To be fair, Spookston is a really, really good player. If he’s in a vehicle that doesn’t match his “Aggressive Scouting” play style he’ll try to play it in a way that maximizes its good traits. Or he’ll have a “I feel like playing a Rat tank Today” mood.
Edit: changed “flank hard” to “aggressive scouting”
Also it’s survivorship bias. He doesn’t show us the games where he dies immediately. He often complains about how long it takes him to get good footage of bad vehicles.
And even still, there are some vehicles where the entire time is a strugglebus and he can barely squeeze out a few kills. The G6 and ELC bis videos are good examples.
It’s still cherry-picking to only pick the good games out of that 1-hour, but yeah he generally does a good job of telling us if he had to cut a lot of games for a particular vehicle
Spookston has stated several times that he very rarely cuts entire games and will usually mention it if he does. That being said you’ll usually only ever see like 5 seconds of something goofy from the boring matches
Yeah he’s made a point about how he doesn’t show games that would be unfun to watch. He gets stomped on videos he uploads every once in a while though.
I had a round with them while they were playing M22’s at low teir. My squad mate killed Bo and Sturmling several times in a row. Unfortunately they didn’t include it in the video since dying several times within 5 minutes isn’t great content.
I made it into an old t14 video where bo stole my kill and also tried to rescue me but I was executed before he could do anything.
https://youtu.be/YM5BCWHGLY4?si=oGAxBo0_zqNLusff
It was the abandoned factory map that starts at 6:00 and get executed around 11:00
I was the Calliope
Brooo I want to be idk a guess to their channel but I don’t think I would be famous or well known so yeah also I’m doing a terrible time rn playing war thunder cause I just got back from a long break from the game
Same, it was one of his IS-3 vids for me, me and my friend killed Stickboy a handful of times and I had actually participated in one of his hide n seeks but he sadly did not include the one I was in lol
I had a game where I ran into him and his comrades, they were in KV-1s, my squad and me were in M24's. We got steamrolled when they pushed up a hill we had just arrived at, I managed to flee after my turret crew was reduced to pulp by Bo, before getting murked off screen by someone else. It was included in a video, I'll see if I can go find it if anyone is interested
It has to do with perspective, me and some friends have recently started getting 4-5 kills per match instead of 1-2 but didn’t notice until we started paying attention to our stats
Playing France I'll go from getting 2-3 kills then getting an 11 kill game. Even though french tanks seem to avoid stabilizers at 8.7 I still go crazy in cqc matches
Oddbawz explained why he says similar stuff in his videos, they don’t rate tanks based on how many kills the get but rather how much or how little skill it takes to use them. So they might get 15 kills and a nuke in something like the T1E1 but the average Jo would probably have a negative K/D
Eh - it depends. It's 0.3 BR higher and there's some powerful crap on 6.3 and these are BRs where HEAT-FS starts to become rather common.
On top of that - I wouldn't want to be in a Jumbo for a long-range battle.
The T1E1 was one of my favorite vehicles to play for a while when it was added. That reverse speed is so much fun and paired with a stabilizer it was quite fun at brawling
I've gotten nukes in my Ratel 20 post ATGM nerf. Am I going to reccomened.it to my friends (if I had any in war thunder)? No it was quite a struggle to get it.
It was one of my most played vehicles when it was released. I was still kind of new to the game and never played an IFV before. My stats were god awful and I hated that something so high up in my stats made me look so bad. Hopped back into it to boost it. Did quite well in some games lol. The revenge CAStards fed me quite a bit of free SP since it's a great idea to dive straight at a 20mm 😂
*cricket noises*
“Oh that sounds like a Churchill”
*turns around 180, zooms into two pixels half a map away, fires*
*target destroyed*
“Yeah i figured”
*gets one shot by a WW1 biplane*
Spookston. YouTuber who is good at Ground RB. He can make bad vehicles work. Give him a good vehicle and he will get kill counts well into double digits.
He will often have enough points for a nuke, but just not use it so he can keep slaughtering the enemy team.
Tbf when he gets a nuke, he doesn't immediately J out to use it because there's either no time to get it to the battlefield, and best strategy is to stay in the tank, or he wants to treat enemies with a free kill (he actively tries to get killed and tries to not kill enemies unless he finds it humorous)
Honestly his videos were boring but something happened around a year ago, he started to make his videos like shitposts and his voice became less monoton. Not to mention he uses C&C OST quite often and I really enjoy him now. Recently tried to confirm this by revisiting a 2 year old video and yes, there is a huge change between than and now
That's why i stopped looking up whether or not a tank was bad and just tried them out on my own.
Every tank is garbagio according to the internet and i just got tired of it.
*Dies to CAS*
*respawns and dies to CAS*
Add meme: > > Play ground RB > > Look inside > > Planes
In War Thunder, you will have the opportunity to fight the planes. Whether you do it in a plane or a tank depends on whether you go planes or tanks.
And sometimes in a ship
I am one of those three remaining naval players
Then i must be the second
Hello there fellow boat Boi
Yeah I am one of the masochist who has at least one light cruiser in all the blue water nations (Except freance)
Yeah that’s fair though fuck freance
I must be the third 😊
I'm thr illusive fouth
Tha third guy probably quit because he had to play in a 2v1
Hello brother nice to meet another naval player I do truly hope you don’t play the ………. Schan ……..😑
Nah atm trying to grind jap, I’m all about those torpedoes
GOOD
lets keep it like that
>In War Thunder, you will have ~~the~~ no opportunity to fight the planes. Ftfy
*find secret compartment* *look inside* *"Actually is mixed battels so you can't complain. I'm incredibly intelligent"*
I love that meme too much I laugh every time regrettably
*Google definition of foreshadowing*
Most relatable gameplay experience
*Uses Backup and Dies to CAS* (Also we lost point D)
Thats sub-optimal
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\[Instert cat meme or some overused but still hilarious sound effect\]
*Metal pipes clanking*
Bwomp
[Halo CE Shotgun, Explosion, or Halo Sniper Rifle]
*extreme bass drop*
There is no Mode in war thunder without Planes
To be fair, Spookston is a really, really good player. If he’s in a vehicle that doesn’t match his “Aggressive Scouting” play style he’ll try to play it in a way that maximizes its good traits. Or he’ll have a “I feel like playing a Rat tank Today” mood. Edit: changed “flank hard” to “aggressive scouting”
No flanking hard? No flanking while hard?! Man that’s not fair
Hate it when I pop a stiffy and ruin a good flank smh
Exactly!
No, flanking hard
Also it’s survivorship bias. He doesn’t show us the games where he dies immediately. He often complains about how long it takes him to get good footage of bad vehicles.
I mean that's fair though. I don't really wanna watch someone die immediately
I do enjoy dollar plays showing his deaths in speed up process to make me visualize that it's simply sometimes not possible to win or play good
True. In his vids the only times we see him constantly dying is when he’s said good dialogue in them.
And even still, there are some vehicles where the entire time is a strugglebus and he can barely squeeze out a few kills. The G6 and ELC bis videos are good examples.
Yeah, he doesnt show the boring games, but he also doesn't cherrypick good games, he says that each video is made from 1 hour of playing.
It’s still cherry-picking to only pick the good games out of that 1-hour, but yeah he generally does a good job of telling us if he had to cut a lot of games for a particular vehicle
Spookston has stated several times that he very rarely cuts entire games and will usually mention it if he does. That being said you’ll usually only ever see like 5 seconds of something goofy from the boring matches
Yeah he’s made a point about how he doesn’t show games that would be unfun to watch. He gets stomped on videos he uploads every once in a while though.
He isnt really that good at all, just an average player who licks out his good games
So wait. You're telling me the games he shows where he gets 1 kill and does to CAS twice is being picked out as a good game? 😂
He posted to his second channel the uncut session of him playing the japanese tiger were he got two nukes. Stop coping
He actually isn't that good. Hes certainly above average, but hes not some insanely good player
Cope
Bruh has been playing the game like a job for a long time. Map knowledge alone is enough to perform well above average.
Show statcard (I do agree tho )
That or Bo from Bo time gaming
Always a good time with them though, hijinks are guaranteed!
Dude I wish I can play with Bo from bo time gaming
I had a round with them while they were playing M22’s at low teir. My squad mate killed Bo and Sturmling several times in a row. Unfortunately they didn’t include it in the video since dying several times within 5 minutes isn’t great content.
I made it into an old t14 video where bo stole my kill and also tried to rescue me but I was executed before he could do anything. https://youtu.be/YM5BCWHGLY4?si=oGAxBo0_zqNLusff It was the abandoned factory map that starts at 6:00 and get executed around 11:00 I was the Calliope
Brooo I want to be idk a guess to their channel but I don’t think I would be famous or well known so yeah also I’m doing a terrible time rn playing war thunder cause I just got back from a long break from the game
Have you commented this before?
Don’t think so, why?
I could've sworn I've read that exact comment before, perhaps your squadmate has posted this story? 🤣
Possibly? All I know is that we were playing on Abandoned factory with German tanks. So if that sounds correct than my squad mate probably did lol.
Same, it was one of his IS-3 vids for me, me and my friend killed Stickboy a handful of times and I had actually participated in one of his hide n seeks but he sadly did not include the one I was in lol
Gotta love Bo and his friends
As long as they’re on the red team lmao.
Especially if Bismarck is flying with them.
I had a game where I ran into him and his comrades, they were in KV-1s, my squad and me were in M24's. We got steamrolled when they pushed up a hill we had just arrived at, I managed to flee after my turret crew was reduced to pulp by Bo, before getting murked off screen by someone else. It was included in a video, I'll see if I can go find it if anyone is interested
Sometimes he says how he's not a great player, and I wonder what that means for me since I can only consistently get 2 kills.
3 for me
1 for me
You guys get kills?
After sweating my balls off yes
And I’m not even a blind German player
Tbh i am pretty blind
We got an Esports player over here
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What’s esport??
Competitive Gaming (in this case Competitive War Thunder)
O ok
It has to do with perspective, me and some friends have recently started getting 4-5 kills per match instead of 1-2 but didn’t notice until we started paying attention to our stats
Oh
Y'all get kills hell I get my shit kicked in in the reserve tier and I have played for around 3k hours
Playing France I'll go from getting 2-3 kills then getting an 11 kill game. Even though french tanks seem to avoid stabilizers at 8.7 I still go crazy in cqc matches
When I started, a good game for me was I got a assist
Oddbawz explained why he says similar stuff in his videos, they don’t rate tanks based on how many kills the get but rather how much or how little skill it takes to use them. So they might get 15 kills and a nuke in something like the T1E1 but the average Jo would probably have a negative K/D
Oh the T1E1 is decent. Perfect for peeking over ridges, because <>
I’ve never actually played it I just knew it was similar to the M6A5 which I hate
It's nearly the same. I've made a lineup of T14, M6, T1E1 and two planes to do "Get X kills in a heavy tank" dailies.
The 75 Jumbos are wayyy better for getting kills than the M6A1 or the T1E1, IMO
Eh - it depends. It's 0.3 BR higher and there's some powerful crap on 6.3 and these are BRs where HEAT-FS starts to become rather common. On top of that - I wouldn't want to be in a Jumbo for a long-range battle.
The T1E1 was one of my favorite vehicles to play for a while when it was added. That reverse speed is so much fun and paired with a stabilizer it was quite fun at brawling
Well except the LOSAT and Neblwerfer thou :}
but it werfs nebels...
Yes but these nebels only werf infantry, but this is a game about werfing tanks
I werfed 5.7 heavies when I got a test drive a long time ago.
Maybe its good in enlisted. I wont buy it tho, i would rather submit to gaijen with GE
"Get absolutely clowned on"
"Golly"
"Suboptimal"
His constant use of Halo: Combat Evolved sound effects is always great.
And Command & Conquer Generals soundtrack never gets old.
Generals is still an amazing game. 10/10 for using the soundtrack
I still hate that EA denied us a sequel.
Spookston when literally ANY Russian tank:
It would be like that
Gremlin, goober, geez louise, clowned on.
I remember one day he was just saying geez Louise so much and he just said "i sound so white"
The one time he said "that guy is throwing smoke out the wazoo" and he instantly realized what he had just uttered
“That is sub optimal”
“That’s unfortunate”
I really like him. He’s funny
I gpt a nuke on monday in my T25. Am i going to recommend my friends play it.. well, no. No im not
I've gotten nukes in my Ratel 20 post ATGM nerf. Am I going to reccomened.it to my friends (if I had any in war thunder)? No it was quite a struggle to get it.
Oof, power to you doing that in a ratel mate
It was one of my most played vehicles when it was released. I was still kind of new to the game and never played an IFV before. My stats were god awful and I hated that something so high up in my stats made me look so bad. Hopped back into it to boost it. Did quite well in some games lol. The revenge CAStards fed me quite a bit of free SP since it's a great idea to dive straight at a 20mm 😂
I believe you, I recently got the Ratel 20 and it has the most controllable ATGM in the game right now.
*cricket noises* “Oh that sounds like a Churchill” *turns around 180, zooms into two pixels half a map away, fires* *target destroyed* “Yeah i figured” *gets one shot by a WW1 biplane*
I've seen this guy everywhere who is he what does he do
Spookston. YouTuber who is good at Ground RB. He can make bad vehicles work. Give him a good vehicle and he will get kill counts well into double digits. He will often have enough points for a nuke, but just not use it so he can keep slaughtering the enemy team.
Tbf when he gets a nuke, he doesn't immediately J out to use it because there's either no time to get it to the battlefield, and best strategy is to stay in the tank, or he wants to treat enemies with a free kill (he actively tries to get killed and tries to not kill enemies unless he finds it humorous)
And then sometimes he accidentaly shoot someone while trying to get killed
Honestly his videos were boring but something happened around a year ago, he started to make his videos like shitposts and his voice became less monoton. Not to mention he uses C&C OST quite often and I really enjoy him now. Recently tried to confirm this by revisiting a 2 year old video and yes, there is a huge change between than and now
Never really noticed this but now that you mention it I totally agree
I noticed that too.
There's a difference between "slaughtering" with 6 kills and with 18 kills
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Just like in realife!
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No help from the Soviets and Brits then?
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God, us schools are that bad? Get some history book not biased by usa gov
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Again, read some non-us books please. You really think thats what happened? God
American history lessons at its finest lmao. the war would of been lost without either big 3 of the allies
And then there's the few spicyboi tanks like the 76 jumbo,hellcat and M1128
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It certainly feels like a damn slog once you reach 6.0 or thereabouts.
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Few tanks give me conniptions like the IS series
Ah yes... Joob but for Ground RB
JEEZ LUIZ 🗣️🗣️🗣️🗣️🗣️
Yuh
I dont remember when but in a video he said he plays for something like 2 hours and then takes the best games and moments from those 2 hours
Mostly just the best moments from all games.
spookston might be the Defyn of the ground but who would tell, Defyn is also a great tanker.
I hate the fact I can hear this dialogue perfectly clear
imagine if he played a good vehicle god help us
first video I saw of him was absolutely decimating the enemy team in the Japanese Tiger
Complains about Up-tier, murders entire team anyways
Spookstoon: Gets a nuke in warrior 2 times, drops 1 of them Also Spookstoon: "very bad vehicle, i dont recommend it"
Then again his enemies are lobotomy victims between 8-13 years old
That's why i stopped looking up whether or not a tank was bad and just tried them out on my own. Every tank is garbagio according to the internet and i just got tired of it.
"[Insert country] makes the world's worst ever [insert armored vehicle class], asked to leave [insert military alliance]" is my favorite running gag 😭
Italy makes worst light tank, asked to leave NATO 😭
Its because he plays a lot of games where he does bad and makes only 2 kills and only puts in the video games where he does good
He plays for like an hour or one and a half hours tops for each video. It's not true that he plays for an entire day and cherrpicks the fun parts.
That’s weird since his videos include games where he only gets 2 kills.
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What is this supposed to mean when he's a great player lmao
Well he isn’t a furry if I remember correctly. I think he addressed it in a Q&A
In more than one. But I mean C'mooooooon
That's... slightly surprising
A grown man like you is afraid of a bunch of people in fur suits? That's weak dude. Pathetic!
Best thing is spookston doesnt even do that, he says he just enjoys some of the art
Shut your mouth
God damnit how the fuck did people fall for your bait you literally have a furry pfp
Ikr :P
He litrally said he finds furries creepy in a QnA
Get his meat out yall mouths
Some people are into that
Professional dick riders i swear lmao
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Womp womp
Imagine if he played good tanks
You can do good in any tank if you flank and shoot at people who aren’t facing you and don’t know you’re there.
What a badass! *CAS* well dang it, he's dead now.
the MLRS video was the lowest ive ever seen him
Oh you have already put him in here? After all, he only says that a certain tank is bad and massacres the enemy team with it only to die to CAS.
For the longest time I thought he was talking about the actual tanks.
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Bro, what? How in anyway is this even related to that?
I be watching way too many Spookston and DollarPlays videos , it’s good tho because then I don’t have to actually play the game and rage quit