The End of the Stampede
Today, Mane6, developers of Them's Fightin' Herds, put out a new patch for the game, along with a news post about the game's two upcoming characters and the game's future.
The post goes into detail about Nidra, who was announced several months ago, and reveals Baihe, the fourth and final DLC character. The two will release together in early 2024.
I say "final" because after they're released, all active development on Them's Fightin' Herds will come to an end. Aside from balance and bug patches, no major updates will happen. This means that the promised ambitious Story Mode feature is over for good too, although a stage from it will be made available.
Them's Fightin' Herds is a fantastic game that had a lot of promise but is mostly remembered for the circumstances from which it came from. It began as a MLP fangame called "Fighting is Magic" before Hasbro forced the devs to cease production. Lauren Faust, who created MLP's 4th generation, joined the dev team to give them new characters, a new world, and a story, and Them's Fightin' Herds was born. It launched on Indiegogo where, against a $436k goal, it made just over $586k. Stretch goals included a seventh character as DLC and a Story Mode.
The game launched in Early Access in 2018 before the first official iteration of the game was released in 2020. The game was initially published by Humble Games in 2018, before they changed over to Modus Games, a division of Maximum Games.
Unfortunately, in all this time, Them's Fightin' Herds barely managed to capture any mainstream recognition. It was an outlier at many fighting game tournaments, it got no advertising, and few mainstream press outlets reviewed it. It got no awards either; the only accolade I can find for it is it being a finalist at the 24th Annual D.I.C.E. Awards in the Best Fighting Game category.
It's a shame that a brilliant and creative game was passed over this badly and didn't meet its own ambitions, but those are caveats of the game industry overall. Regardless of what could have been, I love the game we got and I wish the developers well on their future prospects.
Thank you, Them's Fightin' Herds.
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Mane 6 x GN! Reader HCs <3
Twilight 🎇
rarely uses pet names, but if you call her by one (or a nickname!) she absolutely melts :,3
main love languages are definitely acts of service/quality time
night owl workaholic. good luck getting her to sleep before 12 am...
when she does finally go to bed, loves cuddles!! probably doesnt know how to initiate though :c
her brain will stop working every time you say “i love you,” she stutters out “i love you too” while hiding her face in her wings q0q
prefers nights in reading to dinner dates
Fluttershy 🦋
SOO BLUSHY!!! blushes all the time at everything you do!!
nervous about public dates, so you spend nights together in her cottage with her animals <3
takes a while to confess, if she ever does. probably in denial about feeling anything towards you.
angel bunny is very jealous of your relationship! 🐇
main love language is words of affirmation!! always making adorable cards and letters for you to find when you get home
very nervous about initiating affection,, usually gives you little hints that she’d like some attention
Pinkie Pie 🎈
i hope you like sweets, because she will bake things for you for every occasion! even some that don't seem like they should be celebrated, like your two hour-versary!
main love language is physical affection 100%, loves giving you soft kisses and hugs :3
plans a special trip to yakyakistan just to introduce you to her yak friends, who approve of you immediately
her crush isn’t very obvious. she thinks it is, but only when you really squint could you even consider she might like you a bit more than a friend.
its probably a bit difficult to keep up with her fast-paced energy, but once you get used to it she’s probably much easier to manage.
Rarity 💎
pet names all the time. you aren’t even sure she knows what your real name is. (if you ask you’d get “of course i do, darling.” with no further elaboration)
matching outfits!! just going to sugarcube corner deserves its own matching outfit for the both of you.
so good at hiding her crush you’d think she doesn’t like your company at all. (which is the opposite!)
leaves cryptic love letters in your mailbox, hoping one day you’ll get the hint. eventually she tires of this and just asks you out in person.
a bit uncomfy with physical affection, only on rare occasions will she show it. prefers acts of service and gift giving. (personal space is very important to her.)
loves doing your makeup for you (when you let her)
Rainbow Dash 🌈
competitive. always challenging you to races and contests.
brags about you to everyone she can, loves showing you off so so much! (and expects the same from you)
talks to you about her daring do books, insists you read them too so you can talk about them with her.
only a fan of physical affection in private, she finds the intimacy of it to be too much for public.
invites you to her wonderbolt shows and tries harder when she knows you’re watching. (...show off...)
teased by the other wonderbolts for how much she talks about you, all in good fun though, they’re happy that she’s happy!
Applejack 🍎
she loves quality time with you, especially after a long day of working on the farm. her favorite thing about the day is spending evening free time with you.
if she has a free enough day, you’ll spend the day together making sweet apple treats for her family and friends.
prefers homemade meals together rather than nights out in a restaurant together.
super nervous about confessing, asks her friends for advice several times before they convince her to just go for it!
its little things that mean the world to her! small favors that would probably go unnoticed by anyone but her always make her fall in love with you more <3
That’s all!
thanks for reading! hope this wasnt too short q0q!! pls feel free to request more stuff like this!!
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And the greatest spell you’ll know
is how the magic of friendship grows
I loved MLP so much all through its run and when it came to an end the same month as a convention I had to do a print... despite that my desktop computer imploded on itself. I managed to do this start to finish on my iPad, something I’d never done before and I’m happy with the result. These ponies will always have a place in my heart. 2019-10-18
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All about the new version update that just hit Them's Fightin' Herds with 2 new chars and all the new problems with it, and a bit of the history of the game up until now to get newcomers to the story up to date.
This new patch is a mess, this season pass was a mess.
Maximum Entertainment turned out to be bad news for Mane6/TFH, which sucks, because it really was a fantastic game. RIP.
Yes, it's actually pronounced "Bye-huh" not "Bye-hey", you don't need to tell me. Also I tried something new with angling my webcam for the vtuber to be at an angle, which looks cool but it seems to get harder for the software to catch both my eyes so one of my eyes is being lazy every now and then through this video.
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