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16 April 2026

Season Update 1.23.2: “Firestorm”

The Major Content Update – Season 32 – for War Thunder Mobile is in the game!

In this update, you can expect to see the following:

New top-rank vehicles and their blueprints in seasonal Trophies.
A new season of the long-term event with unique vehicles in the Trophies.
A new season of the Battle Pass.
Team balancer.

Read more about the changes in the Tropic Raid major update in the article below.

New vehicles

Tanks

Vickers Mk.7 main battle tank (Rank XII)
(standard and premium versions can be obtained from the trophies during the Firestorm event)
M1A1 AIM main battle tank (Rank XIII)
(standard and premium versions can be obtained from the trophies during the Firestorm event)

Ships

HMS Astute nuclear submarine (Rank VI)
(standard or premium versions can be obtained from the trophies during the Firestorm event)
Pr. 1144 nuclear-powered cruiser (Rank VI)
(standard or premium versions can be obtained from the trophies during the Firestorm event)

Aviation

Me 262 C-2b jet fighter (Rank IX)
(standard and premium versions can be obtained from the trophies during the Firestorm event)
Tu-4 heavy bomber (Rank IX)
(standard and premium versions can be obtained from the trophies during the Firestorm event)

Team balancer

Previously, situations could occur where one team consisted of veterans with hundreds of battles and tons of experience, while the other was filled with newcomers still learning the basics. Now, before each battle, the system analyzes your performance in recent sessions – your activity, damage dealt, and overall combat effectiveness – and tries to distribute strong players between teams as evenly as possible. This works within the already assembled group of participants. In other words, the system does not search for opponents globally, but simply reshuffles players who are already in the same match.

How will this affect the game?

The goal is to eliminate frustrating situations where one team is full of beginners and the other is stacked with experienced players. Perfect balance is not guaranteed (even veterans can have an off day or make a mistake), but the skill gap between teams should be noticeably reduced.

The system also takes squads into account – squad members will be treated as a single "linked" element during the balancing process. If player data from recent battles fails to load within a few seconds, a simple random shuffle will be used instead. We are monitoring this closely and will continue to adjust the system to keep such cases to a minimum.

Further tweaks are planned as we continue to observe the data. Our goal is to make battles fairer and more enjoyable for everyone.

This feature is currently being tested. Settings may be adjusted without prior notice.

Season “Firestorm”

Complete the Firestorm combat missions, earn War Bonds and Keys as rewards and unlock trophy containers with valuable prizes for them.

In total for the Season, you can get more than 8,550 bonds for completing tasks, a welcome bonus, a free Battle Pass lineup, completing the season's task progress bar, and getting into the top 1% of the tank, ship, and aviation leaderboards. Additional bonds can be obtained from the Small Trophy by watching ads and when opening the Medium and Big Trophies, and from the Infinite Trophy in the Battle Pass.

The “Firestorm” season will last from April 16th to May 14th, 2026.

Seasonal vehicles: Vickers Mk.7 and M1A1 AIM.

Medium Trophy Jackpot: standard version of Vickers Mk.7 or M1A1 AIM.

Big Trophy Jackpot: premium version of Vickers Mk.7 or M1A1 AIM.

Guaranteed reward: 700 blueprints for one of the seasonal tanks for 50 attempts in the Medium Trophy or 14 attempts in the Big Trophy.

The jackpot can be won at any time, but only once per trophy. Once won, the guaranteed reward for this trophy will be disabled. It is possible to win the jackpot after reaching the guaranteed reward.

Once you have obtained all seasonal vehicles before reaching the jackpot or guaranteed reward, you will receive 1,750 Golden Eagles as your guaranteed reward, instead of the Jackpot, you will receive 2 Keys from the Medium Trophy and 1,750 Golden Eagles from the Large Trophy.

Seasonal vehicles: HMS Astute and Pr. 1144.

Medium Trophy Jackpot: standard version of HMS Astute or Pr. 1144.

Big Trophy Jackpot: premium version of HMS Astute or Pr. 1144.

Guaranteed reward: 700 blueprints for one of the seasonal ships for 50 attempts in the Medium Trophy or 14 attempts in the Big Trophy.

Seasonal vehicles: Me 262 C-2b and Tu-4.

Medium Trophy Jackpot: standard version of Me 262 C-2b or Tu-4.

Big Trophy Jackpot: premium version of Me 262 C-2b or Tu-4.

Guaranteed reward: 700 blueprints for one of the seasonal aircraft for 50 attempts in the Medium Trophy or 14 attempts in the Big Trophy.

300 bonds are awarded as a gift with the start of the Season to players after at least 5 battles in any Campaign.
Rewards for completing the tasks of the season of all three campaigns.
Rewards in the overall progress bar of the season's tasks.
Campaign ranking awards.
Battle Pass rewards.
With a chance – from the Infinite Trophy in the Battle Pass.
Reward from Small or Medium Trophies (10 to 300 items).
Season Offers and Store.

As a reward in the Season Task progress bar;
As a Battle Pass reward;
For being in the top 1% and top 10% of the ship, tank or aircraft leaderboards of the Season;
From Medium and Big Trophies (2 to 4 keys per successful opening);
As items in special event’s store;
Through Seasonal Offers and the Store.

War Bonds and Keys cannot be used in the next season. After the end of the current season, War Bonds and Keys will be automatically used to open the relevant trophies in random campaigns. If you want to get rewards from a certain campaign, you have to use the War Bonds and Keys yourself before the end of the season, until 10:00 (GMT) on May 14th 2026.

Leaderboards

To get into the campaign leaderboard, you need to fight at least 5 battles using vehicles from the relevant campaign (tank and ship take-offs don't count for access to the Aviation Campaign).

The rating season ends on May 7th, 2026 at 10:00 (GMT). Rewards will be distributed within a few days after the leaderboards are frozen. It’s important to note that rewards may be given out at different times for different leaderboards.

Battle Pass

Complete special tasks, level up your Battle Pass and receive rewards for your completed steps.

When you purchase the VIP pass, you instantly receive special camouflages for one vehicle from the trophies of each campaign, as well as automatically completing 10 steps from the Battle Pass lineup. If you have already purchased an upgraded BP, the cost of the VIP pass will be reduced.

M1A1 AIM

Pr. 1144

Tu-4

The unique camouflages are given when you purchase a VIP pass no matter if you have a vehicle.

Changes

The layout of the rankings window has been improved – the position of the nickname, subscription icon, and title has been adjusted.
A number of changes have been made to the post-battle statistics window:
- Task progress has been moved to a separate tab, sorted by event type;
- The appearance of window elements has been adjusted;
- The display of rewards and statistics has been improved – size and fonts;
- The positioning of window elements has been adjusted for devices with different screen aspect ratios.
The ability to view ads has been added to the post-battle statistics window: you can increase your battle reward by 30% by watching a video.
The display of the consumables block on the main screen has been improved and standardized.
Tab control in the post-battle statistics window has been improved:
- double-tapping cycles through tabs;
- long-pressing pauses automatic switching.
For the tank campaign, the vehicle card in the research tech tree now displays upgrades from crew training for the slot in which the vehicle is equipped.
The display of stats in tank cards has been adjusted to account for crew upgrades: reload speed is now displayed with precision down to hundredths of a second, rather than being rounded to a whole number.
The display of event names in the events window and offers has been fixed.
A bug that caused changes to not always be displayed in the vehicle card when improving the “Speed” parameter in the Ship Campaign has been fixed.
A number of fixes have been made to the replay functionality:
- The playback control panel now opens by tapping the screen after being hidden via the arrow, and the white rectangle in the lower-left corner of the screen has been removed;
- Tapping the eye icon now hides only HUD elements;
- Rewinding has been adjusted – now, when rewinding, the video segment starts from the beginning, and the segments themselves visually correspond to the timeline.
A bug that caused the number of rare vehicles to be incorrectly calculated in a player’s personal statistics has been fixed. Now only collectible units are counted, while hidden (not yet added) units are no longer counted.
A bug that caused the price of items on store buttons to display incorrectly in some regions due to excessively large numbers in the regional currency has been fixed.
The ability to overwrite a match replay has been added if a replay with that name already exists.
A deletion confirmation has been added for replays, weapon presets, and vehicles.

Announcements

Events

During season 1.23.2, War Thunder Mobile players can look forward to a variety of in-game activities.

Here are the key events:

New special Operation Pass Event – from April 27th.
Scheduled themed events.
Collectors' Trophy Week.
Mini-events to increase the discount in Offers.

Known Issues

In the Tank Campaign, during the replay of a vehicle's destruction, shells sometimes appear to emerge from the ground.

The team is already working on fixing these issues. They will be resolved in one of the upcoming updates. We apologize for the inconvenience.

We wish you victory and a great experience playing War Thunder Mobile (WTM)!