Totally Accurate Battle Simulator gets launch 1.0 on PC

Fully accurate combat simulator, the ragdoll-physics game, set-’em-up-and-watch-’em-fight from Landfall, launches full version 1.0 today. Despite the game’s jovial nature and tongue-in-cheek title, the studio says it’s not an April Fool’s Day announcement.

TAB, which launched in Early Access almost five years ago, will get multiplayer and two new factions with version 1.0. Fully accurate combat simulator, basically allows the player to set up two armies – pirates with cannons and cavemen with behemoths are part of the factions – and let them clash to settle an eternal question of who would win, for the sake of it. science. Until now, it was a single player game.

“The number one feature requested has been multiplayer, although it has never been on the public roadmap,” said Wilhelm Nylund, designer at Landfall and general manager of the studio at Polygon. “We’ve always wanted to add multiplayer to the game, so it’s great to be able to offer this as a surprise for version 1.0.”

Fully accurate combat simulatorVersion 1.0 from version 1.0 comes with three more launches – again, in the spirit of April Fool’s Day, but all three products are very true. Totally accurate battlefields, the April Fool’s Day 2018 satire of the battle royale genre, is still in full swing and is now a free-to-play game.

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The format change brings with it a “massive refresh” in the content, as well as in the networking and user interface of the game. TABG free-to-play also adds “a whole new map filled with cool weapons, accessories and things that explode,” Landfall said in a press release.

“The game has become a bit of a passion project for us,” said Nylund. “We didn’t initially want to update the game, but when we released it for free in 2018, we got almost 3 million downloads in the first two days. We never expected such a big response to the game, so we kept updating it. “

TABG is joined by Stick Fight: The GameLaunch of on Nintendo Switch. The original Stick fight has been available on PC since 2018. Stick fight, a little like TAB, is a physics-based platform / combat game; it’s his console debut. “Stick fight is the ultimate board game, which works great on the Switch, ”said Nylund. “Each round is so short and you can keep playing indefinitely without stopping.”

And finally, a brand new game called Sleeves launches on Steam. Nylund called Sleeves a “roguelike 1v1 deck-building shooter”, whose gameplay is in part inspired by Kill the arrow. In this one, the loser of the previous turn can choose a card to improve his construction and counter his opponent. “Losing in 1v1 is usually pretty tough, which we discussed with the deck and rubber band building mechanic, which makes it interesting to lose a turn,” Nylund reasoned. “You can still turn a game if you receive the correct card.”

TAB is still Landfall’s star product, and most of the studio’s live broadcast on Thursday afternoon was devoted to it. Fully accurate combat simulator will get two new factions, each with a secret unit; two new maps and campaigns; online and local multiplayer, and Twitch integration.

“TAB is the perfect game for Twitch and YouTube because it is all about the visual experience of watching a battle unfold, ”said Nyund. “When we rehearse our games, we always try to make sure they’re as fun to watch as they are to play.”

TAB has been available on PC (via Steam and the Epic Games Store) and Xbox One since 2019 (although version 1.0 from Thursday only applies to the PC version). “We have a lot of fans of the game who have been following the game for years, but couldn’t play it themselves. […] but they love to watch other people play on YouTube and Twitch, ”Nylund said. “With the new Twitch integration, they can be part of the game themselves by putting their name on an army unit of their favorite streamers.”

In addition, version 1.0 means TAB fans can finally find out what’s behind “the door”.

“On one of the first cards, our art director, Johan Lund, added a very mysterious closed door, and the community has always speculated on what’s behind it,” Nylund said. “It’s been a part of the game for a long time […] so it’s great fun to finally be able to open it. “

Fully accurate combat simulator 1.0 costs $ 19.99 through Steam and the Epic Games Store. Stick Fight: The Game is $ 7.50 on Nintendo eShop, and Sleeves is $ 4.99 via Steam.