Hello everybody! We are happy to tell you that new update will be released on Wednesday, which transfer scenario editor into stable branch, fix some essential bugs in game and its editor, and also add Steam Workshop to the game. This means, that a special surprise, a scenario that is based on the Cursed Lake scenario from our first game Discord Times, will be available for all participants of Early access.
Notice for modders.
During the semi-closed test in special dedicated developer’s branch for users, with community activity we could fix some essential bugs and bring integration of game’s editor and Steam Workshop to a stable state. The step with opening special beta came to be very successful, so we could repair errors with autosaving and saving maps in editor.
We fixed some serious flaws that we didn’t take into account during the editor development. The area of the map in the game where all action takes place is only limited by a special area with regular landscape, trees and even buildings. And this zone and all that is outside of it is not used in calculations. Having done a lot of changes and created a brand new version of the editor, we forgot that old version allow to place armies in that border area as well. As a result, a map would load just fine but if this scenario was started in the game, it gave an error when AI attempted to move the army in a place where it wasn’t allowed to be.
Despite that, we think that automatic generation of maps with a river’s delta is fixed but we would have to work on it some more. Generating the delta of the river toda you would need several attempts to receive a good result. We will have to play with formulas and dependencies to make it a bit better, but this is not a first priority task, neither it is very complex. It is postponed until the moment where we will work on the remaining loose ends before game’s release.
Among the others noticeable changes you will notice more comfortable to use cursors for landscape formation(there was a number of complains, hopefully, it would be much better now). Editor changes touched aesthetic aspects of the issue – we replaced skin to gray, so that icons would look more harmonious.
To talk about this next issue is too early but we understand that modders’ work would be much easier if editor allowed to undo. The implementation complexity of this task stems from the fact, that you don’t have to cancel one step exactly, there could be 5 or more, so if drawing mountain array you think you don’t like it, it is necessary to cancel a lot of actions at once.The Editor’s developer Denis Lomako has already experimented in this direction, but it’s too early to say, what will be the result of these experiments. But we try to move in this direction.
A new game interface.
Unfortunately, we didn’t manage to complete work on the new game interface to its logical conclusion to release it in this update. But we want to show you a couple of screenshots of this new interface, that soon will be available!
There are a few months before the official release only. We will announce the exact date later, when we are absolutely sure, that nothing will hinder us to release the game on the day of X exactly. There is no much to do (finalizing shaders, game optimization, translation of remaining chapters), as well as things you repeatedly point out, like battle log and graphic SFX. We are confident that nothing much remains before announcing the release date. We hope to announce it in
August.
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