Call to Arms - Gates of Hell: Ostfront News

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!

https://store.steampowered.com/bundle/26447/Call_to_Arms_Gates_of_Hell__Talvisota/

[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

We are proud to announce the release of our first expansion pack, Talvisota.
Less than a year since the release of Call to Arms - Gates of Hell: Ostfront, we are adding a third faction with its own front, which adds an unbelievable amount of content.

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


The three conflicts Finland fought between 1939 and 1945 were quite unique, and have rarely been portrayed in a game. With this expansion, we want to take you back to the winter war (Talvisota), the continuation war (Jatkosota) and the Lapland war (Lapin sota). It will be a unique experience; we have created a big collection of typically Finnish assets to recreate the right landscapes and atmosphere, both for summer and winter landscapes and scenarios.

We would like to thank the Finnish community for their support in the past months. The enthusiasm was infectious and the end result is great - it means we still have a 100% record for native spoken voice acting in Gates of Hell, for example.


A few days ago we released the 4th large & free content update for Call to arms - Gates of Hell: Ostfront, available to all Ostfront owners. This free addition means that over the past year, the total amount of content has increased massively.


We will push out roughly half the Talvisota skirmishes today, to gather player feedback before adding more soon; we’ll push the next ones as soon as they’re polished. The collection will be complete very shortly.


Work on the next faction has already started, but for now you can have a taste of something totally unique and deeply immersive - time to get the Talvisota expansion today:

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

If this is going to be your first experience with Call to Arms - Gates of Hell, you may have questions. The quickest way to get answers is our official Discord server, click below to enter:


To get into the game, you could also check our Steam guides, or watch the official tutorials on our YouTube channel.

See you on the battlefield!

We are proud to announce the release of our first expansion pack, Talvisota.
Less than a year since the release of Call to Arms - Gates of Hell: Ostfront, we are adding a third faction with its own front, which adds an unbelievable amount of content.

Enjoy a new singleplayer campaign in which you fight back the Soviet invaders with the fierce Finnish army and experience newly crafted Skirmishes for all factions!

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


Furthermore, the Call to Arms franchise is on sale to celebrate the release!

https://store.steampowered.com/bundle/26447/Call_to_Arms_Gates_of_Hell__Talvisota/

https://store.steampowered.com/bundle/15829/Call_to_Arms__Complete/







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