https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cep88PVgpIo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cep88PVgpIo


Campaign Acts I and II are now complete and available to play. Set in the all new Bountiful Bog region, Act II introduces the Grublin and Toadkin faction storylines. Side with the unscrupulous Urzal as he expands his criminal empire peddling a highly addictive drink, or help mad Emperor Bla’tu regain control of his slave workforce and push back against the Grublin menace that threatens the Toadkin. Morally speaking, it’s a quagmire.


Mordrich, Nara, Urzal, Scruplez, Bla’tu, Murp and The Might Rhog all receive their own special abilities, increasing the challenge and excitement of boss battles. Combat has progressed by leaps and bounds, and is well worth revisiting if you haven’t played in a while.


Act II introduces Borgle, the playable ranger hero. For the Grublins, Quixl receives his final Vanish ability used for shedding threat. Lilith the Necromancer from Act I also receives a full complement of special abilities. There are now a total of 5 heroes available to be unlocked, and work on the others is progressing well.


In the village, the new Stables building unlocks the Cavalry unit, while the Barracks receives the early Spearman unit. Arbalists and City Watch must now be unlocked by completing research at the Blacksmith: Chainmail and Crossbows for the Arbalists, and Plate and Halberds for the City Watch.


Spider attacks and the faction raids can now be repelled effectively with the introduction of Engineer Turrets. The Flamethrower is great for burning low level mobs to a crisp. The Ballista fires a high powered bolt that knocks down anything in its path, giving the slower Mortar time to target and fire for massive damage.


Your feedback continues to lead to improvements in gameplay and UI. Micromanagement has been further reduced with four new UI buttons. Grab Best Loot on the Character Sheet equips the best available loot for a unit or hero from the Village Inventory; Auto Distribute on the inventory dialog allocates spare loot items to the most relevant building stores which your units then auto-equip; and Auto Transfer in the Crafting dialog transfers newly crafted items direct to the relevant equipment stores. Finally, the Building dialog workers tab Auto Recruit has been refined to provide finer control over individual vacancies.

Berries and firewood are now included on the top bar. Tooltips have received an overhaul. World Map travel is available at any time. There’s a new large format healthbar for identifying monsters and their challenge level, the minimap receives several bug fixes, and options in conversation dialogues now respond to keyboard input.

Thanks to community support, partial language support is now available for German and Russian languages. Coverage will continue to improve as development progresses.


Community Level Designers can now publish to Steam Workshop without leaving the Editor. Players can browse and load steam workshop worlds and enjoy new experiences from the New Game menu.

Happy Holidays
If you are celebrating, we wish you a very happy holiday. And to all, we hope next year brings you good health and happiness. Thank you for your continued support and positive reviews as we push on to bring you the best game we can possibly make.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cep88PVgpIo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cep88PVgpIo


Campaign Acts I and II are now complete and available to play. Set in the all new Bountiful Bog region, Act II introduces the Grublin and Toadkin faction storylines. Side with the unscrupulous Urzal as he expands his criminal empire peddling a highly addictive drink, or help mad Emperor Bla’tu regain control of his slave workforce and push back against the Grublin menace that threatens the Toadkin. Morally speaking, it’s a quagmire.


Mordrich, Nara, Urzal, Scruplez, Bla’tu, Murp and The Might Rhog all receive their own special abilities, increasing the challenge and excitement of boss battles. Combat has progressed by leaps and bounds, and is well worth revisiting if you haven’t played in a while.


Act II introduces Borgle, the playable ranger hero. For the Grublins, Quixl receives his final Vanish ability used for shedding threat. Lilith the Necromancer from Act I also receives a full complement of special abilities. There are now a total of 5 heroes available to be unlocked, and work on the others is progressing well.


In the village, the new Stables building unlocks the Cavalry unit, while the Barracks receives the early Spearman unit. Arbalists and City Watch must now be unlocked by completing research at the Blacksmith: Chainmail and Crossbows for the Arbalists, and Plate and Halberds for the City Watch.


Spider attacks and the faction raids can now be repelled effectively with the introduction of Engineer Turrets. The Flamethrower is great for burning low level mobs to a crisp. The Ballista fires a high powered bolt that knocks down anything in its path, giving the slower Mortar time to target and fire for massive damage.


Your feedback continues to lead to improvements in gameplay and UI. Micromanagement has been further reduced with four new UI buttons. Grab Best Loot on the Character Sheet equips the best available loot for a unit or hero from the Village Inventory; Auto Distribute on the inventory dialog allocates spare loot items to the most relevant building stores which your units then auto-equip; and Auto Transfer in the Crafting dialog transfers newly crafted items direct to the relevant equipment stores. Finally, the Building dialog workers tab Auto Recruit has been refined to provide finer control over individual vacancies.

Berries and firewood are now included on the top bar. Tooltips have received an overhaul. World Map travel is available at any time. There’s a new large format healthbar for identifying monsters and their challenge level, the minimap receives several bug fixes, and options in conversation dialogues now respond to keyboard input.

Thanks to community support, partial language support is now available for German and Russian languages. Coverage will continue to improve as development progresses.


Community Level Designers can now publish to Steam Workshop without leaving the Editor. Players can browse and load steam workshop worlds and enjoy new experiences from the New Game menu.

Happy Holidays
If you are celebrating, we wish you a very happy holiday. And to all, we hope next year brings you good health and happiness. Thank you for your continued support and positive reviews as we push on to bring you the best game we can possibly make.

The primary changes include the addition of Engineer Turrets to improve village defenses, improvements to tooltips including comparisons, and completion of Act II of the campaign. This patch completes the 0.4.x release cycle. Alpha 29 will follow later this week.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JskLEWs9iwU&feature=youtu.be

Experimental Build:
http://steamcommunity.com/app/224440/discussions/0/541906348034355622/

Player: Added Engineer Turrets: Ballista, Flamer and Mortar (limited by number of Engineers in the Workshop)
Player: Added comparison tooltip for loot
Player: Added optimization to disable shadow casters behind camera to reduce shadow map calculations
Player: Improved single loot item tooltip layout
Player: Removed ability thumbnails from next to hero portraits in top left of screen
Player: Improved Murp’s AI, adding in light effects for his drill power up
Player: Removed Alt key mapping due to camera issues when ALT+TABBING
Player: Borgle’s Rain Of Arrows ability now has a target visualization circle
Player: Quixl’s fifth ability added - Vanish - used to reduce threat against Quixl
Player: Disabled Walls due to having multiple issues
Player: Removed deprecated Production tab from building dialog now that firewood is properly balanced
Player: Military units now return to their last commanded point after combat finishes
Player: Completing armor research now also unlocks the other 4 armor pieces
Player: Setup Tome items (magic books); now usable by Lilith
Player: Improved the layout of hero ability tooltips and added descriptions
Player: Reduced the exponential rate of increase in experience required for next level to make it easier to attain higher character levels
Editor: Workbench: Quests can now be grouped by using / to the name to reduce the list length
Editor: Workbench: numbers now automatically prefixed to conversation options and work with keyboard input (1 for option one, etc)
Editor: Workbench: AllCharacters and CharactersInRange nodes now take inputs as world objects so that other nodes can better connect to them
Translations: Russian updated to include character names among other things

Fix: Optimized navmesh code to prevent unnecessary cut calculations that could lead to CPU spikes
Fix: Flag shader should now work as intended
Fix: Right clicking on ring items would not try to fill empty slots in character inventory
Fix: Numerous bugs with faction specific loot fixed, meaning more context appropriate loot drops
Fix: Stunned characters no longer regenerate health/power
Fix: Potentially fixed some cases where un-pausing a move order would immediately make it fail (e.g a stunned Kenny would not move where he was supposed to move after the stun buff was removed)
Fix: Corrected scale on skeleton conveyor belt worker
Fix: Scripting bug whereby betraying Lilith would lead to a cutscene playing too early and the player becoming trapped
Fix: Removed verbose descriptions on armor pieces as it’s undesirable in tooltips
Fix: Auto Assign loot on character sheet was considering items it shouldn’t have
Fix: Crossfading to an animation that was about to fade out and had an outro animation had undesirable results
Fix: Cooldown for triggered special abilities was starting even if the ability could not be activated
Fix: Console now accepts proper resource names having been broken by the Translation system
Fix: Lilith's soul reap ability would not stop the looping sound if the beam was destroyed
Fix: Fixed inefficiency in the highlighting system when destroying lots of highlightable objects (happens when unloading a location)
Fix: Camera collider on Workshop building revised to prevent camera getting stuck inside building
Fix: Civics building list was always showing Tier {0}
Fix: Cotton field workpoints now use the correct animations
Fix: Skeleton Elites were being called Mages
Fix: Input wasn’t working properly in workbench
Fix: Arrow trails weren’t showing
Fix: Horse grazing animation wasn’t playing on horse in the Stables building
Fix: Work points for harvested resources would sometimes be aborted when unloading a location and the characters would drop the resources that they were carrying and those could persist to the next location
Fix: Eating work points weren’t being restored properly if there wasn’t enough food in the inventory (even if the characters had already taken the food from the inventory and were eating it). Could cause food being stuck to characters
Fix: Lilith’s Disease Cloud wasn’t dispelling itself properly, leaving a lingering sound loop

Maps: Campaign: Bountiful Bog: Added ‘slave’ housing to Grublin Slum as part of Toadkin storyline
Maps: Campaign: Murp’s Dentistry: Added lights that flicker during electroshock

Added default armor to all military units
Doubled health on cavalry to represent horse
Reduced sword damage
Increased halberd damage
Increased crossbow damage
Rebalanced lilith, quixl and borgle

Assets: Kits: Props: Murp: Added Light02 and Light03 (tag as murp_light, see Murp battle)
Assets: Kits: Props: Kobold Camp: Added destructible gate
Assets: Kits: Props: Mordrichs Factory: Added support for Door node to remaining machines
Assets: Sounds: Added one-shot group [Shadow Warden Attack]
Assets: Sounds: Added one-shot group [Shadow Warden Battlecry]
Assets: Sounds: Added one-shot group [Shadow Warden Death]
Assets: Sounds: Added one-shot group [Shadow Warden Idle]
Assets: Sounds: Added one-shot group [Shadow Warden Wounded]
Assets: Sounds: Added one-shot [Character Hero Borgle Powershot]
Assets: Sounds: Added one-shot [Character Hero Borgle Multishot]
Assets: Sounds: Added one-shot [Character Hero Borgle Immobilizing Shot]
Assets: Sounds: Added one-shot [Character Hero Borgle Rain Of Arrows]
Assets: Sounds: Added one-shot [Character Hero Borgle Shadow Warden]
Assets: Sounds: Added one-shot [Ballista Fire]
Assets: Sounds: Added one-shot [Ballista Reload]
Assets: Sounds: Added one-shot [Flamer Fire]
Assets: Sounds: Added looping [Burning]
Assets: Sounds: Added one-shot [Mortar Fire]

None

• Kenny can get stuck again during his attack if you complete his dialogue while he’s stunned

Tired of all those spider attacks? Then it’s time to set your engineers to work building turrets at key points around your village. Ballista turrets knockdown any enemies in the bolt’s path, giving you a window of opportunity to inflict further damage. Flamethrower turrets set targets on fire causing fire damage over time, and can cover a wide sweeping area. Mortars are the big damage dealers, although they take time to hit their targets.

For every Engineer assigned to a Workshop building, two turrets can be supported. Building a third turret will cause the first turret to be deconstructed.

The sign post that allowed fast travel to Act II has been removed pending the release of Alpha 29. It will make a return in the next experimental.

As a side note, we're working our little socks off to bring you solid patches, often in the face of negativity. If you like what we're doing, please consider supporting us by taking a few minutes to leave a review.

The primary changes include the addition of Engineer Turrets to improve village defenses, improvements to tooltips including comparisons, and completion of Act II of the campaign. This patch completes the 0.4.x release cycle. Alpha 29 will follow later this week.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JskLEWs9iwU&feature=youtu.be

Experimental Build:
http://steamcommunity.com/app/224440/discussions/0/541906348034355622/

Player: Added Engineer Turrets: Ballista, Flamer and Mortar (limited by number of Engineers in the Workshop)
Player: Added comparison tooltip for loot
Player: Added optimization to disable shadow casters behind camera to reduce shadow map calculations
Player: Improved single loot item tooltip layout
Player: Removed ability thumbnails from next to hero portraits in top left of screen
Player: Improved Murp’s AI, adding in light effects for his drill power up
Player: Removed Alt key mapping due to camera issues when ALT+TABBING
Player: Borgle’s Rain Of Arrows ability now has a target visualization circle
Player: Quixl’s fifth ability added - Vanish - used to reduce threat against Quixl
Player: Disabled Walls due to having multiple issues
Player: Removed deprecated Production tab from building dialog now that firewood is properly balanced
Player: Military units now return to their last commanded point after combat finishes
Player: Completing armor research now also unlocks the other 4 armor pieces
Player: Setup Tome items (magic books); now usable by Lilith
Player: Improved the layout of hero ability tooltips and added descriptions
Player: Reduced the exponential rate of increase in experience required for next level to make it easier to attain higher character levels
Editor: Workbench: Quests can now be grouped by using / to the name to reduce the list length
Editor: Workbench: numbers now automatically prefixed to conversation options and work with keyboard input (1 for option one, etc)
Editor: Workbench: AllCharacters and CharactersInRange nodes now take inputs as world objects so that other nodes can better connect to them
Translations: Russian updated to include character names among other things

Fix: Optimized navmesh code to prevent unnecessary cut calculations that could lead to CPU spikes
Fix: Flag shader should now work as intended
Fix: Right clicking on ring items would not try to fill empty slots in character inventory
Fix: Numerous bugs with faction specific loot fixed, meaning more context appropriate loot drops
Fix: Stunned characters no longer regenerate health/power
Fix: Potentially fixed some cases where un-pausing a move order would immediately make it fail (e.g a stunned Kenny would not move where he was supposed to move after the stun buff was removed)
Fix: Corrected scale on skeleton conveyor belt worker
Fix: Scripting bug whereby betraying Lilith would lead to a cutscene playing too early and the player becoming trapped
Fix: Removed verbose descriptions on armor pieces as it’s undesirable in tooltips
Fix: Auto Assign loot on character sheet was considering items it shouldn’t have
Fix: Crossfading to an animation that was about to fade out and had an outro animation had undesirable results
Fix: Cooldown for triggered special abilities was starting even if the ability could not be activated
Fix: Console now accepts proper resource names having been broken by the Translation system
Fix: Lilith's soul reap ability would not stop the looping sound if the beam was destroyed
Fix: Fixed inefficiency in the highlighting system when destroying lots of highlightable objects (happens when unloading a location)
Fix: Camera collider on Workshop building revised to prevent camera getting stuck inside building
Fix: Civics building list was always showing Tier {0}
Fix: Cotton field workpoints now use the correct animations
Fix: Skeleton Elites were being called Mages
Fix: Input wasn’t working properly in workbench
Fix: Arrow trails weren’t showing
Fix: Horse grazing animation wasn’t playing on horse in the Stables building
Fix: Work points for harvested resources would sometimes be aborted when unloading a location and the characters would drop the resources that they were carrying and those could persist to the next location
Fix: Eating work points weren’t being restored properly if there wasn’t enough food in the inventory (even if the characters had already taken the food from the inventory and were eating it). Could cause food being stuck to characters
Fix: Lilith’s Disease Cloud wasn’t dispelling itself properly, leaving a lingering sound loop

Maps: Campaign: Bountiful Bog: Added ‘slave’ housing to Grublin Slum as part of Toadkin storyline
Maps: Campaign: Murp’s Dentistry: Added lights that flicker during electroshock

Added default armor to all military units
Doubled health on cavalry to represent horse
Reduced sword damage
Increased halberd damage
Increased crossbow damage
Rebalanced lilith, quixl and borgle

Assets: Kits: Props: Murp: Added Light02 and Light03 (tag as murp_light, see Murp battle)
Assets: Kits: Props: Kobold Camp: Added destructible gate
Assets: Kits: Props: Mordrichs Factory: Added support for Door node to remaining machines
Assets: Sounds: Added one-shot group [Shadow Warden Attack]
Assets: Sounds: Added one-shot group [Shadow Warden Battlecry]
Assets: Sounds: Added one-shot group [Shadow Warden Death]
Assets: Sounds: Added one-shot group [Shadow Warden Idle]
Assets: Sounds: Added one-shot group [Shadow Warden Wounded]
Assets: Sounds: Added one-shot [Character Hero Borgle Powershot]
Assets: Sounds: Added one-shot [Character Hero Borgle Multishot]
Assets: Sounds: Added one-shot [Character Hero Borgle Immobilizing Shot]
Assets: Sounds: Added one-shot [Character Hero Borgle Rain Of Arrows]
Assets: Sounds: Added one-shot [Character Hero Borgle Shadow Warden]
Assets: Sounds: Added one-shot [Ballista Fire]
Assets: Sounds: Added one-shot [Ballista Reload]
Assets: Sounds: Added one-shot [Flamer Fire]
Assets: Sounds: Added looping [Burning]
Assets: Sounds: Added one-shot [Mortar Fire]

None

• Kenny can get stuck again during his attack if you complete his dialogue while he’s stunned

Tired of all those spider attacks? Then it’s time to set your engineers to work building turrets at key points around your village. Ballista turrets knockdown any enemies in the bolt’s path, giving you a window of opportunity to inflict further damage. Flamethrower turrets set targets on fire causing fire damage over time, and can cover a wide sweeping area. Mortars are the big damage dealers, although they take time to hit their targets.

For every Engineer assigned to a Workshop building, two turrets can be supported. Building a third turret will cause the first turret to be deconstructed.

The sign post that allowed fast travel to Act II has been removed pending the release of Alpha 29. It will make a return in the next experimental.

As a side note, we're working our little socks off to bring you solid patches, often in the face of negativity. If you like what we're doing, please consider supporting us by taking a few minutes to leave a review.

The primary changes include Act II Bufo campaign in it’s entirety, the Grublin boss battle, numerous changes to inventory and crafting UI to further reduce micro-management, and access from anywhere to world travel.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xqnWV9zUExo

Experimental Build:
http://steamcommunity.com/app/224440/discussions/0/541906348034355622/

Player: Campaign Act II: Toadkin faction is now playable start to finish
Player: Campaign Act II: Added Scruplez and Urzal joint boss battle
Player: Campaign Act II: Added Murp behemoth battle
Player: Changed topbar layout to be more compact, added firewood and berries
Player: Added Auto Transfer option to crafting UI to remove need to manually allocate gear to building stores
Player: Equipment Store loot is now equipped based on item loot score rather than positional rank
Player: Character Sheet now has a ‘grab best loot’ button to get loot from the village inventory
Player: Village Inventory dialog now has a ‘Distribute’ button to transfer equippable loot to building stores
Player: Added delete save game to UI
Player: Hooked up the world map to topbar and minimap buttons
Player: Scruplez now has grapeshot and homing missile abilities
Player: Olga’s frost magic abilities have been expanded (still WIP)
Player: Bosses, behemoths and heroes (when being fought) have been rebalanced

Fix: Removed jittering on stairs when fighting
Fix: Soft particle shaders now working as intended
Fix: Added offset to projector shader to help some z fighting with props close to the ground
Fix: Reduced memory usage slightly on SSAO by removing unused multi-compiles, prevented performance drop when camera is close to say walls by clamping sample radius
Fix: Grublin dazed animation had unwanted global move data that caused them to vanish when stunned
Fix: Building dialog options no longer appear in front of minimap texture and markers
Fix: Big hover healthbar wasn’t updating frequently enough
Fix: Unhappiness can no longer descend into -infinity when villagers are not allowed to leave
Fix: Time was showing instead of date on save games made before midnight
Fix: Discovering the Glade pathway before helping the Withering Dead would enable World Travel right into the middle of a cutscene location
Fix: Replaced cloak slot image on character sheet with trinket slot image
Fix: Projectiles weren’t being destroyed when a ranged attack is aborted because an ability order was given
Fix: Willow wasn’t able to solo balance
Fix: Lilith’s Life Steal ability wasn’t notifying characters that it had damaged them (would not aggro when attacked)
Fix: Piranha now only drop fish as loot instead of armor and weapons
Fix: Save games weren’t correctly serializing some boss abilities (e.g. Bla’tu)
Fix: Looping ambient sounds weren’t stopping when exiting a map
Fix: Monsters weren’t getting rebalanced after meeting them first as a non-aggressive faction

Maps: Campaign: Shirebrook: Added second stone quarry area, added more resources esp. Berry Bushes
Maps: Campaign: Shirebrook: Enemy raids have been changed to give 60 seconds warning pending attack, and a war-horn announcing the attack has begun
Maps: Campaign: Bountiful Bog: Replaced lookout towers
Maps: Campaign: Murps Dentistry: Boss Battle and Chair Destruction
Maps: Campaign: Bridges added to Nara and Mordrich linking to Act II
Maps: Sandbox: Haven: Added more berry bushes around the starting area
Maps: Tutorial: Added missing location marker, made the sword loot item magical to introduce players to better gear

Assets: Characters: Tweaked run speeds of Scruplez, Toadkin Warrior and Blotch
Assets: Characters: Toadkin: Added Scorpion Riders
Assets: Characters: Scruplez and Urzal now have complementary AI
Assets: Characters: Rabbits are now full characters
Assets: Loot: Added Scorpion Sting
Assets: Loot: Added Glacian Plate armor set
Assets: Kits: Props: Kobold Kit: Added simpler lookout tower for more reliable pathing
Assets: Kits: Goblin Buildings: Added Barrel Destructible (explodes after delay once attacked)
Assets: Kits: Goblin Buildings: Added Barricades
Assets: Kits: Goblin Buildings: Added Building (Small)
Assets: Kits: Goblin Buildings: Added Bunker and Springboard (see Bountiful Bog Urzal battle for tagging)
Assets: Kits: Goblin Buildings: Added Wall Decor (to scrap-heap-ify the grublin village)
Assets: Kits: Goblin Buildings: Added Sandbag Defenses
Assets: Kits: Goblin Buildings: Added Tarps
Assets: Kits: Goblin Siege: Updated warship with animation and sound, moved to Goblin Buildings kit
Assets: Kits: Kobold Props: Added New Walkway System
Assets: Kits: Characters: Goblins: Added Grublin Machine Gun
Assets: Sounds: Added one-shot [Rusty Valve]
Assets: Sounds: Added one-shot [Character Hero Quixl Smoke Bomb Cloud]
Assets: Sounds: Added one-shot [Impact Shot Light] and [Impact Shot Heavy] groups
Assets: Sounds: Added looping [War Drums]
Assets: Sounds: Added one-shot [Spawn Rocket], [Impact Rocket]
Assets: Sounds: Added looping [Rocket Burn Loop]
Assets: Sounds: Added one-shot [Impact Scorpion Sting] group
Assets: Sounds: Added one-shot [Notification Invasion]
Assets: Sounds: Added one-shot [Burning Fuse 3s]
Assets: Sounds: Crabs now have sound effects

Character references are now always passed around as WorldObject references to reduce the need for converter nodes. ForEachCharacter and CharacterToWorldObject nodes have now been hidden (but will appear in legacy scripts). It is recommended you replace any instances ForEachCharacter with ForEachWorldObject.

Many Water FX kit assets can now be controlled with the Door node in workbench, and support fading when turned off. Their default state in the inspector for existing pieces used in maps for IsActive is Off, which will cause them not to show up. Level designers will need to select any water fx assets and check the ‘IsActive’ box in the inspector.

• It’s entirely possible to get 2 Quixl’s in your party
  
• Grab best loot has a few low impact bugs, and might unequip hero weapons
  
• Borgle isn’t being balanced correctly during his final confrontation
  
• Murp isn’t being balanced correctly
  
• If Kenny is stunned as his cohorts are die, he won’t flee
  
• Level 6 rabbits, lol

When enabling auto transfer in the crafting menu, newly crafted items will be moved to appropriate building equipment stores. The system - where possible - allocates on an as needed basis, so if there’s only 1 woodcutter working, it won’t send more than 1 cloth cap there. The ‘Distribute’ button on the village inventory dialog works using similar allocation rules.

The primary changes include Act II Bufo campaign in it’s entirety, the Grublin boss battle, numerous changes to inventory and crafting UI to further reduce micro-management, and access from anywhere to world travel.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xqnWV9zUExo

Experimental Build:
http://steamcommunity.com/app/224440/discussions/0/541906348034355622/

Player: Campaign Act II: Toadkin faction is now playable start to finish
Player: Campaign Act II: Added Scruplez and Urzal joint boss battle
Player: Campaign Act II: Added Murp behemoth battle
Player: Changed topbar layout to be more compact, added firewood and berries
Player: Added Auto Transfer option to crafting UI to remove need to manually allocate gear to building stores
Player: Equipment Store loot is now equipped based on item loot score rather than positional rank
Player: Character Sheet now has a ‘grab best loot’ button to get loot from the village inventory
Player: Village Inventory dialog now has a ‘Distribute’ button to transfer equippable loot to building stores
Player: Added delete save game to UI
Player: Hooked up the world map to topbar and minimap buttons
Player: Scruplez now has grapeshot and homing missile abilities
Player: Olga’s frost magic abilities have been expanded (still WIP)
Player: Bosses, behemoths and heroes (when being fought) have been rebalanced

Fix: Removed jittering on stairs when fighting
Fix: Soft particle shaders now working as intended
Fix: Added offset to projector shader to help some z fighting with props close to the ground
Fix: Reduced memory usage slightly on SSAO by removing unused multi-compiles, prevented performance drop when camera is close to say walls by clamping sample radius
Fix: Grublin dazed animation had unwanted global move data that caused them to vanish when stunned
Fix: Building dialog options no longer appear in front of minimap texture and markers
Fix: Big hover healthbar wasn’t updating frequently enough
Fix: Unhappiness can no longer descend into -infinity when villagers are not allowed to leave
Fix: Time was showing instead of date on save games made before midnight
Fix: Discovering the Glade pathway before helping the Withering Dead would enable World Travel right into the middle of a cutscene location
Fix: Replaced cloak slot image on character sheet with trinket slot image
Fix: Projectiles weren’t being destroyed when a ranged attack is aborted because an ability order was given
Fix: Willow wasn’t able to solo balance
Fix: Lilith’s Life Steal ability wasn’t notifying characters that it had damaged them (would not aggro when attacked)
Fix: Piranha now only drop fish as loot instead of armor and weapons
Fix: Save games weren’t correctly serializing some boss abilities (e.g. Bla’tu)
Fix: Looping ambient sounds weren’t stopping when exiting a map
Fix: Monsters weren’t getting rebalanced after meeting them first as a non-aggressive faction

Maps: Campaign: Shirebrook: Added second stone quarry area, added more resources esp. Berry Bushes
Maps: Campaign: Shirebrook: Enemy raids have been changed to give 60 seconds warning pending attack, and a war-horn announcing the attack has begun
Maps: Campaign: Bountiful Bog: Replaced lookout towers
Maps: Campaign: Murps Dentistry: Boss Battle and Chair Destruction
Maps: Campaign: Bridges added to Nara and Mordrich linking to Act II
Maps: Sandbox: Haven: Added more berry bushes around the starting area
Maps: Tutorial: Added missing location marker, made the sword loot item magical to introduce players to better gear

Assets: Characters: Tweaked run speeds of Scruplez, Toadkin Warrior and Blotch
Assets: Characters: Toadkin: Added Scorpion Riders
Assets: Characters: Scruplez and Urzal now have complementary AI
Assets: Characters: Rabbits are now full characters
Assets: Loot: Added Scorpion Sting
Assets: Loot: Added Glacian Plate armor set
Assets: Kits: Props: Kobold Kit: Added simpler lookout tower for more reliable pathing
Assets: Kits: Goblin Buildings: Added Barrel Destructible (explodes after delay once attacked)
Assets: Kits: Goblin Buildings: Added Barricades
Assets: Kits: Goblin Buildings: Added Building (Small)
Assets: Kits: Goblin Buildings: Added Bunker and Springboard (see Bountiful Bog Urzal battle for tagging)
Assets: Kits: Goblin Buildings: Added Wall Decor (to scrap-heap-ify the grublin village)
Assets: Kits: Goblin Buildings: Added Sandbag Defenses
Assets: Kits: Goblin Buildings: Added Tarps
Assets: Kits: Goblin Siege: Updated warship with animation and sound, moved to Goblin Buildings kit
Assets: Kits: Kobold Props: Added New Walkway System
Assets: Kits: Characters: Goblins: Added Grublin Machine Gun
Assets: Sounds: Added one-shot [Rusty Valve]
Assets: Sounds: Added one-shot [Character Hero Quixl Smoke Bomb Cloud]
Assets: Sounds: Added one-shot [Impact Shot Light] and [Impact Shot Heavy] groups
Assets: Sounds: Added looping [War Drums]
Assets: Sounds: Added one-shot [Spawn Rocket], [Impact Rocket]
Assets: Sounds: Added looping [Rocket Burn Loop]
Assets: Sounds: Added one-shot [Impact Scorpion Sting] group
Assets: Sounds: Added one-shot [Notification Invasion]
Assets: Sounds: Added one-shot [Burning Fuse 3s]
Assets: Sounds: Crabs now have sound effects

Character references are now always passed around as WorldObject references to reduce the need for converter nodes. ForEachCharacter and CharacterToWorldObject nodes have now been hidden (but will appear in legacy scripts). It is recommended you replace any instances ForEachCharacter with ForEachWorldObject.

Many Water FX kit assets can now be controlled with the Door node in workbench, and support fading when turned off. Their default state in the inspector for existing pieces used in maps for IsActive is Off, which will cause them not to show up. Level designers will need to select any water fx assets and check the ‘IsActive’ box in the inspector.

• It’s entirely possible to get 2 Quixl’s in your party
  
• Grab best loot has a few low impact bugs, and might unequip hero weapons
  
• Borgle isn’t being balanced correctly during his final confrontation
  
• Murp isn’t being balanced correctly
  
• If Kenny is stunned as his cohorts are die, he won’t flee
  
• Level 6 rabbits, lol

When enabling auto transfer in the crafting menu, newly crafted items will be moved to appropriate building equipment stores. The system - where possible - allocates on an as needed basis, so if there’s only 1 woodcutter working, it won’t send more than 1 cloth cap there. The ‘Distribute’ button on the village inventory dialog works using similar allocation rules.

The primary changes include partial language support for German and Russian, Act II from start to finish for the Grublins (first pass), the Toadkin boss and behemoth battles, a new dungeon and several new critters.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eMKHFoJNuLA

Experimental Build:
http://steamcommunity.com/app/224440/discussions/0/541906348034355622/

Player: Act II Grublin storyline now playable in entirety as a first-pass
Player: Bla’tu (Toadkin leader) boss battle encounter
Player: Mighty Rhog (Toadkin Behemoth) boss battle encounter
UI: Some layout reformatted to better support translated labels
UI: Settings: Game: Language setting added with partial support for German and Russian*
Maps: Campaign: Sunken Depths added (accessible from Bla’tu’s Temple)
Maps: Campaign: Bountiful Bog: Dr Murp’s added
Maps: Campaign: Shirebrook: Crabs added to shoreline
Maps: Sandbox: Stinking Swamp: Kobold group near the kobold village now spawns less often
Editor: Workbench: Added Buff node to apply buffs to characters (needs json file lookup)
Editor: Workbench: Added CharacterScale node
Assets: Terrains: Swamp Ruins: Statue Trap - see notes
Assets: Characters: Mighty Rhog: Run removed, he was moving stupidly fast, abilities added
Assets: Characters: Grassland Animals: Added cave and gladiator crabs
Assets: Characters: Swamp Animals: Added scorpion
Assets: Characters: Grassland Animals: Added cave crab and gladiator crab
Assets: Characters: Piranha: Added environmental (non-attackable) hazard; needs some bug fixes
Assets: Characters: Toadkin: Blotch: Updated to use a warhammer
Assets: Props: Characters: Toadkin: Bla’tu Shield static character added for instantiation via Workbench
Assets: Systems: Systems: Added sparkles (used to highlight things of interest)
Assets: Loot: Added 9 trinkets (Gladefolk: Cocoon, Magic Mushrooms, Wood Imp Wing, Toadkin: Amber Insect, Obsidian Tusk, Toad Carving, Withering Dead: Bottled Eye, Ritual Urn, Wishbone)
Assets: Loot: Added 7 new keys (Cult Of Pyros Key, Dwarven Key, Glacian Key, Gladefolk Key, Grublin Key, Toadkin Key, Order Of The Fang Key)
Fix: Opening world map would clear world specific files which would trigger all json files to be reloaded, breaking a lot of things
Fix: Characters with Auto AI disabled will no longer engage with the enemy without being provoked or other allies are fighting nearby
Fix: Tweaked animation blending at end of an attack order to prevent units gliding
Fix: Effects on abilities sometimes lost the information about which ability was being used
Fix: Nara can no longer be attacked while in her cocoon
Fix: AI now queries for nearby targets directly instead of relying on the combat system to keep an up to date list (which it sometimes didn't, e.g when the character was of type CharacterStatic such as a destructible column)
Fix: Swamp Ruins Kit: some doors weren’t working properly
Fix: Added support for male/female variants of last names (required for language support)
Fix: Characters were being initialized completely in the editor which could prevent them from using up to date info (e.g health/names/etc.)
Fix: Inventory items are now loaded synchronously when a location loads instead of asynchronously as that could cause some lag when the loot system needed to be initialized
Fix: Added wider dialog header image to support longer character names due to translation
Fix: Prevented damage text greater than 4999 appearing, which only happens in code cheats

• Lilith is overpowered
  
• Borgle is underpowered
  
• Any level designers that have used Bla’tu will need to re-insert him into their map

* Partial language support has been added for German and Russian. It’s ‘partial’ because only labels that are unlikely to change have been translated. Quest text is subject to change, and has therefore not been translated. Both languages were selected because of their character sets. Special thanks go out to Nori for the German translation and Psytoshgen for Russian.

Both Bla’tu and Rhog battles make use of the new tagging system. Destructible Column 01 are tagged with ‘blatu_column’. As they are destroyed, falling debris will start landing on his magic shield. Statue Trap 01 are tagged with ‘blatu_statue’ and can be activated by Bla’tu’s magic to begin releasing fireballs. Finally, in the center of the room is a point tagged with ‘blatu_mortar’. This is used as the central point for when debris starts falling in the room, which the player must then avoid.

Rhog uses points tagged with ‘rhog_spawner’ to notify where whirlpools and piranha will spawn, and ‘rhog_scorpion’ where the scorpions emerge.

The primary changes include partial language support for German and Russian, Act II from start to finish for the Grublins (first pass), the Toadkin boss and behemoth battles, a new dungeon and several new critters.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eMKHFoJNuLA

Experimental Build:
http://steamcommunity.com/app/224440/discussions/0/541906348034355622/

Player: Act II Grublin storyline now playable in entirety as a first-pass
Player: Bla’tu (Toadkin leader) boss battle encounter
Player: Mighty Rhog (Toadkin Behemoth) boss battle encounter
UI: Some layout reformatted to better support translated labels
UI: Settings: Game: Language setting added with partial support for German and Russian*
Maps: Campaign: Sunken Depths added (accessible from Bla’tu’s Temple)
Maps: Campaign: Bountiful Bog: Dr Murp’s added
Maps: Campaign: Shirebrook: Crabs added to shoreline
Maps: Sandbox: Stinking Swamp: Kobold group near the kobold village now spawns less often
Editor: Workbench: Added Buff node to apply buffs to characters (needs json file lookup)
Editor: Workbench: Added CharacterScale node
Assets: Terrains: Swamp Ruins: Statue Trap - see notes
Assets: Characters: Mighty Rhog: Run removed, he was moving stupidly fast, abilities added
Assets: Characters: Grassland Animals: Added cave and gladiator crabs
Assets: Characters: Swamp Animals: Added scorpion
Assets: Characters: Grassland Animals: Added cave crab and gladiator crab
Assets: Characters: Piranha: Added environmental (non-attackable) hazard; needs some bug fixes
Assets: Characters: Toadkin: Blotch: Updated to use a warhammer
Assets: Props: Characters: Toadkin: Bla’tu Shield static character added for instantiation via Workbench
Assets: Systems: Systems: Added sparkles (used to highlight things of interest)
Assets: Loot: Added 9 trinkets (Gladefolk: Cocoon, Magic Mushrooms, Wood Imp Wing, Toadkin: Amber Insect, Obsidian Tusk, Toad Carving, Withering Dead: Bottled Eye, Ritual Urn, Wishbone)
Assets: Loot: Added 7 new keys (Cult Of Pyros Key, Dwarven Key, Glacian Key, Gladefolk Key, Grublin Key, Toadkin Key, Order Of The Fang Key)
Fix: Opening world map would clear world specific files which would trigger all json files to be reloaded, breaking a lot of things
Fix: Characters with Auto AI disabled will no longer engage with the enemy without being provoked or other allies are fighting nearby
Fix: Tweaked animation blending at end of an attack order to prevent units gliding
Fix: Effects on abilities sometimes lost the information about which ability was being used
Fix: Nara can no longer be attacked while in her cocoon
Fix: AI now queries for nearby targets directly instead of relying on the combat system to keep an up to date list (which it sometimes didn't, e.g when the character was of type CharacterStatic such as a destructible column)
Fix: Swamp Ruins Kit: some doors weren’t working properly
Fix: Added support for male/female variants of last names (required for language support)
Fix: Characters were being initialized completely in the editor which could prevent them from using up to date info (e.g health/names/etc.)
Fix: Inventory items are now loaded synchronously when a location loads instead of asynchronously as that could cause some lag when the loot system needed to be initialized
Fix: Added wider dialog header image to support longer character names due to translation
Fix: Prevented damage text greater than 4999 appearing, which only happens in code cheats

• Lilith is overpowered
  
• Borgle is underpowered
  
• Any level designers that have used Bla’tu will need to re-insert him into their map

* Partial language support has been added for German and Russian. It’s ‘partial’ because only labels that are unlikely to change have been translated. Quest text is subject to change, and has therefore not been translated. Both languages were selected because of their character sets. Special thanks go out to Nori for the German translation and Psytoshgen for Russian.

Both Bla’tu and Rhog battles make use of the new tagging system. Destructible Column 01 are tagged with ‘blatu_column’. As they are destroyed, falling debris will start landing on his magic shield. Statue Trap 01 are tagged with ‘blatu_statue’ and can be activated by Bla’tu’s magic to begin releasing fireballs. Finally, in the center of the room is a point tagged with ‘blatu_mortar’. This is used as the central point for when debris starts falling in the room, which the player must then avoid.

Rhog uses points tagged with ‘rhog_spawner’ to notify where whirlpools and piranha will spawn, and ‘rhog_scorpion’ where the scorpions emerge.

The primary changes focus on code optimization, bug fixes, and further development of the campaign. For CPU bound machines (usually PC’s with high end graphics cards) we’re seeing a significant frame rate boost in large-population villages. We’re also opening up the next campaign act, with an in-game warning that it’s only really for a look around, and not for playing. Currently only the Grublin faction storyline is being worked on.

Experimental Build:
http://steamcommunity.com/app/224440/discussions/0/541906348034355622/

Player: Campaign Act II is now partly accessible
Player: Heroes: Borgle’s abilities fleshed out
Maps: Campaign: Bountiful Bog: Grublin campaign extended inc. further level design
Maps: Campaign: Bla’tu’s Palace: Grublin campaign extended
Maps: Campaign: Shirebrook: You can now travel to the Bountiful Bog via a road sign near the starting point
Maps: Campaign: Desecrated Cathedral: Sewing machines are now malfunctioning as per the story, and Brom’s machine fixing has been part implemented (still needs his animation importing)
Editor: Workbench: Added AllWithTag and FirstWithTag nodes
Editor: Mordrich can now teleport to points tagged with mordrich_teleport to avoid jumping out of a room
Assets: Audio: Added magic missile release sounds for all magic types
Assets: Audio: Added some missing inventory item move sounds
Assets: Props: Replaced Quarterstaff placeholder textures with final textures
Assets: Props: Bones: Added Skeleton Interactible for scripting in Workbench using WorkPointTrigger
Assets: Props: Human: Added Journal Interactible for scripting in Workbench using WorkPointTrigger
Assets: Dungeons: Mordrich’s Factory: Skeleton sewing points can now be scripted via Workbench
Assets: Terrains: Swamp Ruins: Added a destructible column
Assets: Inventory: Updated icons for quarterstaffs
Assets: Inventory: Added icons for runestones (not implemented yet)
Assets: Inventory: Updated icon for grublin claws (not implemented yet)
Optimization: Increased thread count on pathfinding to avoid it crashing; could cause workers to stop moving
Optimization: Moved tile handling code (inc. grass generation) to run after rendering has completed
Optimization: Improved fast filtering of objects
Optimization: Pathfinding distance check for buildings and resources is now non-blocking
Optimization: OrderWorkPoint was running the work point filter more times than necessary
Fix: Enemies would sometimes not start to attack the unit that was attacking them using a ranged attack
Fix: Line Of Sight code was breaking pathfinding, ranged units could shoot through doors
Fix: Line Of Sight was causing units to not move to attack if they had a valid path but no line of sight
Fix: Bugs in balancing code that made difficulty increase way too quickly
Fix: Centaur portrait image is now correct
Fix: Updated Gregory's bash range to reflect what the ui indicator was showing
Fix: Workbench: LoopSlow node now correctly emits the index property; good for timers
Fix: World Editor: World Kit is now showing correctly
Fix: Assets: Doors have been updated to prevent characters getting too close and breaking line of sight
Fix: Prevented workers from trying to work with resources that often cause orders to fail, spamming log
Fix: Fishing Hut navmesh needed adjusting
Fix: Monastery attack points weren’t working

• When using the world map, if you click back into the location where you currently are, resources will become decoupled and show zero on the top bar.

We’ve spent a fair bit of time optimizing the code for larger villages where performance was dropping. While population is uncapped, there is always going to be a point where this happens, but now it should happen a fair bit later.

The primary changes focus on code optimization, bug fixes, and further development of the campaign. For CPU bound machines (usually PC’s with high end graphics cards) we’re seeing a significant frame rate boost in large-population villages. We’re also opening up the next campaign act, with an in-game warning that it’s only really for a look around, and not for playing. Currently only the Grublin faction storyline is being worked on.

Experimental Build:
http://steamcommunity.com/app/224440/discussions/0/541906348034355622/

Player: Campaign Act II is now partly accessible
Player: Heroes: Borgle’s abilities fleshed out
Maps: Campaign: Bountiful Bog: Grublin campaign extended inc. further level design
Maps: Campaign: Bla’tu’s Palace: Grublin campaign extended
Maps: Campaign: Shirebrook: You can now travel to the Bountiful Bog via a road sign near the starting point
Maps: Campaign: Desecrated Cathedral: Sewing machines are now malfunctioning as per the story, and Brom’s machine fixing has been part implemented (still needs his animation importing)
Editor: Workbench: Added AllWithTag and FirstWithTag nodes
Editor: Mordrich can now teleport to points tagged with mordrich_teleport to avoid jumping out of a room
Assets: Audio: Added magic missile release sounds for all magic types
Assets: Audio: Added some missing inventory item move sounds
Assets: Props: Replaced Quarterstaff placeholder textures with final textures
Assets: Props: Bones: Added Skeleton Interactible for scripting in Workbench using WorkPointTrigger
Assets: Props: Human: Added Journal Interactible for scripting in Workbench using WorkPointTrigger
Assets: Dungeons: Mordrich’s Factory: Skeleton sewing points can now be scripted via Workbench
Assets: Terrains: Swamp Ruins: Added a destructible column
Assets: Inventory: Updated icons for quarterstaffs
Assets: Inventory: Added icons for runestones (not implemented yet)
Assets: Inventory: Updated icon for grublin claws (not implemented yet)
Optimization: Increased thread count on pathfinding to avoid it crashing; could cause workers to stop moving
Optimization: Moved tile handling code (inc. grass generation) to run after rendering has completed
Optimization: Improved fast filtering of objects
Optimization: Pathfinding distance check for buildings and resources is now non-blocking
Optimization: OrderWorkPoint was running the work point filter more times than necessary
Fix: Enemies would sometimes not start to attack the unit that was attacking them using a ranged attack
Fix: Line Of Sight code was breaking pathfinding, ranged units could shoot through doors
Fix: Line Of Sight was causing units to not move to attack if they had a valid path but no line of sight
Fix: Bugs in balancing code that made difficulty increase way too quickly
Fix: Centaur portrait image is now correct
Fix: Updated Gregory's bash range to reflect what the ui indicator was showing
Fix: Workbench: LoopSlow node now correctly emits the index property; good for timers
Fix: World Editor: World Kit is now showing correctly
Fix: Assets: Doors have been updated to prevent characters getting too close and breaking line of sight
Fix: Prevented workers from trying to work with resources that often cause orders to fail, spamming log
Fix: Fishing Hut navmesh needed adjusting
Fix: Monastery attack points weren’t working

• When using the world map, if you click back into the location where you currently are, resources will become decoupled and show zero on the top bar.

We’ve spent a fair bit of time optimizing the code for larger villages where performance was dropping. While population is uncapped, there is always going to be a point where this happens, but now it should happen a fair bit later.