Can the Dev server work on a Mac?

Dev Server "Hornet's Sting" General Discussion - Dev Server
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I read somewhere you can access the dev server for Mac, but when I download it looks like it is just for Windows? Any truth to whether the server is only available for PC?

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Hello,

Right now there is no “Official” way however the old manual method should work on Mac and Linux.

Make a copy of your WarThunder folder, Then in your new WarThunder folder open the config.blk file in a text editor and add this line to the “yunetwork{}” section:

isExpertMode:b=yes

Then launch the launcher, Click on the little wrench icon in the top right and select “Dev” from the “Server” drop down menu at the top. It will then restart and should download the Dev server files.

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Thanks, I will try that. Not sure exactly if I will be successful. I haven’t ever tried to mess with my mac in text editor before.

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I access the dev server this way on my Macs and Linux machines. Works.

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Tried it but after selecting the dev option on the launcher the launcher should restart and downaload the dev server files, instead the launcher doesn’t open and remains “not responding”. I don’t know if I can bug report this since dev server on macOS is not official anyway.

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If you edit this line in your config.blk file back to “Production” does your launcher work again?

curCircuit:t="production"
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Yes, luckily I had made a copy of the game before doing it so I could still play, but yes doing this restores the launcher normally. Thinking more about it I had this dev server launcher bug even one year ago in the alpha strike update (which was the last time I tried to use the dev server on my MacBook before today).

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Right, If you make a copy of your config.blk file, Delete it, Start the launcher so it creates a new one, Close the launcher, Edit the new config.blk file and this line:

isExpertMode:b=yes

Does the same issue occur if you then try and change to Dev?

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Ehm… i deleted the config.blk from the copied war thunder and when I opened to let it create a new one it automatically started downloading the dev server… it is currently downloading the dev server and in config.blk there’s only

yunetwork{
  isExpertMode:b=yes
}

…so I guess it works, thank you very much for the help!

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For future reference/google visitors, I have also changed

curCircuit:t="production"

to

curCircuit:t="dev"

and had usable results. I always make a second copy of the game client/all files before dev server opens, though. Just no sense in blowing away your working game install if you make a mistake.

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Right, Glad to hear that fixed it for you. :)

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