Cossacks 3

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Dear friends!
GSC Game World is proud to announce that Cossacks 3: Days of Brilliance is out now!
Immerse yourself into an epic Polish campaign that depicts heroics of the Polish army in the 17th century, or witness the iconic military events from all over the Europe in new singleplayer scenarios! Denmark and the Netherlands are also here to join both singleplayer and multiplayer battles, increasing the already impressive roster of nations in Cossacks 3!
Main Features:
Polish campaign: Experience the most thrilling events of the Polish history in 17th century. From the genius Battle of Klushino to the grand Saving of Vienna, lead the mighty winged hussars over the plains of Europe in the age of their greatest triumphs and victories.
New exclusive missions: 5 new exciting missions will take you all over the Europe and allow you to assume the role of general in the key historical military events of the 17th and 18th century Old World.
Additional nations: Play as mighty Denmark or the swift Netherlands, each with its own new unique buildings, units and music themes.
Brand-new original units: 5 new units will set their foot on the battlefields of 17th century Europe, including original new units, exclusive to Cossacks 3, for new nations and Poland.

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Dear friends!

As we promised before, today every player with Cossacks 3 in their library gets a free update that grants them access to new nations of Denmark and the Netherlands! Everyone now gets a chance to try out fast shooting Dutch musketeer in the 17th century or menacing Danish musketeers and grenadiers in the 18th century.
We also have some additional surprises in the coming days in stock for everyone else, so stay tuned for some… frosty updates

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Dear friends!
We’re glad to announce that with the Steam Winter Sale, Christmas is coming to Cossacks 3!
To celebrate the Holiday Season, the time of joy and happiness, and Steam Winter Sale, we’re adding a few surprises to our game:
- A new FREE mission is added to the game. Help Santa to rescue his reindeer and save Christmas for people all around the world!
- We’ve changed our main menu art, so it would be more suitable for this time of year;
- Redesigned the UI to give some additional holiday vibes to players;
- Added some holiday trees to the map generator, brings even more joy to the game!
- Peasants now use their holiday colored bags;
- Tweaked the lightning for a snowier atmosphere in the game.
But that’s not all! As Cossacks 3 participates in the Steam Winer Sale, never before discounts visit our store page: -20% on the Standard edition, -25% on the Deluxe edition and -30% on the Deluxe upgrade will bring even more people to celebrate Christmas in Cossacks 3! There was never a better time to join.
GSC Game World wishes you a Merry Christmas and a happy Holiday season!

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Dear friends!
We congratulate you with the upcoming New Year and wish you a breathtaking year, both on the battlefields of the 17h century Europe and in real life!
Your support was crucial for us this year. From the moment of release, your feedback and kind words have helped us to transform the game into something better. We cannot even imagine how the last 3.5 months would’ve gone without your constant support and assistance. For this we are forever grateful to you.
On our side, we promise to work even harder on the game during the next year and bring updates and pleasant surprises to you even more frequently. In a few days we’re going to post a roadmap, that will showcase the upcoming content to Cossacks 3, that we are working on. This way you’ll have more information on when to expect something new in the game.
To end on a high note, we are posting a video about our Holiday mission.
Enjoy it and have an awesome day!

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Dear friends!

The New Year has come and as a thank you for your great support, from now on we shall take course on becoming more transparent with you: coherency and honesty to the players are even more important now. Our first step on this path will be to release a detailed roadmap of upcoming content, both for Deluxe edition and Basic edition owners.
Note, that it does not take in account upcoming patches and occasional bonuses, with which we plan to surprise you

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Patch Notes 14.01.17 (1.2.5.60.4425)
Main Changes
1. The global population limit has been increased to 32 000 units per map (2x bigger in comparison to the previous limit).
2. The game now properly scales UI on 4k monitors.
3. The game now properly scales UI on low-resolution monitors.
4. After finishing or exiting a story mission the game will go back to the campaign screen now.
5. Fixed animations of sails and paddles.
6. Improved the building allocation mechanism, now players can place buildings closer to trees.
7. Lobby settings now get saved in the multiplayer shell as well.
8. Fixed an error in the enemy detection mechanism, which made units ignore their closest targets and allowed them to continue following their previous enemy.
9. Fixed an exploit that allowed players to destroy enemy’s walls by blowing up unfinished foundations of walls near them.
10. Enhanced controls over a group of formations. If one of the formations is looking into opposite direction that the others or it is far away from other, then all of them will be regrouped and placed close to each other. Formations can now immediately reverse their movement, when the player commands them to go into an opposite direction to the one they are facing.
11. Set resource delivering priority to warehouse and town hall is now the same for peasants. Prior to this change peasants prioritized warehouse as a place where to deliver gathered resources.
12. The mercenary dragoon units from Early Bird edition now share the price (and inflation rate) with common mercenary dragoons.
13. You can now select ships in the same way, as land units. You can do so by using a combination of Ctrl + Q keys
14. General optimization of the game has been imporved.
Performance
1. Fixed a bug that caused crashes during autosaves and manual saves in campaigns for some users.
2. Fixed a crash in the fifth mission of the Austrian campaign, that was caused by a mission trigger with the ships.
3. Fixed some problems with path finding. This issue had a chance of occurring in any mission, but was frequently encountered in the first Russian and third Polish campaign missions.
Controls
1. Now when you send a formation or a group of formations to a new location with a Ctrl key held down, they will maintain their orientation.
2. You can now order 100 units of any kind by holding Ctrl + Alt and clicking on their icon in the appropriate building. (you can cancel the command by clicking RMB on the icon again)
3. You can now order infinite construction queue of the same unit in 5 different buildings by selecting them and holding Ctrl + Shift and clicking on the appropriate icon. (you can cancel the command by clicking RMB on the icon again)
General
1. Fixed an error, that caused case shot to deal significantly lower damage.
2. Fixed a bug, that caused a wall that player was planning to build to change to the another player's type of wall, which he was constructing at that moment
3. Fixed a rare bug with map generator, that allowed the game to spawn 2 players on the same spot.
4. Fixed an issue with 18th century officer attack upgrade.
5. Fixed an issue with king’s musketeer defense upgrade.
6. Wall foundations that have less than 1/3 of HP will now automatically self-detonate when any unit will try to approach them (previously this affected only military units).
7. Fixed a bug, that caused map settings to reset in a saved game.
8. Fixed an error, which occured in a situation when the game’s language options in Steam and in-game differed and caused texts to appear with wrong localization.
9. Fixed a rare bug, that prevented Early Bird bonuses and DLC from displaying correctly to certain users.
10. Fixed a system error, that may have intervened with some mission triggers.
11.Balanced the "Huge armies" starting option for Ukraine, Turkey and Algeria
12. Fixed an error in the third mission of the Russian campaign, that hindered the progression of it.
13. Fixed a bug, that allowed players to see resource nodes’ icons while other players were loading.
14. Made some tweaks to the loading screen, texts are now displayed on parchment.

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Dear friends!
We are glad to announce ‘Cossacks 3: Rise to Glory’, an epic addition to the Cossacks series that will see the light of day on February 15.
Rise to Glory allows you to take up the mantle of the greatest military leaders of all time and participate in battles that defined the world’s history as we know it. Among other things, it introduces numerous new features to the game: new nations, environments, units, custom campaigns and scenarios and much more!
Main features:
Prussian campaign: Assume the role of Frederick the Great and lead the mighty Prussian armies into the fiercest skirmishes 18th century Europe have ever seen.
Swedish campaign: Experience the rise of Sweden to its position of the global power under the leadership of Gustavus Adolphus, a genius military leader who invented the modern way of conducting warfare.
New Original Units: 7 new units come into the game, 3 of which are completely new.
New environments: Take out your winter coats, as Rise to Glory introduces winter maps to both singleplayer and multiplayer modes.
New nations: mighty Bavaria and Saxony – favorites of the old fans – make a comeback to display the military might of German states.
Custom missions: three singleplayer scenarios will allow you participate in exciting historical battles that took place all over Europe.
As a reminder, Bavaria and Saxony will be available to everyone for free in one week after the release of the DLC! Deluxe edition and DLC owners will get an exclusive 7-day access to them and new units, everyone else will get their hands on them on 22th of February.
This DLC is part of the Deluxe Edition.

[Prof]

Glad to see that this game is making progress. I really loved Bavaria in the original and I am looking forward to playing them again.

I hope, we will see 18th century ships soon, too ^^

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Glad to see that this game is making progress. I really loved Bavaria in the original and I am looking forward to playing them again.

I hope, we will see 18th century ships soon, too ^^

We think about them too)
Thank you.

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Dear friends!
We are thrilled to announce that from today Cossacks 3 fully supports the Steam Workshop functionality!
As the library of mods for Cossacks 3 grows bigger by the day, we decided that there’s a dire need for a convenient place to store and share user created modifications. And what place is better than the Steam Workshop – a new part of our amazing community hub, where players can publish, organize and deliver their creations to every person playing Cossacks 3.
We’ve also updated the game and our trusty Mod Manager, so now they are fully intertwined with the Workshop and provide the best possible service to our players.
We also have some exciting news for Mac and Linux users: on 15th of March Cossacks 3 will finally become available on MacOS and Linux platforms! Venture forth onto the battlefields of the 17th-18th century Europe and enjoy the fully polished Cossacks experience with your friends, regardless of what platform you're using - the game supports crossplatform play and allows you to play against players across all platforms.
As a bonus, every Mac & Linux user that purchases and logins into the game during the first two week after the release will receive an Early Bonus package, identical to the one given out during the Windows release.
Here’s what you can expect with today’s update:
Patch Notes 03.02.17 (1.3.1.61.4532)
The Steam Workshop
1. Download content created by other players and tailor the game to your liking or share your own creations with the world;
2. Extended Mod Manager functionality: mod management has never been so easy!
3. Automatic synchronization: you can automatically synchronize and download required mods from within the game. The game now makes sure that everyone uses the same mods and version of C3.
4. Sessions with enabled mods are now marked with a special symbol in the multiplayer shell.
New mechanics:
1. Units will now experience collision when they approach enemy troops. Each unit now has a radius that will prevent enemies from going through them. This severely affects the cavalry units, as they won't be able to pass through units and make diversions behind the lines.
2. Land units can now engage each other more easily.
Changes to gameplay
1. The upgrades to firepower from the academy now recalculate after each unit's personal upgrade. Now they are not influenced by the amount of firepower units have at the moment of upgrade and scale independently. This heavily influences the early game stage and affects Serdiuk, 18th century musketeer of Prussia and Denmark.
2. Resource gathering upgrades now influence the respective nation where they were learnt and don't stack together.
3. "No cannons" option now fully disables artillery, not only cannons.
New game options
1. "No diplomatic center", "No market" and "Without either" options are now available in the lobby.
2. It's now possible to set starting locations: random positioning or allies grouped together.
Performance and AI
1. Optimized the combat and target selection for units.
2. Optimized the way AI thinks and reacts, sped up the processes
New in-game notices
1. Now the game determines if you have a video card unsuitable for playing the game and will notify the player. In this case, you need to update your video card drivers from the manufacturer's website.
2. Now the game will notify you, if it will find only an integrated video card, not a discrete one. If such situation occurs, we recommend you to update your video card drivers from the manufacturer’s website.
Fixed errors
1. Fixed "stuck" units, which ignored orders.
2. Fixed a bug, when after ordering a unit to go to an unreachable spot (mountain, building or water) the unit stopped reacting to the enemies nearby till the next order.
3. Fixed an error, which caused the game to reset the blue colored player options.
4. Fixed a bug, when units near one edge of the map could start moving in the direction of the opposing edge.
5. In rare cases peasants would ignore "Build" or "Repair" orders. This was happening due to them already being on the spot where required action would take place.
6. Fixed the "disappearing upgrade". Prior to this, certain upgrades would disappear from buildings if those buildings were captured earlier.

Once again, we would like to thank all the dedicated players and mod makers for supporting us – you inspire us to make the game better.
We would like to thank players LiptonVPaketike and Inventor for their assistance in fixing errors in this patch.
Have a good day!

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Cossacks 3 Map editor is not out yet, but our fans modmakers already doing amazing maps.

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Are you ready for winter warfare? Harsh climate comes with Rise to Glory on February 15

[Larm]

Those Winter map looks wonderfull and cold I love the new winter textures for the buildings and trees. You guys keep doing a good job. There are just to many gamedevelopers these days that release a game and immediately stop all support and patching.

I have a question. For the new DLC Rise to glory you said: New Original Units: 7 new units come into the game, 3 of which are completely new.

So there are 4 units from the original Cossack 1 game. But Bavaria and Saxony only got 3 original units in total, if I am correct. Bavarian 18thc musketeer. Saxony Cav guards and Saxon grenadier. What unit am I missing here?

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Those Winter map looks wonderfull and cold I love the new winter textures for the buildings and trees. You guys keep doing a good job. There are just to many gamedevelopers these days that release a game and immediately stop all support and patching.

I have a question. For the new DLC Rise to glory you said: New Original Units: 7 new units come into the game, 3 of which are completely new.

So there are 4 units from the original Cossack 1 game. But Bavaria and Saxony only got 3 original units in total, if I am correct. Bavarian 18thc musketeer. Saxony Cav guards and Saxon grenadier. What unit am I missing here?

Thank you, we doing our best)
Your knowledge about Cossacks game are enviable, but you forgot about Saxony 18thc musketeer ) he have the best fire power and longest recruiting time in the game.

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Dear friends!
We're happy to announce that ‘Cossacks 3: Rise to Glory’ is now available!
Rise to Glory allows you to take up the mantle of the greatest military leaders of all time and participate in battles that defined the world’s history as we know it. The drums and pipes of war thunder across all Europe, as you get to witness the daring adventures of the Old Fritz and the Lion of the North on peak of their glory.
Among other numerous new features, we would like to announce that Ranked games and the Ladder are coming into the game, along with remake of the multiplayer shell and introduction of the ‘Quick Play’ functionality. Now players will be able scratch that competitive itch and show everyone their skill!
Main features of Rise to Glory:
• Prussian campaign: Assume the role of Frederick the Great and lead the mighty Prussian armies into the fiercest skirmishes 18th century Europe have ever seen.
• Swedish campaign: Experience the rise of Sweden to its position of the global power under the leadership of Gustavus Adolphus, a genius military leader who invented the modern way of conducting warfare.
• New Original Units: 7 new units come into the game, 3 of which are completely new.
• New environments: Take out your winter coats, as Rise to Glory introduces winter maps to the game.
• New nations: mighty Bavaria and Saxony – favorites of the old fans – make a comeback to display the military might of German states. Each new nations will is accompanied with its own unique soundtrack.
• Custom missions: three singleplayer scenarios will allow you participate in exciting historical battles that took place all over Europe.
As a reminder, Bavaria and Saxony will be available to everyone for free in one week after the release of the DLC! Deluxe edition and DLC owners will get an exclusive 7-day access to them and new units, everyone else will get their hands on them on 22th of February.
This DLC is part of the Deluxe Edition.
Polish and Czech localisations of the new campaigns will be available within a week.
Have a nice day!

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Dear friends!
Starting from today, nations of Saxony and Bavaria are now available to every Cossacks 3 owner, regardless the edition. Each new nation brings exciting new things to the game: unique units, original soundtrack and marvels of its architecture. Make your enemies flee at the sight of your mighty German armies! But we're not done yet, as not only "newcomers" are getting updated - Sweden and Prussia players cam brag about new units as well!
Full list of new units:
- Bavarian musketeer
- Saxon musketeer
- Bavarian grenadier
- Prussian grenadier
- Saxon grenadier
- Saxon Cavalry Guard
- Swedish Hakkapeliitta;
Once again, we would like to thank our fans and supporters - you inspire us, and in return we're doing our best to improve the game. You can also expect to hear more about the amazing upcoming patch pretty soon!

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Patch Notes 24.02.17 (1.4.4.67.4919)
Dear friends!
Meet the new grand update to Cossacks 3! In this patch we added the missing elements of the ranked mode, fixed some crucial errors and revamped the balance of all gunners, i. e. musketeers and grenadiers. More details below!
Multiplayer:
1. A host's rank is now displayed in the shell's room list.
2. The ranked score is now displayed alongside their names in lobbies.
3. Players can now see their position in the ladder, even if they are not in the top 100.
4. Fixed an issue when a multiple players spawned at the same spot.
5. Fixed the ""uncontrollable"" units, that ignored orders and didn't receive any damage from enemy attacks.
6. Fixed an error when the session's season wasn't displayed correctly to all players in the room.
7. Fixed a bug, that caused huge lags on naval maps and resulted in desynchronizations.
8. Fixed rank display in the multiplayer mode.
9. Players are now sorted above the mini-map: players from the same team are displayed together, different teams are separated by a line, while players without a team are listed last, "
Localization:
1. Spanish and polish localizations are now available for Rise to Glory DLC.
2. Fixed some typos and errors in English and Ukrainian localizations.
General:
1. Fixed a bug, when recently produced units that were moving to their gathering point would lose their order if they encounter a hostile unit.
2. Fixed the Access Violation error that often recurred in 20-30 minutes after starting a match, loading of a save, or exiting to the main menu. Unfortunately, save games with this error are unfixable.
3. ""Surrender"" button now works correctly in singleplayer missions.
4. Fixed an error with galleys, when they refused to attack a building if the target was in between the ranges of their first and second cannons.
5. Ships now won't sail on land.
6. Fixed lighting, now the map won't get too bright if you hover over to the lower left corner.
7. Fixed the animation of artillery, that occurred after loading up a save file.
8. Fixed a glitch that allowed to order multiple upgrades simultaneously, despite paying only for one.
9. The name of the Bavarian musketeer is now displayed correctly.
10. Fixed a number of errors with player separation above the mini-map."
Changes to the economy:
1. An academy is now required to produce units in the diplomatic center.
2. Reduced the mine upgrade speed from 15.5 seconds to 9 seconds.
Changes to unit balance:
TL;DR: Nerfed elite musketeers, rebalanced damage of bayonets, overhaul to hired grenadiers and all 18th century gunners.
Grenadier (mercenary)
- fire power increased from 4 to 18
- Increased reloading time from 3.4 seconds to 3.75
- Slightly increased the bayonet attack range
- Increased cost of shot from 1 iron/3 coal to 3 iron/4 coal
- Increased the grenade's damage from 110 to 200
- Pauses between grenade throws of a hired grenadier is 0.33 times bigger than of the usual one
- Increased gold consumption from 20 to 25 pieces
- Decreased the range of fire from 850 to 750
Musketeer 18c
- decreased the melee damage from 18 to 10
Musketeer 18c (Prussia)
- decreased melee damage from 22 to 12
- fire power decrease from 55 to 35
- decreased the price from 240 to 200
- increased coal consumption from 1 to 3 coal per shot
Musketeer 18c (Bayern)
- decreased melee damage from 9 to 6
- fire power decrease from 55 to 35
- increased the price from 35 to 160
- increased coal consumption from 1 to 3 coal per shot
- decreased the production time from 7.03 to 5.62 seconds
- decreased the damage that melee upgrade granted from 2/3/4/5/6/10 to 1/1/1/1/1/1
Musketeer 18c (Denmark)
- decreased melee damage from 18 to 10
- fire power decreased from 60 to 40
- decreased the price from 195 to 160
- increased coal consumption from 1 to 3 coal per shot
- increased the production time from 4.69 to 7.03 seconds
Musketeer 18c (Saxony)
- decreased melee damage from 12 to 6
- increased the price from 35 to 50 gold
Grenadier
- decreased melee damage from 22 to 20
- increased HP from 100 to 120
- increased the production time from 4.69 to 5.62 seconds
Grenadier (Prussia)
- decreased melee damage from 28 to 25
Grenadier (Bavaria)
- decreased melee damage from 20 to 15
- fire power increased from 14 to 15
- increased the production time from 4.69 to 5.62 seconds
Grenadier (Denmark)
- increased melee damage from 23 to 25
- increased the production time from 4.69 to 5.62 seconds
Grenadier (Saxony)
- fire power increased from 15 to 16
- increased the production time from 4.21 to 4.69 seconds
Chasseur (France)
- increased the maximum range of fire from 800 to 1050
- increased the reloading time from 2.8 to 5.6 seconds
- decreased HP from 85 to 75
Highlander (England)
- decreased the maximum range of fire from 850 to 800
- increased the reloading time from 2.8 to 5.75 seconds
- increased HP from 100 to 125
Pandur (Austria)
- increased the reloading time from 2.8 to 3.44 seconds

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Hello, camrads. Time for GIVEAWAY!
We want to make giveaway a key for Cossacks 3 Deluxe Edition here on TWcenter!
Everyone can participate in this giveaway and win the prise.
You just have to make quick post here in this topic with words "I want Cossacks 3".
We'll choose winners on March 5, so you have time until then!
We wish you good luck!

[Wulfburk]

Well, i sure do want cossacks 3!

So... I want cossacks 3!

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Today in the evening Giveaway will find its own winner. So, do not waste your time and Reply to Thread "I want Cossacks 3" if you want to win!