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Exodus Wars: Fractured Empire is now on Steam Greenlight!
Please help us get Exodus Wars: Fractured Empire onto Steam by voting for us on Steam Greenlight:

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=113073716

It's totally free to vote and there is no commitment to buy -- but every vote gets us that much closer to seeing Exodus Wars: Fractured Empire for sale on the world's largest PC gaming marketplace.

There's also a new trailer video on the Steam Greenlight page that demonstrates the tabletop-style gameplay.

We very much hope you will vote for us. Thanks for your consideration.

I signed up to vote yes (as I might actually buy this game on Steam) but got this message:

Your account does not have suffucient privileges to perform this action. To access all features of Steam, simply purchase a game from the Steam store, redeem a Gift on Steam, complete a microtransaction, or activate a retail game on Steam.

Is that all, now?

I can see why they don't want people to be able to sign up for new accounts and instantly vote up games, but it'd be nice to be able to vote after a week without having to give them money, etc...

Folks who already have accounts, please vote up this game, though

Well that's a pain...very sorry to see that happening; that's a huge disappointment. Sorry for your inconvenience, too.

There are a number of free-to-play titles on Steam. If you were keen (and I'd absolutely understand why you wouldn't be), I'm pretty sure downloading one of the small free-to-play titles like Memoir '44 would be counted as activating your Steam account, but I can't say for sure.

Again, very sorry for your inconvenience -- but very much appreciate that you tried to help us.

You need to hurry up and get this on iOS, it would open a huge potential market outside of just wargamers. Mobile gaming is all the rage apparently.

Voted. I had already pledged for a digital download, though

Voted yes

Thanks for voting, guys!

 Erasoketa wrote:
Voted. I had already pledged for a digital download, though

Hi, Erasoketa. If and when the game is made available on Steam, any existing license holders like yourself will get a Steam key for Exodus Wars: Fractured Empire, giving you the option of managing the game via Steam if preferred.


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UNCLEBADTOUCH wrote:
You need to hurry up and get this on iOS, it would open a huge potential market outside of just wargamers. Mobile gaming is all the rage apparently.

We want that as well.

Voted and will ask steam buddies to do so.

Ok, voted.

Voted and shared on FB. I have several closet gamer friends on FB so I have high hopes that people will vote!

Thanks, guys! We wouldn't have gotten here without Dakka Dakka. You'll never know just how much we have appreciated all the support this community has given us.

Voted...and good luck!

Hope the game progresses to the "campaign against competent AI" stage - "Final Liberation" was good, but the enemy were sooooo dumb...

Padre^.

 GR00V3R wrote:
Thanks for voting, guys!

 Erasoketa wrote:
Voted. I had already pledged for a digital download, though

Hi, Erasoketa. If and when the game is made available on Steam, any existing license holders like yourself will get a Steam key for Exodus Wars: Fractured Empire, giving you the option of managing the game via Steam if preferred. )

Then I shall have on Steam

I've put a post about EW up on the OCUK Forums as they get a fair amount of traffic through their site from all over.

UPDATE!
The first update of the Exodus Wars: Fractured Empire ALPHA for the new year has just been released on FracturedEmpire.net. Linux support, playing single-player as the Royal Empire of Man, a much improved AI, the Overwatch order, formation icons and more.

This is the most critical and features-heavy update we have shipped yet for the Alpha of Exodus Wars: Fractured Empire, and we hope you will be as excited by what's in this new build as we are.

Linux Version
We recently made the first Linux version of the Alpha build available to select gamers (that is, those Linux fans who put their hands up to be testing guinea pigs). The result were, to be honest, surprisingly good!
And now, thanks to the efforts of these intrepid individuals, we are very happy to announce that we have made a mainstream release of the Linux version available for download from FracturedEmpire.net.

New AI
We have replaced the rudimentary AI that shipped with the initial Alpha build with our first version of the proper AI. You will find the AI a lot more challenging now.

Overwatch
We have implemented the Overwatch order. This order allows you to forego moving and shooting in your own activation in favour of shooting with standard effectiveness once if and when an enemy formation moves within the overwatching formation's range and line of sight.

Play as the Royal Empire of Man
You can now play single-player games using the Royal Empire of Man or the Guild forces (previously, you could play single-player as the Guild only).

Formation Icons
Much of the feedback we have received to date requested that we make it easier to identify the locations of your formations on the map. As part of our response to this, we are pleased to have implemented formation icons. These should enable you to quickly and easily spot and select your formations, wherever they may be hiding on the map.

Steam Greenlight
You may have seen that we have launched a Steam Greenlight campaign. The response has been amazing—but we can always use more votes!

If you are a Steam gamer, we hope you will login at our Greenlight campaign page and vote for us!

Just a quick note. We received feedback that we should open our forums to make them readable by unregistered people who are nontheless interested in seeing what's being discussed. This struck us as a very reasonable request and a great idea, so we have done just that.

FracturedEmpire.net/forums