Community Insights - Emerald Bear

Emerald Bear, our 1.2.0 update for Company of Heroes 3 on PC, has been out for just over a week and we wanted to recap its release and the feedback we’ve been hearing from players. Our team wanted to thank everyone for all your comments, posts and reports – these allow us to continue improving the game and to quickly hot fix any issues that have popped up. If you missed any of the news or changes that rolled out with Emerald Bear, you can get caught up by checking out the Emerald Bear Mission Briefing and the 1.2.0 Patch Notes.

Performance, Bugs & Balance

The timely feedback and crash reports from our players helped us solve some of the most impactful bugs and issues quickly with two hot fixes. We appreciate everyone’s patience as we worked on releasing these hot fixes to address some of the biggest issues that came with Emerald Bear. Our 1.2.1 hot fix resolved the three highest occurring crashes after the launch of Emerald Bear. It also fixed infinite smoke abilities on vehicles, resolved a minor cosmetic issue, and made some tweaks to fix the resolution of the Player Profile and to ensure it was linking to the correct leaderboards. In the 1.2.2 hot fix, we fixed a problem that was leading to significant drops in FPS which was affecting many of our players. We also addressed several gameplay issues that were over performing – namely, the US Forces Air Support Center was a little bit too spicy, so we had to cool it down. We also fixed an infinite bombardment exploit, a cosmetic and lighting issue on Monte Cavo that was affecting vehicles, and we resolved a bug that prevented players from buying certain team weapons like the 17-pounder or the Flak 36.

Player Profiles

The first iteration of Player Profiles rolled out with our new League and Tier ranking system and we’ve heard a lot of your feedback on this feature so far – specifically, about what types of information are shared and how they are presented. This will help us as we look to improve Player Profiles, so they remain a valuable hub of information and game stats for each player.

Console Edition

We know seeing cool new features and changes for CoH3 on PC often means our Console Edition players are giving us a stern look as they tap their watch. Rest assured that we are addressing the important bug fixes, gameplay changes and features to ensure the Console Edition continues to evolve. Our post-launch team is working diligently with an external partner to prioritize updates, which unfortunately do experience a gap in delivery time from the timing of the initial PC update. However, we’re working on improving that cadence and timeline to try and reduce the wait time as much as possible. For now, you can expect the Console Edition to be updated to the PC 1.1.6 update (Brass Leopard) in September.

What’s Next?

Our next PC patch will focus on some multiplayer balance fine tuning, and you can expect it to be released near the end of August. We’ll have more news on this soon and we plan to host a short livestream with our Balance Gameplay Designers in the coming weeks to talk about it in more detail. Finally, we hope to share a Roadmap in August that will cover our CoH3 plans for the rest of the year. Stay tuned in the coming days for more news on our next patch and be sure to keep your feedback coming by visiting our official Forums or Discord.