The Cold War Era
First official FAQ for Arms Race
http://steamcommunity.com/app/583590/discussions/0/135514376585265353/
First Arms Race game test play video
https://youtu.be/0nEu1X0cOeo
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We are happy to inform that The Cold War Era is on summer sale right now with super crazy discount of 20%! We have received the top secret intelligence information from CIA that this is the only discount for this game scheduled for 2017. If you waited for the discount on TCWE now is the best time to get it!
The Cold War Era isn't over, it's just beginning!
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Arms Race, May update, part 2
Arms Race, May update, part 1
Read it in Arms Race community hub - http://steamcommunity.com/games/583590/announcements/detail/1291815558680625155
April update - first AAR for Arms Race
Also, this AAR is going to be great example to introduce you two new in game features - Global Influence effect and Global Consequences features.
So, let's start. I'm going to play as Brezhnev ( I love this guy! He is so funny to me ), in Historic mode. Historic mode means my opponent leaders will be changed in historical sequence ( not sandbox ). In the picture below you can see Brezhnev has Diplomatic suit. Brezhnev and his Diplo suit provides me with unique bonuses listed below the leader picture.
The game starts in 1950. USA-USSR score is 22 to 22 and budget is 2500 to 2500. Global influence 1301 to 1301 ( 50% to 50% ). The bigger the global influence of the leader, the bigger the Firepower bonus will be when that leader authorises a fight. All other screenshots will be taken in December at the end of each decade. You will be able to see and compare how my game has changed from one decade to another. I will avoid graphs and statistics and show you the screens with Global Consequences only. In this decade I will face militaristic Truman.
And now, let us see how the decade has changed the Soviet Union. As you can see I'm leading in Global Influence. It's 1834, 57% which provides me additional +10 Firepower to my military. It saved me lot of military resources in the past wars. Unfortunately for me, Truman managed to win different wars on the globe and our score is still even - 26 to 26. Truman was a tough guy! Luckily for me three of six global consequences events were in my favor and only one for USA.
Now we move to the 60's, where the United States have elected John F Kennedy, an economic leader, as their President. I was leading in global influence and my highest pick was around 64% ( +15 Firepower ). My budget is much bigger compared to America and it's around 6000 but Kennedy managed to go over me in one score point and it's 30 to 29 now. Luckily for me the Prague Spring global consequence event didn't happen in United States favor! I could have lost 3 score points and 300 budget wealth if Prague Spring happened in the United States favour.
In the 70's the United States have elected Richard Nixon, a diplomatic leader. It was the worse decade for the Soviets. Nixon managed to have a bigger lead in scores with 39-32, however the Soviet Union was leading in global influence and wealth. It was really hard to fight America during this decade. They had built up their military and I lost some wars just because I had no military to participate in proxy wars vs Americans.
In the 80's, the United States elected Ronald Reagan, a diplomatic leader. Reagan pressured really hard on me! He managed to keep America leading in the scores with 41-39. I got only one global consequence event to my favor which brings me an additional +10 Firepower bonus and it helped me to prevent global American military expansion. My superiority in budget helped me to keep my dominance in global influence at level of 58%
In the last in-game decade, I was struggling vs Reagan again. Americans gave up their leadership in scores only because I managed to influence Australia and India to join the Soviet bloc. It took me a really long time to do so. Both countries provided me with 3 scores ( 6 in total ). If not Australia and India I'd lost 42 to 39. Americans significantly improved their budget because of "Reorganization of oil market" event but "Crisis of the elites" pulled them down again.
My game lasted for about 1 hour 50 minutes. Play time flies really fast and is incredibly enjoyable! It was a really fun game, full of action and unpredictable surprises.
The game is going to be released in September 2017! Stay tuned for more news about Amrs Race in Steam.
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Arms Race developing - March update
We are very happy to inform you that we almost finished our work for new AI designing. The change from original TCWE game and Arms Race for AI is significant! It's like if you compare the speed of run of turtle and a tiger. Armc Race has a lot of new features and I'm happy to say AI handles all it very well. It's smart and agressive, you will enjoy playing it, I promiss! Here is screenshot from my latest test game. I didn't play it and let USA AI to do whatever it wants. The result is on the screen.
Stay tuned for me news soon!
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Arms Race developing - February update.
Hello Everybody!
I'm happy to inform you that developing of new military game mechanic is completed. It was developed and tested. It works perfectly.
Here is screenshot of military units-techs menu. This is real ARMS RACE! I tried to use the best 11 military units of Air, ground and NAVY for both factions during Cold War. You will be able to develop it from 1950 to 2000 based on your investment in each. What military units you think really should be among the best 11 of Cold War for USA and USSR?
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Arms Race January news
If you take a look on screenshot below you can see blue and red lines of GNP. The screenshot was taking from my test game I played this morning. I was playing as USSR and my line is red. I decided to go for many investments right away and this why my GNP is smaller compare to blue. AI invested less and it's GNP was growing faster. But the most impressive part is that AI has a good feel about it's GNP. You can see when blue GNP goes down AI is trying to avoid investments to different sectors and aim on GNP improvement. You can see after blue GDP goes down AI has fixed it spending and kept GNP growing. This what we were doing last month - creating absolutely functional economy system and teaching AI how to use it. Now it works and we full ahead to work on other game mechanics!
Story about The Cold War Era game features and upcoming sequel - Arms Race
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