A reliable source tells frontlinesfuelofwar.net a new coffee stain mysteriously appeared in front of Mike F's desk at the Kaos office this morning. The coffee stain, reported to be vanilla iced flavoured Starbucks coffee, was the result of a heated DLC discussion with an anonymous visitor.

Our source can not confirm he was the cause of this new stain.

 KAOS has a little up dateon the upcoming PC 1.2.0 patch.

We are currently in the final stages of development of PC patch 1.2.0 and will start testing it shortly. We expect to release the patch in September.

The patch will include the following features:

• DLC1:
  • Boneyard Map
  • Conquer Mode
• Server Browser - Phase 2
• Joystick support
• PC Leaderboards - Unranked
• PC Leaderboards - Ranked
• Dedicated Server Tools

 Total FFOW has some news from KAOS on the upcoming Conquer Mode for Fronlines. Here is some of that Q&A:

Q: How many maps will support the new Conquer game mode?

A: Every map that has shipped with the game and will be released as downloadable content will support BOTH the Frontlines and Conquer game modes. If you count the 8 release maps, the recently released Boneyard and the four upcoming maps (Infiltration, Wide-Awake, Sunder and Hindsight), you’ll have a total of 13 maps to experience in both game modes.

Q: Have you reduced the size of any of the maps for Conquer?

A: No! We have not made any modification to the topography or size of our levels, no need to worry about a stripped down version of Solarfarm or Oilfield.

 Full Q&A...

 KAOS has an update for us on the Xbox 360 Title Update 3 and DLC2 Status. Looks as if there is a slight delay. 

"As we previously noted, Title Update 3 and DLC2 have been at Microsoft for certification for several weeks. Unfortunately, they have found a minor issue which is going to delay certification. We are in the process of submitting a fix and hope to be able to release as soon as possible."

Kaos Studios just released patch 1.1.1 for the PC.

• Players will no longer be kicked by PunkBuster for using the comma "," or forward slash "/" character in their names in multiplayer matches.
• The binding for the Action key (E) has been fixed. This is also used for the Exit Vehicle function.
• Keys that have already been used will be checked for when changing control key bindings.
• The distance for melee attacks has been shortened.
• The "pipe" character will no longer hide text in the server information window.
• Chinese translation errors on the server browser have been fixed.
  The Frontline will show up properly on the map.
• Fixed first-person weapon animation blends between run and sprint.
• Added functionality to allow firing of a weapon to break sprint. Previously you had to come out of sprint and then left-click to fire.
• "Master server connection ID verification failed" error has been fixed.

Downloads

Please note the following downloads are available on our Amsterdam fileservers. The name of the file is not the download server location but the territory name of the game version.

Asia Pacific  (excluding Australia & Korea): Frontlines 1.1.1 patch download

China: Frontlines 1.1.1 patch download
Czech Republic: Frontlines 1.1.1 patch download
Europe (excl. German, Russia, Czech, and Poland): Frontlines 1.1.1 patch download
Germany: Frontlines 1.1.1 patch download
Japan: Frontlines 1.1.1 patch download
Korea: Frontlines 1.1.1 patch download
North America: Frontlines 1.1.1 patch download
Poland: Frontlines 1.1.1 patch download
Russia: Frontlines 1.1.1

Bundled download link: FFoW 1.1.1

Please note the downloads are served from 2 gigabit connections in our Amsterdam location and are routed through http://forum.i3d.net/downloads.php for usage statistics. Registration is not required to download any file.

1.1.1 Testing Servers and New ATI Drivers Released

The newest updates on the Frontlines Status page reveal that some testing servers may appear in the browser as well as the newest ATI drivers being released. Take a look: