Ho, Ho, Ho! Merry Christmas!

The big Christmas Update is here! We are super excited to present a new private space with different furniture customisation options, Christmas costumes & bodysuits, facial hair for men, New Winter Forest space as subscribers' preview.
* New facial hair for men
* New video screens in Crowbots
* Lighting for Crowbots have been fixed.
* Aurora Orbs colour fixes
* 4 new items added to existing DLCs
* New futuristic furniture available in Mirage House
* Blocking issues fixes
New space "LAKEVIEW RETREAT" is now live! It is a beautiful hideaway designed by SubD Studio. The space offers Classic & Rustic furniture customisation options. We have also added Christmas and Birthday decorations which can be turned on & off.
Winter Forest is in "work in progress" stage, and is available to our Premier Subscribers as a preview. We will be adding more features to it in the future, so keep an eye out!
Celebrate this holiday season in style with new Mother Christmas & Santa Claus Costumes.
Animated "Merry Christmas" shirts are now available for Adam and Eve!
Advent Calendar has unlocked 7 items!
But there are still 17 more Surprise Gifts to be discovered!
Look for the Christmas Star in the Accessories Tab.

We hope you are looking forward to Christmas and see you next week!

Ho, Ho, Ho! Merry Christmas!

The big Christmas Update is here! We are super excited to present a new private space with different furniture customisation options, Christmas costumes & bodysuits, facial hair for men, New Winter Forest space as subscribers' preview.
* New facial hair for men
* New video screens in Crowbots
* Lighting for Crowbots have been fixed.
* Aurora Orbs colour fixes
* 4 new items added to existing DLCs
* New futuristic furniture available in Mirage House
* Blocking issues fixes
New space "LAKEVIEW RETREAT" is now live! It is a beautiful hideaway designed by SubD Studio. The space offers Classic & Rustic furniture customisation options. We have also added Christmas and Birthday decorations which can be turned on & off.
Winter Forest is in "work in progress" stage, and is available to our Premier Subscribers as a preview. We will be adding more features to it in the future, so keep an eye out!
Celebrate this holiday season in style with new Mother Christmas & Santa Claus Costumes.
Animated "Merry Christmas" shirts are now available for Adam and Eve!
Advent Calendar has unlocked 7 items!
But there are still 17 more Surprise Gifts to be discovered!
Look for the Christmas Star in the Accessories Tab.

We hope you are looking forward to Christmas and see you next week!

Since the release of the game in May, we have been listening very carefully to every comment made on the game. Forums, social channels, emails, reviews, survey made by and taken by our community... We already have released lots of free content and features to the game, including game modes, units, battlefields, dedicated servers, and more.

The next Steel Division: Normandy 44 update, "Santa Claws", will feature some significant meta changes, which aim to allow more tactical freedom, to increase the pace of the battles, and to make the game feel more authentic. As the changes are pretty heavy, we will make the beta version of this update available on Steam for everyone.

13/12/17 UPDATE: Announcing the "Santa Claws" update content!

In a few words, here are the changes you'll be able to test in this beta:

• Vehicles can now go through forests & hedgerows, but have a severe speed penalty, and armed vehicles are not able to shoot for 5 seconds.
  
• Vehicles' critical hits can now be repaired, by supply units only.
  
• Light AT units (up to 57mm) can now enter buildings.
  
• Decreased plane resistance, especially on bigger planes like J88 or B26.
  
• Adjusted vehicle off-road speed, concerning about 80% of the vehicles
  
• Reworked damage & critical hit systems
  
• Increased Short/Mid range precision

How to download the beta:

• Go on your Steam Client
  
• Right-click on "Steel Division: Normandy 44"
  
• Select "Properties"
  
• Click on the "BETAS" tab
  
• Select the "santa_claws_beta", then click on "Close"

If you're experiencing any issue with the beta, just do the same process and switch back to "NONE" in the "BETAS" tab.

Send us your feedback!
As you can imagine, your feedback is essential for us. When you feel that you have played enough, please take 5 minutes to answer this survey. Take your time, there's absolutely no rush.

Known issues that will be fixed in the final version:

• Repairing time may be bugged on a vehicle that suffers several critical damages at the same time.
  
• Bailed out units might be stationary moving or keep moving their turrets.
  
• Some texts in English do not already have their translations in other languages.

The beta and the survey will be accessible to everyone until Monday, December 11th.

Thank you all for your help, and, the most important, have fun!

Since the release of the game in May, we have been listening very carefully to every comment made on the game. Forums, social channels, emails, reviews, survey made by and taken by our community... We already have released lots of free content and features to the game, including game modes, units, battlefields, dedicated servers, and more.

The next Steel Division: Normandy 44 update, "Santa Claws", will feature some significant meta changes, which aim to allow more tactical freedom, to increase the pace of the battles, and to make the game feel more authentic. As the changes are pretty heavy, we will make the beta version of this update available on Steam for everyone.

13/12/17 UPDATE: Announcing the "Santa Claws" update content!

In a few words, here are the changes you'll be able to test in this beta:

• Vehicles can now go through forests & hedgerows, but have a severe speed penalty, and armed vehicles are not able to shoot for 5 seconds.
  
• Vehicles' critical hits can now be repaired, by supply units only.
  
• Light AT units (up to 57mm) can now enter buildings.
  
• Decreased plane resistance, especially on bigger planes like J88 or B26.
  
• Adjusted vehicle off-road speed, concerning about 80% of the vehicles
  
• Reworked damage & critical hit systems
  
• Increased Short/Mid range precision

How to download the beta:

• Go on your Steam Client
  
• Right-click on "Steel Division: Normandy 44"
  
• Select "Properties"
  
• Click on the "BETAS" tab
  
• Select the "santa_claws_beta", then click on "Close"

If you're experiencing any issue with the beta, just do the same process and switch back to "NONE" in the "BETAS" tab.

Send us your feedback!
As you can imagine, your feedback is essential for us. When you feel that you have played enough, please take 5 minutes to answer this survey. Take your time, there's absolutely no rush.

Known issues that will be fixed in the final version:

• Repairing time may be bugged on a vehicle that suffers several critical damages at the same time.
  
• Bailed out units might be stationary moving or keep moving their turrets.
  
• Some texts in English do not already have their translations in other languages.

The beta and the survey will be accessible to everyone until Monday, December 11th.

Thank you all for your help, and, the most important, have fun!

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Greetings, tankers! Today, we’ll be telling you about the recent and future updates. We’ll also be telling you a bit about the contests that we are planning to run during the winter holidays. Let’s go!


Last week, we released one of the long-awaited features, Squads. The development of this feature lasted about 2 months and it has affected many other features of the game such as matchmaking and interface. In order to fix issues that can’t be tested in an offline environment, the development team released the feature a bit earlier than planned.



This has surfaced a number of bugs related to the functionality of this feature and issues with the balance of squads in battles. We will continue to work on fixing them.

We also had a few technical difficulties during last weekend. For a couple of hours, our players couldn’t connect to the game servers.

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The main issues are now fixed. Those who were unable to play Tanki X during last weekend, can make up for those hours during the upcoming weekend. On December 9th and 10th, we will be increasing the rates for experience points earned in battles! Additionally, we would like to thank players that are reporting issues and bugs on our Echo support site. This allows us to resolve any problem with the game, in record time.

Floating text in battles

New elements were added to the battle interface last week.

These new elements represent text feedback of your actions, such as points for healing allies, points for delivering and returning the flag, as well as points for killing enemies and assisting a kill in a battle.

Please share your opinion about the updates we released last month in the regular survey that we create and send to our players at the end of every month. The link is in the description.



CTF Indicators

Almost a week ago, we added indicators for the location of each flag base as well as flag location when the flag is being carried. It should now be much easier for the newcomers to find their way around in this mode, especially if they’re unfamiliar with our maps.




We’ve made progress on the destruction physics of more skins as well. The First line of skins, just like the standard one, now has a cool destruction animation. If you set your graphics settings to medium or higher and you equip a skin from the 0 (Zero) or I (One) skin line, upon being destroyed, your tank will scatter into pieces, in a very cool way.




We added a teleportation effect to the daily bonuses submenu.

Additionally, when teleporting a container, or getting the last needed container shard, the "Claim the reward" button will transform into the "Claim the container" button. Pressing the button will automatically take you to the container section of the store, where you can open the container. Upon exiting the game, you will now be notified about the rewards that will be available for teleportation the next day.




The work on improving the interface of the game is going according to our plan. Next, is the modules menu.

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Our plan is to simplify the process of installing modules on turrets and hulls. In order to install a module, you will need to either drag and drop it in the slot or double-click the module.

But that’s not all. Upon hovering over the upgrade button with the mouse cursor, you will see how much the upgrade will improve the characteristics of your turret or hull, as well as the module itself. Clicking on the question mark will show detailed information about the module.

You will be able to equip the module on any of your presets, in the same menu.

Oh, and by the way, we are designing 3D models for the modules. They will look similar to the current blueprints that drop from containers.




Coming up, in December, our development team will continue working on improving the matchmaking system, the ranking system, and the interface. They will also be getting ready for a very important release this month. The next episode of our developer’s diary will be released closer to New Year’s Eve. During this period of time, we’re planning on running two live stream events. If you don’t want to miss any of them, always check our website for news and follow us on our social media pages.




Christmas and the New Years are drawing close! The first round of contests is scheduled to already start next week. We highly recommend you to participate! Why? We’re running a huge X-crystals holiday raffle, just like last year. Participating in this contest will not only increase the fund of this raffle but will also earn you special points. The higher the number of points, the higher the chance of getting awesome prizes in the holiday raffle. Winners will be announced on January 9th.

We will have a lot of contests of many tastes. We will tell you more about them in the announcement next week.

That’s it for today, guys! Subscribe to our channel and like our video.

Hey you!

Yes, you're passionate Mutant Football League fan and player we're talking to you. Right now you have unique chance to participate in selection of the name for Eagles-parody team.

Post your awesome idea for Eagles-parody name on Official Mutant Football League Facebook page (link).
Player who end up with the best name will win themselves as a player in the game on the Philadelpia-parody team.

We will close submussions on Wed, Dec 13.


P.S. It's not part of the contest, but we'll take parody names for Alshon Jeffery as well!

Hey you!

Yes, you're passionate Mutant Football League fan and player we're talking to you. Right now you have unique chance to participate in selection of the name for Eagles-parody team.

Post your awesome idea for Eagles-parody name on Official Mutant Football League Facebook page (link).
Player who end up with the best name will win themselves as a player in the game on the Philadelpia-parody team.

We will close submussions on Wed, Dec 13.


P.S. It's not part of the contest, but we'll take parody names for Alshon Jeffery as well!

One Small Step for Man, One Giant Leap for Mankind - The Humanoid Species Pack is now available!

Featuring a selection of new portraits, ship models, voiceover sets for VIR & music expand your takeover of the Galaxy the humanoid way.

Find out more here

You can read the 1.9 patch notes in full here