During the period of the puppet state of Manchukuo, there were indeed a few Japanese signs. However, if you are familiar with the localization process of the developers for Japanese (including soldier voices, weapon and equipment introductions, etc.), they may not be proficient and lack professional Japanese translators. Or the priority of revising Japanese texts is very low. Therefore, on some plaques, there may be unexpected translation errors, which can lead to unnecessary misunderstandings and conflicts.
Just like the Chinese text issue that just occurred.
This is the difference caused by different regions, cultural traditions, folk customs and ideologies.
ps: Just like in the German map, some flags, signs, or German slogans with eagle patterns or other symbols cannot appear in the game.
This also applies to Japan.
Both Germany and Japan were defeated countries in World War II.
For the current map of Manchuria, I merely hope that the developers will solve the simple, basic and high-priority issues first.
Afterwards, a large-scale reset of the map can be carried out. At the very least, the map was made to have the correct Manchu/Chinese style, elements, and a few landmark buildings.
The architecture and colours are also too similar to moscow pokrovskoe city and burma. I could not tell that the map was supposed to be manchuria if i wasn’t told
Yes, it even has an Orthodox cathedral built by the Russians: Sophia Cathedral.
There are still many landmark buildings in Russian style.
St. Alexiev’s Church was completed in 1935
Matsuura Trading Company (Education Bookstore) was built in 1920.
Dongzhi Street
1901 Binzhou Railway Bridge
The biggest problem is lack of mission variety and maps. Harbin is very small and only has 3 invasion missions, 2 conquests and 1 confrontation. Japan and soviet mains will spend approximately half of their matches against each other yet we only get 1 small map with a handful of missions. It will get extremely boring and stale. People were complaining a lot when pacific just had guadalcanal, new georgia and gavutu. Considering how long we have waited i was expecting at least 2 maps of different regions in manchuria.
I don’t think this is Harbin’s fault, but rather the problem of the combat mission and the map designer.
In real Harbin, players can also enjoy the street battles of Berlin and Moscow towns, the battles of Berlin’s railway Bridges and trains, the battles of Moscow’s monasteries, the complete city battles of Normandy, the airport battles of Normandy, and the fortress cluster battles of Moscow.
In addition, Harbin can have the same river-crossing battles as Stalingrad (not available in the game for the time being).
Even in the special military zone of the Kwantung Army in Pingfangtun, Harbin, PVE battles featuring zombies and demons can be designed.
However, we only received the one in the test server.
I think they just casually asked the outsourcing company to provide some simple Chinese-style buildings.
Therefore, in the new map, there is a large number of small and out of place Chinese-style buildings.
If you visit these new buildings on the new map, they have a serious fire risk, survival problems in the cold winter, and even no space to lie on the ground and sleep.
Wooden houses in Guizhou
Village architecture in Sichuan
PS：
Then. They have to use the wrong materials that they have already paid for.
The grassroots staff also cannot apologize to the players for this, as this accident may cause some people to lose their jobs.
Since the top-level decision-makers will not take the corresponding responsibility, they will only select a grassroots employee as a sacrifice to bear the crime in his place.
I am yet to test/play the new map but this statement is a bit confusing.
The actual city of Harbin didn’t see any fighting, the Japanese forces pretty much surrendered peacefully on August 15-18 after the Emperor’s address and the arrival of Soviet paratroopers.
If the new map is called Harbin, why doesn’t it seem to have any of Harbin’s landmarks even in layout like the Songhua river, the main railway station or the St Sophia Cathedral (other maps like Berlin, Stalingrad and Rzhev all have dozens of unique historical buildings)?
If the new map is only inspired by Harbin and is representing a generic city in Manchuria, then why is it called “Harbin”, raising the expectations of history enthusiasts?
Option 1.
Rename Harbin map into “Manchurian Town” or whatever.
Or
Option 2.
If we go with the “what if a battle actually occured in Harbin” scenario – at least recreate the general layout and logic of the city.
Harbin was a city born as a Russian settlement around the Chinese Eastern Railway junction — rising as a major rail-hub on the banks of the Songhua River — and developed with a European-style central street (Kitaiskaya/Zhongyang), mixed Russian/Chinese architecture and landmarks such as the railway station and the Saint Sophia Cathedral.
So at the very least for Harbin to be Harbin we’d need:
Option 1 is probably the best way to go. It is too late to do any drastic redesigns. I want that effort to be put in new manchuria map like the Hailar fortress
Looks like a small town and not whole city of 700 000 people.
I wish they could at least place those unreachable blurry buildings all around for it to appear correctly.
For example Stalingrad:
It does feel like an alpha version of the map, and when thinking of Manchuria I rather thought that they would focus on Nature more than Urban warfare, if anything the city could simply be added later once done.
As of now, for any plane user it will appear in similar way as Burma, meaning like:
True, even though the developers used the standard Russian buildings the entire model of a city just feels much more interesting, and its worth noting that above game takes place during Russian Revolution so Harbin would be even Bigger in 1945
Well its hard to turn it to Harbin despite being call since for the devs will be very hard to implement that the city is under Japanese occupation at the moment there must be unit unit 731 factory that should be semi demolished since Japan was trying to hid its war crimes. but a lot of buildings are missing:
