9.15.1 Update Notes
General Features
- Sound improvements:
- Added a separate sound event for damage from HE shells to your own vehicle (not upon direct hits, but upon splash damage).
- Added the sound event informing that an allied vehicle was destroyed.
- Implemented 3D positioning for the sound of spotting enemy vehicles.
- Reworked the sound of tracks (accentuated the sound of tracks for vehicles with a high-powered gasoline engine).
- Implemented a sound preset for laptops. This preset adapts the sound scheme for playback on internal laptop speakers at highest quality possible.
Added the "Bass boost" option.
- Personal Reserves can now be purchased from the Personal Reserves window.
- Restricted the mortar fire ability for SPGs to reduce the influence of mods.
Vehicles
Changes to U.S.S.R. vehicles:
- ISU-130:
- Dispersion on the move decreased by 40%.
- Dispersion on hull traverse decreased by 40%.
- Maximum reverse speed changed from 12 km/h to 14 km/h.
- Maximum forward speed changed from 34 km/h to 38 km/h.
- View range changed from 350 m to 380 m.
- Aiming time changed from 2,5 s to 2,1 s.
- Reload time changed from 12 s to 10,3 s.
- Dispersion changed from 0.4 m to 0.37 m.
- Replaced the Lorraine 40t with the Bat.-Châtillon 25 t AP.
- Added new vehicles:
- Object 257
- VK 65,01 (H)
- Strv m/42-57 Alt A.2
- T95/Chieftain
- Reworked 24 vehicles for HD quality:
- МТ-25
- G.W. E 100
- FV304
- Jagdpanzer 38(t) Hetzer (Designation changed, previously the Hetzer)
- Dicker Max
- Pz.Kpfw. III
- E 75
- Waffenträger auf Pz. IV
- АТ-1
- AMX 13 75
- SU-100Y
- SU-100M1
- T57 Heavy Tank
- Großtraktor - Krupp
- M37
- 113
- G.W. Tiger (P)
- 121
- M22 Locust
- FV215b (183)
- M8A1
- T-34-1
- Rhm.-Borsig Waffenträger
- G.W. Panther
- Changed the models of existing HD vehicles:
- Tortoise
- M103
- M18 Hellcat
- Maus
- Replaced the old spline textures of the E 75's tracks with the new ones.
- Developed new Camouflage pattens for the Hunt mission for Swedish, Czechoslovakian, and Japanese vehicles.
Maps
- Remade the minimaps of the Prokhorovka, Ensk, El Halluf, and Cliff using a new style.
- Updated some effects on the following maps:
- Training area
- Karelia
- Himmelsdorf
- Prokhorovka
- Ruinberg
- Mines
- Erlenberg
- Widepark
- Sand River
- El Halluf
- Airfield
- Fiery Salient
Other:
- Technical Improvements
- Reworked the effects of vehicle side scraping (the effects are now less annoying and more realistic).
- Reworked the graphics in the top panel: adjusted the glow of markers for destroyed vehicles.
- Optimised a number of performance aspects.
- Updated the version of the battle interface to Action Script 3.