The Closed Beta signup for World in Flames closed in January 2011, seven months of tests with the selected few followed from March till October when the Open Beta finally was released. Here we are, almost a year later waiting for the ambitious project to officially call itself complete.

What say you, isn't it about time?

A random selection of screenshots from the Closed Beta tests will follow in the coming days!

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We will be hosting a game night on saturday at 19.39 Central European TIme, with the intention of pretesting the upcoming 1.2 version! Everyone is welcome to play, and it is likely that we will be hosting on both Garena and B-net (US east) denending on interrest.
The map will also be available from the downloads section for anyone who wishes to host it personally. To find WiF players on US east, go to the chat and type either "/j wif" or "/j clan BAR"; those are the places where we usually hang out.

Here are the version notes for 1.2, which you can also find in the Bug Report forum:


New Feature - Game Modes
Added a game settings feature in the beginning of the game which allows players to vote for which kind of game they want to play. First you'll get to vote for a alliance and diplomacy mode and later a technological time which to start the game at(1939, 1943 or 1945). The options with most votes will be taken into effect unless votes are equal, if so, the first named option of the equal ones will be chosen(priority: default mode, second mode, third mode.

• Axis & Allies (default) - two teams consisting of the axis and allies, locked diplomacy.
• Historical - historical starting alliances, unlocked diplomacy.
• Free For All - everyone starts neutral towards eachother, unlocked diplomacy.

Features:

• Added V2 missile for axis countries(!)
• Added Ju88 Heavy Bomber for the axis countries
• Added unique ship units for each country, read more about it here:
  http://www.hiveworkshop.com/forums/2096961-post2475.html

Balance:

• Added slightly more defense to neutral Poland and Switzerland.
• Removed one of United Kingdom's factories and two of their bunkers in North Africa.
• Gave Italy two bunkers in North Africa.
• Moved some defense from inner Soviet north to prevent a finnish attack sooner.

Misc:

• Made some borders between nations more noticeable.
• Made proper icons for Mass Command, Foreign Business and Camera Options to fit the rest of the UI.
• Renamed Nazi Germany to it's official name German Reich.
• Fog is now constant on all zoom levels - you should be able to see properly also at largest zoom distance.
• Minor UI tooltip changes.
• Added a message for every year that passes and if new upgrades or units might be available or not.
• Changed the damage type of battleships anti-ground attack from normal to siege, as it was intended from the beginning.

Bug fixes:

• Multiple actions taken to prevent the "freezing airplane bug", which in turn has been known for bugging up global airplane cap on occurring. Hopefully this will be fixed.
• China can no longer build both Sdkfz and ZIS-7 vehicles but ZIS-7 only.
• Finland can no longer build Tiger Tanks.
• Fixed several spots in rivers than previously were passable by foot. (Sweden, Stalingrad area, Spain, North India, East China)
• Fixed pathing on mountains in Spain.
• Corrected several tooltips and hotkeys.

See you on the battlefield!

Open BETA is now RELEASED!

After almost one and a half years of production, World in Flames is now finally open for the public to play!

Please keep in mind that this is a very unfinished product with many bugs that we are aware of, especially related to the airplane system. These are issues that we will fix in time, but in the mean time, try to enjoy the map the best you can and bear with us if they happen to break your game!

We also have a large bunch of features in store for WiF that we have not yet had the time to implement, there among the following:

*V2 Rockets will be available for construction and use for the axis players from 1945 and forward.

*Seasons will affect units performance in regions with extreme climate, such as northen russia, finland, canada, north africa and the gobi desert.

*Naturally, we will be including a proper model for the german heavy bomber. We might also make some unique units for Italy and China if map space allows.

*Trade ships will periodically travel between the ports of allied nations generating income for both parts if they reach their target.

*An initial game menu will be included that allows you to vote on different game modes, among those being "Axis and Allies" (alliances locked), "Cold War" (game starts at 1945) and "Sudden Death" (capitals have lots of health, but you loose if they are captured).

We will be trying to release patch every one or two weeks to add those and many other features over time.

If you find any bugs or imbalance issues, please report them in our brand new bug report forum!
The map will be available for download HERE!

We can now announce that World in Flames OPEN BETA is finally releasing tomorrow, at October 10!

More info will follow tomorrow afternoon, in the mean time, watch the teaser trailer here!

The following report will probably not be very exciting for the most as it's mainly concerning the BETA TEAM, but I felt it was your right to get to know what happens now that we finally started. You might also have some comments on the changes.

Since the first beta on Saturday, we've already finished a lot of unfinished work. Meaning that we've polished a lot of things that never was bothered to be taken care of earlier.

The UI has been updated to fit the minimap icons.
The tooltip and multiboard borders have been updated to fit the rest of the UI.
Text strings and colours have been updated to fit with the UI as well.
Resource icons have been updated to no longer cut the UI background boxes.
The upkeep has been replaced with a link to our website.

The selection circle has been updated.
Most missing camera portraits for models have been added.
Incorrect player setup settings fixed.
Incorrect tooltips have been fixed.

The foreign business system is now working again.
A lot of scripts have been sorted up to make it easier for us to finish the rest.
Player starting resources and alliances has been added.
Missing icons has been made and added.
All countries can now just build what they were supposed to.

All to clean up and close in for public releases.
The UI however still needs to get the WC3 day/night fixed, possibly removed. As well the food resource is not complete, we're planning how to use it right now. As well a custom cursor will soon be made.

I think that most things mentioned can be seen in this screenshot.

We have also had some rebalancing of the units, especially the artillery and flamethrower units.

Just before our first beta, Fingolfin finished the Bofors 37mm model for Finland.

The neutral cities are now guarded by some units and they will do you no harm if you dont attack them first. Plans are to decrease a players public relations when attacking the neutral countries (more about public relations and its system will follow up later.)

For now we've decided to remove the Great Britain(African) player and merge it into the European one, considering that Germany as well was played by only one player, with even more possible fronts. German starting bases in Africa has also been removed, but the Italian and British remain.

Players as of now:

Soviet Union.
USA (Atlantic) - plays France as well right now.
USA (Pacific).
China.
Great Britain.
Italy - these should see some own models soon.
Germany.
Finland.
Imperial Japan.

But as mentioned, we are only beta testing the upper half of the map right now, the European battlefield.