Support us on Patreon
PayPalThe 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.
YouTube videos require cookies, you must accept their cookies to view. View cookie preferences.
Direct Link
Direct Link
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.
Some you may have missed, popular articles from the last month:
The comments on this article are closed.
All posts need to follow our rules. For users logged in: please hit the Report Flag icon on any post that breaks the rules or contains illegal / harmful content. Guest readers can email us for any issues.
20 comments
Unfortunately this new updates causes the game to crash when using vulkan. The performance benefits to vulkan were quite nice. Mesa git has several performance problems with openGL and will induce lots of stuttering. Default meaa on ubuntu 18.10 is fine.
0 Likes
Unfortunately this new updates causes the game to crash when using vulkan.Works well here with Mesa 18.2.3 on Arch running the Vulkan renderer. The thumbnail used for this article was taken by me when messing around in test drive mode with Vulkan.
Last edited by BTRE on 24 October 2018 at 5:20 pm UTC
0 Likes
Unfortunately this new updates causes the game to crash when using vulkan. The performance benefits to vulkan were quite nice. Mesa git has several performance problems with openGL and will induce lots of stuttering. Default meaa on ubuntu 18.10 is fine.
same for me. pc doesnt respond before a battle starts, but testdrive still works
i had the same problem with mesa 18.2.1, but i was fixed in 18.2.2
0 Likes
Unfortunately this new updates causes the game to crash when using vulkan.Works well here with Mesa 18.2.3 on Arch running the Vulkan renderer. The thumbnail used for this article was taken by me when messing around in test drive mode with Vulkan.
Have you tried a match? About 2min into a match is when I get the crash. Otherwise it is fine. I tried mesa-git as well as the default mesa for ubuntu 18.10. I get a couple of pop-up windows about submitting a crash report and one is about the error, but does not give any detailed message. I cannot remember what the error was, but I can check when I get home.
Last edited by m0nt3 on 24 October 2018 at 7:35 pm UTC
0 Likes
Have you tried a match? About 2min into a match is when I get the crash. Otherwise it is fine. I tried mesa-git as well as the default mesa for ubuntu 18.10. I get a couple of pop-up windows about submitting a crash report and one is about the error, but does not give any detailed message. I cannot remember what the error was, but I can check when I get home.
Yeah, you seem to be right, sadly. It crashed for me when I tried just now.
0 Likes
Have you tried a match? About 2min into a match is when I get the crash. Otherwise it is fine. I tried mesa-git as well as the default mesa for ubuntu 18.10. I get a couple of pop-up windows about submitting a crash report and one is about the error, but does not give any detailed message. I cannot remember what the error was, but I can check when I get home.
Yeah, you seem to be right, sadly. It crashed for me when I tried just now.
Was running really good with vulkan too, I have been playing a lot recently. I actually switched to regular ubuntu to play in vulkan since other DE seem to give me black screens. Hopefully they will get it fixed soon. I actually have rendering errors in opengl that I did not have in vulkan. For instance, when spectating in an air match, I will get black bars on the ground in openGL, but vulkan everything renders correctly and faster.
0 Likes
Have you tried a match? About 2min into a match is when I get the crash. Otherwise it is fine. I tried mesa-git as well as the default mesa for ubuntu 18.10. I get a couple of pop-up windows about submitting a crash report and one is about the error, but does not give any detailed message. I cannot remember what the error was, but I can check when I get home.
Yeah, you seem to be right, sadly. It crashed for me when I tried just now.
Was running really good with vulkan too, I have been playing a lot recently. I actually switched to regular ubuntu to play in vulkan since other DE seem to give me black screens. Hopefully they will get it fixed soon. I actually have rendering errors in opengl that I did not have in vulkan. For instance, when spectating in an air match, I will get black bars on the ground in openGL, but vulkan everything renders correctly and faster.
blackscreen with sound? i have this bug on kubuntu.
"killall kwin_x11" helps
and after exit the game ALT+SPACE -> kwin_x11 -> ENTER (if you do that ingame, it turns black again)
this problem exists for months
https://forum.warthunder.com/index.php?/topic/415043-testing-vulkan/&do=findComment&comment=7693989
0 Likes
Have you tried a match? About 2min into a match is when I get the crash. Otherwise it is fine. I tried mesa-git as well as the default mesa for ubuntu 18.10. I get a couple of pop-up windows about submitting a crash report and one is about the error, but does not give any detailed message. I cannot remember what the error was, but I can check when I get home.
Yeah, you seem to be right, sadly. It crashed for me when I tried just now.
Was running really good with vulkan too, I have been playing a lot recently. I actually switched to regular ubuntu to play in vulkan since other DE seem to give me black screens. Hopefully they will get it fixed soon. I actually have rendering errors in opengl that I did not have in vulkan. For instance, when spectating in an air match, I will get black bars on the ground in openGL, but vulkan everything renders correctly and faster.
blackscreen with sound? i have this bug on kubuntu.
"killall kwin_x11" helps
and after exit the game ALT+SPACE -> kwin_x11 -> ENTER (if you do that ingame, it turns black again)
this problem exists for months
https://forum.warthunder.com/index.php?/topic/415043-testing-vulkan/&do=findComment&comment=7693989
Yes, I get this on at least KDE and cinnamon. Gnome is perfectly fine.
0 Likes
How 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?
1 Likes, Who?
Schattenspiegel Oct 25, 2018
Not interested until they fix their Linux client.
0 Likes
Not interested until they fix their Linux client.
What is wrong with the linux client?
0 Likes
Schattenspiegel Oct 25, 2018
What 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.
0 Likes
What 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.
0 Likes
after another small war thunder update it works again. still have to kill kwin, but VULKAN is so much better
0 Likes
after 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
0 Likes
after 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
0 Likes
after 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?
0 Likes
after 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
0 Likes
I played quite a lot last night and got the same error on openGL. But only once. The error message just says Fatal Error exception
0 Likes
it froze again. after a restart and only open steam and wt it worked again.
with open firefox it freezes again.
maybe it wasnt the update, maybe my firefox want open, as i wrote, that it worked again. maybe firefox makes som problems?
i dont know
Last edited by mylka on 29 October 2018 at 12:10 pm UTC
with open firefox it freezes again.
maybe it wasnt the update, maybe my firefox want open, as i wrote, that it worked again. maybe firefox makes som problems?
i dont know
Last edited by mylka on 29 October 2018 at 12:10 pm UTC
0 Likes
Oh and the name doesn't mean anything but coincidentally could be pronounced as "Buttery" which suits me just fine.
See more from me