EB2 RELEASE DATE CONFIRMED: August 2014

[LusitanianWolf]

On twitter


EUROPA BARBARORUM II. Open Beta release date confirmed: August 2014. - The EBII Team

Ladies and gentlemen its

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9jK-NcRmVcw

[Eastern Foot-Rocker]

Tätärätä, Tätärätätä!

Finally, the final countdown!

[Gaius Sempronius Gracchus]

Eeeeek (runs around in a decidedly unmanly but excited way)..

[Docus]

:on_panda:

[Maeran]

That is just the most beautiful thread title I have ever seen.

[Grimmy]

This can not be!

I have become accustomed to waiting for EB2: Total Wait!
The changes I'd be forced to make to my day to day life if EB2: Total Wait ever actually gets published is unacceptable!

[The Gypsy]

Oh my God. This is awesome!!

I feel this is gonna be a long couple of months...

[Frtigern]

I think its genius that you release EB2 just as school starts, so that you can destroy all of those college kids' grades by giving them EB2 to spend their time playing.

[kdrakak]

I think its genius that you release EB2 just as school starts, so that you can destroy all of those college kids' grades by giving them EB2 to spend their time playing.

I think it's actually intended that college kids with a bit of a thing for history will be inspired for their studies (if relevant), but also for the rest of their lives' aspects, by what can be achieved through dedication, enthusiasm and quite a bit of work. :-0 (WOW)
I have been always somewhat against volunteer work seeing how most of the time it is exploited, but EB changed that a bit for me. I genuinely wanted to contribute to this project. And I am no kid... have not been for quite some time...

[Ludens]

This can not be!

I have become accustomed to waiting for EB2: Total Wait!
The changes I'd be forced to make to my day to day life if EB2: Total Wait ever actually gets published is unacceptable!

~D .

Though I am wondering if I should change the thread title to "open beta release data confirmed", for the sake of accuracy.

[Poppis]

It's just a late April fools prank. EB2 comes two weeks after Episode 3.~;)

[moonburn]

bet testing ? i´m gonna wait or else it feels like you set the date and it´s ok to deflower your bride just because the weading is set

it´s just a few more months until october where i get some vacations and so i respect the bride and will wait for the weading night (unleass the bride doesn´t want to wait ... )

[Ibrahim]

It's just a late April fools prank. EB2 comes two weeks after Episode 3.~;)

:laugh4:

no, I'm afraid this is not a prank. it's supposed to be mid August, as stated.

[Marcus F]

best news all year :)

[Kull]

~D .

Though I am wondering if I should change the thread title to "open beta release data confirmed", for the sake of accuracy.

I struggle with that terminology. When we release v.72 of EB1, THAT was a beta. It was buggy and crashed frequently. It was still fun, but the stability issues were frustrating. Not until v.74 (about 4-5 months later) were most of the worst CTDs tracked down and removed. That was a fairly complete game, but we still called it a beta as it was pre 1.0. Another 7 months go by and the team releases v.80. Huge improvements across the board, but randomly buggy and technically still a beta. Finally a few updates later, we released v1.0. Was that "finished"? Were all the bugs gone? No to both questions.

For me personally something is an alpha when it's not even playable...just a mess. A beta is full of bugs and likely to crash at any time. So where is EB2 in all this? We'll have 200 units out of a planned 500, so on that basis we're only 40% done. On the other hand the game hasn't crashed in MONTHS. So what is it? From my perspective, it's incomplete. And it will remain so for years to come, in all likelihood.

But will it be fun to play? Will it continue to be upgraded in various areas? Yes. So people should enjoy it for what it is, and help identify some things that can make it better. But it will not be a chore. It will be immersive and very interesting. The historical accuracy alone is breathtaking to me. Head and shoulders above what we did in EB1.

So people can call it anything they want, but we think you'll enjoy it.

[Ludens]

I struggle with that terminology.

That's good news. For the record, though, the "terminology" comes directly from the twitter message.

[Kull]

That's good news. For the record, though, the "terminology" comes directly from the twitter message.

:laugh4: Quite true, and we'll almost certainly call the first release a beta. I just wanted to go on record with my thoughts on this because when most people hear the word "beta", they expect a buggy, unstable product. That won't be the case here, although it will be obviously incomplete in several areas.

[Titus Marcellus Scato]

Damn. There goes my summer holiday.

<£600 holiday money diverted to new PC>

[Dwarf]

i am so happy right now :D:D:D

[Cybvep]

Kull Wow. Here I thought that EB1 was impressive enough, and now you give us this. It seems that EB2 will be even more awesome than EB1 AND there will be fewer problems with CTDs even in the mod's early open beta stage. Great news.

[Kull]

Kull Wow. Here I thought that EB1 was impressive enough, and now you give us this. It seems that EB2 will be even more awesome than EB1 AND there will be fewer problems with CTDs even in the mod's early open beta stage. Great news.

INCOMPLETE. That is the key word you folks have to remember. EB1 has all the bases covered and EB2 is not there yet and won't be for some time. However, it has all the added benefits of the M2TW engine and we are working VERY hard to make is as immersive as possible upon the first release. That said it is remarkably stable for a 1st release product, and the team deserves a lot of kudos for that. Many months were spent in isolating and killing bugs that had been with us for years. And the worst ones were fiendishly difficult to track down.

[V.T. Marvin]

To reinforce Kull's point - the fact that we are not currently experiencing any persistent CTD-causing bugs does not mean that there not any in there. It is impossible to test the game as thoroughly and to experience all possible permutations of different factors as would be the case after massive testing once the game goes public. We do have faith in our product, we trust that the community will enjoy it, BUT do not let the hype to get the better of you so that you won't be disappointed once you get to actually play the game yourself. The first release will hopefully by fun and enjoyable, but indeed an incomplete version of what are we aiming for...

[Alcibiade]

" * "


* here, just imagine any GIF expressing an incommensurable joy.

[Blazing141]

Great NEws!!!!

Will this be playable on a Mac the same way EB1 is?

[Eastern Foot-Rocker]

Damn. There goes my summer holiday.

<£600 holiday money diverted to new PC>

Same here man...

[leonardusius]

Good to hear that. What about the beta testers ? How to apply for that ?

[RawPower]

Amazingly good news:) Congrats EB team!

[Kull]

Good to hear that. What about the beta testers ? How to apply for that ?

We already have a team of beta testers and probably won't bring in new ones. Thanks for offering though!

[V.T. Marvin]

In essence whoever plays the game in its first-release form (August 2014) will actually thereby become a beta-tester as long as he/she provides his feed-back and/or bug report. ~;)

[Paltmull]

:jumping:

[Famine0]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z6ODMDtG6-I

This is great!

[Enyalio]

Time to step out of the lurking zone and congratulate the team on their persistence and their efforts! Summer will have a new attraction this year!

[I_damian]

Every single day is going to feel like a week for the next two months.

Oh god... what have I done? Why did I choose today to do my yearly check on the progress of the mod? Why didn't I choose a day at the end of July?

WHY!?

[panten]

This makes me so happy :)

[Cadwalader]

Squeeeee! :D
This is getting to be a very, very good year!

[Mouzafphaerre]

​
Best news of last month! Congrats in advance to all team members and contributors :)
​

[Gneisenau]

great news!! Bactria i'm waiting for you <3

[a completely inoffensive name]

I joined this forum for EBI and EBII. I used to be very active in here but as the years went on, I became a lurker. Never lost hope though, I have always checked this forum at least once a week for the past 6 years.

Very happy to see the efforts of so many over so long finally come to fruition.

[Populus Romanus]

A little late to the party here. I have tried to keep checking this forum frequently over the years I have been anticipating EBII. I am so excited that its finally here! Congratulations to the dev team for persevering over the years. You guys have shown incredible dedication to this game! :thumbsup:

[Rex Somnorum]

I just saw a new doomsday prophesy that the world will end on July 31st.

I'll be crouching in my basement with my PC and a copy of Medieval II, praying that my Internet connection holds out.

[Duguntz]

This is like a year's worth of daily christmas!!!

[Leon the Batavian]

Good news! R2TW was cheap at steam so gave it a try just out of curiousity but this will cast that one aside instantly.

[tishtar]

at last!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
thank you EB team! you did it!
congrats, you have done a great service to the community with your hard work.
on a post note, I saw the thread three weeks ago, but for some unknown reason I didn't comment then. but now I thought I owed the team a thank you at least.

[Poppis]

First release in next month? Is this really happening?:dizzy2:

[Alcibiade]

Great. This news is the reason that kept me around this forum even when not playing TW games ! It will be like xmass in plain august.

[delablake]

Good news! Been following this game since 0.8! Really looking forward to playing it!

[Celareon]

On twitter



Ladies and gentlemen its

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9jK-NcRmVcw

*dies*

Been playing tw since shogun 1 - playing eb since first release and eagerly waiting for eb2 since announced and now I can die happy.

[STuNTz2023]

After reading this I decided to fire up EB and get a new game going. I'm positive it will be worth the wait, thank you for all your hard work!!!

[Lusitani]

Awsome....can't wait!!!

[edyzmedieval]

Prepare your PCs guys, stack up on food, get those energizers ready... :grin2:

[I_damian]

I just saw a new doomsday prophesy that the world will end on July 31st.

I'll be crouching in my basement with my PC and a copy of Medieval II, praying that my Internet connection holds out.

If the world ends on July 31st, we shall agree here and now to meet at a place roughly half way between where we both live and together we will fight our way through the hordes of survivors to the homes of the EB creators and find EB2 on their PC's.

Bring weapons and food.

Edit: And women. I'll bring my sister for you, you bring your sister for me.

Deal?

[Gavs Jvlivs Caesar]

Ave people!

I have to say i have lost track of the state of this mod back in '08, '09, but have thought of it every once in a while since then. When i bothered to check it out after a couple of years, i found to my amazement, that it is almost here. I am SO grateful to the modding team of old and new, that you/they didn't give up on this long awaited project. I can only suspect that great perseverance and determination was needed from those individuals who have sacrificed their free time to make EB II a reality.

My helmet -is down to you- great sers. :bow:

[Satyros]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zhhYIZJj6rk

~:cool:

[I_damian]

I'm being extra careful to make sure I don't die before EB2 is released. I'm even waiting for the green man before I cross the road now!!!

(The green man is the "safe to cross" thing for you Americans =P)

[Jebus]

Oh god yes! Finally!

[Hooahguy]

This is crazy! I remember when I joined up here at the Org, EB1 was still going strong and I vividly remember the announcement for beginning work on EBII. Good work!

[skuzzy]

This thread is kind equivalent to going to a nice restaurant and having to take a shit on the drive back. You have endured for so long but now that your bathroom is within sight you can't contain yourself.

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.

Thanks for all your work, guys!

[Brennus]

Subscribe to the Twitter feed. We will be aiming to post a new image every day until the release.

[I_damian]

I would if I could but figure out how Twitter works. I tried signing up and learning how to use it once (I wanted to send abusive messages to The Pope and Gary Barlow) but I honestly couldn't figure out how the hell that thing works. I even googled how it works and really tried to learn but it was just so unnecessarily confusing to me.

[Hooahguy]

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.

:sad3:

[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.

:sad3:

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 :no:

[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 :no:

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 ? :rolleyes:


I really hope so :)

[Ibrahim]

Is it gonna be christmas early this year ? :rolleyes:


I really hope so :)


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vcY7W2sjZl8

[Alcibiade]

This is some cheering music for sure.

[Tyrfingr]

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-YLibPH4-4FA/UXB2q9d9MlI/AAAAAAAABGw/M2uscsCJECo/s1600/tumblr_md36leqIAK1r5klt2o1_500.jpg

[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 (http://t-a-w.blogspot.com/2009/11/why-everyone-hates-you-in-medieval-2.html) 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. :2thumbsup:

[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