Legates,
Greetings! I am back from the GDC and working hard as we draw closer to the end of Warlord: Britannia’s official roadmap.
This update aims to address a long standing point of contention in the game, its tutorial. Some players appreciate the hands-off approach to the help menu, while others found themselves overwhelmed, lost, and frustrated.
In order to solve this issue while maintaining a balance, the help menu has been reworked to include two books. The first book is a Quick Start guide, designed purely as a step-by-step tutorial, fast, organized, and without any superfluous information. The second book, which used to be the help menu, has been reworked into a Field Guide.
New players can now work their way through the Quick Start, which sees them set up camp and capture their first farm, and are then guided to the Field Guide for more advanced gameplay features and information. Returning players might benefit from browsing the Field Guide too, as new info was added.
In addition, the books are organized further into chapters, which are navigable either by changing pages, or using new dropdown panels.
Aside from the new help menu, see below for a list of changes and improvements.
As always, thank you for your support, and I will be back shortly with another addition before moving to the Animals and Ambience roadmap update!
Update Log:
- Added quick start guide
- Added field guide, replaces the old help menu text
- Added four new logistics-related museum exhibits
- Added option to call/uncall the command staff
- Added option to assign command staff to an outpost
- Added call all and un-call all buttons in legion tab
- Reworked Help menu to include books and chapters with subpages
- Improved formation mode switching with a bouncing cycle, insteading of reverting to marching from testudo, the formation returns to battle mode
- Edited core museum texts, awaiting edits for 3.0+ update content
- Increased ambient light at night
- Optimized torch and campfire lights
- Fixed escape menu camera sliding
- Fixed legionary weapons still up when disbanding in battle or testudo mode