Hi guys! After giving it some serious thoughts, we have decided to rename our game Corpse Keeper!
Same game, upgraded contents, more fun with more challenges coming right up! And our playable demo is still available right now. So give it a go while you can!
We’ll keep it brief in today’s post as we know you are surely playing WARNO to your heart’s content thanks to this week’s MURAT release.
Game development is always a see-saw in balancing, tweaking, and fixing bugs. MURAT is no difference! That’s not the only thing, though: we are also very busy getting you new content. Let us tell you what we are working on.
A new tank family, and more
As we are wrapping up on MURAT and getting busy behind the scenes on the next milestone, LANNES, we have a couple of features and units which will launch sooner.
You can expect the following units, itching to deploy and reinforce the Soviet divisions:
The T-62 family tree
T-62M: the basic variant with the gun-fired 9M117 ATGM
T-62MK: command variant of the above tank
T-62M1: same as the T-62M but without ATGM
T-62MV: same as T-62M, but with additional armor
The T-62 will replace in its entirety the stock of T-64 in both Soviet divisions. This leaves with a more realistic line-up of armored forces, as there weren’t any T-64 in the 8th Guards Army arrayed in Eastern Germany. This also means that the Warsaw Pact player will get access to cheaper armor to augment the already existing heavier, more expensive tanks.
The 79th Guards Tank Division will only get one card of T-62M1. In real life, this formation didn’t have any officially in 1989 but kept some “off the records” for training.
The 39th Guards Motorized Rifle Division gets the full arsenal, with one card of each variant. Historically, in 1985, this formation had more T-62s than T-80s, but by 1989 had replaced the older variant with the more modern advanced tank. It is unclear if all were replaced, hence our line-up.
That’s not all. We are also working on implementing the gorgeous Su-27S fighter into WARNO. It will be added to the 39th Guards Motorized Rifle Division, totting quite the load-out with no less than 10(!) anti-aircraft missiles. This includes 6x R-73 short-range and 4x R-27R long-range missiles.
Lastly, the GAZ-66 transport will finally receive its proper model.
We don’t stop
Of course, on top of the new content coming in, we also are actively reviewing the community feedback and comments, specifically, if a unit is too cheap or too expensive. We are working on a more refined way of calculating a unit’s price tied to combat power. For instance, the Leopard 2A3, although inferior to the U.S. and Soviet direct counterparts (the M1A1(HA) and T-80U), should not have such a significant price disparity. Expect a massive overhaul on unit prices soon, starting with planes & SPAAG first, then MBT, and so on …
Furthermore, we are still working on completing all of MURAT’s towed weapons animations. Once these are done, they are done and though it might take some more time and work now, it will speed up implementing new units in the future!
See you on the battlefield
That’s it all for now. Have fun and see you on the battlefield!
- This patch fixes a strange bug where loading a quicksave caused graves and other stone stuff to drop some resources. - It also makes sure that when you decipher an ancient altar, the skeleton laying there becomes known, so you see his/her name, culture and background, which makes sense because thats what you just deciphered. (Also, I think stuff like this is pretty cool so I wanted to make sure it works the way it was intended.)
Alright, so this patch is probably the last in this series of minor fixes. Releasing a big patch has this two-steps-forward-one-step-back rythm, so it usually needs some adjusting like this. Thank you for your patience! <3
If all goes as planned it will probably be about a month before the next patch, which will be big. It will include a new biome, Savanna, the ability for the player to become necromancers themselves, new items and more!
Another Qorena Foresight Playtest this weekend! Anyone is welcome to join! To participate, follow the instructions through the Qore World website.
If in the event the official server is full, you are encouraged to host a new one and invite friends to join it. We hope you will enjoy the first of the weekly playtest to come. This will be ongoing until version 1.0 release.