Its been a crazy and exhilarating couple of weeks since we launched. We have been listening to your feedback (positive and negative) and are happy to announce our first patch. Here's a short-list of the highlights:

• Steam Achievements!
  
• Improved ping system
  
• Leaderboard overhaul
  
• Deserter penalties (consequences for jerks)
  
• New map! (Herzog Forest)
  
• Too many tuning changes to list
  
• Numerous bugs fixed - thanks for reporting[victory.playgrid.com]
  
• Click here for more details

The new patch is live now - just run Victory Command to receive the update. Thanks for being a part of Early Access and please let us know what you think of this new update. We will be playing this weekend to see how it is going. And come Monday, we'll get started on the next round of updates.

- The Victory Command Team #TeamUpForVictory

Check out Petroglyph_SamoanChief (@GGitsChief) on Twitch today at 4:30pm PST, he will be discussing the patch notes in the team's latest update!
http://www.twitch.tv/samoanchief

Follow along with Chief as he goes through the top items of note from the patch notes.
http://steamcommunity.com/app/360480/discussions/0/594820473985188375/

If you're new to Victory Command and want to become a better player, check out Petroglyph_SamoanChief (@GGitsChief) on Twitch every Tuesday and Thursday at 4pm PST for Pro Tips with Chief!

Each session, Chief will play a single company, offering tips on choosing abilities and drones, reviewing best strategies for taking on opponents, and understanding your role on the team. He shows us all how it's done.

Our second session of Pro Tips with Chief is currently streaming live now, and Chief is killing it with The Jacks -- samoanchief on Twitch[www.twitch.tv]

If you missed Chief playing Dune Runners on Tuesday, watch some of the highlights:

Game 1
Game 2
Game 3

Here is the next round of updates scheduled for Victory Command. They are based on your feedback and the ability to implement sooner than later (estimated two weeks). Please let us know your thoughts over in the Discussions Forum.

• Leaver Penalty System -- many have asked so we are adding a system to prevent players from simply dropping out of a match, leaving their teammates at a huge disadvantage. We’re still tweaking the details, but this system will be ready to go for the next update (about two weeks). Of course, as with any new feature, this is a first iteration. We’ll definitely need your feedback to tune it so that it is both effective and fair.
  
  
• A New Map, Herzog Forest, is in its final stages of polish and refinement. Screenshots coming soon.
  
  
• The Ping System is being reworked to make it easier to use. We’ve reduced 3 buttons to 2 and introduced context-sensitive menus, making it more intuitive to choose the option you need, quickly. So, when a player pings the map, you’ll be able to see who it was that initiated the ping. We’ve also increased the time that the ping shows on both the main and mini-map.
  
  
• Tactical UI update -- you’ll now be able to change your Tactical in-game UI to a smaller, more compact version. If you want more screen real estate and less UI on the screen during matches, this option is for you.
  
  
• Finally, in this upcoming first update, we are adding approximately 15 Steam Achievements. More details to come about the Achievements next week.

Let us know your thoughts about this or anything else Victory Command related in the Discussions Forum.

A big thank you to the hundreds of thousands of you who came and then played Victory Command this weekend.

For us, here in the United States (PlayGrid is in San Francisco BTW), it’s the Memorial Day weekend. This is a day on which those who died in active military service are remembered. My dad was actually in WW II, so it has a particular significance to me.

But, it now also has tremendous significance to Victory Command. This weekend, we say thank you to you all as these three days had the most traffic and game engagement we have ever experienced. It also really opened our eyes to the power of being on Steam Early Access.

Some key numbers to share on this 3 Day weekend from 5/23-5/25:

• Unique Visitors to our Steam Page: 280,472
  
• Percentage of Users: 67% Returning / 32% New Users
  
• Concurrent Users High - 460
  
• Most games being played at once - 42
  
• New Posts to Forum - >130 new posts
  
• Items most requested by users
  
  1. More Tutorials for new players
     
  2. Friend lists
     
  3. Custom skins
     
  4. R.P.S adjustments
     
  5. Respawning
     
  6. Playing with friends.

We are listening to and capturing all of the feedback so far. We are currently trying to decide what we can and can not implement to give our new, very large player base, the most enjoyment possible going forward.

Happy Memorial Day from Victory Command
#TeamUpForVictory

We've received some feedback that occasionally users are having trouble registering for Victory Command. Our own Jeffrick spent a lot of time working directly with users and the dev team late into the night to find a temporary workaround for you. We are also aiming to get a permanent fix in place soon. But, until then, Jeff created this step-by-step guide for you.

If you purchased the game on Steam but are unable to create the PlayGrid account needed to log in, follow these 8 steps.

1. ​From the PlayGrid homepage (http://victory.playgrid.com/) click on "log in or sign up."
   
2. Instead of entering a beta code, look for "Or login with:" and click on the Steam logo.
   
3. This redirects you to the Steam site. Enter your Steam credentials and grant access to PlayGrid. Then you will be redirected back to the registration form where you can complete registration.
   
4. Try launching the game from Steam again. If you are still unable to log in or see the Victory Command launcher, follow the next steps for a temporary walk-around.
   
5. Go to the PlayGrid homepage and under the Game menu select Download
6. Game (http://victory.playgrid.com/help/game/download-game/).
   
7. Download and install the non-Steam version to a different directory on your computer.
   
8. Once the install is complete, launch this version directly without going through Steam.

You should be able to login using the email address and password you used when you registered.

This is a temporary workaround until we resolve a rare authentication error.​ NOTE: Once fixed you should be able to launch through Steam again, but until then, any purchases from the Steam store will not appear in the game. You will still own those purchases, as they are attached to your Steam account. They will appear again once the issue is resolved. We apologize for any inconvenience and are working on a patch for this.

Thanks again
Team Victory Command
#GLHF

Just in time for Memorial Day, Victory Command is Free to Play. Again.

Why are we bringing free back after such a short time, you may ask? Well, there are a few reasons. Including, you guys asked for it in the Discussion Forums. We have to agree with what many have posted; having more players is better for the overall game experience and a free version of the game helps to accomplish that. Especially as a Military MOBA.

Removing the free version decreased our traffic and then dropped the opportunity for lots of different matchmaker options. Basically, we really want to focus solely on creating great game play over making money at this point. Although making money is really good too. :)

NOTE: If you like the game, please come purchase in game upgrades on our Store Page so we can develop more of the things you’ve requested like friend lists, more maps, etc.

So please let your friends know that they can come play Victory Command with you this Memorial Day weekend and beyond for free. We appreciate the feedback and the reason we are on Steam is to build the best game possible which we can only do with your support.

Happy Memorial Day
Team Victory Command
#TeamUpForVictory
#GLHF

We love battle arena games. We love Dota2 and World of Tanks and League and we love team v team competition. We also love RTS games. What we really wanted, however, didn’t exist. We wanted a battle arena game with RTS controls and tactics - not a player vs player Starcraft-style game, but a real team vs team battle arena featuring all the challenges, tactics, strategies and skills required by RTS gameplay.

We’ve known and worked with the Petroglyph team since they were Westwood, and 18 months ago we teamed up with them to make Victory Command. Our shared goal is bold and inspiring - to make the next great globally successful battle arena game with millions of players battling in pick-up games, leagues, and tournaments every day. That is the vision, but the reality is that first we need to make a great core game - start with a few Companies and units and maps and play and iterate until it is awesome. Don’t add any extra stuff until we get that right. We think we have gotten this part pretty solid and pretty fun, but we also think we are not done yet.

That is why we are on Early Access - and we are dedicated to the spirit and purpose of Early Access. We have a very solid, playable, and what we think is really fun and challenging core game, but we now need real players playing all the time and giving real and honest feedback. We think Early Access was created for games like Victory Command. We are independently produced and developed and we have a really solid core game, but we need the involvement and support of players who want to be a part of getting a game from beta to live and to be a part of the process of making a game better over time. We need the support of a core community, and we promise we will do everything in our power to listen to and improve from the feedback from that community.

We are launching on Early Access today, and this is the biggest step yet on our path to making the game that we have always wanted to play...and we hope you will want to play it too.

Thanks,

Chris McKibbin (Co-founder, PlayGrid Games)

Beginning tomorrow at 11am Pacific Time, the Victory Command Early Access launch pricing structure will be:

Victory Command FREE Edition - Limited Time Offer!
This edition includes:

• Early Access to Victory Command
  
• 3 starting Companies

Victory Command Gold Edition - $19.99 with 15% Launch Discount!
This edition includes:

• Early Access to Victory Command
  
• 6 starting Companies
  
• Premium Account while Victory Command is in Early Access
  
• Premium Account status grants a player a 50% increase in XP and Credit gains for every match
  
• Early Supporter Package
  
  1. Early Supporter badge and exclusive text color to always to show the community that you were a Victory Command early supporter!
     
  2. For use in the forums on the Victory Command website when we make those forums active again (currently these forums point to our Steam forums)

Victory Command Platinum Edition - $29.99 with 15% Launch Discount!
This edition includes:

• Early Access to Victory Command
  
• 12 starting Companies
  
• Premium Account while Victory Command is in Early Access
  
• Premium Account status grants a player a 50% increase in XP and Credit gains for every match
  
• Platinum Early Supporter Package
  1. Early Supporter badge, exclusive text color and animated avatar to always show the community that you were a Victory Command early supporter!
     
  2. For use in the forums on the Victory Command website when we make those forums active again (currently these forums point to our Steam forums)
• Art Package - exclusive wallpapers, commander profiles, concept art, and more
  
• Game Soundtrack - by Frank Klepacki!

Four Pack - Victory Command Platinum Edition - $89.99 with 15% Launch Discount!
This edition includes:

• 4 Victory Command Platinum Edition Keys - share with your friends!

Thanks for all you’ve done and said so far and PLEASE keep the feedback coming
- positive and/or negative. Victory Command can only be as good as its players and its community, and we look forward to working and playing with you in this next phase of development on Steam Early Access.

Click here to start playing Victory Command! (Available starting May 19th 2015)
#TeamUpForVictory