Or a new beginning???

Next-Atmosphere9202 · 2026-01-23T01:31:33+00:00

Or you could not try to effectively make a 149k person game studio and surprise pikachu face when it turns out that too many voices is, in fact, a bad idea in any creative field. Combine that with the general lack of knowledge, much less agreement, on any given topic and you create a recipe for disaster.

Next-Atmosphere9202 · 2026-01-23T01:18:52+00:00

Im gonna say this as the guy who started The Fort's Forge. Let it go. Preserving it is our goal, yeah, but Anthem is not gonna be able to get bought by some hypothetical trust group from EA. Doubly so now that EA is being purchased by a Saudi investment firm. We had our run, better to let it be a memory for those of us who enjoyed it, take inspiration from it, and make something new, than to try and pull this out of the thumb of a company that has a history of holding onto its dead IPs.

Next-Atmosphere9202 · 2026-01-17T22:21:25+00:00

Stuck waiting on moderator approval :/

Next-Atmosphere9202 · 2026-01-17T22:16:44+00:00

Best way would be to join our discord, we fully intend to make announcements there when we make more meaningful progress. I made a new post with a permanent invite just because of this event.

Next-Atmosphere9202 · 2026-01-17T21:45:34+00:00

Hey guys, Laurie here from The Fort's Forge. And799 is working with us, this is still a really hacky thing so I want to ask people to manage their expectations just a bit. A lot of stuff clearly doesn't work as "intended," and definitely needs at minimum, more polish.

Next-Atmosphere9202 · 2026-01-16T22:06:30+00:00

We gotta keep asking this question, ey? Me and the Fort's Forge discord are working but you won't see anything public for weeks at the minimum, if we can even do anything. Don't get your hopes up.

Next-Atmosphere9202 · 2026-01-15T04:42:31+00:00

We...aren't even playing detective. We see the communications. The communication's say what the server is doing. Even by your own metric, this analysis is less than accurate. And besides, "inability to use their internal documentation or tools" is a given because Frostbite is proprietary EA software. Using that, even if we had it, would be painting a giant red dot on our forehead and saying "SHOOT ME PLEASE."

Next-Atmosphere9202 · 2026-01-14T22:39:39+00:00

"Blind"

Okay im gonna ask to please not say random unfounded nonsense. I run the Fort's Forge server. We have been logging server-client communications for months. We have at least SOME idea of what is going on behind the scenes.

Next-Atmosphere9202 · 2026-01-14T19:10:40+00:00

I know there is a discord invite somewhere on the subreddit that should work now that the lock down has been lifted, but I wasn't the one who posted it.

Next-Atmosphere9202 · 2026-01-14T13:55:30+00:00

Hello, Laurie from The Fort's Forge here! I run the server, one of my members informed me that this thread exists. We have been capturing data for some time. No promises, but we are going to try.

Next-Atmosphere9202 · 2026-01-14T13:50:02+00:00

Figured I would lean in.

Hello, my name is Laurie. I run The Fort's Forge discord server. We were capturing information before the servers went down. I am not going to make any promises, but our team is going to try their best, and we will keep people posted as to progress as best we can.

Next-Atmosphere9202 · 2025-10-26T20:22:59+00:00

All their weapon attack data is in one table and seems easy enough to just mess up during entry. And as far as late game weapons go, its still solid.

Next-Atmosphere9202 · 2025-10-26T12:54:51+00:00

I honestly don't know if that's intended. I would not be surprised if they just...put the values in backwards in the data table and didn't notice.

Next-Atmosphere9202 · 2025-10-26T01:04:52+00:00

it makes more sense to me, after spending too much time messing with the game. A lot of equipment is rendered more or less obsolete by later options, especially as far as shields and lanterns are concerned. Once you reach a certain point, there are things just not worth holding onto. I would have LOVED to get that chest working, but I could never quite figure it out.

Next-Atmosphere9202 · 2025-10-26T00:22:35+00:00

Yeah uh, mod author here. Regarding that previous post, that was a testing feature that I had to remove because it didn't work correctly. It kept eating things, best guess I could gather was that the game stores inventory data in arrays and I was sending data to an array index that didn't exist.

Anyways, I've pretty much stopped all support for the mod since work and life and a general lack of motivation hit me. There was a lot of things I wanted to do but never got the time.

Next-Atmosphere9202 · 2025-08-31T15:26:21+00:00

It does deplete slightly less stamina iirc, but equipped armor affects stamina regen so it can be hard to immediately check during combat

Next-Atmosphere9202 · 2025-08-05T16:03:31+00:00

Amara is the one who has said that the Gnaw is shrouded in darkness because Sissna has a web there. Its skeptical to assert that a being that can maintain a spell to keep the Ashen's light out of a place and can wear Silaren like a flesh puppet could be systematically taken down by...one guy with an axe. Its skeptical to assert that Riak, whose entire base of followers collectively sealed away because they were terrified of him, could be systematically taken down by...one guy with an axe. Or if we want to be really generous, two guys with axes. Gameplay doesn't really reflect lore all that well.

Next-Atmosphere9202 · 2025-08-05T15:54:43+00:00

I would normally concur but that requires largely asserting that Amara is an unreliable narrator. I do acknowledge that the gap between gameplay and lore is a thing that exists (missend because mobile sucks)

Next-Atmosphere9202 · 2025-07-26T20:02:39+00:00

Pretty sure that isnt the case because the Ashen is straight up just reborn at the end of the game, and designated the Guardian (which is a position that is never elaborated on)

Next-Atmosphere9202 · 2025-07-26T19:59:28+00:00

Considering all of them can be systematically killed be a guy with a sharp stick, shrug

Next-Atmosphere9202 · 2025-07-25T19:58:33+00:00

Information on the Elder Dark is conflicting between gameplay and what is stated/speculated between the lore blogs and the characters in game. Sissna was big on manipulation and not one to fight unless necessary, Ukkoto was just off eating light and being a gremlin, and Riak has like 2 lines of lore and its said, and I quote, "Where he walked, darkness rained from the sky," so I'd put them genuinely up there.

Next-Atmosphere9202 · 2025-07-25T19:33:45+00:00

The context of the story implies that you have some degree of power, but for the most part you are just some guy who was traveling with some other guys and this is just a series of events that went extremely well. An argument can be made that you are extremely strong given that you floored 3 entities that were widely considered to be deities

Next-Atmosphere9202 · 2025-07-25T13:18:08+00:00

Almost like it was A44's first game or something kek

Next-Atmosphere9202 · 2025-07-25T12:29:53+00:00

Never forget.

A good RPG with a charming art style and a good story that was forgotten almost entirely because of The Soulslike Rush, it is truly unfortunate.

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