War Thunder Update 2.59.0.22 Fixes Aircraft Bugs and Changes Overpressure Damage

The patch also adjusts missile performance, lowers Saraph's Arcade Battles rating, and temporarily replaces winter-map airfields.

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A War Thunder military aircraft launches a missile while flying over a tropical landscape with steep mountains.

War Thunder Update 2.59.0.22 targets a broad set of aircraft issues, changes how overpressure damage works across many ground vehicles, and cleans up several interface problems. The patch also adjusts the AGM-88G AARGM-ER’s flight model, lowers Saraph’s Arcade Battles Battle Rating to 10.7, and temporarily replaces airfields on winter maps at Battle Ratings from 3.7 to 10.3. The patch follows War Thunder Update 2.59.0.13, which added a missile-hit camera ending and corrected radar, overpressure, and event-scoring issues in Update 2.59.0.13.

Gaijin’s official Update 2.59.0.22 notes continue the bomber damage work from the Sky Odyssey update, with B-26B receiving the updated damage model and a fix for its missing right engine in X-ray view. Ground combat gets a separate pass through revised overpressure behavior for many vehicle interiors and fuel tanks.

War Thunder Update 2.59.0.22 Patch Notes

The main gameplay changes affect aircraft handling, missile performance, bomber survivability, and ground-vehicle damage behavior. Players will also see fixes to field repairs, vehicle filters, controller menus, and the missile comparison window.

Aircraft

Hawk (all variants) — a bug that caused the aircraft to shake when turning in Arcade Battles has been fixed.
CA-27 Mk.32 (Great Britain), CA-27 Mk.32 (Japan) — the name, description and icon for the modification that unlocks 1,000 lb bombs have been fixed. (Report).
CA-27 Mk.32 (Great Britain), CA-27 Mk.32 (Japan), F-86E(M) (Israel) — the non-functional gyroscopic gunsight in the cockpit has been fixed.
F-86E(M) (Israel) — flight model parameters have been adjusted to the level of CL-13 Mk.4 (same as F-86E), the engine has been changed to J47-GE-13. (Report).
B-26B (Indonesia) — an issue where the aircraft lacked the updated bomber damage model shared by other aircraft in its family has been fixed. (Report). An issue where the right engine was missing from the X-ray view has been fixed. (Report).
Mirage 4000 — a bug that caused the tooltip of the radar in X-ray view to be empty has been fixed. (Report).
H145M — a bug that caused the engines to overheat has been fixed. (Report).
Ka-29 — the erroneously added S-24 modification has been removed. Silver Lions and Golden Eagles spent on purchasing the removed modification will be compensated. (Report).
Saraph — Battle Rating in Arcade Battles has been reduced to 10.7. (Report).
AGM-88G AARGM-ER ARM — the missile’s flight model has been adjusted; a maximum speed of Mach 4.0 is now achievable when launched at Mach 1.8 from an altitude of 12 km (previously, only a speed of Mach 3.6 was reached under these conditions).
Kh-31 (all variants) ARMs — a bug that caused the air intake fairing jettison animation to not play after launch has been fixed.

Ground Vehicles

A bug that caused the field repair to not start has been fixed. (Report).
T-44 (Be Prepared!) — an issue where the rear-left mudguard was present in the damage model has been fixed.
With the release of the Sky Odyssey major update, the damage models regarding overpressure damage for many ground vehicles have been refined. Wheeled vehicles where the crew is separated from the transmission are no longer destroyed when the transmission sustains overpressure damage. Many vehicles have had their internal compartment layouts revised; previously, the entire crew would be knocked out even if some members were protected by armor. Fuel tanks located within the fighting compartment of many ground vehicles have been added to the list of “trigger modules” for the overpressure damage mechanic. Certain modules on many ground vehicles are no longer classified as trigger modules because they are separated from the crew by armor.

Locations and Missions

Assault. Air Arcade — balance changes have been made due to the updated bomber damage model.
Airfields on winter maps for Air Battles at Battle Ratings 3.7–10.3 have been temporarily replaced pending a fix for a bug that caused aircraft to flip over upon spawning.

Interface

The maximum speed of the carrier in the missile comparison window has been increased from 500 m/s to 850 m/s.
A bug that caused text keys to appear in the vehicle select window instead of the filter names has been fixed.
A bug that caused the cursor to appear when opening the multi-function menu using a controller has been fixed. (Report).

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War Thunder is a free-to-play vehicular combat MMO featuring aircraft, ground vehicles, and naval craft spanning from the early 20th century to the modern era. Players progress through technology trees across multiple nations, unlocking increasingly advanced military vehicles. The game offers three realism tiers for each vehicle type: arcade, realistic, and simulator modes. Originally developed as a flight simulator under the name "World of Planes," the game expanded to include tanks in 2014 and naval forces later, becoming a combined-arms experience. A mobile version was released in 2023.

Genre Shooter, Simulator, Tactical
Platforms Xbox Series X|S, PlayStation 4, Linux, PC (Microsoft Windows), PlayStation 5, Mac, Xbox One
Perspective First person, Third person, Virtual Reality
Modes Single player, Multiplayer, Co-operative, Massively Multiplayer Online (MMO)
Release January 28, 2013
Publisher Gaijin Entertainment
Age Rating