Dear Tankers,
Welcome to our 59th Development Status. Lets take a look what happend during Next Fest demo festival!
Demo Summary
First of all, we would like to thank everyone who took part in the Nest Fest festival of demos on Steam and had the chance to play our game! We received a lot of feedback, suggestions and reports that we are still reviewing (because there are so many) and learning from.
Thank you for the conversations, questions and discussions for the whole community on our Discord, Steam Forum etc... Thank you also for the videos/streams of our game on Twitch or YouTube.
Releasing a playable version, in this case a demo version, was very important to us. We are aware of bugs, things that are still broken or the amount of content. Our goal was for you to be able to give you something that we are still working on with some missions and tanks. We are very happy that we have managed to deliver a playable game and show you almost 3 years of progress.
The overall feedback we have received from you can be summarized into few most important issues:
- focus on adding multiple-player crews in single vehicle
- focus on better optimization, so the game runs smoother
- focus on tank controls and physics
- focus on ballistics and penetration simulation
- focus on improving AI vehicles and infantry behaviour
| Statistic | Details |
|---|---|
| Lifetime free licenses: | 34.547 |
| Lifetime unique users | 22.793 |
| Most active daily users: | 3789 (10 october) |
| Players peak: | 135 (10 october) |
| Max players peak: | 144 (15 october) |
| Daily users (median): | 1.768 |
| Linux peak players: | 2 |
| Total unique Steam viewers on Steam: | 198834 (9-18 october) |
| Overall demo play duration: | 846904 minutes or 14115 hours |
| Median time played: | ~30 minutes per person |
| Most playable mission: | Outskirts of Morton: 18.8k players Morton Defence: 4.3k players |
| Game settings: Aim prediction (true): | 97.6% |
| Game settings: Aim prediction (false): | 2.4% |
| Killer unit name: | 82.5% - PzKpfw VI Tiger Ausf. H1 9.3% - PzKpfw IV Ausf. H 7.2% - PzKpfw III Ausf. M 0.6% - KV-1 0.3% - T-34/76 |
| Victim unit name: | 33.7% - Soviet rifleman 13.5% - Soviet tank crewman 11.% - T-34/76 10.5% - Soviet AT infantry 6.8% - Soviet leader 6.4% - ZiS3 AT gun (static) 3.8% - Soviet MG gunner 3.6% - Soviet MG assistant 3.5% - Soviet SMG gunner 3.4% - Soviet senior rifleman 2.6% - KV-1 |
| Victim unit name (no infantry): | 53.7% - T-34/76 31.2% - ZiS5 AT gun (static) 12.7% - KV-1 |
| Friendly fire: | 99.9% - False 0.1% - True |
| Player state change (where players spent most of the time): | 39.3% - Vehicle 37.7% - UI 17.1% - Character 11.9% - Not respawned |
| Proportion of projectiles being shot by units: | 40.5% - PzKpfw VI Tiger Ausf. H1 16.6% - T-34/76 15.5% - ZiS-3 AT gun (static) 8.3% - PzKpfw IV Ausf. H 8.2% - PzKpfw III Ausf. M 5.5% - KV-1 5.4% - Soviet AT infantry |
| AI deaths: | 54.6% - Soviet 45.1% - Germany 0.3% - Independent (we threat surrenders as “no faction” |
| Germany tanks controller by AI killed by AI: | 60.5% - T-34/76 19.2% - ZiS3 AT gun 17.4% - KV-1 |
| Soviet tanks controller by AI killed by AI: | 86.1% - PzKpfw III Ausf. M 5.2% - PzKpfw IV Ausf. H 3.4% - T-34/76 3.3% - PzKpfw VI Tiger Ausf. H1 1.7% - ZiS3 AT gun |
Whats next?
At the moment we plan to keep the demo available. If we decide to take it down, we will let you know well in advance.
We are planning to run playtests on Steam in the near future to test new things and suggestions from the community. Initially around December. We will let you know - for sure! :)
Beutepanzer
One of the things that was possible in the demo was to capture and repair wrecks after completing missions in the campaign with Soviet tanks, i.e. KV-1 and T-34/76. However, we did not have time to introduce fully functional tank customisation. Nevertheless, below is an example of what you will be able to do with a captured tank in the game - in this case a T-34/76, i.e. a PzKpfw T-34 747(r).
The Germans, who introduced the units into their army, designated the T-34 as the Panzerkampfwagen 747(r). According to the literature, the acquired T-34s took part in Operation Citadel in 1943, and Das Reich units had a dozen of them in stock. Would you like them to be available at the start of the campaign? Let us know what you think in the comments.
The KV-1 heavy tank was also used under the designation Pz.Kpfw. KW I 756(r). More about this probably in the next development status.
In addition to the most important things, there will certainly be more content, more missions, even if you're not just playing as Germans, etc. etc.
Thank you and have a good one!
DeGenerals
