Developer Diary: Shadow Protocol Changes

Commanders!

It’s been some time since the announcement of the Shadow Protocol Battle Path, currently bound to appear in early April. We also discussed the upcoming vehicles and prizes but the thing is, we made some adjustments since the initial announcement. Let’s take a look at them.

First, the KNIFV NLOS LPS. Based on our testing, this vehicle required only minor changes compared to the first version. One thing we did, however, is adjust the missile lock time (reduced for single launches from 3.5s to 3s between missiles) and trajectory to become more practical. The vehicle also had a long spotting range, which we reduced to 390m. Overall, despite its somewhat wacky look, the vehicle is highly viable.

Secondly there’s the Borsuk. The biggest question about this vehicle was its ability’s rate of repair. The current setting is 30 hitpoints per second.

We have also rebalanced the vehicle’s frontal protection (it’ll be better protected from kinetic rounds and less from HEAT rounds and ATGMs), improved the missile reload time and increased the rate of fire.

And, finally, there’s the T-64BV Mod.2022. The big thing here is the frontal armor buff, which the T-64BV Mod.2017 is also getting. The upper frontal plate armor is becoming more durable for both vehicles.

Other than that there were minor issues – we buffed the Kombat gun-launched guided missile on the T-64BV and the Oplot (increased penetration by 25mm, higher non-penetration damage) and reduced the hitpoints from 2800 to 2600 (the same amount the T-64BV Mod.2017 has as they are essentially identical vehicles).

And one last thing – you were asking about the contents of the Mercenary Loot Crate. They are here:

And that’s about it, commanders. We are looking forward to your feedback and, as always:

See you on the battlefield!