[Fair Play] Fair Play: January 2026

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We keep fighting cheaters using your reports and the BattlEye anti-cheat system, and as usual, today we’re sharing a bit of info on bans that we’ve distributed over the past month. If you’d like to help keep War Thunder free from cheating, you can find out how to file a report and how our anti-cheat system works on our Wiki.

Banned accounts

Since our last fair play, we’ve banned 8320 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 banned players. This list will be available for two weeks after the publication of this article.

Additionally, 174 accounts have been banned for a week or longer for intentional teamkilling, ramming and griefing.

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.

We’d also suggest that you turn on 2FA for the email that is linked to your Gaijin account for additional security, as this will protect your account from fraudsters. And remember, don’t use prohibited client modifications and never share your account information with anyone.

The War Thunder Team

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ok good

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dahliabunni-popcorn

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a man wearing a petronas shirt is sitting on a couch

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It is a little concerning that well over half this list (4,000+) are NRB naval bots, to the degree policing NRB now is increasingly Gaijin’s focus to the exclusion of other forms of cheating in other modes, if that’s the case.

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Glad to see the 8 people i reported actually banned lol

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To bad the next batch of Type 1924 / Raubtier class Torpedo Boat Leopards & Luchs (or as gaijins internal servers call them Iltis, WHY?? is that even a thing) bots will be back in force in around twelve hours from now, as per all other past ban waves.

One day I dream of playing the 2.7 - 4.7 region of RB NF without the dreaded botting scum that we must deal with daily.

Still keep it up developers.

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bye bye cheaters never come back :D

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One day i dream of being able to use my gay archer to its full extent after getting it idk how many months if not years ago without being botted out of hell by Mr. 15487153487 with his botting script

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Guess someone who got banned is preparing for an last strike (atleast the Login Server is dead…)

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They startled the chinese and russian farming bots, they are now deploying a DDOS trust

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Good to see a bunch of those naval farming bots getting nuked, keep it up!

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i wonder does gajin do hardware banned?
hardware banned would be very good thing to stop these b#ts !!
i see ton and ton of these in naval but they keep coming back !
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Calling them “players” in the OP is kinda sad tbh.

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God so many of them are just random number/letter bots.
Feel like if an account gets created with “d41h2178o” as a name it should get silently auto put on a watch list.

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They dont hardware ban

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Or if they just temp-banned any new players who played for 48 hours/200 games straight upon account creation in bluewater reserve boats in NRB they’d catch most of them, would be better for players.

Like if you just created the account and then you play 100 straight games without interruption for 24 hours… maybe you’re not a human? Or Gaijin would be doing a favor by giving you a timeout?

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