Updates Summary
Norsemen Faction
Play as the brand new Viking-inspired faction surviving in the snowy, bitter boreal wilderness.
Unique Resources: Mead and Cheese
Unique Military Units: Berserker and Longship
Unique Wonders: Great Long Hall, Basilica, Stave Church
New Buildings
Only one Provincial Building can be built per province
Crop Breeders: Farm special crops nearby
Luxury Importer: Importing Luxury will now require the Luxury Importer. (to prevent exploitation of Luxury Imports.)
Card Shop: Buy buildings, province-specialty, and slot cards!
Naval Control: Create sea trade blockade - collecting fee of other players' ports
Deepsea Fishing Port: Fish for Deepsea Tuna populated around reefs all over the world's oceans.
Ships Sailing: Fishers, and Traders now sail with their ships.
Farming Productivity / Fertility Map revamp
- Crop Breeders now replace the Province-based Resources that appear at the start of the game.
- Farming Productivity affected by Crop Yield and Fertility Dependence
- Balance fertility rate across different Biomes
- Fertile Province: Find fertile map icons indicating high fertility provinces suitable for crop farming.
Electricity Revamp: Reworked Electricity UI / Distribution / Balance
Military Revamp: New Military Unit Slots. Increase your Military Slots by growing your population.
Rebalanced Military Units - Power and Cost
Gameplay Rebalance: Many aspects of the game (e.g. cost, consumption, population, upgrade system) have been adjusted to ensure challenging gameplay into the endgame
Gameplay Optimization: Improved gameplay performance, including pathfinding and UI performance
Upgrade Points System: New resource designed to make building upgrade choices more interesting, and to help keep the gameplay engaging into the endgame.
Beta can be access from here:
- Find "Kingdoms Reborn" in your steam library
- Right-Click → "Properties" → Select "BETAS" Tab
- Under the dropdown menu: “Select the beta you would like to opt into:”
- Select “test - Viking Beta”
The full update should be out on December 15, 2022.
Thank you again for your patience and support!
Kingdoms Reborn Team :)