Nicarasu

I assume its the same now as when I last played it over a year ago. Gun is total ass, but you can sidescrape/hulldown your way to victory. Its an extremely easy tank to position and play thanks to the unique hull shape and solid mobility, but the gun will fuck you over constantly. .44 acc and 317 heat pen vs super heavies is a nightmare at times. Ultimately, not great.

For example, I had 3.7k dpg and 66%wr in it and every other tank I played that year had 4k and up to 70%. Its unreliable. You will find games where you just steamroll shit and laugh at your 8k blocked. And then you will never hit a single thing and wonder why you spent 6.1 mil credits.

God forbid you have to hit a wheelieboi

Lmao schnitz is spot on with that. There are times when you are sitting on a corner and literally nothing can touch you and you wonder how this tank is balanced. Then you try and use the gun and it all makes sense.

It's actually a good tank though. Very easy to play, very stronk. Gun is just ultra derpy. 

gun has always been ass and meta changes haven't changed that
afaik it's never been 'competitive' but now has to contend with the buffed 7201, buffed E-100, 60TP, and buffed IS-4 which all more or less have the same niche, but all of which have much better guns

if you like sidescraping soviet bricks get an IS-4 - that thing might be a worse 279 but a worse 279 is still a very good tank.

o shit you right @PityFool

Interesting, nobody using optics anymore?

(I checked since I lasted posted and it's Vents, Turbo, Rammer. So no Vert Stab as I said earlier)

@Haswell that set up with food and crew with BIA and the view range skills adds up to 463m view range. Optics aren't needed on a HT that can get that view range without.

I played AMX M4 back in literally 2012 when +4 MM was still a thing and gold ammo was for gold only, and I was a 48% potato. I used the 90mm because 212 pen worked alright vs tier 10s.

I remember liking it. Granted it was my first tier 7, and it was so long ago my opinion in it literally does not matter in the slightest.

Anyway, 50B is so good though. Ive never been amazing at making it work in pubs, But back when FOXEY existed I was basically an instapick 50B player lol. I still love it even today. 

Remember when 50b's hull was impenetrable before its HD model? Was fucking hilarious baiting e100's by peaking the front around corners, eating all their heat, then poking and dumping a clip. Worked against jag100's too which was always amazing for rage PM's

I did that in the waffle too, people just never figured out that the hull wasn’t paper and kept shooting it 

4-5 steel walls in it lol