In the wake of recent events in the Soldat community, I think, everyone felt the need for some kind of change and resolution. Trying to help with the situation I only discovered I can't help much, because Soldat needs a strong leadership and management. Not only from the community side, but it needs a developer effort. Unfortunately I can't provide that because my efforts are entirely focused on Soldat 2. Out of this seeming despair a solution sprang out during the last few weeks.

I have been contacted by a team of individuals offering to take over Soldat and help fix everything that is currently wrong. At first I was skeptical, but after much talking, I learnt they have not only good ideas but the resources and work power to do this. They want to first and foremost fix the Gather situation, unite the community and fix some of the long-standing Soldat bugs and issues.

It sounds very good to me, that's why I think we need to give this effort a chance, it might be exactly what the game needs. So, this week, we made a deal and Soldat will be taken over by a new management. This includes the community sites like Discord and forums and Steam. The game will remain open source, so anyone wanting to play with their own version of the game is welcome.

More information will be revealed as the transition takes place. I do realize how much this game means to you, that's why I've thought carefully about what I can do and what I can't, to help this game. And I've come to the conclusion that letting go of my creation is the best I can do now. Time will tell what this brings.

But I do hope this is a new chapter for Soldat and that the game will bring even more fun times for the next 20 years!

Have fun!
MM

The patch I've been creating together with the community for 14 months is ready to ship tomorrow. Are you ready? :)

Some of the major changes:


See the gameplay video!


Fixed a lot of things like kick-jumping and roll to be exactly like in Soldat 1.
Balanced speeds and forces for greater fun!
Plus there's more moves like hardroll, superman-dash and sliding.






Many modifiers including realistic damage, movement and Fog of War!













+ 3-shot Rocket Launcher
+ secondary RPG launcher with a guided missile!
+ all weapons rebalanced

This patch is launching tomorrow 6PM CEST. Check your local time.

Have fun!
MM

https://store.steampowered.com/app/474220/Soldat_2/


Can't join us today? No worries 😉
Grab your bowl with popcorn and watch the LIVE!Stream. 🍿
We made a special Facebook event with links to all the different live streams!

• online multiplayer (with dedicated servers)
  
• iconic physics-based movement
  
• essential multiplayer gamemodes (capture the flag, point capture, battle royale)
  
• procedurally generated and designed levels
  
• realistic weapons and military equipment
  
• ragdoll physics and over the top violence
  
• singleplayer & custom battle sandbox
  
• lo-fi mode for clarity or potato pc's
  
• built-in gif recording!

See you in the battlefield...
And remember to have fun!
MM & THD Team

The Soldat 1 movement inspired many games including N and was analyzed in the book "Game Feel" by Steve Swink.
I'm happy to have recreated it in Soldat 2 and expanded for even more fun! I've been making this sequel for over 2 years now as a "one man army" developer.



It's coming to Steam on Tuesday, September 22, 2020!

Wishlist if you haven't already!
https://store.steampowered.com/app/474220/Soldat_2/


Join our community on Soldat 2 Discord server!


And remember to have fun!
MM

Soldat 2 premieres:

After nearly 2 years of a “one man army” style development I can finally announce the release date.

The game is in the final phase of several weeks of multiplayer testing and will be ready for release in Early Access on Steam for Windows, Linux and Mac. WISHLIST NOW if you haven't already!

It will be still in development, I'll be collecting feedback from the players and introducing new features.

Soldat 2 Capture The Flag multiplayer tests gameplay on CTF_DIVISION:

Soldat 2 aims to recreate the classic experience of online deathmatch famous in Soldat, with the same physics-based movement, violence and guns. But it is much more than that with a new 2.5D look, weapons, customizations, gamemodes and experimental features such as:

• motorbikes

• battle royale

• and an agar.io inspired gamemode

• online multiplayer (with dedicated servers)
  
• iconic physics-based movement
  
• essential multiplayer gamemodes (capture the flag, point capture, battle royale)
  
• procedurally generated and designed levels
  
• realistic weapons and military equipment
  
• ragdoll physics and over the top violence
  
• singleplayer & custom battle sandbox
  
• lo-fi mode for clarity or potato pc's
  
• built-in gif recording!

Is a legendary multiplayer game and now it has a sequel after 18 years!
https://store.steampowered.com/app/638490/Soldat/

Watch my story on how the game started 18 years ago:


Don't forget to WISHLIST if you haven't yet to get notified about the game release immediately!

See you in the game!
And remember to have fun ;)
MM

https://distrokid.com/hyperfollow/marshallanderson1/soldat-original-game-soundtrack

Enjoy :)

I still remember the game I started making which was the beginning of Soldat. I was in high school 2000/2001 and in my free time I was coding a game called “Strike of the Dragon”. It was a karate platformer. Something like Karateka by Jordan Mechner but based on ragdoll physics.



If I’m not mistaken, the first game ever to have ragdolls was Hitman (released in 2000) and the paper written by one of its creators inspired me to do ragdolls in 2D (so I think, Soldat was the first published 2D game ever to have ragdoll physics).



“Strike of the Dragon” had platformer tile-based maps and when I conceived Soldat in my mind I knew I wanted to make something like Liero. But bitmap-based maps like Liero were out of the question because of how much memory that would take. Also I wanted the physics to be much smoother. And this is where I remembered Elastomania.



A game where you drove a motorbike on polygon-based maps. So I learned DirectX 8.0a in like a day and a half and quickly rendered polygons. When I saw those little ragdoll soldiers running on polygons I knew I was onto something big. I followed that intuition and it became reality. The rest is history and now it’s maybe time for you. Because you can join Soldat’s future and take part in its making.



Anyone interested in expanding, improving and fixing Soldat or simply interested in how it was made can now do so with the open source version. I hope this will spawn many amazing creations, mods and even full-conversions.

The current public version 1.7.1 (the one playable from the homepage and from Steam) is different from the open source version 1.8. The source code for 1.7.1 is available on request for anyone willing to join the official dev team (just email us at support@thd.vg or contact on Discord). 1.8 is available from gitHub here.

There are two reasons for this double source:

1. To prevent easy to build hacks for the current public version until an anti-hack system is incorporated with the open source version 1.8
2. Soldat 1.8 source code changes have key differences and cannot be easily merged

Soldat 1.8 key differences:

• Source can be compiled with FreePascal (instead of Delphi 7)
  
• Fully cross-platform
  
• Uses well known libraries (SDL, OpenAL, GameNetworkingSockets, PhysFS)
  
• Old GUI has been removed and needs replacing
  
• Config files have been replaced with IdTech style Cvar’s
  
• Major refactoring

In short version 1.8 allows for much more than 1.7.1.1 and we hope to see some amazing creations (like full conversions) built upon this.

More info on how to start developing the game here.

If you feel you can help checkout the To-Do list here.

And lastly a big thanks for everyone that ever contributed to Soldat, especially for helloer for putting this together and of course all the key contributors (sorted alphabetically):

Peters "daaw" Brede
Gregor. "Shoozza" A. Cieslak
Nick "EnEsCe" Cooper
Mariano "urraka" Cuatrin
Paweł "helloer" Drzazga
Daniel "Skoskav" Forssten
Justin "splitcoffe" Gascoigne
Joe "jrgp" Gillotti
Chris "ChrisGBK" GreenBank
Michael "tmtgr" Himing
Umut "ExHunter" Karakas
Tomasz "Falcon" Kołosowski
Oliver "Mr" Kuckertz
Tony "zakath" Libell
Jacob "Fryer" Lindberg
Michał "MM" Marcinkowski
Maciek "Mighty" Miłowski
Ryan "FliesLikeABrick" Rawdon
Jason "thestoreybook" Storey
Reko "reko_t" Tiira

You can watch the story of how the game started on THD's Youtube channel:



And now I’m going back to work on Soldat 2 cya!
and remember to have fun!
MM

Hi everyone :)
I'm MM and I created both games so I thought I'd share this with everybody (I won't be doing it frequently cause this is a space for Soldat 1). So for over 2 years now I have been making Soldat 2 which will soon be available in Early Access. But right now you can already play the Soldat 2 demo for free!

If you want to be alerted for future news, such as the game release, please WISHLIST the game on the Steam store page (wishlisting helps me very much!)

https://store.steampowered.com/app/474220

Watch the raw gameplay footage:




I'm working hard on polishing the game for its multiplayer release, making sure the movement is as fun as in Soldat 1. But don't worry about S1 being replaced. S1 will always remain free and I'm sure both games can co-exist and mutually benefit from each other (remember that Soldat 2 news and marketing brings people in for Soldat 1 too!)



If you have any feedback on S2 do not hesitate to post on the official Steam forums or the Discord.



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All Soldat moves are possible in Soldat 2 and more!
For a full list click here.

Creating a game for your buddies has not been so easy – until now! The latest version implements Steam P2P Networking which allows your friends to connect to your game without any hassle! No more port forwarding or unblocking! Start the game, share the join code or invite them in-game through Steam Overlay and let the fun begin!

We also enabled Steam Cloud synchronization so your precious game configs and taunts won't get lost!

A lot of our players use Discord, so we integrated Soldat with it! Your discord status will show on which server you are playing on, on what map and how much time is left! You can also invite others to join the server you're on.

Changelog (since 01/04/2020):
- Implemented Steam P2P Networking for local games
- Implemented Discord Integration
- Enabled Steam Cloud synchronization for game configs and taunts
- Updated application icon with the higher resolution version
- Added -notray launch option to disable the tray icon
- Added -nodiscord launch option to disable discord integration
- Added -nosteam launch option to disable steam integration
- Added -windowed launch option to start the game like a normal windowed application
- Implemented Steam's Enhanced Rich Presence system
- Fixed a bug that caused graphics scaling problems (known as big gostek bug)
- Fixed an issue that caused high ping on game join
- Fixed "Steam must be running to play this game (SteamAPI_Init() failed)" - Soldat will now fallback to non-steam version if Steam initialization fails
- Fixed a bug that triggered false positive "anti-cheat" violation kicks
- Fixed an issue with the game not responding to keyboard input
- Fixed displaying wrong country flags in the server list
- Fixed lobby filters not working properly
- Fixed ForwardClient mechanism
- Fixed demos not being opened
- Added an option to change skin color changer in Player Tab
- Added UPnP port forwarding for local server
- Server list is now sorted first by the number of players and then by ping to the game server

You can now sign-up your team to participate in the league's 30th season. Also, make sure to check out this amazing teaser by our community member Fame:



If you have any questions on the procedure of signing-up, make sure to read this post:
http://www.sctfl.net/forums/index.php?topic=56938.0

For anyone who is new to the competitive side of Soldat, make sure to check out our Discord:
https://discord.gg/soldat

The staff over there can assist you.

Come and join us in this epic battle!