

We only have pre-orders for naval packs to go by, and commercially speaking, they did reasonably well.” Naval forces are not yet in open beta, so we still don’t know the demand and how popular it will actually be. The main thing of course is to gain feedback from players on the core mechanics. “New types of ships and gunboats, different types of missions and locations. “In each of our weekend events we try out a new type of gameplay,” explains Yudintsev.

Since then, purchasers of special naval packs have been able to try out new vehicles and game modes for Knights of the Sea every weekend in limited sessions. War Thunder’s third and final form of vehicular combat, naval battles, has been in closed beta since players first got hands-on with it as Gamescom 2016. So, here’s everything that’s coming to War Thunder in 2017. With Knights of the Sea planned to make the transition from pre-beta to open beta, World War mode due out, the promise of new nations and even talk of destroyers coming to naval battles before 2018 – it’s not hard to see why. Judging by what’s on the horizon and how the game is looking right now, 2017 could be War Thunder’s best year yet.
