An Update on 2by3's plans for 2020

[nukkxx5058]

ORIGINAL: Erik Rutins



Finishing War in the East 2 has top priority for 2by3 and it is expected to be feature complete within the next quarter, which means that a final release date will depend on final testing and polish time, but we expect it will be a 2020 release.

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[gekkoguy35]

A monster WITE/WITW style Civil War game would be awesome! You could totally leave the air aspect of the war up to the AI to manage. Just pop up a balloon here or there and it's good!

[Zorch]

ORIGINAL: gekkoguy35

A monster WITE/WITW style Civil War game would be awesome! You could totally leave the air aspect of the war up to the AI to manage. Just pop up a balloon here or there and it's good!

But there wouldn't be tanks! [:D]
A remake of GG's War Between the states would be nice.

[gamer78]

Looking forward to it. War in the East was great but couldn't get into War in the West much. Air war was too complicated for me. Although smaller scale amount land units.

[nukkxx5058]

ORIGINAL: gamer78
[...]couldn't get into War in the West much. Air war was too complicated for me. Although smaller scale amount land units.

Same. Air model in WITW turned me off. But anyway, I'm not too fan of the Western front anyway. But I know that one day i will seriously try WITW.

A monster game "War In Europe" starting in June 41 (WITE+WITW) would be amazing !

[RedLancer]

We do get it that people have found the WitW air system, which removed the abstraction of WitE, challenging. For WitE2 we are working extremely hard developing an improved command and control system for air units that allows a good balance between those who want to automate most of the air war and those who want to micromanage individual air groups and their pilots. Achieving that balance is no easy task. We are almost there, after significant time and effort, demonstrating how we listen and our commitment to providing a game that appeals to as many of you as possible.

The new system - called Air Operational Groups (AOGs) allows the player (or the AI on their behalf) to group Air Units together and control them (or allow the AI to do so) in support of the ground war. My personal way of explaining this is that what the new system does is to group air units together across a wide area (that takes into account actual airfields with their precise size and location) into a single entity which was in WitE represented by the moveable Air Base counter. I think it is an elegant solution.

I share a screenshot that shows where we are at today. The named AOG 'boxes' show both where the AOGs are and also provide the gateway to controlling them in game. As I have said the labels are sort of like counters but as you can expect from a 2by3 game there is more to them than just that...

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[coachi]

Can you back patch it to witw after release

[nukkxx5058]

This new air system looks good !

[operating]

What's frustrating is trying to make direct contact with 2by3 http://www.2by3games.com/ , thus having middlemen act as surrogates for what they are working on, or what they might consider working on.

[eskuche]

Interesting display modes. Unit designations probably a little less useful for SU. Is it possible there will be a quick switch button between view modes?

[Simulacra53]

ORIGINAL: Red Lancer

We do get it that people have found the WitW air system, which removed the abstraction of WitE, challenging. For WitE2 we are working extremely hard developing an improved command and control system for air units that allows a good balance between those who want to automate most of the air war and those who want to micromanage individual air groups and their pilots. Achieving that balance is no easy task. We are almost there, after significant time and effort, demonstrating how we listen and our commitment to providing a game that appeals to as many of you as possible.

The new system - called Air Operational Groups (AOGs) allows the player (or the AI on their behalf) to group Air Units together and control them (or allow the AI to do so) in support of the ground war. My personal way of explaining this is that what the new system does is to group air units together across a wide area (that takes into account actual airfields with their precise size and location) into a single entity which was in WitE represented by the moveable Air Base counter. I think it is an elegant solution.

I share a screenshot that shows where we are at today. The named AOG 'boxes' show both where the AOGs are and also provide the gateway to controlling them in game. As I have said the labels are sort of like counters but as you can expect from a 2by3 game there is more to them than just that...

The new air system looks like super promising!
Seeing these organizations this way is great, also for immersion.

Flieger Fuhrer
Koluft
Korps
Gruppen
Geschwadern

Damn, I want to play a Luftwaffe only campaign :]

[vonreichsmueller]

Any news here?

[wargamer69]

I join the question - Any news here?

(I started playing with War in Russia in 1987 for 8-bit Atari and since then I've been a I'am huge fan of GG games

This was almost 33 years ago

youtube: "Atari 8 bit computer - playing a turn of 'War in Russia' by SSI"

[Erik Rutins]

Please watch the Wargames of 2021 stream today on our Twitch channel.

[zasgard]

I didn't see any mention of Steel Tigers......vaporware or no?

[Protonic2020]

I could alpha test Steel Tigers, IF i meet the games system requirements and i doubt that. For some reason, i just have a hunch from the name of it. (It´s called "hunch" right?).
Would be my first Alpha EVA! Cool. Word. Alright.

[Erik Rutins]

Steel Tigers is 2by3's next project as soon as WITE2 is finished and released. We tried working on both at the same time for a while, but it was too much of a load, so Steel Tigers has been on the back burner while WITE2 was completed.

[Jotte]

So.. a bit of necro here but... Anything new here since WitE2 is out now? [:D]

[Gilmer]

ORIGINAL: Zorch

ORIGINAL: gekkoguy35

A monster WITE/WITW style Civil War game would be awesome! You could totally leave the air aspect of the war up to the AI to manage. Just pop up a balloon here or there and it's good!

But there wouldn't be tanks! [:D]
A remake of GG's War Between the states would be nice.

I didn't really care for it, to be honest.