Raphael van Lierop from Relic posted this on our forums:
Just an update. This patch will address a wide variety of issues covering pretty much every area of the game — SP missions, gameplay, some art, performance issues, balance tweaks, along with some of the other things Tranj has already mentioned.
As I’m sure you can appreciate, patching a game like CoH is a hugely complex process which involves extensive testing of the entire game, and every version (so, all locales — US, UK, Germany, France, etc. etc.).
Hopefully this gives you some idea of why it takes a bit of time to put this stuff together and to validate our fix list.
Once we know EXACTLY what has been fixed, we’ll post the list for you guys to rant/rave about.
Thanks for your patience!
In addition, once QA has validated the patch we can expect a full changelog. This may take the aforementioned one or two weeks though.
For those of you wondering why this is taking so long, QA is the final stage of patch testing. They attempt to find bugs with the patch, and if they find any the whole thing gets sent back to the developers, who then fix it and re-submit it to QA. This may seem like a long-winded process, but it is necessary in order to keep the patches as bug-free as possible.
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Posted by Marty Whitten at October 13th, 2006 at 10:47 am
in relic we trust. :) one of the best game companies around, genre defining game awesome graphics and true playablitiy with all their RTS titles. They actually care about balance issues and bugs…. EA on the other hand, well the BF2142 demo has to be hotfixed before you can actually play it…
Posted by Borg453 at October 15th, 2006 at 6:19 am
Looking forward to the patch. I’m one of the people forced to task-switch from COH and back, once I’ve loaded a mission. The gameplay keeps me comming back for more through, despite the fact that I’m through the campaign.
On EA and patching.. as some guy wrote: They’re the kind of company thats more eager to ship a new product, than fix their recent one (read Battlefield2). BF2 is still flawed. I want a BF2 that works.. not a new futuristic take on the concept.
Posted by uboot at October 16th, 2006 at 8:20 am
What about the Connection Problem message in the Lobby, the dropping ingame and the problems with router although the ports are forwarded!?
Posted by corporalgeo at October 18th, 2006 at 11:01 am
Er, what are “some of the things Tranj already mentioned.” ? :-)
Posted by stuart at October 23rd, 2006 at 5:29 am
I continually get messages that i “cannot connect to players in the game” how do i go about fixing this problem since it happenes most of the time and at other times i can connect easily?
Posted by Steven at October 23rd, 2006 at 10:57 am
will patch supply a map editor ?
the maps are getting little old. ?
Posted by foxracer693 at October 24th, 2006 at 6:50 pm
i havent played online yet. comes up wit message after presing omlne button”you have lost your connection to relic online.”
Posted by Dave Wilma at October 26th, 2006 at 5:43 am
I have been notified by some players that the issue with multiplayer and connecting with the error: “Could not connect to all players” is a widespread issue. Even with firewalls disabled and ports opened the error remains a majority of the time. Here’s hoping Relic release another patch soon to resolve this issue.
Posted by jonathan at October 26th, 2006 at 2:53 pm
that issue that regards to not being able to connect to all players, thats a problem with nearly all rts’s. my friend had that problem with command and conquer generals, lord of the rings battle for middle earth AND this game, he contacted his ISP and the guy told him to change certain options that had to do with the modem or router and the problem got fixed. he has a obscure ISP, that might have contirbuted to his problem. so in conclusion tis not really the game, call ur ISP and tell them your problem and if ur lucky ull get a smart operator and he’ll get that fixed for you
Posted by Derek at October 29th, 2006 at 3:25 am
I myself just want to say I love this game. My current favorite. But I have a problem with the patch. First of all, I have a Nvidia 7950 GTX OC in my computer. Without the patch the game runs ok, but not as good as it should. With the patch the game runs a ton smoother, the way it should. However my ground texture maps flicker now like crazy. Don’t know if anyone else is experiancing this or not. If anyone has any helpful hints about a way to fix it that would be great, otherwise I’ll just hope the next patch fixes it.
Posted by jonathan at October 31st, 2006 at 4:47 pm
yeah the textures flicker ike that when ur video card is overoverclocked. video cards start commiting errors and the flickering of the textured happen. try loweing the clock speed to ur video card. i have a normal 7800 and when i over clock it the texture thing happens, when i dont i have no problems whatso ever and im able to run it on uber high, so just suck in that pride and lower the clock speed lolz =)
Posted by Kevin at November 2nd, 2006 at 1:24 am
Actually I have twin 7950’s in SLI and I see the flickering as well. It seems to be related to areas in which the terrain has been mutilated. I am NOT overclocking the GPU at all.
Posted by jon at November 6th, 2006 at 7:56 pm
yeah u think ur not overclocking it but the 7950 comes overclocked thats why it has a huge a55 fan
Posted by trond at January 4th, 2007 at 2:17 pm
Is it possible to get a patch that allows my raedon 9200 card to run the COH, or can I clock the card??