Community members! We have successfully tested the upcoming upgrade in Open Beta; that will now come to an end as the update has proven to be stable.
This update adds improvements and content to both the base game and the “Talvisota” DLC. You can read the highlights of the free update HERE.

To check the detailed changelog for this update, you can click HERE.

Three important technical notes about this update:

• This update brings many changes to both Conquest and Finnish missions and will likely break any current saves you have for both. If you wish to continue playing through your current saves for these missions and Conquest, we recommend switching to the previous version V1.053.0 in the “properties/betas” tab until you complete them and are ready to start fresh on the new content
• To take full advantage of the new graphical improvements (HBAO, etc), it’s recommended that you delete the shader cache (Documents/my games/gates of hell/shader_cache)
• If you switch to the new “Maximum” graphic preset and then revert to an older game version, your game will crash, because this new preset doesn’t exist in the older builds
If that happens, you will need to return to the newest game version and lower the preset back to anything other than ‘maximum’. That way, you can revert to the older versions

On to the promised announcement.
We’re proud to announce we will be taking part in the Steam TPS fest! This sale starts August 25th, offering discounts of up to 75%, and will run for one week only. Tell all your friends!