We had a problem DNS (domain name server) which finally kicked in yesterday and caused a downtime for almost the full day yesterday. This has been sorted now, and while somebody still may experience unavailability due to GEO location, it should be all solid shortly. Potential problems may occur in the next 48-72 hours, but shouldn't. Thanks for your patience.

Welcome to the “Crysis Monthly Update #7", the monthly report for our world-wide community. This time we've got all the summarized information on all of this months patches and fixes for Crysis Wars, and where to get a hold of them, information about this months competitions, Inside Crytek, the brand new article series that gives you information right from inside the studio and info on whats coming up to celebrate the Christmas period here in the Crysis Community!

Click here for the full update and to read the full article!

And discuss the update on our forums here

MyCrysis: Welcome to the latest addition to the "Inside Crytek" article series. This is a series of Q&A's with different members of the Crytek team, where they answer questions on all sorts of topics. These are not just ordinary interviews though. Once their intro has been posted you get the opportunity to ask them your questions!

Question Time
Once an interview has been posted on MyCrysis, you can then click on the link at the bottom of the page where it says "Ask YOUR questions here!" and post your question to that member of the team. Try and take advantage of what the person does for a job, and what they're interested in and your question is more likely to get featured in that persons replies. You can ask funny questions too, but only some of the very good ones will be featured.

Today's interview is with Eddy Dew, the Lead Community Manager for Crytek. Click here to be able to read the entire interview, there you will also find information on how to ask Eddy your questions.

MyCrysis: After last weeks launch of the Inside Crytek article series with an interview with Simon Fuchs, we gave you the opportunity to ask Simon your questions, related to his job as a 3D artist within the Crysis Wars team, along with some of the funnier ones given by the community.

Find the link to his answer below, or simply go to the Dev Corner and Articles section to check out what he had to say in response to what you guys asked.

There will be another interview with a member of staff up in the near future so keep an eye on the news and the articles section.

So friends we've finally got the kinks out of our uploading system and I've finally been able to update the files on our server. I've added quite a few and I'll just give you guys a simple link to all the new files added.



Here you go!

MyCrysis:Today sees the launch of our "Inside Crytek" series. This is a series of Q&A´s with different members of the Crytek team, where they answer questions on all sorts of topics. These are not just ordinary interviews though. Once their intro has been posted you get the opportunity to ask them your questions!

Patch version 1.2 for Crysis Wars has been released! Quickly following up on patch v1.1, even more things have been changed, updated and improved this time around.To install the patch, just automatically update it
or download it by clicking here. Make sure read the full article for the entire list of changes.

MyCrysis:
Ok, just a few days after some more information on what the team has been doing, and we've got the full patch list for you guys to witness. The patch is nearly ready, although we don't have a set date for it currently. This patch will see lots of tweaks and fixes, many of which have been hot topics bought up by the community. The biggest issues that you will see being fixed are the Sniper Scope bug in which the weapon recoil was wrong after zooming in, and the intro movies were not letting people skip them, which have now both been corrected.

People reportedly seem to have trouble with playing online, due to a PB update which causes the user to have a different version than most servers.
Read the full article to see what Crytek has to say about it.

quote:
Saturday, 8th November 2008 [5:45PM]
Version 1.705 of the PB Server for Crysis Wars has been released to our PB Master Servers for auto-update and to our website download page. This is a maintenance release.

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Sunday, 9th November 2008[3:00PM]
Version 2.137 of the PB Client for Crysis Wars has been released to our PB Master Servers for auto-update and to our website download page. This is a maintenance release.

Solution:
Click here to download the manually controlled PunkBuster Set-up which will solve the problem

As the last dev blog we provided you was so well received, we’re giving you another update on the progress of the latest Crysis Wars update, due out in the not too distant future. Patch 1.1 was released on the 4th November, but even before it’s release the multiplayer team had begun work on Patch 1.2, the next patch for Crysis Wars. Now that 1.1 is out the team has fully moved across to focus on 1.2.

Not only did the first update feature the Linux dedicated server and the 64bit binaries, but the team also fixed an issue with CryNet which prevent people from being able to add a server to their favourites list for more than 1 gaming session.