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Originally posted by Febreze the cheese 🧀: Can you get the Po-2 this year?

Halloween Event When the air races are over, the top 1,000 pilots will permanently receive the unique Po-2 biplane. The vehicles will be awarded during the 48 hour period after the Halloween event ends.

Originally posted by BioZ: Tried option 2 and steam told me that 129 files failed to validate and now I am downloading 30+ GB :(

Are you sure you renamed back original directory?

Originally posted by 𝓜𝓸𝓷𝓴𝓮: i tried option 2 a few hours earilier
still not working

Can you try it now please?

Try option no.2 please.

Please wait for steam to automatically update your game client during Major Update.
Please do not force manual update when servers are under maintenance during Major Update.

If, after Major Update goes live (official announcement is visible) and you are in update loop, please check options listed below.
Option no.2 - preferred option

1. Pause the game download in Steam.
   
2. Find the War Thunder folder, and rename it (e.g. "War Thunder1").
   
3. Uninstall War Thunder in Steam library.
   
4. Rename the folder back to its original name.
   
5. Find War Thunder in Steam client, and click "Install".
   
6. Steam will verify files, and download the missing ones, if necessary.

Option no.1

1. Please click RMB on War Thunder in your Steam library.
   
2. Select Properties.
   
3. Select Local Files.
   
4. Click on Browse.
   
5. Search for launcher.exe and open it....

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It's known bug. Should be solved today. Sorry for issues!

Hi!
We are aware of the issue and working on solution. Should be delivered ASAP.
Sorry for the inconvenience

Dear Steam players!
For unknown reasons, Steam have started downloading the game files again.
In order not to download existing files again, you can use the following:

Pause the download of the game on Steam client.

Find the folder with the War Thunder game and rename it (for example, as “War Thunder1”).

On Steam client, uninstall the War Thunder game.

Rename the game folder back to its original name.

On Steam, find the War Thunder game and click "install".

Steam will check the files and download the missing ones, if necessary, so you can continue to play.

Official answer

Sorry gents!
Unfortunately we don't know what happened. Steam is redownloading the same files.
May be it is somehow depends on enabling steam download and disabling automatic updates via launcher (that was the most popular requests from steam players).
But that is unclear how this things are connected.
Version is the same.
Steam just decided to download files.
We are trying to get to Valve about the issue.
If it will happen again - we'd ask Valve to disable steam updates again.
Sorry for inconvenience again

PS People say that this works:

1. pause the update on steam
2. go to your WT folder, rename the folder to other things like "War Thunder old"
3. uninstall war thunder from steam
4. rename the folder back to just "War Thunder"
5. Reinstall the game back on steam on the same path as before, and it should identify the
old files