News Update #15

Officer Equipment

Hello and welcome to another update of Traction Wars. This month we have the Webley Revolver by [TWDEV] Edad Tace & [TWDEV] Brrr and a ingame screenshot from of our maps in production.

Firstly for this update we would like say a warm welcome back to [TWDEV] maniche who had to leave us unexpectedly for an indeterminate length of time back in October. [TWDEV] maniche will be working on Public Relations and Recruitment over the coming months so expect to see him posting our news on a site near you!

The Mod of the Year competition continues over at Moddb, so if you feel you would like to support the mod and vote for us please click the image below to be taken to our moddb profile where there is a voting button. Thank You.

The Webley Revolver first began service during the early years of World War I. It fired a heavy .455 cartridge and was known as the "man stopper." By the time of World War II the revolver design was heavily outdated by semi-automatic, magazine-fed pistols, however the British army without an adequate replacement, soldiered on with the Webley. Modification was undertaken to switch to a smaller, .38 calibre round as it was believed that the era of heavy bullets had passed. This turned out to be a mistake as the .38 pistol round proved too weak to drop enemy soldiers without hitting vital organs and the .455 version continued to be issued throughout the whole of World War II. Today, while the .455 has long been removed from nation's arsenals, the .38 continues to be issued as a police weapon.

By popular demand here is a single WIP screenshot from a so far unannounced map which is in production for OVERLORD. More details about this map will be released at a future date but for the moment we'll leave you guessing. The map in question is being produced by the mappers of "Sword Team" but special mention should go to [TWDEV] teaandcigarettes for this shot.

With a New Year we bring a new section to our monthly updates. Community Questions allows members of the public and community to submit questions to the team they would like to know the answer to. We'll pick the best or most popular question and publish the answers as the main part of the now regular Community Newsletter over at TWMod.org.

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Originally Posted by Traction Wars Community Newsletter #2 To usher in the New Year we would like to introduce the new Community Questions in which we give the community the chance to submit those burning questions to the team. We will then select the best and/or most popular questions to answer in our Community Newsletter. As for this is the first Community Questions we've chosen four of the most commonly asked questions to answer. Question (#1): Are you going to feature the United States in the mod? (-FAQ) Answer:For the first chapter "OVERLORD" we are concentrating on campaign between the British and German Armies immediately after D-Day. In future chapters however we plan to add other countries to the mod including the United States but also others such Canada & Poland. Question (#2): Will this mod have fully destructible environments? (- FAQ) Answer: Yes and no. Here at Traction Wars we are pushing the limits in areas such as map sizes, number of static objects & texture resolutions, which we hope will give the player a far more fruitful gameplay experience. To counterbalance this and make the mod playable on lower spec machines we don't plan to implement fully destructible environments however some objects will be made destructible where it most effective. .... Read More & find how to submit your own questions at TWMod.org

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Community Newsletter #2

Community Questions

To usher in the New Year we would like to introduce the new Community Questions in which we give the community the chance to submit those burning questions to the team. We will then select the best and/or most popular questions to answer in our Community Newsletter. As this is the first Community Questions we've chosen four of the most commonly asked questions to answer.

Answer: For "OVERLORD" we are concentrating on the campaign between the British and German Armies immediately after D-Day. In future chapters however we plan to add other countries to the mod including the United States, Canada & Poland.

Answer: The first release of Traction Wars is called "Chapter One: OVERLORD" which is abbreviated to just OVERLORD. The mod will be released in a series of chapters, each one adding new content such as vehicles, advanced gamemode features & new nations. In between major chapter releases there will be patches to fix any bugs or balancing problems which have slipped through testing.

Answer: Yes and no. Here at Traction Wars we are pushing the limits in areas such as map sizes, number of static objects & texture resolutions, which we hope will give the player a far more fruitful gameplay experience. To counterbalance this and make the mod playable on lower spec machines we don't plan to implement fully destructible environments. However some objects will be made destructible where it is most effective.

Answer: Sorry folks - we have to give the age old answer to this question: "When it's done". Internally we do have a release date in mind and we're working towards that date. However we don't want to announce the date of release until we know we will achieve it without comprising on the quality of the first release (OVERLORD). What we want to avoid is being pressured into releasing the mod on a specific date and having to rush through patches afterwards to fix mistakes that could easily been identified and fixed before release given a bit longer to do the job properly.

- We hope you understand.

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