Hi everyone, Oak here.
I come to you with good news and bad news.
Good news first: the Phobos update is ready! We have now released the update for the second faction, Phobos, to join the fray in the fight for Eol. It features Act 1 of their campaign, in their initial steps towards total war, culminating with the siege of Anchorage.
Phobos features an entirely new set of character creation options, a roster of Champions with various Abilities and each of them having an unique backstory that you can discover.
We hope that you will enjoy exploring the lands around Tenebrae, the capital of Phobos! And of course, any and all feedback is more than welcome, we appreciate all of your thoughts about the game, where ever you want to express them ^_^
And now for the bad news. We recently launched our second project, CraftCraft, and unfortunately it failed to meet our sales expectations, also failing to fund the further development of Broken Alliance. This means that we need to put the full-time development of Broken Alliance to a pause. We had to lay off our current crew of 6 people working on Broken Alliance until we find additional funding to continue full-time development of the game. For the time being, all of the sales from Broken Alliance will be distributed amongst the current and former team members to provide at least a little bit of solace in the face of these news. However, we are still going to be working on Broken Alliance. We will still provide updates to it, and we are going to change our direction a bit.
Our new goal is to get in Act 1 for all factions fully into the game and to add a skirmish mode with pre-made and/or randomly generated maps. Hopefully once the release of CraftCraft has stabilized a little bit more (it's not been easy <_<), I will return to Broken Alliance, probably alone for the time being, to continue development. So, yeah, things will take longer, but they will still happen. Once we have a better picture of what the effort is to bring you a skirmish mode, we will have more news to share as well.
For now, I want to thank you all for your support, and hope that you will enjoy the Phobos update that everyone on the team has worked so hard on.
Wish us luck, and keep us in your minds. It's rough out there for us indies, but we're all fighting for a better day.
Much love,
-Oak