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Hi, friends!
New DevDiary straight from our DevHearts is already here! As we promised, closed alpha testing has begun before the end of the quarter. And it is both joyful and anxious since we’ll get the first feedback. We recruited about ten alpha-testers (at this stage we need very few) and in due course we’ll add a couple more. Now it is more important to get a general impression of the basic gameplay, rather than finding all bugs.
Our games are quite complex, and we are proud of it :) But the tough side of hardcore games is that if you didn’t listen the lecture course by your friend about how to dominate in the game session - well , it is likely that you will enter the game and just die. Then again ... and again and again. As it should be, you are not in Disneyland, son. But the defeat should be understandable. In a case with MoW games ... you continue to suffer until someone says to you: Buddy, direct control was invented for a reason. And sometimes even longer. Previously, it was singleplayer part of the game, where you could pass through the gentle tutorial, then you could struggle in the campaign and only after go to the multiplayer session and feel your helplessness. There will be no singleplayer in Soldiers: Arena. Tutorial is therefore present and it is fun and interesting, but how to lure the player into it? And then , does anyone beleive that the classic run-of-the-mill player who comes into the multiplayer game, expecting fierce PVP, sees the "Tutorial" button and speaks to himself: "Oh hell! There is a training part here! I’d rather play into it"?. We don’t know such people. Tutorial is needed the most for the guy who already realized that this game is what he wants to play, and wants to understand it! So now we're focusing on how to make the game understandable to the beginner, without affecting its hardcore-part.
That is why in a closed alpha there are only a few people from the community. Now we need to understand if the core gameplay of the game is clear for the newcomer. After all, it’s better to change something in the gameplay now if needed.
And in order to make this chilly evening (for us, at least, it is so) more cozier… Here is the brand new render of the 5 cm leGrW 36 straight from the loving hands of our modellers and some facts about it.
1. The Rheinmetall-Borsig AG was the company that manufactured this technically advanced, but too tricky piece of equipment. It manufactured tractors among other things. Uh ... wait ... no, it was tanks ... But since under the terms of the Versailles Treaty there were some limitations as to producing tanks in Germany, they called them ( for the purpose of conspiracy ) «Kleintraktor» ( ger. "Small tractor"), Grosstraktor (ger. "Big tractor") etc. Although Kleintraktor sounds like a new book about the adventures of Karlsson-on-the-Roof, it was still the light tank VK31.
2. The mine had such a gentle and vulnerable fuze that it was prohibited to fire the mortar in heavy rain - the mine could explode upon loading.
3. 5 cm leGrW 36 was a compact, lightweight mortar (only 14 kg and 46.5 cm in height) with a good firing rate (experienced team could fire from 15 to 25 shots per minute). But it was considered too complex and intricate by the infantry, mainly because of its sigh system which was hard to master. Partly due to the fact that under the conditions of trench warfare, it did not fulfill its goals satisfactory. Likewise, its production was rather expensive, and it was halted in 1943.
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