Question for the devs.

[oblisk]

S:HOWWII fan here. I also immensely enjoyed Faces of War, and I am looking forward to the North American release of Outfont 2.

A few questions;

Both game had a very large problem, shuttering and low framerates due to the intense CPU cycles the game needs. Soldiers and FoW ran slow even on high-end PC's with a lot of explosions and units on screen. Has there been an effort to counter this? I think it'd be great if there was an option to disable or change the levels of physics the game uses, like Company of Heroes. Would you guys say that performance since FoW's 4.01a patch, has increased dramatically?

So the game is a standalone of 2 expansion packs for FoW, what are their names?

I know you've been getting this a lot, but do you guys have a ballpark figure of when the game will be released next year? January? Feb? Is Ubisoft the publisher for Outfront 2?

Will there be a "Special/Collector's Edition"?

Has the GUI been reworked completely?

What copy-protection system will it use for the North American release?

[oblisk]

Also, there seems to be a lot of confusing reading other forums.

Faces of War 1 is not Outfront2? Why is Outfront 2 being considered a sequel to Soldiers, if Faces of War is already a sequel?

[Jozor]

Hmm? I dont have the best of computers.. but It runs on mine with highest graphics fine:
AMD 3700+
2x1gb DDR1 400mhz RAM
Geforce7950GX2

They have said (as far as I rember) that the new one supports Dual Core.

SHOWW2 = Outfront 1
Faces of War = Outfront 2
Faces of War : Brothers in Arms = Outfront 2.5 (first russian addon of 2)
Faces of War western addon SHOULD = Outfront 3.0
Thats how it should look... even the russian addon says "Outfront25.exe" meaning 2.5
Unless DMS/BW is trying to wipe Faces of War off the map.. due to its "failure"

The GUI has been reworked if youve seen the Russian first addon, they have more to come.

Edit: SHOWW2 = Outfront 1, kinda tired and such

[Instinct]

S:HOWWII fan here. I also immensely enjoyed Faces of War, and I am looking forward to the North American release of Outfont 2.

A few questions;

Both game had a very large problem, shuttering and low framerates due to the intense CPU cycles the game needs. Soldiers and FoW ran slow even on high-end PC's with a lot of explosions and units on screen. Has there been an effort to counter this? I think it'd be great if there was an option to disable or change the levels of physics the game uses, like Company of Heroes. Would you guys say that performance since FoW's 4.01a patch, has increased dramatically?

So the game is a standalone of 2 expansion packs for FoW, what are their names?

I know you've been getting this a lot, but do you guys have a ballpark figure of when the game will be released next year? January? Feb? Is Ubisoft the publisher for Outfront 2?

Will there be a "Special/Collector's Edition"?

Has the GUI been reworked completely?

What copy-protection system will it use for the North American release?
FoW had problems with its copyprotection Securom, causing low FPS, this will not happen again.

Ubisoft will not be Publisher of the game, a release date is not yet announced.

We have made no plans for Special Edition yet.

The GUI has been reworked completely, I suggest reading the developers updates in the News forums.

We have not yet decided on the copyprotection for North America.

[filon102]

instinct, will there be like fragments flying off when u hit a tank with HE shells or something or even on the ground, etc?

[Instinct]

What kind of fragments do you mean? There are already ones in FoW.

[oblisk]

Hmm? I dont have the best of computers.. but It runs on mine with highest graphics fine:
AMD 3700+
2x1gb DDR1 400mhz RAM
Geforce7950GX2

They have said (as far as I rember) that the new one supports Dual Core.

SHOWW2 = Outfront 2
Faces of War = Outfront 2
Faces of War : Brothers in Arms = Outfront 2.5 (first russian addon of 2)
Faces of War western addon SHOULD = Outfront 3.0
Thats how it should look... even the russian addon says "Outfront25.exe" meaning 2.5
Unless DMS/BW is trying to wipe Faces of War off the map.. due to its "failure"

The GUI has been reworked if youve seen the Russian first addon, they have more to come.

Wait... So

SHOWW2: Outfront 2
FoW: Outfront 2
FoW Expansion 1: Outfront 2
FoW Expansion 2: Outfront 3

The latest unreleased game which has FoW+Expansion1+Expansion2 = Outfront 2?

[Instinct]

Soldiers = Outfront
FoW = Outfront 2
Expansion 1 = Outfront 2 A1
Expansion 2 = Outfront 2 A2
Global Release = Outfront 2 A3

[Jozor]

Oblisk, ment SHOWW2 = Outfront 1, just kinda tired and such and typed it wrong.

Instinct, if Global Release = Outfront 2 A3, then how come on the DMS site it says for "Outfront 2", that the addon is Outfront 2 and also the sequal to SHOWW2, like there was no FoW?
http://www.digitalmindsoft.eu/games/outfront-2.html

Also why arnt Exspansion 2 and Global Release both A2? If they are going to be multiplayer compatable? or do the russians have to end up buying EXP1, EXP2, Global release?

[Instinct]

This has to do with the Russian names, since Outfront 2 is called "V tylu Vrage 2" in Russian and the name was kept, not like FoW which was not kept. It's a bit tricky but this problem will be solved as soon as our Publisher announces the game with its new name. A3 is only the description for global version, games will be compatible.

[filon102]

well nvm instinct forgot about the pnz4 side armor gets blown up :oops:

[oblisk]

So the global release will have FoW's expansions 1 and 2 together and nothing else, right?

[Instinct]

Yes, it will contain out of those both expansions.

[Flanker15]

Someone (maybe Instinct) said that they took out the gibs for FoW in an attempt to do something like get a lower rating or something. Are gibs going to return in Outfront:2 addon?
Also is this game going to be called OutFront: "something" since there are no Outfront games available in the Western market and you could just use the name?

[Instinct]

Yes, gibs will return and no it won't be called Outfront, name is decided but not yet announced.

[C0ntrol]

Yes, gibs will return and no it won't be called Outfront, name is decided but not yet announced.
Aww.. Too bad. Outfront would've been a small and effective name, but please tell it's not a namemonstar as 'Soldiers Heroes of World War 2 : My little brother with a pellet rifle'.

[Flanker15]

Thanks.
Another few of questions for anyone who's played it:
Have the bullets been sped up to a more realistic speed?
Has that thing where if you get a penetrating hit with a MG or other bullet weapon the shell hole is huge like with from a cannon (mainly concerns fabric covers on trucks having huge metal cracks on them) been fixed?
When you kill someone in a vehicle do they now slump over instead of exploding and disappearing?