This is an announcement that we’ll have a public Steam Beta for the Update/Patch 1.5 in a couple of weeks. This free update will launch officially together with the upcoming expansion. It will be loaded with new features such as Diplomatic AI profiles, overhauled diplomatic relations and you’ll be able to test the awesome new PBEM mode. (PBEM is now the most played game mode here at the office!).

Also Lascha has been making great progress on the conversions; the Mac and Linux versions of the game are now nearing completion. We hope to have both these versions ready to drop together with the Beta of Update 1.5 on Steam, to launch together with the new expansion.

We could really help use your help to test Mac Linux, PBEM and V1.5 on as many systems as possible!

Watch this space for details!

Lascha posing with the latest AoW3 build running on a Macbook Pro and a Ubuntu 14.10 Linux system.

(Dev Journal coming up)