━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ BUG FIXES ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ The Goblin Siege · The gate has a name now — the Harbor, North, East or West Gate — and the town remembers which ones have fallen. Holding a gate that was breached in an earlier week reads as holding the breach, not as a wall that was never broken. · The Redteeth, the Ashcrows, the Bonecarvers and the Ridgeburners no lo…
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ FEATURES ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ The Goblin Warband Siege · More refinement and polish here! This is pretty much my main focus this weekend, I think. Once this working as intended, all of the subsequent World Events will fall into place. · When a Goblin Warband besieges Hiltcrest, the crisis now opens with a full arrival cinematic in the town's own styl…
I wanted to get hotfix up asap to the Live version to fix a crash players were hitting when equipping Gear. That is fixed and there are some extra goodies along with it ;) ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ BUG FIXES ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ · The Gear tab no longer crashes when you open it on a brand-new guild. Starting a fresh save and clicking Gear used to throw and drop you on the err…
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ FEATURES ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ The Goblin Siege · The World Event: Goblin Siege has received its next round of upgrades. · The goblin warband no longer sends three quests to the board — it comes down the roads. Named hosts spawn in the outer regions and march on Hiltcrest hop by hop over eight weeks, and you fight them on the War Table. · Order a sort…
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ BUG FIXES ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ · Academy prospects and trainees no longer show directly-opposed descriptors on the same dossier — a hero can no longer roll both Determined and Lazy, or Focused alongside Lazy or Easily Distracted. · Buying materials in bulk no longer costs more than buying them one at a time; a large order is now charged the true runn…
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ BUG FIXES ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Portraits · Your own portrait art survives loading a save again on the desktop build. Portrait addresses were rebuilt at load without the tag that points them at your art folder, so year-end awards, top performers and stat leaders fell back to packaged stock faces while the same adventurers looked correct on the roster.…
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ FEATURES ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ A New Beginning · A new game now opens on a seven-beat cinematic: the epigraph, the empty hall Oaken Ort left you, his letter with the real inheritance ledger, the naming of your guild, the Great Sage on Hiltcrest, Chapter One of The Shield of Hiltcrest , and the founding itself — replacing the three separate overlays th…
The new CCL is here and I am stoked! The CCL has been core to the annual experience in GT1, but it was one of the first systems I designed and over time piled up a good amount of tech debt and, frankly, felt just kind of outdated. Enter the new Hex Battle and Doctrine systems and that was my excuse to blow everything up ;) As always, this is just step one of many, but I am excited about the fou…
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ BUG FIXES ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ · The Gold Investment Fund's +25% now reaches every income source it should — quest gold, loot and material sales, trade profit, crafting commissions, and faction-vendor passive income were all silently missed before. The Treasury marks each buffed line with a ×1.25. · The Merchants' Bulk Purchasing favor now actually w…
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ FEATURES ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ CCL Rework · Step 1 of the CCL Rework is now live on Beta. There is A LOT here, but I want to save all of the details for when the feature is pushed to the live version. In short, with the launch of the Hex Battle System, head-to-head skirmishes are now possible (properly) and the CCL has been rebuilt to be much more of…
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ BUG FIXES ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Crown Cup & Tower · Winning your Crown Cup bout now crowns you. A Cup match you fight is decided by the leg the arena shows you, so the standings, coronation and bracket can no longer hand the title to the guild you just beat. · In co-op fronts and league play, a won tower floor can no longer kill a member the fight nev…
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ BUG FIXES ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Combat & Watch board · Hex Battles now work on multiplayer quest results, matching raids and single-player. · A hero who falls to an off-battle mishap on a clean victory now gets a real death line in the log and a "SLAIN — fell at N HP lost" badge on the live Watch board, with a stated cause, instead of vanishing with n…
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ FEATURES ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ · World Events are now live. This is a very large system that touches everything and has a lot of infrastructure, so I am just launching a few simple World Events to start to ensure they hit. I'll then role out new Events each week over the next few months. Note: these get pretty deep and eventually evolve into Novella-s…
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ FEATURES ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ · Now that the Hex Battle System is up and ripping, I am pushing to make Tower bosses a bit more moar. I'm going through all 100 and defining them uniquely with skills and tactics, which will take a hot minute and I'll be doing them chunk by chunk in the coming weeks. The first chunk is now up which are the "decade bosse…
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ FEATURES ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Tower · Send a scout below your front line to chart the floors ahead of you. Pick how deep to sound: the frontier (one floor down, 2 weeks) can be run solo, but two or three floors down (3 and 4 weeks) needs a garrison whose watch holds the front to escort the scout. While they're below, that wall runs bare and its decay…
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ FEATURES ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ The Tower Descent Oookay, the new Tower loadout process is now up for Beta players. This feature is still in the works, so I am 1000% looking for input, requests, and wishlist items. The in-game focus on the Tower will only grow, so I want to ensure this process is as enjoyable as possible and as clean to operate as I ca…
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ BUG FIXES ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Hiring & Roster · Hiring a gatherer or building-gated crafter no longer strands you on the "Staff Signed" celebration with no way out — the quick-hire menu and the C hotkey now refuse a hire your guild can't legally complete, and a blocked commit closes the screen instead of holding it. · The "view adventurer" link on a…
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ FEATURES ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ The Tactician's Desk I've been teasing for quite some time that the Tactician was going to become a star cornerstone of your guild someday, and that day is today. Press T or go to the Registry tab, once you unlock the War Room, you will have access to the new gambit-like system (Doctrine) and battlefield placement system…
The Hex Battle System goes live — every fight now plays out on real ground, with terrain, range and damage type deciding outcomes instead of a single power number. Plus Rival Guild Duels, Party Reservations, nine new battlefields, and a season's worth of quality-of-life. A total of eight betas over the last two weeks all land together in today's Live patch and the headline is the one that chang…
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ BUG FIXES ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Battle Reports & Replays · An adventurer the fight left injured, or retired near-death, no longer shows 0 damage taken. Their debrief line is floored at the health they actually lost. · A hero who falls on a quest is back in the Party Performance table, marked with a skull and a struck-through name, instead of vanishing…
──────────────────────── NEW FEATURES ──────────────────────── - Clicking any staff portrait opens a mini-dossier — level, tier and skill, current task with progress, wage, contract years and experience bar — with an Open Dossier button that jumps straight to the staff record. - Tacticians show their specialization and its drill count on that card. - The hex battle log gains a Comms tab: your u…
──────────────────────── NEW FEATURES ──────────────────────── Range Changes Heads up that I just pushed an update to class attack ranges yesterday and ended up actually really disliking the feel and balance impact today during testing, so I reverted those changes. I'll revisit that idea down the road. Multiplayer - Lobby standings gain a Duels tab beside Renown, ranking human guilds by win–los…
──────────────────────── NEW FEATURES ──────────────────────── CCL Duels (Early ELO System) - Guild standings gain a sortable ELO column, and your division header shows your rating and rank tier beside it. - Rival guilds now carry a real, moving rating: each week they play simulated near-rating duels among themselves, so the ladder is a live race. Your declared challenges move both sides — your…
──────────────────────── NEW FEATURES ──────────────────────── Reserved Deployments - Reserve a raid or a Tower descent while your parties are still in the field: pick the full formation, and the reservation holds those parties off every automated path — quest and contract queues, gambits, commander directives, auto-training — then launches the deployment itself the week the last party comes ho…
──────────────────────── NEW FEATURES ──────────────────────── Multiplayer Trading - Multiplayer trading with other guildmasters now lives in Markets under a new League tab. - The League Lobby now points you to the League tab, and the Tower's "Supply the Front" button opens the composer pre-addressed to the guild that cleared the floor. Counter-Intelligence - Rival trade offers for an adventure…
Holy moly there is a lot going on with Gargadusa right now. So much, in fact, that I'm going to skip Live patch today so that the Beta can get some more miles before I flip the switch. I know, I know. I'd usually just rip it, but I am growing as a person. Today, the Beta is updated with the below, but the big ticket item is the Hex Battle System (HBS) + the NEW math (Math v2). I sadly shipped t…
──────────────────────── NEW FEATURES ──────────────────────── The Battle Engine After 10 weeks of building a new battle engine and slowly sneaking the backend logic into the game over the last month, it's now ready for beta play. The math is mathing, the sim is simming, and it just looks cool. As always, this is a new feature that is ready for feedback and testing, so I of course put it into t…
──────────────────────── NEW FEATURES ──────────────────────── - Patrols is now "mostly" done ;) Enjoy the freedom to assign a party to a region and that party will automatically pick up quests that pop-up in that zone. This will become very important when World Events are live and shit ton of goblins show up out of nowhere near the Shallow Sea. - I have the Deepforge Compact system enabled on…
──────────────────────── NEW FEATURES ──────────────────────── - The commander's patrol recommendation is now a written ask in the Commander's Ledger: a ⚑ Patrol entry naming the region, with a six-week deadline. Stationing a patrol there by any route counts as followed and builds trust; letting the ask lapse costs it, and if a rival plants their standard on that region afterwards the commander…
Two weeks ago I pushed a big update to Beta: the War Table, a living map of the frontier, and a rework of how leveling and XP work game-wide. For the full breakdown of those two systems, I highly recommend reading the XP & Leveling and War Table announcement for all of the hot deets . Also! Multiplayer has finally been battle-tested enough that I'm comfortable moving it into open beta and marki…
──────────────────────── NEW FEATURES ──────────────────────── - At a Tier 3 Wellspring, a completed Mastery Path lets you choose the reawakened ability from the slot's pool instead of rolling for it. The dossier's charge buttons now read "Choose Passive/Active" when a pick is available. - The Wellspring now lists your Active Mastery Paths at a glance — each protégé, their mentor, and per-objec…
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