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The Direct X 10 patch for Company of Heroes has been released.

Some balance and bug tweaks as well, release notes to follow.

The 1.61 to 1.70 patch is only 13MB, I suspect the content for this patch was added last patch.

Get it here or at WorthPlaying.

Edit(Someguy):
Buggo has put up an image of what DX10 looks like in this post. Guy looks like he wants a taco.

Edit 2 (UberJumper): Click inside for the changelog

Edit 3 (UberJumper): Vista Users, it’s VERY important that you get the latest beta drivers if you want to use DX10.

Relic reports there’s a bug in the 158.18 drivers that prevents display of effects, and also those drivers have performance optimizations for DX10.
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There’s a 6 page preview up at Games Radar. Nick Carota and Josh Mosquiera both provide quote action for the interview. There’s a ton of screenshots available as well. The most exciting thing I read was this…

Carota continues: �We spent all this time doing the believable squad movement, and the vehicles frustrated us, because we had big plans for these formations, but just didn�t have the time to implement it in CoH. Visually, seeing intelligent behavior from your units is very important, and the believability factor was quashed a lot when you saw a whole bunch of vehicles doing the dirty.�

The less than underwhelming vehicle AI/movement in CoH has always frustrated me. I play axis and when I manage to get a couple of tanks together for a push, order them to attack, only to throw my hands in the air and start cursing at them when they start to bump and grind on one another.

Thanks to Antiloop for pointing out the article!

Josh Mosquiera’s done a video interview (which also features 1 Up staffers discussing the game). It’s posted at 1up.

View it here.

There’s some great shots of some of the new units in the game, including the brits and panzer elite units like the Jadgpanzer.

Thanks to ALoserIsYou on the forums for the heads up.

Edit (Someguy): Along with the video, I noticed a written article posted on 1up as well. Lots of great information about some of the Commonwealth tactics and abiltites. In addition, there are a few paragraphs talking about the Panzar Elites as well.

You can check out the article here.

Buggo announced that a hotfix has been issued for the problem with the Allied Halftrack not receiving damage from certain types of attacks(mines from what I’ve heard).

According to Buggo, it should be up at 11:00am PST. Really small patch note after the jump.

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