News Liste Age of Darkness: Final Stand

Blessings

• Blood of my Enemy - When an enemy is slain, gain a chance to spawn burst of Healing. Provides a great synergy with melee only, supporting replayability if players want to invest more in army instead of buildings.
• Change of Heart - Buildings destroyed by Nightmares have a chance to turn nearby Nightmares into allies for a short period of time. An opportunity to use Crushers against themselves (Partly taking advantage of the tech from controllable Nightmares during Mission 08 in the Campaign and bringing that to Survival).
• Way of the Blade - Melee units gain Damage, Shred, Armour and HP, however their production cost is increased. An awesome way to provide player an opportunities to strength their melee strategy.

Hardships

• Grim Command - Based on the Death Night and your level of difficulty, you may encounter one or more Elite Nightmares during your defence.
• Veil Bond - Acquire a second Hero from the same faction and enjoy using the abilities of both Faction Heroes! This can cause your late game to become weaker and increase the level of difficulty when paired with the hardship of keeping your Hero alive. Also in Multiplayer once released, if both players have both of their Faction Heroes there could be 4 Heroes on the map at any given point.
• Permanent Empire - No longer having the ability to sell your building could add some friction when building out your base, causing a higher sense of agency and future planninfg when decision making on base expansion.

Malices

• Necro Nightmare - Slain units within your army have a chance to turn against you. Coming back to life temporarily.
• Fear Burns - Horror is now more... horrifying! Units will lose health over time when they are Horrified, adding an interesting layer of complexity and difficulty when horrified.
• They are Many - Villager-occupied buildings have a chance to spawn nightmares when they’re destroyed, elevating the pressure of leaving Farms & Resource Gathering building alone as it may cause additional pester waves.

Known Issues

• There is a known issue that could occur when alt-tabbing, the Alt key can lock causing unexpected behaviour which requires pressing the Alt key a second time to return to original state.
• There is a known issue where during a Death Night if Nightmares encounter a blockade over a period of time Nightmare stacking could occur.
• Observed an issue where during a Death Night where Nightmares are stacked, Target Priority may lose functionality.
• Observed an issue where Aurelia’s Crimson Lightning has performance issues when cast in a high-density enemy area.
• Observed issues with our pathfinding system on local unit avoidance and fog avoidance.
• There is a known issue that could occur when alt tabbing the alt can can simulate being held down. To remove this bug simply press alt when resuming gameplay.
• Observed an issue where the Final Fight in Mission 10 music loop stops playing.
• Observe issues with the Catapult and Spitter landing VFX not aligned to the Z axis.
• There is a known issue with the ability system where on a low occurrence triggered Hero abilities may go on cooldown without casting.
• There is a known issue that could occur when casting a spell ability it may not go where the desired location was cast.