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https://aw.my.games/en/news/general/development-special-operations-mission-war My first reaction is cringe, not from the name but from the prospect that this will be yet another corridor shooter. This corridor meta needs to be beaten to death and burned so it stops popping up, not continuously encouraged the the point where squishies have little to no purpose in the game. Also this: Achievement hunters will suffer, this I don't particularly care. It's the shitty chapter system that I hate because if there aren't any infantry to kill on the map, I'm going back to doing everything I can to stay on ch1 for the sole purpose of having easy access to infantry for killing. Fuck the chapter progression system.

A story in pictures: Not shown: I started off the reroll spree with 54k coins. Got lucky with a few big coin drops, but I was still bleeding coins slowly until I found Shield Bitch.

Great work, where are the other chapters?

From what I've seen super softkill is the one thing that actually works, albeit subject to RNG (affected missiles can still sometimes hit you). Unfortunately the short duration and long cooldown makes it only situationally useful.

https://aw.my.games/en/news/general/development-t-90a-burlak Looks interesting, almost too good in fact. Because of the unique RR mechanic, the intraclip time of 2s will be included in the RR reload and brings the actual reload time to some 7.4s. This is before rammer and commander skills, I'm predicting somewhere around 6.5s reload after all the jazz. 6.5s reload with high HEAT alpha should bring the DPM up to the range of 8500-8700. This is dangerously close to top of the line at tier 8, and it comes with a RR too.

It's pointless, since the reload buff is so insignificant and will only last for 20 seconds (3 shots at best). If accuracy is what you desire, then all you have to do is sit still for the passive ability to kick in after 9 seconds. Super softkill on the other hand would be situationally useful, but only against a lot of missiles at once. Override seems to be the most useful ability overall, since it offers a 7s speed boost with a short enough cooldown. It's not Top Speed, but still better than nothing.

Some more stats, courtesy of Soren. All in all, basically a slightly different Leo 2AX. Abilities are Override, Zero In, Super Softkill.

Some stuff courtesy of our RU comrades. Looks very similar to the XM1A3, still need to see the HEAT alpha though.

Found some interesting strings in the localization files, looks to be some sort of grindy event that would provide discounts for purchasing gold. Not sure if this will tie into the next Raid, but the mechanics look somewhat compatible. Looks to me they saw the potential in discount coupons from WoT, and are trying to do something similar. But even then gold is practically worthless.

This will supposedly get fixed tomorrow, let's see if the fix will fail. Time to mod all the skins out of the game anyways.

https://aw.my.games/en/news/general/maintenance-february-19-0 I can't hide stupid skins that give me eye cancer anymore, fuck.

More interesting stuff this time. https://aw.my.games/en/news/general/developer-qa-february-17-2021

https://aw.my.games/en/news/general/development-mastery-flags I wonder if this will be the catalyst for stat-based headhunting in PvP. Unlike marks in WoT, these flags are very obvious and easy to spot in battle. Even without XVM it would be obvious whoever have flags are likely to be skilled/experienced to some degree, and anyone determined enough may target players with flags first over those without. Then again I don't play PvP, so I have no idea if headhunting is even a thing yet.

High DPM on paper, but low alpha so TTK is very long compared to the Stingray and VFM. It's not particularly bad, but you really have to be able to fire non-stop for extended periods of time in order to get the most out of your DPM. Mobility and vision control are average, both decent but nothing special compared to other squishies.

Must have been RU-only. https://aw.my.games/en/news/general/developer-qa-february-5-2021 People actually think non-pen damage on HEAT-MP is too good... the absolute state of the playerbase.

Ah, I see you are doing direct file replacements by inserting stuff into localization instead of gamesdk. Interesting... this could make modding easier as a whole actually.

Blur out the NSFW parts and post them anyway.

News spread on PanzerSofa, naturally there is salt. https://vk.com/wall-102237486_257873

I want to see what you did.

Sounds like just random pubbie things. Don't get too hung up on it, pubbies do stupid things all the time so it's best to not expect anything from them at all. Can't be disappointed if you have zero expectations.

Everything under localization\english_ui.pak\libs\ui\textures\portraits\ I think if you change the language you'd use the other localization .pak archives, but the paths should still be the same.

You are clearly posting here now, so...

History is made here. I wonder how many haters and deniers there will be this time...