It has been a long road, and now Steel Shadows is available! Dive back into the world of Ancient Frontier playing as an all new faction through a new campaign. Let us know what you think! Be sure to drop us an email, comment in the forums or leave us a review. We really appreciate your feedback. Thank you for playing our games.
Great news! A free demo of Steel Shadows is now live. Go ahead and check out the game and let us know what you think in the forums. Thank you for playing our games.
Greetings Commanders! We hope that everyone is able to enjoy the holiday season. We have been hard at work on the next game in this series, Steel Shadows, which releases in just three short weeks. However, some of the work we have done on that game is now going to be available in Ancient Frontier. External Save Files: For a small number of our customers they were concerned with the save locatio…
Thank you for playing our game! Wow, it is hard for us to believe that it has already been a year since Ancient Frontier finally launched. Thank you to each and every one of you. We are incredibly grateful to our fans and players who continue to play this game. Looking back the last year has been a whirlwind with two additional DLCs launched and 14 patches. All of this work was driven by you, o…
Greetings Commanders! Today we reveal the new Outrigger ship the Manticore class heavy cruiser. This appears along with several new missions where you fight the Outriggers in the Alliance campaign. Finally, we have addressed a few minor bugs. The Manticore This massive heavy cruiser is constructed at a secret location known only to the Outrigger engineers. Packed with stolen modern weaponry the…
Greetings Commanders! Today we have a group of balance changes and bug fixes that we wanted to get out right away. We are working on another content update that will feature additional Outrigger ships and missions. There was not time to fully test the missions for this patch, however, so they will be launched in a future update. Rumors say that a new Outrigger heavy cruiser has been sighted in…
Greetings Commanders! This is a small follow up patch to the release of the new DLC, and only makes three changes: · First, we have added a step to starting a new game where you now choose your save style (Ironman vs Standard). This way you don't have to worry about the defaults. You are able to choose a different save style for each individual campaign if you choose. · Second, we changed the "…
Greetings Commanders! We have a very small update for you today. We put together a video from the different cutscenes and environment videos in Ancient Frontier and arranged it to the main theme done by Mimi Page. Now presenting, The Ancient Frontier Music Video: We have also added this video to the trailers on the main store page. It is the third trailer now. We hope you enjoy this fun little…
Greetings Commanders! We are pleased to announce that our second DLC, Quests and Events, is now live and will automatically update everyone's game. This DLC is completely FREE as a continued thank you to all of our old and new fans. This DLC introduces a host of changes, most notably adding a Quest system and random Events. Read on for the full change log. Quests These are assignments and contr…
Fair Weather Studios is proud to announce Ancient Frontier: Steel Shadows. Continue the epic saga of Ancient Frontier in an all new campaign. Steel Shadows is a standalone RPG set in the epic universe of Ancient Frontier. Take command of a rag tag band of pirates and outlaws as you fight your way across the Frontier for treasure and glory. Delve into our latest turn based tactical RPG. With ove…
Greetings Commanders! This is a small follow up patch to the release of the new DLC, and only makes two changes: First, we have performed another round of optimization. This should allow the game to run better on people running with only 8GB of RAM. You also may notice slightly shorter loading screens. Second, we should have fixed a bug that could cause the "Launch" button to become obscured on…
Greetings Commanders! We are happy to announce that The Crew DLC is now live and will automatically update everyone's game. This DLC is completely FREE as a thank you to all of our new and old fans. This new DLC introduces quite a few changes, so keep reading for the full change log. The Crew Brave men and women from all walks of Frontier life are ready to serve you, Commander. Each crew member…
Greetings Commanders! We wanted to give all of you another quick progress update. Things continue to progress behind the scenes and we continue to believe we will be launching our free DLC "soon" (TM). One of the delays has to do with the large amount of rebalancing this update is requiring. The Crew are varied and add a level of power and versatility to human ships that the alien Vor can no lo…
Greetings Commanders. It has been a couple of months since our last update so we wanted to give you all a progress report. First off, this DLC has taken longer than we thought because we keep making changes and adding features. We understand this puts off the time to release the DLC, and we have made a firm decision to stop adding more changes than are already on the list. The artwork is now al…
Happy New Year Commanders! We hope everyone is having a great start to the New Year. This week we bring you Steam Achievements and a few bug fixes: Steam Achievements At long last the Steam Achievements are live. Many of them you should earn when you load an existing game as most of the achievements the game was already tracking. A few of the achievements will only start tracking from now forwa…
Greetings Commanders. We hope everyone is enjoying the holiday season. We continue to work on the Crew DLC. The artwork is coming along well and we are excited about the new options this will open up to players. Creating everything is taking us a little longer than planned, so we are pushing back the launch date until after the holidays. We are currently on track to release the new DLC in early…
Greetings Commanders! We hope everyone has been enjoying the start of the holiday season. This week we bring you new items with the power to add new abilities to the ships that equip them and changes to AI carriers. With that said, on to the changes: Item Abilities With this patch we roll out our test of a new breed of items. These items add abilities to the ships that equip them rather than ad…
Greetings Commanders! So it has been a month since our last patch. Part of this was because we wanted to let the numbers settle and see how some of our changes impacted the numbers. Part of that is because we were working behind the scenes on the future of the game, starting with our first DLC, The Crew. This patch brings some changes to resources along with several bug fixes. So, on to the det…
Fair Weather Studios is happy to announce our first planned DLC for Ancient Frontier, The Crew. The Crew DLC Expansion, as the name suggests, adds crew members that can be assigned to your ships to further increase their abilities. Ships will get between one and four crew slots. Crew can be freely moved between ships between missions. Federation Technician Concept There will be a total of fifte…
Greetings Commanders! Another active week here at the Studio. This week we bring you an additional item slot along with several balance tweaks, quality of life improvements and bug fixes. With that said, on to the changes: New Item Slot! We have been looking at ways to give players more abilities to customize their ships. So far that has come in the form of adding new items to the game. This we…
Greetings Commanders! Another busy week here at the Studio. This week we bring you more improvements to the save system, more memory management, several new bounty missions and a slight re-balance to the two easier difficulty levels. With that said, on to the changes: Backup Saves The save system continues to be a sore point for some of you and hopefully this patch will help. Two changes have b…
Greetings Commanders! Today's patch brings a buff to many of the Alliance forces, more memory management optimization and several minor tweaks and bug fixes. We continue to work behind the scenes to make the game as enjoyable as possible for as many people as possible and as many play styles as possible. With that said, on to the changes: Alliance Campaign Balance The behind the scenes numbers…
Greetings Commanders! So this patch brings a couple of pretty big changes and a host of minor tweaks and bug fixes. We continue to work behind the scenes to make the game as enjoyable as possible for as many people as possible. With that said, on to the changes: Manual Saving So with Patch 1.0.4 we are introducing the ability to turn off the autosaving that the game shipped with. Go to the Opti…
Greetings Commanders! Today's patch brings more bug fixes, more improvements, and more items for you to collect and use! New Gear Added two new items for you to use and find. Move faster, hit harder! Booster Rockets Booster Rockets allow you to increase the speed of a ship without increasing it's agility. Not designed for lateral movement a Booster Rocket is about pure straight away speed. Whil…
Greetings Commanders, We have another patch for you today. This one is mostly quality of life improvements based on some of the initial feedback. Enjoy. Bug Fixes: · Fixed a rare bug where on some scouting missions too few hexes were required to scout. Quality of Life Enhancements: · Added a display of your total Deploy Cost to the deployment screen. No more need to calculate this manually. · A…
Greetings Commanders! We just set live a patch that fixes a few things we have been made aware of since launch. Bug Fixes: · Fixed a game crash bug when a ship died to asteroids, mines or damage over time. You are now free to die any way you want to. · Fixed a bug where a story mission could be skipped in Cygnus sector. Tweaks: · Reduced damage of colliding with most terrain · Increased damage…
It’s here and it’s done! We’re excited to see the finished Ancient Frontier fully released today, on September 21st, 2017. Creating this game together with you has been a long and rewarding adventure, and we’re very happy with what the game has grown to become. We hope you enjoy playing Ancient Frontier as much as we enjoyed developing it – and given a successful launch, this won’t be the end o…
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