Noble Fates continues to grow and mature thanks to your continued support, encouragement, and feedback. The path to 1.0 is clear, and we're armed to tackle it thanks to you.
To celebrate, Choose Your Fate Content Update #4 - Choose Your Home has been released!
Choose Your Home!
Now that you can create that perfect starting group, it's time to find them the perfect home!
To help we've added a Map step to the Choose Your Fate screen, moved to a Seeded Map system, added 2 new Home Map Biomes, and added Resettling!
New Home Map Biome: Mountain
The Mountain Biome offer a more difficult, but interesting alternative to the existing Forest Home Biome.
Expect more verticality, better choke points, and a harsher Winter!
My Orcs rock ramshackle shanties, walls, and towers!
New Home Map Biome: Arid
The Arid Biome offers the hardest Home experience.
Expect nothing to Forage, limited Logging, few Hunting options, and a harsher Summer.
It's the perfect place to employ the new Terraforming improvements!
Seeded Maps
Maps are now seeded and produce consistent results for a given Map Seed.
A Map Seed is a bit of text that we key off of when deciding what to put where. Any text is supported, but supplying a biome prefix (forest-, mountain-, arid-) ensures a consistent biome as new ones are added to the game.
The fine print: Expect occasional differences from as we continue through Early Access. We'll signal these and keep them subtle. We'll do everything we can to maintain consistency here post 1.0. In addition, adding or removing mods may change the Map for a given Seed.
Resettling
You can pack up and move your Home any time you'd like.
Currently, there's no limit to what you can bring along, but keep in mind that it'll all be sitting on the ground when you arrive at your destination.
I want to go to there!
This is unlocked from the start outside of the Guided Experience, so find that perfect home before you start building up!
Anything you leave behind is gone forever, so choose what you bring wisely.
Quality of LIfe Improvements
In addition to Choose Your Home, this update brings a fresh batch of Quality of Life changes to Raids, Terraforming, Wounds, Preaching, and more!
Patch Notes
Restart the game and steam to make sure you're up to date!
Roadmap Update!
2 Years of Early Access is the perfect time to update the Roadmap!
As a reminder - there are 3 types of updates for Noble Fates - Hotfix Updates that address bugs and issues (including those that are listed on the Backlog and those that you Report in-game); Content Updates that focus on expanding existing systems and filling them with additional content; and Feature Updates that add new features to the game expanding the overall breadth of what the game has to offer.
Priority Fixes
Progress against the Priority Fixes that we outlined on 3/14
We've continued to move out of the Crash fixing phase and into the improvement phase as the game matures! There were a high number of Quality of Life improvements this year, including the Choose Your Fate initiative.
Notable Changes
Current Priorities
A number of systems have gotten a second pass and that will continue as we move through the remainder of Early Access.
Localization is underway, but is paused while we tackled the Choose Your Fate initiative. Work will resume once Feature Update #6 is released, and it will likely land between Feature Update #6 and Feature Update #7 (mid 2024 by current estimation).
Content Updates
We've released 22 Content Updates so far! Wow!
There have been 6 Content Updates since the last Roadmap Update!
We'll continue to work on these and release them as they're ready,
Feature Updates
Finally, we have the Feature Updates. As a reminder, 8 of these will arrive during Early Access. 5 have landed so far.
Feature Update #5: Dwarven Domain!
https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/1769420/view/3657533936655804682?l=english
Feature Update #6: Choose Your Fate
This Content Update marks the transition into the Feature Update portion of the Choose Your Fate initiative.
We're hard at work on the remaining features of the Feature Update and are targeting an early 2024 release.
As always, thanks for your patience!
Early Access Status
We're around 70% of the way through what we aim to accomplish with Early Access.
We continue to raise the bar as we work through the remaining bits so the last 30% could take as long as the first 70%.
That puts us 18 months or so from 1.0 with at least 3 Major Updates landing before 1.0. We've had enough success that we're in good shape for landing 1.0 thanks to your support!
Experimental Branch
If you have the stomach for brief bouts of instability and want to help us out - switch to (or stay in) the Experimental Beta on Steam and participate in discussions here or on discord.
v0.28 Saves will remain compatible until we launch the Beta for Feature Update #6 - some time from now.
Expect occasional issues - but know that we appreciate you helping us make the game better!
Community Corner
Kideya captured this stunning Mountain Winter scene!
cypr' always finds creative new ways to build...
CheeseCake with the cozy starter base!
Discord
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Reviews
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Thanks for reading and thanks for playing!
The Noble Fates Team
