Estimated Update Sizes

• Xbox One: 1.60 GB
• Xbox Series S|X: 1.65 GB
• PS4: 1.32 GB
• PS5/PS5 Pro: 1.36 GB

New Season – Gods of Thunder

We hope you're ready to rock, because these tanks are ready to roll ... right into the new Gods of Thunder season!

This season features the brand-new ADATS (M3A1) Ultimate Season Pass tank, the Tiger-Maus Season Pass tank, the Death Valley map, Regiment Leaderboards, new Regiment Ranks, low-tier tanks returned, and much more coming throughout the season!

Start by checking out the Gods of Thunder season rewards details in this article.

New Map! Death Valley

Death Valley is a brand-new map, exclusive to World of Tanks Modern Armor. Developed alongside players, this Community Map is finally ready for its time in the spotlight!

Death Valley’s visual theme is inspired by the southwest region of the U.S. and its history as the site of several testing grounds. You’ll find irradiated water, nuke sites, underground bunkers, and even a simulated suburban neighborhood that’s begging to be destroyed. Battles taking place on this map will surely come to an explosive ending.

Death Valley will temporarily have increased map rotation so that it appears more often.

• World War II: Battle Tiers 9+
• Cold War: All Eras
• Size: 1400 x 1400
• Modes: Standard, Team Destruction, Assault, Encounter
  • Custom Games: Multi-Base Assault
• Camouflage Environment: Desert

Regiments, Part 2: Leaderboards

In our efforts to continue to bring you new features and improvements, Regiment Leaderboards have been added along with new ranks!

• The Leaderboard will display the top 50 Regiments and the four Regiments above and below the player's Regiment.
• Regiments must have at least five members to be ranked on the Leaderboard.
• The Leaderboard is sorted by “Rating” by default.
• Additional sort options are available:
  • Rating
  • Avg. Win Rate
  • Avg. Damage
  • Avg. Kill/Death Ratio
  • Avg. Survival Rate
  • Games Played

New enlisted Regiment ranks have been added to provide better agency and organization of its Regiment members:

• Private First Class
• Corporal
• Sergeant
• Staff Sergeant

Be sure to check out the Regiments Store, as it's been updated with new content! This includes the rare M10 RBFM tank and new Camouflage patterns.

Unretired Tier I-IV Tech Tree Tanks

This season, 61 Tech Tree vehicles are coming out of retirement and have been added back to the Tech Tree.

• Existing accounts that do not already own the unretired tanks:
  • Tier I unretired vehicles:
    • Will be Elite and free to purchase.
  • Tier II unretired vehicles:
    • Will be Elite with the normal Silver purchase cost.
  • Tier III unretired vehicles:
    • Will be researched with the normal Silver purchase cost.
  • Tier IV unretired vehicles:
    • Normal locked status.
• Existing accounts that already own retired tanks:
  • They will still be owned, no change.
• New accounts:
  • Accounts created after this update will have the Tier I starter vehicles unlocked for World War II instead of Tier III.
• Map rotation: To support the low-tier battles, three additional maps have been added to the Battle Tier 1-2 map rotation: Ensk, Ghost Town, and Widepark.
• Grant: Updated to a multi-turret vehicle and can now use the 75mm and 37mm guns.
• T22 Prototype: Converted to a Tier VI Premium tank to be more in line with its historical placement.
  • If you own this tank, you will still own it; it will be automatically converted to the Tier VI Premium.

Lists of unretired Tier I-IV tanks:

World War II Balance Changes

As a continuation of our long-term effort to improve gameplay balance for all tank classes and tiers, this season, we have adjusted over 100 vehicles across both Tech Tree and Premium categories. The focus is on Tier VIII+ medium and heavy tanks to improve stock configurations, increase shell damage, and more.

• Tank destroyers that are affected by the damage changes will receive reload adjustments.

If, within the last 365 days, you purchased either the AAT60 or the Pz.Kpfw. 38H 735 (f), and you have concerns, please contact Player Support.

See the full details in this article.

Matchmaker Improvements

We added a player experience weighting factor to help have a similar number of experienced players on both teams in a match.

• Added a "progress will be lost" warning if a player attempts to switch tabs after entering information to create a Regiment.
• Reopening a text box in Regiments will now display the current text so that the text can be edited.
• Text info box for Game Board rewards has been updated to fit additional characters.
• Added a new filter and icon for Custom VO on Commander.

• Updated the Co-Op text and icon color.
• Updated bot behavior:
  • Bots now rotate to face targets before rocking back and forth.
  • Improved shooting logic to have a delay between when a player is detected and when the bot can shoot. This is to have a more human-like reaction and account for some latency.
  • Improved target prioritization when multiple targets are available to prevent switching between targets constantly.
  • Improved tactic selection by making choices based on the first enemy aimed at the bot.
• Updated queue screen to improve visibility of the game mode entered and tips that can be cycled through while waiting.
• Added spin-up delay and overheat penalty for rotary autocannon tanks to the Detailed Stats page.

Special Note: Expired In-Game Music Licenses

Megadeth and Iron Maiden in-game music licenses will expire with this update. Tanks associated with these bands will no longer play music when selected in the garage.