Review of WWIIOL in 2018

Today is the last day of the year 2018, and I wanted for all of us to take a moment and reflect on what we have accomplished. There have been some major milestones, several roadmap deliveries, increased productivity and understanding of systems and code, and new roads paved for us to make 2019 another year of tremendous progress. Please join me in this review and let us not forget how much ground has been gained. Do note, a Roadmap outlining 2019’s objectives will be a separate article, but I’ll quickly cover what we are working on at this moment. May you have a very Happy New Year, S!

TO OUR LOYAL SUBSCRIBERS (FANS)

I wanted to say THANK YOU for your steadfast support. We will be able to continue development and maintain operations of WWII Online as long as you are here. Each of you are extremely valued and we hope you will help us carry on this dream.

TO OUR TEAM AT CRS

Many of you have grown so much in your capability as individuals, and as a team we’ve refined our process and intend to do so some more. This has resulted into tremendous progress in 2018 and has set ourselves up for a big year in 2019. Great work, and thanks for what you do, the WWIIOL community and I are no doubt grateful.

PATCH DELIVERIES OF 2018

In all we have released 14 patches in 2018, and they included a variety of fixes / improvements and new features. Here are the main releases with some quick notes of its contents:

1.35.11 - JANUARY 2018: Tank Busters, updated gunsights, PPO changes and EWS updates

1.35.12 - MARCH 2018: Fighter Bombers, Close Support Tanks, .join command, several bug fixes

1.35.13 - MAY 2018: New Stuh42, Crusader III, Churchill V C/S, Granny updated to 64bit, riding FMBs, KE / HE audit

1.35.14 - AUGUST 2018: First Terrain update since 2011, massive number of fixes and some additions

1.35.15 - AUGUST 2018: US Paras, Steam receives DLC Packs, NCO and Ammo Bearer class, lots of fixes

1.35.16 - DECEMBER 2018: Panzer III L + N, Firefly, Achilles, Church 8, 3 new Fighter Bombers, HC Officer + HCMS, New PPOs, New Grass and AB Barracks models and much more

Check all version history including hot fixes released here: https://wiki.wwiionline.com/view/Readme_1.35

CURRENTLY WE ARE WORKING ON

1.36 Hybrid Supply, which will enter Closed Beta in Q1-2019

Production is working on fixes of content and implementing new stuff

Community team is re-organizing High Command

Operations team is enhancing network traffic inbound/outbound

Support team is providing more self-help articles on support page

Steam has a new assigned Manager and is getting re-imaged / new life

All teams are reviewing process / staff access and making improvements to expedite results

Leadership and all teams are preparing a 2019 Roadmap plan

PREPARING FOR 2019

As mentioned we’re working on the 2019 Roadmap and it is not quite ready for distribution as we’re ironing things out. That said, I can tell you that it will be another pretty aggressive year here at WWII Online and we’re going to have some big objectives to tackle.

The best thing you can do is to subscribe to the game because it provides us the literal life fuel to keep this activity up. CRS is delivering as promised tangible results both for new content and fixes. We can achieve substantially more by bringing some more folks on full-time, and we’d very much like to do that. We need your help to make that happen, as volunteer time can only go so-far, and what is being achieved by a mostly volunteer team is pretty extraordinary.

The #1 way to support WWII Online is to become a Hero Builder, and we’d sure like to see some more of you get aggressive with that sort of support and encourage your fellow community members to join up with that. Please go to www.wwiionline.com/hero to see what all of that means and how it helps things out - big time.

In closing, I’d like to once again thank you for the support you have provided, and encourage to the best of your ability to help my team and I do more here at WWII Online (CRS) for your benefit.

We will be able to maintain the game and carry it onwards for as long as you’re here to back us up, and make no mistake, you are single handedly vital to our mission success, more than ever before.

Thanks, and Happy New Year to you all. Salute!

Matt “Xoom” Callahan Matt “Xoom” Callahan

President - Cornered Rat Software