Space Empires IV and V Pack

Happy Winterfest, knights! Have you been naughty this year, or nice?

Don't want to answer that question? We respect that. Regardless, we have some treats for you!

Grinchlin Assault Prestige Mission

The Grinchlins have vowed to destroy Impostoclaus and steal all his presents! Spiral HQ has located the Grinchlin base of operations on Mount Krampus and tasked you with putting an end to their humbug. Grinchlins are stingy and will not drop loot during battle. Instead, their treasure is stored in shelters throughout the stronghold. At each shelter, collect the loot and leave the mountain, or leave the treasure and climb further toward the summit! Collect special materials from Mount Krampus to craft 5* Grinchlin reskinned weapons:

• Deadly Candy Poker
• Nog Blaster
• Jack Froster
• Scalding Hot Cocoa
• Humbug Hazer

Can you make it all the way to the summit? If so, you may win Golden or Silver Solstice Rings. These 4* trinkets protect against fire and freeze with a +1 health bonus. Leave as-is, or combine to craft a 5* Grand Solstice Ring trinket!

And remember, don't eat the Grinchlin Snowballs. Brrr.



Polar Prize Boxes

Bundle up with a Polar Prize Box from the Supply Depot! These contain items favored by knights stationed near Cradle's polar regions:

• Polar Leafy Aura
• Polar Halo
• Polar Wolver Tail
• Polar Wolf Hoods (Twilight, Day, and Night varieties)
• Polar Wolf Coats (Twilight, Day, and Night varieties)
• Polar Accessory items
• Winter confetti
• Flawed snowballs
• Buckets of snowballs

Place a bucket of snowballs on the ground, and for a time, everyone can grab a snowball from it. Fire at will!

For Polar Prize Box details, please direct your attention here.

Decoration Kit Prize Boxes

Get into the spirit of Winterfest by decorating your guild hall! These boxes, may contain:

• Holiday Presents (red, green, white)
• Candles (red, green, white)
• Winterfest Trees (red, green, white)

You may also find some other surprises!

• Winterfest Table (it has a platter of cookies and milk on it)
• Blue Wandering Snipe
• White Flying Snipe
• Green Wandering Snipe

For more information, cast your eyes over here.

Save Winterfest!

Those Grinchlins just won't quit. As with last year, they aim to ruin Winterfest for everyone, and Impostoclaus wants YOU to assist him by doing the Save Winterfest prestige mission!

If you've been naughty this year, redeem yourself...or just get red, green, and white Winter Wish tokens. Impostoclaus' assistant, Randolph, is stationed by the Haven fountain and will trade:

Red Winter Wishes for

• Santy Sallet
• Snowy Santy Hat
• Winter Confetti (15)
• Flawed Snowball (15)
• Frosty Prize Box

Green Winter Wishes for

• Santy Pith Hat
• Snowy Pith Hat
• Winter Confetti (15)
• Flawed Snowball (15)
• Frosty Prize Box

White Winter Wishes for

• Tailed Santy Hat
• Snowy Tailed Santy Hat
• Winter Confetti (15)
• Flawed Snowball (15)
• Frosty Prize Box

Supply Depot and Featured Auctions

Do check out the Supply Depot and Featured Auctions, where a variety of other goodies are available!

Winterfest is here through January 2, 2014, so come and celebrate while it lasts...

Hi MicroVolters,

Please be aware that our servers will be undergoing maintenance on Wednesday, December 11th from 10:30PM EST to Thursday, December 12th at 12:30AM EST to prepare for an update.

We apologize for the inconvenience this may cause and thank you for your patience.

- The MicroVolts Team

#MicroVolts #Maintenance #Update

We're aiming at releasing a client update tomorrow (Thursday) providing it passes testing today. Maintenance should be under three hours and will start at 10 AM GMT.

Check out the full patch notes which includes the Christmas Event, New Mini-game and bug fixes at http://forums.gamersfirst.com/topic/338765-patch-1141-461/

Heisters!

Get to the planning room! Bain's ready to tell you what's what.

Check out the Xmas Heist website right here!

Are you ready for the "Charlie Santa" Heist?


A: ;)


A: Dudes! you gotta let us do our thing. Wait for it. ;)

Get in there.

Almir
OVERKILL - a Starbreeze Studio

Not interested in reading balance notes? Find out how yesterday's Company of Heroes 2 update affected the factions in-game with Relic designer Braden Chan.

Playable content

• Form a team of heroes, equip them, and train them - 7 heroes are available
  
• Build defences in your dungeon - Ten modules (attack, defence, production) are available at the moment
  
• Random generation - Each dungeon is different and you have to manage your environment to survive
  
• 46 items available
  
• 7 monsters with different behaviours
  
• Carry your crystal to the exit
  
• Save & Quit system

Missing content (Beta and release)

• Active and passive skills for your heroes
  
• Technology Tree that will allow you to upgrade your modules with science
  
• Meta progression and different game starts (heroes, ship, modules, skills etc.)
  
• 30 heroes include the sevens of the Alpha
  
• New monsters
  
• New environments (Endless laboratory, different biomes etc.)
  
• New modules
  
• New items
  
• Develop background and stories of each heroes
  
• Tactical view
  
• And much more to come!

Known issues

• When you reload a save, some of your powered rooms might be unpowered when you continue your game

Game balancing is still work in progress, so let us know what you think!

A new build has been released for Junior Members+ - Download it now!

Changelog available @ official forums

Multiplayer Feedback to be given @ this thread.

Car Physics Focus Testing (CPFT), Feedback to be given in the following links:

Caterham Classic and Caterham R500 - Derby GP

Pagani Zonda R - Eifelwald

Any F3 shod car, although "officially" FC (A/B/C testing) - Florence GP

Be sure to leave feedback about multiplayer and the CPFT at the respective threads!

Hello everyone,

Steam should have a quick update for Nation Red to add some requested changes. If you have the update, the loading screen should indicate 1.00.0999.

Changes:

Multiplayer Visual: Player indicators are now color-coded and easier to see (make sure you enable Show Player Indicators in the game options)

Multiplayer Visual: When a player is killed, indicator flashes to make the player easier to find

Visual: Dead zombies now have lower contrast colors which makes them easier to spot against the living zombies

Visual: Level Up image which pops up above your player has been changed to be more visible and stay visible for a little longer

Bosses now spawn from all directions (360 degrees) on Cemetery level

Gamepad: Fixed last grenade also kicks bug

With the new stats introduced in the last update, the top 20 leaderboards will be auto-reset (Total Kills leaderboards are not affected). This reset is meant to make sure that all top 20 scorers have the new stats information included in their score (move the mouse cursor over a score to view these).

Remember with the Nation Red Steam leaderboards containing millions of scores, this should only affect the most dedicated Nation Red players!

On Thursday, the 12th of December at 18:00 GMT we´ll be in the ingame chat and also play a matches.
Join us, ask your questions and challenge the devs!
We´ll be in the game for a few hours, so there is a good chance you`ll get all the answers we can give and face a few of us in the Ærena :)
We´re looking forward to see you there!

Did you know? There is a living, breathing, technically real human being behind every Mighty Quest announcement and [developer] post? We even have proof!

Join Community Managers Errok and Sir Taki for their Fireside Brawl, Wednesdays at 1PM EST/6PM GMT on the official Mighty Quest for Epic Loot Twitch.tv page for your morning (or afternoon, or evening... really timezones, you don't make this easy on me) of Mighty Quest.

Need more livestreaming action? Of course you do. Join Esper from the Frag Dolls and Rook Fell (I know that person...) Wednesdays at 6PM EST/3PM PST for your nightly dose of Mighy Quest, over on the FragDolls Twitch.tv page.

One day, two awesome chances get in on the action. 1PM EST on the Mighty Quest for Epic Loot Twitch.tv channel, and 6PM EST on the FragDolls Twitch.tv page.

Happy looting!