WWII Online News

Campaign 172 has ended after 52 days of brutal fighting. German forces have won after securing three French factory towns (Amiens, Abbeville, and Montreuil). Great job on this Campaign everyone, and a special kudos to the Allies for fighting very hard all the way to the end,

Intermission will begin shortly after we do some server upgrades. Campaign 173 will begin this Thursday, May 7th.

During intermission, we will be opening up all equipment to all, and remove rank restrictions so you guys can have full play options.

Intermission scenario: Rotterdam is the central focus. This is a newer area developed in our game and it's the one place we can expect to see plenty of combined forces (Air - Land - Sea) all working together. Full supply is available so go crazy and have some hardcore fights there! Try a destroyer if you haven't before.

We'd like to encourage both High Commands to organize their side and prepare for a successful launch of Campaign 173 on Thursday.



Because some of our hardcore Steam supporters requested it, we have re-activated the discounted offer for a 12-months prepaid pack, with an extra discount after the 1st purchase!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/251950/WWII_Online/



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Contained here is a quick view of the article on our home page, travel to our main page to see the full article and even more details here ---> Full (DETAILED) May 1st, 2020 Production update article.

Lots of screenshots included in today's article, ranging from new vehicles in development, texture upgrades to terrain objects, and the return of 10 old-school bunkers in frontline - strategically valuable - towns.

[h2]NEW SELF-PROPELLED ANTI-AIRCRAFT WEAPONS[/h2]

On the path to completion of a few of our critical Roadmap items is the roll-out of Early War Truck SPAA's. These will be lightly armored, highly mobile Anti-Aircraft weapons available earlier in the war to provide AA protection for friendly forces. Please enjoy this great work by BMBM.


BEDFORD SPAA: Available for British and US Forces.



[h2]STUG III AusfG - LATE WAR w/MG[/h2]

Finally, the Stug is getting a machinegun, WOOT! BMBM has gone further to update the textures on this vehicle and even went into the internal model to enhance it a bit with a new radio (provided by XL2RIPPR) and better-looking textures.

• Crew 4
  
  • Driver
    
  • Commander
    
  • Gunner
    
  • Loader / Top Weapon Station (MG)
    
  
  
  

[h2]NEW UNIVERSAL CARRIER[/h2]

The Universal Carrier is an iconic British Expeditionary Force, lightweight support infantry unit, capable of carrying troops and providing machinegun support via the hull Bren Gun and the top-mounted Vickers MG.

• Crew: 3
  
  • Driver
    
  • Hullgun (Bren) & Commander
    
    • Reloads: 10 magazines
      
    • Mag capacity: 30rds each
      
    • Commander position can pop up and use binoculars
      
    
    
    
  • Turret (Vickers MG)
    
    • Reloads: 20
      
    • Belt has 250rds each
      
    
    
    
  
  
  
• Carries: 4 Troops
  
• Towing Capacity: Medium Guns
  
• Speed: 48km/h maximum (onroad)
  

[h2]FULL ARTICLE CLICK BELOW[/h2]

Full (DETAILED) May 1st, 2020 Production update article.

From ou President, XOOM:

Today I am pleased to announce that CRS has provided Free Play subscription access to ALL veterans of WWII Online, and you may play the game immediately!



Anyone who has ever had a premium subscription has received a Free Play sub added to their primary account, meaning all players of WWII Online will now be able to play - always - with Free Play (limited) access. This is a bold move for us but we believe it's not only a great way to keep players connected, but we think it's the right thing to do during this unprecedented time in our world's history to give all of our players the opportunity to play the game and disconnect from stress. We see this as a perpetual "welcome back soldier" while still maintaining the value of our subscriptions. Please continue reading for more information.

• All veteran players rank will remain as it was
  
• Access will be limited to Free Play subscription
  
  • Rifleman
    
  • Reserve SMG
    
  • Reserve Tanks
    
  • Basic Truck
    
  • Light AA Gun
    
  • Light ATG Gun
    
  • Fairmile Boat
    
  • Basic Features
    
    • Capturing
      
    • Infantry binoculars
      
    • Mission creation
      
    • Squad creation
      

At any time you may subscribe, and unsubscribe, and still retain your Free Play access.

Finally, we have introduced some newer subscriptions (optional), but these are only available for organic (non-steam) accounts:

• All Infantry access: $9.99/mo
  
• All Air Force access: $9.99/mo
  
• All Army access: $12.99/mo
  

Saturday's Operation "Spring Boot" will be an infantry-based campaign event led by the High Command and organized by HEAV265. Set an automatic reminder by pressing the button at the top of this article!

Operation Spring Boot: Saturday, April 18th at 11 AM Server Time (Pacific, GMT -7):
1PM Central
2PM Eastern
6PM GMT
WWII Online Discord (Voice Comms)





Rat Chat: Sunday, April 19th at 11 AM Server Time (Pacific, GMT -7)

This Sunday's Rat Chat will be an eye-opening in-depth review of the next patch coming to WWII Online, featuring demonstrations of content in the works and a discussion of how we can take WWII Online technology forward. Of course, we will put together a window of time to accept some questions, but this Rat Chat will be more of a demonstration than a Question & Answer session.

Rat Chat hosted by "Zoom Meeting" (Link here)

If you need any help, please contact our support team at http://support.wwiionline.com

April 14th, 2020 Servers will be coming down around 7:00pm Server time (US Pacific).

Bug Fixes
Corrected an issue that was causing the 64bit Mac client to crash whenever submitting a .bug or .report
Fixed an issue with logging on the server-side of things

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Cornered Rat Software

From the Desk of XOOM: April 1st, 2020 (no April fools!)

S! WWII Online Community, exactly 1 year since we've released our 2019-20 dev roadmap, today's announcement is a colossal amount of outstanding development information, and even better it's all REAL (no April fools!). We're going to talk about; Bomber Loadouts, a new Stug G model, aircraft gauges being updated, the new trench system coming out, the new combat engineer class, link-able PPO's, waypoints and server tracked objects for bombs + more!

This is one of those articles you'll want to really digest and then share it with all of your squad mates - IT IS A BIG DEAL! Hope you've got your drink poured, get ready for the HYPE!!!

[h2]WWII Online Version 1.36.5.0[/h2]
It's important to note that this is a work in progress and some items may be added / removed based on current working conditions. Prior to release a full completed readme will be distributed.

Patch Content:

• BOMBER LOADOUTS
  
• NEW STUG G MODEL W/MG34 (AND SIDE SKIRTS)
  
• SEVERAL AIRCRAFT GAUGES UPDATED
  
• MODULAR PPO TRENCH SYSTEM
  
• MODULAR TRENCH "MOBILE SPAWN"
  
• ENGINEER CLASS SPLIT IN TWO (ENGINEER & COMBAT ENGINEER)
  
• SANDBAGS & BARBED WIRE OBJECTS "LINK-ABLE"
  
• MISSION LEADER "HUD" WAYPOINTS
  
• WAYPOINTS ACROSS MULTIPLE MISSIONS
  
• SERVER TRACKED OBJECTS - BOMBS
  

[h2]ROADMAP UPDATES[/h2]

• STURMGEWEHR 44
  
• M1A1 CARBINE & .30 CALIBER LMG
  
• JUNKERS-88 A4
  
• WELLINGTON BOMBER
  
• URBAN CITY BLOCKS
  

[h2]OTHER ITEMS IN DEVELOPMENT[/h2]

• UI Opacity (Transparency) Settings
  
• Upgrading SpeedTree technology (graphics) - Evaluation underway / in progress
  
• Infantry controls (mouse sensitivity)
  
• Upgrade TrackIR SDK
  
• User Interface Upgrade
  
• Integrated Voice Comms - Planning
  

>> Read the full article here <<