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Men of War II - series revival by original Men of War devs
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I played a couple of matches.
It's Men of War, but instead of having access to everything, aka units, the matches come in three phases. The first one is skirmish units, the second is middle-tier units, and so on. The big major change here is that you unlock, or buy units for each of your army stack, and the armies are now separated into different divisions. Like, I play infantry, so I don't have access to heavy tanks, however, I have Stukas, and good inf that can survive a lot. I also get some kind of medic system, not sure how it works yet, but wounded soldiers can be rescued and reused. Usually, at the end of the match, I'm the only one with units left, because everyone else went with tanks, or arty, and got their shit blasted early. The matches are of the mixed kind, which is not good for my immersion autism. You will be fighting alongside Americans and Germans, depending on what the other players picked of course.
One new cool addition, though, is that they have finally made trenches cool. You can now build them however you want, you can link them to already built ones, and repair them if they get chewed up in arty strikes. I really like this. But, I'm not sure about MP, I had some fun, but I don't know if it's my thing.
Only interesting new thing it's the fortification building system, everything else it's pure decline.
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https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/1128860/view/5283327145271597889
Men of War II rolls out Open Beta in May
New single-player and multiplayer content as well as gameplay changes based on community feedback
Greetings, Commanders!
We're proud to announce that an open beta for Men of War II will
begin on Thursday, May 11, and conclude on Monday, May 15
, making it the second opportunity to get hands-on with the game after the initial Multiplayer Tech Test last month. It will be available for free here on Steam, enlisting in the open beta is simple:
- You need to head over to the Men of War II Steam store page where you will have the option to
‘Request Access’
for a ‘Men of War II Playtest’ - you can do so right now and get an e-mail notification once the beta goes live. Otherwise, clicking the button at anytime during the beta will grant you instant access.- If you have already taken part in the Multiplayer Tech Test, you do not need to sign up again, the ‘Men of War II Playtest’ will simply become available to install/play in your Steam Library once the beta starts.
- Wait and jump into the action on Thursday, May 11.
The upcoming beta will once again feature a varied selection of multiplayer maps and modes but will also, for the first time ever, include
single-player content
. The developers are also implementing a
number of gameplay changes
based on your feedback, commanders.
But please keep in mind, the open beta is not fully representative of the final game, as it is still under development.
In the developers' own words:
"
With Men of War II, we aim to deliver exciting new experiences and make fresh gameplay innovations to the Men of War franchise,
" said Maxim Kamensky, Men of War II Producer at Best Way. "
We remain ever grateful to our long-time fans for their support and feedback, and where possible, will be incorporating some of the highly requested changes into the upcoming beta, with further additions being made at release and beyond.
”
We will be introducing the new content and the planned gameplay changes during the weeks leading up to the beta. For now, however, we would like to share
a few insights
from the previous round of public testing. We hope you find the data interesting:
We would like to thank everyone who took their time to play the first Multiplayer Tech Test, and hope you will take part in the Open Beta as well. We are looking forward to seeing you on the battlefield, commanders!
Men of War II will be available in 2023. Remember to add the game to your wishlists!
And if you want to stay up to date on all news about Men of War II, join the game's official Discord server, and follow Fulqrum Publishing on social media!
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Lol at the tank moving through bushes and hedges, without the bushes and hedges becoming damaged at all.
The vehicles also have hit points if you look at the bar below the vehicle icon. Major decline!
Utterly fucking disgusting, if that's true I won't buy this piece of shit.
Guess I'll have to stick to Assault Squad 2...
Guess I'll have to stick to Assault Squad 2...
There is still a damage model like in the previous game, but it seems like every time the vehicle gets damage it loses HP, so you can only repair it a certain amount of times until it's unrepairable, even if it's a mere track damage. In the old game you could repair a vehicle unlimited number of times until a module that can't be replaced in the field is damaged, like destroyed engine etc. That's how I understood it when I played the demo. Also the vehicles move too fast with high acceleration. Feels like you are controling a subaru impreza wrx sti and not a medium tank.
L'ennui
Magister
The only thing I want from this game is a stable engine that can handle mods and large amounts of RAM usage without crashing left and right.
This is as big a disgrace as Operation Flashpoint: Red Dragon was. But the real MoW devs already made the best ever WW2 RTS (even better than AS2), Gates of Hell: Ostfront. Buy that instead, it really is exceptional.
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just get gates of hell hell instead. the incredible Heat-tier soundscape and great campaigns (finland, germany, and soviet) with diverse missions is worth the price of entry alone
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Coming September 20th:
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Another game flees to next year: https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/1128860/view/3684562604963787185
We simply need more time to fix bugs. Thank you for understanding.
Greetings, Commanders,
After carefully analyzing your feedback, that we’ve gathered throughout public playtests, and running some additional QA rounds, we’ve made a tough decision to postpone the release of Men of War II to next year.
At this point, Men of War II is content and feature complete and includes 3 narrative and 2 historical campaigns, Conquest and Raid dynamic campaigns, each playable in 4 variations of competing nations, 15 PvP and 8 PvE multiplayer modes with over 20 maps and more. The dev team has been working tirelessly, but it’s a lot of content and features to polish, especially given that BestWay employees have to deal with difficult conditions in their home country of Ukraine. We simply need more time to fix bugs before we release the game. Thank you so much for understanding and for your continuous support of Men of War II !
Maxim Kamensky, Producer of Men of War II at Best Way, explains:
“We loved working with our dedicated community of fans during multiple Playtests and we gathered immense amounts of data and feedback. In fact, we received so many great suggestions we decided to implement, that the original schedule did not allow us to iron out all the bugs and issues in time for the September release. We feel that our fans deserve to receive a game in a completely polished and bug-free state and ask them for just a little more patience to allow us to deliver such a high quality product.”
We at FULQRUM Publishing would like to thank you all for taking part in the playtests, and for all the valuable feedback that you’ve shared.
In the meantime, we cordially invite you to join the official Men of War II Discord server if you'd like to be among the first to learn all news and chat with us, we always try to answer all questions we can there (or here in the Steam Discussions as well).
We will see you on the battlefield soon.
Less competition for the upcoming Gates of Hell: Liberation western front DLC.Maybe the ‘MOW 2’ devs can use that extra time to add more health bars to their game.
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Now in Open Beta:
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Coming May 15th:
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moving away from the damage system that was first established in Soldiers: Heroes of World War II and replacing it with a health bar is a huge deal-breaker for me
one-shotting enemy vehicles with a well placed shot and causing the vehicle's ammo storage to instantly cook off is immensely gratifying
one-shotting enemy vehicles with a well placed shot and causing the vehicle's ammo storage to instantly cook off is immensely gratifying
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