Can confirm this way indeed does work for steam if yall was wondering.
Steam is a launcher; it has (mostly) nothing to do with the game itself. Nothing will modify your game, especially since it’s an online game (data is stored on the owner’s servers).
I tried manual update. Went perfectly fine but the game still can’t reach server…
gg for those who have been trying to grind the events
lol
What should I do then ?
Leave the options on manual until you resolve the link between Steam and the game. Keep in mind that once it starts, you must set the username and password if you have never used the manual option.
There is also this on the steam forums


I don’t know what is happening in War Thunder Discord but an announcement made in Enlisted Official Discord stating “Steam Authorization Issues” and according to rest, they are working on this currently.
click anti cheat or you will open but not play
Same problem!
Where to find the game files folder ?
yes, thanks
or give 1 star to event tasks
It worked for me, thank you so much
same problem, steam is blsht
same for me it worked also
if you use steam there is settings button on right side of launch button press it got to general and then choose launch option as manual game update. then start game and wate it to download the update and then press play
Same problem they want me to go crazy .




