We need you: Earn double XP by stress-testing our US server. View this email in your browser North America Test Earn Double XP during a one-day stress test Starting now, we're going to turn on our North American servers for a limited test of our brand-new infrastructure ahead of the official launch in November. To do that, we need your help:



We need as many North American players as possible online today to try to break the server! ;-)



As a reward, we're giving everyone who plays during this test Double XP (both Unit XP and Free XP) until the end of the test (see below for precise end times).



All players across the globe can join this event. All you need to do is play the game as you normally would. Regardless of which server you play on (server selection is automated), you will keep your current game profile and progress, and will continue to do so forever. This is what we want to test: Players on the US server will keep their profile data and progress.

Matchmaking will prioritize players who're in the same geographical region.

Parties can be made across geographical regions.

When there are few players online in either the EU or US server, they will be shifted across. Please join us today and help us test! This test will run starting now until 30 October, ending at 2pm Eastern Time

11am Pacific Time

6pm Greenwich Mean Time If you haven't played for a while, this is also a good time to find out what new features we've added over the last few months (lots of them). You can get a preview on our devblog.



Thank you for your help! ESL Event Celebrating North American Launch

In celebration of this, a US launch event will take place at the ESL Studios in Burbank, California, on Friday 13th of November 2015.



This event will bring 20 players from US and Europe to the famous ESL studios, to go head to head in Total War: ARENA`s fast-paced 10v10 battles on custom-made battlefield maps, where decisive strategies, combat tactics and teamwork will decide who is victorious.



As a taste of what’s to come, see a player’s view of what it’s like on the battlefield in this trailer, filmed after the Alpha livestream event earlier this year:



The US launch event will be streamed live on the official Total War Twitch channel starting at 3pm PDT on the 13th of November.

