World of Tanks was INSANE in 2012! 

I love arty back in the day QB I can manage to dealt massive damage abd one shot a tank 😂 bandong011 NA server I'm a Filipino player but now I don't play wot about 4 years just a little busy in life 😊

I miss world of tanks classic

Congrats on being busy! SPG were evil back in the day!

I started playing Jan 2013. One I remember most was the old Tier 2 tank destroyer the T18. Was an absolute OP monster. Sitting one side of the old Province map and one-shotting enemies over the other side!

I MISS WHEN IS-3 WAS GREAT. i left WOT when they nerfed IS-3 soon as i just got it.

Great spot! Never thought about it! Only 5 premiums out of 30 players!

If only wargaming could ya know separate the match maker where Tech tree tanks fights tech tree tanks while premium tanks fight premium tanks Tech tree tanks: 1. They can fight each other equally 2. They don't have to face any premium tanks 3. Less people firing gold (except 3rd mark try hards) 4. Artillery only exist in tech tree match maker (which sucks I know) Premium tanks: 1. They can shoot gold whenever they feel like it 2. Playing brokenly overpowered premium tanks (I'm looking at you BZ-176) 3. They don't have to fight artillery in a premium match maker 4. They will gain 30% more exp and credits (Feel free to agree or disagree with me)

I played a full tier 8 battle some days ago and it was 28 premium tanks...@@QuickyBabyTV

@AetherYes yeah youre looking at queues longer than the games themselfes

@@QuickyBabyTV 5 premiums? I only count 4: 2x T34, 1x SuperPershing, 1x Löwe. The T9 Lorraine was still tech tree at this point.

That is so wholesome. Sorry for your loss.

that's a touching story [*]

oh man I have a Type 59 as a birthday gift from my father too... Best gift ever

sorry for your loss, sounds like your father was a good man

thanks for reply! He truly was, what to say. Life is s**t sometimes. Take care! @@TROLGUY999

Good spot, pre 8.0 there was no physics so you couldn't go over edges!

oh yeah, i got stuck so many times :D

Ahhh was it a later patch when you could drive over but they would track you?@@QuickyBabyTV

@@ben9136 They never tracked you, you'd just get stuck on them due to lack of physics.

oh, the fear of getting stucked is still present :D

Same and it never seems the same again. I even have a certain smell memorized still that would sometimes blow into my room from outside which I still really rarely smell somewhere else on a whim, when I do it takes me back instantly. Kind of makes me miss being young and having the time and will to play the same game for a whole day straight.

This is EXACTLY my case, that smell usually comes in around very warm summer days and it just instantly makes me think of 2012-2014 WoT@@veoa416

I loved the KV-1S but this thing was completely OP. Probably even worse than the 279(e) today.

But must importantly, it was fun. 🥹

And actually weakspots that meant Something

@@nanatzayathats a bit pf a stretch🤨🤨It doesnt have god tier armor. It was common back then for kv1s to contest a hill and trade -400 out of their 720 hit points

its not that the maps were better, its the tanks that were oh so different

There was a classic wot server i belive 2 years ago and it was so awesome. It was based on update 0.7.5, You couldn't log in to is it was packed with players. I don't play wot for a few years now because it simply sucks but on wot classic i spent every liitle time i had, it was so great

^what was it called?@@misiek192

@@misiek192 I still like wot now but an old version would be fun. I didnt even play wot until 2014 and that was on xbox but i miss the nostalgia

I played that game and a ton of players were just picking up arty 😂 and no surprise here. The 261 was.deadly accurate hitting you reliably with AP shells and HE rounds were hitting you for 1k damage pretty much in every maxed out artillery at the last tier available for you to play. MMs with 10 arties in each team were actually very common.

I too :) The same :) It was in 2019 and will be in future. From 10.01.2023 exist some similar, so Old of Tanks.

Old WoT was incomparably better. Nowadays, the game has thousands of flaws: armor does not count because of gold ammunition, battles are short and one-sided, about 20 maps have been slightly removed (Stalingrad, Swamp, Komaryn, Mittengard, South Coast, Port, Northwest, Pearl River, Siewieerogorsk, Dragon Ridge , The Sacred Valley, The Hidden Village, The Whirlwind, Ruinberg in Winter, Ruinberg in Flames, Himmelsdorf in Winter, Himmelsdorf in Flames, Kharkov, Arch of Fire). In addition, their various main versions (not counting the atmospheric ones), of which Swamp was changed the most times (maybe even a dozen or so). Even the main variant versions of each of them, such as: snowy and standard Erlenberg, two Kharkov, Minsk, Holy Valleys, Siewerogorsky Pearl Rivers, Provinces, Marshes, Lakeville, snowy Himmelsdorf, etc. Someone "came up with the idea" of drawing the map itself first, and then its version. Additionally, a lot of tanks were nerfed (MTLS, KV-1S, IS-7, IS-4, Maus, KV-1 and KV-2, ISU152, T-50-2, Chaffie, VK 28.01., M4A3E2 (...)) and they are still being nerfed, earnings on premium tanks have been nerfed by 50% and tree tanks by 75%, MM has been broken, many interesting vehicles have been removed (SU-122-54, T18, (...)), and thousands of other flaws :( Unfortunately, from the beginning of 2014, WG began to massively destroy the game. In 2016/2017 it reached its apogee (entering the decline of the game), and for several years it has been agony :( It is possible that this disintegration has now entered another phase, which unfortunately cannot be named anymore :( This has caused thousands of defects that were once advantages (until the end of 2013, when WG was still improving the game). If WG actually still had room in the vaults, they would fix the game, earning many times more than now, and not ruin it like they have since the beginning of 2014. Meanwhile, not only do they not want to make money , they are trying to destroy the game, which directly affects them (which unfortunately they have not been aware of for over 8 years) :( Who wants to play a tragic game...

It would be nice to have WoT Classic. The game was so much better back then. Gold ammo was not required at all. I still refuse to use it and of course it affects my DPS but I will never use it. I don't agree that it's better today. It is far worse in fact.

Tier 5 playing tier 10. No thanks.

There literally was gold ammo, E-25 there were plenty of op tanks

@@Games20001 You are wrong on some things. Overall armor now is a lot better than it was back than, for example almost all mediums back then had paper turrets, even some heavies, like Maus easy pen in to the cheeks with std ammo, IS-4 roof overmatch, sure some tanks had stronger armor, like IS7, E100, but over all tanks were a lot easier to pen. second, in 2012 average battle length was shorter than it is now, idk where you people get this idea that games were longer when every game has low tier lights, and 3+ arties. Maps, I have to agree, were better than now, and tier 8 was playable

October of 2012 for me.

Yeah the old Himmelsdorf map.

This would be awesome

haha so true, does he still play wot?

Was that the guy who only played ELC? When i saw the replay, he had around 30k games with that tank. Insane... I remember a player named BAAAM!! or something like that. I met him on the battlefield couple of times, and he always carried the games single handedly with his IS-7.

@@CodySKETCH unfortunately, nobody knows. :(

anime should be banned

As a filthy clicker myself, i am happy with the current arty change. 1k+ damage in each shot was nasty.

@@Todsor Over 2000.

too :) The same :) It was in 2019 and will be in future. From 10.01.2023 exist some similar, so Old of Tanks.

As an avid Arty player I hated the T-50-2 :D

was the tactitian of the ELC-P clan, we went in with only ELC and crushd it with the wolfpack tactic^^

ELC was a great tank!! Loved it soo much before it got nerfed. Got my 3 marks on it back then.

@@MrJamesguy1 I loved it so much I got 10k games only with elc lol, I almost cried when it got nerfed.

​@nenadpopov3601 my father nearly stopped playing after the vk.28.01 and the amx nerf, I remember it since I was a lil kiddo 😂

@@Depressed_until_dead Lol.

About 20 maps have been slightly removed (Stalingrad, Swamp, Komaryn, Mittengard, South Coast, Port, Northwest, Pearl River, Siewieerogorsk, Dragon Ridge , The Sacred Valley, The Hidden Village, The Whirlwind, Ruinberg in Winter, Ruinberg in Flames, Himmelsdorf in Winter, Himmelsdorf in Flames, Kharkov, Arch of Fire). In addition, their various main versions (not counting the atmospheric ones), of which Swamp was changed the most times (maybe even a dozen or so). Even the main variant versions of each of them, such as: snowy and standard Erlenberg, two Kharkov, Minsk, Holy Valleys, Siewerogorsky Pearl Rivers, Provinces, Marshes, Lakeville, snowy Himmelsdorf, etc. Someone "came up with the idea" of drawing the map itself first, and then its version.

​@@Games20001honestly Stalingrad was a good removal, it was so geared towards armor I can't even imagine it now. It was terrible in a lighter tank.

Yep and I know team damage could be abused but it added bit of realism to the game, also it was fun to be able to chat to the enemies. It was also useful if your team had 1 arty left and enemy had like 10 players alive, it would make sense to tell his location so you can go next battle. And yeah I liked pretty much all the maps that were removed. Too bad it's all gone now. Well we had our fun. Now I'm just waiting for steel aces :) Maybe it will be actually a good tank game. Which wot isn't anymore.

Yeah, I remember gaining around 30k per battle with the tier 5 tech tree M4 sherman without premium account. Then that damn patch happened and progress became so slow that I ended up abandoning the game in 2013. Since then I returned on occasion around christmas or easter when there were huge bonuses for f2p players, but never stuck around for more than a few weeks.

yep then they started making op pay to win tanks like type 59 and super pershing, everything went down hill there

Flying bullets was visible too. Actually we take invisible bullets :(

​@@Games20001you can still see the shells they just don't leave a tron trail xd.

lol -- I have 6 years of sunk-cost fallacy, though my playing time is a fraction of what it was. I did eventually give up trying to play above T7. By the time I started playing ('17), the only way you could afford to play T8-10 was either being pretty decently skilled, or PtW, or both, and I was neither.

@@matrobnew Hah - I very much sympathise with "no play over 7" myself. Years ago now I recognized I couldn't afford tier 10 battles, so I set a bunch of personal goal tanks at tier 8 - where I could just about break even. Skip a few years and now the Pershing shares a tier with the WZ-176, and I'm starting to abandon those one-time goal tanks for tier 5 instead.

man i still remember grinding my tiger II before wot 1.0 dropped, had found recently a clan, made some friends but, all that was so short lived, i sat there and patch after patch i started to see the green lights on the clan tab slowly turn all dark, until there was left only me, and like other 5 or 6 clan mates. today i fulfilled my aim of grabbing all the german tier 10 tanks, and i have almost the whole german tech tree. only playing on mid tier on weekends. still feels bitter.

no to mention the game became even more pay to win then it was back then. now matches are rigged so that paying players win waaay more often than free to play players

The 3601H with the conical gun!

At the time I never had the KVs but the Pz IV was definitely amazing

Oh god, you just unlocked a core memory for me. That thing was so OP at tier 5. Had so much fun in it. Not so fun for the tanks at my tier, or god forbid one or two tiers below. Insane pen, decent rate of fire, damage so high it often one shot opponents and great armour. This tank had it all. Then again, the matchmaker back then was fucked, so you could face opponents of a much higher tier, especially with a heavy. A tier 5 heavy could be uptiered all the way up to tier 9!

Same I've played console wot since it released left after the mbt were released, good game gone to waste due to greed and an update literally noone in wot console community wanted

Yeah, we need to see a battle from the worst patch. Can't remember which one exactly it was, but there was like 12 or even 13 artillery PER TEAM. It was just so profitable and easy to do good in them, so everyone spammed them like crazy until there was nothing left but artillery spammers.

He is WG sellout

Yep. I always shuckle a bit when I see players complain about 2 SPGs each side in my games. Back then you could have 7 SPGs on each side and they could totally obliterate you x)

@@AvenFallen how about i played a chaffee and i landed in a tier 10 game? 🤣

@@bengallego9943 Yep, stuff like that was wild. Matchmaking was up to +4 but even more for Light Tanks. I also remember the KV-1 which was only the KV back then. And it had the option of using the Derp Gun of the (now) KV-2 and many players used it because they could get into Tier 9-Games with the KV and it was the only option to do some damage then. x)

@@AvenFallen after kv1 there was kv-1s which is the most op tank in tier 6.

More to come!

I recently came back to the game also mostly played this era and wow its so different. There's entire countries now I never seen. There used to be 3 countries. Lol