Name | War Thunder | ||
Developer | Gaijin Entertainment | ||
Publisher | Gaijin Entertainment | ||
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Release | 2013-08-15 | ||
Steam | € £ $ / % | ||
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Controls | Keyboard Mouse Partial Controller Support | ||
Players online | 62636 | ||
Steam Rating | Mostly Positive | ||
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Peak CCU Yesterday |
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Owners | 10,000,000 .. 20,000,000 +/- | ||
Players - Since release | +/- | ||
Players - Last 2 weeks | +/- | ||
Average playtime (forever) | 2464 | ||
Average playtime (last 2 weeks) | 329 | ||
Median playtime (forever) | 243 | ||
Median playtime (last 2 weeks) | 288 | ||
| Public Linux depots | War Thunder Linux [48.49 M] War Thunder Content [32.31 G] War Thunder - Ground Forces High-res Texture Pack (1945840) Depot [29.53 G] War Thunder - Air Forces High-res Texture Pack (1945841) Depot [19.32 G] War Thunder - Environment High-res Texture Pack (1945930) Depot [5.42 G] | ||
| DLC | War Thunder - Plagis' Spitfire LF Mk. IX War Thunder - T29 Pack War Thunder - Guards T-34 Pack War Thunder - Ray Wetmore`s P-51D-10 Pack War Thunder - Black Prince Pack War Thunder - T-34-85E, 1945 Pack War Thunder - M18 Black Cat Pack War Thunder - Sergei Dolgushin's La-7 Pack War Thunder - US Beginner's Pack War Thunder - USSR Beginner's Pack War Thunder - German Beginner's Pack War Thunder - Huey Hog Pack War Thunder - Haida Pack War Thunder - British Beginner's Pack War Thunder - Japanese Beginner's Pack War Thunder - XM-1 General Motors Pack War Thunder - Apache Pack War Thunder - Leopard Pack War Thunder - T-55AM-1 Pack War Thunder - USA Pacific Campaign War Thunder - Japanese Pacific Campaign War Thunder - Italian Starter Pack War Thunder - Japanese Starter Pack War Thunder - British Starter Pack War Thunder - USA Pacific Campaign (YP-38) War Thunder - French Starter Pack War Thunder - Black Friday 2022 Pack War Thunder - T-72AV (TURMS-T) Pack War Thunder - Black Shark Pack War Thunder - German Fiat G.91 R/4 Pack War Thunder - Reaper Pack War Thunder - Rooikat 105 pack War Thunder - Swedish Starter Pack War Thunder - F-5C Pack War Thunder - Su-7BMK Pack War Thunder - MiG-21 SPS-K Pack | ||
In Rankings Challenge, each participant will receive a preset collection of upgraded vehicles and an experienced crew that will allow the players to prove whos stronger on an equal footing. Parity will also be enforced by the same limit of battles per day for each player, a realistic battle mode with markers, and small difference margin of battle rating of your competitors that youll be able to meet in the battles. Rankings Challenge will be open three times a day so that the players from different time zones will be able to pick a comfortable time. Before the matches which results will be entered into the leaderboards, the players will be able to participate in practice battles. They are completely identical to the competitive matches and will allow the players to test out the vehicles before important battles. The timetables for practice and rating matches will be available at the webpage of each competition.  A single competition will usually take place over 2 or 3 days. However, each following day of the competition the players may be offered vehicles of a different country, and each following week, the vehicles rank may be changed. To view the rating battle cards, click the corresponding button in the main menu, then pick any competition available at the moment or press Participate to sign up for future matches. [h2]Testing the Rankings Challenge [/h2] From September 6th till September 10th join the testing of the Rankings Challenge. In this test mode four competitions will be available two for each competition type: Aircraft 1v1 and Ground vehicles 2v2. Squads can participate in the 2v2 battles, with the squads rating being determined by the highest rating of two players. The number of matches that will take place simultaneously will be limited. As such, in case of a large number of participants, waiting in queues may occur. [h3]Wings of Prey 1 (Rank II)[/h3] From September 6th until September 8th. Day 1: Bf 109F-1 (Germany) Day 2: Yak-1B (USSR) [h3]Wings of Prey 2 (Rank IV)[/h3] From September 8th until September 10th. Day 1: Spitfire F Mk.XIVe (Britain) Day 2: P-51D-30 (USA) [h3]Shoulder to Shoulder 1 (Rank IV)[/h3] From September 6th until September 8th. Day 1: Char 25t (France) Day 2: T-44 (USSR) [h3]Shoulder to Shoulder 2 (Rank VI)[/h3] From September 8th until September 10th. Day 1: XM-803 (USA) Day 2: Type 74 (E) (Japan) Aircraft battles will take place on the Gladiators mission which many virtual pilots should be familiar with, and will consist of several rounds. Ground vehicles will compete on the following missions: [Conquest 4] Advance to the Rhine, [Conquest 2] Sinai or [Conquest 1] Normandy with 3 respawns per player. [h2]Rewards[/h2] Sport camouflages, vehicles with unique camouflages, player icons, decals, and titles all of these awards will be available in the future seasons of Rankings Challenge. For our test run weve prepared trophies and a title!
[h2]Further plans[/h2] We plan to regularly hold new seasons of Rankings Challenge with a duration of a month or more for all types of vehicles and all nations in War Thunder. Apart from the listed formats in the future there may be Special, like races or free deathmatch modes. Some competitions of the Rankings Challenge may become qualifications for larger competitions based on the existing tournament service. Such competitions will likely be held mid-seasons with streams and activities for the viewers. Participants of the competitions, please leave your feedback in the special topic on the forum! |
