Blitz 1941 News and Notes

Blitz 1941 set for re-release?

2009-06-10T21:29:00.017-04:00

Thanks Peter for posting in the comments that Blitz 1941 will soon see the light of day courtesy of eFusion MMOG, publishers of Navy Field Europe. This leaves me with a lot of questions like ~~will the game be changed at all~~ and ~~will it be available to NA players?~~ Nontheless, it's great to see the game back again.

Update: It's been confirmed that eFusion have obtained the source and the game will be available to everyone. Look for an official website to be opened soon.

Update #2(July 6, 09): The site is now officially up. http://www.twowar.com/games/blitz_index.asp Register and check out the community forum, answer a few questions and sign up for the beta. Also note: the verification email arrived in my gmail spam section, check it if you haven't received it.

Update #3(July 31, 09): The tentative release date for the closed beta is August 14, ~~check your email in the coming days to see if you've been accepted.~~ All entries before August 14 will be accepted into the closed beta!

Update #4(August 12, 09): The download link is officially released at http://www.twowar.com/games/game_download.asp The Twowar frontpage now shows a countdown clock for the opening of the server. For curiosities sake, the client gives a wrong password/id error when trying to connect as of now.

Other MMOs

2009-03-15T16:13:00.002-04:00

Yes, I'm still here, little news on Blitz, it's starting to sound like a broken record. For those looking for some other MMOs, one of my old favorites FSB(Freestyle Street Basketball) was re-released by JCE recently after the North American version was shut down by Sierra Online last year. It's in beta(characters will be deleted), still buggy for some(me!) and not available in all countries but worth a try if you're into sports MMOs.

A New Year

2009-01-02T15:30:00.004-05:00

Hope everyone had a happy New Year for those celebrating. All is quiet on the Blitz 2 front, the supposed news on the game in December never arrived. Hopefully, the coming year brings some official news for us Blitz fans.

Email Response

2008-11-30T17:09:00.008-05:00

A reader recently emailed Dragonfly and inquired about Blitz 2, this is their response:

Dear Kevin

First of all, thank you for your interest in our game and let me answer your questions.

Blitz1941 that was serviced in Haname is closed since last 20 December 2007 so that unfortunately you can’t play anymore.

At the present, we are developing the Blitz 2 that takes over Blitz1941’s good point and makes up for its weak points. Please wait a moment at great inconvenience.

For reference, even if you join the Korean Blitz2 homepage (http://www.blitz2.co.kr/), you can’t play the game at the present.

In addition, it isn’t decided yet whether we service in only Korea or worldwide.

We’ll do our best to service the game with good quality as much as many players in domestic and worldwide wait as soon as possible.

Thank you.

Hat tip to Kevin for the email.

News? Nope.

2008-11-01T13:18:00.005-04:00

It's been a while, but nothing new to post. I'm thinking about starting a Blitz 2 wiki article since some asshat set the Blitz 1941 one for deletion. News on the game will probably be pretty slow until December, I think we can expect some announcements then.

Some Pretty Pictures

2008-10-13T15:09:00.011-04:00

In case you missed them, some nice high quality pictures I haven't posted yet. Once again from the earlier 4gamer article.

Gameplay Video Musings

2008-10-08T19:48:00.015-04:00

Very light on news as none has been released recently but I guess it's the nature of this kind of game.
Some observations and thoughts about the gameplay video. I'm mixed on blitz 2 not continuing the WW2 theme, it added a little historical angle which I enjoyed but I'm sure this modern take expands the possibilities of what can be in the game. As long as they keep the core gameplay, which it seems they have, then I can't really complain. The tank configuration seen early in the video seems to suggest that socketed items have been removed in favor of simple options for changing the body, hatch(+minigun?) and main turret. The world map is seen in the video and the flags of the two factions but little is known about them. The aiming reticle has changed, it's now smaller and the mechanism seems to have changed, we don't know if timing is still involved for a critical hit. Hit, strike, critical and kill are now seen above an enemy instead of numerical damage. When you're hit with a critical, the screen flashes red, who remembers that annoying warning voice in 1941?. Not much is known about skills right now. That's it for now, I'll post news when I get some.

Blitz 2 Gameplay Video

2008-09-26T17:30:00.007-04:00

Is this the only gameplay video of Blitz 2 on the net so far? The most obvious change is its use of full 3D and generally more effects. I might post a detailed little examination of all the little things in this video sometime in the future.

Update: Uploaded video to youtube

Blitz 2 facts

2008-09-26T16:59:00.018-04:00

Some interesting information from two articles, a Chinese and Japanese one reveal some interesting facts about Blitz 2. The most important being that the total numbers of players playing simultaneously on a battlefield has been raised from 32(16vs16) to 200(100vs100). Another one is the increase in the types of tanks from 4 to 9. There also seems to be a new story line which is compared to the cold war, but from the shoddy translation, I can't seem to tell.

Blitz 2 Models

2008-09-26T16:14:00.018-04:00

Some Tank models courtesy of http://www.4gamer.net/games/035/G003518/20080911012/
The translation of this Japanese article also reveals interesting differences between the two versions which I'll post later.

Creation of this Blog

2008-09-26T13:03:00.000-04:00

I've created this blog to reminisce on Blitz 1941, the WW2 tank MMO created by Mowelsoft which left us international players out in the cold after the international version unexpectedly shut down a few years back but mainly to post any news I can find about the sequel, Blitz 2. Resorting to googling Blitz 1941 every little while and looking up youtube videos to see recent comments from ex-players isn't ideal. Hopefully one day a Blitz 2 international version is released and we can get back to where we left off.