Operation: Harsh Doorstop

*"I got sick of games with lootboxes and predatory monetization... with no single player missions or mod support. So our community started making this game instead. A shooter sandbox with all the features a game should have. Oh... and we're funding it on Patreon and giving it away for free."*
— Steam Store description

***Operation: Harsh Doorstop***, shortened to ***OHD***, is a first-person military simulator shooter created and published by Drakeling Labs. It is a modifiable military simulator featuring battles across five respective eras, from World War I to the modern day.

## Development

*Operation: Harsh Doorstop* was first conceived as a split project from *Project Reality*. Connor Hill, known by his YouTube handle Bluedrake42, conceived of the project as a direct protest to the gaming industry at the time. Hill felt that the video game industry was too obsessed with making money through monetization and lootboxes, and neglecting single player modes and modding capabilities. As a result, *Operation: Harsh Doorstop* was designed to be moddable through Unreal Engine 4, containing single player capabilities, and lacking the microtransaction emphasis on contemporary games.

On February 16th, 2023, *Operation: Harsh Doorstop* was released to the Steam Store for free. It is currently only available for play on PC. Presently, the supported text localization language for *Operation: Harsh Doorstop* is English. 500,000 units of the game were downloaded within two weeks of release.

*Operation: Harsh Doorstop* intends to utilizes an opt-in version of Easy Anti Cheat, with the majority of server moderation relying on active administrators of community servers and developed plugins. The intention of this system is to reduce reliance on third party anti cheats, that may or may not be effective or supported in the future, and emulate the community-led administration setup of community servers in contemporary games such as *ArmA 3*. The game will be updated to include in-house administration tools, with exploits being fixed to help limit cheaters.

## Gameplay

*Operation: Harsh Doorstop* is a military simulator first person shooter game, without any concrete goal outside of completing the game instance's objectives. Players can create or join servers, or play by themselves with bots. At present, the only mode available is Advance and Secure, a game mode where one team defends and the other attacks control points, in efforts to bleed out spawn tickets of the enemy team. The maps are set in five different eras, being World War I, World War II, the Vietnam War, the Cold War gone hot, and the Modern day. All maps contain preset teams based on historical accuracy, but is possible to place any team on any map in any position.

*Operation: Harsh Doorstop* has a modding community based around community servers, where players can join and engage in multiplayer battles with plugins and mods designed by other community members.

## Gallery

Pre-2020 RoadmapJuly 2021 RoadmapSeptember 2021 Roadmap2022-2023 Roadmap released November 2021.
## References

1. ↑ SteamDB - Operation: Harsh Doorstop
2. ↑ *Operation: Harsh Doorstop*
3. ↑ @Bluedrake42 - February 28, 2023 - *Operation: Harsh Doorstop* download figures
4. ↑ Development Blog #30 (January 2023) - February 26th, 2023