New, New Patches Released - ww2 v10.01 - MBT v11.01

[Walrus]

Hi Guys

Just noticed Shrapnel / SPCAMO have released new upgrades to both MBT and WW2.
These are upgrades to the patches released in early March.

Latest are now:
WW2 v10.01
MBT v 11.01

It seems that this latest release coincides with the release of new physical CDs...and just after the early march patches they discovered a code issue that they just couldn't live with, so thus new, new patches.

One thing I noticed when reading the blurb was probably introduced in the early March patches, but I hadn't noticed (it's possible it's just arrived with the new xx.01 patches) was very interesting -


Units which manually turn to face a new hex may now draw opfire. This affects both infantry and vehicles at different ranges and there are random variables we tossed in to make in unpredictable but generally ( and the randoms we added really do mean "generally" ) in hex infantry movement could possibly attract opfire from enemy units up to 3 -5 hexes away (generally...). Vehicles shifting hull or turrets around could attract opfire from enemy units up to 10 hexes away ( and maybe a bit more... ). And all that depends on the enemy's training, morale, suppression level, vision rating and battle visibility etc. AS WELL AS your units training, morale, suppression level, visibility etc.. This new game feature was originally intended to stop players from turning their tanks in place to present their heaviest armour towards the most likely threat without attracting enemy attention. That was expanded to include swinging the turret as obviously that kind of movement if spotted by the enemy would naturally draw fire in a real battle situation and then that was expanded to include infantry as well. The bottom line is if you just want to "look around" to check your LOS use the } hotkey otherwise you risk drawing unwanted attention to your unit .

OK - happy battles!
Walrus

[Weasel]

So much for spinning your tank around in circles. However, in our fight I did the V key and it spotted none of your troops, but as soon as I spun the tank in place he spotted them, remember? So I think the spotting has an issue or two if the V key doesn't work but spinning does.