GHPC is Cooking - Infantry Update Preview

[@Enigma89]

Apparently this is live now! The GHPC devs pushed the update right after I made this video so hop on and let me know what you think. If you want to get the game, check it out here: store.steampowered.com/app/1705180/Gunner_HEAT_PC/

[@thethankfuldeadman4647]

I’ve heard that Arma Reforger is an early alpha or precursor to Arma 4. Its theme, along with Arma: Cold War Assault and GHPC, seems to center on the 1980s to 1989 era, which is interesting. I wonder if GHPC will ever add VR support that would be amazing to see.

[@GunnerHEATPC]

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[@matthewjones39]

@@GunnerHEATPCDo you happen to know/be willing to tell how long it’ll take for infantry to be added in the campaign. If at all?

[@GunnerHEATPC]

@@matthewjones39 We have a standing policy of not discussing release dates ahead of time, but rest assured it will happen eventually. Campaign overhaul is on the roadmap, in case you want to get a general sense of the priority level.

[@matthewjones39]

@ Nice! Love the update, btw

[@bazej1080]

The most important update, because infantry was the core of ground forces, when tanks, APCs, heliopters, artillery, mobile light SAM etc. were just to more or less support infantry.

[@HoangHuyLe-f8y]

And the supporting arms were operated by special trained "infantry" those men only task is to operated the machines and support the main infantry formation 😅

[@czwarty7878]

Yeah this is the biggest problem of "vehicle games" when it comes to realism. In real life these vehicles are part of combined arms, and in the end exist to fight and support infantry. Having only tank vs tank skirmishes is not realistic representation of combat

[@HoangHuyLe-f8y]

@@czwarty7878 the tank was originally made to support infantry to break the deadlock of ww1 , in ww2 tanks were use to support infantry attack and they can also be used separately in armored assaults ( spearhead for offensive) , as tank got faster , they outrun marching infantry units and loses close support , that's when there is mechanized infantry to help . After all of the development , it's just combined arms tactic

[@otohikoamv]

Agreed. This is why IL-2 Tank Crew was a non-starter for me - not only did the developers not include infantry, but scoffed at the idea of needing it as a core feature. An armor simulation without infantry is really just a hollow, partial, gamey shooting gallery - sure, you can design some compelling scenarios for that, but nothing really comprehensive. It's like avoiding 95% of what tanks actually do in combat, and ultimately that big omission becomes impossible to ignore.

[@NA-nc5dg]

Infantry is still the core, combat arms are all supported.

[@cbrpnk1789]

Sea Power and Gunner HPC wow we are living in a renaissance right now arent we?

[@MajinLiveTV]

No kidding. DCS also looking better and better. Its like the late 90s / early 2000s all over again.

[@away3748]

Nice to see news on it

[@Enigma89]

It just released a few minutes ago

[@colinterry7261]

I’m with you on this one, infantry will make the scope of the game feel very complete.

[@TheOrdomalleus666]

The Poolish army calls it's mech-infantry "Hares" as they hop around from cover to cover.

[@danf5606]

that settles it, I am buying right now. And I'll ready & trained for the infantry update.

[@Skip.8221]

you've probably noticed by now but the update is already out!

[@guy-be-man6908]

Amazing update! Felt pretty sad when one of the infantry threw a grenade, only to be killed by a guy in the trench…..

[@bone_lee]

I absolutely love this game and I think many flight sim players should give it a shot. It probably has the most realistic audio of any combat game I've played. Can't wait to see how it evolves, thanks for bringing attention to this gem!

[@biggie10101]

What has this to do with fligh sim players you delusional fuck

[@RedTail1-1]

​@@biggie10101chill out, edgelord. It's not that serious.

[@mostlygamingstuff1260]

Tank duels in multiplayer is going to be sweet

[@matthewjones39]

I don’t think there’s going to be PVP

[@nicolazoppellaro3154]

@@matthewjones39 yes, multiplayer is confirmed for the future

[@matthewjones39]

@@nicolazoppellaro3154 Yeah, but not PVP.

[@nicolazoppellaro3154]

@@matthewjones39 i think yes, with multicrew also

[@aletron4750]

@@nicolazoppellaro3154they said in a dev stream pvp is not planned

[@thespacedisland5746]

so cool! I don't buy early access games anymore but I am so excited for when this game does eventually hit 1.0

[@kamicosmos]

Very cool! I'll have to reinstall it and give it a spin over the holiday weekend.

[@lazyman556]

Its not something that the game needs to be "complete" and I'm probably in a weird niche of players for even wanting them, but I am still holding out hope that combat engineering and recovery end up in the game. Even if they don't end up actually being playable and just act as allied NPCs, having to escort CEVs, bridge layers, and ARVs and cover them while they remove a minefield, lay a bridge, rescue a disabled tank, etc would all be an interesting mechanic, and I'd love to see stuff like the M728, M88, BAT-2, and the like end up in the game one day

[@sandwich5344]

Never thought i'd live to see this day

[@KyleDunigan]

Can't wait for this update. This game is really coming into its own. Kudos to the dev team.

[@RedTail1-1]

Now that they have Infantry they need to add Forward Observers. Imagine sitting in your observation post and calling for artillery on enemy armor and troops in the open. The dream of any 13Fox. You'd get to actually do the job of an FO rather than just being forced to be another infantryman.. Eyes of Death, Balls of Steel! King of battle, rain death from above!

[@xgreywolf1525]

“…but as prudence would have it, they also had the deadliest weapon man had ever known. A radio.” - Tom Clancy, Red Storm Rising

[@evin1035]

You are alone on it

[@BunialskiTrip]

I will buy it one day! Great Vid Enigma. Love the devs and I was pleaying pre steam version.

[@up_dogF1]

Everything on the battlefield revolves around the infantry, glad to welcome them to GHPC!

[@TheGalahad78]

Buf, I really need to get into GHPC, it looks so good!!

[@janbonte6422]

The atgms in Squad don't fly straight either, indeed very cool how they modelled it in both games!

[@TROUT_Actual]

I REALLY hope that they add infantry to IL-2: Korea in a similar and useful fashion. The lack of them in their WW2 and WW1 sims really take it away for me. Seeing this in GHPC is pretty awesome. How would you say it compares to Steel Beasts Pro? I haven't gotten GHPC because it seems like SB covers that already...but obviously not as pretty.

[@Enigma89]

I didn't play SB, my sense they are two different games. SB seems like its more straight simulator but a lot less playability. GHPC is pretty approachable but scratches the sim itch at the same time as well.

[@t-6215]

What is SB

[@spec10]

@@t-6215 Steel Beasts

[@subjectc7505]

Oh, this is getting spicy.

[@crazygmanssimstuff]

Ooh infantry is out...going to dust this off again, haven't played it in about 3 months.

[@absolutmauser]

Hooray for the crunchies!!

[@Glow-So-Bright]

ohh boy crunches

[@acesidewinder]

Daaaang. That looks soo fun now. I'm excited. Got to admit.

[@monostripeexplosiveexplora2374]

I like the almost dance like runnig animation.. now they need some dressing options and then we can make music videos.

[@camangoo]

There's dropping short of the objective and then there's dropping waaaaaaaaay short of the objective! These grunts would be pissed!

[@Red_Star_robin]

Reminds me of the steel fury infantry ai but they don’t throw 50,000 AT grenades at you when you roll by their trench

[@kondor99999]

Can you actually control assets beyond your own platoon? That was a great feature we had back in M1 Tank Platoon 2. It was a tank sim wrapped inside a tactical wargame.

[@Parsecter]

Yep, now this game can be really interesting for me. Coz before, without infantry it was really strange battles.

[@etipsbellum771]

hell yeah

[@AlanTheBest97]

Would be nice to be able to control infantil squads in some way, could even be added into multiplayer. Maybe a Full spectrum warrior kind of system.

[@Honecker-m7t9j]

This looks fantastic. Is this game at all related to ARMA? The NVA troops and equipment are great!

[@HelenMitropoulos]

hell yea

[@hash_sim4286]

Nice,starting to look like steel beasts.

[@yungcaco1443]

ATGM’s also twirl in Squad now.

[@nonebright8073]

The TC is NOT happy with being ignored

[@sowpmactavish]

Exactly what I've been saying about War Thunder since forever. Tanks are cool, but they're ultimately a subject of the Queen of Battle. The ebb and flow of infantry presence adds an essential dynamism that you won't get if it's just a bunch of metal bricks taking potshots at each other.

[@Hiigaranwarrior159]

I've always wanted to like war thunder as it has had the best damage model for any multiplayer based tank game for a while, but the lack of infantry to round out the experience has greatly detracted from its overall quality for an extended period. I'm glad to see GHPC incorporating this, if they go multiplayer with this game, I could see it very easily surpassing war thunder in short order.

[@rei32nis5]

isn't "Enlisted'' exactly that?

[@chadvader974]

RUN ACROSS OPEN FIELD! GO GO GO ! :p

[@Madcows]

when someone mods in MP to this Im gonna prolly pick it up

[@ilovenotela]

i still wait when redactor is comming to this game

[@EDK105]

almost thought this was Regforger

[@thejonathan130]

Does it run better now? I love this game but it chugs real bad sometimes

[@jesterjklol3210]

imagen you a drone operater in a striker aparte of a moder armoered unit. Pushing through a enamy operations zone sending GPS targeting date to the tanks derectoily for enamy armored and infontry positions. the mayhame a single pice of dron tech can do is just in sane and it makes things very scary

[@RavenCodex]

You can use the .50 Cal ( F key)

[@Daniel-wy2kx]

I’ll try it

[@hamishneilson7140]

I want to see tank crews bailing out with this now

[@Daniel-wy2kx]

Crew animations are on the road map they have on the website

[@OWG1969]

Today I noticed this was listed in my wishlist as “No Longer Available on Steam”. What happened to it? Did Steam kick them out of the club or did the devs go bankrupt?

[@DrunkenWizardBattle]

damn this is the thing that makes or breaks the game for me im so hype

[@professorkatze1123]

oh yeah. fookin finally a reason to reinstall

[@H2HMBL]

RTS GHPC would be epic

[@doobs5342]

Thats sort of what armored brigade II is, but that has order delay so it depends on if you can work with that.

[@TehF0cus]

Why is your avatar that logo from Mate Tea

[@irlanderillustrations7517]

can you play as an infantry soldier?

[@Enigma89]

No sir

[@leesp2]

but when will you finally be able to fire the 50 cal? its something thats always confused me about this game, i know its still being built.

[@ABoredDemon]

you can, on the M60

[@sgtrpcommand3778]

3:09 pretty mean of the TC to keep insulting the gunner like that.

[@alarminglyfastmovingskelet7289]

It's a common theme with games now that modern game devs have to rediscover things that were already done in the past. Steel Fury: Kharkov 1942 is a World War 2 tank sim from 2007 and it has infantry in it. Glad to see this game getting it.

[@karlhungus545]

M1 Tank Platoon 2 from 1998 was the penultimate sim that this game should strive to be, not just a tank shooter. It's looking good though. I already bought this a while ago, I'm just waiting for it to be semi-complete until I put hours into it.

[@RedTail1-1]

Not sure what point you're trying to make... This game is EA and still being developed. It's not like they had already released it and then decided to finally add infantry. They just made it to a point in development where armor and weapons were implemented well enough that they could add dismounted infantry to the game.

[@alarminglyfastmovingskelet7289]

@ I’m not trying to make any point about GHPC

[@TutterTactics]

im glad this update has finally come to but im still curious what development hell was going on for the past 3-4 months. im no game dev so perhaps infantry really was this difficult of a process to incorporate but something still feels off to me. hopefully a dev stream drops so we can at least know what happened.

[@CamdalftheGreat]

Brother are you really complaining that an update that adds a completely new dynamic to the game took about 60 days than longer than normal to come out. There's been plenty of 4 months gaps between updates.

[@Enigma89]

I would imagine that adding in infantry was a huge addition. Think about the animations, the rag doll physics, their behaviour of what they do at a trench line, or under fire, or whatever. It's one update but it has many different parts.

[@thencrranger5628]

How about Enlisted?

[@I_love_saab37_viggen]

Will this game have more tanks in the future?

[@doobs5342]

Yes and not just tanks, the west german Bundeswehr are planned.

[@robertkalinic335]

Houses are fake?

[@YOUPIMatin123]

Infantry should be able to hide

[@Fiztex553]

Glad to see it's moving forward. Lot's of work to do still though.

[@H3nry2077]

Infantry is a great addition to GHPC however, honestly I think for the sake of longevity it is important for them to add multiplayer (CO-OP) to the game.

[@CamdalftheGreat]

Multiplayer is at the very end of the road map. Personally I could care less about having multiplayer, especially PVP. It's very difficult to make that realistic and fun, and in GHPC I'm looking for realism. CO-OP would definitely be appreciated, but I'd rather see a finished game before that

[@H3nry2077]

@@CamdalftheGreat I agree, I personally dont care too much about MP either, and I definitely wouldnt mind this game not having PvP, however, I find that MP keeps people engaged in the game which is imporant.

[@CamdalftheGreat]

@@H3nry2077 currently playing the new infantry missions and they are amazing. I have a fairly old PC and this update has done wonders for my performance as well

[@vaonthegrind8613]

Geforce Now

[@xxxm981]

>doges the infantry Dude you cant run them over, the devs are chickens.

[@doobs5342]

You can but they resist valiantly. The devs meant its not really practical most of the time.

[@Skip.8221]

how does that make them chickens lol? you want them to stand still as a 40t beast rolls straight at them?

[@Kiwoeoe]

the dev of this game is so slow... Just give me an scenario editor already ffs

[@peteypyotr8158]

Absolute garbage game, and the Dev team is even worse.

[@magnusred2945]

Infantry can't survive any armored contact so I don't understand the point. I rather they put effort into the things the community wants like adding the AbramsX and the KF-51 Panther

[@chrip8614]

You know the game is set in the '80s right? Those tanks are way out of scope. Also infantry is still the centerpiece of battles, there has been no war where only tanks duke it out like war thunder

[@ruskibot7745]

Do you even own the game? Do you know anything about tank combat at all? Tanks mainly fight infantry, like 95% of the time.

[@etipsbellum771]

some infantry with RPG in building welcome you arrive

[@Enigma89]

Playing a tank without infantry makes tanking feel really sterile. Infantry, on their own, can force tanks to move. I think IL-2 GB Tanking is a great example of this. That game had no infantry, so there was no reason for tanks. The tank fights boiled down to a race to whoever could get the best position and then never move.

[@harryr2283]

top comment, thank you