This is great and all but alot of the pics I see are with 4K thermals. now try out the american thermals. its awful
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Actually mine are the American thermals. And I only play with the white color. That’s what I mean. Everything is gray now, no white vehicles. I really would love to hear Gaijin say that they would be fine playing with thermals like the pics I posted. This is crazy
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All my pics are Gen 1 anyways.
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a fellow sufferer xD
In this case I specifically picked them as I was comparing them, which makes more sense to compare same gen of course, but higher gen can be difficult to come by depending on the nation.
Russia magically has the most of them I believe.
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I’m updating this post because even until now the issues persists and I’m encouraging everyone reading this to check for themselves and make a bug report if they’re affected. Thermals right now are literal handicaps instead of being helpful.
Here’s an allied tank without thermals. Perfectly clear right?
Here’s the same tank in thermal view, literally invisible.
Another example, without thermals.
If this was an enemy I’d never have a chance spotting that thing. I’d be dead 10 times over.
At this point It’s better uninstalling them from modifications so save SL repair costs. I felt scammed grinding and even buying the thermal imagers only for them to render me literally blind.
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The entire tank just blends into the environment, all you can see are the exhausts it seems, but some vehicles have significantly worse/better visibility which is weird.
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is it only on nato tanks?
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No… Any tanks with thermals are affected regardless of resolution. However BMP’s are notorious to have lower than usual heat signature despite having the engine at the front.
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Update: They’re finally fixed… Thank you snail.
@Corona_Chan69 Hi, not sure what’s going on but mine still aren’t fixed. I’ve seen 2 updates in 3 days and nothing has changed. I play on Ps4 and I noticed on your bug report you use Windows 64. I wonder if that makes a difference? If they have to make the changes for each platform if it doesn’t go through cross platform correctly? Not trying to question you but are you sure thermals are fixed on your end? I also see my bug report is still unanswered. Did they ever contact you or you just are noticing a change? I want us to be sure because knowing Gaijin if you tell them it’s fixed but it really isn’t then they’ll probably just leave it as is.
Don’t think anything has changed, no idea why he’s saying that.
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I dunno… I just seem to notice a very slight improvement in contrast but not that much. I’m reopening my bug report.
Edit: Yep it’s still broken
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So I finally get a comment on my bug report. Saying it’s not a bug at all, that it’s working correctly. Wtf is wrong with this company? This is BS. They’re leaving it as is. Yet they corrected it in March when this same thing happened. He’s saying 1st Gen thermals show a lot of noise and things are bright including engine, certain parts and gun barrels etc. I have not seen a single gun barrel show up yet in white even when hot after shooting, it’s all gray except for tracks. They are ruining this game and experience. Again, what is wrong with these people?
We can’t see shit but yet it’s “not a bug”? So that means they’re deliberately screwing up thermals and leaving it now saying it’s correct. When it was total opposite all along. There was never even any mention of thermals being changed or intent to. I think they just screwed up again like in March but are just leaving it. I don’t think they care after all the stuff lately. Or it’s on purpose just like the SPAA missiles. These people are really trying to ruin their product it seems, I don’t get it.
Btw another reason I know thermals are screwed up is because when firing missiles out of the ADATS or Lav-AD, or seeing incoming missiles at me, they’re gray as well, no white now as of this week, can barely see the missiles flying now. Only with the movement of something gray and the fact that I know I fired is how I see the missile. It comes and goes. It’s inconsistent. But it’s almost always everything just gray the same color. Gaijin you are so messed up right now. I can’t believe you’re going to let this stay as is.
https://community.gaijin.net/issues/p/warthunder/i/EvMIFb8gs5ig
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Here’s a video of the AMX–10RC’s thermals(Gen 1), there really should be higher contrast on a moving vehicle. Also from my own observations ingame, tracks and tires don’t heat up fast enough and lose heat too quickly.
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I put together a bug report with some video references for how it can be improved
https://community.gaijin.net/issues/p/warthunder/i/ztPp0kJKahEh
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I love how they changed thermals that no one ever complained about and even made them more unrealistic than ever.
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So thermals are permanently going to be ass now?
Funny that stationary excavators and bulldozers glow brighter than tanks
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