It's good to be back from the dead and in the warp again. Some nasty plagues are going around, and I was out for a week. Then again, I never really could resist quality Nurgle time.

This Friday we resume our Twitch in our 30-minute format, then afterward, DJ Penguin will be playing and doing the giveaways.

The team will be playing on their developer accounts, so if you want that Dev Steam achievement, it might be a good time to be playing.

On the schedule, we have a couple of interesting things to share. Sadly, nothing visual like UI as the systems are still in server-side development, like personal goals and "lag," the common word for everything that's affecting gameplay.

Twitch schedule is as follows.

Production Update

• State of the Crusade, how is the game doing, lots of numbers on all sorts of things, like balancing and player activity.

• Anti-Cheat, we’ll be talking in detail about our client side solution we’ve implemented. This is what I meant about no fancy viewable things. You're not supposed to see or notice it.

• What’s in the upcoming patch, which is focused on Anti-Cheat but has extra juicy stuff we can mention, like balancing. You won't see it on the Twitch, but you will feel it in the patch.

Yes, of course, our favorite faction is always X, and we always nerf Y. Interestingly, that's a surefire way for a game to die. Favor one faction, you end up with players in only one faction.

• Dude, where’s my campaign? We’ll talk about the upcoming series of campaigns briefly. They are for all factions at the same time, tied together, and we will give further details in the following twitch on how it moves the story forward.

And if you're wondering, of course, Eldar will get their massive campaign, when their unique assets are done.

Giveaways

• DJ Penguin’s stream hosted and, the team will be playing on our Dev accounts, some in DJ Penguins war party so you can all get that Dev kills achievement!

I'll also be there in the chat and maybe field a question or 47.

And the big question, when is the patch coming?

It doesn't have a set date, but as soon as the Anti-Cheat is fully implemented and tested, the patch goes out with whatever is ready at that time.

I have my hopes up for next week, but this patch doesn't go out till Anti-cheat is ready.

Many of you will have a wonderful moment seeing all those Steam game bans suddenly appear on people that have been abusing cheats so far and think we haven't been monitoring them. Yes, I'm evil like that. This you already knew.

With fresh greetings from the warp,

The Eternal Crusaders