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Hey everyone,

While this entire news post is a ploy to keep you reading and not playing the game so we can get a head start on you all, we do have a few things we’d like to tell you.

WELCOME!!! To the new Beta, this is the moment we’ve been working towards and you’ve been waiting for for quite a while now. The servers are open and available here for you to play and test on:

Go to this link to register or go to cos.r2games.com and log in with your email!

Quite a few of us devs as well as the CM’s are already in-game, if you have any questions or need help, talk to someone with a “DEV” or “GM” logo above their head. Don’t hesitate to ask someone with a “DEV” icon to help you with a dungeon or something like that, if they have time they’ll be happy to do so!

If you’d like to know more about the changes made in this version, please read this post, it explains most of what has changed. We’re also working together with R2Games to make a VERY aggressive content release schedule possible that will make a lot of new content available to play and test over the coming weeks and months. And when we say aggressive we mean it:

  • New Level Cap: 32
  • New Races: Draug & Riven
  • New Content: The Vault, The Broken Stair, 20+ New Quests, 20+ New Dungeons, Armor & Weapons, Monsters & Bosses, Paragon Mode
  • New Systems: VIP System, Company System (Guilds)
  • New Events: PvP Tournament, Siege of the Spire (MOBA)
  • Other: Bug Fixes, Balance Tweaking, Content Updates, Rendering Performance Improvements, Energy Tweaks

All this will be available within a few weeks after launch, we’ll give you a more precise date when we’re closer to actually releasing it, but as you can see there’s a lot to look forward to.

And as always, this is still a Beta! We’d love to hear your feedback in the forums and in the feedback system available via the info-bar under the games’ window.

Thank you for reading and we’re looking forward to seeing you in-game!

 

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Blog RSS Feed Report abuse Latest News: A Con Crew's Journey: PAX East & GDC

0 comments by CoS_Ethan on Apr 26th, 2013

This is a repost from City of Steam Dev Journals

Before we talk about anything else, our hearts go out to everyone in Boston. We were in the city only a few weeks before the attack and what happened there is terrible. Stay strong over there.

“YOU’RE LATE!” Yes indeed we are, but we have some very good reasons: 

  1. We’re all very busy working on something you might find quite interesting (coming soon™)
  2. We wanted to release the video you see above alongside the article, or the other way around, whatever you find more important. 
  3. We get it, we suck, no really, we do. This is probably where you’re wondering why we haven’t announced a release date… well shhh… that’s coming soon, really soon.

Cons are a weird affair, while there you're basically part salesman, part busy bee and part wreck because of the really long hours (and jetlag!). PAX East and GDC San Francisco being back-to-back didn't really help either, but that didn't stop our Con Crew in the slightest... or did it?

When everyone arrived at the Boston Convention center, they quickly started setting up the booth. Some things we brought with us, others came in separately by courier (yes, it was a nail-biting experience...). We started by hanging up posters, putting furniture in place, unpacking swag, setting up the PC's and installing the sound syst... wait, where's the AMP? Fine! We had to buy another AMP since, by our last check, it ended up somewhere in Kentucky for some odd reason... The next day we were there bright and early as con-goers were coming in bringing the wave of craziness (awesomeness) that always accompanies them. Being well rested doesn't make you immune, but a heck of a lot more resistant to the PAX flu. As you might've heard here, Gab's voice was shot after talking as much as he did over the three days, but don't worry, with some hermit-mode upon return he is back to normal! The group losing their voices wasn't that strange though as the amount of fans, press and general con-goers that came by our booth was almost staggering. They were so busy that none of the fantastic four manning the booth actually saw anything on the show floor, although that's quite normal... we would've loved to hear more about Divekick at the office!

We also made some new friends, Dinosaur Games, developers of MechKnight were awesome as we swapped stories and booth setting-up supplies. At the end of PAX we donated our huge speakers in the name of better gaming at their office!

After PAX, came GDC San Francisco, this was a two man job, so both Cherith and Brian were left out. Gab and Andrew were left to their own devices and for a day they were able to enjoy the San Francisco area, go to the pier, take a boat trip under the infamous Golden Gate bridge and take some really dumb photos (Andrew is apparently really good at making those, who would’ve thought!).

After a day of messing about it was back to work, doing previews, and of course "making contacts" (pictured below), it's a hard life but someone has to do it. All in all, we met up with some great press, made a lot of new interesting contacts, made some new developer friends and had a great time. Now if we could only stop them from prancing around with those party invite bracelets and exhibitor badges, that'd be greeaattt.


Shhh…it’s a party! (Guess which one?)

Before we say goodbye, we'd like to thank a few people. First off R2Games, they financed this whole circus so without them this would not have happened. We'd also like to thank Cherith, she did a fantastic job at the booth telling the con-goers about the game and just being generally incredibly helpful. Stan the PAX "enforcer", he went above and beyond helping us set up the booth, fetching us stuff in a pinch and just being there when we needed him<3. Ethan, without him this all would've gone to you-know-what! He helped plan the booth, shipped over items, set up some of the appointments and got the equipment there (the AMP wasn't his fault!), fantastic indeed! I guess we can mention Sam for cutting together all our great times.


From left to right: Gab, Andrew, Brian and Cherith!

We will have missed someone here, but thanks to everyone who helped us prepare, set up, run the booths, came by, check us out and wrote about us. You’re all wonderful, wonderful people.

We can’t wait for the next opportunity to meet all of you in person!

Next time we’ll get Gab to wear that dress and hair again… mouhahah.

Check out our previous Dev Journal about The Wilderness!


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Three scene videos of Deepholm, Ebonwax Central and Gardenworks respectively.

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Ubris
Ubris May 28 2012, 8:09am says:

If it works on a web browser, it will work on Linux right?

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CoS_Ethan
CoS_Ethan May 29 2012, 2:12am replied:

City of Steam can be played on operating systems that are supported by Unity. As I understand, Unity doesn't support Linux currently.

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Piemanlives
Piemanlives Jun 11 2012, 11:10pm replied:

which is pretty sad seeing as this is quite an impressive project, mind you i hope they do get around to supporting linux, not because i use it, but because there is quite a number of people that do.

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thunderising
thunderising May 21 2012, 8:44am says:

Can't wait for this!

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CoS_Ethan
CoS_Ethan May 21 2012, 9:51pm replied:

Thanks, please stay connected, the game will start on Alpha testing in July. Remember to subscribe to our newsletters, the subscribers will always have the priority on everything about the game, including the Alpha keys.

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Templarfreak
Templarfreak May 9 2012, 8:39pm says:

From what it looks like, and being a browser game. I'd say probably at least 1GiG (256 to 512 AT THE BARE MINIMUM) of RAM and a 2.0ghrz (At minimum, 1.3 or .4ghrz.) processor...Can't say for graphics card, but I have an onboard PCIe NVIDIA GeForce 6600 with Intel(R) Q965/Q963 Express Chipset Family.

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Tilranus
Tilranus May 11 2012, 1:34pm replied:

Well seeing that it used Unity[or Web Unity] and I can run BSGO fairly good[with net lag] I'd say if my old system can run BSGO good this game won't be a problem.

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Templarfreak
Templarfreak May 9 2012, 12:52am says:

Hm...It just occurred to me. What would any of you guys on the team say the minimal/suggested system requirements would be?

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CoS_Ethan
CoS_Ethan May 9 2012, 3:50am replied:

We've got questions about the system requirement before, as it's our first title, we need some time to look into this, please wait for 3 days more, then we will release the client side requirement. :)

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CoS_Ethan
CoS_Ethan May 3 2012, 6:01am replied:

Sweet, look forward to meeting you in July's Alpha.

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