Dear Mechanics!

Welcome to our sixty-ninth Development Status update.
Let’s get straight to business.

Situation Report:

Thanks to our testers we have finally been able to find critical bugs which have been fixed. The coding departament is now trying to implement as much suggestions as possible to make the game more approachable and more polished.

Demo version has been updated to 0.9.12, change list is available in the README file in the game folder.

Have fun 😉

Art Progress:

There is ongoing work to add next tanks to the game. Can you guess which tank it might be?

One of many suggestions from you was to add mobile step stairs to the game. So we added them 😉

Code Progress:

We have added few features during this week:

• a simple tutorial for the Workshop area on how to make first steps (how to get a contract, what to do next etc.)
• an option to get inside tank with tool in hand (by picking up the tool, approaching the tank, opening a radial menu on it and selecting the proper option to get inside – Show Interior Options -> Get Inside)

That would be all for this week. If you have any suggestions, ideas or questions, write to us at contact@degenerals.com or visit our Discord server (https://discord.gg/HPbJj9y).

Have a good weekend and see you next week!

DeGenerals

Dear Mechanics!

Welcome to our sixty-eight Development Status update.
Let’s get straight to business.

Situation Report:

Thanks to our testers we have finally been able to find critical bugs which have been fixed. The coding departament is now trying to implement as much suggestions as possible to make the game more approachable and more polished.

That would be all for this week. If you have any suggestions, ideas or questions, write to us at contact@degenerals.com or visit our Discord server (https://discord.gg/HPbJj9y).

Have a good weekend and see you next week!

DeGenerals

Dear Mechanics!

Welcome to our sixty-seventh Development Status update.
Let’s get straight to business.

Situation Report:

Dear Mechanics,

New update has been uploaded for the demo TMS app, new keys have been sent out. We do not have enough keys to cover all request. If you have requested a key but did not yet receive it, please do not panic. We are waiting for more keys right now 😉

For old users – after the update gets downloaded, please delete player data in support panel in main menu.

Steps to delete data:

1. In main menu scene, click Support Panel
2. Click Delete Data button
3. Click Accept – the game will shut down.
4. Restart the game and you’re good to go

We’ve had problems with previous saves not working properly, and everytime creating new profile or clearing player data helped. We’re working on fixing this bug.

Art Progress:

This week was spent mainly on optimisation and fixing some of the issues regarding tanks and game visuals itself.

Code Progress:

Nothing spectacular to report. We are fixing all bugs and finalizing whatever we can before release 😉

That would be all for this week. If you have any suggestions, ideas or questions, write to us at contact@degenerals.com or visit our Discord server (https://discord.gg/HPbJj9y).

Have a good weekend and see you next week!

DeGenerals

Dear Mechanics!

Welcome to our sixty sixth Development Status update.
Let’s get straight to business.

Art Progress:

Next productive week for us. We are reworking shaders for the tanks in the game. New transparent shader has been applied to the elements on which we currently do not work. Also we added option in radial menu to preview tank elements conditions – Inspection mode.

Interior of the tank for the restored state also changed by improving shaders and materials.

We are working on improving driving system used on vehicles for example on extraction missions.

Code Progress:

We have fixed various bugs connected with assembly mode and renovation system.

We are now focusing on getting rid of any other bugs, as well as adding suggestions from you. Our main goal is to get the game as polished and accessible as it can be within these few weeks.

Situation report:

We received next batch of keys from Steam. Due to high interest not everyone is going to receive these keys at once. We will randomly choose and respond via mail. We asked Steam for more keys. Sorry for delay

That would be all for this week. If you have any suggestions, ideas or questions, write to us at contact@degenerals.com or visit our Discord server (https://discord.gg/HPbJj9y).

Have a good weekend and see you next week!

DeGenerals

Dear Mechanics!

Welcome to our sixty fifth Development Status update.
It’s time for month summary, so let’s get straight to business.

Art Progress:

Another hard work week for us. Lots of polishing and bug s hunting. But we do no plan to stop the flow and we are adding another set of tanks to the game. This weekend T-34/76, finally implemented PzKpfw III Ausf. M and StuG III 40 Ausf. G.

T-34/76, In-game

PzKpfw III Ausf. M, In-game

PzKpfw III Ausf. M, In-game

Code Progress:

The game is almost ready. With the help of PlayWay tester team we have got through most important bugs. We are still fixing whatever we can before release.

The release approaches, we would like to thank all of you for your support and kindness, for all patience you had for us. Big thank you from our whole team 🙂

We are going to continue this series after the premiere, maybe in some changed format. We will live, we will see.

We are sending new test keys to all who were interested, we’re not sending new keys after today. Highest priority is the main game now. Right now, we’re not planning to update the demo frequently after the premiere.

To those who receive keys: have fun, remember, you do not have to report bugs. If you want to, share your opinion or give us feedback. Treat this as a way to try the game out before it comes out 🙂

That would be all for this week an month. If you have any suggestions, ideas or questions, write to us at contact@degenerals.com or visit our Discord server (https://discord.gg/HPbJj9y).

Have a good weekend and see you next week!

DeGenerals

Dear Mechanics!

Welcome to our sixty fourth Development Status update.
Let’s get straight to business.

Art Progress:

The last weeks are marked by hard work on improving the visual side as well as gameplay aspects of the game. A lot of mistakes have been fixed but there are still plenty ahead of us.

We are listening to your feedback and trying to improve as well. We do not slow down the pace, we want to provide you with the most polished product as we can.

One of the developed things is improved Overview mode, where you can preview tanks in the game. It comes with options like changing lighting rotation, camera field of view, on/off interior lights or turning on and off whole environment with just one button. It still in work in progress through.

Next step is to add switchable materials on the tanks. For example to preview “Extraction”, “Workshop” or “Museum” stages as well as “Xray” transparent mode.

We plan also to add option to make “beauty shots” from desired angle and lighting settings.

Work in progress. Not yet implemented feature.

Work in progress. StuG 40 Ausf. G (Early Production)

The next toy from the German tree will join our expanding collection of tanks soon. StuG 40 Ausf. G is his name and its an early production version.

Code Progress:

Memory management. This is the main issue behind the game crashing after a while. We’re reworking how the memory is managed in the game, this needs to be fixed ASAP before release.

That would be all for this week. If you have any suggestions, ideas or questions, write to us at contact@degenerals.com or visit our Discord server (https://discord.gg/HPbJj9y).

Have a good weekend and see you next week!

DeGenerals

Dear Mechanics!

Welcome to our sixty third Development Status update.
Let’s get straight to business.

Art Progress:

Code Progress:

We’ve been crunching all week to test and fix most bugs we can find – we’re sending a new build for test next week.

Nothing spectacular folks, standard workflow of the project. We’re two weeks from release and the tention gets higher :D.

That would be all for this week. If you have any suggestions, ideas or questions, write to us at contact@degenerals.com or visit our Discord server (https://discord.gg/HPbJj9y).

Have a good weekend and see you next week!

DeGenerals

Dear Mechanics!

Welcome to our sixty second Development Status update.
Let’s get straight to business.

Art Progress:

A new addition to our range of tanks. We proudly present to you the Panzerkampfwagen III Ausf. M. This is the second Panzer III tank in our game. It will supply our German tank tree.

Panzerkampfwagen III Ausf. M

Code Progress:

We’re fixing reported bugs. What a surprise.

Questions asked by the testers are even more helpful for us, developers, understand what needs to be changed in the game. What needs to be more simple or better presented, so the final game won’t be as confusing.

Plans for this week for programmers:

• Finalize workshop scene and gameplay
• Finalize extraction missions

That would be all for this week. If you have any suggestions, ideas or questions, write to us at contact@degenerals.com or visit our Discord server (https://discord.gg/HPbJj9y).

Have a good weekend and see you next week!

DeGenerals