Tannenberg News

We have a small update for you today, with various improvements and adjustments. Plus, new options for custom Maneuver matches, a tweak to the Carpathians church, and an achievement fix:

• Added new Custom match option for Maneuver to set the number of resource points per faction /setscoreentente [number] /setscorecentral [number]
  
• Added new Custom match option for Maneuver to remove point drain and allow the game to be won only by HQ capture /sethqcaponly [true/false]
  
• Fixed not being able to get the Gavrilo Princip achievement
  
• Fixed Carpathians church entrance being too tight

You can read the full changelog on the forums.

Today's update might be small, but we have something bigger planned tomorrow that will change how you look at the battlefield...

The First World War was one of the first major conflicts where photography and film were highly significant, due among other things to smaller and improved cameras. The nations involved also began to realize the value of photography and film for propaganda purposes. We thought it would be interesting to give players a chance to experience some of the challenges faced by early filmmakers, working with black and white on top of other technical limitations.

Florence Farmborough, a British nurse who went to the Eastern Front in 1914. She carried a large camera with her and took photographs of the Eastern Front.

Amateur photographers were able to take cameras with them to the front (sometimes smuggling them against regulations), and press outlets sometimes put out calls for photos from these amateurs when the officially released images didn't satisfy their desire for images from the front.

Soon you'll be able to try recording your own black and white war footage, with our upcoming 'Film Memoir' mode! If they say a picture paints a thousand words, a video must be even more... so check this out:

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The wolves are on the prowl, and they are more hungry than ever! The thrilling Wolf Truce event is back, and this is your chance to take part of this ten day event until March 29th!

Wolves! Wolves
When a battle starts, there is a chance that a number of wolf packs join the fray, attacking any who stand in their way. In the face of this canine threat, players will have the option to call on a temporary truce in order to deal with this new hungry foe.

There are many historical reports and stories about the danger wolves posed on the Eastern Front. Driven from their habitats due to the war, they attacked civilians and soldiers alike! Soldiers often took precautions, trying to drive them off with machinegun fire and even poison gas.



The Wolf Truce event has been inspired on these accounts and gives players a unique dilemma on the battlefield; do you call on a truce to face this new foe, or do you use the chaos to press on?

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What’s new?
For the third iteration of this event, we’ve made a number of improvements on the UI pertaining the grace period and the truce timer. In addition, the wolves are more aggressive than ever, killing you in 2 bites instead of 3 and you can’t outrun them that easily anymore...



That’s not all, aside from the truce we also made several fixes and improvements such as a more lenient AFK time in private and public matches. For a full overview of all changes and fixes be sure to check out the changelog here.

How to earn The Wolf Truce medal
When the wolves attack, players can enact a Wolf Truce in order to deal with this threat. If they manage to fend off this attack without killing or injuring anyone on the opposing team, they all earn the Wolf Truce medal! But earning this medal is harder than it sounds as the game will not enforce any truce.

When the wolves attack, there will be a minute warning before the truce period starts. A timer shows how long the wolves will continue to attack both sides. The game will notify players if the truce has been broken by someone who injured or killed anyone of the opposite side during this period. If players maintain this truce until the timer ends, they will all earn a Wolf Truce medal!

Want to join in on the fray? Tannenberg is now at a 55% discount!

Good luck and be wary of the eyes in the forest!

[h2]New Update[/h2]
We have fixed various exploits concerning the formatting of in-game usernames, including but not limited to the recoloring issue! Today's fix follows on from a Wednesday update which adjusted MG firing for slower PCs, among other things.

Full changelogs here!

[h2]Happy Valentine's Day![/h2]
Is it just us, or is his expression a little creepy actually?

[h2]We got new splash screen and logo art! What do you think?[/h2]

We've been hard at work this year on Tannenberg for consoles. The Verdun remaster for consoles went great, and we are channeling that same energy for the Tannenberg release. More on that hopefully soon!

We might not have a lot of game news to share, but we had some interesting film discussion on our Facebook and Twitter pages, plus a couple of nice screenshots from players!



Tannenberg player Panzerjäger II P (which made us think of this cute vehicle, though it's probably a reference to the rather chunkier Elefant) took this moody screenshot of an artillery position surrounded by smoke clouds.

[h3]Too colourful?[/h3]
It appears that some people have been able to give their in-game names bright colors by using a Steam formatting trick. This isn't intentional, and we are planning to fix this with an update soon.

January already saw us release one update with a collection of fixes. You can read the changelog here.

[h2]1917[/h2]
How many of you have had a chance to see 1917 in cinemas? It's an amazing experience, in particular because it was filmed in such a way as to give the impression of one continuous shot without cuts.



We had some discussion on Facebook and Twitter, with people recommending a whole host of interesting WW1 films. In particular there were a couple of foreign films which sounded intriguing, put forward after one person said that they found another film from an allied perspective rather dull and uninspired.

One of those films from a Central Powers perspective is the Hungarian movie Szürke senkik (Grey Nobodies). Thanks to György for that tip!

Meelis suggested something a bit different with Names in Marble, about the Estonian War of Independence after WW1. They do caution that it's perhaps not the most historically accurate film!

Finally, Markus suggested Westfront 1918, a German film from 1930 that he thought had similar vibes to All Quiet on the Western Front.

A still from Westfront 1918: Vier von der Infanterie.

There are even more recommendations on the Facebook post itself if you're in need of new films to watch!

We'll leave you with this nice shot by player OPA_ZIGOTA that looks like two Bulgarian soldiers waiting for the order to attack as dawn breaks.



[h2]Until next time![/h2]