What changed in War Thunder in 2015
10 updates · 6 main milestones · Feb 24, 2015 to Dec 15, 2015
- 2 eventsRoyal Armour begins British ground forces testingnew contentMilestone
British tanks entered a staged closed beta, with the lineup spanning cruisers, Churchill infantry tanks and later Centurions.
publisherTunisia and El Alamein add desert combined battlesworldRoyal Armour introduced two North African desert locations with multiple ground combat scenarios.
publisher - 2 eventsFirestorm adds Stalingrad and the Hawker Hunternew content
Stalingrad became a new combined-battle location, while Britain gained the Hunter F.1 jet.
publisherDagor 4.0 updates rendering and destructible scenerygraphicsMilestoneFirestorm added physically based rendering, revised water effects and destructible objects in Berlin, Stalingrad and Advance to the Rhine.
publisher - 2 eventsEnduring Confrontation starts with limited missionsgameplayMilestone
Cold Steel added a join-in-progress event for Enduring Confrontation, with a limited set of combat missions rolling out shortly after launch.
publisherFinland and more Cold War armor enter the lineupnew contentMilestoneFinland added a snow-covered mixed-battle map. Ground additions included Germany’s Leopard I, America’s M60 and the Soviet T-10M.
publisher - 2 eventsU.S. tank destroyers and British naval aircraft expandnew contentMilestone
Weapons of Victory added the M10, M18, M36 and T95 to U.S. armor and introduced British carrier aircraft such as the Firefly, Seafire and Sea Fury.
publisherBerlin, Normandy and Hürtgen Forest join ground battlesworldThe three locations expanded the ground map rotation with battlefields from the latter stages of World War II.
publisher - 2 eventsThe full American ground tree opens for researchnew contentMilestone
Big Guns ended Steel Generals closed testing and made the U.S. ground vehicle lineup researchable by all players.
publisherGround vehicles gain binoculars and driver viewsgameplayTankers gained dedicated binocular and driver viewpoints, along with a driver-mode control option.
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