[img]{STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/39920864/d34bde9050e290ea909ff7883cf886ab324ea22f.png[/img] [h3]Line War - TactiCon 2023[/h3] We are excited to announce that Line War is one of the [url=https://www.tacticon.games/selected-games]selected games[/url] to be featured at TactiCon 2023, a digital convention hosted on Steam celebrating strategy video games. This is the second edition of TactiCon and it highlights those who develop strategy games and gathers the players who love to play them. We feel honored that Line War has been chosen as one of the games. There was a large number of submissions for the event hosts to choose from ranging from independent developers to large established game studios. TactiCon 2023 starts 11th May 2023 at 19:30 CET / 10:30 AM PST here on Steam. We hope that this event will bring new players to Line War that we can all enjoy lining up alongside and against for some exciting Line War matches. [h3]Single Player Progress[/h3] Behind the scenes, single-player development is underway and we are making good progress. We have assessed different approaches to develop the single-player AI and we believe that we've found a solid model that we are implementing now. We wanted to find a path that can offer a respectable level of resistance in a seemingly intelligent way and that is also architected so that it can be extended and improved upon over time to give you an increasingly formidable opponent to play against. The AI model that we are developing builds on clustering algorithms that provides the AI with accumulating knowledge of its own and hostile units, structures, geography, and how they relate to each other. It plays by the same rules as human players and, of course, it takes the fog of war and visibility into account. There is a lot of development work yet to be done and we are not aiming to rush anything out before we believe it offers a sufficient level of quality that can be expected by an AI opponent. Although our current focus is to build a skirmish AI that plays matches, we can re-use the same technology for single-player mission-based content and community-created challenges. Initially, the AI will support 1v1, FFA, and possibly human co-op against a single AI opponent. The AI is not yet designed to be able to play as a team player because adding cooperative awareness and the ability to consider allies will require additional work that we will do at a later stage. We don’t have an ETA for single-player mode yet but we will keep you updated here on Steam and in the Line War Discord. During TactiCon 2023, and while we continue to develop Line War, we hope that you continue to enjoy what the game already has to offer. It has been exciting to see the quality of matches that are being played since the most recent releases with balance updates, and the addition of the aircraft carrier unit. Have fun and enjoy the strategy focus during TactiCon!