Known Bugs
- New vehicles in this update may have inaccuracies in their characteristics, armor and weaponry settings.
- The armor model for new ground vehicles in this update is “work in progress” for adjustment and improvement.
- Some new aircraft lack cockpits.
- Some new ground vehicles lack a visible crew.
- On some aircraft, the separation of wing consoles may be displayed incorrectly.
- Some vehicle icons are missing.
- There may be lack of localization for some points in the interface.
- No sound played on some events.
- Some aircraft may have inaccuracies in their damage model, missing fuel, oil and water leaks, and armor materials.
- Camouflage nets with coloring to the tank’s camouflage mechanic are work in progress.
- The game sometimes crashes when switching between multiple custom loadouts.
- In the secondary weapons menu, the camera zoom range has been mistakenly increased.
- On some aircraft, when switching secondary weapon presets, elements of pylons, bomb bay doors, etc. may disappear.
- New weapons, such as AGM-38 / KAB-500S, have not been added to all vehicles capable of using these weapons; the vehicles are being configured.
Changes marked with GREEN font
Aircraft
USA
- A-10C
- F-111F
- AV-8B (NA) (Pack)
Germany
- FFA P-16 (Pack)
USSR
- Su-24M
Great Britain
- F-111C
China
- JF-17 (Squadron Vehicle)
- J-10A
Italy
- Tornado IDS
Israel
- F-16C Barak II
Ground vehicles
USA
- T1E1 (90)
- M41A1 — vehicle visual model has been updated.
Germany
- Puma VJTF
USSR
- ZSU-23-4M2
- T-80U-E1 — vehicle visual model has been updated, a camouflage net has been added.
Great Britain
- Stormer AD
Japan
- RCV (P) (Squadron Vehicle)
China
- ZTZ99A — vehicle visual model has been updated and some inaccuracies in the geometry have been fixed.
- Antelope ADS
Italy
- Freccia — vehicle model has been updated: Janus optics system has been added.
France
- CV9035NL (Squadron Vehicle)
Sweden
- KV-1 m1942 (Premium)
Israel
- Tiran 6
Naval Fleet
USA
- USS Tennessee
Germany
- SMS Derfflinger
USSR
- Izmail
Japan
- PT-802
France
- VTB-8
- VTB-9 (Premium)
- VTB-11
- VTB-13
- VTB-14
- VTB-19
- MTB-96
- L9059
- VLT-1
- La Combattante
- Arras
- Mogador
- La Surprise
New locations and missions
- A new [Domination #2] Eastern Europe mission has been added for battles at a Battle Rating of 4.0 and higher (preliminary value that is subject to change).
Location and mission updates:
- 38th Parallel — a position in the grid square E7 (a ledge near the map border), where it was possible to shoot at the spawn point in grid square A6 has been blocked.
- Kuban — rocks in the B3 grid square where tanks could get stuck have been removed.
- Iberian Castle — used pines have been replaced with ones more suitable for the region (the size and shape of the tree crown has been changed).
- Second battle of El Alamein — the depth of the lakes near the spawn point of the right based team has been reduced so they can be crossed by a ground vehicle. A position on the junction between grid squares C5/C6/D5/D6 which allowed firing at the spawn point in squares A3/A4 has been blocked
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Eastern Europe — a few houses have been removed near the spawn point in grid square F2 to make exiting easier. Some pits and piles of debris have been removed in grid squares F3/E3.
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[Domination] Eastern Europe — the bridges in the mission are now destroyed, thus blocking the positions on the northern side of the river. This mission is available in battles at a Battle Rating of 4.0 and lower (preliminary value that is subject to change).
Ground Vehicle model, damage model, characteristic and weaponry changes:
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XM975, Roland 1, FlaRakPz 1, ItO 90M (all variants), Imp. Chaparral (all variants), ADATS, ADATS (XM113), Tor-M1, 2С6, ЗСУ-23-4 (all variants) — new internal modules have been added.|
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KPz-70, MBT-70, XM803, CCVL, HSTV-L, XM-8 — an autoloader module has been added to the damage model.|
- AMX-13-90 — the weight of the OCC 90-62 shell has been reduced from 8.95 to 3.65 kilograms. (Report).
- G6 — the HP and RPM have been increased from 518 to 550 HP and 2100 to 2300 RPM. (Report).
- Vextra 105 — the wrongly present OE 105 F3 shell has been replaced with a new HE shell, the OE 105-60. (Report).
- Machbet, Hovet, M163 — the transmission gear ratio values have been corrected. These vehicles were missed in the latest changes to M113-based vehicles.
- Type 99, Type 89 — the transmission gear ratio values have been corrected. Source: 制式要綱 89式装甲戦闘車(B) D8009B.
- 2C bis — the gun mantlet armor thickness has been increased from 35 mm to 50 mm. (Report).
- 2C bis — the gun depression and elevation angles have been changed from -10/10 to -15/20 degrees. (Report).
- Desert Warrior — the gun depression and elevation angles have been changed from -8/60 to -7/59 degrees. (Report).
- Leopard 1A5NO2 — a bug where the loader did not rotate with the turret while in X-ray mode has been fixed. (Report).
- Type 81 (C) — a third crew member has been added. (Report).
- SK-105A2, JaPz.K A2 — the number and shape of the fuel tanks have been corrected. (Report).
- SK-105A2, JaPz.K A2 — the partition separating the driver has been removed. (Report).
- BT-5, RBT-5, BT-7, BT-7A (F-32), BT-42 — the location of the fuel tanks has been corrected. Sources: Наставление автобронетанковых сил РККА. Танк БТ-5. 1935 // Танк БТ-7. Наставление автобронетанковых войск РККА. 1938.
- T55E1 — the turning mechanism of the 2 front pairs of wheels has been changed. The turns are now done by turning the whole frontal carriage instead of turning individual wheels. (Report).
- leKPz M41 — the tracks have been replaced with physical ones.
- M1128 — the composite screens have been converted to volumetric armor.
- A.C.I — internal partition armor has been moved from Armor view to X-ray view.
Aircraft and helicopter model, damage model, characteristic and weaponry changes:
Weaponry
- Ki-84 — 100 kg bombs have been added. Source: Operating instruction on the Nakajima Ki 84 Japanese fighter airplane.
- SB2C-1C — a 1,600 lb AN-MK.1 armor-piercing bomb and 2 x 1,000 lb AN-MK 33 armor-piercing bombs have been added. (Report).
- SB2C-4, SB2C-5 — 2 x 1000 lb AN-MK 33 armor-piercing bombs have been added. (Report, Report).
- A-26B-10, A-26B-50, A-26C-45, A-26C-45DT — 4 x 1000 lb AN-MK 33 armor-piercing bombs have been added. (Report).
- Buccaneer S.2B — 500 lb Mk.82 AIR retarded bombs have been added. (Report).
- Spitfire LF Mk IX — 500 lb AN-M64 and S.A.P Mk.II bombs have been added. (Report).
- Sea Harrier FA 2 — Mk.M2 540 lb bombs have been added. (Report).
- F-20A — the total number of rounds for the 20 mm M39A3 guns has been reduced from 560 to 460. (Report).
- Lincoln B Mk II — 4,000 lb, 8,000 lb and 12,000 lb bombs have been added. Source: 2847A&B Volume 1 Avro Lincoln B1 & 2 Flight Manual.
- Ki-49 (all variants) — an additional 500 kg bomb has been added.
- Lightning F.53 — H.E. M.C. Mk.1 No.118 540 lb bombs have been added. (Report).
- B-25J-30 (USSR) — additional variants with 2 x FAB-500 + 4 x FAB-250 and 8 x FAB-250 bomb loadouts have been added. (Report).
- Jaguar GR.1A — a 540 lb H.E. M.C. Mk.1 No.118 retarded bomb has been added. Source: Jaguar GR Mk 1A and T Mk 2A Aircrew Manual Book 3- Navigation/Attack and Armament Systems AP101B-3101 & 2-15C.
- Mk.13 guided bomb — explosive mass has been increased from 180 to 185.3 kg. (Report).
- Mirage 2000D-R1 — 2 x BGL-400 guided bombs have been added.
- F-104G (Germany) — a 2000 lb Mk 84 bomb has been added. (Report).
- AH-1Z — the AGM-114B Hellfire has been replaced with the AGM-114K Hellfire II. Sources: NAVY TRAINING SYSTEM PLAN FOR THE H-1 UPGRADES PROGRAM (AH-1Z and UH-1Y) N88-NTSP-A-50-9602A/A; 2015-08525 36(b)(1) Arms Sales Notification.
- Yak-9K, Yak-9UT, TIS MA, Su-8, Tu-1 — armor-piercing high-explosive ammunition, as well as armor-piercing belts for aircraft armed with the NS-45 cannon have been added.
- F-104C — the ability to carry 2 additional AIM-9B missiles under the fuselage pylons has been added. Source: T.O. 1F-104A-1 “F-104A, B, C & D Flight Manual”.
- IL-28 (China), Tu-4 (China) — FAB-100, FAB-250, FAB-500, FAB-1500, and FAB-3000 bombs have been replaced with 100-2, 250-2, 500-2, 1500-2, 3000-2 bombs respectively. (Report, Report, Report, Report, Report).
- Q-5 early — the ability to use 2 x 100-2 bombs has been added. (Report).
- J-7II — FAB-500 bombs have been replaced with 500-2 bombs.
- Spitfire Mk.IX (CW) (Israel) — the ability to use 8-cm Flz.-Rakete Oerlikon rockets and AN-M57 bombs has been added. (Report, Report).
- P-63A-10, P-63C-5 — the ability to use M8 rockets has been added. (Report).
- Pe-8 — the following amounts of ammo have been increased: for the 12.7 mm UBT turrets in the landing gear from 200 to 400; for the 20 mm ShVAK turret on top of the fuselage from 200 to 440; for the 20 mm ShVAK turret in the tail from 230 to 430. Source: Технический отчет о работе ОКБ главного конструктора Незваль И.Ф за 1944 г.
- Aerea 559G1 incendiary bomb — mass has been reduced from 260 kg to 253 kg, incendiary material mass has been reduced from 253 kg to 208 kg. (Report).
- 2000 lb SAMP Mk 84 bomb — explosive mass has been reduced from 550 kg to 428.6 kg. (Report).
- 1000 lb SAMP Mk 83 bomb — explosive mass has been reduced from 203 kg to 201.8 kg. (Report).
- 500 lb SAMP Mk 82 bomb — explosive mass has been reduced from 90 kg to 87.1 kg. (Report).
- 500 lb H.E. M.C. Mk.II bomb — explosive mass has been increased from 100.7 kg to 107.5 kg. (Report).
- Meteor F Mk.8 (France) — a bug that caused the RP-3 rockets to be launched in an incorrect order has been fixed. (Report).
- Canberra B.Mk.2 — an additional set of 2 x 4,000 lb H.C. Mk.IV bombs has been added. Source: A.P. 101B-0408-1 Canberra B(I) Mk.8 General and technical info» и «English Electric (BAC) Canberra B Mk 2 T Mk 4 (Roger Chesneau, Ray Rimell.
- AV-8B Plus (all variants) — GBU-38 JDAM bombs and the modification for them have been added.
- Su-27SM — the ability to carry additional underfuselage R-77 missiles has been added.
Other
- Su-25T, Su-39 — a bug that caused the fuel tank behind the cockpit to not count as self-sealing has been fixed.
- Meteor F.8 (Israel) — a bug that caused a drop-tank to display under the left wing in x-ray mode has been fixed. (Report).
- Yak-141 — fuel tank neutral gas pressurization system has been added.
- A32A — the number of chaff in the BOX-3/BOZ-3 pod has been increased from 16 to 464. (Report).
- Jaguar A, Jaguar E — the number and composition of countermeasures has been reconfigured to match the visual model. 48 large caliber countermeasures have been added. The amount of usual countermeasures has been set to 144.
- AH-1Z, EC-665 Tiger (all variants), A-129 International (p), A129CBT, T129, AH-129D, T129, Rooivalk Mk1F CSH — TopOwl helmet-mounted sight and display system has been added.
- Sea Vixen F.A.W. Mk.2 — an incorrect dependency of bomb modifications has been fixed.
- J-11A — the R-77 modification has been replaced with the RVV-AE.
- J-11A — cockpit glass tint, which was previously orange, has been corrected.
- F-16A MLU (China) — a bug with the absence of drop tanks in standard weaponry presets has been fixed. (Report).
- Ka-52 — the incorrect landing gear model has been fixed. (Report).
- F-5E (all variants) — the incorrect position of the left stabilizer has been fixed. (Report).
- MiG-27K — the canopy model in 3rd person view has been corrected. (Report).
- B-57B — ballistic computer for the guns has been removed. (Report).
- AV-8B Plus (all variants) — the “New 25 mm cannons” modification has been moved from tier IV to tier III in the modifications window.
- Do 217 (all variants) — a bug that lead to the engine overheating quickly has been fixed.
- P-38K — a bug that caused this plane to respawn on the airfield already accelerating has been fixed.
- Attacker FB (all variants) — the Engine Fire System (EFS) modification has been added.
Flight Model changes:
- Tornado F.3 (All), GR.1, IDS, ADV — wing lift and critical angles of attack have been increased, turn time has been reduced, automatic wing mechanization has been added.
- A-10A — critical angles of attack have been increased, dive exit has been improved, pitch response when entering a dive has been improved.
- F-104 (all variants) — sustained turn time has been increased, mouse control has been improved, maximum overload limit in forced turn by the instructor has been increased to 7.5G (with full fuel).
- Swift F.1, F.7 — Mach number limit has been increased, flap retraction as speed increases has been added.
- J-8B, J-8F — incorrect refueling and consumption from external tanks has been fixed.
- Me 262 (all variants), Hunter (all variants), Ro.57, G.50 (all variants), G.55 (all variants), P-47 (all variants), F3D-1, B-24D-25-CO, PB4Y-2 (all variants), Ju 88 (all variants), Ju 188 A-2, Fw 200 C-1 — a mechanic of flap retraction with the speed increase has been added.
- SAAB-105G, 105OE — yaw stabilizing damper on full-real controls has been added.
- MiG-23 (all variants) — sway during rolls while in mouse aim has been reduced.
- A-26 (all variants) — flight model has been updated. Critical angles of attack has been corrected, controls in mouse aim have become easier. Aborting a dive has become easier.
- T-2 (all variants)/F-1 — a bug that caused the plane to swing in yaw axis while maneuvering has been fixed.
- Ro-57 — an automatic retraction system has been added to flaps (“floating” type flaps).
Naval fleet model, damage model, characteristic and weaponry changes:
Naval weaponry:
- Soukou-Tei No.4 — the rate of fire of the Type 89 machine gun has been increased from 600 rpm to 700 rpm. Source: 陸軍技術本部(昭和4年)｢八九式旋回機関銃仮制式制定ノ件｣.
- RN Andrea Doria — the maximum elevation angles for the 40 mm mounts have been fixed.
- LS 3, VS-8, VS-10 — the max ammo count for the 15 mm autocannons has been fixed. (Report).
- Bretagne, Lorraine — the maximum elevation angle of the main battery guns has been increased from 18 to 23 degrees.
Naval characteristics, physics and damage model:
- IJN Kurama — barbette armor has been fixed. Source: “〔断面図(鞍馬・伊吹)〕”.
- HMS Orion — a bug where one of the 102 mm guns would intersect with the superstructure geometry has been fixed. (Report).
- Emden — the shape and thickness of the armored stern traverse has been corrected. Source: BArch RM 25/16188 “Kleiner Kreuzer “Emden”. Hintersteven, Ruder- und Schraubenanordnung (1 : 25)”.
- Emile Bertin — the maximum speed has been decreased from 64 km/h to 63 km/h. Source: French warships of World War II, 1971
- RN Duilio, RN Conte di Cavour — roll period has been reduced. These ships now return to an even keel more quickly after turning.
Naval Visual models and visual parts:
- Type 1924, Jaguar — a bug that caused the camouflages to not apply on the turrets has been fixed. (Report).
- IJN Mogami, IJN Mikuma, IJN Suzuya — draft has been increased. (Report).
- VLT-2 — crew models have been changed from British to French sailors.
- Tracers for all naval shells have been reworked. They are now more visible, especially in poor weather conditions.
- USS Douglas — an animation for opening and closing the missile silo doors during missile reloading has been added.
- Bernau — the rocket model in the launcher has been corrected, and an animation of its stabilizers opening after launch has been added.
Localization
- IJN Kuma has been renamed to IJN Tama, and the crew has been increased — the ship’s appearance and equipment are different from IJN Kuma and are more suitable for IJN Tama. (Report, Report). The ship’s crew has been increased from 438 to 447. (Report).
- TKA-106 — has been renamed to TKA-412. (Report).
Interface
- A naval minimap is now being displayed when flying reconnaissance aircraft launched from a ship.
- In Arcade Battles, a round marker for fire control system data refresh has been replaced with a progress bar, just like in Realistic Battles.
Other
- Ship towing has now been made contextual. We have removed the towing on/off button from the action bar and made it work automatically. If a player runs aground, the request to tow them is now turned on automatically. A corresponding icon appears above the player’s ship, which is visible to nearby allies. If an ally gets close enough to the stranded ship, they will be asked to help get it off the ground by hooking the towing rope. After that, the towing player will be able to unhook it using the same button at any time.
Economy and research
- The period where new vehicles are counted as “new” has been increased from 14 to 28 days. During that period, any new vehicles are marked with a golden strip on them and they don’t block the research of the vehicle after it.
Customization
- The ability to change the texture of drop-tanks when creating camouflages has been added.
- A “Basic green camouflage” for South African ground vehicles has been added.
- A tricolor camouflage has been added for post-war Italian ground vehicles.
- The pattern of the “Tricolor late camouflage pattern” for post-war Italian ground vehicles has been fixed.
- For camouflages where change of condition, scale and rotation are not available, the corresponding tools are now disabled and a warning has been added.
- The following changes have been made to the nation challenge achievements:
- Achievements can now only be obtained with vehicles that belong to a specific nation. Vehicles with the same name from another nation will no longer be added to achievements. For example, the achievement “Bf.109 German Ace” can only be completed with aircraft from the German aviation research tree and not with captured aircraft from the US and Japanese aviation research trees.
- The nation indicating the vehicle’s ownership has been added to the achievement names.
- The missing vehicle by nation has been added to the completion conditions.
- After October 15th, vehicles that do not belong to the nation specified in the title will be removed from achievements.
- A new mechanic for coloring camouflage nets to the tank’s camouflage has been added. Currently it is available on two vehicles: Vextra 105 and T-80U-E1.
Interface
- The Secondary weapons menu has been changed: The window with a list of weaponry presets has been made smaller and moved to the lower part of the screen. Camera settings have been changed. Now the aircraft can be seen when selecting different weapon presets and when making new ones. All changes are reflected on the aircraft in real time without it flickering.
- The ability to display radar altitude has been added to the aircraft HUD. Switching between the indicated altitudes is done via “Indicated altitude” parameter in the “Air Battle Settings” category. It is possible to choose just one of the altitude types — either barometric or radar, as well as both of them at the same time.
- Information about the calculated (maximum, with an accurate hit) damage to bases for bombing and the reward multiplier for this damage (the multiplier applies to SL, RP and mission points) has been added to the description of secondary weapons for aircraft.
- Bombs that have their mass specified in pounds now also have mass in kilograms displayed in the brackets after the mass in pounds.
- The ability to filter by module parts has been added to the X-ray view of ground and naval vehicles in the hangar.
- Rookie trophies in the in-game Item Shop are now grayed out and cannot be purchased if the player already has the vehicle in the trophy on their account.
- A bug where the display content filter did not change to “Any” when selecting a fictional camouflage in battle has been fixed. The player will receive a notification about this when the display content changes.
- A discount indication has been added for pack vehicles. Now these vehicles will have an icon with the discount value when there is a sale in the store.
- A display of max thrust on shafts has been added to the x-ray tooltip for helicopter engines.
- A bug that caused the crew level font to be smaller than it should be when dragging the vehicle from one crew slot to the other has been fixed.
- A bug that caused the reloading values for the top crew in the X-ray view to not display or display wrongly for vehicles with multiple cannons has been fixed. (Report).
Graphical
- A bug where the effect of the transition to supersonic was only displayed on part of the screen when the 4x SSAA and temporary anti-aliasing resolution was higher than 1 has been fixed. (Report).
Sound
- New functionality for working with sound mods has been added. Now, using a special configuration file, you can bind any sound events of engines, tracks and turret rotation to any ground vehicle in the game. Previously, you could only use existing sound events strictly sticking to the names and paths.
- The effect of radio distortion for ground vehicle crews has been reduced, speech has become intelligible. The effects of radio interference for tank crew communications have been removed. The radio effect only remains when the commander communicates with external characters (artillery, aviation, etc.).
- Now, when flying an aircraft from cockpit view at high speeds, an open canopy/cockpit door will cause external sounds to be muffled by the wind and become indistinguishable.
