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🔥Firebirds: Improved Mud On Ground Vehicles & Naval Effect Improvements

Today we’ll take a look at some more improvements coming to the Firebirds major update: mud on ground vehicles and improved naval effects such as better fires

🐖Dirtier Ground Vehicles
With the release of the Firebirds major update, you’ll notice an update to various effects related to mud, soil traces and the nature of your ground vehicles getting dirty. In particular, the effects of mud from under the wheels have been improved, with many bugs and inaccuracies fixed. The effect itself has become more saturated as well!

But that’s not all. Ground vehicles have always been able to get covered in mud, snow and sand, but we’ve now worked to make this mechanic more elaborate and realistic. Before the Firebirds major update, the surface of an entire map consisted of one material; either sand, dirt or snow. But now, the areas of the surface you drive on can have different materials, meaning ground vehicles can get covered with different types of mud at the same time. In addition to being able to clean off dirt in water as normal, you can now fire your main caliber gun and use the physics of that to “shake and blast” that dirt off. Pretty awesome!

🔍Setting Up Radars Before Battle
Previously before each flight, you had to manually set the required operating modes of aircraft radars which was inconvenient. In the Firebirds major update, you’ll have the opportunity to configure aircraft radars before the battle, and for each game mode, you can choose your own set of settings. Select a vehicle, be it an aircraft, helicopter, SPAA or naval vessel that is equipped with a radar with search mode and go to the test flight settings screen. From here, you can set the mode of the radar, radar search mode and radar scope scale. The same settings can be made at the beginning of the battle in the respawn screen and in the “Settings” menu. Radar settings are individual for each vehicle, and can be set for each vehicle that has a search radar.

🚨Naval Fires Improvements
Naval battles have also changed significantly. Surface vessel fires have been visually improved and divided into three categories: critical, which can cause imminent destruction, dangerous, which can cause little damage but can lead to serious consequences, and cosmetic, where the damage from fires is small, important compartments and modules are out of danger, and the battle can continue to be fought

🤕Fair Play: November 2024

We’re constantly working to improve your experience in War Thunder, this time by removing griefers and exploiters. We rely on our team of Game Masters who look at statistics, as well as on reports from players that they carefully go through. You can use the replay service on our website as well as in-game reports to report players who have violated the Terms of Service and the License Agreement of the game to us.

Banned accounts
Since October 22nd, we’ve issued punishments to 25,013 accounts that were found to have violated the rules. Specifically, 23,872 were banned for different time frames for breach of paragraph 2 of “Annex #1. Game Rules” in the Gaijin Terms of Service namely for teamkilling (including intentional ramming). 1,190 were banned due to breaching paragraphs 3.2.3 and 3.2.4 of the End User License Agreement (EULA) namely in exploiting game flaws and manipulating the game mechanics.

📜For transparency, we’re publishing the lists of 2,728 players who have been issued a ban of 1 week or longer (up to the permanent ban), the remaining 22,285 players have been suspended for a shorter amount of time as a warning of appropriate severity. These lists will be available for two weeks after the publication of this article.

❗️Recommendations
We’d like to remind you to abide to the rules to keep up the friendly and competitive atmosphere in the game.

As always, we also recommend that you set a strong password for your account and enable two-step authentication in your profile security settings. We have the following 2FA options available: email, SMS, TOTP (Gaijin Pass/Google Authenticator), and Telegram bot, which we suggest trying if SMS 2FA messages are not reaching you.

We’d also suggest that you turn on 2FA for the email that is linked to your account for additional security. This will protect your account from fraudsters. And remember, don’t break the rules and never share your account information with anyone!

📺Firebirds: Motion Blur in War Thunder

Today, we’re taking a look at motion blur in War Thunder — what it is, how it’s implemented in the game, and what challenges we were facing. War Thunder goes to the movies!

❓What Is Motion Blur?

In a video game, images are created from scratch, each frame displays a single point in time.
Real cameras or even our eyes don’t work like this. Taking a picture takes time, and over this time the world doesn’t always stand still. If an object moves while we’re taking the picture, it will appear in all those places at the same time on the final image. This is what we call motion blur.

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☄️Planned Technical Works on 19.11.2024|

🔥Hey everyone. On November 19th from 08:00 GMT, the War Thunder game servers may be unavailable due to the release of the Firebirds major update!

Be sure to catchup on what content is coming in this update by looking at our dev blogs while you wait for your game to download. The major update announcement and full major changelog will be published when the update is released and ready to play.

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🔥Meet the “Firebirds” Major Update!

Meet Firebirds, War Thunder’s second to last 2024 major update!
Immediately worth mentioning is that the F-117A has joined the ranks as a squadron vehicle, providing brand-new stealth capability to the game! Several jet aircraft including the Tornado GR.4, Su-34 and F-15E Strike Eagle have entered the fray, as well as several cockpit remakes and two brand-new helicopters. As for ground vehicles, Firebirds focuses on lighter vehicles and filling gaps, including the Skink and T77E1 SPAA for the US, Ram II and Scimitar for Great Britain, the PLZ05 for China and three Dutch Leopards for France. Dunkerque takes center stage for naval, while the Abandoned Factory map has received a visual update, providing a freshened experience for tankers. Test flights have been greatly expanded with more enemies, options and new airfields, and lastly the game has seen a large amount of updates to graphics & effects, including Ray tracing, new afterburner visuals, LERX vapor and much more.

➡️CHANGELOG

🐸It is Wednesday on the radar, my dudes

💅40 New User-Created Camouflages in the Firebirds Trophy!

To mark the release of the Firebirds major update, we’re presenting a trophy today that includes 40 camouflages from 38 authors from WT.Live! You’ll find 18 camouflages for ground vehicles, 18 for aircraft, 2 for naval and 2 for helicopters for most ranks and nations.

Since this is the second autumn trophy, we’re traditionally returning several of the most expensive and popular camouflages from previous trophies. In addition to camouflages, you can get a unique decal and rare vehicles — and all this is in the form of coupons!

🎁Contents of the Firebirds trophy:
▪️Coupons for rare vehicles.
▪️18 camouflage coupons for ground vehicles.
▪️18 camouflage coupons for aircraft.
▪️2 camouflage coupons for naval vessels.
▪️2 camouflage coupon for helicopters.
▪️Coupon for the “Firebirds” decal.

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🚀Get the IAR-93B in the Flight of the Vulture Event!

Meet this aircraft event, dedicated to the first Romanian jet fighter — the IAR-93B, jointly developed with Yugoslavia! By participating in air battles to gain points, you’ll be able to get this aircraft, a loading screen dedicated to it, two themed decals and other rewards.

🏪From November 27th (11:00 GMT) until December 11th (11:00 GMT), earn mission points in Air Battles, unlock stages and receive rewards!

🎁Rewards are given when you complete a specific number of stages
For 1 stage: trophy with random reward
For 2 stages: one of the decal rewards
For 3 stages: trophy with random reward
For 4 stages: one of the decal rewards
For 5 stages: trophy with random reward
For 6 stages: “IAR-93B” loading screen
For 7 stages: non-tradable coupon for the IAR-93B

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❗️Introducing War Thunder Wiki 3.0!

The War Thunder Wiki is a fantastic place to learn all the details about vehicles and game mechanics, enhancing your knowledge of War Thunder and military vehicles in general. Today, we’re proud to release Wiki 3.0, coming in with brand-new features and layout that provide a better experience for everyone.

✅A Brand-New, Dynamic Design
✅Upgrades To Vehicle Pages
✅Advanced Search Function
✅Compare Vehicles
✅Get Involved Using Vehicle Ratings
✅Get Involved With Vehicle Articles
✅Creating Made Easier
✅Updated & Customizable Profiles
✅Dark Theme & Full Mobile Support

➡️Head over to Wiki 3.0 here
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🐸It is the last Wednesday of fall, my dudes.

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