After a long hiatus from War Thunder, I return to take a very quick look at the new Patch 1.55 Dev Server, which includes the American F3F, British tanks and Stirling heavy bombers, the Japanese A7M1 and much more!
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00:00Hello everybody, Torino here, and welcome to the patch 1.55 dev server on War Thunder.
00:06Now, first things first, I usually do a dev server episode for each of the patches.
00:12I obviously didn't do one last patch, 1.53.
00:16Basically a lot of the graphical introductions meant I couldn't log in for some reason.
00:22The only way I've been able to get around that is ultra-low quality.
00:25My PC can do more than that, but for some reason it keeps crashing.
00:29So I do apologise about that.
00:31But of course, this is the patch that introduces the British tanks.
00:35And, well, there's been some leaked images of the tech tree on the Reddit page and the forum.
00:42And the tanks themselves, we've only got four here, but the tanks themselves are pretty good.
00:48But apparently Gaijin have decided to do the actual lines in a bit of a weird hodgepodge way.
00:57Well, basically the tanks we've got here, we've got two light tanks, which in reality are actually cruisers.
01:03The Crusader Mk.II and the Mk.IV A-13.
01:07They were actually cruiser tanks, which are sort of meant to...
01:10I suppose they were for exploiting breakthroughs, which were created by the infantry tanks,
01:15which were supposed to support the infantry.
01:18We've got the Tetrarch, I never remember how to pronounce this, which was a light tank.
01:25It was produced quite early in the war but didn't actually go into service until quite a bit later.
01:30Madagascar and I think Normandy and possibly Operation Varsity.
01:34And the first armoured car in War Thunder, the T-17E2, which is used in the anti-aircraft role.
01:41But like I said, there's been leaked images and apparently it's done in a really weird fashion.
01:45Of course we haven't got any infantry tanks on here, they all start with light and cruiser tanks for some reason.
01:50But apparently this line sort of goes to the Batildas and Churchills.
01:54While the Tetrarch seems to go to Valentines, which are also infantry tanks.
02:00I don't know why they do that, and then it goes to light tank destroyers.
02:05Yeah, it doesn't really make sense.
02:08While the A-13 is the most sensible line, it just goes to cruiser tanks, from what I understand, and medium tanks.
02:15But we look at the first British tank, the A-13 Mk.I, and it's one of the reserve tier tanks.
02:22And as you can see, I think we've already got this in-game as a premium, but with slightly more armour.
02:28You can see it's very lightly armoured, only 28mm.
02:32But it's armed with a good gun, the 40mm quick-firing 2-pounder gun.
02:38Now, I actually looked at the stock ammo at the armour piercing, and it's a very good gun.
02:43It's basically better than anything the Germans have until I think something like the Panzer IV F2 and the Panzer III with the long 50mm.
02:51I think it's better than most Russian stuff until, like, some of the later T-34s and possibly the IS-1 or the SU-85.
02:59The American's 37mm gun is pretty good.
03:03I think that's basically the original 37mm is about equal and the later ones surpass it.
03:09But yeah, the 40mm gun is pretty good.
03:13This is for 500m, what I was comparing earlier, at 90 degrees angle.
03:18Armour-piercing-capped ballistic-capped is also pretty good.
03:21It seems to retain better penetration at longer ranges compared to the stock ammo.
03:26Especially once you get beyond 1000m or so.
03:30But looking at the rest of the tank, of course, the armour is not particularly thick.
03:36It's only like 28mm. Well, it says 28, but it only seems to show up as 14, so I'm not sure where the 28 bit is.
03:45Unless there's, like, two layers or something.
03:48And again with the turret, it says 28, but only seems to be 14, except around...
03:54Yeah, but even the gunman there is only about 14.
03:57So that seems a bit odd.
03:59And yeah, it's basically the same amount of armour all the way round.
04:03But like I said, it's got a pretty good gun, an excellent gun.
04:07Speed is 24.4mph. Now this is a light tank, and I'm pretty sure...
04:12I think most of the early American tanks are actually faster than this.
04:16Including their medium tanks, so...
04:19Yeah, this isn't particularly great. Maybe this is just better at getting to its top speed than others.
04:24Crew, there's only four crew.
04:26Driver, loader, gunner, commander and your aimer.
04:31So yeah, your standard tank, for reserved tier, is pretty good.
04:36But, you know, it's not excellent.
04:38It will be penetrated by anything, but it does have that excellent...
04:41Well, that pretty good 2-pounder gun.
04:44And next up is the Crusader Mark II.
04:46Now I thought this had...
04:48Well, yeah, it's got 30mm of armour. It says 28.
04:52I thought it had better armour than this in the early models, but...
04:56Possibly I'm mistaken.
04:58Oh, 50mm in a few little areas.
05:01It's got this little machine gun at the front.
05:03As far as I'm aware, it's not actually operable yet.
05:06It was deleted in many of the later models, because it was a bit of a...
05:09Well, it wasn't particularly great.
05:12You know, a bit of a weakness in the tank.
05:14It's just not needed.
05:16Again, it's got the 2-pounder gun.
05:18Has it got the same ammunition? I'm pretty sure it has.
05:21Yeah, same ammunition.
05:23Interestingly, it has a high-explosive shell.
05:25As far as I'm aware, in the actual war, they didn't particularly use the high-explosive shells for whatever reason.
05:30They were never issued.
05:32And again, standard armour.
05:35Slightly sloped.
05:37So, you know, that 14mm becomes 20.
05:40But, you know, battle rating 2. It's going to be penetrated anyway.
05:43Speed is 26.3mph.
05:46Again, that's an okay speed, but there are faster stuff.
05:50But again, it's going to be this big gun it's going to have to rely on.
05:53And you see this along with a lot of the British tanks.
05:57You know, they all carry basically the same guns.
06:01The only way to differentiate from them is by crew, speed, and armour.
06:06And again, it's got four crew.
06:09It's got commander, aimer, driver, and machine gunner.
06:13So only two people in the turret, which is a bit of a disadvantage.
06:17And then we move on to the Tetrach.
06:20Again, I still haven't quite gotten it down on how to pronounce it.
06:24Now again, armed with the 2-pounder gun.
06:27Again, it's a light tank.
06:29From what I understand, they use these during parachute drops.
06:32Like for gliders and stuff.
06:34And as such, it does have very thin armour.
06:36Only 16mm on the hull front.
06:39And the gun mantlet.
06:41You know, it's going to be penetrated by whatever you fire at it.
06:46And there's only three crew.
06:48Two people in the turret come out.
06:50Commander, gunner, and driver.
06:52So again, it's a fast tank, but very...
06:55Yeah, 42mph.
06:57But very lightly armoured.
07:00And lastly, we've got the armoured car.
07:02Which, um...
07:04Yeah, I'm a bit disappointed it wasn't like one of the Dalmiers or something.
07:07With the 2-pounder gun.
07:09From what I understand, this is an American armoured car.
07:12Or the chassis is.
07:14So maybe it can pave the way for American armoured cars.
07:17Now this actually has the thickest armour at 31mm.
07:21And due to sloping, it actually goes up to 40mm.
07:24Yeah, the most heavily armoured thing on the British tech tree is an armoured car.
07:28Um, it's...
07:30Yeah, it's weird.
07:32Even at the front, because of sloping, it's basically 30mm.
07:36It's just ridiculous why this is so armoured compared to everything else.
07:41And again, it's only got two machine guns.
07:44But these can rip through Panzer IIs and Panzer IVs from the flanks at least.
07:48So you could still be a bit of a danger at 1.0.
07:51And three people. You've got a commander, driver and an aimer.
07:55I don't know what the commander's going to be doing all the way down there, but there he is.
08:00So that was all the British tanks.
08:03And there is a premium as far as I can tell. It's not really that different.
08:08This one I think might have slightly more armour.
08:11I know one of them does have slightly more armour, I think.
08:14But that was all the British tanks.
08:17But of course Britain got another new fewer aircraft.
08:21The Stirlings.
08:23And finally, the Wellingtons have been put back to tier 2, where they kind of belonged.
08:28They were really over-tiered until these Stirlings arrived.
08:32Or will be arriving.
08:34And the Stirlings are a bit... odd.
08:37But they look very good.
08:40They've got a bit of an odd turret.
08:42It doesn't show any armour, but it doesn't say there isn't any armour.
08:45So I don't know if that's just not showing up yet.
08:48The X-Ray, you can see you've got your two-pilot gunner at the front.
08:52Two gunners at the back, and... well, in the middle and one at the back.
08:56It's got a Dawson machine gun, something most British bombers don't really have.
09:00Although, the firing arc I think you're basically going to be hitting the same things as the back turret gunner.
09:06So it's not going to be that useful. It's only one machine gun.
09:10But it's the bomb load that's a bit interesting.
09:1427. 250 or 500 pound bombs.
09:19Now, the Lancaster...
09:22Now remember, the Stirling gets 27 of both.
09:26Only gets 14 of each.
09:31Yeah, I'm not sure if that's right.
09:34That the Stirling will be getting a bigger bomb load than the Lancaster.
09:38And it's the same with the other Stirling, the B Mark III, which we'll look at in a minute.
09:42The Mark I is quite fast. 246 miles per hour.
09:47And it can get to 6,098 metres.
09:50A climb rate of 3.7 metres.
09:52So it can get pretty high. It's a bit slower than the Wellingtons.
09:56But, you know, ridiculously good bomb load.
09:59But it doesn't particularly climb very well.
10:02Now looking at the Stirling Mark III...
10:07And by the way, this is battle rating 5.3. The other one was 5.0.
10:11It's a bit slower, and it gets worse climb rate.
10:15But it can get to a higher altitude.
10:18And they've also deleted the Dorsal turret.
10:21I believe it's Dorsal.
10:23So you've got less defence, and you're going a bit slower, and you're climbing worse.
10:27Other than that, the crews are the same.
10:29The modifications are about the same, bomb-wise.
10:34It's a very welcome addition, but I get the feeling they haven't finished all of the things for this.
10:39Sometimes you do get this in dev servers, with bomb loads and stuff not being complete.
10:45I don't know, it feels like this has got a few more disadvantages.
10:49For no particular reason.
10:51So there must be something different about this other than...
10:54You know, to make it have worse speed and such.
10:56Even though it's lost some weight.
10:59I think it might be... Possibly it's due to the wing size.
11:02I think the dev blog about it did mention wing size.
11:05And that was all of the British aircraft and tanks.
11:09Like I said, battle rating 5.0.
11:13And it's rank 3, so that's now between the Lancasters and the Wellingtons.
11:18Now, Japan's also got, finally, a few new little aircraft.
11:23It's got a Ki-61T, if I can find that.
11:27We'll look at that first.
11:29Now, if we look at armour, it's got not particularly great armour.
11:33You know, it's only a bit at the back.
11:35And again, it doesn't look much different.
11:37It has two 20mm cannons and two machine guns.
11:41It does 360mph, battle rating 4.7, turn time of 21 seconds, climb rate of about 11.9.
11:48Now, compare that to the one before, it has...
11:53It has a little bit better rate of climb, turn times a bit more.
12:00But it does go faster.
12:02Or it should go faster once upgraded, hopefully.
12:06But it has a slightly worse burst mass.
12:10So why is that?
12:12Yeah, it has the Japanese cannons, so this may not be as big a...
12:17Well, it helps fill the gaps between the Ki-84 and the Ki-61s.
12:21But it doesn't seem to have that many advantages over the one before it.
12:26The other new Japanese aircraft is the A7M2.
12:30And I do like the look of this aircraft.
12:32It looks a bit like some of the dive bombers.
12:35I've forgotten the name of it.
12:37Is it B7A2 or something?
12:39Yeah, it looks a tiny bit like the B7A2.
12:41And this gets two machine guns and two cannons.
12:45Speed of 363 miles per hour, battle rating 5.3, rate of climb 12.6 metres per second.
12:51And it also gets some armour.
12:5470mm bulletproof glass and some steel.
12:58And other than that, it looks about the same.
13:01But, you know, I don't think the A6...
13:04It's the first of the A7...
13:06Well, it's the first of the naval fighters to get some proper armour, from what I understand.
13:09If I'm remembering correctly.
13:11And it does seem to fit between the M1K2 and the A6M5.
13:15Speed-wise, you know.
13:17Faster than the A6M5, but slower than the M1K2.
13:21Turn time is about the same.
13:25It's slightly more than the A6M5, but about the same as the M1K.
13:30Rate of climb 12.6.
13:33It's less than... worse than the A6M and...
13:37No, actually it's worse than both of them.
13:39Worse than the M1K2 as well, so...
13:42This is a bit more of a boom-and-zoom fighter.
13:45It also has a much better burst mass than the A6M5.
13:50But worse than the M1K2.
13:53And the next aircraft is the Ki-44He, which is now folded.
13:57Now this gets four machine guns.
13:59I don't know why they're all counted separately.
14:01Yeah, it doesn't seem like there's any reason for it.
14:04Again, not particularly great armour.
14:06X-ray looks about the same.
14:08Battle rating 2.7.
14:10There you have a little look of it.
14:12And it does look pretty nice.
14:14Although it looks like the fuselage is a bit too big for the wings for some reason.
14:19And does that... how does that fit between the 43...
14:23Like I said, it's folded with the 44.
14:25Yeah, speed is 356 mph, which is slower than the 61, but faster than the 43.
14:32Rate of climb 15.5 metres.
14:37Better than the 61, but slightly better than the 43.
14:41And turn time is 21.4 seconds.
14:45Yeah, slightly worse turn time than the 61.
14:49And definitely worse than the 43.
14:53So again, it's going to be a bit of a boom-and-zoom fighter, I'm guessing.
14:57And unfortunately, the last Japanese aircraft is a premium, the 44 Otsu.
15:04Which is unfortunate, because it seems like a nice little aircraft.
15:07It's got two 40mm cannons.
15:09Where would they be?
15:13I assume it's these big... yeah, it must be those bigger ones.
15:16Yeah, because there's the machine guns.
15:19Again, standard armour, a bit of steel.
15:22It does look fairly nice, and I think it would be pretty effective.
15:26If we look at the modifications...
15:28It can carry some bombs to make it even more effective.
15:32Oh, that's interesting. It only carries high explosive.
15:35Yeah, so you're not going to be using this for tank-busting any time soon, unfortunately.
15:40But against bombers, that should be good.
15:43But it's only Battle Reign 2.7, so...
15:46You know, you're not going to be seeing that many big bombers.
15:50You know, the 49-2As, they're all like 3.7 or above.
15:57Yeah, I don't know why that's so low-tier.
16:00It seems like that's not going to have a useful role.
16:03Max speed is 355mph.
16:06Turn time of 22.5 seconds, and a rate of climb of 15.
16:10356, so...
16:13Yeah, it's slightly slower than the 44 He.
16:16And about a slightly worse rate of climb.
16:21And that's all the Japanese aircraft.
16:24We move on to the Soviets, who have got a rather interesting aircraft.
16:30The MiG-17.
16:33And this has caught a bit of an uproar online.
16:36Because a lot of people weren't really expecting this.
16:39To be honest, I wasn't expecting it. It does look very nice.
16:42Although, that bit at the front looks a bit odd.
16:46Yeah, it seems a bit odd they've added this in...
16:49...while the Germans have been waiting years for their bombers.
16:52And the Japanese are only just getting their aircraft.
16:57I don't know if this was needed at this moment.
17:01We literally just got the Hunter, and now we're leaping forward even more in time and stat.
17:07I think this is slightly faster than the Hunter.
17:10657mph, I think the Hunter's something like...
17:13Oh, what is the Hunter?
17:16Yeah, the Hunter's 688mph.
17:19So, at sea level.
17:22And the...
17:24Oh, so the Hunter should be faster than it.
17:27But of course at different heights and such.
17:30But yeah, it's about rating 9.
17:33So the max you can get. It's got a 1 second burst mass of 10.80kg.
17:39Rate of climb of like 40mph, and a turn time of 23.2.
17:44So it looks like a pretty good plane.
17:47It says it's slower than the MiG-15bis, which seems a bit odd.
17:52I'm guessing it must be faster at different altitudes.
17:55Because it says here 2000m, so maybe above or below that's a lot.
17:59It would be faster than another aircraft.
18:02But that's the Russian MiG-17. Has it got a description?
18:06No, sometimes you can tell if it's been in works for a long time by if it's got a description or not.
18:11And you'll need 380,000rp for that, so that's quite a lot.
18:15And the Russians have got one new tank as well.
18:18The T-44-122.
18:22It's about rating 6.3.
18:25It's got quite bad armour, something like 90mm on the hull.
18:31Which, because of sloping, goes up to about 120mm.
18:35130mm, but it's also got this huge weak spot here.
18:39Which is only 85mm.
18:42The gun mantlet's pretty thick, but the rest of it's pretty thin.
18:47And the gun doesn't seem that great.
18:50It's 122mm.
18:53It's got 4 crew, your standard 3 in the turret and 1 driver.
18:57Max speed 37mph.
19:00What is the... wait, I'm just going to go back a minute.
19:036090 Gold Eagles, by the way.
19:07BR-471.
19:10What else uses that?
19:13Does the IS-3 use that?
19:16Yeah.
19:19179mm.
19:22It seems to have the same gun and ammo.
19:25Well, it doesn't have the same gun, but it uses the same ammo as the IS-3.
19:29And it seems to have roughly the same penetration.
19:32It's 6.3, which... I don't know.
19:35It's got quite a powerful gun, but it seems like it's going to be penetrated quite easily.
19:39But yeah, the T-44-122, I don't know how useful that's going to be.
19:42It's got pretty bad armour, and...
19:45The gun will be useful, but it's going to be a bit of a glass cannon.
19:48And again, 500m for the 471B.
19:52Yeah, it seems to be basically the same as the IS-3, but with much worse armour.
19:56But moving on from Russia, we've got the Germans.
20:00And they've got 2 new vehicles.
20:03They've got a new premium.
20:06The Infantry Kampfpanzer Churchill.
20:09Now, this has the British 57mm gun.
20:12Which is pretty good.
20:15It's better than the Sherman 75mm gun.
20:18Though I think the Germans' Panzers with the long 75mm guns are better than this.
20:22And I think some of the Russian stuff might be as well.
20:25Well, I think this actually might be better than a lot of the Russian stuff.
20:28I think possibly up to the SU-85.
20:31I can't quite remember off the top of my head.
20:34But it's got pretty thick armour.
20:37Now, that's odd.
20:40I was under the impression it had something like 100mm of armour at the front.
20:43But this is saying only 80mm.
20:46Unless there's another bit of armour behind.
20:49But it doesn't seem that way.
20:52Well, it would be behind this bit, but on the left it doesn't seem there is.
20:55So, yeah, that seems odd.
20:58But yeah, it's got pretty thick armour for the rest of it as well.
21:01Of course they haven't added the earlier variants of this into the game.
21:04Because they'd be ridiculously hard to balance.
21:07The early versions had a howitzer in the hull.
21:10A two pounder gun.
21:13And it should have 100mm of armour.
21:16So you'd have a really early tier 1 gun.
21:19With a howitzer. With ridiculously thick armour.
21:22It would just be impossible to balance the damn thing.
21:25You'd either be crushed or crushing everything it goes against.
21:28And again, like I said, it's got pretty good armour.
21:31The thinnest it gets is like 50mm.
21:34And you can see it's got 5 crew.
21:37You've got your 2 at the front.
21:40Machine gunner and driver.
21:43And you've got your 3 in the turret.
21:46It's got a huge space at the back for fuel and engine and everything.
21:49It's just massive.
21:52Armour piercing, armour piercing capped.
21:55And armour piercing capped ballistic capped.
21:58Like I said, I think the armour piercing is better than most of the Russian stuff.
22:01Until like tier 3.
22:04112mm at 90 degrees, 500 metres.
22:07I think even the T-34-57 doesn't do that good.
22:10Only does marginally better than that.
22:13And then the armour piercing capped and ballistic capped.
22:16They do worse against flat armour.
22:20They just do better at long range in general.
22:23But again, we're talking pretty big ranges.
22:26The Germans have also got a new aircraft.
22:29The Ju-88A1.
22:32And this is interesting.
22:35This was seen in a Chinese death server quite a while ago.
22:38And it has a forward firing machine gun.
22:41And only 2 turrets.
22:44But battle rating 2.
22:48Or lower battle rating.
22:51There's the machine gun that I assume fires forward.
22:54I thought it would say offensive armament.
22:57There's one defensive and there's the other.
23:00You've got your 4 crew, your pilot and your 3 gunners.
23:03That's interesting.
23:06One of the gunners seems to be a bombardier or something.
23:09283mph.
23:12Like I said, battle rating 2.0.
23:15I think that pretty much makes it faster than the 111.
23:18And the S79s that come after it.
23:21Rate of climb is quite bad.
23:246.8m.
23:27And again, it doesn't seem to have any armour.
23:30But it doesn't say it doesn't have armour.
23:33The last change is for America.
23:36And it's something I've been waiting for a long time.
23:39The F3F2.
23:42The F3F2 naval fighter.
23:45And as you can see, it's a biplane.
23:48Now it only has really basic armour.
23:51But it's a biplane.
23:54It's the only biplane America has.
23:57America has never had a biplane for whatever reason.
24:00And you can see it's got an enclosed cockpit.
24:03You've got your pilot there.
24:06Does it carry any bombs or anything?
24:09I like biplanes.
24:12It does a max speed of 271mph.
24:15It's 1.7mph.
24:18So it's faster than the P-26s.
24:21But it only has two guns.
24:24One .50 caliber and one 7.62mm.
24:27Which is unfortunate.
24:30But it does seem like a very nice little plane.
24:33And I think...
24:37I think that is pretty much all of the new changes.
24:40There's two new maps.
24:43The PT-76 can now float.
24:46Which is good.
24:49Apparently it just sank afterwards.
24:52Apparently it just sank.
24:55Which is kind of annoying.
24:58The minimap in the mission briefing screen has been improved.
25:01Unfortunately I can't really check that.
25:04It's a bit of an area without very good internet connection.
25:07So I can't check out a lot of these changes.
25:10But that's it for the dev server.
25:13Again, apologies if it was a bit quick.
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