With the release of Patch 1.49 (or Patch 1.70.1945 as its officially called) I take a quick look at some of the major changes introduced by the patch, such as the new damage and crash landing models new British FAA aircraft, US tank destroyers and I do a quick test drive of the Sherman Calliope to test out its rocket armament.
Update information:
http://warthunder.com/en/news/3060-update-1-70-1945-weapons-of-victory-en
Patch notes:
http://warthunder.com/en/game/changelog/current/439
Link to forum post regarding new premium vehicles:
http://forum.warthunder.com/index.php?/topic/236025-war-thunder-update-1701945/page-9#entry4548870
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Planes: https://youtu.be/TBmZ0gQjVvw
Test flights: https://youtu.be/ZFazsFiXrfg
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Update information:
http://warthunder.com/en/news/3060-update-1-70-1945-weapons-of-victory-en
Patch notes:
http://warthunder.com/en/game/changelog/current/439
Link to forum post regarding new premium vehicles:
http://forum.warthunder.com/index.php?/topic/236025-war-thunder-update-1701945/page-9#entry4548870
Link to Dev server videos⬇️
Tanks: https://youtu.be/2QRI3ok_gXk
Planes: https://youtu.be/TBmZ0gQjVvw
Test flights: https://youtu.be/ZFazsFiXrfg
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00:00Hello everybody, Torano here, and welcome to another episode of War Thunder.
00:04As you can see here, the new patch has come out.
00:07It's not patch 1.49, they've called it patch 1.17.1945.23.
00:13I don't think the 23 or 1 mean anything, it's basically 70 years since 1945, the end of the war.
00:20Now in this episode I'm just going to be looking at the major changes for patch 1.49.
00:25I'm going to call it patch 1.49 because the rest of it is just a bit of a mouthful.
00:29This isn't going to look at every single change, but this is going to look at all the major ones.
00:34I'll be linking to the patch notes in my dev server episodes where I looked at the content in greater detail.
00:41Now first of all, what's the major changes?
00:44Well for Britain, we've got the fleet air arm lineup.
00:48So Britain gets an extra jet, lots of higher tier propeller aircraft, and lots of other aircraft in between that.
00:55Now the major change is that Britain has finally got some heavily armed aircraft.
01:00Britain does have 20mm cannon armed aircraft, but they tend to be two cannons and mostly machine guns, unless you're going down the Tempest line.
01:09But the fleet air arm aircraft do seem to be much more heavily armed.
01:15After the sea hurricane Mark 1B, it's basically 20mm cannons only right up until the sea fires.
01:22Then it sort of goes to the traditional Spitfire, two cannons and a bunch of machine guns.
01:28But then it goes back to cannons only.
01:31So this is going to make things quite a lot better for Britain, I think.
01:35Because they tend to use a lot of 7.7mm machine guns in the lower tiers, which aren't very good.
01:41But the cannon armed aircraft seem to be lower battle rating.
01:45So this will hopefully change things up a little bit for Britain.
01:49If we look at Japan, they didn't actually get that much.
01:52They got a J2M2, which is a new fighter, which I did think was a bit under-tiered.
01:58I still think it's under-tiered and too low a battle rating compared to the Stats.
02:03It's faster than all the planes before and above it, or immediately before and above it.
02:10And it did seem quite manoeuvrable when I tested it.
02:13They've also got a new bomber, the Ki-21.
02:16Now this is a more sensible start-off for the Japanese.
02:19Because at the moment they get the H6K4, which is a float plane and it carries quite a lot of bombs.
02:26You know, 800kg bombs, or two of them.
02:29Whereas this is more of a sensible start-off.
02:33It carries less bombs, but it's a tier 1 plane.
02:36So it did seem a bit weird, it sort of jumped to massive bomb loads for their first bomber.
02:42Now Russia got a bunch of ground force vehicles, but we'll look at them in a minute.
02:47But with regards to air forces, Russia got a bunch of new R2s.
02:51The 37mm armed one and the R2M1943.
02:55They also got a bunch of new models, the Yak-9T and the Yak-9K.
02:58Some cockpits for the R28.
03:00They also got some premium aircraft, but they don't seem to be showing up yet.
03:05If I go to Britain quickly, I don't think their one's shown up either.
03:08We'll check in on the forum quickly for the patch 1.49 patch notes.
03:12It says they're going to be released as part of the Weapons of Victory pack.
03:17So I'll give you more information about that when that's been done.
03:20I just checked it this second, it wasn't on there when I looked a minute ago.
03:24Germany also got a bunch of... well they got...
03:27I don't think they actually got that many new planes.
03:29They got one new tier... well it was said to be tier 1, but it's tier 2.
03:33Bf 109 B1, late variant.
03:37And of course they got the Arado 234 C3, jet bomber with four engines.
03:42And they got cockpits for the HS 129B.
03:45If we go to America aircraft, again they got some new aircraft here.
03:51P-51 with 20mm cannons.
03:55If I go to preview for the P-51 quickly...
04:02Ah, they've changed it.
04:06It was actually pointed out in one of my previous videos by a viewer called Ben Stewart.
04:11That when you previewed it before, it took you to the British hangar.
04:15It would change all the background.
04:17But they seem to have changed that.
04:20So apparently this is probably going to be a British aircraft, I assume.
04:24Otherwise it wouldn't go to a British hangar.
04:27But that's the American aircraft, P-51.
04:30And like I said, it's got 20mm cannons.
04:33So quite a bit more powerful than the Browning machine guns that you get later on and before.
04:38Also got the AD-2 Skyraider.
04:41Now this is important for a number of reasons.
04:43Because if you wanted to research a tier 5 aircraft, you couldn't use the PBJs.
04:48Because basically they're only good for...
04:51If you can see here, most effective at researching vehicles ranked 2-4.
04:55If you tried to research a tier 5, you got a massive research penalty.
05:00And it would take away loads of RP.
05:02So this will allow you to research all those extra tier 5 aircraft with your naval line-up.
05:07As you can see here, it carries a lot of bombs.
05:10Not going to go through all of them, but this one at the end.
05:1212 rockets, 1 £2000 bomb and 2 £2000 bombs.
05:17So £3000 worth of rockets.
05:19And it's like that for most of it.
05:21Just tons of bombs all over the place.
05:23And again, it doesn't seem like the premium aircraft are here.
05:27They've actually added a P-47.
05:30P-47-M1-RE.
05:34But again, I assume that's a premium because it's not showing up here.
05:37Neither is the P-51D-10.
05:40The other major change is in ground forces.
05:43America got it's tank destroyer line.
05:46And it looks very good.
05:49I'm looking forward to unlocking all these.
05:51You can see I'm going back and unlocking some of the earlier tank destroyers.
05:55There's been a few complaints about the T-95.
05:58It's going to be overpowered.
06:00Everything's going to get destroyed by it.
06:03I don't know how true that's going to be.
06:05I remember the same stories about the Maus.
06:07They sort of dropped off after a few days.
06:09But we'll have to see how that works out.
06:12The patch only came out a few hours ago.
06:14But there is also a new vehicle.
06:16The rocket launcher T-34 Calliope.
06:19I'll quickly show you it.
06:20Actually, I'll test drive it as well in a minute.
06:229,000 Golden Eagles or so.
06:249,740.
06:26And a battle rating of 4.3.
06:28Now, I test drove this and it's okay.
06:32I'll show you what I mean.
06:34I'm just scanning through it so you can get a good look at it.
06:38I'll show the armour.
06:40As far as I'm aware, it's normal armour.
06:42It's got a 75mm gun.
06:45You can see the rocket launchers.
06:47They're not exactly well armoured.
06:49So it's not like you're going to have some glitches with them bouncing and everything.
06:53I haven't actually tested it in game.
06:55Like, in an actual match because I don't own it.
06:58As far as I can tell, crews are the same.
07:00Five crewmen.
07:02But I'll quickly show you how it works out in a test drive.
07:06So here we are with the Sherman Calliope.
07:09Fire a shot from the normal gun at the Panzer II.
07:15Sorry if I've gone a bit laggy there.
07:17So, right, we've ranged that.
07:19Shot from the rocket launcher.
07:21Oh, it's not firing.
07:23Right, I've got the control setup worked out.
07:26I did have it worked out earlier.
07:28So there, we've hit a Panzer IV.
07:30Now fire a rocket.
07:32Yeah, you can see they're not...
07:34They don't particularly go very far.
07:38I'm having to aim up all the way up here
07:40just to get a rocket vaguely in the right place.
07:43And they're not too accurate.
07:46I mean, I'm actually hardly looking at the target now.
07:49I don't actually know whether I'm hitting or not.
07:52I'm having to zoom so far up.
07:56Of course you can fire lots of them at once.
07:59But of course when they do hit, they do very good.
08:03You can see there, it took a lot of rockets to actually hit
08:06but we blew the tank to pieces.
08:08You can sort of see how many rockets you've got left
08:11by looking at the tubes.
08:13Oops, sorry if it's gone laggy again.
08:15But it's not exactly the best way of doing things
08:18in the middle of battle
08:20when you do have to look at someone from a bit of an angle.
08:23While we're here, I'm going to see how much damage
08:25this does to a Maus.
08:27Because we've blown up a Panzer IV with it
08:29so we know it can deal with that.
08:31When I test drove it earlier,
08:33I blew up a Panther from the side.
08:35So we know it can deal with
08:37those sort of tanks if given a good shot.
08:39But I'm just going to pause it while we go up to the Maus.
08:42So here we are near the Maus.
08:44I've also had to change some of my sound settings.
08:46I don't think it was recording the sounds properly.
08:49Get a bit nearer.
08:53So yeah, it doesn't work against the Maus unfortunately.
08:57Usually when a new vehicle comes out,
08:59I test it on the first few vehicles
09:01and then I drive straight up here
09:03just to get to the Maus.
09:05Because that just seems to be my benchmark
09:07for if something's any good or not.
09:09Or how well something can be.
09:11Let's see if I can get a shot in it from the rear.
09:15Can we?
09:19We took out the Horizontal Turret Drive,
09:21Vertical Cannon Drive, Gunner, Loader and Commander.
09:33So it's a bit hit and miss,
09:35but you can do fairly well with this.
09:38But you can also see there
09:40there's an updated damage model type thing.
09:42Damage Report.
09:44I don't like the new Damage Report.
09:46It doesn't show me how I damaged them.
09:48I mean, I know I took all that stuff out,
09:50but I don't know where I actually hit.
09:53So I don't like that change.
09:56Not at all.
09:59Because earlier, like I said earlier,
10:01I was testing this against the Panther.
10:03And I blew up the Panther,
10:05but I didn't realise for a few minutes
10:07because it didn't pop up.
10:09I didn't see that I'd done any damage to it.
10:11It was only when I had finished with some targets
10:14and went to look for others
10:16that I saw it was a burning wreck.
10:18And I just don't like the new Damage Report system.
10:22It just doesn't...
10:24It seems really obscure
10:26and it doesn't seem to do very well
10:28at informing you you've done damage.
10:30I prefer the old system a lot
10:32compared to what we have now.
10:34We'll test it against the King Tiger.
10:36I know it can take out the Panther
10:38because I did take it out earlier with the rocket.
10:41But we'll try against the Tiger too.
10:43So...
10:45Get a bit nearer.
10:47I actually managed to take one of these out
10:49with one shot earlier as well.
10:51I don't know if that's to do with the new changes they've made.
10:54Because they've changed the way penetration works.
10:56And I don't remember being able to take these out so easily.
10:59I took it out with one shot,
11:01went through the commander and blew up the Tiger.
11:04From a good 200 metres away or so.
11:06But we'll get close.
11:08Try the King Tiger.
11:10Fire the rockets.
11:15See, now this is pretty damn lethal.
11:18So we've taken out a Panther 2,
11:21a Panther...
11:23Well, I took out a Panther before, not in this video.
11:26A Panther 4.
11:28We did some decent damage to the mouse.
11:30Try it against the JagdTiger quickly.
11:32Just to see how that goes.
11:34Fire my 75mm to try and blow his tracks off a little bit.
11:38Or side skirts.
11:40See if that'll help.
11:42So we'll try it from this range.
11:47Again, you can see how inaccurate these rockets are though.
11:51Yeah, we've basically obliterated him.
11:56So that's the Sherman Calliope.
11:58Basically, it's pretty powerful.
12:01But it's just so inaccurate.
12:03I mean, you saw the ranges we were having to get to to do anything.
12:07It would be very useful in urban warfare.
12:09Them sort of types of maps with lots of narrow streets.
12:12But in open fields, you're just a huge target.
12:15So yeah, not going to be all that great.
12:18In that respect.
12:20But it's a decent tank.
12:22And I can see why they've put it at nearly 10,000 Golden Eagles.
12:26And at 4.3, it's going to be going against higher tier vehicles.
12:32So I don't mind it too much.
12:34Compared to when I first heard about it.
12:36Now again, there was another premium vehicle.
12:39The M5A1.
12:40But again, like with the others, it's not on here yet.
12:42So we go to the Germans, who've got one new vehicle.
12:45The Stur 42G.
12:47Basically it's a Stug G, but with a 105mm howitzer.
12:51Again, I'll link you to my dev server episode where I tested it.
12:54It wasn't that good, in my opinion.
12:56It's got worse armour penetration with stock ammo.
13:00It should have better after-penetration characteristics.
13:04I would have thought, being a howitzer.
13:06But I'm not entirely sure how accurate that would actually be.
13:10Whether it actually acts like that in-game.
13:13You can also see the new penetration characteristics we've been given.
13:17Basically, it now depends on angle and range, rather than just range.
13:22You can see here, at 100m, you can do anywhere between 64mm and 23mm.
13:27Depending on whether you did 0 degrees or 60 degrees.
13:31Penetration characteristics have also been changed.
13:34According to the dev server.
13:38According to the patch notes, all rounds will have an easier time getting through thicker, non-sloped armour.
13:45But against sloped armour, it's all going to be a lot less effective.
13:49With armour piercing being the worst against sloped armour.
13:53Moving away from the Stur 42 and the penetration changes.
13:58We've got the Russian new tanks.
14:00We've got the T-34E STZ.
14:03Which, as far as I can tell, is an up-armoured T-34 1942.
14:08I'll see if there's an information thing about it.
14:10Again, I'll link you to my dev server episode where I did take a look at it.
14:16But yeah, you can see a bunch of armour has been welded on.
14:2115mm thick over the 45mm thick armour.
14:24There's some gaps, of course, around the hatch and stuff.
14:28How thick is the hatch?
14:30Well, that's 75mm anyway, so it's not going to make too much difference.
14:33And there's a few other places where you can get through the extra armour.
14:37But again, they're quite sloped anyway, so it's not going to be too much of a difference.
14:42I don't know if any armour has been bolted on around the sides. It's hard to tell.
14:46But basically, this is an up-armoured T-34.
14:50So, it's going to be harder to destroy.
14:53But it doesn't seem to have that many improvements.
14:55It has the same guns as the one before it.
14:58Yeah, it's not going to be too different there.
15:01Now, there's been some quite big changes with the T-54s in regards to ammo.
15:06They got two new shots.
15:08The T-54, 1951 and 1949 both got the CBM-8.
15:13You can see penetration characteristics between 312 and 97 at 100 metres.
15:18The 1951 got the CBK, though, which is HEAT, High Explosive Anti-Tank.
15:24Which can do between 350 and 174 at all ranges.
15:29So, 350 for the HEAT round.
15:35If we go to the T-95 and look at its armour...
15:42Oh, you can see on the stat card, 305.
15:45So, you can see where this is going.
15:48It's basically been introduced so the Russian tanks can deal with the new T-95.
15:55I can't see any other reason they would have done this.
15:58Although, even on the sloped edges, it would still be very difficult to penetrate.
16:03You'd have to hit basically dead-on on the actual gun mantlet.
16:08But, you can see why they've added it in, just to deal with these tanks.
16:13They'll still struggle a little bit at the front if they hit the wrong places.
16:18They did say they were going to change the battle ratings.
16:21But, as far as I'm aware, they're still battle rating 8.
16:24So, if we look at the German tech tree...
16:27What's the Maus?
16:29So, coincidentally, that's also a battle rating of...
16:32Well, not coincidentally, but that's a battle rating of 8.
16:35And it's going to be going against tanks that can do 300mm penetration.
16:39The Maus, if we look at that quickly...
16:42So, here's the Maus.
16:44Yeah, it's going to be quite easy to penetrate with the HEAT rounds.
16:49The armour-piercing discarded sabot is not going to be as effective.
16:56But, it's still going to have a really good chance of punching through that armour.
17:00So, I'll show you the T-54-1949 just to show...
17:04Yeah, it's got the CBM, but not the CBK or the HEAT round.
17:09The Russians also got a few other tanks.
17:11They got the SU-122-54.
17:14You can see there it's got the CBK-10 with even better penetration, 400mm.
17:20And the CBM-7, 312mm at 100m again, at 0 degrees.
17:26So, this does... But the HEAT round, between 400 and 199 at all ranges, depending on the angle.
17:33That is going to cause a lot of problems.
17:35It's just going to be... It's battle rating 8, but...
17:38They really need to move these up to a higher battle rating, because they're bringing in Cold War tanks.
17:43And they really need to start moving the battle ratings up.
17:46Because it's just going to be sorting all the... You know, things like the Maus.
17:49That's a battle rating of 8 as well.
17:51How's this meant... How's it meant to stand up to this?
17:54This has quite OK armour as well.
17:56So, it can hold its own, unlike the SU-152 or ISU-152, which doesn't have that much good armour.
18:04Something like max 90.
18:06This has 100, but it's actually sloped.
18:08So, there's that new tank as well.
18:11Also got the 4M GAZ-AAA.
18:14It's basically a GAZ already in the game, but with 4 machine guns, rather than a 25mm cannon.
18:20Again, there were a bunch of premiums, but they haven't been added yet.
18:24The T-34-85E, an IS-2 and an SU-76 and an SU-57.
18:32Basically a half-track with a 57mm cannon on it.
18:37So, what other changes were added?
18:39Well, we're going to have to actually go to test flight for this.
18:42We'll go for the British Fleet Air Arm, because apparently they've got a new test flight map.
18:47And we'll use the Sea Hurricane, because I haven't test flown that yet.
18:51But, we're going to quickly test the new damage model and the crash landing mechanics.
18:58As well as the X-ray view for aircraft, which has just been added in.
19:02So, here's where the Fleet Air Arm will now take off.
19:06When it said a new specific test flight, I thought it would get its own map.
19:11But, apparently it just means taking off from an aircraft carrier.
19:14So, if we press the right button, we can see we've now got the new X-ray view.
19:19Now, of course, I'm not being shot at, so I can't actually show you how it changes.
19:23But, obviously, it will change to green and then yellow and then red, depending on damage.
19:27And you can see everything here. You can see your guns, your wind spars, your engine, your pilot.
19:33Presumably, you can see your gunners as well in bombers.
19:36Well, I'm pretty sure you can see your bomber gunners when I tested it earlier.
19:41We're just going to try testing the crash landing mechanics.
19:45Because, again, these have been changed.
19:48I'll just let you look inside the Sea Hurricane's cockpit as well.
19:54Sorry about the water effects. I don't know why that keeps happening.
19:58But, we're going to get over this town and test crash landing.
20:03So, we're not going to use our gears, obviously.
20:05Because, otherwise, we're not really testing the crash landing mechanics.
20:09We're just going to slow ourselves down.
20:11So, if we go too fast, it will just kill us.
20:13And we don't want that, because we can't actually see any changes.
20:18Now, props aren't showing up as a thing that can be damaged for some reason.
20:24I don't know if they're going to change that in future.
20:27Because it only gets damaged in crash landings.
20:30So, you can see there, we hit the ground.
20:32And you can see parts of the plane have changed.
20:34The engine's now red.
20:36And the end of the wing has gone yellow and blackish.
20:39So, presumably, that wing has been quite damaged.
20:43Now, you can't see it in actual cockpit view, unfortunately.
20:48Which, I don't know how that's going to work in...
20:50Well, I don't think it would work in simulator.
20:52Because, obviously, it's a simulator.
20:54It's not meant to have things like this.
20:56So, we go back to the hangar.
20:58Not restart. Back to the hangar.
21:00So, that showed the new emergency landing damage model.
21:04And where the British Fleet Air Arm were now doing their test flights.
21:08From an aircraft carrier.
21:10Now, what else has been added?
21:12Again, this episode is just dealing with the major changes.
21:15Not every single change in the patch notes.
21:18But one of the big major changes is three new maps.
21:22Berlin, Hertgen Forest and Normandy.
21:25Other changes also include a new shell for the M47 pattern.
21:30If we can find it.
21:31If we go to modifications, you can see this has also got a new shell.
21:34The M431. 320mm to 159mm penetration.
21:39Depending on the angle that you're hitting the enemy from.
21:42Anti-G load suits have been added for certain aircraft.
21:45The F8Fs and the F82E, if I'm remembering correctly.
21:50Yep, you can see the G suit there for the F82E.
21:54And check one of the F8Fs, just to make sure they have it as well.
21:58Yeah, if one has it, then presumably the other one has it.
22:01So, this should make things a bit easier in turnfights or in high-G manoeuvres.
22:05The speed of the Tiger H and Tiger E.
22:09Turret rotation has been increased.
22:11Before this patch, they both did something like 7.5 degrees a second.
22:15The H1 now does it something like 12 degrees a second.
22:18The E does about 14.
22:19The Ferdinand and the PZBFW 6P have also had their top speeds reduced.
22:25To about 30km an hour or 20mph.
22:28But before they were nearing something like 25mph or 24.
22:31The patch has also introduced a bunch of new decals.
22:34For example, you can see lots of new national decals.
22:38Pakistani, Air Force, Iranian, Indonesian, Brazilian.
22:44So lots of new decals have been added.
22:46There's also been new camouflages.
22:48I know one that's been added is the B-17G, if I can find that.
22:52B-17G, Customisation, Man O' War, 200 Golden Eagles.
22:59I believe they're all about 200 Golden Eagles.
23:02These are the ones created by users.
23:05They get a share of the revenue for these skins.
23:09So you can see Man O' War.
23:12Looks very good.
23:14I don't know if I'll buy it myself.
23:15I may do in the future.
23:16But at the moment I'm saving my Golden Eagles.
23:19You can see there's a lot of damage on it.
23:22I don't know if it was already damaged.
23:25I don't think my aircraft was damaged.
23:27What was it?
23:28Battle of the Bulge.
23:30Camouflage.
23:32So yeah, it was damaged.
23:34But it wasn't as damaged as with the Man O' War.
23:38If you look at the tail especially.
23:42Yeah, there wasn't that huge rip through it like with my one.
23:46I did hear that they were changing, with some of these camouflages,
23:51what the damage model looks like on some of these.
23:53Or the visual damage looks like.
23:55So I may actually buy that.
23:56That actually looks really cool.
23:58And you can see all these burn marks and bullets and fires.
24:02It looks really good.
24:03I may actually consider getting that at some point.
24:05And there's been a whole bunch of changes.
24:08But like I said, I'm not going through all the changes today.
24:11This was just to sort of look at all the significant changes.
24:14And I believe I've gone through all the significant changes.
24:17Of course there's been other minor changes like with ammunition loads out.
24:21Various maps already in the game have had various bits changed to make balancing fairer.
24:27But I'm not going to go through all of them today.
24:29Because like I said, it was just to go through the significant changes.
24:33But I hope you enjoyed the episode.
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24:40Yeah, thanks for watching.
24:42I'll see you next time, man.
24:43Have fun and play.