Patch 12 is now available on the Beta Branch!
After taking a short winter break over Christmas, we’re back with fresh godly energy – and we’re excited to introduce a brand-new feature: Hero Priests!
You mighty gods can now delegate minor wonder-making tasks to especially powerful mortals.
Every time you complete a quest, you’ll get to choose:
Create a new Hero Priest by transforming one of your believers
Or upgrade one of your existing heroes
With each upgrade, a hero can perform more wonders – and they’ll even start hovering to speed things up. Sure, they slowly lose their soul in the process… but who’s counting?
Do you care?
As always, the choice is yours.
You can also give your heroes guidance and define their profile, similar to high-level settlement management: Destroyer or Preserver (with more profiles planned for the future).
And this is just the beginning! We’re already planning additional features for Hero Priests – like possessing them… or maybe even possessing any mortal? 👀
We’d love to hear what you think about the Hero Priest feature and what you’d like to do with them!
On top of that, we’ve added a new drawing ability for the Water Orb:
🌫️ Summon a fog of war that hides your mortals and protects them from enemy god interactions
🌧️ Or conjure a massive magical rain to grow food
We'll show you some more footage in our next news post!
Now that we’re fully awake from our winter sleep and have done plenty of long-term planning over the past weeks, all we can say is:
Stay tuned – there’s much more to come. 🔥
Added general hero priest feature
Added hero priest profile: Destroyer
Added hero priest profile: Preserver
Added hero priest daytime logic
Added hero priest fight support logic
Added drag and drop logic to assign hero priest to neutral or own villages
Added hero priest transformation wonder: apotheosis
Added tutorial for hero priests
Added clockwise drawing wonder fog of war
Added counterclockwise drawing wonder grow food
Added depth of field and distance fog dependent on camera distance and angle
Performance improvements on building damage transformer logic (reduces lages when using meteor strike or similar)
Minor Improvements:
Godly fist can now be used directly in context where no collecting action is triggered
Fixed bug related to blueprint extraction for invalid building types
Fixed two bugs related to broken savegames
Improved lowe res collider data for all scenes
Minor general performance improvements
Open your Steam Library
Right-click on Fata Deum → Properties
Go to the Betas tab
Select Open - Beta from the dropdown menu
Close the window – Steam will now automatically download the Beta version
We hope you enjoy this patch and are looking forward to your feedback!