How do I get mods?

[bflaherty07]

I saw that you can get mods for War Thunder but i don't know how.

[LordBUM]

you can get skins and player made missions of war thunder live website but there are no actual mods that change the base game and nobody but you will be able to see the player made skins.

[nikkicallwitts]

bruh you dont get MODS!!! you can be temp ban or perm ban...

[Dazven]

Originally posted by nikkicallwitts:

bruh you dont get MODS!!! you can be temp ban or perm ban...

You won't get banned. Gaijin is laissez faire on sound, sight, UI, and some utility mods (Ex: WTRI) and their policy is practically a Cover Your Ass policy (It's essentially just don't do something that would count as very advantageous). The exception to this where you may face repercussions is using for example sounds mods in a tournament (I'd imagine user sights as well, but never heard anyone mention that circumstance happening). Essentially, unless it triggers EAC, is confirmed to be a form of cheating (Sound mod that eliminates all sound but engine sound), etc you will be fine. Hell, even if you are running some of these types of mods you'd have to publicly show that like streaming yourself playing with it. Now cheats such as aimbots and the like are a different story.

As mentioned by LordBUM, you can find them on live and some others being advertised elsewhere in the forums which may be paywalled on Patreon and the like.

[Eftwyrd]

Originally posted by Dazven:

Originally posted by nikkicallwitts:

bruh you dont get MODS!!! you can be temp ban or perm ban...

You won't get banned. Gaijin is laissez faire on sound, sight, UI, and some utility mods (Ex: WTRI) and their policy is practically a Cover Your Ass policy (It's essentially just don't do something that would count as very advantageous). The exception to this where you may face repercussions is using for example sounds mods in a tournament (I'd imagine user sights as well, but never heard anyone mention that circumstance happening). Essentially, unless it triggers EAC, is confirmed to be a form of cheating (Sound mod that eliminates all sound but engine sound), etc you will be fine. Hell, even if you are running some of these types of mods you'd have to publicly show that like streaming yourself playing with it. Now cheats such as aimbots and the like are a different story.

As mentioned by LordBUM, you can find them on live and some others being advertised elsewhere in the forums which may be paywalled on Patreon and the like.

The corollary to all of this is it is entirely at gaijins discretion so if they at some later date decide something you have been using without consequence for years is a breach of their terms there are no appeals

so take a little care and dont just blindly trust people that say they do it so it must be fine

[Fal]

Nexus mods have some

https://www.nexusmods.com/warthunder/mods/categories/

And the offcial mod channel of the game is on

https://live.warthunder.com/feed/all/

the main difference between the 2 sites is that nexus will have some NSFW content

[isomorphic_projection]

This game has in app purchases, mods should not be allowed. Specially when it's skins.

Skins are a form of cheating in this game, if they do it good.

[Black_Fox]

Originally posted by isomorphic_projection:

This game has in app purchases, mods should not be allowed. Specially when it's skins.

Skins are a form of cheating in this game, if they do it good.

Custom skins are only visible to the user and other people that downloaded it and have "show user skins" turned on in the settings

[Dazven]

Originally posted by Eftwyrd:

Originally posted by Dazven:

You won't get banned. Gaijin is laissez faire on sound, sight, UI, and some utility mods (Ex: WTRI) and their policy is practically a Cover Your Ass policy (It's essentially just don't do something that would count as very advantageous). The exception to this where you may face repercussions is using for example sounds mods in a tournament (I'd imagine user sights as well, but never heard anyone mention that circumstance happening). Essentially, unless it triggers EAC, is confirmed to be a form of cheating (Sound mod that eliminates all sound but engine sound), etc you will be fine. Hell, even if you are running some of these types of mods you'd have to publicly show that like streaming yourself playing with it. Now cheats such as aimbots and the like are a different story.

As mentioned by LordBUM, you can find them on live and some others being advertised elsewhere in the forums which may be paywalled on Patreon and the like.

The corollary to all of this is it is entirely at gaijins discretion so if they at some later date decide something you have been using without consequence for years is a breach of their terms there are no appeals

so take a little care and dont just blindly trust people that say they do it so it must be fine

Yeah, I didn't mean to suggest it's impossible, just unlikely right now. This applies to anything though, whether it's social media, an ISP, etc. Using mods for War Thunder and worrying about policy isn't unique. What's acceptable one moment might not be later, but it's a bit much to be as fearful as the person I was responding to.

I don't believe Gaijin would retroactively penalize players for using mods before a policy change. That would result in losing a fair amount of players. A warning prior to enforcement could preserve those players, and if they fail to heed the warning, they would then be banned (Gaijin would rather have the revenue from those players). Just staying informed about policy updates (I'd imagine it'd be clear enough such as newsletters, notes upon entering hangar, etc), and if something goes against it, stopping should keep us relatively safe