A 100 years ago French, German and British troops while fighting in world war I held truces during Christmas 1914. They exchanged Christmas greetings, sang Christmas carols and rumours say that they played a few football matches.

In the game Verdun we will celebrate this remarkable event by reproducing a similar scene from December 18 – 25 2014.

In between your fearsome matches there will be a Truce event where you can find soldiers dressed for the winter, join football matches and throw snowballs at each other. You might even spot a Scottish soldier that will appear in-game just for this event.

We will enforce these in-game activities, by setting up some competitions where you can win Verdun Christmas packages and even offer a nice discount for your friends to join in.

Competitions:

• 19 December; a YouTube Christmas Truce video contest for the best video about this event
  
• 20 December; a Steam Hub screenshot competition for the best in-game Christmas Truce screenshot
  
• 21 December; a Twitch TV giveaway for the Verdun streamers
  
• 22 December; a Twitter competition for the best WW1 Christmas carol text twittered @VerdunGame
  
• 23 December; a Facebook Christmas Card contest for the most entertaining Verdun best wishes card
  
  Submission will last until the 24th 10am Eastern time (GMT-5), winners will be announced on the 25th of December 2014. More information can be found on Steam.
  
  We hope you will enjoy the Holidays as much as we will!

A 100 years ago French, German and British troops while fighting in world war I held truces during Christmas 1914. They exchanged Christmas greetings, sang Christmas carols and rumours say that they played a few football matches.

In the game Verdun we will celebrate this remarkable event by reproducing a similar scene from December 18 – 25 2014.

In between your fearsome matches there will be a Truce event where you can find soldiers dressed for the winter, join football matches and throw snowballs at each other. You might even spot a Scottish soldier that will appear in-game just for this event.

We will enforce these in-game activities, by setting up some competitions where you can win Verdun Christmas packages and even offer a nice discount for your friends to join in.

Competitions:

• 19 December; a YouTube Christmas Truce video contest for the best video about this event
  
• 20 December; a Steam Hub screenshot competition for the best in-game Christmas Truce screenshot
  
• 21 December; a Twitch TV giveaway for the Verdun streamers
  
• 22 December; a Twitter competition for the best WW1 Christmas carol text twittered @VerdunGame
  
• 23 December; a Facebook Christmas Card contest for the most entertaining Verdun best wishes card

Submission will last until the 24th 10am Eastern time (GMT-5), winners will be announced on the 25th of December 2014. More information can be found on Steam.

We hope you will enjoy the Holidays as much as we will!

It took a bit longer than expected but v173 is now finally live. It introduces a new camera system which improves the image stability reducing Z-fighting and other shadow artifacts. Furthermore squad creation ingame is now possible and should help with balancing the games. These are just some highlights, for the full changelog please see:

http://steamcommunity.com/app/242860/discussions/0/613936039432728350/

We are also trying out to switch our project to Unity5 beta which brings a lot of cool new stuff. It will improve physics performance and has the possibility for PBR which really should boost graphics. If the beta is stable enough we will build with it. Check out the Unity 5 features preview:

http://unity3d.com/5

It took a bit longer than expected but v173 is now finally live. It introduces a new camera system which improves the image stability reducing Z-fighting and other shadow artifacts. Furthermore squad creation ingame is now possible and should help with balancing the games. These are just some highlights, for the full changelog please see:

http://steamcommunity.com/app/242860/discussions/0/613936039432728350/

We are also trying out to switch our project to Unity5 beta which brings a lot of cool new stuff. It will improve physics performance and has the possibility for PBR which really should boost graphics. If the beta is stable enough we will build with it. Check out the Unity 5 features preview:

http://unity3d.com/5

A day after the 96th anniversary of the end of the war on the 11th of November 1918, we launch another update. It's a big one as we bunched up quite some tweaks and improvements.

Most noticeable is the inclusion of Manual bolting as an option. Based on community feedback we decided that it would very fitting to include as a preference for the more realism focused players.

Secondly the spawn code received a big overhaul. We wanted players to go over the top together as a team so we introduced several measures to make sure people spawn together better and more efficient. Also it is now rewarding to advance as a squad NCO as you will earn points for spawning fellow squadmates near or in the enemy trenchlines. In addition you will be in formed when squadmembers are able spawn near you.

Another badly needed feature was the inclusion of the stamina bar and stance indicator (bottom right corner) which will make the spurts across nomansland more user friendly.

We also made the first steps of improving the prone, jump en deploy mechanics. These are heavily work in progress and we invite you to join us in polishing these, there will be small hotfixes in the the coming days to address the issues that may have arisen.

We want to thank all of Verdun's early access adopters for participating and we hope to join you in the trenches sometime!

- The Verdun team

November 12th 2014

• New: manual bolting as an option
  
• New: stamina bar display (bottom right)
  
• New: stance display (bottom right)
  
• New: in-game quit button will now ask for confirmation
  
• New: you can no longer switch to the different side if it's outnumbering the other side +3 players
  
• New: "over the top"-spawning. Players are now massed together before attacking
  
• New: "over the top"-spawning for defensive squads as well, 10 seconds (was 5 always)
  
• New: Successfully spawning a squad member in or near the enemy sectors will you points. (0 - 15 xp depending on the distance)
  
• New: Spawn protection, now 2 seconds
  
• New: At the start of the round, defenders spawn inside of the defending sector
  
• Tweaked: spawning attacker waves time slightly increased (3 seconds) to create more volume
  
• Tweaked: now always spawning with the most advanced squad member
  
• New: spawn indicator, which informs squad NCO's and other spawnable teammembers of pending squad reinforcements
  
• Tweaked Map - Argonne: Added more spawns and cover, especially the final sectors received tweaking
  
• Tweaked Map - Vosges: Added more cover and spawns in final sectors, some obstacles on the right flank
  
• Tweaked Map - Picardie: Massive increase in spawns, more tactical, some cover changes in the last german artillery sectors
  
• Tweaked Map - Artois: More cover in final sectors, deeper craters in nomanslands, more spawns
  
• New: ragdoll improved greatly (no more T-pose)
  
• New: added better prone block detection
  
• New: Audio options menu allows you to change audio settings (Stereo, 5.1 etc.)
  
• New: Clicking on playername in mainmenu will open the account page
  
• Fixed: overlapping text when attacking and defending sides switch
  
• Improved: ladder climbing
  
• New: second set of german voices
  
• New: win/lose music for entente and central powers
  
• Improved: tab colours for option screen buttons
  
• Fixed: free for all position being displayed twice in HUD
  
• Tweaked: lebel and lewis sights
  
• Fixed: problem with airplanes on argonne and picardie
  
• New: correct minimap for artois
  
• Fixed: issues with joining steam friends
  
• Fixed: joining friends through steam overlay
  
• Fixed: hipfire third person movement aim fix
  
• Fixed: rifle deathmatch spawn direction fix
  
• Fixed: first person water reflection fix
  
• Fixed: respawn & wave times based on server times
  
• New: added option to remove game tips
  
• Fixed: fixed control options menu scroll bar
  
• Fixed: fixed issues with australian server connection
  
• Fixed: fixed ladder step jitter issue
  
• Improved: increased bolt action recoil
  
• New: added better jumping detection
  
• Known issue: deploying has not improved and will need to be tweaked further.
  
• Known issue: jumping animation is twitchy.

A day after the 96th anniversary of the end of the war on the 11th of November 1918, we launch another update. It's a big one as we bunched up quite some tweaks and improvements.

Most noticeable is the inclusion of Manual bolting as an option. Based on community feedback we decided that it would very fitting to include as a preference for the more realism focused players.

Secondly the spawn code received a big overhaul. We wanted players to go over the top together as a team so we introduced several measures to make sure people spawn together better and more efficient. Also it is now rewarding to advance as a squad NCO as you will earn points for spawning fellow squadmates near or in the enemy trenchlines. In addition you will be in formed when squadmembers are able spawn near you.

Another badly needed feature was the inclusion of the stamina bar and stance indicator (bottom right corner) which will make the spurts across nomansland more user friendly.

We also made the first steps of improving the prone, jump en deploy mechanics. These are heavily work in progress and we invite you to join us in polishing these, there will be small hotfixes in the the coming days to address the issues that may have arisen.

We want to thank all of Verdun's early access adopters for participating and we hope to join you in the trenches sometime!

- The Verdun team

November 12th 2014

• New: manual bolting as an option
  
• New: stamina bar display (bottom right)
  
• New: stance display (bottom right)
  
• New: in-game quit button will now ask for confirmation
  
• New: you can no longer switch to the different side if it's outnumbering the other side +3 players
  
• New: "over the top"-spawning. Players are now massed together before attacking
  
• New: "over the top"-spawning for defensive squads as well, 10 seconds (was 5 always)
  
• New: Successfully spawning a squad member in or near the enemy sectors will you points. (0 - 15 xp depending on the distance)
  
• New: Spawn protection, now 2 seconds
  
• New: At the start of the round, defenders spawn inside of the defending sector
  
• Tweaked: spawning attacker waves time slightly increased (3 seconds) to create more volume
  
• Tweaked: now always spawning with the most advanced squad member
  
• New: spawn indicator, which informs squad NCO's and other spawnable teammembers of pending squad reinforcements
  
• Tweaked Map - Argonne: Added more spawns and cover, especially the final sectors received tweaking
  
• Tweaked Map - Vosges: Added more cover and spawns in final sectors, some obstacles on the right flank
  
• Tweaked Map - Picardie: Massive increase in spawns, more tactical, some cover changes in the last german artillery sectors
  
• Tweaked Map - Artois: More cover in final sectors, deeper craters in nomanslands, more spawns
  
• New: ragdoll improved greatly (no more T-pose)
  
• New: added better prone block detection
  
• New: Audio options menu allows you to change audio settings (Stereo, 5.1 etc.)
  
• New: Clicking on playername in mainmenu will open the account page
  
• Fixed: overlapping text when attacking and defending sides switch
  
• Improved: ladder climbing
  
• New: second set of german voices
  
• New: win/lose music for entente and central powers
  
• Improved: tab colours for option screen buttons
  
• Fixed: free for all position being displayed twice in HUD
  
• Tweaked: lebel and lewis sights
  
• Fixed: problem with airplanes on argonne and picardie
  
• New: correct minimap for artois
  
• Fixed: issues with joining steam friends
  
• Fixed: joining friends through steam overlay
  
• Fixed: hipfire third person movement aim fix
  
• Fixed: rifle deathmatch spawn direction fix
  
• Fixed: first person water reflection fix
  
• Fixed: respawn & wave times based on server times
  
• New: added option to remove game tips
  
• Fixed: fixed control options menu scroll bar
  
• Fixed: fixed issues with australian server connection
  
• Fixed: fixed ladder step jitter issue
  
• Improved: increased bolt action recoil
  
• New: added better jumping detection
  
• Known issue: deploying has not improved and will need to be tweaked further.
  
• Known issue: jumping animation is twitchy.

We've just just launched another big update, which addresses quite some wishes of the community. First of all, we added an in-game tutorial which will help new players to discover our unique features.

Another important improvement is the matchmaking: since the squads decide where people can join they were the major hurdle in evening up matches. This has been solved by allowing "play now" to create in-game squads right away.

On the community forums the topic of an adjustable FOV had been coming up more often. Especially since some players experience health issues on lower FOVs we decided to add this new setting to the game.

Last but not least: even more requested then the FOV setting was an Oceanic based server, since these players could not properly play on any existing server. We have now added an Australian based server! If you're the first squad to feet on on this new promised land, stay put for a while, it'll fill up :).

Thank you for playing Verdun and helping us shape the game!

v170

• Added an Australian server, replacing Asia/Japan for now. We now offer: EU, US, Australia.
  
• We added a short&simple tutorial for the first time opening the game. After that, any further help can be found in the options menu. We'll be adding more help/tooltips in the future.
  
• FOV can now be changed in the graphics options
  
• "PLAY NOW" will now automatically create a new squad in an existing game. This should help improve the matckmaking a lot.
  
• Squads will reserve the slots for all squadmates, preventing a kick if someone is joining on a slot while a previous squadmate was still loading.
  
• Improved picardie trench line boundaries: Will no longer say you're deserting while still defending inside your trench.
  
• Rifles now have more visual recoil
  
• Accidentally moving outside of the map while retreating is now 'fair', does not set timer to low
  
• Slightly adjusted the cover in the last sectors on Argonne
  
• Buffed melee: bash max. 2 hits to kill instead of 3
  
• Improved rendering performance in Flanders and Vosges
  
• Squad inventory display bug (after switching) fixed
  
• Added distance based retreat time (It is no longer impossible to retreat with just 10 seconds)
  
• Added a "Show game tips" option (enabled by default).
  
• Ping kick improved: it was too strict and will now wait and see if your ping recovers.
  
• CENTRAL POWERS HAS BEEN -> HAVE BEEN
  
• Score list ping updates better (was displaying 100 incorrectly for too long)
  
• Sniper scopes improved
  
• Empty squad bug fixed, will now properly be removed.
  
• Fixed: Sometimes there was no loading screen while loading the next map
  
• Fixed one specific peaceful barbed wire, made it angry.
  
• Wattle model graphics improved
  
• Fixed greyscale effect, no longer pixelated.

The full up to date changelog can be found here: http://steamcommunity.com/app/242860/discussions/0/613936039432728350/

We've just just launched another big update, which addresses quite some wishes of the community. First of all, we added an in-game tutorial which will help new players to discover our unique features.

Another important improvement is the matchmaking: since the squads decide where people can join they were the major hurdle in evening up matches. This has been solved by allowing "play now" to create in-game squads right away.

On the community forums the topic of an adjustable FOV had been coming up more often. Especially since some players experience health issues on lower FOVs we decided to add this new setting to the game.

Last but not least: even more requested then the FOV setting was an Oceanic based server, since these players could not properly play on any existing server. We have now added an Australian based server! If you're the first squad to feet on on this new promised land, stay put for a while, it'll fill up :).

Thank you for playing Verdun and helping us shape the game!

v170

• Added an Australian server, replacing Asia/Japan for now. We now offer: EU, US, Australia.
  
• We added a short&simple tutorial for the first time opening the game. After that, any further help can be found in the options menu. We'll be adding more help/tooltips in the future.
  
• FOV can now be changed in the graphics options
  
• "PLAY NOW" will now automatically create a new squad in an existing game. This should help improve the matckmaking a lot.
  
• Squads will reserve the slots for all squadmates, preventing a kick if someone is joining on a slot while a previous squadmate was still loading.
  
• Improved picardie trench line boundaries: Will no longer say you're deserting while still defending inside your trench.
  
• Rifles now have more visual recoil
  
• Accidentally moving outside of the map while retreating is now 'fair', does not set timer to low
  
• Slightly adjusted the cover in the last sectors on Argonne
  
• Buffed melee: bash max. 2 hits to kill instead of 3
  
• Improved rendering performance in Flanders and Vosges
  
• Squad inventory display bug (after switching) fixed
  
• Added distance based retreat time (It is no longer impossible to retreat with just 10 seconds)
  
• Added a "Show game tips" option (enabled by default).
  
• Ping kick improved: it was too strict and will now wait and see if your ping recovers.
  
• CENTRAL POWERS HAS BEEN -> HAVE BEEN
  
• Score list ping updates better (was displaying 100 incorrectly for too long)
  
• Sniper scopes improved
  
• Empty squad bug fixed, will now properly be removed.
  
• Fixed: Sometimes there was no loading screen while loading the next map
  
• Fixed one specific peaceful barbed wire, made it angry.
  
• Wattle model graphics improved
  
• Fixed greyscale effect, no longer pixelated.

The full up to date changelog can be found here: http://steamcommunity.com/app/242860/discussions/0/613936039432728350/

It's been a month since the last big announcement in September, a good moment to look back at how we're doing and summarizing recent improvements to the game.
Our strategy since the last big content update is to focus on polishing the game in a very broad sense: Performance, bugs and game balancing/tweaking.





Performance has improved greatly, you should be able to see a higher frame rate and the game should feel a lot smoother. Furthermore we've verified that the reduced memory usage has solved (almost) all memory crashes. These were very important topics to address.
Next to the technical stuff, we have made various game tweaks and we'll keep on doing so.
While we're happy with the recent changes, we're not satisfied yet! We still have enough to do: An in-game tutorial is in the making, squad matchmaking&balancing needs to be addressed ASAP, medals (and achievements) are missing, we want to support clan matches...and besides a lot of more stuff on our list there are still enough requests from the community that we're also adding (A FOV setting being a recent one).
Please keep letting us know about your problems/wishes.




One topic that has been neglected for too long is documentation/guides. We finally have guides available! In this game we are inventing some new FPS mechanics (such as our unique squad co-op xp) but since we're doing stuff that has not been done before an explanation was very much missing. So for those who were never aware of the co-op XP, check out the squad guide!

Find the guides here: http://steamcommunity.com/id/verdunGame/myworkshopfiles/?section=guides&appid=242860

Got any questions, want to discuss the latest update? I'm streaming Verdun on twitch this night, join me on: http://www.twitch.tv/M2Hnl (20:00 GMT+1)


Once again, thank you for participating in our beta, we're dedicated to making this a polished game before release.



Hereby a complete list of all fixes since the last announcement:

October 23th 2014

• Clarified role specializations (Role weapon unlocking). Now referred to as role specialization I, II, III and sometimes IV. Unlocking new weapon specializations is now quicker, as intended. Typically 1 - 2 matches to unlock a full role, as was announced in: http://steamcommunity.com/app/242860/discussions/0/613935404212891493/#p11. Your role XP has not changed.
  
• Performance: Further improved camera culling, 5% to 30% gain.
  
• Voice commands (E menu) are now also shown in the chat (squad members only)
  
• Tweaked graphicsettings for best graphics vs performance (Mostly terrain detail higher, LOD distance lower)
  
• Removed career and weapon levelling popup (as they have no function)
  
• Ladder climbing is now smoother
  
• Spectating someone who is using binocs has been fixed.
  
• Main menu squad lobby will no longer automatically set to ready after a minute.
  
• No more black spots on the terrain on lower settings

October 20th 2014 (168.1 was also released this day)

• Fixed lag spike when changing camera (most noticable at death)
  
• Fixed rendering issues on certain characters&sleeves in 168
  
• (Un)Mute command is no longer case sensitive.
  
• Gas buff: 25% more deadly, 75% bigger area. Gas visual doesn't pop up out of nowhere anymore
  
• Wire nerf: 40% less damage, bit more slowing
  
• Fix for weapon bugs introduced in v168
  
• Main menu server selection fix

October 20th 2014

• Rendering performance improved (Better FPS?)
  
• Memory usage optimized (20% less or better): Crash fixes and faster loading times.
  
• Artois tree fix
  
• Possible fix for double listed players
  
• HUD bottom-left: removed the unused "(0)"
  
• Localization update
  
• /mute and /unmute chat command added (you will be able to mute players via the scoreboard later as well)
  
• Voice command menu will now auto close after 15 seconds
  
• Display friends-only matches on the map per default if any friends are online
  
• Never show more then 5 matches per location on the map (browser window shows all)
  
• Mainmenu welcome screen (sugested squads) will ony show friends
  
• Friend names marked green in all squad preview windows
  
• Friend window is now always visible (used to hide when opening the map view)
  
• Possible fix for match getting stuck (no one able to do damage)
  
• Water fix in Flanders
  
• Ladders can be climbed more easily
  
• Implemented anti cheating measurements.

October 9th 2014

• Stutter fix, finally -really- fixed. This big lag spike happened every few seconds or so.

October 8th 2014

• In-game support for controllers (options -> controls page redo)
  
• Optimized network traffic some more when players spawn
  
• Removed ghost bug message, this was fixed months ago. Instead, IF you experience an error you will get a much clearer error message
  
• Added ability to reset ALL data (mainmenu -> Account). When used, a timestamp will be shown with the last reset date.
  
• Fixed level 100 bug
  
• Fixed gas teamdamage causing players to get stuck in a black screen
  
• Fixed weapon audio volume (sometimes not hearable when the general volume slider is low)
  
• Game version and network version are now split: a game version update will no longer split the playerbase as long as we didn't change any network features.

October 4th 2014

• Spawning beneath level in Artois is fixed
  
• Fixed deployed MG sight(Lewis Fix)
  
• Fixed smoke exploit on the tank in Argonne
  
• Grenade smoke will no longer shrink running through it
  
• Spawn anthems of Stosstruppen, Canadians and British are working properly

October 3rd 2014

• playertags will be shown immediately when aiming at any friendlies, this should help clarify who to shoot at.
  
• artois improvements
  
• stone pebbles re-added on all terrains
  
• gas choke
  
• smoke particle performance improved
  
• fixed random game crash while playing
  
• mouse acceleration off per default (matters for new players only)
  
• the minimap will only show an icon for the current goal (defend or attack). The other trench line icons have been removed for clarification.
  
• rotated rock fix

It's been a month since the last big announcement in September, a good moment to look back at how we're doing and summarizing recent improvements to the game.
Our strategy since the last big content update is to focus on polishing the game in a very broad sense: Performance, bugs and game balancing/tweaking.





Performance has improved greatly, you should be able to see a higher frame rate and the game should feel a lot smoother. Furthermore we've verified that the reduced memory usage has solved (almost) all memory crashes. These were very important topics to address.
Next to the technical stuff, we have made various game tweaks and we'll keep on doing so.
While we're happy with the recent changes, we're not satisfied yet! We still have enough to do: An in-game tutorial is in the making, squad matchmaking&balancing needs to be addressed ASAP, medals (and achievements) are missing, we want to support clan matches...and besides a lot of more stuff on our list there are still enough requests from the community that we're also adding (A FOV setting being a recent one).
Please keep letting us know about your problems/wishes.




One topic that has been neglected for too long is documentation/guides. We finally have guides available! In this game we are inventing some new FPS mechanics (such as our unique squad co-op xp) but since we're doing stuff that has not been done before an explanation was very much missing. So for those who were never aware of the co-op XP, check out the squad guide!

Find the guides here: http://steamcommunity.com/id/verdunGame/myworkshopfiles/?section=guides&appid=242860

Got any questions, want to discuss the latest update? I'm streaming Verdun on twitch this night, join me on: http://www.twitch.tv/M2Hnl (20:00 GMT+1)


Once again, thank you for participating in our beta, we're dedicated to making this a polished game before release.



Hereby a complete list of all fixes since the last announcement:

October 23th 2014

• Clarified role specializations (Role weapon unlocking). Now referred to as role specialization I, II, III and sometimes IV. Unlocking new weapon specializations is now quicker, as intended. Typically 1 - 2 matches to unlock a full role, as was announced in: http://steamcommunity.com/app/242860/discussions/0/613935404212891493/#p11. Your role XP has not changed.
  
• Performance: Further improved camera culling, 5% to 30% gain.
  
• Voice commands (E menu) are now also shown in the chat (squad members only)
  
• Tweaked graphicsettings for best graphics vs performance (Mostly terrain detail higher, LOD distance lower)
  
• Removed career and weapon levelling popup (as they have no function)
  
• Ladder climbing is now smoother
  
• Spectating someone who is using binocs has been fixed.
  
• Main menu squad lobby will no longer automatically set to ready after a minute.
  
• No more black spots on the terrain on lower settings

October 20th 2014 (168.1 was also released this day)

• Fixed lag spike when changing camera (most noticable at death)
  
• Fixed rendering issues on certain characters&sleeves in 168
  
• (Un)Mute command is no longer case sensitive.
  
• Gas buff: 25% more deadly, 75% bigger area. Gas visual doesn't pop up out of nowhere anymore
  
• Wire nerf: 40% less damage, bit more slowing
  
• Fix for weapon bugs introduced in v168
  
• Main menu server selection fix

October 20th 2014

• Rendering performance improved (Better FPS?)
  
• Memory usage optimized (20% less or better): Crash fixes and faster loading times.
  
• Artois tree fix
  
• Possible fix for double listed players
  
• HUD bottom-left: removed the unused "(0)"
  
• Localization update
  
• /mute and /unmute chat command added (you will be able to mute players via the scoreboard later as well)
  
• Voice command menu will now auto close after 15 seconds
  
• Display friends-only matches on the map per default if any friends are online
  
• Never show more then 5 matches per location on the map (browser window shows all)
  
• Mainmenu welcome screen (sugested squads) will ony show friends
  
• Friend names marked green in all squad preview windows
  
• Friend window is now always visible (used to hide when opening the map view)
  
• Possible fix for match getting stuck (no one able to do damage)
  
• Water fix in Flanders
  
• Ladders can be climbed more easily
  
• Implemented anti cheating measurements.

October 9th 2014

• Stutter fix, finally -really- fixed. This big lag spike happened every few seconds or so.

October 8th 2014

• In-game support for controllers (options -> controls page redo)
  
• Optimized network traffic some more when players spawn
  
• Removed ghost bug message, this was fixed months ago. Instead, IF you experience an error you will get a much clearer error message
  
• Added ability to reset ALL data (mainmenu -> Account). When used, a timestamp will be shown with the last reset date.
  
• Fixed level 100 bug
  
• Fixed gas teamdamage causing players to get stuck in a black screen
  
• Fixed weapon audio volume (sometimes not hearable when the general volume slider is low)
  
• Game version and network version are now split: a game version update will no longer split the playerbase as long as we didn't change any network features.

October 4th 2014

• Spawning beneath level in Artois is fixed
  
• Fixed deployed MG sight(Lewis Fix)
  
• Fixed smoke exploit on the tank in Argonne
  
• Grenade smoke will no longer shrink running through it
  
• Spawn anthems of Stosstruppen, Canadians and British are working properly

October 3rd 2014

• playertags will be shown immediately when aiming at any friendlies, this should help clarify who to shoot at.
  
• artois improvements
  
• stone pebbles re-added on all terrains
  
• gas choke
  
• smoke particle performance improved
  
• fixed random game crash while playing
  
• mouse acceleration off per default (matters for new players only)
  
• the minimap will only show an icon for the current goal (defend or attack). The other trench line icons have been removed for clarification.
  
• rotated rock fix