The test server update is now available for download. Update, The test server is now also available to play.

Patch notes

Loading Maps and Garage

• Decreased the time required for loading the first map after starting the game client.
• The Garage interface is available for interactions before loading all its elements.

Fixed Issues

• Loading screen hanging.
• Flickering shadows on the selected vehicle in the Garage.
• Suspensions of some vehicles are displayed appropriately when driving over obstacles.
• The icon of the guns featuring the magazine loading systems is no longer displayed for guns having the standard loading system.
• The observer mode includes a panel that displays information about player’s shells and consumables.
• Fixed the issue related to display of information about the discount, when recruiting a crew member.
• Fixed the issue related to shooting without spending shells in vehicles featuring the magazine loading system.
• Fixed the issue when the Activate button (for Personal Reserves) was displayed as active, when all Personal Reserves were already activated.
• Large knocked down trees on the Live Oaks map are displayed properly.
• The suspension of some vehicles is displayed properly at the minimum settings in the SD client.
• When switching to the full-screen mode during the first login, the entire Garage background is no longer green.
• Fixed the issue of long map/vehicle texture loading.
• Fixed the issue of black textures displayed after loading maps.
• Fixed the issue related to the vehicle silhouette outline.
• The decals of hits are displayed properly.
• Players can no longer get to areas not intended for playing. Example: a pillbox on the Siegfried Line map.
• The sounds of receiving damage are played.
• Adjusted the red flash effect displayed when a shell hits the player’s vehicle.
• Vehicle silhouette outline is displayed when aiming at vehicles through fences.
• The terrain shape in the client does not differ from the terrain shape on the server on the Paris map at squares K 3–4.
• Players can no longer get into the castle on the Himmelsdorf map.
• Removed the graphics artifacts in the sky on the Ruinberg map.
• The hovering rock at square B8 on the Redshire map is positioned where it belongs.
• Removed the artifacts on tesselated latices on the Himmelsdorf map.
• Fixed the flickering of wet vehicles on the Cliff map at certain camera angles.
• Fixed flickering shadows on the player’s vehicle in the Garage.
• Fixed the undisplayed textures on the Glacier map.
• Fixed the improperly positioned objected on the Nebelburg map.
• Gamma Settings now work properly.
• Fixed some technical performance-related issues.
• Fixed the black textures in the Garage.

Known Issues

• The emblems are not displayed on vehicles.
• The penetration marker is always red on some vehicles.
• The fullscreen mode is not saved.
• Issues related to texture details are observed on the Glacier map.
• At square C2, there is a ship with textures that allow vehicles to drive inside keeping them from driving out.
• On the Nebelburg map, the collision model of a building does not match the real model.
• On the Ensk map, a chimney remains hovering after the structure is destroyed.
• When the track effects are disabled, tesselation is displayed partially on the rollers.
• Client crashes upon minimizing and maximazing it on WinXP.
• Freezes in some cases when the player’s vehicle is destroyed.
• FPS drop in the sniper mode when aiming through semi-transparent bushes.
• Low performance at the Ultra settings during the first seconds after loading a map.
• Performance drops in some cases when switching to the sniper mode.
• Performance drop when objects are destroyed by the HAVOK technology.
• Improper names of settings in the game client.
• When in the full-screen mode, the signal (game) frequency does not correspond to the screen refresh rate.
• Sound gets muted in one of the channels (left or right).
• Sometimes, the actual default state of the map border does not correspond to the map border default option.