Pilots!
0.5.2 Update has official dropped and has introduced our Unified Premium account as well as making adjustments for a number of aircraft. For a complete list of changes, see the update notes below and get airborne!
0.5.2 Update Notes
Unified Premium Account
- Unified Premium account (between World of Warplanes and World of Tanks) is implemented, enabling the future sharing of Premium time across Wargaming's PC games
- A Premium account can be purchased in the World of Tanks client for in-game Gold and in the World of Warplanes client for Tokens.The benefits of a Premium account purchased in one game will be applied to both games
Economy
Tokens earned by a player during the first stage of Open Beta will be converted into Credits:
All Tokens earned before the moment of the 0.5.2 update will be converted into Credits at the exchange rate 1:800.
During the period between 0.5.2 launch and until the full game release, all items available for purchase with Tokens enjoy a 50% discount, except for Premium account time! This event applies to the following:
- Hangar slots
- Pilot training and re-training for Tokens
- Premium Consumables purchased with Tokens
- Demounting complex equipment for Tokens
- Token prices for premium planes (these prices were changed for this version - see below).
Prices for Premium planes in Tokens are adjusted. New Token prices for Premium planes are listed below:
Changed Token reward system for battles. Players will now be able to get the Token reward every day by satisfying the following conditions:
| Winning Battles |
Shooting Down an Enemy |
Destroying Ground Target |
Reward |
| 1st |
1st |
1st |
10 Tokens |
| 3rd |
3rd |
3rd |
20 Tokens |
| 10th |
10th |
10th |
50 Tokens |
Reduced prices for some ammunition belts:
- M2 machine guns: 150 / 300 / 300/ 1200 credits
- MG-53-2 price for the top belt 350 / 700 / 700 / 2000 credits
- М2-20: 800 / 1600 / 1600 / 2400 / 2400 credits
- B-20: 1000 / 2000 / 2000 / 3200 / 3200 credits
- NS-23: 1400 / 2800 / 2800 / 4000 /4000 credits
- MG-213C: 2100 / 4200 / 4200 / 7200 / 7200 credits
Increased earning rates for some planes:
- FL-1
- HE-100
- P40-m-105
- P-39q
- A7M
Heads-up Display
Implemented a new style of combat messages similar to World of Tanks
Balance
Reduced aircraft and weapons characteristics on the following planes:
- F7U - increased dispersion, increased overheating
- F6U - increased dispersion, increased overheating
- 109TL - reduced maneuverability
- Me.609 - reduced maneuverability
- P51H - reduced maneuverability
Improved aircraft and weapons characteristics on the following planes:
- Bf.110E - increased accuracy for MGFF-M gun
- J7W2 - increased maneuverability
- J7W3 - increased maneuverability, increased gun accuracy, reduced overheating
- La-15 - increased speed, maneuverability, reduced overheating
- F86A - increased maneuverability
- Il-40P - increased cruising speed and HP points, increased gun damage characteristics
- Me. P. 1092 - reduced overheating
- La-160 - increased maneuverability
- F5U - increased maneuverability, slightly-reduced MAX roll rate
- Me.209A - reduced some guns’ overheating rate, increased accuracy for MK-103
- La-9 - slightly increased maneuverability
- Bf.109G - increased MAX speed
- P-40 - increased HP
- I-16 late - increased HP, increased dispersion for synchronized machine guns, reduced overheating for ShVAK cannons
- A5M - increased accuracy for Type 97 machine guns, increased damage rate for Type-2 machine guns
- Ar80 - increased accuracy for hub-mounted cannon
Fixes
- Fixed a bug with a twitching lead-firing-point indicator
- Fixed a bug causing a sharp increase in aircraft responsiveness when you hover the sight on an enemy plane
