Major technical update 1.14

Changes, improvements and corrections.

Tanks

New effects of ground vehicles movement on the surface have been added, based on the type of surface and type of vehicle.
A bug that made the ZTZ96A in the hangar look smaller than other vehicles in the platoon has been fixed.
M901 – the camera position in scope view compared to the position of the fired ATGM has been corrected.
The option to activate vehicle repair during active automatic track repair has been added.
T55A – the defect of gun mantlet cover when moving and turning the turret in combat has been fixed.
Merkava Mk.1 – a bug that could cause the desert camouflage decal to disappear has been fixed.

Ships

RN Zara, Bremen, Brandenburg, Bismarck, Type XXI-class, Nürnberg, Admiral Hipper, SMS Helgoland, SMS Kaiser, Admiral Graf Spee, Tirpitz, Scharnhorst, Hamburg, IJN Ayanami, IJN Mogami, IJN Ikoma, IJN Hatsuyuki, IJN Myoko, IJN Settsu, HMS Vanguard, HMS Southampton, HMS Belfast, HMS Warspite, HMS Dreadnought, HMS Invincible, USS Porter, USS Truxtun, USS New Orleans, USS Baltimore, USS Cleveland, USS Wyoming, USS Tennessee, USS North Dakota, USS Arizona, USS Alaska, Ognevoy, Soobrazitelny, Sverdlov, Kirov, Sovetskij Soyuz, Parizhskaya komuna, Imperatritsa Mariya, Stalingrad, Kronstadt – the display of propeller animation has been corrected.
HMS Vanguard – the damage model of the elevators has been optimized.
Kronstadt – the camera position when firing from the side of the ship has been changed. Now you can see all three main caliber turrets.
The height of the smoke screen of the battleship RN Francesco Caracciolo has been corrected – now its masts are not visible behind the smoke.
A visual bug that caused vehicles in the ship campaign to not extinguish after using a repair kit and burn indefinitely until receiving damage has been fixed.

Aircraft

A bug that caused the rear camera in the Aircraft Campaign to rotate along with the cursor, even if the airplane has no turrets, has been fixed.
At the request of players, the option to use the free camera in the aircraft sight has been returned.
Slow zoom approach in the Aircraft Campaign when a target is locked on has been disabled.
A bug that caused the chat to display information about only one vehicle in the Aircraft Campaign when destroying two identical vehicles in a row has been fixed.
Now the full aircraft characteristic card also displays information about the suspended armament of the vehicle.
In the aircraft HUD, the radar has been moved to the upper right corner of the screen so that it doesn't lose functionality and readability.

Locations

In the “Abandoned factory” tank location the model of the locomotive has been updated.
In the “Rheinland” tank location the possibility of leaving the combat zone is closed.
In the “Pacific Islands” ship location, palm trees no longer float in the air.
Rocks and hills in the “Vietnam” location now don't disappear after explosions and falling aircraft.

Sound

The sounds of automatic weapon bursts from ground vehicles are now generated evenly. Previously, there were glitches in the frequency of shots.
Dialogs of ground vehicle crews have been edited with a radio effect, relevant noise and distortions have been added.
Sounds of shells hitting enemy and allied ground vehicles have been optimized and corrected for clearer sound through mobile devices.
Sounds of collisions with objects on tank maps have been optimized and adjusted for better sound through mobile devices.
A sound of reloading autocannons when they overheat has been added.
A bug that caused the “Crew Language” setting switch to not be saved if the game was restarted immediately after changes had been fixed.

New Features

The option to save vehicle presets in the Aircraft Campaign has been added.
The option to upgrade common vehicles bought for Silver Lions to the Premium version with Golden Eagles has been added.
A new tab called “Game” has been added in “Settings” tab. There you can control options like:
- Join battle in progress – please note that disabling this option may increase the waiting time for battles.
- Show vehicles name in battle.
The option to open the map to full screen by tap on the mini-map in aircraft battles has been added.
The principle of buying a Folder with blueprints in the Aircraft Campaign store has been updated:
- The cooldown after buying a Folder with blueprints has been removed, the blueprints list is updated immediately after purchase;
- A Folder with blueprints can be bought for Silver Lions 6 times per day, the cost of each next purchase will increase;
- Starting from the 7th try the Folder with blueprints can be purchased for GE an unlimited number of times per day, the cost of each next purchase will increase;
- The list of available blueprints can be updated for 20 GE an unlimited number of times per day.

Gamepad

The vertical scrolling for the suspended aircraft armament has been improved.
A bug that caused the shortcut for the repair button on submarines to be missing has been fixed.
A bug that caused the shortcut to change the zoom in aiming to be missing when playing on a joystick has been fixed.

UI/UX

The option to change the location of the "Menu" button ("burger menu") in battle has been added in the HUD Settings.
The option to reset custom game settings to default in Control Settings has been added.
The recently added option to open combat statistics by clicking on brief statistics has been disabled, as this was causing players inconvenience due to accidental clicking in combat.
A bug that could cause the hit camera to display past hits along with the current hit has been fixed.
New antialiasing types for Android devices (provided that the device supports this type of antialiasing) have been added to the game:
- MSAA – improves visual clarity and quality and reduces shimmering in motion;
- SGSR – provides the best performance on Snapdragon™'s tiled architecture, maximizing visual quality while minimizing memory, processor and battery usage.
- SGSR 2 – improves visual clarity, in particular – reduces pixelization and shimmering of object borders.
A bug that caused some buttons in battle (in ships – aim and fly buttons, in tanks – aim and fire buttons from the main and secondary guns) to have a larger click zone than the button size has been fixed.
A bug that caused the “Fix aim cursor" control setting not work has been fixed.
In Stick Control mode, swiping on an empty screen spot in combat rotates the free camera. This can be enabled in the Control Settings. The camera returns to its original position when you remove your finger from the screen.
The display of receiving a jackpot when opening 10 trophies at once has been improved. The information about the main reward being received as a jackpot for N openings is now displayed during the trophy opening animation.
A bug that caused the map name to overlap with team scores and game time has been fixed.
A vertical scrolling option has been added to the vehicle characteristic card.
The "Add to blacklist" button now disappears after inviting a player to a squad.
The animation of getting progress stars in the season and event progress bars has been added.
The display of player information in the battle statistics window on 4x3 devices has been improved.
The display of the free unit cost in the vehicle selection window when increasing the campaign level has been fixed.

Other

A bug that caused the “Final blow!” match award to be obtained for destroying an aerostat has been fixed.
A 100 Golden Eagles reward for linking mail to a guest account has been added.
The visual effect of lines when enabling WEP speed has been disabled.
Xiaomi Redmi K70 Ultra devices now default to maximum graphics settings on first launch.
Now when there is a lack of storage space on iOS devices, a notification about it will be displayed before the game is installed.