Histwar: LG becomes Histwar Napoleon

[Grim.Reaper]

Yep, I sadly don't expect much new from them anytime soon...maybe they will surprise us some day:)

[Pete Dero]

Thanks...but I didn't need a Press Release on the game.  I was looking for someone who actually played it.  I was looking at histwar.com for the forum.  That is where I was getting the forum error (500).  Why is there a .org?

And thanks to the others that gave me feedback...I'll skip it.

Sorry, but I posted this quickly at midnight local time to give the link to the forums.  The 'press release" was just to show that his new game (Steam Greenlighted) was supposed to be released in the first quarter of 2015 (hence why I put that in bold).  The fact that it didn't release and that there is no news about it is also not good news for his present games.

Couldn't give any feedback as I stuck with Histwar Les Grognards and never got the new one  (now i'm glad I waited)

[Grim.Reaper]

Did noticed this posted by the developer a few days ago...."maybe" we will see some movement, although I won't hold my breathe.  Find it hard to believe all that can be rewritten and tested in a very short time.


**From Developer**

Hi,

Resuming my activity, I am working on the new patch.  ;)
I am rewriting all code about the detection of collisions between units and units/inaccessible areas.
I hope this part will fix a lot of issues in the engine... no date but very high probability before XMas.  8)

Sorry for the delay...

JMM

[RyanE]

If this was anything but gaming software, the guy would have been arrested for fraud.  In my business, if I took money and didn't deliver, there is a chance I would be seeing the local sheriff.

[ArizonaTank]

Did noticed this posted by the developer a few days ago...."maybe" we will see some movement, although I won't hold my breathe.  Find it hard to believe all that can be rewritten and tested in a very short time.


**From Developer**

Hi,

Resuming my activity, I am working on the new patch.  ;)
I am rewriting all code about the detection of collisions between units and units/inaccessible areas.
I hope this part will fix a lot of issues in the engine... no date but very high probability before XMas.  8)

Sorry for the delay...

JMM

I have long been a cheer leader for JMM and his quest for the perfect Napoleonic game. But if JMM stays his normal course the relationship between JMM and all of us in the Napoleonic fanboy club, is kind of like Michelangelo and Julius II in the movie the "Agony and the Ecstasy."  The repeated and  continuous exchange in the movie:  Pope Julius II: "When will you make it end?"  Michelangelo: "When I am finished." 

[sandman2575]

Resuming my activity, I am working on the new patch.  ;)
I am rewriting all code about the detection of collisions between units and units/inaccessible areas.
I hope this part will fix a lot of issues in the engine... no date but very high probability before XMas.  8)

Given the track record of HWN's development -- how is the dev's claim that a new patch will arrive with "very high probability" in the next 2 and a half weeks even remotely credible?

Going out on a limb here and predicting there is exactly 0% chance this patch arrives before the new year.

[Grim.Reaper]

Resuming my activity, I am working on the new patch.  ;)
I am rewriting all code about the detection of collisions between units and units/inaccessible areas.
I hope this part will fix a lot of issues in the engine... no date but very high probability before XMas.  8)

Given the track record of HWN's development -- how is the dev's claim that a new patch will arrive with "very high probability" in the next 2 and a half weeks even remotely credible?

Going out on a limb here and predicting there is exactly 0% chance this patch arrives before the new year.

Well, to be fair......he didn't specifically say which Xmas so I guess it could be Xmas in 2050:)

[Cyrano]

JMM's a one-man show and I've always admired his hubris, but he really now seems more Tantalus than Perseus...

The notion that a French developer would approach a Napoleonic game differently isn't really that strange. Just compare, say the Pratzen Editions' approach to that of La Battaile.  Both insightful...quite different...

[Father Ted]

JMM's a one-man show and I've always admired his hubris

So, define for me hubris - to me it's pretty much synonymous with hype

[mikeck]

Well, either way, I bought a partially finished game. At least is playable

[Cyrano]

By hubris I mean he's regularly bitten off more than he can chew...all the way back to when his Austerlitz was in the keeping of Matrix Games.  The story of his relationship with BFC would likely prove interesting reading.  He wants this engine to do so much, to be so much, but it just seems to keep slipping from his grasp.

He reminds me very much of a MUCH, MUCH more gentlemanly Derek Smart.

[ArizonaTank]

He reminds me very much of a MUCH, MUCH more gentlemanly Derek Smart.

Agree, JMM actually seems to like the people who play his games.

[panzerde]

He reminds me very much of a MUCH, MUCH more gentlemanly Derek Smart.

Agree, JMM actually seems to like the people who play his games.

A French Peter Molyneaux.

[Cyrano]

Nah, Molyneaux's either deeply deluded or pathological...never been able to decide which. 

[ArizonaTank]

JMM came within spitting distance of a great Napoleonic game with Histwar LG.  Here's hoping he does it this time.