War Thunder is a free-to-play vehicular combat multiplayer game developed and published by Gaijin Entertainment. Announced in 2011, it was first released in November 2012 as an open beta with a worldwide release in January 2013; its official release was on 21 December 2016. The developer has released a new update for War Thunder, increasing the gameplay. Check out War Thunder 13.03.2025 update patch notes down below.
War Thunder 13.03.2025 Update Patch Notes
Aircraft
- F/A-18 (all variants) — a bug where the aircraft did not sink in water has been fixed. (Report).
- F/A-18C Late — a bug where the player had to press the key for changing NVG mode twice to turn off thermals has been fixed.
- Su-30SM — the hardpoints for the R-77-1 missile, available without researching modifications, have been changed from 5 and 8 to 2 and 11. This means you can combine more guided weapons with them before researching the R-77-1 modification.
- Sea Harrier (all variants) — a bug where the air-to-air missiles did not select after switching to the AAMs HUD mode has been fixed.
- Su-27, Su-27SM, Su-33, J-11, J-11A — missile launch distance indication markers on the HUD have been made thinner.
- Do 217 E-2, Do 217 E-4, Do 217 K-1, Do 217 M-1 — a bug where some of the upper 50 kg bombs in the bomb bay could be dropped through the lower ones has been fixed.
Ground Vehicles
- XM246 — a bug where the tracking radar X-ray did not reflect vertical guidance, and the search radar X-ray did not reflect the folding of the radar has been fixed.
Locations and Missions
- [Alternate History] Afghanistan — this mission has been disabled. To replace it, with the release of the Hornet’s Sting major update, the mission [Operation] Afghanistan has been added.
Interface
- A bug where the nuke button did not display in the hotbar in Ground Realistic Battles after reaching the required number of Spawn Points for the nuke aircraft has been fixed. (Report).
- A bug in the shell stat card that sometimes caused the penetration values under the angles to be in a different order from the standard 0-30-60 degrees when viewing them in Protection Analysis has been fixed.
Graphics
- A bug that caused aircraft to become less visible against a cloud background has been fixed.
Controls
A bug where, when assigning the same key to the “Optical Seeker View” and “Targeting Optics View” button and the aircraft only had targeting optics, the “Optical Seeker View” camera would turn on after pressing the assigned key has been fixed. in order of importance, for example a game-breaking bug will be worked on and implemented sooner.
