War Thunder Update 2.59.0.78 Fixes Shadow Flicker and Vehicle Menu Bugs

The fixes also address item recycling, vehicle-rank controls, and preset management.

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View from an aircraft cockpit with gauges in the foreground and another plane flying outside.

War Thunder update 2.59.0.78 addresses shadow flicker, confusing vehicle-rank controls, and several problems with recycling items and managing presets. Gaijin’s October 21 Steam announcement also details aircraft and ground-vehicle changes.

Ray-traced shadows could flicker on fast-moving aircraft when they outpaced the optimization grid, a problem most visible from the cockpit. Other fixes address distant tree shadows that looked too long or too short on slopes, as well as shadows disappearing briefly when switching to a tank sight with shadow quality set to “Very High.”

Two recycling issues are fixed: interface elements could overlap the item list, and crafting from recycled materials could produce fewer items than requested. In that second case, the game consumed fewer resources than the player had specified, slowing the process rather than using extra materials.

Vehicle research ranks are easier to restore after being collapsed. Hovering over a collapsed rank now highlights it and explains that a click will expand it, and clicking anywhere in the rank’s area works. Preset copies also appear next to their originals, while display filters now carry over to the vehicle lineup menu.

Separate fixes stop preset controls from disappearing when the custom-preset limit is reached and address slow neutral-gear turns in tanks from the Leopard and Type 90 families. An earlier neutral-turn slowdown fix for Leopard 2 variants and other vehicles followed regenerative-steering testing.

War Thunder Update 2.59.0.78 Patch Notes

Aircraft

JAS39A, JAS39C (UK), JAS39EBS HU C (Italy), JAS39C (Japan) — separate countermeasure launch from fuselage-mounted dispensers has been added. (Report).
F-111A — the countermeasures caliber has been changed from standard to larger caliber. (Report).
F-14D — an issue where a text key was displayed on the aircraft’s HUD when the AIM-54A was selected has been fixed. (Report).
J-16 — night vision has been added to the cockpit and third-person views. (Report).
A fix to the IRST HMS guidance has been reverted because it was affecting mouse sensitivity.

Ground Vehicles

106 mm recoilless rifle M40A1 and its derivatives — the caliber of the grenades has been decreased from 106 mm to 105 mm. (Report).
M15 CGMC — the mass of the M59A1 shell has been decreased from 870 g to 866 g, and its ballistics have been recalculated. (Report, Report).

Interface

The display of the option to expand a vehicle rank in the research window has been improved. A collapsed rank can now be expanded by clicking anywhere within its area; furthermore, hovering the cursor over a collapsed rank will highlight it and display a tooltip. The icons for the rank collapse/expand buttons have been updated. The button used to collapse or expand all ranks now features a permanently visible label.
In the preset selection window, the buttons for copying and creating presets no longer disappear when the limit for custom presets is reached; instead, they become inactive, and clicking them triggers a tooltip indicating that the limit has been reached.
Display filters for vehicle presets now also affect the display of the list within the vehicle presets menu.
When a preset is copied, it is now placed right after the original preset and not at the very end of the list.
An issue where, when crafting items from recycled materials, the number of items crafted could be lower than the number requested by the player has been fixed.
An issue where the recycle button in the item recycling window could overlap with the list of items has been fixed.
An issue where the window for allocating squadron research points to vehicles could appear, instead of the points being applied automatically to the currently selected squadron vehicle has been fixed.

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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