February 02, 2012, 02:58:41 AM by Rizz

Eastern Front Fans,

Patch 1.600 is now released! After a vast amount of discussing, debating and arguing over these six months, we've made several changes to the Soviets that we hope you'll enjoy:

• First of all, there is no more munitions upkeep... yes you read it correctly - no more munitions upkeep for Soviet Light vehicles, Weapon teams or Tanks, meaning that you will not get +0 munition income when you already own sectors producing the munitions resource.
• Second, abilities now cost munitions. Once the upkeep was abolished, the next step was to set up a munitions cost for every ability. Hope you enjoy spending your hard earned munitions now.
• Third, almost every single map featured in Eastern Front was reworked, and while they can still be changed in the future to make them even more balanced, we hope you like them, specially the new Zhytomyr and Berlin maps.
• Fourth, Soviet balance was hit hard, after hundreds of games there is a larger list of balance changes, bug fixes and changes than in the previous major patch; also, several 2D/3D art elements were tweaked in order to make them feel more like a Relic faction, let alone that it plays more balanced than before.
• Fifth, Jagdtiger is back as reward unit of the Jagdpanther and Shtrafnie Troops are back as support unit for the Red Tide.

This update is the result of six months hard work and is probably going to be one of the biggest updates ever made for the Soviets, so we hope you like it. Remember to check the changelog to know what has been changed since the last version. We also have some other goodies for you:

• Cranialwizard, one of the members of our Balance Team, has finished his Guide for Eastern Front which will surely help new players to familiarize themselves with the Eastern Front content.
• Rizz has made a web guide for the Soviet units on Eastern Front, it contains the main features of each unit like population costs, reinforcement costs and among other properties that an average player would appreciate.
• Rizz finished a chatbox add-on for the launcher, you can use it by clicking the button next to "Check for Updates". You need an EF account in order to use it.
• Eastern Front now has support for Simplified Chinese texts, support that was supposed to be released two patches ago (our apologies), so the player can choose if he want to use Traditional or Simplified Chinese translations. You can download the installer from here.

We also have some additions to the Team and promotions:

• EvilSpike was promoted to Developer and is helping us in the 2D department, a lot of the new 2D art included in this patch was made by him.
• Maxiking was promoted to Head Mapper(or Vice-Head Mapper ?) and is helping us to improve Eastern Front maps.
• Walki was promoted to Developer and is helping us with 3D art and animations.
• Ellipirelli joined to the team and is helping us in the 3D department and animations.
• Celéstial returned to the team as Developer and is helping us in the Balance and 2D department, several new 2D art included were made by him.

Special Thanks to:

• The players that still play Eastern Front and have waited all these months for the new version.
• The Balance Team for helping us along the road with Eastern Front.
• Our community mappers that create awesome maps for Eastern Front.
• Our forum users at EasternFront.org for reporting balance issues and bugs.
• Translators for helping us with the different locales, the majority of them are really fast and proffessional guys.
• Anders Lejczak for his great ME262 model(brought to EF thanks to Walki).
• [RED-SQ]Cpl.Manu{DRG} for sharing his sound for the Scoped SVT40.

Our life would've been much harder without them .

Remember to report the bugs you find in the Bugs & Tech Support section and the balance issues on the Balance Discussion at our forum.

Thanks for downloading and continue to enjoy,

Eastern Front Development Team

Mirrors

Mirror 1, requires previous 1.520 EF Install: http://www.speedyshare.com/file/KNVS4/EF-Setup-1.6.0.0.exe - Thanks to Evilspike

Mirror 2, requires previous 1.520 EF Install: http://www.speedyshare.com/file/rXPwQ/EF-Setup-1.6.0.0.exe - Thanks to Evilspike

Mirror 3, requires previous 1.520 EF Install: Part 1/2 - Part 2/2 (Mediafire)

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February 01, 2012, 10:36:11 AM by blackbishop

Hello Eastern Front fans,

We deeply apologize for this long wait, but we make this announcement to show that the patch will be released very soon, and while that happens you can enjoy this small gift given to you in the shape of a YouTube video made by our comrade MaxiKing.

Thanks for watching it and stay tunned for the release of the patch!

Eastern Front Development Team

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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.

[...]

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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