Dear Stronghold fans,

You may not think it, but we at Firefly pay attention to almost every word you say. Whether it’s a Facebook comment, forum post, tweet or rant on your blog, if it’s about Stronghold chances are that someone at Firefly will have read it. The series has long had a devout following of fans, many of whom have been with us from the very start and we value all your comments.

Stronghold 3 is finally out and at this point we wanted to update everybody on our ‘road map’ for taking the game forward. As with previous Stronghold titles we are listening to feedback and fixing the most widespread issues first.

Initially we will be releasing a series of smaller patches to address any immediate problems with the game, such as stability, multiplayer problems and major game play affecting bugs.

Following on from this will be a series of larger patches that will add in refinements and features that didn’t make it into the original release, along with smaller bug fixes and improvements.

Once we are happy with the above, we will in the future release both new content and new features that we or you have thought of since release.

For us releasing a patch is not a trivial event, it needs to strike the right balance between frequency of release and having enough worthwhile content.

It also has to have a period of testing, so that the patch itself does not introduce further issues. Given Firefly’s small size as a developer, this will probably mean the initial patches will be released on roughly a weekly basis.

Rest assured however, we love Stronghold as much as you do and we are working hard on improving and adding to Stronghold 3 to make it the game we all want it to be. We will continue to do so over the coming months.

Yours Sincerely,

Firefly

Yay! good to hear

Could you please make it a priority to fix the issue where the game wont start. IE "failed to initialize the engine"

thanks

Scott

I believe in you.firefly
but i think that these patch have to go very quicly... people are getting very angry.

Could you also please balance out your units better? As in the wolves being able to destroy any soldier I throw at them in the peaceful campaign with only 2 bites?

http://www.fireflyworlds.com/index.php?option=com_fireboard&Itemid=271&func=view&catid=45&id=15223#15223

The best. Firefly I will love you anyway.

scottie_b60 wrote:

QUOTE:
Could you please make it a priority to fix the issue where the game wont start. IE "failed to initialize the engine"

thanks

Scott

Hi, for this issue could you try this, go to -

C:\Program Files\Steam\steamapps\common\stronghold3\bin\config.xml
(Depends on if you installed steam in default location or have a x64 OS)

At the end of the resolution put "windowed=1"

So for example my one looks like this -
<resolution width=1920 height=1200 windowed=1/>

Change the resolution to a windowed resolution you would like to use. (A safe bet would be to try width=1024 height=768)

This is not a definite fix but may work as a work around until we can reoslve the issue through a patch in the future.

Once the game-breaking bugs are out of the way (and possibly ladder-climbing wolves), I think you should address gameplay balancing and game speed control.

I'm losing interest in this game rapidly because restarting a mission usually means having to redo more than an hour of waiting after getting a stable input of some resource or another.

Keep those patches coming!

Could you please state which features and what content you will add with the patches?

I only bought this game because of the multiplayer and its impossible to play for longer than 20-40 mins without someone crashing ingame. So i just wanted to know if fixing the crashes in multiplayer is on ur priority list?