Steam News

Hinterland Update Released

June 11, 2009, 11:39 am - Valve - Product Update

Tilted Mill Entertainment — independent developers of strategy, simulation and role-playing games — today announced the release of Hinterland: Orc Lords, an expanded version of its innovative 2008 fantasy PC title featuring fast paced RPG combat and strategic town-building.

Hinterland: Orc Lords includes the full original full game, where you lead a diverse cast of characters to establish a small haven in the wild backcountry of a fantasy kingdom, and select individuals to join your party on expeditions of exploration and conquest in the surrounding lands. In Hinterland: Orc Lords you have the option to play as an up and coming Orc leader, with two Orc classes to choose from (Orc Lord or Shaman).

This update is free to anyone who owns Hinterland and will automatically become Hinterland: Orc Lords, with this update.

• Introduces two playable Orc Classes: Lord (Warrior) or Shaman
  
• Playing as an Orc expands gameplay, Orcs : consume twice as much food, learn martial skills faster, manufacture items slower, and the Shaman uses totems to summon creatures
  
• Introduces several new items regardless of character class
  

Hinterland Update Released

February 3, 2009, 2:54 pm - Valve - Product Update

Updates to Hinterland have been released. The updates will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted. The specific changes include:

New Features

• Added widescreen support
  
• Increased rare stat modifying drops
  
• Added -resetprefs command
  
• Improved DirectX installation for some Windows Vista versions
  
• Fixed rare inventory crash
  

Hinterland Update Released

November 26, 2008, 5:21 pm - Valve - Product Update

Updates to Hinterland have been released. The updates will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted. The specific changes include:

New Features

• Added Achievements
  
• Fixed the follower leave town button not showing up occasionally
  
• Added a -resetprefs commandline option
  
• Fixed a crash with prayer lists
  
• Fixed an issue with Townsperson dialog re-appearing after closing
  
• Fixed an issue with the Pumpkin Farm causing rare crashes
  
• Fixed a rare out-of-bounds crash
  
• Removed ability to use toggling researching to control specific research or production
  
• Made townsperson talk dialogs more responsive
  
• Fixed an issue with initial state of world creation buttons being shown incorrectly
  
• Fixed a situation where equipping a stack of items could destroy an item without confirmation
  

Hinterland Update Released

October 30, 2008, 4:16 pm - Valve - Product Update

Updates to Hinterland have been released. The updates will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted. The specific changes include:

New Features

• Halloween theme-all games played on Halloween have more undead and Halloween monsters
  
• New character classes: Goblin Thief, Trickster, and Fallen Hero
  
• New followers: Undertaker and Pumpkin Farmer
  
• New monsters: Minotaur, Scarecrow, and Jack'o'lantern
  
• Many new items
  

Hinterland Update Released

October 10, 2008, 10:50 am - Valve - Product Update

Updates to Hinterland have been released. The updates will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted. The specific changes include:

New Features

• Added the Dwarf Warrior and Elf Archer character classes
  
• New, multi-language version supports English, French, German and Spanish
  
• Added an Info Screen (town info, lord's abilities, manor upgrade, town upgrades), available by clicking on your lord's portrait or home
  
• Resources can be purchased (dig well, import iron, etc.) from the info screen
  
• Lord abilities now show in the lord's profession icon tooltip
  
• More ability choices with leveling (based on class, e.g. strong fighters have more combat-related choices, while strong administrators have more town-related choices)
  
• Followers can be set to auto-equip from the town inventory
  
• Button added to quickly sort inventory by item type, quality, and power
  
• Follower Roster now sorted by profession
  
• New, rare, creature-specific drops which give permanent bonuses
  

• Dwarf characters no longer always the redheaded dwarf
  
• Hammers now give the crafting bonus to Craftsmen
  
• Particle effect for the Exceptional Long Sword no longer be large blocks
  
• Fixed a bug with foreign language OS users that caused problems creating saves and starting games
  
• Loading a new game after exiting a completed game no longer shows Days Left
  

• Hard difficulty level adjusted
  
• Additional starting resources on the Easy difficulty level
  
• Medium to late-game civilian items now drop later in the game
  
• Added additional blood to critical hits
  
• Added a camera shake when the player gets critically hit
  

Hinterland Update Released

October 8, 2008, 2:43 pm - Valve - Product Update

Updates to Hinterland have been released. The updates will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted. The specific changes include:

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• Fix for invisible raiders, missing loot glows, and other graphical issues after visiting ogres or other large creatures
  

Hinterland Update Released

October 7, 2008, 4:39 pm - Valve - Product Update

Updates to Hinterland have been released. The updates will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted. The specific changes include:

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• Fixed a potential crash on startup when your My Documents / Documents folder was on a network
  
• King's Requests should now be displaying the proper fame reward/penalty for classes that have a modifier to fame rewards
  
• Evil Wizard creatures should no longer show orange and black body textures when killed
  
• Demolishing a Dragon Ranch should no longer leave the cows standing around
  
• Added dust plumes when large monsters walk
  
• Added some information to the Food, Fame, and Gold tooltips
  

Hinterland Update Released

October 2, 2008, 4:02 pm - Valve - Product Update

Updates to Hinterland have been released. The updates will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted. The specific changes include:

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• Pet dragons now move at the proper speed
  
• Score modifiers for the difficulty setting have been rebalanced
  
• When playing on easy, the maximum difficulty level of an encounter has been lowered
  
• When playing on difficult or hardcore, enemies will work together more frequently when they fight you
  
• Fixed several issues relating to random chests, the way they were distributed in the world, and King’s requests for items in chests
  
• Audio loading moved from pre-game to scenario creation (may fix some audio driver conflicts, improves game start time)
  
• Fixed an issue with some versions of direct 9.0c in particular installations of Vista and DirectX 10 that would cause crashes on start-up or when loading
  
• Switched to starting in windowed mode by default (may fix some crashes on start-up)
  
• Fixed minimap corruption at higher resolutions
  
• Fixed a rare infinite loop in scenario creation that caused a lock-up on starting a new character
  
• Fixed an issue with the game resizing fonts more than necessary (may fix some crashes, particularly upon changing to full-screen mode)