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8 months ago Mar 28,2024, 07:07:06 AM

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Relic Entertainment made an important announcement today, that we'll be transitioning to become an independently-run studio. We began as an independent studio almost 27 years ago, and we’re excited to have the opportunity to come full circle and take charge of our future. You can find the full statement from our studio here


So, what does this mean for our players and for Company of Heroes 3? Mostly, it’s business as usual.   


Throughout this transition for Relic, we remain committed to supporting Company of Heroes 3, and our team will share more news as we firm up our 2024 plans. We’re excited about everything coming for you in our next update, Coral Viper, and we look forward to your feedback once you’ve had a chance to dive in. 


Coral Viper (1.6.0) 


As part of this transition, the Coral Viper (1.6.0) PC update, planned to be released on April 23rd, will now be released on April 2nd. We’ve been able to complete the work for this update already, so you’ll be able to play the new Australian Defense and Battlefield Espionage Battlegroups 3-weeks early! Our Map Preference feature will likely need a bit more time after some initial testing, so we have moved this to one of our next updates. 


On April 2nd, Coral Viper will release with the following new content, features and improvements: 


  • New Content 
    • Battlegroups 
      • British Forces – Australian Defense Battlegroup (Free in the store) 
      • Deutsche Afrikakorps – Battlefield Espionage Battlegroup (Free in the store) 
    • Community Maps 
      • 2v2 – Operation Eindhoven by Spanky 
      • 3v3 – The Gothic Line by Tobeh 
      • 4v4 – Oasis Depot by Springrare 
  • New Features 
    • Difficulty Selection for Coop vs A.I. 
    • Vote to Surrender 
    • Automatch Cooldown 
    • Mission Select 
    • Accolades (Player Progression) 
    • Map Preference (veto) - Now planned for a subsequent update
  • Improvements 
    • Some A.I. changes 
    • Some UI Visual changes 
    • Vehicle Pathfinding 
    • Polish and bug fixes
  • Balance Adjustments & Tuning


For even more details on what to expect in Coral Viper, catch up on our Deep Dive with the development team (see below) or tune in to our Multiplayer Balance Discussion on April 2nd at 9am PT.  


We want to thank all our Company of Heroes fans for sticking with us. We can’t wait to begin this next chapter in our journey together.  


–  The Company of Heroes Team 




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8 months ago
Mar 28, 2024, 7:11:07 AM

Well there's a couple of big surprises.. Congrats on going indepent and great to see the patch is going to hit a lot sooner than expected ! Here's to the future!

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8 months ago
Mar 28, 2024, 7:15:01 AM

That are great news!

Hopefully we will be able to see new grand Campaigns for Singleplayer. I want France and the Nomandy please. :D

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8 months ago
Mar 28, 2024, 7:15:50 AM

This is so exciting, this is more than I could have hoped for for Relic, and I really hope that you get the support you need while not being under a publisher. I also hope that whoever the investor(s) are let the studio do their thing. I can't even imagine how this is going to change their update/content models, as well as their monetization and progression platforms in their games.

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8 months ago
Mar 28, 2024, 7:18:20 AM

Great..... Hope you will make coh3 and maybe DAW4 great again :)

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8 months ago
Mar 28, 2024, 7:49:40 AM

This means that if you don't work hard anymore, no one will pay you wages

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8 months ago
Mar 28, 2024, 8:00:19 AM

I hope this is a good news for you guys. Keep up the good work! 

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8 months ago
Mar 28, 2024, 8:06:27 AM

i will support and community does. congrats hopefully much better after this

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8 months ago
Mar 28, 2024, 8:15:28 AM

Congratulations and hoping for many great CoH updates to come (as well as still praying on DoW 4 hopium). 

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8 months ago
Mar 28, 2024, 8:26:57 AM

We have an important announcement for our players and

 fans. With an external inversor , Relic Entertainment will

 become an independently-run development studio. This is

 a huge change for us, but one thing does not changue: we

 want to create amazing experiences for our players.

To our fans, we want to assure you we will continue to

 support our titles, including Company of Heroes 3 - we are

 looking forward to the 1.6 Update in April, loaded with new

 content and features requested by our community.

We want to thank SEGA, whose support over the years and

 guidance during this transition have been instrumental to

 our success. We may be out of the SEGA business, but we

 remain friends and colleagues.


We are excited about this next chapter for Relic, and we

 hope you will all join us in creating new experiences for our

 fans worldwide


Relic Entertainment twitter

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8 months ago
Mar 28, 2024, 9:37:29 AM

Best of luck going forward Relic. I hope you make the most of this opportunity. 

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8 months ago
Mar 28, 2024, 11:07:14 AM

Wow this is huge. I would love to hear more about the details of this decision.


I think independence is the best thing for creativity, but could be risky financially. Lets be honest, CoH3 start was very rough. You guys worked on it really hard and I think the game is in a good shape now, but I don't think any indie company could survive a release like that. It would be interesting to hear about what lead you to this decision and what are your plans in the future. What will happen with the Relic IPs? okay, you will support CoH3 for a while, but is SEGA the one who legally owns the IP?


Anyway I wish you guys the best. This is definitely a great opportunity, be sure to use it wisely. Although I see great enthusiasm and dedication in you guys, so most likely you will be fine. :-)

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8 months ago
Mar 28, 2024, 11:57:30 AM

Good luck! This is both a scary and exciting change. Lot's of potential but you have to make it work. Here's hoping that Company of Heroes 3 continues to get better and better!

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8 months ago
Mar 28, 2024, 12:11:30 PM

1.6 is a good sign that dispels concern about the future.

I hope that on Twitch the spirit of the players rises with a light video/comment about what relic they are working on

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8 months ago
Mar 28, 2024, 12:22:04 PM

The developers of COH3 have to understand that the public has matured a lot over 10 years of playing COH2 and has become demanding and one of the problems initially at launch was precisely in the development of this game because a lot of things that the community said, especially the best players, didn't want listening to the criticism and ignoring much of what was said, I hope that from now on things will really improve, mainly because it has become an independent studio or the efforts to stay in the market will really be taken seriously otherwise they will go bankrupt. Now is the turning point, you will have more creative freedom at least to implement your ideas and thus meet demands and you can be sure that there is a lot of work ahead of you to surpass COH2 in 1 or 2 years of support and another 3 or 4 of balancing because it is a very complex game, especially for those who are just starting to play the franchise. I hope they bring other factions like Russia and Japan that could not stay out of this world war. Don't forget to bring the King Tiger and Pershing M26 in future updates

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8 months ago
Mar 28, 2024, 12:33:39 PM

Congratulations! Sounds very good. The Coh franchise is the franchise of my life. Love all. Parts, but coh3 is my favorite. Hopefully for many many years to come. All the best ?

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8 months ago
Mar 28, 2024, 1:31:24 PM

What are the plans? Is that why there are no more console disk version in shops anymore? Will seek a new publisher or go digital only?

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8 months ago
Mar 28, 2024, 2:05:02 PM

Congrats, And thank you for the hard work and bringing this exciting update this early !

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8 months ago
Mar 28, 2024, 3:15:40 PM

OK, congratulations :aheroheart: , now deploy new paid battlegroups (at least 3 for each faction), new paid skins and announce the new faction, you need money, so give us content and we will give you our money, if you can't work to produce content relevant to the game will close its doors after 1 year.

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8 months ago
Mar 28, 2024, 4:16:27 PM

Congratulations & utmost support for your transition back to the wild cage of independent creative freedom!

In hoping you get a crack at exciting new projects that will end up genre-staple like DoW & then CoH were!
CoH3 is shaping up as the best game in the series thanks to your hard work, at any sign of a CoH1 remastered in or aside CoH3, I'll drop dead of excitement! 


Absolutely blasted the update is coming almost a month earlier too, this is an amazing start and already I hope is a sign of increased fluidity in the team's workflow!
Those 2 new battlegroups are the best in the entire series after the wehrmacht "screams in german" doctrines in coh1 xD
Truck convoy let's gooo!


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