Community Update No.12: Keeping You Updated On What We’re Working on!

[SilentTracker]

@magazine2

We’re working on the first steps of implementing a better damage model for bomber aircraft. Our ultimate goal here is to make bombers more survivable and therefore more active and enjoyable to play.

Thank God 🙏

@magazine2

We’re continuing to work hard on the Nuclear Escalation mode.

Excellent. This is by far my favorite mode/game type that has ever been in War Thunder 👍

@magazine2

Let us know what you think about these improvements! Overall we believe this design is much better than before, adding more functionality and layout of presets.

HUGE 1+ from me!!! I have maxed out my presets on ALL of my countries 😂 ALL improvements to the preset system is hugely appreciated, thank you Devs!

@StuckOnRock

Please more preset, like way more.

+1 !!!

[Glurae]

air sim getting left out is not even funny its rage inducing

[ThiccoIai]

@magazine2

Map Tool tips

In Air, Ground and Naval battles, a lot of things are going on in the map screen. In regular modes, one thing that was missing though was tooltips, which meant you couldn’t see the exact vehicle that was driving on the map, for example. This is something that was already in Nuclear Escalation. We’ve now added a tooltip button to regular modes that allows you to hover over things when enabled, such as respawn bases and allied vehicles to see exactly what they are.

I used this all the time in Nuke Thunder and didnt even realize it was a new feature lol, glad its coming to other modes now

[Kicimijazawa]

@magazine2

We’ve added horizontal scrolling to the presets list, great if you have loads of presets or play on a smaller resolution.

Finally…

[Leo2A6EX-live]

At this rate never happening

[SilentTracker]

@Mina_Mina

i would really like to see a future update that adds small icons as another easy indicator for these.

You CAN use icons! One moment:

EDIT:

Ok so you can see all the icons/emoji’s you can use in War Thunder here: A comprehensive list of 200+ Unicode characters usable ingame

Will post exact ALT codes for the ones below:

Original Message:

Tanks: ╠ (If this does not work using COPY+PASTE, use ALT code below.)
Tanks ALT Code = ALT+204

Planes: ▓ (If this does not work using COPY+PASTE, use ALT code below.)
Planes ALT Code = ALT+178

Botes: ⛴
Botes ALT Code = Oh looks like this one does not have an ALT Code specifically for War Thunder, just copy and paste into game 👍

And botes:

Will paste the icons, one moment, if you want to copy and use.

[RSS_Defender]

@magazine2

The Israeli aviation tree will receive a much needed boost to its ranks and lineups in this major update. While it’s a little too early to go into the specifics, you can look forward to the first rank IX jet aircraft to be featured in the tree, as well as some other surprises!

PLEASE F15SG

[Smin1080p_WT]

Neither of the F-14Ds will have AIM-120. As we explained in the article, both will have the same loadouts.

[Bergebis]

New assets for Nuclear escalation look great, happy to see stuff along those lines

Any chance we might see new SPAA for the huge gaps in the British and French trees?

[Pipimer]

Weird photo of a Greek Rafale (isn’t it a F-15E?)

[aDSD]

@magazine2

During the last major update we received a lot of feedback from the community regarding the F-14D. As a result of your feedback, we’ll add a researchable variant of the F-14D to the US aviation tree. It’ll be a direct analogue in terms of load outs and performance to the premium variant. This new version will feature some alternative skins compared to the existing F-14D, but will place a researchable version of this iconic American carrier fighter in the US research tree too.

Can this happen to more vehicles than just F-14D?
Like genuinely why are vehicles like Al-Khalid, Type 96B, T-80UD/T-80U-E1 with Leopard 2A4M are even premiums when they would fit gaps and line ups of the tech tree instead of infesting BR range with very “nice” teammates.

[WalletWorrier]

@magazine2

As a result of your feedback, we’ll add a researchable variant of the F-14D to the US aviation tree

Hopefully an F-14D(R) rather than just F-14D with a different skin. Still identical performance and whatnot but at least then it represents a different variant. Better yet, rework the premium as the F-14D(R) and have the F-14D be TT.

[RSS_Defender]

@Pipimer

(isn’t it a F-15E?)

Uh yea kinda, basically asea f15e with f15ex engines

[Mina_Mina]

oh this is great, having a small selection matrix when naming the lineups to choose from would then be the last QoL feature i could think off, that way you can choose if you want it

And it looks better than my quick concept

[Pipimer]

Good enough ro be a 14.3 and rank 9?

[MikeYe1]

Yeah, some clasic ones are supposed to be on techtree, not a premium pack

[ILuvAna_De_Armas]

I’m betting on Greek Rafale too, I think it’s almost obvious.

I think this means Rafale will now face itself.

[Jozef_Mrkvička]

Naval not mentioned

[RSS_Defender]

Yea it a f15, it like f15ge but better engine and have much better cas capacity than 15ge

[Pipimer]

Yea Isreal already has a F-15E I don’t think they will add another one with just better engines