I really think we ought to give the devs a big round for this update.
Everything I have looked at so far has just been pure wow factor to the max.
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So after some more time.
DX12 is a fantastic addition to the game. Needs a bit of work but still a massive upgrade to the DX11. Also, with the addition of Ray Tracing so many things has just become so beautiful. Personally, I sit on a I7-10700k and a RTX-3070 : High Graphics preset and medium RT preset and still able to simul stream 1080p @ 60fps while sitting between 75 and 80 frames. Note, I do have my system set to manually limit to 80 FPS.
The addition of being able to build ammo crates has been fantastic, especially in top tier with the FlarakRad. On spawn I place a crate and start sending missiles down range. Super handy when dealing with an evasive KA-52.
Flight performance : Just me or does feel fresh? One thing I have noticed is that I can now actually abuse ground effect and maintain pitch over thrust in ARB instead of it being it a vacuum into the ground.
Vehicles : Have not touched the new ones much and just got the F15E. Overall, a bunch new vehicles to play with either way to be excited about.
Maps : The FX on maps and some of the rework I have seen has been a major improvement over the physics that we used to have.
There are a few issues that I have heard about, but that’s to be expected and they normally do a great job at fixing those. and other than those issues games looked great from what I’ve seen (wont be able to get on till later)
The new profile menu just needed more work. We need to be able to customize what is shown, ie how many nukes you’ve gotten, spaced vehicles, owned vehicles, times in first place in a battle, etc. I know they’re expanding it in the future, but these should have been added before release.
I am a big fan of some of the vehicles, very excited for the PLZ05 and the Dutch Leopards (even if their addition is questionable, I am excited for new top tier vehicles for France (EBRC Jaguar when gaijin???))
Huge ups to Gaijin… I know I complain a lot but that fact I am playing at 140-200 FPS on a 4k monitor, dx12, Temporal Super Resolution, Ultra Quality upscaling, 16x anisotropy, max graphics, max render, and Ultra Raytracing, using a GTX 1080 8GB Aero OC, Ryzen 7 5800x and 32GB of DDR5 is beyond unbelievable as just yesterday I was playing at 90-144 fps on dx11 with medium to high graphics/render and no Raytracing.
Thank you Gaijin, you have struck gold with this one. Whichever individuals developed these changes deserve massive praise and paid vacations.
Gotta agree, Gaijin war thunder optimazations is pure Gold, i don’t even know why there is a minimum, when i first got it with only a i5 10400 and 16GB i was able to play 30fps on medium, i really don’t understand why does minium even exist, What kind of PC uses that? like 14 year old setups? With SLI? What does even uses Minimum?