Open Beta announcement

Hi everyone, here’s a short message to explain how we plan to do the open beta. As we promised, it would begin in March, and in fact it is beginning a few days sooner!

The open beta, is in fact not the full game but a time limited playtest that allows everyone to get a first impression of Call to Arms: Gates of Hell. We plan to run it for several short periods. We invited the entire community, many responded; it’s great to see this level of enthusiasm! We will let as many players as possible in and we want to split the playtest into several phases.

We will commence phase 1 with a single-player test , containing the first 2 single player missions from both campaigns. We will release one this weekend and one later next week. The tutorial is also included, for the new players. The game will be open to all our subscribers until the phase ends next week.

Future phases will include other areas of the game to give you a taste of our project and allow you to give us your feedback. Your subscription to the beta is valid for all the phases and no further action is required . If you haven’t subscribed, now is a good time! Subscriptions will remain open. You will receive a notification that the game is available to you, so keep an eye on your inbox.



After the playtest phases, we will prepare the full release, which contains all the content, dozens of maps and the mighty editor. The full release will be available in the languages indicated in our store page, but the playtests will be in english only. We will be translating the game before release.

Remember you can only play the open beta test if you own a paid edition of Call to Arms, as announced earlier. Also, remember you don’t need to install CtA, ownership is sufficient. A CtA sale will commence today at 19:00 GMT+1, lasting a week, to help anyone who would not yet own the game.

If you own a free version of CtA, this will cause problems launching the game, you will need to acquire the basic edition. We have opened threads in 4 languages to guide you in this process or help with troubleshooting in our forums.

Our project has been in development for over 5 years and we are proud to be this close to releasing Call to Arms - Gates of Hell. We want to do this free playtest to allow anyone interested to try our work and get as much feedback as possible, so we can release a product that will stand the test of time and build an honest, open community around it. We will be working on Gates of Hell for many years to come, so setting a solid foundation now is very important to us, and will be equally important for our players, our fans and our modders. The long wait is over. Do not hesitate to share your thoughts in the forums and help test this project with the same passion we’ve put into it.



So there it is, the Gates of Hell are open, and the eyes of the world are upon us. Are you ready to go into battle?