowing from all directions ..only 30 meters away no wind. I wish they would remove this "feature"

[@BillKillerz]

What i love the most is that they are fixed until they enter the rendering zone and then spazz out of consciousness XD

[@vgames1543]

Very lovecraftian horror.

[@swissfreek]

2:45 I love how Gaijin says they "made the wind effect in trees more realistic". But every match looks like you're in a tropical storm now. Used to be tanks were the bushes that moved. Now tanks are the bushes that *don't*.

[@maineiacman]

I am assuming the whole dev team hasn't seen a real tree ever because the way the trees move dont even make sense.

[@StarkRaven59]

@@maineiacman I am assuming they know trees don't work like that, but they just don't care enough to fix it, like almost every other flaw in their physics.

[@pennycarvalho1223]

Swedish tanks be like: Fully spaded: doom guy is entering your building. Stock: my solid shot actually managed to yellow the enemy’s gunner. I’ll take that as a win.

[@a.k._v10]

That's so facts

[@hollowhazze3140]

i just realised that my best game are often with spaded tank that aren't supposed to be in my lineup (like getting 5 kill with my bkan in 8.0)

[@keithrogers6876]

@@hollowhazze3140 The rapid fire derp mobile does some serious work, also good for clapping planes out of the sky ^^

[@GewelReal]

skill issue

[@moosejuiceeeee__1040]

better words have never been said

[@Cletus0525]

This thing made the Chaffee beside it look like a heavy tank 😂

[@Infinity_Squad]

Watching Bawz blowing the planes out of the sky and his contagious laughter had me crying. 🤣🤣

[@johnb-us6bf]

Watching great playing ability is something I can only dream of. Odd/Phly make it look too easy!!! 👍

[@mossion]

​@@johnb-us6bfI can only dream of being remotely this good

[@tmseh]

OddBawz- "Worst tank in the game." Enemy Team- "RUN AWAAAAAAY!" But wait, there's more.......

[@Iron_Blood_Enjoyer1933]

Once you get either of these vehicles from the crafting event, I'd love to see a video for either the Ki-48-II with the Ki-148 guided missile, or the LOSAT.

[@user-pl4zm1xl3b]

He probably had en both already, gajin gives it to content creators

[@N0d3N5s]

Cultured azur lane player 🤝

[@pvt.bushmann5903]

@@N0d3N5s yeah, but Iris Orthodoxy is superior

[@koki956]

@@N0d3N5swhat do you mean by that🤨

[@N0d3N5s]

@@pvt.bushmann5903 i personally love sakura and eagle but if you love iris thats great for you

[@drexsol2312]

Odd forgot to mention that stock, its 2.9° per second. It practically has the slowest turret traverse in the game.

[@jasskeeper8152]

Yeah its pra ww2 tank with slowest turret rotation. Like wth gaijin

[@willis1712]

Pretty wild watching the trees whip around like you're in a hurricane, but the tank wrecks are blooming smoke as if there isn't a breeze at all. Muh immersion

[@Kaiberus]

spot on donut impression, should've said MORE POWAH BABY and it would've been 150% perfection

[@gataansah8452]

This is officially my favorite video of yours in a while. It was so fun to watch 😂😂

[@ExcavationNation]

Bro brought back the trombone sound 😂

[@ExcavationNation]

From the good old twitch days 🥲 Great video as always Jamie

[@HandFromCoffin]

I have a theory I call "The conservation of fun in WT" See fun cannot be created or destroyed and there is a finite amount of fun. So all the fun that can ever be had has already been had in WT. This also means if you are having fun in WT that means someone else is not having fun in WT in a one to one proportion. Thus the only way to have fun in WT is to make someone else not have fun.

[@redtsar]

I haven't played the game for months, maybe a year, and seeing these trees acting like they're in a hurricane is driving ME insane! I'm not even playing the damn game and it annoys me! Truly a work of art ya greedy snail!

[@ideadlift20kg83]

The pen values must be wrong for the APHE. It has the same pen as the Pvkv III despite having a longer barrel lol.

[@AlreadyTakenTag]

Yeah, by the looks of it, it should be close to the soviet 57mm in terms of APHE performance. Then again, we are talking about the snail here...

[@snowthearcticfox1]

That's what I thought

[@kampar82]

​@@AlreadyTakenTagDid the snail do something to the pvkv II, I couldn't pen a Cromwell today?

[@ccdarbsatx]

​@@kampar82Cromwell have really trolly armor, especially when side shooting

[@kampar82]

@@ccdarbsatx I should have tracked him and taken my time. Well, at least I'm not forcing the snail to create AI to make stupid mistakes

[@Maddog3060]

Watching you nail those aircraft right in a row was a treat that made me laugh in joy alongside your recording. Great work, Odd.

[@drg5352]

Whenever I see a bunch of players on my team shooting at each other, MGs or main guns and cutting back and forth, I assume we're losing. I'm rarely wrong. Worst games I've been in start with me getting shot in the rear three or four times from my supposed team mates while leaving spawn.

[@honeymakerbss8348]

lol or ppl that go: Shoot if you like black men and you absoulty blasted by shells and MGs funniest thing tho.

[@drg5352]

@@honeymakerbss8348 LOL

[@honeymakerbss8348]

ye so?@@drg5352

[@Lightbing2956]

Wind is crazy with the trees 😂

[@GenCerran]

The raw joy when Odd shoots down a plane with a cannon preserves me

[@Evrimomono]

You can't help but smile when you hear Bawz laugh. Man's having so much fun

[@sirdovermeyer]

When I have a tank with awful sights I typically use my binoculars to make hits. I hold down left click so when I press B to exit the binocs I shoot immediately. I will typically preemptively range find before the shot but sometimes I just guesstimate. Works pretty decently

[@GhostOps21]

I uh wow. Those back to back plane kills were nuts Odd, well done!

[@Orion_5764]

One of the most impressive things I've ever seen when he shot down three planes in a row with his main gun

[@filiphrkac9605]

That thing was littearly shoting at my t28 on the finish tech tree and i didn't notice until it destroyed me like after 5 shots.

[@fluxger7788]

just liking it for the plane snipes , man u are truely amazing xD

[@XemawthEvo2]

What happens when you put a reserve tank at 3.7, and give it the same high pen APDS round, but scaled up: Pvkv IV

[@jarrett__7897]

It probably should be like 2.3 just remove the apds and call it good

[@haatonofthebasementoutofth276]

Let's be real, Sweden reserve with 179mm of pen on apds would do better at 3.7 than this actual 3.7 change my mind.

[@jarrett__7897]

@@haatonofthebasementoutofth276 I wonder if playing it as a tank destroyer would help

[@jmarttal]

I was thinking that if this thing swapped the higher magnification setting with the low setting on the Pvkv2, that would improve the scopes of both. 😅

[@snapppletonic2314]

Fun vid as always! I'm definitely hurting when trying to enjoy this vehicle. Vehicle idea for ya! The R2Y2s got better belts for their 30mms this recent update! APHE up to 45mm of pen!

[@dustyplayz]

This man’s laugh is possibly the most contagious thing ever absolutely loved this video 😂❤

[@nickrael5693]

OMG, this intro had me dying. I've been seeing this tank in-game and the gun looks intimidating but now I know why I haven't seen 1 dominate a game

[@SomeDudeTanking]

The fact you took that hit, it fused, and then just exited the other side of the turret is hilarious.

[@Vereese17]

Your laugh after every plane kill in the first match had me rolling XD👏👏

[@ambkbero2]

Between you and Benny V, you guys have the best laugh on You Tube!!!

[@Blumentalovic]

OddBawZ: This tank is so bad Also OddBawZ: Kills 10 tanks, shots 3 planes down anyways

[@monnster07]

Odd's maniacal laughter after main-gunning planes never fails to bring a smile to my face.

[@uthalremmy6628]

Watching him shoot down those planes followed by the happy Bawz noises made my day😂

[@vancadius]

man hit three planes with that thing, wild lol

[@supersimon126]

Turns out it's a better SPAA than it is a TD (I know it's a medium in game for some reason, but pvkv means anti-tank cannon vehicle/carriage).

[@YeeMacghyee]

Spaded it recently myself, all i can say is a lower BR and faster turret rotation speed would be a godsend. I would go back in time and slap the engineers that designed it for not giving it some kind of assisted turret.

[@thetwistedone05]

The first thing I noticed about this tank is it's Battleship-like turret traverse😅

[@Mezinov]

This is one of a few vehicles I have put the "The Nightmare" decal on. I reserve it for only the crapiest of vehicles that I just can't seem to have fun in. I've gotten round shattered from this things APDS at less than 100m distance against pickup truck AA's. It's only redeeming quality is that the barrel hitbox is wonky enough in the decal screen that I was able to stick my blinky light on top of it and the drone on the bottom of it.

[@babybluebathtub2698]

Holy cow oddbawz. Your the only person that can hit 3 planes in a row with 4.5 degree of turret rotation😂😂😂

[@mateuszt809]

those plane kills need to go for the replay of the week chanel

[@Kerghun]

13:48 It's when a man experiences true happiness as SPAA and it just keeps on giving.

[@evan1612]

had to give a like and comment for those sick plane kills

[@FirestormMk3]

"People ask me all the time how to get better at the game." I mean, I'd still love to see those tips and map position videos you proposed a few months ago on the community tab with a poll.

[@talosedm8414]

dude I laughed so hard at the second plane kill!

[@damnedbunny]

You know when a sight's bad, even binoculars have better zoom

[@cmdrspongedoc9510]

Odd, I'll record your laugh when you shot down that 2 planes, and I'll use it as a ringtone :) It's just diabolical. lol

[@Apexseals87]

Lmao yaaas, that was a perfect up to speed.

[@captainsnack59]

The shaking trees are ridiculous, looks like a category 4 hurricane. Yet magically the trees in the distance aren't moving. Perhaps a localized micro storm?

[@VicariousReality7]

i got in this, noticed the turret traverse and solid ammo "oh no"

[@THB1945]

Damn this thing is surprisingly small! Even much smaller than the chaffee, making it looks like a toy alongside the chaffee. It feels like that the whole thing is built around the gun.

[@TheAlmostHarmless]

You're absolutely correct. It's more like a self-propelled field gun with the convenience of protecting you from small arms if you goof up your ambush.

[@25xxfrostxx]

Oh my God those plane kills. 🤣

[@absurdides]

Nice work last night calling in the raid on that streaming fellow. Good on you using your powers for good, @OddBawZ :D

[@xalywero331]

The swedish commander laughing along with you makes it even better

[@JaydenJelly]

I got this a couple days ago and man, I very nearly almost lost a 1v1 against a BTR-152 from the front when I struggled to get the tank to turn around on a very slight uphill, and then he killed most of my crew and somehow didn't do any more damage as my gunner was being replaced. I then missed my main cannon shot because of the crap gun handling and then I ended up machine gunning him to death somehow.

[@itssfive8096]

"This is the worst tank in the game" *proceeds to have a better match than I've ever had*

[@kirstinpluck5278]

The Donut Media impression was amazing. I couldnt stop laughing 😂😂

[@ShuRugal]

lol, when your gun is so heavy and the hull so light that the turret traverses the hull instead of the gun.

[@AGTheOSHAViolationsCounter]

"These Michael J. Fox trees" 😅🤣😂🤣Omg alright OddBawz where do I send the bill from SpaceX cuz I'm gonna hafta contract em to retrieve my sides from orbit after that one!

[@ImagineWagons1980]

on point with the james impersonation lol

[@KorporalNoobs]

I currently try to climb the Swedish tree and now have the full Panzer, T34, Sherman line-up for 3.7, and it is either really fun, or just a chain death march, because 3.7 has a dedicated newbie farming community, that will lock down your spawn, at least if the map has no cover towards the flags. I will stock up with some SPAs; They are needed.

[@Sten05]

Try the spaa some have cannons that are very good at killing tanks, and the fun begins at 7.3 sweden. Im stuck there but its fun

[@WalrusJones185]

I am going to lay it out as it is. Its the handling of the M41Gun tank and the M10 TD combined with the protection of a locust. I expect the other Swedish 57mm's are going to get this round, go up in BR to where this thing is because their armor doesn't generally fuse APHE all that well, this things going to take the place of the old swedish low tier td's.

[@ZETH_27]

Well, in its current state it very well may, bit given that this is a completely botched implomentation, I hope they manage to improve it later on, giving the rounds the pentration they actually should have and making the turret traverse not driven by a one-armed 7-year-old.

[@foxxo6963]

bro those 2 simultaneous plane kills were INSANE

[@adubs365]

Boz: “this tank sucks” Also Boz: *shoots three planes out of the sky in a row in crap tank*

[@_ithinkmodding._3740]

Love your videos 😁😂 Any chance you could review the black night with camo bushes and forest camo on it? My favourite tank and nobody plays them like you do 😅

[@FlatOutMatt]

15:00 was the most ridiculous thing I have ever seen in this game 😂 For Oddbawz everything is SPAA

[@adyvipond4342]

Love it! But what the hell did they do to the glitch trees?!

[@oldspicey6001]

Says it's a terrible tank. Goes on to have a better game than I have had or ever will have.

[@naughtyewok]

Michael J Fox trees had me dead 😂 sheeesh

[@JessWLStuart]

"Ok, that's a friendly! That's good! We need those!" - OddBawZ, 2023

[@Swedish-Man]

I just unlocked this the other day and I think it’s worse vehicle on the low tier tech tree

[@matus558]

you play this tank with aces like we play other tnaks with lvl 20 crews :D now you can feel our pain

[@velipaju88_70]

Whats with the possessed trees at the start of first game? Revenge of ents-event in WT?

[@StephFourie21]

The hell is up with the trees from "The Happening" in WT ? lmao

[@TaeTy45]

I woke up my children screaming WHAAAAAAAAT at those plane kills!

[@skylerkelsey3684]

14:55 Definitely getting reported for aim-bot lmao🤣 Nice shot Odd!!

[@marcodatreviso9619]

"It was only a matter of time before we got spookstoned!" Is now the slang for getting bombed/cas

[@chimera2802]

Love your videos Could you please do a video on the TTD❤

[@pyromaniacal13]

9:54 I hide those boxes behind fuel can decorations. If some people can throw an entire deciduous forest on the front of their tanks that new players can't get, I can use some camo too.

[@regaltofviria8044]

The wind effect on trees is sooooo.. silly? Which Gaijoon employee saw it and said "yep, it looks awesome, were adding it to the game!"?..

[@darrenthomasgrimshaw8149]

Broooo the tank was supposed to be the worst you absolutely killed it 1st game them aircraft kills were epic good work 👍

[@NastyWicked]

3.7, 180mm pen, 4sec reload, swede (no need to ask) fully spaded, almost ace crew, seal clubbing: "gee this is terrible, wors experience ever", finishing a match off with two plane kills laughing your ass off

[@doctor3y]

Odd's maniacal laugh cures my depression 😅

[@GabrielVargas-sq2yn]

17:30 Not the Donut Media reference 😂😂😂

[@sirmrmcjack2167]

3.7 Germany is a very balanced br, totally fair that the pz. IV H is at 3.7 Given that you have a fov of 20°

[@LokirofRoriksted]

That's how i feel with T50, M10 and even panthers/vk3002. I hate playing with slow turret traverse and wobly gun handling all combined in the same tank.

[@arcroyal1258]

Wind effects look so goofy bro😂

[@turtl3playz303]

I’d love tips on settings I don’t have the best eyesight so tips on best tech to get good zoom and settings that help see stuff that isn’t in motion

[@milo8425]

I'm just here to watch Odd main cannon planes in third person more reliably than I can use a wirblewind

[@StarkRaven59]

You can tell by the start of this video that Bawz had already been broken by this thing. He's got that Spookston thing going where you can no longer do anything to cope with the absurdity of the situation besides laugh.

[@Fwostylicious]

This is actually a Tank Destroyer as if it was not obvious enough by it's designation "Pansarvärnskanonvagn IV" Litteraly translated "Anti-tank gun wagon". I love This already yet i have to unlock it my self. Play it like a Tank destroyer if possible from a distance depending on the map (duh) regardless even if you have APDS or not. And if you have bushes or camouflage use it and you got a menace for the enemy team waiting to strike

[@ONI_002]

i cannot with those trees dude

[@miketkaczyk894]

All hail Odd, maingunner of CAS 😂

[@Area51UFOGynaecology]

looks like good performance in that apds