Latest Neocron News and Information

There is an interview with Dirk "John Doe" Wilhelmy and Christian 'SnowCrash' Schuett on eGame.de - The interview is in German, but yuuki was kind enough to translate and post the interview on the forums for the English readers.

The Original German version can be found here, and the translated version is in this thread.

Xfire is offering the chance to win a slot to participate in a chat with the developers of Neocron 2.2. The chat will be held on April 3rd, 2007 at 09:00 PM CEST.  

During the chat it will be possible to win some free playtime!

1st. 6 months free playtime.
2nd. 3 months free playtime.
3rd. 1 months free playtime.

To enter the lottery for the chat, you need to have Xfire installed, and a valid Xfire username. To enter, goto this page and register for the chat. You can also talk about the dev chat in this little thread.

With less than 4 days to go, another patch comes up. This patch focuses on the combat rank changes, and some general fixes. Click on Read more for the patch notes and join in the discussion here.

Oh yes, one more thing test the patch! :p

John Doe announced that 2.2 will be delayed until March 12th to allow some extra testing on the following areas.

- Changes to the calculation of the combat ranks (Players and vehicles)
- Verification of the Law Enforcer rules
- Further adjustements to PSI combat (APU)
- Problems with high end computer systems caused by very high frame rates

Also John Doe has hinted there would be some new content in the patch to get your interest. You can read the full annoucement here.

Naturally some people will be disappointed by the delay, but I think it's a very welcomed delay to allow the testers extra time on the test server to find all the bugs, so please go and test on the test server.

Another test patch to put the server in retail conditions mode, and to add a few changes to combat rank. There is also some code changes the Law Enforce and PSI combat. Click on Read More for the patch notes, and join in the discussion of the patch here.

Since the release of 2.2 is delayed by a week, it's expected there will be a few more patches so get testing!

KK have annouced the release date for Neocron 2.2 - Wednesday 7th March. Players with inactive accounts will get 30 days free playtime.

However it seems the community do not feel 2.2 is ready for release, you can join the discusion about the release dates in the English thread or the German Thread.

You can now pay to play Neocron 2 with Paypal which is now the recommended payment method.

More details about Paypal can be found in this thread, including important information on how to switch from Click2Pray to Paypal.

So what you all waiting for? Reactivate your account, create a new account! See you all ingame!

Another balancing patch has hit the test server. There are some changes to Melee weapons, and PSI weapons in this patch. Discuss the patch in this thread, or click Read More for the patch notes.

In what is quite frankly a shock announcement, Snowcrash has today revealed that by the end of next week (16th February 2007), paypal should be availble as a payment method for Neocron. Previous annoucements had stated that new payment methods would not be available "until 2.2", and had hinted quite heavily at WorldPay being the new provider.

We are still awaiting details, however it would seem likely that Paypal will work out somewhat more expensive for players than Click2Pay does, considering paypal fees and the likley good deal offered to KK by C2P for being part of the same business group. Read the offical announcement right here.

Update: We have been asked by ReaKKtor to point out that the PayPal payment option will be only available to people with Credit cards.