World War 3 News

Another one! This one has a lot of bugfixes and we hope that it will make the game a bit more fun. We're still working on fixing some of the most annoying bugs for 0.7, but overall it's coming along nicely.

We've also added new challenges - let us know if they work and if some of them are too annoying to complete.


We are counting on your feedback, please post it here:
Feedback: https://forum.worldwar3.com/index.php?/topic/10309-feedback-on-update-07/

Important: Warsaw Warzone will be unavailable in 0.7.3 due to lighting errors, but it won't impact testing and would push patch back if we were to fix it!

• Warsaw is missing from the Warzone playlist,
  
• There is still some grenade desync,
  
• White box instead of hit data texture,
  
• Spawning on MSP's can result in getting stuck,
  
• JDAM strike has the upcoming napalm particles,
  
• Resupply packs are still disappearing sometimes,
  
• Shotguns are OP,
  
• Some vehicle HUD bugs are present,
  

• Switching a weapon by picking it up sometimes triggers a gunshot,
  
• Fixed a crash related to Audio Components,
  
• Crash fix for FSlateApplication::ForEachUser(),
  
• Changed replication priorites and merged replication graph priorites,
  
• Fixed DistanceRelevantCharacter replication issue,
  
• Fixed vehicle HUDs drawing on top of Quick Map,
  
• Fixed projectiles dormancy,
  
• Fixed character replication pausing too soon,
  
• Tweaked collision mesh for electric tower / poles and fixed no-collision param for foliage (poles) on Smolensk,
  
• Fixed IFVs acceleration, max speed and climbing,
  
• Sound positioning fixes,
  
• Rocket 'penetration' fix,
  
• Fix for music lowering volume randomly,
  
• Fixed Moscow TDM missing loading screens,
  
• Fixed bug with not sending match end event on TDM,
  
• Fixed bug with not saving TDM kills and deaths in player statistics,
  
• Random map rotation on TDM fixed - Warsaw will now be randomized as well,
  
• Fixed PSS emblem,
  
• Fixes is SCAR lowers,
  
• Many visual fixes in weapon menu - socket positions, explode positions, attachment categories,
  
• Fixed phantom bullets and repeated reloading after picking up weapon with different ammo type than default,
  
• Fixed Seat Widget taking color from settings when it shouldn't,
  
• Warsaw - Collision fixes,
  
• Warsaw - Floating paper fixes,
  
• Warsaw - Level streaming fixes,
  
• Warsaw - Map holes fixes,
  
• Warsaw - Draw distance fixes,
  
• Polyarny - Decal scale fixes,
  
• Polyarny - Collision / stuck point fixes,
  
• Polyarny - Map hole fixes,
  
• Polyarny - Streaming fixes,
  
• Polyarny - Physical material fixes,
  

• Increased MBTs, AFVs, and IFVs HP,
  
• Decreased IFVs rear armor thickness,
  
• Moved Helicopter Drone to CUAS category and updated it's stats,
  
• Adjusted AJAX's suspension,
  
• Tweaked summary screen time (30 seconds) and looking for new server time (30 seconds) for all game modes,
  

• Network optimization - Claymore & Semtex C4,
  
• Network optimization - action replicator,
  
• Added armor stats for vehicles in menu and updated the previous to match the current balance,
  
• Voip ducking, new warmate sound,
  
• Local player voiceover effect,
  
• Removed projectile distance check because it is checked inside Replication Graph itself,
  
• Projectile cull distance setup for Replication Graph,
  
• Barks distance tweaks,
  

• Basic Training: Spotting: Spot 10 enemies,
  
• Basic Training: Vehicles: Destroy 5 vehicles,
  
• Basic Training: Healing: Heal 5 allies,
  
• Basic Training: Ammo: Resupply 5 allies,
  
• Basic Training: Drones: 5 drone kills,
  
• Top Gun: Kill 10 enemies with flying drones,
  
• Airwolf: Kill 10 enemies with the Heli Combat Drone,
  
• Morning smell: 10 airstrike kills,
  
• Every Breath You Take: Spot 10 enemies,
  
• Senor Wingman!: 10 enemy kills from RCWS,
  
• Got your back: Spawn on leader 25 times,
  
• Float Like a Butterfly, Sting Like a Bee: Kill 25 enemies as a LIGHT soldier,
  
• Regular Everyday Normal MFer: Kill 25 enemies as a MEDIUM soldier,
  
• Juggernaut: Kill 25 enemies as a HEAVY soldier,
  
• Whether It Storms Or Snows: 10 Tank kills,
  
• Steel Hail: 10 AFV kills,
  
• Support the Troops: 10 IFV kills,
  
• Last Resort: 10 kills on last healthbar,
  
• Tremor: Kill 5 enemies with RPG.
  

- World War 3 Team

Available in the following languages: PL | RU | DE | FR

Ten-hut!

Today we have a fresh batch of equipment to show, all of it coming soon to World War 3. We’ll be presenting not one, not two, but three different guns, so you’re in for a treat! They’re covering a wide range of roles: We have a new SMG (or, rather, our first PDW), a new LMG (a rare one at that) and a brand new Battle Rifle. So, there should be something fun for everyone today. Let’s give them a look!

MP7
Starting with the most compact of the bunch: We’re finally introducing the long-requested MP7, referred in-game as the PDW7. Designed by Heckler & Koch in the 90’s, the MP7 is a Personal Defence Weapon, developed at NATO’s request for a compact, fully automatic weapon capable of penetrating modern body armor. Thus, HK’s new weapon fires 4.6x30mm armor-piercing ammo, which is considerably more effective against well-protected targets than the pistol calibers of old. Initially designed for widespread usage by rear-line personnel, the MP7 and other weapons of its class became very popular among special forces due to their compact size and high lethality.

In-game, the MP7 offers a very high rate of fire, good accuracy and base armor penetration comparable (if not better) to that of a full-sized assault rifle. However, it comes with two major downsides. First, while not as heavy as an assault rifle, it’s noticeably heavier than an SMG. Secondly, the damage per bullet is smaller than that of an SMG. So while an SMG may seem more deadly on a shot by shot basis, a heavier armor can easily stop its rounds, while the PDW7 will almost always deal its full damage, therefore making it a more consistent weapon overall. Coupled with a very high rate of fire, the MP7 is, essentially, a short-range lawnmower, for lack of a better term. Have fun chipping those heavies to bits!

KAC LMG
We’re very glad to finally be able to lift the curtain on this one. We’ve hinted a new, 5.56 LMG for a long time, so here it is: The Knight’s Armament Light Assault Machine Gun, or, as we shortened it in-game, the LAMG. Designed as a replacement for the famous Stoner 63 multi-role weapon design from Eugene Stoner himself, the LAMG was meant to be a reliable, lightweight machine gun chambered in 5.56 NATO. Featuring the Constant Recoil system found on LMGs like the Ultimax 100, it is exceptionally controllable in full auto fire. While no major military force adopted these guns, they became very popular among private military contractors for their compact size and low weight.

In WW3 you’ll find the LAMG to be the missing link between assault rifles and light machine guns: Not much heavier than an average assault rifle, very controllable due to the Constant Recoil system and, being belt-fed, able to put a ton of lead down range before having to reload. Keep in mind that the 5.56 ammo doesn’t have the stopping power or penetration of a typical LMG bullet, so you’ll still be outgunned by heavier machine guns - and at a longer range at that.

MSBS-762N
Last but not least, we present to you a new (and possibly final) variant of the polish MSBS Grot rifle: The MSBS-762N, a recently announced battle rifle variant of the MSBS weapons family. It is essentially the same rifle as the default MSBS, but scaled-up to the 762x51 NATO cartridge, similarly to how the HK417 is a scaled-up HK416. It features a larger magazine well, a heavier barrel and the fire group redesigned to fit a bigger bullet.

Finishing up the trio of 762x51 Battle Rifles (expect future ones to feature different calibers), MSBS-762N is designed with the most classic DMR-style performance of the three. It has the lowest rate of fire in its class and quickly loses accuracy in full auto, but it shines in single fire, with a minimal recoil and excellent muzzle velocity, turning long-range sniping into pure bliss. It doesn’t have M417’s extreme accuracy or Scar’s short-range capabilities, but if you want that medium/long-range tapfire experience, then this is the ultimate gun for you!

That’s all for today, but we have, as always, much more to show you! The MP7 definitely ain’t the only PDW we’re going to introduce into the game (it did face fierce competition, after all…), and there’s a ton of new long-range combat options coming, in all shapes, calibers and fire modes available, so stay tuned for more. But enough hints, see you on the next one!

At ease!\

- World War 3 Team

Available in the following languages: PL | RU | DE | FR

Hello, Soldiers!

We’re hard at work fixing up the PTE bugs found by us and our players last week, with 2 patches for it already out and almost all crashes smoothed out. We had over 260 crashes over the last weekend and only [X - TBD]. This gives us 99% reduction in crashing mainly thanks to the Public Test Environment working as intended - giving us more data than we can gather ourselves in our small team and leading us to faster fixing. Thank you to everyone that took part in the testing, reported bugs and sent the crash reports - we couldn't be as effective without your help.

Work on 0.7 is progressing nicely, with almost all big issues resolved in the last week and more issues fixed on friday and over the weekend. Apart from normal optimization effort, we’re also focusing towards networking optimization, which will further help with CPU load on the server and make the game ping lower.

With networking mainly done, we can now optimize and bugfix as much as possible without the problem of it being constantly changed and broken by new features. This is true for all facets of development and with more and more systems being finalized, we’ll have more resources to put elsewhere and into optimization and bug fixing.

Since 0.7 hit PTE, we’ve already found a few big things to improve, like replication your own equipment every 30 frames and not every frame, main base points sending their state to everyone even though they can’t change their state during the whole game and we’ve tightened up the shooting direction of other players, so you better see where the shots came from. The list is quite a long one, but not all of those changes make it into patch notes due to their technical nature - most of them don’t make any sense without the knowledge of the underlying code. Overall, there’s a lot of small changes like that and they will make a big difference in the long run.


Let us introduce two new powerful strikes, which will help you shape the frontline as you please. The Smoke Artillery and Napalm Airstrike.

Let’s start with the first, more tactical one. The Smoke Artillery is your typical artillery but instead of dropping explosive materials, it covers the desired area with a giant smokescreen which persists for few seconds obscuring the vision. So if you want to disguise your troops before attempting a point capture or you want to cloak your teammates so they can retreat safely, the Smoke Artillery is your new friend.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-h_tJjQgomw
The second and much more fearsome strike is Napalm Bombing. Once you see it coming, you better be running to safety. When it’s called it drops the bombs that explode and do a moderate amount of damage, but what’s more important, the explosions leave the ground burning for some time and will cause more damage until the flames go out. With this tool, you can disable a fragment of the map for a short period of time and make sure that no one will interrupt your masterplan.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kOlMre4Zojo
We hope that those two additions will help with the more tactical play and give players more tools for crowd control and funneling enemies into traps. With a well coordinated attack, we’ve seen whole games turn on one or two of those strikes in internal testing already and with the new VOIP system the coordination should be a lot easier now, making those strikes even more useful for a well oiled squad.

Speaking of which, we’re really amazed by the response it got during the PTE testing and we’re really happy the new VOIP is so well received. We’ll continue to improve it and give you more tools to make World War 3 your own and have as much fun in it - be it roleplaying an officer, having fun ordering people around, or just simply shooting your enemies.

Let us know how you like the look and the idea of those new strikes and see you in the next Weekly Report!


- World War 3 Team

This update is aimed mostly at stability, but we improved some things and fixed a few bugs as well. We've also added more community emblems to the game, available only from a code obtained from the creator / clan. You will have to reapply this code again on Live servers once 0.7 gets there. For safety, don't redeem codes on Live before it happens, it might break your profile.

From the gameplay side, we've figured out a way to keep shadows working in dark areas so people don't get an unfair advantage by running low shadows. We did it this way earlier to make lower end GPUs work in WW3 and have better performance at the cost of fairness, but we never intended it to be left this way, and with current performance improvements, we figured that it's time. That said, this change is coupled with disabling per object shadows on low and medium settings to offset the performance hit. In our testing the difference is less than 1fps on low end machines and on both AMD and NVIDIA GPUs, but that needs further testing on different machines.

So in short, you will loose shadows on your character, but they will look better overall, there will no longer be an advantage when running low shadows and it won't impact performance noticeably.

We've also added a long awaited map rotation to the game. Now every time you end a match, all players that are left in the game are queued for another game of the same game mode, but different map. The system first looks for a game that is not empty, to fill it up, but if the number of players looking is bigger than the number of free slots, it will push everyone to a new, empty game.

• Grenades can get desynchronized between server and client and land in different spots,
  
• Ammo/Health/Equipment packs still can disappear,
  

• Added a few Community arm patches (hidden by default),
  

• Changed low shadow settings to remove glowing characters and vehicles in dark areas and improve their quality,
  
• Added map rotation to the ending of the game,
  

• Decreased replication rate for own equipment and capture points,
  
• Slowed down with player state replication,
  
• Added dormancy for support capture points,
  

• Attempted fix for LOD switching related bug that causes ~95% of all crashes (needs confirmation),
  
• Voice chat - speaker icon for local talker,
  
• BCV and VAB speed and acceleration,
  
• Laser dot don't stay on the surface after character death,
  
• Fixed rerolling challenges duplicating them,
  
• Fixed grenade offset on start of local grenade simulation interpolation,
  
• Increased gadgets starvation priority, and lowered relevancy distance (fix for disappearing packs),
  
• Fixed Moscow loading screen misaligned throbber,
  
• Fixed audio engine crash on Berlin TDM,
  
• Fixed collision for RPGs on Berlin TDM,
  
• Fixed disappearing bushes on Berlin,
  
• Fixed some exploit points on Berlin TDM,
  
• Fixed broken/dissapearing destroy packs on Berlin TDM,
  
• Other minor fixes.
  

- World War 3 Team

Available in the following languages: PL | RU | DE | FR

0.7 is finally out on the PTE and we’ve begun testing and fixing it. It’s still in its infancy, but we can see feedback already - you love the VOIP and new lighting, and some people even report performance increase, even though this was not intended to be the effect just yet.
We’d like to reiterate, changing engine version was done mostly for bug fixing and server-side CPU performance gains, with only slight client-side optimizations. That said, we plan on bringing the performance up before 0.7 hits Live and we will continue to improve it like we did since the release of Early Access. It’s a slow and difficult process, but we’re making progress each week.
The main focus right now is fixing all the known issues and smoothing the framerate out, eliminating freezes and microstutters.
As for the known issues, we’re quickly fixing them one by one so the game is stable and works well for 0.7 Live. Thanks to everyone for helping us test the game over the weekend and reporting back with bugs and other findings!


One of the new items on the 0.7 list is the new VAB Mobile Spawn Variant. It replaces the BCV for one of the teams, so you can see in an instant if you’re dealing with the enemy.
It’s also important to note that currently it’s not textured, so it will get a lot more character and loose the clean look.
It’s modelled after VAB MK 3 (Véhicule de l'avant blindé - "Armoured vanguard vehicle" in French) and is a new family of 6x6 medium weight armoured vehicles offering very high level performance in terms of mobility, protection and payload.



In World War 3 it's an "evil twin" brother of Battle Command Vehicle and always appears on the opposite side of the match. Its role on the battlefield is the same as BCV's - providing quick access to the combat, infantry transport, and fire support.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JxqA6NBLSOY

https://youtu.be/c5REYzUTwm8

We’ve added daily challenges to the game. It should let you earn money faster and give people something to do on top of just playing the game. Each day you will be randomized 3 challenges, ranging from winning 3 matches on a certain map to getting X kills with a particular weapon. Each time you complete a challenge, you will be rewarded by either cash, or items - like camos or even weapons.



This is the first step into proper progression and challenge system. We plan on expanding this feature into weekly and even monthly challenges, special events, special unlocks and one-time achievements as well as a tool for supporting the player progression system.


Thanks to new engine version, we were able to tweak the lighting on our levels a bit. The change isn’t drastic, but indoor areas are now more bright, and you can actually see the camouflage of your fellow soldiers. This is not finalized by any means either, we will tweak the lighting more each patch to make sure it looks good and plays well.


We have also implemented a new HUD for vehicles and just in case you didn't have a chance to see it yet, here's a drone with new layout. Similar to the lighting changes, it's nothing big, yet we think it gets us this little bit closer to what we have envisioned for World War 3:



We’ve had our first proper competitive match played over the weekend. Around Friday, 10:30pm CEST, two of out clans fought over dominance on Warsaw Warzone server. While we don’t have proper tools to facilitate this kind of play, we worked with both teams to provide them with a password-protected server and tried to make it work. There were some minor issues at the start, but in the end, the match was won by GiD 5000 : 3068. The rematch is planned for next week, this time playing Team Deathmatch.


That’s it for this week, thanks for reading and make sure to catch the next Weekly Report!

- World War 3 Team

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