WHY TOP TIER WAR THUNDER IS RUBBISH - T-80UK in War Thunder

The T-80UK in War Thunder is a Squadron Reward Vehicle. It's another T-80 with some extra bells and whistles making it really powerful at its battle rating.

I get a lot of comments asking for top tier content and that low tier stuff is boring but I'm here to have a little rant on why I don't enjoy top tier and the reason why I don't play it often.

This is why I think top tier war thunder is rubbish! :)

[hessel]

i find matches below 7.0 to be way more fun to play and watch simply because you're closer to the fighting and defending the capture points. its just way more enjoyable that way instead of sitting in spawn pointing and clicking on tanks with range finder and thermals. seeing a tank blow up from a heat shell that had to be shot in a specific place will always make me come back compared to getting sniped while capturing a flag from the enemy's spawn

[h]

13:17 to be fair the bin was angled, which means it plays better than most Tiger 1 mains

[wingknutt]

I like top tier because thermals level the playing field for me. I'm 50, and my eyes aren't what they used to be. I don't have years and years of experience spotting targets like you do. You, Phly, you guys are spotting stuff across the map, fire, and kill it before I even figure out what you're looking at.

[christerprestberg]

The Ka-50/52 is probably my most hated vehicle in the game, the thing is just so oppresive, and even when you manage to hit it the thing tends to survive just facetanking missiles >.>

[mokaso]

2.7 to 6.7 is my favourite range. And people have already said why. You’re closer to the fighting, you have a better chance of bouncing rounds because tank angling is actually an effective strat, and the variety of vehicles with very noticeable pros and cons just make the game more fun. The amount of times I’ve been in a 1v3 and 1v4 in a Jumbo, a Tiger, and a Churchill, just sitting there eating rounds as I slowly knock out each attacker is just oodles of noodles of fun. It’s just so much more enjoyable. Especially the CAS situation is more enjoyable too

[gepard-]

5:16 Mom! I made it into an OddBawz video. My 5 seconds of fame dying to Odd W keying it to our spawn side!

[okobongdinko]

For me playing between 3.0-6.7 is where I enjoy myself most, the ww2 tanks are good fun and all quite individual. My highest vehicle is the 122tm and that BR is not fun and I have a full line up for France at 7.7 which is ok but not as fun. I'm no where near top tier but the lead up to it is not fun.

[samadams]

Agreed. The Ka-50 parts were funny to me, because you can spam out missiles even without a target and you never ran out. Even if you did run out, the chopper pad is right there.

[PilgrimBangs]

I completely agree. I intentionally play at 6 or below. WWII era tank warfare is the most fun for tank on tank dueling. No thermal no laser range finders. You can get up close and personal.

[strychgaming]

i think top tier would be good if the maps were like 10x the size with 5-6 spawn locations each side. searching for the enemy, rather than just knowing where there going to come from.

[Rythblaqk]

The hardest part about top tier is determining if a tank is dead or not through your thermals. which can be solved by turning them off. pretty much the only challenge left at top tier

[J.I.R.A]

Exactly why I’ve been grinding a bit of every nation up to rank IV. I find it super fun to have to switch play styles when switching from Japan to UK to Sweden to France and so on.

[humphrey-]

The real challenge of top tier is the endless amounts of keybinds, mostly for aircraft

[coltfanning]

I personally find top tier more fun because of the veilcles rather than the playstyle. And not as in spamming a 2S38 but I like the Abrams and Challenger.

[_SeiunSky]

There's also the insane inconsistency that plagues top tier as well, for me that's the worst part of it. The countless times I hit a barrel or breech for 0 damage, (even worse with the increased amount of turret de-sync lately) ammo racks just vanish into thin air, tracks and russian ERA eat APFSDS from the side for breakfast, volumetric making shells disappear... Or when air to air missiles completely ignore countermeasures with 0% throttle from a side aspect while other times the same missile goes dumb from the first flare from the rear with afterburner on... Gaijin needs to focus on fixing existing things for a couple of updates instead of pumping the game full of copy paste vehicles and extreme powercreep. (pantsir for a current example) But we all know that won't happen because that doesn't generate income like a new copy paste premium does...

[LowieX]

In the first game, id really like to know how in a top tier game, on a map that is basically just a field, you just drove forward up to just outside their spawn without once getting shot to get a bit of a flank, thats some youtuber luck right there

[MASTRHITAZA]

Don't worry OddBawz, most of us actually agree with you about the current state of top tier. Like my issue at the moment is I play the Puma around 9.3 and if I get uptiered to 10.0 where there is those premium Leopard 2's then I know I will lose as those games are just full of the 1 and done players. It is not fun at all finding out I have no team left only 2mins into a battle.

[chrisg]

I like many can play high tier but being able to predict your guns arc of fire is kind of an art form at mid and lower tier where a lot of times the first shot or subsequent shots determine the outcome of an engagement.

[birthdaytruck]

I think a lot of folk, myself included, desire to see top-tier content from yourself and Phly Daily because many of us don't have these vehicles. I find myself clicking on top-tier content more often because I'm curious: how does that tank I'll probably never get play? What are it's capabilities?

Another IS-2 video tends to disinterest me: it's going to be a big, slow, boom-cannon gameplay video that I'm already familiar with. Top-tier content, too, has more fun bells and whistles. The 30mm strapped to a T-72 is more interesting to watch, sometimes, than an IS-2 with one gun.

[robb]

Anyone that says you don't enjoy top-tier because you don't get the kills needs to watch these first two games. Multi-strike x5 in both matches. Love your work, OddBawZ!