The Saddest CAS Destroyer

I miss the old OTOMATIC

Fun fact, the APFS-DS is actually used IRL to shoot down missiles while the HE is used for aircraft and drones. That's how precise the darts are. In game, from the beginning, Gijin decided to make its darts shoot everywhere but where you aim and like the Arietes' armor, they refuse to fix it

The Otomatic is one of the biggest examples of Italians getting screwed over by BR placement.

High tier is just so broken. The dude rushed, got a single cap, J'd out, and got a helicopter with like 16 ATGMs and instantly started killing people who hadn't even pushed past the first objective yet...

As an Italian main, it hurts that the tanguska and 2S38 is way better and has a lower br then the otomatic

Otomatic was hurting the sales of the Ka-50 so yeah they nerfed it to oblivion

"A good performing vehicle that isn't Russian? Now we can't have that." - Gaijin probably

The Otomatic is in a much better place than it was a year ago. I got the radar arc fixed, another guy got the IRST fixed, and another guy got the tracer removed. There is currently a closed bug report in the system for removing the APFSDS cap (The name "OTOMATIC APFSDS limit should be removed" because Youtube isn't fond of external links). TrickZZter, being the good old sub human garbage he is, closed it because he intentionally targets Italian vehicles (I have had multiple bug reports get closed for no reason by him on Italian vehicles and after resubmitting got acknowledged and pushed by other mods no problem).

A change as simple as increasing its sabot capacity would be a huge deal.

Meanwhile the 2s38 having unlimited apfsds, because gaijin decided it whould be a light tank

You should play the OF-40 MTCA, it's the least-sad Italian vehicle.

If you want to suffer with bad aa more, then play the ZUT-37 :)

This video demonstrates why i take BOTH the otomatic AND the sidam mistral. Having any form of sam sometimes is just better than having to lead kinda low velocity proxy rounds, even when those proxy rounds (used to) deal massive damage

If i remember correctly, the 2S38 APFSDS round is lighter and has more spalling damage compared to the 76mm APFSDS. The rooikat 76 suffers from this no spall damage too. Always have to snipe ammo or crew mates.

I would like to congratulate Spookston on achieving 300k subscribers! Keep up the stellar content!

Anyone else here know the OTOMATIC from Wargame: Red Dragon? It's an absolutely apocalyptic death machine there, wiping out infantry, vehicles, and aircraft alike. It's sad to see it reduced to this.

I don't know if you already know this but when an aircraft is locked by a radar and is flying low to the ground, it'll confuse the radar and make it think the object is a lot lower than it really is. Think of it as the radio waves reflected off the aircraft, off of the ground, and back to the radar dish. That why at 1:15 the green box dips. Is use this a lot in Air Sim to dodge r27s.

Spookston you should try the BM-31-12 it's painful but a lot of fun when you get kills

Good video on the OTOMATIC, I recently went to see the second prototype based on the leopard 1 platform at the OTO Melara museum. Believe it or not the OTO was even worse last year but thankfully the Italian research community managed to finally get the bug reports passed after a lot of delay. If it did get more APFSDS then I think it would be more useful that it is now, if not it needs a BR decrease. A lot of new AA’s have been added since it was introduced and it’s clear that missile AA just do the AA role better.

please play the black prince, it's a surprisingly good bri'sh tank love the vid btw :)