Update 2.45.0.18

Official News, Development Blogs and Updates
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Aircraft

  • F/A-18 (all variants) — a bug where the aircraft did not sink in water has been fixed. (Report).
  • F/A-18C Late — a bug where the player had to press the key for changing NVG mode twice to turn off thermals has been fixed.
  • Su-30SM — the hardpoints for the R-77-1 missile, available without researching modifications, have been changed from 5 and 8 to 2 and 11. This means you can combine more guided weapons with them before researching the R-77-1 modification.
  • Sea Harrier (all variants) — a bug where the air-to-air missiles did not select after switching to the AAMs HUD mode has been fixed.
  • Su-27, Su-27SM, Su-33, J-11, J-11A — missile launch distance indication markers on the HUD have been made thinner.
  • Do 217 E-2, Do 217 E-4, Do 217 K-1, Do 217 M-1 — a bug where some of the upper 50 kg bombs in the bomb bay could be dropped through the lower ones has been fixed.

Ground Vehicles

  • XM246 — a bug where the tracking radar X-ray did not reflect vertical guidance, and the search radar X-ray did not reflect the folding of the radar has been fixed.

Locations and Missions

  • [Alternate History] Afghanistan — this mission has been disabled. To replace it, with the release of the Hornet’s Sting major update, the mission [Operation] Afghanistan has been added.

Interface

  • A bug where the nuke button did not display in the hotbar in Ground Realistic Battles after reaching the required number of Spawn Points for the nuke aircraft has been fixed. (Report).
  • A bug in the shell stat card that sometimes caused the penetration values under the angles to be in a different order from the standard 0-30-60 degrees when viewing them in Protection Analysis has been fixed.

Graphics

  • A bug that caused aircraft to become less visible against a cloud background has been fixed.

Controls

  • A bug where, when assigning the same key to the “Optical Seeker View” and “Targeting Optics View” button and the aircraft only had targeting optics, the “Optical Seeker View” camera would turn on after pressing the assigned key has been fixed.

Patch notes reflect only key changes, meaning they may not include a complete list of all improvements made. Additionally, War Thunder is constantly being updated and some changes may not require an update. Changes reflected in patch notes are formed by taking reactions and requests of the community from the bug reporting service, forums and other official platforms into account. Bug fixes and changes are implemented in order of importance, for example a game-breaking bug will be worked on and implemented sooner.

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still no EF Radar fix no fix for the PzH 2000 missing spall liner and ammo but lets only fix new things and forget the old

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Awh damn I had alot of fun with small Afghanistan now to tolerate the new version of it.

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Advance Australia ahhh wallpaper image

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RIP old clean Stat Card

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Yay a Harrier HUD fix.

Can we fix the gunsight next?

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Rapier fix please it creates more (Hits) than Michael Jackson.

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Fun police over here smh

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wait its broken?

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Hey Gaijin This isn’t the Sea Harrier “standard sight mode”

So they attempted to fix the bomb and AAM thing but instead made half the other sight modes bombs

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Please fix the Eurofighter radar
https://community.gaijin.net/issues/p/warthunder/i/QzcHFBfvbXZj
The issue is accepted I know but it should not be right, it’s not playable in sim air, thanks

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Yea, about this…
This one, especially with the enormous towns on it, is EXTREMELY performance heavy. Like, even the City map doesn’t compare to it for some odd reason. I hope the devs look into that because it defo doesn’t look that good for what one pays in performance drops.

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Could you fix the green ASU-57, please?

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Fix for A10C apkws ccip.

N O W

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small Afghanistan is no more, hooray!
could small Spain also be removed for BRs above 10.7? in Vietnam war era jets its already like people with guns being shoved into a room that’s just big enough for knife fighting,
with jets that have FOX-3 missiles, its like the room is even smaller and the people have their guns are already pressed against each other’s heads, and that’s just not fun gameplay.

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Can we have this change for the F-15s as well? The ones with Aim-120s specifically only get their stock weapons on the underwing pylons, meaning they can’t expand their arsenal in any other way than adding sparrows until the other AMRAAMs are unlocked.

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The 15mm armor is outrageous, can it be replaced with at least one piece of variable thickness armor?

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Lovely…
What about the messed up pen values in shells stats cards? Are those gonna be fixed, too?
BTW, why is there a female voice mixed in British male’s reports lines? Like when reporting the distance to the target, the word “range” is said by female in otherwise male line. Same for reporting an aircraft, the word “height” is also said by a female…

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It seems that reports lines in all languages have this problem

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Flew my vietnam jet for the first time since the update.

Why is my RWR making tetris noises in the F8E occasionally.