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 Server update patch notes down below.
War Thunder Server Update Patch Notes
Mad Thunder
- If you are destroyed or end a battle in a vehicle with resources, you will now receive 20% of the amount of resources carried (rounded up).
- For each extraction, you will now receive 1 rage token which can be used in this mission to respawn a vehicle. If it is not used, you will receive it as a resource at the end of the battle.
- The mission time has been increased from 15 minutes to 20 minutes.
- Mule — the cost of 1 rage token per respawn has been removed.
- Armadillo — the maximum speed has been increased from 57 km/h to 65 km/h.
- Strong Boar, Powerful Boar — the mass of the explosive compound in the HEAT shell for the 106 mm cannon has been decreased from 3.5 kg to 0.75 kg. The explosive type has been changed from Comp. A to TNT.
- Strong Boar, Powerful Boar — the penetration of the 106 mm HEAT shell has been reduced from 433 mm to 250 mm.
- Boar — the spread of the 23 mm cannon has been reduced.
- Porcupine — the spread of the 20 mm cannon has been reduced.
- Armadillo — the spread of the 30 mm cannon has been reduced.
- Boar — the initial velocity of the 23 mm cannon shell has been increased from 675 m/s to 925 m/s.
- Porcupine — the initial velocity of the 20 mm cannon shell has been increased from 800 m/s to 1000 m/s.
- Armadillo — the initial velocity of the 30 mm cannon shell has been increased from 780 m/s to 820 m/s.
- Armadillo — the speed of aiming the gun horizontally has been increased from 20 to 30 degrees per second and from 12 to 15 degrees per second vertically.
- Echidna — braking efficiency has been increased.
- Armadillo — the thicknesses of the additional armor has been changed. The thickness of the front of the turret has been increased from 19 mm to 40 mm, and on the sides of the turret reduced from 23 mm to 21 mm. The additional armor on the front of the hull has been increased from 20 mm to 35 mm. The additional armor of the hull slopes has been increased from 20 mm to 25 mm.
Ground Vehicles
- TO-55 — a bug with the display of the flamethrower icon in the action bar has been fixed.
Sound
- The crews of Chinese ground vehicles have received updated voice acting.
- The 183 mm QF L4A1 (FV4005), 165 mm L9A1 (Centurion Mk.5 AVRE) and 165 mm M135 (M728 CEV) guns now have their own firing sounds.
