Happy New Year 2025!

An overview of the events of the year gone by and plans for the upcoming year.

Dear friends!
❄ The year 2024 is coming to an end. So what changes have happened in War Thunder Mobile for players and developers? Let's take a look back at the most significant events of the past year.

Statistics

Over the last year, the game has seen 12 seasonal updates with new common vehicles, Big and Medium Trophy vehicles, Battle Passes and Rating Seasons.
Over 150 aircraft, 48 platoons and 50 ships have been added to the game.
Commanders participated in 15 in-game events, including 5 events with vehicle as rewards. During the incredible Black Friday event, players had the opportunity to get some platoons and ships, even top-ranked ones, in-game.
The game featured 9 new maps: 2 tank maps, 1 naval map and 6 air maps, as well as themed locations “Cloud City” and the festive “Winter Stalingrad”.
In January 2024, missile ships appeared at level 28 of the ship campaign. The first of these was the Hamburg (Rank V).
The tank campaign extended from level 15 to level 19 and was replenished with ground vehicles of new nations – Italy and Israel.
During the year, our location artists delighted you with updated Hangar designs 5 times – for Lunar New Year, Lucky Week, War Thunder Mobile Birthday, Halloween and Winter Holidays.
The new campaign – long-awaited aircraft – appeared in the game in open access as early as September 2024!
A lot of interesting mechanics and features have appeared in the game, here are the most interesting ones:
- voice commands and markers on the mini-map;
- player statistics in Profile;
- shells with proximity fuzes and APS (Active Defense Complex);
- missiles and countermeasures in the fleet;
- gyroscope for aircraft;
- scaling of interface elements;
- changing camouflages;
- star levels;
- selection of boosters before battle;
- saving aircraft weapon presets;
- enhanced rewards for ratings;
- in-game complaint functionality.
The battle effects have been updated and improved, new sounds have been added, optimization has been noticeably improved, and the models of many tanks and ships have been re optimized.
The game's website has undergone a number of changes:
- Media section with Videos and Wallpapers has been added;
- tag functionality and filtering of news by tags has been added;
- French, Spanish and Ukrainian languages have been added.
Greek, Indonesian and Thai interface languages have been added to the game, as well as Chinese crew voice-overs.
Nineteen videos were released on the game's official YouTube channel.

January 18 – the appearance of “Star Levels”, which gave newcomers a chance to level up faster, and old players a chance to get premium versions of all new vehicles for GE. The first rocket firing ship Hamburg.
February 8 – “Lunar New Year” event with a festive hangar.
February 15 – new tank location Rheinland and combat boosters.
February 22 – the camo selection functionality was added.
March 14 – quick teams appeared in the game, started the event “Lucky Week” with a festive hangar.
March 28 – the first appearance of Historical Trophies with vehicles of 1-3 seasons.
April 1 – an unprecedented event “Flight is Magic” was released with the first testing of the airplane campaign.
April 11 – the HMS Valiant missile submarine and the ability to choose a voice for the voice commands, including a female one, appeared in the game.
On April 23, the first stage of the Closed Beta testing of the aircraft campaign began – the first “swallows” were three biplanes on two air maps.
On May 7, the second stage of the aircraft CBT has started, in which one map was added and four more planes were tested.
May 13 – markers appeared on the mini-map.
On June 11, players were able to explore the sky in the third stage of CBT – three top premium planes and the first bomber were stretching their wings on four maps.
June 13 – a new tank map “Normandy” and the mechanics of proximity fuzes.
July 3 – the start of the Independence Day event and the first themed event with separate tasks on different days and resources in rewards.
July 9 – vehicle cost re-balance, vehicle and map optimization, and extensive ship maps bugfixes.
July 11 – new ship map “Greek Archipelago” and APS mechanics.
August 8 – feature to select boosters before the battle.
August 15 – the first anniversary of War Thunder Mobile, the updated holiday hangar and themed event with vehicles as a reward. The “Wallpapers” section appeared on the site.
September 12 – the last fourth stage of CBT has started, during which all vehicles of previous stages were available, and the testing itself was aimed at checking the stress on the server before the start of the OBT.
September 13 – the functionality of complaints on game nicknames and unsportsmanlike behavior was launched, during the first 3 days we processed more than 10 000 complaints.
September 16 – gyroscope control mode has been added.
September 23 – a historic date for War Thunder Mobile – the day of the public release of a separate aviation mode in Open Beta testing! In the new mode, pilots were waiting for vehicles of three nations (USA, Germany and USSR), unique mechanics of crew and slots upgrading, as well as the long-awaited vehicle research tree up to the top VII rank.
On September 27th we managed to reach 10 000 000 downloads of War Thunder Mobile app in Google Play!
On October 3, the Seasonal Update “Aces High” started the first aviation season with trophies, leaderboards and top-ranked planes, as well as the opportunity to collect aircraft in exchange for blueprints.
October 28 is the spookiest week of the year – the “Halloween” event with unique themed vehicles as rewards and scary looking Hangars.
On October 31, aviation fans got a new map – “Sahara Desert”.
On November 6, the new graphics and sound effects were presented to the players – more beautiful and optimized, and 14 new planes appeared in the tank campaign.
On November 7, as part of the joint operation with War Thunder, it became possible to get a themed aircraft in both games for completing tasks in War Thunder Mobile.
November 11 is the date of appearing the “Hürtgen” aviation map and new anti-aliasing effects.
On November 14, players got the opportunity to scale interface elements!
November 27 – a unique event “Black Friday 2024” started, during which it was possible not only to achieve maximum discounts on vehicles, but also to get some platoons and ships of high rank by activity and game resources.
December 5 – the display of members of the same squad in battle has been added, matchmaking in the fleet has been significantly improved.
A little later on December 5, as part of the last in 2024 seasonal update “Frozen Front” were expanded ratings – the top-1% rewards for players appeared.
December 17 – the start of the “Winter Battle” event with themed Hangars and vehicles in the rewards. The mechanic of getting additional guaranteed rewards for each trophy opening has been added to the game.

The development team has prepared an announcement of events to look forward to in 2025. We are not announce the date of realization* of each of the points, but we will try to introduce the promised things evenly throughout the year.

So, what's in plans for War Thunder Mobile in 2025?

Research tech trees.
Vehicles from the ship and then tank campaigns will be moved to research tech trees. We will abandon ready-made platoons in their current form, players will be able to build their own platoons. We will announce the details of the changes shortly before they are implemented.

Events.
Regular themed events with vehicles as rewards are waiting for you. We have reviewed player feedback on events in 2024 and decided to optimize them – complexity, duration, frequency, number and type of tasks. The event layout and interfaces will also be improved.

Matchmaking and balance.
In 2025, we will continue to improve the player matchmaking system to achieve optimal balance in battles. Already, we have noticeably improved the distribution of players into teams, matchmaking by rank and vehicle type in fleets and tanks. We know that this is a pressing issue for players, and we are working on improving matchmaking. After the move to branches, the selection of teams will be even better.

Global improvements to the game interface.
We have already started to rework the game interface. It should become more clear, concise and stylish. We also plan to add transparency settings for the battle interface and the ability to record video without interface elements.

Replays.
The game will be able to save and view replays of fights.

Armor Analyzer.
We are working on adding armor and penetration analysis functionality.

Modern vehicles.
New nation branches will appear in the airplane campaign throughout the year. More modern aircraft will be added in a major update – early reactives above rank VII. More modern tanks and ships will also appear in the game in the upcoming year.

New mechanics.
Once more modern vehicles appear in the game, relevant mechanics will also be added. It is possible that early period vehicles will also get new features.

New maps.
New maps will appear in all campaigns. We don't promise big maps, but we don't exclude that some of them will be bigger than those in the game. Optimization of already existing maps, fixing known problems (overshooting, lack of collisions, etc.), improving the appearance of maps are also a priority.

New platforms and features.
We plan to release the game client in Huawei AppGallery.

*This list of plans is not complete. Some points in the plan may be postponed if higher priorities arise.

The War Thunder Mobile team wishes you a Happy New Year in 2025! We wish you a happiness, memorable battles, cool achievements, bright victories in the game, as well as good health and prosperity in life! May luck accompany you in any endeavor, and War Thunder Mobile keep your fighting spirit!