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Fair Play: October 2025

Each month, we share with you some details on our progress in fighting unfair play. The BattlEye anti-cheat helps us find violations, and your reports are a great asset as well!

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changedEach month, we share with you some details on our progress in fighting unfair play. The BattlEye anti-cheat helps us find violations, and your reports are a great asset as well! Find out how to file a report and how our anti-cheat system works on our Wiki .
changedBanned accountsSince our last fair play, we’ve banned 3520 accounts that were found to have violated the rules. Specifically 3.2.3 of the EULA namely in the automation of gameplay (using bots) and cheat software. For complete transparency, we’re publishing the full list of these banned players . This list will be available for two weeks after the publication of this article.
changedRecommendationsWe recommend that you set a strong password for your account and enable two-step authentication in your profile security settings . We have the following 2FA options available: email, SMS, TOTP ( Gaijin Pass /Google Authenticator), and Telegram bot, which we suggest trying if SMS 2FA messages are not reaching you.
changedRecommendationsWe’d also suggest that you turn on 2FA for the email that is linked to your Gaijin account for additional security, as this will protect your account from fraudsters. And remember, don’t use prohibited client modifications and never share your account information with anyone.

Each month, we share with you some details on our progress in fighting unfair play. The BattlEye anti-cheat helps us find violations, and your reports are a great asset as well! Find out how to file a report and how our anti-cheat system works on our Wiki.

Banned accounts

Since our last fair play, we’ve banned 3520 accounts that were found to have violated the rules. Specifically 3.2.3 of the EULA namely in the automation of gameplay (using bots) and cheat software. For complete transparency, we’re publishing the full list of these banned players. This list will be available for two weeks after the publication of this article.

Additionally, 287 accounts have been banned for a week or longer for intentional teamkilling, ramming and griefing.

Recommendations

We recommend that you set a strong password for your account and enable two-step authentication in your profile security settings. We have the following 2FA options available: email, SMS, TOTP (Gaijin Pass /Google Authenticator), and Telegram bot, which we suggest trying if SMS 2FA messages are not reaching you.

We’d also suggest that you turn on 2FA for the email that is linked to your Gaijin account for additional security, as this will protect your account from fraudsters. And remember, don’t use prohibited client modifications and never share your account information with anyone.

The War Thunder Team

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Steam News / 8 October 2025

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