We’ll be rolling out some significant changes to the spy functions in Call of War. After listening to your feedback and carefully analyzing gameplay data, we are looking to improve the experience of spying and being spied upon!
Spy actions are among the most powerful tool’s at a General’s disposal. After all, knowing your enemy’s weak points is more powerful than the most advanced technology or biggest army stack. But this also means they can become a big source of frustration for the player on the receiving end. Therefore we’ll be implementing the following changes on tuesday:
Disabling "Disrupt Economy"
Rationale: This action sees minimal use and doesn't significantly impact gameplay dynamics.
Disabling "Decrease Morale"
Rationale: Experienced players choose "Sabotage Building" for consistent results, making this action redundant.
Gameplay Impact: This function disrupts gameplay in a non-engaging way, as it shifts control of the revolting province randomly, making it less strategic.
Disabling "Reveal Country's Armies"
Rationale: This feature is too powerful, allowing players to allocate resources and units too efficiently along their entire frontline.
Gameplay Impact: We want to avoid unsatisfactory gameplay where one player is being “farmed” as their opponent has perfect knowledge of their armies movements.
Technical Impact: This feature can cause performance issues on larger maps.
We also understand that these changes will affect your strategies. As this is a crucial change to one of the core mechanics of the game, we’ll be closely monitoring the impact. This is an initial test phase, and we will implement additional changes as needed. We encourage you to share your thoughts with us on our Discord server. Your insights are invaluable in making Espionage more enjoyable!
We are eagerly looking forward to your tales from the battlefield, and how the new rebalanced spy actions have changed your experience. Happy Sabotaging!
Your Bytro Team
Capital Rush
Attention, Generals!
To kill a beast, you aim for its head. The key to victory lies in crushing the morale of the enemy! Why waste resources to occupy an entire country, when you can demoralize and defeat the opponent by conquering its center of power - the capital?
Join our brand-new Capital Rush event this weekend and fight for world domination with 99 other players! To win this event you will need to seize control over enough enemy capitals before any of your rivals do. Strike now and conquer the world!
Event Details:
Player count: 100 2x speed Starts immediately Free country selection Free for all (No teams) Point of Interest (POI) feature activated 30 POIs to win the map No AI peace period
If you want to participate in this event, simply go to the game list: Within the sign-up period new event rounds will be created on demand and shown on top of the list of new games.
Your Bytro team
Arms Race
Attention, Generals!
The race to victory is about to begin as our “Arms Race” event returns!
Your nation is mobilized, your economy is set up for war, infantry units are deployed to protect the countryside and the finest of your troops are gathered in urban centers across the country!
It is time for you to make the first move and face the enemy!
Player count: 50
2x speed
Starts immediately
Random country selection
Players flagged as inactive after 48 real-life hours
Fixed runtime of 28 real life days after the game started (if not won earlier)
During the sign-up period you can find the event maps at the top of the games list. Join these event maps to participate. We wish you good luck and much fun!
Your Call of War Team
Balancing Changes
Attention, General!
This buff is showing love to the big guys! Heavy tanks are getting a slight speed buff to make them more mobile on the battlefield. At the same time we are increasing their Hitpoints, making Heavy Tanks a good choice for all out assaults on your opponent’s strongholds. Further we are adjusting the Tank Destroyers, giving them a slight upgrade on their damage values, and introducing the missing terrain modifiers that were supposed to be introduced with the last balancing update. This makes showdowns with hostile tank stacks all the more exciting!
Further we cleaned up some annoying bugs. Misattributed kills are no more! Now the kill credit will always go to the unit in the army stack that dealt the highest amount of damage. Floating tooltips in the tutorial now appear in the correct location. And event and scenario images in the main menu overview are no longer displayed in the wrong aspect ratio. Enjoy them again in all of their glory!
For a complete overview of this update, please check out the detailed Release Notes and share your feedback with us on the Forums and our Discord Server.
Best of luck General!
Your Bytro Team
Dawn of the Patriot
Attention Generals!
Rewrite history by either saving or conquering the American heartland in our Dawn of the Patriot event!
In this exciting scenario the Axis won the war and established colonial empires in North America. While Japan exploits the west the Germans claimed the eastern shores of the former Land of the Free. But resistance is growing in the heartland of the fallen states and patriots are reclaiming the heritage of the Founding Fathers.
Liberate the United States from foreign occupation or defeat the uprising patriots in the center of the North American continent in this alternative history scenario!
Player count: 30
3 Teams with 10 players each
starts-when-full
free team selection
random country selection
24h peace period
During the sign-up period the event maps can be found at the top of the games list. Join these event maps to participate. We wish you good luck and much fun!
Your Bytro Team
Swift Strike
During the Swift Strike event everything comes down to the wire. Find the right strategy, allocate your resources in the best possible way, ally with the right powers and do all of it FAST! In this event time can be your biggest ally or your biggest enemy! To win you have to be swift like a Luchs tank! There is no time in battle!
Settings for this special event:
Player count: 22
10x speed
Starts immediately
Free country selection
Players flagged as inactive after 1 real life day
No AI peace period
Fixed runtime of 4 real life days after the game started (if not won earlier)
If you want to participate in this event simply go to the game list: Within the sign-up period new event rounds will be created on demand and shown on top of the list of new games. As soon as the map has started you will receive a notification to your inbox.
Your Bytro team
Team Up!
Attention, Generals!
Some battles are not meant to be fought alone and our next event is one of them. Join the 100-player map and choose which of the two sides will benefit from your knowledge as a leader and tactician. Prepare for the biggest team fight in the history of Call of War.
Player count: 100
Starts-when-full
Random country selection & free selection among 2 teams
Players flagged as inactive after 2 real-life days
AI & human player peace period of 1 real-life day
fixed runtime of 28 real-life days after the game started (if not won earlier)
During the sign-up period, the event maps can be found at the top of the games list. Join this event map to participate. We wish you good luck and much fun!
Your Bytro Team
All Countries: All In! - 4x Speed
Attention, generals!
Did you ever want to take the reigns of the smaller nations that participated in World War 2? Now is the time, because according to the motto ‘all countries, all-in’ you can choose any historical nation that existed in 1939 in this Event.
Try to grow a small country into a big empire or pick an established superpower and surround yourself with allies. Recreate history or conquer the whole world in this historical battle scenario!
Event Details:
Historical world map with borders of 1939
73 players: Every nation of 1939 playable
No AI countries
Free country selection
Starts immediately
Starting conditions are balanced historically
4x speed
Fixed runtime of 14 real-life days after the game started (if not won earlier)
During the sign-up period, the event maps can be found at the top of the games list. Join this event map to participate. We wish you good luck and much fun!
Your Bytro team
Operation Supremacy
Dear Generals,
Victory on this map is not achieved by simple conquest, in order to win you have to secure 13 of 25 Control Points scattered across the world map. Only one player will win the huge gold reward in the end, so use your wits and plan your strategy wisely to have a chance in this demanding event!
Event Details:
Dominion world map with 99 players
All provinces conquerable
Hold 13 of 25 Control Points for 4 ingame days to win
Winner receives 50,000 Gold
No coalitions
Starts immediately
random country selection
AI & human player peace period of 12 real-life hours
2x speed
fixed runtime of 28 real life days after the game started (if not won earlier)
During the sign-up period the event maps can be found at the top of the games list. Join these event maps to participate. We wish you good luck and much fun!
Your Bytro team
Free For All - Speed Event
Generals!
In this week's event you'll only be able to rely on your own wits and skills to emerge victorious. Doing so in the regular Free For All event is already quite a challenging task, but doing so at increased game speed is truly a feat achievable by only the most competent of strategists.
In a 100p map with the ‘anonymous round’ feature enabled and no coalitions, you will be pitted against 99 other players in a struggle for survival. The event maps will start immediately after their creation with random country selection enabled and will run at 4x speed. Should no single competitor conquer the required amount of victory points before the time is up, the player with the highest total of victory points is declared the winner, earning not only a generous victory reward, but also the right to declare themselves to be amongst the best of the best.
