Company of Heroes/Changelog

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Steam: 2.700.2.30

Version 2.700.2.30

General

- Added: mutliqueue automatch search functionality


Bug Fixes

- Fixed: Arranged Team Stats are always displaying the 1st (host) User of the Arranged team
- Fixed: Leaderboards repeat the same 46 players
- Fixed: Users can randomly be the British faction during Panzerkrieg and Assault games
- Fixed: Temporarily lagging player causes game to lag for seconds to minutes
- Fixed: Changing tabs becomes unresponsive when introducing lag + joining busy chat channels
- Fixed: Game List appears to be filtered when Filters are turned off
- Fixed: 3v3 and 4v4 matches not being played
- Fixed: modding does not work

Steam: 2.700.2.22

General

- CoH1 2.700.1 used Steam matchmaking and leaderboards and had no arbitration.
- The server side arbitration, matchmaking, ranking and leaderboard systems used by CoH2 have been implemented for CoH1. What players will experience is that:
- they are consistently matched with players similarly skilled to themselves
- that the results of matches, including any disputes, is secure and is viewable in game
- players can be confident of their in game leaderboard rank
- Reported game statistics have been changed to reflect what the system supports
- The networking system has been upgraded to improve game responsiveness if your opponent has a poor network connection
- Ping times have been be removed since they are not relevant with the new networking tech
- Severely lagging players will be auto-kicked and results appropriately recorded

Bug Fixes

- Missing Polish language translations have been added

Steam: 2.700.1

General

- Added Skirmish stats to 'My Stats' as the game will previously would not record skirmish match stats.

Bug Fixes

- Addressed an issue where game would crash to desktop when clicking 'Multiplayer' button in menu.
- Addressed an issue causing 'Ghost Games' to appear in the lobby.
- Fixed an issue where an error message would be displayed indefinitely when attempting to join a full chat channel.
- Addressed an issue where the "Connecting" phase of automatch would lock out the Stop and Main Menu buttons causing the player to be unable to cancel the action.

Steam: 2.700.0

- Removed Relic Online profile and account management features. Game now uses Steam profile.
- A number of online systems (matchmaking, chat, leaderboards) reworked to use Steam network.
- Automatch map filter no longer supported at this time and has been disabled.
- Friends List updated to use Steam friends. Only online steam friends will be shown.
- Removed unsupported options from friends list: Add Friend, Remove Friend, Whisper Player. These are now facilitated via the Steam friends list.
- News Tab - Online Stats not currently supported due to system limitations.
- Whisper command disabled in public chat due to system limitations. Whisper still functions in arranged team chat and in-game.
- Removed chat commands that are no longer supported: /whisper, /reply, /addfriend, /removefriend, /ignore, /unignore, /ignorelist, /joinfriend
- Updates made to chat profanity filter.
- Removed a number of leaderboards that are no longer supported due to system limitations.
- Changes made to the player ranking system.
- A number of text changes have been made to better reflect these system changes.
- LAN games no longer supported due to game's reliance on a connection to Steam .

Steam: 2013-12-06

We will be taking the Company of Heroes Beta servers offline this afternoon to deploy an update to the beta.

We do not have exact timing for when this will occur, but sometime within the next few hours the servers will be offline.

The beta changes are below:

Updates:
- Replays are now working but are not backward compatible
- Password protected matches are working
- Several crashes, exceptions and assertions fixed
- Matches start correctly
- Severely lagging players will now be auto-kicked and results appropriately recorded
- Non ranked match types are not displayed in the leaderboard

Known Issues:
- Leaderboard stats presentation is better, but not yet working as intended
- Ping times will be removed since they are not relevant with the new networking tech

Feedback is best given in this forum.

Thank you again to all those who are participating in the Company of Heroes beta to help us test this new version of the game. Please keep leaving your feedback and reporting errors to us, so that we can continue to improve it.

Steam: 2013-10-01

Bug Fixes

- Addressed an issue where game would crash to desktop when clicking 'Multiplayer' button in menu
- Addressed an issue causing 'Ghost Games' to appear in the lobby
- Fixed an issue where an error message would be displayed indefinitely when attempting to join a full chat channel
- Addressed an issue where the "Connecting" phase of automatch would lock out the Stop and Main Menu buttons causing the player to be unable to cancel the action


General

- Added Skirmish stats to 'My Stats' as the game will previously would not record skirmish match stats

Android: 1.1.2RC5-android

Fixes a crash that could occur when downloading mission content using mobile data

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