Well the Open Beta has been going well, we've finished most of the core rewrites and fixed the vast majority of the stuff that anything as major as this kind of update/code evolution tends to break. We still have a number of tasks to complete and are getting close to "clean up" phase. Read more about what's in 1.29 in the Game Patches and Updates section.

The new features coming with the update are mostly understood by the players who have sampled what's coming, and most seem to be eager to get to grips with the new stuff when v1.29 is finished and in published release. Of particular interest is the new rank and skill tree we can put into place with the introduction of the new aircraft we slipped into the dev. cycle like the sneaky rats that we are.
Details on the new rank and skill tree can be viewed here.

The live game (v1.28) is in it's latest campaign (No.49) and going extremely well. Players are in the game in large numbers and fighting for every inch of ground, in very positive terms. The war has moved on to the early->mid transition era of the conflict, and most seem to have braved the difficult early phase of the war with a fair degree of gritty determination. No battle in this first phase of the campaign has been won easily or without a very tense and exciting confrontation between the combined forces of both sides. Some of the defenses have virtually "come back from the dead" to hold against attacks that were all but totally overwhelming, while others have simply been out and out slugfests with no clear supremacy evident and luck playing as big a role as the never say die actions of the players themselves. This is proving to be one of the best campaigns ever seen in the game so far.

Get in there and get you some!