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From 17:00 GMT on the 31st of March till 07:00 GMT on the 3rd of April
open testing for rank IX vehicles on three maps: Middle East, Sinai and Abandoned Factory
After serious preparation, we’ve begun to expand War Thunder’s research trees up to rank IX. Additionally, we’re introducing a brand new vehicle type - combat helicopters!
Almost from the very beginning of War Thunder’s development, we received tons of requests and thoughtful suggestions from fans for the introduction of modern military vehicles. We ran exhaustive in-game tests and, before the game’s release, implemented specific mechanics that would allow us to considerably expand the game’s time frame to accommodate combat vehicles from various eras.
Based on War Thunder’s expanded research trees, we’ll begin to introduce air combat and armoured vehicles up to rank IX. The top vehicles at this rank will include well-known machines of mass destruction, like the M1A2 Abrams, Т-14 “Armata”, F-22 Raptor, Т-50 PАК FА and many more. From the cockpit of these modern combat vehicles, players will experience reactive armour, unleash smokescreens, and deliver death from the skies with precision weaponry. Full research trees for all nations will be published at a later date, so stay tuned for that news.
So, without further ado, we’d like to invite players to participate in the first open mass testing of some of these rank IX vehicles. Players will be able to drive the Leopard 2A5 and the Т-90А, as well as pilot some of the the very first helicopters in the game, the Russian MI-35 transport and attack helicopter and the American GM-64 of the German air force. The test will be held in a special event, which can be accessed and joined directly from your hangar.
We hope you’ll enjoy testing these new vehicles as much as we’ve enjoyed implementing them. Thanks to your invaluable participation in this test, we’ll be able to build on what War Thunder does best and offer an even better experience for our fans.
See you on the battlefield!
The War Thunder team
Comments (604)
We added additional maps to event : Sinai and Abandoned Factory.
Gaijin there is a bug with opening the game (i opened the game and updatet it then when i clicked play the scree went black and i had to restart my computer 5 times to fix it so i can't play war tunder please fix this.
Absolutely loving the attacker choppers, hopefully this is actually a sneak peak of the future for war thunder.
I want to know how the gameplay of helicopters will work though, if this is real and not classic 1st April...since this looks quite real and possible, not way too obvious about it being a joke.
If it just so happens that this is an April Fools joke I will die on the inside. On one hand, you had a Pirate Ships Event on April Fools and now we have ships.... but that was a small update compared to this. I want to believe this is true but the fact that you advertise a currently used, and highly classified stealth plane such as the F22 tells me this is fake. Please for the love of god don't crush us like this.
PLS MAKE THIS A THING!!!!!!!!!!!! NOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ITS DA BEST!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Well this is April fools we won't get modern tanks there's not enough unclassified data, but this may be testing for early composite vehicles such as mby70 and t64 to see if they'd work ingame.
If this is just for April Fools I'm going to be in pain. DON'T DO THIS TO ME!
pls make it permanent, game is so bored whidout this tanks
This is awsome wish it be permanent... but off topic when will ground forces assault be done? (like added to the game...)
Tried it twice and probably will do a couple more in the next days but not much more... all i can say is that I'm extremely happy this is just a 1st April joke and only this.
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