“We initially didn’t mean to update the game, but when we released it for free in 2018, we got almost 3 million downloads in the first couple of days. “The game has become a bit of a passion project for us,” Nylund said. TABG free-to-play also adds “a completely new map filled with fresh weapons, attachments, and things that go boom,” Landfall said in a news release. The format change brings with it “a massive refresh” of content, as well as in the game’s networking and user interface. Totally Accurate Battlegrounds began as a 2018 April Fools’ Day joke, and has since taken on a life of its own Image: Landfall Totally Accurate Battlegrounds, the 2018 April Fool’s satire of the battle royale genre, is still going strong and is now a free-to-play game. Totally Accurate Battle Simulator’s 1.0 release is joined by three other launches - again, in the spirit of April Fools’ Day, but all three very much real products.

“We have always wanted to add multiplayer to the game, so it’s great to be able to deliver that as a surprise for 1.0.” “The number one requested feature has been multiplayer, despite it never having been on the public roadmap,” Wilhelm Nylund, a designer at Landfall and the studio’s chief executive, told Polygon. So far, it’s been a single-player-only game. Totally Accurate Battle Simulator, broadly speaking, allows the player to set up two armies - pirates with cannons and cavemen with mastodons are among the factions - and let them duke it out to settle an eternal who-would-win question, for science. TABS, which launched in Steam Early Access two years ago, will get multiplayer and two new factions with the 1.0 release.

Despite the game’s jovial nature and ironic title, the studio says this is not an April Fools’ Day announcement. Totally Accurate Battle Simulator, the ragdoll-physics, set-’em-up-and-watch-’em-fight game from Landfall, makes a full version 1.0 launch today.

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