CS Status: Alive or Dead?

[Crossroads]

Given that software is dynamic, always a work-in-progress and never quite bug-free, releases are inherently a damned-if-we-do/damned-if-we-don't proposition.

Well, some relatively good news. With the addition of Berto to the team and his extremely appreciated talents, we have decided to release the 1.05/2.0 UPDATE prior to the release of Modern Wars.

At the moment we have a hard deadline for February 14th, 2014 to release the UPDATE. We'll release Modern Wars later that year.

Why February 14th? There is still testing going on with the new User Interface that Berto has created. The manual has to be updated and we're working on updating the graphics and oob's.

The proverbial Rubicon has been crossed, the die has been cast !!!

By the way that is 90 days away.

For one who's waiting, 90 days can perhaps feel like an eternity. For us who are finishing the UPDATE, these 90 days presents us a quite intimidating deadline

But we are committed to it, and working very hard to meet the February 14 deadline!

I'd be happy with a 1.04.05 with just the window mode and additional buttons. I understand that that may not be possible.

I don't believe there are easy short cuts available, unfortunately. Internally, there's been a new patchlevel after patchlevel. Tearing it all apart to release a stripped version a month and a half earlier (as for a Christmas release) probably would not help at all.

We are also preparing for the roll out of Blitz 3 - a Website that features a new infrastructure and interface for our members. It will replace our current Blitz Website. I'm sure this complete redesign, while not CS specific, will generate player feedback on the forums!

This too!

Anyway, to answer the question: CS, Alive or Dead? It's more alive, and healthier, than ever.

Hear hear! Mike, perhaps a further update on the thread title, as in italics above