Something big is coming...
Introducing Bad North: Jotunn Edition, a brand new content expansion, launching this summer - completely free, on all platforms.
The team have been hard at work listening to feedback and crafting exciting new features and content for the game. For those of you that have the game on Steam, we’d like to invite you to check out a public beta for this giant update, starting right now.
We really want your feedback on this preview build, so if you have thoughts on the balance, new features, or find some bugs (oh no!), let us know here:
https://rawfury.atlassian.net/servicedesk/customer/portal/1
(Select Bad North: Jotunn Edition under the game field)
What’s New?
Campaign Changes
We've reworked the campaign progression to show the enemy types on levels, advance the Viking Frontier faster and replaced individual gold with a shared gold pool. This all comes together to allow you to make much more informed strategic decisions between levels and makes tackling multiple islands per turn a more viable approach.
New Upgrades & Meta Progression
There are 4 more Items to find and we’re also introducing Commander Traits - smaller, passive buffs for your Commanders - so more than ever you will need to work with what you have and each run will be more unique. Over time you can unlock all these Items and Traits as Starting Upgrades, which you can select for your initial 2 Commanders when starting a new game.
Difficulty Changes
There are some new options for more casual play, such as Checkpoint Islands which give you a reset point, acting as a safety net for when your campaign reaches a tragic conclusion. You can also opt out of the "Iron Man" behaviour of the game by enabling Replayable Levels on a new campaign (no more save scrubbing needed!). And if more casual is not what you're looking for, we've also added an unlockable Very Hard difficulty for those who are up to the challenge.
On top of this we've tweaked up a lot of the basic / core mechanics, tightened up a lot of gameplay, polished the visuals further and added some quality of life features.
Features & Changes
🛡️4 new items
🛡️Hero Traits
🛡️See the enemy types you will face before playing a level
🛡️Shared gold
🛡️Checkpoints
🛡️Replayable Levels
🛡️Very Hard difficulty
🛡️Choose the look and loadout of your starting commanders
🛡️Unlock Items and Traits for your starting commanders
🛡️Track your unlocks in the new Codex
🛡️Replaced the red shielded vikings with a new enemy type
🛡️Units are more effective at retreating from enemies on command
🛡️Units (including shielded enemies) can be knocked off of ships
🛡️Rebalanced all attacks that launch units
🛡️Delete your old Save Games
🛡️Commander stats
Plus: Lots of visual / UI tweaks, small gameplay changes and too many things for us to ever list here!
To Access The Beta
In your Steam Library, right click on Bad North -> Properties
In the BETAS tab, click in the dropdown and select public_beta
The game will start updating and once it’s done, you will be in the preview of the Jotunn Edition!
Send feedback and bugs to https://rawfury.atlassian.net/servicedesk/customer/portal/1 (Select Bad North: Jotunn Edition under the game field)
Your progress in this beta won't carry over to the full game, nor will it replace any existing progress.
Please note that any and all content is subject to change during and after this beta period. Viking safety cannot be guaranteed.
Thank you
/Plausible Concept & Raw Fury