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The v5.5 beta update brings more balance improvements and bug fixes to the game.
Changelog coming soon.
There’s a ton of bug fixes and some major balance adjustments as well. Read on for specifics...
UI Improvements & Visual improvements
Updated tooltip breakdown for Logistics to further break out the various sources of plusses and minuses
outro video plays for victories
Update to SK Stronghold graphics and SK Fortress.
Update to Arctic Tactical Maps particle effect (took out the sun glows). Updated the tactical map tile selection cursor, making it slightly more opaque. This makes in-world UI elements easier to see during snowy tactical battles
Added minor race description tooltips to Rival Setup screen
Clicking "equip" button on unit context window opens unit details window to equipment tab
Tons of new and updated icons for items, units, and improvements.
Update to Kingdom Tactical Maps artwork
Update to some of the Kingdom tactical maps assets (particles, non-traversable area texture, and rock props).
Update to Swamp City tactical battle map layout.
Update to SK Stronghold tactical maps (added 3 more new ones).
Update to the Armageddon (shadow world portal) tile design graphics.
Tile design for swamp forest tactical maps.
Art assets for Kingdom Monster Lair tactical battles.
Additional Swamp Tactical battle maps and updates to Swamp Tactical Battle maps graphic
Added particle effects to Kingdom tactical maps. Created new Dungeon tactical maps.
Centered load game screen
New city arrow sfx
Added wolf bite animation, and all rival pioneers.
Implemented art for Syndicate enforcer and Assassin
Added Rival pioneer mule textures.
Skin, Primary, and Secondary materials now have their own skymap. Specular intensity raised on Primary and Secondary.
Tactical Battles now plays the 'end boss' theme if you're fighting the SK
Hooked up other Stronghold maps (game uses world location to randomize these, so every battle at a given stronghold will result in the same map)
Toolbox button on Title Window changed visually, and location is lower left.
Balance & Tweaks
Enchanting loot balance overhaul
Items
Adding enchanted versions of lots of items. All items that aren't quest items or consumables should be enchantable.
Adding enchanted versions of lots of items
Swords, Bows, and Staves stats tweaked
Unique sword, Sword of the Sun and Moon magically increases speed of user now does 16 damage but requires level 8 to use now
Sword of the Void lowered from 42 attack to 18 attack but no longer snuffs out all XP earned, requires level 10 to use (instead of 12)
Most bows now have a level requirement, even if it's a low one
Bow weapons lowered in damage they cause
Added new weapon recipes
Lots of minor tweaking and balancing to weapons
Most found weapons now require some level req
Replaced old instances of Potion Healing with Major Healing Potion
New item: "Essence Scroll" that adds +1 essence slot to one of your cities.
Several new Rare recipes added to the game.
Skath Egg replaced with Drake Egg (gives a Drake Cub unit)
Darkling Cloak now also unlocks Shadowshift
SK army size default increased from 4 to 5
Every 150 turns, the SK army size will grow by 1
SK higher level armies have fewer super tough monsters and more darklings (fodder).
SK threat check based on player city count softened to allow 4 cities before it ensures a threat of 1
SK units more likely to form armies (fewer 1 unit darklings)
Default number of SK units decreased slightly
Rival faction units grow to their calculated size slowly instead of instantly.
More fertile tiles to world
Quests
Changed ranged reward in "The Evil Skull Quest" from Pyre Sword to Short Serrated Sword
Changed Refined Crystal to Flawless Crystal for Imperium Trading Quest
Changed Refined Crystal to Flawless Crystal for Keepers Post-Alliance reward quest
Changed Refined Crystal to Flawless Crystal for Ice Lords Post-Alliance reward quest
Hero Quests are now first added to the list of 'Quests to Spawn' (get placed first, in case the map runs out of possible quest tiles)
Doomsday countdown changes
Revised -2 Doomsday rewards from most quests to be -4 Doomsday
Shard being destroyed doomsday penalty reduced from 25 to 20
Doomsday reduction from killing a LT increased from 10 to 50.
Added -25 Doomsday reward on alliance with a Rival Faction.
Courage event reduces doomsday by 2 instead of 10
Vomit Inn reduces doomsday by 1 instead of 2
Poacher quest reduces doomsday by 2 instead of 5
The slow digging option for treasure results in 1 doomsday point (instead of 0)
Talk to the skeletons quest reduces doomsday by 1 instead of 10
Misc
Rival factions will trade with the player through quest interactions
The Sorcerer King will trade with the player through quest interactions
removed physical attack from LTs (they are likely much easier now)
increased unit count in strongholds (they are much harder now)
Player starts with the ability to cast two sovereign spells instead of one
SK monster QUANTITY isn't affected as much by world conditions as it was before (before it would quadruple, now it increases by less than 2X, the quality of the units remains lethally the same as the doomsday counter goes up).
Minor races much better at building armies
Fixed enchantment ingredients that didn't show what they provided
Sovereigns
Guardian gets Restore Land when they get geomancy
Units
Vetrar can now cast Blizzard
Fallen Apprentice no longer had Daze, only uses Life Steal when she needs is, and now has a Dark Spread variant to hit an AOE
Harbinger now has a variant of 'Form of Mist'...heals for 3 turns while immune to physical attacks
Fire Mage can now cast Flame Dart
Enchanter (former Emissary): Weak magic unit that requires Crystal and a new 'Reliquary' Improvement. Enchanter has Haste (+5 Combat Speed), Reflect (unit Reflects 50% of Incoming Melee Damage), and Arcane Sword (Target gets +5 Attack for duration of battle) abilities
Cleric raised HP from 12 -> 24 (probably still too low for a single group unit)
Battle Mage HP raised 16 -> 24 (probably still too low for a single group unit)
Removed Divine Shield from Archers
Unit abilities
Removed the Mana cost from the 'Energizing Aura' ability
Arcane Shield: Now gives +3 defense (+1 per caster level)
Warriors might does +2 per attack instead of +1
Unit Changes
Kingdom:
Gave the Sentinel "Smite" (a double damage attack) so he's different from the Soldier
Add a "Rush" ability to all mounted units (friendly and enemy). The minor move increase they currently have over champions limited their uniqueness in tactical.
Increase Soldier & Sentinel moves from 3 to 4 (so Pikeman seem a bit more defensive)
Increase Rider moves to 6
Kingdom Soldier gets +1 Attack per Level
Kingdom Archer (Tier 1) no longer has Divine Shield
SK:
Umberdroth - Remove "Nightmare" got used too often instead of his more unique abilities
Warg Rider - Remove "unholy howl" got used too often instead of his more unique abilities
Vetrar - Remove "Fear" & "Nightmare" got used too often instead of his more unique abilities
Aegethon - Remove "Flying"
Monsters & Ruffians:
Skeletons immune to Poison
Blue Drake - more HP
Red Drake - immune to Fire
Fire Mage - immune to Fire, Vulnerable to Cold
Wolf - Removed Bleed & Deadly Bite
Ogre - added Immune to Poison, added Vulnerable to Lightning
Rival Factions:
-Wraiths are Immune to lightning instead of vulnerable to it
-Glacierlings are Vulnerable to Fire
Universal:
All Fire/Ice/etc. units have appropriate vulnerabilities and immunity
Replaced any "Sensitive to" abilities with "Vulnerable" so elemental damage is worthwhile
Monsters
Rabid wolves replaced by archers in the wandering monsters
More balancing of the # of monsters there should be, tying it to difficulty more
Wandering monster delay increased from 12 turns to 30 turns (you kill the wandering monster, you won't see it again for a long time)
Fallen apprentice combat speed increased from 15 to 20
Troll combat speed increased from 8 to 16
SK units generally made to be faster
Lowered accuracy on base bandits
Increased defense of bandits
General nerfing of the attack of monsters but increasing of their critical hit chance
General increase in the quantity of monsters in an army while lowering their quality a bit
Named monsters power increased
Monster Lairs
Monster lairs moved somewhat further away from starting locations (however, rare cases will still happen)
Turn 66 is the new base value for when monster lairs will tend to upgrade
Monster lairs will tend to have more units in them, the second level monster lair will tend to be about as strong as the unit's army (around combat rating 35)
More named enemies in uncommon or rare monster lairs
Higher level Lairs are buffed
Added rare drops to more lair drops
Barbarian Lair: reduced attack and HP of Barbarian Units
Shard count will be roughly 15 on arena and 30 on huge
Number of rivals allowed on arena lowered from 3 to 2
Reduced some units to drop the combat rating (16 down from 26)
Spells
Player starts with the ability to cast two sovereign spells instead of one.
Summon ice elemental requires minimum of 100 lore to be spent, costs 15 mana.
Summon skeleton no longer has a cooldown
Armageddon spells change such that the player gets to control the demon group that comes out.
new Priest spell "Heavenly Ward" that lets you use Destiny Favor to keep a trainable unit from dying at the end of a lost battle
All players get raise and lower land at the start
Raise/lower land no longer works on Shadowlands
Haste provides +20 to initiative
Raise land is now a 1 tile spell and works on water
Cooldowns put on summoning spells
Enchantment Summoning Spellbook vols 7 and 8 now do something
Transmutation spell now has a description pop-up of the item that just got made.
Bug Fixes
SK strongholds won't increase the SK's army limit by nearly as much
SK will no longer train Urxens until doomsday reaches 100
the SK hasn't contacted the player in at least 18 turns it will contact the player
# of shards no longer increase linearly with map size. Most of the shard count will be determined by the shards option in game setup.
Fixed the Priest Restore Land ability
Minor race trading with you no longer sets the last contact time so that the player can still contact the minor race.
Fixed Soulburning ability to work as described, no longer has a formatted text description
Added a fix for a loophole where you could get a conversation with a Minor Faction before having the "first contact" conversation.
Text tweaks to description of Drogon and Napahaz.
Fixed Soulburning ability to work as described, no longer has a formatted text description
Tweaked text to remove confusing references to "recruited champions."
changed size of minor heal potion icon
boots of fire and boots of ice now show up as armor instead of accessories
Fixed a few of the minor race Champs not having a move statistic
Most of the other sovereigns can now get resource harvesting
Fixed a stuck turn situation
Fixed bug where wrong tile was sent to function which places lieutenants
Added attack, OnHit, Select, Run, Death sfx for Rival Pioneers
Updated Core Units and Sound Packs for Rival Pioneers
Updated descriptions of the rival factions.
Quest ambiances now have music mixed in
added spellbook tooltips to spellbook icons/buttons on the Customize Sovereign Window
Fixed Unearth Dungeon and Ancient Tomb Portraits
'Reliquary' improvement is unlocked after 'Barracks'
Changed end game score calculation.
Fixed layout issues with the endgame screen
Added Abilities to the Ash Colossus summon, now leaves fire tiles around his spawn point
Priest tree now has 'Great Temples' properly coming from 'Shard Temples'
Vorpal Weapons now have icons
Fixed Swamp tactical battle map that didn't have proper blocked tiles set
Ogre Magus portrait hooked up
Healing Light formatted text fixed.
Guardian's "Volcanic Vengeance" ability now unlocks the Volcano spell.
Arcane Arrow ability should increase by # of Shards
Fixed 'Flaming Arrow' range issue and missing icon.
Shale Strike icon hooked up.
Swapped the Frozen Realm and Ice Lord pioneer portraits
Summoned units can now go immediately when called into battle
Rain of Arrows now ignores friendly unit in the hit radius
"Random Quest" tiles on maps and stamps will no longer pick from the 'Champion Statue' quests
Added a SMALL MAPS ONLY option for the 3rd Minor Race entry (when playing an Arena map)
Hooked up more items to be unlocked from the sovereigns' "Forging" ability
Help Menu Fixes
New Help Screen topics for: Rival Factions, Tactical Battle Initiative, Tactical Battle Tactics (sovereign casts, swarm, area of control),
Tweaked Shard Attacked and Pioneer tutorial popups to clarify certain mechanics
Added info on how to reset tutorial popups to tooltip in options
Transmutation Sovereign Ability description re-written.
Fixed the Dwarf Hero's axe in his left hand.
Fixed bug where sometimes a map wouldn't have a hero Statue
Fixed: Drogons 'new hero' quest had the wrong internal name
Quest Complete window: hooked up Defensive bonus icon
Changed to spell unlocked window to one with a shiny border
Units stationed in a city, or subunits of an army, now have disabled actions for actions that have no effect in those cases (guard, explore, pass).
Changed text for dialog box that comes up when Auto Explore is automatically cancelled due to having no more FOW to clear.
Fixed empty loot window when you step onto the abandoned ship
Added special "loss by doomsday" text during the endgame screen if that's how you lost
Revised text of Galor-SK Trading quest (Threat Level 0 Interaction).
Player Placement: added redundancy checks when placing the starting city for NON-LAND tiles and SK OWNED tiles
fixes issues with messed up Arena maps
Lieutenant Placement: added check for spots that are a bit further from the player. This fixes issues where the Lieutenants would be creeping about in your starting area.
Crafting window popup no longer shows dead units
Nerfed to the following roaming encounters
Crafting Window lists no longer pop back to top
when city levels up, or a resource improvement finishes, city hud is now updated to reflect any change in production has had on the number of turns left on the city's current project
addressed GWG issue where gamesave Loading screen is up and picture frame is cleared between games
Display HP loss or gain as a quest reward Quest Complete Window. Some quests do this, but it was not being displayed.
Champions defending Rivals capital cities are now lvl25
Customize Sovereign window controls are now pre-populated with information from the Sov passed in, so that you can edit what was already set, rather than having to start over every time.
Modified formatting on starting tutorial message
Fixed typo on sovereign quest
Lots of new goodie huts for variety, upgrade into much tougher creatures
Goodie huts have a chance to provide a rare item
General increase in the # of SK units allowed
Minimum spawn level now looks at total turns
# of minimum Sk units considers total turns
Greatly reduced the # of Urxens (SK pioneers) that spawn
There will tend to be a couple turn delay before the Sk confronts you about building a city
Rivals won't found cities for the first 30 turns
Rivals have less chance of training a pioneer
Fixed bug where logistics display would not show the +5 from the Warfare Sovereign trait until something else marked logistics as dirty
Changed default movie volume to 50
Fixed underlying issue that caused the Sk's sov not to be saved out, and would have to be recreated when the code eventually notices it's missing
Small text tweak to dress up a couple options (metals and crystal resources)
Fixed Barracks and Armory to unlock the proper things
Replaced Archer Increased Range bonus with a free Archer unit for one of the random quests.
Fixed: Choose your rivals - Portraits missing on map size change
Fixed crash due to running out of suitable starting locations in a tactical battle.
Upgraded the spider to an Ancient Black Widow to make it a little more menacing
New art assets for the Rival factions settled cities.
Fixed: UI unresponsive after after attempting to trigger Varda quest objective
Added ogre magus portrait added
Tweaked text to make the number of souls less specific so it doesn't imply any changes to population levels.
Sovereign - Updated Sovereign Descriptions to make sure gameplay differences are explained.
Game does a better job of placing the player on tiles with food yields when no starting points are available.
Beaches now take the surrounding tiles into account when determining what kind of beach they should be.
Updated intro tutorial text
Champion skill tree bg now have a new background image unit details window
Fixed: SK stronghold tactical battles show kingdom city
Removed SK monster lairs exuding purple ZoC change
Maps
Small maps now support 3 instead of 2 rivals
Medium supports 5 instead of 4 rivals
New Stronghold map where the player has 2 fronts to manage
Arena map size increased from 5x3 to 5x4
Revised Dungeon maps (and others that use dungeon secondary locations) to use a variety of different dungeon tactical maps.
Units
Scout bug fixed (Stealthy ability now works properly)
Falcon unit now retreats to the city (w/no Doom cost) when killed in battle
SK
Fixed bug where Sk wouldn't interact with player when intended
Game will no longer place SK strongholds if there aren't enough starting points (fixes bug where a Stronghold would be placed on the player's starting location)
If threat level is >0 and the player has at least 4 shards the SK has a 1% chance of summoning a nasty army and sending it your way
If the SK hasn't contacted you by turn 5, he will contact you.
No matter what you do, if you have more than 3 cities your Sk threat level will be at least 3.
Player trait events won't start until at least turn 20
Hooked up difficulty to how fast rivals fall under the thrall of the SK
SK challenge quest implemented
SK Trade at threat 0 quest implemented
SK Trading quests now have unique names
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