The Iron Chariot Becomes "Balanced" - Merkava Mk.4M - War Thunder
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With the Merkava Mk.4M finally "Released" to the public, the vehicle itself seems to be a fairly rare sight. Lets find out why!
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FUN FACT to become amerkava mk 4 loader you must atleast achive a6 sec reload rate to finish your training as tank loader in the idf
@YoavHaiat
Жыл бұрын
it’s true i’m in training right now and i’m at 6:50 i have to get it down a bit
@archmage2459
Жыл бұрын
@@YoavHaiat what division are you? i can load round in 7 sec and after fire the second round in 4 sec
The 2 rounds behind the engine is just rage inducing and that it's 11.0 line up does not have a proper anti-air.
@Martel_Clips
Жыл бұрын
Imagine having a top tier spaa... This post was made by the Chinese and Japanese gang
@croskerk
Жыл бұрын
Machbet with Stingers cant always do everything
@mericad5273
Жыл бұрын
Bro the entire tech tree is missing AA way you mean lol
@itzikashemtov6045
Жыл бұрын
@@mericad5273 You don't need AA on tanks when you literally have an air force dominating the whole region lmao
This tank is the reason why I played War Thunder. Now it's my most played tank. It's thanks to Justin's merkava mk4m video months ago.
I know this’ll never happen, but I hope the Russian spalling issues gets fixed one day. The 4 second reload on my Type 10 will have to suffice for now ig.
@collander7766
Жыл бұрын
I love how there's multiple instances of it just in this *one* video alone. Goes to show how prevalent it is at top tier, the B3 and BVM might as well have an extra life. 7:54 is pretty bad, the hit cam literally shows the round going through the ammo.
@Corellian_Smuggler
Жыл бұрын
It's so OP and needs addressing immediately. It's always the BVM and B3 (The ones with side ERA). ERA is for HEAT protection only not a kinetic energy projectile.
@288gto7
Жыл бұрын
@Rondole Dingle "relikt side panels" are conpletely different from the brick ones. The brick ones degreade ke yes but not the side panels nor the bag era. Those are heat only. The bag era literally eats the dart just like how fuel tanks also sometimes eat them
@288gto7
Жыл бұрын
@Rondole Dingle yeah your right i mixed some stuff up in my head
@collander7766
Жыл бұрын
@@Corellian_Smuggler well, it's not *only* HEAT protection. ERA provides kinetic protection as well, it's just way less effective than what we see in-game.
The mig27k I found is telegraphed by a low drone it emits. That is the ONLY way I've been able to reliably identify where it is. It sounds like a Pe8 at first but then dips in pitch.
I don't understand why people don't like to listen to the beginning part of the video. Love the content! Keep up the great work!
Every time I look at the back of your Merkava it's sprouted another antenna
Hey Justin, will you make a revisit on the ztz 96. It was one of the first videos I watched on your channel.
I just want to say i love those editing justin sections. more of those please lol :)
Its because on the test server it looked like a really interesting and meta vehicle. Could stop dm53 in the turret and looked like a Hull down monster. Now it's a 60 ton glass box
@Phantom-dm9fz
Жыл бұрын
Basically a flank spank vehicle but the problem is the tall profile. So it leaves it as a snipe vehicle but even that puts it at risk of being downed because the turret is paper and the two rounds behind the engine shouldn’t even be there. They don’t fit rl but of course gajin hates smaller nations
@topbanana.2627
Жыл бұрын
@@Phantom-dm9fz the new merkava they added has better armour than the 4m. Its literally what the 4m should have been. I wouldn't even call it a flank spanker cos it's not, it's got a slow reload, tall profile like you said and no armour.
@Phantom-dm9fz
Жыл бұрын
@@topbanana.2627 yep and honesty the 4m and b should have the lic armor but last I heard that tank is supposed to be nerfed as well next update which is balls
@topbanana.2627
Жыл бұрын
@@Phantom-dm9fz NERFED?? HAHA WHAT WHY???
@Phantom-dm9fz
Жыл бұрын
@@topbanana.2627 BECAUSE GAJIN
Well, I have the merkava 4m/b for a couple months and I will not play them any time soon again. That the hull and the motor Block don’t stop apfsds is okay... but what is not okay is that the turret face can not stop any top tier apfsds rounds resulting in a one shot death if the enemy shoots your left turret side penetrating all the way to the ammo stored in the back of the turret… So now you have: - a tank that can not stop any of the top apfsds projectiles at any areas (only against mid tier apfsds is your armor somewhat effective) - A tank that has comparable slow reload (being outclassed by every nato mbt and Japan) - A tank with standard mobility The APS saves me 6/10 times, the 4 times where i get killed being rockets where the APS just doesn’t react although the rocket is not coming in an angle, but straight forward immediately killing me. So there is absolutely no point in playing the merkava it was probably the biggest waste of time and money I’ve done so far in warthunder. And again It comes down to your skill how you play any tank, I’m only describing the tank itself in comparison to its counterparts and trying to tell you why you probably wouldn’t enjoy playing it comparing to other tanks, because this video doesn’t show its real problems. (Oh and I forgot to mention that it’s probably impossible to not see you bc of your size and antennas, which wouldn’t be that much of a problem if your armor wouldn’t consist out of rubber and paper )
@BKBCrAnK
Жыл бұрын
Dude, that the turret is so damn bad is absolutely annoying. I got killed by a 2A4 with DM23 straight through the front part of the turret. Like WTF. It even was from like 300-400m like how fuc**ng bad is the armor. I love these tanks but the armor is just so awfully bad
@kaiderbrecher9642
Жыл бұрын
@@BKBCrAnK yea this tank really is a mess and I don’t think they’ll change that anytime soon or even at all, the only thing we can do is give advice to other people who expect a nice experience so that they don’t get disappointed and maybe even spend money on that piece of garbage (which was even nerfed recently)…
Feel free to correct me on this but in regards to spalling I believe as the penetration values decrease with either range or angling in the armor the spalling would increase. If you nail someone at closer ranges and you get a good clean cut through it won’t spall as much.
I am currently researching the Mk3B and am halfway through after grinding for three weeks. I mean we faced of in a stream of you and you said I was grinding Israel :D
I think i would rather grind this than then the black knight so thats why im actually almost done grinding it out. Kind of excited for the trophy system
They seriously fixed no spalling kn this thing while leaving the entire Russian mbt lineup with no spall....
@underworldgameshd69
6 ай бұрын
Pure stallinium can’t have spall according to Gaijin
Whenever he shows his face suddenly I keep waiting for the music track to change and him to say "Hey, Vsauce here, Justin. Did you know ace crews usually reduce the reload rate to 6 seconds?" No hate, but the beard and glasses totally give him that look in my eyes. Love your videos dude, keep em up!
its b/c everyone shoots your engine in the most awkward places setting you on fire 3x to kill you easily, not to mention dart rounds go through the engine block like it wasn't even there killing all your crew or penetrating all the way to the ammo rack in the back right of the vehicle, or the most B/S shot of all going through the wedge on the face of the turret and insta killing the entire crew.
@goliath3413
Жыл бұрын
setting someone on fire 3 times because nowhere else pens and does any real damage doesnt kill you "easily". its a necesity because nothing else works against this
@Desode
Жыл бұрын
I agree with the engine block. I find it hard to believe that the spalling in a lot of rounds would have much left after going through the front and then a engine Block of that size. Previously I used to play top tiers a lot but the spalling system in the game currently just makes me not really even want to play them anymore. In my opinion Gaijin seems to use top tier spalling to try and balance things in favor of this or that country, instead of using any realistic information or common sense. Top tier spalling just seems full of massive inconsistencies to me. I occasionally play 9.0/9.3 but there are even times were it seems to have bs going on to me. I have been playing WT since alpha testing so close to 13yrs now. In all honesty I feel like it will get better at some point. For example, I remember back when 6.7 was top tier and it had issues until the game was into the 8.0 br range for top tier. As for the Merkava's, they were fun to play before the last changes to the engine block. The engine block made up for the inconsistencies in their round spalling. Now that the engine block is just a Pad of Butter in front of the crew, I personally have stopped playing them completely. When the change hit I tried them for like 5 matches and was like,well that was a waste of time working for that lineup. (Just my opinion)
My fav tank
I will never grind the Merkavas because I don't wanna play a nation without a proper SPAA at top tier. Guess what I think about Machbet at top tier. I play to compete and try to win the match and doing that without an SPAA just frustrates me, because sometimes nobody else then me wanna play SPAA but they are needed for a win. That is why I would wait a bit to grind top tier China, it lacks and proper SPAA but it at least can get some very interesting units. Because of the possibility to have everything that can be needed ready to spawn the big three nations are just much more fun and competitive then the smaller nations. Britain could be good too but still lacks and top tier light tank or IFV to get some SP though scouting. PUMA or BMP-2M are fine at top tier but the Warrior isn't. 🙄
8:18 2 atgms looks like T-90 lol
@r6sm043
Жыл бұрын
When I saw that I heard the clocker noice in my head
They made Maginot smaller. No more hard flank on the 8/9 line. Bravo, Gaijin.
@harryshuman9637
9 ай бұрын
Actually that was just a smaller variant of the map, the 8/9 flank line was still there on the bigger version of the map until it got reworked in August of 2023.
6.7s seems appropriate for a flip type assisted loader. Especially since the shell are probably over 30kg and single piece Most western assisted loader are slide type because flip type absolutely sucks balls
@SuiSideex
Жыл бұрын
Its because gaijin is retarded, watch some video's or ask Israeli guys theres a lot of them with older merkava video's im wt, even from real loaders, for realism and balancing feature merkava should get 6sec or even 5.5 reload since irl its average reload time, ofc for those shells in the turret.
@arberchabot8760
Жыл бұрын
Its around 17kg ish
@Old_user123
Жыл бұрын
IDF loaders need to achieve a 6.0s reload to leave training tho?
It's worth pointing out that every Israeli vehicle costs at least like 20k more research points to get than it's counterpart in other nations so the grind between vehicles is longer. The M1A1 is 270k research as the 4th tier 6 in its line and the Merkava mk3 is 360k research as the 4th tier 6 in it's line.
@kpack1993
Жыл бұрын
Another clearer example is the M163 is 110k research but the Hovet is 150k.
@abramar123
Жыл бұрын
They probably balanced it out due to the fact the Israeli tech tree starts at a later tier.
@kpack1993
Жыл бұрын
@@abramar123 yeah definitely but I just meant you don't get a shortcut to top tier like it seems and also grinding between tanks taking longer also probably leads to people giving up on them.
could you revisit the leclerc s1? last video you made on it was a year or two ago i think, and there aren’t many recent videos on it.
7:55 the Russian ammorack at its finest.
I finally did grind down to these. Trying to figure out how to play these. What style to play. I think the best way is to play them like the Chally2’s.
@duytranuc4025
Жыл бұрын
Try the ariete style: chally2, but faster
in my case, i love the merkavas but idk if i have the energy to grind another tree, i mean i already have t80bvm, leo2a6 and m1a2. i think i’m just gonna buy the american merkava mk3d lol
@RaptorsFan2019
Жыл бұрын
That sounds fine, you've given your soul to the snail to reach top tier in 3 nations. You deserve a break 😅
@kaiderbrecher9642
Жыл бұрын
I have the nations you mentioned + the merkava mk4‘s as well. Trust my the energy is not worth it, you already have 3 good/best tanks you can have, the merkava as a tank just sucks absolutely
@hendrygmail4161
Жыл бұрын
@@kaiderbrecher9642 why
Well i started grinding towards it since they released the tree for everyone but only now i'm researching the Sho't Kal Alef, and that's with premium lol. But i also played other trees cause i wasn't just going to play just this one
To be honest i wanted to grind this line untill i realized how a tank huge like the merkava 4 have basically no armor at all
@M4_Soppi_2
Жыл бұрын
Irl he have armor...for Gaijin...naaaaa
@underworldgameshd69
6 ай бұрын
@@M4_Soppi_2true, if it was Russian it probably wouldn’t have any of these problems
Could you imagine the merkava is gonna have as much number as the abrams in their team that would be even harder to fight even harder than the russians
Justin, for the hands part, that you move them even if you don't use webcam, well you probably are italian
Hey justin, I just brought the m60a1 rise (p) and I know you made a video of it a while back. But can you make one I need your honest opinion of it and if so can you do one with a long maps pls!!
Sorry, I'm a beginner, but how can you put your tanks and your planes at the same time on your vehicle bar?
@commandervocal3848
Жыл бұрын
In realistic battles, you can go to your tech tree and assign a plane to one of your crew slots, or click on one of the crews and make sure to check off the box that says “aircraft” as well as the Rank of the aircraft and assign it through that
@ilovesupras60
Жыл бұрын
Oh, OK! Thank you very much!
08:17 It was at this moment that he knew he f*cked up
It’s so hard to grind Isreal line soooo hard
Justin said “easy grind” bruh I can’t even kill a thing in the m51 and I don’t have that much sl or ge
Hi Justine, one more thing they need to change about the MK4M/B is the tracks model. As a veteran MK4M loader i wanted to say the model is not correct, it's MK3's tracks.
@IanAwfuls
Жыл бұрын
I created a bug report for that upon the release of the tt… which was 3 or 4 months ago… they still haven’t fixed that and we probably we will have to wait a while :(
@theonewiththemustache7983
Жыл бұрын
Ton of little unaccurate stuff in the model haha but still good one
@TheOreoOverlord
Жыл бұрын
Just curious, if you are/were a loader for the merkava mk4m, would you consider the 6.7 second reload fair or not?
@theonewiththemustache7983
Жыл бұрын
@@TheOreoOverlord as a loader you always training to achieve the 6 seconds load time which i did so i can see from where this 6.7 seconds come from but as my experience and other friends who were loaders you can get to 6 seconds in no problem
@razgur9384
Жыл бұрын
@@TheOreoOverlord My personal best is 5.4 for APFSDS shell
Do you put camouflage on tanks and planes? Thanks for the help mates
My God there is always a 1sec delay from when you hit your target and you actually see the effect…laggy or whats the problem Justin? Been like this for a while now and haven’t seen this problem with other tubers.
As someone who had them relatively soon after release the one and really only issue I have with them is those 2 fucking rounds of ammo if they where to remove those two rounds the tank would be much more comfortable to play but as it stands now it sits in my hanger collecting dust
Justin ''Not gonna be super aggresive'' 5 sec later ''PREPARE YOUR SOUL MORTAL, IT BELONGS TO ME'' Proceeds to get slapped:) gotta love that!
love you justinnnnn
Im a merkava 4 tank commander, the 2 rounds in the front dosn't used for ammo we put snacks and other stuff inside
0:03 well pretty simple, I don't wanna play the same previous vehicles before the Merkavas, again, stock
I didnt know Vsauce now plays war thunder
the fact that i can't overpressure the merkavas or any tank with composite armor on the roof scares me
Personally I haven’t played Israel for a handful of reason. First is I’m finishing grinding the tress I’m already grinding before I move onto a new tech tree. The second is I don’t want to have to grind midtiers and higher with low tier crews. And third is the only vehicle that appeal to me are the Nerkavas, (almost) everything else is similar to other nations and once Israel gets more unique vehicles I think it’ll become much more common kind of like China did.
@thatcarguydom266
Жыл бұрын
Israel is easy to grind right now, even if the mid-tier lineups are kinda monotonous. Playstyles are somewhat different because you can rely on ERA just a tad more. Kinetic rounds are a threat but you can more or less ignore most ATGMs you’ll encounter. It’ll be worth having done the early grind once more vehicles are added.
My most played tank have over 1100 kills in RB.
Excuse me could you please tell me how you change your distance after range finding instantly like that?
@wiskasyandr
Жыл бұрын
laser range finder, does it automatically
hello justin! can you do a video of the ipm1?
Hey @justinplays what are your thoughts on a finnish sub tree for Sweden?
my favourite tank...
Let's be real. No one wants to grind 6.0 with Level 1 crew.
I’m almost have that bastard I’m at 3b now I just need the funding to get the 4b and then the 4m
Most players are still stuck or using the M-51
15:36 I_Hate_BMP_2M is me lol
Did u know that the Hellfire got buff?
Yeah I really dont like playing vehicles without linruos and I cherish my time too much too gribd another half of a copy tech tree. If I will grind Israel I will do so ehen the CAS gets a bit better for them and when I indvitably buy a premium pack to gribd faster (also hopeing for SB tank changes which can make lesser lineups more effective...
Can you please make a video on the machbet?
kinda hard to grind to the mk4m when 80% of the tree is trash and in too high BRs
And still, they haven’t given her the right track type smh
Those 2 shells in behind the engine are a reason why i dont like them that much
Good stuff Justin and fun to watch, that's what I tune in for. Although, I've found that the Israeli tech tree is the least fun tech tree to grind. Taking a few to grind the British tree as I had bogged down in the Israeli tree a while ago. There is A LOT about the vehicles in the Israeli tech tree that is shameful in how things work/don't work. Take the premium A-4 and how easily the wings rip.
The israel tree just isn‘t unique enough in my oppinion. Its basicly only the merk. Every other tanks are also in 1-3 other trees. I would play every other tree before going to israel.
@BenyKarachun
Жыл бұрын
If Israeli tech tree was accurate it would have been OP. Merkava has internal ERA that's not represented in game, also internal 60mm mortars. Eitan and Namer IFVs with 30mm autocannons and Spike missiles, all protected by APS, aren't in game. Pereh missile launcher with 12 Spike NLOS launchers with 30km+ range, TV guided Smaller, quicker vehicles with 4 Spike NLOS missiles Engineer versions of the Namer with IAI JUMPER missile.
@oOScrabbOo
Жыл бұрын
@@BenyKarachun you can say this about every other mbt too. There is no leopard 2a7v or m1a2 with reactive armor. But your point dont change that the israeli tech tree is boring af. Im not interested in playing the 100th sherman, m48 or t54 just to get to the merk (and only the merk) one day
@BenyKarachun
Жыл бұрын
@@oOScrabbOo M1A2 and Leopard 2A7V don't have reactive armor. There are no versions of Merkava Mk4 without ERA. They are internal, a very unknown fact about the Merkava. It's boring because you've already done it. Playing any tank below 7th tier is boring.
@oOScrabbOo
Жыл бұрын
@@BenyKarachun no reactive armour true, but further war kits which increased both tanks effectivness wich arent in the game. Its not only the merk, its basicly every nation but russia.
@BenyKarachun
Жыл бұрын
@@oOScrabbOo No, it's not "not only the Merk", they practically took the Merkava Mk4 and removed its ERA. There is no Merkava Mk4 with no ERA. 0 versions like that. It's just unrealistic.
I really want to see a video on the AMX10rc because its an 8.0 wheeled vehicle with thermals and no stab
@TheOreoOverlord
Жыл бұрын
I agree this would be awesome
@288gto7
Жыл бұрын
Also neutral steering
Hows merkavas today guys? Grinding for them right now
@JustinPlaysTV
Жыл бұрын
Bad.. unfortunately
Pretty sure the Mark4 tracks are different and asked two friends who served in tank battalions about the ammunition infront, also bullshit.
Oh. So another tank has ammo storage bugged and prioritiezed poorly. Those kind of rounds in the hull were absolutelly the reason i stoöped playing the Cr. 1 mk.3
War thunder too teir at this point doesn’t really surprise me with rng or just bs at this point it’s normal lol I think I’ll stick with 8.0 as of right now Should totally make a video on the The type 87 series again just over all enjoyable to play and watch in my opinion
The reason that not many people have top teir isreil is because of the starter vics. To be entirely honest I hate almost all vics in isreils rank 4 (other than the m51 and sho't) and because of this even doh I want to play my bretherens vics I can't deal with the pain of the grind Great vid as per usual btw Justin and hope everything is ok since I don't understand the situation because I can't watch your streams
@croskerk
Жыл бұрын
Im okay with starter vehicles for Iarael
Justin pleaseeee tell this to gaijin:REMOVE AIR FROM GROUND BATTLES.please justin
I got my Merkava mk4m and I'm not impressed. slow reload, not for brawling or city fight, only good for sniping and very easy to kill!
@bajs932
Жыл бұрын
only bad players brawl
@imnotpoorimbroke9560
Жыл бұрын
@@bajs932 not true, brawling takes alot of skill, angling, aiming for weakspots which can be stressful if youre using a tank with a bad cannon, sniping takes NO SKILL, you just sit relax and shoot its not hard, brawling requires alot of skill, it is an action game after all. everyone has their own playstyle
They should buff merkava mk2d
I just got it
Because they suck when you have a crap crew and crew skills are VERY important
People aren't playing it probably because grinding a new tech tree is a fucking slog.
The biggest bs to be honest is how fast they made that thing it's a joke in my opinion it feels faster than other Western tanks although they have 1500 hp too at same weight if not lighter
@thatcarguydom266
11 ай бұрын
Gearbox matters too
Active Meeks a mk 4 gunner here. The loading speed is absolute bullshit, even the female loaders can chuck a shell in 4-5 seconds
@JustinPlaysTV
Жыл бұрын
You should jump into the discord, we would have much to talk about :D
“Why is no one playing the Mk4M?” BRO IM TRYING!!! it’s going to take me AT LEAST a year to grind! I’m not made of money!
Israel have a copy past tech tree, that is why i havent grind it yet.
Everyone just sticks at the M-51 with 400mm heat at 6.0....
@mails5054
Жыл бұрын
that tank is hilarious but a glass cannon. It could easily be at 6.3/6.7 where itd probably do better cause more armor on tanks there
That reload is painful. Yeah the Challengers are shit, but at least you get a 5 second reload with an ace crew
0:30 given you need a rank four vehicle to o get access to Israel tree alongside the fact that most people are interested in the big three nations minor nations are already kinda small and israel is even more exclusive, with a small tech tree consisting of mainly copy paste tanks i mean why get a magach when you have an m48, a tiran with a t54, etc
@shronkler1994
Жыл бұрын
3:50 no ❤️ that's one good looking tank tho 8:05 mmmm, when your gun cant reload fast enough...but you still beat em anyways! very relieving lmao 9:55 justin havin me anxious with how long he lets those fires cook.. also later with that t80bvm, no spalling my friend... sekrit documents say otherwise do NOT question the snail 14:15 ugh yes, feel the same way about the tiger 2s, gaijin forcing you to carry rounds in the turret despite the fact that it was explicitly forbidden after a short while of the tiger's service... things like that can just ruin whole tanks survivability and make an otherwise excellent tank just "good" lmao more salt in the wound is that it's literally just 2 shells ... your whole tanks survivability fucked by 2 shells lmao! 16:20 now you EAT your words like top tier tanks eat high velocity 120mm sabot
@shronkler1994
Жыл бұрын
i don't have the merkava so cant really comment on the end comments but i think the 2 shots should definitely be able to be removed... totally inconvenient lmao I'm kinda grinding israel? sort of just cruising around in the m51, and my personal reason for not progressing further is that the israeli tree just seems very uninteresting at the early part of the tree because i either don't care about the tanks they have to offer or can easily just grab the OG version of an Israeli copy and paste tank... don't need the israeli amx 13 when im grinding at french rank 4! kinda the same reason I don't bother with china
If they buffed the bloody armor, it actually be a competitive vehicle. With this current armor set up, it is legit less competitive than Italy. Which is sad because they have a worse round, no armor, while faster and a lower profile
@Phantom-bh5ru
Жыл бұрын
Because it’s armor is shit irl. It was designed to fight against heatfs not apfsds.
@Phantom-dm9fz
Жыл бұрын
@@Phantom-bh5ru leak the classified armor set up then 😂
@Phantom-bh5ru
Жыл бұрын
@@Phantom-dm9fz 😳
@Phantom-dm9fz
Жыл бұрын
@@Phantom-bh5ru Do it, prove me wrong 😂
@Phantom-bh5ru
Жыл бұрын
@@Phantom-dm9fz when Merkava was developed isreal literally did not have the capability to make composite armor and as such it was never designed to have it. merkava 4 is Israel's attempt to slap their new composite onto a vehicle that has no space for it. not only that they are new to the composite game and as such they have much less experience making them. they also do not face modern APFSDS at all so they have no need to design composite to counter it. also merkavas composite. of course there is no way to actually know how much armor it has but if you used your brain you can logically deduct that Merkava composite armor is subpar.
The merkava just has holes in its lineup. No aa, no ifvs, no light tanks. And grinding the 4 times same vehicle twice isnt fun so why bother?
HA! "your the biggest threat" at 8:30. Trying to kill me just happy I always just get my engine shot out an my BMP2 freinds that squad with me rocket everything after lmao
yes the chinese and russians have a 7.1sec reload, BUT it loads even when ur on fire, and even worh 2 crews in the same time. so ita balanced
@scifiordie
Жыл бұрын
only the T-72s and T-90A.
@maltegedik3481
Жыл бұрын
@@scifiordie and the 80b, i know, i am done with the russian ground tech tree
@scifiordie
Жыл бұрын
@@maltegedik3481 yes true. Does the T-80B have an older autoloader? or is it like that for balance reasons? I think it should have 6.5 seconds tbh, its not the best 10.0
@maltegedik3481
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@@scifiordie idk why, but i guess it has the old one
@maltegedik3481
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@@scifiordie i dont think they do it for balance tho, if it had 6.5 they would just give it the 6,5. and maybe uptier it if its too strong
so good to see that the stink rounds (the 2 rounds in the front) are annoying in the game as much as real life hahahaha
@TheBand234
Жыл бұрын
u were a crew member in a merkava? such a cool vehicle man
@theonewiththemustache7983
Жыл бұрын
@@TheBand234 yes indeed i was
@collander7766
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Why would they be annoying irl (other than getting ammo racked, which I assume didn't happen to you)?
@theonewiththemustache7983
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@@collander7766 main reason is that sometimes shit will get stuck there and also fyi usually we dont put ammo there only snacks lol at least thats what my crew did haha
@collander7766
Жыл бұрын
@@theonewiththemustache7983 haha that’s very cool man! Respect for your service and thanks for the knowledge
ay look its the wifi router tank
It's not just the balancing. Games in top tier last like 1.5 to 2min. The maps are mostly absolutely not made for top tier. Either you have a big map but you can snipe from spawn to spawn, or it's like always the same 3 maps again and again and again.. soooo.. ppl are starting to drop war thunder. And then you get nerfed into rediculousness.. fun gone
Being familiar with the actual mk iii and iv . I find the realism atrocious. I like the thorough detailing for this game version. But honestly? Looks more like a nimble t72 with trophy system . Merkava. Is heavily shielded and can take frontal punches including elevated angle ones. The turret has a drum that contains pre selectable 10 shells , so the firing should be much faster for the first shells. Not a pro in the game but I see in the comments there are quite a few questionable balancing decisions made with certain tank trees. Shame. I was under the impression realism takes a prime importance in this game.
I have the merkava and my opinion is this enorm turet is weak 400 mm penetrate this turet….. russian small turet have much protection vs the merkava….and why have 2 round afther the engine? Is not first ammo storage is very interesting….
what is the best top tier tank in the game ?
@commandervocal3848
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T-80BVM
@yazanalrajoub5625
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@@commandervocal3848 OK but why it is the best tank in the game ?
@exerity7942
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@@yazanalrajoub5625 It’s because gaijin overlooks it by giving it semi unrealistic armour values and no KE round literally as u seen in the video spalls. (Maybe except against that T-80U that Justin killed in Maginot).
@commandervocal3848
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@@yazanalrajoub5625 small profile compared to other MBTs, autoloader which is extremely useful, extremely effective (somewhat over performing) armor as well as over performing ERA blocks that are slapped all over the tank even on the sides that block both KE and CE, about the fastest MBT going forward in the game, one major downside for me is that the reverse speed is horrible but since most of the time you 1 shot everything and with the armor of the BVM the reverse doesn’t really matter, the gun performance (gun elevator and horizontal turret drive) is of the best in the game.
@commandervocal3848
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@@yazanalrajoub5625 top 3 Id say at top tier for WT is the BVM,2A6, and the Swedish 122s atm in that order
One major factor for me to not invest time in the Israeli tech tree is just simply, the retraining of the crew. Just.... sigh...
I got baned from war thunder bc i made a mistake (refunding the f5c pack but i allready used the ge) and they wont reply to my email's. If there are anyone who can help plz do so
This video inspired me to start playing Isreal, I've realized why I wasn't playing Isreal
*Who would ever voluntary go down the Israeli tech-tree?* It requires you to have reached Rank IV for at least one more nation (US, UK, USSR, FRA) which are already vastly superior in content and quality to what the Israeli TT will ever offer you, so you migh aswell stick with them. Eitherway, you decide to pick Israel. Up until Rank VI everything is boring AF and copy pasted, even China offers you more in terms of combined low tier USSR-US vehicle lineups. Even the first Merkavas aren’t a novelty anymore because they‘ve been in the game for ages. Top-Tier lineup is absolutely horrendous because of the lack of competetive vehicles and especially a useful Anti-Air. The Merkava Mk4s are literally just "OK". Might have just kept on grinding the Russian TT and gone for the T-80BVM. Or the Abrams MBTs They're not worth it, even for me personally who likes the Mk4 Merkava and is a massive fan of Hard-Kill APS, it's so not worth the grind. The accompanying aircraft tech-tree is even more miserable. Only way I could genuinely see someone go down this tech-tree is if they're either a massive fan with tons of money/free-time or someone who sees this as an easy opportunity to reach top-tier
There not alot of people playing them is because of Gaijin's Awful Economy when it take well over 1000 hours or years to unlock top tier people are not going to do more the 2 tech tree grinds if you want more people playing Gaijin's need to fix this Awful Economy
I enjoy pissing off helis with my APS.
Justin you have to fix the mistake in the description or I will riot! (jk)