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If by "soon" you mean "late this year, possibly early next year"... then yes, it IS coming out "soon"; so yeah, we've got a few more months of Shoddy Battle 1 left, and even then some people won't move on.
I also need help making a server. I thought I had completed it but then when I tried to connect to it via the advanced tab. It says Error:operation Timed out. What am I doing wrong?