[2.0.3] Southern Tunisia, Better Performance, New Vehicles, Animations & More!

Hello again everyone!

This is a very important patch introducing a whole new full-length campaign, adding new content, and fixing various issues of previous patches.

New Features:

• New campaign - Tunisia: Southern Operations.

  • Expanded on in its own section below.

• Vehicle Additions

  • Added Anti Air Crusader Tanks:

    • Crusader III AA Mk. I

    • Crusader III AA Mk. II

  • Added SPA-Viberti AS-42 and Variants (each comes with an armed variant):

    • AS42 Metropolitana

    • AS42 Sahariana

• Weapon Additions:

  • Added Browning M1919A4 with iprovized carrying handle for early-to-late war US campaigns.

  • Added yellow American Mk. II grenade for early war US campaigns.

  • Added many new bayonets, as well as reworking old ones.

    • Bayonets Added:

      • SVT Bayonet (M1940 Bayonet)

      • M1905 Bayonet

      • American early-war bayonet (M1917)

      • American late-war bayonet (M1 Bakelite)

      • English spike bayonet (No.4 Mk II)

      • German late-war bayonet (S84/98 III Bakelite))

      • German mid-war bayonet (S84/98 III)

      • Carcano bayonet (M1891)

      • Carcano folding bayonet (M1938)

      • Carcano bayonet (M1938)

      • Late-war Type 30 Japanese Bayonet

    • Bayonets Reworked:

      • Hanyang Bayonet (S71/84)

      • Mosin Bayonet (M91/30)

      • MAS 36 Bayonet (Mle. 1936)

      • Lebel Bayonet (Mle. 1886)

      • M1 Bayonet

      • K98 Bayonet (S84/98)

      • FG-42 Spike Bayonet

      • Type 30 Bayonet

• Added a system to both refill Gewehr 43 with magazines and stripper clips. Now Gewehr 43 wielding riflemen will carry 2 spare magazines and the rest as individual rounds.

• Added a new system to make open top vehicle crew animations more organic, making units react to acceleration, deceleration and obstacle collision.

• Added new Tunisia Mosque building.

• Added UK grenade refill box.

• Added Japanese rifle attachment flag.

• Added a certain new squad type to specific Bastogne missions.

• New car enter / idle / exit animations, now available for modders as well.

• New modding UI tools to preview animation placement on open top vehicles.

Fixes and Improvements:

• Various map and mission improvements in North Tunisia map with the goal of bringing it closer to the new North African standard set by South Tunisia.

• Greatly improved game performance on low end devices and consoles: Loading screen times might become a bit longer in order to achieve a much more stable framerate during gameplay.

• Reworked Willys Jeep.

• Added dynamic camo system to various vehicles:

  • Supermarine Spitfire

  • Bristol Beaufighter

  • C-47 Skytrain

  • DFS 230 Glider

  • Bf-109

  • Bf-110

  • Ju-87 Stuka

  • Vickers E Type B 6-Ton

  • Vickers Carden Lloyd

  • Panzer I Ausf. A

• Reworks to the German Afrika Korps helmets, including now separate M35 and M42 variants.

• Reworked animations of several weapons.

• Fixed rifles bolt placement in Carcano rifles.

• Various Audio Reworks:

  • Reworked reload sounds for Gewehr 43, C96, PPSh 41, MAB 38, TT-33, Mas 36 and Wz-35.

  • Reworked low caliber bullet whizzing sounds to be shorter and more "direct".

  • Shortened shell whizzing sounds to sync better with shell flying by the player.

  • New Tree falling/breaking sound for better audio clarity and to give importance for other sounds.

  • Updated smoke artillery explosion sounds.

  • Reworked Rubble footstep sounds.

• Various changes and additions in map props.

  • Finalized rework of Tunisian buildings for better visual/aesthetic fidelity.

• Improved stability of Map Editor when using Vulkan API.

• Improved stability of the automatic camo system.

• Fixed some bugs with animations while leaving specific vehicles.

• Fixed a bug causing maps not to load all grass types.

• Fixed a bug causing AI having difficulties on getting inside vehicles.

• Changes in Panzer III armor plates.

• Changes in Panzer III decals (all variants).

• Improved camera lock on melee target (no longer flings camera upward, just towards center mass).

• Fixed an issue preventing Nintendo switch from creating cross-play matches.

• Finalized main British uniform rework.

• Fixed issue causing map props collision not