The HSTV-L Turns Anti-CAS

The American HSTV-L light tank is one of the more incorrectly modeled vehicles in War Thunder, but the Gaijin devs finally gave it proximity fuzed rounds so it can defend itself against planes. Given my experiences with CAS, it's a very welcome addition.

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The HSTV-L Turns Anti-CAS

[Spookston]

another small victory for HSTV-L gremlins

[SirSalad]

One step for the HSTV-L, one giant leap for gremlin kind!

[Con]

The issue with IRST locking may be due to your keybind; Anything that requires multiple keys, with one of them being ALT tends to fail often since it will make you go into the cursor mode instead of whatever action you intended. Spamming with a 1-Key bind that doesnt require ALT to be pressed has fixed a similar issue I had previously and might also work to resolve this one.
Even if the IRST Icon displays in HUD, it tends to simply not register properly due to ALT forcing free-cursor mode.

Edit:
Since I've seen some confusion regarding it, I'll give some more details, correct some previous errors and explain and why rebinding *should* fix the issue:

- How does the [ALT + F] interfere with IRST-LockOn/Tracking?
ALT does NOT PREVENT the intended action, it just takes priority in selection. This is relevant here, since the 'Free-Cursor-Mode" [ALT] has priority over the actual intended bind [+ F], meaning that it will often go into Free-Cursor-Mode first and then follow up with the IRST-Tracking action.

Going into Free-Cursor-Mode forces your aim-reticle position to be locked at its current position.
Therefore the IRST-Lock on will be applied to an outdated position of your reticle. In other words; your lock-on "input" is set to an outdated position and therefore fails to track, as the target you want to track is now at a different position.


- Why does it still work sometimes?
It works when the outdated position of your reticle is still close enough to the target you wanted to lock onto, hence why it's significantly easier to track targets approaching you directly and significantly harder to track targets with a (from your pov) horizontal & vertical movement. Also rememeber, this is WT so its not guaranteed that you'll get lock-on even with perfect aim, things just don't always work but ig we're used to that already(?)

- Why does a different Keybind fix it?
Please remember, the issue is not the double-keybind itself but rather ALT being in it. By using a one-key bind or a double-keybind (w/o ALT, Shift or CTRL) you prevent the game from overwriting with a different action and therefore solely input a IRST-Lock on, allowing you to spam it aswell as keep your reticle-position updated.

- I still cant lock on
It does NOT work in Commander Sight or Third Person Camera.
I don't know if I need to explain this, but IRST does not go through terrain, therefore certain hitboxes may interfere with locking on (ground-terrain, trees, walls etc.)
Also as I said, this is WarThunder so things working consistenly is just not gonna happen.

[TheHaskoDood]

HSTV-L is now up to 70% the power of the 2s38 at only 1.3BR higher. Huge W for top tier America

[LuckyShot_]

Spookston cried a small tear of joy when he saw that they finally added the proxy😢

[uisce_]

That HSTVL on an LAV chassis would go pretty hard

[katplayswt]

fun fact, with the new sight setting, if you use one of the sights that have the rangefinder feature, it instantly range finds, so u can bind a key thats both assigned too fire and range find and hit some pretty silly shots (only works with lazer rangefinders)

[kxng_xf_sxrrxw]

Spookston is fucking estatic right now

[squareboxcat]

I think the irst issue may be caused by the tacking being tied to the hull of the vehicle not the sights, i.e. when your hull can’t see the plane you can’t track it (watch at 11:24 and you see the tank loose track after the hull goes behind the rock and loses line of site from the heli), probably yet another instance of programming genius from the warthunder dev team. lol

[rainbowappleslice]

Spookston’s Favoriten vehicle has been buffed, but now I humbly request he plays the Jpz 4-5

[pompiliosouto]

An HSTVL video where Spookston sounded actually happy for most of it. Genuinely delightful.

[nilsypiggaming]

the spookston starter kit is almost complete, the HSTV-L can fight aircraft now

[PumpkinThyme]

About 2:10, for some ungodly reason, planes with variable geometry wings are treated as having them fully extended at all times when it comes to terrain collision, meaning you can't actually get as low as you'd think

[tykendrick]

Attempt 59 Challenge: For high tier support a nations MBT with its respective APC/IFV counterpart (ie Abrams/Bradley, T90/BMP2M, etc.) Challenge is keeping the other player alive and supporting it without stealing kills (breaking barrels, tracking, repairing, etc) it being a random should help make it interesting.

[SemoventeDa]

Giorno 11 of asking Spookston to play the best truck in the world, the Lancia R3o (100/17).







WE WILL MAKE IT ONE DAY, AVANTI SAVOIA!

[MindfulGP]

“Sorry about another halo reference” bruh it’s every video I hear some grunt audio I’m all for it🤣

[WooperatThePond]

The crew of the Leopard at 12:10 had their Depleted Uranium pants on

[flipallthetables]

Gaijin needs to rework APFSDS damage. I don't even play top tier and I can see why their current system sucks.

For context, Gaijin basically groups all APFSDS fired from a cannon with a caliber of 25 to 76 mm under the same post-pen damage preset. This is completely stupid for just one single reason: cannon caliber and the actual projectile caliber are completely different with sub-caliber projectiles.

Just as an example, the XM-885 of the HSTV-L has, in game, a projectile diameter of 26 mm. The 120 mm DM53 round of the RH120 cannon has a projectile diameter of 23 mm.

I don't think i need to point out much more on why cannon caliber alone is not sufficient for APFSDS damage presets.

[solarehq]

I find it ridiculous that this is 1.3 BR above the 2s38 aswell as the puma being the same br as the 2s38 (despite the 2s38 being better in almost every way)

[Landi]

Attempt 24 of getting Spookston to play the leopard 1