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As a wise man once said; "Stop being shit and your stats will go up."
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sad that he has more subs, but his most viewed video has the same amount as this video, which chems posted 6 days ago lol
Only 220 subs till 69420 😏
Me looking at WoTs history: "It´s evolving, just backwards"
From 2017 yes
After invisible walls it's gotten exponentially worse
Devolving :(
arty being nerfed to shit almost justifies the tank powercreep and pay to win encouraging gold rounds
Man, you probably never played with hexagonal barrels and the models that could not push each other or lift the tracks off the ground. The “from 2017 onwards” is probably true though.
This video is an absolute masterpiece in bringing everything together what WoT once was
I'm shocked it has only 70k views
*cough40k
He forgot a crucial fact tho when they tested p1000 Ratte and the servers suffered from it
The nostalgia brooo!!! really well made video chems and thanks for the small appearance lol -MrE
WoT blitz go brr
I played the game in 2010-2014. This video is a blast from the past. I really didn't know so many things have changed.
Same here. I feel old now!😂
i played from late 2011, now didn't play for quite a while and i really forgot how many things changed. This video was a nice memory refresher. It used to be a good game
Same now i play war thunder (i hate my life)
15:53 the amx-40 was the last tank to get an hd model so thats was the easter egg to come with it
I love how this channel goes back and forth between ultra offensive memes to actual documentaries
I’m versatile
@@chems Is that code for polyamorous?
@@chems But you don't know that Belarus isn't in Russia?
@@irongeneral7861i thought it's just a region (oblast) of Russia
fun fact: World of tanks blitz, the mobile version of WOT PC pretty much, has most of the same physics that originated in the old WOT game
We also still have a tech tree that's more similar to old versions of PC WoT, like the Obj. 263 and FV4202 at tier X
You can still buy gold rounds with gold too lol
No arty..... meme tanks, all chat, gravity mode, uprising, maps on the effing MOON
Can you still play blitz with the mouse on PC or not?
@@AAA-vs5si yes
@@AAA-vs5si It's still on Steam, so yeah
Loved this video. I also remember that one halloween event where you played either one of two French superheavies. There was even a working two-turret mechanic that it seemed WG was trying out, giving hope to those that wanted M3 Lee to eventually become playable.
the nostalgia 😂i just got
i remember this as well
me, a War Thunder player, watching WoT iceberg videos: hmm yes, knowledge
I remember playing this shit back in the day, when Type 59s were terror incarnate and T-50-2 were screaming around glued to the ground by the OG physics, eating artillery alive in every match.
Goddamn Type 59s were such complete bullshit back then. Better armor than most heavier, better mobility than most mediums, punchy gun that seemed to go through everything.
I remember a game where there was a full platoon of them from some unicum clan, OTTER maybe, and I just said fuck it, alt-tabbed, and went and took a shit instead of playing that game. It actually wound up being close and we might have won if I hadn't AFK'd.
@@MrWigglesWorth 200mm front :D it is a joke now. Powercreep is real :D well i stoped playing years ago but this tank was so much fun. not good fpr the game but fun :D if you had it
I remember playing like a noob, my artillery on swamps and being killed in the first minute... Quite deserve I would say today
T-50-2's were the EBR's of the past
Circle strafing Heavies...take forever...but their turrets could never keep up.
Man that hurt to watch
Good old WoT how much I miss you
HEY ITS THIS GUY
FUNNI TF2 TANK GUY
where videos
Funni tank man when u gonna return? :(
Its been too long, since i dont see that aregintian like painted abrams
yooo its the og!!
Dude, to have this all documented, edited and commented; it's insane work for which I want to show my respects.
This must have cost you hours; but it was fun to watch and I learnt a thing or two.
thanks a lot!
Surprised that you missed to mention that arties could see any enemy's firing traces without being spotted, the higher the caliber the thicker the trace was. Then they disabled it and left only the arty traces to be visible for countering. Late to the party, not sure if anybody else mentioned it. :P
As a Lithuanian, I 100% agree that's how our most advanced tank looks like :D
Lithuanian tech tree when
@@Nightmare_52 i wonder how a tier 10 tractor would look like
i am also lithuanian and i can also agree that we got a tractor and put a gun on it and that is our best ever tank
@@noahisawalkingl Faktas seni :D
@@Nightmare_52 When WG will run out of ideas and their game will be dying lmao, then they will add this piece of shit as a tier 8 premium...
The deepest lore: wargaming bought up the company that made the bigworld engine to stop having to ask them for licensing permission each update they released.
Wargaming (which is a belarussion company coming from minsk) bought up a bank in cyprus to circumvent trade embargos on payment processesing between it and europe and america.
World of tanks is one of the highest earning games rivalling WoW, LoL and the likes and has been consistently in the top 10 of highes earnings in games
There is a picture of serb with MLP figurines and a picture of stalin behind him
a few tanks used to have holes in their hitbox, meaning they couldnt be damaged in some places
With the holes in the hitboxes. Some times it's still possible to find them, it's rare and happened to me once in the last 2 months. Yet I still remember the time when shooting a tank would make my shell simply disapper.
You left out the Girls und Panzer cup that SerB is holding in that photo.
I remember m53/55 having such weird hitbox on the semi-turret that shells could literally fly through the tank and hit another person
I stop playing world tanks a long time ago. When you read out all my favourite maps had been removed that was depressing and also the way I got my Maus is different then how you get it know was cool. Also the fact that I have that rare medium tank which you mention with the m6 looking thing. That was cool too. Amazing video!
35:02 I am now watching this in mid-late 2023 only to realize that the AMX 13FL11 was just recently added to the game. Maybe the french superheavies could be added at some point as well?
4:29 the Valentine 2 also has the same super pref MM as the B2.
Churchill 3 or whatever, tier 5 premium also has that
@@uglyboi7521 No, Churchill III can see Tier VI
@@Chem.Baroness It can, but it does get on top surprisingly often. It also seems to earn more XP than any other tank would do for similar effort.
@@jamjestkowal ikr, sometimes I loose in 4 seconds and still end up at the top
Doesn't the Light VIC have it?
An average NA player: “Wow, they didn’t have extra penetration shells for silver? That’s crazy!”
Me, a Russian, who played from 2011 till 2017, thinking every minute: “Wait, they removed what? What, that tank/mode/friendly fire/map/mechanic is gone? That’s crazy!”
A very enjoyable and nostalgic video for me, and there is actually much more about the game that can still be added! How about the fact that the game was so low-poly, that even all the barrels of tank cannons were hexagonal? Or that when they started to add “HD” models they were added incrementally, patch by patch, and the easiest way to tell the new models apart were, well, actual circles in the models?
How about some old events - one of the first was a secret game mode that promoted the “White Tiger” movie, where if you would queue in a T-34-85 you would have a chance to get an match on Komarin, (since removed) where all the player tanks would be only T-34-85 and a white Tiger with like 10k health, and a damage of 750 would spawn to be defeated for a special achievement?
Or old maps? The ones that were overhauled, like El-Haluuf? There was an insane steep hill to be climbed in the upper left corner, a hell for all the heavies. Or the fact that the dead tanks used to be immovable, and there were actual tactics that evolved strategic deaths in choke points, like sacrificing a light tank to block the thin road that overlooks the lake and the village on the, whatsit, Lakeshire? Lakeville? Oh man, the memories…
Yes comrade
I am an NA player who started back in 2012 and I also was going oh right they did remove that, or shit I remember starting my grind for the Chaffee back when it was the end of the LT line. Also my dad played the shit out of his t18 back in the day.
I was surprised to see the list of removed maps in thos video. Those were all crappy maps most people hated but the matchmaking constantly used them.
is someone here knew that tank angel icon appear if you kill a tank? I play this game since 2013 now currently on hiatus
The entire east flank on Serene Coast used to just not exist. You can see it at 34:05.
That point about how the tech trees branched out hit me pretty good, since I had a few tanks that I was grinding out for the branch instead of grinding 3 separate lines up to that point. Took a break for awhile and look at a tank that is suddenly elite with 80k exp still on it like wtf
I feel really old when I recognize most of the stuff that has either been removed or reworked. PZ. I C was my most favourite.
Thank you for showing this. It has been many years since I stopped playing but seeing all of this brought pleasant memories of I was just a kid sitting in front of his first pc.
I remember playing this game when tanks couldn't fall or even lift off the ground. Fast tanks like the t-50 would just go up and down hills like rollercoasters. And then when you hit a cliff you would just instantly stop and maybe get stuck.
I remember when they removed the T-50-2 because it would constantly flip over after they added physics
@@waterdotzable then they added it again but not in the tech tree..
Lol it was so anticlimactic drive at a cliff at 60 kmph and then just stop
Fun fact, in Wargaming's crusade against climbing and exploring "unfavorable" locations, they also changed the water physics to destroy all of your momentum and speed, locking players out of many islands and obscure hiding spots that they used to be able to visit.
yes because it sucked to plya against and once someone was there there is no counter play
yep, the old spoting system and everything made it imposible to spot them @@thecoolestofthe834s2
This video unearthed memories I had long since forgotten. Played the game from launch until about 2015 on and off, usually checking in on major updates. Haven't really touched the game since 2015. I remember Karl mode, chaffee races, and the Fury tie in very fondly. Fury was the only premium I ever bought since it was just so cool looking.
I still have nightmares of the T18 one shorting me in my British medium 2 to this day
Played since 2012 so i experienced pretty much everything in this video. I actually loved playing historical battles with crappy low tier tanks and hunting those big scary beasts, it was so rewarding. Unfortunately majority of players wanted to play high tiers so queue times for this mode were unbearable.
It was super fun when you had one really unfortunate guy in a King Tiger facing an entire team of Shermans. You had E8s, Jumbos, and 105 M4s
When the historical battles were a thing, I was in contact with WG for some more historical stuff organized by the community (or by me) They were pretty hyped after looking at my scetches, and the talks were pretty advanced (like rewards for the best players or combining the replays into a documentary about this specific battle), but then the game mode got scrapped and I've never heard of them :D
@@DaKea90 like the people who designed a ship for wows and were in contact with higher ups about it being added then they added a completely different ship and said it’s the ship that was supposed to be your ship but we changed it with out telling you lol.
My experience with 'historical battles' was they were so poorly thought out that one side dominated...so most people didn't want to play the mode at all, and those that did mostly wanted to play the OP side...leading to long wait times, lowering the numbers even further. The low numbers were blamed for the inevitable cancellation.
@@Ocrilat it was probably better than historical battles on wows as the Germans never won due to their play style and you couldn’t use the Japanese except for Kaga only because the Germans didn’t have a CV while the Allies in the mode had a choice of 3.
In a month, I reach 10 years playing WoT and holy shit, all that old footage + the old garage background music you used. You gave me that much of nostalgia and you made me realize that the game I loved is long gone and it won't return... All those maps like Port etc etc, that depressing but cool in the same time garage. That mm, those tanks with weakspots. And not only that you made me remind the whole era, me coming from home after school.
Thank you for reminding me what WOT used to be.
Man.... I loved those old maps.. I was a mountain goat😂 after 10years I cant belive how much the game have changed.. When they remowed the WT Auf E100 I deleted the game for a month... now looking back at the game I wish World of Tanks wouldn't have ebrs, M-V-Y s and others.. this game was awesome back then, but now its a joke... I started playing when i was 5🙂
Your comment just made me realise that in a few weeks it's been 9 years since I've STOPPED playing WoT. Damn the time flies by. But every time i see, what the game has become, I'm not sad about not playing it anymore
@@Lordy243 same I quit 2-3 years before I grad high school. I’m 21 now. Kinda glad I got into making money rather than wasting my life on a game that would have turned to trash
Yeah, i used to play it a lot, but then I quit because of work and school, not long ago i redownloaded the game and it's a whole different one, definitely not the WoT that i used to enjoy
It just reminds you how little they have actually advanced the game.
Hi chems, I've followed you for a long time and stopped WoT for quite some time. Climbing really was one of the best gaming moments I had in WoT, thanks for the memories.
This brings back memories. I used to kit out my low tier tanks with equipment specifically for countering sealclubbers (which I identified with XVM), sought them in battle and made it my sole purpose to take them out of the game, even at the detriment of the outcome of the match (such as T18 drivers, with hundreds or thousands of matches in them).
19:13 - omg, your mention of the removed maps sent me into a full nostalgia mode.
i think some of the removed maps are in WoTb
some additional things:
- about branching lines, Pz. III/IV used to lead to the Hummel. this was when the hummel was still tier 5, leading up to the GW Typ E at tier 8
- there's a particularily interesting message in one of the decoration descriptions of this year's christmas event...i think it was something related to ice cream...it suggested 0.8.0 as being the "Vanilla" version of the game
4:35 valentine II is another one the Pz. B2 isn't actually the only one
Watching this video bright so many memories of my first times playing this game back in 2012.. Or 2013.. i forget. But damn. I remember all of these patches and nerfs etc. I miss so many of those removed maps. Amazing video sir. Very lovely.
If you remember also the FCM F1 tank you show pictures of, was used for a halloween special a few years ago, where you could fire both guns.
I was there 900 years ago. If I remember correctly there were only 2 nations in the very beginning, Germany and USSR. Also only 2 or 3 maps, I believe. Also after the closed Beta they did a wipe and gave you credits for all the tanks you had researched but you kept crews. I know that because I still have an IS-7 crew despite newer having researched it after the wipe.
When I started, there was only the Americans Germans and Russians and I think there was maybe 8 tier 10’s in the game, and I joined when they had the ads for orcs vs tanks
@@theboshow9697 hah noob when i started T30 was American tier 10 heavy tank
I remember launch day for the Americans, when the T29's 105mm was way way better.
@@xthetenth Atleast back then you could shoot the ears and other weakspots of tanks. WoT ruined the game in a way when they made Gold muni available for silver and removed the weakspots from tanks.
Are you sure about the wipe? From what I remember it removed everything. As I had to start from zero (had tier 9 at the end of beta).
Su 122 54 got nerfed into a ground a few patches after it was removed. The pre-removed stats look rather nice actually
Lights have a 10% xp bonus from firing at HTs
that's because they were planning for it to be a tier VIII premium after it got removed, the original SU-122-54 had armor like a T-54 and had an improved IS-4 gun
Did not know that, gonna start targeting heavies.
@@flipeled yeah quite a lot of t9+ russian tanks have the same 122mm gun
The M-62 iirc, all with 258 base pen, 340 heat and 440 alpha
The only one thats different for whatever reason is 430u that has 252 base pen
I was really pissed and still am pissed when they changed this line of Russian TD, I wanted su 122 54 so bad just for the cool factor and also su100m1 while having a poor gun had very good mobility compared to SU152, yeah better gun is nice but I miss being able to zoom around, even with equipment it’s quite sluggish
@@aynersolderingworks7009 yeah. i miss the old 263, probably the most underrated t10 for the time, 3k dpm with 550 alpha, fast, heavily armored, gun was good too
21:10 music just brought back nostalgia. Thank you chems
God, I still remember when the old 8.0 update was first coming out, having actual vehicle physics instead of just being stopped at ledges seemed so mythical at the time. Crazy how different the game is now
The French super-heavy FCM F1 was playable alongside some other French super-heavy (Called "Stein") in the 2017 "Leviathan" gamemode.
On the subject of testing things using game-modes, I can assume it tested multiple turrets / multiple guns, since the two turrets would reload, turn, and fire independently.
(absolute gem of a game mode btw).
The other one was the Char 2c. And yes, it was the best Halloween mode ever. I am still waiting for multi-turreted tanks
i think they would break the game lol. but still they dont have any armor. big shit in battlefeild
@@aminkhaled1534 average Tog experience, tbf
@@michaelvonbiskhoff7771 yea but the thing is that french superheavys has the oppurtinity to shoot multiple shells at a time which can break the game and also french super heavys have decent armor of its time so if wg put them in tier 6/5/4 then they can actually have good armor and also i am pretty sure if wg realese them then they r gonna have high hp like tog
@@michaelvonbiskhoff7771 the tog has some great DPM and massive hp tho
Intriguing lore; chemical really went down a rabbit hole with this one.
By the way the Karl mode was just an April Fool's joke even though they extended it for an extra week because it got good feedback apparently. I guess they listened back then.
I honestly wish they'd bring it back along with the is8 ball game mode. I had a lot of fun in those modes.
The Karl gamemode was fucking epic
mk1 event was best
You could farm milions of credits in Karl Mode, 250k every game. Then first ever missions appeard and those were also OP, for 6 kills (unlimited battles) you would get 500k, I still remember it because I was grinding hard for first CW meta aka BC25t, 50b, IS7, T62A and T57h. I even have 1st campagain medal.
@@Ak1M1223 I kind of remember that. I still have the Karl medal lmao. It was a good joke; I wish WG still had a sense of humor.
Man some of those old events are so nostalgic. I loved the 100-year-of-tanks-event, the one with the lava pools and the football event. Such great fun
Wow this video is an insane trip down memory lane! Haven't touched this game in years but I used to play this for years as well
29:39 The ARL 44 used to have the second turret of the FCM F1, as stock turret. I never understood why the stock ARL 44 had that big, bird cage turret, but I think it was a remnant of that tank.
It also still has premium ammo dmg meme. Back in the old days some tanks had premium ammo with higher DMG, ARL-44 and bathtub still have those.
The old ARL 44 turret is in wot blitz i think
ahhh...the old "dog house" turret
One time, you could blind fire TD's with arties, because you were able to see their shot-tracing
not only that you could reliably do Counter battery fire my most fun thing to do in my Obj 261 (most accurate arty ingame at the time and i belive even now)
AMX 13 FL 11 is now in the game :skull:
35:02 guess who was just released on the game
I was looking for this comment 😂
@@bonehunter9766same here lmao
Oh yes i miss the arty from the old days. When you played in a city map and could use your arty like a TD and erase half the hitpoints of a type 5 with 1 shot.
you aren't talking about the old days if the type 5 is mentioned.
Same
@@masonsunderland8126 he probably mentions it as a scale of measure
@@vietcongnva1197 I still remember the day when I blocked a 2250 damage shell from the sky. Nice times
@@DimitarKorchevI remember back in the day my tier 8 Motherland could bounce Deathstar ap shells.😂 crazy times
The map "Mines" used to be called "Pagorki". One of the structures on the northeast part of the map was a doghouse. If ran over, a dog yelping could be heard. WG removed that sound file after complaints.
Players from the beta (and I think the alpha?) got a special tank called the 'M4A2E4'. This tank is most likely the rarest tank you could actually get without being a CC. I still have mine.
Arties used to have a bug where, after a small distance in the air, the round would instantly teleport and fall on the target, skipping most of the arc trajectory.
The T23 Chems mentioned is now in the game as the T23E3, a tier 7 premium MT. The tech tree T23 top gun was a 105mm gun.
The T34, as Chems mentioned, used to be a tier 9 US HT. When it was made a tier 8 premium, it had the stats it had as a tier 9 for a short while (and was, therefore, rather OP)
Matchmaking was even more janky than Chems described. There used to be two templates: tier 1 and 2, then tier 3 and 4-5-6-7-8-9-10. This meant you could be fighting Mauses in your Marder 38T.
There was a point where the German TD tech tree line ended with the Ferdinand.
The T-54 and Type 59 broke the game for a long while. Matches were usually decided before the match started: the team with more of those two tanks won.
Also i remember back when wot was starting, wg made complete progress resets to every player, it happened at least twice as I remember. Would be pretty nice if someone can confirm when it was, maybe 2013 and less?
( this meant you had to completely start over again, and so did everyone)
@@neonlight1214 if this happend it was way before 2013. I started playing in April 2011 and I never had my account reset. I was on EU though, maybe it did happen on some other server.
@@neonlight1214 that happened on console. I was a closed then an open beta tester for wot on the Xbox 360 in 2013. Only 2 lines, German and USA and they reset our progress twice in a short period, twice I JUST made it to the e100 then 😁
@@neonlight1214 They did. I have been playing since the beta test on the EU server. When they released the finished game, so to speak, they reset all your progress. The reset made me pissed and I stopped playing for a while.
@@hannahalexy nope it was PC too
This was pretty cool, awesome vid
Good video, so many memories, you have a new subscriber from a currently dull and cold South Yorkshire UK
35:47
the rockets on the side of the turret were literally called "TT-250 Tank Torpedo" and would technically be the biggest caliber in the game with a diameter of 420mm
If it was added it would be a tier 8 premium obviously
You can play it in war thunder lol
@@distinctjackal9016 and the maximum depression for the tank rockets are +5 degrees, so the meme tactic is to back yourself into a building so you can actually shoot straight with em
@@skyscall or fall from a hill
@@distinctjackal9016 I've played it. The only thing those rockets are useful for is getting you ammo racked
@@thatww2nerd81 just like mines on ships
Airfield-climb on the A/B line was OP in Clanwars. noone was safe in the heavy-area :) only possible if you got launched up there
So many memories of getting pushed there as the BC-arty. And even having 4 shells, that still did damage...
Climbs used to be my favourite part of the game!!
Light tanks used to stop at tier 5* before tier 8
Edit, i kept watching and you mentioned it. Great job.
I started playing in 0.7.4
The big changes i can remember was 8.0, (physics)
Wargaming devs used to participate in clan wars, they streamed the games and lost a bunch.
Tank companies were ruined.
Artillery had Hp and vision, and apcr...
Wte100, kv1s, old hellcat, kv3/4
T-22 used to be absolutely broken...
Most maps have undergone enormous balancing patches
Artilley have a limit per match, though they had to limit them per match down to 5, then down to 3 per. We used to see upwards of 13 per side (you mentioned this as i am typing this- we would artillery rush and shotgun eachother)
Gold rounds and consumables used to be gold only purchasables...
"On-track" events began with the is-7 sometime after 8.5 - 9.0 or something
The batchat 155 58 used to have a 5 round clip. Rip
Tank soccer was fun, rocket league wasn't a big game back then...
I've been playing WOT on and off for about 7 years it's pretty cool to have these memories brought back. It's sad seeing the current state of the game tho.
I remember playing with the T18 as the american tier 2 TD before it was removed. Good times...simpler times...better times.
i remember i got my best ever game in that tank, i won 1v10
@@arthuraabakken1125 A friend and I 2v10 in hetzers with the derp and won. I loved that little tank.
I remember those days. The first time I looked up the T18's weakspots.
but also, every match had at least 3 T18s on every side
Or the T-82 when It was a TD...
36:01 Busted out laughing of how bizzare it is. Then you said most advanced lithuanian tank. And now I can barelly type from my laughter because I am from Lithuania. great content
same :DDD
@@pukalo just admiring good content, so go and cry about it
Well its true that is our most advanced tank
Ngl i wanna see a tier 10 tractor with a massive gun
@@noahisawalkingl tier 8 premium sounds better 😂
Man you brought back my memories with this game, i forgotten all that bad stuff that was so good back then
this is a really interesting video, have been watching it 2 times now :) thx chem!
Something to add on just seeing those old French super heavies, the first Halloween event with the Leviathan hell tank driving around, you were inside these French heavies with both turrets usable, was a fun mode for its first Halloween event
I actually miss that mode.. hope they will add it again in the next Halloween events .
That was an actually fun halloween mode. And the dual turrets were great fun, wish the M3 Lee and others had gotten them.
O man, just remembered that. It was fun
Franken and Stein were beasts
In that mode i got my first ever tier X tank the is-7 and i was the happiest person
One of the biggest changes everyone seems to have forgotten about was the shot dispersion change made in 8.6 that basically made 25% of shots go right down the middle no matter how big the aiming circle was. This is when the "Hand Of Stalin" memes came about with people one shotting enemies across the map with an on the move snapshot from a KV-2. The global accuracy nerf a couple years later undid a lot of this, but those couple years were completely ridiculous.
8.6 also made some other big changes. Before 8.6, artillery was even more powerful, with much better reload times, aim times, accuracy and even more forgiving shell arcs. While artillery can be very annoying today, I think a lot of the extreme hate for it stems from these early times, as it genuinely was stupidly overpowered.
Also before 8.6, the KV-2 had 152mm HEAT shells with something 300 pen and 750 alpha - those numbers might be slightly off and I can't find a source to verify. Point is, it was completely stupid and broken. As long as you actually hit, it was a a guaranteed penetration on everything you could possibly face, and a one shot on tier 4s and 5s. The HEAT shells on the various Tier 3/4/5 derp guns also had much higher penetration back then. The Jumbo Sherman with the 105 howitzer using gold rounds was actually super troll.
great video. Thinking about weird stuff on wot, that one bug that all of the suden made ur tank to go loco spinning or sometimes killing urself in the process. dark bug I guess
It's crazy how the amx 13 fl11 shown in this video is in the game now. It should've stayed in the game files.
They removed so many of the really good maps. Windstorm for example was awesome. As was Northwest. And Port was fun as well. Windstorm and Port especially since they weren't just a symmetry fest like most other maps are. Also older versions of sacred valley were fun, before they kept updating it ruining it more and more until they eventually removed it.
And I'll never forgive them for removing south coast without even trying to "fix" it. Like sure, it had some balancing issues. But I don't even remember it going through really noteworthy significantly different iterations. It was just suddenly gone.
I miss windstorm & northwest so much. City & flanks were equally fun. My first ever game in the O-I exp back when it was a monster was on windstorm and I wiped floor with a high cal + 5 kills. Good times.
Those maps where fun as fuck, but I gotta say that they were unbalanced like northwest
that feeling when most of your wot knowledge comes from 2011-2013 and almost every time he says "you probably know that", you dont
but when he talks about something old and obscure, you treat it as something normal
edit1: OH MY GOD i played project tank so much... i used BT-7 the most because its gun was literally broken
it did over 200dmg instead of 20 (it was probably some programmers mistake)
one time i took out three KV-1s (tier V) with my BT-7 (tier III) XD
edit2: one thing that wasn't mentioned in the video (or i somehow missed it): you could go from M4A3E2 Jumbo Sherman directly to M6
that's what i did, and now i have M6, T29 and T32 but i never ever owned T1 Heavy
I did the same thing with m4e3a2 but you could go straight to t29 and skip t1heavy and m6 tho u would be forced to play with stock 76mm gun on t29 cuz 90mm was only on m6
I still havent unlocked t1heavy and m6 and i already own t32
@@simontapaj2313 yeah you can go straight to T29 now, i think they changed it from M6 because it was too easy to get into 2 lines at once
now you have to suffer a bit with a stock gun on T29
Was really fun to watch. I remember it all and where here since the start. I remember seing an add on youtube and downloaded it 11 years ago on my crappy lap top. So i remeber all from the video.
IIRC Rivertown is an actual map on console, and it was pretty good, there was a heavy side dcraping corridor to the west above a waterfall, but an elevated open section that was dominated by mainly lights to the west of this meaning the lighter tanks could decide the fate of the heavy corridor. There was always a TD shootout across mid between the two towns, and there was a hull down position on the far east, that is vulnerable to flanking mediums on the centre east. It was a pretty fun map....If not for artillery being able to hit anyone just about anywhere except under bridges
21:25 - The big ensk! The devs actually was testing a new game mode, with waves of bots attacking players. Bots were obviously "Supertesters" (which I was back then in 2014), and the players were the devs themselves. We had a strict scenario to follow. Our goal was to capture all three bases they had to defend. Or to kill all of them. They could respawn for several times.
What a nostalgia you brought up....
they later added this pve mode in as an event a few years back with actual bots this time. you would pick either the t34 and su100 or sherman and wolverine (iirc). i forgot what the mode/event is called but i swear it existed because i have like 3 2d styles for russian tanks and american tanks which i use it on my tier 8 premiums
that does sound like war thunder ngl
@@vuxluongw fucking hated that mode they threw a bunch of unicums against noob and wondered why nobody got the items which then killed the game as its the first time event items were added to the shop
18:52 You cant hit people with such a nostalgia without a warning a tear came from my eye when i remembered the old world of tanks.
I played all most of those deleted maps before.... nostalgia
@@deliciousnoodles5505 same man.. same..
Such a cool video, I am not really active WoT player and come back once in a while to check what is new. My account is like 12 years old and its cool seeing some of the old stuff I experienced back in the day.
18:53 Bro, I felt so sad that some maps were removed, I loved the aesthetics of Secret Valley and I have many memories of others mentioned like the Pantano map, I'm really sad I haven't played in a while and 5 of all the maps you mentioned had some memory involved
Here a few things that used to be in Wolrd of Tanks that are still in World of Tanks Blitz or different in World of Tanks Blitz:
-You can still talk to the enemies in wotb
-You can still get climb to alot of interesting spots though you need someone to push you up for most of them
-Tanks still cant completly flip in wotb
-su 122-54 still is a tier 9 td in wotb and it still leads up to the obj 263 as a tier 10 + they both have good dpm
-fv 4202 is still a British tier 10 med in wotb
-there are alot of gamemodes that regularely return in wotb that arent in wot though there are some that dont return too
-You can still get launched at alot of spots that havent been patched in ages
-You can choose between paying gold ammo with gold or credits
-T 18 and T 82 are still tds, prolly bc there are no artys in blitz
-the normal K 91 in wotb has its turret in the middle and is a tier 9 premium
-The "Renegade" on wotb is called T 54E2 as the tier 8 premium
-alot of Branchover lines still exist in wotb like the tiger (p) -> ferdinand -> jagdtiger
-T 44-85 exists as a tier 8 russian premium in wotb
-there is no vk 100.01 (b) in wotb it is just called vk 100.01 (p)
-the chieftain mk 6 is the normal tier 10 chieftain in wotb
-the making of wotb wasnt started by wargaming but by "'DAVA Consulting"
Eww Blitz
T-44-85 is a tier 7
You didn't mention that blitz is 7v7 without arty, it's just a better game than pc
@@alexisgelis excuse me…?
@@shilka7020 I have played esports on WoT PC for more than 4 years now, the game isn't just fun anymore, the meta is toxic as hell and it's diving down in never ending depth. Blitz is basically 2012 PC but with actual improvements. Also the competitive scene has prizepools multiplied tenfolds, despite the playerbase being much smaller and the competitive scene being worse overall.
Fun fact, two of these multi turreted french super heavys playable during an Halloween event against the "Leviathan". Their names in this mode were Franken and Stein.
Also #BringBackDragonsridge it was one of my favorites
очень классный получился ролик, посмотрел на одном дыхание, даже не думал , что он идет 40 минут) респект, благодарю за контент!
One thing I did love about the gw tiger with the 17cm. Long barrel reloaded faster then the 21cm and had better pen. Every now and then I would say f it and load all ap and go with the tds. If it was a heavy tank they couldn't pen I could just back up and use arty mode to get top pens on the hull or turret and could knock out a heavy in 1 or 2 shots. Ap loaded arty was always a surprise for those that came across them.
29:45 if I remember correctly a tank that looked like the FCMF1 was used in a Halloween game mode vs AI, where you had two separate functional turrets.
Ah yeah, that was the best halloween mode they ever made, it was so good
I remember it. I fkin remember it! Damn this game is my childhood, when my dad downloaded it in 2011 I was just 8!
Man this brings back so many memories. I remember playing World of Tanks on minimum settings during middle/high school and it was my go to game aside from Team Fortress 2. The Races, the 8 bit Karl, the IS-8 Ball, ive been there. Over seven thousand battles, and I havent touched the game since 2016. Its a shame what greed did to the game, it still has so much potential, but Wargaming doesnt care about their community and continues to focus on lining their pockets. I used to really enjoy World of Warships too but, that as well has been falling apart. As for World of Tanks, I miss playing my Tog II, and loved the fury when it was added after the movie release. I dont think itll ever take off again, not unless some massive overhauls are done. "You were good son, real good, maybe even the best"-Soldier.
Oh boy Company Battles! This brings back memories, from way back when i was just a whipper snapper with my Tiger 2 sitting and watching how my dad and his friends used to demolish lobbies. He was so dedicated to the game him and his band of friends had ridiculous win rates at 65% (i clearly remember them all being purple using that WT mod or somehow it's called). They would accept only other high win rate players or only "accepted" ones as they would know each other by nickname who was good or great. It was so impressive watching them coordinate ambushes when svetliaks(scout tanks but in russian servers they were called svetliak roughly translates "lighter" or "the one that lights up others". Scouting used be called lighting up as if you can't see anything because it's dark and you need light to see. I think it was one of the reasons why the light bulb perk for when you're spotted is a light bulb) would look/spy for enemies' movement. Ambushes when 7 or so tanks would line up diagonally covering each others' sides and leaving front plates angled at enemy, quickly focusing down tanks one at a time. Myself haven't had a chance to play them, but oh boy it still was interesting. It reminded me of raiding in random MMOs where you would gather groups and look for specific roles.
Its so fascinating to see what have wot have become, since i stopped playing when they removed (my beloved) t50-2. Every "used to" to fact is basically how i remembered the game
I hated them for killing 50-2. They even brought it back to tease me but it's just slow now 🐌. EBRs tho kinda neat
I stopped playing around the tech tree redesign and was super confused when I tried the game again. Gave up when it became abundantly clear Wargaming didn't care about making a game, they wanted slot machines on tracks, and focused more on lootboxes and microtransactions than making a balanced game. All of the tricks to get people addicted using gambling mechanics are there, and once you see them it's hard to go back.
RNG when you fire and where your round will go, RNG on how much damage you receive or if the round bounces, overpowered gold ammo (that sure you can buy with silver, but it will bankrupt you if you don't pay in), lootboxes, etc, etc, $$$$
Sums up why I think this software (not "game") is a cancer
Agree with everything except gold ammo making you bankrupt. You can play with full gold and food and not lose credits if you're running a credit booster. Premium tanks also earn you a shit ton.
@@le4chehenry324 and how do you get premium tanks or credit boosters? right, you pay.
@@cooooolnoone I've never paid for credit boosters yet I have 300+.
Also, I started running full gold and consumables recently too, because why TF not lol. I have over 50m silver and even with full gold and consumables with no booster, I still make a profit, and I'm slightly above avg, so why not? Though i still load 50/50.
the fact that I can watch this and still get nostalgia is amazing.
Omg, the flash backs are unreal, I wish they kept to what they were doing before. I miss it. The music and nostalgia hits hard in this vid.
I’ve never felt so old… thank you so much for this video❤
oh man, i remember all the fun i had with the t18 tier 2 TD, 95% of tier 2 tanks couldnt pen its face, apart from other T18's that had the fast reload low alpha gun, the HE shell was so fun, only the british medium tanks couldnt be oneshotted, everything else was a 1blast 1 kill deal, good times
Saaaame, I really miss it :(
yeah man, 3+ kills every battle
Yeaaaah,
At-1(tier 2 russian TD) with the 76mm gun could pen the front of it easy.
@@mightypharaoh7586 Yeah, But When i Played at at T18 I never saw anyone truely kill me, i killed them like other tanks
Really great nostalgia trip, I loved Chaffee racing. There was a glitch/feature where you could change the officer to a unskilled one and hang corners tighter, getting to the end much faster. Only a few clans knew and abused tf out of it like myself.
man i remember the ruinberg glitch, discovered it while in a training room watching few guys messing around, and mittengard was fun as hell idk whem was the last time i saw it but i was using a low tier around 1-3, and then fcm f1 on the halloween event 5 years ago
Listing some stuff that goes unmentioned here for whatever reason.
Agrimotor tractor is a nod to the most memetic vehicle of "Men of War", a strategy game that WoT is based on.
Light tanks used to have +5/-1 MM, allowing ELC AMX to fight Maus. Then it was changed to +4, then to +3 and then light tanks got streamlined into what we do have now.
Waffentrager E110 isnt the first boss battle that WG has added into the game. Back in 2012 there was a Wieber Tiger to go pair with the film of the same name, where players on T-34-85 had to face a unique Tiger P, driven by the dev with 14 thousands HP and teleporation abilities.
Speaking of 34-85, it also had 100-mm gun LB-1 with great stats, which actually differs from the czechoslovakian variant. Pz. 4 Smalturm also was a tech tree variant.
I can actually vouch for the AMX arty bug, there was also a bug with that arty specifically that allowed you to fire the gun behind you if an enemy was behind you while also being "in" your reticle
0:29 belarussians*
3:25 113 too
4:33 also valentine II
11:16 they also tested multiple turret mechanics that isnt in the game during halloween 2017
16:35 T-60 can choose one gun with 50 shell-clip too
17:30 there was also a cool place on old pilsen on southern base between trains
19:18 also winterberg (ruinberg) and some fiery variant of prokhorovka i forgot the name of, there were many more guns and destroyed tanks etc.
25:49 same with T95E6
33:06 only on NA tho (at the moment lol, black market soon)
33:40 they are purchasable on chinese server
i loved the video
fiery salient if i remember correctly
@@TheMegakiller2000 probably, i play on polish client so for me it was "łuk ognia" xd
the prokhorovka variant was fire arch or sth like that
Light vic also has a 13 mm heavy machine gun with 50 rounds clip.
Also, there is a painting with victor kinsyl holding a torch, and his first employees around it in the Ensk map. also in ghost town there is a lot of Kvas (bread juice idk) that was popular back in the days. Judging by the popularity of these carts, barrels, WG employees probably loved these as a kid.
GD! That old battle prep music! Wow.
Also Big Ensk is structured a lot like Ghost Town.
old wot just gives me so many memories when i was playing with my dad the music all the old sounds graphics
This was an amazing trip down memory lane!!!
Thank you so much!!
I started back in September 2012 and it is to this day my most played game ever...
I vividly remember so many moments, and I will cherish them forever
Until they drove everything to hell and nerfed the ELCs penetration
What a shame
I used to love wot, and then around 2018 I just lost all my love for the game. I don't even remember what happened
Tbh i dont even mind the nerf of elcs penetration...i loved the mobility of the tank and its not what it used to be...before u could circle around even medium or light tanks nowadays freakin heavies outruns ya
@@simontapaj2313 the ELC is my fav and most played tank, that's why I mentioned it xD
But yeah, a lot of things got worse
@@simontapaj2313 it was going with 65 km/h and it could reach that speed so much faster than today because of stronger engine, today it reaches 60 kmh max and since it has a shittier engine it can't turn or accelerate fast
@@justsomedude7874 game just went to shit after 1.0 update
Bro, this was so damn interesting! I really really would like to have a second part!
21:07 MY GOD THIS MUSIC, THE MEMORIES NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
WHAT HAVE YOU DONE?!!
7:51, I remember long time ago, I joined a battle with my tier 5, ALC AMX, and there were literally tier 10 in the same game as me
12:54 i used to lowkey be a big fan of quickybaby's tank company vids. actually enjoyable the way he was chilling with his fans/clanmates while legit play the game because he wanted to and not because of the money.
oh how the mighty have fallen.
I used to have a great time because a WGNA guy, MajorRampage, would hop on for a few hours every friday. 500 gold for everyone on the opposite team if they matched against him, 1000 for beating him. Easy way to fill out the queue.
Wow, this brought back a bunch of nostalgic moments. I remember my favorite tank at those times was the tier 3 Cruiser 2 with the 1̶0̶5̶m̶m̶ 94mm gun.
Mine was elc amx (its name was later changed to amx elc bis) i loved how i can just circle around HT and fight 8 tier tanks and be a dangerous opponent if left alone
It was 94 mm not 105
My apologies, you're absolutely right. I didn't even remember it correctly 😅. Thank you.
With the howitzer! 😊
3.7 inç howitzer
Additional fact: in the first campaign (maybe only in the CIS?) on the global map, battles took place at all levels of tanks. A few days on the first level, then on the second, on the third and so on. Just imagine a 15 vs 15 skill player fight at level 1. I played tanks from 2010 to 2020, but now I only occasionally watch videos on the game. I also miss all the mountain runs, as I spent a long time learning them to use in the silver league WGL. The 7/54 and 7/68 tournaments were very interesting at that time.
Regarding the canceled maps, you also forgot to mention the map Icebound which was exclusive to the Ravage Mode (alongside with Ghost Town, which eventually made it back to the game)
6:30 omg, all the memories from this old tech tree, missing the old wot, remember games with even 10 + arties in both team or with lovely t-50-2 meeting Maus and Is-7
Ah, this game was so much fun back in the day. And I still maintain that arty was balanced back then. It could be counter fired based on tracers and suffered from rng. Then again I was able to sling ap through window frames on ruinberg and Himmelsdorf. And I will always fondly remember platooning up with two random guys in t8 and 9 arties and completing the "deal 40% of your team's damage, win, survive" mission for the T55a - first go - on Himmelsdorf. Then they nerfed the class into oblivion, made mediums the be all and end all....
Could have limited arty to 3 per team...
I havent played WoT for at least 3 years now, but I started very early (almost on release in 2011). Here's a couple of fun facts:
1) The old Physics didn't have any walls that prevented from falling, but was kind of like the first iteration of the Physics except you're stuck to the ground. By limiting your climbing possibilities from +60 to -60 degrees every time you were about to exceed them the game would stop you, so if you were trying to fall off an edge you would be stopped once you reached -60 degrees inclination and left hanging up until you reversed from it. This also meant that if somehow you managed to overcome by little this "never-exceed" limit you couldn't reverse from it and was basically stuck.
2) The old MM for tier 4+ tanks was -2 +4, meaning that the KV with the 107mm gun could face Tier 9 tanks (I still remember as a young teen how mad I was for the split KV :c).
3) Some tanks (usually soviet) had ridiculous guns balanced by either reload and/or accuracy, for example: T-28 soviet tier 4 tank had an 85mm gun and wasn't even too difficult to aim and the reload was ok, the old KV-1S had the IS's 122mm gun with worse stats, but was super op nonetheless (oneshotting hopeless tier 4s was
exhilarating), the M4 sherman had the possibility to mount a 120mm (? maybe 105mm I can't remember exactly) with ridiculous HE pen and damage but you could mount only on the stock turret and others I'm definitely forgetting
4) one of the first tanks removed because it "wasn't historical" (lmao) was the T-50-2 because, and I'm almost quoting SerB here "it wasn't supposed to be a motorcicle shooting at 70kph IRL"... RIP.
There are a ton more, but I will still fondly remember WoT as the game that I grew up with, either raging bacuse of RNG or the limited times I managed to carry or made friends in it. Thanks WoT.