🎮 Features & FPS Boosts ⚬ Clearer Vision: Removed map blur for crisp, high-visibility tactical views. ⚬ Snappier UI: Blazing fast rendering for Nine-Patch widgets (menus, popups, dialog boxes) and faster stat icon builds. ⚬ Roster Optimization: Scrolling through your unit list is now dramatically smoother with zero stutters. 🛠️ Bug Fixes ⚬ Targeting Fix: Resolved typos and responsiveness issu…
🆕 New Features & Enhancements ⚬ Multiple Castles: Expanded gameplay support for controlling multiple castles. ⚬ Smarter AI: Overhauled AI targeting, event prioritization, and modified AI weight balancing. Includes a new AI weights debug overlay. ⚬ Encyclopedia Update: Replaced the dedicated encyclopedia route with a more seamless dialog view. ⚬ Detailed Tooltips: Stat tooltips now display mele…
🔮 New Spells, Abilities & Effects ⚬ Griffin Nest: You can now cast the Griffin Nest spell in-game. ⚬ Poison & Venom System: Rebuilt how poison works under the hood. You can now cast Poison on a successful hit, and Venom mechanics/tests have been updated. ⚬ Vampirism: Added missing translations and visual assets for Vampirism and Poison spells. 📜 Quest & Scoring Overhaul ⚬ Balanced Quest Weigh…
Version: 0.21.5+126 🧙♂️ Magic & Spells · New Spell - Vampirism: Drain the life force of your enemies to sustain your units in battle. · School of Enchantment: Unlocked new research options to enhance your magic arsenal. · School of Manipulation: New spellcraft research now available. · School of Energy: Master energy manipulation to modify spell casting costs in real-time. · Conjuration Asset…
New Features & Gameplay ⚬ New Spells: Added Chain Lightning, Lightning Strike, Unsummon, and a preview of Hand of Death. ⚬ Spell Mechanics & Economy: ⚬ Turn Swamp now yields resources, and Disenchant awards crystals. ⚬ Chain Lightning hits now trigger neutral unit aggression. ⚬ Added spell usage costs directly to the Spellbook UI. ⚬ Smarter AI: AI players now aggressively prioritize purchasing…
Combat & Unit Upgrades ⚬ Hydra Attack & Fairy Dragon: Hydras now deploy multi-headed strikes, while Fairy Dragons gain the attackDoesNotExhaustMovement trait to strike and move without losing momentum. ⚬ New Abilities & Status Effects: Implemented Life Drain, Curse, Forbiddance, and immunities against both Enchantment and Manipulation. ⚬ Specialized Defenses: Added Vanguard Defense, Crystal Uni…
New Spells & Magic ⚬ Command Beast: Dominate wild creatures and bend them to your will. ⚬ Word of Command: Instantly command targeted units across the battlefield. ⚬ Champion: Empower a unit into a high-powered champion. ⚬ Lycanthropy: Infect units with the lycan curse, featuring brand-new custom sound effects and visual transformations. ⚬ Bloodlust: Infuse your troops with battlefield rage to…
Faction & Faction Features: Introduced new faction selection inputs, updated faction coat-of-arms visuals, and placed owner faction coats of arms on top of buildings. ⚬ Spells & Balancing: Rebalanced spells and reassigned factions. Standardized all spell usage costs, introduced spell classifications (with custom AI usage logic), and updated the Ghoul unit stats. ⚬ Unit Mechanics: Added unit Ret…
New Features ⚬ Enhanced Hex Map & Overlays: Upgraded the hex map display, cursor interaction, and overlay handling. ⚬ Refined Combat & Movement: Improved attack and movement logic directly on the hex map, including updated movement cost calculations. ⚬ Movement Bonuses: Added movement bonus indicators and stats to both selected units and unit cards. Bug Fixes & Refinements ⚬ Unit Movement: Fixe…
✨ New Features & Gameplay ⚬ New Spell Added: Introduced the Stone Skin spell, complete with new visual effects and mechanics that trigger at the start of a player's turn. ⚬ Visual Flair: Coat of arms are now proudly displayed on player units directly on the hex map and within the attack dialog. ⚬ Map & Movement Upgrades: Enhanced hex map highlights, improved pathfinding logic, and refined movem…
Multiplayer & Lobby Improvements ⚬ Lobby Enhancements: Platform icons and Steam avatars are now visible in the lobby. ⚬ Chat Access: Press Tab to quickly open the chat window. ⚬ Seamless Messaging: Submit chat messages directly by pressing Enter. ⚬ Smarter UI: The chat overlay automatically hides when the gamelog is open to keep your screen uncluttered. ⚬ General Upgrades: Overall performance a…
🎮 New Features & Content ⚬ In-Game Encyclopedia: Added a brand new layout and gamepad scrolling support to browse game lore and mechanics easily. ⚬ Gamepad Support Improvements: Expanded controller integration across menus, including full navigation for the New Game dialog, turn button shortcuts, and smooth scrolling in the Buy Menu. ⚬ AI & Gameplay: AI players can now purchase research, turn-…
⚔️ AI & Performance Updates ⚬ Faster AI Turns: AI turn processing is now significantly faster, smoother, and isolated so it won't freeze your game. ⚬ Smarter Neutral AI: Neutral AI units can no longer pass through castle walls. ⌨️ Controls & Navigation ⚬ More Keyboard Shortcuts: Expanded keyboard controls across the game for faster navigation. ⚬ Keyboard Helper: Added a shortcut guide to the Se…
🚀 Steam & Community Integration ⚬ Steam Rich Presence: Friends can now see your in-game status and activity directly through Steam. ⚬ Steam User Account: Your Steam name and profile info are now integrated into the main menu and game launcher. ⚬ Auto-Player Name: The game now automatically adopts your active Steam or OS username upon launch. 🎮 Gameplay Improvements & Fixes ⚬ Smoother Turns &…
⚡ Performance & Gameplay ⚬ Faster Load Times: Asset loading is now significantly quicker. ⚬ Smoother Animations: Fixed several unit movement and combat animation glitches, especially in multiplayer. ⚬ Snappier Combat: Removed the delay before combat retaliation animations trigger. 📜 UI & Navigation Improvements ⚬ New Scrollbars: Added sleek custom scrollbars throughout the game UI and Encyclop…
🎮 Gamepad & Controller Improvements ⚬ Hex Map Panning: You can now use your controller to pan across the map. ⚬ Seamless Mouse Hiding: The mouse cursor automatically hides and stops hovering UI elements when gamepad input is detected. ⚬ Improved Menu Focus: Fixed an issue where gamepad focus was lost after closing the attack dialog. ⚬ General Polish: Multiple controller responsiveness and navi…
🎮 What’s New in Version 0.18.7 🏆 Quests & Notifications ⚬ End-Game Quest Reveal: All quests are now revealed at the end of a match, featuring prominent new notification banners. ⚬ Smart Notifications: Reveal notifications now properly display only to opposing players, and new alerts appear when upgrades are purchased. 📚 Encyclopedia & Lobby ⚬ Encyclopedia Enhancements: Overhauled visual styl…
⚔️ Gameplay & AI ⚬ Smarter AI: AI can now capture treasures, buy upgrades, reveal quests, and neutral AI attacks correctly. ⚬ Maps: Added map previews, map regeneration options, and more balanced unit placement. 🌐 Multiplayer & Lobbies ⚬ Public Games: Added a public game browser to easily find and join online games. ⚬ New Lobbies & Chat: Redesigned game/lobby screens and added in-game multipla…
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