v3.0.0-alpha.24.3

Ask3lad Test Drive 3.0 (Alpha 24.3)

Weapon Stat Cards, new targets in the Air Test Drive, and Dev Server fixes.

What's New

• Weapon Stat Cards: hover any weapon, gun belt or shell and a card shows its stats like the game does: guidance, band, lock and launch range, range and speed gates, speed, explosive and TNT, fuzes, penetration, ricochet angles and more. Shells also play the game's own shell video. Turn it off in Settings if you don't want it
• Close Air Target: a Tu-95M now flies a loop around the airfield in the Air Test Drive, where you can see it on takeoff. Swap it for any aircraft like the other targets
• Close Naval Target: a patrol ship now sails close to the shore in the Air Test Drive on every map. Swap it for any ship like the other targets
• Dev Server Only: players with only the Dev Server installed can now use the app without a LIVE install
• Same Folder as LIVE: a new Dev Server switch for players whose launcher switches one install between LIVE and the Dev Server
• Easier Folder Picking: picking the folder above or inside War Thunder now finds the game by itself
• Close War Thunder Reminder: the app reminds you to close War Thunder before it installs missions, so the game picks them up
• Vehicle Database: check for a new vehicle database any time with Check Now in Settings
• Weapon Tuning Help: every Weapon Tuning and Gun Pod Tuning setting now has a ? with a short explanation
• Settings and Help: a cleaner look with more room
• Japanese: better wording for the crash warning and weather, and vehicle names no longer show odd gaps (thanks Niwaka_Gaming)

Install

1. Download TestDrive3-Setup-3.0.0-alpha.24.3.exe below and run it. Already on Alpha 17 or newer? Just click Update
2. Windows may show a SmartScreen warning because the app isn't code-signed yet. Click More Info, then Run Anyway
3. Pick your language, confirm your War Thunder folder and follow the short tour

Please Note

This is an alpha. Experimental options are marked in the app and may not work in game.
Found a bug? Use Report a Bug in the app or join the Discord: https://discord.gg/vqWFmaJQPJ

v3.0.0-alpha.24.1

Ask3lad Test Drive 3.0 (Alpha 24.1)

Dev Server support, a Submarine Test Drive and ship weapon presets.

What's New

• Dev Server: turn on Use Dev Server in Settings, and the app finds your Dev Server folder and installs the missions and maps into it
• Dev Database: the Dev Server's vehicles, presets and pylons in their own database that downloads by itself and never mixes with LIVE
• Dev Tag: vehicles that are only on the Dev Server get a Dev tag and a Dev Only filter
• Submarines: a new Submarines filter for naval (Dev Server for now)
• Submarine Test Drive: a new naval user mission for subs on a map with real depth. Stationary, moving and air targets, a Mine Test Ship that drives over your spawn, and AI Return Fire
• Ship Weapon Presets: pick torpedoes, depth charges, bomb mortars or mines for your own ship and for ship targets
• Scenario Page: cleaner target tables, a Respawn button on every target, Theme Presets at the bottom
• Database 3.09: weapon presets for 448 ships

Install

1. Download TestDrive3-Setup-3.0.0-alpha.24.1.exe below and run it. Already on Alpha 17 or newer? Just click Update
2. Windows may show a SmartScreen warning because the app isn't code-signed yet. Click More Info, then Run Anyway
3. Pick your language, confirm your War Thunder folder and follow the short tour

Please Note

This is an alpha. Experimental options are marked in the app and may not work in game.
Found a bug? Use Report a Bug in the app or join the Discord: https://discord.gg/vqWFmaJQPJ

v3.0.0-alpha.24

Ask3lad Test Drive 3.0 (Alpha 24)

A new Loadout page, Custom Skins, a SAM Layout editor, Weapon, Radar and Gun Pod Tuning, Experimental vehicles and more.

What's New

• Custom Skins: pick any skin from your UserSkins folder as a tile, or Browse Skins to download one in a popup over the app
• SAM Layout (Air SAM Evasion): build your own SAM network on a map of Archipelago. Add, move and remove sites of every type, and move the power plant, carrier group and MiG patrol
• Desert Map (Air Test Drive): fly the Air Test Drive in Tunisia
• Loadout Page: redone for every vehicle, with Options in tabs, an On bar showing what's turned on and one Clear All button
• Air Loadout: search, filter and sort each station's weapons, and one Guns, Countermeasures and Fuel card
• Weapon Tuning (Experimental): change the seeker, motor, flight and warhead of any missile, rocket or bomb you carry.
• Radar Tuning (Experimental): detection range up to 1000 km, look angle, scan width, scan time and max targets
• Gun Pod Tuning (Experimental): fire rate, shell speed, explosive and ammo for gun pods
• Fire and Forget (Experimental): guided weapons lock and fly on their own
• Missile Warning and IR Jammer (Experimental): for planes and helicopters that never had them
• Head Mounted Display (Experimental): aim missiles with your head
• Drag Tuning (Experimental): change how fast your plane loses speed
• Weapon Override: now works with Weapon Tuning, ground SAMs included, and is cleaner to use
• Mistel Bomb (Weapon Override): hang the Mistel's Ju 88 on any plane and drop it
• Experimental Vehicles: 15 hidden vehicles and the V-1, behind the new Flask filter
• Vehicle Database 3.08: adds the Mistel 3C, plus fixes for the 105 mm recoilless guns, the F-111A countermeasures and 7 names
• Air Duel: Enemy Skill from Easy to Ace, or Custom aim and flying skill
• Support: Support Vehicles, Support Aircraft and Scout Drone are now one option
• Ground Air Defense: a Rearm Point behind you, Infinite Respawns, and the mission ends with a win after the last wave
• Ground Test Drive: APS Shooter switch and Infinite Respawns
• Custom App Colors: pick your own accent, background and panel colours
• Sort by Mass: sort vehicles and weapons by weight
• Rapid Fire: rearm interval now takes decimals
• Grab the Decal: a new hover card and tour page

Install

1. Download TestDrive3-Setup-3.0.0-alpha.24.exe below and run it. Already on Alpha 17 or newer? Just click Update
2. Windows may show a SmartScreen warning because the app isn't code-signed yet. Click More Info, then Run Anyway
3. Pick your language, confirm your War Thunder folder and follow the short tour

Please Note

This is an alpha. Experimental options are marked in the app and may not work in game.
Found a bug? Use Report a Bug in the app or join the Discord: https://discord.gg/vqWFmaJQPJ

v3.0.0-alpha.23

Ask3lad Test Drive 3.0 (Alpha 23)

A new Ground Air Defense mission, a full SAM network in Air SAM Evasion, new Experimental options for tanks and planes, bug fixes and French and Italian localization added.

What's New

• Ground Air Defense: a new user mission for SPAA and SAMs
• Air SAM Evasion: now a full SAM network guarding a power plant
• Helicopters: can now fly Air SAM Evasion
• Infinite Ammo (Experimental): planes and helicopters rearm every few seconds
• Thrust Multiplier (Experimental): now 0.01x to 10x, called Horsepower Multiplier on props and helicopters
• Weapon Module (Experimental): pick a vehicle's weapon module, like the LAV-AD's Hydra 70 rockets
• Thermal Sight (Experimental): Tank's Own, Gen 1 to Gen 3 or 4K, even on tanks that never had thermals
• Sight Zoom (Experimental): 1x to 40x for the gunner's sight
• Turret Override (Experimental): turret and elevation speed, plus gun depression and elevation
• Support Vehicles (Experimental): Spawn up to 8 ground vehicles
• Support Aircraft (Experimental): Spawn any jet or helicopter with your loadout and 1 to 10 lives
• Scout Drone (Experimental): Spawn a Drone or Thermal Drone
• Clear All Experimental: one button turns every Experimental option off
• SAM Launchers: launchers that need their radar vehicle are tagged Needs TADS, with a quick switch to the TADS
• Apply History: every Apply listed with its vehicle, plus new Repair and Reset cards
• Vehicle Database: new databases now download by themselves after a game patch, with no app update
• Undo Last Apply: simpler, each press goes back one more Apply
• Report a Bug: reports send straight to the Discord and carry more detail
• User Missions: sorted into Ground, Air and Naval chapters in game
• Tour: a new look on every page and a short last question
• New Languages: French and Italian
• War Thunder Folder: the folder check is stricter
• Credits: Croopcorn added to Contributors
• Support: new Discord Boosters added

Install

1. Download TestDrive3-Setup-3.0.0-alpha.23.exe below and run it. Already on Alpha 17 or newer? Just click Update
2. Windows may show a SmartScreen warning because the app isn't code-signed yet. Click More Info, then Run Anyway
3. Pick your language, confirm your War Thunder folder and follow the short tour

Please Note

This is an alpha. Experimental options are marked in the app and may not work in game.
Found a bug? Use Report a Bug in the app or join the Discord: https://discord.gg/vqWFmaJQPJ

v3.0.0-alpha.22

Ask3lad Test Drive 3.0 (Alpha 22)

A new Air SAM Evasion mission and a round of fixes since Alpha 21.1.

What's New

• Air SAM Evasion: a new user mission for planes. Dodge an S-300, S-75, Hawk or Patriot site
• Cannon Override Ammo Option (Experimental): set 1 to 10,000 rounds per gun
• Quick Reload in RPM (Experimental): fire rate now shown in rounds per minute, 30 to 3,000
• Moon Gravity (Experimental): your plane weighs 1% of its real weight
• Weightless Loadout (Experimental): bombs, tanks and pods now weigh 1 kg and add no drag
• Thrust Multiplier (Experimental): now 1.1x to 10x in 0.1 steps
• Countermeasures Fixes: BOL pods and module dispensers now show on 25 planes, and the chaff key fires only chaff
• Tank Ammo Fix: the stock shell uses the main gun's limit (Strf 9040 BILL and 6 more), and ATGMs can go in any slot
• Air Test Drive: the air target now shows on the map, and War Mode tags targets Hostile or Non-Hostile
• Apply button: when it is locked, hover it to see why
• Support Page: new Discord Boosters added

Install

1. Download TestDrive3-Setup-3.0.0-alpha.22.exe below and run it. Already on Alpha 17 or newer? Just click Update
2. Windows may show a SmartScreen warning because the app isn't code-signed yet. Click More Info, then Run Anyway
3. Pick your language, confirm your War Thunder folder and follow the short tour

Please Note

This is an alpha. Experimental options are marked in the app and may not work in game.
Found a bug? Use Report a Bug in the app or join the Discord: https://discord.gg/vqWFmaJQPJ

Assets

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v3.0.0-alpha.22 UPDATE

v3.0.0-alpha.21.1

Ask3lad Test Drive 3.0 (Alpha 21.1)

Nukes, new Experimental options for tanks and planes, better ammo on every tank, four new languages and more!

What's New

• Nuke Cannon (RDS-37): fire an RDS-37 nuke from your tank in Weapon Override, or from your plane in Cannon Override
• Cannon Override (Experimental): planes and helicopters fire any tank, ship or aircraft gun, or the Nuke Cannon
• Quick Reload (Experimental): set how many shots a second your gun fires, with no pause and no recoil, for tanks and planes
• Shell Mass and Explosive Filler (Experimental): set how heavy every shell is and how much explosive it carries, for tanks and planes
• Radar Override (Experimental): give a plane or helicopter another aircraft's radar, e.g. an AESA radar on the F-15E
• Countermeasure Modules (Experimental): fit a plane's MAWS, BOL pods, IR jammers and extra flares
• Thrust Multiplier (Experimental): 1.5x to 10x engine thrust
• Ammo bars per gun: every gun has its own bar in belts, missiles or rounds
• Stock ammo mixes on every tank: tanks start on Stock with the gun's real capacity, and you can add other shells next to it
• 2.0 ammo rules: each shell in one slot, a limit per gun, belts counted as belts
• Pantsir SM-SV: its missiles can now be picked, with 4 TKB-1055 sharing one launcher slot like in game (up to 48)
• Fuel after respawn: your chosen fuel is set again after every respawn
• Air Duel: distance up to 200 km and altitude up to 100 km
• Spawn altitude: In the Air spawn from 128 m up to 100 km (first spawn only)
• Moving ships: the Naval Targets in Air Test Drive now sail a route
• Reset Missions to Default: now also picks the mode's default vehicle and scenario
• 4 new languages: Portuguese (Brazil), Turkish, Ukrainian and Arabic (with the whole app mirrored right to left)
• Translations: about 115 missing lines translated in every language, and the Russian Wiki opens when Russian is picked
• Support Test Drive 3.0!: the Support page now thanks our Discord Boosters and has a Boost the Discord button
• FAQ button, Patch Notes and Dark Mode for the Clean style: Dark Mode can also be switched on right away on the first screen
• Credits: a new Contributors section
• Tour: now shows the Support page, the FAQ and Report a Bug, and plays once more for everyone

Install

1. Download TestDrive3-Setup-3.0.0-alpha.21.1.exe below and run it. Already on Alpha 17 or newer? Just click Update
2. Windows may show a SmartScreen warning because the app isn't code-signed yet. Click More Info, then Run Anyway
3. Pick your language, confirm your War Thunder folder and follow the short tour

Please Note

This is an alpha. Experimental options are marked in the app and may not work in game.

Found a bug? Use Report a Bug in the app or join the Discord: https://discord.gg/vqWFmaJQPJ

v3.0.0-alpha.20

Ask3lad Test Drive 3.0 (Alpha 20)

Fixes for Tornados and some F-16s, plus more translation and credits updates.

What's New

• Tornado and F-16 fix: Apply is no longer blocked for every Tornado and the Norwegian and Belgian F-16s.
• Typing error fixed: no more "toLowerCase" error some players saw while typing
• Air Duel sync: applying Air Test Drive now also updates Air Duel when the Duel enemy has a custom loadout
• Translations: Weightless Loadout and drop tank fuel text are now translated in every language
• Credits: Zenturion7 (한국어), WeyLines (Русский) and VanillaWong (简体中文) added to Localisation

Install

1. Download TestDrive3-Setup-3.0.0-alpha.20.exe below and run it. Already on Alpha 17 or newer? Just click Update.
2. Windows may show a SmartScreen warning because the app isn't code-signed yet. Click More Info, then Run Anyway.
3. Pick your language, confirm your War Thunder folder and follow the short tour.

Please Note

This is an alpha. Experimental options are marked in the app and may not work in game.

Found a bug? Use Report a Bug in the app or join the Discord: https://discord.gg/vqWFmaJQPJ

v3.0.0-alpha.19.1

Test Drive 3.0 (Alpha 19.1)

A quick fix for Alpha 19, plus translation improvements.

What's New

• Share Setup fix: the button no longer flickers on planes and helicopters.
• Japanese: Favourites is now お気に入り and empty ammo slots say なし
• Translations: "Loaded" and the "Too many rounds" warning under the ammo slots are now translated in every language
• Vehicle list tabs no longer cut off longer labels
• Credits: new Localisation section thanking モブ (日本語) and Pyrenees General (Español)

Install

1. Download TestDrive3-Setup-3.0.0-alpha.19.1.exe below and run it. Already on Alpha 17 or newer? Just click Update.
2. Windows may show a SmartScreen warning because the app isn't code-signed yet. Click More Info, then Run Anyway.
3. Pick your language, confirm your War Thunder folder and follow the short tour.

Please Note

This is an alpha. Experimental options are marked in the app and may not work in game. The app only edits its own mission files, and Undo Last Apply puts things back.

Found a bug? Use Report a Bug in the app or join the Discord: https://discord.gg/vqWFmaJQPJ

v3.0.0-alpha.19

Test Drive 3.0 (Alpha 19)

Set up your own Ground, Naval, Air and Helicopter test drives in War Thunder in a few clicks.

What's New

• Share Setup: get a code for your current vehicle, loadout and scenario without saving a preset
• Setup Code in bug reports: recreates your exact setup so bugs get fixed faster
• What's New button on the update bar
• EF-2000 (AESA): Air Test Drive and Air Duel now start on it
• Runway fuel: runway spawns now start with the fuel you picked
• Safe respawn speed: you respawn in the air at a speed that won't tear the wings off older planes

Install

1. Download TestDrive3-Setup-3.0.0-alpha.19.exe below and run it. Already on Alpha 17 or newer? Just click Update.
2. Windows may show a SmartScreen warning because the app isn't code-signed yet. Click More Info, then Run Anyway.
3. Pick your language, confirm your War Thunder folder and follow the short tour.

Please Note

This is an alpha. Experimental options are marked in the app and may not work in game. The app only edits its own mission files, and Undo Last Apply puts things back.

Found a bug? Use Report a Bug in the app or join the Discord: https://discord.gg/vqWFmaJQPJ