Flying Squirrel Entertainment has announced that Battle Cry of Freedom has fought its way out of development after nearly 10 years and is now available for PC via Steam. Players can purchase the game for a limited time with a 20% discount off its normal $19.99 price tag.
The game sends players back to the 19th century for an authentic American Civil War experience featuring 500 player matches, historically accurate weapons and uniforms, and much more. The battles take place in real-time and take place on fully destructible battlefields with dynamic weather effects. Players can opt to play as Union or Confederate soldiers and choose from three distinct specialization branches: Artillery, infantry, or specialist.
Other features include:
- Accurate mid-19th century weapons, uniforms, and environments.
- Massive multiplayer battles with up to 500 players simultaneously fighting each other on the same battlefield.
- A wide range of artillery pieces ranging from field cannons to mortars, capable of firing a variety of missiles such as canisters, explosive shells, case shots, solid shots, bolts, and more – all fully controllable by players.
- Construct barricades, dig trenches, and rig explosives.
- Destructible environments -players can use a range of cannons, axes, and explosives to destroy various buildings, bridges, walls, trees, and other structures.
- Special musician units with drums, fifes, bugles, banjos, violins, or pianos
- More than 50 classical and folk background music tracks, all recorded and played by award-winning musicians
- Wage war on more than 14 maps all across North America or play on a randomly generated map.
- Create your own maps with the included easy-to-learn but powerful Scene Editor.
- Participate in the community and enlist with a Regiment (Clan) to take part in massive, organized battles with players re-enacting historically accurate tactics of the Civil War Era.
- Over 120 server settings allow you to personalize every detail of the game.
Check out the Battle Cry of Freedom Steam page for more information.
