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Not going to disagree or agree with your post here. Instead I just wanted to chime in with a few extra notes that will hopefully inform you guys a bit more. It would suck for us if players never bothered choosing the vehicle (like the mortar tank) but that is your right!

• The Colonial ATAC is not just an ATR mounted in the turret. The rate of fire and stability-gain is higher. Just like its handheld counterpart, the gunner will still need to control their bursts for maximal accuracy. But a daring crew might be able to get you in range of your target to utilize its full rate of fire and really chew them up.

• Open top is a theming choice. Right now we feel that the Colonials are a faction that would utilize their lighter vehicles more aggressively, which means more exposed tops to give the crew a wider view of the field. The wardens will get their own selection of open-topped vehicles as well, but only where their mechanical engineers might feel they ca...

We're getting a few reports of players saying they're receiving this error inappropriately. Do not worry. Our tracking of actual alt accounts is more sophisticated than the system that triggers that popup. You are safe to continue playing despite the error.

You might be able to remove the error by validating your steam files (Right click Foxhole > Properties > Local > Validate steam cache).

If that doesn't work for you try uninstalling and reinstalling foxhole, or simply wait. We are in the midst of trying to narrow down the issue so that the warning is more selective.

Surprise Mechanics

All of the visual and sound fx you saw in the demo videos were placeholder. We'll get em sounding nice.
Pretty much all the vehicle sfx will be redone for the new driving as well.

For the record, because there's some confusion in the comments, this isn't official, it's fan-made. But very cool!

I believe this is a side-effect of the engine upgrade this update, no font was intentionally updated. We've got it on our list. Sorry if it caused any issues for you.

It's cool to see stories like this. :)

Great work!

Yeah. I mean. I think I can speak for the entire art team when I say we try to make the game look as good as possible. I'm sure it works. But doing it officially is just a bit different than using the glitch.

I think it's in the cards to make a working skybox (which is the biggest problem out of the box) but because it'd need to be tied into the day/night cycle, that does change the complexity of it.

To piggyback off of Adam here, I'll also add that it's that everything is designed to be top-down. The world design wouldn't look 'correct' from a first-person perspective. There's a couple of level design terms I like to use. One is called signposting (using objects to lead the player around the space), and the other is sightlines (designing terrain in a way so that from every position, the player can see somewhere important they can go.) Most open-world games use a combination of sightlines and 'breadcrumb trail' signposting to design their spaces in a way that feels easy to understand yet believable.

In Foxhole, we use a technique I refer to as lateral signposting. Because most of our game is viewed on a single plane, the world is designed so it makes sense from that perspective. Especially since sightlines aren't an asset we can take advantage of.

In addition to the issues Adam mentioned, buildings are also skewed in size to simply look better from top-down with...

Fear not, that sound is on my to-do list.

Few things about this.One: It's not meant to pack NEARLY the amount of punch as a BAR. It's essentially a prototype assault rifle. (compare it to the LMG)

Two: The sounds for it are built off of source files recorded from an AK-47 from 12 different mics.

Three: It's one of the older gun-sounds in the game now.

Originally, I wanted to stay as accurate to actual firearms recordings as possible, but guns don't always sound the way people think they do. On top of that, the POV is not in the character's hands like a first-person shooter (or that video).

With more recent sounds I've pushed pretty hard into making them 'feel' better rather than being 'accurate' which seems to have gone over a lot better.

Edit: Grammar

Thanks!
Fixed.
Typos happen. :P If only we had a copyeditor on staff.

Someone glitching through could have broken the entire mechanic. We blocked everything off until a hotfix could be applied. No big mystery here. Unfortunate, but it happens.

I actually added what's there based on Q&A feedback. They are set up the way they are because the truth is if they were set up like a real siren, players would abuse it like crazy just to annoy people. We already see it with horns and just player mics. The horns aren't that obnoxious and the mics can be muted. So, it's an unfortunate reality of how we have to design things sometimes when it comes to a big open, connected multiplayer game.

While this has been an interesting conversation, there simply isn't enough information. Unfortunately, we made this layout at the same time game mechanics were radically changed. I do think the change in locale and mechanics had a significant impact on Colonial Morale. Furthermore, Colonials always seem to do well with new mechanics than Wardens do. So I'll be monitoring things closely over the next couple of wars.

Hi Reddit,

If you missed it or were unaware, the entire first episode of A Chronicle of Ashes released over the last three weeks.

'A Chronicle of Ashes' is a series of short stories exploring the extended Foxhole universe. These are unrelenting tales of human struggle in the face of apathy and violence, borne by a world in a constant state of war.

- Check it out here - http://www.foxholegame.com/blog-1/categories/chronicle-of-ashes

- A short introduction to the series can be found here - http://www.foxholegame.com/post/a-chronicle-of-ashes-i...

I appreciate your concerns and we'll definitely consider making adjustments in the future.

However, with due respect, as Canadians, Nov 11th is our 'veterans day' and Flander's Fields is as ubiquitous as our national anthem. This was something a few members of the team, including myself, wanted to include in the game as a memorial due to the fact that we are making a game about war.

I would echo Adam's sentiment here. The poem was written by a Canadian soldier for a comrade who died in the battle of Ypres. The poem is not about a perpetual state of war, though I can see how it would be interpreted that way. It's about making sure lives weren't lost in vain and those who died aren't forgotten.

If the poem is hijacked in other countries, that's a shame. Here it is not. We can't speak for other countries, and this is our tribute to those who served for us. Here it is treated with the utmost reverence.

That said, I appreciate your concerns and if we do ...

Thanks for everyone's answers. This has been really great.