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The Ninth Wave major update brings a wealth of new content and improvements for everyone to enjoy. Key additions include several ground vehicles, including the Dragoon and the Second World War Ho-Ni II, as well as the AS90 for Great Britain. We’ve also added the new F-16CM PoBIT rank IX aircraft for the USA, alongside several Hungarian planes integrated into the Italian air tree. Naval enjoyers can acquire the notable USS Helm as a premium ship, accompanied by stunning new water effects. In addition to new vehicles, the map rotation welcomes back White Rock Fortress, featuring its classic layout now enhanced with graphical improvements!
Check out the changelog to see all the improvements, vehicles and other features that we’ve included in this major update.
The USA gets the M1296 Dragoon, a light tank with an unmanned turret and a 30 mm autocannon, perfect for scoot and shoot.
Japan gets some Second World War fun with the Ho-Ni II, featuring a hugh mungus 105 mm howitzer, firing HEAT and HE shells. And Germany now has a researchable Boxer in the form of the sWaTrgInf, with a 30 mm autocannon and Spike-LR II ATGMs!
Great Britain gets the GBT 155, featuring a 155 mm gun in a GBT turret mounted onto the familiar Vickers Mk.3 chassis. Perfect for researching the British ground forces tree.
- Vickers GBT155 (Rank IV, Great Britain)
- Premium account for 7 days
- 1000 Golden Eagles
We’ve added the famous British AS90 with a powerful 155 mm cannon! The USSR gets the Pantsir SM-SV, which features the new 95Ya6M missile, with an increased range, and the smaller calibre TKB-1055 missiles, perfect for intercepting enemy munitions.
New Vehicles:
New Model updates:
- T-50
- Type 61
We recently introduced Rank IX for aircraft and in Ninth Wave, a set of new Rank IX aircraft! First up is the F-16CM PoBIT, featuring brand-new AIM-120D ARH missiles and AGM-154A1 JSOW satellite-guided glide bombs.
Ninth Wave introduces four domestic Hungarian aircraft from the Second World War! Meet the Héja I & II, plus the WM-21 & WM-23, featuring machine guns and a good top speed
A new wave of Me 210s has also been introduced, one for Germany, two for Italy and one for Japan!
Great Britain gets the Australian F/A-18F, featuring advanced 12 AIM-120D AMRAAMs and loads of air-to ground weaponry, including new AGM-84H SLAM-ER cruise missiles with IR and satellite guidance.
Germany gets the rank VI Alpha Jet as a premium pack, excellent for researching many aircraft ranks. It’s very nimble and features 250 kg bombs and lots of rockets, but has no guided weapons.
- Alpha Jet A JaboG 41 (Rank VI, Germany)
- Premium account for 15 days
- 2000 Golden Eagles
New vehicles:
- MiG-29M (9-15) (Squadron Vehicle)
- MiG-29 (9-12)
- WM-23
- Me 210 Ca-1 (Hungary)
- Me 210 Ca-1 36.M (Hungary)
- Fw 190 F-8 (Hungary)
- JAS39D (Squadron Vehicle)
- F-16A (Norway)
New cockpits:
- B-24D-25-CO
- Su-30SM2
New plane model:
- Blenheim Mk.IV
- D3A1
- J-10C
Ninth Wave introduces the new AH-64DJP (AT) as a pack for Japan! This unique Apache features Hellfire missiles and air-to-air missiles, but also skis for all-terrain landings!
- AH-64DJP (AT) (Rank VII, Japan)
- Premium account for 15 days
- 2000 Golden Eagles
New vehicles:
New detailed cockpits:
- : AH-56A
- : Ka-29
- : Z-19, Z-19E
Ninth Wave adds a bunch of new ships, including USS Helm who was one of the only ships to fight back at the Japanese at Pearl Harbor.
New Vehicles:
- IJN Kagero
- IJN Tade (Premium)
- RN Vincenzo Gioberti
- RN Saetta (Premium)
- Verdun
White Rock Fortress makes a return to the game after 4 years! This beloved map has received a hefty visual upgrade and has been rebuilt in some areas, but the familiar navigation we all know has remained largely the same.
Ardennes has been visually updated and rendered in modern graphics standards with a wealth of fine detail. The original layout has remained the same.
One of the key changes was the support for an animated height map for water effects. This allows the geometric shape of the water to change according to the needs of each effect, such as a bullet cutting through the water's surface, a bomb explosion, the wake from a torpedo slicing through water, or even a raindrop disturbing the mirror-like water surface. This effect is procedural, meaning it literally deforms the surface mesh, creating a sense of tangible depth even in static frames.
We’ve got more details about the new effects in a dedicated dev blog here, check it out!
There’s plenty more to see!
Check out the full changelog for all improvements and additions!
Download the update and join the battle!
Comments (47)
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Well done! The best update in a long time. I'm really looking forward to the piston-engine planes. Thanks for that, Gaijin!
I looked trough the changes and i still dont understand why it wont let me enter the game, like the game was good before the update
I don't understand the inconsistency of giving us a heads up about shuffling USA ground techtree meanwhile there are silent reshuffle of the Russian one before the update even dropped, I'm looking at that T-64B thats been moved ranks and folders. Why wasn't it shown and held till the update went live?
I am not sure what you have on mind. We mentioned the change here: https://warthunder.com/en/news/9885-development-rank-ix-aircraft-and-reshuffles-to-the-aviation-and-ground-vehicle-research-trees-en
Honestly liking most of the up date, good new vehicle additions, updated models and new munitions added to some vehicles. I dislike the fact that the % of crew displayed when playing naval has just been removed and not kept in addition to the new indicator, kind of hard to tell how close they are to being doomed. And the new crew skills UI, i like the part where it highlights the parts which are effected, But not how it looks and that i cant manage multiple vehicles or switch crew vehicle type.
I definitely NEED
The saddest part of this update for me at least would be how France somehow only got 1 low tier destroyer and that's it... Plenty of vehicle choices available, especially infamous families like the entire ERC series missing, and all we get is a ship and a nerf for the Leclerc's by adding the turret baskets....
We have 10 nations in game (and multiple sub branches). We are not able to introduce new vehicles to every nation and every vehicle type, sorry :(
the trails ships leave behind show at the top of the water and also at the bottom so there's a phantom trail underneath
Out of all the ground vehicles added. Only two are normal tanks. Everything else is either a howitzer or a rat tank.
still no MiG-29 flight model fix💔 i don't wanna sound ungrateful considering y'all finally gave the 9-13 R-73s, and added the MiG-29M(why as squadron tho?) but whats the point of doing anything with the MiG-29 in WT when it can't even beat an F-15 in a dogfight... we know from IRL trials (post GDR) that the MiG-29 could hold the same turns (and sometimes greater) than the F-16 block 15, it was the whole reason the F-16C was put into development...
With the new crew menu update, is there no way to see how close you are to getting Ace Crew for free when you've put an Expert Crew on? Or has this been removed? I enjoyed getting a free Ace Crew on my Strf 9040 Bill and Strv 103C, and was hoping to get it on some other tanks and planes over time.
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