Company of Heroes: Eastern Front
Announcements (Read-Only) => Announcements => Topic started by: Blackbishop on January 06, 2014, 08:59:40 PM
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Hello comrades,
We have talked with Relic, and they said they were unaware of the changes made and they are going to look at it.
I know you are waiting for the new release to check the latest announced stuff, but it is better to wait for the right people to fix this issue.
So, I hope you can bear with us the situation. And don't worry, we will be back soon!
Thanks for your support,
Archaic Entertainment Team
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i have a legit copy of coh tov including all 3 games, and i can not activate any of then on steam. is it possible that in the future this mod will be compatible with both steam and retail disc version (2.602)? thx in advance
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i have a legit copy of coh tov including all 3 games, and i can not activate any of then on steam. is it possible that in the future this mod will be compatible with both steam and retail disc version (2.602)? thx in advance
You need to activate the key itself. Not the normal CoH games. Library -> add game -> activate product key -> type in your product key. After that you'll have access to the new steam version.
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Personally for me the most important news is that project EF won't be suspended.
Greetings
Karol
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That is a great news ! I hope they'll take it seriously !
Happy new year Archaic Entertainement !
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Thanks very much !
In these days I played couples of times ToV with Computer. I am pretty sure without EF, I wouldn't buy CoH. :(
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Looking forward to playing Eastern Front again!
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thanks for all your efforts!
cant wait until it works again! :D
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Hello
Guys, you're very simple-hearted if you believe that Relic allows again to modding this game. EF is inconvenient for CoH2. If you don't belive this you should go to "community.companyofheroes.com". You will see there some topics refer to blocking modding activity by last patch. You will see also that in these topics is not replies from Relic or admin/mod forum. They pretend blind. This quote was wrote on 01-07-2014 by Relic Community Manager "We're aware of the issues that players have been experiencing since the last update to Company of Heroes and are working to investigate and then resolve them."but on topic where other people complains on bugs with multiplayer games like ranking errors, automatch error etc. In this topic nobody mentioned about mods. Topics in "modding" are absolute opposite. There is no answer from Relic. Even guy from this forum "dArCReAvEr" is asking today if are any news.
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Relic rarely answers in topics(about modding), but they answer our emails. Otherwise I'd not have been in contact with them for a while.
They have their own agenda though, and I think this fix will take some time to arrive.
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I hope I'm wrong and this update will arrive. I'd like to see EF again in action.
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I want to play EF!!I'm on vacation! :-[
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GeneralRodrigues,
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Если так сильно хотите играть, установите CoH 2.602 и совместите с EF 2.210 :)
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If you want to play so much, set CoH 2.602 and align with EF 2.210 :)
(Google translated)
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wadea21, как?
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Вот тема:
http://www.easternfront.org/forums/index.php?topic=11013.0
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Спасибо ;)
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:)Да не за что
Получилось то?
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Hi!)) Its good news of EF!))
Привет! Это отличные новости про EF!))
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Thanks Blackbishop for the update. its encouraging that Relic has been in contact with your team.
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Sorry I still have confusing. The problem is between "steam and Relic" or "EF with Relic" ?
Because I've tried with ToV and OF, and they can't log in on Relic as well.
Does Steam or CoH represent us like EF-Team to communicate with Relic ?
Best
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Sorry I still have confusing. The problem is between "steam and Relic" or "EF with Relic" ?
Because I've tried with ToV and OF, and they can't log in on Relic as well.
Does Steam or CoH represent us like EF-Team to communicate with Relic ?
Best
original game servers have been taken offline last year in may. You can nowadays only play company of heroes via "new steam version" by activating your company of heroes CD key on steam.
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Dear dArCReAvEr:
Thank you very much.
Could you tell me what you mean "new version steam" ? I downloaded my steam last week again, is this "new" version ? If it is a special version, where I can download it ?
Now my ToV is activated and the activating codes are there already, I don't need to activate specifically. I can play ToV and OF offline, but on the home page of the Game (up-right), the "log in" statue is always with "right dot" and I can't log in successfully or recover the passwords.
I want to know how about the other steam-colleges here now? Till ending of last months, my EF functions perfect. If I can't verify my ToV, do I still have chance to verify or play EF in future? Even off-line version ?
Thanks for your help very much! :-\
Best
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Dear dArCReAvEr:
Thank you very much.
Could you tell me what you mean "new version steam" ? I downloaded my steam last week again, is this "new" version ? If it is a special version, where I can download it ?
Now my ToV is activated and the activating codes are there already, I don't need to activate specifically. I can play ToV and OF offline, but on the home page of the Game (up-right), the "log in" statue is always with "right dot" and I can't log in successfully or recover the passwords.
I want to know how about the other steam-colleges here now? Till ending of last months, my EF functions perfect. If I can't verify my ToV, do I still have chance to verify or play EF in future? Even off-line version ?
Thanks for your help very much! :-\
Best
Yes, it's a new "special" version. If you already have a steam-coh you can download it for free in your game library:
(http://s14.directupload.net/images/140116/9dhbaeyk.png)
At least I think so. I've never purchased the steam version from CoH and activated my CD keys instead when the servers went offline.
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It's ridiculous situation. Passes day by day and no arrives patch allows modding CoH. This is obviously not yours fault but you should inform us what you are planning. Will you wait to new patch from Relic (maybe to infinity) or adjust your mod to previous version CoH. If you will chose wait to official patch are you aware that might not happen in next few months or at all.
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It's ridiculous situation. Passes day by day and no arrives patch allows modding CoH. This is obviously not yours fault but you should inform us what you are planning. Will you wait to new patch from Relic (maybe to infinity) or adjust your mod to previous version CoH. If you will chose wait to official patch are you aware that might not happen in next few months or at all.
Yes, this current situation sucks. To give you guys a quick update:
We're fixing bugs and polishing stuff in our internal which was not final yet and we hope that we can immediately release our patch once relic released their patch for CoH. We have to see when that will be, but I'm pretty confident it won't take ages anymore. From my knowledge a new big CoH 2 update is arriving in the near future, and my guess is that CoH will receive its patch shortly after.
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or they will continue with their plan, abandon coh1 and make coh2 better because EF mod is giving them bad benefits.
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I was looking forward to trying this mod for the first time. The problem I had was that I couldn't seem to select either Soviet or Ostheer, but the mod does launch.
I later found this thread and now I fear I won't ever get to try the mod. I understand why people speculate that Relic did it 'on purpose' in an attempt to get more people to buy Company of Heroes 2(Which I in all honesty, believe is not worthy the title of sequel.). But at the same time, I'll say; "Suspect not malice in what can more easily be explained by ignorance".
I read that Company of Heroes 2.601 should still work with a older version of EF Mod, but I can't seem to find it anywhere so I'm starting to lose hope in this. I doubt the patch by Relic will be coming out anytime soon.
Shame Company of Heroes 2 isn't as moddable(yet? Maybe they'll milk it as much as possible first).
Despite me not having played the mod yet, I'll say great work to the devs. By the small amount of footage I've seen(I want to explore all the new units myself :P) it looks amazing. Keep us updated on this, please!
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Coh 2.602 works great with this patch, no errors or glicthes but also no online playing, only skirmishes vs cpu. The same situation is for the other mods.. You don not need coh steam version to play this mod.
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I have tried with 2.602 but it seems that it is not working though... So still waiting for the real update here >.<
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or they will continue with their plan, abandon coh1 and make coh2 better because EF mod is giving them bad benefits.
It is SEGA's plan. Not relic. I've seen it before. SEGA destroy games with patch watings that are months long. Hotfixes? Nah, not the SEGA way. Some of my favorite games got assf***ed by SEGA because they shut down the project after the first two patches cus sales was starting to drop.
So the game was unplayable but they got paid... I kinda knew this would happen when SEGA took over, told some friends they were gonna fuck it all up and all, but there is nothing we can do about it so.. Whats the point of trying.
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or they will continue with their plan, abandon coh1 and make coh2 better because EF mod is giving them bad benefits.
It is SEGA's plan. Not relic. I've seen it before. SEGA destroy games with patch watings that are months long. Hotfixes? Nah, not the SEGA way. Some of my favorite games got assf***ed by SEGA because they shut down the project after the first two patches cus sales was starting to drop.
So the game was unplayable but they got paid... I kinda knew this would happen when SEGA took over, told some friends they were gonna fuck it all up and all, but there is nothing we can do about it so.. Whats the point of trying.
Yes, this makes total sense since SEGA invested money to get CoH to steam instead of just abandoning support altogether when Quazal Servers closed on May 13th of last year...
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:'( please simply make the oshteer available for 2.602
i really like this mod, and my internet is not so good. i just want to play skirmish via lan with my friends.
thank you for your effort. EF team are amazing.
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Iam really looking forward, iam sure Relic will release nearly an new Patch.
SEGA plans to implement "Battle Servers" for CoH2 and CoH1. Maybe it needs its time but we can be sure EF will work again ;D
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In mean time they should've revert the last patch... its broken anyway, not only for mods.
But they are only making us to wait... :(
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Why making us waiting while they can completely destroy the game and start making money from the new game?
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IF there is any 'shady activity' happening, its not on Relic's part. I read a preview article for CoH2 where they had nothing but praise for the EFmod, citing it as a source of inspiration in fact! Furthermore, they were directly quoted as saying that they intentionally 'patched in' some changes to make the EFmod teams task easier (this was back before THQ finally went under mind you).
So yeah, as I see it, if there are 'shenanigans' at play, they are on the part of SEGA or STEAM (or that third-party 'legacy support' mob that got mentioned), not Relic.
¬JD
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or they will continue with their plan, abandon coh1 and make coh2 better because EF mod is giving them bad benefits.
It is SEGA's plan. Not relic. I've seen it before. SEGA destroy games with patch watings that are months long. Hotfixes? Nah, not the SEGA way. Some of my favorite games got assf***ed by SEGA because they shut down the project after the first two patches cus sales was starting to drop.
So the game was unplayable but they got paid... I kinda knew this would happen when SEGA took over, told some friends they were gonna fuck it all up and all, but there is nothing we can do about it so.. Whats the point of trying.
Yes, this makes total sense since SEGA invested money to get CoH to steam instead of just abandoning support altogether when Quazal Servers closed on May 13th of last year...
Acutally it does. The old version had THQ's logo in it and had to be shut down. After the THQ bankrupt sale they released a new steam version putting the price up to 25Euro for Coh + Exp. When people didn't want to get COH2, they still wanted to play COH again. The same way i played SC1 the most right before SC2 came out. Thus they buy the 25Euro COH edition.
Now that the 25Euro COH edition don't work anymore people will get COH2 to play online. If they go back to COH when they fix it in april or whatever. They still might have some thousand new sales.
But then again a thousand or just afjew hundred sales don't mean much. So my guess is that there will be an expansion to COH 2 or a new release soon. SEGA has done it with other games. One of which i enjoyed alot, Universe At War. Even hotfixes took over a month to release. After four patches the game still had issues and died shortly after it got abandoned.
If people start playing COH2 they will not only earn on sales but DLC. Maby the next patch for COH 1 will be DLC patch, or pay for online play.
Only time will tell. It's february now and i think march or april is the time they will release the already created fix. Why? Because it's SEGA. Total war Rome 2 is published by Sega. Colonial Marines is a first-person shooter video game developed by Gearbox Software and published by SEGA!
SEGA fucks everything up!
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Idiots from SEGA have forgotten about one fact. MoW: Asault Squad 2 incoming soon. I think they won't manage update CoH2 which still has many bugs. So, I wish from myself that incoming MoW will totally crush and blow out CoH2. SEGA deserves it for their approach for customers. Ofcourse not everyone will play MoW because it is more difficult and realistic than CoH but I hope that at least part present players will abandon CoH2.
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@Monos: I hope you're wrong!
By the way, i think a great game is recognized because it has great mods (which means modders wanted to put their time to enhance it).
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oshteer on 2.602
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GOD DAMN IT I CANT WAIT NO MORE >:( >:( >:( >:( >:(
gimme easter front, right now!
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GOD DAMN IT I CANT WAIT NO MORE >:( >:( >:( >:( >:(
gimme easter front, right now!
Dude, you should write it on official company of heroes forum. It's not EF team's fault. You may say "thank you" for SEGA. You can play Ostheer on 2.602 it has been described in this forum.
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I have a backup of Coh Steam from June 2013. My idea was basically to install the game from that backup and to observe the updated file. This way, i would have created a patch to revert to old version of Coh_steam to play EF.
The problem is that, even with auto-updates disabled, steam update the game to the latest version.
I can't find any tool to extract the files contained in the backup. Any of you have an idea ?
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Just install the basic company of heroes : Tales of Valor on steam. It should be unlocked for download in your steam library. This version won't work for online gaming (unless you're using tunngle for emulated LAN games) but you can play Eastern Front with that version.
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Ok. Thanks for the tip. Sometime i try to search for complex ways whereas there are very simple others.
EDIT: Where can i find the factionfix.dll without downloading the whole 1.7 again ?
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There's a thread open in general discussion:
http://www.easternfront.org/forums/index.php?topic=11013.msg152151#msg152151 (http://www.easternfront.org/forums/index.php?topic=11013.msg152151#msg152151)
;)
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Thanks. I saw this one but i didn't get to the page 2 as i was nearly whole written in russian...
I think you should mention this workaround, including a link to the dll, in the front page for the players who prefer to play with your mod while waiting. I may be pessimist but i don't think the fix will come soon.
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Yo. Maby you could contact these guys and include their fixes, balance changes to Eastern Front.
So that EF will be the ultimate thing out there. And a true Expansion to the original. :)
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Contact who?
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Copied the link but never pasted it :(
http://www.coh2.org/topic/10886/elite-mod-coh--download-and-changelog
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Yo. Maby you could contact these guys and include their fixes, balance changes to Eastern Front.
So that EF will be the ultimate thing out there. And a true Expansion to the original. :)
I'm sort of negotiating and investigating already, however it seems that their direction towards "balancing" vCoH is not the way I personally would balance vCoH. They are too occupied fixing stuff that is not broken (apart from sniper mechanics, which we'll feature within our next major EF release once relic gets the patch done). However, time will tell.
Thanks for notifying :)
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Their officer change (to make it a valid unit in a T1-T2-T4 strat), M10 fix and more wasn't dumb though. ;)
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Just a heads up.
My steam just downloaded a new patch for CoH New Steam version and the change log says they fixed mod support:
Version 2.700.2.30
General
- Added: mutliqueue automatch search functionality
Bug Fixes
- Fixed: Arranged Team Stats are always displaying the 1st (host) User of the Arranged team
- Fixed: Leaderboards repeat the same 46 players
- Fixed: Users can randomly be the British faction during Panzerkrieg and Assault games
- Fixed: Temporarily lagging player causes game to lag for seconds to minutes
- Fixed: Changing tabs becomes unresponsive when introducing lag + joining busy chat channels
- Fixed: Game List appears to be filtered when Filters are turned off
- Fixed: 3v3 and 4v4 matches not being played
- Fixed: modding does not work
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Good news ! Hope it will fix the mod for real !
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I guess now is our turn to release a patch ::)
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After it updated, it now plays for like 5 minutes then crashes.....ugh this is disappointing
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Yeah, saw it on FB today (https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=728606880503641&set=a.170258396338495.39479.121191071245228&type=1). Relic specifically stated that it should fix Eastern Front.
(http://i530.photobucket.com/albums/dd349/I_am_a_Spoon/CoHEFFB_zpsa26e5658.png) (http://s530.photobucket.com/user/I_am_a_Spoon/media/CoHEFFB_zpsa26e5658.png.html)
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It seems there is a bit of misunderstanding around this new patch and the effect it had on Eastern Front. Do not worry comrades, I'll explain it in layman terms:
Relic didn't fix EF, they "allowed" us to fix it.
So, that means they enabled once more to use our custom factions. But remember every time they update their mod, they break our Strawman fix(recrew) and we need to update it. This is not going to change unless Relic, Smoking Gun Interactive and we work together to release the patch, which it won't happen anytime soon it seems(and not because we don't want, you can be sure about it).
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Good news regardless. I'm glad it got sorted out (somewhat). :)
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I'm not sure how important this is going to be to those working on the latest patch version, but:
- The game actually crashes in LESS than 5min, but it seems to do so after the same amount of time has passed in every game.
- This effects all games, regardless of factions present in-game, including games with 'vanilla' (base and OF) factions ONLY (So not just the new EF added ones). This has been tested through multiple skirmish games, but I expect the campaign missions would be effected as well.
Look forward to seeing the results of the patch once you guys have it ready. I remember there was new building supposedly ready (or very nearly so) for implementation. Any more news with stuff like that?
~JD
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I guess there will be few separated patches in the time, but its not up to me to tell for sure :)
My guess is that the crash fix patch will be released alone or combined with some visual stuff that you mentioned.
And some time later the balance patch will be released.
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New CoH Patch has been released! And i read about "- Fixed: modding does not work" in the patch notes!!! This might be the great chance for eastern front!
LETS FIND OUT GAIS!
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New Problem: The game crashes when i use bots in under a minute.
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New Problem: The game crashes when i use bots in under a minute.
Noted. We have to update our FactionFix.dll. This may take some time due to our programmer needing to get some spare time for that.
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Cant wait!!!!
how i can turn off auto updates COH in S(hit)EAM?
Good job !
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Far as I can tell, the last CoH patch (just happened a few days ago) fixed *this* mod.
Nonetheless, you can disable auto updates by right clicking the game on the left side of the screen, Properties, Updates, and change "Always keep this game up to date" to "Do not automatically update this game."
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The mod is fixed but the crashing issue happens (after a minute or two the game crashes). Hopefully there is a patch for this soon :>
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Get to work already! As an angry fan I am allowed to decide about your free time. Do what I say so i can play the game!
You may get one less asskick.
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They do not earn any money from that. Be simply patient...
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SollingDown really? That was not nice of you at all, this guys have made one of the best EF mods (if not the best) asking nothing in return and have often been slowed by official patches that disrupted their work and you dare use such tone? Seriously, I have no words...
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Seriously, I have no words...
Read my post again and scan it for possible sarcasm and irony. You may find something. I really thought this forum had a sense of humor.
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Always consider, it's harder to interpret emotions/intentions inside written words than in any other form.
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it's harder to interpret emotions/intentions inside written words
Madame, see what I wrote: "As an angry fan I am allowed to decide about your free time. "
It`s kinda obvious. ;)
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Whatever! lets stop the pointless displays shall we?
A serious question: Is there *any* idea on an ETA for the new patch at all? I understand the team all has 'day jobs' and so-forth and so on. I'm just curious.
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Okay, so I'm not the most patient person ever, but at least I'm being nice about it (or trying to be anyway)! ^^;
~JD
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Soon hopefully? Whenever Cope gets some free time. It'll certainly be getting fixed, we have new things that need added pronto.
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Everybody is very much aware of what's happening in Crimea right now, but this is neither the topic, nor the forum to discuss it. So don't.
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Do you release the Patch which fix EF and a few weeks later the new EF Version or do you put these two patches together?????
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Is it possible to just give us a date, when it will be done?
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No date. Sorry.
Keep in mind; we arent a company ;)
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Might want to talk to the Battle of the Bulge mod team. Not sure why but that mod is still running on steam and so far stable. Not sure if it has to do with the factions it uses for the mod or not. I tried Modern Combat and that is not running at all.
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Modern Combat, Blitzkrieg, The Great War and all the other mods that are not like Eastern Front are going to work because they don't need to do anything at all after each patch, unlike us. So far, the only mods screwed after each new patch are Normandy 44 and Eastern Front.
If MC doesn't work, perhaps they tweaked something else, however, it is not close to what we have done so, no one can help us.
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Correction: Normandy 1944 works! use the latest patch. Eastern Front though, will there be a patch? not in the last few months so no. Nothing to see here move along back to another mod.
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@Beyondfubar
You should inform yourself better, otherwise you end like a fool. Nope, Normandy 44 and Eastern Front work the same right now, because both use the same custom DLL. So both crashes. If you played that mod you would have know this.
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Sorry for the delay guys, I am just very busy and when I finally have a day off I manage to lock myself out for 6 hours... :(
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Lol, I hope weather was good so you dont count this time as a lost :) :P
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Sorry for the delay guys, I am just very busy and when I finally have a day off I manage to lock myself out for 6 hours... :(
Good luck cope, we really appreciate your work
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No date. Sorry.
Keep in mind; we arent a company ;)
http://www.easternfront.org/forums/index.php?topic=10969.0
That's not what this says :P
Anyway! Waiting patiently!
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Well, not a company in the sense that we're registered anywhere or get paid for this stuff. Not yet anyway :P
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I guess Cope is working on the fix atm from what I can see :P
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Sorry for the delay guys, I am just very busy and when I finally have a day off I manage to lock myself out for 6 hours... :(
good work there Cope :P i hope the weather was nice ^^
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Well, it was okay. I went to the institute where I normally work and got me a book to kill the time.
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So it will never be done, or like in a year?
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No need to read new changelogs right XD?