You get an extra blog this week, thanks in part to the tireless efforts of the fighters on the Western and Eastern Fronts in Verdun and Tannenberg. Last weekend we ran one of our multi-front Campaign events where battle casualties for both the Entente and Central Powers are tallied up, with the side taking the least losses winning.
The result means that we are sharing a mini-teaser about the upcoming new game mode in Isonzo. But first we have news of a small but significant feature update that will be arriving sooner.
Voice Chat Updates Coming
Alongside a selection of bug fixes and general quality of life improvements for Isonzo, we will soon be improving our voice chat system on PC so that Steam and Epic players will be able to talk together – all the better to coordinate your attacks and defenses. At the same time we will be implementing voice chat on consoles for the first time, something we know the community has requested.
A US Army field radio station in 1919. Communication technology has come a long way! It would take 16 key presses to call someone a n00b in morse code.
Battle of Verdun Weekend Campaign
Historically with the Battle of Verdun the Germans hoped to inflict heavy casualties on the French by taking vital ground and then smashing their counter-attacks. This plan failed, with both sides suffering enormous losses over the course of one of the longest battles in history.
In our games, so far the Entente always win the campaigns, so we challenged the community to see if they could give the Central Powers an ahistorical victory, with the potential prize a teaser about the upcoming new Isonzo game mode. The result…
Entente Victory! Again.
It’s not so easy to change the course of history. But, if you look at the numbers below you’ll notice the Central Powers only lost around 7000 more troops during the campaign. In previous campaigns the difference would usually be closer to 40-50,000 more Central Powers casualties.
The final results from the campaign.
It’s still a good performance, and while you couldn’t quite beat our challenge we’ve still decided to share a very mini-teaser with you:
You can see part of the combat area of the new map from our most recently released map: Marmolada.
It’s not much, but we know you can be resourceful when it comes to figuring out new game content. And if not - there will be a bigger teaser coming in next week’s blog.
See you then, soldiers!
