Total World in Conflict

MassGate have released the 009 patch, this is a hotfix to update 8 for World in Conflict.

- Fixed a bug where the Special Abilities buttons stopped responding to mouse clicks.

- Fixed a bug that increased the loading times before map cycles.

Download the hotfix from the in game downloader or from here.

Source

The No Hope Mod has been released. The storyline is different but simple while the new TA's and Units are impressing and many!

No Hope: The Russians have found out that America's starwars program was bogus.
Russia has authorized the use of ICBMs. Will anyone survive?

Some of the new units
Heavy Squad- 1 Sniper, 4 AT troops, and 3
AA troops. Special ability- artillery
SADM Commando- This troop is deadly on his own. He's
armed with machine gun and a modified nade launcher that u can force fire onto
the ground. His best weapon is a small nuke charge that can be remote detonated.
T72 Tank- better
at dealing with other tanks than the T62 and has a fragmentation round for its
special ability that is good against infantry.
Challenger Tank- similar to the above unit,
but packs more of a punch to deal with the Russian Horde
Abrams Tank- split
into two variants, the M1, which is still a good heavy tank for its price and
the M1A1, which has an improved gun and sights, plus uses frag rounds for its
special ability.

Some of the new Tactical Aids
MIRV- launches multiple auto-taragetting nuke warheads.
This TA sets up a huge kill box, 1 km by 0.5km that targets only enemy units
within that area. To deploy it, use it like u would carpet bombing.
Precision Bombing-
B52 or Bear Bomber launches multiple homing cruise missiles.
Rain of Fire-
available only to the Americans; A dirty nuke detonates high in the atmosphere
and rains radioactive fallout over a large area.
Nuke Bomber- available only to the USSR.
Bear Bomber drops a small Nuke.
MOAB- available only to NATO (it really should be a US
TA, so I may swap this one with Rain of Fire later). 50% bigger than a Daisey
Cutter.
H-Bomb-
NATO-here's ur destroy everything on the map TA, huge mushroom cloud and
fireball. Bomb dropped out of c130.

To read the full announcement and download the mod go here.

A new Q&A about the upcoming expansion pack for World in Conflict, Soviet Assault, has been released by Massive. It addresses numerous questions that have been on all our minds. Here is an excerpt:

Will the 360 version have a map maker tool? (You don't want Halo Wars to be the first console RTS with a map maker, right?)
This is one of those things that would’ve been cool to include, but it would’ve required us to develop completely new tools. As always with game development, we’ve had to prioritise all the things we wanted to do, and the console map tools were unfortunately pushed down by other things.

Is Virginia going to be featured in the next WIC?
No, it’s reserved as a free PC multiplayer-only download.

Voice recognition is and will be one of the coolest things to play with and develop in near future... However, accents can be hard... Will SA recognize Bosnian accent? Can you please shout few SA orders in your reply? Will one of the orders include word NAAB?
We’re putting a lot of effort into making the voice recognition as accessible as possible, and that includes the recognition of different accents. “Naab”, “pwned” and “omg”, on the other hand, will trigger an instant self-destruction mechanism that eliminates all of your units and TA points. Also, TACTICAL NUKE and CARPET BOMB!

Will PC and console players be able to play together?
We looked at including a feature like this, at least so Xbox Live players could play against Windows Live PC players, but we realised that the different control schemes didn’t fit very well cross-platform. So, nope, there’s no cross-platform playing.

Be sure to read the whole segment here.

The winner of the World in Conflict screenshot contest has been announced as [EQeS]HomerJay! There was a very large number of submissions, so be sure to follow the link below to see them all. The winning screenshot is below.


Click here to see the rest of the gallery.

Black Hawk Down is a mod for Massive Entertainment's game World in Conflict that add new units and tactical aids, as well as improves on existing units to recreate the events of Operation Gothic Serpent and the Battle of Mogadishu. Take a look at just a few of the added features:

Tactical Aids:
US

* AC-130 Spectre Gunship: targets enemy infantry, vehicles, and structures with 2x20mm Gatling guns, 1x40mm Bofors cannon, and 1x105mm Howitzer
* Pararescue Jumper: Trained to rescue downed pilots in dangerous territory, 8 man squad (inc. 3 PJ's and 5 Operators), heals infantry very quickly and can deploy smoke grenades
* JSOW (Joint Stand-off Weapon): Launches JSOW missile which splits into approx. 250 individually guided submunitions. Extremely effective against infantry and armor.
* CSAR (Combat Search and Rescue): Good against vehicles, air units and infantry, airdrops PJ's to heal wounded troops under smokescreen cover.

Read the entire changelog and find more information on the mod here.

Although this mod is still officially in beta, the team has opened it up for public testing. Be sure to grab the map pack as well when downloading.

Massive has announced a new contest with the grand prize of a retail copy of the soon-to-be-released World in Conflict: Soviet Assault. This contest should be of special interest to TGN users... Take a look:

Now is your chance to share your thoughts on World in Conflict with all other players in the community. You participate by sending in photos along with a motivational/de-motivational text that you think captures the essence of the image in a humorous and witty way.

As this is the motivational/de-motivational poster contest, you will have to edit your picture to look like an actual poster.

Read the entire announcement here.

Take your experience from the Oh Say Can U C thread and put on a good showing in this groundbreaking Motivational Poster Contest. Here are some examples to get you started:

IGN has posted up the very first in-game footage from World in Conflict: Soviet Assault. Check it out below:

Massive Entertainment has released the newest patch for their popular RTS World in Conflict. You can download it automatically online or from the link provided below. Take a look:

This eighth update for World in Conflict fixes balancing and bug issues and introduces some new features, like improved in-game voting, new ignore functions and improved network code stability. There are also several additions to Massgate, including new banners and new explanatory texts for missing content.

New features:
- Improved in-game vote system.
- Special Ability icons now show the number of selected units ready to fire.
- Extrapolation added to the network code. This should decrease lag caused by high packet loss. To disable extrapolation, append “-noextrapolation” (without the quotes) to the target path of the WIC shortcut.
- Expanded the ignore functionality on Massgate to cover clan challenges and chat rooms.
- Unit shields will now always be enlarged on mouseover regardless of selected unit.
- Unit movement arrows are now more visible on the Megamap.
- Added a hyperlink pop-up when the client is missing map or mod content.
- Remote admins can now switch a ranked server to unranked and back.
- Added explanatory text to the abuse report window.
- Added Massgate banner.

To read the entire change log for this latest patch, click here.

Massive Entertainment has released their weekly update on the map making contest currently going on. Here's what they had to say:

Massive has released the complete road system from the map Riviera to facilitate for map makers who have problems with their roads and need some inspiration.

There’s a new trailer out for one of the maps in the competition, with great music:

For all the latest updates on the map making contest, be sure to visit here.