We’re constantly working on removing cheaters from War Thunder. We rely on anti-cheat systems to check for prohibited software usage, as well as on reports from players that we carefully go through. You can use the replay service on our website to report players to us who have violated the Terms of Service and the License Agreement of the game.
Banned accounts
Since our last fair play, we’ve blocked 7,106 accounts that were found to have violated the rules. Specifically 3.2.3 of the EULA namely in the automation of gameplay (using bots) and cheat software.
For complete transparency, we’re publishing the full list of these blocked players. This list will be available for two weeks after the publication of this article.
Recommendations
We recommend that you set a strong password for your account and enable two-step authentication in your profile security settings. We have the following 2FA options available: email, SMS, TOTP (Gaijin Pass/Google Authenticator), and Telegram bot, which we suggest trying if SMS 2FA messages are not reaching you.
We’d also suggest that you turn on 2FA for the email that is linked to your account for additional security. This will protect your account from fraudsters. And remember, don’t use forbidden client modifications and never share your account information with anyone!
It’s the same for all games.
“Yes, I’m banned, I didn’t do anything”
And after 15 minutes of investigation you realize that the guy has a cheat software for another game (or WT) and then radio silence lol
This War Thunder software tells me that I have researched a module on a premium I don’t even own. If it makes such errors, why should the anti cheat work any better?
Ok, now to be “fair” post the ratios of actual “valid” bans to all the false positives you can find and let’s see how often it actually happens.
“Fear mongering” is used to sell newspapers and get tv ratings and views, it has no place in this game or it’s Forum . . . . seems like to me anyway
The largest problem (and to be clear I suspect we’re probably talking in the dozens at most, out of 68k+ bans this year) has been players who truthfully reported their hack to customer support, got their problem resolved, but later on picked up a ban anyway until it was resolved, again, because apparently the ban and account support offices weren’t cross checking their lists. Hopefully that’s been fixed now. If you do report a possible hack attempt, document document document, though.
