Awesome campaign! Thank you for the great work! Hope to see more from you :)

Just finished my second playthrough of this wonderful story. Thank you so much for this fine work of art, really enjoyable maps and great storytelling!

@TaintedWarrior - your comment means a lot, thank you. I'm slowly working on a 3rd campaign and this kind of thing helps keep me going :)

@POBmaestro Too late! Already played it :D good god man loved the story! Also wanted to express my sympathies to you about your mom. Love your passion in the game.

@TaintedWarrior - that's awesome! I have made a sequel, 29 Years Later. You can find it linked in the Description tab of this campaign. There's a lot more to it than the 28 Years campaign so hopefully you'll enjoy that too!

@Spens - really nice to hear and hope you enjoyed the sequel.

@Mimosa - thanks :)

This was an amazing and fun campaign. I like... am shocked at how hooked I was. I had to read it all :D great map design, the last level was absolutely my favorite! Sooooooooooo goooooood PLEASEE MAKE MORE!

What an amazing campaign! This was tons of fun to play and so engaging. This is the campaign they should have released. Thank you so much for making it and the countless of hours you spent on this project. I'm exicited to play the next one!

Great job mate, I am enjoying this far more than original.

@The Beast of Bognor - thanks, yes let's hope any future official campaigns live up to their hype.

Sadly this is far, far better than the main campaign. So much lost potential. But you've done an excellent job here.

Thanks so much for the reply!

@h3rb - thanks for playing. They Are Billions is supposed to be designed so that you cannot revert back to an old save file. This is the case for the official campaign, survival and custom maps. You can however "save scum" where you can manually make a back-up of your save file and then copy it back in if you want to go back. See here:

https://steamcommunity.com/app/644930/discussions/0/1692659135909541848/?ctp=2#c1680315447965665624

Is it possible to save during each scenario? I can't seem to find the option to save the game during gameplay. I would rather not have to start each scenario from scratch if I fail.

你是最棒的，佩服佩服

I just started playing TAB again after being off for about a year, and I loved playing through 28 years later while waiting for the campaign to come out. I was ecstatic when I saw your sequel 29 years later is in progress! Time to hop on and see what you've come up with!

I just finished 28 Years Later Campaign and it was awesome! Much better than official campaign. The heroes and the story, the whole drama - I like it a lot. Thank you for this great experience!

For anyone who hasn't seen it, 29 Years Later is now being released! There is a link to the new campaign just above this comment section :)

cant wait bro.... thanks for doing this for us... this company should be paying you!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

@Stalker - thank you! The sequel campaign should be even better and the first maps will be out in a couple of months (before Christmas).

Just went here since I got burned out of the campaign.

Boy, I should've started here, you did an incredible job!

To give a bit of an update on 29 Years Later, I've been working 72 hours a week for the past few months and will be for a little while longer (normally I only work 37 hours). This is limiting my time/energy to make new maps, and I've also been trying to fit in a playthrough of the official campaign. But during my breaks at work I've been noting down ideas and I've now got 1000's of words of notes about where the story is going, new gameplay ideas and map designs.

I'm very excited to get started and I'm now confident I could do another 12 maps even without any of the new assets being added to the editor, but it would of course enrich the maps greatly to have some of the new decor etc. but for now I just need the free time to do so. I am at least getting a lot of the planning/custom assets together (even making the new custom world map takes time) so when I get to the map making part it should come together quite quickly.

Cheers

POB

@NegativeX - thank you for your kind words! I've been putting together ideas for the sequel custom campaign 29 Years Later over the past 3 months and I'm keen to get started once the new content starts coming out in the editor.

These are all amazing. Better than the official new campaign. Thank you for your hard work!

@Keanu Reeves - the tech tree is not available in custom maps yet, however this custom campaign limits resources on the map such as iron and oil on the early maps so technology and advance units therefore can only be built in the later maps.

Is there a tech tree in this campaign, or is that aspect not moddable?

@KaristonsWrath - thank you, very kind of you to say so! I am proud and confident in saying that the sequel 29 Years Later will be even better, especially if there are new assets in the editor after the official campaign is out.

@Trolltoast - Dank :)

You should be proud. This is resume worthy for paid work

Great Work!
Hervorragende Arbeit! Tolle Maps, Klasse Story, fordernder aber nicht frustrierender Schwierigkeitsgrad.

@Kalran - GG! I don't actually have any gold stars, but the Magic Badger sees fit to bestow you a Badger Coin

Any guesses on where the 28 Years Later chapter names came from?

The masters, Pink Floyd ! Now where's my star ? :D GREAT work man, keep it up !

@dangaruno - thanks for your kind words and feedback. I'm starting work on it nice and early so hopefully it will be less stressful when I start releasing the maps - it was an intense 3 months before making the first campaign!

@HOTSTUFF - thank you for the offer, if you would like to donate you can here: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/POBmaestro

just dont over stress yourself out

since you have experience in making an engagiing and interesting story that you wanna play without it feeling too vague or unoriginal

woo all hail our map maker god which i hope helps the developers make their story

Is there any way to donate?

@dangaruno - hmmm, nope! Though a harder map 5 is on the cards for 29 Years Later...

The Chinese and Spanish translations of 28 Years Later is now complete!

UPDATE ON THE SEQUEL, 29 YEARS LATER:

I have been working in the background on the story and gameplay ideas for 29 Years Later. It's shaping up to be another 12 map campaign with new gameplay mechanics and the story, which will continue from the ending of 28 Years Later (all endings are continued).

I'd like to get a lot of the work done in advance of releasing Phase 13 so that I can release a new map every 5 - 7 days, starting in Autumn 2019. I'll work on it over the summer whilst people enjoy the official campaign, after which there should be a lot of new content for the editor.

I'm hoping to release the translations and difficulties altogether in one map. Watch this space!

Below are the three chapter names for 29YL, and have a gold star for you if you know where the names come from:

Chapter 1 – “A Momentary Lapse of Reason”
Phase 13 - “Among The Living”
Phases 14, 15 and 16

Chapter 2 – “Wish You Were Here”
Phases 17, 18, 19 and 20

Chapter 3 – “The Dark Side of the Moon”
Phases 21, 22, 23 and 24

CAN YOU MAKE A HARDER VERSION OF THE FIRST fifth seventh and tenth map pls

I SMELL PENNIES

@Mia Ishata - the game devs said in their most recent update that you will not be able to save in a map, but progress between maps will be saved. So complete mission 1 and you can retry mission 2 over and over. You can "cheat" and "save scum" by basically going to where your quick saves are and making a backup of them. Then if you lose you just copy the backup back into the folder and you can resume from the last save. I don't do it personally but if you find the game frustrating this is something you could consider.

Yeah, thanks for that really. Just reaaallly wish this game would allow me to save now and then. Wonder if they plan that atleast in their own campaign

@Mia Ishata - I think any map should be approached with caution as you don't know what to expect - it'd be boring if they were all the same. I played 100 hours of TAB trying to get to 800% and never had anything really to tell me how to play the game, so I had to learn as I go. I think it would spoil the experience for the majority of maps or games in general if they told you exactly what to do right at the start. At least I included the hints to help on a repeat run :)

While i like these, i must admit some of those maps require you have knowledge of whats around the map. For Example Map 3 one of the game-over hints tells you, you can just set the to "Chase" to clear the map, while Map 2 you would have to be careful that one of the fat guys kill your kill squads or maybe even any of the important characters, turning this in abit of a trial and error as there is no save function for mid-game matches. No big deal, but abit frustrating to have to do everything twice :x

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Translated maps now have their own individual collections.


翻译的地图现在有自己的个人收藏。


Los mapas traducidos ahora tienen sus propias colecciones individuales.

@汐渚之声 - thank you. I have someone who is doing great work of the translation but I will let you know if I need any more help :)

@Killmame - thank you for all the feedback, it really is a great motivator!

Great series of maps! These are all incredible, the last one was the craziest! I had a blast playing them. Love that you threw in some voice acting and music to add to the immersion. The 800% kensei edition on that last map was pretty tough, it took me a few tries! Looking forward to more of your work. Thumbs up, my dude.

Amazing series, hoping the official campaign could be as good as your work!!
By the way, I am glad to help your translation, just msg me if you need:)