You need to purchase a Xbox Live Gold subscription to play online with Xbox One or Xbox Series X|S. You need to purchase a PlayStation Plus subscription to play online with PlayStation 4 or PlayStation 5. Additional in-game purchases are offered for items that enhance the experience. Simulator Battles add more restrictions to create a believable experience, with no head up display or exterior view of the action.Ī single player mode is available focusing on historical settings as well as a cooperative mode against waves of computer controlled ground vehicles and aircraft. With this comes more rewards and upgrades as well as more strategic encounters. Realistic Battles are more advanced, simulating realistic physics and damage modelling.

Damage is simplified although still aims to be realistic. The land, air and sea are divided into different game modes:Īrcade Battles has two teams of up to 16 with vehicles from different nations. You can also play as nations with smaller militaries or less prominence in conflicts, such as Italy, France, China and Sweden. You can control aircraft, ground vehicles and warships from USA, Germany, Russia, Britain, and Japan. As you progress game brings in more elements fromWorld War II, Vietnam and the Cold War. This includes vehicles from different eras: pre-World War I naval vessels, tanks and aircraft from the Spanish Civil War and even the Iraq war and beyond. Rather than having one energy bar for each vehicles you need to aim for weak spots or positions where pilots and drivers are exposed.Įach battle is divided between aviation, ground forces or fleet, rather than mixing these elements. The attraction of the combat is that each vehicle or craft’s constituent parts can be targeted and damaged. Similar to Wargaming's World of Warplanes it creates realistic battles on air, land, and sea. War Thunder is a shooting game where you drive a range of vehicles in warfare combat.

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