Progress update!


Hey everyone,

Good news! I can FINALLY say that my next FNIA Visual Novel is in a state where I'm happy to release it. It's not 100% complete, but there's a lot of content available in just this first release (roughly 7x longer than expanded!). I'm currently just waiting on a few things that are out of my hands before I finally drop it on here (mostly commissioned art), but know that it (hopefully) shouldn't be too much longer now.

To anyone who's been around since FNIA: Expanded came out originally, I can only hope that it will be worth the wait for you.  My current estimate is some time in May, but again that depends on the speed of the artist more than it does me.

I won't go into the content too much other than just saying that it's set around Mairusu's "FNIA Ultimate Location" (with a few additions of my own).

Hope you're all excited for it. Peace!

(EDIT 20/5/25: Looks like it'll be June rather than May at this rate. This is mostly due to the fact I had exams for the first half of May and that at is taking a while to be done. I have a lot more free time now to finish things off than I did at the start of the month so I'm very confident my part will be done next month for sure. Sorry!)

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i need help, i have now had to move the tanks, their images and documentation to an external hard drive as they have now amassed to over 340 gigs, also i present a new gallery of about 50 images, Ivan The Inebriated, featuring completely new designs specifically made for high speeds, and some old ones that have been given the sleeper build treatment. first up, the CI-50VF, from a brand new faction, the Chaos Insurgency. also some brief Ivan lore, he is polish, is constantly too drunk to die, and whenever he drives a tank expect to find a wreck of metal and a completely unharmed Ivan stumbling onto the next tank to go full tony hawk pro skater on. anyways, i call this sub-gallery of images, The Desert Dunkard

Here’s what I meant by sleeper build, this is a captured GOC-RC-1S that Ivan got his buddy, who was born and raised in Poland, and more Ivan lore, he moved from Ukraine to Poland. anyways, he got his buddy Korneliusz Sienkiewicz to replace the standard GOC light 1.75 litre v10 with a 2.65 litre twin turbo v18 and adjust the transmission config from a single to a twin, and along with that adjusting the gear ratios resulted in the RC-9-1S going from a top speed of 35km/h to over 110km/h. in this image, Ivan was so drunk, that he physically couldn't push the RC-9-1T over the base speed limit of 50 km/h. leading to a kinda bad jump.

wait, do we have a release date? like q4 2025 or q1-2 2026?

No date other than "some time in May" like I said in the update. If things aren't ready by the end of May then it really won't be much longer after that. Everything is almost ready now and I'm mostly just waiting on art. 

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thanks mate, quite excited for this and i am already getting bored of making tanks. i have made 6 tanks already with fully modeled interiors, ammo racks, crew placement, working guns, and correct limits for depression, elevation, and crew space restrictions. i have made full lore for them. i am breaking down rn, i cant stop making tanks please help i don't know how to stop. please i need something else for my adhd to hyperfocus on. I PRESENT THE GOC-280-273-X3B, THE SHITTIEST IFV I HAVE EVER MADE, GOD HELP WHY DID I MAKE AN IFV WITH A 280MM GUN.

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Dear god. I'll do my best for you.

Add another notch to the tanks, didn't sleep, made the GOC-X2-RC-9-1S. fully modelled and remade from the Rc-9, now with a crewed turret but still a remote gun. a secondary co-ax machinegun for the commander allows for a backup in the event that a gunner gets knocked out, as the mg is usually linked to the aim of the main guns, allowing the commander to override the gunners aim. also its used for aa, the lower gun, which is more in line, uses a radar timed proximity detonation shell, and the top, larger caliber autocannon uses a HEAPFSDS, or high explosive Armour penetrating fin stabilized discarding sabot round, ideal for light to medium tanks of its time, which it started production just after the end of ww2, right before the cold war. It is currently in use as an urban assault vehicle by the group of interest known as the Global Occult Coalition, a group who's purpose is to hunt and destroy anomalous objects.

guess what, i have another. i have made about 36 now and have images and reference images for anyone who want to draw them. i present the tank equivalent of a 10 year old shitbox with a 50mm gun. it is not very popular with the crew, considering the gunner/commander and loader/radioman are both in the open, with the driver having to multitask between driving and rotating the turret. the only time it was used was during a raid on a GOC compound, where the larger and better X3B's were either being services or on deployment. the result was 15 GOC personell attempting to man the 5 51's, and of the 15 only the 5 drivers lived, resorting to using the tanks to ram the enemy armored vehicles to slow and distract, and to bar doors against the invading chaos insurgency personell. the resulting casualties caused by this event cause the GOC council to revisit the 51's, and eventually retire them after 2 years of active service, and 15 years of inactive service. the 51's that weren't melted down and repurposed as stationary guns, were later re-designed into the GOC-56-680-3P, now with a fully enclosed turret, and airtight hull, enabling the driver to save the crew in the turret by maneuvering out of gas and airborne attacks. The only division to use the 3P ended up being tho polish division, as it was found that the narrower roads were more suited for this relatively skinny hull

This, is the GOC-51-670-1A

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whey hey hey buddy, almost at the end of may. ive had to rent out a 500 terrabyte server to store all the tanks ive made now. i also lost my job, i got rehired as a 3d modeller, and promtly am under investigation for having some leaked docs i found on war thunder forums. but it should be fine. i might get to go to america for the first time lol. well first time im going outside australia if so but hey, a free vacation is a free vacation, and im on paid leave while thats happening, it should be fine, but i expect to have to restart the commission tho if it goes thru, dunno how court works. anyways hows everything going for you? hope you aren't quite as boned as i am lol. love u :3

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I'm trying my best, but it's mostly down to the art guy. Hate to say it but you might have to make a few more tanks before the VN is ready. I do not see it taking longer than some time in June because all my stuff will be done for it by then. Sorry, but as I say it's kinda out of my hands. You just gotta trust me that it will be peak. I will save you from making infinite tanks.

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wait, whats it called, cause holy shit this is pretty damn long already, im ready for a full altas length Vn

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Currently not entirely sure on the title. For now, I'm probably just going to go with "FNIA 3: The Visual Novel".

It's pretty basic ik, but nobody else has really done anything of the length I have in the setting. Might change it if I get a better idea later. Glad you're looking forward to it!

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First we get to (definitely not illegally,we fully support legal claims lol) have Expanded back to your hands,and now we get the new one?! Let's go!

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I can't wait to read it.

I know it will be good.

ty!

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Looking forward to it bro!

It will be worth the wait reguardless!!! :D

Ty Yuuto!

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Anytime my friend! ^^

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what in the peak?

holy peak