Are you a strategy lover? If so, this is a great week for you! The Steam Strategy Fest is on, which “celebrates the spirit of out-thinking your opponents or planning ahead to achieve success” which, quite frankly, sounds like our community!
Whether you prefer singleplayer or multiplayer does not matter a lot, Call to Arms - Gates of Hell offers it all and they are equally unique.
The fact that Steam celebrates this “with discounts and demos on current and upcoming strategy games of all kinds” makes for a great opportunity, so don’t miss this shot!

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Given the fact that Call to Arms - Gates of Hell offers 3rd and 1st person views, how did we even get a slot in strategy fest 2023? Well, as anyone in the rapidly growing Gates of Hell community knows, both strategy and tactics are dominant factors and you’d get immersed anyway, even without the 1st and 3rd person views.
The strategic factor simply outweighs the fact that you have all these unique mechanics in Call to Arms - Gates of Hell. This becomes very apparent when you are in “Conquest”, the game mode that lets you research and select your own army, followed by their deployment in action, using your own tactics in battle and creating endless tailormade campaigns.
During campaign battles, you go from planning to execution. You can freely and instantly switch between views, using every bit of tactical experience you have to execute your very own strategy!

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Besides strategy, the other factor that makes every battle unique is realism and historical accuracy. The environments are exact recreations of the real ww2 battlefields, which - among others - means that real life tactics work as they should, in this game. This really adds a layer.
Other big factors are the realism in ballistics, armor, supply chains, the modeling of internal components on vehicles and many more mechanics that make it a very rich game with many layers to it, plus the replay value is endless.

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In Call to Arms - Gates of Hell you can choose between game modes for singleplayer and multiplayer;

• Single Player scripted campaigns
  
• Single player dynamic campaigns
  
• Co-op dynamic campaigns
  
• Co-op skirmishes and missions
  
• Player versus player

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As mentioned before, Call to Arms - Gates of Hell offers 1st and 3rd person views. These are instantly switchable views whereas you can also play everything top- down if you like.
Tanks and large weapons have the option for switching to 1st person view, just like a couple of infantry units like snipers and officers. Regular infantry allows you to switch from top- down to 3rd person with just 1 key.

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At this insane discount, this should be a no- brainer! Join the community today:

https://store.steampowered.com/bundle/15824/Call_to_Arms_Gates_of_Hell__Ostfront/

Our upcoming DLC will be available soon, and it will be the biggest leap forward in visuals and content. It will add the western front of WWII, with the highly anticipated USA faction as the main attraction plus German content for the western front as well. Wishlist Liberation now!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2447590/Call_to_Arms__Gates_of_Hell_Liberation/?curator_clanid=10379584

Update 30 was made live today, with awesome new features and improvements, which gives everyone a reason to come back and play the game, whether it’s new players joining for the sale or returning veterans ready to enjoy the changes inspired by the community feedback. Read the changelog HERE.

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We Stay Behind just reached its base funding goal on Kickstarter! We're incredibly thankful that our backers trust us and support our project! The hunt for stretch goals has just started, and you can help us get there. The game is in the final stages of development, but additional funding helps add more content and allows us to include you and your ideas.

If we hit our first Stretch Goal of 29,000€, we will add the Hiking DLC. With that DLC, we will add beautiful hiking trails to the game. You explore the national park with a hiking map, wander around stunning trails through nature, and find beautiful, relaxing places to take a break and rest. While walking through the woods, you will find plants and flowers and can go on the most relaxed hunt for collectibles you were ever on.

Our Kickstarter campaign is still running for two weeks. Visit the campaign site right here: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/westaybehind/we-stay-behind

Get ready for a challenge that will rattle your bones! 🧟‍♂️🔥 On 6 November, 'Escape Z' arrives on Steam and drags you into a fast-paced, co-operative zombie apocalypse. Face hordes of undead together with your friends in a fight for survival that will test your skill and strategy!

Add the game to your wishlist so you don't miss out on the news to come!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2571140/Escape_Z/

We have a pretty significant update to Sovereign Tea that should be of interest to fans old and new alike. The game is now 70% off for one week as part of the Steam Strategy Fest! First, the patch notes:

Features

• Added "Level 14.5" to specifically teach Mint and Endosymbiont interaction prior to Levels 15 and 16.
  
• Completely rewrote post-Level 09 Fort Steep dialogue between Silver Needle and Genmaicha.
  
• Minor tweaks to post-Level 09 Fort Steep dialogue between Bai Mudan and Silver Needle.
  
• Minor tweaks to post-Level 13 Fort Steep dialogue between Silver Needle and Genmaicha.

Gameplay

• Adjusted BGM in Level 25 to hit dynamic loop at an earlier point.

Bugfixes

• Fixed a softlock condition involving the Brew Experimentation while a Compendium entry is open.
  
• Fixed a typo in a post-Level 20 Fort Steep dialogue between Dragon Well and Earl Grey.

This has a surprising change in that we willingly changed one of the earlier dialogues involving Genmaicha. Genmaicha was always a character defined by her edges, amplified by the devastation she personally suffered at the hands of the Coffee Empire. On replay, years out, there was one dialogue that stood out to me as lacking, which was the post-Level 09 Fort Steep dialogue between her and Silver Needle. This is a dialogue that plays immediately after the Matcha letter scene, so in hindsight, it was unusual for Genmaicha to be so confrontational in this instance.

Thanks to this dialogue change, some later dialogues needed very minor edits to help improve cohesiveness. I hope you go back and give Genmaicha another chance, and I hope this story change, minor though it may be, helps you understand more about what's going on between her and the rest of the Tea Realms.



Finally, the new level of the game, Level 14.5 technically, exists to solve a problem we believed exists with the game's design. You see, we designed Level 15 and Level 16, the final two Green Tea levels, around understanding this big, new unit: Endosymbiont. We also designed them around understanding how to interface Endosymbiont with Mint's abilities. However, we never explained or showcased this explicitly.

Broadly, this is true for the whole game: you can brew a brand new Tea Minion and not know anything about how it works. We have considered, for the sake for clarity, adding mini-tutorial levels, levels you are meant to beat in just one turn, to all units, just to showcase how they behave. For now, we added one just for Endosymbiont, because understanding that unit is critical for seeing how to quickly and efficiently get through the next levels.



We hope you enjoy this update! And we hope to see you across our socials too:

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Hey Champs!

We are happy to be a part of this year’s Steam Strategy Fest. It’s your time to shine - save 20% on Punch Club 2: Fast Forward until September 4th. If you already own a copy of this super awesome fighter management sim, you can gift it to your friends so they won’t have any excuse not to play it!

Eighth update, more than a week into the launch of the steam page, not a day has passed where I would not release an update!

● You can now press the 'T' (shortcut for chat) when a new message is received and the chat panel pops in to quickly answer without having to 'escape' and 'T' your way back in...


● Increased AI burst fire when using anti air (to 3 shots max).
● Smoothed out the sides of the texture of craters.
● Improved look of craters in Winter.


● One internal error with grenades that would go 'missing' and would never be removed from the list of grenades, creating an endless flow of errors in the console, potentially impacting performances.
● Potentially fixed the white square in the killfeed (very rare bug) that I think happened when a player got killed after the explosion of a vehicle.
If it is not fixed, I should now have the tools/means to debug it anyway the next time it happens!
● Black screen of death in a VERY specific case: Starting the ADS procedure, dying in the meantime, being blown up by a bomb, but a second explosion happened right after the first one.
VERY specific, but it's fixed!
● Black screen of death in another very specific case: Your tank being killed while you are playing in FPS and in the middle of the animation of peeking in/out. FIXED.
● You could spawn and glitch through dead / empty ground vehicles if they had been killed/destroyed/abandonned on their spawnpoint.
● Probably fixed the 'big circle of mud' visual glitch with ground vehicles when spawning sometimes. Those who understand know what I am referring to.
● American vehicles wheels material / texture was a little glowy in the dark/shadows.
● AI (infantry) sometimes could get stuck after fleeing.


● Nothing.

Daily screenies:

1. Fixed diamonds drop rate formula. Now it makes more sense to farm diamonds at the highest possible level.

2. Added option to turn on/off auto level change when all enemies are defeated.

3. Changed player attack logic. Now its timer is reseted with every defeated enemy or level change.

4. Fixed game end achievements

This update incorporates changes based on general feedback, and ideas from our Discord community. The recovery system has been toned down, accompanied by additional balance adjustments, bug fixes, and compatibility improvements.

Furthermore, official support for macOS has been released as part of this update.

https://steamcommunity.com/app/2298950/discussions/0/3821921399620996401/

!This update will reset your current run!
!This update will reset your current run!

Unlock three new maps. After reaching the required stage, the map theme gets put into a pool and randomly selected on starting a run.

• Forest - Stage 20
  
• Ice - Stage 40
  
• Hell - Stage 60

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We introduced two new enemy types. This will improve the late game difficulty and leads to the use of more different turrets. These enemies can also appear from the start, once you start on higher difficulties.
Enemies with armor take 60% reduced damage through normal attacks. To be able to penetrate the armor more efficiently, you need to equip the right upgrades. You can spot these enemies by their bronze shield bar and you can spot upcoming armor waves by the bronze color of the formation icon.
Enemies with shields can only have one of their shield bars broken at a time, no matter how strong the attack. Upcoming waves with shield enemies will have their formation coloured in blue. Monsters of that wave have a second blue healthbar. Equip items to increase the number of shield bars you can break.


We introduced two new items, to help you combat the new enemy types.

Equipping turrets with this item, increases their damage against armor.

Equipping turrets with this item, allows you to break multiple shield bars at once. One shield bar per 100%.

We improved the targeting system available to you. You can now no longer only switch between two options, but target specific enemies to pick out the most threatening target.

• Changed how points are spent in the stage selection screen to have a more realistic difficulty scaling
  
• Selected turret/abilities are now highlighted
  
• Turrets not affordable are greyed out
  
• Increased zoom range to be able to view the whole map at once
  
• Improved tutorial highlighting
  
• Mouse camera movement doesn't deselect turret anymore
  
• Enemies that are slowed, have their crystals turn blue
  
• Added 15 handmade waves that spawn randomly throughout a playthrough

• Selling a turret gives back 50% of the gold spend on upgrades
  
• Decreased the gold you get back when selling a base turret to 50% of its cost
  
• Items received from lootboxes drop on the lower end of the rarity range
  
• Upgrading items now scales with the rarity, lower rarity receive a higher % gain than higher rarities.
  
• Buffed late game turrets to be viable around the stage you receive them, even without major upgrades

• Splash Damage Falloff: 0.75 => 0.85

• Damage: 150 => 250
  
• Range: 2.5 => 1.5

• Damage: 90 => 400

• Time to max damage: 25s => 10s
  
• Damage: 62 => 60
  
• Range: 3.5 => 3

Performance improvements and small bug fixes.

Feel free to drop by on our Discord to leave some feedback or ask questions.

Homeseek will be on sale at 20% off as part of Steam’s Strategy Fest, running from August 28th at 10am PDT to September 4th.

The ultimate challenge for strategists looking for a new post-apocalyptic world to conquer, Homeseek is a perfect addition to Steam’s Strategy Fest. In this innovative survival strategy game set in a demanding world with an impactful narrative, you must utilize realistic technologies and manage your settlement’s resources while embarking on dangerous expeditions into the wasteland. Conduct research, build progressive advancements, and make life-or-death choices as you try to survive.

P.S. We really do love hearing from you! Please consider joining our Discord to compare strategies, coordinate with other survivors for multiplayer matches, and give the developers direct feedback about your gameplay experience!

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