Overview
- This week’s Alpha Strike livestream presented a full playthrough that confirmed the game simulates line‑of‑sight and firing at the individual entity level so soldiers inside the same unit can target different enemies independently.
- Developers showed new ranged behaviours including strafing while moving with reduced accuracy, sweeping fire that spreads damage across many attackers, suppression that cuts unit stats, and a Sentry mode to pre‑prioritise targets.
- The game will track individual magazines and ammo, include grenades and special abilities, and let heroes run with customizable bodyguards rather than as standalone units.
- Reinforcement rules were revealed with a balance‑of‑power visual that represents off‑field troops, deployable reserves such as drop pods and thunderhawks, and choices to hold or commit reinforcements during a fight.
- Creative Assembly said the build shown is roughly two months old, closed‑beta signups and wishlisting are live, more feature streams are planned, and earlier demos flagged visible performance and optimization questions that still need to be addressed.