Open beta-test for the Sudden Strike 3 Arms for Victory Free Addon

Open beta-test for the Sudden Strike 3 Arms for Victory Free Addon.

Open beta addon available on English, American, German and French languages.

Please send reports to ss3bugs@fireglowgames.com.

Download English version (343,1 Mb) here or here.
Download American version (335,4 Mb) here or here.
Download German version (343,3 Mb) here or here.
Download French version (343,3 Mb) here or here.

Please note that you need the original DVD of same language to play the addon missions.


Japanese, Russian, Italian, Polish and Czech versions will be available later.

About Sudden Strike 3 Arms for Victory

Sudden Strike 3: Arms for Victory is the latest instalment in the award-winning, critically acclaimed and hugely popular Sudden Strike series. It features historically authentic models built to scale, fully interactive giant maps and full 3-D state-of-the-art graphics in the popular Sudden Strike style. Only Sudden Strike plays like the 'real thing'. WW2 gaming at its best: on land, at sea and in the air!

Addon notes

Super-heavy tanks of the World War II from the Sudden Strike 3 Arms for Victory Free Addon

Leading video game developer and publisher, Fireglow Games, announce a new batch screenshots showing four super-heavy tanks from the World War II from the Sudden Strike 3 Arms for Victory Free Addon.

While looking for information on military equipment used during World War II, our game-designers found plans of titanic tank. For example, Panzerkampfwagen VIII Maus was a German super-heavy tank with about 188 tons weight and steel armour ranging from 60 to 240 mm.

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The Maus and other super-heavy tanks and SPGs did not have a chance to show themselves on the battlefield during warfare. To avoid historical collisions we have not added them to any of our maps. But we decided to give players a chance to experiment with those monsters by adding them to world editor. There, by creating your own missions, you will be able to answer the question whether those tanks could change the way of the war, if they were on the battlefield.

About Sudden Strike 3 - Arms for Victory -

Sudden Strike 3: Arms for Victory is the latest instalment in the award-winning, critically acclaimed and hugely popular Sudden Strike series. It features historically authentic models built to scale, fully interactive giant maps and full 3-D state-of-the-art graphics in the popular Sudden Strike style. Only Sudden Strike plays like the 'real thing'. WW2 gaming at its best: on land, at sea and in the air!

Features:

• Fully interactive landscape (all objects can be destroyed, all buildings and pillboxes can be used as shelter)
• Massive operations on big maps, strategic scale of the maps (front line can be a few kilometres long)
• Thousands of units fighting in real time
• More than 300 tanks, ships, soldiers, guns and planes with original weapons built to scale
• Great sounds, 5.1 supported, nations speak native languages
• New feature - advanced Micro AI-behaviour allows your troops to act exactly as you plan
• Joint naval and ground operations, air raids, artillery strikes etc.
• State-of-the-art technology to render 3D landscape, realistic lines of sight and fire
• Spectacular visual & lighting effects
• Multiplayer mode: up to 8 players, GameSpy supported
• Five campaigns playable for American, British, German, Japanese and Soviet sides

New British tanks in Free Sudden Strike 3 Arms for Victory addon

Fireglow Games presents a pack of screenshots showing new British tanks: Sexton, Deacon, Bishop and Archer in the FREE addon for Sudden Strike 3 - Arms for Victory.

Sexton

Deacon

Bishop

Archer

New German units in the free addon for Sudden Strike 3 Arms for Victory

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Leading video game developer and publisher, Fireglow Games, presents a pack of screenshots showing new German Jagdpanther, Jagdtiger, StuG IIIg in the free addon for Sudden Strike 3 Arms for Victory.

Screenshots from Sudden Strike 3 - Arms for Victory - Addon

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Leading video game developer and publisher, Fireglow Games, today announces a new batch screenshots showing a new French units from Sudden Strike 3 - Arms for Victory - Addon.

Sudden Strike 3 - Arms for Victory - Addon will be available for Free at the end of May

About Sudden Strike 3: Arms for Victory:

Sudden Strike 3: Arms for Victory is the latest instalment in the award-winning, critically acclaimed and hugely popular Sudden Strike series. It features historically authentic models built to scale, fully interactive giant maps and full 3-D state-of-the-art graphics in the popular Sudden Strike style. Only Sudden Strike plays like the 'real thing'. WW2 gaming at its best: on land, at sea and in the air!

Features:

• Fully interactive landscape (all objects can be destroyed, all buildings and pillboxes can be used as shelter)
  
• Massive operations on big maps, strategic scale of the maps (front line can be a few kilometres long)
  
• Thousands of units fighting in real time
  
• More than 300 tanks, ships, soldiers, guns and planes with original weapons built to scale
  
• Great sounds, 5.1 supported, nations speak native languages
  
• New feature - advanced Micro AI-behaviour allows your troops to act exactly as you plan
  
• Joint naval and ground operations, air raids, artillery strikes etc.
  
• State-of-the-art technology to render 3D landscape, realistic lines of sight and fire
  
• Spectacular visual & lighting effects
  
• Multiplayer mode: up to 8 players, GameSpy supported
  
• Five campaigns playable for American, British, German, Japanese and Soviet sides
  

SuddenStrikeNet - new multiplayer interface for Sudden Strike 3 Arms for Victory

Leading video game developer and publisher, Fireglow Games, today announces "SuddenStrikeNet" - a new multiplayer interface. New user interface was added in the addon to ease searching for multiplayer games. Now you don't need any third party applications (GameSpy) to create, find and join the game. Currently it is in closed final beta-testing stage.

New settings were added to multiplayer game creation interface, such as:
Random color - setting this option "ON" prevents all players from changing their color. The colors will be assigned automatically, with red, yellow, brown and orange colors go to the red team while all others - to the blue one.
Capture time - flags capture time.
Capture period - periodical reinforcements' interval.
Disable howitzers - disables howitzers in reinforcements.

About Sudden Strike 3: Arms for Victory:

Sudden Strike 3: Arms for Victory is the latest instalment in the award-winning, critically acclaimed and hugely popular Sudden Strike series. It features historically authentic models built to scale, fully interactive giant maps and full 3-D state-of-the-art graphics in the popular Sudden Strike style. Only Sudden Strike plays like the 'real thing'. WW2 gaming at its best: on land, at sea and in the air!

Features:

• Fully interactive landscape (all objects can be destroyed, all buildings and pillboxes can be used as shelter)
• Massive operations on big maps, strategic scale of the maps (front line can be a few kilometres long)
• Thousands of units fighting in real time
• More than 300 tanks, ships, soldiers, guns and planes with original weapons built to scale
• Great sounds, 5.1 supported, nations speak native languages
• New feature - advanced Micro AI-behaviour allows your troops to act exactly as you plan
• Joint naval and ground operations, air raids, artillery strikes etc.
• State-of-the-art technology to render 3D landscape, realistic lines of sight and fire
• Spectacular visual & lighting effects
• Multiplayer mode: up to 8 players, GameSpy supported
• Five campaigns playable for American, British, German, Japanese and Soviet sides

New realistic damage model for Sudden Strike 3 - Arms for Victory

Leading video game developer and publisher, Fireglow Games™, today announces a new realistic damage model for Sudden Strike3:Arms for Victory. We have also checked and corrected units' characteristics such as tower rotation speed, rate of fire, number of crew and ammunition. They are more correct from the historical point of view now.

The trailer showing a new realistic damage model for Sudden Strike 3 Arms for Victory is now available for download here:
http://static2.suddenstrike.com/SS3_Damage_Model.avi
http://static4.suddenstrike.com/SS3_Damage_Model.avi

With release of the addon, damage model in Sudden Strike 3 Arms for Victory will take into account the following factors:

Object durability (wood, stone, concrete):

Based on visual appearance of an object, (the material which it was built from), we can estimate overall toughness of the object. Concrete is the strongest material of the game. To destroy concrete bunker a howitzer of large caliber is required. After brick and stone buildings go, then wooden constructions. Wooden buildings can be destroyed by the microcaliber artillery and flame throwers.

Armor slope:

We have collected historical data about all armored forces. Not only armor thickness is taken into account, but also armor slope. When hit in the armored part of object at a high angle, the bigger power of shell is required to break it. Sometimes, shells with insufficient power simply ricochet, and do not damage the object at all.

Types of shells:

The following types of shells are implemented in the game: armor-piercing, subcalibre, high-explosive, cumulative and incendiary. All shells have historical characteristics depending on the weapon firing , and have a penetration ability corresponding to values taken from the penetration tables.

The armor penetration and damage of internal object's structures:

If an armor piercing or subcalibre shell breaks through armor, it has a chance to destroy internal structure of the object in the point of the hit. For example, if a shell hits a thread, tank will be immobilized. Hits to the tower inflict damage to the tank's crew. Another example are the flamethrowers. They virtually couldn't damage a tank, but hitting an SPG or tank with open gun turret, destroys it's crew with ease.

About Sudden Strike 3 - Arms for Victory:
Sudden Strike 3: Arms for Victory is the latest instalment in the award-winning, critically acclaimed and hugely popular Sudden Strike series. It features historically authentic models built to scale, fully interactive giant maps and full 3-D state-of-the-art graphics in the popular Sudden Strike style. Only Sudden Strike plays like the 'real thing'. WW2 gaming at its best: on land, at sea and in the air!

Features:

• Fully interactive landscape (all objects can be destroyed, all buildings and pillboxes can be used as shelter)
• Massive operations on big maps, strategic scale of the maps (front line can be a few kilometres long)
• Thousands of units fighting in real time
• More than 300 tanks, ships, soldiers, guns and planes with original weapons built to scale
• Great sounds, 5.1 supported, nations speak native languages
• New feature - advanced Micro AI-behaviour allows your troops to act exactly as you plan
• Joint naval and ground operations, air raids, artillery strikes etc.
• State-of-the-art technology to render 3D landscape, realistic lines of sight and fire
• Spectacular visual & lighting effects
• Multiplayer mode: up to 8 players, GameSpy supported
• Five campaigns playable for American, British, German, Japanese and Soviet sides

SUDDEN STRIKE 3: ARMS FOR VICTORY Fact Sheet

Tanks roll. 

soldiers march. 

Battleships bristle. 

Planes thunder high above the battlefield, where untold legions lie wounded or dying. World War II has arrived, and only you can turn the tide in Sudden Strike 3: Arms for Victory, the latest in the multimillion-selling line of award-winning real-time strategy games, which brings history’s most storied conflicts to stunning life right on your desktop.



Sudden Strike 3 features an all-new fully 3D engine optimized for strategy games, new campaigns, massive battles, and historically modeled units that are rendered in accurate relative scale – from a wide assortment of infantry types to massive battleships and aircraft carriers – along with significantly expanded gameplay so players can wage war across a variety of terrains and environments. A new interface reduces complexity, while the addition of hundreds of new unit types (including prototype units) and new combat options (naval operations, coastal defenses and more) will offer the player an exciting and challenging strategy experience.

Key features

• Massive Scale – Watch thousands of historical and prototype units clash atop gigantic maps
  
• Explosive Action – Cutting-edge 3D engine delivers unprecedented combat detail
  
• Total Control – Intuitive user interface lets you jump right in and relive World War II’s greatest battles
  
• Real-World Tactics – Outfox hyper-intelligent enemies by air, land or sea
  
• Multiple Campaigns – Fight as the Allies or Germans in Europe, turn the tide at Iwo Jima or spearhead assaults on the USSR
  

The information contained in this fact sheet relates to a prerelease product that may be substantially modified before its first commercial release. Accordingly, the information may not accurately describe or reflect the product when first commercially released. This fact sheet is provided for informational purposes only, and CDV Software Entertainment makes no warranties, express or implied, with respect to the fact sheet or the information contained in it.

Sudden Strike 3 Arms For Victory PC video game Patch released

Fireglow Games Publishing releases a small yet pleasant pack (97,5 Mb) consisting of two multiplayer maps (all control points can be captured only one time) and a single-player mission. The pack (97,5 Mb) also contains a patch with numerous improvements and bug fixes.

Description of the maps:

Tongs - This peculiar map contains a large island in the middle. It can be played by 2 to 6 people. There are 5 bridges on the map and a lot of flags to fight for.

Elimination - This map features kill-em-all style on a flat map.

Untermehmen VII "C" - This hardcore single mission features the old good Sudden Strike play. You have limited amount of reinforcements ... and the enemy has much more. You will like it.
This pack requires the original Sudden Strike 3 Arms for Victory DVD.

About Sudden Strike 3: Arms for Victory:
Sudden Strike 3: Arms for Victory is the latest installment in the award-winning, critically acclaimed and hugely popular Sudden Strike series. It features historically authentic models built to scale, fully interactive giant maps and full 3-D state-of-the-art graphics in the popular Sudden Strike style. Only Sudden Strike plays like the 'real thing'. WW2 gaming at its best: on land, at sea and in the air!

Features:

• Fully interactive landscape (all objects can be destroyed, all buildings and pillboxes can be used as shelter)


• Massive operations on big maps, strategic scale of the maps (front line can be a few kilometres long)


• Thousands of units fighting in real time


• More than 300 tanks, ships, soldiers, guns and planes with original weapons built to scale


• Great sounds, 5.1 supported, nations speak native languages


• New feature - advanced Micro AI-behaviour allows your troops to act exactly as you plan


• Joint naval and ground operations, air raids, artillery strikes etc.


• State-of-the-art technology to render 3D landscape, realistic lines of sight and fire


• Spectacular visual & lighting effects


• Multiplayer mode: up to 8 players, GameSpy® supported


• Five campaigns playable for American, British, German, Japanese and Soviet sides

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