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. What a treat.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. There's a new Da Vinci tank unit – a kind of merry-go-round armed with a ring of cannons – which if you zoom right into it, reveals there’s a tiny Da Vinci hurtling around inside. Sword tips connect with torsos and send fighters tumbling arseways. Soldiers' desperately flailing legs clamber believably over piles of ragdoll corpses. Swarms of projectiles trace elegant arcs across the battlefield, landing with a satisfying thud in wooden shields where they wobble with perfect accuracy. "Slow fights down by holding the left mouse button and you can really savour the technical detail – and begin to appreciate why armies of more than a few hundred units can make a dusty GPU start to wheeze.
Steve Hogarty looked at TABS twice during early access, once in 2019 then again in 2020. Or you can just watch a big stupid fight, as big and as stupid as your computer can handle. It's undoubtedly silly, but strategy can be quite important. Or you can take to the battlefield yourself in control of a unit. The way it goes: you see an enemy army, you build an army by picking units that might counter them, you lay out your forces, then you watch the battle unfold as the AI and ragdoll physics take over.
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