A new stable build is online with bicycles, new capture logic and a whole lot of bug- and graphics-fixes. And a major update of the Action part of the game is coming up in the near future (hopefully next week, but no promises! 
), where you’ll see new vehicle textures, a new friction model for the vehicles, so the feeling and response from the vehicles is better, new poses and updated animations for the weapons, and much more.
We’ve also launched our Google+ page, so hurry up and follow us there as well as on our other social sites: facebook, twitter, YouTube and IndieDB.
300 Alpha keys went out this week, and we’ll continue to send more next week.
As a last comment before continuing to Developer Blogs and Team Debriefing – We’re looking for community-members to participate in our launch-trailer. Read more about it here if you’re intrigued. And don’t worry it won’t hurt (much)… 
Oh… (I promise this will be the last comment before proceeding) – Tonight we have our annual Christmas party – so sorry for any misbehaviors and drunk talk from our side on the forum or in-game. Cheers!
Developer Blogs This Week
Featured Developer Rune Speich (Reto.Splixxen)
By Reto.KenSolo
“Each week we’ll feature one of the developers from the team and tell you a bit about who they are and what they are working on. This time it’s Lead Tester, Rune Speich aka. Reto.Splixxen.” Read More
We’re looking for community members for our launch-trailer
By Reto.KenSolo
“We’ve started working on our launch-trailer and are looking for 20-30 community-members to participate in it.” Read More
300 new Alpha-keys
By Reto.KenSolo
“It’s Tuesday, which means that it’s time for new Alpha-keys. 300 Alpha-keys has just been sent out, so within short time 300 of you should be able to see a mail with a key from us in your inbox.” Read More
Team Debriefing
Design
Reto.RedBjarne, Game Director
“- work on ice-compounds for trees (seperation into LOD meshes and seperate leaves for custom shading). Not checked in
- finalizing House1
- finalizing fences for village”
Reto.Fleck,Level Designer
“Focused on the 2-day interval fixing bugs on the levels. Made a new trainstation, which is now on Stable. We are focusing on removing all grey placeholder textures with real textures. But most of the new textures still needs to be tweaked in the shader and vertex colors.”
Reto.Robotron3000, Community Manager & Game Designer
“Weapon modification design. Player progression systems design. Riding a grey bicycle all over the maps. 
”
Artists
Reto.Hr.Wille, 3D Artist
“This week I have been working more on vehicles and will continue on this for some time. I’ve also started upgrading some of the in-game vehicles with new and improved versions. ”
Reto.Mato, Lead Character Artist
“MIA“
Reto.Owleater, Character Artist
“This week I have made he HighRes for the German pilot jacket. And Ingame/HighRes/Textures for the US Infantry jacket M41.”
Reto.Colding, Lead Animator
“Monday : Coughing, Tuesday : Sneezing and coughing, Wednesday : Coughing and swearing alot… Thursdag : back @ work …prepared new gun hold poses.”
Reto.Dave, Environment/Props/Concept Artist
“Been fixing up stuff on Medium French Village and making pretty props as well.”
Coders & QA
Reto.Goonstah, Programmer and Technical Lead
“Bugfixes and server performance.”
Reto.Chrestangen, Flash Programmer
“- A new and improved way of displaying items on the campaignmap
- Refactoring assault team viewable object
- Refactoring battelfield viewable object
- Refactoting/implementing new database structure for assault teams (they can now stand on different elements on the campaignmap)”
Reto.Placebo, Code connoisseur
“Worked on being able to relate Assault Teams with battlefields and supplylines, besides the usual accesspoints – this is a step towards more intuitive battlesituations on the campaignmap.”
Reto.Hal9k, Render Programmer
“- New stable build
- Fixup on build and deploy system
- More work on the backend for new lobby functionality”
Reto.Ogssan, Gameplay Programmer
“This week has consisted of creating mobile spawns, tweaking vehicles and bug fixes.”
Reto.Leto, Gameplay Programmer
“I’ve mainly been working with the PhysX 3.1 upgrade, and is preparing a quite substantial upgrade to the Action game.”
Reto.Murphy, Senior Programmer
“…many… many very important… things… and… stuff…”
Reto.Injection, Senior Programmer
“- Left at the hospital barracks, infectius disease rendered me unable to join the action until Wednesday.
- The Linux server code needed some tweaking.
- Some stones of different size was not colliding correctly.”
Reto.Splixxen, Lead Tester
“- Checking environment on the maps.
- Debug and coordinate crash logs.
- Handle feedback from alpha testers.:)”
Reto.Prakash, IT Architect
“In the first part of the week, I wrapped up the war resetting functionality. Now if the game is informed that the war has finished, it removes all commandnodes from their existing position and places them near the faction’s capital. The distribution is roughly auto-balanced in order to make sure that the forces are spread out equally for both factions.The next task I have started working on is the production logic of occupied factories.
Factories in control of a faction need to start adding their production to a “reserve” commandnode type which is under direct control of the supremecommand, and located at the factory. If not available, then the strategy logic will create such a commandnode at the factory location and start adding production to that node.”
Sound
Reto.Draebesmoelf, Lead Sound Designer
“I have taken the plane sounds apart in FMOD and created more sounds for the planes, then I have put it all back together again. I have also been at a few launch trailer meetings.”
Reto.Lord, Audio Programmer
“Still working on flash site, mission list / host center list.”
Management & IT
Reto.Topo, CEO
“A week of many different tasks, most notably is hiring an additional ressource to our marketing team; Michael Allan Hansen, who has started this week, and we have already had some great discussions on marketing.”
Reto.Hansg, IT Admin
“The first game-server at our new datacenter is now almost live and I’m currently installing various stuff on it.”
Reto.KenSolo, PR & Marketing Coordinator
“This has been ‘the-week-of-many-meetings’ for me – trailer-meetings, marketing-meetings, business model-meetings, etc. But I also managed to plow my way through a few media rating contracts and related documents. And as a final touch I’ve almost finished a press release for next week.”
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I didnt get a key :(
I got a key last week, thanks.