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Week 4 winners here!

War Thunder Screenshot Competition

March week 4 winners

Round_Owl and The hogs(

Straight

screenshot)


Seelios and Lions of the Sand (

Straight

screenshot)


Slavianic and Shilka Power(

Straight

screenshot)

_Kaisu and "Speed Limit Enforced by Aircraft"(

Straight

screenshot)



Pacharachokun and Mighty Patton(

Artistic

screenshot
)

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

Well done and keep up the good job guys!

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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.

Improvements in this digest are already available on PC and Xbox, PlayStation users will receive these fixes shortly.

Fixed ship movement after the launch of scouting aircraft

Scouting aircraft is a very useful feature for some large ships but after launching, your ship is left defenceless and it’s a good idea for it to be under cover at this moment.

We have fixed a bug where after launching a scouting aircraft from a moving ship the automatic stop mechanism was ill advised and left the ship in reverse. Now, when leaving ...

Ground vehicles

M60 AMBT — a bug has been fixed that prevented automatic distance setup on the machine guns after using the laser rangefinder.


T-55A, T-55AM-1, T-55AMD-1 — the thickness of the bulkhead in the engine compartment has been adjusted: 20mm -> 5mm.


Type-75 MLRS — 3rd person view camera has been repositioned.


T-80U — armouring of the spare tracks has been adjusted: 30mm -> 20mm.


Merkava Mk.4B — missing armouring elements have been restored.


Gal Batash — Material of the hull front has been fixed from rolled homogeneous steel to cast homogeneous steel. Corrected the ammo capacity of the coaxial gun (1750 -> 5950) and AA machine guns (5950 -> 1750).


LAV-AD — a bug has been fixed with missing info in the max speed of the M247 rocket.

Aircraft

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Ground vehicles

M60 AMBT — a bug has been fixed that prevented automatic distance setup on the machine guns after using the laser rangefinder.


T-55A, T-55AM-1, T-55AMD-1 — the thickness of the bulkhead in the engine compartment has been adjusted: 20mm -> 5mm.


Type-75 MLRS — 3rd person view camera has been repositioned.


T-80U — armouring of the spare tracks has been adjusted: 30mm -> 20mm.


Merkava Mk.4B — missing armouring elements have been restored.


Gal Batash — Material of the hull front has been fixed from rolled homogeneous steel to cast homogeneous steel. Corrected the ammo capacity of the coaxial gun (1750 -> 5950) and AA machine guns (5950 -> 1750).


LAV-AD — a bug has been fixed with missing info in the max speed of the M247 rocket.

Aircraft

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You are watching The Shooting Range – a weekly show for all tankers, airmen and Captains in War Thunder.

In this episode:

Pages of History: The Deadly Midge


Special: A Stroll Along the Sun City


... and Metal Beasts: The Long-Awaited Thunderbolt

The War Thunder Team

War Thunder will soon feature customizable aircraft weapon setups, including asymmetrical loadouts. Lock’n’load what you REALLY need in battle!

In the subsequent minor updates after the “Wind of Change” major update release, we’re planning to introduce customizable weapon loadouts for War Thunder aircraft within the allowable weight and types of weapons for the given vehicle. It will be players that decide what and how many weapons they need for a combat mission. This is how the weapon setup customization will look:

Weapon loadout customization will first be available for certain aircraft that are added in the “Wind of Change” update. In future updates, we will introduce this option for other top-tier planes and helicopters.

You will be able to have up to 20 customizable weapon presets along with the standard ones. You also will be able t...

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!

Straight

Screenshot - 1 500

Creator:
momotalouT

Artistic

Screenshot - 1 500

Creator:
PKT08

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The ELC is an experimental light tank destroyer developed by AMX as part of a special programme launched by the French Ministry of Defense during the 1950s. Mobile, extremely small and packing a punchy gun, the AMX ELC will soon be available for the French armored vehicles enthusiasts!

AMX ELC bis, tank destroyer, France, rank IV

Features:

Very small profile


Good mobility


Decent HEATFS rounds

Limited turret traverse


Light protection


Small crew

History

In 1954, the French military launched a project to develop a new 6-ton light combat vehicle of small dimensions whilst being r...

Week 3 winners here!

War Thunder Screenshot Competition

March week 3 winners

Farmuhan and Jungle life(

Artistic

screenshot)


_KENKEN_ and “Mk.4 Special”(

Artistic

screenshot)


DeefyWeefy and Here They Come(

Artistic

screenshot)

SairoHart and Winter Warrior(

Straight

screenshot)



Stavroforos and You Are What you Eat(

Straight

screenshot
)

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

Well done and keep up the good job guys!

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Together with texture upscaling and new surface rendering options, the new version of the War Thunder graphic engine brings numerous minor features and improvements. Meet new visuals coming soon in the “Wind of Change” update!

Shock wave

We continue to improve the visual effects of fires, flames and explosions. Now shadows from dynamic effects have appeared on the ground and assets of the game environment, organically fitting them into the overall picture of the game. The shadows from the large-scale effects are most noticeable, such as an explosion of an aircraft on the ground, the destruction of a building in a cloud of dust and debris, and massive smoke from a burned tank.

Area effects

The “Wind of Change” update brings a number of c...

Week 2 winners here!

War Thunder Screenshot Competition

March week 2 winners

_CG_ and M64(

Straight

screenshot)


WreckingAres283 and Angels of Death(

Straight

screenshot)


Laisy and Fiery Escape(

Straight

screenshot)

kleinerPanzer and Not a Tomcat(
Straight
screenshot)



MolecularVacuum and Comet strike(

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 Live.WT sit...

The LAV-AD is an American SPAA unit, developed on the basis of the highly versatile Light Armored Vehicle (LAV) chassis in the late 1980s. Featuring a devastating arsenal and superb mobility, the LAV-AD will soon join the fight in top ranked ground battles, arriving in War Thunder as part of the next major update “Wind of Change”!

Briefly: An air defence variant of the American LAV combat vehicle, featuring a hybrid arsenal consisting of a 25 mm Gatling cannon and both guided and unguided weapons.

LAV-AD, SPAA, USA, Rank VI

Features:

High fire rate 25 mm cannon


Stinger missiles


Hydra-70 rockets

Excellent mobility


Amphibious capabilities


Light protection
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We present to you a planned tech tree of the Israeli armored forces to be added to War Thunder in the upcoming major update “Wind of Change”!

This is how the Israeli ground forces tech tree is planned to look like at its start. First tanks, armored vehicles. self-propelled guns and SPAAGs come to War Thunder in the upcoming major update “Wind of Change”!

Since the Israeli army was formed after the end of World War II, the research for Israeli ground vehicles begins immediately at rank IV. All owners of early access packs will be able to take part in the closed testing of the Israeli ground forces immediately after the “Wind of Change” update is live. Terms of access for all other players will be published later. After the end of closed testing, to start researching the Israeli armored forces, the player wi...

Today we want to talk about the global graphical improvements, 4K/8K game client, and artistic neuronet.

Necessary Changes

The latest War Thunder vehicle and asset models are created in 4K, or even 8K resolutions, but textures of such sizes significantly increase the size of the game client. In addition, the game has a lot of content created with textures in 2K resolution, for example, some of the aircraft with which War Thunder began its journey back in 2012. But as time goes by, monitor resolutions, hard drive sizes and internet speeds grow, so we want to make the game look better. We are introducing a new ULTRA HD texture pack that brings a higher resolution to War Thunder that meets the standards of modern games. It's time to change for the better, and we are taking this step in the next update of the game!

Game clients to choose from

To move to the new graphics with hig...

War Thunder Screenshot Competition

March week 1 winners

VonRichthofen555 and "No Room for Error"(

Straight

screenshot)


kleinerPanzer and Beat Cop(

Straight

screenshot)


SairoHart and Combat(

Straight

screenshot)

Farmuhan and Alone (
Artistic
screenshot)



Pacharachokun and Kyu Maru(

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 Live.WT sit...

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...

War Thunder Screenshot Competition

February week 4 winners

kleinerPanzer and Close(

Straight

screenshot)


meUWUsenpaichan and Two Rolling Germany Kitties(

Straight

screenshot)


_Kaisu and "Off to the Front"(

Straight

screenshot)

graham_kerr0122 and "Wild Firefly" (

Straight

screenshot)



MolecularVacuum and la résistance(

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 interesti...