War Thunder - Patch 1.49/1.70.1945 Round Up Episode 1 - video Dailymotion

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With lots of new Dev Blog articles being released in relation to Patch 1.49, I decided to start off with the Patch 1.49 round up series. In this episode I look at the preliminary list for new aircraft and tanks, new maps and articles on individual vehicles.  Devblog: http://warthunder.com/en/devblog/  Preliminary list of new vehicles in patch 1.49 article: http://warthunder.com/en/devblog/current/763  AD-2 Skyraider and Stuh-42 article: http://warthunder.com/en/devblog/current/762  New Decals article: http://warthunder.com/en/devblog/current/761  M18 Hellcat and Black Cat article: http://warthunder.com/en/devblog/current/760  Hürtgen Forest article: http://warthunder.com/en/devblog/current/759  Reichstag article: http://warthunder.com/en/devblog/current/754  Patch 1.49 rumour thread: http://forum.warthunder.com/index.php?/topic/214069-patch-149-rumor-roundup/  My American tank destroyer video: https://youtu.be/2gYUv8H8pyk  Social Media ⬇️ Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/toreno.bsky.social Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/Toreno4 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/toreno170 Mastodon: Toreno17@mastodon.social Threads: https://www.threads.net/@toreno170 Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/Toreno17 Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/toreno5/videos   Game: War Thunder  ⬅️  #warthunder #patch #update #1.49 #toreno

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00:00Hello everybody, Torono here, and welcome to episode 1 of the Patch 1.49 Roundup series.

00:05For those of you familiar with my last series for Patch 1.47, basically I take all the news

00:12that has happened in the last few days regarding new patches and put them all into one episode,

00:17to avoid tens of episodes for each individual development.

00:21And basically we've got a lot of new information about Patch 1.49,

00:26so I thought I might as well start the series now.

00:29Now I do apologise if the episode comes off as a bit rushed, I'm sort of going out in about an hour or so,

00:35so I'm kind of rushing to get this all done before I actually go out.

00:38I'll also link you to the Patch 1.49 rumour thread in the forums,

00:43they usually seem to know what they're talking about, they usually get what's coming out right,

00:47it's just basically, you know, where everyone can talk about what's coming in the patch,

00:51and pooling all the information together.

00:53You know, I do recommend you take a visit over there.

00:57I will also try and give as much information as I can about the vehicles,

01:00but like I said I'm going out in not very long, so it may not be much information unfortunately,

01:06I haven't really got time to get all my books out,

01:08but I'll try and give you at least a brief description of each vehicle,

01:11you know, and what it is and all that.

01:14Also a bit of a disclaimer regarding the dev blog articles,

01:17if it's in a dev blog article it's probably going to come out in the next patch,

01:21in this case Patch 1.49, but this doesn't always happen,

01:24sometimes priorities get changed or deadlines get pushed forward or back,

01:27so just bear that in mind when looking at the dev blog and various articles in the dev blog.

01:33Now the first thing we're looking at is on the, well all of the things we're looking at,

01:37is on the dev blog.

01:38Basically, well I'll leave a link to it,

01:40but it's where the developers announce all their new things they're working on for various patches,

01:47and they've just released a new one,

01:49Preliminary List of New Vehicles for Update 1.49.

01:52So this has only just come up literally two minutes ago,

01:55I was literally about to record for the thing before it,

01:58the Skyraider, and I refreshed the page and here it was.

02:03But basically, there's going to be quite a few new aircraft and ground vehicles.

02:09For America we're getting the Skyraider AD-2, which I'll look at in a minute.

02:15The R2-1943 for the Soviet Union, I haven't heard of that one,

02:19I'll have to do a little bit of looking into that.

02:21Now I did just pause the episode and had a look online for the R2-1943,

02:26because I haven't got my books on me at the moment,

02:28I can't find any reference to it.

02:30The only thing I could find was the R2 Production of 1943 on Wikipedia,

02:34but this is apparently the R2M, so I have no idea what this vehicle is.

02:40I'll try and give you more information if I find any after this episode's been made,

02:44but I don't know what it is at the moment, unfortunately.

02:49For the Germans we're getting a cockpit for the HS-129,

02:53I kind of assumed it would add one, but apparently it doesn't.

02:56And the Arado 234C3.

03:00Now this is different to the usual Arado we have in game already,

03:03because I believe it has four engines, I could be wrong with that,

03:06but it also has two 20mm cannons.

03:09I could be wrong, but I think they're meant to fire backwards,

03:11but it could be a ground attack type aircraft with the guns pointing forward,

03:15I'm not entirely sure.

03:17Now Britain is getting the vast majority of the aircraft,

03:19Firefly Mk1 and Mk5,

03:22the Seafire Mk17 I believe,

03:25the Seafury FB-11,

03:27the Attacker FB-1,

03:28and the Canberra is getting a cockpit.

03:31Now the Firefly is a carrier fighter aircraft,

03:35four 20mm Hispano cannons,

03:38as well as various rockets and bombs.

03:42Now I don't know what tier this will go in,

03:44so I'm assuming being the first one it will probably be quite low.

03:48The Seafire is a modified version of the Spitfire,

03:51it's basically an avalanche Spitfire,

03:53I'm guessing this is one of the later variants.

03:56It should be armed with 20mm cannons if I'm remembering correctly,

04:00as well as various bombs or rockets.

04:03Now the Attacker FB-1 is very interesting,

04:06it's a jet, which has a speed of something like 590mph.

04:11Armed with four 20mm Hispano cannons,

04:14I don't know if this actually carries bombs or anything,

04:16I don't have too much information on it,

04:18but it should be a very good tier 5 fighter aircraft for Britain.

04:22Again the Canberra is getting a cockpit.

04:25Japan's getting the J2M2 and the Ki-21.

04:28Now we've got J2Ms already in the game,

04:30so it's going to be a variant of the fighter aircraft Japan already has.

04:33The Ki-21 is a bomber,

04:36similar to the Ki-49,

04:38it's got five machine guns, four of them are 7.7mm,

04:41one's 12.7mm,

04:43and I believe it can carry 1000kg of bombs.

04:49Now this is interesting for the ground vehicles,

04:52I'll read them out first.

04:53The M2A2, 75mm M3 GMC, M18 GMC,

04:58T95, T28, M10 GMC, M18 Black Cat and the M5A1.

05:04I'm assuming that's a premium vehicle.

05:07Now, the M2A2 is odd,

05:10because it's basically an M2 light tank,

05:13but with two .50 caliber machine guns.

05:16I'm not really sure how this is going to work.

05:19Two 12.7mm machine guns,

05:22that seems rather underpowered if I'm honest.

05:26I assume that's going to be a reserve tier,

05:29a second reserve tier tank.

05:31I don't know, but then the rest of these are all tank destroyers.

05:34So is it the beginning of the tank destroyer line?

05:37And here's another weird thing,

05:38the T95 and the T28,

05:40as far as I'm aware, they're the exact same tank,

05:43except one was a tank destroyer,

05:46and one was designed as a super heavy tank.

05:48And as the specifications changed,

05:51they changed the name.

05:52But as far as I'm aware, they're actually the same tank,

05:54so I don't know where that's coming from.

05:57I honestly have no idea.

05:59It'd be nice to have two extra tanks,

06:01but, you know, it seems a bit weird.

06:05I'll link you to my American Tank Destroyer episode,

06:08I do give some more information about these.

06:10Basically, the M3 is a 75mm gun in a half-track,

06:15the M18 is the Hellcat, which we'll look at in a minute.

06:18T95 and T28 are super heavy tanks or tank destroyers.

06:23M10 is a tank destroyer based on the M4 Sherman,

06:28but with a 76mm gun.

06:30The M18 Black Cat is a premium of the M18 Hellcat,

06:34and the M5A1, well, we've already got them in-game.

06:37Now, the second vehicle is a Stug 42G.

06:40Basically, it's a Stug G with a 105mm howitzer.

06:44So, again, we'll look at that in a minute,

06:46but, you know, not too different.

06:48As far as I'm aware, the only difference is the gun.

06:51Now, the Russians are getting the 4M GAZ-888,

06:54the SU-57, SU-122-54, T-34-85E, 34E, STZ,

07:03and the IS-2 Revenge and the SU-76M.

07:06Again, those two are probably premiums.

07:08Now, the 4M GAZ, from what I understand,

07:11is a truck with four Maxim machine guns.

07:137.6 or 2mm machine guns, I believe.

07:18I could be wrong.

07:19I couldn't really find much information about it,

07:21but I'm guessing a Tier 1 anti-aircraft vehicle,

07:24as Russia doesn't get one until Tier 2 at the moment.

07:27The SU-57, like with the M3 GMC,

07:31is basically a half-track with a 57mm gun.

07:34The SU-122-54 is basically a T-54 with a 122mm gun,

07:41from what I can understand.

07:43I assume that's going to be a Tier 5 tank destroyer or something.

07:46Now, the T-34s, I couldn't find any information about.

07:50We've got a T-34E in-game at the moment,

07:53which is basically an up-armoured T-34,

07:56which suggests to me it's going to be an up-armoured T-34-85.

08:00Now, the STZ is a bit harder.

08:02If you look at the description of the T-34E in-game,

08:05it mentions they were built at the STZ factory,

08:08so I'm guessing this is to do with the factory,

08:11but I can't find any information on the variant itself,

08:14so apologies, but I can't really help there.

08:19It's a bit...

08:21If it was just the T-34E STZ,

08:24it would obviously be an up-armoured vehicle,

08:26but because they've got an E version next to it,

08:29without the STZ,

08:31maybe the STZ factory did a specific up-armouring?

08:34I don't really know.

08:36Now, as it says up the top,

08:38this is a preliminary list of new vehicles,

08:40so this could change.

08:41Some could be taken away, some could be added on.

08:44This is mainly looking at the...

08:46Well, as far as I'm aware, the patch,

08:48which I believe is called Weapons of Victory,

08:51is basically mainly to do with American tank destroyers

08:54and the British Fleet Air Arm.

08:56All of those vehicles in the British line

08:58are for the Fleet Air Arm.

09:00So, this is a British-centric and American-centric update,

09:05although Russia's got quite a lot as well,

09:07and some of the Germans, they've finally got

09:09a decent bomber with armament,

09:11and, you know, the Skyraider AD-2.

09:14But, of course, there are other updates.

09:17We'll look through them very quickly.

09:19We'll actually start from the beginning.

09:21This is from the 5th of March, so a little while ago.

09:24It's a new tank location, Reichstag.

09:27Basically, it's a new map set in the Reichstag.

09:30You can see here, there's some pictures of it.

09:33If we go back...

09:35I believe these are actually pictures of it

09:37as it is in-game now.

09:39They haven't actually got any pictures of it in-game,

09:42I'm afraid. I thought they did.

09:44That appears to be an old picture.

09:46But, basically, you'll get to fly it around Berlin

09:48and in the Reichstag.

09:50Of course, I'll link you to these articles

09:52in the main devlog area,

09:54so you can look at them yourself.

09:56We've also got another location,

09:58Hertogen Forest.

10:00Now, this we do have some pictures of.

10:02Again, I'll link you to it so you can look at it

10:04in more depth.

10:06See here, there's rivers and stuff,

10:08and, you know, lots of countryside,

10:10lots of buildings.

10:14Again, more ruined buildings, windmills.

10:16Now, we know the map size is

10:1864x64km for the air.

10:20The ground-based combat is

10:224x4km,

10:24which is a bit odd.

10:26In fact, they've got a map of the area

10:28we're fighting around.

10:30Vossenack. I don't know, I thought the river

10:32was more than 4km away,

10:34but you can see it in the picture.

10:36Oh, there are more rivers around here

10:38Oh, that's kind of embarrassing.

10:40So, lots of rivers.

10:42Seems to be a big map, from what I understand.

10:44It's near Aachen.

10:46I can't pronounce it.

10:48Aachen.

10:50Is it a German town? I can't quite remember.

10:52Yeah, so a quick search reveals

10:54it is the Aachen in Germany.

10:56I knew that was one of the first towns

10:58taken by the Allies in Germany,

11:00but I don't know why the map gave me off

11:02a vibe for Belgium.

11:04No, apparently this is near the Hertogen Forest,

11:06which was a very big battle.

11:08You can see here, longest conflict the US Army

11:10has ever participated in.

11:12It lasted several months,

11:14trying to tie up German reinforcements

11:16to stop them reinforcing the north

11:18and capture the front lines from the flanks.

11:20Another description,

11:22beach, forest dressed in red and gold,

11:24surrounded by hills and indented with dangerous

11:26mountain streams and rivers.

11:28Idyllic village, surrounded by neat fields

11:30and cropland.

11:32As a result, fierce fighting, countryside cottages

11:34and also many days of bombing and artillery shelling.

11:36So there, we've got a new map,

11:38which is good.

11:40It looks quite good, quite interesting.

11:42Again, we've got the M18 and the M18 Black Cat.

11:44Now again, I've dealt with these

11:46in the American Tank Destroyer episode,

11:48which you can look at

11:50for more information.

11:52Basically, this is a very fast

11:54but not very armoured tank

11:56with a 76mm cannon.

11:58There's also something new.

12:00You can see up here,

12:02there's somebody actually manning the machine gun,

12:04which I don't think we've had before.

12:06I don't know if that's going to be like that for all tanks.

12:08I don't know.

12:10Basically, the Black Cat

12:12is a premium.

12:14It's a rank 3 self-propelled gun,

12:16which we didn't know before.

12:1876mm long barrelled gun, as mentioned.

12:20M18 can reach up to almost

12:2256mph on the road.

12:24Okay, that's going to be

12:26ridiculously fast.

12:28It will be the fastest ground vehicle in game.

12:30Now,

12:32here's the M18

12:34and the M18 Black Cat.

12:36The Black Cat is the one with

12:38the muzzle brake removed

12:40and it hasn't got any side skirts,

12:42unlike the normal Hellcat, which does have some side skirts

12:44and has a muzzle brake.

12:46Open turret is very narrow.

12:48This seems interesting.

12:50A siren was mounted on the front hull armour.

12:52I assume that's it

12:54down at the bottom.

12:56I assume we're not going to get to use it.

12:58I'm not sure what

13:00tactical advantage it gives.

13:02There we go.

13:04We've also got new decals

13:06in patch 1.49.

13:08You can see here for various

13:10air forces and squadrons.

13:12Pakistani Air Force, Thai Air Force,

13:14278th Squadron in Italy,

13:16Kangaroo Emblem.

13:18Oh, they spelt kangaroo wrong.

13:20Kangaroo.

13:22There we go.

13:241st Regiment Chasse Chevelle.

13:26I can't do French.

13:28Iranian Air Force.

13:30Lots of decals and all that.

13:32If we go back,

13:34last things we're looking at.

13:36Sky Raider AD-2 and the

13:38Stur 42 Ausf. G 1943.

13:40Now, it's going to be

13:42tier 4, which we can see from here.

13:44The AD-2. Ideal for ground attack.

13:46There is one 20mm M3

13:48cannon with 200 rounds per barrel

13:50on the central parts of the wings.

13:52Now, if we look at the picture,

13:54we can see one barrel on the wing.

13:56So I'm guessing it's going to be

13:58two 20mm cannons.

14:02I thought it had four,

14:04but apparently I can only see one in there.

14:06And you'll see the other one on the other wing

14:08in a minute.

14:10Two bomb racks, which can take up to

14:122,000 pounds of bombs.

14:14Or a torpedo type Mk 13-3.

14:16Under the folding outer wing

14:18there are 12 pylons

14:20which are set to use Mk 9-2 missiles.

14:22Again, if you look at the picture

14:24you can count six missiles

14:26on this side, so presumably six on the other.

14:28One bomb here, presumably one on the other.

14:32It will clearly be one of the most

14:34effective rank 4 attack aircraft

14:36and potentially the most efficient one in the game.

14:38Large payload and

14:40wide variety of armament options available.

14:42Bombs, rockets and torpedoes.

14:44Again, we can see a ridiculous amount

14:46of bombs and rockets here.

14:48Six rockets and two bombs.

14:50Quite big bombs at that.

14:52And again, you can

14:54just about see the other 20mm cannon.

14:56So, presumably

14:58he was talking about both wings when he

15:00mentioned one 20mm cannon.

15:02Here they talk about

15:04producing the aircraft.

15:06Free air brakes add to the massiveness of the aircraft.

15:08It has a massive rounded top, but a flat

15:10bottom of the fuselage.

15:12Due to the lack of propeller spinner, you can actually

15:14see the radiator flaps in front of the engine

15:16and see how they function during animation.

15:18The engine itself

15:20is installed at a slight angle.

15:22Blah blah blah.

15:24A lot of time implementing main landing gear

15:26and fairings. The model has a lot of animated

15:28objects, folding wings, a hook,

15:30brake pads and much more.

15:32Folding wings? I don't think we've got any aircraft that

15:34do that at the moment, so

15:36that'll be interesting. I don't know if we can do it

15:38ourselves or you just spawn with them folded

15:40and they unfold.

15:42The last vehicle we're looking at

15:44is the STER-42.

15:46Now, we'll actually pop over to

15:48War Thunder itself in a second to show

15:50how it would be in game.

15:52As it says here, it's basically

15:54Stug G, but with a 105mm howitzer.

15:56It has heat

15:58ammunition and is capable of

16:00destroying even heavy tanks.

16:02Powerful high explosive shells also allow combat

16:04with light armoured vehicles and medium tanks.

16:06So that'll be quite interesting.

16:08Maybe a German version of the ISU-152

16:10or something?

16:12Here they just talk a little bit about the history of the

16:14STER-42 and how they discontinued

16:16using it.

16:18So here we are in War Thunder looking at the

16:20Stug G, which is what the

16:22STER-42 is based on.

16:24Again, all that is different as far as I'm aware

16:26is the cannon in the front.

16:28Armour-wise, 80mm

16:30at the front. Sloped

16:32in some areas, not so well sloped

16:34in others.

16:3630mm thickness here, but sloped to about

16:3880mm.

16:40At the front, again,

16:42at this point, about 115mm.

16:44Here, about 95mm.

16:46Now the sides are a bit harder

16:48to tell because you've got these skirts in the way,

16:50but it's 30mm thick,

16:52but it's flat, and you've got the

16:54skirts here, but they're only 5mm.

16:56Again, the back,

16:58not particularly

17:00well armoured, or actually it's better armoured

17:02than the sides, 50mm

17:04over 30mm, and it is actually sloped

17:06in some areas, sort of.

17:08So yeah,

17:10it should be an effective vehicle,

17:12but I'm just wondering

17:14how the high-explosive shells will work.

17:16With the 75mm gun,

17:18it's 12mm,

17:20how does the

17:22American one compare?

17:24If we just quickly go over to the Sherman,

17:26with the 105mm gun,

17:28that's, you know,

17:30same calibre, but maybe

17:32different length. This does 28mm,

17:34so presumably the STER-2

17:36will do roughly the same,

17:38or STER-42, sorry.

17:40And it's tier 2, so presumably it will go

17:42before the Stug 3G,

17:44so if you're researching that, as I am,

17:46you may want to quickly research it and buy it

17:48before the patch comes out.

17:50Well anyway, that's it for today's episode,

17:52I do apologise for it being so rushed,

17:54but I've really not got much time at all

17:56to record it.

17:58Thoughts on the patch so far,

18:00on the information we've got?

18:02I'm pretty happy with it, I'd have been happy with just the

18:04tank destroyers, I don't know about

18:06any bug fixes or anything like that.

18:08They do usually do that

18:10sort of stuff, but obviously they don't announce it

18:12in dev blogs or

18:14articles, and you don't really find

18:16out until the dev server itself comes out.

18:18But yeah,

18:20I'm kind of looking forward to it.

18:22A few things have raised my eyebrows,

18:24like the M2A2, the T95

18:26and T28 being separate,

18:28the T34 variants,

18:30that sort of stuff, but

18:32it does at the

18:34moment look like it's going to be a good patch.

18:36Of course things can

18:38change as we get nearer to the

18:40dev server and the release date.

18:42I'll do episodes around that

18:44as well. But yeah, I hope you've enjoyed

18:46today's episode, leave a like

18:48if you did, subscribe if you like these sorts of videos,

18:50leave feedback, could always do with

18:52more feedback.

18:54Thanks for watching, I'll see you next time.

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