The vehicular combat MMO just got a little bit bigger with the inclusion of ships for all players. There’s also plenty of other goodies in the sizeable update.
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War Thunder has had a closed beta test for its naval forces for a good while now but as of the 1.83 update all players can now indulge in their seafaring fantasies. This follows from the release barely a month ago of an update adding helicopters to the game. Not all nations have gotten ships yet—only Germany, the USA and the USSR are represented in the open beta—but more will be incoming in the coming weeks and months I imagine. Still, there’s a fair range of ships you can add to your digital fleet and the largest include multi-turreted destroyers bristling with weaponry.
Aside from the new maritime additions, this update also has added a few new german helicopters, some new ground vehicles including the T-80B and a pair of aircraft. Here’s a few random highlights from the rather long changelog:
- New naval location “Black Sea port”
- New armour types have been added. Now naval vessels have bullet-proof, fragmentation-proof, rolled or cast homogeneous armour depending on the vessel.
- U.S, Soviet and German helicopters are now available for research.
- New type of explosive material “Smoke-forming composition” has been added to the smoke shells. This type of the explosive substance has been used for all smoke shells and replaced the “TNT” used previously.
- New camo has been added for F4F-3 and F4F-4
I wanted to try my luck captaining a ship and have a few impressions up for this article but, as luck would have it, naval battles are temporarily unavailable. The game mode had been working for a day or two prior and it's only been disabled for the past few hours (as of the time when this article was published). MMOs have hiccups of this sort every now and again and I hope that whatever the issue is, it’ll be resolved fairly soon. Playing with other types of vehicles or trying the test drive function with ships works fine for the time being.
You can download War Thunder from its Official Site or Steam.
Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
Schattenspiegel Oct 25, 2018
Quoting: SchattenspiegelNot interested until they fix their Linux client.
What is wrong with the linux client?
Schattenspiegel Oct 25, 2018
Quoting: m0nt3What is wrong with the linux client?
Pro: it's still playable
Con: performance got a lot worse after patches some months back; graphical bugs got introduces and not fixed; proper AA does not work on Linux, nor does does surround sound despite both being launcher option for years. 1st person gunner positions are only modelled under DirectX.
If they ever finish their Vulkan integration things might change, but for now I am pissed enough that I deleted the game after years of playing.
Quoting: TuxeeQuoting: SuperTuxHow is single player with the naval forces? If I am in a WW2 ship will I encounter unrealistic opposition?
No more "unrealistic opposition" than sitting in a WW2 aircraft or a WW2 tank. Or what do you mean with "single player" when referring to a MMO game?
Oh it has some single player campaigns (http://wiki.warthunder.com/index.php?title=Singleplayer), I kind of hope they add more single campaigns (or co-op).
My biggest issue though is that I am a bit of rivet counter and get more of a fix out of DCS, Il2 and X-Plane. Sadly only X-plane has a native Linux client, so don't get to use the other two as much.
Quoting: SchattenspiegelQuoting: m0nt3What is wrong with the linux client?
Pro: it's still playable
Con: performance got a lot worse after patches some months back; graphical bugs got introduces and not fixed; proper AA does not work on Linux, nor does does surround sound despite both being launcher option for years. 1st person gunner positions are only modelled under DirectX.
If they ever finish their Vulkan integration things might change, but for now I am pissed enough that I deleted the game after years of playing.
I see. Performance was pretty good on vulkan. The openGL performance is certainly lacking. In air RB with highest settings, I can see down into the 40s. While vulkan may hit the 80s in certain points but average over 110. But it is broken now. Never played in windows so didn't know about gunners. I have over 700 hours of flight time. Well worth of 1000 in game, menus que times etc.
Quoting: mylkaafter another small war thunder update it works again. still have to kill kwin, but VULKAN is so much better
Great news. Yeah the black screen dicks. It's why I switched to gnome.
EDIT: Still crashes for me. but it seemed to last longer.
Last edited by m0nt3 on 27 October 2018 at 4:19 pm UTC
Quoting: m0nt3Quoting: mylkaafter another small war thunder update it works again. still have to kill kwin, but VULKAN is so much better
Great news. Yeah the black screen dicks. It's why I switched to gnome.
EDIT: Still crashes for me. but it seemed to last longer.
i couldnt play at all. pc doesnt respond after loading map
now i played 2 rounds without a problem
kill gnome. maybe it helps
Quoting: mylkaQuoting: m0nt3Quoting: mylkaafter another small war thunder update it works again. still have to kill kwin, but VULKAN is so much better
Great news. Yeah the black screen dicks. It's why I switched to gnome.
EDIT: Still crashes for me. but it seemed to last longer.
i couldnt play at all. pc doesnt respond after loading map
now i played 2 rounds without a problem
kill gnome. maybe it helps
What mesa version are you using?
Quoting: m0nt3Quoting: mylkaQuoting: m0nt3Quoting: mylkaafter another small war thunder update it works again. still have to kill kwin, but VULKAN is so much better
Great news. Yeah the black screen dicks. It's why I switched to gnome.
EDIT: Still crashes for me. but it seemed to last longer.
i couldnt play at all. pc doesnt respond after loading map
now i played 2 rounds without a problem
kill gnome. maybe it helps
What mesa version are you using?
the one, that comes with kubuntu: 18.2.2
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