EB2 RELEASE DATE CONFIRMED: August 2014

[Brennus]

abou is still here. He's managing the Arche Seleukia development at the moment.

[Ibrahim]

Looking back, this makes me sad for all the good people who this forum and mod project lost over the years: MarcusAureliusAntoninus, Foot, abou and the list goes on. I remember all being very active and prominent members and who have now left or barely active.

@Hooahguyabou's still around, as mentioned here by Brennus.

but yeah, a lot of people are no longer active. heck, you should see what happened to the guy who was supposed to do the unit statting around the time I was selected for the first wave of beta-testers: he dropped off the radar, and hasn't been seen since

[Brennus]

@Hooahguyabou's still around, as mentioned here by Brennus.

but yeah, a lot of people are no longer active. heck, you should see what happened to the guy who was supposed to do the unit statting around the time I was selected for the first wave of beta-testers: he dropped off the radar, and hasn't been seen since

And like a diligent Hoplite, Ibrahim stepped in the void and held the line.

[Titus Marcellus Scato]

I have patiently lurked for so many years and now with this announcement, I am beside myself, impulsively checking the forum every night hoping that the dev decide to bump the deadline to July.

Don't get too excited. The devs say 'release in August' but it's safer to assume it will be a lot closer to the 31st of August rather than the 1st.

[Maeran]

I hope not. I'll be on holiday for an entire week at the end of August.

Away from a PC. Can you imagine?

[edyzmedieval]

Surely you could wait for another week, non?

[I_damian]

I'm hoping it'll be August 1st. I know it's wrong of me to hope that because I'll probably end up being disappointed.

[Kull]

I'm hoping it'll be August 1st. I know it's wrong of me to hope that because I'll probably end up being disappointed.

Don't hope that. From a reply I made over in the TWC forums:

Are you guys going to announce the day as well or is it gonna be a surprise release?

The month we can 99% control, the actual date is going to depend on a number of factors. Without going into too much detail:

- There is a stop work date in early August (no more new content after that date)
- There is a follow on period of a few days where all team members will play the final version to ensure the last minute "content rush" did not insert any previously unknown CTDs
- If needed, a short period to trace down and fix these new problems (should they be found)
- Release the result to the installer creation team.
- Installer built and released to the team.
- A brief period to test the installer.
- Release the mod to the public.

As you can see, there's a lot of moving parts there, so it would be foolish to try and lock this down to a day - at least until we know for sure that everything is ready and it works. Which won't be more than a day or so before the release, anyway.

[easytarget]

Did the recent patch to MTW2 have any impact?

[fallen851]

Based on what Kull just said, I would be shocked it EB was out in August.

[Kull]

Based on what Kull just said, I would be shocked it EB was out in August.

You shouldn't be. I personally have updated the build with 5 major changes in the last two days alone, and none of them caused a CTD. Our system for controlling updates is extremely rigorous. All the older, truly nasty CTDs were cleaned out of the build by the first part of the year, and those were VERY hard to find. New ones however, are usually spotted almost immediately. Even if multiple people have made updates on the same day - even to the same file - it is VERY easy to test and figure out which person's update caused the problem. The system will even give you a side-be-side comparison of the before and after files, highlighting only the sections of text that were changed, so it's piece of cake to spot the issue.

So yes, we are building in some time to stop and playtest for a few days so we can catch obvious problems and possibly even those that might be hidden deeper, but it's only to find CTDs, not seek out content omissions (those are a given). August is basically a done deal, barring something catastrophic.

[lmt96]

Great news!
But I'm still waiting for A-levels results this August :|.

[Brennus]

Great news!
But I'm still waiting for A-levels results this August :|.

Good luck with them!

[I_damian]

Alright, it's August (well, almost... just one day away...) WHERE'S MY EB2!?!?!?!?!?!

[Cadwalader]

I don't recall August 1st being the given release date. Just "August".
Don't get me wrong, I'm as impatient as anyone to get my hands on it!

[I_damian]

I don't recall August 1st being the given release date. Just "August".
Don't get me wrong, I'm as impatient as anyone to get my hands on it!

I know you're hiding stuff from me... I know you know...

TELL ME WHAT YOU KNOW!

[Cadwalader]

I... I don't... Please don't hurt me. Take my children.

[Skald]

I... I don't... Please don't hurt me. Take my children.

Do they have EB2 already? If so I await the hostages at my grand hovel.....

[Leon the Batavian]

Is it gonna be christmas early this year ?


I really hope so :)

[Ibrahim]

Is it gonna be christmas early this year ?


I really hope so :)

[Alcibiade]

This is some cheering music for sure.

[Tyrfingr]

[Hooahguy]

I heard a rumor that it was going to be released on the 14th. Any truth to that rumor?

[hoo]

OMFG!!!!!!!!!!!! Cheers from SIngapore!!!!! HURRAY!!!!!!!

[Tux]

I heard a rumor that it was going to be released on the 14th. Any truth to that rumor?

No, we're still polishing things up. Only if everything went perfect it would have been released shortly after the 14th.

[Mouthwash1]

I don't know if modders know this in general, but did you fix this bug?

[V.T. Marvin]

Thank you for pointing out this - in fact we have not noticed this bug until now. Thanks to this post it is fixed already.

[Tyrfingr]

A couple of days here and there, I don't mind :)

[The Gypsy]

Just started University again and EB is about to be released, this is not good timing. On the other hand, I could pretend it is archaeology research....

"Umm yeah...Can I quote a game modification?"
"...."

[joshmahurin]

Well a lot of times they offer the original source, or you could ask them and they could tell you :P what better group of historical advisors are you going to find haha