M48A1 Before it was Nerfed in World of Tanks! 

I was first introduced to the game when I was 9 in 2012, was my first ever computer game I played. I’d play everyday after school for as long as I could! You and jingles were some of the first RU-vidrs I’ve ever watched! Crazy to see how different it looked back then compared to now

The odd "clanky" sound of the tanks as they moved back then, and when the guns fired - it brings back a lot of memories of how the game used to be.

Keep these nostalgia videos coming. They make me remember the good times when I truly enjoyed the game.

I started playing WOT in 2012 as 13 year old and exploring the game by going up the tiers was such a fun. I remember seeing IS-3 for the first time in some game and it looked so futuristic with that flat turret that it blown my mind. It also took me few years before I reached my first tier X IS-4. I am missing the mystery in the game now as I know pretty much all about it.

I would really love to see the story of Type 59 and all the iterations of reworks it went through.

You should make a series of old wot, it's a good dose of nostalgia

Miss old version wot

I'd love to see a battle or two on the original Dragon Ridge map 😁

We need a good old KV-1S gameplay

I remember on el halluf how akward it was north east for heavies as everyone would try and hug the ridge from south spawn or get farmed by arty. Another memory is the magic forest, I hope you find a replay of that it was hilarious.

As you mentioned, old arties used to be so fun. I remember being in 1 v 3s and actually feeling like there was a chance. No more taking out near full health tanks with a single shot :(

i remember i once got a MM where it was full tier 5 tanks, except our team had for some reason chinese IS2, while the enemy team didnt have anything, only tier 5s, crazy times:D

Fun fact: The training/Skill Qualification Test standard for loading on the M68 equipped tanks was 5 seconds.

I loved the old soviet line back in the day. The IS-3 was just a beast and so flexible. I did not love how hard arty hit, however! Good stuff Quacky.

The most vivid memory I have of the wacky render distance was trying to manoeuvre a TD around Malinovka to basically get to cross map heavies from the spawn. It felt incredibly janky but it was an extra level of skill trying to get those 700m+ shots. Still remember the first patch after they changed the render shape and feeling strangely safe on top of the hill.

I don't miss the old WoT in terms of graphic, game mechanics and other stuff but gosh, there was this vibe and those much longer battles with close competition. I remembered how shocking were results 15:0, youtubers were showing such a battle on their channels, because of how abnormal it was.

Remember 2012 very well started playing this game in July and Winter was time when I played hundred of games. First tech tree was German heavies but not Tiger but Tiger P from which you could go to 3 other tanks so I played that tank during winter to grind all that tanks. No doubles, no repair kits, no gold rounds, was very funny to watch half of crew dead at the end of battle and half of components broken. Credits were hard to earn for F2P with no Premium tanks, my first premium was T25 Pilot from one of the first marathons. Also it was different when you were able to comunicate with enemy team, at the end of battles enemy team was telling you where is arty located.

I remember playing hetzer against tier 10 xd. Miss the old times

Its so weird looking back at how far this game has come. I first started playing in august 2011, and the very next day 0.6.7 came out, which i believe added the E 100 to the game. Crazy stuff

This video just made me remember of QBs old spotted notification saying, “it’s a trap” how have I completely forgotten about that up until now?

I remember dying in my T-28 for ~200 games straight getting a shot or two of damage before finally unlocking the KV-1

The physics test server was crazy with the T-50-2 dashing around trying to climb every mountain. I think it was even possible to jump over the bridge gap on the green colored map with the valley and the village!

Miss old school WoT. You had "All Chat" and we would take pokes at each other in fun. People weren't TOXIC like they are today. You had "teamwork", people not worried about their "Stats" and "ratings". Lastly, you had Team Damage which kept it more real and God help you if you turned into a "Smurf" 🤣 Rock on Tankers 🤘😎

Please upload more old WoT. I really miss that game

3:33 I like this miss shot. That dust feels much real.

matchmaker back then took into consideration how strong a vehicle was and balanced accordingly, but platoons sometimes threw a wrench in that

One thing I love about old wot is that games were slower and more methodical. Now it's all about the heavy rush.

I want the old WoT back in a separate game!

Been playing WoT for 11 years now, one of those epic games I stuck around for so long. Damn, I love the nostalgia these videos bring. I started playing in December 2012, on my Acer laptop with a GT630M. Back then I could play in high settings no problem. When I got to tier 7 Tiger P in the game, I started to look around RU-vid to get better in the game. That's when I found QB and Jingles!! Still watching your videos to this day QB, they help me when I'm down sometimes, watching your videos makes me feel like talking to a friend I've known for 11 years. It was very fun back then following you guys' adventures in game with Ikzor, streams and so on. I remember peppidy had an account too and you'd carry her in games 😂

One of my earliest memories from 2013, when I first started the game, was meeting for the first time the KV- and IS- tanks on Widepark. Driving my tiny tier iv, I remember strolling past those behemoths on the battlefield, and, being 12 years of age, I remember for some reason thinking the KV- tanks were radioactive. It makes no sense. But it did at the time. I had no idea how tanks worked, how the game worked, but I knew these KV- behemoths were dangerous, and I was scared of them, even of pronouncing their name. It feels like a distant vivid dream.

oh man, hearing the clanking of tracks and the sound you get after you reload... yes, the nostalgia I am getting is real the laid back nature, no sweating just enjoying the game for what its worth is what I am missing in wot these days... sure, getting big dmg games and monster amount of kill games still feels right, but that cant beat the cozy feel and good vibes I got from playing old school wot back in the day... I think they should bring back old school wot or wot classic or whatever name it would have back to us and permanently so

still remember playing with my dad in 2011 when i was too young to have my own computer, this is really nice good nostalgic trip to good old times. thx QB!

Man hearing those old engine sounds is nostalgic

I love these nostalgic replays definitely keep them coming

I love these old replays from 2012-2013 :) Keep on these QB ! :D

I remember being into world of tanks so much back then it’s good to go down memory lane and rewatch the old videos you had with jingles unfortunately I can no longer play the game because of my working life

And do you remember? Pepperidge farms remembers, being a poor little t5 light facing t9’s and tens and the 48A5 is still baller, I love mine, it’s a great all around tank these days, and can fill a decent scout role, awesome Dps, good alpha for how fast it fires, and the armor and health of it is great. Got one set up with bounty vents, turbo and rammer, another with vents, rammer and durability for close in city fights. And with the equipment and crew skills, field mods. Half the time in it, I’m switching beyond scouting to mainline fighting, and even acting like T 10 pocket heavy, most of my matches I end up having to be a “heavy” and hold the main push/fight it out with them/spot too while I am. And the crazy part is I can hold against a couple heavies, for awhile, unless they bum rush me and trade shots with them, out dpm them and tear them apart, with a little support, either killing them, or dropping them to one shots by them time they can kill me, haha. Still funny no one suspects the pocket heavy, medium that can spot really well and crazy dpm, you just can’t hide worth a damn in it. I also miss all chat, was great

I started playing in Jan 2013. Only had a crappy old compact desktop with a low powered laptop graphics card. Had all the settings on low or off and I averaged 12fps, dropping to about 7fps in sniper mode. Sometimes it was like watching a flick book. Still loved the game so much it inspired me to build my own gaming PC.

I remember back in the day you running this tank and the T110E4 back to back to work your way up to unicorn status, it was a wonderful time.

as a returning player from 2012 to now . one major thing is that back then the penatration indicator did not take into account the angle of the armor you were aiming at just the thickness. so back then you actually had to know if your tank can pen the enemy tank . now a days when im hull down i see a lot of enemies just scanning my tank looking for the indicator to turn green before they shoot . (for example when im in the vipera). i think the game took more skill back in the day when the indicator did not do that.

I remember the old post game stats, so long ago and back when I was barely getting into the game it feels more like a fever dream.

that map was nostalgic moment..back then i was having so much fun sniping at the hill most of the time

This series is probably the most unique on ANY RU-vid streams out there !! Very Cool to see back in time :) I didn't start playing till 2016/2017 Not too long before WoT 2.0 was released.. It's very Fun and Entertaining to watch BUT glad I didn't play back then lol Keep them Coming at least once a week would be Great !! Also seeing some old maps that are not only Changed But would love to see some old maps that just aren't in the game any longer :) PS. was that red chat from the enemy team ?? if so I'll bet that was a MESS most of time and a Ton of name calling and Trolling huh ?? THANK YOU Much for the Video !!

Great vid QB! I love the reminiscence kind of storytelling and all the connected stuf! :) OOh, how the game changed during the years!

Be great to see the classic British tier 10 medium tank! FV4202 at tier 10 was always odd

Man I miss the old T30 and T34. I started the last month of Beta in 2011 and those were my first T9/10 tanks.

Started playing WOT in 2013 when I was in high school. The graphics had improved a little bit by then, but still... the nostalgia is real. Man, I miss those games sometimes. The all-chat used to be hilarious with the amount of shade thrown around. Also, the player-base felt more equal in terms of skill. Everyone was on a level playing field... you were either really bad or really good, and it was easy to tell. You didn't have the insane bond equipment and things like that.

I remember one of your earliest Twitch Highlights I ever saw was of you in an M-48A1 on the old Port map. You drove up onto the highway bridge and jumped on a Maus to kill it, shouting, "MAUS BOMBS!" It was awesome.

Love the old school vids, reminds me of when I first started playing

i remember playing one game back in the day where they put in nation vs nation combat,, and i was in my AT2 teamed up with a load of chirchals and cromwells, against a load of t 34s and a dude posted in chat "if we somehow loose this we uninnstall inn shame." matchmaker was wild

Man the match maker was a bit brutal back then tier 5 lights gets tier 10 I still remember those days

One thing that stands out in your video: Close battles that take much more than 4 minutes each! I long for those days...

I know the match making spread was waccko in those days, but these days I really dont enjoy knowing that when I match up in a heavy or a light aim going to be matched up against another heavy or light. I want some asymmetric tank face offs

The sound effects like the victory and defeat screen music are super nostalgic for me even though they aren't 2012 old. Garage click sounds were also so satisfying, and the main bass theme for the game is great too. Bring back the old qb intros for vids like these

Really like these nostalgic vids! :)

I still remember having a one time use repair kit back in the day......boy those were the times.

It's been a while since you have done a IS-7 review and now that you are talking about the "old'' game It's a great occasion, of course if you'd consider it.

I love these "from the past" videos, they bring me back to earth, we usually complain about so many things but seeing how much the game has been developed it's a reality check

Something I truly miss is the terrain of the old version of the game, and to an extent to old physics. I believe it was the second implementation of physics where thanks could slide down mountains and had a 70 degree limit on how far they would flip, much better than the physics they use today which you can flip on a pebble if you hit it at the wrong angle. Back to the terrain, you could slide down most surfaces or make "shortcut climbs" to reach key positions on maps faster (Maps like Cliff for example, with a fast light/medium both teams could go straight up the center without taking damage from the "donut" or driving to the cliff side of the map). Nowadays rocks prevent sliding down as you risk taking so much damage to escape situations as your tank may flip while sliding down. Definitely one of the more fun aspects of the older version of WoT.

it's the old QB intro and outro that do it for me!

I love the old KV1S when I 1st started...such an OP HT

Started my WoT journey in patch 0.7.4 & after 7 years & 34K+ battles I finally gave up on the playerbase. I doubt I'll ever play another Wargaming title but continue to enjoy the content produced by QB & the ultra rare WoT vid from Jingles who holds 100% of the blame for gettting me started in the game.

@ 13:53 OMG that looked like that AMX was cemented to the ground 🤣🤣🤣

I remember being 13 with my t-50-2 when physics came out. We all knew it was being removed but they let us have a bit of fun with the new physics before it was gone

God I miss when arty was something to actually be scared of compared to something that's just a slight hassle, those last second arty shotgun kills used to be incredible

I know my first computer (a Laptop) couldn't render the ground textures in this game, so I basically had to play with a see-through ground all the time and therefore couldn't see dips and rises in the terrain, so I got stuck all the time due to the old physics engine xD. I was so happy when I finally got my first tower PC that could run this game to at least a playable degree on medium settings.

I remember the first 3D tank it was the tiger and I was so excited to see it in my garage it looked so good. cheers fella.

I remember I used to grind credits on my vk 3601 and kv1 because I wanted my f2p game to actually be free. Then they introduced the type 59 and 2 came up to me while I was in my tiger 2 and proceeded to maul me. I was like "...I'm going to buy this tank now." And in pretty much every match there would be 3 type 59s and the 59s would just wolf pack the entire enemy team. It was magical

I picked up WoT in 2012; it was a fun time. I always remember the Maus with tier 1 trolls. But great video, the M48A5 (A1) is my favorite tank in the game, so it's good seeing it bringing back some old memories. Currently, my M48A5 rocks one of my QB commanders to hopefully bring it some more luck.

Oh I remember, people used to platoon up with 3 players and one uses low tier tank and other 2 uses much higher tier. and usually end up in these high tier games and pissing other teammates off

i would like you to go over all the previous updates in order of what happened in them. Just a quick overview.

I miss the times you could fail platoon and play your kv2 against tier 10s and get insane levels of experience.

I missed out on the M48 in its glory days, but I got to experience the T110E5 at its peak, as well as the old KV-1S with the 122mm (basically a better IS, but at tier 6), and the T49 (now T67) pre all the nerfs. I also suffered with the Panzer V/IV when it was a terrible piece of garbage tier 6 tank, which I got for pre-ordering the game - makes me feel less dirty for playing it in its current form. My most played tank back in the day, and still one of my most played tanks, was the Tiger II. Played through it to get to the VK 4502B, which I then unlocked and realized I hated (maybe because I hadn't heard of sidescraping?), sold, went back to the Tiger II and played it a bunch with accelerated crew training on. Then the E75 and E100 were added to the game, and I had to keep grinding the Tiger II to get the E75 - which became my next big love. Going up against tier 9 IS-4's was challenging, but as I got better at the game my E75 and I usually came out on top even then.

Love those 2012 WOT Vibes ❤

my 2nd ever t10 tank was the jpze100, good memories playing the jpanther2 and the jagdtiger, stug3, jpz4, so many really really fun tanks in this tank line and it was a blast finally being able to hit 1050 alpha with the t10.

I miss my IS-8 and KV-1S from back in the day. I also miss derp guns and workable HE. Some of the reasons I haven't played in years, but still watch your channel!

I miss the old school view range, you could go behind enemy lines in your light tank.

Wow I saw my childhood and old wot this is super nostalgic 🥹

I forgot the t34 was the tier 9 heavy, I only remembered the t30 being the top tier heavy before the E5. That would be some interesting videos to see

One of my favorite old school things to do in WoT was to run a platoon of 2x SU-152s with my old Eve Online buddy Lynx. Lynx and I spent many hundreds of hours gaming together. We used to run SU-152 with the 152mm gun and shoot HE back when that was really OP. We called the SU-152 the Boom Truck.

That T-50-2 was a chad, those were the days where you could sneak into the enemy base and kill 3 arty.

Used to love the El halouf map those days specially the terrain in A1, A2, B1, B2.

ah the good ol days, meeting E-100s in a chaffee 😅 also, i wanna see a "Hetzer gonna hetz" video, and if possible, that little american terror - the T18 with the pack howitzer 🤣

Love the old school game play! plus 4 arty in a match! miss the old days of this game

God this brings me back to my undergrad days playing with my laptop

Love these videos

I wish we could see replays of old maps that are no longer in the game (old Province), Northwest, Hidden Village, Sacred Valley, Windstorm, Severogorsk, Port, South Coast, Stalingrad, Komarin, Swamp, Kharkov, Mittengard, Dragon Ridge.

I once had broken gun, engine, track, dead gunner and driver on KV2 speed was not the problem, but the bloom did not fitted to monitor.

I remember finding a QB video and trying to play on my dell laptop without any graphics card. It was not great. When they made the Xbox360 version, I jumped on that train as quick as I could and have been playing for 9 years. But I have always enjoyed the QB content. I have tried to play on pc bow that I have a decent rig but the Xbox version is what I’ve stuck with.

This is when I started playing. I enjoy the more unforgiving, raw gameplay. I remember playing the Chaffee and the AMX 12t and the AMX 30, my first tier 9!

Seeing how good this tank was, it makes me remember the golden KV-1S days. That thing was so ridiculous. Basically a better IS at tier 6.

i started playing back in 2014, in April i believe. man, i remember going for the Deathstar and the WT Auf E100, but since both got removed from the Tech Tree before i could get them, i never had a chance to play them...

Tanks that I'd wanna see before they were nerfed. The old Caernarvorn with the 20pdr, the T110E4 with 850 alpha, the T34, and definitely the T92 HMC just to put some perspective on how badly arty could mess something up.

I love this nostalgic. Bakc in the day it was so nice to play. Love 2012 game

Hey QB, I've been a subscriber of yours since about 2013/2014 and I'd like to thank you for all the great content you've put out over the years! I'm a casual player who's been playing this game on and off throughout the years, and in my 13k battles I've got a WOT rating that's just shy of 6k. Lately I've been trying to hone my skills and get better overall, and I came to think about your old Tank Better video series. Do you have any plans of revisiting that kind of content? What I think would be super cool would be to see you take on a padawan, and coach him/her to become a better player in the key areas of the game. Thanks again!

I remember 2012. Playing without physics was a hoot.

I remember being able to go into matches with Tier 1 tanks and Tier 10 tanks in the same platoon lol

0:18 IIRC you said Comet was your favorite tank of all time. Now it’s Patton. Lmao.

God, this is really when I loved this game so much. Back grinding the OG soviet TD line, doing horrible things to low-tier tanks in the SU-85 when it had a 107mm gun was probably the most fun I ever had. It was like playing an ISU-152 with the BL-10, but you're facing Tier 3 tanks. Seals clubbing seals...

I hope you can make a RU-vid video over the kv1s and hellcat and the t18 when they where really overpowered. I love these trips from memory lane. Great job!!!