Armored Warfare News

Commanders!

We’d like to invite you to a special stream on our channel, during which a new feature – the crown jewel of the American Dream season – will be unveiled. We’ll also be taking questions in comments and answering them during the stream, so don’t miss the opportunity to ask anything you’d like to know about Armored Warfare!

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The stream will take place on the official Armored Warfare Twitch channel, starting at 17:00 CEST (8 AM PDT) today.

See you there!

Commanders!

For the next few days, we’ve prepared a special event for you. We will be allowing the Self-Propelled Gun class to participate in the Global Operations mode, starting today up until October 24.



The purpose of this event is not only for the Self-Propelled Gun players to try them out in real player versus player combat and to gather the feedback from both sides regarding such a change.

What you think about the performance of this class in Global Operations? Would you like to see this change become permanent? Please let us know on Discord!

See you on the battlefield!

On the 17th of October 2019, starting from 8:00 CEST (16th of October, 11 PM PDT), the server will not be available for 5 hours due to the application of Update 0.30.5773.





New Vehicles

We are adding three new vehicles to Armored Warfare:

• T249 Vigilante Tier 9 Progression AFV, unlockable from the Tier 8 Ramka-99 TD (learn more)
• M8 MGM-166 Tier 10 Progression TD, unlockable from the T249 Vigilante (learn more)
• Object 287 Tier 6 Premium TD (learn more)

The T249 Vigilante is a fast AFV with massive, burst-firing rotary cannon while the M8 MGM-166 (also known as LOSAT) is the ultimate Tank Destroyer of Armored Warfare that uses a brand new mechanism – kinetic missiles. You can learn about all of those vehicles in their respective articles.

Abrams Improvements

In this Update, we are improving most high-Tier Abrams vehicles, as such:

• M1A2C now has the Trophy hard-kill APS available
• M1A2C reload time reduced from 10s to 8.75s
• XM1A3 now has the Trophy hard-kill APS available
• TTB now has a better upgraded APFSDS shell available, the M829A3 with improved penetration and damage
• TTB’s Ready Rack rate of fire improved from 8 to 15 rounds per minute
• TTB’s aim time for both guns improved from 2.2s to 1.8s
• TTB’s gun accuracy was tweaked very slightly to make it correspond to the M1A2C

General Changes

• American Dream, Special Operation 3: Fixed the No Mercy achievement
• American Dream, Special Operation 2: Fixed the model of the fuel truck that appears at the end of the mission
• Stryker ADATS: Reduced the camouflage penalty for firing its weapons as such: ATGM from 0.2 to 0.12, rockets from 0.4 to 0.07
• Stryker ADATS: Its unmanned turret no longer takes full damage
• M48 GAU-8: Added an additional progression module called “Weight Reduction Measures“, which improves this vehicle’s acceleration by 15% and its maximum speed by 20% at the expense of 200 hitpoints
• M48 GAU-8: Fixed the penetration indicator for this vehicle – it will turn yellow if only partial penetrations (with reduced damage) are predicted (the same principle applies to the M8 MGM-166 TD)
• M48 GAU-8: Fixed the appearance of flags on this vehicle
• QN-506: Fixed the appearance of the loitering recon missile spotting effect

Commanders!

Fortius (also known within the game by his username, Metalmammoth) is one of the most talented Armored Warfare community contributors. His submissions are mostly various contest entries. Are you familiar with his art? Let's take a look at his best pieces to date.

He designed an amazing Battalion recruitment poster:



Recently, you might have noticed his Oktoberfest art:



He also designed a flag for his Battalion:



Fortius can be reached (under this very name) on Armored Warfare Discord and we are eagerly looking forward to more of his work.

See you on the battlefield!

Commanders!

We’ve prepared another set of historical camouflages, this time from Russia.

The three camouflages we have for you today aren’t exactly standardized do serve as a good example of what the Soviet/Russian vehicles were painted like in the late 1980s and the early 1990s.

The first camouflage comes from the late 1980s and was seen on a T-80BV tank. It consists of green, ochre and dark stripes – these colors suggest it was intended to be used during summer or early autumn.



The second camouflage was also seen on a T-80, but this time on the later T-80UK model (command version of the tank) after the fall of the Soviet Union. It consists of ochre, brown and black stripes.



And, finally, the third camouflage consists of ochre, brown and green strips and was seen in the 2000s on a Russian BMP-3.



Like was mentioned above, the lack of standardization throughout the 1980s and the 1990s led to a wide variety of Russian camouflages and these are but a tip of the proverbial iceberg.

Like before, these camouflages will be available for all vehicles and environments and will soon be available in Armored Warfare. We hope you will enjoy them and are hard at work on the next set.

Stay tuned and see you on the battlefield!