System Requirements
- For PC
- For MAC
- For Linux
Minimum
- OS: Windows 7 SP1/8/10 (64 bit)
- Processor: Dual-Core 2.2 GHz
- Memory: 4GB
- Video Card: DirectX 10.1 level video card: AMD Radeon 77XX / NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660. The minimum supported resolution for the game is 720p.
- Network: Broadband Internet connection
- Hard Drive: 17 GB
Recommended
- OS: Windows 10/11 (64 bit)
- Processor: Intel Core i5 or Ryzen 5 3600 and better
- Memory: 16 GB and more
- Video Card: DirectX 11 level video card or higher and drivers: Nvidia GeForce 1060 and higher, Radeon RX 570 and higher
- Network: Broadband Internet connection
- Hard Drive: 95 GB
Minimum
- OS: Mac OS Big Sur 11.0 or newer
- Processor: Core i5, minimum 2.2GHz (Intel Xeon is not supported)
- Memory: 6 GB
- Video Card: 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
- Hard Drive: 17 GB
Recommended
- OS: Mac OS Big Sur 11.0 or newer
- Processor: Core i7 (Intel Xeon is not supported)
- Memory: 8 GB
- Video Card: Radeon Vega II or higher with Metal support.
- Network: Broadband Internet connection
- Hard Drive: 95 GB
Minimum
- OS: Most modern 64bit Linux distributions
- Processor: Dual-Core 2.4 GHz
- Memory: 4 GB
- Video Card: 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
- Hard Drive: 17 GB
Recommended
- OS: Ubuntu 20.04 64bit
- Processor: Intel Core i7
- Memory: 16 GB
- Video Card: 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
- Hard Drive: 95 GB
Welcome to update 1.81 “The Valkyries” (poll added)
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War Thunder Presents - Update 1.81 “The Valkyries”
Combat helicopters - new type of vehicles in War Thunder. First rotorcraft are presented in the US and Soviet research trees.
New vehicles
16 new ground vehicle and aircraft models.
New locations and missions
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Comments (214)
Players with premium accounts received a bonus of extra 12 hours to their premium time duration.
First of all credit where credit is due, amazing job by the devs on the new vehicle models! And now that everyone is happy with their point and click top tier arcade adventures, with all the MBTs and IFVs as well as the helicopters, when can we expect patch 1.83 "Fixing Air Rb" followed by 1.85 "Going back to the roots" for some mid to low tier focused update where the real fun is and every player can enjoy without years of grind or paying an exorbitant amount of money?
I think you couldn't have said it any better
Very well said! Unfortunately I just got banned on the forums for quoting several statements just like this :( But yeah, credit to the new vehicle models, they look lovely!
So will aircraft now be the left in the dark? Planes basically got 1 reskin plane, and an aircraft that continually blew itself up? What about reforming Air RB/SB and actually doing something that brings players back rather than high tier vehicles that 90% of players won't ever play?
We have more planes than tanks and ships combined! A low amount of air doesn't mean we're stopping the plane development, but we're limited in the amount of vehicles we can release every major.
Ouiche, As far as air the game mode needs work more than adding new vehicles.
I'm overwhelmed by the Japanese tree additions; Thank you Gaijin!
Japan has a lot of technical limitations as to what we can add simply due to the scarcity of information available. That does not mean that we have nothing planned for Japan, but this update was mainly about the launch of Helicopters.
Smin1080p, Tell me why there can be 4x AMX-30, 50x Shermans, 50x T-34, but you can add different variants of the Type 74 tank, which are all the same tank with minor added features, like thermal sleeves, different IR boxes, side skirts and wheel guards? There is nothing other different aside from FCS modernization, which are not modeled in this game anyway, and the new Type 93 APFSDS round, which data is publicly available. Try to at least balance the trees a bit, Japan needs more back-ups for the Type 90
Looks awesome! Thank you guys :)
Colour me underwhelmed. So much wrong/so many bugs in the current version needing to be fixed without introducing more vehicles and spreading the development and support effort thinner.
oh vladimir i see capitalist chopper vladimir:hmmmm DA komrade, prepare our shilka ))))
OmegaStrikeR, nope - prepare your i15 mate...
And ofcourse helicopters, Gaijin you remember the world war mode right??where is??And u know how is boring the naval battles???
To an admin: Will our helicopter tech trees get wiped?
No, this isn't planned.
Ouiche, Thank you!
I just love it how the new Abrams costs 20k to repair while leopard2a4 and the NEW T80 cost 4-6k. Not to mention that one top rank shell costs nearly more than the kill you get with it.
Please help. I'm hemorrhaging Silver Lions like crazy. I can't hope to afford these new helicopters for all the "testing" I want to do.
Gaijn you seriously need to lower the SL cost of top tier everything, especially the american tanks. The M1IP has almost 4x the repair cost (stock) of the Type90 that has amazing mobility, a 5 second autoloader and a no skill lol pen apfsds round. This is getting insane.
The new content looks great but how about we start focusing on some more pressing issues like the grind. I've clocked around 4-5k hours into this game and almost all of that time with premium and i only have a few rank VI tanks. I put up with it, even defending the immense effort to get to rank VI as something good. But that "Stock syndrom" video really made me sour. Free FPE and Parts is a good start to make this into a better and more new player friendly game. The community has had enough.
I ran out of space but i also wanted to say that i do love this game and i really want it to be the best game that it can be. But something needs changing to keep the game running. How can you justify that you need to grind up to 75k more RP just to have the "basic" tank with FPE and Parts? Grinding for FPE and Parts is bareable at Rank 1-3 but after that you need to put in a lot more effort into getting what is almost as essential to a tank as ammunition. Thats all i wanted to say.