War Thunder’s Update 2.49.0.64 has landed on Steam with a handful of quality-of-life fixes that matter more than their small list might suggest. The patch tweaks aircraft countermeasures, plugs a few clipping holes in locations, and corrects a strange HEAT interaction that lets some reversing tanks cheat their armor.
Patch Notes – 2.49.0.64
Aircraft
- F-111F, Su-24M – the countermeasures filling has been adjusted so players now get an equal number of flares and chaff.
- A bug that sometimes allowed players to fly through cliffs has been fixed. This could happen on the Rocky Pillars and African Island locations, for example.
Ground Vehicles
- A bug that caused HEAT shells and their variants to ignore the armor of tanks that were reversing from the player who fired at them has been fixed.
- Mark V, Beutepanzer IV – a bug that caused the tank to shake has been fixed.
Locations and Missions
- Poland (all variants) – a bug where it was possible to drive inside some buildings when traveling at full speed has been fixed.
None of this is glamorous. You won’t see a new vehicle or an entire map here. But minor fixes like equalized countermeasure loads and corrected shell-armor interactions quietly make matches feel less like wrestling with the game and more like actual combat.
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