In November we posted a list of what we’re working on, you can find it here: https://steamcommunity.com/games/823130/announcements/detail/1700567065814770192 Our hope was to release the big update early this year but as it stands now we are not ready and we need our three programmers on Totally Accurate Battle Simulator.
For those who don’t know, TABG is a spoof of our main game Totally Accurate Battle Simulator. TABG was originally only meant to be an April Fools joke so that the Totally Accurate Battle Simulator players had something to do while they waited for release. We don’t want to keep them waiting any longer and to release Totally Accurate Battle Simulator we need all hands on deck.
What does this mean? It means that we will not go F2P as soon as we hoped but we will further down the road. We’re not abandoning the game, we still want to bring in more players and finish the new brawl mode. We’re also looking into ways of getting help from other studios on the project but as it stands now we don’t know when the F2P update will be.
We never expected this game to have such an amazing dedicated player base, we want to do you justice but for that, we need some more time.
As a consolation we’ve added some new cosmetics to play around with, we devs also promise to wear the new shame-helmet every time we play!
Please email us at info@landfall.se or post in the forums if you have any thoughts or questions regarding this announcement. We cannot answer in the comments under this post.
Remember to restart steam and verify the integrity of the game files to get the update.
TDLR: We’ve added some new cosmetics as compensation for not going F2P in the near future. We will eventually do so but currently, we are focusing on finishing TABS and need all hands on deck.
Hi! Thank you who participated in our first community test of the new brawl mode, we’re super happy with the feedback and are working on the necessary changes. We aim to have another test soon, stay tuned on social media/announcements!
We are also hoping on going free to play (F2P) in the future because of these reasons:
- It’s currently hard to find a match with fifty people as was intended, F2P will help bring in new people.
- The server costs are very high and an F2P update will extend the lifetime of the game.
Don’t worry. We will make sure that the people who got the game before going free will have something unique and cool to make it worth their while.
In order to go F2P we need to finish some major things, this is what we’re working on:
- Finishing the Brawl mode which currently will have three maps.
- Streaming: Behind the scenes, we’re working on a streaming tool that will optimize the game for better performance. This is a bit of a gigantic task but we believe it will be a major lift for the game. It will hopefully lead to less lag spikes, it will optimize the rendering of the world and decrease the workload of the CPU.
- Cosmetics: To be able to go F2P we need an in-game store for cosmetics, we’ve come some way with this but it needs more work to make sure it works correctly.
These things need to be finished before we go F2P to ensure it goes correctly, we will not do so unless these things are in place. Thank you all for sticking with us for this long <3
We just updated the servers so that matches start if no more players join after 3,5 minutes of waiting. This will sometimes mean smaller games but we hope this change is for the better.
Please leave feedback on this change on the forums as we cannot answer here.
Patch Notes: - Additional Anti Cheat, Anti Cheat is now much more robust. - Cheating, any kind of modification or trying to circumvent Anti Cheat will now result in a permanent ban.
Make sure to restart steam and verify the integrity of the game-files :)
Hello everyone! For those who don’t know we’ve been back from vacation for a couple of weeks now and we are working hard on the game, this was originally posted in the forums a couple of weeks ago but I'll post it here as well for visibility. :)
Here’s what we’re working on right now:
Anti-cheat [UPDATE: The anti-cheat patch is now live and appears to have fixed the major cheating issues] We’re implementing better anti-cheating measures that we hope will deal with the majority of the hacker issues the game is facing. Right now we’re testing the anti-cheat to make sure it works and won’t interfere with non-cheating players ability to play the game.
Content updates These will take a while as we have some major things in the works. - A new close quarter game mode with its own map - Two new areas added to the battle royale map - More customization
We have seen your suggestions of going f2p in the forums and we’re looking into the possibility of doing so to try to make sure that there are enough players for you to get a game at all times. If we go down this route there need to be systems in place to handle server issues and an in-game store to keep the servers up. We are also looking into having a free weekend soon to bring in some more players.
EDIT: If we do go f2p we will make sure that those who have paid for the game feel that they get something out of it.