Greetings troopers!

As of now, latest version (1.1.0) of Para Bellum - The Unknown Soldiers has been released! This update features one huge improvement, which is online multiplayer! You can still of course play offline as before, but in addition to that, you can share the battlefield with your friends and other players in online multiplayer!

Multiplayer is still in it's early stages, so there might be issues, for which I apologize in advance, and try my best to fix them as soon as I can. If you find anything that seems out of place, let me know, and I'll fix it. I have also planned future multiplayer features, but more on that later.

As I'm working on the game on my own on my free time with no financial backing, I can't give any guarantees, that the multiplayer services will be able to handle all active players at all times. I'll try to adjust accordingly, but there's currently only so much I can do. Just be advised, that in case the servers are full, you can still enjoy the offline mode!

Some notes on how the multiplayer works:

Multiplayer is hosted on Photon Cloud, currently there's no way to host a private game. You can change your in game nickname from the options menu.

When starting the game, you have three options, offline mode, random game, and game by name. Offline mode works just as before. You can play in your own isolated instance, without needing to worry about connection, or other players. Random game mode looks for any available online games in your region, and joins a random one. If no game is found, a new game is created. Game by name mode is the one for playing with friends. It requires your input to the Room Name input field. The game then tries to join a game by this given name. If no game with this room name is found, a new game with this name is created.

Keep in mind, that you might not be able to play with friends in different regions, because of connectivity issues.

The game tries to spawn players in the same game to the same team, and as close to each other as possible. However if you get lost from your friends, you can launch a flare by pressing the 'F' key by default. This should help your friends to locate you.

If the master client (the player who started hosting the game) disconnects, the game instance probably crashes or at least wont work properly. A restart is recommended at that point.

I think that's it for now. I hope you enjoy! Until next time!