How does the dev server work?

[Halogen]

If you pre-order the French tanks it said you'd be able to enter the beta when it comes out.
How would I find out that it started?

[83athom]

Dev server is something else. Dev server allows you to play WiP content that is not yet released for the main servers. A beta of a tree basically means that tree is locked for everyone other than the people who bought a pack of that tree. When the update drops that adds the french tanks, you can just play.

[Blitzkrieg Wulf]

Originally posted by 83athom:

Dev server is something else. Dev server allows you to play WiP content that is not yet released for the main servers. A beta of a tree basically means that tree is locked for everyone other than the people who bought a pack of that tree. When the update drops that adds the french tanks, you can just play.

This^ Thank you.

Dev Server is basically content that the developers are almost ready to release, and just want to either get preliminary feedback, or avoid any obvious issues that they might have not found.

[Halogen]

Originally posted by 83athom:

Dev server is something else. Dev server allows you to play WiP content that is not yet released for the main servers. A beta of a tree basically means that tree is locked for everyone other than the people who bought a pack of that tree. When the update drops that adds the french tanks, you can just play.

But I did buy one of the packs that's what I was saying

[Silent]

Originally posted by {442} Halogen:

Originally posted by 83athom:

Dev server is something else. Dev server allows you to play WiP content that is not yet released for the main servers. A beta of a tree basically means that tree is locked for everyone other than the people who bought a pack of that tree. When the update drops that adds the french tanks, you can just play.

But I did buy one of the packs that's what I was saying

Yes, but you will get access to the tree when the update rolls out. The dev server goes up for about a day and anybody can join and test. They cannot use the full tree when it is released into the stable branch of the game without a french preorder, but you will be able to because you got one of the packs.

In short, the beta hasn't released yet.

[Illusionyary]

Originally posted by {442} Halogen:

But I did buy one of the packs that's what I was saying

Then go here and install this: https://forum.warthunder.com/index.php?/topic/249613-how-to-access-the-development-server-dev-server-guide/ (DON'T INSTALL IT TO YOUR EXISTING WT FOLDER)

It'll then download the dev server for you.

[Halogen]

Originally posted by Silent:

Originally posted by {442} Halogen:

But I did buy one of the packs that's what I was saying

Yes, but you will get access to the tree when the update rolls out. The dev server goes up for about a day and anybody can join and test. They cannot use the full tree when it is released into the stable branch of the game without a french preorder, but you will be able to because you got one of the packs.

In short, the beta hasn't released yet.

Then how the ♥♥♥♥ did people like Phlydaily use it?
Exactly

[Silent]

Originally posted by {442} Halogen:

Originally posted by Silent:

Yes, but you will get access to the tree when the update rolls out. The dev server goes up for about a day and anybody can join and test. They cannot use the full tree when it is released into the stable branch of the game without a french preorder, but you will be able to because you got one of the packs.

In short, the beta hasn't released yet.

Then how the ♥♥♥♥ did people like Phlydaily use it?
Exactly

You download a separate dev client that goes up for a short amount of time and you can access it. The order of release is:

Dev Client: What you saw Phlydaily on and everybody can access it, but not through the stable game launcher. This goes up for a day or two when the stable is close to releasing. You have to watch the forums to get the dates that this server is active and I've never bothered with it because I don't want to download another huge amount of data just to access new tanks for a day.

Beta: This is when the French tanks 1.75 hit stable branch. Everything after tier 1 will be locked for people who didn't by one of the packs.

Full release: Everybody is able to use the tree even without buying a pack.

Originally posted by Illusionyary:

Originally posted by {442} Halogen:

But I did buy one of the packs that's what I was saying

Then go here and install this: https://forum.warthunder.com/index.php?/topic/249613-how-to-access-the-development-server-dev-server-guide/ (DON'T INSTALL IT TO YOUR EXISTING WT FOLDER)

It'll then download the dev server for you.

If you want the dev sever, you'll have to do this, but you might have missed it when it was live.