The holiday season is upon us and we're all looking forward to a couple of days to spend with friends and family. But before we do, we're going to be pushing out an update for our players. This will be a client update, and a large one, which will require a download. There is also a chance that we'll include some host code updates at some time over the next couple of days which will require a quick down/up of the live server.

While there are still a few issues with the live game, specifically the chat server, many of the larger ones have been eliminated, specifically the "synching" phase that would prevent the server from rebooting itself. Even now, new host binaries are being written to the beta cluster with more fixes and tweaks. Details on some of the work done in the past 24 hours can be found after the 1.34.6.255 Readme. UPDATE: Server host binaries updated ~ Chat crash fixes in place!

Another change you will see is a change we made to mission creation: Players with Rank 3 and above can now create missions. We are also updating to include rank sharing (to rank 13) for the French and British. The combined stats will allow players in either Allied army/navy/air force to rank up simultaneously rather than have to devote twice as much time to gain rank separately.

We expect this client to go live later today or early tomorrow before the Christmas weekend.

Cornered Rat Software wishes all of it's players a very happy and peaceful holiday season. We are grateful and honored to have such a wonderful and supportive community. We look forward to good things and happy gaming for 2012.

S!

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WWIIOL - Battleground Europe
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Version 1.34.6.255 (12-21-11)

Connection Issues:
- Several broad improvements to client/host connectivity
- Cell host will now reconnect with less fatal errors
- Fixed chat reconnect errors
- Fixed several issues during spawn/respawn

Archives
- Added 2 new archives to the install

Performance:
- Players should be aware that the most recent nVidia drivers can generate a significant fps increase

Infantry:
- Adjusted sniper scope view
- Fixed several infantry who could not use the build tool
- All players can post mortar barrage waypoints now

Misc:
- plink kills should now record
- updated languages
- fixed a clipping issue at the Infantry FB
- adjusted spacing on some UI icons
- fixed an issue with no fire zones

Beta:
- PlayGATE should now launch any server without attempting to update the local client to that servers current running version

HOST UPDATES:


-- Revision #5165
Prevent database error crashing host

-- Revision #5163
- Fixed a possible database crash (chat/map).

-- Revision #5162
Minor cleanup

-- Revision #5161
Cleanup

-- Revision #5160
Removed redundant debug line

-- Revision #5159
Don't try and delete expired minor usage every second

-- Revision #5158
Fix for chat not loading squads

-- Revision #5156
Cleanup

-- Revision #5155
Redundant logging removed

-- Revision #5154
Defer destruction of channels so that a player having two tunes to a channel doesn't cause a crash

-- Revision #5153
Force disable of nagle when sending player exit

-- Revision #5152
Further logging for the no-mission results issue

-- Revision #5151
Extra logging of the despawn process to try and track down the missing mission results

-- Revision #5149
Cleanup

-- Revision #5148
Tidy up

-- Revision #5147
Fixed a bug in the redo of training-progress queries

-- Revision #5146
Cleaned up the background thread process, calling Process() is now a requirement, and it's true/false return determines whether success or failure is invoked. Fixed the last remaining callbacks.

-- Revision #5145
- Fixed a possible server crash in squad rename code.

-- Revision #5144
- Made /lastdeath, /lastkill, /lastcap, /pnote order their results with most-recent last

-- Revision #5143
Fixed a possible server crash in /pnote when querying the database for player notes.

-- Revision #5142
- Fixed a possible server crash in /pnote when adding a note to a player's account

-- Revision #5141
Fixed a possible server crash in /pinfo for a player who is offline.

-- Revision #5140
Fixed a possible server crash in /lastkills

-- Revision #5139
- Fixed a possible server crash in /lastcap
- Fixed a possible server crash in /lastdeaths

-- Revision #5138
Fixed two more possible crashes of the mmhost:

- Fixed an issue in the persona summary list code,
to test: spawn various personas, despawn, return to persona select, check ranks/rank progress, etc.
test that a second account remaining at persona select during the test does not show any changes.

- Fixed an issue in the tutorial progress code,
to test: experiment with changing tutorial progress state and confirming client shows correct tutorials
test that a second account online at the same time shows consistent tutorial progress (no unexpected changes).

-- Revision #5137
Fixes:
- Fixed a bug that could cause a host-crash as a host queried a squad's roster,
- Fixed a bug that could cause a host-crash as a host queried a squad's details.