War Thunder "Spearhead" - Changelog

[PommyDribbler]

Can’t wait for the su30 spams

[Bonrath]

Extremely mid.
Nice job with the “totally not top tier” premium by the way.
12.3 aircraft are now on the mega suffer list. Yikes

[AblativeKitten]

Hawk 200 time wooooooo

[Stona_WT]

@kitsune_qq

Mid update ngl

So what’s good and what’s bad in it? You are here since years, saying “mid update” gives us nothing :(

[FrostWolf02]

Japan
AH-64E (Indonesia)

China
AH-64E

France
AH-64E (Netherlands)

The AH-64E It’s Taiwanese, not Chinese, Gaijin.

[Swiss_Ball]

is the update out on steam yet? I still don’t see the “update game”

[H_ngma]

@Stona_WT

Daily universal backups have been added. Players now have access to 5 daily universal backups, which can be used to respawn in any vehicle in any mode (where backups are enabled).

Great change, hopefully thatll reduce the frustration with newer players who only have 1 or 2 vehicles in their lineup

[Bonrath]

And he’s probably also pointed out what specifically multiple times in the past years.
Hell even if he did it over and over and over he’d be ignored yet again.
Stop digging yourself a hole by saying those things

[Stona_WT]

@Swiss_Ball

is the update out on steam yet? I still don’t see the “update game”

We release it everywhere on same moment, our launcher is always the fastest (we directly control it), steam should “catch” that it needs to update game short after. You can try to restart steam client or simply wait a bit more.

[Terminated_800]

I’m a bit annoyed that there are more copy paste vehicles (why is everyone getting an AH-64E now?), and the US only gets some average low tier premiums. Still, it’s nice to see that gaijin is changing tank modules to be a lil more realistic, overall I’m pretty happy with this update

[Armen_Lozone]

Germany gets new heli next update trust

[itango]

@Stona_WT

F-14A Early — a restriction on the joint use of the AIM-54A air-to-air missiles with AIM-7E-2 air-to-air missiles under the fuselage has been added. (Report, Report). Two AIM-54A missiles that are available without researching any modifications have been moved to the front fuselage hardpoints.

This is a bad change
Instead of removing those bits based on what’s under there they removed the ability to mix AIM54’s and AIM7-DFs

[SFmerc]

time to change top tier jets in GRB from 13.0 → 13.3/13.7

[Akula0517]

Bois steam upadate has dropped, Jaguar here i come

[lolman03]

steam just got the update

[Soviet_onion11]

im still updating?

[Real_K_Soze]

@Stona_WT

So what’s good and what’s bad in it?

This is bad:

@Stona_WT

Changes to newbie battles for Air Realistic Battles:

• The ability to destroy airfields has been removed, as it is not used at later ranks.
• There are now more bases to bomb (4 at the start instead of 3) and bases now respawn a while after being destroyed, like in higher rank battles.
• Some tank units in missions have been replaced with armored personnel carriers so that fighters can also destroy them.

Why? I explained it here:

The Dev Server is Opening with Major Update “Spearhead”! — 24.10.2025

Amazing - the effect of these changes: Killing airfields was the sole purpose of flying bombers. The airfield as equivalent of a strategic target was until May 2020 the sole win condition for bombers. Killing the last 3 bases maps like Poland, Stalingrad or the 4 or 5 Frontline maps (which are very common in matches in the BR range 4.7 - 6.0 - so no "newbie battles) kills also the last option for tactical game play . The zero skill nonsense of bombing respawning bases since May 2020 was the…

25 likes were not enough…

Edit & Update 20/11/25:

I have to revise my initial assessment “bad”. Why?

Regarding the current (announced) changes:

1. From my pov there are no substantial changes at BRs above 2.7. I played (after a break) now on several 3 bases maps (Frontline maps and legacy maps like Poland) without noticing any changes, so it looks like gaijin either “forgot” these maps or just changed bases at BRs lower than 2.7.

2. The increase of contrail altitudes (on medium maps now around 9km) should increase the survival chances of experienced bomber pilots in bombers with good high alt performance. I ran today (by accident) multiple times in very high Pe-8s (at 7km+) and even in a PB5-M (at 6 km) which popped out of nowhere. Have in mind that the graphics whilst playing on xbox are far inferior compared to PC graphics.

3. The downsides of these contrail alt changes is (ofc) that it is basically impossible to track enemy fighters trying to pitch up. After watching several replays it became obvious that i got tracked and stalked multiple times without being aware of that (despite i scanned the airspace below and behind) - the majority of these fighters broke off as they ran out of fuel or were too lazy to climb.

4. I flew yesterday several missions in the Swedish B-18B - totally relaxing matches thx to missing contrails, all bombs dropped, not a single plane loss , 6 matches, 6 victories, like in good old times.

That’s why i assess the current changes as a slight upside for experienced prop bomber pilots - the average players still try their low level runs with the usual outcome😉

[mafiascrub]

in truth that really makes me mad they could’ve made bombers more useful but they decided just to removed it

[kitsune_qq]

Well.
FNF helis for more nations. Better from balance, but even worser for ground.
And outside of that almost no interesting additions. Another barely playable F-15? And a bunch of clones.
Some “smart” balancing decisions regarding Su-30&J-11.
Like… overall update is buff for Challengers, contrail changes and… a bit of love for sim(still lacks good economy lol)?

[Legendbee]

Still no Gripen E or F&F helicopter for Sweden (the only nation with no 14.3 and no F&F helicopter)

Tank you for yet another f16 no one asked you to add, ironic that it’s right next to Gripen A, making it completely useless to us.