Beyond Enemy Lines - Vietnam is set to launch on Steam Early Access this year. Before diving into the details of this exciting new addition to the Beyond Enemy Lines franchise, let's explore the progression of weapon animations throughout the series.

From the early days of using animations from Asset Packs in Beyond Enemy Lines 1 and 2, the franchise has come a long way in terms of visual fidelity. The first significant leap in animation quality was witnessed in Beyond Enemy Lines Remastered Edition, where the development team introduced their own custom animations, marking a notable improvement over the previous titles.

However, the upcoming Beyond Enemy Lines - Vietnam takes the weapon animations to a whole new level. Building upon the foundations laid in the Remastered Edition, the developers have crafted vastly enhanced and immersive weapon animations that further enhance the gameplay experience. With meticulous attention to detail and fluidity, these new animations bring the weapons to life, immersing players in the intense atmosphere of the Vietnam War setting.

If you're eagerly anticipating the release of Beyond Enemy Lines - Vietnam and want to experience the evolution of weapon animations firsthand, don't forget to add it to your Steam wishlist.

Wishlist Beyond Enemy Lines - Vietnam on Steam now: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1467270/Beyond_Enemy_Lines__Vietnam/

Agents,

the Beyond Enemy Lines 2 Enhanced Edition is now available on Steam, Playstation 4, Xbox One and Xbos Series Consoles. Adding 8 new missions for free, reworked gun- and gameplay as well as improvements to to all existing missions.

The PC version now contains all previous DLC Missions without any additional costs.

If you havn't gotten Beyond Enemy Lines 2 so far, now is the time! It's 50% off for a week from today on. After this the price will increase to $29,99 to match the console versions.

The release of the Enhanced Edition is just the start. More updates are planned for the near future.

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Agents,

the Beyond Enemy Lines 2 Enhanced Edition is now in preview mode!

Here are some of the changes:

• New, entirly free 8 mission long campaign "Origins" which is the reimagination of the Beyond Enemy Lines 1 story
  
• All mission DLC's are open for everyone *
  
• reworked the entire gunplay
  
• reworked all missions with improved scripts, enhanced visuals and other improvements
  
• additional achievements for the new campaign
  
• reworked and improved main menu
  
• over 1000 other bug fixes, improvements and changes

The reimagined version of the Beyond Enemy Lines 1 original mission 'Village'.

*We requested valve to remove the DLCs from sales quite a while ago but they just won't do it for some reason. Please do only bus the DLC's if you want to support the development, you won't get anything other from them!

For the Enhanced Edition we reworked all 18 existing missions and added 8 additional missions and reworked core parts of the gameplay. We want to make sure the game is free of game breaking issues before we fully release the Enhanced Edition and therefore we release it as a preview build. Not all features are 100% completed at this time (for example does the new menu system not support controller imput right now).

You are free to test the new version with all it's new content and please, provide feedback and report issues in the comments or the community hub. Only this way we can make sure all bugs are getting fixed!

To access this preview build, you need to switch to the development_preview branch.

We’d love to keep you up-to-date! Please join us also on Discord or on Facebook

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Hello everyone!

Today is the day we look into the future of United Assault, Beyond Enemy Lines and evaluate the latest 'Next Game' survey. There is a lot of new stuff coming in 2022 to play. Lets get started!

United Assault - Normandy'44 is a massive success for Polygon Art and the quickest selling game we ever build! I have big planes for United assault and here is what's coming next:

I'm very Happy to announce:
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1625340/United_Assault__Battle_of_the_Bulge/

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United Assault - Battle of the Bulge is a standalone expansion to United Assault - Normandy'44 and an open world rogue lite FPS set in 1944's depiction of Ardennes.

As a british paratromy you are assigned to a mission, few would qualify for. You are tasked to infiltrate enemy territory and locate, infiltrate and destroy one of germany's secret V2 factories in the Ardennes. You'll come along heavy enemy resistance, try to weaken their defense by destroying their tanks, equipment and by gathering secret documents.

ADD UNITED ASSAULT - BATTLE OF THE BULGE TO YOUR WISHLIST!

• Playing as a british paratrooper and deploying on a parachute into the game.
  
• Authentic british World War 2 weapons
  
• Larger and more detailed towns and cities
  
• Drivable vehicles scattered around the gameworld
  
• The story is now directly integrated into the main gamemode
  
• Procedural generated underground bunkers complexes (like dungeons)

More updates, features and improvements! I'm not going to abandon United Assault - Normandy'44!
Both games are build with the same code base and allows me to patch new features and improvements from Battle of the Bulge back into Normandy '44. All gameplay, gunplay and AI improvements will find it's way into Normandy'44 as well as several new weapons! If you don't want Battle of the Bulge, you still benefit from its development and get regular news updates.

I plann to expand United Assault with 2 additional standalone expansions in the same form as Battle of the Bulge. Those are:

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Beyond Enemy Lines is returning in 2022 with a major update to Beyond Enemy Lines 2 and an entirly new game!

Beyond Enemy Lines 2 is getting a free update to a Enhanced Edition!

This update will bring new content, improved game- and gunplay, enhanced visuals and major performance improvements. The before canceled DLC Beyond Enemy Lines 2 - Origins will be added for free to the game.

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Features:

• A new, fully voiced 8 mission long campaign of the reimagined Beyond Enemy Lines 1 Story
  
• All other DLC contents will be free for all owners of the base game
  
• The price will increase from 24.99€ to 29.99€ to get in line with the Console versions
  
• Improved update pipeline for faster updates in the future
  
• Contails all map and mission improvements of the console version

The Beyond Enemy Lines 2 Enhanced Edition will be released early 2022 for free to all owners of the game on PC and Xbox One with additional native Xbox Series S|X support!

Beyond Enemy Lines - Rising Dragon is the newest entry in the Beyond Enemy Lines franchise hitting Steam Early Access in Summer 2022!

Beyond Enemy Lines - Rising Dragon is a modern warfare shooter set in the Quang-Xiong Island, an autonomous island in the east chinese sea.
The island is of great military importance and the source of numerous conflicts. Whoever hasmilitary control over this territory, is in close range to attack china, taiwan, japan, as well as south and north korea.

Satellite intel reports a lot of recent activity on this island and satellite fotos indicate chinese forces occupied the island. China denies this information and confirms that it has not sent any troops to the region. We cannot verify the credibility of the statement, nor can we verify the identity of the occupiers.

We need to get to the bottom of this mess. You need to be careful - we don’t want a major international incident out of this.

Features:

• Powered by Unreal Engine 5 with Lumen Global Illumination and Reflections
  
• Command your own Squad
  
• Modern arsenal of highly detailed weapons
  
• Large, complex missions with full tactical freedom
  
• Mid mission checkpoints

Beyond Enemy Lines - Rising Dragon is smaller game in scope then Beyond Enemy Lines 2. We target a story set on 3-4 Missions, each lasting for ~60 minutes. We want to test out new stuff with this game, like a own AI controlled squad you can gve orders to and dip our toe into releasing a game with a new Engine - Unreal Engine 5. Beyond Enemy Lines - Rising Dragon is building the foundation for Beyond Enemy Lines 3 ...

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I asked on Social Media, Steam and other platforms what you want to see in the future. Here is the evaluation of this survey with 983 participants at the time of evaluation.

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The majority of you (60%) want to see a new Singleplayer game developed. The diversity in genres you want to see us develop was a majot supprise. FPS games are by far (35%) the most requested games, as we develop mostly FPS games this is no big surprise. Followed by this are Simulation (14%) and Role Playing (13%) and Third Person Shooter and Action Adventire (12%).

Beyond Enemy Lines - The Role Playing experience? How would this sound to you? We will continue to focus on FPS games but will definitly consider developing smaller games in the other genres in the future.

We also asked which game you would like to see next. 35% of you want to see a new franchise, 28% a new Beyond Enemy Lines and as United Assault is still a very fresh game it already gathered a respectful 23%. As both Beyond Enemy Lines and United Assault got new content and games revealed in this news, let's jump to the new franchise ...

The new franchise

We asked for suggestions which game you would like to see. And apparently you have a very clear goal in mind for us. You want to see from us in the future:

A Singleplayer FPS with focus on Story, more linear gameplay with occasionally larger areas with more freedom. The games you mentioned where shocklingly simmilar.

You frequently Menitioned Golden Eye and other 007 games as well as No One Lives Forever.

We will follow your wishes and start concepting a new James Bond/No One Lives Forever like franchise together with you in 2022. More on this will follow next year!


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What do you think about the Announcements and the survey? Leave a comment to share your toughts and feedback, join our Discord Servers to get directly involved into the development and follow us on Facebook and Twitter for more news!

Hello,

I would like you to invite to complete this Survey[forms.gle].
I want to develop the next game very colse with the community and so I want to know, which game would you like to se developed?

This does not mean we are dropping any existing title support. There are still a lot of patches, bug fixes and content updates planned for various titles!

Beyond Enemy Lines 2 is currently in active development for the big remaster update!

Thanks for your time!

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Agents,

a new Beta update is now available. Optin the development_preview beta branch to download the newest version.

What is new?

• removed several AI related CPU Bottlenecks
  
• removed the agressive AI culling (disappearing and reappearing AI)
  
• added new, more performant and less obviouse optimizations

What does this mean?
This update does not adress the behaviour of the AI, it should function the same way as befor but with slightly better performance and and less visible optimization errors. Please report back if the new optimization works, the AI still functioning as before and if the pop-in was succesfully reduzed.

Agents,

a new Beta update is now available. Optin the development_preview beta branch to download the newest version.

What is new?

• added reworked console maps to the PC version
  
• reworked the entire weapon code
  
• attachements have now more impact on the handling of the weapon
  
• added a crosshair and hitmarkers
  
• changed projectile handling to a more traditional methode

What does this mean?
The game is changing a lot and all those changes are still subject to change. We did not do a full QA run on all those changes so expect bugs or broken features. But this is what we are here for. Tell me your toughts, ideas and feedback. This is a early build and BEL 2 is back in beta with this update and not to be considered a release build. Also only the main campaign is open for tests at this point.

What do you think?

Agents,

a new update for Beyond Enemy Lines 2 is available. This 'small' update enabled Nvidia DLSS 2.0 features for users of Nvidia Cards. You can find the options in the Video Settings.

While this update is around 1,9gb in size for just DLSS, I want to give you a short glimps of whats going on and why it's nearly 2GB in size.

I'm currently reorganizing the entire Asset pool. I will today start and try to merge Maps with it's improvements of the Xbox One version into the PC. This step needes some rearangement of assets.

Why I'm doing this? Due to the porting process to consoles last year, each Platform has a seperate source branch with it's unique changes. This makes updating and maintaining the game nearly impossible. I will update the PC version with all Console improvements and go even further with the PC version. After this the new PC version will be brought to Xbox One and maybe Playstation 4 (the PS4 patch process is stupidly complex and fails 9 out of 10 times).

Changelog:

• enabled Nvidia DLSS 2.0