All good things must come to an end.

[Lord ALF]

Agents,

All good things must come to an end, and so it is with Blacklight: Retribution.

Thank you for so much for your loyal support, and love over the years. From the initial PC Closed Beta in November 2011 to today, it has been a great 7+ years. The joy that we got out of Blacklight: Retribution is a testament to you the fans; your loyalty, dedication, support, and ultimate willingness to try our fun, quirky FPS.

Why is this happening? The reality is Hardsuit Labs has been engaged for some time now in some very interesting projects that require the full focus of the development teams and leadership. The studio capacity and resources are and have been entirely engaged with these projects and will be for the foreseeable future. As such, we officially will no longer be patching, updating, or doing technical support for Blacklight Retribution. Account migration will officially shut down as of today, as will the official support site.

Starting today, all items in the PC store will be made free, and we hope that you continue to enjoy the game and items up until the PC servers are shut down on March 11th, 2019. The PS4 version of Blacklight Retribution will continue to operate as-is since there are no game servers being hosted for it.

We welcome your feedback, comments, questions, and memories on our social media @PlayBlacklight or @HardsuitLabs, our Reddit community here and the BLR Discord channel.

As a studio, Blacklight: Retribution will always have a special place in our hearts. One that is largely due to our amazing community, so thank you to all the Blacklight: Retribution fans out there.

Important Dates
February 8th
* PC Store unlocked and free
* PC Account migration shut down
* PC and PS4 no further updates or patches
March 11th
* PC game servers shut down permanently
* Support shut down for PC and PS4

[spaceboy]

Is there any chance of releasing it into the wild so fans can take over and keep it alive, and/or a single player version? We hate to see it completely die. There's always tech minded players who like projects like this.

[SeaLabCaptn]

Nighty night, sir.

F

[LichDream]

Wow, this sucks. :( Always hoped they would at some point revert the parity patch changes, but alas. Hopefully there will be a BLR 2 or something, but I'm not holding my breath.

Regardless, this was a game I had a lot of fun with for a long time. Shame it couldn't continue.

[Karnosaur]

F, bye guys/gals ;_; it's been fun

[4Horsemen]

Originally posted by spaceboy | trade.tf:

Is there any chance of releasing it into the wild so fans can take over and keep it alive, and/or a single player version? We hate to see it completely die. There's always tech minded players who like projects like this.

^^ PLEASE LET THIS HAPPEN. I WILL HOST A SERVER!!!!!!!!!!!!

[spaceboy]

I think if we beg enough, we might actually get it. A small fan base on private servers aren't going to hurt sales on any of their new projects. They could still retain the rights if it were to start growing again, and start selling new content or whatever.

[neoVictrix]

F


Can't say I'm surprised by the news, just disappointed with the outcome. Then again the game had a good what, six years of running (I consider the last two as just "the end"). Maybe we'll get something again in the future; either way, had fun in the game when I did and got the most out of it.

[LeonKellar]

Why don't you guys release an update to PC and make possible to play like on PS4 using Peer-to-Peer connection. Don't let this game become just a memory. This was the first game I played back when I created my Steam account.

[Karnosaur]

Originally posted by LeonKellar:

This was the first game I played back when I created my Steam account.

Same here

[lllltepahhcs]

Originally posted by LeonKellar:

Why don't you guys release an update to PC and make possible to play like on PS4 using Peer-to-Peer connection. Don't let this game become just a memory. This was the first game I played back when I created my Steam account.

Now this could be an option.. It shouldn't take too much for them to release a patch or update for the game and the DLCs that will remove the dedicated server proprietaries and install console type support that will allow p2p. That's a very logical and should be feasible option for sure!

[szefo]

Cant u just release pc servers? If the game will be unsupported either way with pc server community could run it forever.

[Elpunk]

I'm trying to get in with my old account and I can not. How do I make a new one?

[B.I.F.I von Riva]

PLEASE!! Give us the option to host atleast a dedicated version

[snlᴉʇnɐNɔᴉɯsoƆ]

Well I guess Warframe will be ALL of my gunfun, now. I need a replacement freebie FPS

[mrjodicow]

Will offline with bots still work, and does anyone have a DLC key or something so I can bind it to my account?