August 30 Weekly Update: Responding to Hakurei Feedback; Faction Tuning Continues

Hello everyone! This is Tenkajin IceCream, developer of TOHOTOPIA!

Here is our development update for August 24-30.

Hakurei Empire: Continuing Adjustments Based on Your Feedback

Last week, we released a phased update for the Hakurei Empire. To clarify again, this update covered only the core faction adjustments; the Hero adjustments are not yet complete.

After the update, we received a great deal of feedback, especially about land combat and the design of the "Berserker Samurai." We are reviewing these comments one by one, checking them against actual match performance, and continuing targeted improvements. Next, we will continue adjusting the Hakurei Empire's naval combat while strengthening its land economy and land combat, improving how it develops and fights on land. Thank you for taking the time to tell us how the game genuinely feels to play.

About Our Development Pace

TOHOTOPIA is currently developed by just the two of us. Faction and Hero adjustments require design, implementation, and repeated testing, and many pieces of feedback must be validated across different maps and match environments. As a result, our design, development, and testing pace is relatively slow, and we hope for your understanding. We will do our best to make each adjustment solid and will continue sharing our progress.

Our Next Faction and Hero Adjustment Roadmap

We have also continued collecting and recording gameplay experiences and feedback for the other factions. They have not been ignored; each will enter the adjustment process in the planned order.

We will proceed in this order:
Complete the Hakurei Empire's core faction and Hero adjustments -> core Hourai Empire adjustments -> core Moriya Empire adjustments -> overall balance adjustments for all Heroes -> a final review of the Komeiji and Scarlet Empires.

After every major adjustment update, we will also launch a focused survey to collect more feedback from actual play and use it for further tuning.

This Week's Version Maintenance

This week, the Beta version was updated to V0.7.9d. We adjusted Neutral City-State Heroes' Zones of Control, Barbarian Camp clearing during territory expansion, and Hero deployment information. We also continued fixing issues involving Heroes, ships, map information, the Library, and Empire Timeline, while improving related descriptions and usability.

The Myouren Empire and Supporting Features

The sixth faction, the Myouren Empire, remains in active development. Meanwhile, supporting features such as spectating, replay improvements, post-match statistics, multiplayer improvements, translation, and localization are also being developed and refined. They may not all arrive in the same update, but we will continue working through them one by one.

Thank you for your continued support, and once again, thank you to every player who has taken the time to play and share feedback!