WWII Online News

ATTENTION: We are giving everyone early warning and trying to warn you often that we are moving our servers from Texas to Oregon this month and there will some game downtime. We will keep you updated on the planned outage both beforehand and during the actual outage. Read here for outage plan.

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We are moving our servers to a new home in Oregon. This move brings our infrastructure closer to our support personnel and the headquarters of Cornered Rat Software (CRS). The move will be completed by the end of this month. Although most of the work is happening now, behind the scenes, there will be a period of game outage. We hope to keep the outage to a minimum and commit that we will keep you informed of our outage plans and our progress during the outage. All services will be temporarily effected at some point during this process.

As of now, we expect the game servers to be down starting on Sunday, December 22, 2019 that may last more than 24 hours. Continued temporary outages may occur through the end of December, and players may experience increased lag as files are uploaded to the new servers. We appreciate everyone's patience during this transition.

Depending where were are in the current campaign, our first preference will be to suspend and restart the campaign. If the current campaign ends within days of the 22nd we will likely stay in an intermission mode until after the move.

[h2]Current state of the map (Day 9 of Campaing 170)[/h2]


We will keep you updated in the forums (while they are up), Discord, and Facebook.

Thanks for your continued support!

In case you missed the Rat Chat, we unveiled the current progress of the "Mission Leader Waypoints" update which helps mission leader better guide users of all skill level more efficiently in WWII Online. This is still in development but is approaching release, and is one of our Dev Roadmap items we outlined. Continue reading this article to see the pictures, and you can also get involved with our Mission Leader Tools - Forum Discussions to help contribute ideas so we can come up with even more efficient tools.

As you know, Mission Leaders can already create "Waypoints" by right-clicking on their game map, and adding either Rally points, Attack points or Mortar points. However you have to use your game map to be able to see these, until now...






The HUD (Heads Up Display) in the near future will show waypoints as shown here to better guide users. Of course if you do not want these to be visible, there will be an area in your settings to remove them, but if done correctly we think users are going to love them and it's going to do a lot of good to direct users accordingly to important priority objectives.

Guiding soldiers in WWII Online is a high priority for CRS and this is in keeping with our mission to provide field leaders the necessary tools to help us achieve that goal.




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Attention all soldiers, airmen and sailors! An all new WWII Online Campaign (#170) has just started and you’ve been ordered to report to your commander for duty! The Tier consolidation plan has been completed, which will get your more equipment into the war faster while maintaining balance. This is the first Campaign since recently reactivating Free Play and we see a continued rise in population for both Free Players and Premium users. We’re asking everyone to get into game with a renewed sense of purpose and refreshment. We’re also asking for you all to make a point to get on official WWII Online Discord servers (voice communications), which can be found at www.wwiionline.com/discord.

Meanwhile the RATS are continuing the big move from Dallas to Portland, among several essential development items like 64-bit implementation and the UI redo. We also have some great production work underway. See you in the field troopers - SALUTE!

The 2019 Steam awards nominations are now available! The "labor of Love" category fits our project pretty well, doesn't it?

This game has been out for a while. The team is well past the first unveiling of their creative baby, but being the good parents they are, these devs continue to nurture and support their creation. This game, to this day, is still getting new content after all these years..



During the autumn sales on Steam, we offer a -40% discount for the first month of our starter and premium subscriptions!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/667290/World_War_II_Online__STARTER/

https://store.steampowered.com/app/667291/World_War_II_Online__PREMIUM/




We have replaced the old "recruit DLC" by a new "mortarman DLC" of the same value.
All owners of the recruit DLC got this new DLC for free. It adds the mortarmen of all countries to your personna, including the para versions. Check it out here

https://store.steampowered.com/app/936710/Mortarman_Pack/




After 59 days of battle, Allied Forces are VICTORIOUS! Congratulations to the Allied High Command for their outstanding 24/7 efforts during 2 months!
The server are now in intermission mode (free play for everyone to all units). Campaign 170 will start soon.

this has to be one of my all time favorite campaigns [Paddyo]
One of the best camps in a very long time [dustyhc]




The move to Portland is well underway with servers being configured here locally, our new colocation (server housing facility) established and our new internet service and cross-connect pulled to our cabinet and ready to go. We have a couple of very basic pictures to show you today as installation of network and server equipment approaches quickly. This has been made possible thanks to all of those who participated in the recent fundraiser initiative, and to that end I’d like to thank you and share this update to show your contributions being put to work. All of us at Cornered Rat Software would like to wish you and your families a very Happy Thanksgiving.

Read more here (with pics)

See you in the battlefield!
Zebbeee

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