War Thunder
War Thunder is an MMO combat game dedicated to World War II military aviation, armored vehicles, and fleets. In War Thunder, players can pilot a multitude of aircraft from a variety of nations including the U.S, Germany, Soviet Union, Japan and more. Players are able to unlock new aircraft over-time each with different handling characteristics, weapons and accurately detailed cockpits.
War Thunder offers newbies and experience players a full range of control options including joystick support, in order to best suit their preferences. Players can engage in both PvE and PvP scenarios where they must work together with other players to complete one or several key objectives. These objectives range from killing other players to destroying mobile tanks and AA installations.
War Thunder gives players access to several aircraft to use each match, with different plane types that provide new ways to play within matches. Bombers allows players to fly to extreme heights in the games gigantic maps. These heights give the bomber the ability to rain down various types of bombs onto key objectives. They are much more effective at taking out ground installations then fighters and come equipped with extra directional machine guns to protect their flanks./p>
Players will spend points accrued after every match on vehicle repairs and refilling ammo but these costs overall seem low. Players can improve their plane's performance in specific areas by spending crew points earned by piloting one aircraft for a long period of time.
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Additional Information
Latest Updates
Five of them were major.
1 week agoThe update also includes the “most modern French-produced fighter jet in the game”.
3 weeks agoWar Thunder Ups Their Graphics Game With Mass Ray Tracing Upgrades As Part Of The "Firebirds" Update
Of course, the update adds more vehicles, too.
1 month agoMinimum System Requirements (Windows)
Windows XP SP2, Windows Vista SP1, Windows 7, Windows 8
Memory1 GB RAM
Storage3 GB available space
2.2 GHz
GraphicsRadeon X26XX / GeForce 7800 GT
Additional NotesSpecifications may change during development
Windows:
MINIMUM:
OS: Windows 7 SP1/8/10 (64bit)
Processor: Dual-Core 2.2 GHz
Memory: 4 GB RAM
Graphics: DirectX 10.1 level video card: AMD Radeon 77XX / NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660. The minimum supported resolution for the game is 720p.
DirectX: Version 11
Network: Broadband Internet connection
Storage: 17 GB available space
RECOMMENDED:
OS: Windows 10/11 (64bit)
Processor: Intel Core i5 or Ryzen 5 3600 or better
Memory: 16 GB RAM
Graphics: DirectX 11 level video card or higher and drivers: Nvidia GeForce 1060 and higher, Radeon RX 570 and higher
DirectX: Version 12
Network: Broadband Internet connection
Storage: 95 GB available space
macOS:
MINIMUM:
OS: Catalina 10.15
Processor: Core i5, minimum 2.2GHz (Intel Xeon is not supported)
Memory: 6 GB RAM
Graphics: Intel Iris Pro 5200 (Mac), or analog from AMD/Nvidia for Mac. Minimum supported resolution for the game is 720p with Metal support
Network: Broadband Internet connection
Storage: 17 GB available space
RECOMMENDED:
OS: OS Big Sur v. 10.16 or newer
Processor: Intel Core i7 (Xeon processors not supported)
Memory: 8 GB RAM
Graphics: Radeon Vega II or higher with Metal support
Network: Broadband Internet connection
Storage: 95 GB available space
SteamOS + Linux:
MINIMUM:
OS: Most modern 64bit Linux distributions
Processor: Dual-Core 2.4 GHz
Memory: 4 GB RAM
Graphics: NVIDIA 660 with latest proprietary drivers (not older than 6 months) / similar AMD with latest proprietary drivers (not older than 6 months; the minimum supported resolution for the game is 720p) with Vulkan support.
Network: Broadband Internet connection
Storage: 17 GB available space
RECOMMENDED:
OS: Ubuntu 20.04 64bit
Processor: Intel Core i7
Memory: 16 GB RAM
Graphics: NVIDIA 1060 with latest proprietary drivers (not older than 6 months) / similar AMD (Radeon RX 570) with latest proprietary drivers (not older than 6 months) with Vulkan support.
Network: Broadband Internet connection
Storage: 95 GB available space
That's it.
The design crew and most of the devoted players are geeks for the historical hardware, so when the players complain, there's almost always a coherent response.
Addition to that WT has great community compered to WoT. While playing WoT, you can see lots of players swearing here and there but WT players are generally more mature and respectful.
I played both WT and WoT for long time. First started with WoT then switched to WT for compere both games. After few days of WT test, I decided to leave WoT permanently. I am still a WT player after there years.
Premium tanks are not OP. Some Premium tanks/planes have some advanages and disanvantages compered to standart tanks/planes but they are not OP, Gaijin doing a great job to balance the game as much as possible. Most Premium tanks/planes only usefull because of their extra rewards.
You don't need to spent real money to be a succesful tanker/pilot in this game, spending money here and there just reduce grinding and turn your planes/tanks more eye candy. Money or any Premium tank/plane can't make you a good tanker/pilot in WT. You have to be a good driver, shooter, smart tactician and a team player if you want to be in a high ranked player list,. Ohh and, for free players, grinding are much lower than WoT by the way.
-09.11.2016-
WT is currently available only online historical tank/plane simulation game which equally respects free and paid players.
9/10- Must have if your rig can handle the WT.
Why 9? Because WT requires a stronger PC setup compered to WoT. That is only negative point I can give to this game.
Have fun.
Graphics-5 star
Story plot-0 star-No theme, just planes, Not even directed at a particular era
Popularity based on User Accounts-2 Star-This game has been advertised all over the web.
Any game that needs to advertise that much appears desperate, and based on User Accounts that remain active vs 2 years ago, they are.
Minimal system requirements
CPU: 2,2 GHz
RAM: 1 Gb
Videocard: Nvidia GeForce 7XXX series or higher; AMD Radeon 1XXX series or higher
Free space: 8 Gb
OS: Windows XP SP2, Windows Vista SP1, Windows 7
Recommended system requirements:
CPU: dual-core 2,4 GHz
RAM: 4 Gb
Videocard: Nvidia GeForce 460 or higher
Free space: 8 Gb
OS: Windows XP SP2, Windows Vista SP1, Windows 7
3/10
what system requirements make this game work in good and smooth but there is no sys req for this game till now lol
Lowest settings with 50 fps...
So it doesnt require a lot...
Im not sure about everything else though
Runs no prob. On my mbp with a 330gt m
I myself, play it.
having trouble posting comments with links
Anyway, I really enjoy this game for the most part. The only beef I have with it is the unbalance between certain nations. For example, the 20mm machine gun on a British plane seems to do far less damage than its German or Russian counterparts. I don't know if its due to my skill level (which I think its average :D), but it just seems like I'm able to down someone a lot quicker with German weaponry.
~SuicidalSnorlax
p.s. Que-times are long :P.. I guess that expected because it's beta