Haswell 294 Posted November 12, 2020 https://aw.my.games/en/news/general/development-special-operations-mission-plague Quote As you already know, the Apocalypse season is about to begin in the near future and one of the first parts of it introduced will be a new Special Operations mission called Plague, the first in the chain of several about to be introduced in 2020 and 2021. Click the image to open a larger version The mission will take place after the supervolcano explosion that happened during the events of the Spirithaven campaign and continues the story of a world broken by conflict and an environmental disaster of an unprecedented scale. In the months and years that followed, the survivors salvaged what they could and sought shelter to survive in the harsh, post-apocalyptic world. Click the image to open a larger version Amongst the survivors were Ivo Rinaldi, the former leader of PLM, and Igor Kopylov, an ex-major of the Russian military. Together, they started a colony out of an Enigma vault they captured right after the cataclysm. It is now 2047. Their settlement is thriving but is far from safe. Raiders and looters roam the land, fighting over last scraps of food, fuel and ammunition. Commandeering an abandoned Enigma warship, both men set out on a mission to capture vital resources in the Georgian city of Gori, recently devastated by an earthquake... Click the image to open a larger version The “Plague” Special Operation mission will take place in the city of Gori, which you are already familiar with from some other PvP and PvE maps. Don’t get too comfortable though – the earthquake has changed much of its layout. Wide chunks of it were swallowed by massive cracks in the earth and places you might have known from the other maps no longer exist or allow safe passage. Click the image to open a larger version We overhauled the Gori map significantly to offer a lot of blood-pumping short-range city combat against unrelenting enemies. There are, of course, new achievements coming as well – some of them will be fairly difficult and unorthodox, but we’re confident you’ll love them! Click the image to open a larger version We will of course continue to develop more PvE content for the future. The sequel to this operation is already in the works and coming in a few short months. For now, we hope that you will enjoy this one mission and, as always: Short range combat = MBT meta, because who gives a fuck about squishies? Yeah, nah. I don't have any incentive to play spec ops in general, unless I get something other than credits, XP and useless cosmetics out of this I won't bother at all. Quote Spoiler Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
knutliott 41 Posted November 12, 2020 That just means that squishies have to play smart rather than just rely on overwhelming dakka dakka. The maps look great, so I'm looking forward to see how this new Spec Ops turns out! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Azdule 27 Posted November 12, 2020 SS has said that this is a single mission and will remain for 3/4 months - so appears the 'old' spec ops chain (4 missions per spec ops) will be a thing of the past. The new 'chain' will span 2021 and from other comments appears they may have names of the 4 horseman of the apocalypse (or similar theme) Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
knutliott 41 Posted November 12, 2020 That seems like an odd way to release them... people are going to be really bored with the 1st mission by the time the 4th one releases. Though maybe this will give them time to make the missions longer and more flexible? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
