The ‘Steam Summer Sale’ has arrived and to celebrate we’ll be taking a quick look into what is coming to Holdfast: Nations At War in the near future. You certainly don’t want to miss this one as we will be discussing the summer sale, linebattle events, the modding community and the next update to come!
So take a step back from the frontlines and put your muskets aside while you take a read of what the team here at AGS and this great community have been up to.
Steam Summer Sale!
Holdfast: Nations At War is now on sale at a whopping 50% off for the duration of the Steam Summer Sale. With the recent release of the new Italian faction, now is the perfect time to put muskets to hand and join in with all that Holdfast has to offer.
So what are you waiting for? The generals of the British, Prussian, Russian, Italian, and French armies call for your enlistment!
Not only will the base game of Holdfast: Nations At War be on sale but so will the cosmetic game DLCs (High-Command, Regiment of the Guard, and Regiment of the Line) and Loyalist Edition of the game. These will be available at 10% off for the same duration.
Community Spotlight
It has been just over a year since the release of Holdfast’s modding tools and since that time the great fellows of the Holdfast modding community have uploaded an impressive 1,500+ unique maps, uniforms, and other game modifications.
There is some real talent within the modding community and we look forward to seeing what is to come next for Holdfast modding. To celebrate this talent we caught up with some of the modders and map makers to showcase some of their brilliant work.
Open Meadows by Davwado
Davwado has made some truly brilliant maps for the community to use and even placed 2nd in the Battlefield Forger contest hosted last year. We asked Davwado what inspires them when making maps for Holdfast.
“I mod with a few other people in my regiment and we often spend hours looking at landscape scenes in unity which gives us inspiration and ideas for what we can do ourselves. I start with a new idea, it might be a new set of assets, a reference image, or a request and build on it from there. The biggest thing is trying to finish the map in a few days, I always try to have it done within about 3 days as otherwise I'll come up with a new idea and get distracted by working on that.”
Fynske Livregiment Line Infantry uniform by ApexPhantom
ApexPhantom has been making uniforms for regiments within the community for some time now, here’s what they had to say about why they got into Holdfast uniform creation.
“I enjoy bringing life to incredible historical uniforms. They can be challenging, but getting to play as some seriously dashing units is a great reward. But above all, I enjoy seeing the regiments that commissioned these outfits enjoying and using them.”
Sunny Fields by Skyold
From the first release of the Holdfast: Nations At War SDK, Skyold has been at the forefront of the map making community for the game. Their Historical battlefields and custom maps always make for good fun! Here’s what they had to say about their excellent work.
“I decided to start making mods because I wanted to express my creativity and bring some fresh maps into the game. For Sunny Fields, I wanted to try something new with dense tree lines, and I think it looks wonderful.”
It is not just the modding community within Holdfast that has been busy, community-hosted events also continue to bring evenings of fun, competition, and organisation almost 4 years since they first began. We’d like to thank everybody involved, players and admins, for bringing these wonderfully fun events to life each and every week.
We thoroughly encourage any players looking to sink their teeth into organised and regimental gameplay to enlist in one of the many regiments that can be found within the in-game’s regiment registry. Simply head over to the main menu, select regiment registry, and then find the regiment that best suits you.
Before you know it you’ll be marching through Flanders, Portugal and Spain alongside your fellow rankers!
Whether you’re interested in modding, hosting your own community events or just wanting to get involved deeper within our great community, the official Discord server is the place to be! It is your central hub for all things Holdfast and houses a plethora of channels dedicated to event and game announcements, regiment recruitment, game support, suggestions, history discussion, and more. Click below to join today!
discord.gg/holdfastgame
Sneak Peak. Map Voting!
One of the community's most highly requested features is almost here! Map voting will be introduced into all official Holdfast public servers and be made available for community and privately hosted servers too via a configuration in the map rotation.
At the end of a round, the battle of muskets and powder will turn to one of democracy as players get presented with 4 map options to vote on. Whichever map receives the largest sum of votes will be played the following round.
Here’s a sneak peek of the system.
The Big Update
As mentioned in our Italian faction release blog, we have something much larger and ambitious in the works for Holdfast and while it is still too early to show anything, rest assured that the team is hard at work bringing ‘The Big Update’ to life! We’re all very excited to show you what we’ve been working on but that will come all in good time…
Thank you for your support and until next time, may good health be yours.
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