Men of War: Assault Squad - Interview, Preview, Screenshots!

[DMS|Instinct]

All of it can be found here:
Link (http://www.digitalmindsoft.eu/forums/viewtopic.php?f=109&t=6872#p83172)


Men of War is another one of those titles that I like to call a 'silent stunner'. It didn't make many waves, and probably went relatively unnoticed by more mainstream audiences (strategy games not part of blockbuster series generally do). It's realistic approach to combat, its focus on action orientated game play (as opposed to the tried and tired base building of old) made it shine as bright as any AAA release. Without a doubt, it was one of the best World War II strategy title since Company of Heroes, and now it's about to get a whole lot better. [...]

Forgive us if we seem to be foaming at the mouth - we honestly haven't been this excited about a game in while.

[Nikitns]

hmm.... maybe hype maybe not. we shall see.

[razputin]

That link doesn't work.

I am a little lost about one thing, will there be SP missions or only skirmish and MP?

[[SOE]No.Mam]

That link doesn't work.
http://www.digitalmindsoft.eu/forums/viewtopic.php?f=109&t=6872

[razputin]

Thanks, and now I have the answer to my question.

With Assault Squad, we're taking the co-op that was available in Men of War to the next level: people can now play together against the AI through fifteen different missions, that are all challenging. They're all roughly at the same skill-level, but the player can actually decide how difficult they want it to be. In the original campaign, only the last couple of missions are really interesting, with the early missions acting more like a tutorial. We wanted to address this and bring in a more competitive and streamlined online gameplay experience...

...No there won't be another single-player campaign in that sense. We're including this skirmish mode with its fifteen missions, but we've also completely revised multiplayer. All of the existing game modes have been re-done, almost from scratch. We've been listening to our community and trying to make game play more fast paced and easier to control and easier to understand.

[Ribbs67]

Can someone post the article and screenshots on this website instinct.. my company,s internet filter filters out the digitalmindsoft website...heh

[[SOE]No.Mam]

Can someone post the article and screenshots on this website instinct.. my company,s internet filter filters out the digitalmindsoft website...heh
http://www.strategyinformer.com/pc/menofwarassaultsquad/interviews.html

[Boyarpunk]

Thanks for the links, guys. :cool:

[Korsakov829]

Really, really nice! As far as I know, I will buy it when it comes out.

[kane1]

Thanks for the Info. I like idea of skirmish, not much of a MP player. Looking forward to it.

[DMS|Instinct]

Another Interview on Rock, Paper, Shotgun:
http://www.digitalmindsoft.eu/forums/viewtopic.php?f=109&t=6910

[Nike-it]

Preview by GameShark: http://www.gameshark.com/previews/3487/Men-of-War-Assault-Squad-Preview-.htm

[drgroth]

I'm still confused. All interviews and posts suggest that you must play with other humans online. I don't have internet availability and just like to skirmish against the AI computer opponent.

[DMS|Instinct]

You can play online and offline and without any other players, just like a campaign but in skirmish.

[Korsakov829]

You basicly choose the map, if your attacking defending, how many troops you get and how many the enemy gets. You play a normal MP game against the AI like the AI will spawn its own troops, take flags in Battlezones etc. Just as a guess.

I recommend you get a stable internet if possible to play online, just to get what you paid for as the game is dedicated to MP.

[DMS|Instinct]

1 new screenshot:
http://www.digitalmindsoft.eu/forums/viewtopic.php?f=148&t=6987#p84468

[Korsakov829]

Assault Tank Squad!

The more I look at the screenshots though, I can just see something is different and it makes me uneasy.

[Parkaboy]

I really hope they do some work on the MP experience. Even simple changes like making the default time of a game NOT 40mins would be nice.

[Korsakov829]

Its all about small teams in Assault squad the way I figure it. You have to go John Rambo or Sgt. Petrov style with one submachine gunner and take out a entire platoon. Looking forward to it!

[Nikitns]

no, there is no such thing (though it's possible). From what I've understood it is like an rebalanced, bling-bling version of MoW, but making heavy tanks much more expensive.

I like the look of the new units and the mixed infantry squads (some got smg's others rifles). Hopefully there will be less lag due to max 4 players on one server limit, so I look forward to a streamlined experience.

[DMS|Instinct]

Whether it's the new Churchill series including the Crocodile and AVRE variant or the totally new infantry class U.S. Marines, you get the screenshots here:
http://www.digitalmindsoft.eu/forums/viewt...p;t=6987#p84468 (http://www.digitalmindsoft.eu/forums/viewtopic.php?f=148&t=6987#p84468)

[Nike-it]

Gamestar published a preview after presentation at GC 2010.
Full article here (http://www.gamestar.de/spiele/men-of-war-assault-squad/artikel/men_of_war_assault_squad,46143,2317210.html).

[Nike-it]

One more preview from GDN. Thу text can be found here (http://gamersdailynews.com/article-2545-Gamescom-2010--Part-3--Men-of-War-Assault-Squad.html).

[Shega]

New Men of War: Assault Squad interview (http://www.neocrisis.com/articles/198-gaming-interviews/6484-men-of-war-assault-squad-interview) from Neocrisis.com.

[Shega]

Please also find the Men of War: Assault Squad interview (http://www.lusogamer.com/artigo/entrevista---men-of-war:-assault-squad-71.html) in Portuguese on LusoGamer.