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War Thunder "Heavy Cavalry" - Changelog
The Heavy Cavalry major update brings a variety of vehicles for all nations, from the Welkin and IA.58A Pucara to the new Abrams variants and USS North Carolina! For ground locations, we’ve improved the visuals of Ash River and Winter Ardennes, all while retaining their familiar layouts. Rewards for aircraft crashing near your vicinity without taking damage, new damage models and MFD screens, man-in-the-loop, and aiming points for salvo firing are some of the features that we’ve worked on in this update to help improve several quality of life aspects of the game.
  • 24 June 2026
Update 2.57.0.35
Update 2.57.0.35
Buk-M3 air defense system has been replaced with the S-300 air defense system in Nuclear Escalation. Sweden and Alaska Town have been temporarily removed from the Ground Battles rotation.
  • 2 July 2026
Update 2.57.0.32 — Sound Mods Available
Update 2.57.0.32 — Sound Mods Available
Sound mods can once again be used.
  • 2 July 2026
Update 2.57.0.30
Update 2.57.0.30
The precision and smoothness of the vehicle’s motion in the Bomb/Missile Camera View have been improved.
  • 1 July 2026
Update 2.57.0.27
Update 2.57.0.27
A bug where the brake parachute would not deploy automatically when landing at airfields has been fixed.
  • 30 June 2026
Update 2.57.0.25
Update 2.57.0.25
A bug where performance dropped significantly when the radar was turned on has been fixed.
  • 29 June 2026
Update 2.57.0.17
Update 2.57.0.17
A bug that caused the friend or foe target filter on the ESM screen to sometimes reset has been fixed.
  • 26 June 2026
Update 2.57.0.13
Update 2.57.0.13
Numerous bug fixes
  • 25 June 2026
Update 2.55.1.165
Update 2.55.1.165
Fixed an issue where enabling ray reconstruction in the ray tracing settings did not actually activate the feature.
  • 17 June 2026
Update 2.55.1.157
Update 2.55.1.157
Fixed unnatural shaking of tanks when driving on sandy surfaces.
  • 9 June 2026
Update 2.55.1.142
Update 2.55.1.142
The ability to enable and disable special voice overs for specially decorated vehicles has been added to the Sound settings menu.
  • 3 June 2026
Update 2.55.1.137
Update 2.55.1.137
An issue that caused graphical artifacts to appear when using NVIDIA graphics card driver version 610.47 has been fixed.
  • 29 May 2026