One thing to bear in mind: while the camouflages provided in-game by Gaijin or approved for sale on its Marketplace are visible to other players in a match, user skins are purely local. Fan-made and ever so chic, these offer the best solution to creating a unique appearance for your aircraft, tanks, and ships. Once you’ve tired of these, however, you’ll likely want to delve into the depths of War Thunder’s custom user skins. That’s right, the objective of War Thunder‘s infamous grind isn’t merely to achieve ultimate mastery of combat skill on land, sea and in the air – but also decking out your vehicles in sick new skins. A host of unlockable camouflages are included in-game, offering new colour schemes and options to better attune your war machines to different environments. But can you do all of these things while remaining the height of fashion? You understand not to silhouette your aircraft against the sun you know the importance of studying the map for natural choke points and you’ve mastered the bullet drop of your naval cannons to pierce enemy warship hulls at any distance. Imagine: you’ve downloaded War Thunder, played a few matches, and reckon you can take anyone who dares challenge your seafaring, aviation, or vehicular prowess.
It also, as UK Defence Journal points out, put Gaijin Entertainment into an awkward position – even if it’s true that the documents reveal an error in War Thunder’s Challenger 2 model, the studio cannot use classified information – no matter how it was obtained – to help develop the game.Ī Gaijin forum moderator wrote that the company had received written confirmation from the UK Ministry of Defence that the documents posted indeed have not been declassified, and pointed out to the original poster that “By continuing to disseminate you are in violation of the Official Secrets Act as stated by the warning on the cover of the document, an offence which can carry up to a 14 year prison sentence if prosecuted.”Ī War Thunder community manager explained: “We make it very clear that we will not handle any source material unless it is publicly available and fully declassified with the rights to prove that.War Thunder skins are simply essential if you’re serious about the game.
The use of potentially sensitive documents on the forum threw the moderators into a bit of a frenzy, and they have since deleted most of the relevant posts in the thread. In short, the claim is that the Challenger 2’s mantlet (or armour housing around the main gun), is modeled incorrectly in War Thunder. Apparently, the gap between base turret structure and the armour array on the tank’s frontal projection is too wide, and the user posted documentation meant to show that the gap on the real tank is much narrower. The user’s main issue with the Challenger 2 tank model as it appears in the game is, as you might expect, a rather technical one, but it has important ramifications for the game.
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To help make the point, the user posted what appeared to be pages from the official Challenger 2 Army Equipment Support Publication (a manual and maintenance guide similar to the US Army’s field manuals). One user, who claims to have been a Challenger 2 tank commander and gunnery instructor in real life, argued that the Challenger 2’s in-game design needs adjustment.
There’s been a bit of a dust-up over at the War Thunder forums. That’s because Gaijin Entertainment will not (and cannot, legally speaking) use classified information in the development of its game. A misguided attempt to improve the Challenger 2 tank in the free-to-play MMO War Thunder will not, it seems, result in any improvements to the vehicle.