The most significant single change is the introduction of a new vehicle type, the armoured personnel carrier, or APC. The APC, which won't have any weapons of its own, can be used as a mobile spawn point for soldiers as well as a weapons factory of sorts, giving the team that has it deployed a forward base of operations. "You can roll this around a map and it's like this clean blank canvas for combat," says Dylan Jobe, the game's producer.
The APC also has the ability to deploy "the mother of all bubble shields", which will be approximately 60 metres wide. Allied soldiers can shoot out of it but opposing forces can't shoot in, and Warhawks that stray too near are subject to interference and have a chance of exploding.
Additionally, the APC will have the capacity to turbo boost, which makes it a highly versatile unit as it can be used to propel the vehicle at high speed, like a missile. Jobe said, "I've had kills before where I've launched through a Warhawk in an APC".
Along with the APC, the pack will include a new map with ten different layouts, and a bunch of new layouts for maps that were part of the original game.
Operation Broken Mirror is undergoing testing and will hopefully be out late March or early April.
Jobe also mentioned that he hopes to release some new game modes as free patches at some stage, that a single-player campaign is doubtful, and that his development team, Incognito, is working on other things as well as Warhawk.
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