January 25, 2012, 08:54:23 PM by blackbishop

Hello Eastern Front fans,

After the blackout event in favor of the protests against SOPA/PIPA and the closure of Megaupload and other cyberlockers, we have good news for you from THQ and the next installement of Company of Heroes. A few hours ago THQ announced that they will develop new games for several of their franchises, being Company of Heroes one of them.

The company’s five internal studios are developing games aligned to several of THQ’s key franchises, including the upcoming launch of UFC® Undisputed™ 3 and Darksiders® II, as well as Company of Heroes, inSANE, Saints Row, Warhammer 40,000, and the new title from Patrice Désilets and his team.

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THQ will discuss its new streamlined business model that reflects this strategy in more detail on its third quarter 2012 conference call scheduled for Thursday, February 2, 2012.

And so the bet starts, which front is going to be done? The Pacific one with Japaneses and new mechanics? The Eastern Front scenario with soviets? Only the time will tell, what it is certain is that we will need to hurry then to finish Ostheer, otherwise we are going to become obsolete if the Eastern Front theater is chosen !


Source: THQ News Release (thanks to Pariah for the heads up ).


Regards,
The Eastern Front Team

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January 18, 2012, 12:44:33 AM by Rizz

Edit2:
SOPA/PIPA pulled from H.R. and S. for now.

Lamar Smith, the chief sponsor of SOPA, said on Friday that he is pulling the bill "until there is wider agreement on a solution."

Edit:
The massive protests on the internet made a difference.

Approaching Monday's crucial Senate vote there are now 35 Senators publicly opposing PIPA.  Last week there were 5.   And it just takes just 41 solid "no" votes to permanently stall PIPA (and SOPA) in the Senate.  What seemed like miles away a few weeks ago is now within reach.

On October 26 of 2011, there was a proposed bill on the United States of America know as Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA), and it's objective is to give complete power to enforce the copyright laws not only for the U.S. government but also for the Copyrights Holders, meaning that they will cut off anything they consider under "copyright-infringement".

The bill discussion on the congress has being delayed by several months, but it is scheduled to be started in February. In the senate, there's a similar bill known as Protect IP Act (PIPA). The senate version is scheduled to be voted on January 24th. Several big companies have embraced this proposal, waiting the moment it goes law, to start enforcing it. That would bring some serious consequences, but let's start for something small:


This video would become illegal after SOPA becomes law, because you ripped off a movie to add whatever you wanted and that's enough to take actions against it. You may think, they can do whatever they want after all, I'm not living in U.S.A. what I should care? Even if you are not living in that country, if you use host anything that may be tagged as copyright infringement, the service provider will have no other choice rather than removing your stuff and even the Copyright Holders can request all your information from the provider and shall be given. Also if the U.S.A. implement this law, expect other countries in the world to follow.

This goes against the freedom of speech, Piracy is wrong but this is not the correct way to fight against it. Several sites, including Reddit and Wikipedia already set their negative stance about this matter and they call for a Blackout Day, stopping to bring their services for a whole day, to demonstrate how things could be if SOPA actually is approved.

For more about SOPA/PIPA, take a look at the video in the link below.
http://www.fightforthefuture.org/pipa

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January 03, 2012, 09:40:44 AM by blackbishop

Hello Eastern Front fans!

Hope everyone had a good New Year eve! As we are about to finish balance for Soviets in Eastern Front, we need more balancers for final testing.

You should be a experienced player (at least 2-3 years of playing CoH), should understand the (USSR-) gameplay-design and you should be able to work as part of a team. We don't want players that only can be available at weekends or some days at the week for playing and you also should post in the internal forum for suggestions and issues, we don't want "lone wolves" either, Eastern Front balance is not brought over Compstomping(skirmishes) but through PvP matches.

The best way to show your skills, is to send us a replay of you playing a 1v1 on a open map, either from vCoH or the latest version of Eastern Front(1.5.1.0). The game should last at least 15 minutes and should have an equal enemy.

Dont forget that testing is not a challenge, so its not about winning or loosing or getting better stats! So if you love the mod and want to get it better, apply on the application section of the forums.

At last but not least, I'd like to point out that we are running a Mentor/mentee program, in order to help players to familiarize with soviets, so if you are interested in learn how to play as soviets or against or you are experienced enough to help other players with this task, you can check this topic: Mentor/mentee-program for EF.

If you want to upload a replay, you can use the host server you like(Megaupload, SpeedyShare and post the link here or any other you may prefer) or you can use our uploader, just need to post the reply(or modify an existant one) using the "Reply" button instead of the "Quick Reply" function and click over "Addtional Options"; then you will see the elements you need to upload your files.

Regards,
The Eastern Front Team

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December 25, 2011, 09:56:07 AM by blackbishop

Hello Eastern Front fans,

It is christmas time, that special time of the year, give and receive presents, share a dinner with your beloved ones; a tradition that is carried in Company of Heroes as well. Armies have a truce in these days, however an unknown evil is rising, threating the celebration of the christmas eve.

While you and your army wait for the christmas eve an invasion begins that very evening, your army is caught in surprise, however you soon realize you are not figthing against your usual enemies, but an army of creatures made of snow and branches... using stolen equipment against you.


Their fast paced advance and their combat abilities is not similar to anything you have faced. Nonetheless, intelligence reports announce that they have a weakness, they will melt once the sun rises. So now they fight to crush your party, your christmas tree and what it represents... oh and your presents as well. It is now your duty to hold down the advance of these creatures until the christmas come, until the christmas countdown fades off.


As you problably now had guess, we are talking about a special mode for Eastern Front, where you need to hold a point in a fixed amount of time in order to achieve the victory. We are not talking about a normal objective, neither of normal enemies nor the usual reward for actually winning.

Besides celebrating Christmas, we are also celebrating the achievment of getting the fourth position in the Player's Choice of MOTY 2011 !! Thanks to your support we got a better position than the previous year !! You can read the related article and check the other mods that are part of the top 10 here.


You will need to defend your christmas tree against waves of snowmen, which are not going to give up and live to fill one sole objective: to crush that christmas tree, that's why you will prevent this to happen, and once the countdown reaches zero, if you actually achieve it... everthing will end for one of the parts involved.


Remember, your enemy has nothing to lose, you do. Good luck commander.


Don't forget to use the update function of the EF launcher ! If you have troubles downloading the update with the launcher, you can download it from here: Cannot download the patches? Look here!

Btw, if you have troubles finding it, this will help you :


Merry Christmas,
The Eastern Front Team

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December 05, 2011, 08:33:41 AM by blackbishop

Hello Eastern Front fans,

Some days ago started the Mod of the Year 2011 event, also called MOTY 2011. It's time to cast your vote for Eastern Front ! Thanks to you, the last year we ended at the 5th position, as we know we haven't released any big update, there's no chance we can get the first place, we don't deserve it... but let's achieve at least an honorific mention !

Don't forget to support other CoH projects, such like Modern Combat, ZombieMod, Pacific Thunder, The Great War, Afrika Korps, Back to Basics, Battle of the Bulge, Blitzkrieg, Normandy 44, Imperial Reign and NHCMod or any other project you like(e.g. Forgotten Hope 2 ), remember that you can vote once for any mod you want, it is not limited to one mod only.

We also apologize for the lack of news about Ostheer, but all the involved staff has been busy with their real life assignments, the balance team has not stopped their duties, and we are striving to finish all the pending stuff to release the patch as soon as possible. As the soviet balance is near to be finished, not talking about perfect balance... that's an utopy, but soviets are going to be as balanced as they can be on 1.6, so this is the last big patch for soviets and you should expect some nice surprises.

As the soviet arsenal and CoH factions' reward units are pretty much settled up(not talking about soviet reward units here), there's not many new units being included. But here are some pics of old friends wanting to say something:





Company of Heroes: Eastern Front ModDB Site

Best Regards,
Eastern Front Development Team

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P.S. Remember this is still WIP.

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