Right now my friends and I can join a “group” and play together in the same battle; this is great. However, there is no visual indication of which units belong to your squad mates. So there is effectively no way to actually play together.
We use voice chat, but the battle is so frantic and fluid it does no good to keep trying to say “I’m east of the church, now I’m northeast of the church - where are you?” “I’m next to the barrel.” “What freaking barrel?” And so on…
Is this simply not ready yet in the beta? Or is this shortcoming permanent? This is the sole reason right now that my friends and I are still playing war thunder when we are together instead of enlisted.