After a long silence we are back with a quite huge update. We have added one new skirmish map, fixed dozens of bugs, re-balanced the abilities and improved the AI in the campaign and did quite a lot of other improvements.
As always we are glad for any feedback as we will continue improving our baby!
Changelog
v1.37
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GENERAL
- New skirmish map: "The Blue Islands"
- Discord Rich Presence integration:
- See what your friends are doing in the game
- Invite friends to join your game via the Discord app
- Savegame file size reduced by ~90%
- Some minor UI changes to improve coop experience
- General rendering performance improvements
- General localization improvements
- General game stability improvements
BUG FIXES
- Fixed certain achievements not being triggered although all conditions are met. Players should now be able to get all achievements.
- Added savegame compatibility for missing artefact part in Windwall Foothills
- Added savegame compatibility for missing portal in Unknown Islands
- Fixed Earth Rune buff moving with Isgrimm
- Fixed Arcane Archery working with melee weapons
- Fixed Focus regeneration on Knowledge of the Xarlonthep, changed to 0.1/s
- Fixed multiple issues regarding sidequests in Aonir's Blade, as well as main quest compatibility for old savegames
- Fixed issues in Old-Haalayash that would not allow players to continue the main quest, including savegame compatibility
- Fixed some icons and descriptions on mobs and items
- Potion of fresh start now works properly in multiplayer
- The godstone in the Orc Camp of Farlorn's Hope now works properly
- Upgraded elven towers now retain the capacity of 3 workers
- Fixed sometimes stuck at 100% loading screen when playing coop multiplayer and changing levels
- Fixed sometimes stuck at 100% loading screen after multiplayer host migration
- Fixed player color when playing multiplayer coop campaign after skirmish
- Fixed multiplayer lobby showing up when migrating, changing levels in coop campaign or loading multiplayer levels
SINGLEPLAYER SKILL BALANCING
- Significantly increased the potency of most trees' basic skills
- Alchemist's Blood L3 now grants more Armor and Debuff Immuninty for 4s
- Increased healing when attacking creatures affected by Judgement
- Tiara's Shield L3 now grants immunity against Purge & Interrupt
- Reduced frequency of Clarity L3 pulses to once every 5s
- Decreased radius of Fireball by 20%
- Decreased bonuses granted by Pyromancy, Cryomancy and Hierophany to 20%
- Decreased cast range of Earthquake
- Earthquake and Day of Reckoning now scale with Constitution
- Increased radius of Epidemic by 20%
- Elen's Champion now works with any weapon
- Entangling Shot now casts faster and additionally decreases movement speed
- Doubled the duration and cooldown of Encourage
- Reduced cooldown of Nor's Breath to 180s
- Throwing Knife can now hit up to two adjacent targets
- Reduced cost and cooldown of Solar Plexus Strike, now also applies Impaired
- Added chance of brief knockdown to Headsplitter and increased Bleeding
- Increased stun chance on Niethalf's Shield
- Transcendence now also adds some White and Black damage to attacks
- Reduced Focus cost of wolf and bear form Shapeshifting spells to 10
- Gor is now briefly immune to damage while shapeshifting back to Orc form
- Increased damage bonus of Zarach's Might to 25%
- Reduced Life Leech on vampiric weapons to 25%
- Increased Focus regeneration granted by robes
CAMPAIGN CHANGES
- Enemy armies in the campaign now behave more like the skirmish AI to offer a more challenging and fun experience. This includes:
- Smarter usage of units, including using catapults more situationally
- More varied attack and retreat patterns, especially on harder difficulties
- Less reliance on resource advantages, allowing for more interesting dynamics
- RTS scenarios have been reworked to better fit the new style of AI behaviour
- Some key encounters have been balanced in accordance to player progress level on all difficulty levels
