War Thunder announces the release of a new playable nation. Besides the USSR, USA, Britain, Germany and Japan, you will now be able to play Ponies. This new nation gets its own development line, the final version of which will be presented later by the War Thunder developer - Russian-based Gaijin Entertainment. In update 1.77 “Advancing Storm” you will now be accompanied with the music from the nation for which you are playing. Choosing Soviet vehicles and also with victory or defeat you will hear our legendary tracks: “Red-Starred Avengers”, “Arise, Great Country!” and “A Step Toward Victory”. If a new nation is added we dont need to grind it, me for example have 6 nations at 10.7 and stopped there, i have no interest on china or sweedish tech trees. If War Thunder wasn't the only game of its kind, it would collapse. A view echoed by most of the content creators for War Thunder too. Even PhlyDaily is getting sick of the. By borrowing from other nations, as you noted, we could probably make an OK Israel or India tree, but that would be it. And War Thunder has yet to make a full tree that represents more than one nation simultaneously, instead having a few 'oddballs' in the trees with more related vehicles.
The online, free to play combat sim War Thunder just had a huge new release, adding in an entirely new nation with China and plenty of upgrades elsewhere.
Some highlights include: Night Vision and Thermal Sight devices; Chinese air and ground forces; a map rotation filter; a new sound engine; three new locations; new ground vehicles, helicopters, naval vessels and aircraft for various nations, plus numerous fixes and updates for existing machines and game mechanics.
You can see their latest update video below:
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One of the biggest changes you might hear is the new sound engine, as they've done a big update to FMOD Studio from the old and unsupported Fmod Ex. This upgrade introduces increased positional accuracy of sound, reduced RAM consumption, a better sound mix so if there's an explosion near you the volume of other sound decrease if proportion to it plus lots of entirely new and improved sound effects made it in. You can read more about that specifically here.
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They also added in Easy Anti-Cheat to work alongside their existing solutions. They said it would be turned on 'soon after the update goes live'. Currently then, it's likely that will block anyone playing it through Steam Play rather than the native Linux build. While the native version works fine for me (and continues to do so when tested today), others have reported it to work better for them with Steam Play. Hopefully CodeWeavers and Valve can get EAC supported in Wine/Steam Play soon but no update on that yet.
Find the highlights here, the full changelog here and you can download it on the official site or Steam.
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It was just confirmed on the War Thunder Rumor Roundup forum thread that there are still two updates for War Thunder left this year. These updates are 1.93 and 1.95, currently the most awaited one is 1.95 however as that is the update a new nation is usually announced, however with the recent release of the Chinese tree for the worldwide audience there is much confusion over whether or not 1.95 will bring us a new and much-requested nation. Only time will, however, tell if we are destined to get another new nation this year.
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To keep up with the latest War Thunder News and Rumors head over to the 1.93 Rumor Roundup thread and enjoy, but remember to take everything within the thread with a grain of salt. https://forum.warthunder.com/index.php?/topic/462369-193-rumor-round-up-and-discussion/