A very small patch today: The bug introduced in the previous update, which made the UI to change linguistic policies unusable, is now fixed. (version 1.0051)
With this patch several bugs were fixed and the 1900 scenario was improved. · Sokoto and Dendi, two pre-colonial West African countries, were added to the 1900 scenario. · Fixed war declarations being absent from the history and news. · Added a short cooldown to popup buttons, to counteract players unintentionally closing multiple popups when trying to close just one. · Fixed misaligned tooltip…
This small patch fixes the following issues in the game: · Desyncs happening when the NPCs try specializing their regions (pretty much every turn) · Flickering border outlines · Hesse (a country in Germany) being missing in 1700 Have a great time conquering the world!
This is a small update fixing some issues with the game, and making some changes to the world. Feature You can now invite other, non-enemy countries, to try joining institutions that you are a part of. Scenarios · The HRE in 1300 has been turned into an institution and its member states were added as countries. · Added institutions to the 2000 scenario. World · Aceh, Brunei, Champa, the Mekong…
This update for Konkwest overhauls the game's entire diplomacy system! (v1.003) Instead of the ternary neutral / friends / enemies system, countries now have more granular relations to one another, on a scale from 0 to 100. Special treaties, unions and organizations are now represented in the game as Institutions. Diplomatic Requests Accepting and denying diplomatic requests now influences your…
Hello conquerors, Konkwest is participating in the Steam Summer Sale 2024. This is your opportunity to start conquering the world! Do you already own the game? Maybe you want to play it with some of your friends that still need it! If you are looking for other Konkwest enthousiasts, btw, you can find us on the VCT Games Discord server . I wish you all a great time building your empires, and I'l…
Developer's Birthday Sale until June 24th Hallo Conquerors! On the occasion of this week being my 24th birthday I am offering my game at a discount to give even more people an opportunity to play! While I am already bringing good news, I am also happy to tell you that we are almost 400 players now :) Today is a good day to start conquering the world! For all players' information: A major, diplo…
Hello Conquerors! On the 16 of June we are organizing a multiplayer game, coordinated on the VCT Games Discord server . Feel free to join and play! Date: Sunday, June 16th Start time Europe (CEST): 16:00 Start time America (EST): 10am We will play in the new Year Zero scenario (0 (1BC)). The winner gets a special role on the Discord server :) Rules · For the sake of fair competition, you may no…
With the second post-launch update Konkwest now lets you choose a flag for your country and invite your Steam friends to play! To change your flag just click the flag in your own country's country-selection-menu, next to the rename country button. You can pick any of the built-in ones, as well as ones added through mods. (Modded flags will only be visible in multiplayer if the other players als…
Konkwest version 1.001 brings Ancient times to the game! Additionally it is now easier than ever to set up and find a multiplayer match! Scenarios · New Scenario: 0 (1BC) - Challenge the great ancient empires of Rome and China, or lead them to world domination! · The new scenario also comes with flags for all the countries in it. Those are all either from a future time period or fantastical, si…
Gamers, conquerors! After over two years in development, this novel grand strategy game is finally available for everyone to play via Steam. Multiplayer servers are up and running, and a free demo is available on the store page so anyone can get to try Konkwest. Feel free to join the VCT Games Discord server to find players for multiplayer sessions and share tips and screenshots, as well as ide…
Dear gamer, With this Update Konkwest is ready for release! The game now offers basic mod support and lots of content for tens if not hundreds of hours of gameplay. This does not mean that I don't have more ideas for further additions to the game of course, and I would love to continue making improvements to the game. If you want to see more features to come, just make sure that enough people b…
This update adds flags and shields to the game, but also a huge load of other content. Flags and Shields · All countries in Konkwest, if they historically had a flag, have a flag now, which is displayed in various places throughout the game, for example on a shield displayed on each place on the globe, and on a flag on each country's capital. · Flags are linked to the country name. If you renam…
With this development update, Konkwest is now almost ready for release. A release, which unfortunately won't be coming as soon as I hoped it would. I had a multiplayer playtest session yesterday and there are still a number of relevant bugs to be fixed. I have therefore moved the expected release time for the game to May 2024. When Konkwest comes out I want every player to have a great time bui…
Konkwest now finally has a tutorial! It's not complete yet, but it should be when the game is released. Tutorial · Added a tutorial mechanic with a basic and intermediate chapter. (Advanced chapter should follow.) · Added a popup asking if you want to see the tutorial when starting a new game. Simulation · Stability now slowly ticks up, even when a place is not under any country's control. Loca…
This update brings important bugfixes to Konkwest, and adds to the game's localization. Regions · Regional specializations have been refactored. (Earlier versions of this update caused this to make it impossible to load savegames with regional specializations. This is fixed now, and old savegames, even ones corrupted from that bug, should load just fine.) · The agriculture specialization, inste…
With today's update Konkwest finally gets new terrain graphics, thanks to my friend Sten. The new textures cover all of the terrain types, except snow which retains the previous style. Other news are as follows. User Interface · There is a popup message prompting new players to select a country when leaving the menu for the first time. Localization · All plan descriptions, news and history even…
Konkwest now has graphics options, where you can select from four quality levels: · minimum: as the name suggests, this one comes with nothing special · low: default on Android; this one has 4x Antialiasing, which is an important improvement over none · high: default on Windows; this one has shadows (3 shadow cascades) · ultra: this one has 8x Antialiasing, better shadows (4 cascades), and rend…
In Konkwest expansion actions are now symbolized by exploding rockets instead of just explosions. Also there is a lot of new music implemented! Netcode · The game no longer soft-crashes when the host disconnects from a multiplayer game. · The multiplayer system works as intended again using room codes, which are now properly used and enforced. · Cross-platform multiplayer between Windows and An…
Hello there! Vincent here, the developer of Konkwest. In this post I want to let you know of the state of the game, what I changes were made to it in late December, and what my following steps are in 2024. Development Update late December 2023: UI, localization, bugfixes + more Feature changes · Updated several UI graphics, amongst which are: the main UI window background, the text buttons text…
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