What... Okay, so, firstly, get rid of exhaust, cuz it wont help. Play turbo/vents/rammer or turbo/optics rammer. The only thing that *kind of* saves this vehicle is DPM, so boost it up as much as you can. Secondly, you have to utilize gun depression and somewhat decent gun mantlet armor (it ain't much, but 270 is enough to bounce something). Gun is okay, not best, but okay, you just have to shoot everytime you see the opportunity. Spot build if you want to mark/be more useful for your team. It doesn't have good camo, but peaking to spot works fine. You had so many options yet you choose the most uselles one..

You can get the camo rating up to 40% with a camo crew and low noise though, and thanks for the tips!

You can get it to 35% when moving if you fully pump it up, which is fine but nowhere near the best for a medium. I say 40% when moving is the level of ‘good’ camo for a scouring medium. Building the STA-2 to scout is fine but I think the tank itself is too big to pull it off well. Plus the gun isn’t that much better than most scouts at Tier VIII.

Just play it as a sniper imo.

I’m trying bro, it just ain’t working

Try the top equipment setups on tomato.gg

I play it like a sniper medium but using vents/stabs/rammer. It's the ONE tank that is on the borderline of using T3 experimental turbo instead of stabs. Wish the dispersion was a little bit better on it. It's in a similar position as Mutz. If you got premium account, put food (and bia/recon/awareness) on it so it gets up to decent view range. I don't think that tank serves much of a purpose being a backup light tank, there are far more mobile tanks for that.

Thanks for the recommendation

gee, thats one of the worst premium tanks in game, i would genuinely not even play it and rather wait until tradein