what is this?

[The Philanthropist]

That muzzle flash is probably just a taste of the awesome lighting effects in the game.

Not even close. You can easily mod a firing graphic like that into soldat.

The day that Soldat gets that new map layout I'll believe that.

You don't even need to get a new map layout to do this. New texture, modded gosteks, modded interface, modded weapons. It's just a mock up guys, they are trying to get us excited in some intelligent form of a promo.

[Will]

You can't mod muzle flashes in soldat like that... the bitmap positioning is screwed up.

As you could've probably seen, the link dead engine could use soldat's polygon maps, and I think this is what it actually is, a polished soldat map, and they are testing the multiplayer and the overal look of the game so they know where they are heading. But it very well could be a photoshoped image, just to excite us.

[blackdevil0742]

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What will the gameplay look like in a nutshell?

Realistic teamplay. The game will be slow paced. Much emphasis will be put on tactics and team cooperation. Not only soldier to soldier cooperation, but hacker to soldier cooperation and proper use of machinery like robots. There will be no flying, just climbing ladders, riding elevators etc. The game will be extremely realistic. 1 shot 1 kill most of the time. The maps will also be realistic meaning they will be real places like destroyed buildings, undergrounds.

Hm...if that icon is a jet icon in the screen then does that mean? ...no way!
maybe the alignment of graphics are redone and therefore lets you use that kind of "art" ?

[mxyzptlk]

Maybe it's simply a version of soldat on the Link-Dead engine. That would make plentiful sense. Perhaps it will be a different mode of Link-Dead.

Or, perhaps it is all just a clever ruse.

We will not know until it is announced.