In this digest we would like to tell you about our continuing work on improvements and fixes in the game. You can find information about all updates that have been released in War Thunder on the website special section.

Improved artillery targeting smoke

Recently every artillery strike in ground battles began with a few hits of targeting smoke: this mechanic allowed lighter vehicles to react in time to the fire and try to escape. But in the original implementation the smoke markers were rather bright and stood out too much.  

In its updated form they will fit much better into the overall colour picture of a battle and the quality of the detailing of the effect itself has been increased. You can check it out already!

Corrected the data in many vehicle cards

It is very difficult to navigate through almost 2,000 game units, if not just the detailed cards for shells, missiles and of course the vehicles themselves. The data from these built-in War Thunder reference cards is almost always calculated within the game and unfortunately there was an error in this process.

This time we found the issue that affected more than dozen vehicles and caused an error in the displaying of their armour thickness. Although the problem applied only to the cards and the initial thickness in battles was counted correctly we fixed the bug for many different vehicles from different nations: Т-34-57, Т-34-57 (1943), Т-34 (1st Gv.T.Br.), Т-34 (1943), Type 62, Type 62 (USSR), T26E5, Strv m/41 S-I, Centurion Mk.5/1 (RAAC), Т-10А, Т-10М, BT-5, RBT-5, 9P149, 9P157, Sturer Emil, VK 45.01 (P), FIAT 6614, Tortoise, A.C.IV, M15 CGMC and M3 GMC.

Stabilized the gun marker in SB

This was also a bug and occured when trying to zoom in from the 3rd person view (commander view). The gun aiming marker shifted slightly and disrupted aiming. This annoying problem is already a thing of the past!

More improvements

For this digest we have prepared a large set of useful fixes and game improvements. Be sure to read the full list which we have prepared in the separate changelog - there are many interesting things.

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Once again, many thanks for all your bug reports that you submitted by using our special service.