Hey guys,

We’ve talked a little bit about the upcoming patch in the last few weeks, and I wanted to give everyone another quick update.

First of all, I’m just going to pull the band-aid off quick and let everyone know that we’ve opted to push the date back at least two weeks for additional testing and polish. As you guys know, we’re a small, independent developer and we don’t have deep pockets, so we’re forced to do most of our testing internally. This is going well, however, but there are a few areas that just need more time before their ready for the public.

But wait, I’ve also got some really good news! From the testing we’ve done, it appears that we’ve finally had success at rooting out the virtual memory error! Now, with the massive variety of boxes people play on, we can’t say with 100 percent accuracy that it’s definitely gone, but it does appear that the error will be extremely rare for most people. I personally have experienced a drastic change on my home computer, which suffered from at least one VM crash an hour. On the new build of the game, I’ve gone more than 8 hours at a time without a crash!

In addition, I’ve got a sneak peek at the 32-player map for you guys! Here’s three shots of the biggest CrimeCraft map yet!

You’ll be able to play 8v8 all the way up to 16v16 Shootout matches on this new map!

So, I know the delay isn’t good news, but in the long run, this is going to be best for the game.

We’ve got a ton of content, including a significant list of fixes coming. Here’s just a bit of that list:

• Grenade animation fixes
• Applying handicaps to all attributes
• Flag glitching
• General Protection Fault Error fix
• Rendering Thread Exception error fix
• General client crash fixes
• Mesh tearing fixes

And that’s just a part of the list. One of the reasons we’re pushing back the patch release date is to ensure all of these bug fixes and all of the other features are tested as thoroughly as we can.

Bear with us, and I’ll update you on the date as soon as I can. Right now we’re looking at a two to three week delay, which would put us in mid-March at the latest.

--KevinB