🤕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.

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🐸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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🛍Black Friday in War Thunder!

Special black friday bundle and separate packs with discount!

🏪From November 27th 11:00 UTC to December 4th 11:00 UTC

⬛️“Black Friday” Bundle - 50%

The Kit Includes:
🔹Black Shark Pack
🔹M18 “Black Cat” Pack
🔹A43 Black Prince Pack
🔹P-61A-11 Black Widow Pack
🔹Unique title: Pitch Black

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The packs included in this bundle will also be available separately with a 30% discount!
▪️Black Shark Pack
▪️M18 “Black Cat” Pack
▪️A43 Black Prince Pack
▪️P-61A-11 Black Widow Pack

🛍Store

The final price of the bundle will depend on whether you already have some of the vehicles or not. Be sure to login to the store to see your individual price!

Players on all platforms who already own all vehicles from the bundle can earn the “Pitch Black” title by playing 3 battles with either vehicle before December 4th.

The offer is valid for PC, Mac and Linux users only. PlayStation and Xbox users will be able to purchase a similar bundle in respective stores.

🚀Flight of the Vulture: IAR-93B

The IAR-93B is a Romanian attack aircraft and is the main reward in the Flight of the Vulture aircraft event that started today!

🇷🇴🇮🇹IAR-93B Vultur: An Event Vehicle Attack Aircraft for Italy at Rank VI

At a glance:
▪️Ballistic computer for bombs and rockets!
▪️Radar Warning Receiver (RWR).
▪️Close combat air-to-air missiles.
▪️Easy to control.
▪️No countermeasures.

Introducing the IAR-93B!
Meet the distinctive Romanian IAR-93B Vultur (Romanian for “vulture”) attack aircraft that’s the main reward in the Flight of the Vulture event! This subsonic aircraft features a good payload for ground battles and can also hold up decently in air battles. Let’s have a closer look!