War Thunder April Fools 2015 - ST-1 and SPS-255 gameplay! - video Dailymotion

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Continuing the tradition of silliness on April Fools day, two new tanks have been added to the game, the ST-1 heavy walker tank and the SPS-255, part of the new unrealistic battles mode.  (As it is April Fools Day I'm not actually serious when talking about the new vehicles in a matter of fact way).  Social Media ⬇️ Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/toreno.bsky.social Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/Toreno4 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/toreno170 Mastodon: Toreno17@mastodon.social Threads: https://www.threads.net/@toreno170 Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/Toreno17 Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/toreno5/videos   Game: War Thunder  ⬅️  #warthunder #aprilfool #aprilfoolprank #easteregg #walker #atst #st1 #toreno

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00:00Hello everybody, and welcome back to another episode of War Thunder.

00:04Today, it is 1st of April.

00:07Usual day, nothing particularly different about it,

00:10except we have got two new vehicles, or two new game modes.

00:14One is the ST-1 Alpha Test, and one is Unrealistic Battles.

00:19Basically, for ST-1 Alpha Test, as you can see here,

00:22it is talking about the walking assault gun that was produced by the Russians in 1937.

00:29Between 20 and 30 of them were produced.

00:31They had about 60mm of armour, weighed 50 tonnes, and weren't a huge success.

00:36Some were captured by the Germans when they ran out of fuel and supplies,

00:40and some were handed over to the US.

00:43The other game mode is Unrealistic Battles, using the new SPS-255 tanks.

00:49Now, we are going to try both of these battle modes,

00:51but we are going to start off with the ST-1 Alpha Test.

00:54Now, as far as I am aware, it is sort of reliant on your ordinary line-up.

00:59If we try to click take part, it asks you to repair,

01:02so I assume it has something to do with the already existing vehicles.

01:06I assume they will take some part in the battle.

01:09So, here we are in, well, Arcade Battles, in the Alpha Test.

01:14It has actually replaced my line-up, so it wasn't needed too much.

01:19It has given me a bunch of vehicles I don't actually own.

01:23Basically, as it turned out, you had to get a certain amount of kills

01:26with the vehicles you already had in your line-up,

01:29which don't actually cost anything, thankfully.

01:32But, you know, you only need one or two kills, and then you unlock the ST-1.

01:37Well, anyway, after a little bit of battling, I have unlocked the ST-1.

01:42I've got a 152mm gun, and 45mm guns.

01:47Well, let's see the stats. 120mm, 145mm, 152mm,

01:52and two 7.62mm and a 12.7mm machine gun.

01:57Mass, zero tonnes. Maximum inclination, zero.

02:00Max speed, 60mph. 75mm frontal armour and 60mm rear.

02:06And, you know, Rediction of Secret Penetration.

02:09So, let's go and pay a visit to our enemy friends.

02:13Uh, only bad thing is his reload rate. 18.6.

02:18Oh god, I don't know if that's the frame rate, or if that's just...

02:21Yeah, I think that was the frame rate.

02:23Interestingly enough, it...

02:25Okay, that is the driver view.

02:28Literally, the driver view is a black square with no sound.

02:32Again, I do apologise about the frame rate.

02:34I have no idea why it's just... died doing this.

02:39Okay, it's just causing it to look like it's a possessed demon,

02:42the way it's acting there.

02:46Right.

02:48And it walks on its own.

02:50I literally wasn't clicking anything and it was still walking.

02:53So, so far, um, not been great.

02:56Uh, there's the crew.

03:00You can see they're all in the turret.

03:03I haven't really got a driver as such.

03:09Try the machine guns.

03:13Okay.

03:15Um, we were taken out pretty damn quickly.

03:18Now, at this point, I joined a new game and tried to unlock the SQ-1 again.

03:22Um, and I actually came face-to-face with one.

03:26I was in a Russian tank, the T-34-57.

03:29Um, just minding my own business, coming under fire from enemy aircraft,

03:33and then to the left, a barrage of fire from the troops.

03:37Now, obviously, I started to attack them.

03:40Uh, but the damage model seems a bit wonky, as you can see here.

03:44It sort of changes rapidly between penetration and non-penetration.

03:48I was getting hits, which implied I was doing some damage,

03:51but it wasn't showing me any, you know, camera x-ray mode that shows a shot penetrating me.

03:58At this point, I was killed by the German version, the 565.

04:02Now, I had to skip a little bit forward,

04:04because some of the recording data got a bit corrupted,

04:07but you only miss about 10 seconds or so.

04:09Now, it's not particularly maneuverable.

04:12Frame rate seems to take a nosedive whenever I use this damn thing.

04:16Um, in the last match, I only tested it for like 10 seconds, but the frame rate just went insane.

04:23Now, interestingly enough, it seems to change name depending on which country is using it.

04:28Um, I think America's it. It's called the M35. I don't know what the Germans would call it.

04:34I'm sure it'd be something like Panzer... something.

04:37Oh, yeah, Panzer 565 over there, I assume it's the ST-1.

04:43Interestingly enough, there was a Japanese line of tanks that also got very similar names,

04:48or the ST-As, but they usually seem to call them ST-something,

04:51so I'm wondering if this perhaps is based on Japanese.

04:57Um, what's the word? Tank naming conventions? I mean, it would kind of make sense.

05:04If you're thinking of talking tanks and mechs, you do generally think of Japan.

05:08Okay, um, still too slow to get them there.

05:11God, the frame rate. I do apologize for this. It's usually never this bad.

05:17Traversing this thing is not the greatest thing in the world, either.

05:23Very limited turning up.

05:29And, for whatever reason, machine guns and main gun...

05:36The main gun seems to be one, as usual, but machine guns seem to be in the place of...

05:42Okay, machine guns are the main weapon, apparently.

05:45Okay, I don't get this.

05:48Apparently I need to redo some of my firing configurations,

05:51because this is a firing machine gun, for no discernible reason.

06:01Right, load.

06:03I can't load my full ammo for some reason.

06:07And, yeah, we didn't last particularly long.

06:09One kill, um, we did okay out of it.

06:11So at this point I gave up on the ST-1 alpha test,

06:14because, one, I only wanted to show basically what it was like,

06:17you know, the basic gist of it, which only takes one or two games,

06:20and two, I'm not very good at it, plus the frame rate was quite bad.

06:23So I decided to move on to Unrealistic Battles.

06:26Again, you have to repair any things that need repairing,

06:30but I don't think it will... you know, you don't use them in the match.

06:33You only get the SPS-255 tank.

06:36So, we'll just quickly show you how that went.

06:39So now we have the Unrealistic Battles with the SPS-255, or is it... yeah, 255.

06:46Whole armour 1mm, and we can penetrate 2mm of armour at 100m.

06:52We can either use the High Explosive, which is shaped as a potato,

06:56maximum of 2mm penetration,

06:59or we can go for the Carrot, the high-velocity target practice projectile.

07:03Now this can penetrate 3mm at 100m,

07:08which would probably be less effective.

07:12You can also see we have a health bar,

07:16and you can hear the new sound effects for the bicycles that have apparently been added into the game.

07:24So you can see we are currently reaching 33mph.

07:28How many crew have we got? We've got 4 pedalling,

07:32and 1 attacking. I mean, attacking as the gunner.

07:37Now this may make reload time somewhat problematic.

07:43Thankfully, despite the thin armour, we can still get through fences and stuff without actually killing ourselves.

07:51We can also hit trees.

07:54So this is the inside of the tank, much like the little Sherman.

08:01Ooh, and... oh dear.

08:04Christ, I just got myself blasted off there.

08:07Okay, just drag him back.

08:09I'm enjoying this a lot more than the other mode, if I'm honest.

08:15A lot of drop there.

08:19Oh, we've been hit by something.

08:23Is that an enemy tank? I don't know, but there's one tractor in front.

08:29Ah, we've hit something. We haven't punctured our tank yet.

08:33I mean, what is this? Is this a canvas or something?

08:36It looks like it's an inflatable balloon that's just dying to burst.

08:41Right, this was the slightest of hits.

08:44Ooh, we've missed our first shot.

08:48Right, we managed to... oh, we didn't penetrate. Oh, this is a surprise.

08:54It seems our enemies may be using the carrot.

08:57We managed to get a kill, and we were killed in turn.

09:02So where did he penetrate us? How did he kill us?

09:05Oh, he fired the potato, and it just hit something, which probably killed us.

09:12And, oh, apparently you only get one life. That's a bit of a shame.

09:17So far, the new game mode, it looks fun.

09:21I'm not sure how liked it's going to be.

09:26But, yeah, I may give it a second try quickly.

09:30Because that was actually quite fun for three minutes of fun.

09:34Not even three minutes, I'm afraid.

09:36Now, here we are trying the Unrealistic Battles again.

09:39Let's just quickly look at the stats for this.

09:41Battle rating 2.3.

09:4330.5 tons, I find that hard to believe.

09:4734 miles per hour max speed.

09:50And a 100mm training cannon, although we only have 50mm shots, I believe.

09:58I thought I said something about 50mm earlier, but apparently not.

10:02So let's just spawn into the battle.

10:05I'm going to probably use the carrots, as they appear to be higher velocity.

10:11I can't believe we're actually toward the battle.

10:13It's a bit hard to keep a straight face when you use an inflatable tank.

10:17Piloted by cyclists, and fighting through to each other.

10:23Right, so we're going to try and get to the enemy this way.

10:27Everyone else seems to have gone ahead.

10:31Knock down some of these barriers.

10:33Nope, didn't work.

10:35Let's see if we can get to...

10:37Oh, they're capping 8. Right, we're going to stop them.

10:40That's wrong, the frame rate's down.

10:42I do apologise once again, I don't know why it keeps doing this.

10:45I'm sure it has something to do with me recording and playing at the same time.

10:49Oh, oh, my bad.

10:51I thought I could make my way through there.

10:53Oh, Jesus.

10:57Why does this guy...

11:01Seriously?

11:02We've got a cyclist bell?

11:04Is that every time we reload or something?

11:07Right, reverse, reverse.

11:10Oh, we've been flanked.

11:12Can't...

11:14Oh, no, no.

11:16Reverse, reverse the bikes.

11:19No, no, no, you stay there.

11:23It's a bit hard to communicate, apparently.

11:26To be fair, I didn't communicate what I was doing.

11:31Right, I'm getting close to the potato.

11:33I'm hoping the superior...

11:35Oh, no, it was dead.

11:37I think.

11:38Tell me I just took 100 damage.

11:41Right, I'm just going to hope it was that tank that did it.

11:44Right, we took a decent chunk out of him.

11:47Yes.

11:48Got our first kill of the match.

11:52Target undamaged? Oh, dear.

11:55That knew outside his effective range.

11:59Swap to the potato, I mean carrot.

12:03Hit him.

12:04Oh, no, no, no. This isn't good.

12:06Switch back to the potato.

12:08And he got us.

12:10Okay, this is quite a fun game mode.

12:13Obviously not the best at it.

12:16Yeah, I'm not very good at it at all.

12:18If I'm honest.

12:20So, as you can see, quite a good easy game mode.

12:23Won't show any more matches for this particular video.

12:27Because you've got the basic gist of what it's like.

12:29I do encourage you to play it. It's pretty damn fun.

12:32So, that was all of the, well, events for today.

12:36The Unrealistic Battles and the ST1 Alpha Test.

12:39Had more fun on Unrealistic Battles.

12:41Although ST1 Alpha Test could be fun for those who know how to use it properly.

12:45Something I obviously don't know.

12:48But yeah, both very good events.

12:51Had quite a bit of fun.

12:53But anyway, hope you enjoyed the episode.

12:55Leave a like if you did.

12:56Subscribe if you like these sorts of videos.

12:58Leave feedback. Could always do with more feedback.

13:00And yeah, thanks for watching. I'll see you next time.

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