War Thunder


War Thunder is an MMO combat game dedicated to World War II military aviation, armored vehicles, and fleets. In War Thunder, players can pilot a multitude of aircraft from a variety of nations including the U.S, Germany, Soviet Union, Japan and more. Players are able to unlock new aircraft over-time each with different handling characteristics, weapons and accurately detailed cockpits.

War Thunder offers newbies and experience players a full range of control options including joystick support, in order to best suit their preferences. Players can engage in both PvE and PvP scenarios where they must work together with other players to complete one or several key objectives. These objectives range from killing other players to destroying mobile tanks and AA installations.

War Thunder gives players access to several aircraft to use each match, with different plane types that provide new ways to play within matches. Bombers allows players to fly to extreme heights in the games gigantic maps. These heights give the bomber the ability to rain down various types of bombs onto key objectives. They are much more effective at taking out ground installations then fighters and come equipped with extra directional machine guns to protect their flanks./p>

Players will spend points accrued after every match on vehicle repairs and refilling ammo but these costs overall seem low. Players can improve their plane's performance in specific areas by spending crew points earned by piloting one aircraft for a long period of time.

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Additional Information

Title

War Thunder

Developer
Gaijin Entertainment
Publisher
Gaijin Entertainment
Release Date
August 15, 2013
Genre
Shooter
Platform
Windows (Client)
Please note this free-to-play game may or may not offer optional in-game purchases.
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Minimum System Requirements (Windows)

OS

Windows XP SP2, Windows Vista SP1, Windows 7, Windows 8

Memory

1 GB RAM

Storage

3 GB available space

Processor

2.2 GHz

Graphics

Radeon X26XX / GeForce 7800 GT

Additional Notes

Specifications may change during development

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User Reviews (53)

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myke__ 1 year ago
Is it able to play multiplayer?

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frasta1060 1 year ago
hi im a WAR THUNDER player for 1 year named "frasta1060" level 24, i want to tell that the game is a skill based game not like that crapy world of tankies that's a pay to win game :P, so if you buy top tier premiums basicly it just like $H!TY useless for you because you dont have experience to be worthy playing at that tier so mostly you must play from sccratch. btw down bellow is the updated System Requirements.
Windows:
MINIMUM:
OS: Windows 7 SP1/8/10 (64bit)
Processor: Dual-Core 2.2 GHz
Memory: 4 GB RAM
Graphics: DirectX 10.1 level video card: AMD Radeon 77XX / NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660. The minimum supported resolution for the game is 720p.
DirectX: Version 11
Network: Broadband Internet connection
Storage: 17 GB available space
RECOMMENDED:
OS: Windows 10/11 (64bit)
Processor: Intel Core i5 or Ryzen 5 3600 or better
Memory: 16 GB RAM
Graphics: DirectX 11 level video card or higher and drivers: Nvidia GeForce 1060 and higher, Radeon RX 570 and higher
DirectX: Version 12
Network: Broadband Internet connection
Storage: 95 GB available space

macOS:
MINIMUM:
OS: Catalina 10.15
Processor: Core i5, minimum 2.2GHz (Intel Xeon is not supported)
Memory: 6 GB RAM
Graphics: Intel Iris Pro 5200 (Mac), or analog from AMD/Nvidia for Mac. Minimum supported resolution for the game is 720p with Metal support
Network: Broadband Internet connection
Storage: 17 GB available space
RECOMMENDED:
OS: OS Big Sur v. 10.16 or newer
Processor: Intel Core i7 (Xeon processors not supported)
Memory: 8 GB RAM
Graphics: Radeon Vega II or higher with Metal support
Network: Broadband Internet connection
Storage: 95 GB available space

SteamOS + Linux:
MINIMUM:
OS: Most modern 64bit Linux distributions
Processor: Dual-Core 2.4 GHz
Memory: 4 GB RAM
Graphics: NVIDIA 660 with latest proprietary drivers (not older than 6 months) / similar AMD with latest proprietary drivers (not older than 6 months; the minimum supported resolution for the game is 720p) with Vulkan support.
Network: Broadband Internet connection
Storage: 17 GB available space
RECOMMENDED:
OS: Ubuntu 20.04 64bit
Processor: Intel Core i7
Memory: 16 GB RAM
Graphics: NVIDIA 1060 with latest proprietary drivers (not older than 6 months) / similar AMD (Radeon RX 570) with latest proprietary drivers (not older than 6 months) with Vulkan support.
Network: Broadband Internet connection
Storage: 95 GB available space

That's it.

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Generalfeldmarschall von Hindenburg 6 years ago
Love this game. And I'm horrible at it. I just have fun rounding out the field and taking a scalp once in a while.

The design crew and most of the devoted players are geeks for the historical hardware, so when the players complain, there's almost always a coherent response.

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Daylot 7 years ago
Better tank (and plane) simulator than WoT. You can play as Arcade, Simulation and Realistic game modes. Arcade mode offers "WoT like" battles, but Simulation and Realistic modes offers "close to real" tank battles. Arcade, Simulation or Realistic... all modes offer realistic damage modeling, so we don't have stupid "health bars" anymore. You have to penetrate your opponents armor to take out their crew or hit their ammo or fuel tank to destroy it.

Addition to that WT has great community compered to WoT. While playing WoT, you can see lots of players swearing here and there but WT players are generally more mature and respectful.

I played both WT and WoT for long time. First started with WoT then switched to WT for compere both games. After few days of WT test, I decided to leave WoT permanently. I am still a WT player after there years.

Premium tanks are not OP. Some Premium tanks/planes have some advanages and disanvantages compered to standart tanks/planes but they are not OP, Gaijin doing a great job to balance the game as much as possible. Most Premium tanks/planes only usefull because of their extra rewards.

You don't need to spent real money to be a succesful tanker/pilot in this game, spending money here and there just reduce grinding and turn your planes/tanks more eye candy. Money or any Premium tank/plane can't make you a good tanker/pilot in WT. You have to be a good driver, shooter, smart tactician and a team player if you want to be in a high ranked player list,. Ohh and, for free players, grinding are much lower than WoT by the way.

-09.11.2016-
WT is currently available only online historical tank/plane simulation game which equally respects free and paid players.

9/10- Must have if your rig can handle the WT.
Why 9? Because WT requires a stronger PC setup compered to WoT. That is only negative point I can give to this game.
Have fun.

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Robert T 7 years ago
I played this game, and then quickly found myself wondering what do I do now. Now that I had gotten all of the planes, there's nothing left to do. Except tanks, but I think we already have a game for that. If it wasn't for this game's awesome graphics, it would be boring as hell. And that's coming from 1st hand experience and two years logged playing.
Graphics-5 star
Story plot-0 star-No theme, just planes, Not even directed at a particular era
Popularity based on User Accounts-2 Star-This game has been advertised all over the web.
Any game that needs to advertise that much appears desperate, and based on User Accounts that remain active vs 2 years ago, they are.

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taro 8 years ago
Too bad the game is now a pay2win fest with OP premium tanks and planes. Pay ~40eu for a premium tank and you get to kill weaker opponents. Like the Type59 from World of Tanks but more OP...

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Erik500 8 years ago
This game is awesome haven't had any problems with graphics or settings. Only thing I don't like is when they pair up level 4 and 5 machines vs level 1-3. Not fair in my opinion in that manner.

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batledriven 9 years ago
this game is garbage.... Seems like the developers are rank amateurs at best, maybe intern developers.. very inconsistent game play..

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ugurano 9 years ago
realy free game

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Henry 10 years ago
I play on a macbook pro. Intel HD 4000. Minimal Settings. 50-75 FPS.

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Malfurion 10 years ago
System requirements:

Minimal system requirements
CPU: 2,2 GHz
RAM: 1 Gb
Videocard: Nvidia GeForce 7XXX series or higher; AMD Radeon 1XXX series or higher
Free space: 8 Gb
OS: Windows XP SP2, Windows Vista SP1, Windows 7


Recommended system requirements:
CPU: dual-core 2,4 GHz
RAM: 4 Gb
Videocard: Nvidia GeForce 460 or higher
Free space: 8 Gb
OS: Windows XP SP2, Windows Vista SP1, Windows 7

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teeniethekiller 10 years ago
i notice there is a warship game coming when is it due to be relisead any body know

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ugurano 10 years ago
when your love flying games, play this game here its not pay to win. and better of world of warplanes

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nick 10 years ago
After a recent update after this review was made, this game was declared unplayable, with about a 200+ hour grind from lv 7 and up, this game is utterly worthless, dont waste your time

3/10

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dan 10 years ago
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ahmed 10 years ago
this game getting higher and higher for sys requirements. i used to play it with 50 fps BUT now i play it with 30 fps or less with same laptop , even when try to boost my laptop to work in higher performance . so that mean they meant to make these changes .or they dont know what is really sys requirements i also tried to find
what system requirements make this game work in good and smooth but there is no sys req for this game till now lol

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dregon 11 years ago
many hackers in this game

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S.R.H 11 years ago
it happend to me after last update i mean that 120 mg and 17 mg in WT

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S.R.H 11 years ago
it happend to me after last update i mean that 120 mg and 17 mg

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S.R.H 11 years ago
8002232 this is the error plz help me i just got to rank 4 buy new german airplanes then everything went bad lol ;D

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S.R.H 11 years ago
I have prob with WT i updated it but it still say server is unavaible while i can see around 30 K player are playing but i can not go to battle what should i do even i spoke with support but they help wasnt useful

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FeedbackGuy 11 years ago
Error Simulator 2013

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Johnycrackcorn 11 years ago
Have been playing W-Th for a couple days..I can see the grind will be alota hours to get better planes. I've played 10000 rounds in WOT and always was dismayed with the lack of depth in maps.The error 80130183 can be fixed by submitting for a new password. Happened to me and I was good after they emailed me the info. I've played a ton of BF1942 when it came out back in the day and enjoyed the planes there. This War Thunder definetly is a keeper for me. Would like to know how to hook-up with a buddy.( like platooning in WOT). See ya all in the blue skies..

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nightstorm 11 years ago
I can run it with an radeon 3500 graphics card and 2.0 ghz dual core processor...
Lowest settings with 50 fps...
So it doesnt require a lot...

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GETDEM 11 years ago
For mac?

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neil 11 years ago
liked the look of the game so i decided to try it. I have been for 7 years and still am a subscriber to hitech's aces high 2. i downloaded the game and tried to log on. followed all the instruction and simple gave up. had error 80130183. Frankly it looks like a nice game, however I hate poor software, beta or not. no better way to get rid of customers than frustrate them with endless FAQ's and solution trees that lead nowhere. i will check back from time to time, but i won't be holding my breath.

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DarkRyuuk 11 years ago
min Graphic Card is Raden HD 6000's Series or Equivalent
Im not sure about everything else though

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anders 11 years ago
This game is of the charts... Great fun if you're a couple of lads playing together.

Runs no prob. On my mbp with a 330gt m

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Matt101 11 years ago
am also curious on the specific requirements on this PC am surprise tho its not anywhere either on publishers website or anywhere else......

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DarkRyuuk 11 years ago
System Reqs???? Anyone??

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jip 11 years ago
you are so stupid it is a fuking nazi aircraft

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S-D-F 11 years ago
One Of Best Free To Play gami with planes

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safi 11 years ago
can somebody tell me the system req. ?? !

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Space_Wolf 11 years ago
This game is just sick for being for free, if you ever played world of warplanes, this game is a thousand times better. PLAY IT :D

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Dovawulf 11 years ago
I find the research to be based off of World Of Tanks, a popular and, the most relaistic, tank mmo.
I myself, play it.

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montiblanc 11 years ago
to know what im talking about go here putlocker . c o m /file/390D0DF684DE7B11# skip to 1:47:13

having trouble posting comments with links

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montiblanc 11 years ago
cant do moves like at the end of sky crawlers ~_~ rather play star conflict then

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SuicidalSnorlax 11 years ago
MOUNTED!... Yes! How lovely to finally get one!

Anyway, I really enjoy this game for the most part. The only beef I have with it is the unbalance between certain nations. For example, the 20mm machine gun on a British plane seems to do far less damage than its German or Russian counterparts. I don't know if its due to my skill level (which I think its average :D), but it just seems like I'm able to down someone a lot quicker with German weaponry.

~SuicidalSnorlax

p.s. Que-times are long :P.. I guess that expected because it's beta

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