WW3
Attention Commanders
This mid-season update brings a mix of exciting new features, strategic enhancements, and quality of life improvements to World War III.
Leading the charge, we welcome Mathieu Renaud, codename Kraken, a submarine specialist, giving your fleets a new edge against surface units. Players can now deploy the Static Radar System, a second static defensive structure that provides unmatched intelligence and battlefield awareness, perfect for tracking enemy movements and planning your strategies with precision. To help players master their legendary officers, a series of new missions has been added, focusing on the AoE Effects, making it easier to learn, test, and apply these abilities effectively.
This update also introduces a range of UI and visual improvements, enhanced information panels, and better alignment across devices. Additionally, we’ve refined unit balancing, doctrines, and terrain modifiers, while fixing several issues affecting mobilization, loadouts, attacks and navigation.
Static Radar System
We’re introducing the Static Radar System, the second static defensive structure to join the battlefield. Best of all, it’s available for everyone from day one.
The Static Radar System is all about vision, awareness, and smart positioning. You can deploy it at province borders or province centers, giving you flexibility in how you monitor enemy movement. Push it closer to hostile territory for greater visibility but beware as the closer you place it, the higher the risk of detection and destruction.
Unlike traditional defensive structures, the Static Radar System provides minimal combat or defensive bonuses. Its purpose is pure intelligence.
With upgrades, the system can detect:
- Ground units
- Fixed wing aircraft
- Rotary wing aircraft
The Static Radar System can also be enhanced further through the Mobile Radar technology tree, allowing you to expand detection range and improve tracking especially against low flying aircraft, while strengthening your overall situational awareness across borders.
Whether you’re planning invasions, guarding your frontlines, or tracking enemy air movements, the Static Radar System adds a new layer of strategy and risk-reward decision making to World War III.
Changes
- Legendary Officer AoE buff visuals have been adjusted, changing the colour from purple to yellow and introducing animations for better visibility on mobile and the modern client.
- Introduced new enhancement icon for Defense buff & updated existing visuals of enhancement icons..
- The Cities List feature is now available on the Modern Client.
- Security Council members now have access to the Build Queue tab when accessing the “Cities” widget, allowing them to view and manage ongoing constructions on mobile and the modern client.
- Changed Towed Artillery terrain modifiers to align with other Artillery units.
- Motorized Infantry, Helicopter Gunship, Arms Industry & UAV Drone doctrine overhaul has been applied:
Motorized Infantry
- Western: +15% Hard Damage
- European: +10% HP
- Eastern: +25% Aircraft Damage
Helicopter Gunship
- Western: -20% Research Cost & Time, +10 View Range
- European: +20% Soft Damage, -15% Mobilization Time
- Eastern: +50% Hard Damage, +10% HP
Arms Industry
- Lv.1 remain unchanged
- Lv.2 to Lv.5 reduced cost (~33%)
- Lv.3 to Lv.5 increased construction time (~20% increased)
UAV Drone
- Patrol circle size: 50/50/50/50/50/50 → 40/30/20/20/20/20
- View range: 50/50/50/50/50/50 → 50/50/55/55/55/55
- Fuel range: 750/1500/3000/3000/3000/3000 → 750/750/1500/1500/1500/3000
- Rescaling research time & cost, Lv.1 is 30% cheaper and climb back up to 120% price at Lv.6
Fixes
- Fixed issue where Coastal Batteries overlapped and obscured Pontoons when both were built on the same connection.
- Fixed issue in World Divided Domination on the modern client, where Victory Points per day were not displayed under the total VP amount in the Diplomacy tab, the daily VP value is now shown for each nation.
- Fixed issue on the modern client, where Pontoons spawned at an incorrect location, Pontoons now remain fixed at the selected build location.
- Fixed issue where the mobilization time shown in Level 7 EU Helicopter Gunship research info was inaccurate on Mobile and the modern client. The displayed value now correctly matches the intended mobilization time
- Fixed issue on Mobile where tapping a unit in the Mobilization section did not consistently open the Unit Info popup.
- Fixed issue on Mobile where the “Go to Games” button in the Tickets inventory closed the popup without navigating. Pressing the button now correctly takes players to the Games tab.
- Fixed issue where the attack timer did not reset after destroying sea mines. The timer now correctly reduces to 1 minute after a stack of enemy units is destroyed.
- Fixed issue where attack values were not displayed for missiles and drones on the old and modern client. The correct attack value now appears in the army info panel when targeting a city or province.
- Fixed issue on the modern client where the back navigation button behaved inconsistently on the Alliance Sub tab.
- Fixed issue with Incorrect foreign speed factors for Airborne Veteran, Seasonal Armored Fighting Vehicle, Hana, and John. Values now correctly reflect the intended speed.
- Fixed issue where Tier 2 Destroyer displayed radar/sonar range larger than intended.
