r/holdfastgame

Not sure if I should be posting this year so I apologize in advance, but are there other games similar to Holdfast that I should try? Big battle games like this intrigue me.

Where to equip Gadsden/Dont Tread on Me flag? Google says its available by default, I see other players with it but don't see it myself on the same team. Is it a DLC? Need to join a regiment for it? Limited time item?

Edit: found it and yes it does cost 3k shillings, did not realize it was a full outfit and not just the flag.

it feels like the game has developed to a point where its design is hostile to cavalry.

1. It’s still buggy as hell. The horse will get stuck on the skinniest treee and the smallest rock on the road. The new maps that came out haven’t made this problem any easier. Not to mention how hard it is to melee anyone—especially is the ping is bad.

2. A single bullet to the horse brings it to a grinding halt and everyone’s already gunning for cavalry anyway. Plus, I swear it’s just easier to get head shots on horse riders due to the amount of times I got killed from around forty meters away. To make this even worse, there are more carpenters available now. So that means you have a high chance of just running face first into a blunderbuss shot out of nowhere.

I feel like the game punishes you more for playing cavalry than any other class, so why is it even here anymore?

Hi all, I hope my first post here is acceptable and helpful. I'm a newcomer to Holdfast on Xbox Series X, having literally only heard of the game for the first time on Friday and been playing it for the last three days. Here are my first impressions and tips for any fellow newcomers.

First, this game is phenomenal! As an avid military history enthusiast, I really don't know how I never came across this game before. Anybody still considering buying should know that this is not a gritty, hardcore war simulator, and it certainly is not a Battlefield game. The learning curve is a little steep, but it has been a long time since I had so much fun overcoming the initial challenges that plague any newcomer to a game on this scale. One thing that may come as a surprise is how difficult it is to successfully shoot anybody, given that this is a shooter. Each kill provides real satisfaction and your first few matches will depend upon sheer dumb luck. It's difficult to explain how to shoot in this game, this is something that only experience can teach and after a few hours, you should have a pretty solid instinct for it. One tip I can offer is that the game has a subtle, but effective, aim-assist and whenever you feel it grabbing your musket, let it.

As I stated, this is not a gritty game. It's a bright, farcical romp that has made me grin a lot more than I usually would over three short days. I really admire the fact that maps are not locked behind DLCs or editions, which contain only cosmetics. If money is tight, for £16 you can buy the full game and most (but not all) of the in-game cosmetics can be bought for in-game shillings, which you can earn through combat challenges of your choosing. The sheer variety of maps is one of my favourite things about this game, especially given the Napoleonic / American Revolutionary setting is so novel for such a large shooter.

I do, however, have one complaint, which is that the uniforms are not faction locked. I understand how integral cosmetic freedom is to the game, but this is so plainly open to abuse that I think reasonable restrictions would absolutely be justified. Standing in a line of blue-coated Americans, only to be bayoneted along with several others by a British player dressed like an American whom we all walked right past, really put me off at first because this was a recurring theme throughout my early games. Outside spawnkilling (another issue) and actual hacking, I have never witnessed such dirty tactics in a game and for one, brief moment, I almost didn't bother coming back.

But I'm glad I did come back, and I keep coming back for more. Holdfast is a really great game and the players are very funny people whose heads I very much look forward to blowing off as a rifleman, which has been my favourite class so far.

Hopefully this will be informative, and I'll gladly take any questions. Thanks.

I'm interested to know, just since you don't see many customs players, this is also helpful for some statistics for an upcoming project possibly...

Hello all,

I have repeatedly encounted an unusual issue whereby the player numbers belonging to factions in a game rarely (if ever) match the number of players in the server, as listed in the main server menu.

For example, this evening I saw 136/150 players in an EU server.

I joined the game and saw that the actual numbers were 43 vs 46 for a total of 89 players actually playing the game.

I then quit back to the main menu and saw that it said there were 134/150 players in the server. I rejoined and the factions were 42 vs 45 (total 87 players).

The game was quite even, as were the respective faction numbers, so it does not seem to be a one-sided rage-quit thing as you see in some games where one team is getting massacred.

So, I am wondering whether there are really 45-50 people spectating in the server, and not playing? Are the player numbers in the main server list inaccurate? Are the numbers per factions not taking into account those who are dead and awaiting respawn?

Thank you for reading

TL;DR: Players numbers in-game do not match player numbers listed on server menu.

I noticed that the Stan’s own 58th doesn’t show up on the regiments anymore and the discord is gone.