Welcome to our first issue of the new Community Highlight series, dedicated to the community members of Armored Warfare, their contributions and their interaction with the developers. Find out more about the game, learn something new and check out the cool community content!
On Sunday, 18th of October, the Obsidian Entertainment developers made a streaming session with the Russian community of Armored Warfare and answered a number of questions. The stream can be viewed here (partially in Russian, although the developers answer in English):
Summary
- The focus for the near future will be on vehicle balance, new maps and vehicles, stability and performance
- Upcoming features in near future are endgame (battalion mode), commander systems and upgrades to progression along with additional rewards
- The matchmaker in the future will be updated to feature mechanisms improving the vehicle class balance (such as not letting too many vehicles of one class into one battle)
- Multi-launcher Rocket Systems (MLRS) won't be added in near future
- The developers are experimenting with maps of various sizes, the largest map currently is the 1400 x 1400 meters Reactor map, it's possible there will be even larger maps in the future
- Currently no mode with more than 15 players per side is in development
- Developers are working on the replay feature, it is however still far from being ready
- It's possible player-created skins and decals will be introduced in the future, but so far there are no concrete plans
- It will be possible to check other players' statistics outside of battle, but by default the statistics will be set to private
- There will be a branch of Ukraine vehicles in the future
- There are no plans to limit the amount of garage slots
- It is possible that night maps (featuring night vision) will come in the future
- There are no plans to remove the artillery warning from the game
- Amphibious vehicles are planned, in near future the vehicles that can swim in real life will receive longer drown timer
- The amount of reputation and credits required to unlock tier 9 and 10 will be "reasonable", so that even regular players can unlock those tiers with some effort
- Tier 7 and 8 premium vehicles will be possibly added after the introduction of tier 9 and 10 regular vehicles
- Power-wise, a premium vehicle is intended to be somewhere between stock and fully upgraded vehicle of the same tier
- The developers are currently working on boss fight mechanism, it's possible players will get to fight helicopters in the future
- The upcoming PvE features include: improvements to spawn mechanism, making the gameplay more varied, removing the issue where bots spawn on top of player vehicles
- The shot delay issue is not experienced by every player and does not seem to be dependent on latency, developers are investigating
- The light tanks used to have no accuracy decay while travelling at high speeds - this was problematic with some vehicles such as the Sheridan and will likely not return, but the developers are continuing to investigate this matter
- In the future, the looks of the player base will be customizable as players continue to unlock new features
- It is possible that in the future there will be special vehicles unlockable for difficult achievements
- Custom battle mode (comparable to a "training room" mode) will be available soon, it will also support the observer feature
- It is not sure the observer mode will be available in PvP/PvE battles
- Voice chat will be possibly implemented for competitive game modes
The developers also unveiled some of the upcoming features of the Territory Wars mode, in which Battalions will fight each other over the control of special territories.
- This mode will support battalions as well as individual players.
- It is possible this mode will be connected to a storyline campaign and to some of the PvE missions
- There are plans for a competitive ladder system
- It is also possible that the players will be able to ally themselves with certain factions and unlock unique rewards by gaining reputation standing with these factions
The event was also covered by the Armored Talk blog - visit it for more detailed info about Armored Warfare!
Community Content
Today we will focus on some of the video contributors! If you like the videos, be sure to subscribe to their channels and check them out for more great content. For example - check out RodgerDodger's Rumble in the Jungle - OF-40 Ace video!
Link: RodgerDodger's Channel
BlackPaw's LAV-300 video is also well worth watching:
Link: BlackPaw's Channel
UnholyKyono demostrates how to play the Expeditionary Tank when facing a thick-skinned MBT:
Link: UnholyKyono's Channel
That's it for today, looking forward to seeing you on the battlefield! You can submit your community contribution to our dedicated forum section, perhaps it will be your work featured next time!
