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War Thunder is getting infantry combat

Liam Dawe — Tue, 09 Dec 2025 12:14:56 +0000

Oh no, it's going to pull me back in isn't it? War Thunder is finally adding infantry combat to its roster of war games in a future update.

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Tusk Force is the next major update to War Thunder featuring the first Ukrainian-made tank

Liam Dawe — Mon, 08 Sep 2025 10:54:58 +0000

War Thunder is heating up again with the new Tusk Force update coming soon that features War Thunder's first Ukrainian-made tank, along many other additions.

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War Thunder major Hornet's Sting update adds Ray Tracing for AMD and intel GPUs

Liam Dawe — Tue, 18 Mar 2025 14:26:48 +0000

War Thunder has been updated with the first major expansion of 2025. Titled Hornet’s Sting it adds in Ray Tracing support for AMD and Intel GPUs. There's but coming though.

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War Thunder gets BattlEye anti-cheat enabled for Linux

Liam Dawe — Sat, 25 Jan 2025 12:20:24 +0000

War Thunder from Gaijin Entertainment announced back in December 2024 that they would be changing the anti-cheat, which continues to be rolled out in stages.

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War Thunder is moving away from Easy Anti-Cheat to BattlEye

Liam Dawe — Thu, 05 Dec 2024 18:52:27 +0000

After doing the same with their FPS, Enlisted, Gaijin have announced today that War Thunder will also be changing the anti-cheat system used.

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War Thunder adds stealth tech, ray tracing and graphics upgrades in the Firebirds update

Liam Dawe — Fri, 22 Nov 2024 16:49:15 +0000

Every time a new War Thunder update comes out, I think to myself: I'm finally going to progress a bit more into the aircraft research and then get side-tracked by tanks. But now, with stealth added in the Firebirds update, I might just have to sink some more hours in.

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War Thunder has the Danger Zone update out with the F-14A Tomcat

Liam Dawe — Fri, 17 Jun 2022 09:44:12 +0000

Got the need for speed? The F-14A Tomcat has landed in War Thunder with the major Danger Zone update out now.

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War Thunder gets officially Steam Deck Verified

Liam Dawe — Fri, 08 Apr 2022 14:50:24 +0000

Gaijin Entertainment has updated War Thunder, and as a result it went through Deck Verified once again to get a fully Verified status for the Steam Deck.

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War Thunder major update 'Wind of Change' out now

Liam Dawe — Thu, 24 Mar 2022 14:37:55 +0000

Gaijin Entertainment's online combat game War Thunder has another massive upgrade with 'Wind of Change' out now bringing in lots of enhancements.

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War Thunder is getting more terrain deformation in the upcoming 'Ground Breaking' upgrade

Liam Dawe — Mon, 18 Oct 2021 13:42:29 +0000

Ground Breaking is the name of the next major update for War Thunder and it sounds quite exciting, with some game engine upgrades to allow for more terrain interactions and deformation.

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War Thunder has another major upgrade out with 'Direct Hit'

Liam Dawe — Wed, 08 Sep 2021 14:23:27 +0000

Direct Hit is the name of the latest massive update to War Thunder, the free to play online war sim.

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War Thunder "Red Skies" brings many new machines and new locations

Liam Dawe — Thu, 03 Jun 2021 20:54:38 +0000

Do you hear that? It's the War Thunder! It's back with another huge upgrade named "Red Skies" which comes with plenty of new toys to play with across different nations.

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War Thunder 'Ixwa Strike' update out bringing over 30 new vehicles

Liam Dawe — Fri, 12 Mar 2021 10:31:42 +0000

War Thunder continues expanding its roster of countries available with the 'Ixwa Strike' update out now that brings with it South African armoured vehicles.

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War Thunder gets another major upgrade with the Hot Tracks update

Liam Dawe — Fri, 18 Dec 2020 12:55:15 +0000

Are you ready for another major update to the Dagor Engine 6.0 used in War Thunder? As the Hot Tracks update is rolling out across the battlefields.

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War Thunder now has a Battle Pass with both free and paid items

Liam Dawe — Thu, 03 Dec 2020 10:43:31 +0000

War Thunder, the very popular free-to-play, cross-platform, MMO military now has its own Battle Pass system so dedicated players can earn even more from it.

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War Thunder gets a huge upgrade along with Vulkan by default on Linux (updated)

Liam Dawe — Wed, 18 Nov 2020 10:00:43 +0000

War Thunder, the huge free to play online battle game across land, sea and air just had a huge game engine upgrade with the latest release.

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War Thunder 1.95 "Northern wind" released, adding in some brand new Swedish units

Liam Dawe — Wed, 18 Dec 2019 11:37:07 +0000

War Thunder has expanded again to add in a brand new Swedish Aircraft tech tree, the first Swedish tanks, ten new mixed nation naval units and more.

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