Technical update 1.11.0.126

Tanks

• A bug that caused an overload message to appear after taking off on an airplane in a tank battle and returning to drive the tank.
• A bug that caused the “Artillery Fire” inscription remaining on the screen after the end of firing has been fixed.
• A bug that caused the crosshairs of the penetration indicator to change color, demasking the enemy hidden by the smoke screen, has been fixed.
• A bug that caused the KV-2 tank in the hangar to display only the shadow of the machine gun next to the ladder on the turret, has been fixed.
• The base number of shells in the ammo set of ground vehicles before the battle has been increased: now the required minimum for the first shell is 45%, for the second – 15%. If only one shell is available, then 60% of the maximum ammo is set.

Ships

• The information about surface & periscope speed has been added to submarine cards.
• Now the shaking effect from being hit by a torpedo or missile is only active on the affected ship.
• A bug that caused the HMS Valiant card to display an empty missile launch speed scale has been fixed.
• HMS Dido, Novorossiysk – fixed a bug that caused some guns to incorrectly calculate the distance to the target.
• To make it easier to play V ranks in V-VI ranked matches, no more than 1 missile ship per team will be present in combat.
• To make it easier to play Rank I and Rank II in I-II, II-III matches, the teams will be more balanced.

Aircraft

• A bug that cause the preposition marker to appear without capturing the target at different ranges has been fixed.
• A bug that caused the overload tooltip to appear on the screen after the overload was complete has been fixed.
• The display of non-penetration and ricochet when hitting ground vehicles in the airplane campaign has been added.
• The layering of aircraft icons in the vehicle tree that caused an inability to explore a visually accessible unit has been fixed.
• Bf 109 E-1 – pylons have been added on low graphics settings, now bombs don't hang in the air.

Locations

A number of bugs with tank and ship map borders have been fixed:

• The “Return to the battlefield” message is no longer displayed when a vehicle appears on the map or respawns;
• red stripes on the edges of mini-maps have been fixed;
• mini-map borders have been brought in line with the real size of the maps.

Vehicle Optimization

The WTM team regularly optimizes vehicle models and fixes bugs in them. The following vehicle models have been optimized:

• Rooikat ZA-35
• Tiger E
• Panzer IV/70(A)
• M3 Bradley

The following bugs in ground vehicle models have been fixed:

• T 95 – the gun mantlet was being shot through.
• M4A1 (FL10) – the shovel attached to the turret did not move vertically when the turret moved.
• Sd.Kfz.251/21 – at high and maximum graphics settings there were details hanging in the air.
• Gepard – in x-ray mode the muzzle brake was rectangular.
• ZSU-37-2 – at low graphics settings there were no tubes and decoration elements on the gun barrels.
• Magach 6B – at medium and low graphics settings the dust cover did not stretch and there was a large gap above the mantlet.
• Type 89 – there was a large gap under the autocannon mantlet when the gun was raised up.
• T-72A – at low graphics settings there was a visible hole in the spent casing drop hole.
• M3 Bradley, ZIS-42, ZSU-23-4 – at low graphics settings visually improved the appearance of vehicles.

Optimized models and fixed bugs in the geometry and damage models of the following ships:

• Courbet, Emile Bertin, Aigle, USS Helena, USS Truxtun, Brandenburg, Bremen, Z47, Köln, Gnevnyy, Spokoinyy, IJN Yamashiro, IJN Amagi, IJN Yamato, IJN Agano, IJN Settsu, HMS Orion, HMS Devonshire.

UI/UX

• Now in the combat and post-combat statistics window, players in the same squad will be marked.
• The check of consumables (fire extinguishers, repair kits, countermeasures, etc.) for players in a squad has been added. Now when you press the “To Battle!” and “Check Ready” buttons, the amount of consumables will be checked, and if they are not enough to start the battle, a window will appear offering to replenish them before the battle starts. You will still be able to go into battle without consumables.
• A progress bar to unlock decorations that require a certain amount of progress to obtain has been added.
• A “Sorry” message has been added to the voice message menu.
• The sorting of items in the in-game store has been improved: items are now also grouped by the type of event they belong to.
• The design of the event currency purchase window has been improved: sorting has been adjusted, scrolling has been added, and description has been improved.
• A bug that caused the tank and ship upgrade window to display “Null” instead of the vehicle name has been fixed.
• The display of camouflage icons in the camouflage selection menu in the hangar has been fixed.
• The damage and kill icons have been improved: they became clearer and more understandable.
• The interface of the consumables replenishment and premium account activation window has been improved.

Other

• The display of buttons with icons when creating airplane presets when using a gamepad has been fixed.

Important

The following important changes are waiting for you in the seasonal update “Frozen Front”:

• rewards for the top 1% of all rankings will be added;
• each campaign will have its own unique tasks, the progress bar will remain common between campaigns, the total number of bonds will increase;
• camouflage for airplanes will appear;
• the ability to drop bombs in a salvo will appear.

Read more about these changes in the seasonal update article.