Time For Refreshments!!! lol

It's drawing past the mid point of july and heading into august and we thought to ourselves ' does NATO seem ready for an earlier release.. Well we've kept a slight steady pace into coding and iconing, which let me tell you iconing is the biggest part as of now... we're bringing you a very new NATO, we will reassure that fact.. But here's what we're thinking, due to this pace, if things keep going the way they should, we could promise a beta maybe as early as LATE AUGUST to MID-SEPTEMBER.

Thats what our thoughts are. But we're going to have to see how the coding method goes for our new stuff, and to see how the map goes being pieced together.

UPDATE ON THE MAP
THE MAP IS BRAND NEW.. The map will be entirely different from anything you've every seen from NATO. The new map is bigger, more vats environments, and very mission friendly.

The map is what we see as a great improvement and will help support our new mission system, and will also help support new NPC's and ITEMS.

The villages themselves we are trying to make unique in some sort or fashion, whether it's putting it on an island, mountain, crater, woods, so on and so on.

The new map will be joyish to us, and we will be ready to hear both good and bad reactions. We will warn to people that :

THIS IS THE SAME NATO YOU KNOW AND LOVE, BUT ONE THAT HAS SUCH A BIG UPDATE, IT WILL TAKE SOME GETTING USED TO.

We are proud of our accomplishments on bringing NATO back to life after a big absence due to our game files being erased and we had to start back up almost from scratch.. So I beieve you need to know the story..

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HOW WE LOST NATO
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NATO our pride and joy that we had worked on for almost a year, had been erased due a networking virus we had received. We honestly don't know how but alot of people in our neighborhood got it and it crashed their comps too. After realizing our files had been deleted we were devastated. We then announced the downage of NATO and honestly planned not to return. We had searched searched and searched, and we finally discovered a file on MY (JUNAI), laptop that had been stored in my recovery folder called -NATO v.2.5-. At first I was like YEAH! NATO!.. But if you look closely ----2.5----- We were getting ready to release v.6.0, so thats how far back the version was.

After discovering this file around May 21st, we had took some time to give it some consideration to give it another go. It wasn't a hard decision to come by but it was a long one. Around June 12th is when we decided to ReAMP NATO and bring it back STRONGER and BETTER than ever. We underwent a secret development to code in everything we deemed necessary from all the versions. We then announced in I guess Late June or Early July that NATO would come back in DECEMBER 2009.

Which noone knew but me and blitz about the secret development to try and bring it back to life. We then took time out of development to brainstorm new ideas and gather our audience back, which so far we still need help on. But as of JULY 14th WE ENTERED BACK INTO DEVELOPMENT.

Now we have gone through alot of grief coding a game which took use about 4 months to build and have massive bugs, and about 3 more months to fix alot but not all bugs, and 1 month of a very very amazing audience base.

It is hard in the eyes of the developer to code and icon a game he/she once lost that they work almost a year on, only to start back where they were 3 months into first making it. So it's a heartbreaking tale i assume, but we realized that after getting almost 70+ messages on our byond pagers asking us what happened to NATO, that people wanted it back, that NATO was a great environment unlike alot of games. We realized that this game wasn't for us to just make, it was for us to make for our audience who has yet to never fall from impressive. So the REBIRTH of NATO is for YOU!.

WE HOPE YOU ENJOY IT WHEN IT COMES, WE WILL KEEP BRING YOU INFO !ALMOST EVERY! DAY IF WE CAN.. !!!!!

THANKS!,
JUNAI LOKI

yay u guys rock!!!!! thank youuuu we love N.A.T.O !!

same what star said lol i miss nato but ill wait till it comes bck....(Hopefully beginning of August) Smile

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