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,...
Playing on Xbox? Then keep an eye out, as we've teamed up with Microsoft to launch a raffle for unique War Thunder Xbox controllers! To participate, just look out for the War Thunder promotional banner on your console, click it and follow the instructions!
Main prize per participating country (US, Germany, United Kingdom)
5 custom-designed “War Thunder” Xbox Wireless Controllers
100 Coupon codes
The prizewinners will be notified by Microsoft by email.
Good luck to you all!
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...
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...
Today we’ll be going through some more new features and improvements coming to War Thunder in the Firebirds major update!
Improvements To Custom Sights
In the Firebirds major update, we’re expanding the functionality available in the “Sight settings” menu. It’s now possible to add the name of the shell you’re using to the sight and configure it in the same way as other elements can be within custom sights. You can move it to wherever you want, change the text and background color...
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The Pz.Sfl.Ic and the Panzer IV/70(A) are temporarily available for Golden Eagles!
Both vehicles are temporarily available for 1,000 and 2,980 Golden Eagles respectively.
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