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Updates, development diaries and plans for the future.
FeaturedAll ten missions are redrawn: desert, autumn forest, tundra, summer forest, sea coast and scorched wasteland. The train climbs uphill on trestles, and a heavy train pulls slower.
UpdateOn four maps bad weather rolls in during battle. In a storm the guns hit closer, in a blizzard the train barely crawls, and in a thunderstorm lightning strikes the raiders too.
UpdateEvery car has weight, and the locomotive pulls. A loaded train slows down uphill and belches black smoke with sparks, and speeds up downhill.
UpdateAll ten missions are ready. In “Raiders’ Lair” the gang brings out an armored train on its own line — a train-versus-train battle. Plus mountains, waterfalls and the missile car.
MissionsA line along the dam crest and a drawbridge raised for a steamer. The train waits — the raiders don’t.
UpdateThe machine-gun car became a platform module, and a missile car with a ballistic missile appeared at the depot. For the platform — a missile silo with a catapult.
UpdateIn the sixth mission the King Crab rises from the deep with a mortar on its back. Here is how it hunts the locomotive and where its weak spot is.
MissionsThree islands with bridges and a huge figure eight with a stone viaduct: the line passes over itself.
EnemiesA new enemy cuts rails with its claws. Why it doesn’t walk sideways and how we animated it.
Update15 medals for the engineer’s feats and an “Achievement unlocked!” pop-up, like in big games.
Dev diaryWe ran “The Loop” on all difficulty levels with bots and people and rebuilt the balance.
EnemiesHang glider bombers fly in from any side. Here is how to shoot them down before they are over the rails.
MissionsMissions two to five are redrawn from new sketches: the lake, the link, the bridges and two rings.
