​Community Update No.11: Nuclear Escalation, Sound Mods & More     ​

Hey everyone! Today we’re back with another Community Update, we’ll be giving you some details on Nuclear Escalation, Sound Mods, the upcoming major update and our plans for vehicle events until August. So sit back, grab your favourite beverage and read on! Disclaimer: While we’re excited to be able to share work-in-progress information before dev blogs, the dev server and the full release, please bear in mind that new features, vehicles and maps mentioned in this news are subject to change, be delayed or even cancelled. War Thunder is constantly being developed, and as with all game development, unexpected delays or other unforeseen circumstances may occur. Thank you for your interest!Returning Nigel Decal CodeNigel is always among us. If you didn’t manage to get this decal last year, enter code NIGELWASHERE here to redeem it. Once you’ve logged in, the decal can be found under:Decals > Special > OtherThe decal code will remain active from the publish date of this news until May 28th (10:00 GMT).Nuclear Escalation Stats and Its ReturnThe annual April Fools event this year showcased Nuclear Escalation, a new mode that featured brand-new nuclear bombers. We saw the great response to this mode from the community as well as your constructive feedback and today we would like to show you some statistics from the event that you may find interesting:We would also like to make a return to Nuclear Escalation, and it’s not that far away from coming back. Our current plan is to bring this mode back after the release of the next major update on a temporary basis. This will be to test, refine and make it as good as possible. It will return in a similar event layout as Bullet Hell and SEAD, whereby there are no tasks to obtain any reward vehicles. The two nuclear bombers will also not be available to use during the new event. This is because we’ll be testing this mode at a higher Battle Rating range, more nations, with different ground targets and some tweaks and improvements.We’ll have some more detailed information coming soon in a news post where we’ll cover all the changes and event schedule, so keep an eye out for that!An Update On Sound ModsIn March, we had to disable the use of sound mods after making changes to the audio engine, causing an increase in game crashes and other issues when sound mods were enabled. We fully understand the frustration this has caused to sound mod creators and players who use them, so rest assured we’re working every day on a solution to bring them back as soon as possible. Some good news here is that we plan to return the use of sound mods this month. We’ll let you know in a changelog, so please keep an eye out.We really appreciate your patience regarding this.New G4M1 Cockpit — Coming SoonThe Japanese G4M1 cockpit is in the works to be updated with stunning details, with more cockpits to come throughout the year. This updated cockpit is coming in a future major update, not the next one. Here is