Stealth Fest is nearly over so we're back with a final look at some late game content from one of the final seasons in the hunt!

If you missed the stream earlier in Stealth fest this is your chance to join Jay, the community manager, as we dive into the fourth season of Horror Stories: Harvest Hunt to see just how in-depth the game gets! You'll get to see new tools, new whispers, new cards and get a first look at the sort of challenges you'll be facing later in the game. More importantly, you will get to see one new Devourer mutation!

These later seasons of the harvest will put your strategy to the test and more likely, force you to adapt or fall to the Devourer and its Fiends. Or do as Jay did in the first stream and fail miserably.

A good hunter always learns as much as possible before the hunt, so be sure to tune in and learn all you can. You'll need it, if you plan on surviving!

Update Assistants!

Welcome to the new entry of Fan Art Friday! Today’s fan art gallery presents more sketches! Take a look at the incredible works of our Discord Community!

[h4]FAN ART #1[/h4]

by average smf enjoyer



[h4]FAN ART #2[/h4]

by upgrade



[h4]FAN ART #3[/h4]

by Flarry







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Hello everyone!

Today we’re putting out the last update for our Open Beta, from this point on we need to stop all work on it so we can start preparing the update for full release. We still need to work on translating the update into other languages, as well as preparing for release on other platforms, but we hope to have it released properly in the next few weeks! We will be leaving the Open Beta branch live on steam so you can keep playing it until that time.

This last update has a few AI updates and one important fix that will reduce the number of out of syncs people experience during combat in multiplayer. Although we’ve been working hard in those 2 areas, we recognize that there’s still a way to go. We will continue to work on improving both of these in the future!

I want to thank everyone for all the feedback that they have given us, it has helped us immensely. Even if we were not able to take into account your feedback for this update, we have read it all and there are still many updates to come for us to improve things. Though we will not be holding one for the Golem update coming in Q4, this will likely not be our last Open Beta. So please keep letting us know what you think of the game and what you want to see come next, your comments are always welcome!

Game Version: 1.004.000.81950
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• Updated the Icons for Bolstering Matrix and Amplifying Lens
  
• Removed old Production from the City Expansion Automation dropdown

• Added simple support to stop friendly or allied AI’s from expanding towards the players domain
  
• Increased difficulty army power scale vs player
  
  • Normal 50%
    
  • Hard 75%
    
  • Very hard 100%
• Fixed issue where the AI would leave a city under siege to pick an easy fight
  
• Fixed issue where the AI could only cast one primed spell per turn
  
• Fixed issue where the AI would occasionally walk on an allied structure
  
• Fixed a small issue to the AI unit production loop to make sure the AI produces enough units to match the difficulty settings.

• Winds:
  
  • Increased the radius of dust storm to 2 hexes
    
  • Increased the base damage of the Wind Rager by 1 and reduced the cooldown of Whirlwind to 1 turn

• Fixed a multiplayer out of sync that would often trigger when observing combats in multiplayer
  
• Fixed the missing Ocean layer in Combat
  
• Fixed the Soother Staff appearing behind the Soother when the Crocodile Head is selected
  
• Fixed a Crash that occurred in the Setup Casting Point Breakdown

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Warriors!

We're glad to announce a special deal: this weekend receive a 50% bonus with every Miracle Coins purchase!

This bonus will only be active for purchases more than 1000 Miracle coins.

Discount starts: 28.07.2023 16:00 CEST
Discount ends: 31.07.2023 11:00 CEST

Have a nice weekend and good luck!
AIGRIND

Lock up Grandma because today is the DAY.
Endlight is FINALLY RELEASED!
You knew it would happen and it did.
I've literally played Endlight 10,000 times,
so I have the credentials to say "ENDLIGHT"

"Endlight is THE most visually stimulating game I have ever played ...
and I've played some fucking visually stimulating games"
"it gets absurd VERY fast, in about 2 milliseconds you go from ...
oooo pretty lights to ... (footage of a computer exploding)"
"satisfying is something this game does at its core ... really well"


Perhaps the only review that mentions Endlight is funny.
Endlight also features the worst story in videogame history but I digress.
They highlight some of my game design tweets so you'll learn thangs.
They were surprised Endlight was in development for so long which is great!
Oh wait... that's great, right? Right?!
Grandma!!!




Endlight's default settings have Chaos and Graphics turned down for the normals.
But that's not you.

You ...
You're absurd.
You're an avocado in a bowl full of raisins.
You're the reason I get out of bed every morning and pretend I slept.

Switch "Chaos" to "Exciting" and "Graphics" to "Great",
your eyeballs will both thank you.


We will be releasing FREE SEASONS (25 levels each)
on the first of EVERY MONTH for a YEAR.
That's a lotta levels, but it's better than installing drywall.




I spill the beans on Endlight sales and plans.
Read it before it reads you.
Our game will FAIL at launch (tomorrow), but be SUCCESSFUL later

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As the Second Hokage did, cut enemies down from a blind spot with the technique of Flying Raijin!

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Having Obito Uchiha (Ten Tails Jinchuriki) as your master, your avatar ninja can master the hidden jutsu!

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It's time to buckle up for the thrilling HELLEVATOR! Today's the day, folks! Join the devilishly delightful ride at 16 CEST (for S31.DE it started yesterday, July 27, at 16 CEST). Gather your guildmates because we're in for a wild ride to the new Limbo Plain, racing for those coveted top ranks. Plummet down up to 500 floors into the wickedly wonderful depths and fill your bags with some seriously mighty loot!

Dragons exist in every corner of ancient and modern civilisation. From moral tales passed down through oral storytelling, to incredible CGI fleets of winged beasts on TV and in film, dragons have fascinated human imaginations for thousands of years. No more so than in Japanese culture, where dragons symbolise strength and power, and the stories and myths in which they exist tell tales of wisdom, perseverance, good fortune, and wealth.

Most Japanese dragons are water-dwelling, associated with rainfall. During times of drought in ancient Japan, Buddhist monks held ceremonies to persuade the dragon king to bring rain, perhaps the reason why dragons are also associated with wealth and good fortune, as their power to bring rain guarantees a bountiful harvest. 

In the book Japanese Mythology by Juro Oyama, Oyama cites that “Japan is a land of myths, folk tales, legends, and folklore”, and “like many other myths, Japanese mythology is set against a backdrop of historical events.” 

Many of the dragons mentioned in Japanese mythology are inspired by the real-life events of the nation's history or served to teach a lesson against the backdrop of a specific cultural or economic climate. 

Japanese dragons were first mentioned in the Kojiki (680 AD) and the Nihongi (720 AD), ancient books containing legends about the origin of Japan. The best-known stories are the legends of Yamata No Orochi, Watatsumi, and Mizuchi.
Mizuchi (also known as the Hornless Dragon or The Four-Legged Dragon) was a water dragon who resided in the Kawashima River and met a terrible end after slaughtering nearby travellers. Mizuchi would spit venom at passers-by until challenged by Agatamori, a great warrior.

Agatamori threw three calabashes (gourds) into the river, which floated on the surface. He then challenged Mizuchi to sink them—or be slain.

Mizuchi was a shapeshifter and transformed into a deer in an attempt to submerge the calabashes but failed. When Agatamori slayed the dragon, the legend tells of the river turning red. The river was then renamed ‘The Pool of Agatamori’.

The story of Mizuchi may represent the human sacrifices made to rivers to appease their gods in ancient Japan during floods. 


Water Dragon (Mizuchi) by Keisai Eisen (c. 1830-1848)
Yamata no Orochi was an eight-tailed, eight-headed beast of a dragon, who lived near the Hi River in Izumo City. Each head symbolised an element—water, earth, wind, fire, lightning, light, darkness, and venom. In addition to his terrifying number of appendages, his body was long enough to stretch over eight hills and eight mountains!

Legend has it that Yamata no Orochi devoured one young girl a year in order to be placated, and the people of the Koshi province were petrified by his cruelty. 

The King of Izumo was about to offer his eighth and last daughter to Yamata no Orochi as sacrifice, when Susanoo, the god of storms, proposed a deal—he would slay the dragon in exchange for Princess Kushinada’s hand in marriage. The King agreed, and Susanoo turned the princess into a comb and fixed her into his hair (we assume for safekeeping).

Trickery was needed to vanquish the beast, and Susanoo ordered a hedge to be built around a large field, with eight gates built into it. Eight barrels of strong sake were then placed on a stand underneath each of the eight gates. Susanoo waited, sheltered from view, for Yamata no Orochi to take the bait. 

A storm brewed. Blinding lightning was seen and great thunderclaps were heard, as huge tremors shook the ground. Yamata no Orochi had arrived. Lured by the smell of the sake, the dragon began to drink each vat until he fell to the ground, drunk and incapacitated. 

Susanoo cautiously approached the dragon, making sure he was in a deep sleep. Then, he began to cut off each head with his sword. To finish Yamata no Orochi off for good, he sliced through the tails until his sword snapped. Within the dragon’s flesh was a longsword known as The Heavenly Cloud Sword, which Susanoo took as a souvenir of his victory. 

Yamata no Orochi was slain, and Susanoo married the princess and settled in Izumo. 

This story symbolises the human sacrifices made to appease the anger of enemy tribes in ancient Japan. The incredible sword found in the dragon's body may represent the acquisition of a fearsome weapon to defeat opposition.


A Japanese dragon as depicted in an illustration by Katsushika Hokusai (c. 1836-1850)
Watatsumi was the dragon god of the sea, governor of all aquatic kingdoms, and master of the tides. His great underwater palace known as Ryugo-jo was a haven for shipwrecked people, and his generosity was well-known. 

A story in the Kojiki tells of a man named Hoori, who while scouring the sea looking for his brother’s lost hook, met one of Watatsumi’s daughters and fell in love. Otohime and Hoori married and stayed in Ryugo-jo. That is until, years later, Hoori became bored and homesick but knew he couldn’t return to land without his brother’s fish hook. Watatsumi, caring for the man, summoned the servants of his kingdom to search for the hook. Fortunately, a fish had recently swallowed the hook, and it was retrieved and given to Hoori. Hoori then returned to the land with his wife, the dragon goddess, and lived happily ever after! 

The myth states that Hoori and Otohime’s grandson became the first Emperor of Japan. Thanks to this tale, it is believed that all Emperors are descendants of kamis (gods). 

Watatsumi’s story served as proof that all Japanese Emperors were deities in the eyes of the people, due to their relation to the dragon god. 

Want to learn more about the Japanese culture that inspired Conqueror’s Blade: Sengoku? Check out our Conqueror’s Tales on Miyamoto Musashi and the Life of a Samurai, and stay tuned for more!

• Nuke much more deadly but more expensive.
  
• SteamCopters are horrible mosquito swarm weapons with dual pneumatic slug cannons.
  
• The Mighty Broadsword lives up to its name, with an ultra-long range triple HEAT missile launcher and minigun turret.
  
• Performance is slightly better with some FX :)

Thank you for supporting us while we evolve into the biggest baddest strategy battle game on Flooded Earth!

Hey friends!

We want to introduce you to a couple of our friends at Kitfox Games, community manager Alexandra and director Tanya. Kitfox is here to help us ring in a new era of Caves of Qud development. Today, we'd like to all announce together that the game will fully launch out of Early Access next year, 2024! Kitfox will be helping us do that, and hopefully as many people as possible will enjoy the fruits of those efforts. We made a new trailer to announce the upcoming launch and publishing partnership, so please do watch it and send it to those of your friends who weirdly haven't bought the game yet for some reason:



If you like the new visual effects you see in the trailer, you can check 'em out in game now, on the beta branch! (right-click on Caves of Qud in Steam, select Properties, click the Betas tab, and switch to the 'beta' branch)

Feature Fridays will continue, as well as everything else we normally do, but we'll also be popping up regularly with news and updates surrounding other ways to chat and hype and enjoy the game together. For example, you're welcome to join the Qud channel on the Kitfox Discord server, or come meet some Kitfoxes at the Gamescom booth this year, where we'll be showing Qud to mystified Germans alongside Dwarf Fortress.

Kitfox will probably livestream the game on their Twitch channel in the coming days or weeks, so keep an eye out there too, if you want to hang with some fellow mutants or even give them a few pointers on how best to enjoy our journey under the salt sun.

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Excitedly,
Brian (AlphaBeard), Jason (ptychomancer), Alexandra & Tanya