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[@sevan8432]

this game has some absolutely wonderful voicelines for the units, on peer to the quality of old RTS games. Give the devs and the voice-actors a medal.

[@henryhamilton4087]

They definitely hired the Voice actor for the Bulldozer in Payday 2 because it's basically the exact same voice for the US heavy tanks

[@ironpamf]

A lot of the voices seem very similar to world in conflict ones.

[@SaucyNetworkEntertainment]

This is the LAST multiplayer battle I recorded last weekend! What are you guys looking forward to the most with the game?

[@ReidGrozny]

I would like to see skirmish option where I can spend all points available on anything I want from army fractions in the army loadout. I would like to max out air units and do SEAD and deep helicopter assaults while my friends are taking care of ground operations.

[@A-Warthog-cc1wm]

The customization, being able to have so many options would be amazing. It means that every battle could be quite different from the next.

[@teamamil9715]

I would like to see this game on console there’s a few RTS but no one like this.

[@Ziflin]

the british update

[@zfg_daur3612]

I'd really like to see a system where you can customize each individual unit. So, as an example, I have 1 of my F-35s for AA and 1 for AG. But from what I've seen, you can only customize both F-35 to have the same loadout.

[@deshawncruz]

This is what command conquer generals was suppose to become

[@jangozubr]

Game looks fantastic. And your adequate perfomance makes everything better. Thanks for sharing, Bolt!

[@SaucyNetworkEntertainment]

My pleasure!

[@X_Fighter1342]

I can't wait for the open beta. I have some concerns about the HUD and shortcuts but I will wait until a have played. I hope it gets some attention and don't cost a fortune

[@lastword8783]

I've heard other people not like the UI either. Is it the art style for you or just the way its placed on screen?

[@homer1268]

@@lastword8783 both

[@evanwiger]

Ya I would like to shrink the size of the icons. I feel like there's lots of immersion lost with big fat icons everywhere. Can't even see the vehicles without zooming in

[@user-kn2jm2wt5n]

I personally like it but I wonder what people don’t like about it. Is it the light colors or the buying system?

[@crazzykilla]

I agree the UI has much to be desired, also not a fan of the large icons.

[@mcdus1441]

Hi Bolt. I use to do this. Fly the Sead´s parallell to the frontline back n forth on low attitude. Just let the plane seek out what´s on the field and when it´s empty on missiles btb.

[@SaucyNetworkEntertainment]

aah yeah i need to try that!

[@flamebreakk]

Ah the good ole raven/nighthawk parallel to the frontline in wargame. Sead hits and ECM protects and the bomber gets the frontline tank or inf or whatever

[@darkunion4]

I’ve noticed in the latest Broken Arrow videos (not just yours Saucy) that they everyone uses a lot of recon over infantry. My two questions about the game are 1) do the recon units act as special forces and less like recon units? (Reference being WARNO). 2) do units in each “deck” have certain number of call-ins much like WARNO and once they are gone, it’s gone for the match?

[@evgenymenshikov8482]

hi, reconnaissance units are mixed in the game and can act as special forces and reconnaissance. units in the game can be summoned endlessly, for example: you took two tanks into the deck and will be able to use these two vehicles throughout the game, if one or two are destroyed, then there will be a countdown until the time of the next unit spawn; two or one units are destroyed independently (the more expensive the unit , then the more expensive the count)

[@LauftFafa]

recoon are deadly in this game and behave like a venguard or special force too . take for example the recoon tanks . their real job in tank hunters where they use their supperior optics and higher stealth and range to hunt enemy unites .

[@darkunion4]

@@evgenymenshikov8482 thank you for explaining that. The idea of recon units having more viability and lethality makes me excited.

[@shadow7988]

Recon can hold their own against most small threats, they kind of work like quasi-SF from wargame. People spam them both for the actual purpose of recon, and because they're a decent supplement to actual infantry squads. They get rekt if they go up against proper infantry squads with more than like 5 people, though.

[@tohafi]

The enemy chopper on the right was a boss!

[@thelittleendian9877]

Does it feel like you're not using as much line/regular infantry as the first open demo or the wargame titles? Ik it's a different game & scale, but I'm surprised at seeing so many stingers and cav scouts off the bat in the past 3 matches.

[@Boss_Man1371]

Situation dictates. If the enemy isn't pushing a bunch of infantry then there is no reason to have a bunch of dedicated infantry fighting units when you're fighting armor or helos

[@SaucyNetworkEntertainment]

yeah im just learning and trying out units. Not trying to min-max it all yet. Its definitely about just having a good mixture and spread. and since i was getting bomed left and right, i didnt invest too much

[@cakey8921]

im hyped

[@ActuallyNotIlmatar]

How does the point refund for aircraft work? If they survive 50% points back or what? I'm almost a bit sad that you don't have an call-in air tab like in WGRD.

[@vitaz145]

If you call in a squad of infatry on a truck - you can deploy infantry and sell truck, fully refundin' it costs and really speeding up new call-in time. If you call a heli\plane with some type of ornaments ( ATGMs\Bombs\Missiles ) - you can shoot all ammo, sell this heli\plane, get 100% of its costs, but lose all costs of ATGMs\Bombs\Missiles.

[@ActuallyNotIlmatar]

@vitaz145 thank you : )

[@stratdaddy]

Does arty like the m109 have drastically less range/accuracy than in WG RD? I noticed he had his paladins real close to the front and their targeting circle was still pretty large

[@jamielonsdale3018]

That's the indicator of effect, not the circular error probable, I believe.

[@shadow7988]

Yeah the howitzers in BA generally have ranges between 3-6k meters. Much more like Wargame EE where the idea is that artillery can't just sit safely way in the back of the map. As for accuracy, it depends on the artillery, but paladins have excaliburs and copperheads depending on loadout which are pin-point accurate if you provide a lase.

[@JasonWolfeYT]

I expect future warfare games to have half the units be small drones doing observation. The Ukraine war has shown that you don’t get to move vehicles without getting spotted.

[@Navinor]

Yeah, the current modern war in ukraine shows, you can not move a single piece of equipment close to the frontline without being spotted. The modern battlefield is basically like a RTS in real life. Recon drones are cheap and they are everywhere. Furthermore close air support is mostly repalced by drones.

[@shadow7988]

In beta the Russians already have two pretty nifty drone options in their recon tab.

[@chancellordavid7332]

this match was great (even if our side did spam planes extensively), hope to get a rematch against the gang on the open beta!

[@drifted4803]

Nah id win

[@shadow7988]

I'd spam planes too if my enemy's team only got like 2 patriots on the entire map, lmao

[@dougroberts3840]

Is there only the Americans and the Soviets? Or will there be more factions like the British, French, East and West Germans, and so on?

[@lastword8783]

Are drones useful?

[@SaucyNetworkEntertainment]

yeah they can be really nice for good intel. easy to shoot down though

[@shadow7988]

Definitely recommend contributing to the SAM front. Russian team had pretty much free reign in the air and they took full advantage. IR AA like stingers and LAV-AD just isn't enough(They do low damage and have really short range, they're only there for helicopters and for punishing ultra-greedy dives from fixed-wing), especially against competent people that know how to use air well and get more than they put in, resource wise. 1-2 guys getting patriots/S-300 isn't really enough, especially when more experienced teams start showing up in beta and you have to juggle enemy air AND enemy TBM's.

[@officer_miller]

i realy only have 2 problems(i played for 29 hours) 1_unit balancing 2_respawning units(give us an option to turn it off and on beacuse i do like the constant action it gives the game but some might not)

[@SaucyNetworkEntertainment]

point 2 will never happen. the entire point of that is to prevent attrition warfare and broken arrow is trying to move away from eugen style RTS and honestly its a better system. It brings the focus more to skill, rather than spam or having your opener attack wrecked and losing the game because of it for example. the chance of making a comeback with this system is much better

[@LauftFafa]

this game is not made for pvp wargame style, it disagree with the idea of running out of unites and it doesnt try to mimic regiment compositions but simply armies on the field . personally i was never a fan of the wargame formula . not only they limited freedom of deck composition now but they are actively removing unites from regiments in warno and they are simply killing freedom of chosing your custom deck in that game thus making losses even more punishing some decks now have like less than 8 tanks , some dont have any anymore .

[@nathanalvar9156]

Can you hot key group of units together?

[@SaucyNetworkEntertainment]

yes!

[@GoldenboyVN]

what is ur pc specs? i have i7 10700k, 32g ram ddr4 and rtx 3070, my fps is low and everything looked like shit with low graphic

[@SaucyNetworkEntertainment]

check description

[@GoldenboyVN]

@@SaucyNetworkEntertainment i downloaded this game 5mins ago but this game ask me for password to join lobby? how

[@ireallycant4416]

Game really punishes you if you’re lacking with anti air

[@panzerforelle126]

As it should be; lacking air power or the ability to defend oneself from air attacks has always been heavily damaging, historically speaking

[@shadow7988]

AA is stupidly powerful in this game so that's pretty fair. They got rolled so hard because they only had like one guy buying patriots for some reason, and they were kept way too far back to be of any actual help.

[@OmegaInfinita]

awwww yeeeeah boiii

[@SaucyNetworkEntertainment]

yeaboiiiiiiiiiiiii

[@shitehead7839]

How do supplies work

[@SaucyNetworkEntertainment]

you get a heli or vehicle like a regular truck and click on the amount of suplies you want

[@1650th]

Will there be naval combat

[@SaucyNetworkEntertainment]

There will be ships, but whether there will be navy vs navy, i dont know

[@LauftFafa]

@@SaucyNetworkEntertainment they said they wont be ships vs ships but as long we have the editor we can easily spawn 2 different fleets like in zeus arma 3 . the ships here are more like arma3 too , this mean some sort of platforms rather than actual unites they can open fire and spawn landing unites and planes but they cant move so idk if we want ships vs ships and we ma,age to spawn 2 opposing fleets in the editor maybe we can manually make a ship fire at the enemy one

[@madeconomist458]

UGH! Why can't the day after tomorrow be today!!??

[@Gabberag]

Warno became more fun out this update. Protec them Rangers!

[@SaucyNetworkEntertainment]

sir this is a Wendy's

[@LauftFafa]

@Gabberag you mean the update that just did a portion of what broken arrow do ? humble urban maps and an ok infantry ? what about them stripping regiments naked from unites and reducing our options over and over ? i could make a vdv tank combo custom deck of my own fantasy but now they wanna force me to use no tank at all .who are they ? why they have to keep limiting our freedom ? look at broken arrow in comparison . what warno try to be is just what beta broken arrow is already and i have hundred of hours in warno alone

[@ireallycant4416]

A lot of miss play really punish you…. Loving this game already

[@alexanderhanspprerrs4913]

What is best warno or this ??

[@SaucyNetworkEntertainment]

its like comparing COD to battlefield. both are good at what they want to do

[@alexanderhanspprerrs4913]

@@SaucyNetworkEntertainment which one is more realistic?

[@mh-ht2fp]

Needs an option to display unit names.

[@tohafi]

Blocking the cap with one unit against five units until a big bomb/arty messes the attacking units up seems broken somehow...

[@mh-ht2fp]

Thats the literal military definition of broken arrow btw lol. Broken Arrow was a code phrase , that a military unit on the ground is facing imminent (or very soon) destruction from enemy attack and all available air forces within range are to provide air support immediately".

[@cuttsswilly]

Wasn’t this game meant to be coming to consoles I swear I seen at the end of a trailer it was meant for all a year ago I think but can’t find it now have they cancelled the consoles edition

[@LauftFafa]

no ? maybe you confused it with a different game ? but i admit i would prefer playing this one on console than pc

[@cuttsswilly]

@@LauftFafa ahhh okay thanks for your reply and yeah same to be honest

[@6TypoS9]

I'd like to know if this game will be able to compete against Warno...

[@Boss_Man1371]

Myself and many others who have played way too much warno all say we prefer BA.

[@jangozubr]

@@Boss_Man1371 Ye, same here!

[@LauftFafa]

it wont just compete , it can totally beat it . the vision of this game is simply way above the humble vision of warno .

[@shadow7988]

lmao this game is going to absolutely mog WARNO. So much more playable.

[@user-ow7do9ju2q]

What this game needs is naval warfare. I need to see some destroyers and aircraft carriers.

[@evanwiger]

Probably won't happen

[@shangdaboss3819]

Can u play this in steam

[@SaucyNetworkEntertainment]

yes

[@shangdaboss3819]

@@SaucyNetworkEntertainment but when I go to check u can’t buy it can u tell me how? If it’s ok with you?

[@Nomoreads11]

Would of been a different game if you utilized your patriots

[@SaucyNetworkEntertainment]

we had patriots

[@Nomoreads11]

@@SaucyNetworkEntertainment what they nerf them? Lol love the content can't wait for this game

[@shadow7988]

@@Nomoreads11 Only like one dude had them and it was way in the back, lol. Nowhere near enough.

[@Honoer]

It feels like the balance is off. Just seems to me like Russian units take 1-2 more hits to kill across the board to kill than American units.

[@shadow7988]

They don't, they're actually somewhat fragile in some cases(Like the T-80). Saucy just doesn't know how to use stuff like ATGMs yet so he's getting mogged by ERA and APS and it makes stuff like his cobras seem way less effective than they really are. The name of the game when it comes to tanks with protection systems is overwhelming them with ATGM's and you do that with units like TOW teams that fire two at a time(APS has a 5 second cooldown so the second round is guaranteed to hit), or LAV-ATM which can quickly scoot about, firing at max range in wolf packs. In closed beta, especially as americans, LAV-ATM wolf packs were disgusting whenever I used them. 2-3 90 point units can kill 4-5 units worth of 300+ point tanks in a blink of an eye, even if they're an armata.

[@robiiify]

The only thing that really bothers me about this game is that one side is pure fiction while the other is rooted in reality. I get it the the developers need to implement cool units and something of a parity of capabilities so that one side isnt winning 100% of the times, but it is still bothering me alot. Maybe they can implement a pre 2021 russia and then a "real" one with high amounts of fodder units and a specialisation on quantity instead of being a mirror of the other factions

[@shadow7988]

Who cares? Why design video games based off of media propaganda instead of just making something fun and balanced and not getting sucked into reddit circle jerks from tismos pretending they know anything about something going on on the other side of the planet? Should the US team auto-lose every match regardless of performance since that's what happens IRL whenever they go to war? See how stupid that sounds?

[@emergcon]

Hope that there will be a game mode where you have to play a specific role like in World in Conflict. 2 players infantery, 2 players tanks, one air cav and one logi/arty if you know what i mean.

[@henryhamilton4087]

game already does this you can specialize your battlegroup into armor, marines, support, motostrelki, etc. (each nation gets a set of specializations). You can pick 2 specializations at any order for your 'deck' and that will set what units you can bring into battle and how much of it you can bring in each category.

[@emergcon]

@@henryhamilton4087 Not in the way I mean it.

[@jeffszurgot]

hmmm, it seems that Warno is more interesting for me. Isn't Broken arrow a little bit boring?

[@SaucyNetworkEntertainment]

honestly not at all. A lot more immersive in comparison, but why not play both games?

[@LauftFafa]

well if you find flat maps and small towns and infantry that can run in the open and avoid machine gun fire easy appealing then warno is your game . this one is slower and more tactical and have better maps , better weather , better sound effect , better urban battles and better pace

[@ireallycant4416]

@@LauftFafawarno fanboys can’t comprehend that

[@jeffszurgot]

@@LauftFafa Thanks for answers. I only played once in early beta (single Player). Warno seemed more strategical and faster for me. But if you guys (not you ireallycant) say it is better i more aspects it's cool One of my favourite games was World In Conflict back in the Day and this kind of reminds it. Thanks (not you ireallycant)

[@spookrockcity]

Game blows Warno out of the water but optimization

[@evanwiger]

I feel like im watching large colorful icons playing rather than the actual vehicles and ground troops. I know you can zoom in. However, being able to shrink or change the icons to be smaller would be great. I feel like world in conflict did a better job at giving the feel of immersion. 16 years old and still looks and plays great. I'm excited for this game but still a bit underwhelmed. Would be nice to see a large upgrade to destruction & physics which i know wont happen.

[@victorhugoschiatti6831]

If this game didn't had respawning units i would check it out, but endless battle and NO ATRITTION is a big NOPE for me.

[@SaucyNetworkEntertainment]

why is that? would you rather fight with empty supply trucks near the end? it gives you a chance to make a comeback and keeps combat at a high pace. Better for gameplay experience, less sweaty, less ragequitting when you lose your only fighter, less ragequitting when the opener gets wrecked. Be open minded about it, its a superior mechanism

[@Navinor]

@@SaucyNetworkEntertainment I agree here. The problem with wargame or Warno is simply the fact when people run out of units they immediately leave the game.

[@Mazzzaq]

The game looks very slow, pretty much afk slow until the last 5 mins

[@GdzieJestGondor]

Russians seems to have a lot of units that are more often seen in propaganda videos than on a battlefield. Many 2015 Moscow Victory Day Parade units. Non-existent units in modern war in Ukraine. With USA AWACS most of those russian planes and helis wouldn't even reach a battlefield.

[@abysswatcher9172]

The factions gotta be balanced somehow

[@jangozubr]

Wet dreams don't dry.

[@mh-ht2fp]

Yeah its called a video game not a simulation. You ukraine war nerds are really something else.

[@ireallycant4416]

@@mh-ht2fpI hate tankies as much as I hate satan but I agree with game balancing

[@pilotman9819]

You are aware Russia also has AWACS right? Are your brain so rotted you have to include the Ukraine war in every modern war game setting with Russia in it? If we wanna be realistic, then this game would be more about diplomatic talks. As no way would 2 Superpowers fight it out "conventionally". Nukes would be the flying the second these two countries start a war against one another. Get off the internet and the Ukraine war addiction. There's alot more to life.

[@CrispyBakedPotato]

Too bad the game is full of Russian bias.