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- Hard Drive: 95 GB
Today we would like to tell you about the new effects of the influence of wind in the game environment of War Thunder - smoke, fire, sparks and dust.
The wind has already blown in locations of War Thunder, but before the release of the Winged Lions update, it could only be seen on the grass and on the waves. Now everything will be different! All particle effects, such as fires and smoke, dust from ground vehicles and aircraft engines, gun shots, explosions and sparks - all these effects will now be affected by the wind.
The wind in the game depends on the weather settings. The influence of wind effects is most noticeable during storms, but such weather is rare in War Thunder, and we are looking for a middle ground between a comfortable weather for playing and the beauty of the effects.
We are currently tweaking the weather settings to make the new wind effects more picturesque in the upcoming update. We will continue to make effects better in the following updates too, we have tons of ideas!
Comments (80)
Have you considered biger maps for naval battles, this wind effect os nice and all but that one thing is bothering me the most right now
Will the wind effect ballistics "in the near future"? It would be fun.
It's a rather nice visual change. Though will this eventually also impact ballistics or flight models?
Nice i am Very exited to see this new Effects. Good job
This is super neat, I love environment/weather stuff like this! I'd definitely like to see more "extreme" weather in actual matches (especially Air) at least occasionally.
Cool. Another function I will disable to be more combat effective.
While a good-looking game is nice, I think that the issue of people playing at old videocard support settings gaining advantages is a problem that keeps getting worse the more graphics is improved. I'd prefer if you optimised the code, so that "old videocard support" can be permanently removed and the game itself fairer is more important than adding even more code.
wind, wind... it's like the big wind gaijin made to the french tech tree...
Weve been asking for fundamental game mode changes especially for Top Tier Air RB and this is the crap we get. Who was asking for this?
Tank should be able to create dust cloud while moving on sands and snows, and it should be fine on path way.