Enjoy!
Bundles
To celebrate the update, we've partnered with a few interesting games to offer additional discounts.
Medieval Strategy games unite!
https://store.steampowered.com/bundle/45502/Build_and_Battle_Bundle/
We've partnered with our friends at GSQ Games to bring our games together through 10/31 @ 10a PDT!https://store.steampowered.com/bundle/45345/Fates_and_Legends/
Daily Deal and Sale
Noble Fates is featured today and we're celebrating with our biggest Sale to date!
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1769420/Noble_Fates/
Localization
The first Official translation pass is complete. We've added Official support for French, German, Korean, Simplified Chinese, Japanese, and Russian.
Choose the language you'd like to use from the Main Menu.
NOTE: switching languages does *not* rename Factions, Items, or Places in an existing game.
That [strike]always sensical[/strike] opinion driven dialog that you know and love, available in 6 new flavors!
QOL Changes
Expanded Rules
The Rules system has been expanded to contain a number of Rules to allow more nuance in consumption, junking, salvaging, and claiming.
Food and Drink
The Food and Drink menu has been rebuilt to be top-down instead of bottom-up with support for Categories, the Expanded Rules System, and option to override settings per Item Type.
Auto Junk
Auto Junk has been greatly expanded using the new Rules system to better facilitate the rules you'd like your people to follow when separating the Items you care about from those that you don't. As with before, you can mark or unmark an item as Junk even when this feature is enabled.
Auto Salvage
Auto Salvage has also come online, courtesy of the Rules System, allowing your Mortals to recycle Items according to your preferences when they don't have anything to do. In addition, you can toggle Salvage per-Item even with this feature enabled.
Auto Claim (Autonomous Belongings)
Most importantly, the Expanded Rules System finally allowed us to tackle Auto Claim (Autonomous Belongings) in a way that we thought would do the feature Justice.
Rules pull double duty here, allowing you to define the rules that control whether an Item is Claimable as well as the Rules that control whether a Mortal can Claim a Claimable Item.
The Rules... Rule.
To start, enable Auto Claim from the Belongings Screen and then click the Claimable: Rules button and the Auto Claim: Rules buttons beside it to customize your Rules.
You can override the Claimable flag on any item at any time. In addition, you can distribute any Items you'd like even while the system is active.
Selection QOL
We've added a popup near the cursor when you can [L Click] or [R Click] again to cycle through targets under the cursor if the Actor you want wasn't selected the first time.
Controls
Finally, we've added support for Edge Scroll and Pitch Inversion (with a separate option for Third Person).
Other changes
There are a bevy of other small changes and fixes included in this update - this is the best playing version of Noble Fates to date!
Existing Saves
Existing Saves should carry over to this Update.
As always, let us know if you're experiencing an issue and we'll get it sorted.
Translations
Our localization providers have kickstarted translations - but we believe that experience players are the best equipped to help refine them.
We've set up a Localization Forum here on Steam to collect Feedback.
In addition, we've open sourced the Official translations so that you can suggest edits to existing translations or create new ones.
We'll augment community edits with subsequent passes by localization providers at major milestones as needed.
Edit Official Translations
The Official Translations can be found as forks of the NobleFatesLoc github repo:
NobleFatesLoc-French
NobleFatesLoc-German
NobleFatesLoc-Japanese
NobleFatesLoc-Korean
NobleFatesLoc-ChineseSimplified
NobleFatesLoc-Russian
Fork these and make any edits you'd like. Create Pull Requests to send them back up the chain to us for evaluation.
Active Contributors can apply to become Moderators for Official Languages - let us know if you're interested.
Create New Translations
To create a new translation, fork the NobleFatesLoc github repo and follow the directions therein.
Unofficial Translations can apply to become official when they're ready.
Mods
Mods tagged v0.29 are fully-compatible.
Mod Localization
In addition, Mods now support localization.
See this post for details.
Localization Mods
Finally, we now support Localization Mods. These mods can add new Languages, replace or expand on existing translations, or supply translations for mods.
See this post for details.
Patch Notes
Restart the game and steam to make sure you're up to date!
Roadmap Update!
Let's take a moment to update the Roadmap and cross off a few of the major boxes!
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 Progress
Progress against the Priority Fixes that we outlined in Winter 2023
Beyond the launch of Choose Your Fate and its accompanying QOL features, we've devoted a lot of cycles in the last 9 months to crossing Localization off the list and tackling a wide range of QOL features including improved Building and automated Belongings Management.
Notable Changes
Current Priorities
The core Localization work is complete and it's all down to ongoing translation work now, so it's been crossed off. Whew.
We've continued to tackle a number of second passes on systems and there are more to come along with the beginning of third passes on some.
Content Updates
We've released 27 Content Updates so far! Wow!
There have been 5 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. 6 have landed so far.
Feature Update #6: Choose Your Fate!
https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/1769420/view/4151827464083738835?l=english
Feature Update #7: Expanded Diplomacy and Raiding(working title)
Finally, we're excited to announce that the 7th Feature Update will expand diplomacy and deliver the ability to Raid other Kingdoms.
With the Localization work behind us, we're full steam ahead on this update.
We're still a few months out, but stay tuned for more news when it's ready!
Early Access Status
We're around 75% of the way through what we aim to accomplish with Early Access.
Localization took longer than we anticipated, leaving us tracking a bit behind where we wanted to be on Feature Update #7. Current estimates have us at 18 months or so from 1.0 with at least 2 more Major Updates (Feature Updates #7 and #8) landing first.
We're in good shape for landing 1.0, due to your continued support. Thanks!
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.
v0.29 Saves will remain compatible until we launch the Beta for Feature Update #7 - some time from now.
Expect occasional issues - but know that we appreciate you helping us make the game better!
Community Corner
Sordak released Lizardmen v2.0!
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3325757775
Discord
Join the Official Discord to participate in Development!
Reviews
If you like the game, please consider leaving a Review. These can help players decide that Noble Fates is worthy of their attention.
Thanks for reading and thanks for playing!
The Noble Fates Team
