A Week in News

We Now Go To Beat Reporter, Benji, for Other News:

Steel Division 2 (SD2), one of the best WW2 RTS games out right now, just published a dev diary and a roadmap. Coming soon is an update that will implement ‘rules of engagement’. This allows you to set the default behavior for different units, so that they react more intelligently to their surroundings on the battlefield. This sounds like a great addition, which will allow the player to focus more on the bigger picture and less on mico-management. It might not turn this into a full-fledged 4X game, but steps from micro to macro strategy are definitely in the interest of the eXplorminate staff! Besides the rules of engagement, the road map also talks about a new game mode, multiplayer ‘army general’ mode (which is the SD2 equivalent of a campaign in a Total War game), and a new but as yet unnamed DLC.



https://steamcommunity.com/games/919640/announcements/detail/1700603847629481147

Also, in previous news, Close Combat: The Bloody First has a new patch out (1.0.7), focusing on improving the surrender mechanics of units, as well as some smaller fixes to vehicles. This follows a larger patch last month, which improved the GUI as well as several smaller fixes to AI and crash fixes. Together they fixed a number of issues encountered during the review, so good work!



patch 1.07 https://www.matrixgames.com/forums/tm.asp?m=4732248

patch 1.06 https://www.matrixgames.com/forums/tm.asp?m=4719786

Until next time,

Benji

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