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War Thunder

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Game details

  • Description Large-scale MMO combining realistic and accessible vehicular combat across air, land, and sea, letting players pilot thousands of historical and modern aircraft, tanks, and ships in coordinated PvP and PvE battles.
  • Genre Simulation, Vehicular Combat, Flight, World War II, Tanks, Naval Combat
  • Developer Gaijin Entertainment
  • Publisher Gaijin Network Ltd
  • Release Date Aug 15, 2013
  • Free to Play Yes

Latest updates

Update 2.59.0.68

Other

  • Native support for ARM CPUs has been added to the Windows version of the game.
  • A bug that caused the game to crash on PlayStation 5 Pro with ray tracing enabled has been fixed. Locations and Missions
  • Hürtgen (all missions), Grave Robbers’ Cliffs — these have been temporarily removed from the Air Battles rotation pending a bug fix. ...

Update 2.59.0.65

Sound

  • A bug that caused the Indonesian crew voice over to not play and instead be swapped to a default one has been fixed. Locations and Missions
  • [Air Superiority] Mozdok — an issue where the southern team’s spawn point was shifted north into the capture zone has been fixed. Report. The mission has been returned to the Air Arcade Battles rotation. ...

Update 2.59.0.62

Sound

  • Now, when opening the aircraft or helicopter cockpit in flight, the sound of the rushing airflow will drown out all sounds, such as engines and missiles. Previously, this was controlled by the player’s engine volume slider.
  • The Indonesian ground vehicle crews have received their own voice over.
  • Harimau — the engine sound has been replaced with a better fitting one. Locations and Missions ...

Server Update 09.10.2026

Ground Vehicles

  • Leopard 2A4 (all variants), Leopard 2A5 (all variants), Leopard 2A6 (all variants), Type 90 (all variants), Strv 121 (all variants), Strv 122 (all variants), Leopard 2A7 (all variants), EMBT (all variants), Vickers Mk.7, ItPsV Leopard — the slowed-down neutral turn that occurred after testing the regenerative steering mechanic has been fixed. Report. The regenerative steering mechanic itself will be brought...

Update 2.59.0.59

Aircraft

  • H8K2, H8K3 — an issue preventing the wing-root turrets from firing has been fixed. Report. Nuclear Escalation
  • An issue where SAM systems positioned on high ground would not engage targets flying over water at an altitude lower than the SAM site itself has been fixed.
  • An issue where SAM systems might incorrectly assign low priority to certain targets has been fixed. ...

Update 2.59.0.54

Aircraft

  • Bomber Damage Model: Collision damage between aircraft has been increased. Previously collisions resulted in insufficient damage of wings and tail and didn’t lead to their separation. HE shell fragments and small-caliber machine-gun fire now penetrate the skin of the aircraft better and deal damage to the internal modules. ...