Community Corner with Bastian
Today, we invite you to our first Community Corner, a livestream with Community Developer Bastian Thun, where you can ask questions regarding the development of Anno 1800, while he tries to build a city in Anno 1800. It will start at 3PM GMT on our Twitch Channel or you can watch it here on the Anno Union below.
Category: Live Stream
Union Update – Streaming Week
Welcome back to the newest Union Update, this time a bit shorter than usual to leave us enough time to prepare the upcoming Closed Beta.
DevBlog: City Incidents – Moved
This week we planned to publish a blog taking a closer look at the City Incidents that you’ll have to deal with when creating your cities. We are still going to publish this blog, however, due to some workload caused by the preparation of the upcoming Beta of Anno 1800, we decided to move the blog to February. That way, we have time to prepare the Closed Beta starting January 31st and bring you the hot insights about the incidents right after the test has concluded.
We teased to reveal another new feature for Anno 1800 last week and even though we had to move the City Incidents blog, rest assured that we will still raise the curtain on the new content before the Closed Beta starts!
AnnoCast moved to Thursday 24th & AnnoAfternoon this Friday 25th
A reminder that this week we’ll hold another AnnoCast and AnnoAfternoon that you can watch live on https://twitch.tv/ubisoftbluebyte.
As a headsup from last weeks announcement, we had to move the date of the next episode of our AnnoCast gamedev stream to this Thursday instead of Wednesday and we hope that despite the change in times, you’re going to watch because we have some interesting infos prepared and lot’s to show you!
AnnoCast: Quests and Expeditions – January 24th at 5pm CET / 11:00AM EST
AnnoAfternoon – January 25th at 5pm CET / 11:00AM EST
Follow our channel if you haven’t done so and use the links to the Events to receive a reminder when the Streams are about to begin.
That’s it for this week. Next week, we’ll have a huge chunk of information regarding the coming Beta and a DevBlog, so make sure you bookmark the Union and follow us on Social Media so you’re not missing out.
AnnoCast Specials – Valle & Belannaer
Today we’ll present a short blog with our AnnoCast Specials from this week, where aside from special guests like Valle or Belannaer, we also had an open door policy and many of our developers dropped in and visited us during the stream.
And tomorrow we’ll have another AnnoAfternoon with our Community Team from Newcastle. John and Chris will play Anno 1602 with you, which you can currently get for free through Uplay if you haven’t grabbed it already.
AnnoCast 07 – Naval Combat 4.30pm CET
The livestream starts today at 10:30 EST on our Twitch-page.
You can also let Twitch remind you of the Stream start, by clicking “Remind me” on the Event-site.
Alternatively, you can also follow the Stream here on our blog. After the Stream, we will replace the Stream with the VOD.
AnnoCast 06 – Sic parvis magna – 10:30 EST
The livestream starts today at 10:30 EST on our Twitch-page.
You can also let Twitch remind you of the Stream start, by clicking “Remind me” on the Event-site.
Alternatively, you can also follow the Stream here on our blog. After the Stream, we will replace the Stream with the VOD.
Union Update: Sic parvis magna
Yo ho! This week we’ll feature not one but two streams, our game development show AnnoCast as well as our community favorite AnnoAfternoon.
Last week, we’ve shown off our two Pirate captains, Anne Harlow and Jean La Fortune. We were especially happy to see some of the feedback we’ve gotten to their island designs and that you like their stories. Mind you, these will not be the last of the NPCs you’ll get to see!
Furthermore, the blog has shown that many of you are curious about the various possibilities to interact with the different AI characters of the game. A diplomacy blog is currently in the making and will shed some light on the various interactions with future to be enemies, allies or trading partners.
Streaming Schedule!
Without further ado, here comes this week’s streaming schedule. You can find the Events with their times also listed on Twitch by clicking the links, which allows you to set up a reminder when the streams are about to start.
AnnoCast Episode 06 – SIC PARVIS MAGNA
When: Thursday, November 8th, 4.30PM CET / 10.30AM ET
Where: twitch.tv/ubisoftbluebyte
In the next episode of our Anno 1800 stream, we will start a completely new settlement, from our first farm houses to the technical marvels of the first industrial revolution.
This week, we will not have a QnA in this blog due to the stream, though you will have the opportunity to ask us questions live during the stream. So what are you waiting for? Let us know your most burning questions in the comments below and we make sure that we take some time during the show to bring you the answers!
AnnoAfternoon – Anno 2070
When: Saturday, November 10th, 5PM CET / 11:00AM EST
Where: twitch.tv/ubisoftbluebyte
This week, John from the Community Team will fly (swim? sail?) solo on this week’s AnnoAfternoon and continue where he left off two weeks ago. For those who might have missed it: The AnnoAfternoon is now every second and fourth week of a month.
We hope to see the first underwater settlement in the game by the end of this stream and maybe someone will finally show Hector that we have the strongest navy.
Community Highlights
While we don’t have a QnA in this weeks blog, want to show you some cool content we’ve seen from our community:
Bambierfurts Facts Telegram
Where: twitter.com/bambierfurt
Language: German
Many Annoholics count the days until February 26th. Bambierfurt goes one step further and brings you interesting Annofacts daily.
KatherineOfSky’s Anno 2070 Multiplayer Tutorial
Where: youtube.com/KatherineOfSky
Language: English
KatherineOfSky, or KoS, loves to play building games and recently created a Anno 2070 Multiplayer Tutorial, which might even teach Anno 2070 veterans something new.
RhetioTVs Annolyse
Where: youtube.com/RhetioTV
Language: German
You like the Anno Union but you don’t have the time to read it all? RhetioTV is not only giving you an overview of the latest Anno Union Blogs, but doesn’t shy away from speculating a bit.
Those were just a few examples of what we liked this week. But let us turn this around now and ask you, what Anno-related content you like to check out, when you’re not building cities yourself? Do you prefer to watch a livestream? Have an Anno-blogger you follow? Someone who makes really good Anno-memes that make you smile?
Let us know down in the comments and we hope to see you tomorrow and on Saturday!
Anno Cast 05 – gamescom aftermath
Our gamedev live-stream will go live today at 4.30pm CEST at twitch.tv/ubisoftbluebyte
Alternatively, you can just watch the stream here in the Anno Union!
Anno Afternoon #3 – Batten down the hatches
In case you missed our Anno Afternoon Stream today, here’s the Video on Demand. You can also watch it here on our site below.
Anno1404 – Annoversary Stream
Let’s celebrate the 9th birthday of the cult classic together. Join our developers when the dive back into the world of Anno 1404, anecdotes incoming and backseat gaming allowed! You would like to see more live-streams in future? Just follow our Twitch Channel!
AnnoAfternoon #2: Full to the gunwales – Live at 5PM CEST
As with last month, we’re having another fun AnnoAfternoon planned with Community Team members Seraxia and O5ighter today. Come over and check it out on Twitch live at 5PM CEST / 11 AM EDT on our Twitch Channel or here on the blog.
If you have missed our last AnnoAfternoon, then you can check out the VOD here.