Hell Let Loose(steam)Créé le 18 février 2020Mis à jour le 14 août 2026
Hi everyone!
We’re now seven months into our Early Access period and we’re hugely excited to bring you Update 5. At a changelist length of 13 pages it’s one of our largest so far. We also feel that it’s one of the most important ones we’ll do to better encourage communication and teamwork within Hell Let Loose.
Below you’ll find the major content additions, the full changelist, some known issues and then an idea of what’s to come. Next week we’ll be releasing our updated roadmap for U6 and U7 so you can know what to expect in the short term. Due to community feedback, we’ll also be putting together a long-term roadmap, as we know many new players aren’t sure of what our full vision for Hell Let Loose will look like.
As always, we’re excited to read your feedback. Hell Let Loose is shaped by the community and we’re always keen to implement fixes and changes suggested.
We want to thank you for your patience, generosity and friendliness in the way you interact with us as a dev team on all our channels. It makes communication really easy if we know that we can have a friendly conversation with the community about changes, fixes and issues. We’re also very thankful for the positive way the community welcomes new players and relates to one another.
While we know new content and features are exciting, we also want to assure you that over the coming months our focus will be turning to optimisation and performance. As we bring in huge overhauls and engine upgrades we’ll be profiling the systems and broader game to make sure we increase FPS across the board. During the last four weeks we’ve begun upgrading some internal workflows and systems to enable us to optimise far easier. We’re excited to spend time focusing on delivering you a smoother and more performant experience.
If you want to find out more about what’s to come, we go into some detail after the Update notes. In the meantime, we hope you enjoy the full changelist!
Purple Heart Lane map with both Warfare and US Offensive modes
Purple Heart Lane is a wet, brutal battle down a single road and across four bridges. Warfare sees the battle unfolding under stormy skies in torrential rain, while the US Offensive mode is clearer in a sun-shower.
We’ve worked hard to push the photo-real quality of Purple Heart Lane, as well as create an even cover density and level of micro-terrain to make fighting across the flatter landscape more fun and rewarding. We expect that control of bridges and crossings will be key to pushing across the battlefield.
PHL will also be the last Norman countryside map that we produce for a while (we are not upset about moving away from fields and hedges!), as we look to flesh out new battlefields with different styles of combat and environmental challenges. While we’re producing new maps, we’ll also be going back to overhaul the older maps - so that each one feels consistent in its visual quality, optimisation and variety of gameplay.
During the last couple of years we’ve learned a huge amount about the Hell Let Loose level design process. Initially we used to place every single prop by hand, with each artist working in isolation. Over the past four months we’ve spent large amounts of time revisiting our workflows in order to achieve much better consistency of quality, variety of gameplay, greater detail and all wrapped up in a faster workflow. We’re very excited to show you what we’re cooking up for the future!
Overhauled Non-verbal Communication Systems (Markers and Pings)
We now have all new non-verbal communication systems and totally overhauled markers and icons across the game. To mark locations, simply hold MMB to open up a radial menu. To quickly PING a location, click MMB. Otherwise, you can open up your map and click RMB to open up a drop down menu. We’ve spent a huge amount of time thinking about the way the markers relate to other units, roles and the Commander. For more detailed information you can always read the dev briefing in which we outline the design behind the system here.
In addition, we’ve added an array of new options to allow each player to tailor their visual experience to show as much or as little information as they like - or in the manner that they prefer.
Hide markers with HUD (press T to show and hide it)
Marker display duration
PING! display duration
HUD display mode
HUD display duration
Added Sherman Jumbo 75mm and 76mm variants
Sherman Jumbo 75mm “Cobra King”The 75mm is the only tank so far to have smoke shells added to its loadout. The German tanks will soon be supplied with on-vehicle smoke canisters. Use the smoke shells carefully to block lines of sight in order to better manoeuvre against the enemy AT positions. We are being careful with giving many tanks smoke shells due to optimisation load from hundreds of smoke shells being fired.
The 75mm main gun produces more shrapnel than the 76mm - making for easier infantry kills, but will struggle slightly against the thickest armor of the Tiger. A true assault tank, the strongest armor is at the front. Make sure to stay at the front of the column in order to protect your less armored companions.
Sherman Jumbo 76mm “Nice n’ Easy”The 76mm is equipped with the same armor as the 75mm variant, with the key difference being the higher penetration power of its main gun.
Best serves as an anti-tank platform and is the best counter to the Tiger and Panther, as it’s main cannon has an easier time of penetrating both of them when compared to the 75mm. Like the 75mm, the 76mm is a true assault tank. Try to stay front-on and mitigate clear shots of the side or rear.
A note on vehicles:
The Sherman Jumbos signal a change in the way we’ll be adding new vehicles to the game. Previously, we’ve been adding a base amount of vehicles to each side with a rough balance applied. We’ve only had five or so different types of tanks - which has meant that the starting lineup has always been relatively contained and similar across all the maps.
However, as we continue to add a large variety of vehicles, we designed the Commander role specifically to house the additional variants we’d be introducing. Therefore, as we start to introduce more and more unique vehicles and variants to the game, we’ll be tailoring the initial lineup of each map and gamemode to better reflect the design and historicity of the battle (this is a mixture of historical account and asymmetrical balance), but at the same time enable the Commander to spend Fuel in order to spawn new or different variants onto the battlefield should resources permit.
The desired outcome of this is that each team starts each battle with a balanced but asymmetrical lineup of vehicles that more closely match the historical account of the battle, but that the Commander can work with their Armoured units to spawn specific additional variants in order to turn the tide of battle and enable organised teams to play specific strategies.
Moving into Update 6, you’ll start to see the Commander vehicle-specific abilities come online as we start to tighten up the vehicle roster and widen the Commander’s functionality.
Patch Changelist
Gameplay
Commanders can now dismantle friendly Garrisons
Added an option to hard enable HUD with T (as opposed to having it pop up all the time) - allowing for fast hide and reveal.
Make Server Browser sort by Player Count & Ping by Default
Increase Map/Kick vote cooldown times - this is to immediately cut down on the endless spam. We will be reworking this feature drastically in the following Updates as it is rarely useful and needs a lot of refining.
Drastically increased server browser refresh speed.
Experience V2 has been implemented, resulting in increased experience gained across the board - with many of the slower leveling roles having their actions balanced to earn more experience. We will continue to watch this, but our intention is to significantly increase the gain compared to our first iteration (which was too slow and too punishing for many roles).
Added new German “NCO” Officer Loadout
Added new US “NCO” Officer Loadout
Added new German “Veteran” Assault Loadout
Added new German “Veteran” Automatic Rifleman Loadout
Added new US “Veteran” Automatic Rifleman Loadout
Players are awarded significant exp for being revived - as opposed to giving up. The intention here is to reward players for being patient in waiting for a Medic.
Fixed significant armour issues eg. the German Panther tank can be one-shot by a US Sherman medium tank.
Added 'Reset Hints' button to options menu
Additional speculative fix for exp bug. We expect this to solve it but will continue to monitor.
Fixed: Users can edit the 'Engine.ini' config file to remove some shadows and all FX
Player’s camera now shakes when going prone.
Consolidated and made uniform / weapon and gadget slots across all roles.
Added Stuart Light Tank to Foy Warfare
PLEASE NOTE - Our experience system always saves your accumulated experience during a battle. This means that if you leave early before the battle ends, it will save the experience you’ve earned so far.
Currently, the notification when you leave indicates that all you will lose are your end of match bonuses. We will work to make this notice clearer, as many players believe instead that they lose ALL experience if they leave a match early - which is not the case.
Performance
Removed Game Analytics. Many players will see FPS and stutter issues fixed by this.
Re-work sandbag walls to remove internal geometry and bring within poly budget.
Fixed: Spawning on a Garrison in a fully populated server, in a busy area, can cause a locked frame rate
SFX [/list] New sound engine has been integrated and tested thoroughly. From here we will start to overhaul and polish sound and mix treatment within the game (this is similar to an Unreal Engine upgrade - now that it’s done we can begin working with the new tools). This allows for better directionality, clearer highs and lows, location-specific sounds. Integrated SFX into the mapping process so that all maps will now have area specific ambient and prop specific sound (fire burns, flies buzz etc) All bullet casing eject audio has been overhauled to be sensitive to the surface the casing is dropping on, as well as new assets and where it sits in the mix. All tanks now have a separate fire sound for the interior positions of the vehicles Shells now have proper flyby sounds as they fly past you - each according to the weight/caliber of the shell. New audio now plays when your vehicle is being repaired. New gravel footstep and bullet hit sounds Fixed: the frontend's music can be heard skipping soundtracks [/list]
HUD/UI
All new player role icons
All new spawn location icons
Overhauled deployment screen key
Overhauled Create Unit screen
Added new marker placement radial menu (hold MMB)
Added quick ping function (Click MMB)
Overhauled ability to mark map directly (RMB opens up menu when clicking on map)
Overhauled view team and view personal buttons on final screen
Redesigned deploy button.
Redesigned artillery icons (this treatment will be given to the rest of the emplaced weapons we add, as well as current ones - such as AT guns)
Animated spawn point icons
Adjusted Commendation messaging to make it much more obvious (per community feedback): - Increase Commendation time by 10 seconds - Place an explanatory line of text at the top of the Commendation screen so that people know what to do. - Show who Commended you.
We now hide unoccupied seats in seat nameplates (increased work on vehicle nameplates is to come)
Commander interface appearance has been overhauled
Adjusted look of Barracks UI
Redesigned most inventory icons.
Redesigned bandage/morphine prompt
Redesigned deploy weapon prompt
Redesigned enter vehicle prompt
Redesigned all vehicle position icons
Created unique icon for Heavy Tanks
Added Early Access disclaimer on boot
Added social links to landing screen
Fixed: the text format used for the Outpost, Garrison and HQ tool tips are inconsistent
Fixed: the "Unit Member" icon found on the in-game map legend does not match the icon used on the map itself
Fixed: [Omaha] the first strong point icon is misaligned on the UI
Fixed: In the US Barracks, the Grenade and the Smoke Grenade icons have scaling issues
Fixed: After the user has finished performing the animation of bandaging or reviving, the heal/revive button prompt will briefly show again
Fixed: The keybindings for switching seats is found in the 'Common' keybindings
Fixed: All tanks display "1" as the keybind for their shell types
Fixed: When a player is unable to be muted, an empty tooltip will appear when hovering beside their name on the scoreboard
Fixed: Inconsistent Icon Placement for US Helmets unlocked below Role Level 10
Fixed: Map Player Icons scale inconsistently with map zoom
Fixed: The Tiger tank map icon doesn't scale correctly
Fixed: US resources can be observed after the user has joined the server, but before they have joined a team
Fixed: The player will see a message that states "No Bandages" if they are killed by an explosion while injured
Fixed: "+0,000" is briefly displayed before the experience calculation begins
Fixed: Attempting to enlarge the map's key for the first time in a server results in the key to quickly enlarge and shrink
Fixed: Currently equipped cosmetics are not highlighted while on the 'Barracks' screen
Fixed: If a player is kicked from a unit, they are still shown as part of the unit they were kicked from on the scoreboard.
Fixed: Make the unit prefix on the voip notification better spaced and larger and more obvious.
Fixed: Foy HUD Compass is noticeably off set
Visual Improvements [/list] When you mouse over a cosmetic option it will now preview on your character. Fixed: Unrealistic movement of flying cockroaches Fixed: The player can observe the horizon reflecting off the inside handles of the drivers view port while inside a Tiger tank Fixed: In the Barracks, multiple helmets are very low resolution with the Low Video Preset. Changed the main menu background lighting and look. Fixed: The LOD of the Heer Winter coat noticeably changes once within 6 meters. Fixed: Stretched polygons are visible when the German LMG wearing the Heer Summer Uniform goes into prone, critical or fatal stance Fixed: The German Commander's coat animation appears to reset when switching from a weapon Fixed: The US Melton Winter uniform, German Commander's coat, and Heer Winter uniform gets stuck to the front of the player after going prone Fixed: The US Anti-Tank's rocket bag on their back stretches depending on where they're aiming Fixed: Shadow incorrectly baked on German Anti-Tank role's hand within the Barracks Fixed: In the Barracks, multiple Roles have a clipping issue on the crotch with the Heer Winter Uniform Fixed: Observing the German Commander's coat while he is in the prone position results in an animation issue Fixed: Heads that use the winter headscarf will clip through some German helmets Fixed: In the Barracks, the Allies Assault's backpack is stretched when the Summer Uniform is equipped Fixed: In FPP, when a player switches from certain stances or vaults while looking directly downwards, their equipment moves to the left briefly Fixed: [Omaha] The propeller on the Higgins Boats does not appear to be animated Fixed: Lowered loading screen progress widget Fixed: Character models will not cast a shadow when looking at them at a distance with Binoculars or a Sniper Scope but all helmets will. Fixed: Players can observe a graphical issue with the Bazooka in FPP when vaulting over objects Fixed: Backface culling observed on the right hand in FPP when vaulting with the M1 Carbine [/list]
Customisation
New Assault Vest uniform for the American forces - we were going to implement the US Airborne, but community feedback led to us looking at how we may better implement this from a game design perspective ;).
Bug Fixes
Fixed: Users would be booted out of the queue (and the queue was reset) when a game would end). Users now stay in queue and join the server as expected after the map transitions
Fixed: The player character is seen to climb up in air and teleport to their destination, when climbing a ledge.
Fixed: If players are killed during a climb/mount animation the player camera will be locked to 180 degree rotation on respawn
Fixed: The 'Team Killed' notification will sometimes dismiss itself through no input from the user
Fixed: Application can become unresponsive during the transition from the Enlist screen to a server while minimizing the window
Fixed: Player can clip through part of a log pile asset while prone, allowing them to see through the object
Fixed: A particular couch asset reflects the sky on Low and Medium graphical presets
Fixed: The Tiger Tank wreck has a small gap in the panel on the turret where players can see and shoot through
Fixed: Players will result in having stuttered and inaccurate collision when exiting a tank that is at an angle
Fixed: The Axis Helmets Icon Box automatically scrolls back to the currently selected helmet
Fixed: In-game hints are being reset after the user closes the game
Fixed: Placing the cursor between the third and fourth row of helmets on the German Sniper role violently shakes the helmet list
Fixed: Border highlights for cosmetics will not appear correctly if the user traverses over the icons quickly
Fixed: Pasting large amounts of text into the search bar on the Enlist menu will cause a severe performance drop
Fixed: On the scoreboard, there is no tooltip present when hovering over the Mute icon
Fixed: On the scoreboard, when a player is muted and the icon is greyed-out, it can be difficult to see
Fixed: When headings or servers are highlighted on the 'Enlist' screen, there is no audio cue to accompany their highlight
Fixed: The player cannot initially build constructibles if the player equips the watch/wrench and opens up the UI in quick succession
Fixed: Tank coaxial machine guns do not automatically reload after resupplying until the player swaps seat or exits and reenters the tank.
Fixed: A player that gives a Commendation to a user that already has 5 Commendations will use up their Commendation
Fixed: Initially joining an Infantry unit results in the 'Rifleman' description to be missing
Fixed: The cosmetic helmets list does not refresh to the top after changing tabs or menus
Fixed: If the player begins using a bandage on themselves while prone and stands up during the animation, it will end the bandaging animation
Fixed: On the loadouts screen, the Anti-Tank's wrench displays the opposite team's tooltip
Fixed: The 'Redeploy' option is not greyed out on the post-match screen
Fixed: Players are unable to reposition Commander abilities slightly left or right of the map icon
Fixed: Players are unable to reposition the Commander's Munition abilities on the predicted path when it is going certain directions
Fixed: On the deploy screen if the player changes the loadout then selects another role before deploying, they will be given the incorrect loadout
Fixed: Incorrect amount of Resources lost by the Defending team once a full column/row is lost
Fixed: While performing an overhead grenade throw, pressing the button for the under head throw results in the grenade immediately being thrown
Fixed: Joining a Recon or Armor unit without a Leadership role puts the player as the Leader, however without any leadership functionality
Fixed: Multiple windows can be produced by repeatedly clicking the button to kick a player from the unit
Fixed: [QL][Enlist]– The banned players can join the server queue
Fixed: The player is unable to select Commander role after a map change if the previous Commander has not yet loaded into the map.
Fixed: Users can create empty Units
Fixed: Once a player has been kicked from a unit, the player can create empty units and subsequently deploy into active gameplay as an empty unit
Fixed: The second US smoke grenade cannot be 'cooked' and is immediately thrown
Animation
Fixed: Cooking a German grenade while running results in the running animation to play in the hand holding the grenade
Fixed: The Walther P38's magazine can be seen flying into the player's hand during the TPP reload animation
Fixed: Inconsistent animation between commander and unit leader when using the watch/pocket watch to place a garrison
Fixed: There are clipping issues with the cables attached to the Heer Panzer Cap from a TPP
Fixed: The German sniper has incorrect TPP sprinting animations when running forward-right/left
Fixed: The German Sniper has incorrect TPP walking animations in certain directions
Crashes
Fixed: Destroying a tank just before a map change from a map vote may cause multiple users to crash
RCON
When following the format given for the VipAdd function within the RCon Guide the user will be met with a Fail notification. To successfully add a VIP the user must add a comment after the player's Steam ID, however this is not stated within the RCon Guide. Now the VipAdd functions format reads VipAdd .
Foy
Fixed: [Foy-O] The initial US tanks spawn instantly when the required Fuel is acquired, and do not subtract their Fuel Cost
Fixed: [Foy-O] Long snow mound section in F10 is missing bullet collision
Fixed: [Foy] The character needs to jump in order to pass through a wall break from E4 sector only when starting from one side of it
Fixed: [Foy] A house located at sector E5 has LoD issues
Sainte-Marie-Du-Mont
Fixed: [ST Marie Du Mont] – A tree from the edge of the map in D1 has a noticeable LoD change
Fixed: There is a noticeable performance drop in a section of the St Marie town
Fixed: A house found in C3 of SMDM has noticeable texture issues when viewed at different distances
Utah Beach
Fixed: [Utah] A puddle in I6 has its murky water plane noticeably end
Fixed: [Utah] Certain sandbags and barbed wire are floating when observed from a distance greater than 115 meters away in sector I6
Fixed: On Utah, the ground of a specific destroyed structure has incorrect collision
Fixed: On Utah, players can navigate to a specific area in sector A5 that is outside the intended playable area of the map
Hürtgen Forest
Fixed: [Hurtgen] A specific tree has a noticeable LoD change at 27m
Fixed: [Hurtgen] Multiple sandbags in B6 are low resolution
Fixed: [Hurtgen] A smoke particle effect can be seen floating above a destroyed tank model
Fixed: [Hurtgen] A specific tree becomes visible only when within 25m from it
Fixed: [Hurtgen] There appears to be a large gap in the maps geometry on the far West side of the map
Omaha Beach
Fixed: [Omaha] There are multiple wooden fences that have tank collision
Fixed: [Omaha] Grass can be seen clipping through the house in sector E3
Fixed: Bunker doors clip through terrain in H5 of Omaha
Fixed: [Omaha] A specific section of the stone slope in sector I5 is altering its texture due to an LOD issue
Fixed: [Omaha] The character can clip through the top of a haystack in the F5 map sector
Fixed: [Omaha] There is a noticeable LOD issue on the roof of a building in sector C4
Fixed: [Omaha] Grass can be seen clipping through the house in sector E5
Fixed: [Omaha] The character can clip through the top of a haystack in the H6 map sector
Fixed: [Omaha] Failed collision with the roof of the church located in the E6 sector
Fixed: [Omaha] LOD issues present on two houses present in sector B5 of the map
Fixed: [Omaha] Grass can be seen clipping through the house in sector F4
Fixed: [Omaha] LOD issues present on a house in sector D4 of the map
Fixed: [Omaha] There is a kitchen wall that has a widow that leads to a brick wall in sector D6
Fixed: Players can see through bunker roofs while performing a jump-prone action
Fixed: [QL][Omaha] A portion of the ground is missing collision with the character in the H7 sector
Fixed: [Omaha] - A house in I8 has noticeably low LOD when viewed from a distance
Fixed: [Omaha] Dirt tracks are not connected to the terrain in sector H8
Fixed: [Omaha] Multiple visual issues with LoDs are present in sector D6 of the map.
Fixed: On Omaha, there is a stationary tank inside a specific boat which the player can clip through, and potentially use as an exploit
Fixed: On Omaha a Scarecrow produces a blood particle effect when shot
Fixed: On Omaha, seaweed on hedgehogs produce a concrete PFX when shot
Sainte-Mère-Église
Fixed: [SME] Strafing runs sometimes cannot be placed horizontally or diagonally
Fixed: Players spawn above the ground on the bottom German HQ spawn on SME Offensive
Fixed: [SME] Outposts and Garrisons cannot be placed on the sidewalks
Fixed: [SME] There is a back garden in sector E5 that the player can enter and not exit
Fixed: [SME] Outposts and Garrisons cannot be placed on top of wooden plank pathways used next to allotments
Known Issues [/list] The new Sherman Jumbos are currently only available on Purple Heart Lane. We will be amending this to include one of them on each other map, as well as a reinforceable option for the Commander at the cost of Fuel. We’re currently still cleaning up the code that is resulting in “Server Full” and “Lost Connection” messages. Performance is well under where it should be across the game. We’ve developed a huge amount of new systems and processes during the course of developing Update 5 that we’re rolling out in order to improve FPD across the whole game. There are some mapping issues present in Purple Heart Lane. We’ll be rolling out a hotfix to tackle these soon. Both Offensive and Warfare mode have been played long enough for us to get a sense of key fixes and tweaks we need to make in order for them to be far more finished and fun to play. We’ll be making many changes to these according to community feedback for Update 6. [/list]
Currently Working On (in no specific order)
Overhauling FPP systems to make them far more fluid and photoreal.
Overhauling TPP systems to use recorded mocap animations.
Currently upgrading Unreal Engine version to 4.24 to achieve large scale optimisations
Stats system to tie into the Barracks.
Replacing current fat FPP hands with photoreal hands and integrating new sleeves to reflect new uniforms.
Working on Western Front map
Working on an urban Western Front map
Working on an unannounced map.
Working on overhauls for many key locations in older maps (in order to both optimise them and create better gameplay and visuals)
About to add all new character options to the career level progression.
Currently working on new uniforms, helmets and heads (including more grizzled and appealing options for heads).
Currently working on Scout Cars and Recon mechanics.
Implementing melee combat.
Continued overhaul of UI and HUD features according to community feedback
Large scale audio overhaul in-progress in the animation branch (for all new animations).
Flamethrower FPP setup.
Re-assessing supply boxes and ammo boxes to remove ugly “redeploy” gameplay loop.
Continued visual upgrades and optimisations on all maps and fx.
Continued bug fixes across the entire spectrum.
Where to next?
We’ll be updating our roadmap shortly. This will lay out what we have planned for U6 and U7, as well as patches between them.
Sound Engine
Currently, we’re in the midst of several enormous overhauls and upgrades. Having just introduced the new sound engine, we’re starting to work through the missing gaps in our soundscape before we start iterating out audio changes in all coming updates.
We expect you to hear the difference each Update as we move towards a far more finished and full sound experience.
New Ballistics Systems
We’re currently working on a new ballistics system. We’ll detail this closer to its launch.
Unreal Engine Upgrade
As if one engine-type upgrade wasn’t enough, we’re also in the process of upgrading our Unreal Engine version to 4.24. The new engine version will fix several in-engine bugs, as well as allow us to optimise the game to a far greater extent. While it’s time consuming and often breaks things, we know that the reward in performance and stability gains will be well worth it.
The downside is that the upgrades generally tend to take a week of dev time. With that said, we’re feeling quite confident about this particular upgrade as our initial impressions show that there are only a few key issues.
Animation Overhaul
By far the largest bulk of work is the animation overhaul. It’s reaching the 90% complete mark and is something that we feel will transform the look and feel of the game to a huge degree (and for the better!). All TPP animations seamlessly blend together and use motion captured movements to give it a far more natural feeling. The FPP is also seriously improved and feels far more AAA - with procedural recoil, each animation blending from one to another, better deployed MG handling and a level of polish that we’re happy with. All movements are procedural, allowing us to quickly introduce new weapons. We’ve made sure that the new animation systems also retain the aspects of gunplay that the community enjoys - such as the reliability of recoil control.In addition, the new FPP hands and rig have given a huge graphical quality increase to the game. No more giant hands!
Scope Overhauls
Something we haven’t mentioned yet is that we’ll be doing an overhaul on the sniper scopes. This will greatly increase the immersion and skill needed when using them. This will be introduced with the animation overhaul.
In Closing
If we detailed the rest of what’s to come, we’d be going for another 4-5 pages!
Needless to say, vehicles, new loadouts, new weapons, new customisation options, new maps, optimisations, UI and HUD polish, new features and a whole lot more are all on the horizon. We’re very excited to continue the development journey with you!
The 75mm is the only tank so far to have smoke shells added to its loadout. The German tanks will soon be supplied with on-vehicle smoke canisters. Use the smoke shells carefully to block lines of sight in order to better manoeuvre against the enemy AT positions. We are being careful with giving many tanks smoke shells due to optimisation load from hundreds of smoke shells being fired. 
The 76mm is equipped with the same armor as the 75mm variant, with the key difference being the higher penetration power of its main gun. 
All TPP animations seamlessly blend together and use motion captured movements to give it a far more natural feeling. The FPP is also seriously improved and feels far more AAA - with procedural recoil, each animation blending from one to another, better deployed MG handling and a level of polish that we’re happy with. 
All movements are procedural, allowing us to quickly introduce new weapons. We’ve made sure that the new animation systems also retain the aspects of gunplay that the community enjoys - such as the reliability of recoil control.
In addition, the new FPP hands and rig have given a huge graphical quality increase to the game. No more giant hands!
