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In this digest we would like to tell you about our continuing work on improvements and fixes in the game. You can find information about all updates that have been released in War Thunder on the website special section.

Introducing “Privacy mode”!

There are many reasons why attention to your person may not be desirable. For example if you are a streamer and don’t want to be stream-sniped. Or maybe you are just an active player with thousands of annoying “fans”?

Now there is a solution to all of these problems in War Thunder! A whole range of functionality specifically for “go into the shadow zone”.

Game settings → Main parameters → Privacy and Confidentiality

In this menu you will find the settings which are related to your accessibility to the entire War Thunder community. The most notew...

Ground vehicles

A bug has been fixed that allowed installation of naval decorations on ground vehicles (report).


A bug has been fixed where after turret traverse drive repair the visual model of the turret on some vehicles was aligned directly forward (report).

Aircraft

A bug has been fixed that prevented air-to-air missile launch while the IRST lock-on was enabled.


A bug has been fixed where hover mode could be disabled when switching to the “Controls” menu.


Ki-61/100 (all versions) — effects of high-speed airflow to the rudders were reduced in order to make a pull-out easier.


JA 37 С — calibre of countermeasures has been set to 55mm (report).


Wirraway — separate bomb drop has been added in accordance with “Wirraway Operation Instructions”.

Ground vehicles

A bug has been fixed that allowed installation of naval decorations on ground vehicles (report).


A bug has been fixed where after turret traverse drive repair the visual model of the turret on some vehicles was aligned directly forward (report).

Aircraft

A bug has been fixed that prevented air-to-air missile launch while the IRST lock-on was enabled.


A bug has been fixed where hover mode could be disabled when switching to the “Controls” menu.


Ki-61/100 (all versions) — effects of high-speed airflow to the rudders were reduced in order to make a pull-out easier.


JA 37 С — calibre of countermeasures has been set to 55mm (report).


Wirraway — separate bomb drop has been added in accordance with “Wirraway Operation Instructions”.

Dear players and Fine Arts experts!

A new month has arrived, so it's time to proclaim the winners of our last month's Community competitions! As always, a lot of effort has been put into the content that was created, and the winners will be happy to receive their share of the prize fund totalling more than 4 500 Golden Eagles!

Interested in joining any of the competitions below yourself? Then don't waste any time and visit the forums for more information!

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Creator:
Seelios

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Creator:
SairoHart

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Week 3 winners here!

War Thunder Screenshot Competition

April week 3 winners

Round_Owl and Standing By (

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screenshot)


RBadek and Guardian of the pale snow.(

Straight

screenshot)


MolecularVacuum and T-2(

Straight

screenshot)

_Kaisu and Panssari(

Straight

screenshot)



Alpine_Lynx and Skynda dig!(

Artistic

screenshot
)

Rewards should be allocated within 2 working weeks from date winners were announced.

Well done and keep up the good job guys!

You can find more interesting content from our players on our Liv...

Hello, and welcome to Thunder Show! Today we’re going to have a set of videos themed “What a surprise!” Surprises are going to happen to some jets on a base, a light helicopter, and some careless fighters... We’ll also have some naval sumo, just for contrast. Let’s go!

So, what do you do if something incredible happens in your battle that deserves to appear in Thunder Show?

While in the game, go to “Community > Replays” and find the replay.


Press the “Rename” button and give it a memorable name.


Open the Replays folder in the game folder: search for the file with the name you have just given it.


Attach the file to an email and send it to ...

Watch live streams on 5 multi-language channels and catch the Twitch drops for the “OlySt CUP II” battles.

Registration for teams is open till the 22nd of April (20:40 GMT)

Teams of 10 players allowed (7 main, 3 reserve). To register your team, please visit the tournament's homepage.

REGISTER

Awards

1st place — $1,000 (team prize), 4,000 Golden Eagles, “OlySt CUP II Champion”.


2nd place — $600 (team prize), 3000 Golden Eagles.


3rd place — $400 (team prize), 1500 Golden Eagles.

The total prize pool of Golden Eagles is 203,000. To see the full list of prizes, please visit this page.

All winners get the unique “OlySt CUP II” decals.

1st place — Gold

2nd place — Silver

3rd pl...

The Hunter FGA.9 is available for purchase!

From April 18th to April 22nd, players will be able to purchase a premium fighter Hunter FGA.9 from the British research tree for Golden Eagles.

These aircraft were used by the Rhodesian Air Force, renamed to Zimbabwe after it had declared independence from the United Kingdom on April 18th, 1980.

Don't miss your chance!

Week 2 winners here!

War Thunder Screenshot Competition

April week 2 winners

Slavianic and Modern Cossack (

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screenshot)


SteelxWolf and Firepower(

Straight

screenshot)


xboxplayer and Children of Arachis(

Straight

screenshot)

H3rqu and Cool guys don't look at explosions(

Straight

screenshot)



DeefyWeefy and At the Speed of Sound!(

Artistic

screenshot
)

Rewards should be allocated within 2 working weeks from date winners were announced.

Well done and keep up the good job guys!

You can find more interesting...

Today we’re going to have a bunch of incredibly lucky guys. Lucky bomb drops, lucky air encounters, lucky take-offs and landings in places unreachable even for tanks, and of course, some new nuclear records! Or more like... anti-records. Let’s go!

So, what do you do if something incredible happens in your battle that deserves to appear in Thunder Show?

While in the game, go to “Community > Replays” and find the replay.


Press the “Rename” button and give it a memorable name.


Open the Replays folder in the game folder: search for the file with the name you have just given it.


Attach the file to an email and send it to thundershow@gaijin...

[PvE] Helicopter battles

BR ranges have been changed from 7.7-9.3 / 9.7+ to 7.7-9.0 / 9.3+.


Calculation period for useful actions has been changed from 15 to 10 minutes.


Activity counters, rewards for useful actions, and RP reward at the end of a session have been adjusted and split into the BR ranges.


Mi-24A — battle rating in Arcade battles has been changed from 9.0 to 9.3.

The current provided changelog reflects the major changes within the game as part of this Update. Some updates, additions and fixes may not be listed in the provided notes. War Thunder is constantly improving and specific fixes may be implemented without the client being updated.

[PvE] Helicopter battles

BR ranges have been changed from 7.7-9.3 / 9.7+ to 7.7-9.0 / 9.3+.


Calculation period for useful actions has been changed from 15 to 10 minutes.


Activity counters, rewards for useful actions, and RP reward at the end of a session have been adjusted and split into the BR ranges.


Mi-24A — battle rating in Arcade battles has been changed from 9.0 to 9.3.

Discuss it here!

The current provided changelog reflects the major changes within the game as part of this Update. Some updates, additions and fixes may not be listed in the provided notes. War Thunder is constantly improving and specific fixes may be implemented without the client being updated.

Week 1 winners here!

War Thunder Screenshot Competition

April week 1 winners

Farmuhan and Multiplying (

Artistic

screenshot)


MolecularVacuum and The last starfighter (

Artistic

screenshot)


_Torfi_ and The cinnamon must flow(

Artistic

screenshot)

FrancoTheDwarf and Desert Tiger(

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screenshot)



Round_Owl and Retaliation(

Straight

screenshot
)

Rewards should be allocated within 2 working weeks from date winners were announced.

Well done and keep up the good job guys!

You can find more interesting content from ...

Ground vehicles

Turan II — a bug has been fixed that prevented the reloading of the smoke grenades.


Magach 6A — a bug has been fixed that resulted in displaying of a stabiliser in the FCS menu and vehicle profile.


KV-122 — values in the rear armouring have been corrected in the info card.

Aircraft

A-10A, A-10A Late — a bug has been fixed that prevents display in the info cards of the weight of the weapons suspended on hardpoints/pylons.


MiG-23MLA — a bug has been fixed that resulted in flares/chaff flying in front of the aircraft.


М197 gun — overheating time has been reduced (report).


F-84F (all versions) — a bug has been fixed that allowed using the weapon selector to fire the upper row of the HVAR rockets before the lower (report).


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Hi! It depends how many complaints we have to check. As i assume you reported them via in game tools and with replay report system, we will check them both as soon as we can.

Next time you can directly report them to me via PM system.

Regards
OrsonES.

Hi! Welcome to Thunder Show and the best moments of the past week! The motto of today’s episode is “never give up!” We’ll have a heli that never gave up... a fighter that never gave up... a ship that never gave up... and — just for some contrast — a Hetzer that got a really unlucky ally. Let’s go!

So, what do you do if something incredible happens in your battle that deserves to appear in Thunder Show?

While in the game, go to “Community > Replays” and find the replay.


Press the “Rename” button and give it a memorable name.


Open the Replays folder in the game folder: search for the file with the name you have just given it.


Attach the file to an email and send it to ...

Dear Players!

Welcome to our revamped Top Screenshots of the month competition.

Each week* a panel of official judges, chosen from the team, will vote on the top 5 Screenshots submitted each week and the winners will receive

300 Golden Eagles

for being placed in the top 5. Every week 5 new winners will be drawn and at the end of the month, the judges will vote on the top 3 of the month from the winners throughout the month and those winners will earn

1500 GE

each!

If possible please make your screenshots with War Thunder watermark.

One entry per week!

Top three Screenshots of the month will be chosen for following categories:

1. Straight Screenshot (Unmodified) - any unmodified screenshot - aircraft / tank / ship (using nvidia ansel is fine as long as it is not heavily edited)

2. Artistic Screensho...