How to play with your console account on PC

Community Technical Support Platform specific issues (PS4, PS5 and Xbox)
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This is the revised version of this short guide thanks to extra info provided by NoRespawnsNeeded-psn

THIS GUIDE IS NOT TO TRANSFER YOUR ACCOUNT. YOU WILL NOT BE ABLE TO ACCESS THE GAJIIN MARKET OR PC SALES. YOU WILL ONLY BE ABLE TO PLAY WITH THE PROGRESS OF YOUR XBOX/PLAYSTATION ACCOUNT ON PC

As a most of you know, Gajiin has had account transfer submissions have been closed since the December 2023. But at the very least, you can play the game with your full progress down to vehicles, currency, and premium time.

If you’ve already linked an email to your console War Thunder account
Then you’re good to go! You can just use your normal login credentials to log into the website for the game, you’re golden.

If you have not linked yet linked an email to your console War Thunder account
Then here’s a quick guide on how

Go to the the main website (warthunder.com) and log into your console account through either the Xbox or Playstation button options on the credential input pop-up.
Once you’re logged in, you’re gonna want to click on the account drop down menu in the top right hand corner and click security settings (where is says your username@live).
From there, the option right in front of your face is to link an email address and the website will guide you from there. If you’ve already linked an email address but forgot it, it’ll also be there as well as on the profile tab.

And that’s that. Install the game through your preferred method of Steam or the War Thunder launcher, and log in.

FAQ (with some I made up lol)

Q: How can I buy vehicle packs? The tab is gone in my game!

A: You will need to purchase them from the Xbox/Playstation store still. Both of them have a website you can go to if you don’t want to boot up your console.

Q: If I need to get vehicle packs from the console store, do I need to do that for Golden Eagles too?

A: You do not. You can purchase GE directly from the Gajiin store still and can even use a content creator code to get their decal and 5% discount still

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Just link your in game account with an email make the password, log in on pc. Done. Simple. Works on both.

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Are you sure? I tried to use my Microsoft email to log in before on Steam and it not working. Or do you mean something else?

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I think they’re meaning to use the gaijin side of things, not steam.

But I just take it that it’s not possible, and that I feel makes the need for the transfers to be opened up again so people can migrate from the consoles to PCs.

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use the email associated with your war thunder account, not your console. you may have used a different email when creating your war thunder account

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Quit using steam for war thunder… it’s stupid. Use the official gaijin download.

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I literally just used it to see if my xbox account could even be logged in. Believe it or not, the Steam version of War Thunder still has a sign in screen and did what I needed just fine.

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Yea it does, just be careful with it.

A common way to use the steam install is to just fire up the launcher itself from the game folder, or by the 3 option prompt that comes up in Steam.

The reason why it actually sucks when you launch it through steam is that the UI in the loading screen is dead on information so it looks like it’s sitting for 10 minutes ‘loading’ when if you were on the native client it loads up showing messages and such.

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I did some testing now that I’m home and see what you mean. It does work so I’ll probably delete this post and make a new one because you’d be surprised just how many people don’t know their console account can at least be played on PC even if you don’t get access to PC sales/market.

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Pray tell why is it “stupid?” It still utilizes the official launcher. I’ve never had any issues and I’ve been using the launcher via Steam for years. Like 11 years.

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Nah it doesn’t… It uses no launcher when you launch it through steam.

You can select to run the launcher but when you don’t run the launcher and run it directly from steam, the UI doesn’t show half the messages you get when you start up in the vanilla client and it makes it look like it stalled and isn’t loading.

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Well then that’s cool, because you are indeed wrong.

When you launch the game via steam it doesn’t use the launcher and load screens in the initial startup aren’t shown as what they are in the native client.

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Anyone knows if it possible to activate the Premium packs with This Method? I Only have a Xbox one and with the old Machine it takes ages to Update WT and start into the Game

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Yes, but you need to purchase the packs through the Xbox store. Conveniently they have some pack sales going on rn just in classic Xbox sales fashion, they’re seemingly random packs.

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