It was a lot of fun. Basically, everyone got Mad Max versions of some of the normal light vehicles for the event, and were dropped into a large desert map. Then, you had to collect different materials (one of which is earned from kills only) and get to an extraction point. Anyone who is killed drops their loot on death. The loot was used to progress a mini-tech tree, upgrading the event vehicles and unlocking non-event cosmetics.
Honestly, last year’s (the Mad Max extraction shooter) was really fun. I ground my way through most of that just for fun.
War Thunder’s event this year is pretty tame compared to normal, but its still fun.
First, they released a trailer for infantry in their vehicle combat game. This turned out to be a misdirection, and instead, they released an event adding WW1 vehicles.
The event itself is a weird, misbalanced, buggy mess, moreso that normal War Thunder, and moreso than you would expect making experimental anti-infantry vehicles fight each other. That said, its a fun novelty nonetheless.
Tip: if you trust yourself to keep track of stuff, you can just use another password for these fields. I know this is pretty common knowelege in the privacy space, but a lot of people never think of it.