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27 Jul

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Originally posted by spacejester

:O

That's now!

Well, the people here in the team can already play, so I guess that is technically "now"?

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Originally posted by GreenOrkGirl

May be the question has been answered before, but I wonder how the system would be, like 1 current inbestor / ing residence = 1 skyscrapper? Ot it would be kind of joined thing? Like join 4 houses into one?

That's a good question that I am sure will be answered in a future DevBlog.

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Originally posted by Ubi-Thorlof

Soon™

I was gonna say "This Summer?", but I guess yours works as well, Oli.

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Originally posted by Lord_Ostrich_VI

and when will we get more details?

Soon™

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Originally posted by Encaladium

Okay, when is the release?

This Summer :)

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Originally posted by TheSkyllz

Does Tier 4 mean, we can upgrade houses multiple times, each time adding a new floor to maybe Tier 4??

I feel like I have heard the term "tier" used elsewhere in Anno, but I can't quite place my finger on it...

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Originally posted by Hiro_Trevelyan

Of course, but since they didn't say anything about it (except "early development") I was kinda afraid tbh. But I'm glad, this looks amazing !

We did actually explain it a bit :)

Q: The skyscrapers in the gameplay footage to “The High Life” look strange, just like extended Investor residences.
A: Many of you have pointed out that the skyscrapers prototype footage seen in the Season 3 trailer and stream look suspiciously as if someone had just “stretched” our existing investor residences higher- which is coincidentally exactly what they are! It is very common in game development to try and reach a playable prototype state for experimentation as quickly as possible by “kitbashing” any existing assets and features you already have, so you can first test a feature’s potential before wasting valuable time only to find out later that it wasn’t much fun in the first place.
This is an aspect of development that is rarely seen outside of perhaps “making of” videos and usually never makes it into a proper trailer, though in this case we chose to do so as we thought it would be cool to give ...

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23 Jul

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Hey Anno Community,

Today we want to shine some light on the work of the QA teams and give you some insights into our processes: Which roles do each team fulfill? Is there a difference between the work before and after the game release? What’s a Hotfix and when do we make use of it?

For this purpose, we sat down with Dorina, our QA Manager here in Mainz, as well as – for additional insights – Nadiia, Senior Development Tester here in Mainz (previously: QC Project Lead) and Artem, Live QA Specialist.

You can now find the answers to these and several more questions in our latest DevBlog on the ... Read more

22 Jul

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It is indeed not a rumor- "The High Life" is planned to come out in Summer 2021, which by our definition ends on September 21st. And while it is true that a lot of games have met with delays during the pandemic, I am hopeful!. So far our DLCs have all met their planned, if I recall correctly.
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Originally posted by TahPenguin

Right... and why is that? Why am I forced to purchase the very same product twice?

No one is forcing you to buy anything. You can still play Anno 1404 in single-player, while the servers were turned of last month after being online for almost 12 years. The server shutdown is not related to the History Edition.

The History Edition makes a range of improvements on which we have worked for months, which you can find out more about here:

https://anno-union.com/devblog-anno-1404-history-edition/

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Congratulations, welcome to the 1800 community :)


20 Jul