War Thunder "Eagle's Shadow" - Changelog

R60 less engine thrust?? it doesn’t go far, it goes even less far now. Also revert IRIAF F14 to 13.3 please.

There are lots and lots of very nice things in this update, love the visuals! Breaklights? AWESOME!!! Wing vapors? I am beyond words for that one, simply amazing!
But pulling MITL for helis out of the pocket the day LDIRCM is penetrable by the IRIS-T SLM is a move I am not allowed to ellaborate further on here. Seriously this is opening a whole other issue now, because once again the IRIS-T SLM is borderline USELESS in the game. It is unplayable. It cant intercept the missiles, cant fire on the helicopters, it can only stand in cover and hope that it is not going to be found. the MITL has unlimited reloads and every SPAA has very limited missiles for interception (exept pantsir SMSV ofc) and the only way to kill a heli is a plane. Which btw costs an arm and a leg in spawn points fo fly as a combat air patrol. (808 sp for an ef2k with amrams and sidewinders only, kill me now) and against LDIRCM helis both are competely useless. so you need brimstones. which cost more. And now you are taking a Plane into the battle, which costs 300 sp more than the heli you want to kill. no way. absolutely no way that this is balanced. There is 2 different solutions for this, that are fairly easy to implement.
1: Make CAP aircraft and loadouts a LOT cheaper
2: Make the interception of ammunition for the IRIS-T SLM a LOT more reliable. Ukraine has shown the potential of the IRIS-T missile and the things it can intercept and shoot down. The refreshrate on the AESA (!!!) radar of the IRIS-T is a bad JOKE, and the seeker not being able to lock onto ammunition is just sad. The fact, that the IRIS-T SLM is the best Germany has to offer in mid range anti air is not reflected well and has not been for a long time. Sure a player who doesn’t know what he is doing is easy food for an IRIS-T in a plane. But put someone who knows ball in a plane and he will dance around the IRIS-T until its missiles have depleted. And as an MITL helicopter, there is not even a challenge in it anymore.

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That’s the most important question right now. Where are the submarines!?!?!

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Just remotely competent s1 player using target cycling keybind.

Its br doesnt match its upgrades over a10 late in cas department. Maws which only helps people with severe awareness issues, tpod which is small qol change and glide bombs which only act as extra useless weight because airframe is too slow to make them useful especially on flat maps. And then there is su25bm and su39. 1 br step difference but su39 moves from tv crutches to actual tpod with tracking and thermals and gets new 16 vikhrs which are actually useful. And for 2 br step difference you get wide band kh25mpu and kh31p on top of previous upgrades.

Or you can just pop up and hit them before they even have time to turn. Its a SACLOS SAM, it can only face one direction at a time

Ask for the A-10A late to move up then

They also reduced the drag, so it has around the same range

Due to the manual backup loading changes introduced in the “Eagle’s Shadow” update, direct reload times when the ready rack is empty have improved for vehicles like the T-90M (37s down to 36.4s), whereas tanks such as the Type 10 (24.9s up to 52s), Leclerc, and EMBT (65s stock) have been severely nerfed, creating an extreme balance disparity that needs to be addressed even when accounting for different autoloader designs.

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And it can use ears or t-6-1 to know my location before pop up and be ready to defend. And slow airframe gives it more than enough time to react.

As soon as agm65 starts dealing adequate damage to armored vehicles from low alt launches. Before that I can only see a10c moving to 11.7 as minor a10 upgrade but still inferior to both frogfoots.

Already does

Doesn’t need to move down, better than the 11.7 frogfoot so higher BR

Since the bug reporting forums just… dont work. ima add things here.

as a singular excample of a single very ignored plane even tho it was featured in the promotional material for the last update.

the jas 39E still

has incorrect flare count in pre flight menu Community Bug Reporting System
Displays showing the wrong artificial horizon. literaly everywhere. Community Bug Reporting System
belly pylons are still the wrong kind and uses weird rails on drop pylons for some reason.
Landing gear still clips through the side Community Bug Reporting System
and the instructor is broken and limiting the aircraft even more than some planes that wingrip at slightly higher performance Community Bug Reporting System
Also gripen Es MAW and RWR isnt spherical like it is irl as someone else pointed out.

all issues gaijin has just not seen or ignored or not fixed

Note that the clipping issue was accepted 6 months ago but nothing has been done. yet they featured it in marketing of this update (even tho it had zero updates done to it) and avoided any angle that would show it

And this is just ONE SINGLE PLANE and issues that mostly have been here since its introduction

I wanna re add again. I LIKE THIS UPDATE. but im getting sick at how bad the bug reporting forums are on feedback and speed of getting things implemented when it comes to really easy fixes

(reposted here on smins encouragement and he is probably right)

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Literally played a game where only 7/18 missiles did their job in basically no aa environment. 2 got intercepted by some ifv aps, 1 reached its target too late. Other 6 missiles missed and one landed a crit. And one re-locked on friendly because why not. Very reliable weapon. Surely more reliable than any weapon from su25/39 arsenal.

Except its not. You are claiming that one of worst cas jets in entire WT history is better than 2 of strongest ones. Which even have option to sit at lower battle ratings with superior weaponry and inferior opponents. Or at same br with even better toys to play with.

And your reasoning about your su25t (not even paid spaded analog) performance being better than a10 late (which is slightly worse a10c but 2 br steps lower (or even 3 before decompression)) is that its more fun. By the way, what would be reason for me performing in su25t better than in both warthogs?

Its not

In entire history is exaggerating but its still one of if not worst 12.0 (11.7 in past). It even gets mogged by f111f from same tech tree.

Do we know where the new Nuclear Escalation map is? I’ve played 10 matches and haven’t gotten it once :(

Still not

~~Love that they closed a bug report and used a bug report from an older build than my bug report to say they fixed it even tho its very clearly not fixed. SIIIICK. its great how onesided the bug reporting for this game is

But hey. glad to know at least one of the things have been seen. and it was the single thing thats been slightly improved since i made the report. Not fixed entirely, but improved.

Edit: again, yeah i think i can put this to rest tbh. It has been fixed to be on par with other aircraft again. looking back on the data it has been fixed and the difference between mouse and joystick is the same now. so Good on them. Still using a link to a bug report that was labled “fixed” before i made my post to argue its fixed is not great. but yes. it has been fixed between the time i made that post and now. just incrementally so i didnt truly notice

Okay lets just agree to disagree at this point because it feels like it will never end. Tho I would ask you to try a10c in grb at some point.

Well the A-10A does exceptionally even in the same BR matches, so the direct upgrade is definitely going to be great

Why not add a minimum altitude for MITL on helicopters to work. All I see are MI28NM players barely hovering over the airfield and launching LMURS with complete protection because they don’t appear on the radar.

These ‘developers’ continue to show they don’t play the game otherwise they would understand why MITL for helicopters is unnecessary