Histwar: Napolean

[RyanE]

Is this game done.  The website looks abandoned.

[Nefaro]

I don't think it was every really done.  Was it?

[Pete Dero]

HistWar : Austerlitz

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=230506942

Releasedate: Spring 2017  (they recently changed the date, used to be 2015 or something)


HistWarGames  [auteur] 25 okt om 10:52vm

Hello,
Still working with some new features including a new defence order. This player order should allow better management of the defensive line.
The GUI will also change slightly before the new one.
Now, the internal engine, for getting the units position, seems very sturdy.
I hope a new version very soon ... and the release of HW : Austerlitz

JMM

[Beowulf]

I don't want anyone to get me wrong - there is a working game, that you can play.

And that is why I won't use words as vapour-/abandon-ware, but the progress of development of this game, for a regular customer, is almost non-existent.
Sure, the developer posts something about working on the AI, new UI (which actually was implemented, but the manual and documentation wasn't updated to accommodate the changes), but the informations are very sparse, and you can't really know if there is some real progress being made. The english language forum feels like visiting a morgue ;)

Last patch is dated to may 2015. I bought this game even earlier, and except for the new loader and changed UI I didn't notice anything changing in the game itself.

So, in my opinion, if you are interested in the game, you have to be prepared, that what you see now, is what you'll get (and nothing will change in the future).
I'd really like for this game to be somewhat "finished", but I don't count on that happening anymore, sadly.

[Pete Dero]

His biggest problem :

The game was put on Steam Greenlight in february 2014 and 3 years later there is nothing real to show.
At least now he is posting something every now and then.

[Zipuli]

The game is still being developed, but very slowly. There should be another patch coming up sometime soon, then the work on 1:1 presentation in amount of soldiers, along with new 3D models and improved AI and maybe a GUI. To get a perspective, the developer has been working on his project in one form or another for some 20 years now, so few months here and there seem little. I got some information about the progress in iterview of JMM, so I am pretty sure the project is more alive than it seems from the outside.

About Austerlitz itself, it is not a brand new game as such (so saying there is nothing to show may be a bit harsh), but actually a portion of the main project "Napoleon", which is sold in HistWar's webshop. Napoleon has been around for quite some time now and it is a functional game in itself already, even if a work in progress with quite some glitches especially with the AI.

[Grim.Reaper]

Gave up on this long ago...bought it since I thought it had a nice start, but lack of communication and progress makes me forget totally about this game.  If I remember correctly, same thing happened as the first version rolled out so the developer won't get any additional money from me based on these patterns.

[RyanE]

You say its being developed, but the forum is literally not working and the last news from 2014.  Seriously, HW:N sounds like vaporware to me.

[Philippe]

I haven't gone over the site with a fine tooth comb, but JMM's blog (in French) seems to have been active as recently as September. 


(And Google search has a note that the site may have been hacked -- not sure what that means, but I don't like the sound of it).

[Grim.Reaper]

I haven't gone over the site with a fine tooth comb, but JMM's blog (in French) seems to have been active as recently as September.

Not very active, that was 3 months ago...

[RyanE]

I haven't gone over the site with a fine tooth comb, but JMM's blog (in French) seems to have been active as recently as September.

Not very active, that was 3 months ago...

Maybe for Histwar that is considered active.  And agreed, I wouldn't put three months down as active.  Especially when the forum has been shut down.

[panzerde]

I wanted this to be a good game, but it never got there. At this point Scourge of War Waterloo, particularly in MP with the KS mod, is a far superior experience. Even solo, especially with a few of the mods available for the game, SOW:WL is shaping up to be a genuinely good representation of Napoleonic warfare and command.


If you're at all interested in MP with SOW:Wl, I encourage you to join up for one of the Dogs of War VU multiplayer games. We played again yesterday using a custom scenario that covered the battle for Santo Domingo during the 1809 campaign in Italy. It was great fun, had some very harrowing moments, and ended up being a fine example of Kriegsspiel.

[Beowulf]

I haven't gone over the site with a fine tooth comb, but JMM's blog (in French) seems to have been active as recently as September. 
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This blog?
http://www.jm-mathe.fr/

And the forum was not taken down, it's here:
http://www.histwar.org/forum/

[RyanE]

Then what is this...I click on forum and this what I get.

http://www.histwar.com/forum/

[RyanE]

And that is the blog.  I meant news.

http://histwar.com/actu/news.html

Note the last post is in 2014.