Community members! In our previous updates we revealed content from the Call to Arms - Gates of Hell:
Talvisota expansion. By now we’ve shown you some of what will be in it. Before we publish it, however, we will also publish content update 3! This update will be free for Call to Arms - Gates of Hell: Ostfront owners - unlike Talvisota, which is a paid DLC.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1911520/Call_to_Arms__Gates_of_Hell_Talvisota/The update
With this update, we’re adding post-release content for the 24th time. It will give Ostfront owners a lot more content, bringing the total number of tanks, vehicles, maps and other things to the next level.
Let’s have a look at it in detail.
Early war
So far, in Call to Arms - Gates of Hell we have covered the mid- and late war only. This update adds the early war equipment to the range; players in MP will be able to select the new war period as well. The new era feels different because of the equipment, and because it triggers players to use rather different tactics as a result.
Early war also means that squad compositions, uniforms and equipment are adapted to the period, plus some of the new units we designed for early war were also retrofitted to the other war periods.
The addition of early war is a rather obvious requirement for any game that covers the Finnish Winter War, since that started in 1939.
With this update, all war periods are covered and the foundations for any future development of fronts and factions are complete. Early war covers the period from the outbreak of WWII until the German invasion of the USSR.
Maps
Besides early war, we will add more maps to the game once more. We will add 5 new multiplayer maps.
These bring the total number of MP maps for CtA - GoH: Ostfront to 35 and the number of maps for conquest to 25 for everyone.
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There will be additional vehicles and weapons in the update as well. Last time we counted there were 40, bringing the total number to 290 for Ostfront alone!
Among these you will find a number of classic vehicles, some of which have been requested by many players.
Given the free choice to pick additional vehicles to model, we always take the wishes from the community into account. Needless to say perhaps, but they’re our favorites as well, 90% of the time.
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Integration
Content update III will be seamlessly integrated in Ostfront, which will be quite straightforward.
Talvisota is integrated differently, since it’s a paid DLC. We feel that everyone should at least be able to play
against Talvisota owners. That part is covered; you don’t need to own Talvisota to join any PvP session. However, in such lobbies you won’t be able to play the Finnish faction unless you bought Talvisota. Moreover, as we mentioned in the (blog link), Talvisota includes 20 new MP maps based on Finnish locations. To make sure PvP is equally accessible to the whole community, any player can join lobbies with these maps, but if you do not own Talvisota you cannot host Talvisota maps yourself, but we give you the choice to check out all the new things by joining other hosts’ lobbies. Lastly, Finnish cooperative and conquest lobbies are only available to Talvisota owners.
In the editor, Talvisota expansion items are available to Talvisota owners only.
Ostfront owners can still use the editor like always, but the Talvisota- specific items like maps, assets and units will be grayed out.
For modders, Steam Workshop integrates the ability to mark your mods as requiring any DLCs. If you make your own creations based on Talvisota content, you will be required to flag your mod accordingly.
All in all, content update III is our fourth huge free update - out of 24 in total - in less than a year, and it will become available very, very soon.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1911520/Call_to_Arms__Gates_of_Hell_Talvisota/That’s all folks. Thanks for stopping by, see you on the battlefield!
