The German Tank Experience 

Edited by killerofal Don't take the mid-tier German main jokes too seriously, every nation has a gamemode/BR where the players are clueless

German mains are historically accurate late war German tank crew.

Spookston: "Don't listen to music while playing." Me: Currently watching this video while playing.

"Look, 6 kills. That's not that many." - Spookston

Attempt number 20 at getting Spookston to play out any tank with a dozer blade, the catch is, he has to dig in before engaging targets. Movement around the map is allowed, but he has to dig in again before reengaging.

14:20 the simulator mode has you looking outside the tank only from the cupola which is cool (no peeking corners, but no nausea either), also reminds me of the early versions of the game.

I'm sorry Spookston but you missed the MOST IMPORTANT PART of being a German tanker main. I quote from the holy book of Wehraboo Mains, ahem "Thou shalt ONLY drive towards the enemy spawn for that is the promised land, thou shalt ignore all caps and objectives for those are to be left to the scrubs, ignore the wounded around you for they are obviously unworthy, only within sight of the enemy spawn shall thy superior German engineered gun show its true power"

You could make this challenge worse. You could make it a "One Man Challenge" where you can only drive if you're in the driver view, shoot in the sniper/gunner view and scout(look for enemies) in the commander view. That's the closest to having one guy manning a whole tank alone. The only advantage is that you can choose any vehicle for this challenge. PS: commander gunner controls are allowed.

Spookston, can you play simulator battles? No, we have simulator battles at home. The simulator battle:

Too unrealistic you didn't take full ammo load

Good video, but not the real german tank experience. For that, you need: -Go with 15 more he shells and 20 more apcr. -Rush the capture point. If all the team go to c, you go to c as the spearhead, if they go to a, you go to a as first line. Remember, you have a tiger and you are "invincible". -Dont look at the corners, you go straight. You are "invincible". -Dont shoot to weakspot, you big gun could decimate any tank in the world, the german tanks are the best, you are the best, if you shoot 5 rounds, one will penetrate. -Dont hear the enemies. You are hearing Erika so loud that you can even hear your allies, so down the enemy motor sounds, increase the sound of the allies and then play with music and the game sound low. -

The smoke counter resetting after main gun rounds were specified was chefs kiss

imagine third person being set as a commanders view were you're actually looking through the ports and can cycle through them and sniper view is the same

It’s the details that make Spook so good at what he does. When he clarifies the challenge rules and says “main gun only hits,” the “smoke missed” ding plays in reverse as tallies are removed. It’s classy stuff.

1) I still want to see you play the Nashorn. 2) You doing well, despite the handicap just shows how good you are.

I think Spookston made an agreement with the devil where he gets a lot of kills at any br but gets bombed in almost any tank, or its just a coincidence

the live reaction cam is actually a really cool idea. you should do it more in future videos, even if it's kind of redundant when you're not restricted to sniper mode.

The added replay jokes are awesome it’s a really nice addition to these type of videos

This kind of content is pretty good imo, not specifically this challenge in particular, but just interesting challenges like this. It's a good change of pace from just doing different vehicles

Phenomenal editing in this video as always, thank you for your hard work and sacrifice funny dog man

Hi spookston! If you use select machine gun and scope in and out really fast you get into the commander mg scope

Enlisted gameplay

the amound of times died from laugh from the live reactions. Wondefull vildeo as always spookston!!!!!!

I have maximum respect to you for both taking up the challenge, despite the sickening handicap, and still managing to be more competent than the average German main.

As a German main yes my teammates are generally bad and it doesn't help that Germany has to fight Cold War tanks very early on Also, you should have used Binos and driver viewport for that extra bit

spookston and your editor, i loved the use of the replays to add onto the content! if it isn’t much extra work i would love if you used those more often during gameplay 😊

I’m so glad you accepted that challenge just reading it was funny enough but putting it into practice is an experience of its own

Two things - I had a really good time watching this type of video from u, so I hope there ill be more of that. Second thing, to the "dont listen to music" advice - I play wt for fun (I know, wierd) and even tho I know I am trash, music makes the hole experience even more satisfying ;)

Man this video was something else! Really enjoyed it, also felt claustrophobic 😂

3:59 you don’t know how many times I’ve died to that exact shot, and it’s often also just the enemy panicking and randomly guessing where to shot and just get lucky.

Great video and awesome editing!

this was really funny to se you play as it is in real world for a tanker

The concept of smoke does not exist for Spookston

Spookston getting the real gunner experience

I'm addicted to watching Spookston videos, someone help me, I love how he's a CAS magnet and Gaijin's favorite player to get Gaijined as well lol.

I got motion sickness watching you play Spookston 😂

“You really shouldn’t be listening to music at all when you play this” I hear as I tab over to my 30 song playlist for WT

the added replay clips are just, amazing lol

Spookston now have tasted the feeling of playing as tank gunner in Hell Let Loose

those live reactions are amazing

nice edit, i really liked the extra replay scenes ❤😊

I really think you should add replay clip edits like the ones in this video to all ur other videos. They are very funny.

Now you need to do a challenge of only being zoomed out and only laser guided missiles

Closes thing to Spookston playing a sim battle. I will take it.

spookston knows no danger, its why we see he smoke so little.

A challenge where it actually makes spookston sick

Spookston video in 2030: Playing war thunder with the image in black and white, inverted, at 1 fps and getting a nuke

12:30 probably the only situation in the whole video where Spookston *should've* deployed smoke, and he still didn't. 😂

This has got to be the first vid where the viewer can share the pain by also wanting to throw up!

The classical piano makes him bumbling around so much funnier

This was actually a blast to watch 😂

great editing!

one of the best challenges lmao, good stuff. unironically still more useful than the average German main

The "live reaction" edits made it much less disorienting for us viewers, thank you 😂

Spookston literally using 6 degrees (probably?) of FOV and still outperforming 90% of German main is true WT classic😂😂😂

This is basically role-playing as the gunner.

I find it funny spookston tells us not to play with music because sound is important, yet I've been playing without sound for alot of my game play

Spookston saying 6 kills “isn’t a lot” is funny considering there are a substantial # of games where my 3 man squad (me included) will combine for more kills than the rest of our team combined

Spookston not letting himself use the driver view

To be honest I'm not entirely satisfied but you played the Panther G, soooooo great video as always

"if I get hit by a main gun round, then I deploy smoke" I was just fully hoping an uptiered duck or something would start trying to teamkill you just because that'd be hilarious...

If you ever do a challenge like this again, you could try using the driver view to help navigate difficult terrain next time.

You have nailed the German experience on the head no. There are accordions to being blind and slightly blind and I fall into the blind spot. As a German main myself I say we suffer as we never learned to aim and that is what makes us German mains easy to play against if you have good armor

I think this challage feel like you lost tank commander.And tank driver also blind. The only person who still can see is gunner.😂

Petition for spookston to play as a chinese top tier AA with the catch that his vehicle will be the Z-10 with 12 TY-90s and 4 ATGMs

What you just experienced in this game is what every tank gunner went/goes through with the added benefit of a scope in your eye so if the driver hits a bump too hard.........that bastard.

man i couldn't watch this on fullscreen without feeling ill

this man is more effective locked in sniper mode than I ever am

Really liked the replay camera

this is really just driving a tank somewhat normally

This actually somewhat reminded me of how enlisted works, you will probably only stare down the gunner sight as that is where you want to shoot. And the only real other thing you can do is let the commander poke out and he gets sniped or the commander viewports. Alternatively the driver's viewport, but you really don't see much through those

“6 kills is not a lot” me in the corner with at least 3 every match

This is how tanks play in Enlisted but without driver view or being able to look out of the top hatch.

watching spookston videos and i get bombarded every time with anime war thunder ads

You could do a video where you have a friend spectate you, and zoom in all the way to act as a tank commander

The CnC Generals OSTs are so nostalgic D: Well-played despite the handicap Spook!

“I’m not getting a ton of kills! 6 is not that many!” Man😞

Not hitting shift hurts my brain to watch Lmaoo

next time you have to listen to Volksmusik for the entire duration, can't be, that you're hearing anything else

title of the video should be "1/2 challenge German tank experience"

this video gave me the plague from all the motion sickness

This was crunchy to my trained brain

he didn’t know that he could go to driver view to dive and know what’s is in front of him

It would be funny if spookston did something similar with america where he has to shoot the barrel and tracks before being able to go for the kill

So... is this what driving a Scorpion would be like in Halo? Driver also being the gunner and no commander...

For some reason each additional “Live ___ reaction” was funnier than the previous lmao

Love watching your videos bro I don’t think you should do another one through the gunner site may be motion sickness

Oh, but wait, 0:35 you need to take full ammo to be faithful to the German experience! lol

driver's view might have counted and been useful in this challenge

This is also the “Enlisted” challenge, Neat!

Spookston on his way to forget he gets to use binoculars aswell

I can’t wait for the series where he plays like a German main while playing other nations

Bro i loved the editing in this episode

Spookston. I have a request. Get *all* of the memes from the start of all of your videos to make the ***ULTIMATE*** war thunder slander/meme video

Now you should do a no scope challenge, because it might be funny. Even funnier if you get mostly sniper maps for it.

I'm surprised spookston didn't use a stabilized tank with a wide angle commander's sight, tams leos and others come to mind :D

request: fun "challenge" play small goblin tank, but you can only use third person, no range finder, no first person.

I'll allow the close up 3rd person you have in sim. That's immersive enough. it even tends to be on the commander's hatch

the second hand motion sickness, lol

When your tank only has two crew in hell let loose: