Maintenance - October 17
On the 17th of October 2019, starting from 8:00 CEST (16th of October, 11 PM PDT), the server will not be available for 5 hours due to the application of Update 0.30.5773.
New Vehicles
We are adding three new vehicles to Armored Warfare:
The T249 Vigilante is a fast AFV with massive, burst-firing rotary cannon while the M8 MGM-166 (also known as LOSAT) is the ultimate Tank Destroyer of Armored Warfare that uses a brand new mechanism – kinetic missiles. You can learn about all of those vehicles in their respective articles.
Abrams Improvements
In this Update, we are improving most high-Tier Abrams vehicles, as such:
List of Update 0.30.5773 Changes
New Vehicles
We are adding three new vehicles to Armored Warfare:
- T249 Vigilante Tier 9 Progression AFV, unlockable from the Tier 8 Ramka-99 TD (learn more)
- M8 MGM-166 Tier 10 Progression TD, unlockable from the T249 Vigilante (learn more)
- Object 287 Tier 6 Premium TD (learn more)
The T249 Vigilante is a fast AFV with massive, burst-firing rotary cannon while the M8 MGM-166 (also known as LOSAT) is the ultimate Tank Destroyer of Armored Warfare that uses a brand new mechanism – kinetic missiles. You can learn about all of those vehicles in their respective articles.
Abrams Improvements
In this Update, we are improving most high-Tier Abrams vehicles, as such:
- M1A2C now has the Trophy hard-kill APS available
- M1A2C reload time reduced from 10s to 8.75s
- XM1A3 now has the Trophy hard-kill APS available
- TTB now has a better upgraded APFSDS shell available, the M829A3 with improved penetration and damage
- TTB’s Ready Rack rate of fire improved from 8 to 15 rounds per minute
- TTB’s aim time for both guns improved from 2.2s to 1.8s
- TTB’s gun accuracy was tweaked very slightly to make it correspond to the M1A2C
- American Dream, Special Operation 3: Fixed the No Mercy achievement
- American Dream, Special Operation 2: Fixed the model of the fuel truck that appears at the end of the mission
- Stryker ADATS: Reduced the camouflage penalty for firing its weapons as such: ATGM from 0.2 to 0.12, rockets from 0.4 to 0.07
- Stryker ADATS: Its unmanned turret no longer takes full damage
- M48 GAU-8: Added an additional progression module called “Weight Reduction Measures“, which improves this vehicle’s acceleration by 15% and its maximum speed by 20% at the expense of 200 hitpoints
- M48 GAU-8: Fixed the penetration indicator for this vehicle – it will turn yellow if only partial penetrations (with reduced damage) are predicted (the same principle applies to the M8 MGM-166 TD)
- M48 GAU-8: Fixed the appearance of flags on this vehicle
- QN-506: Fixed the appearance of the loitering recon missile spotting effect