Update from the Community Manager - 15 dec 2010

[Kallocain]

All the buzz this week is around Divine Wind that was just released, so I'll go a little in depth on that. The reception has been wonderful, so thank you all who bought it and provides feedback! Praise as well as constructive criticism is welcome. The achievement system, Paradox Connect still has a few quirks to work out, but seems to work nice for the most part, so that is nice!

There is a rumour that Divine Wind requires VertexShader 3.0, but this is not the case.
The requirements have been elevated a bit, but not that much.

Divine Wind is not available on Steam yet, but those of you who have the base game from Steam, I must urge you not to get the expansion elsewhere. It might work to mix, but I can not guarantee it. Steam will release it eventually.

Holiday Vacation
Most of use will be on vacation from Monday to a few days into January. We'll still check the forums though, but e-mail will be slower. That includes the support e-mail, I will direct everyone to the forums instead. Merry Christmas, happy holidays or what ever you believe in!

Dreamlords
The Dreamlords moderator Necrullz has arranged a live chat where mods and the developers will be on the new Paradox IRC channel to answer all questions you might have. Be sure to stop by! More information here: http://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum...nd-Moderator-FAQ-day!&p=11899040#post11899040

Cities in Motion
Singelton Mosby has written a new beta AAR for Cities in Motion. Lots of pretty pictures and tutorial-like introduction to the game as well as to AAR's, very nice!

Random from the Forum
Closed beta for Magicka has started. Here are some pictures to tease you a bit more!
Wanted features in Supreme Rules: Cold War
Playing the Demo and general help for a nooby (spoilers...please!)

 

[artfox]

Not everybody will be taking vacation...

I will try to read through and confirm as many bugs as possible... So when rest of the team comes back, they will have plenty to do *evil smile*

 

[Kallocain]

Ahem, can we expect an hotfix before you people leave till 2011? It should be possible to cover some basic but major bugs, as the AI - Horde issue for example.

Hotfixes are for really critical things, like if no one was able to start the game. Otherwise it's just a patch.
As I said the reception of DW has been really good, so there is no need for a hotfix, but we are working on a patch of course. When that will arrive is not settled yet.

 

[Johan]

Ahem, can we expect an hotfix before you people leave till 2011? It should be possible to cover some basic but major bugs, as the AI - Horde issue for example.

No major bugs have been found AFAIK. There is a minor glitch that lets the AI annex a horde if its small enough to be annexed and is completely defeated.