Eventually, the machine - classified Top Secret - was stored, pending further advances in human science. The American scientists were not able to understand its construction, nor could they manage to synthesize its fuel. Emerson was the commander of a US military unit in charge of transporting US war supplies from the city of Vladivostok to the Eastern front during World War I.ĭoD Experiments have shown that items placed in the capsule are transported hundreds of thousands of years back in time. It was found in 1919 by Colonel Emerson near the site of the Tunguska explosion. This object is called the EON (Extraterrestrial Object Nexus). But instead of oil, they discover a deposit of a hitherto unknown mineral.Īmerican scientists working for Department of Defense find out that this mineral is in fact identical to the substance used to power an extraterrestrial artifact in their possession. New multiplayer maps are being released as DLC.Īn American geological expedition, under a UN mandate, assesses the natural resources in a distant part of Siberia, deep in the trackless steppes of Eastern Russia. Multiplayer matches can take place on dozens of maps and between the games five factions. The multiplayer uses the GameSpy client and has a built in Elo rating system. This allows fine control during firefights, such as priming grenades before throwing and aiming for specific parts on a tank.
Like earlier games in the series, Assault Squad includes a "direct control" feature that allows the player to take control of any unit on the field. While Assault Squad is geared toward multiplayer, the new co-op Skirmish mode can be played offline without a partner. It is driven by an intricate simulation that tracks ammunition and fuel, inventories for each and every unit, cover and line of sight, tank combat with penetration and deflection of shells, field of view, and much more beside.
Assault Squad is primarily a real-time tactics game, but veers more toward strategy than its predecessors due to the absence of any "fixed force" (i.e.
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