Is this game dead?

[darDar]

If someone has cancer you might also call him dead and Soldat has cancer as well.
The problem is that there are not enough ppl. coming from outside and the time will come when the players who play soldat right now step away from it.
The game has been led totally wrong in the past years.

[Bonecrusher]

Soldat is a 10 year old 2d game, some decrease in playerbase was expected especially when games like League of legends are in their prime. Iif we continue our efforts along with devs we can prolong it's death by atleast few years.Truth to be told soldat doesn't have anything to offer for new players. Let's get into newbie skin who downloads soldat joins any server and gets DESTROYED by everyone, then rages and probably never picks it up again.

We are soldats
We do not bleed
and if it doesnt bleed you cant kill it

[Majoman]

Will be easy to bring it back from its death once it gets new graphics and a working anticheat. Waste of time discussing placing it on Steam or advertising it in any other way before these two things happen. And they won't happen while there's a group of demotivated developers working on a game. As things stand right now, everybody who hasn't spend most of his/her childhood in the 90's will just puke and ALT+F4 right after he/she double-clicks on soldat.exe.

It's rly cool the devs are focusing on little things like bullet shells having a slight randomness in their velocity or making flags less likely to get stuck in polygons. Better than nothing. But for remaking the whole graphics and getting a decent anticheat working, you need to pay the guys. Nobody will do time consuming things in his free time just like that. I've already told Fryer the devs should consider launching a Bitcoin fundraising, where there'd be some amount of BTC required to be donated before a certain bug is fixed or a feature added. The game's not gettin' anywhere right now. Either find a way to motivate ppl working on it, or just fuck it, open source it and let it go its own way, whether it'd mean  the game dying or being reborn in some obscure way.

[jrgp]

Soldat isn't *dead* until people stop playing the game and this forum stops getting hits. This forum still gets a bunch of posts every day. Games that are dead have forums that are just as dead.

[Boots]

Soldat isn't *dead* until people stop playing the game and this forum stops getting hits. This forum still gets a bunch of posts every day. Games that are dead have forums that are just as dead.

there is no future for the game though, from looking at the efforts put in to the game.

since 1.4 there has been that many useless changes, something drastic needs to happen to keep people interested.

[DarkCrusade]

Like upgrading all the old default maps to visually appealing ones. I have yet to receive message by the mapping team for some suggestions for replacements. I am growing angry a little about such manners, because it's been weeks without reply, and even after another short note, nothing. It's frustrating to bother with mapping, so I moved on to other projects. One thing at a time. The development team is doing great progress for people who are dedicated enough to do the job absolutly for free. I, for one, very much enjoy the new found capabilities for scripting.

One by one.

[Furai]

Like upgrading all the old default maps to visually appealing ones. I have yet to receive message by the mapping team for some suggestions for replacements. I am growing angry a little about such manners, because it's been weeks without reply, and even after another short note, nothing. It's frustrating to bother with mapping, so I moved on to other projects. One thing at a time. The development team is doing great progress for people who are dedicated enough to do the job absolutly for free. I, for one, very much enjoy the new found capabilities for scripting.

One by one.

About any changes to the maps you should probably contact Zakath directly. He is in charge of this stuff.

[Adam]

Like upgrading all the old default maps to visually appealing ones. I have yet to receive message by the mapping team for some suggestions for replacements. I am growing angry a little about such manners, because it's been weeks without reply, and even after another short note, nothing. It's frustrating to bother with mapping, so I moved on to other projects. One thing at a time. The development team is doing great progress for people who are dedicated enough to do the job absolutly for free. I, for one, very much enjoy the new found capabilities for scripting.

One by one.

[Majoman]

Man, wow! How did that not become default already?

[ginn]

Man, wow! How did that not become default already?

Because they're busy putting in maps like ctf_crucifix in the game.

[Boots]

The development team is doing great progress for people who are dedicated enough to do the job absolutly for free. I, for one, very much enjoy the new found capabilities for scripting.

One by one.

Do the players really care about more scripting capabilities?

[jrgp]

The development team is doing great progress for people who are dedicated enough to do the job absolutly for free. I, for one, very much enjoy the new found capabilities for scripting.

One by one.

Do the players really care about more scripting capabilities?

Everyone only plays in servers that are scripted to hell and back, so yeah.

[ginn]

The development team is doing great progress for people who are dedicated enough to do the job absolutly for free. I, for one, very much enjoy the new found capabilities for scripting.

One by one.

Do the players really care about more scripting capabilities?

Everyone only plays in servers that are scripted to hell and back, so yeah.

not really, zabijaka and one shit kill servers are sort of the only popular ones, they only have basic scripts.

[Dusty]

Everyone only plays in servers that are scripted to hell and back, so yeah.

Uh oh, yeah we should just forget about the competitive community altogether. Why should anyone give fucks about the tiny, meaningless group of people who just happen to have played the game for five to ten years.

[jrgp]

Everyone only plays in servers that are scripted to hell and back, so yeah.

Uh oh, yeah we should just forget about the competitive community altogether. Why should anyone give fucks about the tiny, meaningless group of people who just happen to have played the game for five to ten years.

not really, zabijaka and one shit kill servers are sort of the only popular ones, they only have basic scripts.

Sorry, I wasn't clear. My point is that, at this point, scripting is important. Not that nonscripted servers are unimportant.

Dusty, I've played for going on 10 years myself, and I do prefer servers that don't have scripts altering gameplay; I just feel like more than a few of the popular servers in the lobby are scripted to have role playing elements and so on.

[Irlandec]

This game won't be dead if it has players and people who care about it.

[aint`bazz]

How about saying that development of soldat is dead instead? Seems like nothing major or important was improved in last 2 years..

[DarkCrusade]

How about no?

[ginn]

How about saying that development of soldat is dead instead? Seems like nothing major or important was improved in last 2 years..

They have fixed some netcode issues for the next patch... not sure if it'll ever be released though.

[darDar]

not sure if it'll ever be released though.

Shoozza:

I know that this version takes way to long already that's why I want to release Soldat in the next two weeks. We shouldn't delay it too much...
The stuff that is currently missing:
Simple Intro
Some Bugfixes (see bugtracker Product version 1.6.4rc2)
Manual updates

http://forums.soldat.pl/index.php?topic=42722.0;topicseen