The Most Frustrating Heavy Tank
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- Опубліковано 12 бер 2024
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War Thunder often has some fairly questionable battle rating decisions. One example is moving the Soviet IS-2 heavy tank up to 6.7, the same BR as tanks like the King Tiger and T26E5. The IS-2 used to be one of my favorite tanks to play, but volumetric shells changed that.
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The Most Frustrating Heavy Tank - Ігри
Reminder that volumetric is the absolute worst. Also if you guys could subscribe that would be great, I have some stuff I want to announce but I want to wait until the 400k QnA video
What is the best way to play the M4(76) Jumbo?
new merch possibly?
Day 141 of asking spookston to play the 15cm sIG 33b sfl
Gotta love how they still haven't fixed volumetric and every time they "fix" the maps they somehow become even worse but don't worry, they'll be introducing a new 70 dollar premium for every tech tree in every update, that's the important stuff.
Volumetric is the absolute worst, yeah it do
IS 2 vs Panther D turret, non pen
Starts off playing the IS-2 with poor luck, eats fortune cookie, proceeds to not get CAS bombed and do quite well with the IS-2. Maybe Spookston needs a pick me up fortune cookie every time he encounters a tank that he might hate to use.
Amazing how few times he was even targetted by CAS, considering he was fighting USA almost every round.
The fortune cookie bypassed his curse!
And Panda Express is a good Chinese place, glad to know your fam eats there
Half-Chinese person here; it’s *technically* not Chinese food but goddamn it I’m gonna treat it like it is. It’s good fucking food.
If he folded a thousand paper cranes in a year, would he be able to escape cas for the year?
Bro second guesses himself sooo much on ranges
5:36 "that bush looks like a tank' *shows four pixels*
no it was like 3
Literally got a match where a rock looks like a Panther, schizo moment I swear
Four fucking pixels
@@TheRealGazebo Beat me to it xd
you guys are way too good i cant see a tank point blank
> Eats a fortune cookie
> Gets +15 luck
activate 150% booster
-500 luck
@@EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEwastaken Activate 500% booster
Instadeath
@@EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEwastakenjust get a bunch of 10x boosters or somethin
Also removes curses
Ah, the IS-2. I got it to grind the Soviet tree, seeing what a menace it was in downtiers. However, here are some fun facts I learned about it.
1. 90% are full uptiers, so fighting vehicles from the 80s is not unusual.
2. It’s the same battle rating as such things like the Tiger 2 and the T34, that are better than it in every way.
3. A 122 to a tank’s barrel does indeed NOT break it.
4. Despite having a 19mm fuse, it will not fuse on many vehicles.
5. Despite having 200 mm of pen, it will not pen many vehicles.
6. An M26 driver can eat an entire 122 APHE and save the tank.
7. A duster driver can eat an entire 122 APHE and save the vehicle.
8. CAS magnet.
9. The IS 2 fuel is more explosive than nuclear bombs.
10. Using this tank has taught me to be a rat.
I would like to add that :
1. Milk trucks can and will survive a 122mm round directly into the chassis (Gaijin pls bring back hull break)
2. No matter the caliber, a Panther’s mantlet is the closest thing in the universe to an immovable object
3. The loader is the most vital member of the crew
4. They call it a heavy tank just because it’s slow
5. Good thing you don’t have to aim for weakspots, because they would have to really try in order to not hit yours
I've found myself enjoying it as a backup to my 2S3M and 2S1 for engames. Most people got their big scary heavies out of the way and you don't see enough people in endgame for the reload to be much issue. It's also increadibly ratty as you can just annihilate anything that isn't a T32 (it can actually pen a T34's ufp and front turret weakspots, or a tiger 2H's slightly angled side armor as it's only 80mm). Your biggest enemies are:
-vlad on his toyota pickup with bertha, his heavy machinegun
-that one vk30.02M that for some reason has the same pen as you, enough he filler to oneshot you and a quarter of the reload. Same obviously applies to every. Fcking. Medium tank at that br bracket
-bombs.
-a slightly concave terrain
@@mhplayerYou can pen T32 Ufp in the MG port but you need to aim to do that while T32... Well as it was said before, he really needs to try his best to not OS you cuz IS2 armor is a thing.
@@mhplayerman that sounds like a great line up. after you get CAS MG'd to death in your 2s1 and 2s3, you can get bombed in your is2. war thunder gaming is so pog
@@sneakycactus8815 that's why you have the praga... To also get strafed immediatly after getting out of spawn xd i also keep a T-34 for mobility and honestly it's quite fun to use so i bring it up to 6.3
3:20
"Are you serious"
"Youve gyeaott to be pulling my leg"
"You cannot be real"
Gaijin was not, in fact, pulling his leg.
@@Michael-uc2pn gyat?
BINGO!
Spookstin GYATT confirmed?
jeez louise
Volumetric really screwed this thing over because who would've thought that a 122 aphe shell can't fit in many places. Also I hope your surgery went well if you had that yesterday
I don't have it until next week
@@Spookston I may be stupid
@FatherGrigori it was delayed
either way I hope it goes well man
What are you having surgery on
Spookston bingo:
[X] "oh hello"
[X] "ope"
[X] foreshadowing of catastrophic future events
[X] PFFFFFF
[X] "you cannot be for real"
[X] bombed
[X] "jeez Louise"
[X] intense pleading
[X] "I'm gonna cry"
Add the following as optionals:
[ ] Plays ground RB, looks inside, planes
[X] Can I pls win
[ ] (When playing any german Tank): Insulting Germany for making bad tanks
[X] (When playing soviet Tanks): Complaing about gun depression
[X] Complaing about full uptiers/getting one (and by one I mean like 70% of games)
@@felraksis [ ] Complaining about german teammates
Not gonna lie, Spookston may be the reason I've been saying "Jeez Louise" a lot recently.
[X] says a Word in spanish
[X] “get clowned on”
Fortune Cookie: You have every right to be confident
Spookston: Uhm no I dont
Also Spookston: Blindshot moving kill 5 seconds later
The IS-2’s going up has been a massive proxy buff to the KV-122 lol
That is still at 5.3 and its effectively the same as the 6.3 Is-2
@@saltzkruber732 well, the early is-2 has a weaker front lower chasis, basicly almost anything can pen it frontally, the is-2 1944 has a stronger frontal lower chasis that legit only get to pen barely with a 88 or heat and/or apds shells xD
When the 120S comes out you should play that
Already did
12:10 "Spookston had, in fact, every reason to be confident. However, he was certainly not"
You have every reason to be confident
"No I don't!"
Immediately lands an absolutely ridiculous hail Mary shot
1:42, 2:27
When a 122mm APHE successfully fuses on an un-angled 25mm plate but fails to do any damage to a 30mm angled plate:
I used to shoot to the back of this tank's turret with M109A1 and it received NO DAMAGE, then it oneshoted me. Respawned with M41A1 and returned, load APDS to it and the shell CANNOT PENETRATE it, then it hit 1 pixel of the commander's hatch and ammo racked me.
>Kills half the enemy team
>Wonders why players spawn back in and try to stop him
I do find the IS-2 and large-caliber cannons in general hilariously bad in War Thunder with Volumetric, the system definitely helps tanks behave a bit more properly with their armor but at the same time, the larger the gun the more wonky the whole system feels. Whilst I understand how we've arrived at this situation, I very much disagree with the 122 not penning OBVIOUSLY overmatched armor.
For the statistics people in the chat an IS-2 with standard APHE is a 25kg(55lb) shell, leaving the barrel at 800m/s(2600 ft/s roughly 300ft/s slower than an M4 carbine 5.56x45mm rifle bullet) which at 1km distant generates roughly 1761 lbf on average on impact or UP TO 3522 lbf. (just for reference a Compact Smart Car weighs in at 1500 lbs, standard Chevy Impala is about 3600-3800 lbs) On top of that when range drops to 500m, roughly double the force amounts. I'm just gonna leave this here, at best you're being hit by a Compact Smart Car, at worst its a full-size family sedan worth of force smacking into your vehicle on a concentrated point (there are pictures of German tanks that were shot in WW2 by an IS-2 or 122mm cannon in general btw, feel free to google that and have a looksee) Hint: it didn't end well.
Added: For anyone going to try and rip me a new one for *not accurate numbers* I literally just used a calculator on Bullet Impact I am by no means a specialist or something crunching numbers or reciting facts saying "I can't be wrong". I'm sure the numbers vary in a lot of cases, everything here is an approximation based on paper statistics, even so, that's an eyebrow raising amount of force transfer
(Nor do I expect full realism in War Thunder or want it, I think a middle-ground compromise that still makes the game fun is the best option)
Sure it has some power , but it can't be more energy than the IS2 itself has to withstand . The recoil has the same power as the shell , simple law of physics . Some things like muzzle brake lowers it , but a huge amount of energy stays .
@@5co756 I don't disagree, just wanted to point out, I believe the IS-2 has 2 short recoil stabilizers on top of the breech as well as the weight of the gun/breech itself and the side/rear diverting muzzle break. Unless the energy required to propel the shell is greater than the weight of the barrel/strength of the breech internals it shouldn't be a problem to be launching rounds down range
*I should also mention that the IS-2 (along with alot of guns/cannons/tanks) don't necessarily have to withstand the force of the impact, just the force required to bring a much smaller, lighter object to a relatively high speed given the explosion of the propellant. Which has somewhere to go besides being completely contained, it will push the shell down the barrel with the expanding gases from the propellant ignition and once it exits the muzzle, the gases will be diverted along with a majority of that force. Though the cannon *does* need to withstand the peaks of pressure created by this interaction
@@richardzehe1552 The force or energy is the same , imagine accelerating a 25kg shell at 800m/s in milliseconds . This is Newtons third law , you can't trick that . 😅
It's not like you shoot a 25kg shell out of the barrel and on impact it hits the tank with a pick up truck at 800m/s . That's like if somebody gets hit with a shotgun in movies and flys 5m back , the shooter would also fly 5m back .
@@5co756 Not to make this comment thread anymore unbearably long but bear with me. I did specifically avoid saying a vehicle "moving at 800m/s", which seems to be the misinterpretation/miswording here that I've caused, to clarify no, I do not think another tank being hit by a 25kg shell moving 800m/s is the same as a vehicle moving at 800m/s. It would be roughly the same amount of force as being hit by a 3500lb vehicle (roughly a family sedan) moving at 96.1m/s (215mph) If that helps to clarify. I Wasn't sure what common place item many people, who aren't very involved in learning about force delivered to a target vs. Projectile Energy would find commonplace. A better comparison would be to state that a 5.56x45mm FMJ (55grains) produces about 1,294 ft/lbs of muzzle *energy* HOWEVER it would only exert a maximum of 0.79 lbf *against a target at a range of 1km.* I did notice however that I used ft/lbs in place of lbf in some places and will correct that in previous comments as they are separate measurements with different purposes. I should also point out that recoil felt for the IS-2 and its crew is not the same as being hit by the projectile; energy dispersion time differences, vehicle weight, cannon component strengths etc. the recoil from the gun of the IS-2 is dispersed over a longer period of time than say the Impact of the shell on target. 1-2 seconds of energy dispersion vs. milliseconds for the impact of the projectile. Another reason why cannons have very large heavy components and are usually found on even heavier vehicles along with having recoil dampening systems in place. For the same reasons that when you shoot a rifle, the rifle doesn't recoil hard enough to go through your shoulder the same as the bullet would, that along with the width, height, etc. of the buttstock against your shoulder and the overall firearms weight. M56 is another good example, 90mm shell but it kicks the front end of the vehicle up to a foot or more off of the ground when it fires; the vehicle is not heavy enough to mitigate the recoil effectively but the breach and barrel are strong enough to withstand the blast inside moving the shell. Not so much a trick of newtons law but you are giving that force a place to go with the equal and opposite force exerted within the cannon. This is also what keeps a cannon from say, ripping the turret off the tank that is firing it, recoil absorption and mitigation along with lots of meticulous vehicle design.
I appreciate the respectful way you went about having this discussion and I apologize for how long this all ended up being, I definitely could have worded several things better 😅
anyways, cheers
one fortune cookie a video should be the new tradition
Man, I have such a love-Hate relationship with the IS-2. Sometimes it IT go boom, sometimes I go boom
It be like that, its gun is still great for the br besides the occasional bs where it crumples against armor a 122mm probably shouldn't. Its armor seems very unreliable tho and the tall siluette that im glad IS 3 seems to fix. Sometimes the armor works wonders, sometimes it can't stop a fart downwind. Ik it has weak spots like any tank but wiggle em or nah the enemies tend to land their shots even over great distances. Best method this far seems sidescraping while hiding the front behind a big rock or building tho, unless they got heat.
Your continued usage of halo music, references, and sound effects has singlehandedly brought back enough noatalgia that i went and bought the master chief collection. I finished all of Reach yesterday, started working on CE this morning.
I just discovered this channel and thank you... most WT channels are a cacophony of memes and sound bites but I finally found one I can actually watch! Great stuff.
You might enjoy dollar plays as well.
Gunner needs to do some yoga after every battle
Gaijin toward 122mm D-25 guns be like: "Pay real money for KV-122, or suffer"
Bro I was literally playing this thing last night and I enjoyed it a lot just the long reload is hard to manage, sweet video
4:03
When russian shell shatters on US tank, it's volumetric's fault
When US shell shatters on russian tank, it's russian bias
Russian bias is literally volumetrics being so poorly implemented lol cuz ill have you know I've non penned 9mm plates with a 300mm apfsds shell, perhaps a skill issue? oddbawz caught a moment like that with the obj 292 as well nothing is immune to bias in this broken game
>Putting a microscope on something to deny the bigger issue
LMFAO, WT players and their battered wife syndrome.
@@Someone-zh1tz Its mostly just wonky physics and bugs, i non penned american t34 to the side flat no angle with IS2 1944 TWICE last 4 days. The entire belief in soviet bias is hilarious to me considering relevant branches to grind in soviet tech tree are one of the last to get HEAT, nvd, stabs and smoke. Giving basically most of their enemies in their br an advantage over them. Yea we gotta stay historical but lets not pretend theres vehicles that were never even produced but planned in the game.
Given the utter inconsistency of shooting tanks in this game, Gaijin May as well add the Afghanistan tech tree. Toyota Hylux with a Dshk, a dirt bike with a dood holding an RPG, no planes, but you get a 5 ton suicide car. All at 10.0 of course
And captured U.S vehicles, but every component starts at a dark orange.
@@lukevelderman4040outdated soviet shit aswell (sometimes)
😂😂😂 Y did this make me wheeze. Bro had me on life support
Afghan tech tree that consists of a t55, bmp1, btr70 and trucks with guns and ofc a mig21 and also it will be a subtree in the israeli one with some other arab stuff
Imagine how many captured american premiums they can sell.
Attempt number 22 at getting Spookston to play any tank with a dozer blade, the catch is, he has to dig in before engaging targets. Movement around the map is allowed, but he has to dig in again before reengaging.
just dozer blade whole game
What a pointless mechanic!!!
One of my most used vehicles (IS-6 being #1).
But man oh man do the IS tanks not give the most grief with that lonnnng ahh reload time. Waiting ≈20 per IS shot is hell.
Great video, man! I love seeing you use my favorite nations heavy tanks.
it was worth the wait with regular is2, but since is2 1944 can already have difficulties penning targets in uptier the 20 seconds really becomes a pain. Can't imagine how unreliable that gun becomes with is3 and above. I mean yeah aiming has a lot to do with it, but in some situations you gotta be quick on your feet and risk it or die, if you miss the weak spot big deal take cover and try again right? well with other tanks anyway, with IS tanks if you miss a weak spot and non pen, you either A: lose 20% of your sanity from wasting a chance and having to wait humiliating 20 seconds, or B: they know you have a long reload and will just rush you. If i need to aim for tiny weakspots like anyone else but have twice the reload i don't think its a good tradeoff to have big boom anymore. It was fair for when you can almost pen enemies anywhere to kinda balance it out. Moment of silence to kv2 users tho who almost have double the reload, would honestly leave the match if i missed with that
One amazing part about the IS-2 is the suspension, you can often stop way before your opponents and fire or even fire on the move (unless they have stabilizers)
Honestly the only reason the IS-2 or any 122mm gun feels so bad is Volumetric, the smallest section of armor even a 10mm sheet metal plate will act like its made out of the core of a neutron star.
the IS-2 used to be one of my fav tanks in the entire game now its just.. depressed and sad due to how many times my BR-471D has been stopped by a German Gun ball mount / Coax Gun barrel or the driver view ports of tanks
Honestly the only reason the IS2 is still viable at 6.7 is either reverse driving IS2s and also BS Volumetric armor. The amount of times I've bounced IS2 mantlets/turret fronts in 76mm/90mm/88mms drives me insane...
I used to love it too had a lot of fun with it. Even with volumetric it used to do fine. I lost the faith in it when it non penned panther turret from front (i know it can go through panther front plate) but still. Gaijin has nerfed the 122 in few recent updates, sometimes it just non pens, bounces or does nothing. Pair that with the horrible reload speed it does not feel worth it. At least is3 has armor benefit, is2's whole huge lower front plate is a weak spot.
That shot at 3:16 reminds me that I'm having tracks block shots a lot more frequently than usual lately.
It's better to over shoot then under shoot, as if you overshoot while aiming at the hull, you may hit the head, if you undershoot, you hit the ground
Day 125 of asking spookston to play the Btr-80a
You should play the absolute drift machine known as the Autoblinda 43. It’s the same chassis as the AS 42s with an upgraded version of the gun found on the AS 42/47. It also gets access to HE, which assists in bullying enemy rat vehicles. Its also surprisingly survivable, probably because it doesnt have enough armor to fuse most rounds, yet still enough to fend off a coaxial (barely)
This is now the 23rd time I've asked Spookston to play the DF 105. I don't even remember how many days it's been💀
I think a video on the m2a2 light tank would be both fun for you and funny for us, a win win for eveyone
Got to love a Spookston video the second you wake up. 😀
When this and the t44 were 6.3 it was a very good lineup, especially combined with the t44122 which was basically if the aforementioned tanks had a baby
Since you have now played the most frustrating heavy tank, it's time to play the most frustrating tank destroyer, Zachlam Tager time baby.
After the patch the Tiger II H gun has a new or changed gun breech that sits waaaay too far in the back of the turret for the loader to be able to reload the gun.
Shey Spookston i love ur videos, theyr are super interesting and funny at the same time! Keep this hard work❤
"now it is a speedrun depression"
Try playing Strv 101...
This is a world record
Just play the normal Cent. Mark 3, it has an overall worse lineup and Shell Shatters more often because gaijin hates NATO tanks (except Israel/sweden)
@@gamergumilyov8579 oh.
Ok, i'm just doing sweedish tech tree, that's why.
@@fabianj.5128 everyone knows playing UK means that you hate yourself and as a UK main i agree using solid shot is handicapping yourself when a tank with less pen can one shot the same shot
Soviet Gun depression = Your gun gives you depression
IS-2 1944 is pretty goofy looking
Tbh it looks better then the 1943 one
Even more with the net modification
@@nijivlchicken coop
It’s basically a light tank turret on a heavy tank chassis with a massive chin, and somehow the tracks seem too small for it. (Appearance wise)
Average Soviet design philosophy shitting up the irl vehicle moment.
The problem with the IS2 is that volumetric, the fuse time and the reload ruin the offensive capabilities of the IS2.
On top of that the BR its in is to high, it faces vehicles that were build right at the end of the war or post-war. Things like the Super Pershing that were a prototype and only a few were ever build, those tanks are comparable to a IS3, being built around the very end of the war and never saw combat during ww2.
Instead of being balanced the IS3 and IS2 are higher in BR and even get constant uptiers wich makes everything far worse and its even historically inaccurate so that's not even an excuse
Spookston you should try the T-10A. It hasn’t much changed since it was first added but it is so much fun to play once you know the enemies weakspots. The mobility is really good, the armor is decent enough to stop some rounds, the short stab is amazing along with the high zoom optics, the twin Dshks can rip apart most lights, and a 16 second reload ain’t half bad for a 122. It’s my favorite heavy in the game and I’d love to see you revisit it.
8th time challenging Spookston to bring the Char 25t into an 8.3 lineup, and then incrementally increase the BR until the tank becomes actually unplayable.
He'll get a nuke and gaijin will use that as evidence to move the char to 11.7
@@russman3787 Or increase the repair costs for France.
now on this episode of "light tank flanker enthusiest plays heavy tank with no gun depression and a long reload"
That drivers optic is insane, I hit a part of it that was over 500mm thick in the hangar.
Really like the IS-2s. Good reverse gear, decent armor. The gun hits like a train. Slow reload forces you to play carefully.
yeah... against Tiger 2's with a better gun/pen/reload rate and better armor, really fun :D
Remember the old 122mm sound? God that was so good.
Loved the metalic sound, why Gaijin changed it?
@@ousou78 everytime i heard the 122mm i thought to myself "thy end is now"
Them removing the satisfying clunk when firing this gun is the worst thing they ever did to this game
I've recently started watching your videos and I have fallen in love with them tbh. I find them very funny and interesting to watch. Maybe you can try to play either the Vilkas or you can play the M22 Locust
Since volumetric made the 122 a nightmare to use, you can try the T-44 with the 85mm gun. It's quite fast, it can sometimes tank a poorly aimed AP shell but the gun is not strong enough for most things frontally, so you gotta flank them. And seeing that you love that playstyle, i think you can make it work.
M42 contraero video when, it’s so good trust
6.7 is just an absolute mess in general. ALL Pershings are 6.7, so you literally have the triangle of speed (M26), armor (Jumbo Persh) and firepower (Super Persh) in one lineup, alongside the other American super heavies
@@shahramtondkarmobarakie1824 the is-2 1944 is just ridiculous too
@@JimmySaulGoodmanMcGill1960 in what way? armor=no
speed=no
firepower=ehh
reload=NO
50cal that destroys planes=YES
@@Sigurdur_the_bumbling_idiot ridiculously bad I meant
@@JimmySaulGoodmanMcGill1960 fair enough Saul Goodman
Holy hell that fortune cookie was correct after that shot you made after reading it!
Even after raise to 6.7, IS-2(44) and 321 still my loved heavy in game, decent speed and acceleration, big boom stick and trolly armor who can bounce even german 128mm
Why does this is-2 have such fucking smooth suspension that it may as well be stabilised, while the amx m4, which is even heavier, has helium tanks attached to its tracks, making it bounce all over the place?
The amx is French so they were busy protesting while designing the tank suspension
amx m4 is so good now since it got its shell buffed
@@dinochookproductions5190 I agree, I have a k/d of almost 3 with it, which is by far my highest of all the vehicles I regularly use. I still get jealous and salty when I get nuked with a poorly aimed aphe round though
Now that 'Alpha Strike' has come out & the new vehicles are here, could you try the ZSU-23-4M4 out?
A Shilka with SAMs & some better equipment, yes please.
(No, I'm not a Soviet Bias supporter.)
@@liladoodle Meanwhile, the US tree with years standing gaping holes in its anti air lineup, and age old arbitrary nerfs still applied.
About to get this thing in enlisted, will be my saving grace against the king tiger and his underlings
Okay now do the ISU-122s. It’s legitimately fun, mainly because the reload isn’t 80 billion years, only 40 billion. I love it on long range maps ngl
Day 67 of asking Spookston to play the ikv 72
3:26 GYATT to be pulling my leg!
8:03 "lights seeing a heavy"
Edit 11:53 spookston asmr
I've been playing the IS-1 for a while even tho I have the IS-2 unlocked & bought bc I've been grinding with it. Now I see what to look forward to when I start actually playing the IS-2.
I can't wait for the drinking it will induce.
I think the IS-2 has the same problem as the Tiger II, it's an amazing almost OP tank when it's top tier and it absolutely sucks when its low tier. The whole 6.0-6.7 range is just somewhat broken in that regard.
Is it really though? The IS-2 has a lot more weak spots and the lacks the fast (comparatively) reload of the Tiger II, so it can't capitalize on downtiers nearly as well.
@@russman3787 I don't mean they are the same. They're actually quite different despite being "heavy tanks".
But both are hard to kill in a down tier and kill almost anything they face in one shot.
What the IS-2 lacks in reload speed it makes up in size, the much smaller profile makes it easier to hide and take cover.
The armour protection is less on paper but it's stalinium with weird angles that magically bounces shots, so who knows.
I do think the Tiger II is a better tank in the game tho, if you play it right.
👇one millennium club
what
@@Spookstonwhat
Whar?
@@Spookstonwhat
@@kiel_3222 huh
This is my most used and most successful tank in WT and when I was still actively playing even the regular IS2 was 6.7, it was a rollercoaster, but the old 122mm sound made up for the lows. I was certainly not pissed when I didn't go through a Tiger II H's(6.7 as well lmao) turret front only for it to sneeze at me, go through the chassis front plate at a degen angle and have the shell explode almost in the engine bay or go through the front of the turret, hit the breech and still have the shell carry on into the face of the Commander.
hey spookston may i recommend the amx m4 as since its shell along with the arl44s got a major buff its become an extremely powerful 6.7 tank to use, i think it fits your playstyle aswell
8:43 “Why is this 6.7 again?”
Also JS-2 at anything lower than 6.3:
i literally cannot see anything op about either of these,even at their previous br,nothing close to OP
the IS-2 was my first love in war thunder, the first tank i really “mained” during my run up a ground forces tech tree
You make my day, thank you
I just _loved_ your phrase "A speedrun to depression", sir! 😁
Had a match with 3.7 Sweden today in which I think I got somewhat posessed by Spookston's CAS Annoyance... long story short, 4 air kills with the L-62 ANTI II and 3 more with the J26 David.
6:56 spookston when he discovers missing a shot:
Forturn cookie: you have every reason to be confident
Spook: Drive infront of a million tanks unscathed and hits a sick moving shot
I guess I should start ordering more takeaways
The IS-2 at 5.7 was soo good it used to be the vehicle with the best K/D i have, now its the Leopard 2A7V
I would love to see Ratel 90 and 20 in a video, both are sort of the opposite of what you like (speed) but still light vehicles, would be a good video.
Mr spopokerton :)
Man I love the is series
i love hiding in the IS2, i usually get 4 to 6 kills before i get revenge bombed, its even funnier in an uptier, because almost everything has thinner armor
Challenge: For high tier support a nation's MBT with its respective APC/IFV counterpart (ie Abrams/Bradley, T90/BMP2M, etc.) Challenge is keeping the other player alive and supporting it without stealing kills (breaking barrels, tracking, repairing, etc) it being a random should help make it interesting. Attempt #2
got my first nuke in this thing love it, it also got buffed to have the BR 471D shell with more pen
@Spookston could you do a video talking about possible top tier spaa for the USA? Possibly the HVSD Anti-Air System, Linebacker, or M-SHORAD. Love your informative type vids and would love to hear your thoughts! Hope you are doing awesome!
00:32 missed the opportunity to photoshop a tow carrier with actual toe(s). hen X that pic out. Still your Goofs are pretty great Thanks for the vid
Can't wait for spookston to play strv KRV and O-I
Thank you for playing such an iconic vehicle that is very often ignored. It's appreciated to see someone giving this legend the attention it needs.
Yeah, 6.7 is a tad bit overwhelming, but to my honest surprise the IS-2 1944 holds up great, showing just how good of a vehicle this really is.
Love you Spook, you're based 💙 ☮️😎
I just finished an amazing game using KV-2 and IS-2 (with a 500%, the tiger 2 gave me 30k with the skill matters) and Spookston posts! Bonkers
Spookston I would enjoy seeing you play the m46 with the chicken wire around the turret
Attempt 3 of asking Spooky boi to play the Su-100 and La-5b, two of my favorite vehicles in the game.
I used to love the IS-2 1944 until people got smart and started aiming for the lower plate and gaijin fixed the Soviet turret angle bugs that made the IS-1/2 turrets almost immortal.
hearing spookston saying "por favor" as a brazilian viewer really made my day, thank you ♡
When ground forces launched (or fairly early on) I remember the IS-2 was god tier for so long. It was one of, if not, my favorite tanks in the entire game at that point. Sad to see how far it has fallen
I always love every time spook gets slapped down when his hubris reaches a certain level 😂
I find it’s much better with the post war shell that has 230mm pen. Makes it much better at dealing with Tiger 2s sniping.
I might just be biased like gaijin but the IS-2 (both versions) are goated.
Great video Spookston. Top WarThunder content creator (:
Love the new fortune cookie segment, please make it a regular thing.
"I've been looking forward to this" - Count Dooku
Spookston, you should try the Type 89. They finally made the ATGMs not fall into the ground on launch.
4:16 "Can I get some gun depression por favor". Dutch Van Der Linde energy
This video here perfectly captured my pain with this game
Hey spookston can you try the ztz59a please and also amazing video keep it up 👍
I noticed you used the B round, with that I recognize the "How is that a ricochet, nonpen or whatever" screaming... I usually only bring 5 B's (for thick boys) and mostly D in the IS2
I think you have that the wrong way around. It's the B that has better angled pen.
@@russman3787 Yep, the t34 can't be penned with the D on the lower frontplate. It can with the B.
So for thick boys use the B on one of their angles where the D doesn't want to go in.
For everything else the less angle pen and pen in general + tnt, of the D doesn't matter...
hey mate, i really like your vids. i recently started playing war thunder again, but how do you change the range on your scope once you got the range of your target, i just cant figure it out lol