We have quite a bit of information to share with you this week. Special event this weekend, Welcome back soldier plan (Oct. 1), supply changes for next Campaign, Wiretap game monitoring, server maintenance and start of Campaign 117 on Monday. Warning: Wall of text (but full of good info).
WELCOME BACK SOLDIER PLAN
Thanks to our Indiegogo funders many things have become possible, and continuing our delivery on those funding campaign promises we'll be welcome back thousands of WWII Online accounts that are currently inactive. In addition to those vets we will also be providing ALL free play accounts FULL premium access for two weeks. This will include all current and newly signed up accounts as well.
- WBS Start Date: Thursday, October 1st
- WBS End Date: Sunday, October 18th
SPREAD THE WORD NOW! Please do your part to get this message out NOW and prepare all of our friends to get into the game. This will be during Campaign 117 and will be an exciting time for everyone to come back together, try out some of the new features like the Active Battles Tab and increase the server population quite a bit.
CAMPAIGN 116 ENDS IN GERMAN VICTORY
Congratulations to the Germans for winning Campaign 116. It was a tremendous fight all around! We had a game update come out and we had a great response to the new Active Battles Tab and recent changes to the Forward Base as outlined in our Tuesday community report.
WEEKEND SPECIAL EVENT: ENTERING THE EIFEL
Starting Saturday at 12PM Server Time (US Central GMT -6) we'll be starting a special event called "Entering the Eifel." VIEW THE FULL EVENT BRIEFING HERE.
SUPPLY CHANGES FOR CAMPAIGN 117
We've made some slight adjustments in supply for the upcoming Campaign. In our recent game update we made it harder for Forward Bases to be destroyed, which has made battles last much longer which is precisely what we wanted. However there is some concern with supply so we're providing +2 engineers per ground forces flag:
- +2 for Infantry Brigades
- +2 for Armor Brigades
- +2 for Headquarters
We've also adjusted the total number of heavy bombers and evened them out for both sides. Heavy bombers are HE-111's, DB7's and Havoc's.
- Tier 0-1: 15 Heavy Bombers
- Tier 2+: 20 Heavy Bombers
RPAT's vs ATR's: Now that we have ATR's available for the American forces we can begin making some important changes to RPAT supply. RPAT's are highly effective, but we also want to preserve the tank game. So we've altered the RPAT supply by reducing it to a maximum number of 3 per ground brigade (from 5) and we've added some additional ATR's to make up the difference.
New Tables of Equipment additions: Now that we have released 1.34.11 and the American's have an increased spawn list we have added in some of those units that were originally being taken out due to imbalance / not having an equivalent. In the later tiers this includes...
- Light Tanks
- Armored Cars
- Mortarman
- Anti-Tank Rifleman
We also have light tanks and armored cars available in ALL tiers because we want newer members to experience the vehicle / tank aspect of our game. They won't pose much of a threat to other tanks, but watch out infantry!
WIRETAP & BATTLEGROUND EUROPE MONITORING
We brought wiretap up not too long ago then we had experienced a string of abnormal game server crashes. We had to bring it down in order to isolate the issue and at the time, it was the only thing that was recently changed. However now that we've been able to make some stability improvements and upgrade important operating systems server side, we're working to bring Wiretap back in the very near future.
GADGET is determined to bring this back ASAP but with the understanding that it will be stable and not cause any issues to the game. We'll report when this is ready, but you'll find out quickly because all data feeds will automatically start updating.
SERVER MAINTENANCE & CAMPAIGN START ON MONDAY
Monday morning we'll be bringing the game into maintenance to install new fail safe systems and better remote management to increase up-time and crisis management capabilities. Additionally we'll be installing new memory into the live campaign server boxes and max out all four servers on the live cluster, this is very good.
We will let you know when we're ready to start Campaign just as soon as we have completed the work via social media, forums, website and newsletter.
YOU, can help all of these initiatives move faster and provide us with the fuel to do more by becoming a HERO BUILDER. It has never been a better time to HERO UP and back CRS.
As a hero you will receive a free towing account, recognition in-game, closed BETA testing access and a forum for one on one chat with Developers. Are you ready to help make this game better?