Hey everyone,

after more than 15 years with Hedgewars, I've decided it's time to say goodbye to the community. This isn't an easy decision, but I wanted to share some honest thoughts before leaving.

Over the years, I've noticed that the general tone within the community has become increasingly hostile. It often feels like people no longer enjoy each other’s company. The symbolic feud between SteppenwolfVM and MDK, for example, is just one sign of how fractured things have become. Nowadays, if you play with one person, someone from the other “side” might accuse you of being a traitor. It’s exhausting.

On top of that, there’s the persistent trolling from users like “Antimarkus”, who keeps returning under different names just to spam and post crude jokes like “Do you want to drink my pee?” This kind of behavior isn’t just annoying — it actively drives away new players. People like “Antimarkus” or “Anti-Hippie” poison the atmosphere, and since there's no active moderation to deal with them, they just keep coming back.

This lack of moderation — or any system for players to report toxic behavior — is a big part of the problem. Without it, the game simply isn’t welcoming anymore. I genuinely believe that’s one reason the community has remained so small.

And then there’s the development side. The game feels stagnant. For instance, the Flatpak version hasn’t been updated in over two years. Some of its components are outdated, and my system even warns me about it during updates. That’s especially unfortunate for Linux users, who helped give Hedgewars a lot of early visibility.

I’ve played this game for more than half my life, and it’s sad to see how things have turned out. I’ll always appreciate the fun times and the memories, but right now, I no longer feel at home here.

To those who still enjoy the game: have fun — and please, be kind to each other.

All the best,
kraut

Hey everyone,

I have been playing Hedgewars casually for a while now and I am trying to get a bit more serious with my gameplay.I constantly struggle with is aiming projectile weapons such as the bazooka and grenades when there's wind involved or weird terrain.

I totally overshoo & other times I barely nudge the enemy. I know there is some physics involved & I have been trying to learn by trial and error but I was wondering if any of you more experienced players have tips or strategies to improve aim?

Do you guys use any markers or tricks to judge angles and power? Or maybe some good maps to practice on?

Also i have check this https://www.hedgewars.org/bazookajira course still want help.

Thank you.............

Anyways,

to those that new me as MDK, KDM, and another long lost username "HK" "Hunter Killer" all movie references either to Terminator or Demolition Man. I have over 10 years worth of good history on this game. After 10 years, I find that because of one particularly toxic community member I get frozen out of the game and I'm not even talking about Antihippy I let that one go a long time ago.

Burp's excuse is "the community is too small to have this drama" but at the same time Burp's answer is allows said person [redacted] to act as a pseudomoderator and block a whole list of other people including Dynamical while offsiding other people like Ggeorge and many others with his toxic behavior.

And now? Because I tell Andu what I think about this whole situation in an uncensored format he freezes me out of his room also.

I get told it's a personal choice when it comes to them, and at the same time the community is too small as it is when it comes to me. Which one is it, duplicitous much?

I hope the next person who runs into this learns how toxic all off this actually is.

Loura
Smarmy
Byrdx
Ggeorge
AC6
Kraut
SysError26
Worschtweck
Spiriter
iKernel
Dynamical
GlowingLeaf
L29Ah (sorry if I got that wrong)
Plarf
Schrottie

and many others...

You are all cool to me, and you will be missed, but this place just isn't a place I feel comfortable anymore. It's a sad and confusing day.

Also, Andu you're very wrong about this, but I also won't be reading any replies here, or replying to this thread to you on the basis of today either.

Nemo, Sheepluva, Uncor etc, I just don't understand. How many games over the years, my greatest congratulations and wishes of success for building this community but to freeze out a well respected member of your community over a long standing behavior where I've tried to build a bridge repeatedly with said toxic person.

I really don't know...

Hello. I am an active player. Over the course of my time I have seen several things that have confused me, I think this is a bug. 1) The portal gun, which sometimes hits on the 2nd try if you aim at one place. 2) The ice gun, which for some reason does not freeze, but shoots through the hedgehog, for example, into a rock, a bridge and any other surface. But then, by some miracle, it freezes the hedgehog at some angle, although before that it did not freeze at all and you were standing in one place. Is this a bug or a feature of the game?

Greetings!

Figured I'd make a thread
concerning TEAMS,
with their names, members, hats,
flags, ravestones & voicebanks,
for the sake of cultural exchange!

Thought it'd be fun to see
what others have in store, &
mayhap put some teams of my own
on display, as humble as the latter might be...

I'll start by sharing this one team
ported on HW by someone close :

The preview doesn't display it,
putting a direct link here
just in case : http://i.imgur.com/a/yR67Hw0.png

We were on a hurry,
so I accessorized 'em myself
posthumously the best I could.