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Traction Wars is an upcoming free-to-play multiplayer first-person shooter video game. The game is an indie game being developed on CryEngine 5 by the Traction Wars Team and aims to recreate the battles in World War II accurately and realistically while encouraging tactical gameplay and teamwork.

Development
Traction Wars initially began as a Steampunk modification based on the Mortal Engines series of book for the game Crysis. However due to copyrights issues, the developers had to cease the project and in October 2008, decided to start working on what would be a standalone World War II game under the same name of "Traction Wars".

In July of 2015, and after almost 7 years of development, the team presented Chapter One: Overlord. Chapter One is going to be the first representation of the game focalizing on the Normandy Campaign, which started from June 6th until August 22nd of 1944. This first Chapter will feature four custom maps based on four different operation in the Campaign: Operation Tonga, Operation Deadstick, Operation Charnwood and a fourth map which is still unknown. In this update, it was announced that the game would possible be released in the span of 18 to 24 months.

The development team declared in June of 2016 the migration from CryEngine 3 to CryEngine 5 allowing changes and upgrades in the development of the game.

On the 23rd of December of 2016, the developers announced that in 2017 they would give Steam Greenlight for the release of the game.

Features
The main features of the game, which could be subject to change, are as following:
 * Free to play
 * 20+ historical accurate and authentic weapons and class/role system
 * Detailed and historical accurate maps
 * Teamwork oriented gameplay
 * Realistic squad and command system
 * Real-time 3D audio and VOIP system

Gameplay
Traction Wars will focus on teamwork orientated gameplay where players will have to communicate and coordinate between each other to win the rounds or games. There will be two possible types of game modes: Skirmish (also known as "Conquest") and Rush.

Chapter One will feature 4 maps where 32 players will be able to play for either the British or German faction.

Later Chapters will perhaps bring new assets such as tanks, mortars and anti-tank emplacements along with new maps, weapons and features.