In Armored Warfare, powered by the CryEngine, you will find yourself behind the treads of the most modern mechanized destructive machines on the planet. From general purpose combat vehicles, to main battle tanks, and even long-range high-powered artillery, it will be up to you to defeat your enemies and control the battlefield.

In Armored Warfare, players will take on the role of private military contractors who are called into action throughout a modern virtual world. Overseeing their own personal command base, players will expand, enhance, and customize their headquarters, manage and upgrade their military convoy of vehicles, and train and develop their crews through a robust reputation and experience system. Dynamic environments in Armored Warfare require players to change strategies on the battlefield at a moment’s notice keeping them ever vigilant to the tides of battle.

Armored Warfare features next-gen visuals, dynamic destructible environments, customizable vehicles and intense team-based gameplay where players work to crush each other with the power of modern combat vehicles in a free-to-compete experience.

Drive modern tanks, armored vehicles and more..

This round of testing brings new vehicles, new Lost Island PvP map, daily PvE missions, a kill camera and much more, will take place from September 3rd, 2015 till September 20th, 2015, and the servers will be open 24 hours a day! Please note that there will not be any progression reset between Early Access 4 and Early Access 5 phases.

Main features and updates of the Early Access 5 version

• New Tutorial Mode (PvE Operation Royalty - players will now have access to our new training mission. In this mission, new players will be able to learn about the different mechanics the game has to offer.)
• New PvP map - Lost Island
• Changes to PvE: Two new PvE operations with brand new PvE mission interface, named "minibosses" can now appear on PvE maps, added new "Insane" difficulty level available only on tier 8 vehicles
• PvE Daily Missions
• New vehicles - T92, XM1, M41, ERC 90, XM800T, XM8, Leopard 1A5, BMP-1P, Dragoon 300 90
• New light tank class ability ("Override ECU")
• Kill camera (an option to see the vehicle that killed you in a cinematic replay)
• Title system (titles for players, available after meeting certain conditions such as obtaining an achievement)
• New Rewards for the second half of a vehicle's reputation bar: Players with vehicles that have all their modules unlocked (50%+ reputation unlocked) will be able to earn additional credit bonuses, titles, retrofits and more by playing and earning reputation for that vehicle.
• Overhaul of the vehicle status interface
• New UI feature: Environmental camouflage indicator
• French Localization
• Significant performance update
• Large number of bug fixes

Please note that the Base mechanism was disabled for the time being in order to introduce further improvements and fixes to it. For more detailed feature preview, please visit our Early Access 5 article.

Early Access 5 Patchnotes

Early Access 5 phase of testing will start with Update 0.8.1374. In order to improve the game further, we have introduced numerous changes to the original Update 0.8. These include:

Ingame Mechanisms

• Significantly decreased the cost of Mk. 2 and Mk. 3 retrofits (Mk.1 costs unchanged, Mk.2 retrofits are now 1.5x the cost of Mk.1 (earlier: 2x), Mk.3 retrofits are now 2x the cost of Mk.1 (earlier: 4x)
• Added in support for various Kill Reasons when a player is defeated. Destroyed, Crew Killed, Drowned, and Falling Damage
• AFK checking mechanism was disabled in the tutorial mission
• Crew skills are now disabled and cannot be triggered when a crew member is incapacitated

Vehicle Changes

• RDF/LT grenade smoke launcher module was removed since the model has no smoke visible grenade launchers
• Leopard block renamed to “Leopard Variant MBTs”
• Fixed the M2 Bradley visuals
• XM8 buffed
• Leopard 2AV now has smoke grenade launcher available

User Interface

• Dealer Notifications improved
• Increased tank name field size
• Friends list size increased to 100
• Founder Pack owners will now receive a new “Founder” title
• Added the support for 1280x1024 resolution

Map Updates

• All PvP Maps updated with latest versions to integrate bug fixes
• All PvE Maps updated with latest versions to integrate bug fixes
• Fixed the Snakebite PvE map collision issues of certain objects

Bugs and Fixes

• Corrected some localization elements in the client
• Corrected some issues with the Polish, French and German localization of the game
• Fixed the “Designate Target” ability UI
• Smoke grenade UI was added to XM8 correctly
• Many optimizations and corrections added to the Base Mode
• Fixed an issue where dealer notifications weren't being triggered in some cases
• Fixed an issue where players were unable to respec crew members
• Fixed the issue where fire damage in PvE was not rewarded correctly
• Fixed issue with crew skills not being removed when a crew skill is deleted leading to cases with doubly-added crew skills
• Drowned vehicles are now charged for repairs and shown as having drowned in the post-match report
• Fixed the issue where players didn’t receive the tutorial achievement properly
• Fixed some issues with 32bit version of Armored Warfare client
• Certain graphic features were updated to increase the performance on low and medium settings
• Fixed the issue where tank silhouettes did not appear on Low graphic settings
• Fixed the Ariete aiming issue
• Fixed the issue where AI tanks (and dead hulls) could be invisible when a player reconnects under certain circumstances
• Fixed some issues causing the client to crash
• Fixed the issue where certain laptops were using the integrated motherboard GPU instead of the accelerator one when running Armored Warfare, causing laptop owners to experience extremely low FPS
• Fixed the issue with only 4/5 team members showing up on the PvE Victory Screen
• Fixed numerous smaller bugs and problems

See you on the battlefield!

A variety of team-based tactical and competitive gameplay modes in Armored Warfare will not only test the mettle of players in PvP, but will have them pulling together group strategies in order to overcome grueling player-versus-environment (PvE) scenarios. Players will also be able to join Clans and participate in large scale Territory Wars in the power struggle for world domination. Armored Warfare will continue to be updated and supported for years to come with new weapons, vehicles, base elements, and battle modes.

Key Features:

• Players will hop into the cockpits of modern combat vehicles and heavy military weaponry in Armored Warfare to do battle across cooperative campaigns and team-based matches.
• Armored Warfare puts players in full control of upgrading and building their arsenal of military vehicles and weapons based on the way the want to play offering a diverse path and wide-range of strategies to be implemented.
• A variety of team-based tactical and competitive gameplay modes in Armored Warfare will test the mettle of players where group strategies must be employed to take on and overcome unique player-versus-environment (PvE) scenarios and other players and teams.
• As an online game, Obsidian Entertainment will continually release new gameplay modes, military vehicles and weapons, upgrades, base expansions and more in Armored Warfare.