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A: Traction Wars is a World War II standalone game on the cutting-edge CRYENGINE3 which will bring the towns and countryside of Normandy during the depths of the Second World War to your screens. The game concentrates on realism, historical accuracy & tactical teamplay. In Chapter One Traction Wars will be featuring the Normandy Campaign between the British and German Armies between June 6th and August 22nd 1944.
A: The release date for Traction Wars - Chapter One: Overlord has yet to be announced.
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A: Traction Wars is not available yet and a release date has not been announced.
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A: You can help the game by telling your friends about us and by joining in discussions on the forum. We are always interested in hearing ideas and suggestions for the game. If you have an idea please let us know by posting in the suggestions forum.
If you have a skill you think we could use then you can see a list of open positions on our recruitment page at www.twmod.org/recruitment.
A: In October 2008 the team took the decision to stop production of the mod based on the work of Philip Reeve due to a failure to secure a intellectual property license from the author.
We cut our losses and started on a new WWII mod project (now indie) of the same name. You can read the original announcement here.
In October 2011 the team made the final leap to a standalone indie PLAYFORFREE game which is the project you see today.
A: There is currently no singleplayer or co-op mode planned for Traction Wars.
A: The game team and community spans the world so we use GMT (aka UCT) as the official game time. The default timezone of the forum is also GMT but you can change it to your own timezone in your account settings.
A: No. We have no plans to charge for the game or to have any form of in-game store.
A: The game has been divided up into a series of releases called chapters; the first of which we have called OVERLORD after the codename for the invasion of Normandy. Each new chapter will build upon and extend the previous chapter rather than replacing it.
Between the release of new chapters we will continue to patch and maintain the current version so players won't have to wait for the next chapter for any issues to be resolved.
A: The full list of features for OVERLORD has not been announced but you can find a taste of what is to come on the "About Traction Wars" page
A: We are not looking for or accepting any beta testers at the present time. You can see the list of available positions on the "Join Us" page.
A: There is extensive testing and optimisation yet to be done but tenatively the minimum specs are as follows:
A: At the present time vehicles are not expected to be included in the release of OVERLORD however it is still possible that a limited number of vehicles will make the first release.
We have started working on vehicles as making them realistic will take some time but OVERLORD will take priority until release.
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