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We celebrate the New Year, friends! Discounts and sales are already waiting for you and we will add some fun events with a decal prize of the coming New Year!

From December 28 (7:00 GMT) to January 3 (7:00 GMT)
Enter the New Year events and get a “Captain Mouse” decal for any qualifying victory!


Tank «Festive events»

You will find two types of missions here!

• Capture the New Year Tree from your neighbours and deliver it to your base. Also preventing them from doing the same with your tree.
  
• Hunt for New Year presents scattered on the map. The team which is the first to gather three presents and delivers them to their New Year tree wins.
  

Vehicles with BR 4.7 to 6.7 qualify

Naval «Festive Delivery»
Here you need to collect at least three presents and deliver them to your New Year tree. And keep in mind - everyone is armed!
Use ships with BR of 1.0 to 2.7 (you need at least one ship with BR 1.7 or more).

Friends, the New Year holidays in War Thunder have begun! Gifts, holiday discounts and a festive hangar are already in the game. Participate in festive events, tournaments and don’t miss the discounts, our social media contests and unique vehicles in the Warbond shop.




And here we go - Iacobi's J8A - premium aircraft from the new Swedish aviation tree. Win one game with an activity of 60% or higher in aircraft of rank III and higher from 09:00 GMT on the 20th of December till 07:00 GMT on the 23rd of December to receive it for free.




A big New Year event with clear and simple tasks until the 13th of January. Get unique vehicles, decorations, decals and other valuable prizes.

PARTICIPATE

• 20th - 26th of December - 50% discount for all modifications, backup vehicles and talismans for all types of vehicles.
  
• 20th - 26th of December - 50% discount for 90 and 365 day premium accounts.
  
• 20th - 22nd of December - 50% discount for US, Soviet and Japanese vehicles.
  
• 22nd - 24th of December - 50% discount for German and British vehicles.
  
• 24th - 26th of December - 50% discount for Chinese, French and Italian vehicles.

Discounts for in-game nations will be changed at 09:00 GMT on the days indicated! Festive discounts will apply to any vehicle in-game which can be purchased for SL and GE except vehicles (and their modifications, backups and talismans) from update 1.93 “Black Shark” and update 1.95 “Northern Wind”.


Don’t miss the sale for packs on Steam!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1108450
https://store.steampowered.com/app/891300
https://store.steampowered.com/app/983440
https://store.steampowered.com/app/983442
https://store.steampowered.com/app/795731



Win in the New Year camouflage and post card competitions and win vehicle packs and other prizes.

We are waiting for your creations until the 31st of December, you can find some examples from other participants in the #Christmas2019 here.

• War Thunder Live Skins - Christmas edition
• War Thunder Post Cards - Christmas edition

Compete in these holiday tournaments and events to get special prizes for pilots and tankers: coupons for Bf.109E-7/U2 fighter (Germany) and T-34E medium tank (USSR), with a total purse of over 100,000 Golden Eagles!

Register now:

• Air tournaments 1vs1 (RB)
• Air-tournament 1vs1 (SB)
• Mixed battles 5vs5 (RB)

Steal the enemy team’s X-mas tree, don’t allow opponents to steal yours! Carry your team to victory and get the special “Captain Mouse” decal.

Check our news on December 27th to get more details.



Very special items are going to hit the shelves in our Warbond shop in January. Rare vehicles, a trophy containing the past year’s warbond decals, 3D decorations, boosters, and more!

We will present the details on December the 31st - stay tuned!

https://youtu.be/T81A0JznZ8I


A brand new Swedish Aircraft tech tree, the first Swedish tanks, ten new vessels; Admiral Graf Spee and Prinz Eugen amongst others, two new locations and an upgraded graphical engine with stunning Ray Traced Global Illumination, HDR support and a physical spark system! As well as this, we have manage to add new game improvements and fix countless bugs, many of them reported by you - our fantastic community. All of this awaits you in the new major update 1.95 "Northern wind"!

Click here to view the full Patchnote

, including:

J32 Lansen

FFVS J22



Strv 103-0

SAV 20.12.48

Such as the Rooikat 76 Mk.1D, Admiral Graf Spee and Sendai...

Ray Traced Global Illumination, physical spark system and HDR support!...



New Zealand cape

South Kvarken

And a whole heap of bug fixes!

Click here to view the full Patchnote

Hi! This spring at the NVIDIA GeForce RTX Launch Event at Gamescom 2018 conference we presented our own vision of scalable global illumination for large scenes, Ray Traced Global Illumination, compatible with DirectX 11. We are already successfully using this technology for our other projects, such as Cuisine Royale and Enlisted. In the upcoming update, Ray Traced Global Illumination will appear in War Thunder at low and medium graphic settings for any GPUs with DirectX 11 support!



In our game, there are three large groups of locations: air battles, mixed battles (a.k.a. “tank” locations) and naval environments. The prototypes for War Thunder locations are the most diverse corners of our planet - from the African desert to snowy Russia, from the Pacific islands to the American plains. For each group of locations, different times of the day are provided, from the first dawn rays to late at night, as well as the most diverse weather conditions - clouds, haze, rain, storm, blizzard, and so on. The nature and properties of global illumination for each location in any weather and time of day is an important feature of the picture, which gives the realism and involvement to what is happening in the battle.

Read more in the full article here



The dynamic range is the difference between the darkest and brightest parts of a picture. Modern technologies make it possible to add additional depth and realism to the picture, adding depth to the transitions of shadows and lights that are visible to the eye in such areas. For monitors and TVs with HDR support, we are able to make light sources brighter and add contrast to the image, while shadows and highlights will retain their naturalness.

HDR shows more color gradations, making banding artefacts disappear. Also, HDR presents more information both in dark areas of a picture (shadows), and in light areas.

Read more in the full article here



Another small improvement is sparks from hits, explosions, fires and shots with its own physical model. They occur at the moment of the shot at the muzzle of the barrel, at the moment the projectile hits the surface that can produce sparks - for example, armour; and also at the time of fire or explosion inside the vehicle when it is hit. Now sparks reliably fly away from the center, each spark falls off and dies out after some time, and at the moment of falling off, the friction force and elasticity of those objects along which each spark rolls over are taken into account. “Physical” sparks make battles more beautiful and do not require connecting additional resources of your system.

For more information, read the full article on the Official War Thunder website!