Reichenberg Posted April 15, 2008 Share Posted April 15, 2008 Good find Tartari!! Any idea when this one will be out?? On the link I can just read 2008.... anything more specific would be welcome Sneaksie, can you give us an overview what improvements are in the add-on for sure - and maybe which ones are planned to be put in?? Uwe Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TAC101 Posted April 15, 2008 Share Posted April 15, 2008 Here is a rough Babelfish translation.. new series of vargeymov, created by developers the "second world", is opened by the game, dedicated to scale operation, which passed in the beginning of 1943 in Tunisia and predetermined the crushing defeat of troops of Germany in North Africa. After being set right after defeat in El Alamein, German Afrika Korps, reinforced by Italian military contingent and intensified by the newest armament, appeared against the allies. Under the command of experienced General Rommel German troops had the serious foundations for designing for rapid victory. However, military actions substantially tightened themselves, and to the plans of German command judged it was happen... For player one must prove to be in the epicentre of Tunisian operation and carry out the orders of Rommel, Montgomery or Eisenhower - depending on that, troops of what country it will prefer to command. Entirely another war: **Computer graphics and the sonic tracking of new generation. **15 play missions in three campaigns - for Germany, USA and Great Britain, and also the generator of missions for developing its own military scenario. **Seizure and conducting is combat in the buildings or from the shelter. **Hand-to-hand fighting. **Ground-based and air combat vehicles, stationary antiaircraft sites, accessible for control. **Extended management of formations, the usovershenstvovannyy artificial intellect of soldiers, the independent search for shelters by soldiers, the improved system of damages for the infantry. **System of visibility taking into account the viewing angle and influence of smoke screens. **Search of play servers in the Internet and different possibilities for the multi-user game. The site only lists 2008 as the release date but the buzz on the Russian forum states 08.05.2008 as the actual release date. Now that could actually mean 05.08.2008 as it is customary outside of the United States to list day/month/year TAC101 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bruce90 Posted April 15, 2008 Share Posted April 15, 2008 Mmm.North Africa? I was hoping to see the European theatre developed a bit more before they moved on to something else. Stuff like towns for street fighting etc.It seems to me this will simply be another game of rural landscapes and given that we're talking about the desert,a less appealing looking landscape at that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
benpark Posted April 15, 2008 Share Posted April 15, 2008 Will ToW be retrofitted (pay or otherwise)to include building entry? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nachinus Posted April 15, 2008 Share Posted April 15, 2008 Great news! I'm very excited about the new features and improvement of infantry AI, that is just what I wanted! ...a bit sad about the lack of italian vehicles, it would be great to be able to create some campaigns of the early desert war. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pad152 Posted April 18, 2008 Share Posted April 18, 2008 I hope we see ammo & weapon carriers and allow vehicles to carry extra ammo and some small arms. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bosna Posted April 22, 2008 Share Posted April 22, 2008 this new add on will be great very good thx for a game i like it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gridley Posted April 22, 2008 Share Posted April 22, 2008 That terrain looks tremendous. Love Tunisia... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grunt007 Posted April 22, 2008 Share Posted April 22, 2008 well done, this game is so ..so... fun !!! I hope we will get dynamic aspect for battle generator and going in the buildings for some good ol' street fighting kind of like close combat games and cc games. and smoke screens would be nice !!! will this addon be able to update our first tow games also ?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Big Dog Posted April 22, 2008 Share Posted April 22, 2008 Originally posted by benpark: Will ToW be retrofitted (pay or otherwise)to include building entry? This it the key question. Will the original TOW allow building entry if we purchase this add on? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crazyman56 Posted April 22, 2008 Share Posted April 22, 2008 Depends if they can be bothered which i doubt as they are a big corparation and unlike battlefront can dump a project and it doesnt matter. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fil Posted April 28, 2008 Share Posted April 28, 2008 http://www.ag.ru/screenshots/iskusstvo_voiny_afrika_1943 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reichenberg Posted April 28, 2008 Share Posted April 28, 2008 fil, the pics look very impressive. Any more news for us what improvements we will see?? Enterable buildings? Smoke grenades and smoke screens? Micromanagement 'helpers'? Cover in grass? Friendly and enemy AI improvements? . . . Uwe Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
redbear Posted April 28, 2008 Share Posted April 28, 2008 entrable build are there also smoke seems that there is a new AI in others word seems tobe improvement over TOW. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Madmatt Posted May 2, 2008 Share Posted May 2, 2008 Guys, I think you are getting a little mislead, that North Afrika game is NOT a add-on or expansion for ToW, rather its an all new game. Its not even for sure that we are the ones that will be publishing it, everything is still very early in development. I think there is confusion because its using some of the underlying ToW technology but please wait until you see some official (i.e. in English from us ) announcements on the future of ToW. Madmatt Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Madmatt Posted May 2, 2008 Share Posted May 2, 2008 Originally posted by Madmatt: Guys, I think you are getting a little mixed up here. That North Afrika game is NOT a add-on or expansion for ToW, rather its an all new game. Its not even for sure that we are the ones that will be publishing it, everything is still very early in development. I think there is confusion because its using some of the underlying ToW technology but please wait until you see some official (i.e. in English from us ) announcements on the future of ToW. Madmatt Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bruce90 Posted May 2, 2008 Share Posted May 2, 2008 Originally posted by Madmatt: Guys, I think you are getting a little mislead, that North Afrika game is NOT a add-on or expansion for ToW, rather its an all new game. Its not even for sure that we are the ones that will be publishing it, everything is still very early in development. I think there is confusion because its using some of the underlying ToW technology but please wait until you see some official (i.e. in English from us ) announcements on the future of ToW. Madmatt Fair enough but with answers like this.... Topic: Addon or TOW2 in progress? sossen Junior Member Member # 27944 posted 28-03-2008 18:12 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Will there be an offical addon or a TOW2? thx -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Posts: 3 | Registered: Mar 2008 | IP: Logged Sneaksie Moderator Member # 18300 posted 28-03-2008 19:12 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Yes, it's in the works. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Posts: 619 | Registered: Sep 2005 | IP: Logged ........can you see how we have been mislead? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
redbear Posted May 3, 2008 Share Posted May 3, 2008 well the question i do about TOW is There will be an add on after all? or the add on will be stellar because I could see alot improvement on the screen shots of this game. I mean smoke enter able buildings a so. So lets way and see guys. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moon Posted May 3, 2008 Share Posted May 3, 2008 bruce, yes, we can see how this could have been misleading. That post was made by Sneaksie from 1C, and it goes somewhat against our current understanding that the new game is indeed a new game and not an "add-on". It may have to do with lanaguage barrier (add-on vs. sequel). But mind you, Matt didn't say that there wouldn't be He just said that we're still talking to 1C about it internally to try to determine what we do, if anything. Martin Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bruce90 Posted May 3, 2008 Share Posted May 3, 2008 Originally posted by Moon: bruce, yes, we can see how this could have been misleading. That post was made by Sneaksie from 1C, and it goes somewhat against our current understanding that the new game is indeed a new game and not an "add-on". It may have to do with lanaguage barrier (add-on vs. sequel). Martin Well, I only know Sneaksie through these Forums but I'm sure he wasn't being deliberately misleading. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moon Posted May 3, 2008 Share Posted May 3, 2008 I'm sure he was not. He may know more than I do, that's all. He's sneaky that way Martin Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gnasher Posted May 3, 2008 Share Posted May 3, 2008 Originally posted by Moon: He just said that we're still talking to 1C about it internally to try to determine what we do, if anything.Please, please, please make sure "anything" means SOMETHING & not nothing! OK the journey so far has been a nightmare for you guys, however you have pulled through & this is a potentially a truly great game with continued development & refinement. It will, I'm sure, overtime become the IL2 of ground combat & kudos & dollars, are the rewards of those who stick with it through thick & thin (i.e. BFC). There is so much more to be done with this game........... [ May 03, 2008, 01:16 PM: Message edited by: Gnasher ] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SlapHappy Posted May 6, 2008 Share Posted May 6, 2008 I had noticed when the first screenshots went up that it seemed that this was a completely new game and not the add-on. It's in a completely different theater of operation! Plus the archetype in the title is "Art of War" not "Theater of War". I don't know what happened with all those great sample screenshots a few months back with infantry shown fighting from buildings. Those seemed to be from the add-on project. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SlapHappy Posted May 14, 2008 Share Posted May 14, 2008 I guess what's old is new these days. Even though I've had this game on my hard drive for over a year, this game is getting ready to be "released" by CDV. And now development is credited to 1C and Battlefront on the CDV website. Huh? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moon Posted May 15, 2008 Share Posted May 15, 2008 SlapHappy... Battlefront has assisted 1C in finalizing the game for release, and we're also the main publisher for the game, worldwide. CDV has sub-licensed it from us. Therefore both 1C and Battlefront are listed. The release into US retail months (or in this specific case, almost one year) after our direct release online is 100% in line with our business model. We've been doing it like this for years, and it's one of the core principles that Battlefront has been founded on. In those cases where we did get sucked into simultaneous releases, it's usually backfired sooner or later (see CMSF). So if anything we plan to increase the gap between online and retail even more in the future. BTW, more on topic - we should have some firm news regarding this TOW2/add-on soon. I'm hoping this month still. Stay tuned Martin Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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