War Thunder News

• BR changes. Open the full table.

All the announced rearrangements of vehicles in the tech trees will be applied when the economy update goes live.

• HSTV-L - The operation of the auto loader has been specified. Previously it could shoot 6 rounds before it had to be reloaded. Now the auto loader allows the shooting of all ammunition with no reload required. Source: report
• Leopard 2A5, Leopard 2PL - round types have been updated. The DM33 round has been replaced with the DM43, the DM23 round has been replaced with the DM33.
  
• Leopard 2K - the DM23 round has been added.
  
• JPz. 4-5 - the default M332 APCR round has been replaced with the DM502 HESH round. The M332 round is no longer available for this vehicle.
  
• Challenger 2 - round types have been updated. The L26 round has been moved to the tier I modifications. The L27A1 round has been added to tier IV modifications.
  
• Challenger Mk.3, Vickers Mk.7 - the L26 round has been added.
  
• Centauro I 105 - round types have been updated.The new default round is the M456. The M735 round has been added to the tier I modifications. The DM23 has been added to the tier IV modifications.
  
• XM1(C), XM1(GM) - turret protection against APFSDS rounds has been improved. Provided protection against 115mm 3BM4 rounds along the course an arc of 60 degrees at 1,000 meters.
  
• Olifant Mk.2 - turret protection against shaped-charge rounds has been improved. Provided protection against chemical rounds of calibers 100-105 mm along the course arc of 60 degrees.
  
• TAM-2IP - turret protection against shaped-charge rounds has been specified. Provided partial protection against chemical rounds of calibers 90-100 mm from the front.
  
• Respawn points cost for helicopters with powerful unguided rockets (S-13, S-24) in ground RB has been changed: basic - 227 RP, minimal - 182 RP.
  
• MiG-23M, MiG-21bis — as a balance change, the R-13M missile has been replaced by the more advanced R-13M1 with a higher angular target tracking speed, increased target acquisition range, and is also less sensitive to countermeasures
  
• MiG-23M — presets of 2хR-13М1 supplemented by 2х R-23R or 2хR-23T have been added.
  
• R-3S missile — the target capture field has been reduced from 4 to 3.5 degrees, the maximum angular velocity of target tracking has been reduced from 11 to 6 degrees per second according to the basic data on the R-3S missiles from the pilot's operation manual for MiG fighter aircraft.

The current provided changelog reflects the major changes within the game as part of this Update. Some updates, additions and fixes may not be listed in the provided notes. War Thunder is constantly improving and specific fixes may be implemented without the client being updated.

Changes to VR mode and VR headsets:

• A bug has been fixed that caused artefacts with SSAA enabled.
  
• A bug with “floating” collimator sights in specific aircraft has been fixed.

The current provided changelog reflects the major changes within the game as part of this Update. Some updates, additions and fixes may not be listed in the provided notes. War Thunder is constantly improving and specific fixes may be implemented without the client being updated.

In this digest we would like to tell you about our continuing work on improvements and fixes in the game. You can find information about all updates that have been released in War Thunder on the website special section.





An important fix for specific vehicles. Crews of the U-SH 405, the AMX-13 (SS.11) and the AMX-13 (HOT) won’t be affected by overpressure damage after enemy hits to the external rocket and missile launchers.

Survivability increased!





A cosmetic issue might appear in specific situations in the kill camera. When a tanker destroys an enemy ground vehicle simultaneously with a pilot dropping a bomb exactly on the same enemy, a frag may appear to be counted for the pilot!

Actually, a tanker always got his awards, but the situation looked odd. Well, it’s fixed now!





In the last digest we talked about the major improvement to the shell tracking camera in naval battles. It started returning faster, started interacting better with automatic cannons and even widened its viewing angle.

This time it will immediately return to the player if the shell missed the target. After all, there is no point in watching how a shell interacts with water, definitely not hitting anything.



This fix also relates to the last release of the digest where we introduced the displaying of a shell card in the modification window even if it hasn’t been unlocked yet.

Unfortunately due to a small bug the characteristics might have been displayed incorrectly but we have fixed this. Now you can study them.



For this digest we have prepared a large set of useful fixes and game improvements. Be sure to read the full list which we have prepared in the separate changelog - there are many interesting things.

Once again, many thanks for all your bug reports that you submitted in our bug report section on the War Thunder forums.





Ground vehicles model, damage model, characteristic and weaponry changes:

• The armour piercing values of shells in the “Modifications” window now correspond to values in the info cards for shells.
  
• The incorrect indication of the enemy that destroyed your vehicle has been fixed in the kill camera.
  
• A bug has been fixed where the equivalent of multi-layer armour structures located at large angles was smaller than indicated in the protection analysis.
  
• U-SH 405, AMX-13 (SS.11), AMX-13 (HOT) — damage to the external ammunition (ATGM and rockets) will no longer initiate overpressure damage.

Aircraft model, damage model, characteristic and weaponry changes:

• Tiger HAD, Tiger HAP - a bug has been fixed that resulted in HOT-3 launching containers remaining closed after all missiles deplete in the following presets: “HOT-3 x8, Mistral x2, SNEB x12” and “HOT-3 x 8, Mistral x4”.
  
• P-400 - a bug has been fixed that allowed installation of the 500lb AN-M64A1 bomb without researching the corresponding modification.
  
• A129CBT, A.109EOA-2 - a bug has been fixed with the “TOW-2” missile modification that did not match the installed missile ITOW.
  
• F3H-2 - a bug has been fixed that caused the entire tail being detached when the fin was torn off.
  
• A-7D - a bug has been fixed where the rudder remained undamaged when the fin was damaged.

Fleets model, damage model, characteristic and weaponry changes:

• The shell chase camera has been improved. For better view, the camera now stops at a distance before the shell hits the target, no matter how far the shells travel.
  
• M-802 — display of the ship’s skin has been improved.
  
• Groza — display of the ship’s skin has been improved.

Aerial Enduring Confrontation

• All aerial EC missions have been transferred to the rank system for airfields, making airfield size and AAA depend on the rank of battles. The number of airfields now also depend on the rank of battles:
  • Low ranks:
    3 near airfields
    2 medium distance airfields
    2 distant airfields
    
  • Medium ranks:
    no near airfields
    3 medium distance airfields
    2 distant airfields
    
  • High ranks:
    no near airfields
    no medium distance airfields
    3 distant airfields

Other

• A rare client crash whilst interacting with game chat has been fixed.

The current provided changelog reflects the major changes within the game as part of this Update. Some updates, additions and fixes may not be listed in the provided notes. War Thunder is constantly improving and specific fixes may be implemented without the client being updated.

On July 2nd, 1776, In a near-unanimous vote, the Continental Congress voted in favor and then approved the Declaration of Independence on the 4th of July, 1776 – now known as ‘Independence Day’ or colloquially ‘The Fourth of July’– and every year Americans honor the 4th of July as the birthday of the United States of America.

The Declaration proclaimed that the ‘Thirteen Colonies’ in the midst of battling with Great Britain would be regarded as independent sovereign states, free from British sovereignty. The independence of the thirteen states marked the beginning of the formation of the United States of America.

From 12:00 GMT on the 2nd of July until 07:00 GMT on the 5th of July
Participate in 3 battles with an activity level of 60% or higher while using US vehicles of rank II and above and receive the unique “American Eagle” decal!



Terms:

• This task can be completed in random battles, except the “Enduring Confrontation” and [Assault] game modes.
  
• To follow your progress, click on “Your nickname” → Achievements → Independence day USA.
  

• The “Battle of the South Pacific“ mission from the historical campaign is now playable in RB mode again. The aircraft carrier can be destroyed.
  
• The camera will now only track shells if you have pressed and held the firing button on a loaded and ready to fire cannon. This way, shell tracking will not interfere with automatic cannon fire.
  
• A bug which would cause white foam to appear for a short period of time at the start of naval battles, or in the hangar, has been fixed.
  
• PC: improved OpenXR interaction (virtual reality headset) to allow a further decrease to the possibility of the client crashing and also to also improve performance on some hardware.
  
• Xbox: removed automatic target lock when pressing L2/LT in ground battles.

The current provided changelog reflects the major changes within the game as part of this Update. Some updates, additions and fixes may not be listed in the provided notes. War Thunder is constantly improving and specific fixes may be implemented without the client being updated.