━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 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 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 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one of the first systems I designed and over time piled up a good amount of tech debt and, frankly, felt just kind of outdated.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…
Each week seems to be coming with new and exciting features that have been a long-time coming, this week's is World Events. I am trying to be smart about this particular rollout because the World Events system touches almost everything in the game. In turn, I'm releasing chunks bit-by-bit. Today, the system now exists in game with only three possible World Events (each very simple) and over the…
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 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 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ The Tower Muster · I received a bunch of great feedback this week after the new Tower Loadout launched on Wednesday that folks missed being able to group by parties. So! I snuck that back in tied into the new system. · The muster picker's roster column is now The Registry, split into Roster and Parties tabs. The Parties…
Patch Notes: v2.0.0-beta.4029 (Live) ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ FEATURES ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ "The Shield of Hiltcrest" book is now up on Steam as a DLC It feels very fancy to have a support DLC, but it's extra neat to have it in book form :) With this update, you don't need to buy the book on Amazon, you can buy it directly on Steam and launch a book reader in-game, open PDF…
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 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…
Hex Battle System Performance Hotfix Watching a hex battle is smooth again. Some players were hitting lag and I knocked out a pile of efficiency hardening that should solve the issue. This is why I wanted to sneak in a patch today, so some fresh features are making it in today a bit earlier than I had planned. Fingers crossed everything is working ;) The Tactician's Desk I've been teasing for q…
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 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…
The Dwarves Have Come to Hiltcrest There is a knock at your gate, and it is not a courier. It is a Dwarven delegation, anvils and all, and they have a proposition. The Deepforge Compact is a new mid-game system: a Dwarven crew that quarters at your guild and puts their trade at your disposal. They refine your ore. They forge gear for your bare slots. They kit your parties before they march. And…
──────────────────────── 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 ──────────────────────── - Sage's Wisdom gains a "Limit Break" entry laying out how an adventurer's potential ceiling can rise: a dangerous win, an adventurer already near their ceiling, one break per fight, rarer the higher the tier, and never beyond S-Tier. The Growth & Aging entry and the celebration modal both point to it. - The Armory lists per-hero ge…
──────────────────────── 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…
\ I am very excited to finally push this update, it's been a long time coming. Today marks a game-wide update that fundamentally unifies how XP is acquired, how Leveling works across all unit types, and how Stats are earned. In short, leveling up is now how heroes gain stats, training grants XP + a Training Focus that shapes those level-ups, and staff grow from doing their jobs in the same way.…
Another massive weekly Live update is upon us! There are a ton of new goodies this week, but most updates are focused on improving existing systems (that's my theme for July). The Garrison Returns · The Garrison overhaul is back on: skirmishes and squad fatigue, weekly upkeep with salvage patrols, outpost fortifications, a second garrison slot with doctrines, depth-scaled manning with tower cal…
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