So I have been gone for quite some time, over a year I think and I believe that everyone who has supported me so far either financially or just by downloading or viewing my game, following me on twitter or whatever deserves an explanation.

I am not dead. The game has not been abandoned. The truth is I have just been incredibly lazy. 

It was the XM-25 grenade launcher that pushed me over the edge. After it took so long to finish, the thought of creating new animations for one weapon, and then knowing that every weapon I put in next will require the same amount of work just completely broke my motivation.

I have been working on this game for 5-6 years alone and sometimes it gets very difficult to continue. Game development is often extremely slow, boring and hard even on a team but is especially bad working alone. The simplest things can sometimes take hours, days or weeks longer than you thought and it all just becomes too much sometimes.

Rather than forcing my way through it and risking burning out of this project completely I decided to work only when I felt motivated to, not when I felt obligated to. I decided to step back and focus on the things I enjoy most to get back into development.

First thing I decided to do was replace the weapon system that was currently in place with a new one. Realistically proportioned weapons required new animations for each and it was becoming bloated and difficult to work with. Not to mention that the character's short little arms couldn't wield them properly due to their size. I decided to cut my losses and work with a new style from the ground up, replacing all the weapon assets I'd made back when characters were realistically proportioned and begin again with a new stylized weapon system that is far quicker, easier, more optimized and more fun and creative to work with. 

This new system will mean that more weapons can share animations, more variants can fit on a single texture atlas, and therefore more weapons can be added as time and updates roll out. 

I won't try to roll out updates like some big AAA game. I'm just going to work on what I feel like from now on, and stop caring if everything is perfect before I upload again. If I continue to think like that I'm not going to upload again for five years until everything I wanted has been accomplished. 

Next update will probably be centred around machineguns, maybe try to get some vehicle stuff finished and some other junk.  Even though I hate twitter with a passion and try to spend as little time as possible on it, I'll post more just to keep everyone more updated.

Thank you all so much for your continued support.