I plan to have another upload ready on June 6th, 2024. nothing special or exciting for this upload. I'm just correcting missing unit icons, red cubes (aka misnamed models), and other truly mundane things. I will take another look at revising the original SP campaign missions... but that's about it.
there won't be any special gameplay changes for the next upload.
as for Discord: I'm sure it is great for real time chat and instant messaging. it is not useful (IMO) for complex discussion.
I found that a large portion of the Discord content was new people all asking me the same three or four questions over and over again. nobody appears to bother scrolling through all the content to see if the question had already been answered.
it's just a never-ending stream of content that lacks any sort of formal organizing principles.
I hated my Discord experience so much that I set up a forum to deal with concerns and questions in a more organized manner. I read all of the forum posts and have been taking corrective action based on the suggestions provided there.
I have to admit, that after 12 years of development, I'm starting to focus on other things. I plan a new upload for 06/06/2024 and a final upload on 09/02/2025. (the 80th anniversary of the end of World War II) I probably won't include dozens of new SP campaigns as I had ambitiously planned years ago. there are roughly 480 new missions included. and, they cover such a broad range of times and places that I figured it would be easier to just leave them in the mission menu and let people pick and choose the ones they like. honestly, I don't feel like devoting all of the time required to scripting the campaign sequences. a lot of people wanted every mission to have cutscenes and objectives... and, honestly, some of the maps are so complex that I think it's enough that they're out there. the Budapest and Odessa maps were both massive undertakings. cutscenes can gobble up a lot of memory quickly... so, for some of the big maps it's going to lead to game crashes.
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