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Multiplayer! Units! Defenses! Our latest and greatest Stronghold Next video reveals brand new details by answering 40 of YOUR questions about the game. Join Nick and Aaron for a detailed discussion about our upcoming castle sim, guided by player questions posted under previous Stronghold Next videos and Q&As.

Ahead of our full production update from the development team next week, today Firefly's community staff shine a light on a few finer details requested by fans. How many Lords can join a multiplayer game? Will there be healing units? Will regular troops be able to knock down castle walls? Together these smaller issues make a huge difference to each Stronghold, so we're taking the opportunity to lay out our plans at this early stage.

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This week we're back with another episode of the Stronghold Showcase! This new series sees us highlighting hidden gems from Steam Workshop, Stronghold Heaven and other Stronghold fan sites giving new life to classic titles. Whether you're seeking a fresh Crusader skirmish map on which to battle friends or a brand new siege scenario to test your mettle in Stronghold we have you covered!

Selecting maps from Firefly Studio's legacy titles with active map making communities and easy access via Steam Workshop or Stronghold Heaven, Aaron showcases a series of awesome custom maps to dig your teeth into until Stronghold Next surfaces:

- ORDER 69
- FOOTBALL FIELD
- LORD OF THE ISLES
- SCANDENAVIA
- FLOWER


Do you have a multiplayer battlefield, siege scenario or cosmetic map you think deserves to be in a future episode? Comment and let us know! We’re constantly on the lookout for cool fan-created content and love spotlighting lesser-known creations that go under the radar.

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This week marks the return of our 'Making Of' series with the grand finale, The Making of Stronghold Crusader 2! So get comfy while you wait for Stronghold Next as Nick, Simon and Paul once again take you through the adventure of returning to the desert once more, preparing Firefly Studios for future Stronghold titles in the process. Watch as we delve into the decade-long inception of our most recent 3D Stronghold game and discuss learnings for the next game in the series.

Did any secret features end up on the cutting room floor? Why did we develop Legends over Crusader 2 way back in 2005? What was it like self-publishing a sequel to everyone’s favourite Stronghold game? What does the future hold for Stronghold? Paul and Simon discuss living up to the hype of fan favourite Crusader, operating without a publisher and how Firefly Studios has learnt from the various challenges Crusader 2 presented.

If you liked this latest episode in our ‘Making Of’ series make sure you subscribe to our official channel for future installments and check out previous trips down memory lane in Stronghold: The Early Years.

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Rest in peace Nick… Today our Marketing Manager sacrifices himself to bring you Halloween updates for three separate Stronghold games! Celebrating this most unhallowed time of year your peasants have been cursed in Stronghold Crusader 2, Stronghold Legends and Stronghold 2. In Crusader 2 they are reduced to little more than dust and bones until All Hallows’ Eve, these lifeless subjects wandering decrepit castles in a dire state of disrepair. Tomb stones, rotting pumpkins, cobwebs and more adorn once magnificent castle structures, along with corrupt colours and unholy flames in the workshops of your medieval minions.



The return of the Stronghold Halloween Update and corruption of Sir William also means the curse once again falls on our Steam Edition games! Terrify your workers with horrifically impractical and yet somehow perfectly balanced pumpkin-head peasants or purge them from your castle with green wildfire. Keep them working to fight back against the curse or cower and wait for the horror to pass after Halloween has ended.



Our Stronghold Halloween updates are now available on Steam for players with the latest versions of Stronghold Crusader 2, Stronghold 2: Steam Edition and Stronghold Legends: Steam Edition. This event will last for one week with the above cosmetic changes in place until November 1st. After this the curse will fall, your peasants returning to normal, fire returning to its natural non-demonic colours and castles restored to their former splendour.

Happy Halloween!

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The Stronghold Next community Q&A series is back! In our fourth episode we answer a further 20 questions, all without spoiling the upcoming gameplay reveal planned for early 2019. While this won’t be our final Stronghold Next video of the year, it is currently our last planned Q&A. That said if we receive enough questions in the comments section we might just be convinced to do a bonus round!

This week we respond to your fan questions about the simulation and economic aspects of our new Stronghold game. How much micromanagement will you be doing? What can you expect in terms of difficulty for new and veteran players? Will Free Build feature AI invasions? Will the beloved Bessy return!? We cover all this and more including our plans to demo the game and how we’ll be updating you on development in 2019 and beyond.

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2. Check out our Stronghold Next playlist, which we'll be updating with new videos in the coming weeks and months.

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Welcome back to our Stronghold Next Q&A series! The third part in our mega Q&A series has Nick answering 20 questions about our next Stronghold game. With all questions and comments taken from Stronghold videos on the Firefly YouTube channel, we reveal everything we can about about our upcoming castle sim.

This week the topics of discussion center on Stronghold Next’s story campaign and various game modes, allowing us to reveal our plans for historical authenticity and overall single player design. Questions on sim modes, tournaments and co-op are all answered, with loads of new info and some discussion of what truly makes a Stronghold game. We even touch on subjects like Sir William’s baby, The Wolf’s demise and Nick’s uncanny resemblance to Ramsey Bolton…

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1. Be the first to see our full Stronghold Next gameplay reveal by subscribing to Firefly Studios on YouTube.
   
2. Check out our Stronghold Next playlist, which we'll be updating with new videos in the coming weeks and months.

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Recently we debuted a brand new video series suggested by you – the players! Introducing the ‘Stronghold Showcase‘ where we flaunt five awesome user-created maps from our five of our favorite Stronghold games. Each episode’s collection of community gems is available to download immediately either via the game’s Steam Workshop page or on Stronghold fan site Stronghold Heaven.

So while you patiently wait for more Stronghold Next info and gameplay, why not dip into our legacy titles with Aaron’s cherry picked array of sieges, skirmishes and economic scenarios? Watch as we take you from the realms of Legends to the lush green fields of Stronghold 2 and the deserts of the Crusader series!

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Welcome back to our Stronghold Next Q&A series! The second part in our massive community Q&A sees Nick answering 25 questions about our next Stronghold title. With all questions taken from Stronghold videos on the Firefly YouTube channel, we answer as much as possible about our upcoming castle sim.

Want to know about the castles we visit for research? Our expert opinion on gong? Perhaps Nick’s favourite number? No? Well good thing we have info on our map editor, boxed version, single player campaigns, voice lines, siege weapons, upgrades and animations!

We hope most if not all of your most pressing questions have been successfully answered over the past two weeks, but if not let us know! We’ll be monitoring the comments sections closely under all videos released between now and the gameplay reveal.

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2. Check out our Stronghold Next playlist, which we'll be updating with new videos in the coming weeks and months.

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Welcome to part one of our massive Stronghold Next Q&A! We answer your questions from previous Stronghold videos on our YouTube channel, hoping to tide everyone over until the full gameplay reveal. Nick answers more than 50 of your most pressing questions over the next two weeks, all without going into spoiler territory!

Watch as we reveal as much as possible about the upcoming castle sim including similarities with the Crusader series, game modes, mods, pricing, diplomacy, language support, release dates and more! There’s also discussion about the Stronghold series as a whole, such as how likely we are to see a console version of the castle builder and possible future settings.

We hope you enjoy this first half of our community Q&A extravaganza and would like to thank you for your patience waiting for the full gameplay reveal! Rest assured we are hard at work on that front and will do our best to keep you supplied with more Stronghold Next goodness in the meantime.

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2. Check out our Stronghold Next playlist, which we'll be updating with new videos in the coming weeks and months.

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With our Stronghold Next 2018 gameplay reveal still a few months out, the devs here at Firefly thought a fresh info drop might satisfy any news cravings you might be currently experiencing. Enter Nick with a bunch of new info about our upcoming Stronghold title currently in development, delivered exclusively on the Firefly Studios YouTube channel!

Today we reveal fresh information about the game's new setting, gameplay mechanic, returning units, siege equipment and more. We've done our best to reveal as much as we can about the next Stronghold game without spoiling our gameplay reveal planned for later this year. We hope this is enough to tide over historical RTS lovers and Stronghold fans, so please enjoy our latest Stronghold Next update and look forward to more in the coming months.

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1. Be the first to see our full Stronghold Next 2018 gameplay reveal and by subscribing to Firefly Studios on YouTube.
   
2. Check out our Stronghold Next playlist, which we'll be updating with new videos in the coming weeks and months.