This is a small update with fixes to several technical issues. The update only affects the Steam and PlayStation 4 versions of the game. (The next patch will include these fixes in the Nintendo Switch version as well.) -- To play the game online on PS4, you no longer need a PlayStation+ subscription (Sony no longer requires us to require it.) -- Fixed a crash that could happen from being in pra…
Fantasy Strike is now free to play. The term “free to play” has a wide range of meanings and we’re excited to tell you that we’re not talking about “one character is free, please buy the rest for $5 each.” No, we mean all characters are free. All Characters Free Specifically, you can play all characters in online casual play, online ranked play, offline practice mode, and offline “single match”…
This update is live on all platforms right now. (While we know these are the Steam forums, we include notes on changes to all platforms, for the sake of completeness.) FULL CROSSPLAY Fantasy Strike now has full crossplay amongst all its platforms: Nintendo Switch, Playstation 4, and Steam (Mac / Windows / Linux). That means when you’re in the casual or ranked online queues, you get the benefit…
This update is live on all platforms right now. (While we know these are the Steam forums, we include notes on changes to all platforms, for the sake of completeness.) We’ve been busy fixing as many issues as possible that came to light after our launch last month. We fixed a lot of problems that could cause either crashes or hangs during online play, fixed lots of little user interface things,…
After over four years of development, Fantasy Strike launches today on Nintendo Switch , PlayStation 4 , and Steam (Mac / Windows / Linux)! This update brings out of Steam Early Access to full release, and is live right now. BOSS RUSH MODE Our new, biggest single player mode is now available. Boss Rush is where we can stop worrying about making things competitively fair and just let you do ridi…
This update to Fantasy Strike is live right now. This month has lots of bug fixes as we polish things up during this beta period. The biggest fix is to a problem we had with spectating online matches. Sometimes, spectating a match would cause a disconnect for the players actually playing the match. That should be fixed now. Also, there’s a spiffy new energy background on the two-player characte…
This update to Fantasy Strike is live right now. This month we really tightened up Fantasy Strike from a software development standpoint. The gameplay is already in place, but we want everything about it as a piece of software to be as smooth and polished as possible. We massively reduced the game’s file size, reduced loading times (they were already fast!), fixed some bugs with online play tha…
This update to Fantasy Strike is live right now. PERFORMANCE IMPROVEMENTS We’ve done massive performance improvements. In order to make the game run faster, we had to make the tradeoff of...also making the graphics look better. The game runs about 250% the fps it used to--yes really. About 2.5x as fast. This is totally insane and we hope you tell someone about it. There are now only two graphic…
This update to Fantasy Strike is live right now. Disastrous Matchmaking Problem — Now Fixed For the last year and half, an insidious matchmaking bug has killed our online population, and we have only recently discovered this and deployed a fix. The problem is that if you would be matched against certain kinds of bad connections, the match would not be made (that’s good, you wouldn’t want to mat…
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