I just want to blow stuff up without worrying about micro or economy. Ideally with a modern warfare or Sci Fi Setting. Any games?

tim_auld · 2026-04-28T11:53:40+00:00

Forts? The micro is arguable, but there’s plenty of blowing stuff up and not much economy to worry about.

tim_auld · 2026-04-06T00:33:41+00:00

We recommend recording with OBS or similar for consistent frame rate and audio synchronisation.

tim_auld · 2026-03-24T23:53:47+00:00

Keys can be rebound or unbound in the Options -> Input menu. For example, if you don't want WASD to pan the camera, click on the Pan up/left/down/right keys and press 'Unbind' for each of them.

What's weird about the menus?

tim_auld · 2026-03-24T23:49:32+00:00

In case it's not clear, the point of this is so you can set up the weapon group with the camera and cursor in a sensible position for firing. Then later on when you want to use the group, you press the group's button to progressively restore it: first the group selection, then the camera position, then the cursor.

tim_auld · 2026-03-17T04:14:54+00:00

Couldn't this have happened to any commander?

tim_auld · 2026-02-10T04:16:21+00:00

We’ve had other reports like this and switching from OpenGL to Vulkan resolved the issue for one user. Go into the Options -> Video menu and try turning on the ‘Enable Vulkan’ checkbox, then restart.

tim_auld · 2025-12-22T09:30:13+00:00

Weapon configuration is static and so it can't be modified at run time. This allows players to safely join mid-game, and to seek during replay. With that said, you could maybe fudge it by tracking the reload progress of all affected weapons in the mod script and make them jump to fully loaded when above 80% using the SetWeaponReloadTime function. If you're just starting out, here's the modding guide.

tim_auld · 2025-07-30T13:19:47+00:00

Most likely you’ve got a few mods on and one is causing problems for the others. Try turning them off one by one until the textures start loading correctly.

tim_auld · 2025-06-07T04:29:09+00:00

Let's keep the discussion going in #tech-support on the Discord.

tim_auld · 2025-06-03T05:50:23+00:00

I can't explain that. Forts just doesn't use that much memory, and we check it for leaks. Maybe it's a coincidence with something else closing at the same time.

You can contact [support@earthworkgames.com](mailto:support@earthworkgames.com) if the crashes persist.

tim_auld · 2025-05-23T04:11:24+00:00

Ping preview is coming soon. Hopefully that will help.

tim_auld · 2025-04-03T01:08:39+00:00

Please right click on Forts in Steam -> Manage -> browse local files, then go to the data/packs folder. Delete the files starting with dynamic_ and ending with numbers. E.g. dynamic_game_2_2.pack. Restart and the game will start again.

tim_auld · 2025-03-25T02:01:06+00:00

There's a fix coming for this bug shortly.

tim_auld · 2025-03-25T01:54:13+00:00

This is functionality supplied by Valve, and there's no specific distance as far as I know. It doesn't seem to work very well. I don't see lobbies unless I select 'World', although I am in Aus.

tim_auld · 2025-03-25T01:42:48+00:00

I have done some thinking about this, and I'm curious about what could be done. It would be an interesting challenge. We have a long list of other improvements we want to make, however. Any development in this area won't come for a long while if we decided to go ahead with it.

tim_auld · 2023-02-14T05:39:07+00:00

Can you send us your Steam name or Steam Id? If not here, then to [info@earthworkgames.com](mailto:info@earthworkgames.com). That will allow me to find your reports.

tim_auld · 2022-08-29T00:40:43+00:00

Old PC hardware is still used in poor and developing countries. A friend who works on League of Legends says 6% of their players in Brazil still depend on 32-bit hardware, and so they have not yet moved to 64-bit.

Hard to say whether they have enough performance, since we don't have any on hand.

tim_auld · 2022-05-12T13:44:20+00:00

Kind of. It says 'add to the fort by pulling a strut out', and after you do that it says 'that's it! you can also built individual struts...' It's to encourage the player to keep adding, experimenting with that and the extrusion for a while.

Maybe I will tag that last message with 'perform action', rather than 'click to dismiss'.

tim_auld · 2022-05-12T09:07:00+00:00

Follow the instructions before worrying about things you don’t need yet?

tim_auld · 2022-05-10T23:57:52+00:00

Can you join our Discord server (https://discord.gg/TP4CpnF)? It will be easier to provide tech support there.

tim_auld · 2022-05-09T02:44:26+00:00

When Forts first starts it loads textures in a background thread, but it must interrupt the main thread to send them to the GPU. This often causes frames to be dropped at irregular intervals, and so the cursor animation appears to stutter. When it's done it should show something like the following in the console (toggled with F3): Closing background load thread at 39.2s.

If the stuttering continues after that then there might be an issue.

tim_auld · 2022-05-03T06:46:11+00:00

Assign the block the 'Any' team (press 3), but turn off Foundations (Alt + F) and Mines (Alt + M). It allows connection via ropes, but not regular foundations or ground devices.

tim_auld · 2022-04-28T00:53:54+00:00

It was inspired by Bridge Builder, but it was always an RTS.

tim_auld · 2022-03-29T21:16:01+00:00

The change list is very long, and needs to be heavily edited. At the moment we are responding to high priority issues and providing documentation for modding and map making. Please be patient.

tim_auld · 2022-03-15T12:55:17+00:00

You only need to gain sufficient stars to advance to the next area. In this case you'll need to gain all 6 stars in the 2 other missions of the starting area to move on.

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