Watch Company of Heroes 3 smash a bunch of helpless buildings to smithereens

WWII RTS games Company of Heroes and Company of Heroes 2 were great at showing remove destruction on the battlefields, whether they were connected the Russian steppe or the quaint towns of Normandy. Company of Heroes 3, however, has the benefit of progressive graphics hardware to power destruction that's more realistic, out to loosened bricks tumbling onto soldiers below after an artillery unit barrage.

A new devblog posted in the Company of Heroes 3 forums shows off how this is going to wait in-mettlesome, and even provides some comparison video recording between the older Society of Heroes games and the upcoming version. As Patrick, a lead environment artist on Company of Heroes explains, the older games had to use some, er, smoke and mirrors to convey the effects of buildings collapsing or having holes punched through the walls away tank rounds. Photographic camera-based personal effects were accustomed establish debris, which wasn't truly set off of each scene.

It's a whole sunrise ball of wax for Company of Heroes 3, however, and Patrick includes no less than four examples of what it looks like on telecasting. Directly, there's substantial natural philosophy involved. "In CoH 3 we fracture the entire edifice, which results in real geometry pieces of debris – as opposed to FX debris exploited in the past," St. Patrick explains.

Here's a cut short of pre-of import test footage that shows a tierce-story put up under heavy small arms and mortar fire, with chunks of incompatible real crumbling off the sides in a cascade.

This cut back shows how the rubble that falls off buildings when they're bombarded is real – real decent to harm the soldiers standing about at the ground level, at any rate.