PT-658, one of only two currently fully operational PT series boats, comes to War Thunder as a new season Battle Pass vehicle!
The Higgins-built 78ft. boats of the 200 series are already familiar to War Thunder coastal fleet enthusiasts. These are fairly fast and well-armed boats with a wooden hull and a small crew. Boats are unable to provide any protection to the crew and internal modules even from machine gun fire, so they find their use in quickly capturing points and ambushes among islands and rocks.
The PT-658 boat in our game will be one of the prizes for the participants of the new Battle Pass season, which will soon start in War Thunder. The premium PT-658 fully inherits the advantages and disadvantages of the series. The boat is well-armed: a 40mm Bofors at the stern, a 37mm autocannon at the bow, a pair of 20mm Oerlikons and 4 large-caliber machine guns make it an unrivaled hunter of enemy boats and light aircraft. The PT-658 has a rich selection of additional weapons: you can combine 4x569mm torpedoes, depth charges and 16 unguided rockets. Unfortunately, the wooden structure is vulnerable to damage and the small crew do not allow the boat to survive for long under enemy fire. Even rifle calibers are deadly not only to the crew, but also to the internal modules.
The most profitable tactic of using the PT-658 is to quickly capture points under the cover of a smoke screen, engaging in short fire contacts with enemy scouts. As long as the boat is able to move, it must not stop, otherwise any serious enemy will easily cripple the wooden American with the first salvo. Capture one point - retreat and move to the next one. Premium bonuses PT-658 will bring a good income for each captured point and each enemy shot!
Huge thanks to our community for pointing out these bugs after our last massive patch.
Hotfix details below.
HOTFIX 21
FIXES
Fixed a bug where changing the track speed override slider would move the menu background around
Fixed a bug where simple background could carry over to the main menu
Fixed vertical cut off issues in a few translation strings in Russian and Chinese
Fixed a bug where the GO (of 3 2 1 GO) animation would enter strangely and shift to the right
Fixed a bug where 3 2 1 GO animation was out of time
Fixed a bug where sometimes New Game background objects would fail to load
Cleaned up a few broken Chinese translation strings, and updated a few others
Inactive options menu objects (framerate bar with VSync enabled, show only favourites option with no favourites) now look much darker and un-interactable
Fixed a bug where saturation and lightness sliders (custom colour menu) looked solid instead of gradated
Fixed a consistency issue with track name capitalisation
Fixed a bug where a charts info (bottom left) could contain no track art and difficulty would display 00
Fixed a bug where stacking too many hit sounds in close proximity would make audio out of sync
Fixed a translation issue with SpinFM “join” button
Fixed an issue where track pads (Steam, PS4 controller) weren’t working
Increased the window for DSP issue reporting (this would over-report when there wasn’t any perceivable DSP issue)
I've had a couple folks get stuck on the fish crate pushing mini game in Falsen, and if you do, there is (well, WAS) absolutely no way to progress. The only two options were you maneuver stinky crates of sea carcasses on slippery ice or the world gets destroyed by the looming calamity (yes of course there's a looming calamity... this IS a JRPG, after all).
Well, no more! Now you can talk to the green haired fish pusher dude and he'll let you out of this oddly themed misery, for an appropriate price. What will it be? You'll just have to ask him.
NOTE: If you are on a crate puzzle map when you get this update, you have to talk to the green haired fish pusher dude and tell him to reset the puzzle once before you will see the new option to skip the puzzle.
Hope this makes the journey more pleasant for you all! As always, email, discord, twitter, carrier pigeon or whatever else if you have thoughts, questions or hit issues. I would love to hear from you!
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1. 'Clan Challenge' content has been added. 2. Requirement for entry to Hidden Valley has been changed. 3. New Spirit [Flame Hellborn Biyoho] has been added. 4. In-game bug fixes & gameplay improvements - Mail with an unlimited period after receiving the item will be deleted in a lump(Before October 1st)
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