By Jim Rossignol on November 3rd, 2010 at 8:14 am.
Hooray! The MoWAS Steam group finally hit 10,000 people, and the open beta has commenced. DigitalMindSoft say: “Players will be able to try out the new skirmish game mode on two maps with up to four players, and play other popular online game modes such as Assault Zone, Combat and Frontlines, which have all been improved. For instance players can now use Special Units throughout the entire battle.”
Join us! You can get the beta here. (And it uses Steam.)
03/11/2010 at 08:32 Andrew Dunn says:
Yessssss. About damn time!
Men of War was one of the best games of 2009, largely due to its excellent multiplayer (as good as singleplayer was), so I’ve been waiting for this one with bated breath.
03/11/2010 at 08:33 Ozymandias says:
Hell yes, I’ve been waiting for this one. Glad I stayed up late tonight! (it’s 4 AM over here)
03/11/2010 at 08:38 MD says:
Yay!
03/11/2010 at 08:38 frags says:
YESSS!!!! Co-op?
03/11/2010 at 09:20 Baka says:
Indeed!
And what a splendid one!
If it’s the same as in the closed beta, you get to play four skirmish co-op maps as described in http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2010/07/29/hands-on-with-mow-assault-squad/ .
03/11/2010 at 10:20 Baka says:
Just downloaded it, they removed LAN play for the open beta and trimmed Skirmish to two Maps (the USA and Germany one).
:(
03/11/2010 at 09:25 BooleanBob says:
Couple of TIger tanks on the front page: just one of the many reasons I loves my RPS <3
03/11/2010 at 10:06 Collic says:
Downloading this now. Those in the know, is it still saddled with gamespy? Please let this be steam based match-making now.
03/11/2010 at 10:20 Baka says:
Yup, still the same gamespy lobby.
03/11/2010 at 10:27 coldwave says:
Finally.
03/11/2010 at 10:42 Mashakosha says:
Yay! I’ve been waiting for this for a while. The initiative to sign up to the steam group helped get this a lot of attention which I’m sure it deserves.Will download this when I get home.
03/11/2010 at 10:58 cncplyr says:
It doesn’t work for me, the cd key doesn;t seem long enough. Is everyone elses 4-4-4-4 long?
03/11/2010 at 11:04 Flaringo says:
Yep. Worked for me!
03/11/2010 at 11:12 cncplyr says:
:( I’ve tried two keys now, both tell me ‘Invalid Product Code’.
03/11/2010 at 12:21 theleif says:
http://www.digitalmindsoft.eu
Makes me suspect it’s for us depraved europeans only.
03/11/2010 at 13:09 mavvvy says:
Pm Instinct in on the Digital Mindsoft forums. He is a bit of legend for sorting things out like this, helped me when I had issue’s with the private beta CD key.
Maybe just cc him in on a message to support
03/11/2010 at 14:11 The Innocent says:
Mine worked. In America.
05/11/2010 at 11:18 cncplyr says:
I’m sitting here in London, I think I’ll give that Instinct guy a PM like mavvvy said :)
03/11/2010 at 11:53 Huggster says:
At last I can play some RPS freshers!
gave up the closed beta as always got whupped
03/11/2010 at 11:54 trooperdx3117 says:
Anyone else having problems starting the install? Steam accepts my CD Key as being valid but wont start the install saying its servers are overloaded
03/11/2010 at 12:24 tigershuffle says:
thats the beauty of open beta :(
similar thing on World of Tanks ………..tested to destruction every evening
soon as everyone jumps on board it will probably fall over
but its got tanks and hats …..so it will not fail!
not one step back
03/11/2010 at 12:41 Bluebreaker says:
blame steam for that
03/11/2010 at 12:52 jackflash says:
Now this is the right way to start a day!
03/11/2010 at 14:21 Bluebreaker says:
So they just ripped German Soldiers Mod and then sell as a new game?
mod: http://www.moddb.com/mods/german-soldiers-mod-fields-of-honor
03/11/2010 at 15:17 Kong says:
Gods of war!
03/11/2010 at 15:21 Magical Melvin says:
I would lovingly embrace anyone who could tell me the firewall ports for this, and the other, men of war games.
Thank you fine ladies and gentlemen.
03/11/2010 at 16:46 Collic says:
I’m not sure without looking it up, but to host it may work fine if your router has upnp. If not, check out the standard ports for gamespy sice that’s what the mow games use for their multi-player. Portforward.com should have a default port range.
03/11/2010 at 17:00 Magical Melvin says:
Awesome, I’ll have a gander. I won’t upnp be enabled – I’m running everything through a uni firewall – but ill try and find the Gamespy ports and mess around with them till I can get it running.
Cheers for the info!
03/11/2010 at 18:55 Mr Wednesday says:
just go here
http://www.digitalmindsoft.eu/wiki/doku.php?id=non-promiscuous_nat_fix
03/11/2010 at 21:52 evilbobthebob says:
I’m behind a uni firewall as well- I keep getting told I can’t connect to the chat and kicked back to main menu, though I can see the games list fine. Unfortunately, unless you can use a VPN tunnel of some kind (I can’t, I’ve tried) you won’t be able to play :(
Same happens for me with Minecraft multiplayer too. If anyone has input on this I’d be eternally grateful.
03/11/2010 at 23:44 Magical Melvin says:
Where I’m at we are allowed to open a certain amount of walls in the university firewall, do you not have this option at yours?
I managed to get Minecraft working online for the Halloween update – but I haven’t tried the multiplayer on that… Managed to get Steam working and can play Left4Dead 2 multiplayer as well as the odd Empire: Total War game.
But hmm, I’m going to try anyway, and see what happens – won’t be able to test it till after 9 ish tomorrow when the firewall gets updated. I’ll be upset if it doesn’t work.
09/11/2010 at 01:05 earl says:
Don’t expect a polished game here. It’s is unfinished. This is a real beta.
22/11/2010 at 07:26 confused says:
i downloaded this from steam on windows vista, and ha0vent played the first one;i just got this cause it looked good and was free. BUT, when i try to run the game, steam flashes up preparing to load, then windows says it is unable to run it or something… HELP? i didnt use 2 gigs of internet allowance for nothing!