Panzer Strategy News

Hello guys!

This Friday we offer you to have a look at some new YouTube content for Strategic Mind: Blitzkrieg by Bruchminati. We appreciate the work put into creating these videos, as well as the humorous note that makes them all the more entertaining.

[h3]Episode 1[/h3]
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[h3]Episode 2[/h3]
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The new memes are being born during the Bruchminati playthrough:

Have a nice weekend!

With best regards
Starni Games team

Since Panzer Strategy development we wanted to add unit lines — some things units will say at random commenting on the in-game events.

During the Strategic Mind: The Pacific development we finally had enough voice actors and other resources to fulfill our long-time plan.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/991810/Strategic_Mind_The_Pacific/?beta=0
[h2]The units' speech has arrived![/h2]

We added over 700 unique lines for the US units and over 700 lines for the Empire of Japan units.

[h3]US units[/h3]

1. "The US military is the most professional".

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2. "We stand for democracy".

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[h3]Japan units[/h3]

1. "What does the Empire want us to do?"

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2. "My life for the Emperor!"

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3. "Imperial Air Service".

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[h2]We strive for diversity[/h2]

Every class of units had its own set of lines and triggers, like: selection, movement, attack, killing an enemy, forcing the enemy to retreat, low/out of ammo/fuel, enemy spotted, etc. Here are some of them:

1. "We running out of ammo. Arrows won't fly if the quiver is empty".

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2. "We running out of fuel supplies, Sir".

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3. "Enemy down!"

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[h2]Unique in everything![/h2]

We had 12 core classes for each side, and a special class — B-29 bombers for the US and kamikaze units for Japan.

[h3]B-29 bombers[/h3]

"Superfortress at your service!"

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[h3]Kamikaze units[/h3]

"Banzai!"

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[h2]HQ skills[/h2]

We, also, added lines for HQ skills usage:

1. All guns ready!

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2. Get ready to fire again!

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3. Verifying the enemy's location.

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[h3]Yes, Sir![/h3]

We wanted the lines to be quite diverse — not to get repetitive fast. Yet there are only so many military commands, lines like “Yes, Sir”, that would sound 100% natural.

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At the same time, hearing “Yes, Sir” all the time sounds really boring. So, we decided to experiment and add a wide range of phrases, some of them of humorous nature.

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[h2]Community feedback[/h2]

The community reaction varied — many did not like our approach. We think that those who do not like unit lines can switch them off in the options easily, while many other players who, like us, think that these lines bring additional diversity and fun into the game can play with them on and enjoy the game even more.

From our experience, when you play the game with units’ speech on, quite often there will be moments when the unit’s comment will fit the situation so neatly, that you start to wonder, is it not directed by some sort of AI? These moments are often quite hilarious.

Please, let us know what are your impressions and experience with the unit speech.

We will tell you more about the units’ speech in Strategic Mind: Blitzkrieg in the next issue of our Developers’ Diaries.

Looking forward to your feedback
Starni Games team

Hello guys!

This Friday, we offer you to have a look at the Norway scenario playthrough by Night Phoenix. It is cool to see the expert player cope with this rather challenging scenario. We think that new players can find lots of useful tips and tactics in this one. Great job, Phoenix!

1. Strategic Mind: Blitzkrieg | Mission 03 | Invasion of Norway (1/4)
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2. Strategic Mind: Blitzkrieg | Mission 03 | Invasion of Norway (2/4)
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3. Strategic Mind: Blitzkrieg | Mission 03 | Invasion of Norway (3/4)
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4. Strategic Mind: Blitzkrieg | Mission 03 | Invasion of Norway (4/4)
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Have a good weekend!

With best regards
Starni Games team

General!

Our undisputedly best in the world intelligence service has established the weekly reports to keep you up to date with all the latest data. Our agents will prepare a briefing on all the events, discounts, and news related to the Starni Games.

As the Chief of Staff, it is paramount that you have impeccable information on the ever-changing situation.

[h2]Updates incoming![/h2]



Our ever-vigilant intelligence reports that Strategic Mind: Blitzkrieg has a new 1.19 update, featuring Steam Leaderboards. You can get familiar with their full report here:

https://steamcommunity.com/games/1200330/announcements/detail/2749963579406007804
They have also managed to get their hands on top level secret information: there will be an update for Strategic Mind: The Pacific soon, featuring Polish language and Leaderboards.

[h2]Sync the lip sync![/h2]

Our agents managed to infiltrate the sound recording studio where the Starni Games team had the first day of Mocap + VO recordings for the Strategic Mind: Spectre of Communism. The agents managed to read all the lines from the character model movements on the animators’ screen, so the lip sync is expected to be good.

Seems like the actor has noticed our stealthy agents and is about to sound the alarm.


The sound engineer is making sure everything goes smoothly. If our agents ever get the task to undermine the VO efforts — that man will be a priority target.

The character animation headquarters are discussing the plan for Operation Barbarossa Mocap. It seems that Zhukov suspects something is about to happen.

[h2]Challenge accepted![/h2]

Our intelligence reports that Strategic Mind: Spectre of Communism was identified as a GTP indie cup contest participant.



Our fastest in the world data analyst team works day and night to give a forecast of the chance to win probability, so we might see it a couple of years after the end of the event.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1341170/Strategic_Mind_Spectre_of_Communism/
This is it for this week’s report.

We will keep delivering fresh reports every Monday.
Starni Games intelligence service

Hello guys!

Today, we upload the last of our free tracks from the Strategic MInd Franchise Soundtrack:

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It is an instrumental performance of a famous Russian Civil war (1917) march “White Army, Black Baron” also known as “Red Army is the Strongest!”. In the actual song, one of the lines can be translated as “from Syberia to the British seas, the Red Army is the Strongest”. We do not have the chorus, so we had to leave only the instrumental part.

You can get immediate access to all gameplay and cinematic tracks in a convenient way and in two types of quality by acquiring the Franchise Soundtrack:

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1358280/Strategic_Mind_Franchise_Soundtrack/
Not only will you get the soundtrack, but also support the creation of additional tracks. You can find more info about that on the Soundtrack store page.

As you know, we are working on the next project — Strategic Mind: Spectre of Communism.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1341170/Strategic_Mind_Spectre_of_Communism/?curator_clanid=38088850

[h3]Looking forward to your feedback[/h3]
Please, let us know in the comments whether you would like us to add more historical Soviet songs/marches/music into the game, or you would rather listen to unique new gameplay tracks composed by Daraba studio for the project. We will surely have a few of both, but we would like to know which ones are more important for you, and which tracks should prevail.

Have a good weekend!

Starni Games team