The year 2022 in review
Soldiers,
the year 2022 is coming to an end and it's about time to review the year and Army Ops development. And what a ride this year was....
Lets get the negatives out first so we can focus on the but stuff and the future later on!
What went wrong
The year started off with a disaster in multiple ways. The unjustified russian war against ukraine had and has a massive impact on the world in different ways. We were hit by this agression in a way almost killing the company. Over night a large part of our outsourcing partners which where all located in ukraine where no longer available and in war. We lost a lot of highly skilled artists and developers supporting the development of various Polygon Art titles. We had to reshuffle, replan and scale down or alternate years worth of planning and development. This slowed down the development of Army Ops and all our other projects....
What worked well
We successfully updated to Unreal Engine 5.1, implemented Easy Anti Cheat and managed to get a fully working stats backend working.
What changed
We have reevaluated the development progress and made a critical change. We changed Army Ops levels into a seamless
Open World
!
And before you quite reading here is why and what this means!
The change to Open World has no impact on the gameplay! Missionwill still be played as before in a locked down smaller environment. The change to an open world will increase the immersion as the backdrop of one Mission are other real mission available within the game. It will also allow us to build larger Gamemodes which combines 2 existing mission locations next to each other into one big mission.
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