The Object 704 was one of the first soviet TDs in the game, before the Object 268. The Object 704 is a very slow TD with nearly non-existent armour other than the gun mantlet, this means that the Object 704 has a different playstyle from the Object 268. The Object 704 was once a reasonable TD during the older meta, however it struggles to cope with the new meta especially with the introduction of formidable enemies like the Object 268 v4, Object 277 and the recently buffed MTs and other vehicles. The only main strength of the Object 704 is it's surprisingly great camouflage for it's own size. However the sheer amount of weaknesses outweigh it's main strengths. Poor all round armour, long gun aiming time, poor gun depression, extremely slow hull traverse speed, highly inaccurate aim, low armour penetration, low HP pool and mediocre gun stabilisation are waiting to haunt and torment the user. View range is able to exceed 445m with the standard equipment layout (without bino