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A lot has gone into Defilade in the last 3 weeks, so here's all of it in one place. The demo is coming soon.

SQUADS AND ORDERS

• Make your own squads and pick them with the number keys
• Formations, or AUTO picks one for the ground ahead
• Squads split into fire teams, one covers while the other moves up
• Squads fight their way to where you send them, cover to cover
• New orders: ATTACK MOVE and SECURE AREA
• Waypoints, and Shift-click to add to your selection
• Drag to set which way your tanks face
• Turn the camera with Q and E

THE AI COMMANDER

• Rebuilt, and it only knows what its own men have seen
• It scouts, gathers its army and attacks together
• It pulls back when it's losing and comes again from another side
• It counters your army and remembers where it lost men
• It fights for the capture points and builds closer to the front
• It guards its supply trucks and raids yours
• It gives up when it's beaten
• Late in a match it can build its own nuke

THE SOLDIERS

• New motion capture cover animations at walls, corners and trenches
• They turn like people now, head first
• They go prone: dives, crawls and rolls
• Proper kneeling and crouch walking
• Close firefights are fought from the ground
• Soldiers look their rank, veterans end up in full armour
• Their rifles get sights, lights and lasers as they rank up
• Helmets can get blown off, or shot off
• Rifles jam now and then (still working on this one)
• Men you send somewhere fight on the way
• Blind fire round corners
• Mortar teams set up and fire by themselves

RAGDOLLS AND WOUNDS

• Soldiers fall with real physics now, no two falls the same
• Explosions throw men for real, then they pick their rifle back up
• Shot in the leg, he limps until he bandages it
• A red mist when someone gets hit

LOOKING AFTER EACH OTHER

• Rope rescue: a guy throws a rope from cover and hauls the wounded man in
• Soldiers pull each other up after a blast. "YOU GOOD?"
• They bandage themselves, and you can see the bandage
• Revived men get up like a person and limp for a while
• Medics lift the wounded out of trenches on a stretcher
• Free your own captured men
• Tank crews who bail out stay with you as soldiers

TRENCHES AND DEFENCES

• Trenches look hand dug now
• Men fight from the trench wall and round its corners
• Draw tank traps and barbed wire like you draw a trench
• Camo nets hide your men from drones
• Dig your tank in so only the turret shows
• Bunkers, and machine guns on the trench edge

SOUND

• Every gunshot is a real recording of a real gun, echo and all
• You hear the crack of bullets going past
• Far shots arrive late, at the speed of sound
• Zoom out and the fight sounds far away
• New explosion sounds, a bigger blast sounds bigger
• 86 new drone strike sounds
• The first battle voices: soldiers shouting when you're zoomed in

EXPLOSIONS AND THE NUKE

• The tactical nuke: sirens, a blinding flash, the shockwave and the mushroom cloud
• It launches from a missile silo, and the enemy gets 3 minutes to destroy it
• Red smoke goes up where it's going to land
• The flash lights up the whole town
• Big explosions throw a white shockwave dome, like in real drone footage
• Brighter flashes that light up the ground
• A tank's ammo going up throws the men around it

AIR AND VEHICLES

• BLUE gets the Apache: Hellfires, rockets and a 30mm gun
• BLUE gets the Black Hawk: 12 men, fast rope and door gunners
• Air strikes come from a B-52 now, and you can shoot it down
• Drag to aim your bombing run
• New Bradley and Leopard 2A4 models

THE SNOW MAP

• New trees with snow on them, and they fall in 3D
• A park in the middle of town with snowmen
• Every village house has its own paint and roof
• The capture points are real places: a village square, a trench strongpoint and a farm
• New haystacks with loose straw and snow on top

BASES

• The factory is a big steel hangar now
• New research building with a satellite dish that turns
• The ground lights up green where you can build
• Manpower runs out now, so the capture points matter

ALSO NEW, BUT NOT IN THE DEMO

• New maps: Snow Farms, Countryside and Rivers
• Bridges break apart and fall into the river, and men can drown
• A bridge tank that lays a new bridge
• Green camo, and tanks covered in cut branches
• The rebels can lay ambushes
• The sandbox enemy has a commander too

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