Armored Warfare News

Commanders!

There are some truly remarkable feats that you can achieve in Armored Warfare, but few are more difficult than obtaining one of the Epic Medals in the Random Battles game mode. Today, we celebrate your skill and resourcefulness by giving you the opportunity to show to other players what you are capable of in our newest contest.



The rules are very simple. The following Epic Medals are obtainable in the game:

• Scout's Crest
• Steel Eagle
• Hero's Crest
• Steel Sword
• Bronze Sword
• Golden Sword
• Iron Dragon
• Order of Resistance
• Order of the Captor
• Order of Valor
• Iron Hawk
• Order of Courage
• Steel Wings

Be the first to obtain one of these medals in the Random Battles (PvP) using a Tier 7 vehicle or higher and post the screenshot of your achievement to our dedicated Discord channel to obtain:

• Type 90 Tier 7 Premium Main Battle Tank (or its price in Gold if you have it already)
• 2.500 Gold

The contest ends either on May 30, 2020, or when all the available Epic Medals are submitted.

Please note:

• Only one submission per player is accepted, one player cannot therefore win more than once
• All submissions must be from battles taking place after the launch of this contest and using a Tier 7 or higher vehicle
• All submissions must be from the Random Battles mode (some Epic Medals can be completed in Global Operations, GLOPS results, however, do NOT count)
• Each submission must include: Player Name, Epic Medal Name, Result Screenshot

Good luck, commanders, and, as always:

See you on the battlefield!

Commanders!

This week, we’ve prepared another set of attractive items for you:

• BM Oplot Tier 9 Premium Main Battle Tank
• BWP-2000 Tier 7 Premium Armored Fighting Vehicle
• Scorpion Kastet Tier 6 Premium Armored Fighting Vehicle
• Merkava Mk.2D Tier 7 Premium Main Battle Tank

On popular demand, we are also prolonging the Enigma's Legacy Battle Path pre-sale until the end of the month.

Between May 21 and May 28, 2020, the following items will be available:


[h2]BM Oplot[/h2]


The Oplot is a heavily upgraded T-84 Ukrainian Main Battle Tank, which is based on an older design called T-80UD. It is currently the best tank the Ukrainian military industry can offer. You can read more about its history in our dedicated article.

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In Armored Warfare, the BM Oplot is a Tier 9 Premium Main Battle Tank with a playstyle similar to the T-80U. Power-wise, it’s roughly on par with the T-90MS of the same Tier, but it has a very unique ability. Its advanced Duplet armor consists of several ERA layers, making it able to negate more than one HEAT shell impact. It takes several precise hits aimed at the same location to break through it, making it a very resistant vehicle on the battlefield.






[h2]BWP-2000[/h2]


The BWP-2000 IFV was a Polish attempt from the mid-1990s to develop a replacement for the license-produced BMP-1 in the Polish military, since it was getting obsolete by that point. Its protracted development led to its cancellation at the onset of War on Terror, leaving Poland without a modern tracked IFV to this day. You can read more about it in our dedicated article.



In Armored Warfare, the BWP-2000 is a Tier 7 Premium Armored Fighting Vehicle armed with 60mm cannon as well as a set of ATGM launchers. When it comes to AFV playstyle, the BWP-2000 is definitely more of an infantry carrier and fire support vehicle than a scout due to its large size and powerful armament as well as the ability to deploy Mechanized Infantry. It can take quite a bit of punishment and deal it in equal measure.






[h2]Scorpion Kastet[/h2]


This vehicle is basically a commercial modernization of the old Scorpion Light Tank by replacing its original turret with a new one of Ukrainian origin called Kastet. It was designed specifically with the Kingdom of Jordan in mind and was shown to general public in 2016. Unfortunately, it failed to gain any traction and it’s unlikely this vehicle will ever be mass produced. You can learn more about this vehicle in our dedicated article.



In Armored Warfare, the Scorpion Kastet is a Tier 6 Premium Armored Fighting Vehicle. It is one of the deadliest AFVs in the game thanks to the combination of blazing speed, amazing agility, powerful automatic cannon and advanced guided missiles. All these traits make this highly mobile, if somewhat fragile AFV the weapon of choice for many advanced players. who can use it to dance around their opponents, dealing one blow after another.






[h2]Merkava Mk.2D[/h2]


The Merkava IID (also known as Mk.2D) is an advanced version of the standard Mk.2 Merkava, upgraded with a modular “Dor-Dalet” composite armor kit. It’s a tough and unyielding vehicle, featuring a number of battle-proven components such as its 105mm rifled cannon. The first version of the Merkava Mk.2 entered service in 1983 and the last vehicles were phased out in 2016 after thirty long years.



In Armored Warfare, the Merkava IID is a Tier 7 Premium Main Battle Tank. It is not equipped with an explosive reactive armor kit, but is, nevertheless, a very tough customer due to the introduction of the applique armor, allowing it to take a lot of damage. Additionally, the tank is equipped with a Ready Rack mechanism, significantly increasing the rate of fire for the first four shots.





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

See you on the battlefield!

Commanders!

We’ve prepared for you an additional offer this week. Between May 21 and May 28, 2020, the Iron Crate will be available on MY.GAMES Market with 50% discount!



The mechanics are very simple. This crate allows you to win one of the vehicles listed in its description (or its value in Gold if you have it already). The crate contains some very rare vehicles (with some new ones!), including:

• Object 490
• Altay
• Object 640
• Type 99A2-140
• BM Oplot
• K1A1
• Type 90

And more. For a full list, please visit the MY.GAMES Market Iron Crate page. Compared to the last time, the list of



Please note: This offer is not available to players located in France, the Netherlands and the Kingdom of Belgium

See you on the battlefield!

Commanders!

In today’s Developer Diary, we’d like to tell you more about the spotting system changes that we are planning for Update 0.32.

The first change concerns smoke spotting mechanics. The way it is right now, deploying smoke basically makes your vehicle disappear from everyone instead of just the spotter who has his line of sight obscured by your smoke, as long as at least one spotter line of sight gets broken.



In other words, deploying forward-facing smoke that will interfere with the line of sight of the spotter in front of you will also make you disappear from a spotter that is, for example, beside you, along with everyone else, for whom you are not directly in their line of sight.

This is very counterintuitive and leads to some strange situations of tanks disappearing into thin air on the battlefield. As a side note, this system – due to the way it is programmed – causes some server performance issues.

In Update 0.32, we will be fixing it so that each vehicle’s line of sight will be considered individually. If you break one line of sight with your smoke but someone else still sees you, you will no longer disappear and will remain spotted. Additionally, the system will be made more responsive with more spotting checks in place. Driving behind an active smokescreen will make your vehicle instantly disappear without having to wait for another spotting check (which do happen less often, the longer the distance is).

But that’s not all.

We’ll be also overhauling the way camouflage bonus works for bushes and other pieces of foliage. As you know, these bushes provide environmental camouflage bonuses and their mechanism is described in a dedicated article.

In Update 0.32, we’ll be changing the camouflage they provide from a fixed amount to an equation where the environmental camouflage bonus will depend on the length of the line of sight intersection of the bush’s boundaries. This may sound really weird, but what this means is that the more leaves there are between the eye of the spotter and the spotted vehicle, the harder the vehicle it is to spot.

Starting from Update 0.32, using a situation where you are spotting an enemy vehicle:

• Bushes within 15 meters of your tank are not considered
• A spotting ray is drawn from your tank to the enemy (please refer to the dedicated article regarding the way spotting rays work)
• The ray intersects several bushes
• Earlier, the spotted target’s camouflage would be improved by the flat bonuses provided by each bush – now, the bush’s base camouflage will be modified by the distance the ray will travel through the bush

This change resolves some issues with the existing spotting system, where various bushes – no matter how small – would add the same amount of camouflage. Now, if the bush is small, it provides less camouflage than it did before without us having to address every single bush in the game individually.



It’s worth noting that the camouflage provided by foliage using this new system will not exceed the old one since there is a cap on the bonus provided by the bush size. Bushes will not suddenly start providing more camouflage – quite the contrary. Those tiny bushes that were just as effective as the old ones will now provide much less cover. It’s therefore very important to pay attention to the directional camouflage indicator in the lower left corner of the screen.



Finally, bush and canopy stacking is now a thing. Bringing a tree down so that its canopy covers an existing bush effectively doubles that area’s cover camouflage bonus, although only two such bonuses will stack at most and further canopies brought down to the same area this way will not increase your camouflage bonus at all.

We hope that you’ll enjoy these changes and, as always:

See you on the battlefield!

Commanders!

The French B.P.E. community would like to invite you to a Special Operations tournament.



To succeed, you to kill as many anti-tank troops in the first Chapter of the Spirithaven Special Operation while playing a Tier 5 vehicle during the specified hours. The following conditions apply:

• Language: English or French
• Date: May 30, 2020
• Time: from 00:01 to 23:59 CEST
• Mode: Special Operations, Spirithaven, Chapter 1
• Format: Solo gameplay, players attempt to kill as many Mechanized Infantry enemy troops as possible (one submission per player), only victorious battles count
• Tier: 5 (no vehicle restrictions)

Your result must be submitted to this dedicated Discord channel: https://discord.gg/GZEM2za

• For more info, please visit the B.P.E. Discord: https://discord.gg/PN9mX56
• You can register using this link: https://bit.ly/3cPkMMW

The registration is open until May 29, 2020, 23:59 CEST.

The following prizes await the winners:

• First place: Enigma’s Legacy Battle Path access and 2.000 Battle Coins
• Second place: Enigma’s Legacy Battle Path access and 1.000 Battle Coins
• Third place: Enigma’s Legacy Battle Path access and 500 Battle Coins

See you on the battlefield!