War Thunder Dev Tracker

We present details on the revised physics of guided missiles with line-of-sight guidance in the La Royale update.

We continue to refine the physical model of the weapons in the game. Today we would like to talk about the new reworked physics of missiles guided by the three-point method guidance, that is, guided using line of sight, which we have prepared for the La Royale major update.

The current physics of line-of-sight missiles affects the missile's skyplane acceleration directly, bypassing the simulation of controls.


Skyplane of a missile


The current simplified implementation of the physical model allows the missile to go beyond the available overload and hit targets with which the missile sh... Read more

Based on the feedback from the YouTube community and from content creators, as well as after analyzing the occupancy of players in sessions of specifi... Read more

A lil somethin somethin: You can find the details for this event on the announcement page here.

The Freccia VBM is an Italian IFV with a rapid fire cannon and fire-and-forget anti-tank missiles Spike-MR. Meet the new top tier in ground battles in the upcoming La Royale update.

Freccia VBM, light tank, Italy, rank VII
Features:

• 8 Spike-MR fire-and-forget missiles
  
• Good mobility
  
• Target tracking

The Italian Freccia VBM wheeled fighting vehicle will join the top-tiers in ground battles as the first to the game carrier of the Spike fire-and-forget anti-tank guided missiles!

The Freccia VBM is reminiscent of two other high-tier vehicles from the Italian tech tree: from the Centauro tank destroyer, the vehicle received a wheeled chassis with a maximum speed... Read more

A lil somethin somethin: You can find the details for this event on the announcement page here.

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 in the website special section.

Please note that we are currently in the middle of testing the next major update La Royale. It will last until June 1st, 7:00 GMT. Learn more about participating on it on our forums.

... Read more

A lil somethin somethin: You can find the details for this event on the announcement page here.

WWII era experimental light tank Pz.Kpfw.38 (t) n.A. featuring perfect mobility comes to the game in the La Royale update.

Pz.Kpfw.38 (t) n.A., light tank, Germany, rank II
Features:

• High mobility
  
• 37mm gun
  
• High-density internal compartment

The long-awaited replenishment of the WWII tank line-up! Meet the German experimental light tank Pz.Kpfw.38 (t) n.A., which will appear in the game with the release of the major La Royale update. The fastest representative of the Pz.Kpfw.38 series!

Pz.Kpfw.38 (t) n.A. was created according to the program of the new (n.A. - neue Art, “new type”) reconnaissance tank of the Wehrmacht. One of the conditions of the p... Read more

A lil somethin somethin: You can find the details for this event on the announcement page here.

Friends!

Ten days ago we asked you to share your key suggestions and complaints about the game in a special survey. As a result, we received 14,562 player submitted entries - many of them being very constructive. It is a very impressive number! Some submissions made a few pages of well organised bullet points. We are very grateful for such active support for the project and a desire to help us make War Thunder better!

It is very difficult to process such a great amount of information. But we managed to isolate most of the repeating points and are already working hard on them.

Economy and progression

More than 90% of feedback entries touched issues with economy and progression. The majority of them were: repair costs... Read more

In this month's Pages of History you'll find yourself in the center of events that happened at numerous battlefronts. Two of the more important Pacific battles, the landings in Normandy, and the beginning of Operation Barbarossa — participate in battles using the vehicles that were used in these historic events and receive prizes!

From June 1st until June 30th you’ll be offered 8 tasks consecutively. Completing each will reward you with a trophy, completing all of them earns you a unique player icon.

Reward for completing all 8 tasks
Nikolai Gastello When Germany invaded the Soviet Union, Nikolai Gastello was already a squadron leader and an experienced pilot with 9 years of flight experience. Two d... Read more

• In the “Main Parameters” menu in the “Privacy and Confidentiality” tab, a new setting “Hide player nicknames” has been added. This setting allows to hide nicknames of players in battle or change nicknames to numeric UserID values. This option is helpful for streamers who may meet players in battle with nicknames from other platforms (Steam, PSN, Xbox etc.), which in accordance to their rules may contain inappropriate symbols or words, and therefore may in rare cases, cause blocking on streaming services.

Aircraft

• Tornado IDS (1995) (Italy) — a bug has been fixed which prevented countermeasures from being selected in the custom secondary armament set if it initially did not include countermeasures when creating the set.

Interface

• The “Activate” button has been r...

Read more

A lil somethin somethin: You can find the details for this event on the announcement page here.

Content creators addressed us with their questions and feedback - we read and answer!
Hi all! Lately we have received a huge amount of feedback from players and have been hard at work analyzing, processing and preparing to answer your questions. The most heated discussion came from questions on the economy, and we will definitely answer these too once we’ve had time to look through them all! In addition to dozens of thousands of feedback messages from players, we received a long list of questions from our War Thunder content creators from YouTube, Twitch and other platforms. While we are still analyzing requests and suggestions from players, today we’ll answer some questions from our creators, maybe you’ll find answers to your questions here too. Let’s go!

Vehicles ... Read more

A lil somethin somethin: You can find the details for this event on the announcement page here.

Welcome to the 69th War Thunder Steam Screenshot Competition!
You submitted many beautiful screenshots last week, well done everyone. The three most popular and three selected by us will get 300 GE. See the winners down below!

Let’s begin the 69th edition of our competition!
Create a stunning screenshot and submit it on the War Thunder Steam Community Hub with the tag #WTscreen69. You have time until 02.06.2023 to submit your screenshot.

After that date, 6 winners will be selected (3 of which will be the highest rated by the community and 3 selected by our judges), each of which receive a reward of 300GE.


Terms:

• This week, we would love to see a picture of your vehicle during sunset!
  
• You must add the #WTscreen69 tag (title cannot have any other text in it).

... Read more

A lil somethin somethin: You can find the details for this event on the announcement page here.

Both researchable and Premium versions of the advanced Su-25 attack aircraft are to be added in the upcoming La Royale major update. Pre-order now to get special bonuses!

Su-25T, strike aircraft, USSR, rank VII.
Su-39, strike aircraft, USSR, rank VII. Premium pack offer.
Features:

• 16 Vikhr ATGMs
  
• Expanded arsenal
  
• Directional infrared countermeasures
  
• Night sight

The Su-25T project was an attempt to create an anti-tank aircraft that would be able to operate both during the daytime and at night, equipped with targeting systems and guided munitions to defeat armored vehicles. The list of equipment for the future aircraft was formalized in 1979, it was based on the Shkval targeting and navigation system and the Mercury television sight. The prototype passed t... Read more

The Swedish Home Guard was founded on May 29th, 1940, as World War II was heating up. Sweden managed to remain neutral, so the Home Guard never participated in battles. Today 20 000 people are still ready to join the ranks by the Command’s decree — and sometimes help out with rescue missions and police work.

From May 26th (12:00 GMT) until May 30th (12:00 GMT)

Play 3 battles using Swedish vehicles (rank III or higher, with an activity of not less than 70%) to receive the “Coat of Arms of the Swedish Home Guard” decal.

“Coat of Arms of the Swedish Home Guard” decal.

Complete the task in random battles, except for Enduring Confrontation missions and [Assault] mode.

Tr... Read more

A lil somethin somethin: You can find the details for this event on the announcement page here.