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Yep, the patch will be out tomorrow, assuming everything goes smoothly with Quazal and the servers.

Some things to remember:

- Please remember that patch notes are never as good as playing the actual patch. Please reserve your judgement until you play the patch.

- All CoH ranks will be reset down to Level 10 tomorrow. All players will be given the point ratings of Level 10s (690). If you are below Level 10, you will not be affected. Wins and losses stats will not be touched.

- Any modifications made to Company of Heroes may result in the inability to patch successfully. Before applying any modifications (mods), we suggest backing up the affected files and replacing them before applying any patch. Not doing so may result in the need to re-install the game.

Patch notes for 1.6 are listed below:

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Urgh… remind me not to play floor hockey on Friday, snowboard on both Saturday and Sunday, and then workout all in one weekend when I was supposed to be recovering from a cold. *sniffle* My body’s a total disaster right now!

Anyway, good morning… it’s Monday! A new week… hope you all had a good weekend

Well… you guys know I am a big fan… but there are also big Canucks fans at Relic.

Here are some AWESOME shots done up by artist Shawn Woods, a good friend of mine.

Many of us here are cheering for the Canucks…. and all I have to say is one thing….. BELIEVE!

For those of you in the rest of the world who don’t know what I am talking about, check out this link: http://www.canucks.com

GO CANUCKS GO!

Hooray, it’s Friday. At least that’s something to cheer about. Sorry for the pessimism.. it’s just that the Canucks had a change to win the series last night but lost, and now we are going back to Dallas for Game 6. I’m a little disheartened but I still believe we can do it. Don’t worry, you can’t discourage this fan for long!

Friday’s have gotten even more fun at Relic. Aside from donuts on Friday mornings, the Relic Cultural Committee has created something called “Game On.” So at the end of the day for a little bit, we give out some drinks and snacks and the employees get together and play 360/PS3/Wii/pool/foosball etc… it is pretty fun. Recently there has been a big Guitar Hero craze. I’ll post some pictures from our Game On session last week.

Crazy emergency stairwells in our building

A little playoff action at Tristan’s place

Guitar Hero during “Game On” last Friday

More Game On action

More Guitar Hero

Hacky sack outside the office

Announcing Relic’s Dawn of War: Dark Crusade 1v1 World Tournament hosted by BTGN coming up at the end of April.

Tournament Details:

Maximum Number of Players: 128

Start Date: April 28th 2007

Timeframe: 3 weekends

Game Version: Dawn of War: Dark Crusade

Game Patch Version: 1.2

Where to Sign Up: Read Sign-up Thread HERE .

Prizes:

Prizes:

1st Place: $300CAD cash prize, Signed Dawn of War: Dark Crusade Poster

2nd Place: $200CAD cash prize, Signed Dawn of War: Dark Crusade Poster

3rd Place: $100CAD cash prize, Signed Dawn of War: Dark Crusade Poster

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For more tournament info, go here: Click here

To sign up, go here: Click here

Go here for the DoW BTGN portal: Click here

Thanks and good luck!

Here we go!

“Earlier in April, another customer of the ISP hosting GameSpy’s middleware backend services such as the ones used by Relic’s Warhammer 40,000 RTS franchise was under several rounds of denial of service attacks spread over about 10 days. While combatting this attack, over this period, some parts of the world had intermittent connectivity to the GameSpy backend. As of 4/8/07, a routing change was made to resolve the problem until more permanent solutions can be implemented.

GameSpy was never directly under any DDOS attack, and GameSpy backend was never out of comission, although some connectivity was for some users. We consider this an unacceptable level of service for both our users and by our ISP and this whole event lead to a series of discussions an a senior executive level both at GameSpy/IGN Entertainment’s end and Intelenet, our ISP partner in this, about our longer term options.

Any affected user is welcome to contact GameSpy’s Developer Support Manager directly at jschuur@gamespy.com if they continue to experience connectivity problems. Please include ping and traceroute (tracert in
Windows) information for master.gamespy.com along with a description of the in-game error and where it occurs.”

Canucks up in the series 2-1!

Holy, man I wish I was running down Robson right now!

As promised, here is my recap of last night. Vancouver-Dallas Round 1 Game 1 of the Stanley Cup playoffs ^___^.

There are a LOT of pictures, videos, sound clips etc so click below to see the rest.

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http://theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=38798

We’ve asked the Inquirer to update their article. Here’s the actual update text:

“THQ got in touch to point out that while players will need Vista and DX10 “to enjoy some of the graphical improvements to the Essence engine, the game fully supports players using Windows XP and DX9 as well”. So you won’t have to run Vista to enjoy the title after all.”

Also, help break the Relic Online record! http://forums.relicnews.com/showthread.php?t=144541 

So guess who I met yesterday? Trevor Linden…. my hero for the past 16 years

I was at Vij’s restaurant with a friend when he sat down right beside us for dinner. I was freaking out the entire time and somehow managed to ambush him outside after and get him to sign my jersey (yes, the same jersey I am wearing all day every day). He offered to take a picture with me… and also, I am never showering again.

Please note that Relic is unable to reset the stats today because of some server and security issues. We will be resetting the stats with the next patch, Patch 1.6. We are sorry if this has caused you any inconvenience. This reset will be a partial stats reset. Any players over Rank 10 will be reset down to Rank 10.

Also, we are excited to reward the top players on the ladders. We have distributed the prizes based on the competitiveness of each ladder (games played, number of participants, etc).

Congratulations to the following players:

1v1 Allies:
First Place: Golradaer - $200 CAD cash prize
Second Place: HQSmartJin – $100 CAD cash prize
Third Place: 12azorSmurfingAgain - $50 CAD cash prize

1v1 Axis:

First Place: HeroicCompany - $200 CAD cash prize
Second Place: Iplay4Fun – $100 CAD cash prize
Third Place: Nuvion - $50 CAD cash prize

2v2 Allies:

First Place: JustPhil - $50 CAD cash prize
Second Place: StrumWind – Company of Heroes signed poster
Third Place: Feydwin – Company of Heroes signed game

2v2 Axis:
First Place: 1337ff - $50 CAD cash prize
Second Place: Guide2002 – Company of Heroes signed poster
Third Place: StrumWind – Company of Heroes signed game

3v3 Allies:

First Place: r7Ant – Company of Heroes signed game
Second Place: LUISBENFICA – mini Relic loot
Third Place: beermouse – mini Relic loot

3v3 Axis:

First Place: t0rrentist – Company of Heroes signed game
Second Place: BadCompany – mini Relic loot
Third Place: HueyDuck – mini Relic loot

4v4 Allies:

First Place: LEIDWERKtotentanz – mini Relic loot
Second Place: Taurec – mini Relic loot
Third Place: kawasaki – mini Relic loot

4v4 Axis:

First Place: kawasaki – mini Relic loot
Second Place: Taurec – mini Relic loot
Third Place: ValHeadroom – mini Relic loot

All players must e-mail ahenze@relic.com to claim their prizes. Please put your profile name, ladder, army, and place in the subject heading. For example, “Goldradaer, 1v1 Allies First”.

Thanks!

The Relic Team

Yes, it’s here, you’ve probably already heard… Company of Heroes: Opposing Fronts… the next chapter in Company of Heroes.

I’d like to invite you all to listen to the podcast for more information on the following:

- Introducing Shane Neville, the head honcho… the Producer for Opposing Fronts
- Lead Designer, Josh Mosqueira talks about the game
- Information about the Panzer Elite, plus sound clips
- Information about the British, plus sound clips

Right-Click Save As to download the podcast (~16MB)

Streaming link coming soon.

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Official THQ Press Release

Expect a VERY cool announcement from me sometime this week on the blog… ^_^

Also, in other news… I’ve been getting a bit better at boarding but I’m still having a terrible time on the flat parts. Strangely enough, the steepness on harder runs doesn’t really bother me as much. Tomorrow I will be taking a vacation day and hitting up the local Cypress mountain. (Relic employees get free ski passes here). They’ve been closing at night but suddenly today they got a whole whack of snow (18cm!). Should be good grounds for practicing. I’ve really got to get in a LOT of practice before the season runs out if I’m going to be able to keep up with the Relic guys on the next Big White ski trip. I don’t want to be left alone on the bunny hills

This long weekend I’m planning on going to Mt. Baker in Washington for some more practice on the way to Seattle to visit and hang out with friends. Should be a great weekend and I’ll make it back on time for Easter dinner with the family on Sunday.

Some other cool news at Relic… we recently got 46″ plasmas installed in the office… 2 out in the 16th floor lobby, and then a few scattered around the office in the team areas. It’s actually really cool. They’ve made all the corner offices into team meeting areas, instead of having producers or higher-ups in them. They’ve put in couches, TVs, computers, gaming consoles into them… it’s great for testing out new games and for having team meetings. Much better atmosphere than before. Just another reason why Relic is soooo fun to work at ^_^

Edit: Here are some pictures from recent events

Entrance from the elevators on the 16th floor of the Relic Offices

When Adrian and I went to the Canucks game

Gotta love the orca whale…. LOL… man, I can’t wait till they get a new logo/mascot next year…

After the game, me jumping outside of the Relic offices…. I got some good height! ^___^

My new snowboard!