Call to Arms - Gates of Hell: Ostfront News

Commanders!
Are you aware that we’re in the middle of a sale?
Besides that, do you want to find out more about our current development? Keep reading!


We’re part of the summer sale, as you may have noticed. Since we have published Talvisota, online activity has increased dramatically as a result, and we’re not nearly done yet (the sale will run for a few more days).
We see the community growing every day and this motivates us to keep going down the path we have been on with our game. And as we have stated in earlier updates, there is a lot more to come. So if ever you had a really good reason to prepare for the future, surely this is the time to seize the opportunity and get the RTS you know you want!

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At the moment, we are contemplating possibilities to expand the existing factions even further, weighing our options while we keep working on the next faction.
In the meantime, the images in this blog show you what happens on any given day in our office, when our level designers are doing what they do best: create something realistic that offers some serious replay value.
Here’s a few images from a random new map, which is the result of “just another day at the office”, the integration and purpose of which will be announced later:

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We have already been working on the next milestone for a while. Development runs in parallel with the usual process of support for the existing packages. We will announce our plans soon.
If you want to be among the first to find out, be sure to stay tuned!

Community members! In our previous update we announced the development of late-war period for Finland Call to Arms - Gates of Hell: Talvisota expansion.

Our progress has been steady and we have some screenshots to share.

Testing of late-war will begin soon by our team, and if it plays well and turns out to be a good addition, we hope to release it as soon as it’s balanced.

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We mentioned we would be releasing the skirmishes from Talvisota at a regular pace. We’ve processed a lot of the feedback from the players and we’re happy to announce we’ve made substantial changes to some of the existing skirmishes, as well as improvements throughout. Our changes have been aimed to make the skirmishes more fun and diverse as well as addressing historical inaccuracies. We have also finished three more skirmishes which we will release very soon.

Get the Talvisota DLC to have access to them!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1911520/Call_to_Arms__Gates_of_Hell_Talvisota/


Summer has arrived and to celebrate it, we are participating in the Steam summer sale with an amazing discount. Share the news with your friends and let’s keep growing our awesome community!

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We are very happy how our players have praised the visual improvements and more lively and beautiful maps of the Talvisota expansion. You may recall that we mentioned that our aim was to bring that level of detail to the Ostfront base game as well. We are working hard to achieve this on top of all the other tasks which our team is undertaking.

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Moreover, we are preparing an amazing sound redesign to the game. There is a lot of work going on behind the scenes to bring our audio experience to an even greater standard, emphasizing realism as well as more atmospheric sounds thanks to new solutions we implemented. We continue to evolve and re-invest into our product to make sure it is not only to push the boundaries of our capabilities, but also to reward our community for their long-lasting support.


That’s all folks. Thanks for stopping by. Barbedwire Studios wishes you a happy start to the summer and we will see you on the battlefield!

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Good day everyone

We are very happy that so many of you are enjoying the Talvisota DLC. As you know, we continue to expand and improve upon all our Gates of Hell products, and today we have some awesome announcements to make.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1911520/Call_to_Arms__Gates_of_Hell_Talvisota/

Christoffer Weiss has been cast as one of the voice actors for the finnish soldiers in Talvisota. A passionate actor known for partaking in WWII movies like “Framom främsta linjen”, Christoffer shared his passion and appreciation for our project and we could not reject such a collaboration. You will be able to hear him inside the game soon!



We also want to extend our thanks to all the enthiusiast players and finnish historians who are helping us achieve more historical accuracy on our Finnish units and landscapes. We appreciate all the feedback in this regard and continue to evolve our game.





[h2]Sale! [/h2]

We continue our sale for Call to Arms - Gates of Hell: Talvisota, which went out early this week. The release has been great and we are skimming through all of the feedback, some of which was already addressed in a patch yesterday. After the weekend we will be putting together another update which includes new and improved skirmishes as well as goodies for both Ostfront and Talvisota owners. Be sure to spread the word about Talvisota, the more successful it becomes, the more we will continue to expand it beyond the original plans. Make sure to grab it on this amazing sale, it wont last for much longer!

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[h2]Late War! [/h2]

As part of the good reception of our first expansion, we are putting together the late-war stage of Finland which would enable it to fight in PvP and PvE in the 1944-45 environment. This is a decision that we didn't contemplate in the first place, because it is a difficult period to balance, since Finland was outclassed by the technological advances and available weaponry of the rival nations. We will give more information when we have progressed further. There is no assurance that it play well enough to be releasable, but we will try our best to make it work and we will release it to all Talvisota owners if the results are satisfactory.

[h2]Anniversary [/h2]

1 year ago, Ostfront released. Barbedwire Studios wants to thank our community for the amazing experience it has been to release the game and continue to work with you over the last year. May it last for many more!

Have a good weekend.
Sincerely,
Barbedwire Studios.

Added new skirmish for Talvisota DLC: (Fin) Honkaniemi
Added missing icon for white death on mid stage
Added achievements to finnish singleplayer campaign
Added new vehicle views for Panzer IV series
Added Railgun Turret rotate sound
Added missing icon for finnish border guards
Added missing conquest icons for finland
Added passenger seats to sturmpanzer4, su152 and ferdinand
Added 76mm M1933 to soviet early war standard menu
Added Zis-2 to doctrine unit, early war, tier 2 defensive.
Added new slope multipliers for small arms 7.62-8mm rifle and mg calibers and 12.7mm HMG caliber

Updated AT grenade ranges and speeds to allow the AI to use them more effectively against moving targets
Updated slope multiplier on AT-rifles to make them much more useful against armour by tweaking their T/D ballistic ratio
Updated minimap rendering to be in front of other interface elements
Updated chinese localization
Updated loading screens for finnish singleplayer missions
Updated when a shell penetrates extra armor plates on tanks, but does Not penetrate an important component, to Not play the damage penetration fx
Updated shell hit fx on metal so that penetrating hits look more visual different than a non-penetrating hit
Updated bazooka class weapons to use HEAT penetration fx for similar caliber
Updated shovel_engineer_fin to be used up (item removed) after building 75mm pillbox

Fixed sniper vision in fog of war when in 1st/3rd person direct control
Fixed soldiers frozen in a dab-esque pose after grenade throw standing up
Fixed finnish bandage to be resupply able
Fixed 180mm railway gun ammo to be resupply able
Fixed resupply for 120mm K78 31 artillery
Fixed to many maps (volumes, pathfinding, etc)
Fixed "driving pose" on M1927 gun
Fixed incorrect dectect for 122mm_m1910_fin
Fixed collision for fallen_tree3 and fallen_tree5
Fixed spelling error in honkaniemi.
Fixed misspelling in Tali-Ihantala
Fixed 2v2 Stalingrad domination
Fixed vainikalan winter conquest
Fixed 100mm nbw35 (finland mid war) incorrectly using tier 2 timer
Fixed some timers in finland roster
Fixed in skirmish mission Volga, prevent enemy pilots(in the plane) from being able to capture flags.
Fixed in skirmishes, recrew_portables to ignore soldiers not meant for recrew(tag) such as at/mg/obj defenders
Fixed in SP Summa: fixed western AT gun emplacement blocking the gun from firing
Fixed in MP Mikli: fixed armored car props being reparable
Fixed gunner2 position fixed at finnish stug
Fixed T20 komsomolets finland texmod

Increased build time for 75mm pillbox
Increased cost to resupply 280mm howitzer from 150 to 250 supply per shell
Increased the finnish AT rifle squads from 1 AT rifle to 2.
Increased price of finnish heavy engineers in early war to 10DP
Increased price of 152mm Br2 to 60DP
Increased price of 280mm Br5 to 65 DP

Decreased price of finnish engineering squad to 5DP
Decreased fire rate of 76mm m1933 to differentiate it from 76mm F22