First Strike News

The free DLC with the MULTIPLAYER mode for First Strike is here!

Don't forget to update the main game, the DLC only works with the latest version of First Strike. It's good to have your Steam Cloud settings activated for First Strike, so that your save file stays secured, while the app gets updated.

You will have a new button in the main menu that leads you to the multiplayer mode.

Tell your friends and challenge each other to nuclear war battles!

[h2]PLEASE NOTE: Keyboard shortcuts are disabled in multiplayer[/h2]

The keyboard shortcuts are deactivated in the multiplayer on purpose. The multiplayer has crossplay, which means PC players and mobile players play together. The shortcuts would be a big advantage for PC players and make it unfair for mobile players. Disabling shortcuts was a necessary compromise. The PC player base is not big enough to not have crossplay, so we have to mix the players and make it at least fair for everyone.

[h3][h2]GIVEAWAY[/h2][/h3]

To celebrate the release, we are giving away three $25 Steam Gift Cards! Enter the giveaway HERE!

Yes, it’s happening! The multiplayer mode for FIRST STRIKE will be released as a FREE DLC on August 31. Soon, you can wage nuclear war against your friends and other players from all over the world on PC!



Features of the multiplayer mode will be:

• Play online PvP matches with up to 10 players!
  
• Choose from the twelve classic superpower nations like USA, Russia or North Korea and use their special superweapons like the Tsar Bomba or Dirty Radium Bomb.
  
• Host a private game and send an invite code to your friends. Or set the room to public and let other players join via the fast quickplay function.
  
• Activate modifiers to even out the playing field. Pick the “Balanced Start” or “Small State Support” modifiers for a more balanced experience for all players. Or keep the different power levels of the competing nations with the “Classic Mode”.
  
• Connect with allies or tease your enemies with quick emoji messages in the in-game chat.

To celebrate, we are doing a GIVEAWAY! We are giving away three Steam Gift Cards, each worth 25 USD.

[h2]ENTER THE GIVEAWAY AND WIN A STEAM GIFT CARD[/h2]

Which one of your friends will you nuke into oblivion? Will you be the last one remaining when the whole world blows to smithereens?

Dear First Strike fans

Do you like base building games? Are you into World War II aviation and history? Then our new game project may be something for you: GROUND OF ACES, the World War II base building game.

[h2]Watch the trailer![/h2]



[h2]Wishlist it on Steam![/h2]



To celebrate the last week of our Kickstarter we offer First Strike for 75% off.

Dear First Strike fans

Do you like base building games? Are you into World War II aviation and history? Then our new game project may be something for you: GROUND OF ACES, the World War II base building game.

[h2]Watch the trailer![/h2]



[h2]Wishlist it on Steam![/h2]

Hello First Strike Community

Last Friday, we asked what the community thought about the idea of taking part in a crowdfunding campaign to get Multiplayer to Steam as a DLC on a quicker schedule.

Carrying out a Kickstarter campaign, even a smaller one, would be a time investment and organizational effort from our side that would take attention away from our other work, so we wanted to get a better feeling first of what the players currently think and want.

In our survey, there was a strong moral support for the idea, but only a minority percentage were willing to participate in the Kickstarter campaign. This put us in a situation of knowing that the players want multiplayer but we would be unable to fund the necessary budget to ensure a quick release of multiplayer.

Based on this feedback, we have decided not to do a Kickstarter campaign for the multiplayer and deactivate the pre-launch page on Kickstarter.

To the people who still want multiplayer on PC, who expressed their interest and who said that they would support a crowdfunding campaign: Thank you so much for your support! For now, our programmer apprentice Andi can continue working on porting the First Strike multiplayer. But without a Kickstarter, a quicker release of an alpha version is not possible, and we might need to pull Andi from the project to focus on other work which helps us pay the bills. This would delay the multiplayer DLC for an uncertain time, that's why we can't announce a clear release date yet.

Part of the Blindflug team continues to work on updates for the First Strike mobile version, while other team members are setting things up for a new game project. We will have more news about that in the near future.

Thank you for your feedback and for participating in the survey!

You will hear from us again soon!

Moritz, CEO