WWII Online News

Attention all soldiers! On March 8th 2020 at 6PM (GMT) the organic community will be hosting a live server role play event which is our fourth installment of, “Operation Fury”. This is the ultimate visualization of World War II Online with hundreds of infantry, guns, tanks and planes!

Steam players are welcome to participate and I propose to regroup you in two independent combined-arms "support Brigades" (one Allied and one Axis) that will be attached to the official side command. If a group becomes too large, we could further divide it into smaller battalions. Squads can participate and keep their own leadership.

Let's show these organic veterans how fearless and efficient Steam players can be!

Read bellow how to sign up for free. I will update the orbat with the tags, role and country of players that signed up.




Operation Fury is designed to be like a realism/roleplay event, with pre-event sign ups, with a fall-in command structure to maximize success and cohesion on the battlefield.

This will be a CRS (Developers) led event on both sides happening simultaneously worldwide and we expect ferocious fighting, featuring both returning veterans, existing players and our new Steam users. The objective (Town) will be announced a few hours before the start, according to the campaign situation. Both teams will then clash into each other!

By signing up to this event, you agree to be online for the duration of the event and follow your commanders in a “role play” like fashion. It will be held on the live game server and the campaign outcomes will remain. This will not be scripted in terms of the battles, only the hierarchy. All infantry access will be unlocked during the event so Free Players can try out new equipment and continue to support the battle(s).

The roles will be defined live during the event, but the objective is to all stick together and fight for a single objective (town).


It will start on Sunday March 8th 2020 at

• 10AM Pacific (Server Time GMT -8 )
  
• 12PM Central
  
• 1PM Eastern
  
• 6PM England (GMT)
  

Typically these sort of events last at least 4 hours and upwards to 6-8. With this sort of advanced notice, you should plan on keeping your schedule a bit clear and focus on having a hardcore day of WWII Online with everyone playing their hardest.


No, just have an active play-able subscription and you can join the event.

• Allied Corps CO: HEAVY265
  
• Troops:
  
  • Globuster [France]
    
  • tintinleviking [France]
    
  • bcbhuqegv1 [France]
    
  • Tanker11 [US-East]
    
  • MajorReismann [US-East]
    
  • bonomedia [US-East]
    
  • gmad [US-East]
    
  • Tre22 [US-East]
    
  • Space Panda [US-East]
    
  • ocdtwolfe [USA]
    
  • Sapped46 [Serbia]
    
  • Serra [Portugal]
    
  • nebbyy [Canada]
    
  • execution [Canada]
    
  • odin616 [Canada]
    
  • caviarboy [Australia]
    
  • Wiefuh [Brazil]
    
  • carto56 [Venezuela]
    
  • pfipfu [Uruguay] - A-TEAM
    
  • shrekhassw [UK]
    
  • Pluserfan2000 [Iran]
    
  • CommieCat
    
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Allied Command Channel (ALL UNITS TUNE): #2 and the Allied Discord

• Axis Armeekorps CO: XOOM
  
• Troops:
  
  • Demented [Russia]
    
  • Jordan7272 [USA]
    
  • SoftRaider [USA]
    
  • zerosama56 [USA]
    
  • dolphin111 [USA]
    
  • Krain [USA east]
    
  • KarlTheKiller [USA East]
    
  • blckdragon [USA East]
    
  • WhittmanUS [USA East]
    
  • kirbyisnotapokamon [Italy]
    
  • melagius [Australia]
    
  • degcon [Bulgaria]
    
  • liquid314 [Serbia]
    
  • Dawisimo [Germany]
    
  • wittman13 [Germany]
    
  • hazer [Germany]
    
  • george1 [Poland]
    
  • eventz [Bulgaria]
    
  • grimnir512 [Bulgaria]
    
  • Youssw
    
  • Elitely
    
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Axis Command Channel (ALL UNITS TUNE): #2 and the Axis Discord

Just drop your game name in the comments, mention the side you will be joining and optionally the country you live in (that might help to group you up): - -

We also need a few leaders and officers to volunteer on both sides. Their role will be to transmit the orders from the CO to the Steam regiment, gather all steam players on their mission and coordinate their actions by using .order, waypoints, chat communication and discord.
If you want a leadership role, please explain why players should join your team?

More questions? Just ask in the comments!

Telegram from XOOM:

Today we're ecstatic to reveal the first pass of our Modular Trench "Mobile Spawn," which will be deployable by TRUCKS only like all other mobile spawns in WWII Online. We also have a couple of items to cover which include 64-bit open beta reminder, and another survey designed to help us improve connections all around the world with our new ISP. Continue reading this article to see pictures of the new Modular Trench "Mobile Spawn," and those additional items.


The Modular Trench system was recently announced and with that we discussed a Mobile Spawn would be created to help amplify these trench systems. These Mobile Spawns will only be deployable by Trucks (all current trucks that deployable existing mobile spawn objects), and only Infantry can spawn from the Modular Trench Spawn.

The following pictures represent a work in progress, and may not show the final outcome.

The top two pictures show the actual Mobile Spawn object, where as the lower picture shows the Mobile Spawn connected to other trench pieces.






In case you missed our announcement last week, we're approaching 64-bit open beta testing. This is a HUGE development! Our Quality Assurance team is conducting internal testing now and things are looking good. We will need some assistance in testing, to get involved please go to our forum post here looking for assistance.




CRS is continuing to work on improving routing and ping times to our servers now in Portland OR. Your assistance is requested by filling out this survey (carefully - minor technical requirements needed) so that we can have actionable intelligence from specific use-cases (aka: individual scenarios from customers).

Routing & Ping Survey (Located Here - 5 to 10 minutes required)


See you in the battlefield!

Telegram from XOOM:

One of the great objectives CRS has had for sometime now is releasing the 64-Bit version of our World War II Online client, and I am pleased to report that our team is putting the final pieces together for an Open BETA which will act as the precursor to the official release. Since our original release WWIIOL has always been a 32-bit client and this marks a massive technological door opening. Please continue reading to learn about 64-Bit, Open BETA and how you can help, and what WWIIOL will be gaining by this.


We are anticipating release of the WWIIOL 64-Bit Client between February and March 2020. This will include the Mac and PC versions.


Our Quality Assurance team is feeling pretty confident now after some kinks have been worked out and things are looking good. Only a couple of ticketed items are remaining. The real test will be its deployment to the live server and seeing how things go.


Yes! We will have a BETA server available for users to login and test before it reaches the live server, we are approaching that stage and will require testers to assist.

If you are interested in supporting that effort, please contact our Quality Assurance team lead at [email protected].


Mac users will be able to upgrade to the latest version of their Operating System and continue to play WWII Online. It will set ourselves up for success with PC users as well as likely the natural trend in the future for Windows will be to rid of 32-bit support, just as Mac recently has done.

But most importantly, it is a massive technological door opening for WWII Online. It will give us the ability to leverage hardware and software going forward in ways that our current 32-Bit client will not allow us to achieve.

It is important to note that the first release of 64-Bit is simply making World War II Online's game client 64-Bit compatible, and that's it. Please set expectations accordingly.


YES! WWII Online is 100% community-funded indiegame developed by a volunteering team. Subscribe to support the project and give it a chance to survive another 20 years with an improved gameplay, a new visual look and more content.

Have more questions? Please leave a comment on this article stating your question.

Salute and thanks for your support!

Congratulations to the Allied forces for winning Campaign 170! After 52 days of hardcore fighting by German forces (including pressing the lines back a bit west), the Allies finally cut off many towns and pressed into several key factory towns inevitably leading to the defeat of the Axis.

This ongoing intermission include nimble equipment availability to re-create that old school WWII Online feel. For many players, this may be your first time experiencing this and it will require immense teamwork to bring supply and troops forward. Player Placed Objects will be put to the test for forward fortifications and barriers like we have not yet seen before. Please continue reading for more information on supply availability.


Instead of doing a free-for-all like we normally do for intermission, we wanted to do some testing to see how players like the "Old School feel of WWII Online."

It will take a lot of teamwork to move forces forward, we hope that you guys will drive some more trucks forward and understand that players will need a lift. Don't forget, you can hop on friendly tanks to for a ride.

The idea of the supply being very nimble is to encourage a more level playing field and unique game play.

SUPPLY AVAILABILITY
As the number of AB's go up, so does the supply (fyi). Only British, French and German forces will be in intermission. There will be plenty of trucks to move troops around in on both sides.

INFANTRY:
*Rifleman
-Brigade: 300
-Garrison: 100
*SMG + DLC: 20 MP40/Mas38/Thompson in brigades, No SMG’s in Garrison
*HC Officer 10
*Engineer: 20 in brigades, 10 in garrisons
*Sapper: 10 in brigades, 5 in garrisons
*Paratroopers:
-Rifleman: 200
-SMG: 20
-LMG: 15
-Planes: 50

TANKS
*Panzer II C + DLC: 15 in brigades, 7 in garrisons
*Vickers + DLC: 15 in brigades, 7 in garrisons
*R35 + DLC: 15 in brigades, 7 in garrisons

ATGs/AA
*Pak36 / Flak30 / Flak38: 20 in brigades, 10 in garrisons
*2 Pounder / cml38: 20 in brigades, 10 in garrisons
*25mm / cml38: 20 in brigades, 10 in garrisons


AIRPLANES
*Brigade: 30 + 10 (basic fighters & bombers)
*Garrison: 10 + 5 (basic fighters & bombers)

-Hurricane Mk I
-Spitfire Mk Ia
-Bf-109E1
-Bf-110C
-Hawk75
-Dewo 520


Campaign #171 will start Thursday, 1-23-2020 at about 7:00 PM server time or 10:00 PM EST. This new campaign will see somes changes made to tanks supply: numbers will be lowered to give infantry higher chance to dominate the battlefield.

Prior to the new campaign start the game server (Intermission server) will be coming down for a few hours. The training server will be open during this time period.

Starter account owners will receive access to Destroyers and a heavier ATG as campaign bonus.

See you in the battlefield!

Telegram from TMAN:

Join Operation "Iron Justice" this Sunday, January 19th starting at 12:00 EST or 5:00 PM GMT.

Iron Justice is a free armor focused special event led by the high commands (HCs) of both sides. All tank classes will be unlocked to all players, including f2p.



We hope you will take this opportunity to try multi-crewing with a buddy or teach a new player how to effectively tank in WWII Online! Think of how lethal you can be with two squaddies (players) in the same tank. One player controls the driving and maneuvering and the other player controls the sighting and weapons. It's a great time to try something new!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-FTYgajJWSM&feature=emb_title

We hope you will take this opportunity between now and Sunday to rally your friends and squad mates and bring them back to fight in Operation Iron Justice. The event will last several hours and the action will be directed by both of the high commands. In the past these events have drawn big increases in our server pop and created big battles along the map with multiple attack objectives for each side.

Just because this an armor focused event doesn't mean we don't need the full support of our infantry and air forces! Remember we are combined arms game and where there's a lot of tanks it means there's a lot of targets :)

Returning players should re-enlist now. Don't wait until Sunday to re-enlist in case you need support to help you get signed up and active again ([email protected]).

Also, don't forget to download Discord for voice comms. There will be "Iron Justice" channels in both the Allied and Axis Discords. Join our Discord Voice Comms server(s) here.