Obsidian Entertainment and My.com are proud to introduce the update to Armored Warfare, Update 0.10, that will be coming to the Open Beta servers on the 22nd of October, 2015. Update 0.10 was formerly called Update 0.95. The update numbering system was changed to make the designation more comprehensive without having to resort to the system changes. The update number will continue to consist of the update itself (0.10) and build number (0.10.1523).

Maintenance

In order to update the Open Beta servers with the update 0.10.1523, the Open Beta servers will not be available on the 22nd of October from 10:00 CEST (01:00 AM PDT) to 15:00 CEST (06:00 AM PDT). We apologize for the inconvenience.

List of Changes in 0.10.1523

Please note: Other changes such as the corrections to game visual and armor models for certain tanks or rebalances (for example Leopard, Challenger 1, Chieftain, T-72, T-72A, M60A2) will come in one of the upcoming patches.

Progression Changes – PvP

Based on player feedback and our own internal data, we’ve made several improvements to the overall progression speed in Armored Warfare. These changes are most significant at high tiers, but the Reputation increases will affect all tiers of play. One of the main changes is increasing the basic Reputation value for playing PvE matches. This should vastly improve the rewards from lower performance matches, while offering a smaller (but still noticeable) benefit to matches that were already providing great rewards.

• Increased base match participation Reputation reward for playing PvP matches from 90 to 135
• Decreased base ammo costs for Tier 5 by 20%
• Decreased base ammo costs for Tier 6 by 30%
• Decreased tier 6 upgraded ammo cost multiplier by about an additional 8%
• Decreased base ammo costs for Tier 7 by 25%
• Decreased tier 7 upgraded ammo multiplier by about an additional 12%
• Decreased base ammo costs for Tier 8 by 40%
• Decreased tier 8 upgraded ammo multiplier by about an additional 14%
• Decreased tier 5 repair costs from 16000 to 12800
• Decreased tier 6 repair costs from 28000 to 19600
• Decreased tier 7 repair costs from 44000 to 26400
• Decreased tier 8 repair costs from 60000 to 36000

Progression Changes – PvE

Since PvE does not benefit from the repair cost and ammo cost changes, we are giving PvE a significant overall boost to credit income. We are also globally increasing PvE reputation gains. The difficulty reward bonuses were somewhat in order to prevent the players from obtaining exceedingly high rewards on higher difficulty levels.

• Increased all PvE Reputation gains by 20%
• Increased PvE credit gains by 35% at all tiers
• Decreased the medium difficulty reward bonus from 25% to 15%
• Decreased the hard difficulty reward bonus from 50% to 30%

Premium Vehicle Improvements

To improve the overall value of our Premium Vehicles, we’ve added a number of new bonuses.

• Playing a Premium Vehicle now increases Reputation earnings by 20%
• Playing a Premium Vehicle now increases Crew Experience by 20%
• Playing a Premium Vehicle now increases Commander Experience by 20%

Maps – PvP and PvE

• Roughneck – fixed vegetation
• Reactor – adjusted terrain and collision near J1 to prevent a dead end. Set shoreline surface type to the proper category, now players will not be slowed down nearly as much while driving along the shore
• River Point – fixed mission collision on the Bell Tower Structure
• Lost Island – optimization works and visual effect corrections, fixed the incorrect skybox
• Ghosthunter – fixed issues with fail conditions for the first two capture points
• Life Jacket – set enemies to wait until after the countdown timer before attacking the first objective
• Starry Night – fixed the scripting of the primary objectives so that they are not counting down as soon as the server loads
• Harbinger – adjusted AI behavior so that they can shoot through destructible objects
• Hydra – reduced the initial enemy count and spaced out spawns of re-reinforcements
• Scorpio – fixed an issue where secondary objectives were not always showing up
• Cavalry – fixed a lighting issue causing a halo on the map
• Sapphire – fixed Objects with Missing textures
• Medium difficulty missions can now be started from tier 3, hard difficulty from tier 5

Vehicle Rebalances

T-90, M60, M60A2

• Updated suspension values for vehicle to reduce “swinging” behavior

XM8

• Fixed an issue with the smoke grenades visual effects

Taifun – to better reflect the Taifun’s unique low profile and help compensate for its turretless configuration, we’ve given it a significant buff to its camo factor. We feel this will help it have a unique role without being overwhelmingly powerful

• Camouflage factor increased from 0.25 to 0.325

RDF-LT – we’ve completed a balance pass on the RDF-LT and found it to be somewhat behind the curve compared to other equal tier LTs. To help emphasize its niche further, we’ve increased the RDF-LT’s already excellent rate of fire, slightly decreased its damage per shell, and improved its penetration to make it more capable of damaging MBT weak points at the same tier

• Rate of Fire increased by 30%
• Damage per shell decreased by 15%
• Penetration for all rounds increased by 7.5%

Bug Fixes

• Auto-repair – resolved an issue that occurs when players attempt to turn on auto-repair after a vehicle has been destroyed, causing it to become unplayable
• Kill Cam – resolved a performance issue that can occur when the both the player and their killer have been destroyed
• Premium Time – updated incorrect settings which gave Founder’s Pack users less premium time than was promoted, corrected the premium remaining premium time display
• Ramming Damage – reduced the base ramming damage for all vehicles by approximately 40% as well as adjusted the mass modifier from 2 to 1.5, taking away some of the excess ramming damage that heavier vehicles could inflict.
• Base – resolved an issue where the Academy and Barracks buildings were not providing bonuses after players are defeated in PvP
• Vehicles – resolved an issue where vehicles cannot be sold back by the player
• Decals – resolved an issue with decal placement on variety of vehicles, fixed the issue where the decals disappeared after an armor upgrade on some vehicles, fixed the issue where permanent decals sometimes counted only as temporary, the flag decals flipped to display correctly
• Service Screen – tooltips have been added to help players identify how to unlock specific upgrades
• Added an option to show the best ammunition available for selected vehicle. The option should take some of the guesswork out of the ammunition selection process
• Gunner Sight – corrected the issue where a knocked out gunner sight provided an increase to accuracy rather than decreasing it
• Fixed the bug where the aiming reticle did not sometimes behave properly in PvE mode
• Fixed the issue where the reticle reload bar could miss reload events while weapon swapping
• Fixed the issue where Battalion leaders could not invite more than 50 players to a Battalion
• Fixed the issue where daily missions were not affected by premium account and boosts
• Fixed the issue where the players were not able to assign skills to crewmembers under certain conditions
• Numerous localization updates and corrections (in French, Polish and German)