Here we are again, on these lands. The cannons are loaded, the sabers are waiting for their time. Boots and guns are polished to a shine. We know what's coming. I can feel this smell in the air. It is a mixture of sweat, terror, gunpowder, and bread. Who are we without bread? I definitely remember that it was warmer last time. It wasn't snowing, the meadows were just beginning to bloom, but our boots mercilessly chewed the green sprouts under them. Damned be that war, it's true. What awaits us? Another fight? Yes, undoubtedly. It will be a good battle we have been waiting for it. My good saber is ready for all the obstacles. Whether it's a rapier, a halberd or a mace! I will meet them all with peace on my face. Because I know what I'm fighting for. And I know that this fight will not be the last. Starting from December 5, until December 12, during the GSC Game World birthday sale, you will have the opportunity to join the fight in Cossacks or somewhere else in another game of ours. And as long as your hand can select units on the battlefield, the Cossack series will always welcome new reinforcements. Have a successful winter offensive, Cossacks.

For all the cossacks eager to feel themselves on Steam just like at Sich! Diving into strategic conquest and group with buddies at epic battles of Cossacks 3 is what can help you to relieve at these rough times. And there are some additional bonuses available at Cossacks 3 Points Shop: Animated Profile Background, Profile Avatar, Avatar Frame, and Mini Profile that will highlight your freedom-loving spirit. The sale of our studios games will go on up to the 6th of June. Great gratitude to the people who help GSC Game World at these times: by purchasing our games, you are supporting S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chornobyl development. Cossacks, assemble!

For five years, there has been unquenchable warfare at the virtual battlefields of Cossacks 3, where generals from all over the world are fighting for the Greatest General title. This game has become our genuine Labor Of Love: the history of GSC Game World is inextricably linked with the RTS genre, and during the Cossacks 3 development we were revived. There is always a special room in our hearts for strategies, and always will be! Let's relive the ventures on the Cossacks 3 battlefields, and will help it in voting for a place in the Steam Labor Of Love nomination.

Dear friends, we've got three great news for you! 1. Sale has come! Cossacks 3 is taking part in Steam Summer Sale, with oustanding -60% discounts for both base game and all the DLCs. Don't miss your chance to indulge yourself and your family 2. Patch is out! The one with tons of updates and fixes we've been telling you in earlier news. Many new features were added in this patch, along with improvements for existing ones and huge amount of fixes in all the game's aspects. You may find a detailed patch notes below. 3. This is not the end, there'd be many more new features and updates. Stay tuned to our news! By the way, micro-news, for those who missed it: A.N.N.O.U.N.C.E.D 2: stalker2.com Patch Notes 21.06.18 (2.1.5.91.5955) New features: 1. It's possible to trade resources between players from same team and players without team. Button is active in multiplayer and random map modes after 15 minutes of game time has passed. 2. Hotkeys may be remapped in settings. 3. New starting options: - Village. Allows starting the game with Town center, two houses, blacksmith, stables, XVII century barracks. - XVII century barracks. Allows starting the game with blacksmith, two XVII century barracks and two log cabins. - Log cabins. Allows starting the game with four log cabins. - Union. Allows starting the game with allied nation's peasants. (8 selected nation's peasants and 8 allied nation's peasants) - Expensive mercenaries. (mercenaries prices are tripled) 4. New random map types: Coastal, Lakes, Rivers. 5. New panel in internet shell, showing top clans and players on server. Clan's best five players among top-100 are used to determine the top clans. 6. New 'Train woodworkers' upgrade in port, allowing to repair all the ships. 7. 'Profile' button has been moved to 'Settings' 8. New 'Encyclopedia' button in main menu. You may check all nations and units basic, fully upgraded and additional (detailed info on upgrades) data. 9. You may find fixed (non-customizable) hotkeys descriptions in 'Settings' now. 10. Towers shooting from behind the walls aren't hitting their owner's walls. You may efficiently build towers behind the walls now 11. Total amount of spectators has been increased. Balance: 1. Port's hp decreased from 65000 to 50000. 2. 'Use new construction materials' upgrade will not affect port's protection no more. 3. Galley's hp decreased from 50000 to 35000. 4. Ship of the Line's hp increased from 65500 to 95000. 5. Galley's gold consumption increased by 33%. Fixes: 1. Improved stability of multiplayer games. 2. Fixed an error, causing frequent disconnects at 23:59:59. 3. Improved support of various old savegames. 4. Fixed 1 frame delay during units' selection using selection marquee or hotkeys. It was detectable on low fps 5. Fixed an error, causing incorrect work of 'Design new rigging types' upgrade. 6. Fixed an error, causing an inability to order group of peasants to move inside of several available mines in multiplayer. 7. Fixed an error, causing inaccurate prices of boats in multiplayer. 8. Fixed an error, causing inaccurate workers and idle peasants counter display in multiplayer along with their distribution among various resources. 9. Fixed an error, causing desynchronization of 'Stand ground' state in multiplayer. Clients have correct visual display of this state now. 10. Fixed an error, causing improper processing of 'Show collisions' hotkey. 11. Fixed an error, causing incorrect random map game's launch after playing a multiplayer game. 12. Fixed one of the errors, causing crashes in long games. Replay recording would be stopped, in case there isn't enough free RAM. 13. Mines generation process in 2x2 games on small maps has been changed. Mines are generated closer to player's spawn point and aren't generated on enemies territory no more. 14. Fixed an error, causing last player of brown color to have no famine and gain control over rebelling mercenaries, while disabling capturing the buildings. 15. Fixed an error, causing to show an empty room, while joining the room. 16. Fixed an error, causing incorrect mission list display after quitting to main menu from mission. 17.Added three spectator slots, which are closed by default. 18. Many small bugs and errors were fixed. We're deeply grateful to Ebel for her ideas and their realizations in her mods, which have inspired us to include several changes in this patch. Have a nice day!

Dear friends, this long-expected day has come! Fifth rating season starts today! New season holds many interesting updates: 1. Top 100 ladder players, along with winners of the tournament would receive special badges in internet shell, which would remain for the next seasons. In case player was in top 100 during different ladder seasons, only the best results badge would be displayed. 2. The rating system would be ELO. The game options are 5000 with 15 pt 2x2. Previous ladder would be reset. Starting of the new season, would mean that last one would have a glorious ending! We congratulate top100 players, who've got unfading glory and respect in our community. We'd wish to highlight the three ladder leaders, since achieving a victory on such a long distance is an admirable feat: 1 place - [KR.S]fair_snow 2 place - [GFF]Rifman 3 place - [GFF]Petru_BwM The winners of the first official team-based tournament "Season Clash 4" would also receive special badges: 1 place - 10fps ([-RA-]SAnek_PCT и Oldman) 2 place - Golden Guys ([GFF]Petru_BwM и GoldenBoy) 3 place - Воины кебаба ([-UNION-]testopal и [KR.S]Dandy) Good luck in a new season and may the strongest win! We wish us all a good day!

Hooray friends! Incredibly entertaining, unpredictable and highly emotional, fourth official tournament "Season Clash 4" has come to its end! Here are the names of our champions: 10fps ([-RA-]SAnek_PCT and Oldman) has taken the 1 place and get 300$ and GSC Anthology key each; Golden Guys ([GFF]Petru_BwM and GoldenBoy) has taken the 2 place and get 150$ and GSC Anthology key each; Воины кебаба ([-UNION-]testopal ang [KR.S]Dandy) has taken the 3 place and get 50$ and GSC Anthology key each. We sincerely congratulate you, the games were amazing! We are grateful to all our players, which made this tournament so exciting: Rampage - funny_ru and [IGO]+4K+yma Risky Brothers - [R]Hruska and [BiA]Nelj Golden Guys - [GFF]Petru_BwM and GoldenBoy Импровизация - [-UNION-]ArtemPro and Kupnu4 Inglorious Basterds - [GT]Colourfit and [-OG-]SirBillo 10fps - [-RA-]Sanek_PCT and Oldman Золоті шаблі - [GFF]Airon and [-NF-]Detrom Inglorious inquisition - [GFF]Vahagn and [-NF-]Fulcrum RAMPAGE - [KR.S]Atom and [-RA-]Frag OVERRATED Team - [GP]Sir_Artius and [GP]Fenek Crips - [-UNION-]Fenrir and [-NF-]Doctor_K. Воины Кебаба - [-UNION-]testopal and [KR.S]Dandy Креативные кругляшки - [KR.S]Antoxa and [GFF]Apelsin IronBat - [-NF-]Baton and [KR.S]Iron_Hvan 2R - [BiA]-Roma23 and [GFF]Rifman asap pls dont smoke - asap and [GP]Demon We'd like to thank our dedicated helpers team: [-WN-]Stalman, [KR.S]Maktobar, [BiA]-Sokullu Most of all, we are grateful to our unique streamers! These people have made the translations so interesting. Thousands of players across the world were watching them! Our honorable, incredible, charismatic streamers and commenters [GT]Colourfit, [GT]Thorgal, [PKS]konda, [GP]Fenek, [KR.S]Atom, ImperatorRicardo, AHATOJIb, LordEagle, BrokenGameStudio thank you very much. Don't forget to subscribe to their channels: [GT]Colourfit: www.youtube.com/channel/UCAj-ms1m9yuuozkPCGBx0zQ [PKS]Konda: www.youtube.com/channel/UCwvh50QoCH_n28WKfnamLfA Lord Eagle: www.youtube.com/channel/UChBHi8da7YIWaLKzroxUlrw AHATOJIb: www.youtube.com/channel/UCRZ_J1MySeat5GDOWleTdVQ [KR.S]Atom: www.youtube.com/channel/UCUnFnbIt2E3XsbjaSbhb2AQ Broken Game Studio: www.youtube.com/channel/UCpt1ie1ZnIyGDsRqdO-SEBA You may watch the all the games of this tournament on our YouTube channel: www.youtube.com/cossacks3 Congratulations to all participants of this particular event! Don't miss your chance! Only today! The final day of "SLASH THE PRICES". Visit our official cossacks3.com website, where you can purchase a game with huge discount. You may get the base game with -50% discount, or complete "Cossacks 3 Experience" bundle with -65% discount. Take haste, as we can't hold them much longer. "Slash the prices" would last until the Season Clash 4 is over - starting from 14-th of May until 20-th of May. Hurry up, that is great opportunity for you to start your Cossacker life or to make an unforgettable present for your friend! Thank you everyone and have a nice day!

Dear friends! The Season Clash 4 hottest battles are coming, meet the final day! You may find the schedule and more detailed information about Season Clash 4 by following this link: goo.gl/65KsVD You may find the updated grid via following the link: www.cossacks3.com/tournament/grid_season_clash.jpg Don't miss your chance! In order to commemorate first team-based Season Clash 4 tournament we've made a sale on our official website cossacks3.com with meaningful name "Slash the prices!". Hooray! Visit our official cossacks3.com website, where you can purchase a game with huge discount. You may get the base game with -50% discount, or complete "Cossacks 3 Experience" bundle with -65% discount Take haste, as we can't hold them much longer. "Slash the prices" would last until the Season Clash 4 is over - starting from 14-th of May until 20-th of May. Hurry up, that is great opportunity for you to start your Cossacker life or to make an unforgettable present for your friend! You may watch the games live on our channels: www.youtube.com/user/cossacks3game facebook.com/cossacks3 twitch.tv/cossacks_3 Have a good day!

Dear friends! The second day of Season Clash 4 is over, but we're still overtaken by emotions from the games! We congratulate "Воины кебаба", as they've achieved victories and would fight for Grand Finale slot tomorrow. Tomorrow, starting from 10:30 by CET time Креативные кругляшки,10fps, Risky Brothers, OVERRATED Team, Golden Guys would continue to fight for glory. Sadly, Импровизация, Золоті шаблі, 2R, Crips, Inglorious Basterds, RAMPAGE, IronBat, asap pls dont smoke and Prost0Team, have already left the Season Clash 4. Don't miss your chance! In order to commemorate first team-based Season Clash 4 tournament we've made a sale on our official website cossacks3.com with meaningful name "Slash the prices!". Hooray! Visit our official cossacks3.com website, where you can purchase a game with huge discount. You may get the base game with -50% discount, or complete "Cossacks 3 Experience" bundle with -65% discount Take haste, as we can't hold them much longer. "Slash the prices" would last until the Season Clash 4 is over - starting from 14-th of May until 20-th of May. Hurry up, that is great opportunity for you to start your Cossacker life or to make an unforgettable present for your friend! You may find the schedule and details about Season Clash 4 by following this link: goo.gl/65KsVD You may find the tournament grid by following the next link: http://www.cossacks3.com/tournament/tournament_18_05_grid_tours.jpg You may watch the games live on our channels: www.youtube.com/user/cossacks3game facebook.com/cossacks3 twitch.tv/cossacks_3 Have a good day!

Dear friends! The Season Clash 4 is going on, emotions are intensifying, are you ready ?! Right now the best of best are going to clash in battles for the title of best Cossacks 3 player in fourth ladder season. We`ve got our new matches: [R]Hruska, [BiA]Nelj vs [-UNION-]testopal, [KR.S]Dandy, nation: Game1: Netherlands, Denmark; Game2: Saxony, Bavaria; Game3: Hungary, Portugal. Helper1, Kupnu4, funny_ru, [IGO]+4K+yma, [GP]Sir_Artius, [GP]Fenek, Helper2, [-NF-]Doctor_K, [GT]Colourfit, [-OG-]SirBillo, [GFF]Airon, [-NF-]Detrom, [BiA]-Roma23, [GFF]Rifman, asap, [GP]Demon would join them in upcoming battles on the battlefields. You may find the schedule and details about Season Clash 4 by following this link: goo.gl/65KsVD You may find the tournament grid by following the next link: http://www.cossacks3.com/tournament/tournament_18_05_grid_tours.jpg Don't miss your chance! In order to commemorate first team-based Season Clash 4 tournament we've made a sale on our official website cossacks3.com with meaningful name "Slash the prices!". Hooray! Visit our official cossacks3.com website, where you can purchase a game with huge discount. You may get the base game with -50% discount, or complete "Cossacks 3 Experience" bundle with -65% discount Take haste, as we can't hold them much longer. "Slash the prices" would last until the Season Clash 4 is over - starting from 14-th of May until 20-th of May. Hurry up, that is great opportunity for you to start your Cossacker life or to make an unforgettable present for your friend! You may watch the games live on our channels: www.youtube.com/user/cossacks3game facebook.com/cossacks3 twitch.tv/cossacks_3 Have a good day!

Dear friends! The first day of unique and distinct Season Clash 4 is over, it was hot! We congratulate [KR.S]Antoxa, [GFF]Apelsin,[R]Hruska, [BiA]Nelj, [-UNION-]testopal, [KR.S]Dandy, [-RA-]Sanek_PCT, Oldman as they've achieved victories and are moving forward in upper bracket. [KR.S]Atom, [-RA-]Frag, [GFF]Vahagn, [-NF-]Fulcrum, [-NF-]Baton, [KR.S]Iron_Hvan, [GFF]Petru_BwM, GoldenBoy are moving to the lower bracket, and they'll be able to prove that it was just a "minor unluck" tomorrow. Tomorrow games would start at 12:30 by Kiev. Helper1, Kupnu4, funny_ru, [IGO]+4K+yma, [GP]Sir_Artius, [GP]Fenek, Helper2, [-NF-]Doctor_K, [GT]Colourfit, [-OG-]SirBillo, [GFF]Airon, [-NF-]Detrom, [BiA]-Roma23, [GFF]Rifman, asap, [GP]Demon would join them in upcoming battles on the battlefields. You may find the schedule and details about Season Clash 4 by following this link: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1YkTVz3i_OpVh0yDkz_07dnXN3L8cnlPoA0m5pWa8ivU/ You may find the tournament grid by following the next link: http://www.cossacks3.com/tournament/tournament_18_05_grid_tours.jpg You may watch the games live on our channels: www.youtube.com/user/cossacks3game facebook.com/cossacks3 twitch.tv/cossacks_3 Have a good day!

Dear friends! The first of its own, magnificent, epic team-based Season Clash 4 has begun! Right now the best of the best would clash in battles for the title of the strongest Cossacks 3 team in fourth ladder season. We`ve got our first matches: RAMPAGE ([KR.S]Atom+[-RA-]Frag) vs Креативные кругляшки([KR.S]Antoxa+[GFF]Apelsin) Game1: Ukraine, England; Game2: Netherlands, Algeria; Game3: France, Piedmont. Inglorious inquisition ([-NF-]Fulkrum+[-GFF-]Vahagn) vs Risky Brothers([R]Hruska и [BiA]Nelj) Game1: Prussia, Hungary; Game2: Saxony, Austria; Game3: Sweden, Venice. Воины Кебаба ([-UNION-]testopal+[KR.S]Dandy) vs IronBat ([-NF-]Baton+[KR.S]Iron_Hvan) Game1: Russia, Scotland; Game2: Switzerland, Portugal; Game3: Bavaria, Denmark. 10fps ([-RA-]Sanek_PCT+Oldman) vs Golden Guys([GFF]Petru_BwM+GoldenBoy) Game1: Sweden, Prussia; Game2: Ottoman, Spain; Game3: Netherlands, Switzerland You may find the schedule and details about Season Clash 4 by following this link: goo.gl/65KsVD You may find the tournament grid by following the next link: http://www.cossacks3.com/tournament/tournament_18_05_grid_tours.jpg Don't miss your chance! In order to commemorate first team-based Season Clash 4 tournament we've made a sale on our official website cossacks3.com with meaningful name "Slash the prices!". Hooray! Visit our official cossacks3.com website, where you can purchase a game with huge discount. You may get the base game with -50% discount, or complete "Cossacks 3 Experience" bundle with -65% discount Take haste, as we can't hold them much longer. "Slash the prices" would last until the Season Clash 4 is over - starting from 14-th of May until 20-th of May. Hurry up, that is great opportunity for you to start your Cossacker life or to make an unforgettable present for your friend! You may watch the games live on our channels: www.youtube.com/user/cossacks3game facebook.com/cossacks3 twitch.tv/cossacks_3 Have a good day!

Dear friends! Don't miss your chance! In order to commemorate first team-based Season Clash 4 tournament we've made a sale on our official website cossacks3.com with meaningful name "Slash the prices!". Hooray! Visit our official cossacks3.com website, where you can purchase a game with huge discount. You may get the base game with -50% discount, or complete "Cossacks 3 Experience" bundle with -65% discount Take haste, as we can't hold them much longer. "Slash the prices" would last until the Season Clash 4 is over - starting from 14-th of May until 20-th of May. Hurry up, that is great opportunity for you to start your Cossacker life or to make an unforgettable present for your friend! Tournament qualifiers have started today, meaning you'd be able to watch Season Clash 4 live on our official channels on this Friday, Saturday and Sunday: www.youtube.com/user/cossacks3game facebook.com/cossacks3 twitch.tv/cossacks_3 Have a good day!

Dear friends! The Season Clash 4, with a spectacular 2-2 team format, is going to start soon. Qualifiers will be held from 14-th (Monday) to the 17-th (Thursday) of May. Double elimination games will be held and streamed on our official channels from 18 to 20 of May. Top three winning teams will receive: 1st place: money prize and a memorable gift or GSC Anthology key to both team members 2nd place: money prize and a memorable gift or GSC Anthology key to both team members 3rd place: money prize and a memorable gift or GSC Anthology key to both team members You may read more about Season Clash 4 rules and regulations by following via this link: http://www.cossacks3.com/tournament/tournament_4_rules_en.jpg In order to commemorate "Season Clash 4" we're organizing an "Slash the prices!" sale. Visit our official cossacks3.com website, where you can purchase a game with huge discount. You may get the base game with -50% discount, or complete "Cossacks 3 Experience" bundle with -65% discount. Take haste, as we can't hold them much longer. "Slash the prices" would last for 7 days - starting from 14-th of May until 20-th of May. You're welcome :) Be hurry, that is great opportunity for you to start your Cossacker life or to make an unforgettable present for your friend! And if you want to take a bit of tournament battles asap, join today's Rushleague tournament: http://rliga.com/register.php You can get acquainted with the rules of the event on the server in Discord: https://discord.gg/qrem9j Don't forget to watch on our official Season Clash 4 streams on 18-20 of May - we're sure that it'd be an amazing sight. www.youtube.com/user/cossacks3game facebook.com/cossacks3 vk.com/cossacks3 twitch.tv/cossacks_3 Have a good day!

Dear friends! Here comes the long-awaited moment! The top 100 players of fourth Cossacks 3 ladder season, which was for first time in Cossacks 3 history 2x2 team based, have been discovered, they would receive special lifetime internet shell signs, while the new season would be started. Top 32 players have got an opportunity to participate in Season Clash 4, fighting for glory and prizes. We remind that Season Clash 4 is the official Cossacks 3 tournament, which would be held in 2x2 format for the first time in history. It'd be held on 14-20-th of May. Qualifiers would be held 14-17-th of May on evenings. Double elimination games would be held on 18-20-th of May. First three places have the following prizes: 1st place: money prize and a memorable gift or GSC Anthology key to both team members 2nd place: money prize and a memorable gift or GSC Anthology key to both team members 3rd place: money prize and a memorable gift or GSC Anthology key to both team members If you've taken a high place in ladder, please wait for an email with invitation. It would be sent to your registered email. If you weren't in top-32, you'd have a priority for replacement according to your place in case some of the players wouldn't be able to participate in the tournament. Ladder is frozen until the Season Clash 4 would be over. Fifth season would be started on 25th of May. Don't forget to watch our official Season Clash 4 streams - we're sure that it'd be an amazing sight! www.youtube.com/user/cossacks3game facebook.com/cossacks3 twitch.tv/cossacks_3 Our players rewards: 1 place - golden wreath with golden medal. 2 place - golden wreath with silver medal. 3 place - golden wreath with bronze medal. 4-10 places - golden wreath. 11-30 - silver wreath. 31-100 places - bronze wreath. TOP-100 players in 4th ranked season: 1. [KR.S]fair_snow 2. [GFF]Rifman 3. [GFF]Petru_BwM 4. [KR.S]Antoxa 5. [KR.S]Atom 6. [-NF-]Fulcrum 7. [BiA]Nelj 8. [GFF]Airon 9. [GT]Colourfit 10. [GFF]Vahagn 11. [R]Tyran 12. KrOT 13. [GP]Sir_Artius 14. [-UNION-]Artempro 15. nazariy81 16. GoldenBoy 17. [-RA-]Sanek_PCT 18. [KR.S]Dandy 19. deeu 20. [R]Hruska 21. [-RA-]FRAG 22. [BiA]-Roma23 23. LordWeider511 24. [GP]Fenek 25. [GFF]Apelsin 26. tang 27. [-UNION-]Fenrir 28. [-NF-]Baton 29. [IGO]+4K+yma 30. [-UNION-]testopal 31. [-UNION-]Aisha 32. [CEKTA]25cm 33. asap 34. [-NF-]Doctor_K. 35. funny_ru 36. [-UNION-]Fenrir 37. [-OG-]SirBillo 38. [-NF-]Detrom 39. JuDgE 40. [KR.S]Iron_Hvan 41. MOPRAZ 42. Echoes 43. [IGO]_Goga 44. LaPanthera 45. dreamlike 46. OldMan 47. MagnaVolt 48. [-SF-]Ford 49. [GP]Demon 50. Kupnu4 51. [PKS]El_Madeo 52. I_love_DJyuli 53. IuriiS 54. [-UNION-]Aisha 55. [K_A]GODLIKE 56. [BiA]-BaRRaDaCH 57. Litolin 58. [-UNION-]Desu 59. [1S]grommilano 60. [5IrGt]MaWay 61. [-UNION-]VOIN 62. Universium 63. [1S]LeXuS 64. MrMuskul 65. [GT]Rantallof 66. [KR.S]ExMouse 67. [KR.S]Maktobar 68. [BiA]-Sleestaki 69. pasha22 70. [FC]Pointifix 71. IceCossack 72. Voin 73. [UKR]sunx 74. Zantonin 75. bolt 76. Pariya 77. [GP]LukaszN 78. Paranoia 79. PerJerZ 80. SnowLeopard 81. Citizens 82. slavikfire 83. LADY_Scorpiona 84. Ariadna 85. [FC]Guepard 86. Rp_HeCtoR 87. Bez_Lim 88. [-UNION-]Vlastelin 89. Gynecologist 90. DeRuyter 91. [-LT-]Sousainis 92. Scarecrow 93. WoodStar 94. [-UNION-]Vladimir 95. merten 96. [GFF]Tyts 97. ERMAK 98. Tonfiske 99. Spam 100. ARES Have a good day!

Dear friends! The fourth ladder season in Cossacks 3, which battles were held in the 2-2 team format for the first time, is coming to its end. Up to May 5, 20:59 by GMT, each player has a chance to fight for the title of the best player of the season, special award badges and the chance to participate in the final tournament Season Clash 4. The unique Season Clash 4 will be held from 14 to 20 of May in a spectacular 2-2 team format for the first time in Cossacks 3 life. Qualifiers will be held from 14 to 17 of May. Double elimination games will be held and streamed on our official channels from 18 to 20 of May. Top three winning teams will receive: 1st place: money prize and GSC Anthology key to both team members 2nd place: money prize and GSC Anthology key to both team members 3rd place: money prize and GSC Anthology key to both team members You may read more about Season Clash 4 rules and regulations by following via this link: http://www.cossacks3.com/tournament/tournament_4_rules_en.jpg Don't forget to watch on our official Season Clash 4 streams on 18-20 of May - we're sure that it'd be an amazing sight. www.youtube.com/user/cossacks3game facebook.com/cossacks3 vk.com/cossacks3 twitch.tv/cossacks_3 Have a good day!

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Dear friends! Here's a short info about the upcoming news, and how the things are going) 1. On Sunday, April 8 at 10:00 PST, there will be a one-day sale on Steam, where you can purchase a game or any of the add-ons with -50%, or whole "Cossacks 3 Experience" bundle with -65% discount 2. We are working on a large update which will be published soon. There will be a lot of absolutely new features for the Cossacks 3, plus various bug fixes 3. The first in our history teamed Season clash will be held from May 14 to May 20, we will publish all the details soon. Fourth season ends on May 5 at 21.59 in GMT 4. We have not forgotten about the mac version, we are just ashamed to repeat that we do not know when the work will be over. But this is the only truth: the work is on, we do not know when it will end, and we are very, very sorry that everything is so excruciatingly long We wish a wonderful weekend to you all!

Dear friends! Here's a short info about the upcoming news, and how the things are going) 1. On Sunday, April 8 at 10:00 PST, there will be a one-day sale on Steam, where you can purchase a game or any of the add-ons with -50%, or whole "Cossacks 3 Experience" bundle with -65% discount 2. We are working on a large update which will be published soon. There will be a lot of absolutely new features for the Cossacks 3, plus various bug fixes 3. The first in our history teamed Season clash will be held from May 14 to May 20, we will publish all the details soon. Fourth season ends on May 5 at 21.59 in GMT 4. We have not forgotten about the mac version, we are just ashamed to repeat that we do not know when the work will be over. But this is the only truth: the work is on, we do not know when it will end, and we are very, very sorry that everything is so excruciatingly long We wish a wonderful weekend to you all!

Dear friends! We are wholeheartedly congratulating you on past holidays! We're presenting you a new update, which has multiplayer fixes and various small balance changes. Patch Notes 16.01.18 (2.0.2.87.5828) Multiplayer: 1. Ranked games points calculation has been changed: - First player to leave, before the end of peace time receives a penalty to his score and defeat, even if his team has won the match. - Any player who'd leave after the first one, won't receive any penalties. - Leaving the game after peace time is over won't net a penalty. Points would be granted according to team's performance during the match. - Player, who has got an ally leaver before the peace time was over, won't receive any defeat penalty, but will get victory points, in case he'd win. 2. Fixed errors, which prevented player from receiving points after the match is over. 3. Changed the mechanism of ranking in multiplayer. It's easier to get promotion to higher ranks now and players are distributed more evenly on ranking scale. 4. Matchmaking algorithm for quick games has been improved. 5. Fixed a rare error, causing nonmirror matches. Earlier, it was possible to have a Poland+Poland vs Turkey+Turkey matchup, instead of even nation distribution between teams. 6. Multiplayer games stability has been improved. Fixed some errors causing the game to 'hang up'. Balance: 1. European and Switzerland pikeman protection against arrow decreased from 7 to 6. 2. Mercenary roundshier protection against arrow decreased from 19 to 17. 3. Mercenary archer normal arrow attack range increased from 650 to 700. 4. Mercenary grenadiers grenade attack range increased from 370 to 400. 5. Shipyards cost rise per building increased from 0% to 50%. 6. European shipyards cost decreased from 1700 wood, 900 stone, 400 iron to 1600 wood, 800 stone, 400 iron. 7. Russian, Turkish and Ukrainian shipyards prices were also slightly decreased. 8. Academy upgrades that increase artillery attack range, hit points, and repair now also have effect on mortars. 9. Various nations temple, church, cathedral, mosque prices was slightly reworked/decreased. 10. Turkish archer minimal attack range decreased from 400 to 300 Utility: 1. Added 15 minutes of peace time (PT) option. 2. Slight redesign of main menu and campaign's interfaces. 3. Added "Tutorial" button, which starts corresponding tutorial campaign. 4. Small fixes in various localizations have been made. We hope you'd like these fixes and wish you a nice evening full of fierce cossacks battles!

Dear friends! We are wholeheartedly congratulating you on past holidays! We're presenting you a new update, which has multiplayer fixes and various small balance changes. Patch Notes 16.01.18 (2.0.2.87.5828) Multiplayer: 1. Ranked games points calculation has been changed: - First player to leave, before the end of peace time receives a penalty to his score and defeat, even if his team has won the match. - Any player who'd leave after the first one, won't receive any penalties. - Leaving the game after peace time is over won't net a penalty. Points would be granted according to team's performance during the match. - Player, who has got an ally leaver before the peace time was over, won't receive any defeat penalty, but will get victory points, in case he'd win. 2. Fixed errors, which prevented player from receiving points after the match is over. 3. Changed the mechanism of ranking in multiplayer. It's easier to get promotion to higher ranks now and players are distributed more evenly on ranking scale. 4. Matchmaking algorithm for quick games has been improved. 5. Fixed a rare error, causing nonmirror matches. Earlier, it was possible to have a Poland+Poland vs Turkey+Turkey matchup, instead of even nation distribution between teams. 6. Multiplayer games stability has been improved. Fixed some errors causing the game to 'hang up'. Balance: 1. European and Switzerland pikeman protection against arrow decreased from 7 to 6. 2. Mercenary roundshier protection against arrow decreased from 19 to 17. 3. Mercenary archer normal arrow attack range increased from 650 to 700. 4. Mercenary grenadiers grenade attack range increased from 370 to 400. 5. Shipyards cost rise per building increased from 0% to 50%. 6. European shipyards cost decreased from 1700 wood, 900 stone, 400 iron to 1600 wood, 800 stone, 400 iron. 7. Russian, Turkish and Ukrainian shipyards prices were also slightly decreased. 8. Academy upgrades that increase artillery attack range, hit points, and repair now also have effect on mortars. 9. Various nations temple, church, cathedral, mosque prices was slightly reworked/decreased. 10. Turkish archer minimal attack range decreased from 400 to 300 Utility: 1. Added 15 minutes of peace time (PT) option. 2. Slight redesign of main menu and campaign's interfaces. 3. Added "Tutorial" button, which starts corresponding tutorial campaign. 4. Small fixes in various localizations have been made. We hope you'd like these fixes and wish you a nice evening full of fierce cossacks battles!

Dear friends, this long-expected day has come, though with slight delay! Fourth ladder season is starting today! New season holds many interesting updates: 1. The thing you were asking for so long - team-based ladder games are here! The Fourth season provides 2vs2 ladder games, which will add new tactics and strategies, allowing fiercer, brighter and more exciting battles. It's possible that we'd see new big names on the path to cossacks olympus! Since this is a new option, it's possible that sometimes points won't be added correctly, but we'll fix it soon. We're sorry, that start of this season has been slightly delayed, but we wanted to add the new features very much. 2. This season's ladder option: 5000, 15pt, random nations, without peasants capture. 3. As usual, top 100 ladder players, along with winners of the tournament, would receive special badges in internet shell, which would remain for the next seasons. In case player was in top 100 during different ladder seasons, only the best results badge would be displayed. 4. The season would end with "Season Clash 4" coming afterwards, where the best ladder players would fight fiercely for glory and prizes. Date of the Season Clash 4 (and ending of the 4-th season) would be announced later. 5. The rating system would be ELO, as in third ladder season. Previous rating would be reset this night. Starting of the new season, would mean that last one would have a glorious ending! We congratulate top100 players, who've got unfading glory and respect in our community. We'd wish to highlight the three ladder leaders, since achieving a victory on such a long distance is an admirable feat: 1 place - [-UNION-]Artempro 2 place - [GFF]Petru_BwM 3 place - XXX-LEX The winners of the Third official tournament "Season Clash 3" would also receive special badges: 1 place - [-UNION-]Artempro 2 place - [-UNION-]Fenrir 3 place - colourfit Good luck in a new season and may the strongest win! We remind that Cossacks 3 are participating in the Steam Winter Sale, which would be held up to 4-th of January never before discounts visit our store page: -72% on the Complete Experience edition, that includes game and all available dlcs, and -60% on all standalone-bought products! Those, who want to fight some tournament battles - here're some news from [-UNION-]VOIN. This Friday (December 29-th, 2017) at 19:00 by the Kyiv time Rush league holds a Cossacks 3 tournament with 5000, 20pt options in 1vs1 format. The winner of the tournament will receive a small prize of 1000 rubles. Semi-finals and final of the tournament will be accompanied by [-UNION-]VOIN's stream, without it the results will not be accepted. Registration is now open on the Rush League website: rliga.com/register.php We wish us all happy holidays!

Dear friends, this long-expected day has come! Fourth ladder season is starting today! New season holds many interesting updates: 1. The thing you were asking for so long - team-based ladder games are here! The Fourth season provides 2vs2 ladder games, which will add new tactics and strategies, allowing fiercer, brighter and more exciting battles. It's possible that we'd see new big names on the path to cossacks olympus! Since this is a new option, it's possible that sometimes points won't be added correctly, but we'll fix it soon. We're sorry, that start of this season has been slightly delayed, but we wanted to add the new features very much. 2. This season's ladder option: 5000, 15pt, random nations, without peasants capture. 3. As usual, top 100 ladder players, along with winners of the tournament, would receive special badges in internet shell, which would remain for the next seasons. In case player was in top 100 during different ladder seasons, only the best results badge would be displayed. 4. The season would end with "Season Clash 4" coming afterwards, where the best ladder players would fight fiercely for glory and prizes. Date of the Season Clash 4 (and ending of the 4-th season) would be announced later. 5. The rating system would be ELO, as in third ladder season. Previous rating would be reset this night. Starting of the new season, would mean that last one would have a glorious ending! We congratulate top100 players, who've got unfading glory and respect in our community. We'd wish to highlight the three ladder leaders, since achieving a victory on such a long distance is an admirable feat: 1 place - [-UNION-]Artempro 2 place - [GFF]Petru_BwM 3 place - XXX-LEX The winners of the Third official tournament "Season Clash 3" would also receive special badges: 1 place - [-UNION-]Artempro 2 place - [-UNION-]Fenrir 3 place - colourfit Good luck in a new season and may the strongest win! We remind that Cossacks 3 are participating in the Steam Winter Sale, which would be held up to 4-th of January never before discounts visit our store page: -72% on the Complete Experience edition, that includes game and all available dlcs, and -60% on all standalone-bought products! Those, who want to fight some tournament battles - here're some news from [-UNION-]VOIN. This Friday (December 29-th, 2017) at 19:00 by the Kyiv time Rush league holds a Cossacks 3 tournament with 5000, 20pt options in 1vs1 format. The winner of the tournament will receive a small prize of 1000 rubles. Semi-finals and final of the tournament will be accompanied by [-UNION-]VOIN's stream, without it the results will not be accepted. Registration is now open on the Rush League website: rliga.com/register.php We wish us all happy holidays!

Hooray friends! Incredibly entertaining, unpredictable and highly emotional, third official tournament "Season Clash 3" has come to its end! Here are the names of our champions: [-UNION-]Artempro has taken the 1 place and gets 300$ and GSC Anthology key; [-UNION-]Fenrir has taken the 2 place and gets 150$ and GSC Anthology key; colourfit has taken the 3 place and gets 50$ and GSC Anthology key. We sincerely congratulate you, the games were amazing! We are grateful to all our players, which made this tournament so exciting: [GFF]Petru_BwM, [-RA-]SAnek_PCT, [-UNION-]Fenrir, [-NF-]Baton, XXX-LEX, colourfit, [-UNION-]Artempro, [R]Hruska, [PKS]mad, [GP]Sir_Artius, [GP]LukaszN, [-WN-]Stalman, deadmazey, harc_harc, [KR.S]torntwo, deeu, [KR.S]atom Most of all, we are grateful to our unique streamers! These people have made the translations so interesting. Thousands of players across the world were watching them! Our honorable, incredible, charismatic streamers and commenters [PKS]konda, LordEagle, AlexD20, [-UNION-]Voin, colourfit and MaxCossack thank you very much. Don't forget to subscribe to their channels: [-UNION-] VOIN: www.youtube.com/channel/UCLU9-V7rUcburOfQRWXtNJw Lord Eagle: www.youtube.com/channel/UChBHi8da7YIWaLKzroxUlrw [PKS]Konda: www.youtube.com/channel/UCwvh50QoCH_n28WKfnamLfA Alex_D20: www.youtube.com/user/RAmAntik21 colourfit: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCAj-ms1m9yuuozkPCGBx0zQ You may watch the all the games of this tournament on our YouTube channel: www.youtube.com/cossacks3 Congratulations to all participants of this particular event! Have you dreamt on taking place of these players? We'd like to tell that new rating season would be started on tomorrow, and its battles may lead any of you to victory in next official tournament. We've got many surprises, stay tuned to our news! We remind that Cossacks 3 are participating in the Steam Winter Sale, which would be held up to 4-th of January never before discounts visit our store page: -72% on the Complete Experience edition, that includes game and all available dlcs, and -60% on all standalone-bought products! New rating season would start on 26-27th of December. Thank you everyone and have a Merry Christmas!

Hooray friends! Incredibly entertaining, unpredictable and highly emotional, third official tournament "Season Clash 3" has come to its end! Here are the names of our champions: [-UNION-]Artempro has taken the 1 place and gets 300$ and GSC Anthology key; [-UNION-]Fenrir has taken the 2 place and gets 150$ and GSC Anthology key; colourfit has taken the 3 place and gets 50$ and GSC Anthology key. We sincerely congratulate you, the games were amazing! We are grateful to all our players, which made this tournament so exciting: [GFF]Petru_BwM, [-RA-]SAnek_PCT, [-UNION-]Fenrir, [-NF-]Baton, XXX-LEX, colourfit, [-UNION-]Artempro, [R]Hruska, [PKS]mad, [GP]Sir_Artius, [GP]LukaszN, [-WN-]Stalman, deadmazey, harc_harc, [KR.S]torntwo, deeu, [KR.S]atom Most of all, we are grateful to our unique streamers! These people have made the translations so interesting. Thousands of players across the world were watching them! Our honorable, incredible, charismatic streamers and commenters [PKS]konda, LordEagle, AlexD20, [-UNION-]Voin, colourfit and MaxCossack thank you very much. Don't forget to subscribe to their channels: [-UNION-] VOIN: www.youtube.com/channel/UCLU9-V7rUcburOfQRWXtNJw Lord Eagle: www.youtube.com/channel/UChBHi8da7YIWaLKzroxUlrw [PKS]Konda: www.youtube.com/channel/UCwvh50QoCH_n28WKfnamLfA Alex_D20: www.youtube.com/user/RAmAntik21 colourfit: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCAj-ms1m9yuuozkPCGBx0zQ You may watch the all the games of this tournament on our YouTube channel: www.youtube.com/cossacks3 Congratulations to all participants of this particular event! Have you dreamt on taking place of these players? We'd like to tell that new rating season would be started on tomorrow, and its battles may lead any of you to victory in next official tournament. We've got many surprises, stay tuned to our news! We remind that Cossacks 3 are participating in the Steam Winter Sale, which would be held up to 4-th of January never before discounts visit our store page: -72% on the Complete Experience edition, that includes game and all available dlcs, and -60% on all standalone-bought products! New rating season would start on 26-27th of December. Thank you everyone and have a Merry Christmas!

Dear friends! The Season Clash 3 hottest battles are coming, meet the final day! "Season Clash 3" is an official Cossacks 3 tournament, organized by GSC Game World. It's concluding the third ladder season, allowing the best of the best to fight for the title of strongest Cossacks 3 player of the season. We`ve got our new matches: 11:30 - XXX-LEX vs colourfit, nation: Spain 12:00 - [-NF-]Baton vs [-UNION-]Fenrir, nation: Portugal 12:30 - [-RA-]SAnek_PCT vs [-UNION-]Artempro, nation: Sweden, Turkey, Hungary 13:30 - XXX-LEX vs [-NF-]Baton, nation: Venice 14:00 - Final 15:00 - Grand Final You may find the Season Clash 3 schedule by following this link: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/18RYEWV3wOD21RpMj45emO6PRmQYoAhrmOG3lUc6x4ss/ You may find the updated grid via following the link: www.cossacks3.com/tournament/grid_season_clash.jpg You may watch the games live on our channels: www.youtube.com/cossacks3game - all streams (eng, ukr, rus) facebook.com/cossacks3 - English-speaking stream facebook.com/cossacks3ua - Ukrainian-speaking stream facebook.com/cossacks3ru - Russian-speaking stream twitch.tv/cossacks_3 - English-speaking stream We remind that Cossacks 3 are participating in the Steam Winter Sale, which would be held up to 4-th of January never before discounts visit our store page: -72% on the Complete Experience edition, that include game and all available dlcs, and -60% on all standalone-bought products! Let's have some fiery battles!

Dear friends! The second day of Season Clash 3 is over! We congratulate [-RA-]SAnek_PCT and [-UNION-]Artempro, as they've achieved victories and are moving forward in upper bracket. XXX-LEX, [-NF-]Baton, colourfit and [-UNION-]Fenrir would continue to fight in the lower bracket tomorrow, and [PKS]mad, [GP]Sir_Artius, [GP]LukaszN, [KR.S]atom, [GFF]Petru_BwM, [R]Hruska, deadmazey, harc_harc, [-WN-]Stalman [KR.S]torntwo and deeu, regretfully, are leaving the "Season Clash 3". Tomorrow the Season Clash 3 would move its hottest stage and starting from 11:30 UTC+2 the hottest final battles would start. 11:30 - XXX-LEX vs colourfit 12:00 - [-NF-]Baton vs [-UNION-]Fenrir 12:30 - [-RA-]SAnek_PCT vs [-UNION-]Artempro 13:30 - Semifinal 14:00 - Final 15:00 - Grand Final "Season Clash 3" is an official Cossacks 3 tournament, organized by GSC Game World. It's concluding the third ladder season, allowing the best of the best to fight for the title of strongest Cossacks 3 player of the season. You may find the Season Clash 3 schedule by following this link: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/18RYEWV3wOD21RpMj45emO6PRmQYoAhrmOG3lUc6x4ss/ You may find the updated grid via following the link: www.cossacks3.com/tournament/grid_season_clash.jpg You may watch the games live on our channels: www.youtube.com/cossacks3game - all streams (eng, ukr, rus) facebook.com/cossacks3 - English-speaking stream facebook.com/cossacks3ua - Ukrainian stream facebook.com/cossacks3ru - Russian-speaking stream twitch.tv/cossacks_3 - English-speaking stream We remind that Cossacks 3 are participating in the Steam Winter Sale, which would be held up to 4-th of January never before discounts visit our store page: -72% on the Complete Experience edition, that include game and all available dlcs, and -60% on all standalone-bought products! We are looking forward to the beginning of the crucial day with the hottest battles. See you tomorrow!

Dear friends! The Season Clash 3 battles are upheating, meet the second day! We`ve got our new matches: [PKS]mad vs deadmazey, nation: Ukraine [GP]Sir_Artius vs harc_harc, nation: Switzerland [[GP]LukaszN vs [KR.S]torntwo, nation: Denmark [KR.S]atom vs deeu, nation: England "Season Clash 3" is an official Cossacks 3 tournament, organized by GSC Game World. It's concluding the third ladder season, allowing the best of the best to fight for the title of strongest Cossacks 3 player of the season. You may find the Season Clash 3 schedule by following this link: docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/18RYEWV3wOD21RpMj45emO6PRmQYoAhrmOG3lUc6x4ss/ You may find the updated grid via following the link: www.cossacks3.com/tournament/grid_season_clash.jpg You may watch the games live on our channels: www.youtube.com/cossacks3game - all streams (eng, ukr, rus) facebook.com/cossacks3 - English-speaking stream facebook.com/cossacks3ua - Ukrainian stream facebook.com/cossacks3ru - Russian-speaking stream twitch.tv/cossacks_3 - English-speaking stream We remind that Cossacks 3 are participating in the Steam Winter Sale, which would be held up to 4-th of January never before discounts visit our store page: -72% on the Complete Experience edition, that include game and all available dlcs, and -60% on all standalone-bought products! Let's have some fiery battles!

Dear friends! "Season Clash 3" continues at 12pm by GMT+2 time! Fresh 8 challengers are coming to fight on the arena:

Dear friends! The first day of Season Clash 3 is over! We congratulate XXX-LEX, [-RA-]SAnek_PCT, [-UNION-]Artempro and [-NF-]Baton, as they've achieved victories and are moving forward in upper bracket. [GFF]Petru_BwM, colourfit, [-UNION-]Fenrir and [R]Hruska are moving to the lower bracket, and they'll be able to prove that it was just a "minor unluck" tomorrow. Tomorrow, starting from 12:00 by Kiev time [PKS]mad, [GP]Sir_Artius, [GP]LukaszN, [KR.S]atom, deadmazey, harc_harc, [KR.S]torntwo and deeu would join them on the battlefields "Season Clash 3" is an official Cossacks 3 tournament, organized by GSC Game World. It's concluding the third ladder season, allowing the best of the best to fight for the title of strongest Cossacks 3 player of the season. You may find the Season Clash 3 schedule by following this link: docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/18RYEWV3wOD21RpMj45emO6PRmQYoAhrmOG3lUc6x4ss/ You may find the updated grid via following the link: www.cossacks3.com/tournament/grid_season_clash.jpg You may watch the games live on our channels: www.youtube.com/cossacks3game - all streams (eng, ukr, rus) facebook.com/cossacks3 - English-speaking stream facebook.com/cossacks3ua - Ukrainian stream facebook.com/cossacks3ru - Russian-speaking stream twitch.tv/cossacks_3 - English-speaking stream We remind that Cossacks 3 are participating in the Steam Winter Sale, which would be held up to 4-th of January never before discounts visit our store page: -72% on the Complete Experience edition, that include game and all available dlcs, and -60% on all standalone-bought products! Have a good day!

Dear friends! The Season Clash 3 has begun! Righy now the best of best would clash in battles for the title of best Cossacks 3 player in second ladder season. We`ve got our first matches: [GFF]Petru_BwM vs XXX-LEX, nations: Austria, Scotland, Sweden [-RA-]SAnek_PCT vs colourfit, nations: England, Scotland, Poland [-UNION-]Fenrir vs [-UNION-]Artempro, nations: Spain, Turkey, Saxony [-NF-]Baton vs [R]Hruska, nations: France, Russia, Netherlands You may find the Season Clash 3 schedule by following this link: docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/18RYEWV3wOD21RpMj45emO6PRmQYoAhrmOG3lUc6x4ss/ You may watch the games live on our channels: www.youtube.com/cossacks3game - all streams (eng, ukr, rus) facebook.com/cossacks3 - English-speaking stream facebook.com/cossacks3ua - Ukrainian stream facebook.com/cossacks3ru - Russian-speaking stream twitch.tv/cossacks_3 - English-speaking stream We remind that Cossacks 3 are participating in the Steam Winter Sale, which would be held up to 4-th of January never before discounts visit our store page: -72% on the Complete Experience edition, that include game and all available dlcs, and -60% on all standalone-bought products! Let's have some fiery battles!

Dear friends! "Season Clash 3" starts soon at 20pm by GMT+2 time! We'd like to present 8 players, who would clash in breathtaking fights on 17-18th century battlefields, in 2 hours. Champions would receive the next prizes: 1st place: 300$ and GSC Anthology key 2nd place: 150$ and GSC Anthology key 3rd place: 50$ and GSC Anthology key By the way, Cossacks 3 are participating in the Steam Winter Sale, never before discounts visit our store page: -72% on the Complete Experience edition, that include game and all available dlcs, and -60% on all standalone-bought products!

Dear friends! "Season Clash 3" starts in three hours at 20pm by GMT+2 time! Tournament will continue 3 days: starting from 22-nd and up to 24-th of December. You may watch this tournament's games on here: www.youtube.com/user/cossacks3game www.facebook.com/cossacks3 www.twitch.tv/cossacks_3 Today we will present our streamers:

Dear friends! Winter has come by. And the Steam Winter Sale has come along with it: 1. We are glad to announce that Cossacks 3 participates in the Steam Winter Sale, never before discounts visit our store page: -72% on the Complete Experience edition, that include game and all available dlcs, and -60% on all standalone-bought products! 2. Christmas-themed map and UI changes would allow you to enjoy the Christmas spirit at its fullest. Hurry to make an awesome present for your friends at this unique price! Such a big discounts are not expected for a long time. And that's not all! Tomorrow our third official tournament Season Clash 3 would move to its main phase. Stay tuned to tournament's latest news on our official pages, as it's going to be exciting, epic and interesting! GSC Game World wishes you a Merry Christmas and a happy Holiday season!

Dear friends! Season Clash 3 is starting next week! Qualifiers would be held 18-21-th of December, and we'd upload their replays. Double elimination games would be held on 22th of December evening, from morning until dusk on 23th of December and until 16:00 (GMT+3) on 24th of December. All of them would be streamed on our official channels. First three places have the following prizes: 1 place: 300$ and GSC Anthology key 2 place: 150$ and GSC Anthology key 3 place: 50$ and GSC Anthology key Our participants: [-UNION-]Artempro [GFF]Petru_BwM XXX-LEX [GP]Sir_Artius [GP]LukaszN harc_harc [PKS]mad [KR.S]torntwo [KR.S]atom [-RA-]SAnek_PCT deeu colourfit [-UNION-]Fenrir [R]Hruska deadmazey [-NF-]Baton You may read more about "Season Clash 3" rules and regulations by following via this link: docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/18RYEWV3wOD21RpMj45emO6PRmQYoAhrmOG3lUc6x4ss Don't forget to watch on our official Season Clash 3 streams - we're sure that it'd be an amazing sight. www.youtube.com/user/cossacks3game facebook.com/cossacks3 vk.com/cossacks3 twitch.tv/cossacks_3 Have a good day!

Dear friends! Here comes the long-awaited moment! The top 100 players of third Cossacks 3 ladder season have been found and they're going to receive special lifetime internet shell signs. Top 16 players are getting a chance to participate in Season Clash 3, fighting for glory and prizes. We remind that Season Clash 3 is the official Cossacks 3 tournament, which would be held on 18-24-th of December. Qualifiers would be held 18-21-th of December on evenings. Double elimination games would be held on 22th of December, from morning until dusk on 23th of December and until 16:00 (GMT+3) on 24th of December. First three places have the following prizes: 1 place: 300$ and GSC Anthology key 2 place: 150$ and GSC Anthology key 3 place: 50$ and GSC Anthology key Top16 ladder players: [-UNION-]Artempro [GFF]Petru_BwM XXX-LEX [GP]Sir_Artius Rp_HeCtoR [GP]LukaszN harc_harc Otaman [PKS]mad [KR.S]torntwo [KGR]Catweazel [KR.S]atom [-RA-]SAnek_PCT deeu colourfit [-UNION-]Fenrir If you've found your nickname in this list - please wait for an email with invitation in next 24 hours. It would be sent to your registered email. Please, confirm your participation by return email. If you won't answer until the 14:00 (GMT+3) of Monday, your slot would be given to the next player. If your ranking in ladder was quite high, but you weren't in top16, you'd have a priority for replacement according to your place in case players wouldn't be able to participate in tournament. Ladder is frozen until the Season Clash 3 would be over. Fourth season would be started on 26-th of December. Don't forget to watch on our official Season Clash 3 streams - we're sure that it'd be an amazing sight. www.youtube.com/user/cossacks3game facebook.com/cossacks3 vk.com/cossacks3 twitch.tv/cossacks_3 Have a good day!

Dear friends! The Black Friday's coming, don't miss your chance to join valiant warlords on the 17-18th centuries battlefields! Cossacks 3 is taking part in Steam Autumn Sale, with astounding -50% discounts for both base game and DLC, when bought separately, and 65% for Complete Experience, which contains all released DLC, including game's soundtrack. We thank you for being with us and wish you a great Black friday! PS: For those who'd like to fight some tournament battles, the RushLeague Cossacks 3 tournament would be hosted on this Saturday (25.11) at 19:00 by Kiev, with 5000 0pt options and mirror nation - Turkey. You may find additional details about this tournament by following the link: forum.newlcn.com/viewtopic.php?t=17670

Dear friends! Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary, Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping, Halloween discounts rapping, rapping at my chamber door. 1. Cossacks 3 is taking part in Steam Halloween Sale, with astounding -50% discounts for both base game and DLC, when bought separately, and 65% for Complete Experience, which contains all released DLC, including game's soundtrack. 2. Spooky count Cossackula at main menu art, Halloween-themed map changes, dark water and horrifying transformations of some units would allow you to enjoy the Halloween spirit at its fullest. 3. During holidays there'd be some main menu arts: Halloween, Halloween 18+ and, of course, default one. You'd be able to switch art using "Change art" button in upper left corner of the screen. 4. Don't miss your chance to enjoy the changes! Discounts, new art and models would be active during Halloween only! At 20:00 by Kiev (19:00 CET) on the 1st of November pumpkins would dissappear, and everything would came back to its normal form. We thank you for being with us and wish you a great and trully spooky Halloween! PS: We're thanking Mark Kandaurov for dark water =) PPS: For those who'd like to fight some tournament battles, the RushLeague Cossacks 3 tournament would be hosted on this Saturday (28.10 at 20:00 by Kiev), with 5000 10pt options and mirror nation - Venice. You may find additional details about this tournament by following the link: forum.newlcn.com/viewtopic.php?t=17653

Dear friends! Today we're presenting you a huge patch with lots of changes! We've made a long-awaited handy chat. Now, it would be much easier to commence a battle with your friend or any other user. Patch contains improtant changes in units balance, market prices and AI improvements, along with bug fixes. Patch Notes 20.10.17 (1.9.5.83.5749) Balance: - Fast moving cavalry have +5 extra defence against bullets while moving. - Bullet critical hit doesn't trigger on moving fast cavalry units. - Multibarrel cannons have twice larger logical size, so it is easier to destroy them with artillery. - Multibarrel cannons limit was changed from 5 to 3 per artillery depot. - 18 century shooters without bayonnete production speed increased from 15-20%. - 18 century dragoons production speed increased from 7-17%. Next changes to food and stone prices were applied in previous patch: - Food selling price was decreased by ~15%. - Stone selling price was increased by ~8%. Mercenaries: Light Infantry - Attack damage increased from 15 to 16. - Won't have +2/+2 formation bonus anymore. Archer: - Attack damage increased from 24 to 25. - They won't have +2/+2 formation bonus anymore. - Attack range changed from 350-650 to 300-750 (min-max attack range). Bug fixes: 1. Fixed bug, allowing player was able to earn gold by ordering production of mercenary units (when they have already maxed price) and canceling production. 2. Tuned AI market resource exchange policy, for better base developing. 3. Tuned AI player to better constuct shipyards on island maps. 4. Fixed rare bug with uncontrolable formation in historical battles. Players communication: 1. Private messages were reworked. Now you are able to send private messages without /w (/whisper) command! You may just click on player in list (located on right to the chat window), or on hisher message in chat window in order to write directly to him, as writing nickname correctly for each message was hindering communications. 2. Message filter. You may filter all messages with next options: a) Show all messages; b) Show only your messages along with messages sent to you. Forget about missed opportunites on playing interesting battles with your friends, just because their messages were 'lost' in global chat, just use a "Private messages" checkbox in upper right corner of chat window. 3. Instant inputbox's addressee clearing: after reaching ':' symbol before his nickname: just press the Backspace button twice. 4. You won't be wasting time on clearing message anymore: just press button "Clear" (located under the chat window), and you'd be ready to write a "Reply of the Zaporozhian Cossacks". Reminder: you may delete your message with 'Escape' button too. We hope, that this chat update would allow you, cossackers, to find and create lots of great multiplayer battles! Developer comments: 1. Changes in market prices should move focus from food to stone in middle and late game. Now, food economy was dominating most part of the game. 2. Most of 18 century dragoons was less powerful then their 17 century brothers. We tried to change it and give 18 century better chances, but with much greater price to produce enough power. 3. Most of 18 century shooters with out bayonnete was less powerful against general musketeers and don't have chance to play its unique features with higher bullet damage but more fragile against any melee enemy unit. 4. We have removed formation bonus for mercenary infantry, while increase base damage, for units that don't use officers to form squad. We find this feature non-challenging while it give quite unpredictable advantage. Removing such bonus made these mercenary units power predictable . Have a nice day!

Dear friends, this long-expected day has come! Third rating season starts today (we're sorry it hadn't started yesterday)! New season holds many interesting updates: 1. Top 100 ladder players, along with winners of the tournament would receive special badges in internet shell, which would remain for the next seasons. In case player was in top 100 during different ladder seasons, only the best results badge would be displayed. 2. The season would end with "Season Clash 3" coming afterwards, where the best ladder players would fight fiercly for glory and prizes. Season's resluts would be concluded at 8-th of December and "Season Clash 3" would be held on 18-24th of December. 3. The rating system would be ELO, as in second ladder season. The game options are 5000 with 0 pt. Previous ladder would be resetted. 4. Improved matchmaking system for rating games. 5. Decreased amount of points required for ranks. Starting of the new season, would mean that last one would have a glorious ending! We congratulate top100 players, who've got unfading glory and respect in our community. We'd wish to highlight the three ladder leaders, since achieveng a victory on such a long distance is an admirable feat: 1 place - [-NF-]Baton 2 place - [-UNION-]Artempro 3 place - [BRP]Balin The winners of the Second official tournament "Season Clash 2" would also receive special badges: 1 place - [-RA-]SAnek_PCT 2 place - [-UNION-]Fenrir 3 place - [-NF-]Baton Good luck in a new season and may the strongest win! We wish us all a good day!

Hooray friends! Incredibly entertaining, unpredictable and highly emotional, second official tournament "Season Clash 2" has come to its end! Here are the names of our champions: [-RA-]SAnek_PCT has taken the 1 place and gets 300$ and GSC Anthology key; [-UNION-]Fenrir has taken the 2 place and gets 150$ and GSC Anthology key; [-NF-]Baton has taken the 3 place and gets 50$ and GSC Anthology key. We sincerely congratulate you, the games were amazing! We are grateful to all our players, which made this tournament so exciting: [PR]ELENDOR, [1S]Ezel, [-UNION-]Artempro, [-RA-]SAnek_PCT, [-NF-]Baton, [BRP]Balin, [-WN-]Vinci, [GP]Sir_Artius, [GFF]Petru_BwM, colourfit, [1S]asap, funny_ru, [-UNION-]Fenrir, [-WN-]Stalman, [1S]LeXuS, Otaman. Most of all, we are grateful to our unique streamers! These people have made the translations so interesting. Thousands of players across the world were watching them! Our honorable, incredible, charismatic streamers and commenters AHATOJIb, LordEagle, [PKS]konda, Miyconst, [-UNION-]Voin, [-RA-]SAnek_PCT thank you very much. Don't forget to subscribe to their channels: -UNION- VOIN: www.youtube.com/channel/UCLU9-V7rUcburOfQRWXtNJw RASanekTV: www.youtube.com/channel/UCWRqc3SrWTr7D9FH0BJSMiA Lord Eagle: www.youtube.com/channel/UChBHi8da7YIWaLKzroxUlrw AHATOJIb: www.youtube.com/channel/UCRZ_J1MySeat5GDOWleTdVQ [PKS]Konda: www.youtube.com/channel/UCwvh50QoCH_n28WKfnamLfA Miyconst: www.youtube.com/channel/UCnHrJkQiV-4l0Hkuhk-esNA You may watch the all the games of this tournament on our YouTube channel: www.youtube.com/cossacks3 Congratulations to all participants of this particular event! Have you dreamt on taking place of these playes? We'd like to tell that new rating season would be started on tomorro, and its battles may lead any of you to victory in next official tournament. We've got many surprises, stay tuned to our news! Thank you everyone and have a nice day!ament on our YouTube channel: www.youtube.com/cossacks3 Congratulations to all participants of this particular event! Have you dreamt on taking place of these playes? We'd like to tell that new rating season would be started on tomorro, and its battles may lead any of you to victory in next official tournament. We've got many surprises, stay tuned to our news! Thank you everyone and have a nice day!

Dear friends! The Season Clash 2 hottest battles are coming, meet the final day! You may find the schedule and more detailed information about Season Clash 2 by following this link: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Ie4G3FvcplHMgfOaAK_1wRoysOX7ZFcbEqbnNEJtR1E/edit#gid=336755048 You may find the updated grid via following the link: www.cossacks3.com/tournament/grid_season_clash.jpg You may watch the games live on our channels: www.youtube.com/watch?v=YBlVVK7dirY - Russian-speaking stream www.youtube.com/watch?v=lhdDI73aYik - English-speaking stream facebook.com/cossacks3 - English-speaking stream vk.com/cossacks3 - russian-speaking stream twitch.tv/cossacks_3 - english-speaking stream

Dear friends! The Season Clash 2 is on its prime, meet the second day! You may find the schedule and more detailed information about Season Clash 2 by following this link: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Ie4G3FvcplHMgfOaAK_1wRoysOX7ZFcbEqbnNEJtR1E/edit#gid=336755048 You may find the updated grid via following the link: www.cossacks3.com/tournament/grid_season_clash.jpg You may watch the games live on our channels: www.youtube.com/watch?v=qVsvc-kHbjo - Russian-speaking stream www.youtube.com/watch?v=CzZbSqn0eYA- English-speaking stream facebook.com/cossacks3 - English-speaking stream vk.com/cossacks3 - russian-speaking stream twitch.tv/cossacks_3 - english-speaking stream

Dear friends! The Season Clash 2 has begun! Righy now the best of best would clash in battles for the title of best Cossacks 3 player in second ladder season. We`ve got our first matches: [-UNION-]Fenrir vs [-NF-]Baton, nations: Venice, Russia, Scotland [GFF]Petru_BwM vs [-UNION-]Artempro, nations: Piedmont, Turkey, Saxony [-RA-]SAnek_PCT - colourfit, nations: Hungary, Sweden, Scotland [BRP]Balin - [-WN-]Stalman, nations: England, Ukraine, Portugal You may find the more detailed information about Season Clash 2 by following this link: docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Ie4G3FvcplHMgfOaAK_1wRoysOX7ZFcbEqbnNEJtR1E/edit#gid=336755048 You may watch the games live on our channels: www.youtube.com/watch?v=-zyn3XmC0vo - Russian-speaking stream www.youtube.com/watch?v=1VLbY9icAE0 - English speaking stream facebook.com/cossacks3 - english speaking stream vk.com/cossacks3 - russian-speaking stream twitch.tv/cossacks_3 - english speaking stream You may find the tournament grid here: www.cossacks3.com/tournament/grid_season_clash.jpg

Dear friends! "Season Clash 2" starts soon, at 20pm by UTC+3 time! Today we will present you the best players of second ladder season, who would clash in breathtaking fights on 17-18 century battlefields soon. Champions would receive following prizes: 1st place: 300$ and GSC Anthology key 2nd place: 150$ and GSC Anthology key 3rd place: 50$ and GSC Anthology key

Dear friends! "Season Clash 2" starts tomorrow at 20pm by UTC+3 time! Can't wait to see our heroes on battlegrounds? Then stay tuned to our news in social networks and our channels. This tournament would continue for 3 days: 29-30-th of September and 1st of October. On the 30-th of September and 1st of October tournament games wil be started at 12:00 by Kiev You may watch this tournament's games on here: www.youtube.com/user/cossacks3game www.facebook.com/cossacks3 vk.com/cossacks3 https://www.twitch.tv/cossacks_3 Today we will present our streamers:

Dear friends! First round of Season Clash 2 would start on this Friday at 20:00. In this regard, we've released a beta version of mini-addon with new Spectator feature. To become Spectator, you'd have to select Spectator in list of nations. Spectator has the next features: - Switching between players via hotkeys Alt+1, Alt+2 ... Alt+8 or, if your Num Lock is turned on, Num1, Num2 ... Num8 - Ctrl+F - turning the fog of war onoff for selected player. While having another player selected spectator is able to select buildings, watch over upgrades research and select units, but he's unable to give orders :) We hope that this feature would be helpful for tournament streams. We remind that Season Clash 2 is an official tournament, which would be held at 29-30th of September and 1st of October. All the participants would be specially indicated in internet shell, while winners will get additional prizes. 1 place: 300$ and GSC Anthology key 2 place: 150$ and GSC Anthology key 3 place: 50$ and GSC Anthology key If you've encountered any problems with Spectator's mode, please send your reports to our support at support@cossacks3.com! Have a nice day!

Dear friends! Here comes the long-awaited moment! The top 100 players of second Cossacks 3 ladder season have been found and they're going to receive special lifetime internet shell signs. Top 16 players are getting a chance to participate in Season Clash 2, fighting for glory and prizes. We remind that Season Clash 2 is the official Cossacks 3 tournament, which would be held on 29-30-th of September and 1st October. First three places have the following prizes: 1 place: 300$ and GSC Anthology key 2 place: 150$ and GSC Anthology key 3 place: 50$ and GSC Anthology key Top16 ladder players: [-NF-]Baton [-UNION-]Artempro [BRP]Balin [1S]LeXuS [GFF]Petru_BwM [-RA-]SAnek_PCT [-WN-]Stalman [-UNION-]Fenrir [-WN-]Vinci [GP]Sir_Artius LiptonVpaketike colourfit [R]Hruska [1S]asap [NMA]BF_InseRt Freeway If you've found your nickname in this list - please, you will receive an invitation in next 24 hours. If you won't answer until the 23:59 (GMT+2) of Wednesday, your slot would be given to the next player from ladder. Ladder is frozen until the Season Clash 2 would be over. Third season would be started on 2-nd of October. Don't forget to watch on our official Season Clash 2 streams - we're sure that it'd be an amazing sight. Have a nice day!

Dear friends! Fierce fights for the top places on the ladder have already begun! And new patch ensures that rising to glory would be comfortable. We remind that Season Clash 2 is official tournament, which would be held on 29-30-th of September and 1st October. Also, due to community requests tournament participants would be Top 16 players of our ladder (without special guests, as it was in first season). All the participants would be specially indicated in internet shell, while winners will get additional prizes. 1 place: 300$ and GSC Anthology key 2 place: 150$ and GSC Anthology key 3 place: 50$ and GSC Anthology key This patch gives all players access to new nations, introduces "Change profile" function, which allows to change your nickname and password in internet shell and of course fixes errors and bugs. Patch Notes 7.09.17 (1.8.9.82.5710) 1. Added a function to change nickname and password in internet shell. In order to change your credentials, please, click on "Change profile" button. 2. Fixed a bug, causing peasants disappearance from mines after changing host. 3. Starting from today, nations of Switzerland and Piedmont are now available to every Cossacks 3 owner, regardless the edition. Each new nation brings exciting new things to the game: unique units, original soundtrack and marvels of its architecture. Have a nice day!

Dear friends! Season Clash 2 would start soon - on 29 of September! We remind that Season Clash is the official Cossacks 3 tournament. Top players of our ladder would compete not only with each other, but with 4 special guests, which had demonstrated prominent Cossacks 3 skills beforehand. Rating table would be recorded on 17th of September at 12AM CET. Afterwards we will send invitations on your e-mail. If you will receive an invitation, please, provide an answer in two days, otherwise your tournament slot would be given to the next player in rating table. In this season defeated ones would be provided with chance to take their revenge, while victorious ones would be able to prove their dominance on battlefields. You may find further details about tournament regulations below: Season Clash 2 rules & regulations: ➊ Tournament games would be held on 29-30th of September and 1st of October. We will provide detailed info on separate games later. ➋ Number of participants – limited (16 participants). ➌ Game format – 1х1. ➍ Tournament rounds organization: Double elimination system (players are eliminated after two defeats). Game options: 01) Season: Summer. 02) Map shape: Land. 03) Terrain type: Highlands. 04) Minerals: Rich. 05) Starting resources: Thousands (5000). 06) Map Size: Tiny. 07) Dip. center and market: Default. 08) Peace time : 0 min. 09) Capture: No capturing peasants. 10) Victory condition: Annihilation. 11) Nations: mirror matches (at organizers discretion); 12) Adviser: Disabled 13) All the other options: Default. Have a nice day!

Dear Friends! GSC Game World proudly presents the final Deluxe Edition DLC - "Cossacks 3: The Golden Age". In order to celebrate this release Cossacks 3 are participating in Daily Deal with -50% discount to base game and formerly released DLCs both. "Cossacks 3: The Golden Age" would impress you with a bunch of exciting content - its a whole new thrilling multiplayer gamemode "Historical Battle", intriguing single player scenarios, amazing campaign, early access to 2 new anticipated nations and 5 new units, and of course 2 new amazing tracks! Main features: • "Historical battle" – new multiplayer gamemode, which allows up to 8 players to participate. 8 fascinating and widescle historical battles are waiting for warlords, who are ready to challenge fate and rewrite the history. • "Oranien boven!" – new historical campaign. Lead the Dutch Republic through the darkest and brightest days alike, participating in major conflicts of XVII century. • Singleplayer scenarios – four new singleplayer missions: Siege of Dunkirk, War over Brazil, Caribbean war and Portuguese Restoration War. • Switzerland and Piedmont - new strong and beautiful nations and ready to battle in single and multiplayer game modes bath, as players fiercly fight for the top places in ranked. • New unique units – 5 new units will increase amount of your game's strategies even further. Switzerland would have 17th century Pikeman, Jaeger and Mounted Jaeger (unique hussar). Padre and 18th century Dragoon would join Piedmont. • Soundtrack – 2 brand new soundtracks, dedicated to Switzerland and Piedmont. Lead your armies to victory, while listening epic and picturesque execution of national motives. Digital Deluxe edition or DLC owners would have 2 weeks of exclusive access to Piedmont and Switzerland. After this initial period (starting from 7th of September), all players would be able to play with these nations. This DLC is the final part of Deluxe Edition. Have a good day :)

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Dear friends! We are glad to announce "Cossacks 3: The Golden Age" - new brilliant DLC, that would be released on 24th of August. "Cossacks 3: The Golden Age" would impress you with a bunch of exciting content - its a whole new thrilling multiplayer gamemode "Historical Battle", intriguing single player scenarios, amazing campaign, early access to 2 new anticipated nations and 5 new units, and of course 2 new amazing tracks! Main features: • "Historical battle" – new multiplayer gamemode, which allows up to 8 players to participate. 8 fascinating and widescle historical battles are waiting for warlords, who are ready to challenge fate and rewrite the history. • "Oranien boven!" – new historical campaign. Lead the Dutch Republic through the darkest and brightest days alike, participating in major conflicts of XVII century. • Singleplayer scenarios – four new singleplayer missions: Siege of Dunkirk, War over Brazil, Caribbean war and Portuguese Restoration War. • Switzerland and Piedmon - new strong and beautiful nations and ready to battle in single and multiplayer game modes bath, as players fiercly fight for the top places in ranked. • New unique units – 5 new units will increase amount of your game's strategies even further. Switzerland would have 17th century Pikeman, Jaeger and Mounted Jaeger (unique hussar). Padre and 18th century Dragoon would join Piedmonte. • Soundtrack – 2 brand new soundtracks, dedicated to Switzerland and Piedmonte. Lead your armies to victory, while listening epic and picturesque execution of national motives. Digital Deluxe edition or DLC owners would have 2 weeks of exclusive access to Piedmonte and Switzerland. After this initial period, all players would be able to play with these nations. This DLC is the final part of Deluxe Edition. Here's a link to incoming Switzerland soundtrack: www.youtube.com/watch?v=HBTkj9fqmrY&feature=youtu.be Have a good day :)

Dear friends! There's a small pause in tournament era, and that means we're getting new balance changes. This patch drastically changes the melee units, greatly improves the food as main resource, and of course changes alot of different units stats! Patch Notes 1.08.17 (1.8.1.80.5478) Battle: - Attack animation speed is decreased by 20%. Attack time is higher by 25%. All melee units start to deal damage less frequently. While shooters reload time wasn't changed - Removed 30% chance that mortar ball won't deal any damage. - Changes in map generation rules. Places for one gold, iron and coal mines were moved further from the base. Economics: - Decreased needed count of wheat cut out to gather food from 26 to 22 times - Increased portion of gathered food by 12.5% - Price for buying Iron and Coal is increased by ~40%. Now you have to sell more resources to get same amount of Iron and Coal. Selling price of this resources wasn't changed General: Mill: - 2st food harvesting upgrade efficiency decreased from 250 to 180% Academy: - Field life upgrade cost decreased from 1400 wood 525 gold to 1000 wood 475 gold - "New construction materials" upgrade cost decreased from 13500 wood, 8714 stone, 1150 gold to 9400 wood, 7850 stone, 1150 gold - Design new barrel types' upgrade cost decreased from 7000 stone, 9050 gold, 27235 iron to 3000 stone, 4550 gold, 19200 iron - "Develop geology" upgrade cost decreased from 500 gold to 250 gold - "Develop medical science" research time doubled, and effects reduced in 2 times (heals 50% of health points now) Blacksmith: - "Forge metal armature" upgrade cost decreased from 19320 stone, 350 gold, 900 iron to 12320 stone, 350 gold, 900 iron Artillery Depot: - 1st, 2nd and 3rd upgrades for cost and construction time for cannons and howitzers research times decreased from 31.25s to 10s Balance: Coselette - Spain: - Pike protection decreased from 4 to 3 Pikeman 17th century - Poland: - Fixed bug when 6th protection upgrade gave +3 only to sword, and not to pike and arrow Roundshier - Austria: - 5th protection upgrade protection bonus decreased from 2 to 1 18th century Pikeman - Europe: - Training time decreased from 1.5s to 1.25s 18th century Pikeman - Sweden: - Training time decreased from 2s to 1.5s Serdiuk - Ukraine: - Damage increased from 10 to 12 - 5th and 6th damage upgrades bonus damage decreased by 1 17th century Musketeer - Austria: - Training time decreased from 7.5s to 6.5s 17th century Musketeer - Spain: - Training time decreased from 9s to 7.5s 17th century Musketeers, Janissary, Strelets: - 3rd protection upgrade's food costs decreased by 1000-2000 Archer - Algeria: - Training time decreased from 2s to 1.5s Turkish Archer - Turkey: - Training time decreased from 4.5s to 3s 17th century Officer - Europe: - Health points decreased from 150 to 125 - Damage decreased from 40 to 30 - Training time decreased from 12s to 10s - Gold consumption rate increased from 40 to 60 - Damage upgrade's bonus damage decreased from +30 to +20 - Upgrade time decreased from 47s to 15s 17th century Officer - Russia: - Health points decreased from 150 to 125 - Damage decreased from 55 to 40 - Training time decreased from 15s to 12.5s - Gold consumption rate increased from 40 to 60 - Protection upgrade's bonus increased from +8 to +10 17th century Officer - Turkey, Algeria: - Health points decreased from 150 to 125 - Training time decreased from 10s to 7.5s - Gold consumption rate increased from 35 to 50 - Damage upgrade's bonus damage decreased from +30 to +20 - Protection upgrade's bonus increased from +8 to +10 17th century Officer - Scotland: - Health points decreased from 200 to 150 - Training time decreased from 14s to 10s - Gold consumption rate increased from 45 to 70 - Damage decreased from 45 to 40 - Protection upgrade's bonus increased from +8 to +10 18th century Officer - Europe: - Health points decreased from 150 to 125 - Damage decreased from 75 to 50 - Gold consumption rate increased from 80 to 90 - Damage upgrade's bonus damage decreased from +75 to +30 Hussar - Europe: - Health points increased from 200 to 230 - Training time decreased from 16.5 to 15s Hussar - Prussia: - Health points increased from 210 to 240 - Training time decreased from 12 to 11.25s Hussar - Hungary: - Health points increased from 225 to 250 - 6th damage upgrades damage bonus decreased by 1 Croat - Austria - Health points increased from 240 to 260 - Training time decreased from 18s to 15.75s Hackapellita - Sweden - Health points increased from 220 to 245 - Training time decreased from 19.5s to 18s Reiter - Europe: - Damage increased from 12 to 15 - 3rd, 4th and 5th damage upgrades damage bonus decreased by 1 - Damage upgrade research time increased from 15 to 23s - Protection upgrade research time decreased from 15 to 8s Cuirassier - Europe: - Training time increased from 21s to 22.5s Reiter - Sweden: - Damage increased from 11 to 14 - 3rd, 4th and 5th damage upgrades damage bonus decreased by 1 - Damage upgrade research time increased from 15 to 23s - Protection upgrade research time decreased from 15 to 8s Reiter - Poland: - Health points increased from 175 to 190 Don Cossack - Russia: - Training time decreased from 15s to 13.5s Vityaz - Russia: - Damage increased from 11 to 14 - 3rd, 4th and 5th damage upgrades damage bonus decreased by 1 - Damage upgrade research time increased from 15 to 23s - Protection upgrade research time decreased from 15 to 8s Light Sipahi - Turkey: - Damage increased from 12 to 15 - 1st, 2nd and 3rd damage upgrades damage bonus decreased by 1 - Damage and protection upgrades costs decreased. Heavy Sipahi - Turkey: - Damage increased from 12 to 15 - Training time decreased from 19.5s to 18s - 3rd, 4th and 5th damage upgrades damage bonus decreased by 1 Mameluke - Algeria: - Damage increased from 13 to 16 - 1st, 2nd and 3rd damage upgrades damage bonus decreased by 1 - Damage and protection upgrades costs decreased. 17th century Dragoon - Europe - Training time decreased from 16.5s to 15s Tatar - Turkey - Training time increased from 9s to 11.25s Cannon: - Health points increased from 6000 to 9000 - Maximum attack range increased from 2000 to 2160 Mortar: - Protection increased from 10 to 25 - Dispertion decreased from 250 to 200 Buildings: Artillery depot: - Construction time decreased from 380s to 300s Mercenaries: Archer: - Price is now slightly increasing, depending on count of these units (like the 18th century mercenary dragoons). - Maximum attack range decreased from 700 to 650 - Price increased from 6 gold to 15 gold - Training time increased from 1s to 1.25s - Gold consumption rate increased from 8 to 16 Light infantry: - Training time increased from 1s to 1.25s Grenadier: - Price is now slightly increasing, depending on count of these units (like the 18th century mercenary dragoons). - Bullet damage increased from 15 to 16 - Price changed from 20 gold to 25 gold - Gold consumption rate increased from 40 to 60 Sich Cossack: - Price is now slightly increasing, depending on count of these units (like the 18th century mercenary dragoons). - Damage decreased from 9 to 8 - Training time decreased from 2.75s to 2.5s - Gold consumption rate increased from 75 to 150 18th century Dragoon: - Price changed from 100 gold to 120 gold - Gold consumption rate increased from 90 to 120 Have a good day!

Dear friends! Here's the first big post-tournament patch. It introduces new functions, to improve big armies handling, and fixes many errors. Patch Notes 21.07.17 (1.8.0.79.5460) General: 1. Improved game's initial loading. Now the game's waiting for all players to load. Prior to patch, it was possible for a player with less performant PC to load slightly later than other players. 2. Improved units locations synchronization in multiplayer games. 3. New astonishing backgrounds on game's loading screens. 4. Added new hotkeys, to complement existing ones: Shift+(1-0) - binds a number to a group of units, adding units to an existing on this number group 5. New 'Free camera' option in settings, which allows to disable un-zoom constraints. Attention! as enabling this option may have negative impact on game performance. Errors: 1. Fixed a rare error, rendering DLCS invisible for game, even when user owned them. 2. Fixed an error, which prevented players from building one of the mines in second mission of Turkey campaign. 3. Fixed an error with medicine upgrade, which was increasing max hp for other nations units. Huge thanks to mr. Madgeek for his ZoomOut mod, which was the most popular Cossacks 3 mod in Steam Workshop and our inspiration. Also, we're grateful to Shoneks, for invaluable help on implementing hotkeys with addition of units to existing group. The today's patch wouldn't be so great without you! Tournament news: This SATURDAY, the Rest League on 1000 0pt no market, Turkey. Let's see who is really cossacks and who know the only trade in Csx is fighting! Smile Registration is open. Start to the tournament as usual 20:00 kiev// 19:00 cet Nation - Turkey. In the end of August, 4 best options would be chosen, which would be used in weekly Rliga season tournament. You may find additional details about this tournament by following the link: forum.newlcn.com/viewtopic.php?t=17619 Have a good evening and nice weekends!

Dear friends, this long-expected day has come! Second rating season has started! New season holds many interesting updates: 1. New ELO rating system, which gives even more possibilities for our players to show themselves. Only quailty games, no half measures. Leaving the game before it's finished nets you a penalty to your rating. 2. New option - 5000 resources with 0pt. Games would be faster, grittier and juicer, and the fights would be fiercer. 3. Tournament heights - this update allows players, who've achieved top30 positions in ladder, to train on tournament settings. If top30 player meets an opponent of the same level, their games would use mirror nations. This update has been added, to help top30 players with their trainings before the season finale, which would be hosted in September. 4. The season would end with "Season Clash 2", where the best ladder players would fight for glory and prizes. 5. Top 100 ladder players, along with winners of the tournament would receive special badges in internet shell, which would remain for the next seasons. New feature: New type of quick play games has been added: players can choose now, whether they'd like to play ranked games, or unranked with the same options, without getting rating points. Unranked quick play games allow players to use AI adviser (if you've got it available). Now you can try new tactics without risking your points. Of course, you're still able to create custom game rooms with your own settings. Starting of the new season, would mean that last one would have a glorious ending. Top 100 ladder players of the First season are getting special badges, corresponding to their ladder achievements. We congratulate the owners of these badges, who've got unfading glory and respect in our community. We'd wish to highlight the three ladder leaders, since achieveng a victory on such a long distance is an admirable feat: 1 place - [GFF]Petru_BwM 2 place - HYPPS 3 place - nazariy81 The winners of the First official tournament would also receive special badges 1 place - [-RA-]SAnek_PCT 2 place - [GFF]Petru_BwM 3 place - [1S]SecretPlayer Good luck in a new season and may the strongest win! P.S This patch has also fixed several small bugs. We wish us all nice warm weekends!

Hooray friends! Incredibly entertaining, unpredictable and highly emotional, first official tournament "Season Clash" has come to its end! Here are the names of our champions: [-RA-]SAnek_PCT has taken the 1 place and gets 300$ and GSC Anthology key; [GFF]Petru_BwM has taken the 2 place and gets 150$ and GSC Anthology key; [1S]SecretPlayer has taken the 3 place and gets 50$ and GSC Anthology key. We sincerely congratulate you, final games were amazing! We are grateful to all our players, which made this tournament so exciting: [PKS]mad, sunx, [-NF-]Baton, colourfit, [GFF]Petru_BwM, HYPPS, Fulkrum, [U309]rabbit, [-RA-]SAnek_PCT, [1S]LeXuS, nazariy81, [-1Nt-]_VRV, Artur, Mindaugas, [1S]SecretPlayer, Current_User. Most of all, we are grateful to our unique streamers! These people have made the translations so interesting. Thousands of players across the world were watching them! Our honorable, incredible, charismatic streamers and commenters AHATOJIb, LordEagle, HYPPS, [GP]konda, colourfit, Miyconst, Forleon, Emperor Highlander, thank you for everything. Don't forget to subscribe to their channels! Tournament Grid http://www.cossacks3.com/tournament/grid_season_clash.jpg You may watch the all the games of this tournament on our YouTube channel: www.youtube.com/cossacks3 Congratulations to all participants of this particular event! We'd like to tell, that new rating season would be started on this Friday. It will end with second official tournament. We've got many surprises, stay tuned to our news! Season Clash isn't the only one Cossacks 3 tournament, this evening fiery 14 battles on -UNION- clan tournament would start. [GFF]Petru_BwM vs [-NF-]Baton would fight on 1000 0 pt options using Bo5 system. You may watch the translation by following the link: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCLU9-V7rUcburOfQRWXtNJw Thank you everyone and have a nice day!

Dear friends! The third day of Season Clash is over! Finale would be played as best of 3 (up to 2 victories), while Grand finale will use best of 5 (up to 3 victories) system. Final games would be started tomorrow. On 02.07 at 13:00 by Kiev time [1S]SecretPlayer would fight [GFF]Petru_BwM. The winner of this match would play with [-RA-]SAnek_PCT for the best Cossack of the first season title. We remind, that finalists are fighting for the next prizes: 1 place: 300$ and GSC Anthology key; 2 place: 150$ and GSC Anthology key; 3 place: 50$ and GSC Anthology key. We congratulate all the finalists, as they would receive full GSC anthology regardless of their results :) Tournament Grid You may watch the finished games on our YouTube channel: www.youtube.com/cossacks3 We`ll see you on tournament tomorrow!

Patch, Tournament, Friday Dear friends, we've got three good news for you! 1. Small, but very important patch (1.7.2.78.5401) : a) Fixed an error, causing peasants to disappear in mines, if buildings were destroyed or captured. b) Fixed rehost process for multiplayer games. Now, after the host's changed: - peasants keep gathering the resources, build or repair buildings, walking to the mines or ferries; - buildings keep producing units and research the upgrades; - units keep walking, according to their orders, keeping their movement modes; - rally points for buildings are staying where they've been placed. c) Fixed a crash, caused by unplugged headphones. d) Fixed an error, rendering Linux players unable to play with Windows users. e) Fixed an error, causing units and buildings to render incorrectly on some Linux machines. 2. First official tournament would be continued tomorrow! We remind, that final matches of 'Season Clash' would be held tomorrow. Tomorrow, on Saturday at 12:00 by UTC+3 time, fierce clashes for the Grand Finale slots would be started. You may watch all the matches on our official YouTube channel, and on our pages in social networks. youtube.com/cossacks3 Tournament grid 3. Today's Friday, amazing day of joy and bright battles of cossackers! Steam Summer Sale continues - we'd like to remind about amazing Cossacks 3 discounts with whooping -50% rates, which would be held up to 5-th of June. Have a good evening and nice weekends!

Dear friends! The second day of Season Clash is over! We're thanking our players for incredibly exciting games, streamers for their analysis and commenting, and of course we're grateful to our viewers for their interest and cheering up the participants. Tournament will continue on the next weekend. Translations would be started 01.07 at 12:00 by Kiev time. You may find the information about current situation on the tournament on the attached picture ( http://cdn.akamai.steamstatic.com/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/25718509/64cab94ae0dd5aba4a1206a30c3528e8697cab2e.jpg - higher resolution version) You may watch the finished games on our YouTube channel: www.youtube.com/cossacks3 We`ll see you on the first of July on tournament! Also we'd like to remind you about new open Cossacks 3 tournament, organized by -Union- clan! Tournament regulations: clanunion.ru/forum/index.php?showtopic=933 Tournament registration: clanunion.ru/forum/index.php?showtopic=932 Have a good day!

Dear friends! First round of Season Clash has come to its end! Tomorrow at 12am by Kiev we`ll start the second round, where upper bracket games would be played as best of 3 matches. Lower bracket matches would be played as best of 1. You may watch the finished games on our YouTube channel: www.youtube.com/cossacks3 We`ll see you on tournament tomorrow! Also we'd like to tell you about new open Cossacks 3 tournament, organised by -Union- clan. Options: "1000, 0 pt" with default settings Format: 1-1, using olympics system, with several days dedicated to 1 round. Prize money: The award fund of tournament is 10000 rubles (170$ approximately) split between medalists: winner - 5000 rubles, silver – 3000 rubles, bronze - 2000 rubles. Tournament regulations: clanunion.ru/forum/index.php?showtopic=933 Tournament registration: clanunion.ru/forum/index.php?showtopic=932 Turnament registration would continue up to 28th of June 2017. Any Cossacks 3 player may participate in this tournament (countries and game ratings are irrelevant). Amount of participants is unlimited. The most interesting games would be streamed on youtube.com/c/UNIONVOIN channel.

Dear friends! The Season Clash has run its qualifiers! We`re starting our first round with two brackets: upper and lower ones. Defeat in upper bracket would send player to the lower one, while defeat in lower bracket would the end of the tournament for him. We'll start our second round tomorrow at 12AM UTC+3! You may watch the games live on our YouTube channels: www.youtube.com/watch?v=5mRafJSRF8w - russian stream №1 www.youtube.com/watch?v=jxLbKJQMqKc - russian stream №2 www.youtube.com/watch?v=dg7lH8Eqyqw - english stream №1 www.youtube.com/watch?v=JGnrzXkfc-M - english stream №2

Dear friends! The Season Clash has begun! We`ve got our first matches: sunx vs [PKS]mad - England [-NF-]Baton vs colourfit - French The next matches would be: [GFF]Petru_BwM - HYPPS - Spain Fulkrum - [U309]rabbit - Turkey [-Ra-]SAnek_PCT - [1S]LeXuS - Russia nazariy81 - [-1Nt-]_VRV - Poland Artur - Mindaugas - Prussia [1S]SecretPlayer - Current_User - Algeria We'll start our first round right after the qualification games! You may watch the games live on our YouTube channels: www.youtube.com/watch?v=j0OE3fU7S1g - Russian stream №1 www.youtube.com/watch?v=-jL-alkEph4 - Russian stream №2 www.youtube.com/watch?v=V_8zdFvg0E0 - English stream №1 www.youtube.com/watch?v=VeWk6BnX738 - English stream №2

Dear friends! Tomorrow our best cossacks from 1 rating season would start their fights in "Season Clash". Our best players would fight for prize fund totaling 500$ along with GSC Game World anthology: 1st place: 300$ and GSC Anthology key; 2nd place: 150$ and GSC Anthology key; 3rd place: 50$ and GSC Anthology key. Full list of participants and grid of qualifiers:

Dear friends! "Season Clash" starts tomorrow at 12pm by UTC+3 time. Today we will present our participants and streamers. We`ll start with our streamers introductions:

Dear friends! Colds have passed by. Summer has come! And we`ve got a whole sea of hot news: 1. Cossacks 3 is taking part in Steam Summer Sale, with astounding -50% discounts for both base game and DLC. 2. We`ve got a new free DLC dedicated to this event. Cossacks 3: Summer Fair introduces summer campaign with funny mission, which would add some colors to your summer holidays. 3. Due to many requests from our community we`re releasing Cossacks 3:Christmas Gift - a free DLC, containing previously released seasonal content. Holiday gift mission would allow our players to help Santa and save Christmas! 4. Cossacks 3: OST would allow our players to listen to their beloved tunes outside of game. It contains 21 tracks in lossless wav format. 5. Our first ranked season has come to its logical conclusion - 'Season Clash' tournament, which will run on these and next weekends (24-25th of June and 1st-2nd of July). All the games would be streamed in English and Russian on our official Youtube (https://www.youtube.com/cossacks3) and Twitch (https://www.twitch.tv/cossacks_3) channels, along with live translations on our social network pages. 6. Linux open beta of Cossacks 3 is now available on Steam! Its cross-platform multiplayer allows Windows players to cross their swords with Linux users on european battlefields. 7. New main menu element - News panel. It will help you to stay tuned to latest game events, changes, and will inform you about new DLC. 8. Mac version of Cossacks 3 would receive its own open beta soon. Have a good summer!

Dear friends! Sensation! Sensation! Sensation! We congratulate all Linux owners - a miracle has come to pass! From today "Cossacks 3" is officially available for two platforms - Linux & Windows. Everybody who has Linux-version of the game, without time limitations, gets Early Bird bonus, which contains: - Additional mini campaign for single player. - 2 unique mercenary units that could be hired from the every nation’s Diplomatic Centre. - A special Early Bird Badge visible in multiplayer shell. We are deeply sorry for delays on its release, as we hadn`t foreseen all the difficulties which occured during porting process on other OS. But we sincerely hope you will get enjoy playing our game and this will reward your patience. If you already have the game in your library - just click Play (reload Steam if it's needed), otherwise, you can buy it in Steam: http://store.steampowered.com/app/333420/Cossacks_3/ As version was tested only in closed beta, we call it Beta-version at this moment, we want to make it final and comfortable with help of our community. What will be fixed in nearest time: resolution change parameter, Steam Workshop and achievments. If you found any bugs, please, send us info on support@cossacks3.com or to our's official social pages private messages. P.S. We're not kidding! After the last update, you can also enjoy playing Cossacks 3 on Linux! P.P.S. And, of course, internet-shell supports multiplatform battles. For MAC users - there are some finishing touches and the game will be able to give you an opportunity to move you on European battlefields. We are afraid of saying to you release dates exactly, because we failed with them so many times, but we can say that there are truly no day without working to make this process faster. We will provide you with info in the same second when it will appear. We wish you a nice, long-awaited day!

Dear friends! Having observed mrMuskul Cup tournament games (held last weekend), we`ve decided to introduce some changes, which should add some quality of life improvements to the game. Shooters and cavalry were improved, while pikemen`s bullet protection has been decreased. You may find further details about these changes below: Patch Notes 19.06.17 (1.6.3.77.5349) General: 1. Changed map generation for games with players count <=4 on terrain type Land. Players respawn points are closer to each other now, and have dispersion in their location. In some cases players would be even closers. Without scouting it`s impossible to determine how close are enemies spawn points. 2. Shooters critical hit chance increased from 4% to 5% (Chance to deal additional 0-500 damage). 3. Distance, allowing enemy units to block artillery fire, has been decreased at 25%. 4. 18c barracks construction time decreased by 10%. Upgrades: 1. 'Raise builders salary' (building construction time -75%) upgrade cost decreased from 9050 gold to 6950 gold. 2. 'Research improved steel grades for cuirasses' (armored soldiers defense +2) upgrade cost increased from 7950 gold to 9750 gold. 3. 'Forge new cuirasses' (armored soldiers defense +2) upgrade cost increased from 3450 gold, 8900 iron to 4950 gold, 10500 iron. 4. 'Design flintlock' (musket cost -50%) upgrade now affects all 18th century shooters, including mounted ones. 5. 'Design flintlock' (musket cost -50%) upgrade cost increased from 1550 gold, 3700 coal to 6050 gold, 7750 coal. Units balance: Mercenaries: 1. Archer damage decreased from 25 to 24 2. Roundshier bullet protection decreased from 9 to 8. 3. Sich cossack training time increased from 2s to 2.75s. 4. 18c dragoon damage increased from 16 to 18. 17c pikeman - Europe: - Bullet protection decreased from 5 to 4. Hussar - Europe, Prussia: - Decreased total upgrades cost at 26000 gold, 7000 iron. Heavy cavalry (Reiters, Cuirassiers, unique units with cuirasses): - Pike protection increased by 1. Errors: 1. Fixed an error, causing AI to ignore firepower upgrades in academy for particular nations. Have a good day!

Dear friends! Season Clash would start on the next weekend - on 24-25th June! We remind that Season Clash is the first official Cossacks 3 tournament. Top players of our ladder would compete not only with each other, but with 4 special guests, which had demonstrated prominent Cossacks 3 skills beforehands. All matches would be streamed with English and Russian comments simultaneously. Every game on this tournament would be streamed. You may find further details about tournament regulations below: Season Clash rules & regulations: ➊ Tournament games would be held on 24th-25-th of June and 1st-2nd of July. We will provide detailed info on separate games later. ➋ Number of participants – limited (16 participants). ➌ Game format – 1х1. ➍ Tournament rounds organization: Double elimination system. Game options: 01) Season: Summer. 02) Map shape: Land. 03) Terrain type: Highlands. 04) Minerals: Rich. 05) Starting resources: Thousands (5000). 06) Map Size: Tiny. 07) Dip. center and market: Default. 08) Peace time : 10 min. 09) Capture: No capturing peasants. 10) Victory condition: Annihilation. 11) Nations: mirror matches (at organizers discretion); 12) Adviser: Disabled 13) All the other options: Default. Stay tuned for news on our pages in social networks. We will provide further details on next week! We are grateful to Mark Kandaurov for this breathtaking picture! Have a nice weekend!

Dear friends! Today we will start the selections of Season Clash participants and in the end of June the battle among the best Cossacks players would begin. We will provide further details on tournament on Friday. Meet the last pre-tournament patch, which includes reworked economics and market trades. Balance has been changed too. You may find further details on these changes below: Patch Notes 14.06.17 (1.6.1.77.5342) Economics: 1. Increased food harvesting speed by 15% (1 field holds more concurrently working peasants now). 2. Mine upgrades cost has been decreased. 3. Academy food upgrades costs have been decreased. Market: 1. Resource prices regenerate (restore to their former values) much faster now. 2. Stone and wood prices has been increased. Wood is more valuable than stone now. New features: 1. Random and multiplayer games options now include fixed speed options. 2. Random and multiplayer games options now include population limit options. 3. Critical hit mechanics has been reworked. Now, critical chance concludes 4%. Critical hit adds random damage (from 0 to 400). Units with high health would die less frequently, than infantry. 4. Now, you can form squads starting from 15 soldiers. Palisade (wooden wall): 1. Protection increased from 15 to 95. Now it can hold some time against archers, but grenades are still highly effective. Ships: 1. Ships construction speed upgrade increases construction speed in 5 times instead of 10. 2. Ships are constructed twice as fast now. 3. Ships construction prices are lowered. Errors: 1. Fixed wood resource gathering on desert maps. 2. Improved game`s performance for large quantities of heavy sipahis on screen. 3. Fixed achievements: Frantic struggle, Uneven chances, Surrounded at all sides. 4. Fixed Stand Ground error for shooters. When you commanded to move&attack to point, shooters often didn`t attacked enemies. And, when they reached destination point, they weren`t attacking units located too far, when they had enemy units nearby. Now, when shooter has Stand Ground order he looks for target he`s able to attack. 5. Fixed an error, which caused incorrect display of buildings hit points on client PCs. There were mines, which were looking damaged, and players were unable to order peasants to repair this mine or get inside. Shipyards, standing still with 0 hp, while not exploding were fixed too. Upgrades: 1. XVIII century upgrade cost decreased. 2. Balloon upgrade cost increased from 1750 gold to 5750 gold, to compensate lower 18th century upgrade cost. 3. Bayonet upgrades (academy ones) costs have been decreased. 4. Changed firepower upgrades in Academy. All of them are granting +15% bonus now. Costs changed from 6000, 7000, 12000, 21000 gold to 5000 iron, 4000 gold, 7000 gold, 11000 coal. 5. Added both cuirass upgrades for Turkey (effects heavy sipahi). Balance: 1. Stables, 18th century barracks, artillery depot costs decreased. 2. Artillery depot requires academy now (stables aren`t required anymore). 3. Construction time for stone and wooden walls has been lowered (33% approximately). 4. 18th century barracks construction time decreased by 20%. 5. Cannon`s reload time for cannister shot and cannonball shot is the same now. Units balance: Mercenaries: 1. Light infantry damage increased from 14 to 15 2. Roundshier damage decreased from 8 to 6. 3. Roundshier price increased from 8 gold to 12. 4. Roundshier protection changed from (pike 4, sword 5, arrow 17) to (pike 5, sword 3, arrow 19). 5. Archer damage increased from 20 to 25. 6. Grenadier grenade attack range decreased from 500 to 370. 7. Grenadier's health increased from 25 to 30. 8. Dragoon's damage decreased from 20 to 16. 9. Dragoon's reload time decreased by 15%. 10. Dragoon's minimal shooting range increased from 300 to 350. 11. Dragoon's maximal shooting range decreased from 850 to 800. 12. Dragoon's shot cost in iron increased from 4 to 5. Register cossack - Ukraine: - Damage decreased from 13 to 12. Hetman - Ukraine: - Damage decreased from 75 to 70. - Decreased hetman attack upgrade value from 50 to 30. - Training time increased from 13.5s to 17.5s. Heavy sipahi - Turkey: - Pike protection decreased from 3 to 2. Peasant - Algeria, Turkey: - Food consumption decreased by 10%. Light Infantry - Algeria, Turkey: - Damage with all upgrades increased by 2. 17c musketeer: - Protection upgrades costs decreased. Grenadier: - Protection upgrades costs decreased. 17c dragoon: - Protection upgrades costs decreased. 18c cavalry: - Protection upgrades costs decreased. 17c shooters: - Almost all 17th century shooters (except serdiuk) are trained 0.5-1 second faster now. Mounted shooters: - Almost all mounted shooters are trained faster. 18c shooters without bayonets: - Protection upgrades costs decreased. We thank Mark Kandaurov for this awesome pic!

Dear friends! The first rating season is coming to its end. We`ve decided to organize first official Cossacks 3 tournament - "Season Clash" - due to this particular event. There`d be 16 participants, 12 of them would be chosen based on rating table. Last 4 slots would be taken by invited guests, which had already shown their prominent skills on battlefields. On next Wednesday (14.06) our top players would receive their invitations. You have one more week to improve your current rating. Good luck and have fun. Have a good day!

Dear friends! We have astonishing news for you! Greetings to all, who has Deluxe Edition and DLC Path to Grandeur! Desert maps are now available not only in turkish campaign, but in random maps & internet-battles too! Also Portugal received unique shipyard, which is armed with cannons and has ability to shoot. So, go on, to hot sandy battlefields! Also, we`d like to present you the latest patch notes: Patch Notes 26.05.17 (1.5.8.75.5317) General: 1. Nations list in game creation room has been changed and adapts to your resolution. Balance: 1. Officer`s attack speed decreased in a factor of 2. Europe - Production time increased from 5s to 12s. Russia - Production time increased from 6s to 15s. Turkey, Algeria - Production time increased from 4s to 10s. Scotland - Production time increased from 6s to 14s. 2. Attack upgrades for russian and scottish officers values decreased from 45 to 30. Defense upgrades values for russian, ottoman and scottish officers decreased from 10 to 8. 3. Production time for officers attack upgrade increased to 46.875s. 4. Production time for artillery has been decreased: Cannons - from 120s to 75s Howitzers - from 150s to 94s 5. Movement speed for cannon, howitzer and multi-barreled cannon increased by 10-15% approximately. 6. Art depo upgrades for all artillery units have been changed. Now, there are 3 upgrades for both production time and cost. These upgrades have higher efficiency and their cost was changed. 7. Costs for 3rd, 4th and 5th attack speed upgrades in tower decreased: 3rd upgrade - from 600 gold to 400 gold; 4th upgrade - from 700 gold to 450 gold; 5th upgrade - from 850 gold to 500 gold; 8. Spanish and portuguese storehouses build time and cost have been decreased: Build time - from 6.25s to 4.68s; Cost - from 20 wood 50 stone to 20 wood 20 stone ; Errors: 1. Fixed a bug, which allowed to upgrade mines and towers above the limits. 2. Fixed a bug, which caused healing upgrade in academy to disappear, in case if academy was captured upgrade process. Have a nice day!

Dear friends! We`re glad to present you the new patch with huge rebalance. It introduces new units to Spain (coselete) and Ottoman empire (sipahi), and changes the market trading process. Patch Notes 16.05.17 (1.5.6.74.5305) General: 1. Market changes. Penalties for second, third and other players, who began to trade later are lessened. Market tests: 5000 coal to wood 3000 iron to stone 1000 gold to food. Trade results for first, second, third player before changes: wood,food,stone P1:6000,4400,3600 P2:4965,3630,3160 P3:4390,3245,2865 new rates after fix: wood,food,stone P1:6000,4400,3600 P2:5700,4175,3490 P3:5440,3990,3380 In old version, third player got 1610 wood, 1155 food, 735 stone less then first player. In new version, third player got 560 wood, 410 food, 220 stone less then first player. 2. Reverse trade fixed OLD VERSION Sell 1 000 000 stone for 158000 gold. Now the new price for 1 000 000 stone is 84800 gold. Perform reverse trading, sell 5000 gold to stone. Now, the new price for 1 000 000 stone is 159700 gold. Profit for 2 000 000 stone = 312 700 gold NEW VERSION Sell 1 000 000 stone for 158000 gold. Now the new price for 1 000 000 stone is 89800 gold. Perform reverse trading, sell 5000 gold to stone. Then the new price for 1 000 000 stone is 115000 gold. Profit for 2 000 000 stone = 268 000 gold As you can see, profit for first 1 000 000 is the same, but next sales provide less resources as it should be and reverse sales won't backdoor this rule. 3. Potential cheating possibility with changing base game scripts fixed. 4. Player with changed scripts now are unable to play in multiplayer, now only players with identical scriptsmods are able play with each other. 5. Stone cost of blacksmith decreased from 50 to 30 (good for low starting resources). Errors: 1. Fixed error with AI, which disabled his progressing on 1000 resources options. 2. AI is working better on 5000 resources now. 3. Fixed bug with AI Assistant, when he was able to trade resources on millions starting option. Units balance: 17th century pikeman - European: - Price increased from 25 food to 25 food, 3 gold - Cannister protection decreased from 225 to 210 17th century pikeman - Poland: - Price changed from 30 food to 25 food, 1 gold - Damage increased from 7 to 8 - All defense upgrades function as default ones, no more 5 upgrades for pikes-arrows and 6th for sword defence - Production time decreased from 3.5s to 3s 17th century pikeman - Turkey, Algeria: - Price increased from 55 food, 3 gold to 55 food, 5 gold 17th century pikeman - Russia: - Price increased from 45 food, 15 iron to 45 food, 4 gold, 15 iron Covenant pikeman - Scotland: - Price changed from 40 food to 35 food, 2 gold - Production time decreased from 4.5s to 4s 18th century pikeman - European: - Price increased from 30 food to 30 food, 2 gold 18th century pikeman - European: - Price increased from 40 food, 2 gold to 40 food, 3 gold - Damage increased from 10 to 11 Light infantry - Turkey, Algeria: - Max attack range increased from 40 to 50 Roundshier - Austria: - Max attack range increased from 55 to 60 - Price increased from 20 food, 25 iron to 20 food, 3 gold, 25 iron - Pike protection increased from 2 to 3 Sword clansman - Scotland: - Price changed from 120 food, 5 wood, 8 gold to 110 food, 5 wood, 10 gold - Production time decreased from 7.5s to 7s - Cannonball protection increased from 1 to 10 - Cannister protection decreased from 125 to 110 17th century musketeer - European: - Shot cost increased from 2 iron, 3 coal to 2 iron, 4 coal - Price increased from 45 food, 5 iron to 45 food, 6 gold, 5 iron 17th century musketeer - Poland: - Price increased from 40 food, 1 gold, 3 iron to 40 food, 3 gold, 3 iron 17th century musketeer - Netherlands: - Price increased from 50 food, 5 gold, 4 iron to 50 food, 8 gold, 4 iron 17th century musketeer - Austria: - Shot cost increased from 2 iron, 3 coal to 2 iron, 4 coal - Reload time decreased from 5.3s to 5s - Price increased from 35 food, 4 gold, 15 iron to 35 food, 9 gold, 15 iron - Sword protection increased from 1 to 2 - Cannister protection decreased from 175 to 160 17th century musketeer - Spain: - Shot cost increased from 3 iron, 5 coal to 3 iron, 6 coal - Price increased from 40 food, 10 gold, 20 iron to 40 food, 12 gold, 20 iron - Cannister protection decreased from 225 to 210 Strelets - Russia: - Shot cost increased from 2 iron, 3 coal to 2 iron, 4 coal - Price increased from 70 food, 2 gold, 9 iron to 70 food, 7 gold, 9 iron - Production time inccreased from 8.5s to 9.5s Pandur - Austria: - Shot cost increased from 2 iron, 3 coal to 3 iron, 6 coal - Price increased from 40 food, 5 gold, 10 iron to 40 food, 15 gold, 10 iron - Production time decreased from 8s to 7.5s Chasseur - France: - Shot cost increased from 3 iron, 5 coal to 4 iron, 8 coal - Price decreased from 50 food, 50 gold, 15 iron to 50 food, 45 gold, 15 iron - Production time decreased from 10.5s to 9.5s Highlander - England: - Shot cost increased from 2 iron, 3 coal to 3 iron, 4 coal - Price changed from 100 food, 20 gold, 10 iron to 90 food, 25 gold, 10 iron, Serdiuk - Ukraine: - Shot cost increased from 2 iron, 4 coal to 3 iron, 6 coal - Price increased from 60 food, 6 gold, 5 iron to 60 food, 11 gold, 5 iron - Production time decreased from 11.5s to 11s Janissary - Turkey: - Shot cost increased from 2 iron, 4 coal to 3 iron, 5 coal - Price increased from 55 food, 6 gold, 5 iron to 55 food, 13 gold, 5 iron Covenant musketeer - Scotland: - Price increased from 55 food, 2 gold, 7 iron to 55 food, 8 gold, 7 iron - Shot cost increased from 2 iron, 4 coal to 2 iron, 5 coal 18th century musketeer - European: - Shot cost increased from 2 iron, 2 coal to 2 iron, 3 coal 18th century musketeer - Prussia: - Shot cost increased from 2 iron, 3 coal to 3 iron, 4 coal 18th century musketeer - Bavaria: - Melee damage decreased from 7 to 5 - Reload time (musket) decreased from 6.4 to 6s - Shot cost increased from 2 iron, 3 coal to 3 iron, 4 coal 18th century musketeer - Saxony: - Shot cost increased from 2 iron, 2 coal to 3 iron, 3 coal 18th century musketeer - Denmark: - Health points increased from 90 to 100 - Reload time (musket) decreased from 6.4 to 6s - Shot cost increased from 3 iron, 4 coal to 4 iron, 5 coal - Price decreased from 50 food, 90 gold, 40 iron to 50 food, 80 gold, 40 iron - Production time decreased from 6s to 5.5s Archer - Algeria: - Health points increased from 30 to 40 - Dispertion decreased from 200 to 175 - Price increased from 20 food, 2 wood to 20 food, 2 wood, 1 gold Turkish archer - Turkey: - Minimal attack range decreased from 450 to 400 - Dispertion increased from 75 to 100 - Price increased from 45 food, 3 wood, 2 gold to 45 food, 3 wood, 4 gold Bow clansman - Scotland: - Minimal attack range decreased from 350 to 250 - Dispertion increased from 100 to 150 - Shot cost increased from 1 wood to 2 wood - Price changed from 100 food, 4 wood, 5 gold to 80 food, 5 wood, 7 gold Mercenary archer: - Dispertion is 200 17th century officer - European: - Gold consumption increased from 25 to 40 17th century officer - Russia: - Production time increased from 5s to 6s 17th century officer - Turkey: - Gold consumption increased from 20 to 35 17th century officer - Scotland: - Gold consumption increased from 30 to 45 18th century officer - European: - Gold consumption increased from 50 to 80 17th century drummer - European: - Price increased from 60 food to 60 food, 20 gold Bagpiper - England, Scotland: - Price increased from 120 food to 120 food, 20 gold 17th century drummer - Russia: - Price increased from 90 food, 10 gold to 90 food, 15 gold 17th century drummer - Turkey: - Price increased from 30 food to 30 food, 15 gold 18th century drummer - European: - Price increased from 50 food, 10 gold to 50 food, 30 gold Priest - European: - Health points decreased from 150 to 100 - Gold consumption increased from 0 to 20 Pope - Russia, Ukraine: - Health points decreased from 100 to 75 - Gold consumption increased from 0 to 20 - Heal power decreased from 30 to 25 Mullah - Turkey, Algeria: - Health points decreased from 150 to 100 - Gold consumption increased from 0 to 20 Grenadier - European: - Shot cost increased from 2 iron, 2 coal to 2 iron, 3 coal Grenadier - Denmark: - Shot cost increased from 2 iron, 2 coal to 3 iron, 3 coal - Reload time (musket) decreased from 6.4 to 6s - Min attack range (musket) increased from 400 to 450 Grenadier - Prussia: - Health points increased from 120 to 125 - Production time increased from 6.5s to 7s Grenadier - Bavaria: - Shot cost increased from 2 iron, 2 coal to 3 iron, 3 coal - Production time decreased from 6.5s to 6s Grenadier - Saxony: - Shot cost increased from 2 iron, 2 coal to 3 iron, 3 coal - Max attack range (musket) increased from 900 to 950 - Production time increased from 5.5s to 6s Mercenary grenadier: - Max attack range decreased from 85 to 75 Croat - Austria: - Price increased from 80 food, 2 gold, 2 iron to 80 food, 6 gold, 2 iron Hackapellite - Sweden: - Price increased from 80 food, 5 gold, 2 iron to 80 food, 7 gold, 2 iron - Production time decreased from 21s to 20.25s Hussar - European: - Price increased from 70 food, 8 gold, 2 iron to 70 food, 20 gold, 2 iron Hussar - Prussia: - Price increased from 60 food, 11 gold, 2 iron to 60 food, 20 gold, 2 iron - Production time increased from 11.25s to 12s Winged Hussar - Poland: - Price increased from 130 food, 25 gold, 25 iron to 130 food, 30 gold, 25 iron - Production time decreased from 30s to 26s Sich Cossack - Ukraine: - Health points decreased from 260 to 250 - Price decreased from 140 food, 2 iron to 130 food, 2 iron - Production time decreased from 15s to 13.5s Raider - Scotland: - Health points decreased from 290 to 280 - Price changed from 140 food, 6 gold, 2 iron to 130 food, 8 gold, 2 iron - Production time decreased from 25.5s to 22.5s Reiter - European: - Price increased from 120 food, 5 gold, 40 iron to 120 food, 10 gold, 40 iron Reiter - Sweden: - Price increased from 130 food, 3 gold, 20 iron to 130 food, 7 gold, 20 iron - Production time decreased from 25.5s to 22.5s Reiter - Poland: - Price increased from 60 food, 2 gold, 2 iron to 60 food, 5 gold, 2 iron - Production time increased from 7.5s to 8.25s Hetman - Ukraine: - Min attack range decreased from 30 to 20 - Max attack range increased from 60 to 65 - Cannonball protection decreased from 30 to 15 - Production time increased from 12s to 13.5s Don Cossack - Russia: - Price increased from 100 food to 100 food, 1 wood Vityaz - Russia: - Health points decreased from 400 to 380 - Max attack range decreased from 75 to 65 - Price increased from 160 food, 8 gold, 25 iron to 160 food, 13 gold, 25 iron - Production time decreased from 27s to 25.5s Register Cossack - Ukraine: - Health points decreased from 260 to 250 - Price increased from 70 food, 10 gold to 70 food, 20 gold - Production time increased from 9s to 10.5s Light Spakh - Turkey: - Price increased from 80 food, 3 gold, 5 iron to 80 food, 6 gold, 5 iron - Cannister protection increased from 0 to 10 Mameluke - Algeria: - Price increased from 100 food, 5 wood, 5 gold to 100 food, 5 wood, 8 gold - Sword protection increased from 2 to 3 - Cannister protection increased from 50 to 75 - Arrow protection decreased from 10 to 8 Lancer - Scotland - Price increased from 100 food, 2 gold to 100 food, 6 gold Cuirassier - European: - Damage decreased from 15 to 14 - Max attack range increased from 60 to 65 - Price increased from 120 food, 15 gold, 20 iron to 120 food, 35 gold, 25 iron Cavalry guard - Saxony: - Damage decreased from 16 to 15 - Price increased from 140 food, 25 gold, 15 iron to 140 food, 50 gold, 20 iron 17th century dragoon - European: - Shot cost increased from 2 iron, 3 coal to 2 iron, 4 coal - Price increased from 90 food, 2 gold, 5 iron to 90 food, 7 gold, 5 iron Pospolite ruszenie - Poland: - Damage increased from 10 to 12 - Reload time increased from 4.7s to 5s - Shot cost is 2 iron, 3 coal - Price increased from 70 food, 2 gold, 4 iron to 70 food, 5 gold, 4 iron King's Musketeer - France - Shot cost increased from 4 iron, 6 coal to 6 iron, 10 coal - Price increased from 100 food, 80 gold, 8 iron to 100 food, 100 gold, 8 iron - Gold consumption increased from 150 to 200 18th century dragoon - European: - Reload time increased from 5.3s to 5.6s - Shot cost increased from 3 iron, 4 coal to 4 iron, 5 coal - Price increased from 70 food, 45 gold, 7 iron to 70 food, 60 gold, 7 iron 18th century dragoon - France: - Reload time increased from 4.7s to 5s - Shot cost increased from 1 iron, 2 coal to 3 iron, 3 coal 18th century dragoon - Netherlands: - Health points increased from 300 to 320 - Reload time increased from 5s to 5.3s - Shot cost increased from 3 iron, 3 coal to 3 iron, 4 coal - Price increased from 100 food, 50 gold, 7 iron to 100 food, 70 gold, 7 iron Tatar - Turkey: - Price increased from 70 food, 2 wood, 1 gold to 70 food, 2 wood, 6 gold Howitzer: - Reload time decreased from 21.9s to 18.8s - Min attack range increased from 650 to 700 - Max attack range increased from 1350 to 1400 - Shot cost decreased from 70 iron, 115 coal to 20 iron, 100 coal - Price decreased from 250 wood, 400 gold, 300 iron to 250 wood, 350 gold, 300 iron - Production time increased from 140s to 150s - Gold consumption increased from 250 to 350 Mortar: - Damage increased from 100 to 200 - Max attack range increased from 2500 to 2600 - Shot cost increased from 20 iron, 20 coal to 20 iron, 30 coal Multibarrel cannon: - Shot cost increased from 15 iron, 10 coal to 40 iron, 30 coal - Gold consumption increased from 200 to 300 Frame gun - Scotland: - Health points increased from 2500 to 3000 - Min attack range increased from 100 to 200 - Aggro search range decreased from 17 to 1200 - Gold consumption increased from 200 to 300

Dear friends! GSC Game World is happy to announce that ‘Cossacks 3: Path to Grandeur’ is now available! Path to Grandeur will allow you to participate in glorious wars, marching through half of the Europe and battling the greatest empires of an era. DLC would introduce two new nations, 8 unique units, amusing campaigns and more! Main features of Path to Grandeur: • Ottoman campaign: Take part in greatest battles of Köprülü era and lead the Ottoman to grandeur. • Spanish campaign: Become an Ambrogio Spinola. Demonstrate your wits in sieges of mighty fortresses and calm mind in fiery battles. • New climatic zone: Get ready to fierce battles among great sands under the scorching desert sun. • New nations: Highly anticipated by our players Hungary and Portugal are returning to game and entering the battlefields, each with its own custom soundtrack. • New unique Units: "17th century Pikeman - Portugal: Hp-100 Damage - 9 (19 with the maximum upgrade) Price - food 40, gold 4, iron 5 Time of posts - 4 Protection - pike: 0 (10), sword: 1 (11), bullet: 1, cannister: 25, arrow: 4 (14), cannonball: 0 Jaeger - Portugal: Hp-50 Damage - 10 (16) Price - food 30, gold 2, iron 5 Build time - 2.25 Protection - unarmored (with maximum upgrade pike, sword, arrow: 6) Hajduk - Hungary: Hp-60 Damage - 9 (13) Price - food 35, gold 4, iron 4 Time of posts - 5 Protection - unarmored (pike, sword, arrow: 7) Szekelys - Hungary: Hp-75 Damage - 19 (27) Price - food 30, gold 30, iron 10 Time of posts - 8.5 Protection - unarmored (pike, sword, arrow: 8) Grenadier - Hungary: Hp-125 Melee damage - 30 (50), musket - 16 Price - food 90, gold 70, iron 30 Time of construction - 6.5 Protection - unarmored (pike, sword, arrow: 12) Hussar(available in 17th century) - Hungary: Hp-225 Damage - 10 (28) Price - food 100, gold 30, iron 2 Time of posts - 21 Protection - unarmored (pike, sword, arrow: 10) Sipahi - Turkey: Hp 360 Damage - 12 (22) Price - food 130, gold 20, iron 70 Post time - 19.5 Protection - pike: 3 (15), sword: 7 (19), bullet: 4, cannister: 225, arrow: 25 (37), cannonball: 60 Coselete - Spain: Hp-100 Damage - 10 (20) Price - food 35, gold 7, iron 30 Post time - 5.5 Protection - pike: 4 (12), sword: 5 (13), bullet: 6, cannister: 240, arrow: 12 (20), cannonball: 50" Hungary and Portugal would be available to all our players in two weeks after release of the DLC. Owners of Deulxe Edition or DLC would be able to use them since 16th May, while other players will get access to these nations for free on 30th of May. This DLC is part of the Deluxe Edition. Wish you have a nice day!

Dear friends! We are glad to present patch, which adds new minimal size of map to Cossacks 3. This option will ideally suit fast and fierce 1x1 and 2x2 battles. This is the final patch until the release of our next DLC - Path to Grandeur (16.05). Next patch will be released simultaneously with DLC, and will provide changes in balance, introduce new units to existing nations along with other improvements. Patch Notes 05.05.17 (1.5.4.72.5195) General: 1. Implemented algorithm to search for proper place to construct a building, if current position is unavailable. Now the game would propose to use proper place nearby 2. Campaign units stats were corrected, in correspondence to latest rebalance patch. 3. Transport ship`s movement speed increased on 25%, transport capacity increased from 80 to 120 units 4. Added new hotkey for pause , for keyboards without Pause key: Ctrl+Shift+P 5. Decreased game, save loading and map generation times for some users, especially while running the game on slow hard drives AI Adviser (function from DLC Guardians of the Highlands): 1. Fixed an error, which caused adviser to place too much guards. 2. Fixed an error, which caused lags in very long games with adviser. Errors: 1. Fixed errors in wrong display of resources on resource panel. 2. Fixed an error, which allowed to exceed artillery limits. 3. Achievements for destroying 10 and 100 buildings (The destroyer and The scourge of God) are now functioning properly. 4. Improved an AI for Turkey and Algeria. Fixed an error, which caused his inability to progress on island maps, and irrational resource collection peasants distribution. 5. Fixed an error, when after pressing surrender button player's units and buildings kept living for long time. Now base destruction is being processed faster. Units balance: 17th century musketeer - Poland: - Production time decreased from 6 to 5 sec Winged Hussar - Poland: - Bullet protection increased from 4 to 5 Reiter: - Bullet protection increased from 5 to 6. Cuirassier: - Sword protection increased from 3 to 4 - Bullet protection increased from 9 to 10 Cavalry guard - Saxony: - Bullet protection increased from 8 to 9 Multibarrel cannon: - Multibarrel cannons now can form squads (formation type - line, like howitzer). Changed cannonball protection for armored units. Now resistance to cannonball fragments damage is more closely tied to units visual armor. Buildings balance: 1. Changed construction cost and next building cost multiplier coefficient for 17th century barracks: - Next building cost multiplier decreased from 10 times to 5 times. - Increased gold cost from 300 to 500 In practice, first 4 barracks had next costs: 100 wood, 100 stone, 300 gold 1000 wood, 1000 stone, 3000 gold 10000 wood, 10000 stone, 30000 gold 100000 wood, 100000 stone, 300000 gold New costs: 100 wood, 100 stone, 500 gold 500 wood, 500 stone, 2500 gold 2500 wood, 2500 stone, 12500 gold 12500 wood, 12500 stone, 62500 gold This change should increase european nations dynamics and variety of game styles. 2. Changed building cost and next building cost multiplier for Castle (Scotland) - Next building cost multiplier decreased from 4 times to 3 times - Changed cost from 300 wood, 400 stone, 5000 gold to 500 wood, 2000 stone, 4000 gold.

Dear friends! We are glad to announce Cossacks 3: Path to Grandeur, a valiant addition to the Cossacks series that will be released on May 16th. Path to Grandeur will allow you to participate in glorious wars, marching through half of the Europe and battling the greatest empires of an era. DLC would introduce two new nations, 8 unique units, amusing campaigns and more! Main features: • Ottoman campaign: Take part in greatest battles of Köprülü era and lead the Ottoman to grandeur. • Spanish campaign: Become an Ambrogio Spinola. Demonstrate your wits in sieges of mighty fortresses and calm mind in fiery battles. • New unique Units: Portugal: - 17th century Pikeman - Jaeger - Unique Shipyard Hungary: - Hajduk - Grenzer - Grenadier - Hussar (available in 17th century) Turkey: - Sipahi (heavy armored cavalry) Spain: - Coselete (one of the strongest pikemen) • New climatic zone: Get ready to fierce battles among great sands under the scorching desert sun. • New nations: Highly anticipated by our players Hungary and Portugal are returning to game and entering the battlefields, each with its own custom soundtrack. Hungary and Portugal would be available to all our players in two weeks after release of the DLC. Owners of Deulxe Edition or DLC would be able to use them since 16th May, while other players will get access to these nations for free on 30th of May. This DLC is part of the Deluxe Edition.

On 21st of April we had conducted our second developers stream (you may watch it here). Evgeniy Grygorovych, the lead developer of Cossacks 3, answered your questions, explained how to play Scotland and elucidated details in AI adviser`s behaviour. Questions were asked by well known streamer and magnificent anchorman Lord Eagle. Here are the questions and answers from our stream: 1. Will you work further on optimizing the game? Yes, we have two ideas on improvements: 1) Graphics optimizations, which would allow our players to train more units, maintaining good fps. 2) Improving random map generation and game loading speed. 2. Would you organize new game key raffles? Well, this question should be redirected to our PR-department. They're creating such contests periodically, so it`s possible. 3. Could you add the standard bearer unit to the game? Currently we`re using two units to form a squad - officer and drummer and that's hard enough to constantly control. Adding third unit would render this task even harder. It`ld make sense only after implementing simpler mechanics of squad forming. 4. Can you provide us with further details on AI adviser and it`s (his) functions? First of all, adviser was created with new players in mind, which aren't familiar with our demanding game mechanics. For example, game punishes forgetful players with starvation mechanic. Using AI adviser they're getting acknowledged with importance of having stored food, gold; default build orders et cetera much faster. Our veteran players also would be pleased, as new players would be able to provide better resistance, leading to more interesting games. Such features as reminding about key upgrades, commanding peasants to gather resources after finishing a building and filling empty mines automatically would help everyone, not only the newcomers. 5. How exactly does adviser commands peasants? For now he`s choosing peasants semi-randomly from the ones which`re gathering wood or stone. We`re working on further improvements, to suit players with different build-orders and tactics, where taking peasants from some resources is more critical. 6. Would you add cooperative mode to control 1 nation via 2 players? Yes, we would do this, though it won't be in the next month at least. It could be added in the most basic mode fast, but we want to make this feature as bug-less as possible. 7. Question about Scotland - you`ve promised that all nations would be free to the buyers of basic game, why this one is released as luxury mini-expansion? We've promised to provide access to all 20 nations from Cossacks 1, deluxe players are able to play new nations earlier than basic version players. Scotland is absolutely new nation to Cossacks series, therefore it`s added as mini-expansion. We're also planning to add new unit-packs to existing nations. Adding such a unique nation is much harder task, since we have to invent, test and balance new units and their interactions. More nations like this could be added in future, as they're expanding game experience, in comparison with other european nations. 8. Could you tell us about next new nation to be added into Cossacks 3? There`are some ideas, but nation is still not 100% sure chosen, so I won`t voice it, as our fans may be disappointed if we would choose the other one. In the next deluxe edition dlc we would add Portugal and Hungary, with some new units for Turkey and Spain. 9. Would you change units from default European nations ? It`s possible, but only with addition of new unique units to existed nations. 10. Do you plan to add new naval units and improve existing ones? We`re testing naval rebalance now, as we hadn`t added these changes to last rebalance patch. 18th century units aren`t in development right now, they exist as concepts only. We do hope to provide further improvements on navy in free patches. 11. When would you fix dark edges on the map? There`re some possible fixes: for example, we can render grass further. We think that trouble would be with pointing these areas as unplayable(impassable terrain) to our players. Dark edges isn`t the most aesthetically pleasing solution, though they provide clear border between game regions. 12. Is it possible to add Scotland shooter from English barracks to Scotland`s castle and why each next castle costs 4x comparing to previous one? First of all, this unit is England`s unique one from 18th century and we won`t “steal” him to add to Scotland. Our vision of Scotland is as of unique nation without 18th century with its own strong and weak sides. For example, Scotland would most likely lose in long perspective, so it`s strong side is in dynamic early game and mid-game. Players should keep harassing their enemies with clans swordsmen and raiders. This nation requires different mindset. Castle isn`t another 17th century barracks, it acts as viable alternative to 18th century barracks during mid-game, as clans swordsmen have insane high attack with all upgrades. 13. Why Swedish 18th century pikemen are weaker than European ones? This revision of rebalance isn`t perfect, and has some errors. This inequality is probably one of them. Good news is, after rebalance rarely used units, such as musketeers, reiters and other units became much more viable. 14. What are you planning to do with misusing officers as attack units? After our latest rebalance officers got nerfed, and this tactics is no longer as widely used as it was. Before nerfing officers even further we should analyze top-players tactics on countering them. Nowadays this units are only part of players armies, not the whole army in itself. 15. Do you plan to add 18th century requirement to mercenary 18th century dragoons? I don`t think that this is a good idea, as dragoons aren`t imbalanced units now; I suppose they may even got nerfed too much. This requirement would decrease amount of 17th century strategies. 16. Will you fix unobtainable steam achievements? We are acknowledged of this bug, it`s harder to fix than we thought. We`re patching the game actively, and in time would fix achievements too. 17. Would you change the rating system? Many top-players aren`t pleased with existing system and are wishing to use ELO system, like the one used in MOBAs and chess. This system has negative feature :if you`re high level in ELO, it`s better to abstain from further games, as you would only lose rating. Our current system is similar to Cossacks 1, and it`s imperfect as players who`re able to play frequently are getting higher rankings. Next rating reset is planned on next dlc release. We would work on it, to make it better. 18. Could you provide us with paper on mac and linux porting, and why it`s so hard? We do want to write and publish it after finishing this task, as linux version is ready, and mac one has good progress too. It`d be an interesting reading for both programmers and gamers. 19. Is it possible to create map-option prohibiting peasants to finish other nations builidings creation? Yes, it`s possible. Though, I don`t suppose it`d be positive to our game dynamics, as capturing other nations peasants and leading them to base is hard. Modders should be able to do it, as they`re provided with same tools as we`ve used in game creation. 20. Will you add allied player-to-player trading functionality? Yes, it`s required. 21. Question on Scotland`s build order – is it better to construct castles or stables first? I don`t think there`s definite build order for all possible situations. In some games castles would be better, while in other stables would dominate. Castle is oriented on longer games, as you can have less upgrades, cause you have only 1 castle at start, and you can't make several upgrades at once. So slow unit upgrades would stagger your army quantity. If you`re using stables, you won't have such problem but, wood resource collection upgrade is must-have in that case. 22. When would you release the Mac version? Mac version is almost ready. It`s going to be released soon after Linux version. Sadly, i can`t say that it`s going to be released today 23. Why mortar`s shooting range is 3 times longer now? It`s able to hit buildings across half of the map. I suppose the question was about howitzer, since mortars range weren`t changed. In rating games, however, map size is smaller, so it may look as mortar`s range is much longer. Howitzer`s damage was lowered, and it`s not the mass destruction weapon now. Missing with howitzers shoot is much less devastating for nearby units, while direct hit damage is still good. Actually, howitzer should be played as totally new unit. 24. Do you plan to develop American Conquest 2? AC was a good game, and i would like to create sequel. However, we`re focused on Cossacks 3 right now and i can`t make any promises. 25. Do you plan to develop new games? Yes. 26. When you would fix towers and mines mass upgrades? We are working on it, and will provide a fix, but it`s not on the top of the list. 27. Are there going to be any new multiplayer modes? For example custom sea/land battles, or capturing some points. I`ve heard modders were talking about them, though there weren`t any complete ideas on definitively fun and interesting new modes. So, it`s possible to implement by our users, but we would add them to base game only after some proofs on their efficiency. User mods may become even popular than base game (DotA, Counter Strike), so modders may try it. 28. Could you add cobblestones near buildings, similar to Cossacks 1? Currently we`re using different textures under different buildings. Some of them are using ground/dirt instead of cobblestones. We can add cobblestones to all buildings, but we won`t, since current solution seems good to us. 29. By any chance, do you plan to change ranking system? It is unknown whether the new system would be better than current one. We`ll have to clear ratings and experiment, while other tasks on bug-fixing and polishing mechanics would be delayed. We have very many single players, which would appreciate balance changes or new content. Creating new system would mean our single players are getting robbed of patches. 30. Will you change the trades on market? Is it possible to nerf the market? If you`re talking about reverse trades (for example, if you have 1000 gold and would like to trade stone to gold, it`d be much more profitable to exchange 1000 gold in stone, and then sell all existing stone in exchange for gold), than it`s the side-bug of our economic model.After all previous balance changes market isn`t as important as it was. We have another market model, but it isn`t implemented as we`re afraid of breaking the existing balance. And there`s the other idea: one player is focusing on market, while other is spending their resources on something completely new, which would provide him with similar benefits. We`re thinking that creating new ways of progressing would be better than nerfing market. 31. What chair are you sitting on? That`s NaVi branded chair. 32. Is it possible to re-release Cossacks 1 campaigns in Cossacks 3? It is possible, but we`re definitely against reusing old campaigns. In Cossacks 3 we`ve even used new plot-schemes. 33. Which benefits has the attacker, in comparison to defending player? In my opinion, attacker is able to constantly harass defender with raids and diversions. That would lead defender to making errors, while attacker is enjoying more safe environment. Capturing buildings is also extremely effective. 34. When would you improve the palisade stats? It was made a lot more effective in latest rebalance. 35. How should you play with Scottish archers? They`re unplayable, just like chasseurs, pandurs and English highlanders. It`s a question to pro-players. In my opinion they`re usable. Chasseurs and pandurs were also improved in latest rebalance patch. 36. Is it possible for you to implement “invite friend” button for steam? Yes it is must-have feature, but it isn`t our top priority. 37. Can you add some delay in game starting process in multiplayer? We`ll definitely add it. 38. Would you create the ingame encyclopedia, with all units and nations features and statistics? New players should browse patch-notes and forums as for now. We have this table and are planning to incorporate it ingame. I`m not sure on how it`ll look, but we`re working on this. 39. Any new DLCs with improved naval units mechanics this year? We`d like to do it, but it depends on time constraints 40. Do you plan to add day-night cycle and precipitation? It is possible to add day-night cycle via modifications. We are not planning to add it to the base game, as it would make game look worse and render problems in visibility of some units 41. Do you plan to add Japan with original samurai units? I don't want to answer this question :) 42. You should improve burgomeister`s resource collection options. I was training peasants and sending new ones to mine stone, while AI has changed their orders to “gather food" This is definitely a bug. We`re working on further improvements to AI assistant. Only peasants without player orders should be redirected to resources . 43. Would you stream with mods in future? It`s possible. 44. Why the AI adviser isn`t free? This is game`s expansion and result of hard work. Work should be paid off. This allows us to release new patches and provide further support to game. You may try adviser for free in multiplayer games. In order to do this you should join game where host has Guardians of the Highlands DLC. 45. Would there be any swamps or other obstacles on the map? We`re going to add lakes and rivers (which are almost finished). 46. Is it possible to add pirates nation? Maybe you`ll release special program to create custom nations? It is possible to add custom nation right now and it isn`t technically difficult. We will try to make some tools or wizards to make this process easier, but it isn`t in high priority right now. 47. Will you implement the system of giving unit controls to ally? No, we don`t think it`s a necessity. Such system could be used for cheating purposes. For example, one player could waste all his resources on upgrades and other would train an army and give it to first one. Upgrades are tied to player, so it may be used for cheating. 48. Using drummer as scout is abit farcically. Maybe you should add new scout unit? It wouldn`t make the gameplay more interesting, the only improvements would be in visuals. While choosing between scout or new gameplay units for European nations – we`d choose new units, as they`ve much more worth for our players.

Dear friends! As we`ve promised, work on improving the balance is going on. After thorough analysis and testing of your suggestions and recommendations, we`ve done some major fixes and changes, which should make the game better. Also in the new patch we improved the AI Adviser (function from Guardians of the Highlands mini expansion). You can read more about these changes below: General: 1. Reduced the critical (headshot) chance of muskets from 4 to 3. AI Adviser (function from DLC Guardians of the Highlands): 1. While choosing troops to set on guard near buildings, adviser will try to use melee infantry. 2. AI assistant won`t repair buildings which were set on fire by player via pressing the Delete key. 3. Changed peasant selection algorithm used for constructing new buildings. Now it processes game priorities, size and time of construiction properly 4. Now AI sets peasants training on infinte production, instead of building them one by one. 5. Changed resource gathering priorites. Now adviser would send lesser amounts of peasants to gather food. 6. Fixed an error, which caused adviser using units from squads to set on guard. Errors: 1. Fixed an error, when units able to shoot and attack with bayonet weren`t able to attack in melee if reload time for musket wasn`t over. 2. Fixed an error, causing some shooters inability to shoot from maximum range. Balance: 17th century musketeer - Poland: - Reload time decreased from 3.4375 to 3.125 sec - Production time decreased from 6.5 to 6 sec 17th century musketeer - Netherland: - Production time decreased from 7 to 6 sec 17th century musketeer - Austria: - Production time decreased from 9 to 8.5 sec 17th century musketeer - Spain: -Production time decreased from 10.5 to 10 sec Pandur - Austria: - Reload time increased from 4.375 to 4.6875 sec - Production time decreased from 9 to 8 sec Chasseur - France: - Reload time decreased from 6.25 to 5.9375 sec - Max shooting distance increased from 1000 to 1050 - Production time decreased from 12 to 10.5 sec Highlander - England: - Production time decreased from 7.5 to 8.5 sec Archer - Algier/mercenary: - Fire arrow max shooting distance decreased from 800 to 600 Hussar - Prussia: - Production time decreased from 12 to 11.25 sec Reiter: - Production time decreased from 27 to 24 sec Howitzer: - Hit points reduced from 4000 to 3000 - Minimal attack distance increased from 550 to 650 - Maximal attack distance reduced from 1400 to 1350 Mortar: - Hit points reduced from 500 to 400 Multibarrel cannon - Added 500 protection against cannister, to prevent killing other multibarrel cannons standing nearby Frame gun - Scotland: - Hit points reduced from 3000 to 2500 - Reload time increased from 2.1875 to 2.8125 sec Mercenaries: 1. Changed gold consumption: Light Infantry from 3 to 4 Roundshier from 6 to 10 Archer from 4 to 8 Grenadier from 20 to 40 Sich Cossack from 60 to 75 Dragoon 18c from 60 to 90 2. Grenadier (mercenary): Increased resource consumtion on shot from 2 iron 3 coal to 2 iron 5 coal 3. Dragoon 18 century (mercenary): Increased resource consumtion on shot from 4 iron 5 coal to 4 iron 8 coal

Dear friends! GSC Game World wholeheartedly wishes you a great Easter! May this wonderful day bring only joy and happiness into your and your loved ones lives. To commemorate this, we’ve changed our title artwork a bit, bringing both holiday and Scottish motifs into the game. Some of you may not be aware, but Easter is celebrated differently in various countries. Here in Ukraine, an Orthodox nation, we have a few distinct centuries-old traditions, that the cossacks themselves were sure to follow: we bake and eat delicious kulichs, decorate eggs as pysanky, krashanky or driapanky, and visit our relatives to exchange our Easter greetings. As Cossacks 3 is played across almost every continent (Antarctica needs to step up its game), by players from various countries and cultures, we would love to know Easter traditions that you follow. What are the special quirks that you or your family do each year on this great day? Lets us know in the comments! Have a majestic Easter, and as we say in Ukraine today - Christ has arisen!

Dear friends! Let the pipes roar and the Jacobites rise, as today the Scottish Clansmen finally descend onto the battlefields of Cossacks 3 with its latest expansion - Guardians of the Highlands. Strike fear into the hearts of your enemies by commanding the iconic Gaelic Highlanders, or outsmart them with help of our innovative Assistant - an AI that will advise you on the important matter of leading the nation. The new historical campaign will tell a story about the great triumphs of the Scottish nation, while the original musical theme will bring the pipes onto the battlefields of Cossacks 3. Main Features:

• Scotland: a brand new nation with unique game mechanics, units and buildings. Force even the fiercest of foes to flee with help of the mighty highlanders, or turn them to ashes with the Scottish machines of war.
• New game mechanics: Scotland shall impress even the most hardcore fans, as warriors in kilts, with help of some new tactics and tricks, completely change the way the game is played.
• Assistant: revolutionary AI-helper that will assist the player with the toughest of tasks – ruling a nation. It will advice the player on what buildings it is better to build with the current resource pool and automatically guide the idle peasants various resource nodes or priority tasks, and much more! From now on there’s no need to waste your time on things not fit for royals, you can focus your attention on things that matter: leading an army and crushing your enemies, while assistant will take care of trivial tasks.
• Scottish campaign: lead the Gaelic warriors to victory in their bloodiest struggles. From the battle of Marston Moor to the famous Jacobite rising, you shall lead the sons of Alba to glory!
• New units: nine unique Scottish units shall strike fear in the hearts of your enemies. Highlanders and clansmen are ready to annihilate your enemies.
• New soundtrack: lead the brave highlanders to victory while a traditional Scottish tune plays in the background.

Dear friends! As we mentioned yesterday, along with the new mini-expansion we are starting out the first phase of our scheduled global rebalance of the game. The latest update affected almost every unit in the game, changing or tweaking the stats of soldiers all across Europe in Cossacks 3. In the future we plan to bring changes to naval units and the economy of the game. We would be glad to listen to your feedback on the re-balance, as your opinion and enjoyment of the game is crucial for us. Main changes: 1. Rate of fire. Now musketeers have higher reload times, but pack more punch with each shot. 2. Musketeer 17c, Dragoon 17c and Reiter are now recruited faster. 3. Light Cavalry (Hussar etc) now use the "sword" type of damage, which will help the heavy cavalry in dealing with them. 4. Overhauled the durability values of the artillery. Howitzer now has a higher rate of fire, along with a bigger radius of fire. 5. Walls now have cheaper maintenance costs, and gates have less durability. 6. Re-balanced the units with over the top stats. 7. Every unit in the game has undergone a complex reevaluation process, which takes in account both existing balance and the units planned for the updates to come. 8. Due to reduction of build times of numerous units in this patch, we decided to speed up the food harvesting process by 1/3. 9. Increased the efficiency of resource gathering in mines by 30%, so that it would keep up with the new game's dynamics. 10. Slightly reduced the cost of mine upgrades, so that they would be a more viable option in comparison to stone + market.

Dear friends! Due to technical problems with some of the DLC mechanics that we’ve spotted at the last-moment tests, we are forced to postpone the release of the mini-expansion, Cossacks 3: Guardians of the Highlands, till tomorrow. Nonetheless, we are glad to announce that we’re going to release a complete rebalance patch along with the Scottish DLC, about which you can read below. Re-balance of all in-game units is just a firsts stage of our planned three-step program for the game’s balance, about which we are already talked during our first live-stream. In the future we want to change the game’s economy and the dynamics of resource gathering, to further diversify the viable ways of developing your country. The upcoming changes will affect almost every unit in the game: we’ve changed the initial parameters of soldiers, as well as the amount of bonuses the upgrades provide. With the rebalance, each nation becomes a viable option in the hands of a skilled player, giving the game yet another competitive edge. From the very release of the game we were always saying that Cossacks 3 is not a simple remaster, but a continuation of the series, a true successor to the legendary original classic. We want to forge it with you, by listening to your feedback and comments. After the release of the patch, we would be glad to listen to your opinion on the state of the new balance, both your critique and praise. Due to the fact that the upcoming changes are so huge, we are unable to post them in this post. We decided to create a separate document with the new stats for the units, which you can find by following the link below: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1CPQ_WRrKhfr70fyCtDTyKugg4RLidS5yhnhOW8ES3TY/edit?usp=sharing

Dear friends! As you remember, last Friday the lead developer of Cossacks 3, Evgeniy Grygorovych, streamed our first ever Q&A session with the community. Due to certain reasons, it was conducted in Russian, so some of you may had some troubles understanding it. Nevertheless, we collected all of your questions and Evgeniy gladly answered them during the steam. Below is the full translation of the Q & A session that answers on such questions as what awaits Cossacks 3, what are our future plans and what can you expect from our upcoming mini-expansion, Guardians of the Highland, and much more! Q: Do you plan on updating the interface? A: No, from the very beginning we wanted to recreate the atmosphere of the original Cossacks, which many remember from their childhood. We wanted to create a very similar, recognizable UI… More “modern” look you can most likely get from the (user created) modifications. Q: Is the game going to get on sale during some holiday? A: Well, each release of the new DLC / update is a reason to celebrate, so we’re trying to put our game on sale during such periods. It’s quite possible that Cossacks 3 will go on sale when Guardian of the Highlands will hit the Steam store. Q: Why you didn’t release the Mac and Linux versions today? A: We had some technical difficulties, but soon enough everyone will get access to the open beta, you need to wait a bit. We really underestimated the task. Q: Will there be any official tournaments any time soon? A: Yes, we are working on it. We also support community made competitions. Q: How long o you plan on supporting Cossacks 3? A: We have a First year plan, it’s set in stone. So until September we shall regularly update the game and we plan on releasing 2 more DLC for deluxe edition owners. Q: Do you have any ideas for absolutely new games? A: We have some ideas, for both completely new games, and continuations of our older titles. Q: Will you enable the price progression for mercenary dragoons when you hire them with a “Shift” button? A: Well, after the latest dragoon nerf they are not the force they used to be anymore. There’s no need for this anymore. Q: Do you plan on implementing clan system into the game? A: We want to introduce some kind of clan system into the game. It’s a necessary thing, but we can only implement it when the ranked game will stable, when the main game bugs will be squashed… Only then we can add a clan system to the game, as the future of the game is with it. Q: Will there be any manuals for mod creators? Yes, we plan to create some manuals. Right now they are made mostly by other modders, but we shall civilize the, add intricate nuances only known to us… But again, this is a question of a few months… We shall also polish the game editor, make it more user-friendly, like in the original Cossacks. Q: Do you want to make the game more e-sports friendly? A: I think that the community makes the game e-sport ready, no the developers. Most of the modern e-sport hits were made by the players, they were modifications (Eugene is referring to DotA and CS). The developer can never guarantee that he’s making a hit, while the players can, they are not afraid to take risks. Q: Do you plan on adding a coop mode for two players, so that they would be able to play as the same nation/color? A: Yes, I want to implement this possibility. Playing as the same color is great. I hope to add this within 2-3 patches, from a technical point of view it’s shouldn’t cause much trouble. Q: Will you fix the re-host? A: Yes. Q: Will you bring the patrol order back? A: Actually, the modders already brought this function back. So, there’s a high chance it may make a comeback, if the modders will be generous enough to share it with us. They usually do. Q: What will happen to the English Highlanders after the release of Scotland? A: England will still have its own Highlander, while Scotland will have its own unique units. Q: Do you plan to change the reload speed of the musketeers? A: I thought I would be able to release the new balance with the today’s patch. We have a build with a completely overhauled balance, where almost every unit has new stats. The main idea behind the changes: increasing the production time of 17c musketeers, increasing their reload time and per shot damage. 17th century cavalry also got rebalance, now it builds faster, but has… less HP, so they won’t be “tanks” anymore. Q: Will there be any additional eastern nations? A: We have some eastern nations in development… the tatars, for example, we are evaluating right now if they are suitable for the game. We also have some ideas for more… eastern nations, but we are not ready to announce them yet. Yes, we want to get away from the concept of Europe… For example, Scotland won’t be a standard European nation, it will pay as a non-european nation in terms of economy and development. It won’t have the 17th century upgrade, but will have 2 barracks: for highlanders and lowlanders. The castle of highlanders will be quite expensive, but available from the very start. It’s a counterpart of the 18th century barracks, but it will give players a completely new experience, as they will be able to make a choice on which way to develop the nation. I’m sure the player will love Scotland. We plan on adding numerous interesting mechanics. Q: What unique units the Scottish roster will have? A: its own unique highlander archer, highlander with a sword, 2 types of cavalry units (fast and slow), unique officer and peasant (uncapturable, just like the Ukrainian one), and its own multibarrel cannon. Q: Will we be able to rotate the camera in-game? A: You do it right now with help of mods, but we plan on adding this as a n option. The rotation won’t be completely free, there will be a certain degree to which the player will be able to turn the camera, so that he won’t get lost on the battlefield. This is common in the e-sport games, this is considered (as a) good (move). Q: Do you plan on adding different bonuses to different formations? A: Right now no, as you can switch the formation on a go, it takes no time. Q: Can we expect additional game modes? A: We promised, and we will deliver on it, that there will be historical multiplayer / singleplayer battles. They are basically maps with pre-defined balanced compositions of armies. Q: Will we eventually be able to trade with our allies? A: Yes. But again, stability of the game is our priority, all things come after it. Q: When will the next DLC come? A: 3rd one – in the middle of May; 4th one – In August. We have a roadmap for the Deluxe edition content, you can check it on the Cossacks 3 Steam store page. Q: You plan to change the economy of the game, or stone + market is the only way? A: We’ll change the economy, along with efficiency of mines and food gathering. There’s a chance we might change the way wood is gathered, but, in the end, stone as the only solution will go. It will become one of the possible ways to develop your economy, not THE way. It’s what we strive towards, it will be the next iteration of the balance, after the unit changes. Q: Will you improve the ranked system? Yes, we will improve it all the time. In the near future – we want to add a possibility choose various game options: 5000/10 PT, 5000/20 PT or 1000/0 PT. I think that 1000/0 is the most interesting way to play. Yes, we will improve the quality of the game so that you’ll be able to play against an equal foe. Right now we use 1 v 1 mode, but in the future we might bring the 2 v 2 and 3 v 3 options back, it may even change with seasons. But right now it’s essential for mode to gather enough player hours, so that people will be distributed among the ranks. Q: How often do you plan to steam? A: Either each week, or from patch to patch. If lucky, it will be each with, with a patch. Q: Which nations do you love the most? A: Love playing as Ukraine, and not because of the balance, but because… The last nerf was a very strong blow to the Ukraine, but it didn’t solve the problem after all, we plan on balancing the hetmans a bit more. Ukraine requires a scrupulous approach to the game from the play, to value each unit. This ‘greed’ needs a very high level of concentration, it suits me. Q: Are the any plans for mines updates? A: Yes, but they will come after the unit and economy rebalances. Q: Is it possible to bring resources with your peasants to your ally’s storehouse? A: That’s a nice idea, never thought about it. Q: by any chance, do you plan on implementing some sound alarms related to resource management in the game? A: I think it’s a good idea, we’ll make it. Q: You plan to implement a global rebalance? A: Yes, we are preparing a global rebalance, after which almost every unit will have a new set of stats. This balance is planned beforehand, with future units in mind (Scotland included). This (new) balance takes in account up to 60 new unit concepts we have in development.

Dear friends! After thoroughly reading all your recommendations and ideas about improvement of the ranked mode in Cossacks 3, we made the necessary adjustments and numerous bug fixes to improve the overall quality of the mode. With the release bugs squashed, playing ranked both solo and with your friends is now a significantly better experience. We also have news for Mac and Linux users: the beta-testing will commence within a few days. We included the way to access the beta branches in the end of the patch notes. We thank Mark "Madgeek" Kandaurov for the screenshot. Patch Notes 31.03.17 (1.4.5.69.4993) General: 1. Reduced the amount of units sent to defend the buildings from 3 to 2. 2. Reduced the range at which units can capture buildings or defend them from being captured. 3. Now there's a mechanism that forces the game to continue after the re-host process is done, if some players failed to reconnect within 10 seconds after a new host has been found. 4. Removed the re-host process from finished sessions, when victors and losers are already decided. 5. The game has an anti-spam mechanism right now. 6. The resource nodes are now placed closer with more players on the map now. 7. Resource nodes are now placed more evenly across the map, making the start of the game more fair for all player. Errors: 1. Fixed an error that prevented the notifications about lack of resources for unit maintenance/construction of buildings and population slots from appearing on the players' screens. 2. Fixed an error, which allowed the player to make a foundation of a building, even if he lacked the necessary resources for its construction (it was impossible to finish the construction). 3. Fixed a number of errors, which prevented production of some units. Multiplayer: 1. Ranked games are now 1 v 1, they use the same map settings as before. This may change in the future, depending on the feedback from the community. 2. Changed the algorithm the game uses to define a host. Now the player with the most RAM is more likely to be chosen as a host. 3. Added a list of players queuing for a ranked match. 4. Added an icon that will appear near players that are queueing for a ranked match. 5. Added a timer that shows how much time has passed since you entered a ranked Queue. 6. Non-ranked games now count towards the amount of victories made by player. 7. The "Quick Play" button now displays the number of players queued for a ranked match. 8. Added counters of victories that are displayed next to the players' nicknames. 9. Fixed an error, when the game tried to add the player to an already started session. 10. Made some correction in the poit distribution formula. Now players will get even more points after winning against a more powerful opponent, while victory over opponents of lower rank will grant less points than before. Balance: Drummer 17c: - Reduced the defence upgrade bonuses from 20 to 12. Officer 17c: - Reduced the damage from 150 to 30. - Reduced the damage upgrade bonuses from 150 to 20. - Reduced the defence upgrade bonuses from 20 to 10. Officer 18c: - Reduced the damage from 150 to 50. - Reduced the damage upgrade bonuses from 150 to 100. Cannon: - Reduced the reload time of cannonballs from 14 seconds to 11 seconds the same way as in the original Cossacks) Players can now create formations with hired grenadiers and roundshiers as Ukraine, as it has no officers of its own. Exciting news for Mac and Linux users: The Linux and Mac versions shall enter an open beta phase of the game. Every Mac and Linux player will be able to launch the game on his/her system by following the steps bellow: 1. Go to your Steam library. 2. Right-click on Cossacks 3. 3. Select "Properties". 4. Select the "Betas" tab 5. Use "beta000multios" as a beta access code. 6. Now you can select an appropriate "Beta" from a drop-down menu above. 7. Now you can participate in the epic battles of 17th and 18th century Europe as well! Important! Due to nature of the Steam betas, Linux players will be able to play play only against players with the same version as them. So if you want to play against your friend who uses Windows, it's necessary for him to follow the steps above and switch to the "Linux beta" version as well.

Dear friends! We have 3 exciting announcements to make today: 1. This Friday we shall start our first ever developer Stream on our official Twitch and Youtube channels. Evgeniy Grygorovych, the lead developer of Cossacks 3 and a key person behind various famous GSC titles, will answer your questions, talk about changes in the upcoming patch and how he sees the future of the game. Check out our official Twitch and Youtube channels: www.twitch.tv/events/1977 and www.youtube.com/user/cossacks3game 2. On Friday we are going to publish a grand new patch that shall bring a lot changes to the game: from balancing the most critical aspects (including 17c officers) of the gameplay to new additional features to the ranked mode. 3. Due to some technical issues with porting, we will launch an open beta of Cossacks 3 on additional platforms on Friday, March 31. We are sorry for any inconveniences. Have a nice day!

Dear friends! We are proud to announce the first ever mini-expansion to the game – Cossacks 3: Guardians of the Highlands. It will come out on April 11 and will feature a newcomer to the Cossacks series – Scotland, with its own unique armies and gameplay mechanics. Cossacks 3: Guardians of the Highlands gives you an opportunity to lead Scotland, a freedom-loving nation of highlanders, which makes its debut in the Cossacks series. Its captivating campaign will tell a tale about the triumphs of the Scottish people in the 17th and 18th century, and will allow you to personally participate in them. Among other additions to the game, the mini-addon brings AI-assistant – a great tool for both new players and the veterans of the game. Main Features:

• Scotland: a brand new nation with unique game mechanics, units and buildings. Force even the fiercest of foes to flee with help of the mighty highlanders, or turn them to ashes with the Scottish machines of war.
• New game mechanics: Scotland shall impress even the most hardcore fans, as warriors in kilts, with help of some new tactics and tricks, completely change the way the game is played.
• Assistant: revolutionary AI-helper that will assist the player with the toughest of tasks – ruling a nation. It will advice the player on what buildings it is better to build with the current resource pool and automatically guide the idle peasants various resource nodes or priority tasks, and much more! From now on there’s no need to waste your time on things not fit for royals, you can focus your attention on things that matter: leading an army and crushing your enemies, while assistant will take care of trivial tasks.
• Scottish campaign: lead the Gaelic warriors to victory in their bloodiest struggles. From the battle of Marston Moor to the famous Jacobite rising, you shall lead the sons of Alba to glory!
• New units: nine unique Scottish units shall strike fear in the hearts of your enemies. Highlanders and clansmen are ready to annihilate your enemies.
• New soundtrack: lead the brave highlanders to victory while a traditional Scottish tune plays in the background.

Dear friends! Today even the most hardcore fans will be pleased, as with today's patch we're finally introducing the highly requested multiplayer functionality update: Absolutely new ranking system, abilities to quick search lobbies, ranking seasons and much more! The new update brings the game to a whole other level: now the ranked system will decide who's the ultimate Cossacks player that deserves to be at the very top. During 2 months of the first season, fight your way for the Emperor title and receive great rewards with it. The ""Quick Play"" option will be a steady companion that will greatly help the players in this task. As this is the first ranked season of the game, we would really appreciate your feedback on it. Ideas on improvement, suggestions about the ladder, opinion on the system - we would love to hear your thoughts on the ranked mode. We shall continuously make little tweaks to it, so that our community will be fully satisfied with the experience." TL;DR - “Quick Play” option is now available for ranked games; - Casual games don’t affect the ladder anymore; - There is no penalty for losing a ranked game (points won’t be deducted), no need abort matches; - The Ladder has been reset, the new season starts today; - We tweaked the ranking system, now the points are distributed in a different way, titles have increased requirements; - We’ve restarted the server, TOP100 players from the pre-season will receive rewards later. More details on the changes: Patch Notes 17.03.17 (1.4.5.69.4993) Ranked: 1. The game now has a ranked mode. From now on the players can gain points and progress in the ladder either by playing ranked or casual matches. Due to frequent match evasion and hacking offences, we decided to reset the ranks of all players, giving everyone a fair chance in the new season. Below are the main differences between the two: Ranked games: - You can launch it only by pressing ""Quick Play"" or by creating a special room in the multiplayer shell - The starting options are set and cannot be changed - All user created modifications are disabled - Victory grants a lot of points; - The match is considered ranked only if the game lasts more than 10 minutes. Casual games: - Launched from the multiplayer rooms - The starting options are chosen by the host - User created modifications are allowed 2. The following starting options are set for the ranked mode: - Type: Team versus Team, 3 vs 3, if there's not enough players the game will automatically switch teams to 2 vs 2 or 1 vs 1; - Nations: random; - Starting resources: 5000; - Peace Time: 10 minutes; - Map type: Land. 3. For a more convenient way of finding ranked games, players can now use the 'Quick Play' button, which will automatically find suitable opponents for the player. 4. You can invite up to two players to queue up together for a ranked match. To do this, create a special room and invite your friends, then you need to set the lobby eligible for the Ranked mode. You and your friends can only play on the same team. 5. You have 2 months to get a desired title, as the ranked season lasts till the second half of May. The rewards will be distributed at the end of May as well. 6. We leave the right to reset ranks of certain players if there will be proof of unsportsman behaviour, match-fixing or cheating. General: - The Balloon upgrade now removes Field of View for allies as well. Cheating - Cheaters will receive a more severe punishment from now on. We remind you that if you encounter a cheater, you can always send a report letter with a replay and a short description of the supposed hacking to support@cossacks3.com. Errors: - Dealt with bugs that prevented some players from seeing their Early Bird bonuses - Fixed an issue that caused the game to use a wrong localization. - Fixed a bug with the statistics screen, when after pressing the ""Replay the game"" button the new session used the settings from the previous game. - Fixed a problem, when the keys responsible for camera controls (arrows) wouldn't respond if the player holds the Shift or Ctrl keys. - Fixed typos in some texts. - Fixed an error, when the ""Random nation"" option would never choose the last nation from the list. - Fixed a bug in the 4th mission of the Prussian campaign, where an enemy's blockhouse wasn't considered hostile. Multiplayer: - Fixed an error, when after a several consecutive multiplayer games, the new session had a chance of suddenly ending or displaying chat messages from other games. - Fixed an issue with MP room exiting, when the player would get a notification that he was kicked although he wasn’t. - Fixed an error, when after a re-hosting the session wouldn’t count as ranked. - Fixed a bug, that broke the re-hosting process: the notification about loading of another player would never go away and the game would refuse to start. - Fixed an error, that caused the shell to appear empty after exiting a session. - Fixed an error when the player wouldn’t get any points for winning a ranked game. - We’re going to save TOP 100 players of this season to give the players rewards in the future. Hotkeys: - There is an alternative hotkey that allows the player to select all military units – Ctrl + Shift + A and Ctrl + Alt + A. Balance - Increased the formation bonus for a 400 units’ template from +2 to attack/+3 to defense to +3 to attack/+4 to defense. - Increased the amount of peasants that can chop the same tree from 1 to 2, which increases the efficiency of wood gathering. - Increased the rate at which each next building gets more expensive from 3 to 4% Unit changes Housings: - Increased the amount of slots housings provide from 15 to 25. - Increased the cost of construction from 50 wood and 50 stones to 100 wood and 100 stones. Pandur (Austria): - Reduced the production time from 18.75 to 10.32 seconds Chasseur (France): - Increased the production time from 9.38 to 10.32 seconds. - Increased the range of vision - Decreased the fire range from 1050 to 1000. - Increased the price by 10 gold Peasant: - Increased the melee range from 50 to 65 Hussar: - Increased the production time from 14.84 to 17.8 seconds - Reduced the bonus to armor after all upgrades by 2 Hussar (Prussia): - Increased the production time from 10.16 to 13.16 - Reduced the bonus to armor after all upgrades by 2 Pikeman, 18c: - Increased the attack after all of the upgrades by 2 Pikeman, 18c (Sweden): - Increased the attack after all of the upgrades by 2 - Increased the health from 85 to 95 - Increased the basic attack from 11 to 12 Archer (Algeria): - Decreased the arrow damage from 199 to 40 - Increased the production time from 0.78 to 1 second - Reduced the amount of time it takes to shoot another regular arrow from 9.22 to 5 seconds - Increased the minimal range of regular and fire arrows from 300 to 350 (the same as the mercenary archer) - Increased the maximum range of regular and fire arrows from 600 to 700 (the same as the mercenary archer) ______________________________________________ Дорогие друзья! Мы рады сообщить, что с сегодняшним обновлением Казаки 3 получают ряд обновлений сетевого режима, которые оставят даже самого заядлого фаната киберспорта довольным: абсолютно новая ранговая система, возможность быстрого поиска комнаты, рейтинговые сезоны и еще много увлекательных нововведений! Новейшее обновление переводит игру на абсолютно другой уровень: отныне в игре есть рейтинговые сезоны, которые расставят все точки над ""i"" и дадут возможность игрокам показать уровень своего мастерства. На протяжении 2 месяцев у вас будет возможность побороться за титул Императора и призы, которые ждут игроков с таким званием на момент окончания соревновательного периода. Верным помощником в достижении этой цели будет ""Быстрый поиск"", одно из последних нововведений, которое значительно упростит механизм поиска достойного противника. Так как это первый рейтинговый сезон в Казаках 3, то нам очень хотелось бы услышать ваши впечатления от рейтинговой системы: отзывы о нововведениях, предложения по улучшению и мнение о рейтинговой системе. Со своей же стороны, мы постараемся максимально оперативно реагировать на ваши замечания и продолжать делать рейтинговую систему лучше. " Коротко: - Добавлена ""Быстрая игра"" для поиска рейтингвоых матчей; - Обычные игры теперь не влияют на рейтинг; - Нет штрафа за поражение, теперь за поражение игроки не теряют очки; - Было произведено обнуление рейтинга, начало первого сезона с сегодняшнего дня; - Была введена новая система расчета очков и получения званий; - Сервер был перезапущен, лучшие 100 игроков пре-сезона поулчат награды позже. Более подробно об изменениях: Патчноут 17.03.17 (1.4.5.69.4993) Рейтинг: 1. В игре теперь доступен рейтинговый режим. Отныне игроки могут зарабатывать очки для продвижения по рейтинговой таблице в рейтинговых играх. В связи с частыми случаями накручивания рейтинга и читеринга в бета-режиме, было приянто решение обнулить рейтинг у всех игроков, чтобы поставить всех в равные условия на начале сезона. Главные отличие рейтингового режима от обычного режима: Рейтинговые игры: - Запускаются только через ""Поиск игры"" или специально созданную комнату. - Стартовые настройки заданы. - Все пользовательские модификации отключены. - Игра против игроков значительно меньшего уровня приносит меньше очков, чем матчи против игроков такого же ранга. - Игра считается рейтинговой только если игра длится больше 10 минут. Обычные игры: - Запускаются через игровые комнаты - Стартовые настройки выбираются игроками - Пользовательские модификации разрешены 2. Для рейтингового режима заданы следующие настройки: - Режим: командная игра, 3 на 3. При малом онлайне игра может автоматически переключить режим на 1 vs 1 или 2 vs 2; - Нации: случайные; - Начальные ресурсы: 5000; - Время мира: 10 минут; - Карта: Суша. 3. Для более простого поиска рейтинговых матчей, в игру была добавлена возможность «Поиска игры». Теперь достаточно нажать кнопку «Поиск игры», и система автоматически подберет вам соперников близких по рангу. 4. Доступна возможность пригласить до двух друзей для участия в совместном рейтинговом матче. Для этого необходимо создать специальную комнату, пригласить в нее друзей и включить режим поиска соперников. С друзьями играть можно только в одной команде. 5. Для достижения желаемого звания у вас есть 2 месяца, так как рейтинговый сезон закончится во второй половине мая. Тогда же и произойдет выдача наград за сезон. Мы сохраним список топ 100 игроков этого сезона, чтобы в дальнейшем выдать награды отличившимся игрокам. 6. Мы оставляем право обнулить рейтинг некоторых игроков, если будут доказательства проведения ими фиксированных матчей, читерства или неспортивного поведения. Общее: - Изобретение воздушного шара, который открывает туман войны, теперь также открывает туман войны всем союзникам. Читерство - Ужесточается наказание игроков за читерство. Напомним, для подачи заявки на бан, необходимо написать письмо в поддержку support@cossacks3.com В письме нужно прислать: реплей игры либо ссылку на стрим видео, ник игрока, время и описание нечестной игры. Ошибки: - Исправлена одна из причин при которой некоторые игроки могли не видеть бонусы ""Early-bird"". - Исправлена ошибка, которая могла приводить к выводу неверной локализации. Когда в настройках выбран один язык, а игра после запуска новой игры использует другой. - Исправлена ошибка, при которой после нажатия кнопки ""Переиграть игру"" в окне статистики, часть параметров остались с предыдущей партии. - Исправлена ошибка, при которой зажатая клавиша Shift либо Ctrl, блокировали возможность управления камерой используя клавишы влево/вправо/вверх/вниз. - Исправлены ошибки в некоторых текстах. - Исправлена ошибка, при которой в случае выбора ""Случайная нация"", никогда не выпадала последняя нация в списке. - Исправлена ошибка в четвертой миссии прусской кампании, когда блокгауз противника не считался вражеским. Сетевая игра: - Исправлена ошибка, при которой в случае нескольких игр подряд, сетевая игра могла прерваться в любой момент и в некоторых случаях вы могли видеть сообщения игроков из чужой игры. - Исправлена ошибка, при которой вы могли покинуть комнату и получить сообщение, ""вас выкинули из комнаты"", когда этого не было. - Исправлена ошибка, при которой после рехоста в сетевой игре, игра могла не зачислится в рейтинг. Горячие клавиши: - Добавлена альтернативная горячая клавиша для выбора всех военных юнитов (исключая из выбора крестьян). Теперь для этих целей доступны комбинации клавиш: Ctrl+Shift+A и Ctrl+Alt+A. БАЛАНС Общее: - Повышен бонус у формации на 400 солдат с +2 к атаке и +3 к защите до +3 к атаке и +4 к защите. - Увеличено максимальное число крестьян, которые могут одновременно рубить одно дерево с 1го до 2х, что по сути увеличивает плотность леса вдвое и повышает эффективность добычи дерева. - Увеличен процент удорожания каждой следующей постройки с 3 до 4%. Жилые дома: - Увеличено количество жилых мест с 15 до 25. - Увеличена стоимость с 50 дерева и 50 камня до 100 дерева и 100 камня. Пандур (Австрия): - Уменьшено время производства с 18.75 до 10.32 секунд. Шассер/Егерь (Франция): - Увеличено время производства с 9.38 до 10.32 секунд. - Незначительно увеличена дальность открытия тумана войны - Уменьшена дальность стрельбы с 1050 до 1000 - Увеличена цена на 10 золота Крестьяне: - Увеличена максимальная дальность удара с 50 до 65 Гусар: - Увеличено время производства с 14.84 до 17.8 секунд - Уменьшен бонус после всех улучшений на защиту на 2 Гусар (Пруссия): - Увеличено время производства с 10.16 до 13.16 секунд - Уменьшен бонус после всех улучшений на защиту на 2 - Уменьшена дальность открытия тумана войны Пикинер 18 века: - Увеличен бонус после всех улучшений на атаку на 2 Пикинер 18 века (Швеция) - Увеличен бонус после всех улучшений на атаку на 2 - Увеличено здоровье с 85 до 95 - Увеличена базовая атака с 11 до 12 Лучник (Алжир) - Уменьшен урон обычной стрелы с 199 до 40 - Увеличено время производства с 0.78сек до 1сек - Уменьшена пауза между выстрелами обычной стрелы с 9.22сек до 5сек - Увеличена минимальная дальность обычной и огненной стрелы с 300 до 350 (до уровня наемного лучника) - Увеличена максимальная дальность обычной и огненной стрелы с 600 до 700 (до уровня наемного лучника) ______________________________________________ Любі друзі! Ми раді повідомити, що разом із сьогоднішнім оновленням, Козаки 3 отримують ряд покращень мережевого режиму, які задовольнять навіть найзавзятішого фаната кіберспорту: абсолютно нова ранговая система, можливість швидкого пошуку кімнати, рейтингові сезони і ще багато цікавих нововведень! Новий патч переводить гру на абсолютно інший рівень: відтепер у грі є рейтингові сезони, які розставлять всі крапки над ""i"" та дадуть можливість гравцям показати рівень своєї майстерності. Протягом 2 місяців у вас буде можливість поборотися за титул Імператора і призи, які очікують на гравців з таким званням на момент закінчення змагального періоду. Вірним помічником у досягненні цієї мети буде ""Швидкий пошук"", одне з останніх нововведень, яке значно спрощує механізм пошуку гідного супротивника. Зважаючи на те, що це перший рейтинговий сезон у Козаках 3, нам дуже хотілося б почути ваші враження від рейтингової системи: відгуки про нововведення, пропозиції щодо поліпшення, думки щодо рейтингової системи. Зі свого ж боку, ми намагатимемося максимально оперативно реагувати на ваші зауваження та продовжувати покращувати рейтингову систему. Короткий опис: - Додана ""Швидка гра"" для пошуку рейтінгвоих матчів; - Звичайні iгри тепер не впливають на рейтинг; - Нема штрафу за поразку, тепер за поразку гравці не втрачають очки; - Було зроблено обнулення рейтингу, початок першого сезону з сьогоднішнього дня; - Була введена нова система розрахунку рейтингу і отримання звань; - Сервер був перезапущений, кращi 100 гравцIв пре-сезону отрмають винагороди пiзнiше. Більш докладно щодо змін: Патчноут 17.03.17 (1.4.5.69.4993) Рейтинг: 1. У грі тепер доступний рейтинговий режим. Відтепер гравці можуть заробляти бали для просування по рейтинговій таблиці як в рейтингових, так і в звичайних іграх. Головні відмінності між двома режимами: Рейтингові ігри: - Запускаються тільки через ""Пошук гри"" або спеціально створену кімнату. - Стартові налаштування задані. - Всі користувацькі модифікації відключені. - Переможці отримують велику кількість балів, в той час як ті, хто програв втрачають невелику кількість. Звичайні ігри: - Запускаються через ігрові кімнати. - Стартові налаштування вибираються гравцями власноруч. - Використання користувацьких модифікацій дозволено. - Гра проти гравців значно меншого рівня приносить менше балів, ніж матчі проти гравців такого ж рангу. - Гра вважається рейтинговою тільки якщо гра триває більше 10 хвилин. 2. Для рейтингового режиму задані наступні налаштування: - Режим: командна гра 3 на 3. При малому онлайні гра може автоматично переключити режим на 1 vs 1 або 2 vs 2; - Нації: випадкові; - Початкові ресурси: 5000; - Час миру: 10 хвилин. - Карта: Суша. 3. Для більш простого пошуку рейтингових матчів, в гру була додана можливість «Пошуку гри». Тепер досить натиснути кнопку «Пошук гри», і система автоматично підбере вам суперників близьких за рангом. 4. Доступна можливість запросити до двох друзів для участі в спільному рейтинговому матчі. Для цього необхідно створити спеціальну кімнату, запросити в неї друзів і включити режим пошуку суперників. З друзями грати можна тільки в одній команді. 5. Для досягнення бажаного рангу у вас є 2 місяці, так як рейтинговий сезон закінчиться в другій половині травня. Тоді й відбудеться нагородження за сезон. Ми збережемо список топ 100 гравців цього сезону, щоб в подальшому видати нагороди гравцям, які відзначилися. 6. Ми залишаємо право обнулити рейтинг деяких гравців, якщо будуть докази проведення ними фіксованих матчів, читерства або неспортивної поведінки. Загальне: - Винахід повітряної кулі, який відкриває туман війни, тепер також відкриває туман війни всім союзникам. Читерство: - Посилюється покарання гравців за читерство. Нагадаємо, для подачі заявки на бан, необхідно написати листа у підтримку support@cossacks3.com У листі потрібно надіслати: реплєй гри або посилання на стрім відео, нік гравця, час і опис нечесної гри. - Ми залишаємо за собою право обнуляти частково або повністю бали гравців, помічених в накручуванні балів рейтингу, наприклад шляхом гри ""в піддавки на користь конкретних гравців"" або іншим не змагальним з нашої точки зору чином. Подібне рішення залишається повністю на наш суб'єктивний розсуд і ми будемо намагатися бути максимально справедливими, щоб гра залишалася чесною, змагальної і цікавою для всіх гравців. Помилки: - Виправлена одна з причин при якій деякі гравці могли не бачити бонуси ""Early-bird"". - Виправлена помилка, яка могла приводити до виводу невірної локалізації. Коли в налаштуваннях обрано одну мову, а гра після запуску нової гри використовує іншу. - Виправлена помилка, при якій після натискання кнопки ""Переграти гру"" у вікні статистики, частина параметрів залишалася з попередньої партії. - Виправлена помилка, при якій затиснуті клавіша Shift або Ctrl, блокували можливість управління камерою використовуючи клавіші вліво/вправо/вгору/вниз. - Виправлені помилки в деяких текстах. - Виправлена помилка, при якій в разі вибору ""Випадкова нація "", ніколи не випадала остання нація в списку. - Виправлена помилка в четвертій місії прусської кампанії, коли блокгауз супротивника не вважався ворожим. Мережева гра: - Виправлена помилка, при якій в разі декількох ігор поспіль, мережева гра могла перерватися в будь-який момент і в деяких випадках ви могли бачити повідомлення гравців з чужої гри. - Виправлена помилка, при якій ви могли покинути кімнату і отримати повідомлення, ""вас викинули з кімнати"", коли цього не було. - Виправлена помилка, при якій після рехоста в мережевій грі, гра могла не зарахуватися в рейтинг. - Виправлена помилка, яка приводила до невірного рехосту. Залишалося повідомлення про очікування гравців, і гра не починалася. - Виправлена помилка, яка приводила до порожнього Шеллу при виході з мережевої гри. - Виправлена помилка, через яку гравець в деяких випадках не отримував бали за перемогу. Гарячі клавіші: - Додана альтернативна гаряча клавіша для вибору всіх військових юнітів (виключаючи з вибору селян). Тепер для цих цілей доступні комбінації клавіш: Ctrl + Shift + A і Ctrl + Alt + A. БАЛАНС Загальне: - Підвищено бонус у формацій на 400 солдатів з +2 до атаки і +3 до захисту до +3 до атаки і +4 до захисту. - Збільшено максимальну кількість селян, які можуть одночасно рубати одне дерево з 1го до 2х, що по суті збільшує щільність лісу вдвічі і підвищує ефективність видобутку дерева. - Збільшено відсоток подорожчання кожної наступної будівлі з 3 до 4%. Будинки: - Збільшено кількість житлових місць з 15 до 25. - Збільшена вартість з 50 дерева і 50 каменю до 100 дерева та 100 каменю. Пандур (Австрія): - Зменшено час виробництва з 18.75 до 10.32 секунд. Шассер/Єгер (Франція): - Збільшено час виробництва з 9.38 до 10.32 секунд. - Трохи збільшена дальність відкриття туману війни. - Зменшено дальність стрільби з 1050 до 1000. - Збільшена ціна на 10 золота. Селяни: - Збільшено максимальну дальність удару з 50 до 65. Гусар: - Збільшено час виробництва з 14.84 до 17.8 секунд. - Зменшено бонус після всіх поліпшень на захист на 2. Гусар (Пруссія): - Збільшено час виробництва з 10.16 до 13.16 секунд. - Зменшено бонус після всіх поліпшень на захист на 2. - Зменшено дальність відкриття туману війни. Пікінер 18 століття: - Збільшено бонус після всіх поліпшень на атаку на 2. Пікінер 18 століття (Швеція): - Збільшено бонус після всіх поліпшень на атаку на 2. - Збільшено здоров'я з 85 до 95. - Збільшена базова атака з 11 до 12. Лучник (Алжир) - Зменшено урон звичайної стріли з 199 до 40. - Збільшено час виробництва з 0.78 сек до 1 сек. - Зменшено паузу між пострілами звичайної стріли з 9.22 сек до 5 сек. - Збільшено мінімальну дальність звичайної і вогненної стріли з 300 до 350 (до рівня найманого лучника). - Збільшено максимальну дальність звичайної і вогненної стріли з 600 до 700 (до рівня найманого лучника).

Dear friends! Meet the new grand update to Cossacks 3! In this patch we added the missing elements of the ranked mode, fixed some crucial errors and revamped the balance of all gunners, i. e. musketeers and grenadiers. More details below! Multiplayer: 1. Hosts' ranks are now displayed in the shell's room list. 2. The ranked score is now displayed alongside their names in lobbies. 3. Players can now see their position in the ladder, even if they are not in the top 100. 4. Fixed an issue when a multiple players spawned at the same spot. 5. Fixed the ""uncontrollable"" units, that ignored orders and didn't receive any damage from enemy attacks. 6. Fixed an error when the session's season wasn't displayed correctly to all players in the room. 7. Fixed a bug, that caused huge lags on naval maps and resulted in desynchronizations. 8. Fixed rank display in the multiplayer mode. 9. Players are now sorted above the mini-map: players from the same team are displayed together, different teams are separated by a line, while players without a team are listed last, " Localization: 1. Spanish and polish localizations are now available for Rise to Glory DLC. 2. Fixed some typos and errors in English and Ukrainian localizations. General: 1. Fixed a bug, when recently produced units that were moving to their gathering point would lose their order if they encounter a hostile unit. 2. Fixed the Access Violation error that often recurred in 20-30 minutes after starting a match, loading of a save, or exiting to the main menu. Unfortunately, save games with this error are unfixable. 3. ""Surrender"" button now works correctly in singleplayer missions. 4. Fixed an error with galleys, when they refused to attack a building if the target was in between the ranges of their first and second cannons. 5. Ships now won't sail on land. 6. Fixed lighting, now the map won't get too bright if you hover over to the lower left corner. 7. Fixed the animation of artillery, that occurred after loading up a save file. 8. Fixed a glitch that allowed to order multiple upgrades simultaneously, despite paying only for one. 9. The name of the Bavarian musketeer is now displayed correctly. 10. Fixed a number of errors with player separation above the mini-map." Changes to the economy: 1. An academy is now required to produce units in the diplomatic center. 2. Reduced the mine upgrade speed from 15.5 seconds to 9 seconds. Changes to unit balance: TL;DR: Nerfed elite musketeers, rebalanced damage of bayonets, overhaul to hired grenadiers and all 18th century gunners. Grenadier (mercenary) - fire power increased from 4 to 18 - Increased reloading time from 3.4 seconds to 3.75 - Slightly increased the bayonet attack range - Increased cost of shot from 1 iron/3 coal to 3 iron/4 coal - Increased the grenade's damage from 110 to 200 - Pauses between grenade throws of a hired grenadier is 0.33 times bigger than of the usual one - Increased gold consumption from 20 to 25 pieces - Decreased the range of fire from 850 to 750 Musketeer 18c - decreased the melee damage from 18 to 10 Musketeer 18c (Prussia) - decreased melee damage from 22 to 12 - fire power decrease from 55 to 35 - decreased the price from 240 to 200 - increased coal consumption from 1 to 3 coal per shot Musketeer 18c (Bayern) - decreased melee damage from 9 to 6 - fire power decrease from 55 to 35 - increased the price from 35 to 160 - increased coal consumption from 1 to 3 coal per shot - decreased the production time from 7.03 to 5.62 seconds - decreased the damage that melee upgrade granted from 2/3/4/5/6/10 to 1/1/1/1/1/1 Musketeer 18c (Denmark) - decreased melee damage from 18 to 10 - fire power decreased from 60 to 40 - decreased the price from 195 to 160 - increased coal consumption from 1 to 3 coal per shot - increased the production time from 4.69 to 7.03 seconds Musketeer 18c (Saxony) - decreased melee damage from 12 to 6 - increased the price from 35 to 50 gold Grenadier - decreased melee damage from 22 to 20 - increased HP from 100 to 120 - increased the production time from 4.69 to 5.62 seconds Grenadier (Prussia) - decreased melee damage from 28 to 25 Grenadier (Bavaria) - decreased melee damage from 20 to 15 - fire power increased from 14 to 15 - increased the production time from 4.69 to 5.62 seconds Grenadier (Denmark) - increased melee damage from 23 to 25 - increased the production time from 4.69 to 5.62 seconds Grenadier (Saxony) - fire power increased from 15 to 16 - increased the production time from 4.21 to 4.69 seconds Chasseur (France) - increased the maximum range of fire from 800 to 1050 - increased the reloading time from 2.8 to 5.6 seconds - decreased HP from 85 to 75 Highlander (England) - decreased the maximum range of fire from 850 to 800 - increased the reloading time from 2.8 to 5.75 seconds - increased HP from 100 to 125 Pandur (Austria) - increased the reloading time from 2.8 to 3.44 seconds ________________________________________ Дорогие друзья! Встречайте новый патч! В нём добавлены недостающие элементы для рейтинговой игры, исправлены критические ошибки и серьезно переработан баланс стрелков. Более подробно читайте в кратком описание главных изменений сегодняшнего обновления: Патчноут 24.02.17 (1.4.3.66.4917): Сетевая игра: 1. Добавлен вывод ранга хоста сессии в списке сессий. 2. Добавлен вывод рангов игроков в списке игроков комнаты. 3. Добавлен вывод информации про игрока в ладдере, в конце списка, если игрока нет в списке 100 лучших. 4. Исправлена ошибка, которая приводила к рождению нескольких игроков в одной точке. 5. Исправлены неуправляемые юниты, которые либо стояли, не слушая приказов, либо могли атаковать противника, не получая при этом ответных ударов. 6. Исправлена ошибка, когда при выборе сезона (зима/лето), информация об этом не передавалась остальным участника комнаты. 7. Исправлена ошибка, приводившая к большим задержкам в выполнении приказа идти на морских картах, что так же приводила к рассинхронизации в сетевой игре. 8. Добавлены изображения рангов в сетевой игре 9. Отсортирован список игроков над миникартой. Теперь союзники находятся рядом, разные команды разделены пустой строкой, а игроки без команд находятся внизу списка." Локализация: 1. Добавлена испанская и польская локализации DLC Rise to Glory. 2. Исправлены ошибки в украинской локализации DLC Rise to Glory. Общее: 1. Исправлена ошибка, когда юниты, выходящие из здания и идущие к точке сбора, при встрече врага, после его убийства, могли потерять приказ. 2. Исправлена ошибка Access Violation, которая часто возникала через 20-30 минут игры, после загрузки карты, после выхода в меню либо из игры. К сожалению, сейвы с этой ошибкой останутся с этой ошибкой. 3. Исправлена ошибка с работой кнопки ""сдаться"" в одиночной игре. 4. Исправлена ошибка с галерами, которые отказывали атаковать здание если цель находилась в промежуточном расстоянии между дистанциями первого и второго орудия. 5. Корабли больше не попадают на сушу, они все время стремятся отдалится от мели. 6. Исправлена ошибка с засвеченным экраном, когда левый нижний угол находился за картой, на черном фоне. 7. Исправлена анимация колес пушки после загрузки карты. 8. Исправлена ошибка, которая позволяла заказывать несколько улучшений одновременно, при этом, фактически выполнялся только один. 9. Исправлена ошибка с отображением названия баварского мушкетера 18 века. 10. Исправлен ряд ошибок со списком игроков и их разбиением по командам над миникартой. Изменения экономического баланса: 1. Для производства наёмников из дип. центра теперь так же необходима академия. 2. Уменьшено время необходимое для выполнения улучшения шахты с 15.5с до 9с. Изменения баланса юнитов: Нерф элитных мушкетеров, ребаланс штыковой атаки, полное изменение наемного гренадера и стрелков 18 века Гренадер (наёмник) - Увеличена сила выстрела с 4 до 18 - Увеличено время перезарядки с 3.4c до 3.75с - Слегка увеличена максимальная дальность удара штыком - Увеличена стоимость выстрела с 1 железо 3 угля до 3 железо 4 угля - Увеличен урон от гранаты с 110 до 200 - Пауза между бросками гранат наемного гренадера на треть выше паузы обычного гренадера. - Увеличено потребление золота с 20 до 25 единиц - Уменьшена максимальная дальность выстрела с 850 до 750. Мушкетер 18в - уменьшена рукопашная атака с 18 до 10 Мушкетер 18в (Пруссия) - уменьшена рукопашная атака с 22 до 12 - уменьшена сила выстрела с 55 до 35 - уменьшена цена в золоте с 240 до 200 - увеличен расход угля на выстрел с 1 до 3 Мушкетер 18в (Бавария) - уменьшена рукопашная атака с 9 до 6 - уменьшена сила выстрела с 55 до 35 - увеличена цена в золоте с 35 до 160 - увеличен расход угля на выстрел с 1 до 3 - уменьшено время производства с 7.03 до 5.62с - уменьшен бонус к силе рукопашной атаки улучшений с 2/3/4/5/6/10 до 1/1/1/1/1/1 (как у Мушкетера 18в Дании) Мушкетер 18в (Дания) - уменьшена рукопашная атака с 18 до 10 - уменьшена сила выстрела с 60 до 40 - уменьшена цена в золоте с 195 до 160 - увеличен расход угля на выстрел с 1 до 3 - увеличено время производства с 4.69 до 7.03с Мушкетер 18в (Саксония) - уменьшена рукопашная атака с 12 до 6 - увеличена цена в золоте с 35 до 50 Гренадер - уменьшена рукопашная атака с 22 до 20 - увеличено здоровье с 100 до 120 - увеличено время производства с 4.69 до 5.62с Гренадер (Пруссия) - уменьшена рукопашная атака с 28 до 25 Гренадер (Бавария) - уменьшена рукопашная атака с 20 до 15 - увеличена сила выстрела с 14 до 15 - увеличено время производства с 4.69 до 5.62с Гренадер (Дания) - увеличена рукопашная атака с 23 до 25 - увеличено время производства с 4.69 до 5.62с Гренадер (Саксония) - увеличена сила выстрела с 15 до 16 - увеличено время производства с 4.21 до 4.69с Егерь (France) - увеличена максимальная дистанция выстрела с 800 до 1050 - увеличено время перезарядки мушкета с 2.8с до 5.6с - уменьшено здоровье с 85 до 75 Горец (England) - уменьшена максимальная дистанция выстрела с 850 до 800 - увеличено время перезарядки мушкета с 2.8с до 3.75с - увеличено здоровье с 100 до 125 Пандур (Austria) - увеличено время перезарядки мушкета с 2.8с до 3.44с _______________________________________ Любі друзі! Зустрічайте новий патч! У ньому додані відсутні елементи для рейтингової гри, виправлені критичні помилки і серйозно перероблений баланс стрільців. Більш детально читайте у короткому описі головних змін сьогоднішнього оновлення: Патчноут 24.02.17 (1.4.3.66.4917): Гра в мережі: 1. Додано виведення рангу хоста сесії у списку сесій. 2. Додано виведення рангів гравців у списку гравців кімнати. 3. Додано виведення інформації про гравця у ладдер, у кінець списку, якщо його немає у списку 100 кращих. 4. Виправлена помилка, яка призводила до народження кількох гравців в одній точці. 5. Виправлені некеровані юніти, які або стояли, не слухаючи наказів, або могли атакувати противника, не отримуючи при цьому ударів. 6. Виправлена помилка, коли при виборі сезону (зима/літо), інформація про це не передавалася іншим учасника кімнати. 7. Виправлена помилка, яка приводила до великих затримок у виконанні наказу на морських картах, що також приводило до розсинхронізації у мережевій грі. 8. Додані зображення рангів у мережевій грі 9. Відсортований список гравців над мінікартою. Тепер союзники знаходяться поруч, різні команди розділені порожнім рядком, а гравці без команд знаходяться внизу списку. Локалізація: 1. Додана іспанська та польська локалізації DLC Rise to Glory. 2. Виправлені помилки в українській локалізації DLC Rise to Glory. Загальне: 1. Виправлена помилка, коли юніти, що вийшли з будинка та йдуть до точки збору, при зустрічі ворога, після його вбивства, могли втратити наказ. 2. Виправлена помилка Access Violation, яка часто виникала через 20-30 хвилин гри, після завантаження карти, після виходу в меню або з гри. На жаль, сейви з цією помилкою залишаться з цією помилкою. 3. Виправлена помилка з роботою кнопки ""Капітулювати"" в одиночній грі. 4. Виправлена помилка з галерами, які не могли атакувати будівлю, якщо вона знаходилася на відстані між дистанціями першого і другого знаряддя. 5. Кораблі більше не потрапляють на сушу, вони весь час прагнуть віддалиться від мілини. 6. Виправлена помилка із засвіченим екраном, коли лівий нижній кут знаходився за картою, на чорному тлі. 7. Виправлена анімація коліс гармати після завантаження карти. 8. Виправлена помилка, яка дозволяла замовляти декілька апгрейдів одночасно, при цьому, фактично виконувався лише один. 9. Виправлена помилка з відображенням назви баварського мушкетера 18 століття. 10. Виправлений ряд помилок зі списком гравців та їх розбивкою по командам над мінікартою. Зміни економічного балансу: 1. Для виробництва найманців з дип. центру тепер так само необхідна академія. 2. Зменшено час для поліпшення шахти з 15.5с до 9с. Зміни балансу юнітів: Нерф елітних мушкетерів, ребаланс багнетної атаки, повна зміна найманого гренадера і стрільців 18 століття. Гренадер (найманець) - Збільшена сила пострілу з 4 до 18 - Збільшений час перезарядки з 3.4c до 3.75с - Злегка збільшена максимальна дальність удару багнетом - Збільшена вартість пострілу з 1 залізо 3 вугілля до 3 заліза 4 вугілля - Збільшена шкода від гранати з 110 до 200 - Пауза між кидками гранат найманого гренадера на третину вище паузи звичайного гренадера. - Збільшено споживання золота з 20 до 25 одиниць - Зменшена максимальна дальність пострілу з 850 до 750. Мушкетер 18с - Зменшена рукопашна атака з 18 до 10 Мушкетер 18с (Пруссія) - Зменшена рукопашна атака з 22 до 12 - Зменшена сила пострілу з 55 до 35 - Зменшена ціна в золоті з 240 до 200 - Збільшені витрати вугілля на постріл з 1 до 3 Мушкетер 18с (Баварія) - Зменшена рукопашна атака з 9 до 6 - Зменшена сила пострілу з 55 до 35 - Збільшена ціна в золоті з 35 до 160 - Збільшені витрати вугілля на постріл з 1 до 3 - Зменшений час виробництва з 7.03 до 5.62с - Зменшений бонус до сили рукопашної атаки апгрейдів з 2/3/4/5/6/10 до 1/1/1/1/1/1 (як у Мушкетери 18с Данії) Мушкетер 18с (Данія) - Зменшена рукопашна атака з 18 до 10 - Зменшена сила пострілу з 60 до 40 - Зменшена ціна в золоті з 195 до 160 - Збільшені витрата вугілля на постріл з 1 до 3 - Збільшений час виробництва з 4.69 до 7.03с Мушкетер 18с (Саксонія) - Зменшена рукопашна атака з 12 до 6 - Збільшена ціна в золоті з 35 до 50 Гренадер - Зменшена рукопашна атака з 22 до 20 - Збільшено здоров'я з 100 до 120 - Збільшений час виробництва з 4.69 до 5.62с Гренадер (Пруссія) - Зменшена рукопашна атака з 28 до 25 Гренадер (Баварія) - Зменшена рукопашна атака з 20 до 15 - Збільшена сила пострілу з 14 до 15 - Збільшений час виробництва з 4.69 до 5.62с Гренадер (Данія) - Збільшена рукопашна атака з 23 до 25 - Збільшений час виробництва з 4.69 до 5.62с Гренадер (Саксонія) - Збільшена сила пострілу з 15 до 16 - Збільшений час виробництва з 4.21 до 4.69с Єгер (France) - Збільшена максимальна дистанція пострілу з 800 до 1050 - Збільшений час перезарядки мушкета з 2.8с до 5.6с - Зменшено здоров'я з 85 до 75 Горець (England) - Зменшена максимальна дистанція пострілу з 850 до 800 - Збільшений час перезарядки мушкета з 2.8с до 3.75с - Зменшено здоров'я з 100 до 125 Пандур (Austria) - Збільшений час перезарядки мушкета з 2.8с до 3.44с

Dear friends! Starting from today, nations of Saxony and Bavaria are now available to every Cossacks 3 owner, regardless the edition. Each new nation brings exciting new things to the game: unique units, original soundtrack and marvels of its architecture. Make your enemies flee at the sight of your mighty German armies! But we're not done yet, as not only ""newcomers"" are getting updated - Sweden and Prussia players cam brag about new units as well! Full list of new units:

• Bavarian musketeer
• Saxon musketeer
• Bavarian grenadier
• Saxon grenadier
• Saxon Cavalry Guard
• Swedish Hakkapeliitta
• Prussian grenadier

• Баварский мушкетёр;
• Баварский гренадер;
• Прусский гренадер;
• Саксонский мушкетёр;
• Саксонский гренадер;
• Гвардейская кавалерия Саксонии;
• Гаккапелит Швеции.

• Баварський мушкетер;
• Баварський гренадер;
• Прусський гренадер;
• Саксонський мушкетер;
• Саксонський гренадер;
• Гвардійська кавалерія Саксонії;
• Гаккапеліт Швеції.

Dear friends! GSC Game World is glad to announce that ‘Cossacks 3: Rise to Glory’ is now available! Rise to Glory allows you to take up the mantle of the greatest military leaders of all time and participate in battles that defined the world’s history as we know it. The drums and pipes of war thunder across all Europe, as you get to witness the daring adventures of the Old Fritz and the Lion of the North on peak of their glory. Among other numerous new features, we would like to announce that Ranked games and the Ladder are coming into the game, along with remake of the multiplayer shell and introduction of the ‘Quick Play’ functionality. Now players will be able scratch that competitive itch and show everyone their skill! Main Features:

• Prussian campaign: Take a role of Friedrich the Great and lead the mighty Prussian armies into the fiercest skirmishes 18th century Europe have ever seen.
• Swedish campaign: Experience the rise of Sweden to its position of the global power under the leadership of Gustavus Adolphus, a genius military leader who invented the modern way of conducting warfare.
• New Original Units: 7 new units come into the game, 3 of which are completely new.
• New environments: Take out your winter coats, as Rise to Glory introduces winter maps to both singleplayer and multiplayer modes.
• New nations: Mighty Bavaria and Saxony – favorites of the old fans – make a comeback to display the military might of German states.
• Custom scenarios:three singleplayer missions will allow you participate in exciting historical battles that took place all over Europe.

• Прусская кампания: Попробуйте себя в роли Фридриха Великого и возглавьте могучие прусские войска в самых кровавых сражениях Европы 18 века.
• Шведская кампания: Станьте свидетелем золотого века Швеции под руководством Густава Адольфа, гения-стратега, который изобрёл современный метод ведения войны.
• Новые уникальные юниты: добавлено 7 новых юнитов, из которых 3 – абсолютно новые.
• Новый климат: приготовьте свои шубы, так как в Восхождении к Славе поля сражений будут усыпаны снегом.
• Новые нации: могучие Бавария и Саксония, фавориты старых фанатов, возвращаются в игру и готовы продемонстрировать всю свою военную мощь. Каждая нация будет сопровождаться своим оригинальным саундтреком.
• Одиночные сценарии: три мисcии дадут Вам возможность побывать в разных уголках Европы и принять участие в увлекательных исторических сражениях.

• Прусська кампанія: Спробуйте себе в ролі Фрідріха Великого і станьте на чолі могутніх прусських військ в найкривавіших битвах Європи 18 століття.
• Шведська кампанія: Станьте свідком золотого віку Швеції під керівництвом Густава Адольфа, генія-стратега, який винайшов сучасний метод ведення війни.
• Нові унікальні юніти: додано 7 нових юнітів, 3 з яких - абсолютно нові.
• Новий клімат: приготуйте свої шуби, так як в Сходженні до Слави поля битв будуть посипані снігом.
• Нові нації: могутні Баварія і Саксонія, фаворити старих фанатів, повертаються в гру і готові продемонструвати всю свою військову міць.
• Поодинокі сценарії: три місії дадуть Вам можливість побувати у різних куточках Європи і взяти участь в захоплюючих історичних битвах.

Dear friends! We are thrilled to announce that from today Cossacks 3 fully supports the Steam Workshop functionality! As the library of mods for Cossacks 3 grows bigger by the day, we decided that there’s a dire need for a convenient place to store and share user created modifications. And what place is better than the Steam Workshop – a new part of our amazing community hub, where players can publish, organize and deliver their creations to every person playing Cossacks 3. We’ve also updated the game and our trusty Mod Manager, so now they are fully intertwined with the Workshop and provide the best possible service to our players. We also have some exciting news for Mac and Linux users: on 15th of March Cossacks 3 will finally become available on MacOS and Linux platforms! Venture forth onto the battlefields of the 17th-18th century Europe and enjoy the fully polished Cossacks experience with your friends, regardless of what platform you're using - the game supports crossplatform play and allows you to play against players across all platforms. As a bonus, every Mac & Linux user that purchases and logins into the game during the first two week after the release will receive an Early Bonus package, identical to the one given out during the Windows release. Here’s what you can expect with today’s update: Patch Notes 03.02.17 (1.3.1.61.4532) The Steam Workshop 1. Download content created by other players and tailor the game to your liking or share your own creations with the world; 2. Extended Mod Manager functionality: mod management has never been so easy! 3. Automatic synchronization: you can automatically synchronize and download required mods from within the game. The game now makes sure that everyone uses the same mods and version of C3. 4. Sessions with enabled mods are now marked with a special symbol in the multiplayer shell. New mechanics: 1. Units will now experience collision when they approach enemy troops. Each unit now has a radius that will prevent enemies from going through them. This severely affects the cavalry units, as they won't be able to pass through units and make diversions behind the lines. 2. Land units can now engage each other more easily. Changes to gameplay 1. The upgrades to firepower from the academy now recalculate after each unit's personal upgrade. Now they are not influenced by the amount of firepower units have at the moment of upgrade and scale independently. This heavily influences the early game stage and affects Serdiuk, 18th century musketeer of Prussia and Denmark. 2. Resource gathering upgrades now influence the respective nation where they were learnt and don't stack together. 3. "No cannons" option now fully disables artillery, not only cannons. New game options 1. "No diplomatic center", "No market" and "Without either" options are now available in the lobby. 2. It's now possible to set starting locations: random positioning or allies grouped together. Performance and AI 1. Optimized the combat and target selection for units. 2. Optimized the way AI thinks and reacts, sped up the processes New in-game notices 1. Now the game determines if you have a video card unsuitable for playing the game and will notify the player. In this case, you need to update your video card drivers from the manufacturer's website. 2. Now the game will notify you, if it will find only an integrated video card, not a discrete one. If such situation occurs, we recommend you to update your video card drivers from the manufacturer’s website. Fixed errors 1. Fixed "stuck" units, which ignored orders. 2. Fixed a bug, when after ordering a unit to go to an unreachable spot (mountain, building or water) the unit stopped reacting to the enemies nearby till the next order. 3. Fixed an error, which caused the game to reset the blue colored player options. 4. Fixed a bug, when units near one edge of the map could start moving in the direction of the opposing edge. 5. In rare cases peasants would ignore "Build" or "Repair" orders. This was happening due to them already being on the spot where required action would take place. 6. Fixed the "disappearing upgrade". Prior to this, certain upgrades would disappear from buildings if those buildings were captured earlier. Once again, we would like to thank all the dedicated players and mod makers for supporting us – you inspire us to make the game better. We would like to thank players LiptonVPaketike and Inventor for their assistance in fixing errors in this patch. Have a good day! __________________________________ Дорогие друзья! Мы рады сообщить, что, начиная с сегодняшнего дня Казаки 3 полностью поддерживают функционал Мастерской Steam! Так как библиотека модификаций для Казаков 3 растет с каждым днем, мы решили, что нам необходимо место, где пользователи смогут свободно делиться своими творениями со всеми игроками. И что может быть лучше, чем Мастерская Steam – новая удобная часть нашего центра сообщества, где игроки могут организовывать и выпускать свои модификации в доступ всем обладателям Казаков 3 Также мы обновили саму игру и наш верный Менеджер Модов, теперь они полностью переплетены с мастерской и стали еще более удобными как для обычных игроков, так и для создателей модов. У нас также есть важные новости для Mac и Linux пользователей: 15-го марта Казаки 3 станут доступны на MacOS и Linux платформах! Вы сможете выйти на поля сражений Европы 17-18-го веков и насладиться игрой со своими друзьями, даже если вы играете на разных платформах - игра поддерживает кроссплатформенность. В качестве бонуса, каждый Mac и Linux пользователь, при вхождении в игру в течение первых двух недель после выпуска, получит бонус Early Bird, идентичный тому, что выдавали на релизе Windows версии. Вот краткое описание главных изменений сегодняшнего обновления:" Патчноут 03.02.17 (1.3.1.61.4532) Мастерская Steam: 1. Качайте модификации и меняйте игру на Ваше усмотрение, либо делитесь своими собственными модами с миром! 2. Улучшенный функционал Менеджера Модов: организация модификаций еще никогда не была столь удобной! 3. Автоматическая синхронизация: теперь вы можете автоматически синхронизировать и скачивать необходимые модификации, не выходя из игры. Теперь игра следит за тем, чтобы у всех был одинаковый набор модов. 4. В сетевом шелле игры с модами отмечены специальным значком. Добавлена новая игровая механика: 1. Остановка юнитов при встрече с вражеским юнитом. Юниты получили радиус остановки врага, которые пытаются пройти через них. Это существенно повлияет на игру кавалерией, которая не сможет проводить диверсии, свободно пробегая через отряд врага для захвата зданий и убийства крестьян. 2. Пешие войска стали легче завязывать бой между собой. Изменения игрового процесса 1. Апгрейды на силу выстрела в академии теперь пересчитываются каждый раз после изменения силы выстрела юнитов. Теперь общая эффективность апгрейда не зависит от степени апгрейда юнита в момент получения силы выстрела, и апгрейды получают эффективность на более ранних стадиях игры. Сильнее всего повлияет на максимальную силу выстрела Сердюка, Мушкетера 18 века Пруссии, Гренадера Дании 2. Апгрейды, повышающие эффективность добычи ресурсов, теперь действуют в рамках своей нации. Эффект от апгрейдов, сделанных в нескольких нациях, больше не суммируется. 3. Опция игры "без пушек" теперь прячет всю артиллерию, а не только пушки. Новые опции игры 1. Теперь можно установить правило игры без дипломатического центра, без рынка или без этих зданий. 2. Опция выбора стартовых позиций игроков: расстановка случайным образом, либо размещая союзников рядом. Производительность и ИИ 1. Оптимизирован бой и выбор целей для юнитов. 2. ИИ думает и реагирует на любые изменения ситуации быстрее. Новые внутриигровые уведомления 1. Теперь игра определит, если у вас видеокарта с нерабочим статусом, и выдаст об этом сообщение. В этом случае необходимо установить последнюю версию драйвера с сайта производителя. 2. Теперь игра уведомит вас, если обнаружена только интегрированная видеокарта и не обнаружена дискретная видеокарта (чаще всего она должна быть). В этом случае необходимо установить последнюю версию драйвера недостающей видеокарты с сайта производителя. Исправлены ошибки 1. Исправлены подвисшие юниты, которые не могут получить приказ. 2. Исправлена ошибка, когда после приказов идти в недостижимую точку (здание, вода, гора), юнит переставал искать врага до получения нового приказа. 3. После создания новой карты, сбивались ранее сохраненные настройки синего игрока. 4. Исправлена ошибка, при которой подошедший к краю карты юнит, мог начать идти в другой конец карты. 5. Крестьяне при отправке ремонтировать или строить, могли не начать выполнять приказ. Это происходило, если крестьяне уже находятся на точках строительства здания. 6. Исправлен "пропадающий апгрейд". Ранее иногда случалось, что нельзя было выполнить апгрейд, если здание, в котором выполнялся апгрейд было захвачено. Пользуясь случаем, хотим еще раз поблагодарить всех наших фанатов и создателей модов – вы вдохновляете, придавая нам сил и делаете неоценимый вклад в развитие игры. Мы благодарим LiptonVPaketike и Inventor за огромную помощь в исправлении некоторых ошибок в этом патче Хорошего дня! ________________________________ Любі друзі! Ми раді повідомити, що починаючи від сьогодні, Козаки 3 повністю підтримують функціонал Майстерні Steam! Оскільки бібліотека модифікацій для Козаків 3 зростає з кожним днем, ми вирішили, що нам необхідно мати місце, де користувачі зможуть вільно ділитися своїми творіннями з усіма гравцями. І що може бути краще, ніж Майстерня Steam - нова зручна частина нашого центру спільноти, де гравці можуть організовувати і випускати свої модифікації в доступ всім власникам Козаків 3? Ми також оновили саму гру і наш вірний Менеджер Модів, тепер вони повністю переплетені з майстернею і стали ще більш зручними як для звичайних гравців, так і для творців модів. У нас також є важливі новини для Mac і Linux користувачів: 15-го березня Козаки 3 стануть доступні на MacOS і Linux платформах! Ви зможете вийти на поля битв Європи 17-18-го століть і насолодитися грою зі своїми друзями, навіть якщо ви граєте на різних платформах - гра підтримує кроссплатформеність. Як бонус, кожен Mac і Linux користувач, при входженні в гру протягом перших двох тижнів після випуску, отримає бонус Early Bird, ідентичний тому, що був на релізі Windows версії. Ось короткий опис головних змін сьогоднішнього оновлення: Патчноут 03.02.17 (1.3.1.61.4532) Майстерня Steam: 1. Качайте модифікації і змінюйте гру на ваш розсуд, або діліться своїми власними модами зі світом! 2. Покращений функціонал Менеджера Модів: організація модифікацій ще ніколи не була такою зручною! 3. Автоматична синхронізація: тепер Ви можете автоматично синхронізувати і завантажувати необхідні модифікації, не виходячи з гри. Тепер гра стежить за тим, щоб у всіх був однаковий набір модів. Додана нова ігрова механіка: 1. Зупинка юнітів при зустрічі з ворожим юнітом. Юніти отримали радіус зупинки ворога, які намагаються пройти через їх позиції. Це істотно вплине на гру кавалерією, яка не зможе проводити диверсії, вільно пробігаючи через стрій ворога для захоплення будівель та знищення селян. 2. Піші війська стали легше зав'язувати бій між собою. Зміни ігрового процесу: 1. Апгрейди на силу пострілу в академії тепер перераховуються кожен раз після зміни сили пострілу юнітів. Тепер загальна ефективність апгрейда не залежить від ступеня апгрейда юніта в момент отримання сили пострілу, і апгрейди отримують ефективність на більш ранніх стадіях гри. Найсильніше вплине на максимальну силу пострілу Сердюка, Мушкетерів 18 століття Пруссії та Данії 2. Апгрейди, які підвищують ефективність видобутку ресурсів, тепер діють в рамках своєї нації. Ефект від апгрейдів зроблених в декількох націях більше не підсумовується. Нові опції гри: 1. Тепер можна встановити правило гри без дипломатичного центру, без ринку або без обох будівель. 2. Опція вибору стартових позицій гравців: розташування випадковим чином, або розміщення союзників поруч. Продуктивність та ШI 1. Оптимізовано бій і вибір цілей для юнітів. 2. ШІ думає і реагує на будь-які зміни ситуації швидше. Нові повідомлення: 1. Тепер гра сама визначить, якщо у вас непідходяща відеокарта , і повідомить Вас про це. В цьому випадку необхідно оновити драйвери вiдеокарти iз сайту виробника. 2. Тепер гра повідомить вас, якщо вона може знайти лише інтегровану відеокарту, а не дискретну (найчастіше вона повинна бути). В цьому випадку необхідно оновити драйвери вiдеокарти iз сайту виробника. Виправлені помилки: 1. Виправлені підвішені юніти, які ігнорували накази. 2. Виправлена помилка, коли після наказів йти в недосяжну точку (будівля, вода, гора), юніт переставав шукати ворога до отримання нового наказу. 3. Після створення нової карти, збивалися раніше збережені налаштування синього гравця. 4. Виправлена помилка, при якій підійшовши до краю карти юніт міг почати йти в інший кінець карти. 5. Робочі при відправці ремонтувати або будувати могли проігнорувати наказ. Це відбувалося, якщо робочі вже знаходяться на точках будівництва будівлі. 6. Виправлений "зникаючий апгрейд". Раніше іноді виникала ситуація, коли не можна було виконати апгрейд, якщо будівля в якому виконувався апгрейд була захоплена раніше. Користуючись нагодою, хочемо ще раз подякувати всім нашим фанатам і творцям модів - ви надаєте нам сил і робите неоціненний внесок у розвиток гри. Ми дякуємо LiptonVPaketike і Inventor за величезну допомогу у виправленні деяких помилок в цьому патчі Гарного дня!

Dear friends! We are glad to announce ‘Cossacks 3: Rise to Glory’, an epic addition to the Cossacks series that will see the light of day on February 15. Cossacks 3: Rise to Glory allows you to take up the mantle of the greatest military leaders of all time and participate in battles that defined the world’s history as we know it. Among other things, it introduces numerous new features to the game: new nations, environments, units, custom campaigns and scenarios and much more! Main Features:

• Prussian campaign: Take a role of Friedrich the Great and lead the mighty Prussian armies into the fiercest skirmishes 18th century Europe have ever seen.
• Swedish campaign: Experience the rise of Sweden to its position of the global power under the leadership of Gustavus Adolphus, a genius military leader who invented the modern way of conducting warfare.
• New Original Units: 7 new units come into the game, 3 of which are completely new.
• New environments: Take out your winter coats, as Rise to Glory introduces winter maps to both singleplayer and multiplayer modes.
• New nations: Mighty Bavaria and Saxony – favorites of the old fans – make a comeback to display the military might of German states.
• Custom scenarios:three singleplayer missions will allow you participate in exciting historical battles that took place all over Europe.

• Прусская кампания: Попробуйте себя в роли Фридриха Великого и возглавьте могучие прусские войска в самых кровавых сражениях Европы 18 века.
• Шведская кампания: Станьте свидетелем золотого века Швеции под руководством Густава Адольфа, гения-стратега, который изобрёл современный метод ведения войны.
• Новые уникальные юниты: добавлено 7 новых юнитов, из которых 3 – абсолютно новые.
• Новый климат: приготовьте свои шубы, так как в Восхождении к Славе поля сражений будут усыпаны снегом.
• Новые нации: могучие Бавария и Саксония, фавориты старых фанатов, возвращаются в игру и готовы продемонстрировать всю свою военную мощь.
• Одиночные сценарии: три мисcии дадут Вам возможность побывать в разных уголках Европы и принять участие в увлекательных исторических сражениях.

• Прусська кампанія: Спробуйте себе в ролі Фрідріха Великого і станьте на чолі могутніх прусських військ в найкривавіших битвах Європи 18 століття.
• Шведська кампанія: Станьте свідком золотого віку Швеції під керівництвом Густава Адольфа, генія-стратега, який винайшов сучасний метод ведення війни.
• Нові унікальні юніти: додано 7 нових юнітів, 3 з яких - абсолютно нові.
• Новий клімат: приготуйте свої шуби, так як в Сходженні до Слави поля битв будуть посипані снігом.
• Нові нації: могутні Баварія і Саксонія, фаворити старих фанатів, повертаються в гру і готові продемонструвати всю свою військову міць.
• Поодинокі сценарії: три місії дадуть Вам можливість побувати у різних куточках Європи і взяти участь в захоплюючих історичних битвах.