Major Technical Update 1.13

Improvements, fixes, and balance changes.

Tanks

M3A3 Bradley – a bug has been fixed, that caused the missile not being launched even though the effect of ATGM launch was rendered when deploying the launcher and quickly pressing the launch button,
A bug that caused the gun barrel of a tank to remain black after its automatic repair has been fixed.
A bug that caused the tank crosshair to blink when aiming at a balloon has been fixed.
The reloading scale animation in tank cards when improving the “Reload Speed” parameter has been fixed.

Type XXI-class – the submarine's torpedo launch counter has been fixed.
USS Virginia – a bug that caused the ship not to sink after being destroyed has been fixed.
The calculation of missile approach time in ship battles has been improved.
A bug that could cause two repair kits to be consumed when pressing the repair button multiple times in combat has been fixed.
A bug that caused the animation of spending the stock to be missing when using countermeasures in combat, as with other types of resources.

The historically wrong camouflages have been corrected:
- on the premium version of the Yak-9M aircraft, the camouflage of A.M.Mashenkin, who flew on the Yak-9T, was mistakenly used earlier;
- on the premium version of the Yak-9 aircraft, the camouflage of Louis Kernet, who flew on the Yak-9D, was mistakenly used earlier.
The option to select modifications of machine guns and belts for aircraft with interchangeable machine guns (e.g. Yak-9P) has been added.
The gun belts have been added to the following aircraft with interchangeable machine guns: SB2C-4, Ju 87 D-5, F8F-1B, Fw 190 A-5, F-82E, SBD-3, Bf 109 G-2, Bf 109 G-6, Bf 110 F-2, Bf 110 G-2, Fw 190 F-8, Bf 109 G-14, Bf 109 F-4, Bf 109 F-4/trop. Now you can upgrade both machine guns and machine gun belts for these aircraft.
A bug that caused the reload speed to not increase in battle when improving the crew characteristic "Armament Reload Speed" has been fixed.

A column with information about helping allies in battle has been added to the statistics window. Helping in battle brings additional points – now you can see their amount.
The “Quit zoom after kill” setting has been added to the airplane control.
In the editor of on-screen buttons the setting that switches the type of control and the way of tank braking has been duplicated.
In the confirmation window of Battle Pass purchase the validity time is now displayed.
The vehicle selection card now displays information that you will get a unit of maximum level 25 when you buy the premium version.
The localization of damaged chassis in the circular menu has been added.
The color of the text in the killlog has been fixed, now it is closer to the color of nicknames.
The irrelevant “No antialiasing” option has been removed from the settings list after changes to the antialiasing settings.
New tutorial for Battle Pass and Seasonal Event rewards has been added.
The display of text in the window for getting Airplane Campaign Rating rewards has been improved.
The display of tooltips in tank tutorials has been fixed – now they don't overlap each other.

A bug that caused the L2 button to have two actions assigned to it on gamepads (support gun and switch tracking mode) has been fixed.
A bug that caused the gamepad shortcut to overlap a player's place in the team on the battle screen has been fixed.
A bug that caused some gamepad buttons to not work in hangar tutorials has been fixed.
Gamepad button naming and texts have been corrected.
A bug with free camera rotation when playing on gamepad on Android devices has been fixed.

The “God-like” award has been added to the game:
– Destroyed a vehicle of the same type (ground, sea, air), whose battle rank is higher than your own by 6. This reward can only be obtained once per battle.
The “Skill matters” award has been added to the game:
– Destroyed a vehicle of the same type (ground, water, air), whose battle rank is higher than your own by 3-5. This reward can only be obtained once per battle.
The description of the “Rank does not matter” award has been corrected:
– Destroyed a vehicle of the same type (ground, sea, air), whose battle rank is higher than your own at least by one. This award can be received only once per battle.
The condition for receiving the “Balancer” award for ship battles has been changed:
– now it counts from one destruction.
The condition for receiving the “Punisher” award for ship battles has been changed:
– now it counts from two destructions.
The threshold for receiving the “Naval Sniper” award has been lowered:
– now it is necessary to destroy an enemy ship from a distance of more than 6 km (previously from 8 km).
The condition for receiving the “Disarming” award has been changed:
– Damaged enemy ship main calibre weapons 5 times (previously 20 times).

The aircraft hangar appearance at low graphics settings has been improved.
Several issues that caused the game to crash on iOS or freeze on Android when viewing aircraft in the research tree have been fixed.
A bug that caused grass to incorrectly collide with objects when using the ray tracing function has been fixed.
Several issues that caused colored trees to appear have been fixed.
The default setting in the System settings for APK auto-update is set to “Not allowed” if the game client is reinstalled.
A bug that could cause the “Allow downloading via mobile network” setting not to be saved after restarting the game has been fixed.
A bug that caused the “New” tag in game news to be below the news picture has been fixed.
The name of the “Privacy Policy” button in the Account section has been corrected.
A bug that caused a connection error message to appear when the Android device was locked for a long period of time has been fixed.