War Thunder News

On July 14th, 1789, Parisians stormed the Bastille — a prison fortress that became one of the symbols of French absolute monarchy. Since 1880 this date has been celebrated as the main national holiday in France, with an annual military parade held on Champs-Élysées, one of the oldest and largest in the entire world.

[h2]Milan and S.O.4050 Vautour IIN for Golden Eagles[/h2]

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From July 14th (12:00 GMT) until July 17th (12:00 GMT)

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The premium French jets Milan and S.O.4050 Vautour IIN will be available for Golden Eagles.

[h3]Milan[/h3]

The Milan is an experimental version of the Mirage fighter that can reach amazing speeds and outrun most of the aircraft on its BR. It can drop bombs while maintaining speeds of over Mach 1, and also carry rockets and AGMs — it can also drop all its tanks to increase aerial performance: even without suspended weaponry, its DEFA cannons are a force to be reckoned with!

[h3]S.O.4050 Vautour IIN[/h3]

The S.O.4050 Vautour IIN is a jet bomber, the bane of enemy bases. It can also fend for itself with the same four 30 mm DEFA cannons, and its wide assortment of suspended weaponry includes AA-20 Nord AGMs with proximity fuze. Also, if the skies are covered by your teammates, take AS-30 Nord AGMs to leave ground vehicles with no chance of survival!


[h2]“Cocarde de France” decal[/h2]

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From July 14th (10:00 GMT) until July 17th (10:00 GMT)

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[h3]Play 3 battles using French vehicles (rank III or higher, with an activity of not less than 70%) to receive the “Cocarde de France” decal.[/h3]

“Cocarde de France” decal

Complete the task in random battles, except for Enduring Confrontation missions and [Assault] mode. Track your progress in the hangar by clicking Nickname → Achievements → Holidays → Bastille Day.

You can find the decal in the “Holidays” tab in the Customisation menu.

• Increased the number of fragments of high-explosive and fragmentation rounds of 20 mm cannons of ground vehicles and aircraft.
  
• A bug that could cause the game client to crash after joining a battle has been fixed.
  

The current provided changelog reflects the major changes within the game as part of this Update. Some updates, additions and fixes may not be listed in the provided notes. War Thunder is constantly improving and specific fixes may be implemented without the client being updated.

[h2]Atomic Thunder event[/h2]

• A bug that caused the sound accompanying the death of the HOG-7 Hedgie to be heard by all combatants regardless of their range to the point of death has been fixed.
  
• The automatic selection of the spawn point nearest to a capture point has been disabled to evenly spread respawning players.
  
• BMP-2 AP-T and APDS belts removed for the sake of balance.
  
• The AH-1G helicopter for the “western” side has been replaced with the AH-1F for the sake of balance.
  

The current provided changelog reflects the major changes within the game as part of this Update. Some updates, additions and fixes may not be listed in the provided notes. War Thunder is constantly improving and specific fixes may be implemented without the client being updated.

[h2]Atomic Thunder event[/h2]

• Damage to allies has been disabled.
  
• A bug that could cause the effect of a laser hit to stay in the air has been fixed.
  
• A bug where when selecting an automatic respawn point the entire team would respawn on one point has been fixed.
  

The current provided changelog reflects the major changes within the game as part of this Update. Some updates, additions and fixes may not be listed in the provided notes. War Thunder is constantly improving and specific fixes may be implemented without the client being updated.

Dear players!

Not long ago we implemented Unicode nickname support in the game, while new Steam players now immediately get nicknames similar to their Steam nicks with some limitations.

During some technical work on standardizing the existing nickname display, we gained a malfunction leading to the reset of nicknames with some Steam players to nicknames based on their Steam nick.

This issue might also affect some of the Gaijin-accounts already linked to a Steam profile.

We didn't plan to change the nicknames of Steam players who previously changed their in-game Nickname and within 24 hours we will try and roll back these changes for all players in order to return the nicknames or provide the opportunity to change the nickname for free.

We apologize for any inconvenience. We will do our best to fix this problem as soon as possible!