2025-10-27 16:23 UTC · Community Announcements · FQ_MichalC
Greetings and salutations, Soldiers community!The closed test has ended, and the R1.28.8 update is officially out. It might sound like a simple line, but there’s a lot of work behind it, as well as lots of empty coffee cups. Before we dive into the details, we want to thank everyone who joined the test, with a special shoutout to the small but incredibly active group of testers who kept us on our toes at Best Way. What Happens if a Programmer is Left Unsupervised?Do you recall when Xalavier Nelson Jr. shared that story about receiving a message from Sam Chiet at 3 AM? Out of the blue, Sam had
2025-10-13 15:42 UTC · Community Announcements · FQ_MichalC
Greetings, community members!We’re back once again with more news about Soldiers! Over the past few months, we’ve been working on a long list of improvements, including doubling the entity limit, fixing several crashes, overhauling localization across English, French, German, Spanish, Italian, and Russian, and fine-tuning many other aspects of the game. We’ll publish the full list of improvements along with the R1.28.8 patch release, and a lot more about what has been happening behind the curtains! But before that… We’d like the players to help us test the update and ensure things run as inten
2025-05-22 10:01 UTC · Community Announcements · FQ_Josef
Greetings, Commanders! As many of you already know, Soldiers: Heroes of World War II recently received a major update that breathed new life into the classic title, making it fully compatible with modern systems. It brought a wide range of improvements, including native widescreen support, upscaled graphics in up to 4K resolution, streamlined multiplayer through Steam, and many other enhancements designed to modernize the original experience. And thanks to the overwhelmingly positive response from you – our dedicated players – and after thorough testing and proper bug-squashing, we’re proud to
2025-03-20 15:03 UTC · Community Announcements · FQ_MichalC
Greetings, community members! Since launching the community items and achievements, we’ve been closely watching your feedback. While most achievements worked fine, some… well, they had a mind of their own! We knew we had to act fast, so our first step was a hotfix to address a major issue preventing achievements from registering properly. That quick fix helped, but as we soon found out… this old game kicks us hard! {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/3953520/d61e0c5569846aeb9ad4e10575a80e6975857c8f.png Hunting Down Achievement Bugs—One by One! To get a complete picture, we rolled up our sleeves and tested all
2025-02-21 14:12 UTC · Community Announcements · FQ_Dom
The hotfix for achievements has just been published, thank you all for your patience!
2025-02-19 13:16 UTC · Community Announcements · FQ_Dom
Greetings, Commanders! As a follow-up to the recent updates to Soldiers: Heroes of World War II, we are beyond excited to announce that we've now added Steam achievements to the game as well! And since we know we have a lot of collectors among us, we're adding tons of Steam community items too. That means you're now able to earn Trading Cards, Profile Backgrounds, Badges and Emoticons! Some of these can be earned naturally by playing the game or traded with other Commanders, and some can be bought for Steam points on the Steam market. You can check examples below the article. We also wanted to
2025-01-31 13:21 UTC · Community Announcements · Old Gamer
{STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/3953520/6aa6b711b07ce7dbd1631336f09ea1c44f506228.png Greetings, Commanders! Today is the day - we are excited to announce that we have just published the new update for Soldiers: Heroes of World War II for all our players! It brings enhanced Editor, important fixes, and more - the extensive full Change Log is available below. Full Change Log: General Added enhanced Editor. Players can now edit existing maps or missions or create entirely new ones. Fixed a bug preventing players from saving key bind changes.. Graphics Adjusted upscaling to scale the UI only on high resolution
2025-01-28 08:58 UTC · Community Announcements · Old Gamer
{STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/3953520/6aa6b711b07ce7dbd1631336f09ea1c44f506228.png Greetings, Commanders! Not long ago, we released the first patch for Soldiers: Heroes of World War II, which includes compatibility with Windows 10 and 11, fixes to the occasional memory leaks, and many more. However, we want you to be able to play the game as smoothly as possible, so we prepared another open beta update! Why an Open Beta? The new update is a small but important fix for Soldiers: Heroes of World War II. There are many new or changed features and content to experience, and even though we have tested it thor
2025-01-21 17:07 UTC · PCGamesN · editor@pcgamesn.com
World War II and RTS games have always gone together perfectly. We've got Company of Heroes, Men of War, and Steel Division 2 to name a few. Back in 2004, however, we had Soldiers: Heroes of World War II. This epochal strategy game helped pioneer the modern RTS as we know it today, but in the last 20 years, it's gone largely unloved. Until now that is. Both Best Way and Fulqrum Publishing have just released a game-changing and modernizing update for Soldiers: Heroes of World War II, making the last two decades seem like nothing. Read the rest of the story...
2025-01-20 18:00 UTC · Community Announcements · FQ_Dom
Greetings, Commanders! Long time no see, but we have not forgotten about you, in fact, we have a brand new patch for you that includes compatibility with Windows 10 and 11, fixes to the occasional memory leaks and many more. The whole Change Log can be found below the article, we hope that you'll now be able to play the game as smoothly as possible. And what's more, a tremendous Real-Time Strategy Steam sale has just started and Soldiers are a part of it. The game is discounted by 85% for the whole duration of the sale, which is one week. Besides that, Soldiers' younger brother Men of War II t
2024-05-15 17:26 UTC · Community Announcements · FQ_Dom
Greetings, Commanders, The time that all the Men of War fans have been waiting for has finally come. As we're celebrating exactly 10 years since the full release of Men of War: Assault Squad 2, it is our utmost pleasure to announce that Men of War II is NOW AVAILABLE! Watch the official trailer here: And just in case you have not heard about Men of War II yet, it is an anticipated sequel to the highly acclaimed Men of War franchise. It brings all-new units, locations, campaigns, game modes and true trademarks of the series: historical fidelity and action-filled gameplay on the Eastern and West
2023-05-11 15:55 UTC · Community Announcements · FQ_Dom
Commanders! The time has come to lay your hands on Men of War II once again! The public Open Beta has just started and we are incredibly thrilled to show you what the game looks like now! If you have not done so yet, head to the Men of War II Steam page and request your access now. If you were a part of the previous playtest, you will already have the game in your library, so you can jump into action immediately. READ THE WHOLE ANNOUNCEMENT HERE https://store.steampowered.com/app/1128860/Men_of_War_II/ Please, take note that the game is still not finished, so if you experience any kind of bugs
2023-03-23 22:00 UTC · Community Announcements · FQ_Dominik
Announced during the Future Games Show: Spring Showcase, the multiplayer tech test is the first time Men of War II is publicly playable and will run until Monday, March 27 (10 am PDT / 1 pm EDT / 5 pm UTC). The test features four multiplayer modes (of seven that will feature in the full game) and five varied maps, in addition to a set of nine single player tutorial missions that will take you from the basics through to advanced gameplay mechanics and systems. Enlisting in the tech test is simple; you just need to head over to the Men of War II Steam store page where you will have the option to
2022-10-20 17:15 UTC · Community Announcements · FQ_Dominik
Greetings everyone! We are so happy to announce that the Fulqrum Publisher Sale just started and Soldiers: Heroes of World War II is a part of it with an amazing discount! ALL of Fulqrum Publishing's games are discounted by up to 90% for an entire week! The sale ends on October 27. Besides, we have just launched a brand new game into Early Access, that being The Pegasus Expedition. If you have not checked it out yet, now is the perfect time! https://store.steampowered.com/app/1521070/The_Pegasus_Expedition/ Enjoy the sale, buy as many games as possible while they're discounted, play The Pegasu
2022-09-02 17:00 UTC · Community Announcements · FQ_Dominik
Greetings, commanders! You have now the ultimate opportunity to complete your collection and get yourself all Men of War games, expansions an DLCs that have ever been released! https://store.steampowered.com/bundle/12621/ Each of the installments is now a part of this huge Men of War bundle that you can get here on Steam right now! Furthermore, the whole bundle is discounted by 25% that add to the individual discounts (up to 90%) of each title! Even if you already own some of the games, the discount still applies to the games you don't have! A perfect way to prepare yourself for Men of War II,
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