client update Update 28.04.2021 (2.5.1.99)

[Stona 72,495]

• A bug has been fixed where ground vehicles at long distances might be displayed below ground level for pilots.
• A bug has been fixed that resulted in an incorrect splash trail being shown when an aircraft flies at water level.
• A bug has been fixed where a ripped-off canopy might still sound operational when closing and continue to muffle sounds from outside.
• A bug has been fixed where the distance for grass and tree visibility might be reduced after an air battle in ground arcade.
• A bug has been fixed that prevented aircraft repair on an airfield with a throttle over 50%, even if the engines were turned off.
• A sight vignette has been reduced for some ground vehicles of ranks V-VII.
• A bug has been fixed where the camera view in replays from ground simulator battles might be shifted when looking from the player view.
• A GPU estimate error has been fixed where in some cases the game might run in compatibility mode with the lowest graphic settings.
• Custom camos download has been optimized for low speed connections. This will have a positive effect on ping and will decrease packet loss.

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

• VT1-2 — a bug has been fixed with the incorrect stabilization for the right hand gun.
• Lorraine 155 — a change place order for the crew has been specified.
• JPz 4-5 — a bug with smoke grenade reload at capture points has been fixed.
• Begleitpanzer 57 — a bug with gunner skill influence on the reload time has been fixed.
• OTOMATIC — a bug with missing overpressure damage for the 76/62 SAPOM round has been fixed.
• ZTZ59D1, T-69 II G — an overestimated time to repair the AA machine gun has been fixed.
• ZTZ59D1 — the mechanics of the first order ammo rack have been added.
• TTD — the wrong display of armour thickness in the x-ray mode has been fixed (report).
• T-64B — a bug has been fixed with missing collateral armour spalls when the armour is pierced near the driver's viewport.
• SU-122-54 — AA machine gun elevation angles have been specified.
• T-10A —  AA machine gun elevation angles have been specified.
• Leopard 2 (all series) — overestimated armouring on optical devices has been fixed.
• CV 90120 (all series) — the thickness of the tracks has been specified.
• Chi-Ha Short Gun — battle speed has been removed.
• M134 Minigun — the fire rate of the gun has been specified to 4,000 rounds per minute in rapid fire mode, and 2,000 in alternative fire mode.
• SS.11 ATGM — a bug with missing tracer has been fixed.

Aircraft model, damage model, characteristic and weaponry changes:

• P-51C-10 — the total ammo capacity has been specified to 1,260 rounds.
• B-24D — a bug has been fixed where elements of a destroyed elevator remained in the air (report).
• B-24D — the ammo capacities of the upper and lower turrets have been specified to 400 and 508 rounds respectively.
• Javelin F.(A.W.) Mk.9 — the ammo capacity of the ADEN guns has been specified to 800 in total (200 rounds per gun) (report).
• Mitsubishi T-2 — JM61A1 gun ammo capacity has been specified to 500 rounds (report).
• Mitsubishi T-2, Mitsubishi F-1 — aircraft weight has been corrected (report).
• P-59A — heavy machine guns ammo capacity has been specified to 600 in total (200 rounds per gun) (report).
• Firecrest  — the name of the engine has been corrected from Centaurus-9 to Centaurus-59.
• SB2C-5  — the name of the engine has been corrected from R-2600-8 to R-2600-20.
• PBM-1, PBM-3 — the ‘torpedo bomber’ class has been removed from the info card.
• Swordfish (all series) — class ‘Naval Aircraft’ has been added to the info card.
• Shenyang F-5 — thickness of the armoured headrest has been increased.
• F-4F Early — a bug has been fixed, where some presets with the AIM-9B FGW.2 missile required researched AIM-9E.
• MiG-15bis, MiG-17 — the info card issue has been corrected that classified S-5M missiles as those designed to hit armoured targets.
• Fw 190 F-8 —  the info card issue has been corrected that classified Pb2 rockets as those designed to hit air targets. Pb2 rockets now have an armour piercing table available.
• F-4E — the suspended weapon menu bug has been fixed where the number of 750 lbs bombs was incorrectly displayed.
• F-104J, F-4F — a new icon for AIM-9E missiles has been added to the suspended weapon menu.
• Type 99 mod 1 — a bug has been fixed where the armour penetration parameters of the first ammo type, not the most one with the greatests penetration, was indicated for the whole ammo belt.
• AIM-9D — explosive type has been corrected to HMX (report).
• M118 bomb (3000 lb) — filler type and trotyl equivalent have been corrected.

Customization and achievements

• A bug where progress in the battle pass task “Bellum omnium contra omnes” - “Air“ wasn’t being counted when leaving the vehicle in the air event before bomb explosion and enemy destruction ing has been fixed.  
• A bug where the “Fire Arrows” award wasn’t being counted when using ATGM, guided air-to-air surface to air missiles has been fixed.
• A bug where the “Rocket craft” award wasn’t being counted when using an AShM has been fixed.

Location and mission changes

• The old “Italy” location is no longer available to play in custom battles and custom user missions.

Sound

• The maximum possible volume of the player’s own engine on their vehicles (ground, aircraft, naval) has been increased. At the same time we have lowered the lower threshold for the volume of their own engine in the sound settings. NOTE! Don’t forget to go to the sound settings and adjust the volume of your engine! This change will allow those who prefer realism to get a more realistic engine volume for their own vehicles.
• The volume of machine gunfire sounds from the player’s ground vehicles has been increased. The volume of the sound of the breech mechanisms in third person view has been reduced.
• The frequency response of the sounds of engines on enemy vehicles has been corrected in order to more clearly determine the direction to the vehicles.
• New sounds have been created for the IKV 103 engine.
• New sounds for the reloading of tank cannons with manual reload have been created. We have used sources recently recorded on the Swedish firing range.
• A new sound of the M61 cannon rotor spinning (ground and aircraft) has been created. 
• A bug which caused the sound of a rocket explosion at long distances to be inadequate has been fixed.
• A bug where whilst playing the sound of artillery shells and rocket explosions at the same time, the sound of the former would stop, has been fixed.

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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.

 

[Metrallaroja 1,317]

Finally! This ammo changes were long waited ones. I hope I don't have to wait this long for F2G ammo fix.

Good work!

[Vonarian aka Ardeshir 2,872]

I don't who to thank, but thank you all hard working guys, really appreciated.

This is what we really wanted, bug fixes and working on the stability of the game.

Thank you again for your time and effort.

[Serra11 27]

Thank you devs! You are actually fixing things.

[Xanthropod 711]

47 minutes ago, Stona said:

Javelin F.(A.W.) Mk.9 — the ammo capacity of the ADEN guns has been specified to 800 in total (200 rounds per gun) (report).

Praise the Snail

[Tora__Tora__Tora 1]

The Japanese B5N2 still has a visual bug with its left wing. Both flap and aileron don't work on the left wing, they don't move

[Paul__C 764]

1 hour ago, Stona said:

A bug has been fixed where the camera view in replays from ground simulator battles might be shifted when looking from the player view.

 

Thank you!

 

This has been plaguing me for a long time with sim helicopter replays. 

 

The "Its Fixed!" blog posts are amazing so thankyou to the devs and forum staff for bringing these fixes to the players!

 

[JGari 5]

1 hour ago, Stona said:

 

• Custom camos download has been optimized for low speed connections. This will have a positive effect on ping and will decrease packet loss.

Finally my game isn't 999K ping for like 3 minutes straight before WT chugs all the custom skinks through my laggy interNET.

[C0lander 782]

1 hour ago, Stona said:

 

Sound

• The maximum possible volume of the player’s own engine on their vehicles (ground, aircraft, naval) has been increased. At the same time we have lowered the lower threshold for the volume of their own engine in the sound settings. NOTE! Don’t forget to go to the sound settings and adjust the volume of your engine! This change will allow those who prefer realism to get a more realistic engine volume for their own vehicles.

How about actually enforcing this in sim, along with a 100% sense of flight?

If ppl want to custom this in all sorts of arcade modes fine, but why are we still having these things optional in the simulator mode?

Edited April 28, 2021 by C0lander

[asopuma 64]

2 hours ago, Stona said:

SS.11 ATGM — a bug with missing tracer has been fixed.

Thanx

[davinator791 30]

I don't suppose the explosion sounds when aircraft is hit with a missile can be reduced? They're gonna give me a heart attack soon...

[TexNAss 0]

Downloaded update, files check run.

Unable to get past the daily rewards screen.

Cant click/select and no option to cancel the popup.

ESC isnt working either.

Even tried windowed mode.

 

Never had this issue- until this update: So assuming this is a result of the latest patch.
Issued is now resolved.
No idea on why- tried around 6 or 7 times over the last 24hours.

Tex

Edited April 29, 2021 by TexNAss
Issue is resolved.

[Stavroforos 15,312]

3 hours ago, Stona said:

A GPU estimate error has been fixed where in some cases the game might run in compatibility mode with the lowest graphic settings.

I am still getting the age-old problem of "drivers hung and were restarted" whenever I play in anything above the lowest graphic settings, which resets the graphics to low res, even though I should be able to play at max settings comfortably. 

[NAYEONnaise 1,919]

Its fixed! "Frequent crashing of the game on first few startups"...WHEN

seriously, after this patch, i can't just open my game. when the hangar loads, the game just crashes, either with an "exception" message or just without warning.

[RO_Joker 17]

Thank you for working on bug fixes!

I appreciate this the most.

This is my happy face

Edited April 28, 2021 by RO_Joker

[Renamed49723 10]

Thanks for the fixes.

Is there a full list of vehicles that got sights FOV improved? 

 

[GoldenX86 29]

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• Custom camos download has been optimized for low speed connections. This will have a positive effect on ping and will decrease packet loss.

 

Thank you so much for this, I can finally play top tier again!

[Lambor88 23]

I think I speak for the community for how much we appreciate you guys looking back at the game and fixing some bugs. I hope this continues

[_TheCrimsonKing_ 503]

As I said in the last "It's fixed!", thank you so much!

[TyphoonCro 6,819]

Please do more of these

It is a good sight!

[[email protected] 1,771]

 

6 hours ago, Stona said:

At the same time we have lowered the lower threshold for the volume of their own engine in the sound settings.

This absolutely should not be an option in the first place, let alone buffing it; being able to set your own volume seperately does not belong in an online PvP setting, full stop.

 

Other than this though, fantastic patch, I always love seeing smaller fixes like these.

 

 

 

[tigrebleu74 11]

For a long time I complained about Gaijin because they kept releasing new vehicles without fixing bugs first (general bugs or bugs found on previously released vehicles). "At least, with Bethesda games, I can use mods to fix the bugs," I'd say. "Gaijin won't even let us do that. Since they don't give a [insert your favourite expletive here] about fixing bugs, I'll just have to learn how to cope with them."

 

Well, I stand corrected. Please accept my apologies for sometimes too harsh criticism, and my thanks for fixing up so much stuff already! Keep up the good work!

 

Kudos!

Edited May 12, 2021 by tigrebleu74
Removing update.

[Target1331 3,044]

Once again want to note that the "It's fixed" devblog is appreciated. It's great to get some more details what happened and how it got fixed.

 

Best regards,

Phil

[Jaek_ 359]

8 hours ago, Stona said:

• F-104J, F-4F — a new icon for AIM-9E missiles has been added to the suspended weapon menu.

This is nice but I'm wondring why it was only implemented on these two, there are other aircraft like the MiG21bis that have three IR missile types. The yellow icon would be perfect for the R13M.

[[email protected] 1,949]

A bug where progress in the battle pass task “Bellum omnium contra omnes” - “Air“ wasn’t being counted when leaving the vehicle in the air event before bomb explosion and enemy destruction ing has been fixed

Doesn't seem to be fixed for me