We'd like to present you a new fan-made video created with original gameplay footage taken in War Thunder beta.
Featuring over a dozen of playable planes the film gives a brief look at the Damage Model in the game's closed beta test version.
Enjoy watching it like we did, it's truly epic!



The film gives a brief look at the Damage Model in the game's closed beta test version.
This video features playable models of the following aircraft:
Spitfire Mk.IX; Bf-109F-4; FW-190A-5; Aerocobra P-39 N-0; A6M5 Zero; Ki-49 IIb late;
B-24D; B-17G; Ju-88A-4; He-111H6; Pe-2 1-21; Er-2 ACh-30B; Tu-2; Su-2 M82; Wellington Mk.Ic; Lancaster Mk.III.

Looks really good! I came here to complain about not enough fan videos and found this. Great timing! I hope the sounds in this game lives up to the graphics. The water looks a lot better than in Wings of Prey.

no cockpit view ?

Are you asking, or telling?

There is a cockpit view in game, if you are asking....

We haven't seen any cockpit views for heavy bombers yet or gunner stations...this has be concerned...still very cool video.

There are cockpits for bombers, il2 and stuka have been posted for example.

gunners are 3rd person.

From what I understand, even though heavy bombers have lacked cockpits in Birds of Steel, this might change in War Thunder. I would sure hope so. If you look at the tech trees (and even Birds of Steel, though the plane list is smaller for BoS), there are a lot of planes with cockpits (ie everything else than heavy bombers), even the CAC Boomerang and Wirraway!

How will an online-battle in this game work? Is it like World of Tanks, so we can expect airstarts with a mixed team of german-brtish-american-sovjet - aircrafts fighting in a round of 15 minutes against another mixed team with german-brtish-american-sovjet - aircrafts ?

According to their plan, there is a mode (which I'll stay away from) for instant battles where you get a mix of everything (but still picked from one nation vs another, not axis vs allies), but there will also be dynamical historical campaign (more coop oriented as far as I understand), which sort of implies that the planes would not be function of a leveling/grinding system, and then there is the World War mode, which hasn't been explained at all (I would hope that it would involve series of battles progressing with a realistic set of planes and battles, but no one knows). So it would seem that the game will try to appeal to various players with very different modes, or so I would hope anyway. I personally really want to see how the coop and historical campaign side works out first (and maybe World War will be fine too, if it's not a World of Tanks affair with levelling and economy)
There is a good overview of all of that here: http://warthunder.com/en/game/features/13/current/

Thank you for this link. These are interesting game variations, sure worth a try.