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!
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.
Which one of your friends will you nuke into oblivion? Will you be the last one remaining when the whole world blows to smithereens?
GAME REVEAL - New project from the makers of First Strike
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.
To celebrate the last week of our Kickstarter we offer First Strike for 75% off.
GAME REVEAL - New project from the makers of First Strike
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.
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
A message from Blindflug's CEO about multiplayer on PC
Hello First Strike fans
I want to give you an update about our plans about First Strike multiplayer on PC and our Kickstarter.
We know that multiplayer is something that many of you PC First Strike fans have wanted and we wish to evolve the Steam game as well.
Now we have someone in the team who we can assign to focus on this task, Andi, one of our programmers who is doing an apprenticeship.
And with a bit more financing, we could give you the multiplayer very soon as an alpha version. The user interface in that version would be based on the mobile version because optimizing that for PC takes more work and time, but this alpha version would already allow you to play multiplayer with friends on PC.
To give you this early version, we would do a mini-Kickstarter in March. The money of that campaign would help us cover Andi's salary for his work on First Strike. Everyone who backs the Kickstarter would get a Steam code for the multiplayer DLC and access to the beta branch at the end of March. Everyone else who didn't participate in the Kickstarter would need to wait until the finished DLC is publicly available later this year.
If the Kickstarter is not a success, Andi would still work on the port, but it would take longer and it wouldn't be the priority if other projects come up that need his attention.
Here we have to give you some important context: First Strike on PC is not a huge game. It does not earn our company much money and we can’t cover the costs of bigger updates for that platform on our own. That's why we have to work on other projects, that's why the mobile version got the big updates first. And that’s why we chose the path of doing a fundraising campaign, so we could make it possible with the help from the community who really wants the multiplayer on PC.
What we would need from you in order to get things going are two things:
Tell us here in the comments on Steam what you think. Would you back a mini-Kickstarter for the First Strike multiplayer DLC?
Show us your support and when we see that enough people want to make multiplayer on PC possible, we can launch our Kickstarter. If not, we will not do the Kickstarter.
Please let me know here on Steam what your thoughts are, and hopefully, we can achieve this goal together!
Kindest regards
Moritz Zumbühl,
CEO of Blindflug Studios
Multiplayer DLC, Kickstarter Restart and how you players changed our approach!
Dear First Strike fans
As you may know, a few weeks ago, we had started a Kickstarter to give First Strike on PC a big update with multiplayer and new content.
Unfortunately, the Kickstarter campaign has not received the anticipated support and after much deliberation, we have opted to cancel the project before the scheduled date.
But that doesn’t mean everything is over. We still believe it’s possible to bring multiplayer to Steam. This Kickstarter campaign was our very first experience using the platform and we have gained invaluable feedback, experience and knowledge in the past few weeks. Accordingly, we have already started planning a new Kickstarter campaign with a more concise goal adjusted to your feedback.
The new Kickstarter will contain:
A clear focus on just multiplayer for PC as a DLC expansion.
Everyone who backs the project on Kickstarter with 5 EUR (5 USD) or more will get a Steam key code for the multiplayer DLC as a reward. No subscription, no Nuclear Club needed.
But before we launch, we need to know that enough people are truly interested.
Do you want multiplayer on PC? Would you support this new Kickstarter? Then go to the Kickstarter page and click “Notify me on launch” to follow the project: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/blindflugstudios/first-strike-steam
As soon as we think the project has enough support, we will launch the campaign.
This is your chance to show us how many of you really want a multiplayer DLC expansion. We hope we can make it possible with your support.
The Blindflug Studios team
Multiplayer For Life DLC - No Monthly Subscription needed!
Dear First Strike Fans,
Over the course of the Kickstarter, many of you have voiced your opinions on the rewards and the benefits. All the feedback we have received as been extremely helpful! Thus, we have decided to create a new pledge which will hopefully suit the PC users a lot more!
The new pledge is called the Multiplayer For Life DLC. This pledge will grant you infinite access to multiplayer on PC and will NOT require a monthly subscription!
The addition of this reward comes after PC users expressing that their needs were not met in this Kickstarter project. Hopefully, with this new pledge, we could find the right reward to please the PC community!
So, we wish to thank everyone for giving us their feedback! Creating content that is tailored to your demands is what we aim for, which means creating a Kickstarter which you want to support is just as important to us.
In summary, if you choose to support this limited-time pledge on Kickstarter, you will receive access to Multiplayer for free for life! No monthly subscription will be needed!
Please let us know if this new Pledge suits you more. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/blindflugstudios/first-strike
Thank you all so much for all of your support and feedback!
Kindest of regards,
Blindflug Studio Team
Why we need your help for First Strike Multiplayer
Some of you may be wondering why we choose to do a Kickstarter and why do we need your help for this.
Our community manager Ben explains it here in this video and gives you an overview of the situation:
Be it with a small pledge or a bigger one that gets you extra rewards - all of it helps to make the expansion of First Strike on PC possible.
If we succeed with this campaign, we give you all the new features from the mobile version, including new superpowers and superweapons as a free update.
Every bit of support helps us to make this possible, so even a small contribution is worth a lot. Thank you so much to all of you who join us in this endeavor!
- Blindflug Studios
Let's bring MULTIPLAYER to PC! 让我们将《先发制人》的多人游戏模式引入 PC！
We heard you. You want the multiplayer mode on PC. And we want to do it, too!
That's why we are preparing a Kickstarter campaign to collect the needed funding to bring the new First Strike features like the multiplayer mode and new superweapons to STEAM.
Planned launch: 4th of October, 8am EDT / 2pm CET / 8pm CST
If we succeed with this campaign, we can give you all the new features from the mobile version, including new superpowers and superweapons as a free update.
Our goal is to bring the PC and mobile First Strike community together so that the game can grow even more, and with your help, we can make this happen!
To celebrate the launch, we will be streaming during the day on Twitch, starting at 8am EDT / 2pm CET / 8pm CST:
