4 weeks, 8 incredible Italian cars. Are you ready for the challenge? Don’t miss out on the events featured on the Festival Playlist this series and look out for new challenges to smash the Yacht Piñata Collectible and Italian Automotive themed billboards available every week! New props will also be available in EventLab for creators to use in their custom events.


Earn 20 PTS during the Week 1 “Summer” Season on the Italian Automotive Festival Playlist. Available from Aug. 17 – 24.

Technically, the 1992 Alfa Romeo 155 Q4 can be termed a "compact executive", but this car has the heart of a touring car. Introduced in 1992, the 155 was a larger replacement for the Alfa Romeo 75. The Q4 version features a 2.0-liter turbocharged engine capable of 187 horsepower and, unlike the front wheel drive 155, sports an AWD drivetrain. Capable of a 140-mph top speed and a 0-100 kph in around 7 seconds, it’s little wonder that the 155 had success in touring car racing. It’s a fun drive with a body style that’s begging for a race replica livery in Forza Horizon 5.


Earn 40 PTS during the Week 1 “Summer” Season on the Italian Automotive Festival Playlist. Available from Aug. 17 – 24.

An F1 car for rally is one way to classify this robust, any condition, any surface racer. From a distance it resembles its distant much milder, yet still utterly capable cousin the Lancia Delta. Underneath the bloodline is pure purpose-built racecar. A supercharger and a turbocharger lay rubber from all four wheels, try not to choke on its dust.


Earn 20 PTS during the Week 2 “Autumn” Season on the Italian Automotive Festival Playlist. Available from Aug. 24 – 31.

In case you don’t speak Italian, “Biposto” means two-seater. In terms of this micro-sized hot hatch, two-seater means more fun than might be legal. That’s why Abarth – pronounced ‘Ah-Bart’ – calls the 695 Biposto an entry-level track day car. Celebrating 50 years since the introduction of the immensely popular Abarth 695, the Biposto comes with features that make it a screaming fast pocket rocket with handling that rivals sports cars twice its price. All the upgrades come from the most preferred brands in performance including: Akrapovic exhaust, Brembo brakes, OZ wheels, Garrett turbo, and more. These components and the tuning result in a car that is far from its diminutive daily driving cousins with a backseat and a thrilling driving experience that is anything but small.


Earn 40 PTS during the Week 2 “Autumn” Season on the Italian Automotive Festival Playlist. Available from Aug. 24 – 31.

Look out, sports car fans, the 4C has everything needed for spirited driving and even a few creature comforts. First off, the form which has met with near universal praise from fans and critics alike. As with any sports car built by Italians, the looks are only the icing; it’s the cake that is tasty: a carbon-fiber tub between twin aluminum sub-frames, and a rip-roaring turbo-charged four-cylinder with enough gusto to give anyone a permanent grin. The engine is behind the cabin, where it should be. The resulting driving experience is visceral and will have you wishing for the next off-camber corner all day. Thank you, Alfa, we needed that!


Earn 20 PTS during the Week 3 “Winter” Season on the Italian Automotive Festival Playlist. Available from Aug. 31 – Sept. 7.

Carlo Abarth is rightfully famous for applying the dark art of tuning to some of the most unlikely cars in the world—simple, robust, but decidedly unsporting Fiats—and creating legitimate giant-slaying racers out of them. This Abarth 131 is a homologation version of the standard Fiat 131, a relatively tame family sedan until fitted with a 2-liter, 16-valve fuel-injected motor creating nearly 140 horsepower. Combined with lightweight fiberglass body panels sporting box flares and aggressive air scoops, the boxy coupe can scoot to 60 in less than eight seconds—incredible performance for such a small car developed during the 1970s. With independent rear suspension fitted by Abarth, the 131 is perfectly suited for hanging out its duck-tailed hindquarters on the tight, technical courses. This road version allowed the 230-horsepower rally version to dominate World Rally Championship racing between 1977 and 1980. With only 400 of the street cars ever produced, Forza is probably the best place to experience this diminutive Italian rally car on the road.


Earn 40 PTS during the Week 3 “Winter” Season on the Italian Automotive Festival Playlist. Available from Aug. 31 – Sept 7.

From every possible angle, the 8C Competizione is a steel-and-carbon-fiber supermodel of the highest order. Yet you might be surprised that it wasn’t designed by one of the famous Italian coachbuilders—instead the 8C was designed in-house at Alfa Romeo’s own design center. The 8C also has the beast to back up the beauty, using a version of the 4.3-liter V8 that sees duty in the Maserati Coupe and the Ferrari F430, and is precisely balanced with a 6-speed transaxle mounted just ahead of the rear wheels. Keeping all the weight inside the wheelbase allows the 8C to dance with the finest corner-carvers around, and it can hold its own at a stoplight drag by handily laying down 12.4-second quarter miles. Of course, with those looks, a simple cruise down the boulevard will rack up double-takes without needing to even let the 8C’s 450 horsepower sing its warbling quad-exhaust note.


Earn 20 PTS during the Week 4 “Spring” Season on the Italian Automotive Festival Playlist. Available from Sept. 7 – 14.

Built on the same chassis and with many of the same components of the Mazda Miata, the Abarth 124 Spider takes that solid base and spices it up with Italian flair. This variant has the most horsepower available and an optimized suspension. The car’s bulging lines beg to cut their way through the wind with the top down. Under the long hood is the treat that separates the 124 from its Japanese sibling. Whether you actually find the turbo in the engine bay or note the distinguishing sound of it spooling up as you throttle up, the forced induction is what makes this little convertible a real treat. Like the Miata, this is a car you can drive at 100 percent all day and have loads of fun in the process. So, what are you waiting for?


Earn 40 PTS during the Week 4 “Spring” Season on the Italian Automotive Festival Playlist. Available from Sept. 7 – 14.

When is a road car not (exactly) a road car? When it is a homologation variant of something as wild as a Group B rally car. As its name implies, the 037 Stradale is road-legal (stradale meaning “road” in Italian), sure, but under all of the road-approved gear like headlights, turn signals, and reflectors is the same spaceframe, Kevlar-reinforced fiberglass, and competition-bred engine as the Group B car. Of course, the Stradale versions couldn’t be as wild as their racing twins, with additional weight and an engine tune that wouldn’t require a tear-down every few races. Located amidships in a longitudinal placement is Lancia’s competition-tested 2-liter four-cylinder motor, supplemented with a supercharger provided by Abarth that adds extra power without the lag of turbochargers. As the last of the rear-wheel drive rally cars to see success in WRC, the 037 does have the advantage of lighter weight and less complexity than the early all-wheel drive competition, which helped propel the Group B 037 to a manufacturer’s championship in 1983. With a minimum construction of 200 cars to comply with racing rules, the 037 Stradale is exceedingly rare.




The next Forza Horizon 5 update celebrates our Horizon Creatives with some new community-requested improvements to EventLab. Stay tuned for details in September!

On the 15th of August 2023, starting from 8:00 CEST, the server will not be available for 5 hours due to a planned server maintenance.



Please note that the maintenance can be extended beyond the abovementioned timeframe. We apologize for the inconvenience.

New:

• Game and Company logos are now displayed upon game opening.
  
• SCP-106 can now teleport to the upper floor.

Bugfix:

• Unable to join a new game session after closing the old one.
  
• Fixed ghost lobbies issue (players would get stuck in lobbies that nobody else could join).
  
• Loading screen is now displayed correctly when joining a match.
  
• Fixed SCP-106 trap; it could slow humans down even if they did not step on it.
  
• Police station map: A gap in a staircase prevented players from walking on it.
  
• Various graphical improvements.

Greetings Commanders!

We want to thank everyone who has participated in the Final Open Beta so far - it looks like most people were having a lot of fun with the game, and we have gathered a lot of extremely useful feedback as well. We very much appreciate all the well-meaning criticism and suggestions, and rest assured, we will keep working on improving the game until release and beyond.

The Open Beta was officially scheduled to end today, but we have decided to keep the playtest publicly available until tomorrow, August 15, 7 pm CEST / 6 pm BST / 10 am PT / 01 pm ET.

We hope you will take up the opportunity for extra playtime and will keep enjoying the game! But we implore you, please, once you have played the Beta, share your thoughts on it with us. The best way to do that is via this questionnaire (especially if you have been playing since the start of the Beta), but feel free to post here in the comments or in Steam discussions, or come join the official Men of War II Discord server where you can not just chat with our team and other fans of the game, but also find team-mates for multiplayer matches or try to take on the Fulqrum Publishing team throughout the Final Beta.

We look forward to seeing you on the battlefield during the remainder of the Open Beta, the extended playtest, and later this year on full release! Remember to add the game to your wishlists!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1128860/Men_of_War_II/

En Garde! launches in only 2 days and we’d like to tell you more about our accessibility and difficulty settings! ⚔

We know that some of you who are interested in En Garde! are hooked by the game’s setting and tone, but are not very familiar playing this kind of action games. 😵

Part of En Garde!’s experience is to overcome difficult combat challenges, not through hardcore perseverance, but rather by understanding how to deal with groups of enemies using your environment to your advantage. 🤺

We want En Garde! to be a welcoming game that anyone can play and have fun with, no matter your level of skill with this kind of games. ✨
However, fights can be very intense and the game is a mechanical challenge because you need to perform parries, dodges, attacks and kicks while paying attention to the enemies around, position to use environmental interactions, etc. 😱

So, we have worked hard to provide a variety of accessibility options for players who need them, but also to make the default experience approachable with an in-depth tutorial level as well as a list of gameplay tips to improve your skills. 😎



Accessible at any point from the pause menu, the Tips & Tricks menu is like the “move list” you would find in any traditional beat ‘em up game.
But instead of listing endless strings of complicated combos, this menu will give you precious tips on how to improve your fighting with explanations of fencing subtleties, contextual moves, details on environmental interactions, enemies strengths and weaknesses…
News tips are added to this menu throughout the whole story campaign, as you encounter new environments or enemies, and as you unlock new special skills.


En Garde! has 3 difficulty settings: easy, medium and hard modes.
These difficulty modes have an influence on:

• Parry and dodge timing windows
  
• Damage caused by player parries and critical strikes (increased in easy mode only)
  
• Number of HP for Adalia
  
• Duration of invulnerability after Adalia got hit
  
• Enemies aggressiveness
  
• Enemy stun time

• Invincibility: you cannot lose health and die anymore. Use this if you don’t want to play with the challenge of survival.
  
• Automatic parries: for anyone who has trouble with parry timing or reflexes, this will simplify the challenge of fencing. All parries will be automatic, but you can still use the parry button to try a perfect timing. You will still have to dodge red attacks, so stay on your guard!
  
• Camera Auto Focus: the camera turns towards your target automatically while in fight.
  
• Camera Auto Turn: the camera will turn automatically in the direction of your movement while running or sprinting.

You can modify the scale of HUD, enemy UI and subtitles, or activate the Hyperlegible font for texts.


You can rebind keys for any action for both keyboard and gamepad!

For more information about the game itself and its release (pricing, release time, ...), you can check our release information news:

https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/1654660/view/3664293140685773604

Don't forget to Wishlist En Garde! if you haven't already, and see you soon!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1654660/En_Garde/

The "Misunderstood Youth" Healing Project is now officially underway! It's been half a year since "Beyond Room 13" launched, and our message board is flooded with over 3,000 authentic stories - a number that grows daily. Many of you have courageously shared tales of youthful days where your passions and pursuits were dismissed by the world, of being isolated and suppressed in school, or being ensnared by past traumas. We're here, and we embrace each one of you.

We've come to recognize that in the unseen corners, numerous "daring souls" walk their paths alone. In the coming days, we will roll out a series of initiatives using illustrations, videos, livestreams, and more to listen to your stories. We're also bringing on board empathetic professionals to offer guidance and answers to your burning questions.

Dive into the "Misunderstood Youth" Healing Project →]here.
Celebrities Zhang Yang, Cui Nannan, Jiang Hongwen, Qi Miao, and Xu Shanwa have also shared their "Misunderstood Youth" stories.→Video

Seeking Your Concerns
If you have your own concerns and confusions, click →Question Collection to share them. Whether it's miscommunications with parents or friends, or deep-seated pains that seem impossible to heal, if it's weighing you down, we want to hear it. We'll bring in psychologists and special guests to address your concerns.
Remember, no one is truly alone. There's always a ray of light, a corner filled with warmth and compassion.

One didn't have a $renpy.end_replay and continued playing even though (The Dungeon) it was at the end of that scene. Another would end too soon (Katia at the apartment).

In this update, an issue was solved where avatar gear could be claimed too early.

There are also other small fixes, such as typos.

Thank you!

This update should fix a few issues found when using the Warthog Throttle. Also, some fixes related to using joysticks with Meta Quest Pro.

• Fixed bug causing the water filtration puzzle to be prematurely solved
  
• Fixed bug in which item description box stayed on during gameplay