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 17.04.2025 update patch notes down below.
War Thunder 17.04.2025 Update Patch Notes
Aircraft
- Su-39 — a bug where the Kopyo-25 radar did not have a description in the X-ray view has been fixed.
Interface
- You can now click on a nested task to go directly to it. For example, you can now click on a specific “mark of distinction” in the description of an achievement with an event vehicle to go to a specific task in the general list of tasks.
- Long names of nested tasks are now displayed as a single scrolling line.
- Hanger Chat Menu:
- message sending delay has been made separate for each chat.
- the send button is now disabled until a message can be sent again and now shows a timer displaying the time until this is possible.
- when sending a message classified as spam, it is no longer removed from the input field, a notification now appears on the send button as to why the message was not sent initially and a timer showing when the message can be sent.
- Increased the limit on the number of players in friends and blacklist to 300.
- A bug where the chat field in the lobby of Custom Battles sessions was often inactive and didn’t allow the sending of messages has been fixed.
- The “Award” and “New achievement” text for achievements, the “Challenge” text for Battle Pass challenges and th “Award” text for awards have been removed from the headers of the tooltips, as they were redundant.
- A bug where the current and “top” reload values of guns were incorrectly displayed in the tooltip in the X-ray view has been fixed. (Rеport).
- Added a “+” sign to the maximum positive gun elevation angle in ground vehicle stat cards. It was previously displayed only in X-ray view.
- A bug where, with specific combinations of resolution and UI scale, achievements in the ‘Achievement Hunter’ showcase settings window might extend beyond its boundaries has been fixed.
- A bug where the Collections tab on a player’s profile was displayed incorrectly when using a gamepad has been fixed.
- A bug where icons on player icons, decals, decorations, naval vessel flags, and vehicles obtained from the ‘Soldier’s Backpack’ and Battle Pass were not displayed in Messages has been fixed.
- A bug where the title received as a reward could only be used after restarting the client has been fixed. (Rеport).
- A bug where a naval vessel’s torpedo card displayed the height recommended for dropping a torpedo has been fixed. (Rеport).
- A bug where the Secondary Weapons selection window displayed the total ammunition of gun pods instead of the number of pods has been fixed. (Rеport).
- A bug where the cost and quantity of purchased weapon sets were not displayed in the Secondary Weapons selection window for aircraft without custom secondary weapons presets has been fixed. (Rеport).
- A bug where the horizontal turret rotation speed was displayed without a decimal value in the X-ray view has been fixed.
- A bug where the expiration icon of an item, such as a booster, overlapped the number of items has been fixed. (Rеport).
- A bug where in the Secondary Weapons selection menu, information about the missile was not displayed in the tooltip for missiles on BOL countermeasure pylons has been fixed
