Soldiers!

Following the recent Gods of War meeting with both CinC's (Checov and Quinn), here is a update on server events, gameplay adjustments, and immediate executive decisions from XOOM and OHM, based on your feedback.Next Target: Open Beta Stress Test.

This Wednesday (Tommorow), the Campaign and Training servers will be locked for a few hours. All players will be routed into the Open Beta server for critical stress testing. Keep an eye on social media for timing updates from TEX.

Executive Decisions & Updates

To address recent community feedback regarding the garrison changes and population imbalances, the following adjustments are live:

1) HC FMS Restored (With Limits): HC Officers can once again deploy the HC FMS. To prevent the previous "whack-a-mole" meta, there is now a 10-minute cooldown to redeploy after an FMS is placed or destroyed.

2) Navy Mobility Restored: 5 Trucks have been added directly to the Navy Garrison so Naval Infantry can once again launch offensive operations from the docks.

3) TZ3 F2P Balancing (1-Week Test): To combat late-night population skewing and VP hoarding, Free-to-Play players in TZ3 will be forced onto the underpopulated faction. We will reevaluate this after one week.

4) Armor & RDP Adjustments: Heavy and medium tanks remain removed from garrisons (the Char B1 appearing in 2 AB was a bug and has been fixed). Concurrently, factory repair timers have been altered, making RDP highly effective against heavy/medium armor. Pilots report feeling much more useful under these new mechanics. (Note: Manual factory repairs are not possible due to engine limitations).

Upcoming Operations:

We are pushing to hit critical player thresholds in the coming months:

1) Operation Storm King (April 26).

2) Operation Reaper (May 24).

See you in the Open Beta tommorow!

German Forces won Campaign 217 by securing 9 Allied Factories. With that, Campaign 218 has just started and below we have some important details on the changes made. Please continue reading!

• Garrison medium-heavy armor reduced/removed.

• +2 new moveable divisions for each side.

• HC Officer / inf placed MSP removed.

• 2 AO's become available faster / reduced staleness.

• TZ3 capture timers now 50% slower (slightly faster than before).

• AI auto repair disabled (must manually repair).

We'd like to encourage you to get back onto WWII Online Discord at https://discord.gg/wwiionline. This is crucial to growth and sustainment of routine operations. In other words, if people see you online - they will join you!

Best practices login procedure:

1. Join Discord, group with your side's most populated channel.

2. Login to the game.

3. Ask where you can help.

4. Evaluate the in-game strategy.

5. Defend crucial capture points.

Defending capture points (CP's) is the #1 way to win (or lose) a battle. Every soldier must prioritize this and start playing the CP's!

Mission Leaders... need to start posting waypoints and utilized the .orders command which shows yellow text at the top of the screen and in the chat bar. This helps guide players better to critical objectives. LEAD THE TROOPS! AND WIN!

In this example, a mission leader has marked all capture points with relevant waypoints named. Do this, and it will also show up on the mini map and heads up display to guide players better to strategic points in WWIIOL.

High Command Officers... keep attack objectives relevant and support your side. Use .allied/axis command to communicate priorities routinely, every other minute doesn't hurt during busy times. We encourage players to join HC by applying at https://hctools.wwiionline.com/login. As a Steam player, you may need to contact our team at http://support.wwiionline.com to be able to participate in the HC program.