R.U.S.E

Hi everyone,

A new patch is about to be released today to fix the various issues listed below:

- Frequent desync issues
- Ranked games stuck at 4/2 players
- Invite button missing in 4 players maps
- Kick of player at timeouts when accessing the VAC checking servers

We hope this update will satisfy most of you and will let you enjoy the multiplayer.

Once again, a big Thank you to you all for your patience and your support!


Wuzzi
www.twittter.com/UbiLeak

Hey folks,


It’s been a long, hard and awaited update, but we’re glad to announce that we just released our anti-cheat patch!


As mentioned before, this patch include the following:
- No more region lock applied to the multiplayer matchmaking
- VAC (Valve Anti-Cheat System) activation, including in-game kick plus ban from official servers for players identified as cheaters
- Several measures and tweaks to combat cheating


If you want to know more about the VAC, here are the headlines: the Valve Anti-Cheat system is enabled for servers displaying the Secured shield logo. If a user connects to a VAC-Secured server from a computer with identifiable cheats installed, the VAC system will ban the user from playing on VAC-Secured servers in the future. Also please note that “all VAC bans are permanent - Valve has a zero-tolerance policy for cheating and will not lift VAC bans under any circumstances,” decision that we fully support.


At the same time we want to thanks all the players who sent their replay to the team, to fight against the cheaters. This is actually a big win for the team to have such as dedicated and fair-play community of players (especially for a game based on the deception, and basically cheating J)


Thumbs up everyone for your support, your patience, and we hope you will enjoy the multiplayer again!


Wuzzi
twitter.com/UbiLeak

Hi everyone,

Here are some more details about the fixes
brought by the upcoming patch:

- No more region lock applied to the multiplayer matchmaking
- VAC (Valve Anti-Cheat System) activation including in-game kick plus ban from official servers for players identified as cheaters
- Several measures and tweaks to combat cheating

We know cheating can ruin the multiplayer experience, so we truly hope that these actions will bring back a healthy and fun spirit to the R.U.S.E. community.

Thanks for reading

Wuzzi
twitter.com/UbiLeak

By the way Steam users,

Changing your region is recommended to ease the matchmaking in multiplayer.

In the Steam/Settings, go to the "Download + Cloud" tab, and change it to Germany-Berlin.

Sorry about that, we're working on fixing the issue, but that would ease the process until the corrective update is available.

thanks
Wuzzi

The R.U.S.E. demo is now available on PC, which you can download on Steam at http://www.steamgames.com/RUSEdemo.

The demo features a full mission in which you play a role in the Allied offensive in Italy, aimed at cutting off a German offensive from withdrawing by attacking them from behind. However, high command suddenly realizes that the Germans, aided by the remaining loyal Italian units, are much stronger than they had previously been led to believe. You will lead the US army fighting against Germany and Italy, and must combine deceptive strategies and eventually resort to nuclear strikes to achieve victory!

Thanks

Hey everyone,

Here's an important news for you.

Please note that when R.U.S.E. is released in September, it will benefit from Valve’s Steamworks API to offer the best community experience to players. Consequently, a Steam account and Internet connection will be required to activate the game, as per Steam policy. For this reason, R.U.S.E. will not use the Ubisoft protection. Single player can be played offline.


Thanks for reading,

R.U.S.E. team
Follow the team on Twitter at twitter.com/UbiLeak

Hey guys,
Here's a note from R.U.S.E.'s producer Mathieu Girard.
Thank you all for joining the party, and all the supportive messages !

Stay tuned

Wuzzi
twitter.com/UbiLeak

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Hi everyone,

I hope you enjoyed the free week end of RUSE. It was another great opportunity for us to share thoughts and even to defeat some of you Smile I like to think that this game was built with the community.

Even though this was not a beta test, your help was invaluable to help us track some remaining issues. We will take your last suggestions into consideration of course.

There was a minor glitch with the game being shut down for some time during the week end. We will see how we can make it up for you in the future.

It is now time for us to get back to work for the final release. Come visit us at Gamescom in Cologne, there are many more surprises to come!

Best,

Mathieu Girard
Senior Producer
Ubisoft Entertainment

Hi everyone,

It seems the autokick fixes performed yesterday were not sufficient, although improving the situation.

Thanks to tests performed today between Eugen and a member of the community, [BP]LoverBoy, we managed to track down a serious bug in the autokick system.

A patch will be available very soon, fixing as well some very rare crashes found during the week end.


Wuzzi
twitter.com/UbiLeak

Hi everyone,

You'll be happy to know that a patch will be deployed at 6:30 PM (Paris time).

The patch addresses the following issues:

* Autokick system. We have authorized higher latencies for the system, reducing the problems which were affecting the 3V3 and 4V4 games (1V1 or 2V2 did not seem problematic, but the patch will fix them anyway). We have used network simulation tools to fake bad connections (this is a network RUSE), and the game persisted. Of course, we will listen to your feedback

* Graphical corruption for 6XXX/7XXX Nvidia cards. We hope to have solved the issue. Waiting for your feedback.

Cheers

Wuzzi
twitter.com/UbiLeak

R.U.S.E. is now available again on Steam. Sorry for the issue everyone.

As a compensation, we'll extend the Free Multiplayer Week-end until Wednesday!

Wuzzi
twitter.com/UbiLeak

Heys guys,

As the game is about to be available to play for 5 days, we thought some of you could be interested in defying some members of the R.U.S.E. team.

Simply search for these Steam IDs (and send me the replay file if you beat them Wink )

Thierry (Artistic Director) => OVERKILLORZ
Matthieu (Game Designer) => marechal_grouchy
Michael (Lead Level Designer) => NamInUz
David (Project Manager Assistant) => maitrepoil
Fabien (Game Designer) => Faaaaabbbb
Charles (3D Artist) => griiot
Clément (IA Assistant) => la_bruch
Nicolas (IA/Network) => Elronde


Have fun!

Wuzzi
twitter.com/UbiLeak

For those who plan to play R.U.S.E. during the Free Multiplayer Weekend, we recommend to watch this video broadcast presenting most of the final changes brought to the game.