@@nevetz845 waaaaaay back some years ago I heard that the ammo count (APFSDS) of OTO was so low due to it being SPAA with the capability of defending itself. But with 2S38 in game this is a complete Bull* and cover for a nerf of a funny nation.
@@theLaRRy333 yeah heard kinda the same back in the day when Otomatic was, like, 9.3 and it made sense, but today? It's already borderline useless against aircrafts, outshined both in BR and performance by ruski premium.. Gaijin being Gaijin
I just grinded to the top tier of Italian tech trees and I can confirm that anything beyond BR 10.0 is a joke in the Italian Ground tree while the 3 F-104s sitting at 11.0 and 11.3 are just sad.
It's the example of Italian tech tree just being sadly overpowered by any other nation, as Italian, it just makes me disappointed, especially when they make Russian ground and air just op
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Fun fact, the APFS-DS is actually used IRL to shoot down missiles while the HE is used for aircraft and drones. That's how precise the darts are. In game, from the beginning, Gijin decided to make its darts shoot everywhere but where you aim and like the Arietes' armor, they refuse to fix it
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Oh and the 40mm BOFORS HE-VT somehow does more damage to planes than the OTOMATIC 73mm
@@tomaszmazurowski149 this, plus over 50% of gajin investors are russian. they are just pretending to not be russian while living on other countries with putin's cash.
High tier is just so broken. The dude rushed, got a single cap, J'd out, and got a helicopter with like 16 ATGMs and instantly started killing people who hadn't even pushed past the first objective yet...
Had 2 dudes with the 300mm Russian truck each spawn kill at least 2 players at the literal start of the match then both got the pe-8 with 5k bomb and wiped the entire team. Great game
The Otomatic is in a much better place than it was a year ago. I got the radar arc fixed, another guy got the IRST fixed, and another guy got the tracer removed. There is currently a closed bug report in the system for removing the APFSDS cap (The name "OTOMATIC APFSDS limit should be removed" because UA-cam isn't fond of external links). TrickZZter, being the good old sub human garbage he is, closed it because he intentionally targets Italian vehicles (I have had multiple bug reports get closed for no reason by him on Italian vehicles and after resubmitting got acknowledged and pushed by other mods no problem).
@@nickkozak4763 true, but I was only “speculating” OTO was amazing at stealth killing helicopters it still is in a way but it doesn’t deserve to be at its current BR
@@youredad9250 Assuming they're greedy pigs who only care about money is a safer bet than assuming anything that benefits a Russian vehicle was a direct order from Putin.
I'm sorry but if it doesn't have that many sabot rounds irl, then it shouldn't have them in game either. This thing with 50 sabot rounds would be a menace.
@giovannifoulmouth7205 this game isn't realistic whatsoever so it doesn't matter. Planes especially have weapon and flight model nerfs in order to balance them.
@@giovannifoulmouth7205 yeah and yet HO-RI (which never been built) is somehow in the game and chew on sabot shell like it was nothing. this is a video game, giving Otomagic some re-balance with extra 12 APFSDS doesn't hurt anyone, it chew ammo like crazy with its fire rate, mind i remind u T-80BVM's era armor can eat 500mm AP round as if it was HEAT
@@giovannifoulmouth7205As if the 2S38 could carry 100 rounds if APDS as a Prototype vehicle that performs better in literally every way is somehow worse than this thing with 12 rounds of it.
This video demonstrates why i take BOTH the otomatic AND the sidam mistral. Having any form of sam sometimes is just better than having to lead kinda low velocity proxy rounds, even when those proxy rounds (used to) deal massive damage
Good video on the OTOMATIC, I recently went to see the second prototype based on the leopard 1 platform at the OTO Melara museum. Believe it or not the OTO was even worse last year but thankfully the Italian research community managed to finally get the bug reports passed after a lot of delay. If it did get more APFSDS then I think it would be more useful that it is now, if not it needs a BR decrease. A lot of new AA’s have been added since it was introduced and it’s clear that missile AA just do the AA role better.
Idk. I completed Russian and German tech trees. Currently grinding US top tier. And the best top-tier tank for me? Definitely M1A2 and M1A1 AIM. BVM is cool, but it gets outperformed by the Abrams easily. Leo suffers due to low ammo count in the turret and horrible thermal. The T80/72s are not that hard to kill. If you possess at least 2 brain cells, you can do it. They love to go boom. Sadly, the teams you get are absolutely disabled and winning is a hard task.
russian bias thing is a fad, people are just really bad at this game and the gaijin moments that happen if and only its a russian tank people scream and cream. like as a german main seeing all the people coping with the fact the leo1 is at a br it should be and not under BRed by 1 is just a reminder that most people suck at this game
@@unclesam5733 exactly seeing all my german teammates malding over bias after shooting the worst possible spot on a t80. i get when people complain about ammo not blowing up, but that happens to everyone and every nation its just gajin being bad
@@justmarc2015 that would have been true IF 1)instead of 37mm 61-K autocannon it was 45mm 49-K that was adopted into service; 2)the vehicle had the same layout as ZSU-37 of 1946; 3)it had APCR ammo available. Then yes, would have been a beast even irl. ZUT-37 was abysmally bad in soviet reports about testing. But Gaijin doesn't care about that.
Anyone else here know the OTOMATIC from Wargame: Red Dragon? It's an absolutely apocalyptic death machine there, wiping out infantry, vehicles, and aircraft alike. It's sad to see it reduced to this.
Biggest issue with replacing the Otomatic at top tier is Gaijin refusing to have realistic performances for the Mistrals, or you know, they could try and make the italian vehicles not miss fifty features upon release. Also italy doesn't have SPAA as they have their SPADA National Defense System and the Aspide launch platform complexes which are towed
@@scumbaggaming9418 yoooooo, another guy who likes the US leased light tank, US leased medium, hungarian tank, german premium tank, US leased premium tank???? I guess there's that _single_ semovente that's actually _Italian_ ... Yes, it's a potent lineup, but it's got a whopping two unique vehicles and only one is actually Italian
I don't know if you already know this but when an aircraft is locked by a radar and is flying low to the ground, it'll confuse the radar and make it think the object is a lot lower than it really is. Think of it as the radio waves reflected off the aircraft, off of the ground, and back to the radar dish. That why at 1:15 the green box dips. Is use this a lot in Air Sim to dodge r27s.
If i remember correctly, the 2S38 APFSDS round is lighter and has more spalling damage compared to the 76mm APFSDS. The rooikat 76 suffers from this no spall damage too. Always have to snipe ammo or crew mates.
Spookston, I can't emphasize how much I love your video's edits. I end up laughing so much more than I'd care to admit, even at the smallest bits of humor. Thank you!
I specifically became a hardcore Italy main to grind out the Centauros and OTOMATIC back when it was in its prime. By the time I actually unlocked it, Gaijin had removed every advantage it had once had. It made me very sad.
3:10 the APFSDS is limited on the Otomatic because it has a separate ammo rack for it, the APFSDS won't feed properly if placed in the normal HE ammo rack. It's like the Gepard's 80 rounds of self defence APDS, it's an emergency tool if this thing were to ever run into an enemy tank more or less. I just with the 76mm darts (which weigh about as much and move about as fast as 105mm darts) did more damage than reserve tier solid shot, lol.
Though I’ve also heard that the sabot can be used to shoot down missiles IRL, so would it not make sense for it to have more capacity for those kinetic rounds?
@@98765zach I'm not sure if shooting down cruise missiles was part of the design requirement for the Oto, and even if it were, APFSDS isn't necessarily any better suited to that application than it's radio-fused HE rounds. When it comes to shooting down enemy missiles a high volume of fire, like a CIWS system, would be preferred, and those have lower calibres, in the 20-40mm range.
@@jameshodgson3656 I don’t disagree, and I’ll not call it a good idea if true, I was just trying to give a reason I’ve seen stated as to why the APFSDS should be allowed to increase its count, as it would fall inside the options for its main ammo stowage. Kinetic projectiles do get used against missile, but those are often guided missiles themselves, Patriot is a good example
Since they reworked rwr in the last update the Otomatics tracking radar uses band K which cant be detected by any rwr currently ingame, just like the Pansir.
day 55 : you should try the jagdtiger sometime. it's extremly slow, doesn't have a turret, gets uptiers all the time, and most importantly, you'll have to play with german teams. the very definition of suffering. (i know he saw this comment, but imma keep at it until the Jagdtiger video is out)
The thing about everything Italian is that they're not useless if you really, really know what you're doing (and get lucky), but most other trees don't need all that.
in the forgotten past before the reign of SAMs OTOMATIC was truly legendary and it was scary to fight it with MBTs, but just don't get me started on the massive gun breech eating my shots.
Thanks once again for the amazing content. It's always great! Gonna have to recommend the rooikat mk.1d again. I still would very much would like to see you play it. Thank you again
The worst part about the OTO is the fact that the 12 round APFSDS limit is historical, it has 9 rounds unloaded and 3 in the feeding system. So Gaijin will never remove that limit even for balancing reasons because there is proof it had a limit.
Man this entire video reminds me of when I played the Italians back when I.. actually played this game. Spawncamped, defeats every match, depression, more depression, more defeats with spawncamping. Like I never left the game :)
Spookston you should play the russian traktor tank destroyer, the Zis-30, its so hilarious to play with its wacky suspension and to use in an uptier day 35
If ya need a low-tier menace, I'd highly recommend any of the Rank I Swedish light tanks. Their APDS round is something that only they get at such a low BR.
I grinded the Italian tech tree specifically to get the oto and had a blast playing. It felt nice playing a AA that could actually counter CAS effectively. Needless to say, i lost all motivation when they started nerfing it
@@someone-cc7gl "It uses a remotely-operated turret and armed with the same 76 mm on the Otomatic. The gun is completed with an automatic revolver-type ammunition loading system. It can use all standard 76 mm ammunition, guided DART ammunition, C-Ram and top-attack ammunition and fully compatible with all in service 76mm rounds. Rate of fire is 80-100 rounds per minute (depending on the elevation angle). Ammunition revolver contains 12 indexed rounds and can shift from one type of ammunition to another. Twenty four additional rounds are stored in the automatic magazine located in the hull. Secondary armament could be a coaxial 7.62 mm or 12.7 mm machine gun. The turret can withstands hits from 7.62x39 mm armor-piercing rounds and artillery shell splinters. The C-RAM capability will be achieved by means of a special ammunition at present under development, designed by OTO Melara thanks to the significant experience matured in the last decade on special smart ammunition and fuses."
The background song at 8 minutes in... That's the theme from C&C Generals xD.. Just randomly heard it and "Can I have some shoes please" popped into my head... lol... Dunno if you played it.. but thats what I got xD. Keep up the good videos man!
I still find it hilarious that they clearly forced the name of OTOMATIC to be an abbreviation too, it actually stands for OTO(the company that made it) Main Anti-Aircraft Tank for Intercept and Combat
"Why limit the sabot on this and not the 2S38" You know the answer to that. Same reason that the Pansir is anything close to being useful instead of its real self.
I feel your sanity loss on SPAA woes, you are not alone. Playing the PGZ-04A, failing to lock Helicopters sub 2.5km in the open air with its MANPADS is pure suffering. Radar isn't bad, but those MANPADS are absolute suffering when they fail to lock on a stationary target for absolutely no reason. The quad cannons are very nice, but the ~2km self destruct on the HE has been a slight problem occasionally.
One tank I'd like to see you play that doesn't get nearly enough love is the charioteer. Especially now that there are 2 of them in different trees in the game. Using mostly AP esp. in downtiers is great fun.
Actually i find that the drones are the only things that i can relayably kill in the thing, with the normal radar lock (not the IRST) you can lock and shoot at them while outside their range (up to 10km) they are slow and tipically do not manouver, the only problem is that EVERYTHING that manouvers is a hard counter to the otomatic.
Not saying that the otomatic is a good spaa btw, situational at best, even the sidam mistral is a way better option to support your team against the cas spam at low range
In Armored Warfare(world of tanks but modern vehicles), the OTOMATIC is a tank destroyer with a 12-round autoloader which can deal 4320 average damage per clip, and can carry 120 rounds of APFSDS. At least it's good in one game.
From the BEST spaag in the game to one of the worst. It was so enjoyable and even CAS was not mad when you killed them with it because they were like "i could have avoided that, good job".
There are two ways to fix the Oto 1- Increase it's APFSDS Count, and fix it's APFSDS Accuracy 2- Decrease the Oto's BR to 9.7, It's armor and Armaments would still be Modest at that tier as it will still be fighting tanks with solid armor, it wouldn't have too much AT capabilities, and it won't have to compete with super long-range missile platforms.
cheers to spookston for having what is quite literally the best editing of any war thunder youtuber. turns the game from suffering to sex!! like cocaine...
How is it when I try and spade my AA, literally nobody spawns in a goddamn aircraft, yet here's Spooks' fighting the entire VVS and PLAAF at the same time
14:14 Damn I remember that Mandela Catalogue episode where the Tornado wrote in all chat "who have I been praying to all this time" after realizing he had given too much time and money to Gaijin.
There was actually a centauro variant called the Centauro Draco which is basically this turret and gun on the chassis of a centauro. Although it was never in production I think it would be a cool addition. It does not have a radar and therefore could be a lower br, maybe 8.3-9.0 and like the otomatic now have a cap on the amount of apfsds it carries, and then remove the cap on the otomatic and slightly slower the br. If gaijin can add prototypes into the game I don’t see why the centauro draco couldn’t be added. It’s a cool “little” vehicle
the radar dish not folding was a bug that came with the "la royale" update. gaijin fixed it about the same time as the current "sons of attila" update came out... GOAT DEVS....
I miss the old OTOMATIC
same
I don’t miss fighting them:)
back when Italy was good
The old OTO was what made me grind Italy. Also I think your radar not going down is a glitch.
Can you make a video using the tiny rim rocket?
The Otomatic is one of the biggest examples of Italians getting screwed over by BR placement.
The comparison between 2S38 and Otomatic APFSDS ammo count is an even greater example
@@nevetz845 waaaaaay back some years ago I heard that the ammo count (APFSDS) of OTO was so low due to it being SPAA with the capability of defending itself.
But with 2S38 in game this is a complete Bull* and cover for a nerf of a funny nation.
@@theLaRRy333 yeah heard kinda the same back in the day when Otomatic was, like, 9.3 and it made sense, but today? It's already borderline useless against aircrafts, outshined both in BR and performance by ruski premium.. Gaijin being Gaijin
I just grinded to the top tier of Italian tech trees and I can confirm that anything beyond BR 10.0 is a joke in the Italian Ground tree while the 3 F-104s sitting at 11.0 and 11.3 are just sad.
It's the example of Italian tech tree just being sadly overpowered by any other nation, as Italian, it just makes me disappointed, especially when they make Russian ground and air just op
Fun fact, the APFS-DS is actually used IRL to shoot down missiles while the HE is used for aircraft and drones. That's how precise the darts are. In game, from the beginning, Gijin decided to make its darts shoot everywhere but where you aim and like the Arietes' armor, they refuse to fix it
Oh and the 40mm BOFORS HE-VT somehow does more damage to planes than the OTOMATIC 73mm
Well, soviet design game, so obviously soviet armor is best armor, and the rest is here just to feed soviets with frags.
You should leak classified documents on the War Thunder forums that will get their attention
@@tomaszmazurowski149 this, plus over 50% of gajin investors are russian. they are just pretending to not be russian while living on other countries with putin's cash.
not like the ariete armor would get a huge improvement lol
High tier is just so broken. The dude rushed, got a single cap, J'd out, and got a helicopter with like 16 ATGMs and instantly started killing people who hadn't even pushed past the first objective yet...
peak gaijin "game design"
And you'll get CAS and Heli mains who defend it.
Had 2 dudes with the 300mm Russian truck each spawn kill at least 2 players at the literal start of the match then both got the pe-8 with 5k bomb and wiped the entire team. Great game
@@HunterSteel29 " No dude you don't understand, cas players only kill campers. Spawn/ revenge bombing doesn't happen."
Do you remember the low-mid-tier tactic of rushing a cap in a BT-7, J-ing out and spawning a Pe-8 with the giant bomb? It's nothing really new.
As an Italian main, it hurts that the tanguska and 2S38 is way better and has a lower br then the otomatic
Well of course, they're Russian vehicles.
What ever Gaijin is smoking, I want some of it 😂
I mean it’s Russian bias what did you expect
The Otomatic used to be 9.7(?) back then, and that's where it belonged.
the tunguska isnt even that good lol
its rockets or missles miss 90% of target that are fly straight and 80% of the targets evading
The Otomatic is in a much better place than it was a year ago. I got the radar arc fixed, another guy got the IRST fixed, and another guy got the tracer removed. There is currently a closed bug report in the system for removing the APFSDS cap (The name "OTOMATIC APFSDS limit should be removed" because UA-cam isn't fond of external links). TrickZZter, being the good old sub human garbage he is, closed it because he intentionally targets Italian vehicles (I have had multiple bug reports get closed for no reason by him on Italian vehicles and after resubmitting got acknowledged and pushed by other mods no problem).
"The Otomatic is in a much better place than it was a year ago" = "The chocolate ration has been increased from 30 to 20 grams"
No matter what site it is, moderators will always power trip where ever they can.
The mods are trash, human garbage
deserved
@@whohashamburger855 Steam Forums are Great Example, I completely left WT Redit because the mods there are absolute shitheads
Otomatic was hurting the sales of the Ka-50 so yeah they nerfed it to oblivion
ADATS is KA-50 destroyer though…
as well as tanks.
@@nickkozak4763 true, but I was only “speculating”
OTO was amazing at stealth killing helicopters it still is in a way but it doesn’t deserve to be at its current BR
@@youredad9250 Assuming they're greedy pigs who only care about money is a safer bet than assuming anything that benefits a Russian vehicle was a direct order from Putin.
@@youredad9250
A change as simple as increasing its sabot capacity would be a huge deal.
I'm sorry but if it doesn't have that many sabot rounds irl, then it shouldn't have them in game either. This thing with 50 sabot rounds would be a menace.
@@giovannifoulmouth7205 There's a good bit of tanks that are inaccurate for the sake of improving their gameplay or balancing.
@giovannifoulmouth7205 this game isn't realistic whatsoever so it doesn't matter. Planes especially have weapon and flight model nerfs in order to balance them.
@@giovannifoulmouth7205 yeah and yet HO-RI (which never been built) is somehow in the game and chew on sabot shell like it was nothing. this is a video game, giving Otomagic some re-balance with extra 12 APFSDS doesn't hurt anyone, it chew ammo like crazy with its fire rate, mind i remind u T-80BVM's era armor can eat 500mm AP round as if it was HEAT
@@giovannifoulmouth7205As if the 2S38 could carry 100 rounds if APDS as a Prototype vehicle that performs better in literally every way is somehow worse than this thing with 12 rounds of it.
This video demonstrates why i take BOTH the otomatic AND the sidam mistral. Having any form of sam sometimes is just better than having to lead kinda low velocity proxy rounds, even when those proxy rounds (used to) deal massive damage
same yo, Italy ground could barely do anything without this combo against CAS
I would like to congratulate Spookston on achieving 300k subscribers! Keep up the stellar content!
Good video on the OTOMATIC, I recently went to see the second prototype based on the leopard 1 platform at the OTO Melara museum. Believe it or not the OTO was even worse last year but thankfully the Italian research community managed to finally get the bug reports passed after a lot of delay. If it did get more APFSDS then I think it would be more useful that it is now, if not it needs a BR decrease. A lot of new AA’s have been added since it was introduced and it’s clear that missile AA just do the AA role better.
"A good performing vehicle that isn't Russian? Now we can't have that."
- Gaijin probably
I hate that that’s true
Especially if its American. Because Gajin treats tanks like the third party profucts
Idk. I completed Russian and German tech trees. Currently grinding US top tier. And the best top-tier tank for me? Definitely M1A2 and M1A1 AIM. BVM is cool, but it gets outperformed by the Abrams easily. Leo suffers due to low ammo count in the turret and horrible thermal. The T80/72s are not that hard to kill. If you possess at least 2 brain cells, you can do it. They love to go boom. Sadly, the teams you get are absolutely disabled and winning is a hard task.
russian bias thing is a fad, people are just really bad at this game and the gaijin moments that happen if and only its a russian tank people scream and cream. like as a german main seeing all the people coping with the fact the leo1 is at a br it should be and not under BRed by 1 is just a reminder that most people suck at this game
@@unclesam5733 exactly seeing all my german teammates malding over bias after shooting the worst possible spot on a t80. i get when people complain about ammo not blowing up, but that happens to everyone and every nation its just gajin being bad
If you want to suffer with bad aa more, then play the ZUT-37 :)
Everyone knows it's actually a tank destroyer
@@justmarc2015 that would have been true IF
1)instead of 37mm 61-K autocannon it was 45mm 49-K that was adopted into service;
2)the vehicle had the same layout as ZSU-37 of 1946;
3)it had APCR ammo available.
Then yes, would have been a beast even irl.
ZUT-37 was abysmally bad in soviet reports about testing. But Gaijin doesn't care about that.
@@TheArklyte
Here is your nerd emoji: 🤓. Have fun shooting planes with your ZUT-37 while I shoot tanks with mine.
@@justmarc2015 /loads 4 NS-45 with malicious intent/
He already made a video on it
Anyone else here know the OTOMATIC from Wargame: Red Dragon? It's an absolutely apocalyptic death machine there, wiping out infantry, vehicles, and aircraft alike. It's sad to see it reduced to this.
Yes😅
Finally!
Biggest issue with replacing the Otomatic at top tier is Gaijin refusing to have realistic performances for the Mistrals, or you know, they could try and make the italian vehicles not miss fifty features upon release.
Also italy doesn't have SPAA as they have their SPADA National Defense System and the Aspide launch platform complexes which are towed
we suppose to have DRACO at this point for our Italian top tier SPAA
You should play the OF-40 MTCA, it's the least-sad Italian vehicle.
The whole 9.0 lineup is the least sad italian lineup
@@ugaaabugaaa6952 I'm up to that point and debating whether or not its worth it to go past
BR 3.7 Italy would like a word with you
@@scumbaggaming9418 yoooooo, another guy who likes the US leased light tank, US leased medium, hungarian tank, german premium tank, US leased premium tank????
I guess there's that _single_ semovente that's actually _Italian_ ...
Yes, it's a potent lineup, but it's got a whopping two unique vehicles and only one is actually Italian
My man forgetting about the slowest firing autocannon on the 90/60
I don't know if you already know this but when an aircraft is locked by a radar and is flying low to the ground, it'll confuse the radar and make it think the object is a lot lower than it really is. Think of it as the radio waves reflected off the aircraft, off of the ground, and back to the radar dish. That why at 1:15 the green box dips. Is use this a lot in Air Sim to dodge r27s.
How low do you actually fly then? Still catch em when I'm like 30 m above sealevel (Denmark map for example)
and thats why i have irst bound to a key :) it ignores the ground (one time I locked to a heli who was behind a mountain it is broken lmaooooo)
Ground clutter
Meanwhile the 2s38 having unlimited apfsds, because gaijin decided it whould be a light tank
Its not even have proxy fuse rounds irl. Only timer fuse ones.
THERE'S NO RUSSIAN BIAS IN THE GAME, STOP IT ALREADY
don´t cry, stop it already@@ThePussukka
@@CobarGGand the aphe was never adapted. The apfsds only had a small rack, similar to how it is rn with otomatic
Congrats on 300k subs!!
Green himself getting 6 likes is crazy
If i remember correctly, the 2S38 APFSDS round is lighter and has more spalling damage compared to the 76mm APFSDS. The rooikat 76 suffers from this no spall damage too. Always have to snipe ammo or crew mates.
gaijin try not to make broken russian premium overpowered challenge (impossible)
Few years back it was discovered in the code that russian vehicals have less sphalling
please play the black prince, it's a surprisingly good bri'sh tank
love the vid btw :)
Bprince is a fantastic anchor tank.
Spookston would lose his mind going that slow lmao
It's good when you reach the frontline before the end of the round.
Spookston, I can't emphasize how much I love your video's edits. I end up laughing so much more than I'd care to admit, even at the smallest bits of humor. Thank you!
I specifically became a hardcore Italy main to grind out the Centauros and OTOMATIC back when it was in its prime. By the time I actually unlocked it, Gaijin had removed every advantage it had once had. It made me very sad.
Same, it took so long to get to them as well
Still gets a K band tracking radar everyone forgets about, only 2 planes in the entire game can detect it (su25m3 and now the f4 ice)
3:10 the APFSDS is limited on the Otomatic because it has a separate ammo rack for it, the APFSDS won't feed properly if placed in the normal HE ammo rack. It's like the Gepard's 80 rounds of self defence APDS, it's an emergency tool if this thing were to ever run into an enemy tank more or less. I just with the 76mm darts (which weigh about as much and move about as fast as 105mm darts) did more damage than reserve tier solid shot, lol.
Though I’ve also heard that the sabot can be used to shoot down missiles IRL, so would it not make sense for it to have more capacity for those kinetic rounds?
@@98765zach I'm not sure if shooting down cruise missiles was part of the design requirement for the Oto, and even if it were, APFSDS isn't necessarily any better suited to that application than it's radio-fused HE rounds. When it comes to shooting down enemy missiles a high volume of fire, like a CIWS system, would be preferred, and those have lower calibres, in the 20-40mm range.
@@jameshodgson3656 I don’t disagree, and I’ll not call it a good idea if true, I was just trying to give a reason I’ve seen stated as to why the APFSDS should be allowed to increase its count, as it would fall inside the options for its main ammo stowage. Kinetic projectiles do get used against missile, but those are often guided missiles themselves, Patriot is a good example
Then what about apfsds being able to be stored in the hull ammo rack?
not a great justification for game balance. APDS belt on gepard, capped at 127mm. APDS belt on amx uncapped at 110mm. S238 uncapped at 225mm.
Since they reworked rwr in the last update the Otomatics tracking radar uses band K which cant be detected by any rwr currently ingame, just like the Pansir.
really? thats pretty neat actually
day 55 : you should try the jagdtiger sometime. it's extremly slow, doesn't have a turret, gets uptiers all the time, and most importantly, you'll have to play with german teams. the very definition of suffering.
(i know he saw this comment, but imma keep at it until the Jagdtiger video is out)
The thing about everything Italian is that they're not useless if you really, really know what you're doing (and get lucky), but most other trees don't need all that.
man this guys edits always gets me,every single time
I just noticed the mandala catalog meme at 14:14 such a good series 🥲
Finally someone noticed
Holy crap I was that T-80B at 6:15
Fun fact I was yelling at my screen wondering how the hell you killed me
anyways love your vids spook!
This used to be my dream vehicle to own in War Thunder. The day Phly played it on release I had to have it. Now look how they massacred my boy.
in the forgotten past before the reign of SAMs OTOMATIC was truly legendary and it was scary to fight it with MBTs, but just don't get me started on the massive gun breech eating my shots.
Thanks once again for the amazing content. It's always great! Gonna have to recommend the rooikat mk.1d again. I still would very much would like to see you play it. Thank you again
The worst part about the OTO is the fact that the 12 round APFSDS limit is historical, it has 9 rounds unloaded and 3 in the feeding system.
So Gaijin will never remove that limit even for balancing reasons because there is proof it had a limit.
Yeah they only remove the limits for russian vehicals
@deezboyeed6764 Every autocannon ifv they have get a single belt of apds/apfsds bcz its historical. Much for them removing the limits
Asu85 is a great tank, you should try it out
Oh, yes, very great comrade 😅
Man this entire video reminds me of when I played the Italians back when I.. actually played this game.
Spawncamped, defeats every match, depression, more depression, more defeats with spawncamping.
Like I never left the game :)
The fact the 2s38 is one entire br lower than this is the biggest kick in the nuts the snail has ever given us
Literally better in every way too lmao
same with the lvkv9040, the 2s38 is better in every way except armour against mgs/autocannons
2:36 *sees 3 pixels* ah yes, a spitfire
This is the first spookston video I have seen where he calls a vehicle bad and doesn't still get 15 kills in it
Congratulations for 300k subscribers, spook!
I hope for more videos on Italian tanks, especially in the 3.7-5.0 range
12:40 SP: “Is that Art-?” *fucking dies*
Spookston you should play the russian traktor tank destroyer, the Zis-30, its so hilarious to play with its wacky suspension and to use in an uptier day 35
Idk when this vid was recorded but since the launch of Sons of Attila I have been able to fold the radar on the OTOMATIC and some other SPAAs
If ya need a low-tier menace, I'd highly recommend any of the Rank I Swedish light tanks. Their APDS round is something that only they get at such a low BR.
Congrats on 300k subscribers!
OTOMATIC my beloved, what have they done to you...
9:42 The otomatic is so sad that it started firing boo-womp + fail alarm (srsly this should be a sound mod for fun lmao)
I remember the OTOMAGIC being so much fun back then.
Also I wanted to ask you to play the Type 61 or the ST-A3
"There will be another time" 0:01
I exclusively play CAS just so I can some day kill Spookton if I ever encounter him.
2:09 wow my first time hear spookston swearing. I like this vid tho
Since you’re there already, why not try the saddest heavy tank of the cold war? The great Conqueror Mk.2, I’m sure you’ll have loads of fun with it
I grinded the Italian tech tree specifically to get the oto and had a blast playing. It felt nice playing a AA that could actually counter CAS effectively. Needless to say, i lost all motivation when they started nerfing it
Fun fact the Centauro Draco (Centauro with OTO turret) has top-attack guided apfsds
Where did you see this?
@@someone-cc7gl "It uses a remotely-operated turret and armed with the same 76 mm on the Otomatic. The gun is completed with an automatic revolver-type ammunition loading system. It can use all standard 76 mm ammunition, guided DART ammunition, C-Ram and top-attack ammunition and fully compatible with all in service 76mm rounds. Rate of fire is 80-100 rounds per minute (depending on the elevation angle). Ammunition revolver contains 12 indexed rounds and can shift from one type of ammunition to another. Twenty four additional rounds are stored in the automatic magazine located in the hull. Secondary armament could be a coaxial 7.62 mm or 12.7 mm machine gun. The turret can withstands hits from 7.62x39 mm armor-piercing rounds and artillery shell splinters. The C-RAM capability will be achieved by means of a special ammunition at present under development, designed by OTO Melara thanks to the significant experience matured in the last decade on special smart ammunition and fuses."
The background song at 8 minutes in... That's the theme from C&C Generals xD.. Just randomly heard it and "Can I have some shoes please" popped into my head... lol... Dunno if you played it.. but thats what I got xD. Keep up the good videos man!
Day 5 of asking Spookston to play the Csaba
Yes! Yes, yes, yes. Another Spookston video :D! Always happy when my favorite wt cc posts a new video 😊
I am once again asking you to play the Object 685
I still find it hilarious that they clearly forced the name of OTOMATIC to be an abbreviation too, it actually stands for OTO(the company that made it) Main Anti-Aircraft Tank for Intercept and Combat
Day 82 of asking you to play the M2A2
congrats on 300K!
See in the conquer you don’t need to worry about case because of the “bomb proof armor” and how small of a target it is……
i just can't decide if the Conqueror, or the Churchill 7 is the most awful tank in the game
You are the sole reason I still play Warthunder. Damn you!
Ah classic Gaijin
Nerf everything really quickly except the Soviet/Russian one
congrats on 300k🔥🔥
9:07 finally, he said it
3:35
"DONG~"
-OTOMATIC radar
"Why limit the sabot on this and not the 2S38"
You know the answer to that. Same reason that the Pansir is anything close to being useful instead of its real self.
Probably bcz one has a historical hard cap on darts (they physically cannot fit in the HE rack) and the other doesn't.
I feel your sanity loss on SPAA woes, you are not alone.
Playing the PGZ-04A, failing to lock Helicopters sub 2.5km in the open air with its MANPADS is pure suffering. Radar isn't bad, but those MANPADS are absolute suffering when they fail to lock on a stationary target for absolutely no reason. The quad cannons are very nice, but the ~2km self destruct on the HE has been a slight problem occasionally.
Spookston: i have no apfsds
Also spookston: takes 30 sap rounds
the APFSDS is hard-capped at 11, genius
4:30 I would be mad too, someone crossed the road now my Challenger takes forever to reach top speed.
congrats on 300k subs 🎉🎉 😊
Congrats on 300k
"Challenger 2: the pinnacle of MBT obesity" fucking killed me.
good day when spookston uploads
6:53
The accidental flash bangs never seize to make me laugh.
One tank I'd like to see you play that doesn't get nearly enough love is the charioteer. Especially now that there are 2 of them in different trees in the game. Using mostly AP esp. in downtiers is great fun.
IMAGINE THINKING A VEHICLE WITH A GUN IS AS BAD AS STORMER
14:36 the wheel scrolling sounds XD!
you make my day every time you upload
You missed the part where the KA-50s out-range it. It is also a free kill for drones.
An AA that gets hard countered by the most common AA threats.
Actually i find that the drones are the only things that i can relayably kill in the thing, with the normal radar lock (not the IRST) you can lock and shoot at them while outside their range (up to 10km) they are slow and tipically do not manouver, the only problem is that EVERYTHING that manouvers is a hard counter to the otomatic.
Not saying that the otomatic is a good spaa btw, situational at best, even the sidam mistral is a way better option to support your team against the cas spam at low range
In Armored Warfare(world of tanks but modern vehicles), the OTOMATIC is a tank destroyer with a 12-round autoloader which can deal 4320 average damage per clip, and can carry 120 rounds of APFSDS. At least it's good in one game.
Thank you for the entertainment spookston
Spookston: The Otomatic is undoubtedly the most depressing vehicle I've ever played.
Otomatic: But you have played me.
From the BEST spaag in the game to one of the worst. It was so enjoyable and even CAS was not mad when you killed them with it because they were like "i could have avoided that, good job".
There are two ways to fix the Oto
1- Increase it's APFSDS Count, and fix it's APFSDS Accuracy
2- Decrease the Oto's BR to 9.7, It's armor and Armaments would still be Modest at that tier as it will still be fighting tanks with solid armor, it wouldn't have too much AT capabilities, and it won't have to compete with super long-range missile platforms.
The sabot ammo limitation really is realistic based on how otomatic turret is constructed in contrast to 2s38
funny incident yesterday I searched for some youtubers playing the OTO and today Spook uploads a video xD
14:15 GOATed Mandela Catalogue reference
cheers to spookston for having what is quite literally the best editing of any war thunder youtuber. turns the game from suffering to sex!! like cocaine...
You fucking legend, you finally made a video on the OTOMATIC
How is it when I try and spade my AA, literally nobody spawns in a goddamn aircraft, yet here's Spooks' fighting the entire VVS and PLAAF at the same time
14:16 nice little mandela catalog reference there
7:44 My favorite thing to order from Subway
14:14 Damn I remember that Mandela Catalogue episode where the Tornado wrote in all chat "who have I been praying to all this time" after realizing he had given too much time and money to Gaijin.
spook vids are always a nice surprise in the morning :)
There was actually a centauro variant called the Centauro Draco which is basically this turret and gun on the chassis of a centauro. Although it was never in production I think it would be a cool addition. It does not have a radar and therefore could be a lower br, maybe 8.3-9.0 and like the otomatic now have a cap on the amount of apfsds it carries, and then remove the cap on the otomatic and slightly slower the br. If gaijin can add prototypes into the game I don’t see why the centauro draco couldn’t be added. It’s a cool “little” vehicle
the radar dish not folding was a bug that came with the "la royale" update. gaijin fixed it about the same time as the current "sons of attila" update came out...
GOAT DEVS....
think gaigjn should add Centauro 76/62 "Draco" is an evoluzione of the otomatic