Fight in real world locations such as the streets of Carentan, the forests of Bastogne and many more in our spiritual successor to the great multiplayer shooters of the past. Precise aim with your Kar98, covering fire with your M1 Garand and quick thinking with your Thompson are key to your success, all packaged into a competitive multiplayer environment. In short, Battalion 1944 is an infantry based first person shooter with an emphasis on raw skill. No grinding, no 'exosuits', just you and your skill as a player.

Join a Battalion and compete season to season with BattleRank, our global competition system. Contribute to your Battalion's season objective to earn cosmetic rewards for your character, weapons and accessories within our realistic art style. Flaunt your success through your player profile to become a renowned player within the community. BattleRank’s highly tuned stat tracking system enables Battalion 1944 to go beyond the standard mould of shooters gone by and enables players to compete globally for rewards, glory and honor.

Bulkhead Interactive have revealed a roadmap for the next 12 months of free content and major updates for players.

Bulkhead are dedicated to supporting Battalion 1944’s eSports scene and they will be investing $650k into upcoming tournaments. Registration for The Plays summer Blitzkrieg Open and Premier Leagues are open for the next 10 days, with a $20k prize pool: http://theplays.gg/blitzkrieg-summer/ - and this is just the start.

There will be a double XP weekend from Friday to celebrate the next update and release of the roadmap. (Friday 26th July 12:00 BST – Monday 29th July 12:00 BST)

The purpose of the following roadmap breakdown is not to announce tiny specific details - instead we’re here with a snapshot overview of what can be expected within this next year of Battalion 1944’s post release development with weekly, monthly and seasonal updates as well as a huge content release at the end of Year 1’s development.

Roadmap Details

Weekly News Update & Special Event Map Rotation
(Starting with the Summer Seasonal Update, August 1st 2019)

• Different map added to Special Event rotation every week.
• General hotfixes & smaller bug fixes if required weekly.
• Development previews, map playtesting & teasers.

Larger Seasonal Updates (Roughly 8 weeks apart)
Summer Update, Autumn Update, Winter Update, Spring Update

• New arcade & special event game modes.
• New BattleRank season (new & unique skins).
• New FACEIT competitive seasons (with improvements).
• New War Chests (with new items).
• Map reworks released.
• Larger community requested features.
• Larger bug fixes.
• Surprise features & additions.

Mid Season Updates (Roughly 4 Weeks into a season)
Smaller Updates between Seasonal Updates (Roughly 4 weeks apart)

• Weapon balance & meta changes.
• New FACEIT competitive season.
• Weapon and animation/audio overhauls.
• Map rework playtesting.
• Smaller community requested quality of life changes.
• Bug Fixes.

Huge Content Release Early 2020
We can’t wait to start teasing this more… but expect a huge meta shift after this release

• Celebrating one year of Battalion 1944 with a HUGE content release.
• British faction added to competitive reworks of Savoia, Docks & Invasion.
• British weapons added - yeah you heard that right Lee Enfield fans!
• Everything usually included within a seasonal update.
• Additional languages support.

Announcing $650,000 of Tournament & Competition Support

To support our competitive scene we are also investing further into the community.

We recently began the Blitzkrieg Open and Premier Leagues ran by ThePlays, offering $20,000 in prize winnings for the most dedicated Battalion players. This was only the first step in our plan to slowly and steadily grow the competitive scene of Battalion 1944.

You can sign up your team to play.

What’s next? We’re serious about growing Battalion from it’s grass routes beginnings, as a competitive shooter, over the next year and beyond. We’re happy to announce that we’ll be committing $650,000 towards the growth of multiple Battalion esports events. This doesn’t mean this is the only funding available for the future of Battalion, as things grow we intend to also grow our support of the competitive community.

Where can you as a player get yourself and your team some of that sweet cash as prize money? We’re planning multiple tournaments and events to give all players big reasons to play & improve at the game.

• FACEIT Pro Series - An event geared towards pro level teams.
• Major with Online Qualifiers.
• Championships played in multiple regions.
• Blitzkieg Premier and Open League support.
• Online Tournament Support.

There’s going to be a lot of opportunities to compete as we grow as a company and Battalion grows as a franchise. This is just the beginning.

Summer Seasonal Update - Coming August 1st, 2019!

Next week we’ll be dropping the very first seasonal update of many for Year 1. This update is dubbed the ‘Summer Seasonal Update’. Every seasonal update is planned to be bigger & better throughout this year - it’s going to be a wild ride.

We can’t wait to show you guys next week what’s in store for August 1st and beyond!

Roadmap Release Celebration - Double XP Weekend!

To celebrate the roadmap release and the end of the current BattleRank season we’re going to be running a double XP weekend event to help prepare you for the Summer Seasonal Update.

Double XP weekend will run from Friday 26th 12:00 BST - Monday 29th 12:00 BST.

Have fun with your last chance to earn those sweet BattleRank skins before the season ends!

Earn FREE War Chests - FACEIT Missions This Weekend!

Fire up Battalion this weekend and complete FACEIT competitive missions to win War Chests!

• Play 10 Competitive Games - 5 Red Star Chests
• Win 10 Competitive Games - 1 Heroes Chests
• Win 50 Competitive Games - 3 Heroes Chests

Utilizing the most advanced industry technology, and powered by the Unreal Engine 4, Battalion 1944 re-surges World War 2 back into the modern gaming spotlight in our spiritual successor to the great multiplayer shooters of the past such as Call of Duty 2 and Day of Defeat. On BattleRank, it’s down to skilled soldiers like you to fight for your battalion.

Key Features

• Raw skill based gameplay. We believe your skill should be determined by your play, not through unfair overpowered unlocks and abilities. Battalion learns from the skill based gameplay of classic competitive shooters and merges it with the stunning visuals that our team can produce, utilizing next-gen techniques such as motion capture, physically based rendering and photogrammetry to make Battalion a truely next gen competitive shooter.
• Intense and balanced infantry combat. Our designers have scoured hundreds of multiplayer shooters to design the best fitting formula for a well balanced WW2 first person shooter. The excitement in Battalion lies in the down the barrel experience.
• BattleRank competitions. Go lone wolf or team up alongside friends. Contribute to your Battalion's season objective, receiving rewards for team and individual efforts. Compete in regular challenges ranging from seasonal to quick fire hourly objectives to earn rewards and extra XP. Challenges are broadcast via the main menu's challenge alert panel as well as through our social media outlets.
• Beautiful and realistic environments. Our incredibly talented art team are designing a visually stunning recreation of World War 2 and have even travelled to Normandy for reference and research to make the maps as authentic as possible. The world needs to look as real as we can push it. It's important to us for Battalion to have longevity, to do this everything in Battalion will be designed and rendered using the latest advances in industry technology. Battalion will be on the forefront of video game graphics.
• Tight, focused, competitive maps. Battalion's maps will be designed around our team based infantry combat. The map locations are inspired by real world battlegrounds of the allied campaign and blended with competitive layouts of classic shooters that focus on balance and competition.

Battalion 1944 is available on PC (Steam) with a 20% launch discount at $15.99 (ends Thursday June 6 at 9 a.m. PDT).