War Thunder
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Although this product has been released, it remains under active development - information may change frequently and could be outdated or irrelevant.
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| Developers | |
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| Gaijin Entertainment | |
| Engines | |
| Dagor Engine v6.5 | |
| Release dates | |
| Windows | December 21, 2016 |
| macOS (OS X) | December 21, 2016 |
| Linux | December 21, 2016 |
| Reception | |
| Metacritic | 81 |
| IGDB | 65 |
| Taxonomy | |
| Monetization | DLC, Free-to-play |
| Modes | Singleplayer, Multiplayer |
| Pacing | Real-time |
| Perspectives | Third-person |
| Controls | Direct control |
| Genres | Action, Simulation |
| Vehicles | Flight, Tank |
| Art styles | Realistic |
| Themes | World War II |
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Warnings
- This game requires a constant internet connection for all game modes.
War Thunder is a singleplayer and multiplayer third-person action and simulation game.
Key points
- Cross-platform play with Xbox One and PlayStation 4 players.
General information
Availability
| Source | DRM | Notes | Keys | OS |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Official website | |
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| Steam | |
Can be launched directly from executable. | |
- All versions require a a constant internet connection for all game modes.
Monetization
| Type | Notes |
|---|---|
| Free-to-play | No upfront purchase is required |
| Subscription | Premium account that allows players to earn more in game currency and XP at an increased rate. Also allows for configuration of camouflage condition on tanks and more slots for decals on all vehicles. |
Microtransactions
| Type | Notes |
|---|---|
| Boost | Premium account |
| Cosmetic | Decals, skins (camouflages), 3d decorators |
| Currency | "Golden Eagles" premium currency. Used to be available for free though "wagers", now only through extremely rare login rewards |
| Free-to-grind | All non-premium vehicles can be obtained without paying |
| Infinite spend | Contains loot boxes and can have infinite amounts of rewards from loot boxes in the players inventory |
| Loot box | Two types, one in game with a guaranteed limit to get the box's main prize. Another on the player market that rewards tradable items |
| Player trading | Items from loot boxes traded on trade.gaijin.net |
| Time-limited | Seasonal events with rewards that can be traded |
| Unlock | Paid only vehicles |
DLC and expansion packs
| Name | Notes | |
|---|---|---|
| Steam Pack | |
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| Mustang Advanced Pack | |
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| Dora Advanced Pack | |
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| Ace Advanced Pack | |
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| Melting Snowflake | |
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| Frosty Snowflake | |
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| Refulgent Snowflake | |
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| Sparkling Snowflake | |
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| Shining Snowflake | |
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| Perfect Snowflake | |
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| SdKfz 140/1 and T-26E Starter Pack | |
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| Shielded T-34E Advanced Pack | |
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| T-34 Prototype Starter Pack | |
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| M4A2 Sherman Starter Pack | |
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| Tank Destroyers Advanced Pack | |
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| Fire and Maneuver Advanced Pack | |
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| Grant I Advanced Pack | |
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| Dora Advanced Pack | |
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| Defenders Advanced Pack | |
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| Alienware Bundle Pack | |
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| T-34-85E Advanced Pack | |
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| Ray Wetmore`s P-51D-10 Advanced Pack | |
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| Spitfire FR Mk.XIVe Advanced Pack | |
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| M5A1 Starter Pack | |
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| Red Fury Advanced Pack | |
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| Desert Rats Pack | |
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| Panzer Pack | |
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| US Combined Forces | |
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| Royal Combined Forces | |
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| Kliment Voroshilov Pack | |
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| Plagis' Spitfire LF Mk. IX | |
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| T29 Pack | |
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| Guards T-34 Pack | |
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| Ray Wetmore`s P-51D-10 Pack | |
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| Black Prince Pack | |
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| Hunter Pack | |
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| T-34-85E, 1945 Pack | |
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| M18 Black Cat Pack | |
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| Sergei Dolgushin's La-7 Pack | |
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| US Starter Pack | |
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| USSR Starter Pack | |
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| German Starter Pack | |
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| Huey Hog Pack | |
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| Haida Pack | |
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| British Beginner's Pack | |
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| Japanese Beginner's Pack | |
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| Air Forces, Vol.1 (Original Game Soundtrack) | |
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| Ground Forces, Vol.1 (Original Game Soundtrack) | |
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| Naval Forces, Vol.1 (Original Game Soundtrack) | |
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| XM-1 General Motors Pack | |
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| Apache Pack | |
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| Leopard Pack | |
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| T-55AM-1 Pack | |
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| USA Pacific Campaign | |
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| Japanese Pacific Campaign | |
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| Italian Starter Pack | |
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| Japanese Starter Pack | |
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| British Starter Pack | |
Game data
Configuration file(s) location
| System | Location |
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| Windows | <path-to-game>\config.blk[Note 1] %USERPROFILE%\Documents\My Games\WarThunder\Saves\ |
| macOS (OS X) | |
| Linux | $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/WarThunder/Saves/<user-id> |
- It's unknown whether this game follows the XDG Base Directory Specification on Linux. Please fill in this information.
Save game cloud syncing
| System | Native | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Steam Cloud |
Video
Launcher settings.
In-game video settings.
| Graphics feature | State | WSGF | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Widescreen resolution | |||
| Multi-monitor | |||
| Ultra-widescreen | [1] | ||
| 4K Ultra HD | |||
| Field of view (FOV) | Adjusted ingame "on the fly" usually by the scroll wheel or key bindings. | ||
| Windowed | |||
| Borderless fullscreen windowed | Set Full window in launcher. | ||
| Anisotropic filtering (AF) | Up to 16 samples. | ||
| Anti-aliasing (AA) | FXAA (FXAA or HQ FXAA) and TAA or SSAA 4x via launcher and DLSS via in-game options. | ||
| Vertical sync (Vsync) | On/Off and Adaptive. | ||
| 60 FPS and 120+ FPS | |||
| High dynamic range display (HDR) | Since 1.95 update. | ||
| Ray tracing (RT) | Ray Traced Global Illumination since 1.95 update (RTX GPU is not required). | ||
| Color blind mode | |||
Input
| Keyboard and mouse | State | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Remapping | includes many types of control "levels": mouse aim, simplified, realistic, and full aircraft controls | |
| Mouse acceleration | ||
| Mouse sensitivity | ||
| Mouse input in menus | ||
| Mouse Y-axis inversion | ||
| Controller | ||
| Controller support | ||
| Full controller support | ||
| Controller remapping | Remappable and has many default setups for different controllers and flight sticks. | |
| Controller sensitivity | ||
| Controller Y-axis inversion |
| Controller types |
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| XInput-compatible controllers | ||
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| Xbox button prompts | ||
| Impulse Trigger vibration |
| DualShock 4 controllers | Supported as directInput controller. | |
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| DualShock button prompts | ||
| Light bar support | ||
| Connection modes | unknown | |
| Tracked motion controllers |
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| Generic/other controllers | Game is supporting directInput controllers. | |
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| Button prompts |
| Additional information | ||
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| Controller hotplugging | Game is offer to setup new controller through pop-up menu. | |
| Haptic feedback | ||
| Simultaneous controller+KB/M |
- The game can send telemetry data to supported software and devices through the shared memory protocol.
Audio
Sound settings.
| Audio feature | State | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Separate volume controls | ||
| Surround sound | 5.1 and 7.1 options | |
| Subtitles | ||
| Closed captions | ||
| Mute on focus lost | ||
| Royalty free audio |
Localizations
Language settings.
| Language | UI | Audio | Sub | Notes |
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| English | ||||
| Belarusian | ||||
| Simplified Chinese | ||||
| Traditional Chinese | ||||
| Czech | ||||
| French | ||||
| German | ||||
| Hungarian | ||||
| Italian | ||||
| Japanese | ||||
| Korean | ||||
| Polish | ||||
| Brazilian Portuguese | ||||
| Romanian | ||||
| Russian | ||||
| Serbian | ||||
| Spanish | ||||
| Turkish | ||||
| Ukrainian |
Network
Multiplayer types
| Type | Native | Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Local play | Use Nucleus-Coop Unofficial mod. | ||
| LAN play | |||
| Online play | Supports crossplay with Xbox One and PS4. Cannot play with both consoles at same time. | ||
Connection types
| Type | Native | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Matchmaking | Matchmaker chooses teams based on Battle Ranking of top 3 vehicles for each player. Player skills or their personal statistics are not taken into account. | |
| Peer-to-peer | Launcher uses Peer to Peer connection for downloading and updating the game (optional, turned on by default). Game itself doesn't use P2P connections. | |
| Dedicated | ||
| Self-hosting | ||
| Direct IP | Matches can only be joined by searching for the hosting player's name.[2] |
Ports
| Protocol | Port(s) and/or port range(s) |
|---|---|
| TCP | 80, 443, 5222, 6881, 8090, 7850-7854, 7800-7802, 27022-27042[3] |
| UDP | 20010-20500, 3478-3480[3] |
- Universal Plug and Play (UPnP) support status is unknown.
VR support
| 3D modes | State | Notes | |
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| Nvidia 3D Vision | See Helix Mod: War thunder (tank only) or Helix Mod: War Thunder 3D fix W.I.P v1.0.0. | ||
| Headsets | |||
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| SteamVR | [4] | ||
| Oculus VR (LibOVR) | Preliminary support. Enable in launcher. | ||
| Windows Mixed Reality | This game might be playable with the Revive Compatibility Layer, or Windows Mixed Reality for SteamVR. | ||
| OSVR | |||
| Devices | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Tracked motion controllers | |||
| Traditional controller | See Input for details. | ||
| Keyboard/Mouse | |||
| TrackIR | Supports: Yaw, Pitch, X, Y, Z. | ||
| Play area | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Seated | |||
| Standing | |||
| Room-scale | |||
Other information
API
| Technical specs | Supported | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Direct3D | 10.1, 11, 12 | |
| Vulkan | 1.1 | Default on Linux build |
| Shader Model support | 4.0, 5.0 |
| Executable | 32-bit | 64-bit | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Windows | SSE 4.1 is now optional for 64 bit version | ||
| macOS (OS X) | |||
| Linux |
Middleware
| Middleware | Notes | |
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| Anti-cheat | Easy Anti-Cheat | [5] |
System requirements
| Windows | ||
|---|---|---|
| Minimum[6] | Recommended | |
| Operating system (OS) | 7 SP1/8/10 | 10 |
| Processor (CPU) | Dual-Core 2.2 GHz | Intel Core i5 or Ryzen 5 3600 or better |
| System memory (RAM) | 4 GB | 16 GB |
| Hard disk drive (HDD) | 17 GB | 95 GB |
| Video card (GPU) | AMD Radeon 77XX NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 DirectX 11 compatible | Nvidia GeForce 1060 and higher Radeon RX 570 and higher DirectX 12 compatible |
| macOS (OS X) | ||
|---|---|---|
| Minimum[6] | Recommended | |
| Operating system (OS) | Catalina 10.15 | 10.15 |
| Processor (CPU) | Intel Core i7 | |
| System memory (RAM) | 4 GB | 16 GB |
| Hard disk drive (HDD) | 15 GB | 30 GB |
| Video card (GPU) | ATI Radeon HD 5550 Nvidia GeForce 8800 Intel HD 4000 | Radeon Vega II or higher |
- Xeon processors not supported
| Linux | ||
|---|---|---|
| Minimum[6] | Recommended | |
| Operating system (OS) | Most modern 64-bit Linux distributions, SteamOS | Ubuntu 14.04 64-bit, SteamOS |
| Processor (CPU) | Dual-Core 2.4 GHz | Intel Core i7 |
| System memory (RAM) | 4 GB | 16 GB |
| Hard disk drive (HDD) | 15 GB | 30 GB |
| Video card (GPU) | Nvidia GeForce GTX 660 | Nvidia GeForce 1060 Radeon RX 560 |
- A 64-bit operating system is required.
Notes
- ↑ When running this game without elevated privileges (Run as administrator option), write operations against a location below
%PROGRAMFILES%,%PROGRAMDATA%, or%WINDIR%might be redirected to%LOCALAPPDATA%\VirtualStoreon Windows Vista and later (more details).
References
- ↑ War Thunder 21:9 gameplay (2560x1080) (60fps) (Ultrawide) - YouTube - last accessed on May 2023
- ↑ Hosting - Missions and Maps - War Thunder - Official Forum - last accessed on May 2023
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 "War Thunder" game ports
- ↑ smokeyboogs49 comments on War Thunder now officially supports the HTC Vive - last accessed on 2016-09-25
- ↑ Appeal An Easy Anti-Cheat Decision - last accessed on 2021-09-28
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 War Thunder - Next-Gen MMO Combat Game for PC, Mac, Linux and PlayStation®4 - Play for free now! - About the Game - last accessed on 2016-09-25