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Update 2.37.0.114

Aircraft

  • Barak II — a bug that caused the infrared channel to be missing when using IR-guided bombs has been fixed.
  • AIM-120A, AIM-120B — the delay after launch until missile control begins has been increased from 0.5 to 0.6s. (Report).
  • Mirage 2000-5F — a bug with the lack of indication of the launch range for a maneuverable target on the radar indicator has been fixed. (Report).
  • Delay time for the assault fuse of bombs has been decreased. Depending on the mass of explosives, the delay of the bomb fuse will be: 10 kg and below — 1.5s, 40 kg — 2.7s, 120 kg — 3s, 300 kg — 3.5s, 500 kg — 4.5s, 2000 kg — 6s, and 5000 kg and above — 7s.

Ground Vehicles

  • Tiger II (P) — weight has been increased from 68 to 68.5t. (Report).
  • Maus, E-100 — a bug with the difference in the strength of the breech of the gun compared to other tanks has been fixed.
  • Leopard 2 PL, Leopard 2 PSO — the muzzle velocity of the DM11 shell has been increased from 970 to 980 m/s. (Report).
  • M247 — the radius of the M822 shell’s radio fuze has been increased from 4 to 6.5 m. (Report).

Naval Vessels

  • Pfeil, MC 485, ML 1383, USS Flagstaff, PT-812 — a bug that disabled the survivability option when there was a crew shortage has been fixed.

Appearance and Achievements

  • For modern French ground vehicles, the Three-tone CARC Camouflage has been replaced by a Three-tone Camouflage with refined colors in accordance with French Army standards.

Interface

  • The ability to move vehicles from one crew slot to another by dragging it with the mouse has been added.
  • The button to change a vehicle, modifications, and other functions in the crewslots has been removed. Instead, when you hover over a slot, the cursor changes to tell you that you can open a drop-down menu by pressing LMB or a gamepad button.
  • The crew block in the crewslots has been changed:
  • The button that opened the crew rearrangement has been removed.
  • When hovering over the crew block, the cursor changes indicating that a drop-down crew interaction menu can be opened.
  • Information about the crew is opened not by hovering, but by pressing any mouse button.
  • The ability to select a vehicle to spawn in by clicking any element related to it, such as vehicle icon, its SP cost or crew level has been added.

Other

  • A bug in the “Confrontation” mode in Air SB that caused players of one of the teams to not receive tasks to escort bombers, and their opponents to not receive tasks to destroy bombers has been fixed. This bug concerned bombers that did not attack the fleet.
  • The “Can-do Approach” Special Task for Ground Simulator Battles has been removed. (Report).
  • Cleaned up bananas scattered around the hangar.

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.