So here in Montreal, Eternal Crusade HQ, Monday is kicking off for us - well for those of us that weren't working all weekend. As you are all big fans of Mondays like me, you know exactly how filled with excitement, anxiety, caffeine, lust for lunch already and finding out where my damn patch is.
After these big sales and influx of new players into our Alpha, here are a couple of things that are good to keep handy:
- We patch weekly or bi-weekly depending on how large the systems we're patching in are or the patch didn't pass Quality assurance. Patches usually happen on Tuesday, Wednesday or Thursday. Never on Monday, Friday or weekends as that is a recipe for disaster.
- An example of large systems, the customized loadout, upgrading to Unreal 4.10.1 or huge efforts like investigating, finding and creating workarounds for AMD issues.
- Our Early Access is a continuation of our Founders program. They are a helpful bunch and have been with us for 18 months give or take. They are also pretty vocal bunch so I sometimes like to cramp their style with a kill and a smile, or at least a sentence filled with sarcasm and innuendo, and most of our developers do as well. You fill find them on our eternalcrusade.com forums mainly.
- We usually don't like to write updates unless we have something meaningful, despite our efforts of being as transparent as possible. That's why you'll sometimes see us talking, sometimes we're quiet because we're working.
- You should also follow us on Social
- People often refer to me as Sexy Beast
So why am I writing this. Is there nothing new to report on my damn patch? Yes there is, but we take patches very seriously. We take quality seriously. We take very regular updates seriously.
DISCOUNT INFO
Don't worry about that countdown, we will continue at 20% discount during Alpha. You can take it easy and we don't need your money, so if you believe you won't be able to play on AMD or want to wait, you can do so with the thought that the discount stays. OK, we might not need your money, but we loooove your money to create more WAR fasters.
But our patch is on the way. I have this fetish of only going on record if I'm pretty confident it's correct and confirmed.
GIVE ME PATCH INFO DAMNIT
Right now, the patch containing Optimization (including AMD), Keybindings and the Cream of Corruption is Wednesday given it gets through Quality Assurance. It will also have tons of other improvements, balancing that always happenes every single patch.
PATCH INFO ENDS
Also some nice trivia from our regular friday Twitch cuonting the GW sale period over 3 days:
- 2 267 games played, only 6 server crashes, this is about 4 years played
- 697 883 kills
- 616 491 deaths
- 64 971 executions
- 87 275 rescues
WE NEED MORE HAMSTERS
That's technical speak for servers. Right now our main setup is in the Amazon Cloud in North America. We have started procedures so at least during Alpha, we will be playing in the same world, with servers in more locations than my cellar. I mean Amazon. That should decrease your ping roundtrip to us. Where, in what order and when is out of my hands, as if we're doing a single world, these servers need to be able to connect securely to our database center. Yes, the one that stores your precious.
That's it for now and we hope you like our openness, laid back attitude, horrible jokes, especially on twitch and our passion for what we're doing.
OK - I kid, we're mainly in this for the free 40K stuff we get.
Nathan