Update "Tigers of Burma"

Update 16 December 2024

The "Tigers of Burma" show their claws, challenging the bravest of hunters! Charge into battle for a tropical coastal city in the Burma campaign, master new unlockable top-tier vehicles, and tame the improved motorcycles!

The new "Burma heartlands" location was created with great attention to detail and love for Burma's cultural and historical heritage. Explore ancient temple complexes and the streets of a suddenly deserted town shoulder to shoulder with your teammates!

Update highlights - new late game unlocks for all armies! The T26E1-1 "Super Pershing" tank, the Hyde M1944 assault rifle and the captured "Ofenrohr" anti-tank rocket launcher are now available for the USA. Germany received the MG 42 with a 100-round belt, while the USSR got the new Tu-2S bomber and Japan the Te-4 MG and the Chi-Ri II tank.

Multiple premium squads join the USA, Chinese soldiers armed with their own variant of the Thompson submachine gun, tankers with the "Pershing" tank with T99 rocket launchers on its turret and machine gunners with the experimental T24 - a reverse engineered copy of the MG 42. Meanwhile, Japan’s range of premium vehicles is expanding with the early prototype of the Ho-Ri, which is just as lethal as the later model.

The Rider class also received improvements - all armies can access them through Research and their squad size increased to 3 soldiers. In addition, motorcycles are now not just a means of transportation, but also portable ammo boxes!

After the update’s release, the "Silver Chest" filled with content from past events will temporarily return to the store! It will be available for purchase from December 18th, 2024 to January 8th, 2025.

Check out the full list of improvements and changes below!

Weapons and soldiers

Added new weapons:
- Hyde M1944 (USA BR V, Research)
- T24 (USA BR V, Premium)
- Thompson 7.63 (USA BR II, Premium)
- RPzB. 43 Ofenrohr (USA BR IV, Research)
- Te-4 MG (Japan BR IV, Research)
- MG 42 100 (Germany BR V, Research)
Added an additional soldier slot to most premium and event Assaulter, Engineer, Machine Gunner and Flametrooper squads, which can be filled with an Engineer or an AT Gunner.
Fixed the inaccuracies in the reload animations of the Thompson weapon family: Box magazine versions now take less time to reload, thanks to the slide stop. In case of drum magazines, there is no slide stop and the bolt must be cocked to release the magazine from the weapon.
Fixed a bug related to equipment presets: It now prioritizes the most upgraded weapon.
Adjusted the magnification of the ZF-4 scope. On the Sniper Gewehr 43, Sniper FG 42 II and Sniper StG 44, the magnification of this scope is now x4.
Fixed a bug where the radio operator in the premium Engineer squad with Winchester G30R for the USA couldn't call in air strikes and rocket artillery.
Adjusted the drum capacity of the PPD 34/38 to the historically accurate 73 rounds.
AI soldiers now run away to a safe distance from mined strategic objects.
Replaced the German gas masks with American M5 gas masks for soldiers using the RPzB.43 Ofenrohr in American squads.
Added several types of quilted pants to the customization options of the USSR.
Fixed the color mismatch between the quilted pants and jackets of the USSR.
Corrected the size of the ushankas for the USSR.
Reduced the magazine capacity of the M1911A1 Colt from 8 to 7 rounds.
Increased the rate of fire of the MP 18.
Removed the sprint speed penalty of the PP Shpitalniy 1940.
Added a third soldier slot for the tech tree Rider squads that can be unlocked with squad upgrades.
Added an additional upgrade option to add a Medic to Rider squads.
Added the ability to build anti-aircraft and anti-tank guns, as well as machine gun nests to all event and premium squads. These structures are now available to squads that previously couldn’t build them, because they didn’t come with an event or premium engineer.
Temporarily added a new buildable structure for Engineers: Christmas Tree.

Vehicles

Added new vehicles:
- T26E1-1 (USA BR V, Research)
- M26 T99 (USA BR V, Premium)
- Type 95 "Kurogane" (Japan BR II, Research)
- Chi-Ri II (Japan BR V, Research)
- Ho-Ri Prototype (Japan BR V, Premium)
- TIZ AM-600 (USSR BR II, Research)
- Tu-2S (USSR BR V, Research)
Implemented separate bomb drop and rocket launch for aircraft.
Added ammunition boxes to all motorcycles.
Improved the handling and physics of motorcycles on various surfaces.
Fixed a bug where under certain conditions shells could ignore the armor of open-top tanks and detonate on the crew.
Corrected shell trajectory after ricochet: due to a bug, it could hit the crew and the infantry behind the tank.
Reworked the armor-piercing rounds in the ammunition belts of multiple aircraft.
Fixed the position of decorators that were obstructing the view when using the observation devices of the premium Pz.IV E.
Fixed a bug where parts of the tank wouldn’t render in the gunner's sight of the Chi-Ha and Chi-Ha Short Gun.
Fixed a bug with the observation devices of the T-34 (1941) where the view from side slits did not correspond to the rotation of the turret.
Added a new mechanic for refilling ammunition from motorcycles.
Fixed the incorrect display of certain decorators in the vehicle customization window.

Graphics

Improved the visuals of blood and bullet marks on the soldiers’ uniforms.
Improved visual effects of blood on surfaces.
New hit effects on soldiers (more impressive and clearer visual hitmarkers).

Locations and missions

Added a new location, Burma heartlands. Added new missions of the Burma Campaign: "Myansera (Invasion)", "Myansera (Confrontation)", "Myansera (Conquest)".
Added suitable water effects for Burma.
Added additional fords to the Seelow Heights mission - AI soldiers will now actively use these crossings and prefer them over the exposed bridge.
Fixed a bug that allowed building fortifications and engineering structures on bushes in Berlin and Normandy.
Fixed a bug where bullets couldn't pass through certain types of bushes in Normandy.
Changed the location of the starter camera in "River crossing West (Invasion)".
Added an additional group of spawn points in the "Ver-sur-Mer (Conquest)" mission.
Improved the placement of the aircraft spawn point in Practice mode.
When hitting the bell, you will hear it ring in the "Myansera" missions.

Other improvements

(Steam) Fixed an issue where the narrator would only speak English when the "Narrator’s native language" option was turned off and the game was set to a language other than English.
Added new nickname decorators to the shop.
A Christmas tree from the Ardennes forests was delivered to the players' hangar.