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Company of Heroes - Balance Playtest released

Posted in Company of Heroes by Someguy on June 3rd, 2008

Relic has just announced the Balance Playtest for Company of Heroes. The purpose of the playtest will be to test new Relic Online features along with testing daily/bi-daily gameplay changes and fixes. You can read the entire note after the jump.

You can get the client from this link

There are two requirements before you can run the setup for the playtest:
- Company of Heroes and/or Opposing Fronts installed and patched to version 2.301
- 8gb available hard drive space.

COH - Balance Playtest!

More information after the jump.

Hi everyone,

We are pleased to announce the Company of Heroes - Balance Playtest! Some things we plan on introducing throughout this Playtest are:

1. Host Proxy support. The network layer has been re-written to support host relayed traffic. What does this mean? Essentially, if you can connect to the host of the game you can connect to everyone else!
2. Map Contest. The top community submitted maps will be added to the PlayTest! These maps will be part of the auto-match loop as well as random play. The winners will be announced at the end of the beta, by you!
3. Bittorrent Downloader. In order to assist with the delivery of patches and additional content, an opt-in bittorrent system will be tested to help distribute data to you much more quickly.
4. Daily/Bi-daily Gameplay Changes & fixes. As with the last beta we will be iterating very quickly making the Company of Heroes gaming experience even better!

NOTE: The Company of Heroes - Balance Playtest will not modify any of your existing Company of Heroes or Opposing Fronts game files. This installer will work for all locales.

Below are the installation and requirement details on the Playtest:

Download the installer from here: http://thq.vo.llnwd.net/o10/CoH/pla…ytest_Setup.exe

Playtest Requirements:
- Company of Heroes and/or Opposing Fronts installed and patched to version 2.301
- 8gb available hard drive space.

Enjoy!
The Relic Team

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Posted by ductuan at June 21st, 2008 at 5:47 pm

Dear,
after installed the client, when i run beta progrram, i cannot login using my exist account - pgroram say username/pass is invalid, so i try Company of Heroes - Opposing Fronts, everything is ok, why i cannot use my login in beta program??? please help me, thanks

Posted by Relicnews | Participate in the COH playtest, get a chance to be in the next unannounced Relic Beta at June 24th, 2008 at 6:18 pm

[…] Relic posted on the forums about an opportunity to be in an upcoming unannoucned Relic beta. To be eligibile, you must take part of the Company of Heroes playtest that is going on currently. Invitations into the beta will be based on your participation in the playtest. Relic is proud to announce eligibility to an upcoming currently unannounced Relic Beta for qualified participants in the Company of Heroes - Balance Playtest! We will be capturing metrics (accumulated time in-game, number of games, etc…) to decide our winners. The winners will be notified at the conclusion of the Playtest. The Playtest does not currently have an end-date, however one will be given approximately two weeks prior. The top 100 participants will receive the aforementioned beta key! […]

Posted by Ingenu at July 7th, 2008 at 11:14 am

It doesn’t detect the steam version of the game :(
Can we (steam users) get the chance to help too ?

Posted by Moe at July 7th, 2008 at 11:18 am

Yes. Instructions can be found in this thread

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