Among the many new light tanks, Medium tanks, heavy tanks, weapons, uniform variations etc.that the Timoshenko update brings, a seemingly small update to the spawn rules is hiding. This will have a marked impact on the way you play the action game and help promote teamwork across the board.

For the first 10 seconds after a Car/Motorcycle/Halftrack or tank is spawned it now works as a mobile spawn!
But what does that even mean? Keep reading for more details!

Mobile spawn

Previously when choosing to spawn you could either choose to spawn in a vehicle (if available) or on foot and you would see a number of cars with one soldier honking the horn and waiting for others to jump in his car to go to the front. Now you can choose to spawn in a vehicle that is already spawned thus saving time and resources, in the same way that halftracks used to work for mechanized infantry.

This applies to:

• Cars/Motorcycles/Halftracks/Tanks
• Selection must be done within first 10 seconds of vehicle life – vehicles that previously allowed passenger spawn (like tanks & halftracks will keep allowing that as well)
• Player must have no spawn delay penalty
• Vehicle and player must come from same access-point (for defenders all central objectives count as one access-point).

Effect

By giving the players the option to spawn together in f.ex a car[/url], players will have the option to group together on spawn leading to a more wave-like spawn. Being able to spawn as a passenger in a vehicle will reduce the amount of time spent running towards the battle or the time spent looking for a bicycle to ride into battle. Mechanized infantry’s halftracks will of course still be available to spawn in, but not only for soldier in that exact Assault Team, but for everyone able to spawn on foot on that access-point. SO this will make mechanized infantry with their mobile spawns a lot more useful on the battlefield.

Timoshen-WHO?

We will post more information about the other Soviet weapons , and all the other awesome new stuff on the way, in the coming days, so as you have probably guessed by now, we are introducing the Soviet Union as a playable faction in the upcoming update named 'Timoshenko' and we will reveal all the exciting details for this new faction, here on the announcement page, on our Facebook page (so be sure to give us a like), and in our Friday devstreams on Twitch.tv