War Thunder Dev Tracker

https://steamcommunity.com/games/236390/announcements/detail/3026962135259624897
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2505134227
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Dear Steam players!
For unknown reasons, Steam have started downloading the game files again.
In order not to download existing files again, you can use the following:

Pause the download of the game on Steam client.

Find the folder with the War Thunder game and rename it (for example, as “War Thunder1”).

On Steam client, uninstall the War Thunder game.

Rename the game folder back to its original name.

On Steam, find the War Thunder game and click "install".

Steam will check the files and download the missing ones, if necessary, so you can continue to play.

Official answer

Sorry gents!
Unfortunately we don't know what happened. Steam is redownloading the same files.
May be it is somehow depends on enabling steam download and disabling automatic updates via launcher (that was the most popular requests from steam players).
But that is unclear how this things are connected.
Version is the same.
Steam just decided to download files.
We are trying to get to Valve about the issue.
If it will happen again - we'd ask Valve to disable steam updates again.
Sorry for inconvenience again

PS People say that this works:

1. pause the update on steam
2. go to your WT folder, rename the folder to other things like "War Thunder old"
3. uninstall war thunder from steam
4. rename the folder back to just "War Thunder"
5. Reinstall the game back on steam on the same path as before, and it should identify the
old files

For unknown reasons, Steam has started to download the game files again.
In order not to download existing files again, you can use the following algorithm:
1. Pause the download of the game on Steam client.
2. Find the folder with the War Thunder game and rename it (for example, as “War Thunder1”).
3. On Steam client, uninstall the War Thunder game.
4. Rename the game folder back to its original name.
5. On Steam, find the War Thunder game and click "install".
6. Steam will check the files and download the missing ones, if necessary, so you can continue to play.

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RUS
Уважаемые пользователи Steam!
По неизвестным причинам, Steam начал скачивать файлы игры заново.
Чтобы не выкачивать все файлы заново вы можете воспользоваться следующим алгоритмом:
1. Поставьте скачивание игры в Steam на паузу.
2. Найдите папку с игрой War Thunder и переименуйте её (допустим, в War Thunder1).
3. В Steam удалите игру War Thunder.
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Servers are working now, sorry for the inconveniences.

Servers are working now, sorry for the inconveniences.

Servers are working now, sorry for the inconveniences.

Servers are working now, sorry for the inconveniences.

Dear players!
Today at 9:00 GMT the server will not be available as we will be implementing minor update 1.101.12 in War Thunder.

Thanks for your understanding!

The War Thunder Team

Dear players The game may not be available at the moment as we are experiencing some technical issues on our servers. We are endeavouring to fix these issues as quickly as possible. Thank you for your understanding.

The War Thunder Team

https://steamcommunity.com/games/236390/announcements/detail/2880570414302021595
Please direct all discussions regarding Update "Raining Fire" in this thread. All other threads relating may be merged into this one.

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Fixed

Dear players!

The game may not be available at the moment as we are experiencing some technical issues on our servers. We are endeavouring to fix these issues as quickly as possible. Thank you for your understanding.

RU
Друзья! В данный момент игра может быть недоступна в связи с техническими проблемами на серверах. Мы принимаем все возможные меры, чтобы в скором времени восстановить их стабильную работу. Сожалеем о временных неудобствах и благодарим вас за понимание.

The game may not be available at the moment as we are experiencing some technical issues on our servers. We are endeavouring to fix these issues as quickly as possible. Thank you for your understanding.

Originally posted by Schwark: it looks like gajin has done nothing in months to keep the hackers down , gajin used to be on it every month now it looks like gajin quit and try to pretend it is not happening. this game is getting loaded with cheaters please do something and give us a fair playing grounds.

....... Player since 2012. I have only seen one, verified, hacker. One. And it was only recently (last year or so). So that means one of two things (1) Unlikely, but I never ran into a cheater until that point. or, (2), the cheaters are so abysmal that I never noticed them.

The lack of an updated ban list does not mean that they have been idle and/or "pretending the issue doens't exist". Point to me exactly where Gaijin asserted cheating wasn't an issue and they decided to throw it by the wayside?

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https://steamcommunity.com/games/236390/announcements/detail/2504513502297529447

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