Armored Warfare News

On the 18th of June 2020, starting from 8:00 CEST (17th of June, 11 PM PDT), the server will not be available for 5 hours due to the application of Update 0.32.7084






[h2]List of Update 0.32.7084 Changes[/h2]



General Changes:

• Fixed several issues that led to game crashes
  
• Fixed an issue that caused the game to lag or freeze when certain special visual effects were in use (also known as the “explosions make my game lag” problem)
  
• Fixed an issue where some ATGMs would not fly accurately towards the aim reticle at short-to-medium distances (also known as the “Sphinx ATGMs are weird” problem)
  
• Fixed an issue where, in battle, deployed Mechanized Infantry's stats would scale based on the lowest Tier present on your team
  
• Fixed the description of the Battle Path mission requiring you to achieve (for example) a kill or three kills before anyone else (in reality, the mission requires you to achieve three kills before anyone else achieves a single one)
  
• Fixed an issue where, while crossing the boundaries of a deployed smokescreen, a vehicle could appear (become spotted) and then disappear to the enemy team in a quick succession
  
• Mechanized Infantry active ability description now has its characteristics in it (shell type, damage dealt, view range, camouflage and the number of troops in the squad)
  
• BMPT Mod.2000: Reduced the size of the model of this vehicle’s autocannon
  
• Hunter AFV: Fixed an issue where a damaged ATGM launcher would not appear red in the vehicle’s status outline in the lower left corner of your screen
  
• Type 96B: Fixed an issue where this vehicle’s sides would clip into buildings when driving near them
  
• Type 96B, Type 99A, Type 99A2: Improved the quality of these vehicles’ visual models
  
• Type 99A2-140: Fixed a number of smaller visual model issues for this particular vehicle
  
• Fixed an issue where, if your Mechanized Infantry got killed while disembarking your vehicle, the vehicle’s doors wouldn’t close
  
• Updated the Help overlay (appears by pressing F1 in battle)
  
• Fixed some smaller vehicle model issues
  
• Added detailed info about vehicle class requirements for incomplete platoons
  
• Added the previously announced Asian camouflages as well as some other assets
  

Known Issues:

• When deploying from several vehicles (T-15, Warrior), Mechanized Infantry sometimes dies during the process
  

The server is now available!


Commanders!


We are aware of the server issues and the crash and are hard at work correcting the situation. Now for the bad news – unfortunately, the server will likely not be available for the next several hours until approximately 8 AM CEST (11 PM PDT).


We apologize for the inconvenience.


See you on the battlefield!

The server is now available!

Commanders!

Last year in December, we informed you of the effective end of support for the 32bit and SD clients. We also mentioned that, while the SD clients remained available for their existing users at that time, we’d remove them in the future.



That time has now come. A recent analysis has shown that only a tiny fraction of players still use the SD client (the only difference between SD and HD is texture resolution), which simply does not justify the resources spent on working on and introducing two different texture sets for each new vehicle.

That is why, starting from September 2020, the SD client version will be removed altogether. Players with it installed will have the option to upgrade to HD (as they do now). For the vast majority of these users, the only difference should be a slightly larger game client.

This step will allow us to produce content faster and will allow us to shift the freed resources to the development of the features that all players will benefit from.

Nevertheless, we would like to apologize for any inconvenience caused and, as always:

See you on the battlefield!

Commanders!

Another common piece of feedback we are regularly receiving mentions the behavior of Armored Warfare’s AI opponents – their movement and shooting habits.



These reports often mention “cheating” when firing or the strange behavior where the bots would drive rear-first towards players. To address some of these issues, we’ll be taking a look at the AI aiming mechanism in one of the upcoming smaller updates during this season. Specifically:

First and foremost, we’ll be improving the AI targeting mechanics. At short-to-medium distances, AI opponents will run a check against your armor and internal modules to determine, which of them can be damaged effectively, depending on how protected they are from the AI’s point of view. Based on their chances to cause damage, the opponents will then take a pick.

Please note that there are some internal modifiers in place – for example, an AI opponent is more likely to attack your penetrable side or frontal armor than directly aim at your ammo rack. These modifiers are made with player experience in mind – we want to make the AI aiming process more logical, not toxic. Having AI immediately target your ammo rack area the second it becomes exposed would be possible, but not much fun.

At longer distances, the AI opponents will not be performing the internal component check and will simply target your hull or turret as a whole.

Now, you may be wondering how this mechanic will affect the most hated AI feature of all – ATGMs. To address that issue, we’ll be considerably increasing the AI ATGM noise value, far beyond that of player ATGMs. In other words, AI missiles will be considerably less accurate, making it easier to survive when fired upon.

Furthermore:

AI opponents will no longer target unmanned turrets as often as they did before. Even if this might not seem that way at first glance, this is actually an improvement for affected player vehicles. Unmanned turrets take reduced damage, but typically also have very thin armor, just like in real life (after all, that’s why the reduced damage rule was implemented). By having the AI aim more at the armored hull, the vehicles with unmanned turrets will be able to survive more AI shots.

AI opponents will turn their front towards their intended target. This will not happen under all circumstances, but if an AI opponent targets you, it will attempt to face you with its frontal armor. This is actually something that has been intended all along – the “rear-first” movement is a bug that we will be fixing. This change will, however, happen further down the road than the rest.

We’ll be fixing other issues too, such as:

• AI opponents will also be able to make use of the Ready Rack mechanism properly
• Under very specific circumstances (tied to an ammo rack explosion), a bot can fire much faster than intended
• A few AI vehicles don’t fire ATGMs even though they should
• Sometimes, crew kills on AI vehicles don’t count for mission purposes, this issue is getting fixed
• The incorrect aiming and firing process of the bots that are using Chinese MBTs (the issue where the bot is aiming somewhat away from you but you get hit nonetheless)
• AI targeting optimizations will also lead to less lags and increased server performance

Further down the road, we are planning to introduce even deeper changes to the AI behavior, but it’s an ongoing process rather than one large feature. We will inform you of more when the time is right.

See you on the battlefield!

Commanders!


On June 12, the Russian Federation celebrates Russia Day in commemoration of the anniversary of the adoption of the Declaration of State Sovereignty of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic on 12 June 1990, beginning the constitutional reform in the Russian Soviet state.





For the occasion, we’ve prepared a 50% Crew Experience income bonus (available until June 18) for you along with three gifts.


Starting tomorrow, (Friday, June 12 at 9 AM CEST/midnight PDT), the first of the gifts will become available for 24 hours with the second gift available on Saturday (same time) and the final one on Sunday. These gifts, obtainable through MY.GAMES Market, will contain various Russian themed assets, as such:


Friday gift:

• Kantemirovskaya Division camouflage (announced earlier)
  
• Guards Badge decal
  

Saturday gift:

• Russia Day player avatar
  
• Kantemirovskaya Division decal
  

Sunday gift:

• 3 days of Premium Time
  
• Shepetovsky Regiment decal
  
• Crest of Russia decal
  

Pro tip: Install the camouflage on a T-80U along with the Guards Badge and the Kantemirovskaya Division decal to make this vehicle look like it belongs to the 4th Guards Kantemirovskaya order of Lenin Red Banner Tank Division.

 


We hope that you will enjoy the event and, as always:


See you on the battlefield!