Men of War: Developers update 27

[Instinct]

http://www.digitalmindsoft.eu/outcoming/devupdate/thumb/outfront2.png

Another week of fresh updates and new features we are going to tell you about and if this wouldn't be enough, we brought some nice screenshots with us!

We told you guys about the Operation "Mercury", the German invasion of Crete. To invade they needed some parachutes, well and as you are going to invade the island in Men of War aswell, you will need some too!
http://www.digitalmindsoft.eu/outcoming/devupdate/mow/thumb/paratrooper.gif

Atleast virtually ones for your troops. We added some real parachutes allowing every sort of unit to jump down from the sky instead of the scripting work which was necessary before. Well, almost real, sadly you won't be able to make a wedding dress out of it after the jump.

But, therefore you can do your beloved one another favor, by carrying dead bodies into bushes and cleaning up the battlefield, since the AI will react on dead people lying beneath their feet. Yes, cleaining up! Something to do for today?


And ofcourse in action screenshots!

http://www.digitalmindsoft.eu/outcoming/devupdate/mow/thumb/183.png (http://www.digitalmindsoft.eu/outcoming/devupdate/mow/screenshots/183.jpg)http://www.digitalmindsoft.eu/outcoming/devupdate/mow/thumb/184.png (http://www.digitalmindsoft.eu/outcoming/devupdate/mow/screenshots/184.jpg)

http://www.digitalmindsoft.eu/outcoming/devupdate/mow/thumb/185.png (http://www.digitalmindsoft.eu/outcoming/devupdate/mow/screenshots/185.jpg)http://www.digitalmindsoft.eu/outcoming/devupdate/mow/thumb/186.png (http://www.digitalmindsoft.eu/outcoming/devupdate/mow/screenshots/186.jpg)

[Jozor]

ACEEEEE!!!!!!!!! :twisted:

So then Men of Hitman.. or Hitman of War.. Will we be able to change our soldiers clothing even?? (I'm not talking about the entity that changes your clothes, I'm talking about taking a enemy soldiers "skin")

Allways wanted proper parashoots! Instead of playing startrek "beam me up scotty!" :lol:

Tho for some reason.. that image looks like it uses the old scripted version with a new animation. so ether do you have it scripted so jumping out of a plane changes the entity to a parashooter and back when it hits the ground, or is this just a big lie and uses the old way? :( :o

[DDTank]

Very nice Henry!

Clearing up bodies is borrowed from Commandos ("ein Verletzter!") and a good idea that adds some more realism. Will there be line of sight icons on the patrolling enemies or is that a borrow too far?

[Jozor]

Who's henry? :confused:
Ah yeah, I forget about that game, allways think more about Hitman when thinking about carrying dead bodys. :P
Based on the first beta we got, you could double click an enemy to see there vision. :P

[DDTank]

There is no Henry (as far as I'm aware). I lived in Germany for a few years and it was a favourite saying of a friend there; no idea where he got it from! :insane:

[Popalu]

The more that is revealed, the more we want info on the Beta release and confirmation that the date of the game release is still summer 08, (early June or late August)???

I remember Commandos and being able to hide bodies from view to avoid detection, nice touch.

Lets hope the patrols have vision and sound cones, which could be shown if required, so that the guards react more realistically. There is nothing worse than fighting with a group of enemy and having another group of guards stood a few meters away and not reacting as they looking the other way and don't "see" the fight going on next to them.

MoW is shaping up to be the daddy of RTS/RPG WW2 games.

[UsF]

Nice indeed. MoW Hitman style. I like that.

What would have happened, if that guy under the parachute would not have run away. Would he clip through the chute or would it fold around him realistically? :insane:

I bet they always will try to run away. :huh:

[TTorpedo]

Good features
Will we be able to use parachute drops in MP?
Parachuting soldiers and ammunition cranes would be fantastic (and of course would make possible air strikes, by parachuting bombs without the parachutes!)

[HrcAk47]

w0000000000t!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!111!!!!1!


I love it i love it i love it!!!!!!!


Ever considered what could happen if MoW got too perfect? Then the whole WW2 franchise could be put down... Seeing as noone can surpass it :realbig:

[chip5541]

Now that is what I call attention to detail. Very nice.

[C0ntrol]

Very fine looking update. I like the new animation for the parachuters. (b^_^)b

The "Dead carrying" reminds me of Desperados series 8)

[Dilust]

8O :woah: :love: :love: :love: :love:

[DDTank]

Ever considered what could happen if MoW got too perfect? Then the whole WW2 franchise could be put down... Seeing as noone can surpass it :realbig:

So maybe the Devs should draw a line under all this, get it on the market and save more nifty features for the expansion/follow up?!

[Albus]

Very good features !!! http://www.albus.com.es/bravo.gif

[Sukovsky]

Parachutes for MP please, OMG!!!!

[Murmeltier]

woohhohoo :D
thats the thinbg what i ever wanted !!!
paracuters, awesome ! sure will be no problem now to add them to mp in a mod :yes:

[Tigerkiller]

Wonderful new feature :toast: ! Can't wait to parachute onto Jagdpanthers and toss a grenade in :roll: . Seeing as an airborne feature has been added, will we see any Marine additions, e.g. Large Landing/Transport Ships that carry vehicles as well as Infantry? Good work as always :punkl: !

[sgt_steiner]

OH YA F@*;\+NG DANCER MAN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
paras are on my list of "wants" all i need now is radio men to call arty up instead of buying artillery units and i think thats me a very happy little war gamer!!!

[mp5_sd]

nice miniaturized waterdam
:punkl:

[chip5541]

Very fine looking update. I like the new animation for the parachuters. (b^_^)b

The "Dead carrying" reminds me of Desperados series 8)

or Silent Storm!! :wow:

[HrcAk47]

Wonderful new feature :toast: ! Can't wait to parachute onto Jagdpanthers and toss a grenade in...
_Don't_ mess with Jagdpanthers. :laser:

[Terror]

Yay all we need now is a towel so we can clean up the blood. :realbig: Great DevUpdate and the new para animation is fantastic. :toast:

[Mushroomcar]

Me likey. :yes:

Parashooters!
Can you shoot them in air so they fall down? :realbig: Does every nation have their own skin on the chute?
Aw no wedding dress.. :?

Wow!
Carry bodies! :lol: That's evil! But sure is a nice move to the stealth missions and the micromanaging!
Could you guys make us able to stack bodies up in piles? That would be nice, so they don't lie "in each other". Also, can you put bodies in cars? (inventory)?

You guys are going to make us play this game for years!

Also a time ago we had a discussion/thread about a tutorial for the scripting/maping part for MoW. Any news here? Will we get one? Or maybe some examples or maybe just get tutorials on the most common scripts? (sending troops in when enter area, bomb from a plane etc.).

EDIT:
I just noticed a new tank and plane in the 3rd screenshot. In the background, to the left and to the right. Instinct are they new could you tell us? :D

Also, nice new knives and spikes on the boots! (2nd screen)

- Shroom

[Tigerkiller]

That new tank is the Queen of the British Army, the Matilda :booyah: . Mess with her and you will have sore eyes in the morning :ouch: .

[Mushroomcar]

That new tank is the Queen of the British Army, the Matilda :booyah: . Mess with her and you will have sore eyes in the morning :ouch: .

I didn't mean that tank you see at the front, look carefully behind to the left, near the trees. There you can see a tank going upphill or downhill. It looks like a medium and got no track armour. Anyways, we've already kissed Matilda in beta 1. :love:

- Shroom

[Tigerkiller]

Its hard to make out, but it looks like a Panzer IV Ausf D. As for the planes, they are Ju-52's.

[Mushroomcar]

Indeed it is, so i screened it and enlarged it. Here is the result;
http://i26.tinypic.com/33xh1y8.jpg

Let the speculations begin!

I think it's a german medium tank.
And that plane looks like it got a jet engine, maybe german too?

- Shroom

[Matty148]

I don't think thats a tank

[kapulA]

The plane is most probably a Ju-87.

Edit: And, umm, that's hardly a tank.
Unless you consider a pile of wooden barrels an armored fighting vehicle :P

[filon102]

Damn, cant wait till instinct tell us that we can clean tank's crew members with a hand grenade! :love: (sucks that im short on cash if this game comes out :confused: )

[Instinct]

So maybe the Devs should draw a line under all this, get it on the market and save more nifty features for the expansion/follow up?!
We want the game to be as good as possible, regardless of an expansion following up or not.


Thanks for the comments!

[sgt_steiner]

i reckon the "tank" is a big brown turd :insane: and the plane looks like a peteridactyl eating something :lol: , at least thats what those blow ups look like :lol: !!!

only joking guys the tank is most likely a pz4 of some version or another and the plane is most likely a junkers, but i might place an outside bet on the plane being a heinkel jet!!!

@ shroom, ive just went back to look at the original pic and im sure the "tank" is too small to actualy be a pz4, the perspective is just out if you look at the men that are in line with it, and if that is a german soldier thats right next to it on the right, he must be taller than the tank!!!

[Assult2k]

Nothing but greatness is lined up when this game lauches. :) very very nice work gentlemen.

[HrcAk47]

Just one note - Hopefully the cursor wont just turn to "pick up corpse" when you just hover over it... Can be tricky when issuing move orders on a carnage battlefield... Perhaps some button combination...

[Defy_you]

YES!!!! paratroopers :yes: