Hey everyone,
Welcome to Developer Briefing #42! This week we’re incredibly excited to share with you more information about our next map coming in Update 3, Omaha Beach!
Playable on both our existing gamemode and the upcoming ‘Offensive Mode’, we’re confident that Omaha beach will be a whole new experience unlike anything else for the Hell Let Loose community…
Omaha Beach, Normandy - June 6th 1944
The beach!
Your battlefield!
Created using archive footage and satellite imagery, you won’t just be playing on a map called Omaha Beach, you will be playing on an accurate recreation of Omaha Beach itself!
100 players will clash on this shore.
Fight to capture or defend the actual emplacements from that historic day.
A potential operating base for the United States or last grasp hold of the beach for the Germans? You decide!
Clash at the crossroads!
100-Player Beach Landings
In Offensive Mode players on the United States will begin the match at sea in Higgins Boats and be dropped off in waves as they assault the beach defended by players on the German side.
Yes, you read that correctly, we can officially confirm that beach landings via AI controlled Higgins Boats are coming to Hell Let Loose in Update 3!
You wanted beach focused combat and you’re getting it!
Fight high and low along the beach terrain.
Hold the line as the Germans using an extensive system of trenches and bunkers.
Furious CQC will occur once the Americans begin their push into the deeply entrenched German position!
We’ll be sharing exactly how Offensive Mode works in next week’s Developer Briefing, but for now we can tell you that it’s an attack and defend mode involving multiple simultaneously active capture points and a shifting focus across the battlefield as the match progresses.
What does that mean for Omaha? Well if the United States are able to take the beach and its defences they will then have to push past the shore and take the areas beyond the beach as the Germans dig in and attempt to stop the Allied offensive.
Village squares...
Lush fields...
And landmarks!
Omaha Beach and the new Offensive Mode will launch in Update 3 when it arrives in the near future.
Hell will be let loose...
Join us for next week's Developer Briefing when we'll be detailing Offensive Mode!
We'll see you on the beaches...