- For PC
- For MAC
- For Linux
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
Friends!
Ten days ago we asked you to share your key suggestions and complaints about the game in a special survey. As a result, we received 14,562 player submitted entries - many of them being very constructive. It is a very impressive number! Some submissions made a few pages of well organised bullet points. We are very grateful for such active support for the project and a desire to help us make War Thunder better!
It is very difficult to process such a great amount of information. But we managed to isolate most of the repeating points and are already working hard on them.
Economy and progression
More than 90% of feedback entries touched issues with economy and progression. The majority of them were: repair costs and the ability to pay for it by being active in battles and performing specific actions. Including rewards for assisting enemy kills, kill-to-death ratio, point capturing in a team, repair and other help to teammates plus many others. A separate layer of concern was expressed about the time needed by new players to progress all the way up to the top-tiers.
About one third of players are concerned with the current BR distribution and methods of assigning BR to a vehicle. As well as about the BR ranges of vehicles in battle.
At least 4% of players also paid special attention to such topics as the need to purchase modules, the possibility to have free - perhaps lengthy but free - repairs, and many suggestions in not modifying or significantly rebalancing premium vehicles.
All in all, we understand these concerns and will try to encompass ideas on most of them in the upcoming economy roadmap we promised to publish by June 14th.
Gameplay
About 10% of players also took time to share their ideas and observations about various gameplay issues in War Thunder. We are still assembling the full picture of those thousands of points, but have already focused in some of the most repeated ones:
Locations. Especially their size and how susceptible they are to being shot-through in Ground battles. It is a very important topic. We have tried to study our maps over a long time, creating special tools like ‘heatmaps’ of deadly shots together with the player system of likes and bans. With the game growing and many new vehicles added many maps demonstrated either new issues, or older ones became too significant.
We are already engaged in reviewing and ‘polishing’ all locations - and it is sure to be part of the upcoming game improvements.
Many of you spoke about the inconvenience of night battles. Though we already tried to make some improvements there - like lowering their appearance probability, addition of illuminating shells,- it turned out not to be enough. We will also look into new solutions here.
Some other given complaints were about aviation streaks in Arcade Ground battles, ideas how to improve voting mechanics for favourite maps, and ways to improve the survivability of stock vehicles both in ground and air battles.
The was a separate pool of ideas related to PvE modes and ways to improve their gameplay and attraction.
Naturally we received literally thousands of ideas on specific vehicle models, modules, weapons and features. It is impossible even to list them all here. Which is actually good - since War Thunder is a game about military vehicles, so it is expected they are in the focus. We are carefully studying all feedback and will try to look at it from a fresh point of view.
As mentioned, we are still in the process of analysing all of the survey entries and picking up more and more points from these worth examining and doing some extra to work on them. Currently the survey form is closed, but we will continue to make similar general broad feedback polls on the game in the future again. We will also continue to actively listen to your feedback on the forums. Our plan is to conduct such intensive ‘general questions and suggestions’ sessions at least once every 3 months.
Some of your suggestions can be put in the game quite quickly - and War Thunder game design and development teams are already working on them. Some will require a more complex approach, and we will plan for them in our roadmap. We will also cover more about these in the news for the game. So since we are planning to release a large economy and progression changes roadmap by June the 14th, we hope to meet many of your wishes on the above mentioned issues there.
By the way, we have just published a detailed Q&A for video content creators, you might find the answers interesting and relevant to some of your points in them (link).
Conclusion
Once again, thank you for taking the time and effort to share your thoughts! We have always tried to pay attention to your feedback, but getting such a massive pool of information from players all over the world - is a limitless source of inspiration and motivation for us. Do not be upset if you don’t find your exact points in the summary above - it comprises the most repetitive ideas, but we do study, and are studying them all. We will work diligently to look at issues from various viewpoints and try to improve as much as possible to allow you to continue to enjoy War Thunder for many years to come.
Comments (174)
Comments will be premoderatedso basically, people crying that the free stuff is not free enough.
They are not crying, there was really a lot of constructive and well written suggestions.
Thank you for hearing us , *cough* naval *cough* I know we are small but there is so much potential room for growth
Thanks for that, I hope to see a better warthunder, but before that I had to say something about the cannon on the jet, such as Yak-15, only 60 ammo, but when I use HE, I can only see HIT, it's really difficult for this plane to shoot down a plane now, so pls find a better way to make it eaiser.
It cannot be overstated how big a step in the right direction this feedback and communication process is. It's an exciting time for War Thunder and us players. Here's hoping the fruit of this effort will be sweet and abundant!
Positive good post with some nice points brought up . Its very light on the specifics of economy complaints so i hope you wont pick and choose the things you want to add and focus on what the players really want . For the long term health of the game starting here by actually engaging with the customer is a good step and i hope you follow through with a roadmap people are happy with . It might seem like the backlack was negative for you but this will seriously improve the game .
Actions always speak louder then words so we are keeping a sharp eye on you till something happens.
You've ignored repeated, constructive feedback for years. I'll ONLY believe it when I see it. You need to give serious thought to splitting the vehicle tech trees by era. The game has grown to thousands of vehicles and by your own admission, it's increasingly difficult to balance. Separate the vehicles into interwar/WWII era and Cold War/Modern era. The same idea as what you did with the naval trees for Bluewater and Coastal. New players in 2015 didn't face the same tree grind as one in 2023.
Thank you for your lately detailed and transparent communication in all of these regards, very appreciated! Can't wait to see all of this translated into the game. I have the feeling like a new era is coming to War Thunder!
Air RB's game mode really feels dated at top tier. Can you please consider splitting Air RB into two modes: Air RB Deathmatch (non-EC maps, 8 vs 8 teams, no respawns) and Air RB Enduring Confrontation (EC maps, 16 vs 16, respawning, longer match times, rolling objectives)? Sim gets EC but Air RB does not and that feels wrong. Thanks.
Sounds good if you stick to it (I've seen too many other games break these promises) though now I wish I hadn't apparently misread the thing for the survey - as I thought it was purely the economy cause yeah, I have some issues with BR assignments and all - I still can't fathom how 4x 20mm cannons instead of 6x .50 cals makes an F-86 a 9.0 (literally only difference between the 7.7 F25 and 9.0 F2) compared to planes with more ammo and various AAM's.
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