Europe in Ruins is now live on steam!
Hi All,
Europe in Ruins went live on Steam yesterday and we're grateful for the now-hundreds of you who have downloaded and installed our mod! To tell you the truth, we're a bit overwhelmed, as we never thought we'd see so many downloads in such a short time.
EIR has been a work of passion for a small group of hobby developers for the past 10+ years, and it should go without saying that this marks a major development milestone for us. Throughout those years we've been a relatively niche community, but one with a dedicated group of players who have kept the mod alive, long past Company of Heroes moving to Steam, the release of Company of Heroes 2, and everything else.
The mod offers the kind of gameplay that we believe is unique to the RTS genre, as at its core, with our launcher programme it plays more like a deck builder meets total war kind of game than it does company of heroes. While you'll recognise many of the units and abilities from the base game, the way they're used and the gameplay they generate is vastly different.
This does mean the learning curve for this mod is not an easy one, and we are fully cognisant of that fact. We've noted there's a number of issues that have propped up with the launcher program and some challenges that remain with getting people from the "company building" stage into the actual battle part of the mod and rest assured we'll be working hard over the coming weeks and months to make the mod as accessible as can be.
In the meantime, in hopes of easing that curve, please do check out this new how to play tutorial we just put up:
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2130305398
And for those of you wanting a taste of what gameplay is like, we've also included a number of "point of view" videos, which you can find under videos.
Thanks again for trying our mod and for your support. If you have any further questions or face technical issues, please do drop us a line on our discord server. We're also very keen to hear your thoughts on how to improve the mod!
- The EIR Dev Team
https://discord.gg/UP85txF