The ui is now working in MNB folks check out the announcement on the main game page. It's now time to level up them soldiers!! Few issues are still remaining within the Ui itself but all in all this version is quite stable.

Check the announcement on the game page folks. This is a big deal since now all the classes have been coded. The next step is the back end where we take care of the career, ribbons and squad management.

Good day folks, the latest Mud and Blood build is shaping the game even closer to its core direction. So far we are heading full speed towards the final intent which is being this very challenging but fun to play sandbox RTT (Real Time Tactics). Here's what's in the build this week.

0.0.6

- Cars will no longer block line of sight
- Wood piles will no longer block line of sight
- Fixed an issue with house deleting their own cover area
- Fixed an issue with woodpiles not provide proper cover
- Fixed an issue where soldiers would not listen to move orders if firing at an enemy.
- Fixed an issue where some soldiers would interrupt their reloading sequences to take aim.
- Added a feature that only experienced soldiers would keep remaining in alert stance (gun up) after a target has vanished from the line of sight.
- Tweaked the rate of fire for semi-automatic weapons. Adjusted pause in between shots and length of grouping to be more realistic.
- Slightly reduced the rate of fire of the bolt action rifle in order to better represent the time it takes to cycle a round in the chamber.
- Semi-auto shooters' behaviour will be more dictated by the experience of the shooter.
- Troops will avoid firing at enemies that are engaged in hand to hand with friendlies
- Troops will make an effort (but not entirely avoid) to stop firing at a down enemy.
- Changed the version text colours and format on the bottom right
- German snipers are now back in the spawn tables
- Added the first batch of voice lines for Axis and Allies
- Coded the portraits to select the appropriate soldier when clicked
- The game will highlight the soldier on the ground that is corresponding to the portrait being mouse over by the player.
- You can now shift-click portraits to select more than one soldier and/or can combine to shift drag select for more flexibility.
- Coded specialties for the soldiers. Upon the first promotion (10xp) the player will be able to give a specialty to his soldiers amongst the 12 available. further promotions are not coded yet
- Gunner has target switching ability coded. A gunner will engage the nearest target like any other infantry unit. However, any other target within 60 degrees of that initial target has a chance to be attacked as well.
- Germans who spawn with a Machine gun will have the gunner abilities
- Medic healing ability coded. A medic can heal any troops within 200 px + his XP per action by 1 point.
- Germans can spawn with a medic bag and has medical abilities
- Added the radio pack for soldiers who will carry a radio
- Added the Faust pack which will identify which Axis soldiers are packing heat!
- Coded the pack code which can pretty much attach anything to the back of the soldier and follow him in his action
- Officer passive ability coded which can increase the morale of nearby troops

This is it for this week's update, I wish you all a good weekend and stay safe out there. If you have any questions let me know. The same goes for suggestions.

Cheers

The main focus of 0.0.5 was vehicle implementation, one of the last steps before player functionalities kick in. So in this patch I have added the Panzer4 which is fully functional with a basic tank doctrine AI and damage system.

The Opel also has been implemented and will drop troops to the front line then retreat.

0.0.5

- Buffed the German AI to make them choose a cover that is less crowded.
- Added some sounds to the battlefield background sound generator
- Adjusted damage and specs of a mortar explosion
- Adjusted damage and specs of Faust explosion
- Soldiers will reload their weapons if they have nothing better to do and on idle.
- Added group select functionality (drag select from Recondo)
- Added a green circle around troops that are selected
- Added a point on the ground where troops will move
- Pressing ESC will unselect troops
- Giving a moving order now will cancel the shooting action on player-controlled soldier
- Added axis armour and coded basic doctrine behaviour (stick with infantry, push the line when favourable etc..)
- Added Axis Opel that drops infantry to the front line then retreats
- Reworked the ballistic engine to deal with all occurrences (infantry vs vehicle, infantry vs infantry, vehicle vs Infantry and vehicle vs vehicle)
- Made a spawn function for the enemy in preparation for the campaign mode requirements.
- Implemented the vehicle functionality in the sound engine to generate proper sounds when driving, braking, moving turrets and revving according to distance from the user's screen.

Thanks for reading this and see you soon on the battlefield.

I released the patch a little early this week since Sayed and few other guys had some time to test it out all day. Here's the change log if you missed the announcement on the discord or game steam page.

- Added sprites for gibs
- Added the flare action sprites
- Added Fighter Starfe for Axis troops, also know as close air support (CAS)
- Added a layer for planes to be drawn on top of everything
- Added directional cover that sodleir can stand behind while their back is still explosed to incoming fire (Fences, cars ect..)
- Reduced size of explosions for the strafe
- Changed values of explosions, notably the panzerfaust.
- Added artillery for Axis troops
- Added gibbing
- Added cue text (little informative text that floats above soldiers)
- Changed a feature in the engine for some particle to leave trails. Used in gibbing when body parts leave blood trails.
- Added various sounds notably artillery
- Optimized the procedural reloading sounds to be more timely
- Barrels and wheel barrows are destructible now
- Added concrete bunker buidling
- Added two type of ruined buildings which act as cover for troops who are located within
- Added a wood pile placeable that provides cover to who stand behind
- Added 3 types of fences and coded their destructability
- Re mixed the M3 Greasegun sound
- Gave a new load out to the Alpha testers 2 Garands, 1 Tommy, 1 Sten, 1 Shotgun, 1 M1919
- Fixed a glitch where particles would bend their trajectories when flying. that one was very anoying. the joy of making your own engine.
- Fixed a visual glitch where a soldier that would lose LOS would keep aiming in that direction forever.
- Fixed a glitch where if two soldiers were close to each other selecting them would select both.