Hello Steam Friends!
I’m DAGGER from Cornered Rat Software and I wanted to stop by and let you know a little bit about what’s been going on at RAT HQ lately.
As you may be aware, we’re gearing up to release WWII Online on Steam this summer!
Over the last several months our team has been working hard to get prepared for this big step in the long history of our game!
Some of the most important prep work so far has been undertaken by our team of System Administrators and Developers to upgrade and reconfigure the game servers to allow us to bring all our users , new and old alike, together in one single game world!
You may think you’ve seen some big game arenas before, but the scale of WWII Online is something that has never really been matched in a MMOFPS. When you spawn into our game world, you are spawning into a half scale map of western Europe, with no instances. You can walk from Frankfurt to Calais (if you can manage to sneak through the front lines) without ever having to load into another instance.
To ensure that this single instance game world is available to as many users as possible, our SysAdmin and Dev teams have undertaken an impressive project to upgrade our server hardware and optimize our internal networking. This will allow us to expand our concurrent user capacity with the goal being that every player that joins the game will join a single campaign and fight in the same war!
In addition to all this intensive back end work, our Production team has also been hard at work. Our producers, artists, animators, and ballistics experts have been laboring almost around the clock to finish the first new sets of vehicles that will be released into the game world in almost 10 years.
These new vehicle sets will include 3 new aircraft variants that are built for Tank Busting, the Bell P-39, the Hawker Hurricane Mk IID, and the Junkers JU87 G2. To help counter these potent ground attack aircraft, we will also be introducing a set of vehicles that has long been requested by our community, Self Propelled Anti-Aircraft guns! There will be 2 new self propelled anti-aircraft platforms both mounting the potent 40mm anti-aircraft cannon.
I will hopefully be able to dive into each of these vehicles in more depth in future communications, but wanted to make sure you knew that the introduction of these vehicles is a big step for our development team and will bring some new gameplay options to the community!
All of our teams have been working hard to get ready for our debut on Steam, and we’re excited for you to join us on this adventure!
That’s about all for now, I’ll be writing more in the future to let you know what we’re up to at CRS!
We’ll see you on the virtual battlefield!
Salute!