War Thunder Dev Tracker

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Introducing the next major update teaser for War Thunder - "Wind of Change"

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A new location for mixed battles, inspired by the coastal regions in the Middle East!

With the upcoming major update, a new location for mixed battles comes to the game - meet “Sun City”, a location based on the resort towns of the Middle East!

In this location, our artists tried to convey the diversity of landscapes and architecture of the coastal zone of the Middle East. In the centre of the location is a small resort town, with its white houses, bike lanes, bridges and terraces. By the sea is a beach, a wide and mostly open area with golden sand. In the suburbs, there’s a small industrial zone among the blooming fields.


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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!

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Fans of sports competitions freeze in anticipation of the football referee’s whistle. Step into the shoes of a football tank commander and hit the opponents' goal. This is the first of two popular events that not only return, but get better with valuable rewards for participants and winners!

From 16:00 GMT on the 11th of March until 05:00 GMT on the 31st of March
War Thunder welcomes you to the “Fiery Ball” event. With prizes!
Rewards for the best players
In this event, rewards will be given for goals and assists. The more points you score during the entire event, the more prizes you will get!

Silver decorations for 10, 50 and 100 goals and assists.
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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.

Improved artillery targeting smoke

Recently every artillery strike in ground battles began with a few hits of targeting smoke: this mechanic allowed lighter vehicles to react in time to the fire and try to escape. But in the original implementation the smoke markers were rather bright and stood out too much.

In its updated form they will fit much better into the overall colour picture of a battle and the quality of the detailing of the effect itself has been ... Read more

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We’re about to update our graphical Dagor Engine to version 6.5. Today we would like to talk about new capabilities of surface rendering in the War Thunder game environment.

In one of the previous updates of the Dagor graphics engine, we transferred the War Thunder graphics physically based rendering. We talked in detail[warthunder.com] about the principles of material differentiation and their physical parameters that the Dagor Engine deals with when rendering surfaces, as well as the principles for calculating the reflectivity of various surfaces within a complex physical model.

Despite the complexity of the global illumination and light reflection models, renderin... Read more

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How do you prove a right to own something valuable in the pirate community? Especially if incredible floating islands are at stake amongst which your secret base will look great. The air battle has begun!

Pirate clans of bears and foxes continue their dispute over the area of floating rocks. With eight unique aircraft and a stunning combat location, air pirate battles are back with valuable rewards for participants and winners making it even better!
From 11.00 GMT on the 10th of March until 11:30 GMT on the 30th of March War Thunder welcomes you to the “TailSpin” event. With prizes! Best Pirate Awards This event has 10 stages. Each lasting 2 days. 50 kills or assists for destruction during each stage will bring you one completed task. Complete more challenges and earn more rewards!
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Dear friends! On International Women’s Day we would like to remind you how important it is to give attention, kind words, love and of course flowers to our most beautiful and irreplaceable girls. And of course we invite you to complete your collection of holiday decals in War Thunder!

From 11:00 GMT on the 7th of March until 11:00 GMT on the 9th of March A festive “March 8th” pinup is waiting for you in the game.

• Play 3 battles in vehicles of rank III or higher (70% activity in the battle) and get the unique “March 8th” pinup decal.

“March 8” decal

You can follow your progress by clicking on your “nickname → Achievements → International W... Read more

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Sound

• The engine sounds for enemy aerial and ground vehicles now have a higher priority than allied vehicles.
  
• The track sounds on enemy ground vehicles now have a higher priority than allied vehicles.
  
• The engines for enemy and allied vehicles sound quieter as the engine speed decreases. An idling vehicle will again sound significantly quieter than a vehicle in motion.
  
• The volume of hits from low calibre rounds (20-37mm) around the listener has been significantly decreased. Such sounds might previously have been identified as machine gun fire or just crackling.

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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... Read more

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• Battle chat is now available for squad members.

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