How to properly report a bug?

I got two session numbers where the bug is easily visible and occurs several times over. But not really any way to add them as files to the bug report? Nowhere to add the links/session ids.

You can add the links to the server replays as text in the main report description window. If you mean the client replays then you can upload those in the “additional files” section. What files are needed for a report is different depending on the type of issue you are reporting.

A general guide on how to report bugs can be found here: ([Navigation] Technical Knowledge Base | War Thunder Wiki)

One thing they ask for as a requirement is a screenshot of when the issue happens. Not because of the image itself but rather that the screenshot makes a tag in the code so that the developers know where in the code to look for the bug. (When you start a game in general it starts logging everything that happens into a log file, those tend to have like 10-20 lines of code per second the game is active, i don’t know how much specifically War Thunder has in their logs but lets imagine the lower end of 10 lines per second. that means that after an hour of play the log is 36.000 lines of code. That would be unreasonable to ask any developer to sit and try to look through when they could just search for the screenshot tag and get within ± a few hundred lines of code instead.)

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