Quick look at the Patch notes for 1.43 on War Thunder, as well as my analysis some of the changes!
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00:00Hello everybody, and welcome to another episode of War Thunder.
00:03As you can see, patch 1.43 has come out.
00:06Got the new aircraft, Ki-27, just unlocked it.
00:11Only took one match, and I think I spent like 10 Golden Eagles, because I had some spare.
00:17Mainly because that was the nearest one I had to actually get in most of the new aircraft of tier 5.
00:23And just so we had something new in the hangar.
00:26Obviously been a lot of changes.
00:28The most obvious one you can see here is the hangar.
00:31But there have been, you know, obviously a lot more changes.
00:34The presets down here, got the new little menus here.
00:38New single player missions, new aircraft, new skins.
00:41If we go to the Ki-10 here, you can see you've got new skins for the Ki-10s and quite a few others.
00:48But obviously it'd be probably better to actually look at the patch notes,
00:52because obviously we won't be able to see all of it here.
00:55So we'll just pop over to the patch notes.
00:58So here we are on the patch notes for 1.43.
01:02We're not going to go through everything, because we've gone through quite a few of this in,
01:05well, most of this stuff in other videos.
01:08Plus I haven't got that much time to do the video.
01:11Like I said, I've got a lot of uni work lately.
01:13So we'll just go through the basic stuff, or the most important changes.
01:18First one is actually quite important.
01:20The client data has been separated into two parts, a minimal and a HD client.
01:25So basically you can start playing once you've downloaded the minimal client,
01:30then download the rest of it later.
01:32We had a lot of problems when the patch notes, the dev server was first unlocked or released.
01:40A lot of people couldn't get on the first time,
01:41because they had to download all these HD textures.
01:45So making that so it's not mandatory to have them straight away is,
01:49you know, a very good change, in my opinion.
01:52This is quite an important change.
01:54Visibility calculations were changed for aircraft in realistic battles.
01:58Now even marked enemy will only be shown at a limited distance of 6 kilometers.
02:04That's going to make things quite hard, because usually,
02:09I don't know if this is going to affect,
02:11say you've got one person at one end of the map dogfighting with the enemy.
02:14Usually you know where they are, because if you're on the other side of the map,
02:17or the opposite side of the map, because, you know, your other guy is fighting with them.
02:22I hope it's not going to change it so you don't know where they are,
02:26and you have to just rely on the chat reports, because that would seem a bit...
02:31It might make more sense, but having it marked...
02:34Anyway, you could just assume your other friendly pilot was,
02:38you know, marking it out for you, or, you know, radioing it to you.
02:43I don't really know how that change is going to be,
02:46but hopefully it won't be a negative change.
02:49Tank modes have been changed.
02:51Multi-spawns and one-crew slots have now been removed,
02:55except for reserves.
02:57Repairs on all tanks that had multi-spawn available have been significantly reduced.
03:01Oh, that's quite good then.
03:03What else is there?
03:04You can buy partially researched modules with proportionally partial price in Golden Eagles.
03:09Basically, say you have half a module unlocked,
03:12you can only spend half the Golden Eagles.
03:15A very good change in my opinion,
03:17because you could be one point off,
03:19and you'd still have to spend the whole 300 Golden Eagles or whatever for a modification.
03:26This is something that's actually quite annoying to me.
03:28This is a very good patch, but this is something that has annoyed me.
03:31Pilots will no longer be displayed with low quality texture selected.
03:36So basically, your pilot, you can see him in third person,
03:38but if you go into first person view, the cockpit will just be empty,
03:42which is bad.
03:43I actually tried to put it back to high quality,
03:45and I was actually then told I didn't have enough video memory,
03:48which was quite weird,
03:50because I've been playing with high quality for a long time.
03:53I've only recently reduced it, so I don't know why that has changed.
03:59Yeah, that's probably one of the only things that hasn't annoyed me in this patch.
04:05Visibility through cockpit glass has been slightly improved.
04:07Now, that would be good for simulated battles,
04:09because I think some of the aircrafts had dirty windscreens and stuff,
04:14which, okay, may be realistic,
04:16but didn't exactly help when you're trying to spot the enemy.
04:20Performance on all ground forces locations have been improved for DirectX 11.
04:26Probably won't affect me, but I have heard that
04:30the performance of ground forces is sometimes not all that good graphic-wise,
04:34you know, low FPS and stuff like that,
04:36so hopefully it'll improve that.
04:38We've got the new arcade tank battle mode.
04:40We have actually looked at that in another video.
04:43I will link to that.
04:45So I'm not going to go into that too much details,
04:47but basically it's the unlocking the aircraft for use in a battle,
04:52having to unlock artillery by getting kills, that sort of thing.
04:56New realistic battle mode.
04:58I haven't actually tested this.
05:01Basically, if you destroy an enemy vehicle, deal damage,
05:03or capture some of your points,
05:05then you can spend these on further respawns in any vehicle set in your lineup.
05:10I may have talked a little bit about this, actually.
05:12I'll go through it anyway.
05:14You start off with a certain amount of points to get you into the battle,
05:18you know, buy your first vehicle to use.
05:21The matchmaking is calculated according to the vehicle with the maximum battle rating.
05:27If you don't earn enough points in that first life,
05:29you just withdraw from the battle.
05:31If you get enough, then you can, I assume, buy the next vehicle,
05:36or use the next vehicle.
05:40If you have a battle rating difference of one,
05:42say you've got a tank with three,
05:43and the next one down is, I don't know, 1.9.
05:48The maximum step-down ratio is 0.75,
05:53so I think that means the minimum you'd be facing is 1.2 battle rating.
06:00I'm not entirely sure how that works.
06:02It might be 0.75 from the average battle rating,
06:06because it averages from the top three battle rating tanks and stuff.
06:11I'm not entirely sure how that'll work,
06:12but I'm assuming it's going to have quite a few changes.
06:15You know, I've heard people say that it will have quite a big effect
06:19in realistic battles, some of them changes.
06:22Like I said, I don't really play tanks myself,
06:23so I don't understand all of it.
06:25We've got the new race modes.
06:28Like I said in my...
06:29Well, I did show you mine in my other videos.
06:31It's basically just racing,
06:34so like tier 3, all tier 3, all tier 4, like the fastest aircraft.
06:39You race against each other,
06:40repairs are much lower in that mode than any other mode,
06:43which is good.
06:45I don't know if that counts in the race as well.
06:47I think I had quite a high repair cost
06:50when I actually crashed in the race,
06:51because you could respawn,
06:53but I don't know if that's been changed.
06:56Game rewards for victories in the events,
06:58but I don't know what those rewards will be.
07:01It takes place on the new map Tropical Island.
07:03I haven't really looked into that too much.
07:05I haven't really done air race mode.
07:06I did one race in the dev server and crashed quite early on,
07:11so I will have to look at that, possibly in another video.
07:16Automatic squad feature has been enabled.
07:19If you're not in a squad, basically,
07:20you'll be divided into squads automatically.
07:25If you've chosen random spawn point respawn,
07:28you'll be spawned closer to the players from your squad.
07:32Gain ability to get additional water squads.
07:35I've been playing a few matches and have been wondering what they were,
07:38so I assume that explains it.
07:40I keep getting teamwork.
07:41I assume that's from the auto squads.
07:44Will look different from normal squads.
07:46Very important.
07:47You don't want to be mistaken for...
07:48If you're a normal squad,
07:49you don't want to be mistaken for an automatic squad.
07:52But you can disable it in the game options,
07:54which seems a bit pointless to make automatic squads
07:57and then make it so you don't have to go into an automatic squad.
08:01But yeah, I don't know.
08:03It sounds like a good change, personally.
08:05Just apart from that last bit, really.
08:09On the interface, we've got the replay view that's been changed.
08:13I did look at that in one of my videos.
08:15I'll link it again.
08:17Quite a few of the changes were pretty good.
08:20I did like the new replay,
08:22except the only problem I had was it wasn't really showing up enemy vehicles as well.
08:28I don't know if that's been changed again,
08:31based on feedback from the dev server.
08:33Got vehicle presets for crews.
08:35You can make a preset of all tier 5, all tier 4, all tier 3.
08:40So you can just swap between them quickly
08:42without having to change every single aircraft in your lineup.
08:46Spectator view screen has been reworked.
08:49I don't know if that's the one you get when you die in general.
08:52It says available in custom battles.
08:54I don't know if that means it's been added in custom battles.
08:56I know they've changed the spectator view when you die in normal matchmaking,
09:01so I assume that's what they mean by reworked.
09:03I assume that they're talking about the same thing.
09:05The camera for ground forces on how you got destroyed.
09:09That'll be definitely good,
09:10because you get a lot of people saying they don't understand how they die.
09:13This will definitely help people to understand how they're dying,
09:18how they're getting killed sort of thing.
09:20Got the new armour view mode.
09:23Added the possibility to view inner modules of the tank in battle.
09:27Now that again shows if it's intact, damaged or destroyed.
09:30I didn't notice that before.
09:32That must be a new thing from after the dev server.
09:35That's going to be quite a good change,
09:36because you never know really what's been damaged a lot.
09:40It's not like your plane where it's black if it's destroyed,
09:44or red if it's damaged.
09:45You don't know that on the tanks usually,
09:46so that'll be really good.
09:49Looking forward to seeing that when I play tanks next.
09:53Got the new shell icons.
09:54I did talk about them a little bit,
09:58but there isn't really much to them.
10:00Just different icons really for different shells.
10:04Um, mission for aerobatic teams.
10:07I don't know what that's about.
10:10Is that to do with racing?
10:12I haven't heard of that before.
10:13It might be for one of those new missions you can create yourself.
10:18Can't really comment on that because I have no idea what it is.
10:21New locations have been added and modes.
10:24Modes added for Mozdok.
10:25Poland, got Norway.
10:28Got the single player missions.
10:29Got tropical island.
10:30Changes on existing locations.
10:32Oh, so Mozdok is a new one, sorry.
10:35For some reason I thought we would add it in game.
10:37Well, we do for aircraft, I think.
10:41They've changed some areas with like rocks and stuff, textures.
10:46Bigger and more open for Kaban.
10:48The last one I was talking about was Karelia.
10:50A lake has been added.
10:51Hill has been removed.
10:53Looking at positions, replacing new ones.
10:56Crashed Bf-109s and PE-2s destroyed as decoration.
11:01Craters from artillery hits have been added, good.
11:04Several Kapanais have been added to the battlefield.
11:07I don't know if they're like emplacements.
11:10Models have destroyed tanks and turrets.
11:12Old ones replaced for new.
11:14Oh, they'll be used as cover, so that'll be okay, I suppose.
11:17Targets for bombers.
11:18Airfields moved closer.
11:20And new modes added.
11:21All collected in one under custom battles.
11:24Spain, we've got single player missions.
11:26Ash River, got the cargo rail cars.
11:30Added close to the northern capture point near the destroyed railway bridge.
11:34No actual gameplay functionality, just destructible.
11:38Got the new ground vehicles and aircraft.
11:39I'll leave a link for them as well.
11:42Because I've already talked about them a bit.
11:44Got the new decors.
11:46Won't really dwell on them because there's only a few of them.
11:50I don't want to have to read through all of them.
11:52Now new skins.
11:53Now this is actually quite good.
11:54Um, because I think this is from the user skins from live.
12:00That's that new website, I haven't really looked at it.
12:02But um, I think people can make their skins or, you know, themselves.
12:07And then they release them for people to use.
12:09Some of them have been, you know, officially released.
12:12And I think they get a share of the profits from it, the people who created them.
12:17Which is good of Gaijin.
12:18Um, I'll quickly show you some of the different skins quickly.
12:22So quickly taking a look at the skins.
12:25It's a bit of a weird shadow.
12:27Um, this is the I-153, um, new camo that you can unlock.
12:32Got the P-38's, um, invasion stripes camouflage.
12:36Um, should also point out, I can't actually look at all of them.
12:39Because I haven't actually unlocked all of them.
12:41But I will try and look at as many as I can.
12:44Um, where's, I think Britain has a new one.
12:47Or Japan has a new one.
12:49Is it the Ki-61 Hay, I think it is.
12:52Customization.
12:55244th Sentai camouflage.
12:59Oh, looks quite good.
13:01Um, what's the difference between the old one, um.
13:05Oh yeah, it's got sort of bigger blots on it.
13:08Um, I think the only other one I can really look at is the Spitfire Mark 5B.
13:13Um, hold on.
13:18Uh, customization.
13:20And we get the camouflage from the 92nd squadron.
13:24Which looks very nice.
13:26Um, that looks very good actually.
13:29The other ones we got are the Ki-10's.
13:31So I'll quickly take a look at them.
13:34I think, there's the red-white aerobatic camouflage.
13:38You've already seen that.
13:40We've got the yellow aerobatic.
13:43I believe it's the same for the Ki-10-2.
13:47Um, I did just pause the video.
13:48So I wasn't just looking at the same one.
13:50I think I missed out the P-39.
13:52Um, is it the N, I think.
13:54Customization.
13:59The Panty Bandit camouflage.
14:01Which looks okay.
14:03Definitely looks more like it's actually camouflage than, you know,
14:07with the original one we've got at the moment.
14:12And I think the last one I can look at is the F6F-5.
14:15Um, is it the F6F-5?
14:19Sorry, the F6F-3.
14:22I don't know where I got 5 from.
14:27Oh, it's the VF-84 squadron.
14:31Oh, it actually looks like a bear camouflage type thing there.
14:37Yeah, so definitely like that new camouflage there.
14:39I'll have to unlock it.
14:41I don't know if you have to buy these or you can unlock them.
14:45But yeah.
14:46Oh, there was one last aircraft to look at.
14:48The Ki-84 co, um, 100 second centaur camouflage.
14:55Which looks very nice.
14:56It makes it look like a, um, Ki-61.
15:02So yeah, I don't know if you can unlock them or you have to buy them.
15:05Would be a shame if you had to buy them.
15:07But I suppose they, you know, if that's how they, like I said,
15:10they're people who made it get a share of the profits.
15:13I suppose, you know, they get helped out a bit as well.
15:16So I suppose it's not too bad.
15:19But like I said, I can't really look at the other ones
15:22because I haven't unlocked them yet.
15:24But, um, yeah, if there's anything like the ones we've just seen there,
15:28they should be quite good, hopefully.
15:30Um, damage model and ground force characteristics.
15:34I'm not going to look through this because I don't really play tanks.
15:38So I wouldn't even understand what most of this will mean.
15:40Flight models changed.
15:43Simulation of piston engines at high altitude have been improved.
15:46Now this is very important because apparently planes like the TA-152
15:50aren't actually working as they should be
15:52because, um, I think it had like a two-stage engine
15:55and basically only one of the engines is working or something.
15:58Um, I'm not entirely sure,
15:59but basically it's only got like half the power it should have
16:02even though it's a high altitude fighter.
16:04And it is ironically very bad at high altitude.
16:07From what I've heard, I haven't unlocked it myself.
16:10So hopefully that will change it, you know, make it better.
16:13Some engines are now automatically-
16:15have a-
16:16they're-
16:16sorry, there were automatically controlled engine supercharges
16:19added to increase efficiency on every step.
16:22Um, change the display of the second step run on boost
16:26on, um, ASH-82FN engine.
16:30Boost not working, WEP is highlighting grey colour.
16:32I don't know what plane that's for,
16:34but, um, just reading what it said.
16:36Um, the Arado will now start in the air
16:38because basically it couldn't take off from most airfields.
16:42The LAG-3-811, uh, engine propeller combination properties have-
16:49have been specified.
16:50Um, added take-off mode for the engine.
16:53Improved take-off and landing characteristics.
16:55Yeah, I don't understand a lot of this.
16:57Um, maximum structural load of, um, B-17A and G has been recalculated.
17:03Um, will be destroyed during overload.
17:05Um, don't know if that helps in realistic battles.
17:08Um, maybe people are doing weird manoeuvres with them.
17:12Um, full manual control to speed governor for the BF-109E1 and E3.
17:17Be careful to not- not to break the engine.
17:20Now, I've seen this a few times.
17:21It keeps saying like, here, P-47D-25 and 28.
17:25Over revving turbine will cause engine damage.
17:27Um, I didn't think you could actually do that in, um, you know,
17:31I've never heard that a plane engine's been broken on, you know,
17:35because you used it wrongly.
17:37I mean, I've heard of it in other games and I know it can happen in real life,
17:39but I haven't heard of it happening in, um, War Thunder,
17:42so I don't know how that's change is going to go down with people.
17:46Ah, this is good.
17:47Damage to the 4,000 pound British bomb cookie has been fixed.
17:50Um, I think these were a bit underpowered from what I understand.
17:53Um, you know, I've used them myself.
17:56Dropped them one night near a load of tanks.
17:57Only got one kill or something, so that'll be good.
18:01New bomb loads to the Lancaster.
18:0314 250 pound bombs.
18:0514 1,000 pound bombs.
18:07Or one 4,000, six 1,000, and two 250 pound bombs.
18:14So 250, yeah, that'll be...
18:17I can see a lot of complaints coming about because of that,
18:20although the Lancaster isn't exactly the most powerful plane in the world,
18:24so probably, you know, as long as you've got decent interceptors,
18:28you should be okay defending against them.
18:31Um, sight angles to the Dornier 217.
18:33Top turret fixed.
18:35Same for the AR-2 top turret.
18:38Pod armaments added to the F-84B.
18:40I did talk about that a bit in one of my other videos, I think.
18:44But basically, combinations of HVAR rockets,
18:48Tiny Tim, and rockets and bombs from 100 to 1,000 pounds.
18:53Bomb release order changed to the Sawfish.
18:56Capsulations of the height for torpedo launch has been fixed.
18:59I know there was quite a lot of difficulty in actually launching torpedoes for some planes.
19:04Making it basically impossible to launch the torpedoes without destroying it,
19:08so that'll be good.
19:1015mm MG151 cannons have been changed to 40 seconds for untrained crew.
19:16That's quite an important change for some of the aircraft,
19:20because I think they've been treated to machine guns till now,
19:22so that could, you know, affect some planes' effectiveness.
19:271,000 pound bombs added for underwing...
19:30...underwing holders have been added for the Tempest Mk5 and Mk2.
19:35So they can probably be quite useful as fighter bombers now.
19:38They've had a limited bomb load up till now,
19:40so looking forward to them being more effective as fighter bombers.
19:46Modifications changed.
19:47I think you get these back after one match.
19:49It seems to be touch and go for me at the moment.
19:52Some I'm getting them back, some I'm not,
19:53so I don't know how that's working exactly.
19:56It says you'll get RP, Silver Lions or Golden Eagles.
19:59I've been getting RP, or I've actually just been getting them unlocked
20:02and then having to re-buy it, so...
20:04Although I've been refunded the Silver Lions as well,
20:06so I'm not losing out that much.
20:08Ammunition load on A6M2, 3 and 5 fighters has been fixed.
20:12Same for the...
20:13Well, ammunition's been fixed for the P-51D, 20 and D-30.
20:18Order of modifications for research has been changed for aircraft that are 5th rank.
20:22Research will go smoother for getting new upgrades for a jet engine,
20:25or a jet aircraft.
20:26I think basically you would need a ridiculous amount of points
20:29for some of the early upgrades,
20:30but not as much for the higher tiers of the upgrades.
20:34Not entirely sure how that works.
20:38Changes for prices on lockable shells and sub-caliber shells.
20:45But basically a lot of changes to some of the shell prices.
20:49We've got the tech tree changes.
20:51I've already covered them as well.
20:53I'll link to that as well.
20:55In one of my...
20:56Link to one of my other videos.
20:58New sounds, like for the machine guns and the...
21:02Some of the engines, I think.
21:05And tanks and stuff.
21:06New awards.
21:08I've been getting some of them.
21:10I've been getting Team Mate a lot,
21:11but that doesn't seem to be a new one.
21:13And that's basically all of the patch notes.
21:18You know, it's actually turned into quite a long video.
21:19I won't be able to really show all of the, you know, effects of it.
21:24Like I said, I haven't really got much time,
21:25and I haven't been able to...
21:27You know, I still haven't unlocked a lot of the new aircraft and stuff.
21:30But like I said, I wanted to get something out,
21:33because I haven't had a video out for a week.
21:34I'm trying to get one out a week.
21:38Plus, just because it's quite an important occasion in War Thunder,
21:41I wanted to get something out for it.
21:43But yeah, thank you for watching.
21:45Hope you enjoyed the video.
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21:53Sorry, it's not exactly the best video in the world,
21:55but like I said, limited time to do it.
21:59And I can't really...
22:00You know, I'm not going to have much time to do it and edit it.
22:02So yeah, thank you for watching,
22:04and I'll see you next time.