Meet the “Firebirds” Major Update!

tanks benefit more than planes btw

You can distinguish dots better especially against the ground. Very useful in Enduring Confrontation too. You can’t make the point with some screenshots. You need to spawn a heli in ground with a night map and go hunt some enemy ac. You can see them much better than during the day.

I was hoping the dev’s performance issues to be fixed, instead I went from 160 fps in DX12 movie settings (I was using DX12 before the update) to “120 fps” but with stutters so frequent it feels like 10-15 fps, and for some reason the game runs better when it’s not in focus (I have two monitors).
Cool, I can’t enjoy any of the new DX12 features now and have to downgrade.

Idk, maybe it depends on the hardware u use, for me the game isnt dark enough to make any benefit using NVD, playing with OLED in 1000nit HDR mode… but like i saied, if it helps you, good to know thats it actually do help some players.

It’s a real shame Tornado Gr4 didnt get its historically accurate BOL. Would really seperate it from the GR1 and properly justfiy the 12.3 BR

I’ve been playing War Thunder for 11 years, and I have to say, this new Profile Card from the Firebirds update is just bad. The old layout was so much better—clean, simple, and actually showed off the stuff we’re proud of: medals, researched vehicles, spaded vehicles. It was all right there, front and center, and looked great.

Now? It’s like something out of a cheap mobile game. Cluttered, boring, and completely unmotivating. Why even bother grinding for medals or achievements when they’re hidden in this ugly, uninviting layout? It doesn’t feel rewarding at all anymore.

Honestly, Gaijin, just bring the old layout back! Maybe give it a little visual upgrade, but keep the focus on the medals and stats we’ve worked hard for. That’s what made the Profile Card special—it felt personal and showed off our dedication to the game.

This change? Total miss. Fix it, please!

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Cool. How does it refer to the fact that russia gets new op toys all the time, while other factions have nothing in certain brs or roles? It would be nice to balance those things out, don’t you think?

And if there is some technology in Eurofighter that would put russia on a back foot… Great. They have a lot capabilities other factions miss. Alternatively, Devs can do the same they did with small liners - pretend they do not exist until russia gets them as well.

Why did you remove the display for vehicles and spade? Please bring that back.

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Are you really missing much?

You turned on DLSS… And you’re complaining that your game was downscaled?

What kind of stupid is this?

I put everything to max, wich resulted in 50 fps and the screen freezing when shooting XD
Rtx 4090, 7950x, 64gb ram

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I did not get my Money back in terms of GE and Silver Lions, for removed Weapons and Modifications, I looked and I don’t know where that would have gone. Please can someone help. I am a Console player.

Every time this game gets a graphics update I get a headache, ever since new power. I like the TSR AA, it’s better than TAA with minor performance difference, but personally I had to tone down basically every other graphics settings to avoid fps drops and stuttering.

Also it would be rather nice if this game got an integrated FPS limiter

Oh and the new player cards are absolutely horrible, feels like its from a shitty mobile game

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the new statcard is terrible, the only stat that actually had use is the monthly spawn/death, and now it’s gone. and WHY on earth is the thing portrait. on a regular 16:9 screen you can fit the entire playercard page, plus the statistics page, and have 1/3rd of the screen to spare. To put other things like monthly S/D, spaded vehicles on nations, and other stuff. You know, all the stuff that was previously on one page in the statcard. Honestly it looks like a UI for a Mobile game.

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at least you get RTX at all… :(

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XD even with it set at mininum/low it causes issues (freeze/stutter) haha

Xbox doesn’t get most new graphics effects sadly I was looking forward to having mirrors on tanks, but guess I just don’t get them

Flickering or however you call that of far to medium objects/textures is back, i had this problem in last update but changing in nvidia panel to quality helped, its still on quality so cant do that again.
Changing anti aliasing from nothing to TSR helps with that but it looks like everything is behind blurr,
changing image sharpening to half helps a bit but my eyes, it dosent fell right and dosent look right.
I did try other graphic options in game that my graphic card wont cry after changing them, but didint help.
Now i will install new graphic drivers and pray it will help without using TSR.

Tiny update, updating drivers didint help but it was expected.
But it feels and looks better and no flickering on TAA- native and max image sharpening.

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I haven’t noticed any blur with TSR. Did you use upscaling? Only then I saw blurring. Should be normal if you put it on native

Moving the Leclerc S1 and S2 into Rank VIII without inserting something between it and the AMX-30B2 and BRENUS leaves players with no way to get efficient progress towards the Leclerc S1 without incurring a penalty from rank difference, and is kind of a dick move, placing players in a no-win scenario.

The ballistic lead indicator in arcade for the T77E1 is completely trash, just like it is for the Wirbelwind, you need to aim significantly ahead of where the indicator tells you you should to actually hit the plane.