Hello H-Hour community!

"Today we announce the winners of the video contest we held for beta participants. We asked members of the beta team to post two-minute videos showcasing the game and their superior skills. We had a ton of great entries and everyone who voted expressed how the quality of the videos made it difficult to pick the top three. Thank you to everyone who entered!

The moderators and the development team cast their votes and here are the final results:

• In third place, we have SeriouslyMan for a well-edited and scored video. He will be receiving two H-Hour patches and two H-Hour stickers.
  
• In second place, it is BadContrakt for a video showcasing scoreboards, kill-feeds and great marksmanship. He will be receiving an H-Hour t-shirt and stickers.
  
• And in first place (and appearing the most on the voter’s lists) is MoJoeGaming for a video that had good action, fun humor and a flying terrorist. Congratulations MoJoe! He will be receiving an H-Hour shirt, an H-Hour hat, patches and stickers.

Please also remember that today is the last day for entries to the current H-Hour beta Screenshot Contest. If you would like to enter your favorite screenshot for a chance to win a prize package of your own, head on over to this link: https://www.sofstudios.com/index.php?/topic/8567-screenshot-contest-open-through-may-11-2015/

Entries will be accepted through 9:00 PM EST today (May 11, 2015). Voting will take place this week with the winners announced next Monday.

There will be one more content patch this week (which will be the content the developers worked on over the past week). The team wants to try to release patches weekly by mid-week which gives them time over the weekends to work on things. The development team’s focus since the last patch has been on many of the new things implemented over the last few weeks, namely the demolition game mode and the improved UI and menus. We are expecting to have the basic framework for demolition done and in the community’s hands so we can get feedback prior to early access. Any other updates until at least early June will be mostly comprised of bug fixes, additional animations and other house-keeping fixes.

As mentioned on our milestone document, this week the development team enters what is called a feature freeze. That means that they won't be adding any new features prior to the early access launch on May 19th. Polishing and fixing the bugs so many of you have taken the time to report for us will improve what is already in H-Hour and ensure we have a game that functions very, very well for our early access players. This freeze will likely continue for the first few weeks of early access to allow the developers to work on the increased bug reports we expect to receive when we have a broader audience. Once we are solidly into early access, the team can begin to work on new features again.

As the last week before early access launch, this is an important week for the studio and a lot of administrative and business stuff is going on behind the scenes. So many different things need to come together for a successful launch. The support team has been working on crafting H-Hour's homepage on Steam and meeting all the requirements to release the game. We have also been organizing our lists of the many community members who will be receiving their Steam keys for the early access game on the 18th (the day prior to early access launch). This includes many folks who donated during Kickstarter or the Bake Sale for a digital copy of the PC game. If you are in that group, you will be receiving access keys via your email in much the same way that we sent out beta keys. More information next Monday on this.

Oh yeah, and I’m having a follow up PS4 talk this week with an interested party.

Thank you for your continued support!"

https://www.sofstudios.com/index.php?/topic/8658-weekly-quick-look-11-may-2015/