is this game still in development? or is it abandoned?

[Adrykuid]

I would like to know if this game is still in development or the developers abandoned it, I think it has a lot of potential it makes me want to buy it for several friends and for my brother as a gift, but if it is not going to continue polishing and developing I will not do it, because I think that the game is not quite finished and it need many adjustments come I would love to help the developers in some way..., I await the response of a developer or moderator if they still alive ... hahaha best wishes, greetings from ireland

[baddoggs]

Pretty much gone mate... I'm sorry.

[Adrykuid]

Yes I've been researching the last few hours ... it's really a tragedy ... I hope they get back to work on this one day ... now I just wonder if we will have any news of whether this will happen or not, or will just end up happening or not happening without having any news about it

[baddoggs]

Originally posted by Adrykuid:

Yes I've been researching the last few hours ... it's really a tragedy ... I hope they get back to work on this one day ... now I just wonder if we will have any news of whether this will happen or not, or will just end up happening or not happening without having any news about it

The game was pretty good when it first released. Sadly, it was pretty much all
downhill after that.

[IRDCAM]

I believe Freeman was a prototype of a later project. See if 'system' works, iron out the bugs, and create a more 'perfect' product based on lessons learned here.

[♀⛤WitchyWoman⛤♀]

This is a shady company, they have changed names and are now working on a very mediocre game based on this same sort of game engine. You know there is a red flag on steam when a game company starts leaving a trail of unfinished games and changing their company name. I would consider this abandoned. Sad because they will just do this again. Steam really needs to punish developers who abuse the platform and rip people off in this way.

The name of their new project is "The Viking Way" and it already has a mixed review score. It wouldn't surprise me in the least if it was discarded as well and they change their company name again. Its clear that they know their reputation is tarnished and they are trying to cover their tracks. Keep an eye out for anything made by "Ice Lava Games" and spread the word. The only way we can really be effective is in doing anything we can to hold them to finishing games or hurting their ability to profit from these scams

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1377540/The_Viking_Way/

[Reifam]

Really sucks that this stopped development. I really like Mount and Blade and the thought of there being a modern-ish military gun combat game similar to that was so exciting. At least I got a bit of fun out of it. Is there anything else that attempts this style?

[SargentKako]

Originally posted by ♀⛤WitchyWoman⛤♀:

This is a shady company, they have changed names and are now working on a very mediocre game based on this same sort of game engine. You know there is a red flag on steam when a game company starts leaving a trail of unfinished games and changing their company name. I would consider this abandoned. Sad because they will just do this again. Steam really needs to punish developers who abuse the platform and rip people off in this way.

The name of their new project is "The Viking Way" and it already has a mixed review score. It wouldn't surprise me in the least if it was discarded as well and they change their company name again. Its clear that they know their reputation is tarnished and they are trying to cover their tracks. Keep an eye out for anything made by "Ice Lava Games" and spread the word. The only way we can really be effective is in doing anything we can to hold them to finishing games or hurting their ability to profit from these scams

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1377540/The_Viking_Way/

That's the thing isn't it? The studio started out this game, left it unfinished and immediatly started making what? 2? 3 other games at the same time? That's crazy. How can a team say they don't have the resources to finish a game, when they have said resources to develop several other games at the same time?

[TengChozan]

I wish there was no such thing as a major update. Give me back the days when I enjoyed it, even if it was rough.

[Oubley]

Originally posted by baddoggs:

Originally posted by Adrykuid:

Yes I've been researching the last few hours ... it's really a tragedy ... I hope they get back to work on this one day ... now I just wonder if we will have any news of whether this will happen or not, or will just end up happening or not happening without having any news about it

The game was pretty good when it first released. Sadly, it was pretty much all
downhill after that.

How can a game be good then crap. Did they just pump it full of bugs and left or did they just not finish another iteration?

[DeadlyFred]

Honestly it kind of seemed like the devs didn't know what they were doing beyond the core idea of this game. The basic concept and execution is pretty good and works fine as a proof of concept but it's like the more they tried to expand it, the more messy it got. The addition of vehicles was comically bad and completely unbalanced and then they just scrapped it, allegedly, in the interest of making it easier on modders (which doesn't really make any sense to me).

And then their last comment on it is that they want to redo the whole thing from the ground up?? Have those words ever been a good sign from a developer?

[JohnBart]

Originally posted by baddoggs:

How can a game be good then crap. Did they just pump it full of bugs and left or did they just not finish another iteration?

The game has basically gotten worse with each major update past v0.220, both technically and visually. While the characters models and their gear/clothing looked nicer past early access, everything else (the user interface, weapon models, battle maps, overworld map, etc.) has gotten uglier.

Even worse, the "full" release and the subsequent updates also introduced several annoying gameplay bugs (enemies spawning outside map boundaries or underground, trees having oversized hitboxes where we can easily get stuck, or having the tactical map showing our squads as enemies) that had not been present in early access, and that haven't been fixed either.

Originally posted by Chug Ma Nug:

The addition of vehicles was comically bad and completely unbalanced and then they just scrapped it, allegedly, in the interest of making it easier on modders (which doesn't really make any sense to me).

I'm currently doing a playthrough with the v0.222 build, and I don't think vehicles are that bad. Sure, enemy vehicles sometimes have ridiculous pathfinding, snipers with a good rifle sometimes can one-shot them, and some enemy armies also tend to have too many anti-personnel LAVs running around (I mean, about 75% of the Uman's army in my campaign seems to consist of the cheapest armored car, rushing us constantly en masse), but overall I think that the available vehicles are pretty interesting, offering a wide selection of anti-personnel, anti-armor and area denial assets.

I completely agree with you though that the dev's rationale of removing them ("it blocks the modding tools!") was pure BS - they just probably didn't want to spend time on improving their physics and pathfinding.

Originally posted by Chug Ma Nug:

And then their last comment on it is that they want to redo the whole thing from the ground up?? Have those words ever been a good sign from a developer?

Of course not, and considering that they completely disappeared after November 2020, it's safe to assume it wasn't a good sign this time either.

[ARmodder]

Bought this game late last spring and have to say it has been very enjoyable, think I paid $15 for it or something like that, and put like 60+ hours into it the core gameplay is solid, I was a bit bummed out when I heard that they removed vehicles, but seeing the terrain in most battle maps I could see there being a few issues with collisions and pathfinding.

Honestly I haven't run into many bugs, think the biggest bugs I have run into is randomly getting stuck in brush when in battle, and a few times the last one or two enemies despawned or such, but in that case since my guys were 15+ strong I just used the kill all command to end the battle.

The only features I would have liked to see are:

Vehicles re-implemented, with a convoy battle system where you have small towns and roads where you can fight convoys of light/medium trucks and light armored vehicles, and have the terrain relatively flat.

Air Support: I know there is an attack helicopter that will provide artillery support, but they could expand on this idea and have a few more helicopters, and switch up the attacks with; guns, rockets ect.

Map Variations: would be nice to have a bigger variety of standard battle maps, as it is almost every map is the same except for Topography and climate, would be nice to see some maps have roads, small structures, and maybe some bodies of water!

[Oblivion]

game is dead. . like 50% of the alpha squad units spawn below the ground and u cant gett to them, so u have to forfeit every match and repeat if u want to wipe them.. what a fking joke of a game, devs ♥♥♥♥ abandoning stuff. they should be criminally charged for this ♥♥♥♥.

[♀⛤WitchyWoman⛤♀]

I called these developers out in their other game forums. They instantly deleted my post so they don't care about this game or our concerns and they are trying to cover their tracks.

[Earth Spirit]

I wouldn't be surprised if the game is stopped developing. The game was good, very good. Then the new changes are just bad for no reason: new versions -> new bugs that won't be completely fixed (changelog showed it is fixed but you had to wait next 3 patches to fix it). The gun game became boring: harder to build your squad in first hours, unbalanced power of AI, bot can't "see" long range so the game came to be mount & blade with gun, the attack camp and town became 2 teams go to center of the map and shoot instead of holding some good positions like highground, .... Game was became boring with the same maps time to time and same gun play time to time. New units aren't very good and just waste tons of game's money.