New Capturing Mechanic: tug-Of-War

Capturing facilities in WWII Online is crucial to game play because it is the intersection between our First-Person Shooter and Strategic layers. It has been a lifetime it feels like since any attention was paid to it, other than modifying capture timers to help offset population imbalances and give the underdogs a fighting chance. That is, until now.

Coming soon to WWII Online (our next update to be exact) capturing will no longer exclusively favor having an attacker inside of a CP (capture point), rather the defenders will have the opportunity to contest or, "halt," capturing or even liberate facilities with attackers present inside.

HOW IT WILL WORK

• If the numbers are equal (1:1), then capturing will be halted at the current percentage of wherever it left off.

• If the numbers are +1 in either direction, capturing will resume in favor of whoever has that majority.

• Their capture speed will correspond with the total number of people above equal.

  • Example: If underpop has 4 players, and overpop has 3, then the capture speed will be 1 player in favor of underpop.

• Their capture speed will also consider the current imbalance at play. So if the current game balance is significant, the underpops capture speed will continue to be faster for them, and the overpop capture speed will continue to be at that slower rate.

  • In other words, this is the existing logic, the key point in mentioning this is to confirm that this will continue to play a role in capturing.

  
  

Here are some examples of where capturing will occur, Blue = your side (defenders in this case), Red = opposing side (attackers in this case):

• 1 | 1 = Contested (hold capture %)

• 2 | 1 = Capture at the rate of 1 person in favor of defenders.

• 1 | 2 = Capture at the rate of 1 person in favor of attackers.

• 3 | 1 = Capture at the rate of 2 people in favor of defenders.

• 1 | 5 = Capture at the rate of 4 people in favor of attackers.

• 5 | 5 = Contested / no capture / hold last known %.

OPTIMIZING CAPTURE FEEDBACK

Real-time information is important in these critical tactical scenarios. Pay close attention to the heads-up display (HUD) at the bottom right, you should notice some good improvements which provide instantaneous feedback across all capture positions.

We fixed a bug where "Enemy is Capturing" and "Friendlies Capturing" were intermittently working, now it performs correctly, always.

We also made your progress bar always show your side in Blue, and the enemy always in Red, so you can easily visualize the current state of things. Using $here command will also continue to show that information.

Here you can see what capturing looks like from your perspective, when no defenders are present.

Here you can see capturing cannot continue and is halted in position, because the number of defenders present is equal to the attacker numbers.

The enemy numbers are greater than yours, therefore the enemy is capturing. Take note of the progress bar, Blue will now always be YOUR side/friendly color. Red is always the enemy/opposing color (in all conditions).

In this case an Allied soldier is outnumbered, and you can see as the facility owner his capture bar is mostly blue, denoting friendly ownership at that time.

This is a 2025 roadmap delivery item that has received a bit more treatment than originally scheduled. Our hope is that all of this feedback helps our players in those tactical situations have greater situational awareness, and to observe stronger fights with the opportunity to contest those positions, resulting into exciting tug-of-war type game play that is high stakes.

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