Skyward Collapse:Post Release Notes

Beta 1.014

(Not yet released; we're still working on it!)

• Fixed an issue in the prior version where Dark Elves were showing up as placeable for all the factions.
  • Thanks to Misery, melkathi, and vehementi for reporting.

• Clarified in Hofund's description that it destroys bandit keeps, monster nests, and ally camps.
  • Thanks to Misery for reporting.

• Bandit Keeps, Monster Nests, and Ally Camps now show their names in a smaller font than towns do, and with yellow coloring, to make them more clearly separated.

• The Edge of Civilization now just converts the buildings in the town range into fields, rather than converting ALL the tiles within range of the towns into obsidian. This is still harsh, but not so hugely evil.

• Ultima has been completely reworked, and now is allowed to strike on any difficulty level:
  • The ultimate magic is about to be unleashed, scouring the face of the continent clean. Cities are strong enough to resist, but every land tile on the entire map falls into blank, expressionless fields.
  • This is incredibly more tame, but also a lot less frustrating. It's also interesting because it basically blanks out the map, making movement unfettered, which is actually potentially an interesting challenge.

• Improved the accuracy of line of sight checks.

• The name "Stone Mason" in the left sidebar is now just "Mason" so that the words don't blend together with "Carpenter" next to it.

• Deer Parks, Breweries, and Wells can now be built starting in the setup phase, rather than requiring that you wait until the age of man.

• Mythological units now cost a single human soul imprint to place, but no soul imprints to upgrade.
  • This introduces a slight human-related cost to the placement of mythological creatures, and places them at odds with the other soul-costing abilities.
  • Still, this is a pretty tame cost by design, so that you're not having to have a bajillion humans dying in order to get mythologicals out there.
  • Thanks to Misery for suggesting.

• The pre-existing Dark Elf bandit-only mythological creature now only spawns in the first two ages, never in the age of gods.
  • Also, this creature now has a type of mythological rather than (oddly) infantry.

• Fixed an issue with the minotaur's level 4 attack power; it was only 4500 (lower than it's level 2 values even) instead of being 7000.

• When you go into upgrade mode for upgrading humans, it now darkens everything that has no possibility of being upgraded.

• When you go into repair mode for buildings, it now darkens everything that cannot be repaired at the moment.

• Fixed a pretty big oversight that was letting you convert enemy gods to your faction!

• When you go into convert-units-to-your-side mode, it now darkens everything that can't be converted.

• Fixed an oversight that was letting you bless building ruins that were near a bandit keep but not in an actual functioning town.

• When you go into bless-tiles mode, it now darkens everything that can't be blessed.

Monster Caves

• Added a new tile type: Monster Cave
  • A cave full of malevolent creatures just waiting to come out and wipe out both factions. Destroy these when you can!
  • These spawn on a separate counter from the Bandit Keeps, and only appear during the Age of Monsters and after during normal games. During the tutorial, these don't appear at all until the Age of Gods.

• Ullr's Rune Stone, Pan's Harpe, and Divine Summons now affect Monster Caves.

• Heavily reworked the spawning rates of the Bandit Keeps so that now they and the Monster Caves spawn at sensible rates on all the difficulties, in a good mix.
  • This may require some tuning, so please do let us know if you have any feedback.

9 New Bandit-Specific Mythological Creatures

• New bandit-only mythological unit: Turlhu
  • Specializes in drilling heavily-fortified tunnel networks through mountains, thus allowing other units to follow freely. Also deals lots of damage to enemies unlucky to come across it.

• New bandit-only mythological unit: Gorgon
  • Medusa was the most famous of the Gorgons, but by no means the only one. These have an incredibly low movement speed, and quite a wimpy melee attack. That said, every turn a single enemy human unit within her sight range will be turned to stone.

• New bandit-only mythological unit: Daeva
  • A dark imp that is not normally especially strong, but which insta-kills any human units that it attacks that are a lower level than itself.
  • Only appears in the first two ages.

• New bandit-only mythological unit: Grimn
  • Slashes all cardinally-adjacent enemies with its scythe. Specializes in taking out mythological creatures.
  • Only appears in the first two ages.

• New bandit-only mythological unit: Kappa
  • A trio of water imps. Able to move effortlessly through lakes and marshes, and receives a 5x attack bonus when attacking out from such a water source.
  • Only appears in the first two ages.

• New bandit-only mythological unit: Haim
  • Moves slowly, but deals massive amounts of damage to any units that come after it; as well as being able to take a punishing in return. Not at all effective against buildings, however.
  • Only appears in the first two ages.

• New bandit-only mythological unit: Kakus
  • So terrifying is this serpent-covered nightmare, that all human enemies within its range become unable to move, attack, or even counterattack.
  • Only appears in the age of gods (third age).

• New bandit-only mythological unit: Dryka
  • This hulking, armored monstrosity commands the battlefield around itself. Not at all effective against buildings, however.
  • Only appears in the age of gods (third age).

• New bandit-only mythological unit: Bune
  • Incredibly hardy, but not very strong. This deathly bird resurrects any non-god enemy units who die within 3 of it -- on its side, at level 4.
  • Only appears in the age of gods (third age).

Human Unit Diversification, Ally Camps

• The well, deer park, and brewery have been moved to the Finished Goods Producers part of the left sidebar, rather than being under Other Buildings. This simply makes a lot more sense.
  • Additionally, none of these are profile-level-gated anymore, so you can construct them at any time you wish right from when you first start playing Skyward Collapse.

• The following units can no longer be directly produced from human military buildings:
  • Norse Hersir (barracks)
  • Norse Archer (archery range)
  • Norse Ballista (siege workshop)
  • Greek Ekdromos (barracks)
  • Greek Sfendonitai (archery range)
  • Greek Siege Tower (siege workshop)
  • This makes it so that each of the main buildings now only has three units that can be produced there. And since the well, deer park, and brewery are now available from the start of the game, all three of those units in each building are available from the start.

• The units that are produced via the Inhabited Forests are now pulling from the three removed units of the faction that the new unit belongs to.

• Added a new tile type: Ally Camp
  • A self-sufficient camp of unique ally warriors living off the land in a wilderness hideaway. Circumstances have encouraged them to come out and fight for their faction.
  • These now spawn periodically, just like bandit keeps and monster caves do. These individually spawn about a third as often as the bandit keeps, so combined about two thirds as often.
  • The human military units that were removed from the normal military producer buildings now come out of these. These have half as much health as a bandit keep, and are aligned with a specific faction. So these are yet another source of chaos on the map.

• Previously there were distinctions of heavy/light infantry, mythological, and siege units. These have all been condensed down to just single infantry, mythological, and siege classes, without the heavy/light distinctions.
  • We made very little use of the heavy/light distinctions in a meaningful way previously, and the distinctions were too confusingly obtuse to really be able to be remembered.
  • Additionally, Pikeman has been wrapped into the Infantry class, and Thrower has been wrapped into the general Archer class, all for the same reasons.
  • It was extremely difficult to remember offhand what sub-species of unit each type of thing was, making it so that most people just wouldn't even try to understand them. The idea is that now there are few enough flavors that we can do meaningful rock-paper-scissors sorts of bonuses on attack and defense without it being too complex to follow.

• It is now possible for units to have defense bonuses instead of just attack bonuses, and in fact most units will now have the defensive bonuses rather than the attack ones.
  • This makes the units actually a lot more specialized, without going back into that whole "one hit kill" territory all the time.
  • We strongly considered making the defensive bonuses scale down by general difficulty so that you wouldn't have to consider the rock-paper-scissors aspect so much on those levels... but honestly in the end we thought that would be more confusing since you'd have to re-learn what was needed at each difficulty level.
  • As it is, these defensive bonuses are enough to be interesting and to make you have to think about what kinds of units you are fielding, but it's not enough (we think, anyway) to make it impossible to win on the lower difficulties if you are not paying close attention to it.
  • Thanks to Misery for suggesting we look at ways to make the human units more distinctive from one another. We considered doing things like giving them special abilities, but that would really step on the toes of the mythological creatures, so we decided not to do that.

• The secondary class distinctions of the mythological creatures have been removed, as that would have really thrown off the bonuses that humans get against those secondary classes, making mythologicals too ineffective.

• The descriptions of most of the human military units have been completely reworked to explain better what the heck they are for.

• The "Ruins: Cubed Target Bonuses" bonus has been clarified into "Ruins: Cubed Attack/Defense Bonuses"

Revamp Of Attack And Defense Bonuses On Units

• Cerberus no longer gets a 1.3x attack bonus against light siege units.

• Centaurs no longer get attack bonuses of 1.1 against throwers and 1.3 against archers.

• The attack bonuses of frost giants against mythological creatures has been increased from 1.4x to 3x.

• The attack bonuses of light elves and trolls against mythological creatures has been increased from 1.2x to 1.8x.

• The attack bonuses of valkyrie against mythological creatures has been increased from 4.5x to 5x.

• The attack bonuses of ekdromos against cavalry has been increased from 1.3x to 3x, and a defense bonus of 0.33x against cavalry has been added.

• The attack bonuses of peltasts have been removed, and defensive bonuses of 0.2x against siege and 0.1x against archers have been added.

• The attack bonuses of podromos have been removed, and defensive bonuses of 0.4x against cavalry and 0.1x against infantry have been added.

• The attack bonuses of xiphos have been removed, and defensive bonuses of 0.1x against both infantry and archers have been added.

• The attack bonuses of berserks have been wiped out and replaced with a 3x bonus against infantry. They also now have a 0.3x defensive bonus against infantry, and a 0.6x defensive bonus against archers.

• The attack bonuses of hersir have been removed, and defensive bonuses of 0.5x against mythological, and 0.1x against siege, have been added.

• The attack bonuses of huscarl have been removed, and defensive bonuses of 0.1x against both siege and archers have been added.

• The attack bonuses of marauders against archers has been increased from 1.2x to 2x, and their bonus against siege has increased from 1.15x to 1.5x.

• The attack bonuses of toxotes have been removed, and defensive bonuses of 0.4x against infantry, and 0.1x against siege, have been added.

• The attack bonuses of akontistai have been replaced with a 3x attack bonus against cavalry, and a defense bonus of 0.33x against cavalry.

• The attack bonuses of lithovoloi have been replaced with a 4x attack bonus against mythologicals and gods, and a defense bonus of 0.4x against mythologicals and gods.

• The attack bonuses of sfendonitai have been removed, and defensive bonuses of 0.2x against infantry, archers, cavalry, and siege have been added.

• The attack bonuses of axe throwers have been removed, and defensive bonuses of 0.2x against infantry and mythologicals have been added.

• The attack bonuses of shotputs have been removed, and defensive bonuses of 0.2x against archers have been added.

• The attack bonuses of draconaria have been removed, and defensive bonuses of 0.4x against infantry have been added.

• The attack bonuses of drukru have been removed, and defensive bonuses of 0.2x against mythologicals have been added.

• The upgrade costs of hippo-toxotes were previously blank, but have now been filled in.

Improved Resource Costs Of Human Units For Greater Control Of Production

• The resource costs of a number of the human units have been messed around with, to make sure that you have full (or in some cases easier) control over which are built when, depending on what finished goods producers you put in each town.
  • The idea is that you shouldn't HAVE to have certain units auto-producing when you are really trying to auto-produce something else. That was always the design intent, but we messed it up in a few places.

• The hersir now requires horse meat instead of water flasks, and the huscarl is vice-versa.

• Marauders and Prodromos now require venison.

• Lithovoloi and Xiphos now require ale.

• The trojan horse now requires lumber instead of rocks, and also now requires ale.

• Oxybeles now require more bacon than before, no longer require bread, and now require venison.

• Arsonists now require ale instead of water flasks.

• Mortars now require water flasks instead of ale.

• Catapults now require more lumber than before, and now require venison instead of horse meat.

Tutorial Update To Account For Revised Unit Costs

• The "Build A Rock Quarry" step in the red faction phase of the tutorial has been removed. We need that action for something else now!

• A new "Build a Brewery" step has been added in at the end of the red faction phase of the tutorial.
  • This explains more about how you can control unit production on a per-town basis, and makes it so that berserks are able to be produced when the age of man starts.
  • Given the new requirements for the various norse units, one new building of some sort was now needed to see any units at all coming from that barracks.

Embassy Revamp

• The Embassy graphic has been replaced with the Inn graphic. Given that these are going to be seen a lot more, the Embassy graphics we had before were just never quite working out.

• As a consequence of the above, the Inn tile has been removed from the game. There was nothing wrong with it, but it was only a more minor bonus anyhow, and we needed the graphic for the Embassy.
  • All existing Inns in savegames have been converted to fields.

• Diplomats have been removed from the game, as has the concept of enlightenment. Welp, that's the last of the civilians stripped out now!

• The function of embassies has been completely revised, since the old function was fiddly as well as extremely underused. It tended to be underpowered in most cases, and overpowered in the few cases where you could actually manage some enlightenment.
  • The more embassies on the map, for either faction, the slower bandit keeps, monster caves, and ally camps will be to appear. The multiplier that these cause is 0.95 to the power of the count of embassies.
  • One embassy is 0.95^1, which means a 5% slowdown. Five embassies are 0.95^5, which means a 22.6% slowdown. Ten embassies are a 40.1% slowdown. Twenty = 64.2%. Thirty = 78.5%. Forty = 87.1%. By eighty embassies you have around a 99% slowdown.

Trade Revamp, New Currency Resource, Building Upgrades

• The previous function of trading posts and bazaars (and thus by extension the entire previous trade model) has been completely removed. Like the function of embassies, this was an area of the game that simply wasn't up to the level of the rest of the game, and which consequently was largely ignored.

• A new Currency resource has been added to the game. The current icon for this is temporary.
  • Currency is now generated at trading posts and bazaars. 1 currency per turn at trading posts, and 2 per turn at bazaars.
  • Side note: in the first expansion, the hamlets will be a source of Currency as well as the expansion-specific Culture resource.

Profile Level Unlock Changes, Related Achievement Updates

• The following profile level unlocks have been changed:
  • The old 4, 6, and 10 unlocks were removed because those were the well, deer park, and brewery, which you now get from the start of the game.
  • Additionally, since the inn was removed the level 8 unlock went with it.
  • Embassy 5 => 4
  • Bazaar 7 => 5
  • Artist's Studio 9 => 6
  • Amphitheater 11 => 7
  • Coliseum 12 => 8
  • Statue Of The Creator 13 => 9

• The maximum profile level is now 9 instead of 13.

• The achievements for reaching profile levels 10 through 13 have been removed.

Official 1.013 Godly Gods

(Released June 21st, 2013)

• Fixed an issue where, in the past few versions, bandit counts for total created archery units, total barracks units, etc, were not counting up.

• Fixed an issue where, in the past few versions, Dark Elves (and by extension technically other bandit-specific mythological units, although there are none others yet) were not forbidden to pick up tokens and other bonuses.
  • Thanks to melkathi for reporting.

• Fixed an issue in the last couple of versions where resource drops were not appropriately linked to one side, and thus were not actually giving resources to the side that placed them.
  • Thanks to Billick for reporting.

• The maximum health of gods has been increased 8x, and their attack power has been increased 6x.
  • This makes god-killing actually something really difficult to do even with highly buffed units.

Official 1.012 Just Bonuses All The Way Down

(Released June 19th, 2013)

• The deaths of bandit units and buildings now contribute to your score, where previously they did not.
  • This is done for a number of reasons, mainly to avoid confusion and an arbitrary-seeming rule. This also avoids encouraging a particularly defensive playing style above all others.
  • Older savegames have been updated to include score for prior yellow deaths at the current going rate of whatever your current age is. So in other words, you get off easy with extra points in the ages of monsters and gods compared to the age of man. This is going to make the bandit deaths look way more valuable than the red and blue ones in that savegame, but that's just due to the upgrade and is not a bug.
  • Thanks to Billick, nas1m, LaughingThesaurus, Mick, and DakaSha for suggesting.

• The score gates have been increased by 15% across all of the ages, to account for the roughly 15% extra score (on average, but it will vary heavily) you are likely to get from the fact that bandit units and buildings are now granting you points on their deaths.
  • Existing savegames have had their scored points increased by 15%, to prevent situations where you automatically lose when opening an old savegame in the new version, etc.

• The tooltip for the bandits now properly counts the new barracks, archery, and siege units in its rollup counts.

• In the prior version, a fix was put in to not assign mythological and god tokens to a specific faction if they were not actually related to just that faction. So something like Armageddon, which affects everyone equally, or even Midgard Serpent, do not need a faction flag.
  • Unfortunately, an accidental side effect was to break all sorts of mythological and god token functions for those that actually need to be assigned to a specific faction in order to work.
  • As part of this fix, existing savegames will update to automatically assign affected tokens to the appropriate matching faction. Or if both factions are (say) Norse, then a Norse token that is in play will go to the red faction, since it can't know which faction actually placed it in that particular case.
  • Affected tokens include, but were not limited to: Norns, Eldhrimnir, Delos, and Palladium.
  • Thanks to nas1m and Misery for reporting.

• Updated the Delos token to be more clear that it is only talking about making resource costs free, and not also eliminating AP costs.
  • Thanks to nas1m for suggesting.

• The unit type of Sarmantian Archers was thrower, when it should have been archer.
  • Thanks to Misery for reporting.

• Previously, there was some logic that was a bit confusing for even veteran players (who often didn't know about it):
  • If a unit had previously picked up a bonus directly (as opposed to being granted a bonus through a god power, woe, or from buildings in the town they started in), then they would no longer be able to pick up any more bonus tokens or ransack any more ruins.
  • This made sense in terms of the ruins, but was confusing with tokens that units would inexplicably just walk past, seeming like a bug or like frustrating AI at best.
  • The logic has thus been changed so that:
    • If units already have a specific token's bonus, that they cannot pick up that token. Otherwise they can pick up as many tokens as they come across.
    • Each unit can only ransack a single ruins tile once, as before.
  • This new logic will actually change game flow more than a little bit, because it really allows for mega super units with bonuses stacked like crazy. That sort of unit is not typically to your advantage, so that's ok. ;)
  • Thanks to nas1m, Winge, and Misery for reporting the confusion with this mechanic.

• Previously, Mountain Divide and Lake Lure would include bridges and tunnels, which was confusing especially at the start of the game. They no longer do.
  • Thanks to Misery for reporting.

• Both the keyboard and mouse panning speeds have been increased 50%.
  • TIP: If you hold Shift, then keyboard panning goes twice as fast.
  • Now if you hold shift, then mouse panning also goes twice as fast. That was not previously the case.
  • Thanks to Honknatter for inspiring this change.

• There are now two new sliders in the Extras tab of the settings screen, one each for mouse and keyboard panning speeds.
  • Thanks to Admiral, Castruccio, Winge, and Honknatter for suggesting.

• Added a new settings option in the Extras tab (defaults to off): Show Auto-Heal Popups
  • With this on, little popups happen every time units auto-heal themselves. This tends to flood the screen with floating text, so it's only so useful. Normally you'd just look at their health bars to analyze what happened, but this option exists for those who want it.
  • Thanks to YoukaiCountry and Mick for suggesting.

• The text "Upgrade Human Unit" has now been renamed to "Upgrade Human Or Mythological Unit" since mythologicals have been upgrade-able for a while now.
  • Thanks to zharmad for reporting.

• Fixed an issue with the on-unit bonus text for the Nemean Lion, which referenced immunity to human units rather than bandit units.
  • Thanks to Winge for reporting.

Official 1.011

(Released June 15th, 2013)

• Fixed a bug where a variety of mythological tokens were not ending in 1.010.
  • Thanks to Warpstorm, kai_kratz, and nas1m for reporting.

• Fixed a couple of issues with monsters not dying properly in 1.010, and then all sorts of downstream wonkiness from that plus the mythological tokens bug.
  • Thanks to nas1m for reporting.

• Fixed a bug with the Armageddon tooltip being way too wide.
  • Thanks to Ravinius for reporting.

Official 1.010 Self Immolation

(Released June 14th, 2013)

• The icons on the left sidebar have been completely reworked to pull from Nick Trujillo's comic rather than the icons we had before. These are a lot more visually-descriptive icons in terms of telling you what each page are.
  • In particular, even we had trouble remembering the direct actions versus god tokens versus mythological tokens from time to time. Just a brief brain blip, but if we were doing that then it's a sure bet that it was confusing for new folks.

• The Undo button has been moved directly under the actions count on the left sidebar, so that it's a lot more noticeable when you are looking at how many actions you have left. Some folks were not even finding the undo button, and this should help solve that.

• A small button that opens the menu has been added to the left sidebar, directly under the undo button. This has been requested a number of times, and especially should help on windows 8 tablets.
  • Thanks to Cyborg, windgen, and mrhanman for suggesting.

• Updated the unit AI so that if a unit is immune to attacks from a potential target, it gives much higher weight to that target than normal.
  • Thus units with the nemean lion will really prefer to hit human units rather than running for buildings, etc.
  • Thanks to nas1m for suggesting.

• Fixed a typo in the statue of the creator tooltip.
  • Thanks to Winge for reporting.

• Fixed a typo in the Ares tooltip.
  • Thanks to Mick for reporting.

• Fixed a typo in the "Zoom Keyboard In To Cursor" tooltip, along with two other tooltips.
  • Thanks to solosol for reporting.

• Updated the "Entertained" description to properly reference AP instead of movement range. Technically these are the same thing, but it's more confusing to use the other wording.
  • Thanks to Misery for reporting.

• Fixed a textual inaccuracy that said that Norse Shotputs could not attack units. They can, and were doing so.
  • Thanks to seiferkatt for reporting.

• Fixed a typo in the Thanatos' Gathering tooltip.
  • Thanks to nas1m for reporting.

• Updated the description of the Mountain Divide map type to no longer reference having to smite and then place map tiles, and to now include a reference to bandits drilling through mountains.
  • Thanks to Winge for reporting.

• Updated the midgard serpent to destroy half as many land tiles as it previously did, and 1/6th as many building ruins tiles as it previously did, as it was more than a bit overpowered.
  • It also now gives you a negative score of the same magnitude that it used to give you positive. So not very large, but nontrivial.
  • Thanks to Billick and LaughingThesaurus for suggesting.

• Grassy Ruins (active or inactive) can now be blessed into just a plain old field.
  • Thanks to Misery for suggesting.

• The description of the Sherwood map type now explains what the heck inhabited forests do.

• The default map type for new players is now the Plateau Of Circumstance, since that's by far the most popular one.

• The distance out from existing land that the "town center can be placed here" display shows has now been doubled from 2 tiles to 4.
  • This prevents players from needing to build out some land a little bit, and then undo them, to see far enough as to where they can place town centers.
  • It does cause a noticeable delay when first selecting a town center for placement on very large maps, but this is still just a second or so (depending on your CPU speed) and seems outweighed by the usefulness of being able to see this far at a glance.
  • Thanks to Misery and Mick for suggesting.

• Fixed an error in the tooltip display for the town center requirements, that was saying your town could not be more than 8 tiles away from an enemy town, when in fact the real number is 16.
  • Thanks to Misery for reporting.

• Fixed an issue where the "next" button during playback was not always centering on the next unit properly.

• Fixed a screen shake that could happen when two units were on a tile and auto-follow was following one of them attacking.

• Fixed an issue where if mythological creatures were extinct and it was the age of gods, then all sorts of craziness would happen.
  • Specifically: bandits would not properly appear on their keeps; the "look at new unit" view would not go to the keeps; red/blue units would stack on one another inappropriately; red/blue units would attack tiles with "nothing" on them, or attack a building far after it was dead. Also human sacrifice, dogs and cats living together... mass hysteria!
  • All of those things (well, except that last bit) were caused by the bandits being there in the pre-calculation, and then not there after. Red/blue units were stacking because in one universe the first one died and was no longer there, and then in the parallel universe they both lived because there was no mythological creature there to kill the first one.
  • Thanks to nas1m for reporting.

• Bandits are no longer allowed to have mythological units in the age of gods if the extinction event has happened. Previously they were allowed to when you were not, but no longer.

• The Paranoia woe no longer causes the towers to pop up around bandit keeps (or yellow towns in general). Just red and blue towns.

• Put in a fix that should solve any issues with tokens hanging around after they are supposed to be completely gone.

Randomized Starting Map States!

• Except for the tutorial map, which is static as it always has been, all of the other map types are now completely randomized in terms of their starting positions of land, town centers, and so forth.
  • As has been pointed out, this makes the early part of the game way more interesting and varied. It makes a surprisingly huge difference actually, so it's surprising that nobody (to our recollection) brought this up before today.
  • Thanks to DakaSha for suggesting!

• The Lake Lure map type no longer starts out so small and no longer gives players two town centers to start with.

All New Path To Victory: Armaggeddon!

• Added a new direct ability: Armageddon
  • You cannot place this until the final score requirement has been met (and if you are playing with the score requirements off, then you can't place it at all...).
  • Armageddon lasts for ten turns, after which point the game ends (in a victory if you still meet all the victory conditions, or else in a loss). During the Armageddon, TWENTY new bandit keeps appear every turn in addition to whatever else would normally be going on! Some of these keeps will even appear within the boundaries of your towns, replacing your buildings (just never replacing your town centers). Only the most prepared will survive!
  • For extra "fun," you can cause multiple armageddons at once. When the first one's timer runs you, the game will end.
  • This is another ability that costs the new Soul Imprints resource: a whopping 200, in this case.
  • The idea here is that if you have already reached a point where you have won the game, you may not wish to just ride out your time until the game ends based on the full turn count running out. If you've gotten things to a point where you are in a dominant position and are just pressing End Turn a bunch, that's BORING. Of course, if you're barely hanging on, it's exciting all the way.
    • What this addresses is the boring cases. If you're in a dominant position, then use Armageddon to end the game early, but doing so in a way that is exciting and and potentially quite fatal. Either way it's over quickly. ;)
  • This also balances between those who are playing for high scores versus those who are playing for victories. Some players want to play all the way to the end in order to maximize their scores on the high scoreboards. Others could not care less. Armageddon is potentially a big source of score, but not as much as 30 turns of full combat most likely. So even there there is choice.
  • It may be that Armageddon is currently too difficult to survive in most cases, but we've been able to survive it reliably with Paranoia hitting two turns into the chaos, and eight intact towns at the start of it all. We'd rather start too hard than too easy, anyhow; so if 200 new bandit keeps turns out to be too much, then we'll see what we can see. ;)
  • Thanks to boho for suggesting.

Official 1.009

(Released June 12th, 2013)

• Fixed a bug where level 1 units were granting no points on death, and higher-level units were granting too few points.
  • Thanks to DakaSha and Mick for reporting.

• Fixed a bug where souls were being granted to the killers of units and buildings, not those who had units and buildings die.

• Buildings that you smited were granting points. Fixed.
  • Thanks to DakaSha for reporting.

Official 1.008 Massive Bigness

(Released June 12th, 2013)

• Town centers now cost the equivalent in rock that they used to cost in cut stone. This way you don't get completely hosed if you're down to one last town center and unable to place a stone mason so that you can then place more town centers. Aka, when Ultima happens, etc.
  • Thanks to Billick for inspiring this change.

• Updated the marsh tiles in the game to look much nicer, and have four visual variants rather than just repeating the same one over and over.

• The filter button on the left side of the screen now does a pop-out like the other buttons on that sidebar do. This makes it easier to manage rather than having to cycle through all the various filters.
  • Thanks to solosol for suggesting.

• Added a new filter mode: Tokens.
  • This lets you see just the tokens that are on the map, which is quite useful.

• The positions of the potter and the Jeweler on the left sidebar have been switched.
  • Thanks to Echo35 for suggesting.

• Made a couple of very minor improvements to the display of unit stats so that things are slightly better spaced and organized.

• It is now possible to have lightning-fast games that are only 20 turns per round.
  • Thanks to boho for suggesting.

• The exit game confirmation no longer shows when the current game has already ended.

• A new "surrender" option has been added in the main menu. This lets you log a lost game as a loss without having to play to the end, plus gives you the satisfaction of upending the board as if you were mad at the end of a board game. ;)
  • Thanks to madcow, Castruccio, LaughingThesaurus, Teal_Blue, and nas1m for suggesting.

• Fixed an exploitable bug where the woe timers would be decremented by one every time you loaded a savegame.
  • Thanks to Tripas and Misery for reporting.

• Improved the precaching of some tile types so that when the types change for the first time you don't see them blink into nothingness first. For instance a building turning to ruins.

• Fixed an issue with both the auto-follow and jump-to-first-unit playback modes where they would not jump to the first unit during the playback mode.
  • During auto-follow this didn't matter if the unit was moving or attacking, but if a unit was being created (such as a god appearing or a unit coming out of a building), then it would miss that.
  • For the jump-to-unit mode, it would just miss the whole thing.
  • This also fixes the issue with the playback pausing when the gods appear, unlike every other kind of playback.
  • Thanks to SRombauts, Mick, and Winge for reporting.

• Added Beacons to the game:
  • Has no gameplay purpose, but is great for marking locations on the map for other players or for your own later recall. If you place a new beacon on top of an existing beacon, it will instead remove the old beacon.
  • Did you know? You can hold shift while clicking in order to add or remove a bunch of beacons at once! This actually works with doing any sort of action or tile/unit placement from the left sidebar!
  • Thanks to TropeSage, yllamana, and Enzyme for suggesting.

• The achievements for placing tokens no longer are granted as soon as you place the token down (since the Undo button can make this very exploitable). Now the token achievements are granted when the tokens expire or are picked up or otherwise removed from the game after having been placed.
  • Thanks to FooBarTheLittle and Winge for reporting.

Two New Land Types

• New land type: Mountain Tunnel
  • Mountains filled with tunnels and bore-holes, which are thus easily passable to all units. It is so fortified that it cannot even be smited away...

• New land type: Bridged Lake
  • A lake with field bridges laid down, making it easily passable to all units. It is so fortified that it cannot even be smited away...

• Both the Lake Lure and Mountain Divide maps now have a small chance of seeding in the two new land types as new tiles are added to the landmass.
  • There's no other direct way for these to show up in game through placement or map seeding; the rest of their appearance is caused by bandit units and so forth.

11 New Unique Human Units For Bandits!

• The bandits will no longer directly spawn the faction-specific barracks, archery, or siege units; instead, they use the new bandit-specific units that they now have. All of the human bandit-specific units for the 2.0 version of the game are now in place, the new bandit-specific mythological units are not yet.

Barracks-Style

• Drukru
  • Slow-moving highly-armored heavy hitter that does half-power splash damage to units on the the tiles cardinally adjacent to its target (but not the adjacent buildings). Very dangerous up close, and particularly specializes in taking out enemy mythological units.
  • Does not emerge until round 2.

• Draconaria
  • Highly armored high-speed cavalry warrior. Attacks are not particularly strong, but she can close distances to targets very quickly. So swift, in fact, that she is immune to counter-attack when she strikes.

• Gladius
  • Midpower swordfighter able to deliver a flurry of blows when in close quarters.

• Rogue Paladin
  • Very highly armor, high-power fighter.

Archery-Style

• Triaria
  • Low-range spear thrower able to loose multiple volleys against a single target once in throwing distance. Specializes in taking out enemy ranged units.

• Sagittaria
  • Powerful, armored longbow-wielding woman.

• As a reminder, Hippo-Toxotes were already in the game prior to version 1.0 of the game, and are considered a bandit-specific archery unit.

Siege-Style

• Sarmantian Archer
  • Stealthy, low-health archer with incredible power at low range. Stealth prevents her from being attacked at range.

• Field Mechanik
  • Specializes in constructing heavily-fortified bridges over any lakes she crosses, thus allowing other units to follow her freely. Can only attack buildings, although will damage any units standing on buildings it attacks.

• Siege Drill
  • Specializes in drilling heavily-fortified tunnel networks through mountains, thus allowing other units to follow freely. Also deals heavy damage to buildings it reaches. Can only attack buildings, although will damage any units standing on buildings it attacks.

• Saltpetre Cart
  • Actually contains a few more ingredients than saltpeter, if you look closely. Incredibly powerful explosive can only be used once, but levels an entire tile for sure. Can only attack buildings, although will damage any units standing on buildings it attacks.

• Dragon Trebuchet
  • Does half-power splash damage to the tiles cardinally adjacent to its target. Can only attack buildings, although will damage any units standing on buildings it attacks.

Scoring System Improvements

• The unit and building stats now show the "points on death."
  • Thanks to Jab2565 for suggesting.

• The stats on the score tooltip now show the total number of deaths for red, blue, and yellow units and buildings, rather than the total number of kills.
  • Old data for kills in existing savegames is simply put into the slot for deaths: completely wrong, of course, but this way it doesn't affect score calculations.
  • The rationale for this change is that it has more to do with entity production and building losses, rather than aggression.
    • If bandits get into one of your towns and wreck the heck out of it, you actually do get the points for that, whereas before you would not.
    • If you are fighting an epic losing battle against some overly powerful bandits, you actually get points for your losses, as well. Better than having to scrape out the few points from the minority of kills you make against a stronger foe.
    • This in turn rewards more use of the human units, since more of them are likely to die as compared to using mythologicals where they are more likely to make kills.

• Rather than the score for a unit death being a flat 15 points, this now goes up by the level of the unit in question.
  • So a level 1 unit is 15 points, level 2 30, level 3 45, level 4 60.
  • This encourages the use of the higher-level units on upper difficulties, where otherwise high-level units are considered a bit dangerous due to how hard they can be to control.
  • Thanks to Jab2565 and solosol for suggesting.

• Lower turns per round now grant you higher final score multipliers, since those are harder games to hit your score gates with.
  • This also helps to normalize the longer games a bit, so that the highest possible scores don't always just come from the superlong games.
  • Thanks to Mick and solosol for suggesting.

• In order to keep the score goals from being easily achievable in ages prior to when the next score goal is set, the amount of score required and generated during the ages of monsters and gods have been increased:
  • The score gate for the age of monsters is now 3x higher, but all of the actions that generate score during the age of monsters also now generate 3x as many points.
  • The score gate for the age of gods is now 8x higher, but all of the actions that generate score during the age of gods also now generate 8x as many points.
  • In other words, it is much harder to make much progress on the age of monsters score goal until you are actually in the age of monsters, and the same for the age of gods.
  • Existing savegames will apply the appropriate multipliers for whatever age you happen to be in.

Military Commandment Fixes

• Military commandments now last for six turns rather than three, or until the god dies or moves away.

• Military commandments now take 0 action points to place, rather than one.

• Fixed a regression where once again military commandments were not working properly (so you couldn't order your guys to kill a god).
  • Thanks to RadioZone and Ipkins for reporting.

• Fixed an issue where gods were not properly counterattacking units that attacked them.

Limited Siege Unit Stacking

• A limited amount of unit stacking is now allowed in the game:
  • A single allied siege unit and non-siege unit can now share the same tile. Enemy units still cannot share at all, and any other permutations of allied units cannot share.
  • If a tile is attacked, all the units on that tile will take damage.
  • The chief benefit of this, however, is that it allows for non-ranged siege units to make their way through heavier armies that are in their way, thus reaching their targets.
    • For instance, this greatly increases the power and utility of trojan horses.
  • Thanks to Misery and Zeyurn for inspiring this change.

• When two units are stacked on a single tile, they now spread out horizontally in a nice fashion.

Unit Leveling-Related Improvements

• The level and the "star for if it has a bonus applied" now show up visually above the heads of each unit.
  • The star was previously shown larger and next to the faction flag behind the unit. But this was harder to see, and looked a little funky, and made the faction flag harder to see sometimes.
  • The level of units was never previously shown except in tooltips, and really this is pretty darn critical information if you are considering the flow of an upcoming battle.
    • Most likely the obscurity of this information was making new players not really do upgrades as much as they previously would have otherwise done.

• The mythological creatures directly placed by players are no longer automatically granted upgrades to higher levels in the age of monsters and the age of man.
  • Previously they would be level 2 in the age of man, and level 3 in the age of gods. This was just too overpowered compared to their human counterparts, and was messing with the resource usage in a negative way (ie, requiring too few).
  • You can obviously still upgrade these at any time, manually, but now you have to pay for the upgrades to the respective levels rather than getting them for free.
  • One reason we previously had the mythological creatures automatically upgrade was the confusion that new players would have as to why their mythologicals were getting trashed by enemy ones in the later ages. Now with the levels directly showing, this is no longer a point of confusion.
  • Thanks to Pepisolo for suggesting this rather strenuously. ;)

• The "upgrade unit" action now costs 0 AP. This makes it a lot easier to use, which is important for a few reasons.
  • Late in the game, you often wind up having way more resources than you might need, but not any more AP than you did before. This helps to balance that out.
  • Now that mythological creatures are not auto-upgraded in the later ages, you'll be manually upgrading them a lot more, and the extra AP cost would just be too extreme for them.
  • Side note: this does NOT devalue the schools too much. Doing an upgrade manually costs you 100% more resources for each level you go up. Schools produce higher-leveled units for free.

• The upgrade unit tooltip when hovering over a unit is now more informative, showing you at a glance the resources you have on hand for each resource required for upgrading that unit. Waaaay easier to make decisions that way.

• The upgrade unit text has been updated with the following addition:
  • Did you know? You can hold shift while clicking in order to upgrade multiple units, or to repeatedly upgrade a single unit. This actually works with doing any sort of action or tile/unit placement from the left sidebar!
  • Thanks to Pepisolo for inspiring this change.

New Soul Imprints Resource

• Added a new Soul Imprint resource.
  • Residue from the soul of a human departing from this mortal coil. Allows certain powerful abilities to be invoked by The Creator.
  • Every time a human unit or building dies, a soul is added to their factions stores.

• Bless Tile
  • Various types of tiles cannot be smited by force, but can be blessed into a more pleasing form. Building Ruins in towns that are still alive, Obsidian, Bridged Lakes, and Mountain Tunnels can all be blessed into forms that you can then work with further.
  • Costs 20 human soul imprints.
  • Strategically, this is super useful because:
    • It allows you some way to counter the new bandit drills and mechaniks and so forth. You aren't just stranded with completely unusable tiles forever; but getting rid of those things comes at a nontrivial cost, so you have to weigh that, which is good.
    • It allows you to repair slightly-damaged towns so that there are not ugly forever-there blots on them. This gives you a better chance to maintain the towns you already have, although it just turns the ruins into fields, so you still have to do the rebuilding after this. It's not something you can do infinitely, which is good, but it does let you make spot repairs and correct for relatively minor things. The loss of a whole town is still irreversible, however, which is particularly good.

• Convert Enemy Unit
  • Cause an enemy unit to have a change of heart and join your faction.
  • Costs 50 human soul imprints.
  • Strategically, this is really interesting because it provides a new (albeit expensive) way to deal with threats from overpowered enemies aside from using mythological creatures. This is huge!
    • If you have an enemy unit that is overpowered from some buff and running rampant... well, if there are enough souls on the losing faction's side, then that can be used to turn the over-strong unit right back around and send them at the other faction.
    • If there are a bunch of bandits coming from a keep, you can convert a couple of them to avoid getting overwhelmed.
  • This may be too powerful, we'll see; if so, then it's a matter of adjusting its cost. But right now this is so expensive that you really can't do it often, so it's more of an augmentation than anything else.

Official 1.007 Stats Fit For A God

(Released May 30th, 2013)

• Put in some safety-syncing code to make sure that if players somehow get out of sync, it never lasts for more than one turn. Specifically, it now does this safety-sync right before it goes to the after-turn playback phase, so if there are any differences that would cause errors in playback, it fixes those on the clients to match the server.
  • Ideally there are no desyncs anyhow, but this at least mitigates their effect to almost nil.

• The game now properly lets multiplayer clients see which players they are waiting on when they have finished their turns and are hanging out.
  • Thanks to Munsta for reporting.

• When other players have finished their turn and are now waiting on you, or have finished playback and are now waiting on you, a message now shows to that effect so that you know to get a move on.
  • Thanks to yllamana for suggesting.

• Bandits are no longer allowed to pick up the Nemean Lion token, since it's useless to them.
  • Thanks to nas1m, Winge, and FooBarTheLittle for reporting.

• Buildings that do not unlock until a certain round were previously unavailable in sandbox mode. Fixed.
  • Thanks to Pepisolo for reporting.

• Fixed a bug with the midgard serpent and a few other similar global-effect tokens where they could remove tiles after units had already precalculated that they would move there, thus leading to units leaping over holes and doing other really strange stuff like stacking up on top of one another, etc.
  • This also was affecting the labyrinth and Yggdrasil in terms of causing unit stacking.
  • Thanks to Mick, Bluddy, Misery, and matobinder for reporting.

• The tooltips for the resources on the sidebar now show the count of buildings for that faction that are involved in the production chain of that resource (just one building for raw resources, several for finished goods). Sunstone does not include moonstone production, as it's a raw resource.
  • Thanks to FooBarTheLittle, zespri, and yllamana for suggesting.

• In the left sidebar, when you are placing buildings, it now shows a count of how many of those buildings that faction already has on the map.
  • As an added bonus, when placing lands it also shows how many lands of each type are on the map.
  • Also also, this now shows the counts of directly-placeable units and tokens that are currently out on the map for that faction.
  • Thanks to James Allen, FooBarTheLittle, zespri, and yllamana for suggesting.

• Fixed an issue specific to the Lake Lure map where the starting towns were too close together and thus all sorts of wonky issues could happen.
  • Thanks to onyhow and Misery for reporting.

• When you can't play a token from the sidebar because of it being on cooldown, it now shows as grayed out.

• When you use the undo button while having a sidebar submenu extended, the sidebar submenu status now updates.
  • Thanks to FooBarTheLittle for reporting.

• When your cursor is outside the game window, it no longer shows tooltips for things you are hovering over outside the game window. MAN was that annoying in windowed mode.

• A couple of the finished goods producers have been moved around in the left sidebar to make them easier to find relative to their raw resource counterparts.

• The right-hand sidebar has been revamped so that its data is more compact horizontally, and thus can support two rows. Now you can thus see all your raw resources in one column (to the left), and all your finished goods in another column (to the right).
  • This solves a lot of requests of players without actually increasing the side of that sidebar much at all (less than 10 pixels wide) and without reducing the size of the font (though it is now overlaid over the images).

• The sword, pike, warhammer, and battle axe finished goods have all just been condensed down into a single "melee weapon" finished good. Also, the Bow finished good has been renamed to "ranged weapon."
  • This keeps from there being a fiddly number of weapons specific to individual units, which didn't add much except extra things to look at and take up space that could be better used for other things. Shifting these all to one finished good hardly even affects balance, interestingly.

• In the tooltip for finished goods on the right-hand sidebar, it now says "on demand: X amount of the finished good from Y amount of the other resources needed to convert into that."
  • Hopefully this will help to stop the confusion from people who think that they already have X amount of cut stone and Y amount of rock, and that they could get more cut stone if only the rock would be converted over.

• Whenever you view Nick's comic, it now plays the track "Running In The Sun" rather than whatever else happened to be playing in the background at the time (likely the title music).
  • This is a lot more appropriate of a tone for the comic, as one reviewer pointed out.

Official 1.006 Listen When I Command!

(Released May 28th, 2013)

• The maximum resolution of the game has been increased to support the 7680x1600 EyeFinity resolution.
  • Thanks to Mikuki for suggesting.

• Previously, resource costs were improperly refunded during the setup phase, letting you gain tons of resources just by placing and undoing.
  • Thanks to vince0018 and FooBarTheLittle for reporting.

• Fixed a huge bug that was causing MP desyncs as well as causing some melee units to act insanely during solo play -- but ONLY when you didn't skip to the end of combat, but instead watched it all the way through. The speed of playback could also mess with this.
  • Thanks to matobinder, Munsta, and Crimdal for reporting.

• Fixed an issue where the "What's New" link directed to the wrong wiki page.
  • Thanks to seiferkatt for reporting.

• "What's New" on the main menu has been replaced with a more clear "Recent Patch Notes" name, so that more players will know what that is.

• The range-of-one siege units now all have the mountainwalk ability, letting them no longer get bogged down in the same lines of travel with the main human entities.
  • This means the greek trojan horse, greek battering ram, and norse arsonist.
  • All of the ranged siege units are useful enough as it is, and can just keep moving with the crowd. But the range-of-one guys were a bit hard to use depending on the terrain.
    • If you still want to block them, of course you can use lakes; that just won't protect you from the ranged siege units, so you'd have to do double duty with mountains and lakes to make perfect protection.

• Mountains and lakes now cost 2AP to place, rather than one; this makes their use something to consider more -- as with smiting -- but still not something that is impossible to do.
  • Thanks to Bluddy for suggesting.

• Minotaurs and Trolls now only damage units on the cardinally-adjacent tiles to their target, not buildings as well. This makes it so that they aren't leveling towns in one or two blows.
  • Thanks to Bluddy for suggesting.

• Military commandments were accidentally broken right prior to the release of the game, but have now been fixed. Sorry about that!
  • Thanks to orzelek, Misery, restingsound, boho, nas1m, TropeSage, cnemus, Kamiyama, and Film11 for reporting.

• Updated military commandments so that they disappear as soon as the god on their tile is dead.

Official 1.005 Player's Choice

(Released May 28th, 2013)

• Mountains and lakes can now be placed on any difficulty level (having them on lower difficulty levels but not higher ones was a bit disorienting; and not having them on lower difficulty levels anymore has been massively unpopular).

• The bandit keeps are no longer immune to mythological creatures, and have had their health returned to 30k instead of 15k like they were recently reduced to. Again, these changes were hugely unpopular with players, so they're gone. You know we listen!

Official 1.004 Rise of the Valkyrie

(Released May 27th, 2013)

• The walls of bandit keeps have been upgraded with magical safeguards that prevent them from taking any damage from mythological creatures!
  • However, also reduced the health of bandit keeps from 30,000 to 15,000.
    • Bear in mind that the keeps are meant to be something you have to have siege units to deal with; that was their original intent, and not only were players circumventing that with mythologicals, in at least one case there was extreme cheese possible with the mythologicals.
  • Thanks to Levi and Mick for inspiring this change.

• Fixed the issue with the town names being different for each player in multiplayer.
  • Thanks to Zeyurn for reporting.

• Fixed a definite desync with norse mortars attacking and having a different amount of chance for themselves to die on each machine.
  • This was still something quite sporadic, but definitely could cause issues.

• Fixed an issue with the Undo feature where it would trigger Eldhrimnir, Odin, (theoretically) Tartarus Rising, and similar.
  • Thanks to brammel for reporting.

• Minotaurs and Chimera have lost their target bonuses against both buildings and heavy infantry.

• The frost giant bonus against gods has been converted to instead being a bonus against enemy mythologicals.
  • The light elf bonus against gods and light siege have also been converted to a bonus against enemy mythologicals.
  • The Valkyrie have had their base attack power dropped in general, but now get a massive bonus against enemy mythologicals.

Official 1.003

(Released May 26th, 2013)

• Fixed a rather embarrassing issue where a testing flag got left on and no more than two players were allowed to connect to a game, instead of 8. Sorry about that!
  • Thanks to Spud_02 for reporting.

• Previously, mountains and lakes were only place-able on medium difficulty and down, because they were known to be exploit-y but some people really like doing designs with them, etc. This was prior to the addition of sandbox mode, though, that we last evaluated this; so now we've made this sandbox-mode only.
  • Does this make the easier versions of the game harder? Yeah... you can't just plop down a mountain when the going gets rough. But really this seems pretty much in line with the game, you know?
  • Thanks to Trisdino for suggesting.

Official 1.002 Hunting Through Rubble

(Released May 24th, 2013)

• Fixed a small inaccuracy in the "no gods currently" text in the left sidebar, which said you could still choose gods.
  • Thanks to Cinth for reporting.

• Cerberus now has stats that actually increase with each upgrade to him.
  • Thanks to Misery for reporting.

• The score tooltip is now clearer that "red kills" means "kills by red" and so forth.

• The attack AP cost for Oxybele has been increased from 3 to 5.
  • Thanks to Misery and Ipkins for suggesting.

• Minotaur rebalance:
  • Health in general has been increased, while auto-regen has been dropped dramatically.
  • Attack AP cost from 3 -> 5.
  • No longer ranged at all, but instead are just melee.
  • Thanks to Misery, zharmad, and Mick for suggesting.

• Fixed an issue where sometimes entities, particularly gods, could spawn in different places in multiplayer.
  • Thanks to restingsound for reporting.

• When buildings are destroyed by whatever means (actual warfare, getting taken over by mountains, etc), their tooltips now show what kind of building they used to be before they bit the dust.
  • Thanks to Misery for suggesting.

• Fixed a bug where the town names would differ between players in multiplayer.
  • Thanks to restingsound for reporting.

• On the right sidebar, the tooltips for the finished goods now shows the explanation:
  • (Amount Available On Demand - This Is Not Produced Or Stored Until Needed)
  • Also, on the right sidebar in general, the finished goods counts now show up a bit darker and with some markings around them to immediately make them look different.

• Holding down the Ctrl key now shows all the building names in your view.
  • Even better, for all of the destroyed building ruins, it shows the name of what they used to be in a light red color.
  • Thanks to mrhanman for suggesting.

• Holding down the U key now shows all the unit and token names in your view.
  • Even better, all of the gods have their names highlighted in a pale purple, and all the tokens have their names highlighted in a pale blue, to make them easier to find.
  • Thanks to mrhanman for suggesting.

• Fixed a typo in the iron mine part of the tutorial.
  • Thanks to Breach for reporting.

• Fixed a bug where smiting your own buildings would grant you points and increase the building kill counts and loss counts for your faction.
  • Thanks to Bluddy for reporting.

• The cooldown on Brokkr has been increased a great deal, and the points from him are also now negative.
  • However, the cost in steel that he requires has been halved.
  • The same is true for Norns, except in this case it is the incense cost that has been reduced by 1/3rd.
  • Thanks to Misery for suggesting.

Previous Release Notes

Skyward Collapse - Pre-Beta Release Notes