KV-1E - "It Might Have Been All My Fault..." 

Hi bo

You are my favorite Warthunder RU-vidr

Do it. Get to da Bo.

Hi bo here’s a question what vehicle or mechanic are you most excited about in the sky guardian update

I killed a KV1 with a 75mm Sherman smoke shell today:) I hit its fuel tank that was inside the turret then the crew got cooked (might of been a KV 2 I can't remember

The captured captured KV-2, lol

I like how it resides at 4.0 with like triple the speed and better side armor than the Churchill VII which sits at 4.7. Sure, the Churchill's shitty American 75mm gun with no HE filler has technically better penetration but it's a pretty obvious choice. I'd take a Kv-1E to 5.7 far sooner than a Churchill VII. War Thunder's balance sucks balls.

@@adamg7984 I wonder how they regulate the ratings. Maybe frequency of use is a factor?

@@Hallands. I do believe you're correct in that assumption or you already knew that. I'm pretty sure they do come up with ratings on that basis, use frequency. But that's a silly, stupid way to balance a vehicle considering it's easily manipulated. But that's also not the only way they choose ratings that's flawed so, it's certainly not the only issue. I just see so many double standards in how they balance the game. If you go by the KV-1 Zis-5 then the KV-1E should be at 4.0 but the KV-1 Zis-5 is significantly better than quite a few other vehicles at 4.3 and above 4.3 so it also depends on what perspective you come from. There's certain vehicles Gaijin never should have added like the Churchill VII since it's gun is anemic. It was designed to fight infantry and that's not worth much in War Thunder. All I know is if the KV-1E was up tiered, it's gun at least has 1 shot potential and can flank shot even with only, what, 80mm of point blank penetration? The Churchill VII has better frontal armor but it's so abysmally slow it's a pipe dream to make flanks in it. And even if you manage a flank shot, it's gun is just one of those AP without HE guns so it horribly under performs in the game because according to Gaijin, APHE acts like a hand grenade when thrown into a tank, it doesn't in real life of course.

@@adamg7984 Have you talked to Gaijin? Your argumentation seems valid to me…

@@Hallands. Oh well believe me I'm not the only one who's said this or feels this way. And it's worth adding many of the balance issues stem from the need for more BR ranks. The game only goes to 11.3 when it really needs to go to like 14 or 15 to allow much more nuance to balance. That alone could fix many of the issues but we're lucky to see Gaijin raise the BR ceiling by .3 every year.

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frfr, unless calliope, which for some freaking reason calliope mains are the friendlist people XD i should know, i bought the calliope myself and its a blast just dicking around in it, whether its actually contributing to the battle or not!

Dude had serious tunnel vision lol

Transmission and engine: A'ight i'm out

Hope you stick around! Bo’s videos are always a great laugh :D

Yeah, I would too since it's a pretty unbalanced vehicle.

Bo and company do take requests usually in the pinned comment.

IDK, The KV-1E/B have never really gave me any issues when fighting them. Gives my team plenty though but that may be because they are newer to the game

@@nikoclesceri2267 I mostly have troubles with them when fully uptiered against them and not playing those nations with really good guns at 3.0. Or when volumetric decides to be a jerk lol.

The reason it seems OP to you but isn't up-BR-ed, is because 4.3 is insanely often full downtiered, but Gaijin almost certainly balances things only at their native BR. So your experiences with it are biased in a way the algorithm isn't. In other words, normal tanks are also as good as it when they are full downtiered, they just aren't as often.

@@gavinjenkins899 I wouldn't call it OP, just very strong and annoying to kill when volumetric is being a pain. The thing that pushes tanks like these in to OP territory is when they have a few specific weak spots to aim for, but the game lets people cover those weak spots in bushes. Unlike many other vehicles where the entire vehicle is the weak spot lol. "Just shoot it in the X" doesn't work if players can't see those spots.