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Ok, Briny and Xerkis, have put the release back long enough, don't worry about their needs post the patch[:D]

You guys deserve another update. Unfortunately, the news isn't what you were hoping for, or what I had been hoping to tell you. As I previously mentioned, just when the patch looked like it might be ready for release, a rather serious new HW bug was discovered. (I've posted a screenshot taken by the tester -- let's see if you can find it.) We can't release the patch until this is fixed, but the need to meet Matrix's release schedule for "Crown of Glory: Emperor's Edition" has prevented Eric (= programmer) from debugging it. Our hope is that he will have time to debug this week -- and that it's the type of bug that doesn't take hours and hours to find! -- and that we can then test to make sure it's fixed. If so, release late next week is not impossible, but far from certain. I'll keep you posted...

Is that a Bug, or does the Attacker have a really nice advantage?

Looks like Robot Abraham Lincoln showed up at the battlefield...! [:D]

(cookie for the first one who catches that reference... - and no Googling!)

Any updates to the update?

Little forward momentum, sadly. This weekend all the path-critical work on "Crown of Glory: Emperor's Edition" will be done -- i.e., the stuff that has to be given to Matrix ASAP in order to meet their release schedule -- and with that out of the way the FOF patch will become Priority#1.

Ooops, got to love the French flags waving in the wind

got to say though, that was a fun battle

briny norman,
 
reference to Wild wild west? (no googling)

ORIGINAL: Houtje

briny norman,

reference to Wild wild west? (no googling)

Nope [:)]
But we ARE in the entertainment business and there IS a mad scientist involved.
And it's not a Coldplay song...

From The Simpson's?  Wasn't Robot Abe Lincoln a rapping part of the President's exhibit at Springfield's Duff Gardens?

ORIGINAL: Randomizer

From The Simpson's?  Wasn't Robot Abe Lincoln a rapping part of the President's exhibit at Springfield's Duff Gardens?

Don't remember, but if it was, it's a terrific reference from one classic show to another...
I'll give you another clue:

"Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaarrrrrrghhhhh!!! - slam-bonk-dom-di-dom-bang-boom-slam-slam-gong - aaaaaaarrrrghhh...!!!"

That should make it pretty obvious... [:D]

got to be futurama.. Have to love Bender

ORIGINAL: Graycompany

got to be futurama.. Have to love Bender

Another good effort! But no...
You have to move slightly away from the cartoons and into something a little more tangible... but just as crazy!

The U.S. House of Representatives?

ORIGINAL: Gil R.

The U.S. House of Representatives?

So close, now - sooo close...! [:D]

Was it an old superhero show like Batman?

Good guess - the sound effects could have been from one of the old Batman shows (Kapow-wiing-slabam-chok-wham), but no.

One last clue:
It's formally a children's show (but a quite mature one) and here is a very revealing quote from one of the stars (and my favorite character) of the show - a real classic and a dead give-away to any fan of the show:

"I shall now eat a rubber tire to the music of The Flight of the Bumblebee..."

This dare-devil character, whose signature acts include catching cannonballs and reciting Shakespeare while hanging by his nose from a feather boa nine-feet in the air, also has a serious chicken-fetish...

Any news about the patch, now that CoG:EE has been released?

I'm looking forward to starting a new game! [:D]

Looks like sometime this week Eric will FINALLY have time to work on that WTF bug. Fortunately, COG:EE itself has no serious bugs that would vie for time. We'll keep you posted.

ORIGINAL: Gil R.

Looks like sometime this week Eric will FINALLY have time to work on that WTF bug. Fortunately, COG:EE itself has no serious bugs that would vie for time. We'll keep you posted.

September to March and still counting.

Good Hunting.

MR