Greetings Soldner,

we are more than happy to invite you to our steam community. Take a tour to our new steam page for everything Soldner related and do not forget to update your wishlist 🤘

https://store.steampowered.com/app/847720/Sldner_Secret_Wars_Remastered/

cheers

MorGotH

Greetings Soldner,

it has been a while since you last heard from our dev team. But fear not, it is not because Soldner Remastered was cancelled or we lack work. Quite the opposite!

You should know by now: Real Soldners don’t die, they just go to hell and regroup.

This said, our team has worked countless hours in the realms of hell in the past year to make quite some progress on the game. Unfortunately, their dark work was done mostly in the background so only little progress to be shown in fancy videos and screenshots. But behold! We still have some visual assets to share with you.

So, sit back and take a look at the achievements of the past year:

• We finished bug fixing and polishing work on the vehicles
• We finished the character & customization portion
• We started with remastering destructible assets
• We did some progress on the environment: We worked on art vision, tree tint, water and underwater and waves, water looks now more beautiful than ever before
• We started our focus tests with selected Soldner veterans who committed countless bugs and issues (and some are even fixed already!)
• We prepared for launching the game on a major gaming platform

With the new year already being in progress our team is progressing as well. Some issues we’ll be tackling this year are:

• A new User Interface
• Remastering the remaining destructible items
• Remastering the buildings
• More Testing

If you made it until here: Congratulations! Here are your promised and well-deserved visual impressions of our work from the past year.

We will try our best to keep you updated more frequently this year.
Until then: Rock on, Soldner!
V-Y-P

schranzkopp

Greetings Soldner,

it has been a while since we last gave you an update on the progress our developers are making. Despite (or maybe because of) the high temperatures outside the developers didn’t leave their basements and made quite some progress.
In fact, they are so busy making progress they hardly find the time to test what they developed. That’s why we are currently looking for some motivated Focus Testers. Their task will be to put everything the developers do to a test and report back to them any findings.
The development is still in a very early stage so we will only need a small group for now. Think of those testers as the elite of the elite of testers.
If you are interested in participating fill in this form:
https://forms.gle/nmdSHK81QSJX6Qth7

In order to apply please be aware of the following requirements you should fulfil:

• You should live in Europe or be able to participate in tests which take place at European times
• You should have extensive experience playing Soldner. At best you played the game before release of the Community Edition. (Yes, we are looking straight at you, Soldner Veterans). Players having good knowledge of Modding Soldner are also very welcome.
• You must be willing to commit your findings in our bug tracking system.
• You should have decent hardware which is capable of running the remastered version.

We will leave the applications open until 31. August 2022. If you have been selected you will be notified.
Even if you don’t get notified immediately, we may need you at a later point and will then get in touch with you.

Thank you for your support!

stay tuned and rock on Soldner

schranzkopp

Greetings Soldner,

we got word, that Soldner has died (again), so we thought we won’t keep you waiting until easter for some great awakening. Since that is not dead, which can… I mean since we made great progress on the new firearms and vehicle import, it’s finally time to unshackle our Devs from the basement wall and show you some of the things they did, while you were busy celebrating all sorts of things :-P

Recapitulating last year’s progress i.e. showing the good stuff is best done visually, so here is 2021 in pictures:

While progressing on the things we just showed you, we also started creating a completely new User Interface library. This will not only improve usability, but finally put an end to the nasty shader problems plaguing the original. Meanwhile we are finalizing the vegetation sets including flora, shrubs and props to provide the new trees a nice landscape to grow on.
Another topic we are currently addressing is multiplayer gameplay and security. Our “skunk works” division has begun operation in order to fix known exploits and prevent 3rd parity intervention into multiplayer security and gameplay and there is more to come.

stay tuned and rock on Soldner

MorGotH

Hello Soldners,

the last patch introduced a bug that caused servers not to load maps properly. This patch will fix the issue.

Download: http://soldnersecretwars.de/download/pub/patch/SSW_Patch_33985_Installer.exe

Regards

Huffel

Greetings Soldner,

welcome to our latest update, this time featuring three pensioners, looking fresher than ever and of course the compulsory reminder of the upcoming Joint-Community-War on 5th of September 20:00 CET.

Hope to see you there!

Cheers

MorGotH

Greetings Soldner,

welcome back from the summer vacation and to our weekly update. We hope you had a good time and we will try to keep it recreational here. So instead of getting right back into the action we brought some stuff that allows for great distance, astonishing views and relaxing hikes.

Not less important is saving the date 5th of September 20:00 CET, since the glorious Joint-Community-War will make a return and we hope, so do you Soldner!

Here is our choice of long range precision tools for great outdoor fun:

Cheers

MorGotH

Hello Soldners,

sorry, there are no pretty screenshots this time, just a tiny patch. Last week a member of our community made us aware of a serious security vulnerability in the game. The new patch 33984 will fix it. Other than that, there are no changes.

Download: http://soldnersecretwars.de/download/pub/patch/SSW_Patch_33984_Installer.exe

Regards

Huffel

Greetings Soldner,

welcome to our last weekly update, before our self-prescribed summer holiday. We will be back with more news on the game on the 19th of August, since work will continue even through our holidays. If your holiday plans got scrapped by corona, or you simply have time to spare, - did I mention we still need help localizing?

Feel free to get in touch with Badhunter on Discord, he will solve any problem concerning too much free time in virtually no time. Especially, if you can help with any of these languages: Chinese, French, Spanish, Italian, Czech, Japanese, Korean, Turkish, Hungarian, Arabic

We wish you a nice and sunny summer, with lots of pool- or beach- instead of screen-time and no disturbances in your relaxation operations. Before we lift off for vacation, here is our selection of tracked, fun and gun tools. This week also including a journey to the past for better appreciation.

Enjoy

 

Challenger old vs. new:
 

Cheers

MorGotH

Greetings Soldner,

welcome to our weekly update. Starting off with a quick reminder for the next Joint Community War on 27th of June 20:00 CET and moving on to guns. Final polishing has begun and we want to update you on the progress made with your favorite home defense tools. The kind of thing you just fire two blasts, outside the house…

Following the idea the only thing better than something that puts lead in the air is something that puts more lead in the air, here are some polished ‘air leadifier’:

Cheers

MorGotH

Greetings Soldner,

welcome to our not so weekly update. First for all, sorry for not keeping the schedule, but Germany has some spots where one does not simply use mobile internet… Although I have to admit it adds recreational value.

Having updated and merged your contributions regarding our localization efforts, we still have stuff we need a hand with. So, if you are interested in lending a hand, earning a place in the game credits and history of the Soldnerverse – get in touch with @Badhunter on Discord – especially if you can help with these languages:

• Chinese
• French
• Spanish
• Italian
• Czech
• Japanese
• Korean
• Turkish
• Hungarian
• Arabic

Since we still have a request to fulfill and to make up for the updates you missed out on, we return to the wild. Deep forests where predators roam and play a deadly hide and seek with their prey. Lurking in the shadows and undergrowth, waiting for the right target and moment to strike.

Like this versatile classic:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VQnmh6g-7wM

one more thing: Join us for the next Joint Community War on 27th of June 20:00 CET.

cheers

MorGotH

Greetings Soldner,

welcome to our weekly update. Some weeks ago, we asked for your assistance regarding the new localizations and to put it bluntly:

We still could use help with adding new languages to the game!

So, if you have an update on your progress or want to join the "localization-club" to contribute, please feel free to fire away @Badhunter on Discord.

We have other good news also, namely that we stopped letting the valet guy take the pictures for our news updates. Although we failed to deliver on the Marder hidden in the forest request yet, we promise to do better in the upcoming update and a bigger update is also looming on the horizon.

After last weeks ammo-consumption-specialists, we thought things for hauling stuff to places would fit in nicely. So, if your better half got hold of your credit card, or you are in dire need of hauling beer / ammo / people – consider getting one of these:

cheers

MorGotH

Greetings Soldner,

welcome to our weekly update. This week showing off some tools for people who like a clear and controlled sky or dislike the noise of aircrafts in general. So, if you feel the sudden urge of setting up your very own no-fly zone, look no further. Here are some offers you should consider:

Cheers

MorGotH

Greetings Soldner,

welcome to our weekly update. This week "forest deluxe" or spring is finally here. Before we get to the environmental eye candy, I have two more things I would like to address.

The next Joint Community War will take place on May 16th, 20:00 CET.

The other thing is that I want all of you to take a minute of silence to remember -]T[-krusty who left us earlier this week. - While you do, take some time to reflect on the good things in life and your personal stress levels and what drives them. We want you healthy and alive when the remastered version is finally ready.

cheers

MorGotH

Greetings Soldner,

welcome to our weekly update., again with a selection of battlefield taxis featuring an aircraft surprise vehicle. Our apologies for not being right on time with this update, but our real lives had other plans. We hope you had a pleasant may day and these pics help a little with the hang over.

Cheers

MorGotH

Greetings Soldner,

welcome to our weekly update. This week we continue with “means of transportation” and countryside (not the map). So without making many word or a fuzz about it, here are three means of ground or amphibious transportation.

OK, one more thing - don’t let the driver distract you from the brand new wheels ^

Cheers

MorGotH

Greetings Soldner,

welcome to our weekly update. Opposed to last week’s focus on naval firepower we return to something more “fun”. If you ask yourself now “What is this man talking about, what can be more fun than an Arleigh Burke class destroyer’s firepower?” you probably haven’t been around for long.

Opposed to most other games, the true Soldner-fun-formula isn’t simply: firepower = fun

In our case it’s: (firepower + atypicalness of employed gear ) / likelihood of surviving the engagement = fun

This leads us straight to this week’s selection of reworked fun providers:

cheers

MorGotH

Greetings Soldner,

welcome to our weekly update. This week: "Join the Navy and see the world!".

After the update on the beloved VRAC, we thought we step things up and move on to the big boats. Packing enough punch to not only secure a river, but a bay or sea/ map. These three ships offer plenty of ways to reduce team account and enemies alike. – If coupled with chaos aka soldner-style teamplay that is.

Thinking about the variety in states of origin represented of Soldner’s immense arsenal, reminds me that we could still use a hand with localizations. Specifically, Italian, French, Spanish, Czech, Hungarian, Japanese, Chinese, Korean, Turkish and Polish. Please get in touch with Badhunter or MorGotH on Discord, if you like to help us out and earn your place in the credits.

Before we get into the water, we refrained from showing you, because it would cover nearly half of the new models, a quick reminder: Next Joint-Community-War on 11th of April 20:00 CET.

Cheers

MorGotH

Greetings Soldner,

and Happy Easter, welcome to our weekly update. Yeah, we know it’s not Thursday, but we skipped April 1st for reasons of credibility^^. After updating you on the progress made, reworking almost all 3D models in the recent months, it’s finally time that they return to their natural habitat.

So take a look at a shy group of tanks, cautiously exploring their new surroundings in the first warming rays of light, after waking from their hibernation. The lonely BRDM already playfully chasing butterflies through the woods, marking its territory with its scent.

Now get rid of your tears of emotion and mark 11th of April, so you do not miss the next Joint-Community-War 20:00 CET!

Cheers & See you on the battlefield

MorGotH

Greetings Soldner,

welcome to our weekly update. This week featuring a triple treat for land, sea and air.

Starting with the Lake LA-280 that represents probably the last small amphibian aircraft of modern times and therefore alone already qualifies for being a classic. These small aircraft are extremely versatile and are able top operate in almost any environmental conditions. Just the right choice for any fishing trips.

Next up is the Leclerc, another example for France and Germany being completely unable to coproduce and engineer any sort of weapon system. Since the MBT 90 Project failed, most of the tech involved was made into a new MBT by the French and the Leclerc was conceived. Although it features some new design quirks it never lived up to the idea of defeating the US M1 or the German Leopard 2 in combat trials.

Last but not least the VRAC a simple must have for any Vietnam movie or boat trip with style. Pure engine-sound coupled with MGs, grenade launchers the opportunity to fish and bathe in the sun – What more do you need for a relaxing vacation trip?

Cheers

MorGotH

Greetings Soldner,

welcome to our weekly update. After last week’s extended trip through the polished countryside, we are back in the air. This time we present you the European top 3, 4th generation fighter from the 90s. Two for the more cost aware Soldner and a more expensive toy, if the team account needs to be zeroed. If you consider exploring skies keep in mind:

"Takeoff is optional. Landing is mandatory!"

Cheers

MorGotH

Greetings Soldner,

welcome to our weekly update.

This week: What’s that noise? And Where the heck is Dr.phil.Perni?

Well, the latter spent almost day and night, giving into his foliage and vegetation obsession, putting even the most militant vegans to shame. Resulting in trees that make even the roughest Soldner feel regret for running one over. I mean due to their beauty and not because sometimes physic is not on your side. Well, on closer examination and considering the Soldner mindset, I retract that claim (the first one :D).

Anyhow, since nature also seems to be less silent and static as it used to be in Soldner, we did not only address looks, but ambiance. To prove that we present you a little video of the current Soldner feel, featuring “Dr.phil.Perni aka the restless” showing you around.

Disclaimer:
Before you ask: Yes, Dr.phil.Perni is able to stand still – but we are saving that for some future update! Go and watch the Video and you will know what I’m talking about and have mercy with this restless soul’s effort to show as much stuff as possible.

Disclaimer2:
I am totally not abusing this to generate content for this news update – I swear!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PY5gwB7Ed10

Next Joint Community War - Sunday, 14th of March.
That’s it for this week, stay tuned and as always – Rock on Soldner!

Cheers

MorGotH

Greetings Soldner,

welcome to this week’s update and the announcement of our upcoming Joint Community War. This time on a Sunday or more precise the 14th of March, although still starting at 20:00 CET, featuring either the SSC or DAD Server – watch the portal and you will know where the party gets started.

Finally and right in the for spring we are proud to present you something haunting me for some time now. An absolutely essential asset, although still not on the vehicles, but reinvented and ready for use. So without further ado I proudly present you the reworked stuff that keeps almost anything going – the new wheels are finally here:

Now try to imagine how these would fit on our small collection of light scouts:

Cheers and remember the JCW on Sunday, 14th of March

MorGotH

Greetings Soldner,

welcome to this week’s update. To take your mind off the harsh winter conditions, we decided to take you imagination to your favorite lake. Where the lonely Soldner enjoys the warm rays provided by the spring sun, shining through the leafless trees. Taking a sip from his trusted canteen form time to time, his Benelli leaning against a tree stump, while he gets his boat ready for the upcoming hunting season.

Cheers

MorGotH

Greetings Soldner,

welcome to this week’s update. From the beauty of last week’s excursion to the countryside, we move on to satisfy the needs that arise with vast landscapes. In this week’s case namely surveillance and transportation. Before we move on to that we are very happy to announce that we crossed the 500 mark in terms of members here in discord. Thank you for your interest and support! We are still eager for help with our localization efforts, although we have some sets almost completed. Please don’t hesitate to ask Badhunter or MorGotH on Discord and we will fill you in.

Since Dr.phil.Perni is still on a rampage in the deep forest, we thought ground based means of transportation may turnout being too risky, which led us to flying solutions:

Cheers and stay tuned

MorGotH

Greetings Soldner,

welcome to this week’s update and please remember the upcoming Joint-Community-War 20:00 CET, taking a place on either the SSC or the DAD Server. Check the Portal and you will know ;-)

From the depths of the deep blue sea back up to the vast forests of Siberia. Besides their astounding self defense capabilities, there is another thing worth mentioning about the “new” trees. That thing is without a doubt their beauty. Our tree-hugger Perni gave them all the love they could possibly need and helped them to new heights. So let me introduce the current "work in progress" countryside:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0bbD9-j7IaI

Cheers and stay tuned

MorGotH

Greetings Soldner,

welcome to this week’s update. First of all, we want to thank you for helping us with the localization of the game. Some of you did an awesome job already, but there are still some languages left we could use your help with. Don’t hesitate to contact Badhunter or MorGotH on Discord.

The next Joint Community War takes place February 11th, 20:00 CET, somewhere ;-) I will keep you posted.

This week we dive into the realm of submarines:

cheers

MorGotH

Greetings Soldner,

welcome to this week’s update. We are back on the ground with a selection of recon and infantry support vehicles, but before we start with our scouts and transports, we have to address an issue already mentioned several times: Localization!

We would like to make this game accessible for as many potential players as possible, but in order to do that we need your help. Our team is working really hard on the remastered version, but we lack time, resources and capabilities to provide the localizations some of you so direly asked for.

So if you like to see the game in your language, please contact Badhunter or MorGotH on Discord and we will provide you the files that need translation. You don’t have to contribute/ translate a whole language pack, this task can be shared by many contributors, so don’t be afraid to contact us.

With that said, we move on to our german, russian selection of IFVs the battlefield ubers if you will:

Cheers

MorGotH

Greetings Soldner,

for this week’s update we stay in the air, but in a different way. Let’s put it with Igor Sikorsky‘s words:

"If a man is in need of rescue, an airplane can come in and throw flowers on him, and that's just about all. But a direct lift aircraft could come in and save his life."

So here are this week’s "day-savers":

Cheers

MorGotH

Greetings Soldner,

having survived yesterday’s Joint Community War, we return to our regular news cycle – just imagine it’s Thursday when you read this. The first Joint Community War in 2021 was really fun and we thank for your participation.

Today we are moving from last week’s naval vessels back into the air with three American stars. The first 5th gen. air superiority fighter, it’s 4th gen. predecessor and the all-time master of close air support.

Cheers and stay tuned the next JCW is going to be announced soon

MorGotH

Happy New Year Soldner,

as you may have noticed we took some time off for R&R after the holydays, but now it’s time to get going again. That said, what would be better suitable in getting us back to Soldner again, than a Joint Community War?

So spread the word and get ready for another event full of chaotic destruction on 14th of January 20:00 CET, DAD event server!

In the meantime we found a solution to the still missing wheels on many of the pics we showed to you and it is really astonishing what technology can do these days. Please welcome the next four vehicles in to our ever growing selection of tools:

Cheers

MorGotH

Greetings Soldner,

as 2020 comes to a close we have just one more thing for you in stock: Destruction!

To answer the question once and for all: Yes, despite the new look, there is still destruction in the game and it looks and feels better than before. What you will see is a demonstration of the current destruction in game in Dr.phil.Perni "hold my beer"-style. Who, since some of you had a hard time believing us, went on a little rampage.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qKYmf115zjw&feature=emb_logo

Happy New Year from all of us and only blow stuff up, you are sure you can live without!

Cheers

MorGotH

Hello everyone,

MorGotH has created an advent calendar over on Discord and posts one new screenshot of the remastered version every day. I will make the images available to you here. Please forgive me if I do not manage to update every day.

Regards
Huffel

Greetings Soldner,

welcome to our weekly update. This time featuring some fan favorites, new assets and watch and behold – wheels. The next opportunity to watch some of the old stuff in action, will be on December 10th when the last Joint-Community-War of the year takes place: 20:00 CET, DAD server. Last thing I have heard was "Soldner Klaus"* being back in town. Let’s see what he has in stock for you next month.

Isn’t the new Wiesel a cutie?

Cheers

MorGotH

*original trademark of schranzkopp

Greetings Soldner,

welcome to our weekly update. After last week’s excursion now back to 3d models^^. This week rotary winged stuff from the Rodina. The keep things fair towards the ground vehicles, we refrained from putting any wheels on them, too. OK they don’t really depend much on them, but I like to think of it as excelling in finding silly excuses – which I just did :-)

Anyway, here is our collection of Russian flying tanks and utility. Not too pricy, easy to maintain and at home in almost any theatre of operations.

Cheers and rock on Soldner!

MorGotH

Greetings Soldner,

welcome to our weekly update. We hope to see many of you at today’s Joint-Community-War starting at 20:00 CET on the DAD server, please feel free to joint our discord and if it gets too german for you, please don’t hesitate to speak up and we switch to English.

Today we are taking a break from showing you the revamped 3d models of guns and vehicles. I was able to pursue our crew into providing you some exclusive peek into the ongoing progress our environmental artists made so far instead. Although there is still a lot to do and everything you see might be subject to change in one way or the other, we wanted you to be able to take a glimpse into what the team is working on atm, besides the obvious 3d models.

As you are about to see, Dr.phil.Perni was not only busy planting trees, that was only me being a bit nasty, but instead whole lots of new environmental objects and foliage were created. These have now been added to the game and the team is currently busy revamping the terrain. Although this work is still in an alpha state, it simply looks too good, to be withheld from you. Every Soldner loves nature and countryside, even if it’s only for camouflage and tactical purposes. Before you ask no there is no bear in any of the pictures, only the last two feature a tiger:

The last two pictures are not only work in progress, but have been doctored on my request ;-) to give an impression of where we are going in terms of development. If you look closely the Tiger features different development stages, but you get the impression. A big thanks to Matthias who took the time providing me the pics, although he literally has no time for such side projects/ request.

Cheers
MorGotH

Greetings Soldner,

welcome to our weekly update. Dr.phil.Perni is still busy creating and planting trees and stuff, I mean foliage. Meaning we have to stick with updates on new models, but there is a silver line at the horizon… somewhere ;-). Until we reach it, we have some 4 new/ old wheeled vehicles* for you and a rising "Vorfreude" on the upcoming Joint Community War. With that said: Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome our 4 revamped classics of the week:

Save the date! Next Joint Community War - Nov. 12th 20:00 CET.
That’s it for this week, stay tuned and as always – Rock on Soldner!

Cheers
MorGotH

*post may actually contain vehicles without wheels

Greetings Soldner,

welcome to our weekly update. This week with a collection of fixed wing aircraft for every occasion and environment. This week’s update also features the shocking revelation, that there is actually more than only one camouflage pattern in the game.

So, if you are into delivering many “presents”, even to remote locations, far from the next airfield und you need a pragmatic solution – look no further. Although not as cute and cuddly as red nose reindeers, the first two jets are very versatile and are able to carry much more presents than any standard sledge. Their VTOL capabilities make them especially valuable in any combat operations and if the Harrier is too mainstream for you, you might want to lay your hands on the YAK-141. Both have their individual pros and cons and although the vectored flight looks good on the harrier it has no tactical value. One might argue the, how Lockheed came up with the vectoring design for the F-35. It certainly looks like the YAK was at least inspiring.

The next plane is a workhorse, although it’s power to weight ratio isn’t the best for a fighter, it’s still able to do most of the jobs at hand. CAS, naval combat or interdiction you name it and it’s not ugly either.

Last but not least a master of CAS and recon with operating costs that make every Soldner smile. No chance you find more bang for the bucks and it’s likely the guy who fixed your Lada also gets this thing serviced:

Just a quick reminder that the next Joint Community War takes place on Nov. 12th 20:00 CET.

That’s it for this week, stay tuned and as always – Rock on Soldner!

Cheers
MorGotH

Greetings Soldner,

welcome to this week’s update. This week we move from vehicles back to portable stuff. You know the kind of stuff with wrong and right ends, that make your opponent consider switching sides. If one thing always helps, it’s brute force and although they are much more beautiful now than before, they lost nothing in terms of spectacular brutality.

Speaking of brutality, the next Joint-Community-War is scheduled for 12th of November 20:00 CET, so mark your calendars and tell your friends.

Stay tuned and rock on Soldner!

Cheers
MorGotH

It's patch day again! Don't get too exited however, it is just a "maintenance" update - so none of the fancy new stuff you see here every week.

Changelog 33983:

 - fixed several exploits that could be used to:
   * load custom content in certified clients
   * gain an unfair advantage
 - "cosmetic" fix to python error with kill messages
 - BRDM-2 is now using the correct icon for commander targets

Many thanks to the player who provided information on the possible exploits!

Download Patch v33983

Greetings Soldner,

welcome to the weekly news update. This week we are back on the ground, although without wheels and using the same lame excuse as last time. Well actually we don’t want any distractions from the beautiful, reworked chassis.

Since sticking to a schedule sometimes means skipping things, because of lack of time. We have to skip the written part of this update, because of exactly that. So, whether you are taking a deep breath, happy not having to read my s… I mean update, or you miss it – This is all you get for this week. We will make up for it ;-)

stay tuned and rock on Soldner! Next JCW is to announced soon.

Cheers
MorGotH

Greetings Soldner,

welcome to the weekly news update. Today’s topics are the upcoming Joint-Community-War tonight, localization of the remastered version and trucks.

Tonight at 20:00 CET the JCW will start on “our” event-server. Everyone is invited to come, experience a maximum of chaos and Soldner the way it was meant to be played. This JCW will feature slightly modified setting t o make trying new stuff and equipment easier, although it won’t be “high money”.

While work on the remastered version progresses, we seek to improve language support adding new localizations. This is your chance to help us improve the new version and get your native language in the game. Just to clear things up: we are talking text here, there won’t be new voice recordings. If you are capable and willing to help with translations, please get in touch with me using direct message in discord. Those who already contributed of course don’t need to message me, I will get in touch with you providing you the latest language files for completion.

For all those of you still admiring “rubber duck” and his convoy, we present to you al collection of reworked trucks, including the famous “mobile respawn” *trademark [Serving surprise attacks and causing hatred for those who mistake it for a taxi since 2004] Since autumn has begun, the responsible Soldner prepares for winter. So please refrain from questions regarding tires or in case of the Vityaz tracks. We are currently waiting for our new winter tires – but anyway here is this week’s selection:

stay tuned and rock on Soldner!

Cheers
MorGotH

Greetings Soldner,

welcome to the weekly news update and this week we are back in the rotary wing section. Looking back to last week’s update, we stay in line for the affordability part stepping the technology up a little, adding some firepower and the ability to fly.

Although two completely different things, one might still consider the UH-1D as Lada of the skies. It’s adaptable, multipurpose and offers about the same protection the Lada does. It even allows you to share the death-defying experience with more friends than just your copilot. The same goes for the other three helicopters we chose for this week’s update and some jokingly called them the four ride(r)s of the apocalypse – Whether they ride into or if they actually bring about the apocalypse depends on the user. Therefore, refrain from any complaints like “This was not the apocalypse I was looking for”.

With that said, we present you the four apocalyptic rides of this week. October 8th at 20:00 CET will be your chance to lay your hands on them, the upcoming Joint Community War, will provide you with plenty of targets and passengers.

stay tuned and rock on Soldner!

Cheers
MorGotH

Greetings Soldner,

welcome to our weekly update. Today’s topic is tradition and affordable mobility. Since scientist have just discovered, that we are rather heading into the next ice age than a global warming, emissions aren’t that important anymore. - At least not as important as reliability, costs and tradition.

If there is one vehicle that every Soldner knows and loves, it’s the Lada. A cheap piece of equipment, providing mobility to antitank users since the beginning of time. Simple and honest in its design and without any frills. You could light a fire under its motor in winter to warm it up and it would still do its job. (don’t try at home)
The more introvert Soldner might prefer the tractor, due to only one Person fitting into the cabin and you don’t have to feel bad when ignoring your teammates spamming VNT. This comes at a cost, since the tractor is large and slow and not as nimble and fast as the almighty Lada. At least you will die with style. Depending on your account and expenditures the IZH might be an alternative to the Lada. It performs also well, but lacks the aura the Lada emits. The sportier Soldner might turn to the snowmobile instead, because if one thing is sure – it’s winter is coming.

The next Joint-Community-War will take place on October 8th at 20:00 CET. Talking of which, I got some complaints regarding the JCWs timing. Please, keep in mind, that we are all CET based and have full time jobs, besides our commitment here. Meaning we have to stick to certain times CET and can not take into account all time zones. I know that sucks, but sometimes you lose and sometimes the others win. *kidding We will try to make it possible, but I won’t promise anything ;-)

That’s it for this week, stay tuned and as always – Rock on Soldner!

Cheers
MorGotH

Greetings Soldner,

welcome to the weekly news update. Thanks for your participation in the recent Joint-Community-War, we had lots of fun and it was a pleasure getting killed by you. The next JCW will be announced soon, so stand by for further updates.

Back from the wilderness into the dark spaces of the “render-verse”, since we still have a lot to cover and we can’t take everything out for a prowl through the countryside. Besides that, the equipment shown in the last updates was more on the expensive side. This is why for most Soldner they are not the usual suspects in terms of buyer’s choice.

As seen in the recent JCW medium tanks are in use very often. With their engine shut down and the help of a good commander, they turn into true heli nightmares. You need something to get rid of that nasty M1? Look no further! Most medium tanks can be an effective MBT repellant, in the proper hands.

The heaviest medium tanks are almost an MBT themself, but that reflects also in their price. Yet, there are far worse ways to spend your money and the T80 isn’t all too ugly, while still being a tracked death bringer, roaming the battlefields in search for prey.

Or maybe you like to surprise friends and enemies alike, when you take your Type 63 to the beach and out for a swim. Aren't the waterfowl and migratory game bird seasons right around the corner? Your wife may kill you, but be honest – you always wanted to substitute that old boat with something more practical, didn’t you?

We bet you too have plenty of ideas for proper usage of these tools, so here is our collection of medium tanks:

stay tuned and rock on Soldner!

Cheers
MorGotH

Greetings Soldner,

welcome to our weekly news update. The next Joint-Community-War takes place this Sunday at 20:00 CET. Tie a string around your finger and bring your friends. Remember: Teammates provide the enemy with other opportunities to shoot at - so the more you bring the safer it is for you!

The last news updates were littered with renderings on black background and we have to admit – yes, that is somewhat boring. So we decided to step things up for this update and use pictures taken in the “wild”. Keep in mind tho, that what you see is work in progress. Meaning things are still subject to change, yet one can clearly spot the differences between new and old version.

So, for those who already felt this vehicle was missing it in the last update and those who don’t know what I am getting at, we proudly present the shy Tiger in his natural environment, cowering in the high grass, resting form his last hunt.

As always, we hope you enjoyed this week’s update and you didn’t forget about this Sunday 20:00 CET in all the excitement.

stay tuned and rock on Soldner!

Cheers
MorGotH

Greetings Soldner,

it’s Thursday and therefore time for our weekly news update on your favorite game. Last week we talked about the happiness a good anti-aircraft solution can bring to you and your team and presented a selection of different tools for your convenient use.

This week however we are taking a look on the other side of the aisle, putting helicopters into the crosshairs. Not literally like in last week’s update but rather as topic of this week’s update.

As always, we won’t confront you with the vast amount of rotary wing aircraft featured in the game, but rather a selection of them, chosen by our sommelier to represent their different types. This first and simplest type being the transport heli. It simply doesn’t get any more basic than hauling stuff and people from a to b. Besides European operators wanting back their Pumas (since the Super Puma was not that super) the Soldner of today has to cope with the successor. While not loved as much as the Puma, the Cougar is still a capable aircraft with room for plenty of stuff and/ or people it is widely in use with European professionals. This is also the reason why it’s on our list, since we didn’t want you to miss out on one of the most commonly used helicopters.

Next up we have the BO-105, a specialized tank killer. Dated, but a master of agility and a low-level performer that has very few rivals. If you like to sneak up on people to employ fire and forget weapon systems, this is the heli for you. Although you should remember that this is a very specialized tool, designed to kill armored targets, most likely in an ambush scenario – keep away from the open sky and small arms fire.

If you are in for the thrill the Little Bird is the better choice for you. It offers even less protection and lacks guided weapons. In return you get a fast and agile killer, able to devastate small areas with unguided rockets and bullets, that can quickly turn a Lada driver’s or infantry man’s day into a very vivid nightmare. Note that this can quickly turn into a mutual relationship – you do not want to close in on a solder carrying a MG3 for example :wink: I did mention the thrill, didn’t I?

Well, since thrill isn’t for everyone and some of us are getting to old for all this “action”, a more pragmatic solution is needed. Something that can survive/ endure small arms fire and is not so dependent on the pilots aim and sight or reaction time. Of course, like big SUVs these old people solutions are more comfortable and secure, but that comes at a cost – namely their price. So, welcome the grandfather of attack helicopters and his son – AH-1W Super-Cobra and AH-64 Apache. Although we would have recommended the AH-54, but since development was discontinued…
 

We hope you enjoyed this week’s update and like to remind you of the upcoming Joint-Community-War event taking place next Sunday @ 20:00 CET.

stay tuned and rock on Soldner!

Cheers
MorGotH

Greetings Soldner,

welcome to this week’s news update. Last week we talked about the cheap and small miserable makers, which reminded us of …well, bigger miserable makers. Having just dealt with that topic and since no one likes repetitions, we had to reconsider. Always thriving to provide useful stuff to you, according to seasonal and actual demands, while being able to have a laugh at our expense we came up with the:

anti miserable maker

By our definition: A piece of equipment that can be employed to get rid of a miserable maker that makes potentially whole teams miserable. By making his opponents miserable these fine weapons are therefore able to make their whole teams happy.

Which brings us to a quick interlude *jeopardy music on

Talking of happy teams and community service, just a friendly reminder that the next Joint Community War takes place on Sunday, 13th of September @ 20:00 CET. Save the date and spread the word! *jeopardy music off

As always in life there are different demands for every occasion, but luckily for us Soldner features an awful lot of equipment, suiting any possible demand. This is also true for our custom-tailored selection of happy makers, an ensemble to please all tastes – a crescendo of firepower. Wheeled or tracked, cannons or missile, big or small, yet deadly in any case.

Please welcome the reworked happy makers aka AA Platforms

Stay tuned, and rock on Soldner!

Cheers
MorGotH

PS: JCW Sunday, 13th of September, 20:00 CET

Greetings Soldner,

welcome to this week’s update. We have two topics today, the upcoming Joint Community War and guns – who would have thought? ^^ The next JCW will take place on Sunday, 13th of September on our event server, kindly provided by DAD. Please spread the word, we’d like to see even more players than on the last occasion!

Now to something completely different: Guns!

While messing with the more fancy stuff we almost forgot about the good, old sidearm. Better known as the AT buyers friend or the reload life saver. Since we are an educated bunch I thought I would be a good idea to quote the one man who truly understood the world and while doing so, wrote some books that made him famous. Ah, author that’s what they are called. ;-)

The designer of the gun had clearly not been instructed to beat about the bush.
‘Make it evil’ he’d been told.
Make it totally clear that this gun has a right end and a wrong end.
Make it totally clear to anyone standing at the wrong end that things are going badly for them.
If that means sticking all sorts of spikes and prongs and blackened bits all over it then so be it.
This is not a gun for hanging over the fireplace or sticking in the umbrella stand, it is a gun for going out and making people miserable with.’

(Quoted from page 172 of The Restaurant at the End of the Universe, by Douglas Adams. Ballantine Books, 1995.)

With these wise words we present to you the basic miserable makers for all spawn use:

Stay tuned and rock on Soldner!

Greetings Soldner,

it’s time for our weekly news update. First of all we want to thank you for participating in the Joint-Community-War event. We had lots of fun and played some great matches and it was a pleasure meeting the new and veteran Soldner (and in my case, getting shot by them). The amount of fair play shown in this public event and the vibe in the voice channels was truly a thing to behold. This game is special, and so are its players.

Due to the fun and positive feedback we got, the Joint-Community-War will become a monthly event. The date for the next JCW will be announced soon, so stay tuned and tell your friends and clanmates!

For this week’s update we are back on track(s) with matters of transportation. This for several good reasons: they are less likely to get stuck, the offer better protection, they feature mounted weapon systems and we had the pics ready anyway. Well, and they are in fact very commonly used in the servers, due to their affordability.

This reminds me of a question I got asked concerning the new 3d models. “Why do they look so used?” – Well although it’s the year 2010 in the game’s setting, shit has hit the fan and dominating superpowers no longer exist – meaning, so do service contractors, some manufacturers, ect. The Soldner (meaning mercenaries in german) roaming the battlefields of this dystopian world, clearly have more important stuff to deal with than decaying paintjobs or rust from the last trip to the beach^^

So here are the tracked infantry vehicles of choice, reworked although not free of rust:

stay tuned and rock on Soldner!

Greetings Soldner,

a quick reminder before we begin. Remember, remember the 6th of August, 20:00 CET Joint-Community-War aka Joint-Clan-War. Everyone is welcome!

With that said it's obvious we will be busy shooting each other tomorrow and I won't have time for a news update. Just kidding, this is the news: Summer rages on with hot temps and sunny weather and I received some complaints regarding our choice of gear. Some Soldner gained a reputation occupying their space using towels as flags, well before others even consider breakfast. Some are known for their caravan and mobile home skills often combined with yellow license plates or those known for their severe sunburns and drinking skills - all of them have in common that they do not intend to move once they set their flag on the beach.

We apologize for not taking that into account and try to make up for it with this update.

Considering these special Soldner archetypes, we will focus on long range capabilities as well as descend sights and of course usability. Just the right kind of stuff that allows you to let the jet ski guy experience how you feel about his noisy hobby or him coming to close to your part of the beach. On the other hand, the right tool for this might be not convenient when sitting at the beach bar, when suddenly some stranger closes in on your towel ahm I mean flag. Not to mention those damn seagulls... Maybe a good scope, a smaller caliber combined with a silencer are just the right solution. Assuring your food actually stays your food and your neighbors and team members chill is not interrupted by constant gunfire, since seagulls seem to be rather frequent phenomena.

Enough talk, here are our tools of choice for those who don't mind camping from time to time or those trying to get rid of them from a distance:

See you today on the battlefield! Rock on Soldner!

Greetings Soldner,

welcome to our latest update on the current state of development. Last week's topic was beach and vacation equipment, but one needs to get to the beach first, right? Since it's summer and therefore rather hot, a lot of armor isn't the right choice. We thought of something more capable of either hauling party equipment and guests to the beach or something promising more fun in terms of "beach action".

Our sommelier recommends the following selection of vehicles for an awesome beach experience:

Don't forget you have a date on August 6th, since your rifle is youre best friend.

That's it for now, stay tuned and rock on Soldner!

Hello Soldner,

since guns and especially more guns are always an issue here, we decided to move to this topic in the update you are just reading. We spent some time discussing what weapons to showcase to you and we decided to keep this update vacation compatible. Even the best, hardest and meanest Soldner go on vacation and if there is one thing the Soldner of today can't do without, it's firepower :-)

Since large and more traditional assault rifles like the AK are too big to conceal and carry on the beach and smaller handguns simply don't put enough lead in the air (and adversary), we as service orientated dev. team made a selection that satisfies the needs of any true Soldner.

For all who haven't guessed it by now, we are talking submachineguns. Easy to conceal under a towel at the beach, fairly precise and a descent rate of fire. The following 5 guns do all that and provide a choice for the more high-tech user and the traditionalist who doesn't need fancy sights or silencers.

Always remember:

I hope you enjoyed this week's update and it was somewhat helpful answering the most pressing questions regarding your summer vacation.

Today we have three updates for you in one:

1. New Portal Server

   Our previous portal server was just a temporary solution to have the portal running again. Now I finally had the time to maintain the server properly. The new server is already online and there should not be any change / disruption for you. If your game server is not visible in the portal, please restart the server.

   The new server is not only a major hardware upgrade but is now running current versions of all relevant software including the OS. This required several changes to the portal backend. The new portal seems to run perfectly stable during testing but if you have any problems, please report them via Discord.



2. New Patch 33982

   One member of the community has provided us excellent information on several possible and actively used exploits. We have fixed all of them with the new patch 33982. If you know any exploits still possible with 33982, you can assume we are not aware of them. Please report them by direct message in Discord to Huffel or by mail to the soldnersecretwars support E-Mail address - Thank you!

   The patch and dedicated server v33982 are available in the download section. You do not need to install 33981 first if you have not installed it yet.

   Changelog 33982
    - fixed several exploits that could be used to:
      * load custom content in certified clients
      * join servers with fake names
      * bypass server passwords
      * gain an unfair advantage
      * change player names in online games
      * sabotage the admin web-interface
      * crash / slow down servers
      * break the portal connection of servers
    - fixed a bug that caused an incorrect name conflict error on joining a server
    - limited maximum values for time- and frag limit votes
   

   Note #1:
   With 33982 we have slightly limited special characters that can be used in player names.
   Player names with the following characters are no longer allowed and have been removed from the portal database:
   % ` ´ \
   If you were using one of these characters in your account name, please register a new account.
   
   Note #2 - relevant only for server admins:
   We recommend forcing your game servers to create a new portal login.
   This needs to be done only once and only for existing servers. There are two ways to do it:
      a) Delete the file game\bin\config\server.ini
      b) Clear the values for "portalid" and "portalpw" in the same file
   



3. New Ranking

   With the server change I also worked on a maintenance update to the ranking website and decided to implement some functionality I planned and started to prepare in 2012 already. Ranking is now back online with new functionality!

   Changelog Ranking
    - fixed a bug that caused kills of players in vehicles to count double
      (Mel still was first in Nov 2013, because score was calculated accurately...)
    - fixed a bug that probably caused destroyed vehicles as the weapon used in some cases
    - suicides now count as a death
    - suicides are no longer considered for weapon statistics
      (e.g. crashing your air plane will no longer count to the kill stats of that plane)
    - improved accuracy of playtime and made it more robust against crashes
    - ranking data is now always assigned to the correct season. A delayed upload from a server hoster will no longer show up in the following month (it will be discarded for closed seasons)
    - added map statistics
    - added player awards

   The ranking update is much more complex than it looks like. More than 95% of the code for the website has been rewritten from scratch and 100% of the code to parse ranking data is new. Therefore it is very possible that there are bugs. If you find any, please also report them via Discord.

   Information on previous seasons:
   Seasons October and November 2019 have been recalculated completely with all new ranking features. They show different stats now because they have been re-calculated according to the time of the rank event. Both seasons contained a lot of data not actually originating in that season (e.g. November no longer contains events from October).

Thank you for reading this far, now have a lot of fun with the new update and spotting all the changes to the ranking system! Remember the Joint Clan War: 6th of August 2020!

Greetings Soldner,

the Joint Community War (6th of August) is still 3 weeks from now and we thought you might appreciate it, if we help you a little with passing that time.

Last weeks glimpse into the remastered Soldner focused on landscape and environment and although landscape never gets boring to Dr.phil.Perni, we decided to move on to something else in this news update. Not only the enviroment looks outdated in the original version, vehicles do, too. So we decided to show you some of them, beginning with the heavy tanks. Like everything these were subject to a major overhaul and... well, take a look yourself:

I hope you enjoyed this week's update. Please feel free to leave a comment in the feedback section or suggestions what you would like to know about, respectively what you would like to hear about in the upcoming news. - We might consider your ideas ;-)

That’s it for this week, stay tuned and as always – Rock on Soldner!

Hello fellow Soldner,

it has been quite some time since we have updated you on what is happening with and to our favorite game, so it’s about time we do that now.

First of all, I am glad to be back in town and I am very happy that so many players of the old guard made it to our new home in Discord – but that’s not what brought you here in the first place, so let’s talk Soldner… In memory of the traditional Joint-Clan-War events that were very popular within the community, we thought it would be a good idea to celebrate Soldner in a Joint-Community-War event. For those not knowing what I am talking about, a short explanation: The JCWs date back to a time, when a server featuring 32 players was huge and Soldner was one of the very few games featuring large server populations. So in the past clans teamed up to fight a huge war against a team of enemy clans, providing lots of fun with the maximum possible chaos on a server. Sounds intriguing, doesn’t it? Well, that’s what we thought too. Thus we are planning on reviving this event as a Joint-Community-War and a place where you can meet with old friends or even find new ones. The event will take place on the 6th of August (Server will be announced) starting at 8:00pm (CET) and we invite everyone here no matter if veteran or newbie to participate and make Soldner great again. I look forward to meeting and possibly killing you :-) (most likely I am the one that gets killed, but come and see for yourself ;-)).

One more thing: As you might know, a new team formed under the lead of player and developer veteran Dr.phil.Perni. While there is still one hell of a Huffel working on the old game we love so much, these other folks are currently working on “preserving” the game for the future. Meaning the efforts won’t result in a new game from scratch, but rather as a remastered version of Soldner Secret Wars minus some flaws of the original, like the shader model 2 HUD (Nvidia Users know what I am talking about) or the outdate looks just to name the most obvious. But there has always been a lot of talk about the state of development, a tradition cultivated and started by Wings Simulations…;-) So we thought it’s more than about time to give you a first glimpse on what is to come, providing some reassurance it’s worth the wait and that there are truly happening a lot of things in the back. So here is the first glimpse, comparing old to current state of development and I am dying to know how many changes you can spot already:

That’s it for now. I hope to see you on 6th of August at the event (further details will follow) and I promise we will keep you updated on a more frequent basis than before.

Cheers
MorGotH

We have just released a new patch to version 33981. Even though it has been more than four years since the last update, we consider it a "Hotfix". There is no new content or balancing etc. it will only fix an exploit that could be used to load custom content in certified mode.

You can find the patch installer and the dedicated server 33981 in the download area.

Huffel

As promised, the forums are now available again. You will not be able to log in or post but you can browse and search all public areas of the board.

The board will stay in read-only mode. If you want to get in touch with the development team and players, I recommend the SSW Discord Channel (see below).

Huffel

The portal is back online! I am sorry for the long downtime.

Work on the game has continued in background and we will be able to give you some more information "soon". The forums and ranking are not available at the moment. I will make the forums accessible in read-only mode in the next days, the board will not be re-opened. Instead you are welcome to join the Söldner Discord Channel to connect with the community and updates on the current development:

Huffel

As already announced last year, there is a new development team working on the game. We are still not able to give you a proper time estimate for a release or all details but nevertheless we want to give you a short status report / life sign:

In the last months all legal issues have been solved. Work on the game has continued during the entire time. The outcome will not be a Söldner 2, but major parts of the game are being reworked and modernized. In addition to updates to underlying technology (performance, compatibility, stability) the team is working on improved models, textures, maps and balancing. By now the scope of open tasks for an initial release has been fixed. With that information we can now at least confirm that a release will not be in 2019 - the game just has too many assets needing attention ;-)

We are aware of the current issues of the game and are working on a small "Hotfix" for the Söldner Community Edition to keep the game stable and alive until everything is ready.

Huffel

It has been quite for a long time around the development but now there is some news about the future of our game:

A new development team is currently overhauling the game with the intent to make it available on digital distribution platforms to try to reach more players and to allow Söldner to live for a few more years. More details will follow in the next weeks once we can provide you with a rough timeline.

Cheers,
Huffel