Toy Soldiers HD Gets New Patch and Discount

After releasing in October, Toy Soldiers HD had a bit of a mixed reception due to a few issues. The HD re-release of the Xbox Live Arcade game from 2010 had a variety of issues, particularly with multiplayer. Now, The developers have released a new update, fixing a variety of bugs that plagued the game at launch. To go with this update, Toy Soldiers HD will be 50% off on Steam for the next week, until May 23^rd.

Here is what the press release has to say about Toy Soldiers HD. “Relive your childhood Toy Soldiers HD is a diorama of military action set in a child’s bedroom, a library, lounge, and more. At your command are toy army soldiers, tanks, biplanes, bombers, machine guns, mortars, and fixed upgradeable emplacements to defend your base from waves of increasingly challenging attacks. These ingredients make Toy Soldiers HD a lot of fun to play.

Like many strategy games, you carefully build your defenses and plot your offensive moves, but one of the things that makes Toy Soldiers HD unique is the ability to instantly pop in and out of the battlefield from both a third-person top-down strategic perspective and first-person POV shooter perspective in both single and multiplayer. Watch the battle play out as you build, upgrade, and repair your defenses or jump feet first into it and wage war against your opponent. Don’t worry, when you go full first-person POV, AI takes over your units.

Authentic sights and sounds of WWI create an immersive experience. Toy Soldiers HD will include never-before-played content, enhanced HD graphics (hence the name), and improved camera and sound. All previously released DLC will be included in the campaign flow.”

The update for the PC version has fixed a variety of issues. These include intermittent crashes, problems with matchmaking and multiplayer, issues with frame rate, save data, level completion, and more. On all other platforms, they have also fixed camera movement, aiming, UI, and visuals, amongst other things.

Now seems like a good time to dip back into Toy Soldiers HD if you purchased it and were less than pleased. I think it is good that the developers have gone back and fixed some of the problems, though I do wonder why it was released in such a state, especially after a delay. Remember, the sale on Steam runs till May 23^rd, so if you’re interested, act fast!