Hello everyone,
As of today we are currently testing a new build of HGA that addresses issues relating to our server outages last month. Unfortunately some of our server infrastructure including our backups for that infrastructure were lost after the hurricane that ravaged Florida earlier last month. We were in the process of migrating to our local servers in Canada when a critical motherboard failure knocked those servers offline which are hosting our company website, email, and other services. Unfortunately this server was an older model server and no motherboard was available for the server for days. Overall its been a hellish month of failing critical infrastructure and hurricane BS which we've had no control over.
After many discussions and brainstorming sessions we've decided the best course of action is to migrate entirely towards Steam's Session based hosting environment where players can more easily host Listen servers using Steam sessions. This move will ensure this disaster never happens again. We've also decided to migrate our player inventories towards Steam's Inventory Manager as well. And we are planning to embrace the Steam Workshop as well.
At the moment we have the integration 80% complete and we will be releasing this new build to the Steam community very soon. Once this new build is active you will no longer be required to have a third-party login account and we will be able to better integrate Steam's features into HGA.
While this has been a massive setback for our development milestones we are think there is a silver lining in this cloud in that this fundamental change to HGA will make the game run more smoothly with Steam and allow us to better interact with our players through player inventories and exchanges using Steam.
With these changes we are currently discussing some other big updates that this new development enables but I will discuss this in more detail when have our immediate concerns resolved which is to get players playing again!
Thank you everyone for your patience.