Foxhole RTS Dev Progress 7 Multiplayer Test (And Developer Talk)

Hinzugefügt: 2026-05-08

[00:00:00]Hey everyone.

[00:00:01]Kevin here.

[00:00:03]This is the first time I'm doing this kind of thing, so uh please excuse any mistakes that I may make.

[00:00:11]I wanted to do a more in-depth video this time uh since my videos are getting a little bit more traction than I'm used to and I have a little bit more time to develop the game over the summer.

[00:00:25]Uh so, as many of you probably know, the main inspiration for this game is Foxhole.

[00:00:30]If you haven't heard of it, you should really check it out. It plays a big part in the development of this game.

[00:00:38]Rifles ready.

[00:00:40]I hear a lot of people in the Foxhole community compare Foxhole with being a single soldier in a real-time strategy game.

[00:00:48]Think like a villager in Age of Empires or maybe like an SCV in Starcraft or like a marine or like a siege tank or something like that.

[00:01:00]I've been thinking the same thing in the past few years.

[00:01:06]Back in December of 2025, no, September of 2025, I finally got the opportunity to start working on a larger game project.

[00:01:17]Some of you might be more familiar with my Foxhole Balls series of videos that I made over the summer of 2025.

[00:01:25]This is basically an extension of those thoughts.

[00:01:30]>> What if you really could play a real-time strategy version of Foxhole?

[00:01:35]I wanted to make it clear that this was not just a mod for an existing game or just a visual overhaul to adapt Foxhole aesthetics.

[00:01:47]This game would be closer to Command & Conquer or Starcraft in design with as many elements of Foxhole as I could get in it.

[00:01:56]This is first and foremost a fan game.

[00:01:59]So, people will never have to pay for it when I can eventually make it public build of the game.

[00:02:08]The simple game loop follows a traditional real-time strategy game loop, which is gather resources, create unit dwellings, uh create defenses, and try to beat your opponent in a micro and macro strategy.

[00:02:26]In this playtest specifically, there's some new functionality that you might be seeing.

[00:02:32]First of all, the resource building, the scrap factory, has some new details.

[00:02:38]Everything has flags depicting which faction it's on.

[00:02:43]Blue for Warden and green for Colonial.

[00:02:49]Over time, all the units will have more and more details and colors as art assets catch up.

[00:02:56]Another thing you will notice is hotkeys down in the bottom right.

[00:03:03]A big aspect of real-time strategy games is to minimize useless movements.

[00:03:09]I want players to be able to quickly access menus to make snap decisions.

[00:03:17]The biggest change though that you'll see in this video is the multi-place feature.

[00:03:23]When you hold down left shift while placing a building, you get a build uh you get a blueprint of the same type loaded in to place again.

[00:03:35]This speeds up construction and removes wasteful mouse movements.

[00:03:39]The construction vehicle will seek out unbuilt structures and build them and repeat. So, the player does not have to manually assign a construction vehicle to build all of their new buildings.

[00:03:51]This helps with making a large amount of structures all at once like defenses or like you've seen in the video, a scrap factory.

[00:04:03]Now, in this specific test, I just completed uh fixing a bug that was causing uh my opponent here to crash randomly.

[00:04:17]There was a bug with DirectX 12 for his uh graphics card, I guess, that was causing a huge memory leak. So, I downgraded the game from DirectX 12 to DirectX 11.

[00:04:32]And as a result, we can actually get to play a full game, which in my previous videos have all ended early.

[00:04:42]Yes.

[00:04:57]Yes.

[00:05:14]Outlaw ready.

[00:05:21]Outlaw ready.

[00:05:25]Right away.

[00:05:30]Outlaw ready.

[00:05:32]Outlaw ready.

[00:05:40]Outlaw ready.

[00:05:43]Outlaw ready.

[00:05:45]Outlaw ready.

[00:05:58]OUTLAW READY.

[00:06:00]OUTLAW READY.

[00:06:08]Outlaw ready.

[00:06:15]Rifles ready.

[00:06:17]Rifles ready.

[00:06:18]Flanking position. Outlaw ready.

[00:06:25]Uh at this point in the video, my opponent was expressing some frustrations with the construction vehicle and how it wasn't behaving in a way that he wanted it to.

[00:06:39]Uh this was unfortunately due to some pathfinding issues, which I will need to resolve hopefully in the next update to make the pathfinding a little bit more intelligent.

[00:06:55]Pathfinding is always a huge struggle in a game like this because you want the responses to be fast, you want the units to be smart, and you don't want units to get stuck on corners and such.

[00:07:09]Now, this game is still, you know, in its infancy, so there are a lot of little quirks and bugs that I have to work out over time.

[00:07:17]There is no out-of-the-box solution that will work for the amount of units that I want to have in the game at once.

[00:07:27]And specifically, this game uses a flow field pathfinding.

[00:07:31]If you're curious as what as to what that is, you should look up a YouTube video of it and it will kind of explain how it works.

[00:07:43]So, there is no A* pathfinding if you are familiar with pathfinding in video games at all.

[00:07:53]It's all custom for this game.

[00:08:07]Anyways, thanks for watching.

[00:08:11]I really hope you enjoyed a full match.

[00:08:14]If you want to see more, please leave a like and subscribe.

[00:08:20]It really does help a lot.

[00:08:30]Right away.

[00:08:33]Rifles ready.

[00:08:35]Rifles ready. Right away.