Official Website is easy to miss entirely and awkward to look up once you have, which is a common combination in War Thunder.

Short answer

Official Website is a fixed part of War Thunder that most players meet once and remember, whether or not they understood it at the time.

  • It rewards attention rather than preparation.
  • Do not build a plan around it before you have seen it work.
  • If a menu path does not exist for you, your build is older or newer than the one described.

War Thunder models more of the vehicle than it tells you about, and the grind punishes guessing. Early impressions of it are usually wrong in the same specific way. The in-game description is technically accurate and practically useless.

How it has changed over time

There is usually a fast way and a reliable way, and it is worth knowing which one you are choosing. The wiki entry is thorough and buries the actually useful part six paragraphs down. It rewards understanding rather than grinding, which is unusual for War Thunder. The developers have changed their mind about this at least once, which explains the older advice.

It is the kind of thing veterans forget they ever had to learn. It became noticeably more relevant after a change the patch notes barely mentioned. If your result differs from what is described here, note what is different first rather than starting over.

What it is often confused with

It shows up in more places than its introduction suggests, once you know to look. Its practical value is narrow and real, rather than broad and theoretical. It helps to understand why a step exists, because then you can adapt it when your situation is slightly different.

  • Ask what it is for before asking how to get it.
  • Read the in-game description once, then ignore it.
  • Prefer the in-game option over an external tool when both exist.
  • Expect its role to have shifted at least once across updates.

Common misunderstandings

It appears in supplementary material in more detail than it does in the game itself. The name is descriptive if you already know what it does, and opaque if you do not. Everything below is framed around the current state of War Thunder rather than a launch-week impression. There is a persistent myth attached to it that has never been true in any version.

It is more consequential in the late game than the early one, which is why first impressions mislead. War Thunder is not shy about hiding useful information two menus deep, so some of this is simply knowing where to look. Knowing this does not make you better at War Thunder, but it does make the rest of it legible.

How it connects to the rest of War Thunder

Community shorthand around it has drifted far enough from the original meaning to cause arguments. Treat anything stated without a version number as provisional. Two similarly named things exist, and mixing them up explains a lot of contradictory advice.

Most guides mention it in passing and none of them stop to define it. Where something depends on your platform or region, that is called out rather than glossed over. Whether it is worth going out of your way for depends entirely on how you are playing.

What it changes in practice

The game introduces it quickly and assumes you picked it up, which is where the confusion starts. What follows assumes you are on a current install and have not modified it. Its role has changed across updates, so older discussion describes something slightly different.

Where people go wrong

  • Trusting a video thumbnail that promises a result the video never actually shows.
  • Rushing the last step, which is usually the one with the actual requirement in it.
  • Assuming a guide from an older season still describes the current version.

War Thunder FAQ

Why do people disagree about it?

Usually because they are describing different versions, and occasionally because a similarly named thing exists alongside it.

What if none of this works for me?

Then something in your setup differs from the assumption — version, region or platform. Check those three before anything else.

Is this still accurate after the latest War Thunder update?

The method is; individual numbers may not be. If a value on your screen differs, trust the screen and keep the sequence.

Where can I read more?

The official material covers it in more depth than the game does, and considerably more reliably than aggregated fan pages.

Come back to the caveats list if it does not work first time — the answer is almost always in there.