Christmas update and patch - the details!

Hi all,

As you know, we deployed some free Christmas content for the community as a gesture of good will to all men. In it, there’s a new front end screen (this is enabled or disabled by the date of your system clock) and a whole new Christmassy map, packed with treats.

We also deployed a small patch at the same time to fix a few things (and we’re now adding the below fixes in red to the list for a patch we'll deploy in the next couple of days).

Changelist

• Brand new Christmas map – “Operation Santa”
• New Christmas battle HUD for Operation Santa map
• Corrections to encyclopaedia
• New Christmas front end scene
• Fixed hack (money cheat) (Will be fixed in future patch - requires more testing)
• Fixed issue with missing wall pieces in certain siege battle maps

Have a great Christmas. We hope you enjoy the content.

The Creative Assembly

Thanks for letting us know the full extent, Craig. While some are cynical about this kind of stuff, I enjoy the little things like this.

nice! merry christmas to you and CA, thanks for Shogun 2!

Lovely!

Stickied

Thanks Craig, haven't checked out the new map but will soon. Happy Holidays to you and the rest of the team!

Hehehe, this Xmas theme is starting to grow on me! I not played S2TW in awhile, heard about this and fired it up just to see what it looked like and ended up starting another RotS campaign!

Anyways, Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to all at CA!!

Yeah! I guessed right it was a new map

But it's not the improved map we requested for NTW

Merry Christmas and happy new year anyway to CA team.

PS: Since you couldn't do it in time for Christmas, my birthday is 21st January, you still have one month to prepare the NTW map...

Originally Posted by CraigTW

• Fixed hack (money cheat)

I'm I reading right? because from what I know money cheat has always been trolling that started as a joke.
I've seen tons of people asking for it or acusing somebody, but none has proved it true, or shown how to.
And now CA says they are fixing it? Is this some kind of christmas joke?

Originally Posted by Luis Daoiz y Velarde

I'm I reading right? because from what I know money cheat has always been trolling that started as a joke.
I've seen tons of people asking for it or acusing somebody, but none has proved it true, or shown how to.
And now CA says they are fixing it? Is this some kind of christmas joke?

No, we had a 100% reproduced case in-house that the community identified, so we worked with the guys who spotted the exact way to do it and fixed it right up.

If you ever see anything like this happen again, PM me and I'll make sure we look into it.

Originally Posted by CraigTW

No, we had a 100% reproduced case in-house that the community identified, so we worked with the guys who spotted the exact way to do it and fixed it right up.

If you ever see anything like this happen again, PM me and I'll make sure we look into it.

Good to know you are fixing cheats even before they spread, keep it up

I demand free goodies!



My list to the Christian diety of aplenty name Santa who seems to bear a remarkable resemblance to the slug god Ebisu, is as follows....

New screenies of the FOTS, specifically, the Shinsengumi, the Kaiten, and Hijikata Toshizo.

Craig, I have been experiencing units flashing with the new blood dlc. Others are also experiencing this link to the thread is below.

http://www.twcenter.net/forums/showt...1#post10754608

It looks like a bug with the new blood dlc but I don't see any indication in the patch notes about fixing this. Is CA aware of this issue and is it something that will be looked at? It is very annoying and as much as I love the blood dlc the flashing is almost becoming a game breaker.

this is pretty cool.

oh, and merry Christmas to y'all at CA

I like the fact that CA seems to be more communicative with its community.

Big thumbs up Craig !

Thanks for this nice patch(and for Fall of the Samurai)!

Have a nice Christmas!

Joyeux noël thanks for this gift

Love the Christmas update, especially Operation Santa. Thanks CA and have a Merry Christmas!

Thanks, and happy holidays to you and the rest of the hard working, but hopefully also merrie, folk at CA.

Seasons' greetings to CA and many thanks again for the wonderful DLC Rise of the Samurai.

If you are looking into bug fixes please have a look a the following where a few mismatches of
mon and faction colours appear to have crept into the campaign map:

http://www.twcenter.net/forums/showthread.php?t=499287

Merry Christmas!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5iUH01ofbI8