Status of official patch release? Where are we now with the public Beta?

[Longstreet_slith]

I have been following comments with the Public Beta....and have been playing myself. It looks as if it is pretty ready to go, with some minor bugs found and being corrected. How close are we to release of the official patch?

Thanks,
Longstreet

[ericbabe]

There are only about five things left to do in my to-do list for this, only one of which is a critical game item.  I also have two save games with potential problems that I still need to look at.  I'm hoping to get a new build up by early next week.

[Gil R.]

We've also wanted to give those of you testing the public beta patch enough time to catch any traces of the National Will bug that we believe has been stamped out. I'm assuming that the lack of complaints about N.W. not changing after successful sieges of cities means that the problem is indeed gone -- it certainly appears that this is the case.

[Gil R.]

Just to update y'all... Eric has made some additional changes based on recent reports, changes that had to be made before we could release the patch. (Whoever invented public beta-testing was a genius!) If this all tests well, then we've got ourselves a patch. Shouldn't be too long, so keep checking back.

[MorningDew]

Awesome. Looking forward to playing the newest patch. I really enjoyed the couple of games I played with the beta.

[Longstreet_slith]

Any chance for the public release of the patch in time for the Thanksgiving break? Hope, hope....[&o]

Longstreet

[Longstreet_slith]

Any word? Are we close to a Thanksgiving present? [&o]

-Longstreet [;)]

[Erik Rutins]

We are going to stick with the public beta version through Thanksgiving. We believe this will be the same as the official version. We're working to coordinate a release with a few other elements post-Thanksgiving to hopefully get FOF a bit more attention as far as all the improvements that have happened in the year since its original release. The delay is not for additional coding or changes, it's just to make it a better release in terms of promotion.

[Gil R.]

So what this means is that those people who tend to shun beta patches and wait for the gold release can go to the Members area and get this beta patch and feel pretty secure that they're playing the equivalent of an officially released patch. We have no plans to make further changes to it at this point (barring something unforeseen, like a new CTD being discovered).

[desertstorm]

Hallo Gil, can you mail me the new beta patch? I can not new register my FOF because i have changed my Username and email adress. After many mails to the matrix support, there is still no help or response from there.

[Gil R.]

I have a hunch that this post will get someone's attention. Perhaps that will solve matters.

I'm not even sure if I'd be able to e-mail it, since it's more than 10MB, and my e-mail account doesn't like sending such big files.

[Erik Rutins]

ORIGINAL: desertstorm
Hallo Gil, can you mail me the new beta patch? I can not new register my FOF because i have changed my Username and email adress. After many mails to the matrix support, there is still no help or response from there.

Are you e-mailing us at support@matrixgames.com? Drop me an e-mail and I'll see if we've received anything from you. Everything that is received here is generally answered.

Regards,

- Erik

[desertstorm]

OK, Erik the email is on the way!  I have send three mails in the last 10 days to the matrix support, but no answer.

[desertstorm]

Can someone mail me the beta patch please?

[desertstorm]

Very nice support here! Many Thanks

[CeltiCid]

you can download the public beta patch in the members area in this web, after you registered into, and registered your game.

more instruccions here:

tm.asp?m=1412553

[desertstorm]

My problem is i can not new register my FOF after i have changend my user and email adress!
after a lot of mails to the matrix support, there is no message

[Longstreet_slith]

Hi Erik,

So...where are we now regarding the official release of the patch? [8|] I noticed that someone reported a cavalry charging crash situation and that was going to be looked at.

Just wondering....[;)]

Thanks,
-Longstreet [:)]

[ericbabe]

The cavalry crash is fairly rare (it only seems to happen sometimes when cavalry charges cavalry), so we shan't delay the patch over this.  We will look into fixing this problem though in a subsequent patch.

[Longstreet_slith]

Sounds good! The only reason I am asking so much about the public release is that I cannot access the final Beta patch through the members area. I legitimately own the game and when I try to register it, I receive the message "key already in use". [:@] I have emailed tech support -- a number of days ago -- but have never received a response or help. [&:] So...I have to wait for the official patch, I guess. I have my game serial number if someone at Matrix would register the game for me so I could download the patch from the members section....[&o]

-Longstreet