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What vehicle?

I used to be an air realistic battles main before the game had ground vehicles, but now I'm a ground realistic battles main.

Alpha Strike is soon upon us. Here's the current changelog for this major update:

https://forum.warthunder.com/t/major-update-alpha-strike-dev-server-changelog-01-03-2024/83074

Today we’re carrying out some technical maintenance on in-game chats, which means they may not be available throughout the day for some time.

Apologies for the temporary inconvenience while we carry out this work.

This mechanic was released today. Let us know what you think:

https://steamcommunity.com/games/236390/announcements/detail/4137190132758962713

Hey everyone, thanks for testing out the Severe Damage mechanics and leaving your feedback on it! The majority of feedback has been positive towards this new mechanic, although there’s some points that we’d like to talk about before releasing this mechanic, which is set to go live sometime this week.

One of the main talking points relates to severely damaged aircraft being considered destroyed at the end of a battle. When designing this, we thought about two things: there’ll be players who don’t want to be considered destroyed at the end of the battle, and players who inflicted the severe damage feeling like they should get the destruction at the end of the battle. We’ve thought about both ways, but would like to stick with the original design which rewards the “attacker” side with the destruction at the end of the battle, and brings more frags that is generally better. Even though both decisions will leave some players not satisfied, we’ve picked the design which rewards ... Read more

Hi, it should be possible, however there's some reasons why it may not be. Please see this support article with reasons as to why it may not work.

https://support.gaijin.net/hc/en-us/articles/115000162045-Sending-and-receiving-gifts

Originally posted by DerZahnarzt: Some value has to be used to calculate this. But I don't see how. And if I score 4k or 5k points and only get, for example, 2,200 progress, I want to know how they calculate it.

It takes the mission score shown on the scoreboard in-game, and calculates it using the multipliers shown on the task description

If you earned 2500 mission score in AB using Rank VII-VIII it should be calculated as 3000 towards the task

Could you give an example of how many you earned and what vehicles you used etc?

Originally posted by Destoyer-Of-The-Seas:

Originally posted by magazine2:
Hi, it's still in testing right now. As for when it's coming out to regular games, there's no ETA to share on this at the moment.

ok thx just was wondering if it was coming to the main branch when its ready

Hey, yeah it will be coming to the main game when it's ready.

Originally posted by mwesthoff: The announcement says it starts at 11:00 GMT; however, the game's event card says it starts at 6:00

11:00 GMT is 5:00 where I am, so it don't add up.

Why can't you translate what time an event starts without making players do wrong math that don't add up?

The announcement base time is 11:00 GMT, which changes in-game for players in other regions automatically. A 1hr difference may be due to some daylight saving time or the converter we use.

If you'd like you can let me know your time zone (add and PM me if you want, to keep it private) so I can ask the team to take a further look at what may be the problem.

Yes — although they can be rare. It all depends on how many are playing and have the option enabled.

Hey everyone. First off, we’d like to express our gratitude to those of you who submit in-game reports on violations and in doing so inform us about the unfair actions of certain players. We deeply appreciate your willingness to support fair play in all areas of the game.

We’d like to let Air Simulator players know and draw attention to the violations that have been seen in this mode. Some players have used the lobby functionality to conduct fixed and arranged matches, with their actions allowing them to gain an illegitimate mission score, which disrupts fair players in this mode.

To counter these cases in Air Simulator Battles, mission points will no longer be awarded for attacking an enemy aircraft on an airfield that had not earned any mission points since their respawn. This is to prevent players who match-fix from easily earning mission points in this mode.

In addition to this, we’ve conducted a thorough analysis of the reports we’ve received and mad... Read more

Originally posted by Destoyer-Of-The-Seas:

Originally posted by Ulvhamne: https://warthunder.com/en/news/8749-development-testing-out-the-severe-damage-mechanic-en

ya i read it but i...

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Originally posted by ProfessorParker: In the last two months I have gotten maybe five night battles? All of them were in br 6.7-7.7 tanks that don't have night vision. Why do 9.0 to 11.7 night battles have flares where every single tank has night vision and thermals, yet 6.7-7.7 doesnt have nightvision and the bight battles don't have flares?

Hi, it's not possible to get night battles below a Battle Rating of 10.0.

Flares are there to help provide some light in case you have no night vision on a tank in your lineup, or when night vision is turned off, for example.

Small update, update notes to follow.

Hi, please select "Autoselect" which should put you onto the SA server. If you hover over "Autoselect", you'll also see SA listed there.

Thanks for your feedback! And nice cat video :)

Thanks for the feedback.