War Thunder is heating up again with the new Tusk Force update coming soon that features War Thunder's first Ukrainian-made tank, along many other additions.
The Tusk Force update will bring a brand-new subtree of Thai ground vehicles (within the Japanese tech tree), the American battleship USS Maryland, the British Sky Sabre SAM system, the Russian Buk-M3 SAM system, and the Canadian CF-188A fighter jet. As for the first Ukrainian made tank, from the press release about the details in the game:
The Oplot-T tank is War Thunder’s first Ukrainian-made tank. A modification of the T-80UD main battle tank built for the Royal Thai army, these vehicles saw combat during the brief 2025 border clash with Cambodia. The Oplot-T sports reactive armor, a Laser Warning Receiver (LWR), and an optronic countermeasures system. Thanks to its upgraded transmission, it can reverse at up to 30 km/h, allowing it to quickly fall back to cover. In addition to ammunition typical for the USSR tech tree, the Oplot is armed with Chinese-made ammo like the GP125 ATGMs and the new top-end BTA4 APFSDS round - capable of penetrating over half a meter of armor.
Check out the update trailer:
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From the press release it should launch sometime in "mid-September".
It has Native Linux support, although it is missing some graphics features it mostly works well. I have a lot of hours in this one. I think the only thing that annoys me is how terrible the spectator camera is when playing with friends. Apart from that I really enjoy the action in it.
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it can reverse at up to 30 km/hSome day some one will make something as cool as our old Strv103 that could reverse as quickly as it could go forward, 50-60km/h, since it had a backup reverse driver sitting in reverse behind the main driver.
...how terrible the spectator camera is when playing with friends.
Not sure if you know already, but there is a workaround to that issue - you can drag the camera by holding the ALT key. Still sucks though. Also I wish we got VR and ray-tracing.
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