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Attention Commanders,

Advanced Platoons are here and this is our largest update since the World Map!

You can watch the video that illustrates the overview and/or read about the features in more detail.

[video=youtube_share;OV8_9ixozHw]http://youtu.be/OV8_9ixozHw[/video]

The four main changes:

1. You can repair platoons in deposits without having to return them to your base.
2. Platoon squads are now optional. By default there is a single squad that can hold all of your units but you can create up to four
3. You can name your Platoon whatever you like. Only you see your platoon names (other players see your base name), so go to town.
4. When a Platoon returns to base, its grouping is not lost. You don't have to go through the process of creating it again. This is the same for when a platoon is left guarding a deposit

The process for making a platoon has moved from the map to inside your base. You can create as many platoons as you like and get them all setup before deploying them on the world map. Once a platoon is made you can use it over and over again and only have to edit it when you want to change the units it holds. You can launch a platoon from inside your base or from the world map.

In addition to the platoon changes we've tweaked a few other things:

1. Infantry units now persist! If they are killed in battle they can be repaired from 100% damage (just like vehicles). The cost of repairing a fully damaged infantry unit is less than it did cost to make it, and yes, we will be doing this for Aircraft soon!
2. Your airfield now has a little more space at higher levels and its capacity is linked to its level; +100 at max level.
3. The deployment cap has increased, you can now have slightly more units in battle at any one time; +200 at max level.
4. Platoons hold slightly less units, however the cap is on the entire platoon, not a single squad, so you can use the space more efficiently; -540 at max level.
5. The deployment cap is now linked to your storage building level, not your Command Center level.
6. Platoons move quicker on the map than ever before! Units have a +10% to +35% move speed increase when in platoons. The attack dog and rocket buggy are still the fastest units.
7. You can leave more units guarding a deposit.

We’ve also cleaned up the UI and a few processes; little things like making it possible for you to select all the units you want to scrap and then pressing “Scrap” instead of having to confirm every single one.

You will see that you can only repair a single platoon at a time and can not queue up all units in your base/storage to repair. We made this decision to simplify the UI. As you can now repair platoons on deposits it should even out in terms of time spent, for most it will be a time-saver compared to the old system.

We hope you like the changes, if you have any comments or questions leave them below.

blackstar21

Awesome kixeye

XxLittleDannyxX

I think the infantry should have a killed how many time limit. Like if you have a heavy gunner and he dies he should have 2 more lifes (etc) that what i think. but the air it should have already been like vehicles. But if anyone know me i am very much a **** Hope someone goes more into detail

ttyl

David Scott

XxLittleDannyxX wrote: »

I think the infantry should have a killed how many time limit. Like if you have a heavy gunner and he dies he should have 2 more lifes (etc) that what i think. but the air it should have already been like vehicles. But if anyone know me i am very much a **** Hope someone goes more into detail

Yer, but then you have to keep track of how many times each unit has died and it becomes a UI nightmare and "Hey KIXEYE support, i'm sure my rifleman died only once but he's gone now"

Plus if you have a platoon with only infantry (or even a squad with only infantry) and they die you lose the platoon so you have to make it all over again, which is a pain.
PLUS the cost of repairing these guys is going to be less than it would take to replace them, so keep quiet

SEAL TEAM LEADER

Kixeye CM Swag wrote: »

Platoons hold slightly less units, however the cap is on the entire platoon, not a single squad, so you can use the space more efficiently; -540 at max level.

Does this mean 8 megatanks in a platoon is no longer possible?

-SmashN-

Awesome - Can't wait!! No aircraft repairs boooo lol - oh well, there is always the next update to look forward too I guess. Gotta keep us wanting

Drako2k0

"You will see that you can only repair a single platoon at a time and can not queue up all units in your base/storage to repair." ughhh this is what I hated about battle pirates. so now instead of going to bed knowing that a good chunk of my units will be repaired when I wake up, I now will have to wake up in increments at night in order to check up on current repairs and begin new repairs >:(

-SmashN-

David Scott wrote: »

Yer, but then you have to keep track of how many times each unit has died and it becomes a UI nightmare and "Hey KIXEYE support, i'm sure my rifleman died only once but he's gone now"

LAWL - you've been dealing with gamers too long.

David Scott

SEAL TEAM LEADER wrote: »

Does this mean 8 megatanks in a platoon is no longer possible?

Each MT takes up 250 space, so the new space of 1,500 will hold 6 mega tanks, but you can deploy them all at once so there is no change there. The deployment cap is up by 200.

fmlforwin

please tell me air is also persistent :x

Callum Oates

Yes more air, more deployment and faster platoons, nice update!

David Scott

fmlforwin wrote: »

please tell me air is also persistent :x

Coming soon!

Callum Oates wrote: »

Yes more air, more deployment and faster platoons, nice update!

Thanks, I think you will find the main improvement is just how easy it is to play now Platoons are remembered and can be repaired on Deposits.

SEAL TEAM LEADER

All infantry should not be able to be repaired. Why? When they die, they die, Cant bring them back. In my opinion only the hercules should be able to be repaired. They are less human than they are machine...

David Scott

SEAL TEAM LEADER wrote: »

All infantry should not be able to be repaired. Why? When they die, they die, Cant bring them back. In my opinion only the hercules should be able to be repaired. They are less human than they are machine...

Think of it as replacing them, the platoon remembers what units you had so you don't have to remember which ones to make and then remake the platoon, saves you a bunch of time.

Robert Silverthorne

are the upgrades for buildings staying the same? i think that for a new bee it should be a more gradual step that's just my opinion

tcflshannon

would like to see it made to where we can put in coordinates and send our troops there. would really streamline the moving process.
any thots on reducing upgrade times at all? some of them get quite lengthy, even with upgrades war factory, airport and barracs. just a thot. kick **** game guys!

David Scott

Robert Silverthorne wrote: »

are the upgrades for buildings staying the same? i think that for a new bee it should be a more gradual step that's just my opinion

We've made no changes to the upgrade cost or time on buildings with this update. Having an upgraded staging area has become more important.

tcflshannon wrote: »

would like to see it made to where we can put in coordinates and send our troops there. would really streamline the moving process.
any thots on reducing upgrade times at all? some of them get quite lengthy, even with upgrades war factory, airport and barracs. just a thot. kick **** game guys!

I'm working on a way to make it easier. No plans to change the upgrade times.

Callum Oates

Sounds good, such a pain placing platoons 24/7 can't wait till repairing aircraft though, that's such a pain!

AhmedGaiar

Great i like it , but what i need of platoons to decreasing the time of moving coz some time moved from side to anther side about 1 hour ,it's too much of moving and didn't play well when we moving all this time , so plz solve this problem

David Scott

AhmedGaiar wrote: »

Great i like it , but what i need of platoons to decreasing the time of moving coz some time moved from side to anther side about 1 hour ,it's too much of moving and didn't play well when we moving all this time , so plz solve this problem

Great news! The speed of platoons will be increased upto 35% when this update goes live!

twazlavek

AhmedGaiar wrote: »

Great i like it , but what i need of platoons to decreasing the time of moving coz some time moved from side to anther side about 1 hour ,it's too much of moving and didn't play well when we moving all this time , so plz solve this problem

For real, I wish we could move an infinite amount of spaces. It would make things a lot easier than having to use way points.

whoatommy

Joshua Stephen Uczekaj wrote: »

"You will see that you can only repair a single platoon at a time and can not queue up all units in your base/storage to repair." ughhh this is what I hated about battle pirates. so now instead of going to bed knowing that a good chunk of my units will be repaired when I wake up, I now will have to wake up in increments at night in order to check up on current repairs and begin new repairs >:(

+1

If this is the case it will be extremely annoying and a very bad update....there is no point to it at all...

-SmashN-

David Scott wrote: »

Think of it as replacing them, the platoon remembers what units you had so you don't have to remember which ones to make and then remake the platoon, saves you a bunch of time.

So if RUBI is replacing the missing unit from your platoon, and they come back fully replaced with max health in your platoon, is there a replacement timer that scales in length per unit. Or are they repairing and you are just telling us to think of it as being replaced.

Flix

This is great!! Thank you!!

Jefry Je-pronk

great kixiye,,, your the best

TEZMAN

I realy hope we dont have to keep a constant check on repairs ... a lot of us work and we will get home to only half or less of our troops ready ... this would be very bad the system you have is good .... you can battle hard and just wait for them to get home and start repairs .. knowing when you get home or wake up you are good to go ..... if we are loosing logged on play time to reparing units will be dissapointing .............. love this game ... keep up the good work

Khaled Aljehani

this really made this game make no since for me i thought even tanks wont be repairing but i shocked when i saw even infantry can be repair
why not infinity life lol or for next update
nd increase the capacity of platoons nd air filed what left auto guide where to attack nd where hiding unit

ashtheglory

The upgrades seem like good progress overall. But not being able to que up all repairs Is a real bummer for those of us that cant sit on the couch all day playing the game. i come on 2 times a day or so. so if i need to repair 4 platoons it will be 2 days before i can be ready to play again. This promotes the use of scrips! I choose to play this game because i can compete without running scrips. I would much rather take a few minutes to create new platoons than have to check in every 2 hours just to repair another platoon. Im very concerned about issue. Thanks, FS-Trip

LettuceConquer

Looks Good the updates... Now all we need is unit formation for the platoons (similar to the World in conflict game) so that one bullet doesn't damage 10 tanks in one hit. Don't mine the massacrer with the foot soldiers, but with the tank seems unrealistic.

Martin van Hees

Hi Sir,

My name is Martin i'm frome Holland (dont start about soccer tonight please )

I love playing online games, i'v been gamme master in Hattrick online soccer fore a long time, i hate cheaters and people who destroy the game by using bad language and cheeting etc etc.

I am wondering if you are looking fore gamm masters in War commander or how i can become one.

Sure it is nice that games keep beeing evelloped but people do cheat more and more multiple accounts haccking etc etc lets get it fair again

I hope that you awnsere to my question.

Kind regards Martin

Lukasz Mancewicz

whoatommy wrote: »

+1

If this is the case it will be extremely annoying and a very bad update....there is no point to it at all...

+1 that will be very annoying!!