Toy Soldiers Xbox LIVE Arcade Title Update Launches June 2010
Expanded Facebook Integration, Bug Fixes
Bothell, Wash. – June 1, 2010 – Signal Studios is pleased to announce a title update for the hit Xbox LIVE Arcade (XBLA) game, Toy Soldiers. Signal Studios has made the following improvements, which will release on Xbox LIVE at 2 a.m., PST:
Facebook Match Defense: Toy Soldiers Integration:
Integration with Facebook Match Defense: Toy Soldiers now includes a Survival Mode enhancement. Players with linked XBLA and Facebook Match Defense: Toy Soldiers accounts will receive an extra 10 base health points in the Toy Soldiers XBLA Survival Mode, if the player’s team has won the last war in the Facebook meta-game. As an additional bonus, Survival Mode is now unlocked for all players.
Bug Fix Highlights:
• Survival Leaderboards overwrite bug fixed
• Sniper Tower controls support Southpaw and Inverted options
• Awarding of Brass Hat Achievement fixed
• Major source of multiplayer disconnects affecting certain players fixed
• Multiplayer tuning and balancing
• Re-spawn Timer exploit fixed
About Signal Studios
Signal Studios is a Seattle-area developer of video games and interactive software applications. Signal’s founders combine years of experience across all disciplines in the games industry, working as leads and developers together at some of the industry’s top studios and publishers. Signal is actively developing multiple projects across several platforms, using its proprietary engine and toolset, SigEngine™. Built from the ground up to facilitate today’s demanding content creation needs, SigEngine™ provides an extremely optimized and user-friendly production pipeline.
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Chanda Cook | Signal Studios | Mobile: 206-724-3200
Thank you Signal for the patch release notification.
Question: Can you go into detail as to the multiplayer tuning and balancing? What did you do?
Do we have any chance at new map packs for the game?
Do we have any chance at a new co-op option?
I can’t wait to see what the patch does.
Thanks again!
Manny
Thanks for the hard work guys. Eagerly awaiting news of further maps whilst enjoying this great game.
How disappointing. Nothing seems to have changed with the multi-player.
A. Planes still spam in the toy box
B. Tanks still can fire all across the board
C. No adjustment on prices for lesser items, ie, cavalry v. tanks
D. No new maps
E. Didn’t see any increase in 10 base health points on the Survival Mode
What exactly did the patch really do? Could someone from Signal please clarify?
After the update I get extreme lag and sync issues. The game shutters at around 2 frames a second and there is a problem with opposing players units not appearing on screen. I hope you can fix this or I will be looking to get a refund from Microsoft for a non functional game.
I’m a little upset about not being able to hop right back in the tank or plane after a crash. I didn’t realize it was an exploit. If I had known this was going to be taken out in the update, I wouldn’t of downloaded it until I got the last achievement. Doing this made the achievement a lot easier for people who already have it and more difficult for those of us that don’t.
Hi Signal,
Thank you so much for adding Level 1 Anti-Air to the Vimy Ridge multiplayer map. That makes for a greater challenge instead of a race to fly into the toy box.
Please oh please create map packs. We need more battlefields.
This patch is a huge failure.
I heard nothing but bad things about it, and finally play and get extreme lag issues as described and once again disconnected from the game after putting put with the lag.
The other play was so far behind, he stopped playing and just let the game sit and eventually won when I got disconnected.
What a joke this company is, three months to fix a completely broken online game and then they fail doing it.
I’m sure this last post will get deleted by the company, just like my other ones.
I want my money back. The patch does nothing to address head to head private matches over xbox live. Instead of a disconnect, the game masks it by replacing a player with an AI Opponent. It’s not a fix, its a cover and a poor one of that. Who do I get a hold of to get what I paid for at this company?
This game has great potential but needs you to take on board sugestions for improvments. An option to skip a level i.e. railgun level in campaign+ which I cannot complete( this option did appear earlier in the game I remember), as I am starting to loose intrest.
I would like to have a two player co-op option in split screen, that would be fun, oh and allow the sniper to take out all artillery personnel.Feel free to contact me regards feedback..
I checked this website every day for months until the patch came out. After the patch, I could not wait to play the game with my friends for the first time without being disconnected every 2 minutes. I could not be more disappointed with the results. The patch does not fix multiplayer, it simply replaces the player with AI and acts as though everything is working. I was party chatting and my friend was exclaiming victory while I thought the game was still going on?!?! This is terrible customer service and I wish all the worst on this company.
When oh when will the French be joining the game? C’mon, tell us! Tell us!
The game plays great ! Just need more maps or better still Nazis !!!! An please no French unless we get to kill lots of them
I have a couple options to think about. How about being able to be a toy soldier with a bazooka or something? It would be exciting plus bad with planes flying overhead.
Also, it seems on disconnects the AI keeps playing with opponent but is terrible at offense. Are disconnects counting as a loss as my name still appears on opponents screen but I’m not there.
Finally, I think tanks should have limited range or have really rough terrain so it’s hard to aim.