Vapourware End State - turn-based tactics by Finnish lunatic - now available on Early Access(!)

[Stavrophore]

Finnish the game before Russia attack you, okay?

 

[Parsimonious cook]

Come on bro, dont set such unrealistic deadlines or we will really never get it.

 

[geno]

Just noticed that their Steam site names Finger Squad as the developer, but when their web was active it was Iron Sight. When did they change it?
EDIT: The Eula was updated this month. Is that an automated process?
EDIT 2: According to waybackmachine, the developer was Iron Sight on October
According to Steamdb, they uploaded logos for the library this month

 

[Joined on the 4th of July]

Just noticed that their Steam site names Finger Squad as the developer, but when their web was active it was Iron Sight. When did they change it?
EDIT: The Eula was updated this month. Is that an automated process?
EDIT 2: According to waybackmachine, the developer was Iron Sight on October
According to Steamdb, they uploaded logos for the library this month

Looks like Fingersoft (mobile game developer from the same town) could be their publisher now. Or maybe some closer kind of cooperation even.

 

[Parsimonious cook]

Didnt the Finnish Lunatic go to work for some mobile game company at some point? Really makes you think.

 

[Joined on the 4th of July]

Reading company data from prh.fi:
- Iron Sight was declared bankrupt and deactivated in October 2021
- Finger Squad used to be Viima Games until November 2022. (Viima Games developed its only game Fail Hard for Android in 2014 and it was published by Fingersoft.)
- Finger Squad's current "procurators" are Fingersoft founder Toni Fingerroos and phosphorus

 

[Modron]

Just noticed that their Steam site names Finger Squad as the developer, but when their web was active it was Iron Sight. When did they change it?
EDIT: The Eula was updated this month. Is that an automated process?
EDIT 2: According to waybackmachine, the developer was Iron Sight on October
According to Steamdb, they uploaded logos for the library this month

I'll tentatively give you a brofist but if this doesn't materialize into a complete game eventually I am taking it back.

 

[Taka-Haradin puolipeikko]

Reading company data from prh.fi:
- Iron Sight was declared bankrupt and deactivated in October 2021
- Finger Squad used to be Viima Games until November 2022. (Viima Games developed its only game Fail Hard for Android in 2014 and it was published by Fingersoft.)
- Finger Squad's current "procurators" are Fingersoft founder Toni Fingerroos and phosphorus

Is their office in Fingerpori?

 

[Abu Antar]

Reading company data from prh.fi:
- Iron Sight was declared bankrupt and deactivated in October 2021
- Finger Squad used to be Viima Games until November 2022. (Viima Games developed its only game Fail Hard for Android in 2014 and it was published by Fingersoft.)
- Finger Squad's current "procurators" are Fingersoft founder Toni Fingerroos and phosphorus

 

[Parsimonious cook]

There is hope...

 

[Harthwain]

There is hope...

Hope is first step down the road to disappointment. I don't dare to have hope at this point.

 

[geno]

Fresh news from the discord:

toni​

Hello everyone, Firstly, sorry for the years of delay in development and the silence, this hasn't been an easy project. We founded a new company to continue development (Finger Squad) and to secure funding for the future. The plan is to build more strategy / tactical games after End State has reached its full version. End State is still in development and the aim is to open early access version 1st of December to get the community involved. We want to get into a steady loop where we collect community feedback and release monthly updates. At this moment the game is still missing a lot of content, but the tactical side is already very playable and ready for it's first round of feedback and we already have a lot of assets waiting to be implemented into the game. We will now focus fully to make the 1st of December happen and keep you posted.

phosphorous​

personally I would probably continue development for a year or three before release, but maybe it really is better to get some people to actually play it at some point even though it is still very much a work in progress

phosphorous
yeah the plan is like @toni said to get feedback and continue development with monthly updates

​

toni
Maybe I can introduce myself also a little. I am an early investor in the project, probably was like 2016 when I got into this. At first I was just an investor giving advice and funds to develop, but during the last few years we've gotten to work more together and this has become a very important project for me also. Looking very much forward what we can do together with @phosphorous.

nockeer
Do you already know what the price for early access will be?
toni
19.99$ and 19.99€

 

[Taka-Haradin puolipeikko]

Release early access by Thursday without any videos or other promotional material?

 

[rusty_shackleford]

is this game out yet

I'm becoming so powerful that I'm beginning to scare myself.

 

[agris]

The plan is to build more strategy / tactical games after End State has reached its full version

 

[Modron]

Wow hits early access in one day now:

 

[Parsimonious cook]

Guess I will have no choice but to buy it then. I am still not convinced it will actually come out though.

 

[Alienman]

My prediction: EA forever.

 

[Taka-Haradin puolipeikko]

Since Second Front is 2023 release I might as well buy this.

 

[geno]

It's quite weird they are doing no noise with this. 0 marketing or announcements on social media (assuming they didn't lost their accounts passwords after years of inactivity). It's like they don't want to sell their game.

 

[Luka-boy]

Considering the kind of people working on this, I expect them to either release some aborted pre-alpha stuff they were working on three years ago or to blow our fucking minds because they were working on this for years in full autismo mode in complete radio silence.

 

[udm]

It might be the announcement of "Jagged Alliance" 3 that stirred the sleeping behemoth. End State was talked about as the spiritual successor to JA2, so maybe they want to release this in EA at least before Faggot Alliance 3.

 

[holla_cabezas_de_mierda]

this is releasing tommorow? EA or for reals for reals?

 

[Strange Fellow]

Smells like they're cutting their losses and cashing in on whatever's left on their harddrives from back when they were still working on this. But I hope I'm wrong.

 

[Jinn]

Excited this isn't completely dead. Will not buy, though. Has the stench of forever-in-early-access to it. Someone please call me to this thread in a year and make me feel like an idiot if I'm wrong.