It’s time to join the first-ever EU Steam Playtest! We are grateful that you have chosen to join us during this time and we hope that you have a ton of fun playing online against others!
Please make sure to check out our discord forums where a large community of experienced Robocrafters will be available to help you get started and join in on the discussion of the development.
Sker Islanders, this is a patch that many of you have been waiting for and one that our dev team have been working hard on! This latest patch has upgrades and changes to the movement and feel of weapons and equippable items, and we would love to know your feedback!
Sker Ritual Patch v.0.3.4 - 27/04/2023
UPGRADES AND CHANGES
- Upgraded how equipable items feel when moving weapons - Changed the player running animation - Changed how recoil falloff is handled on automatic weapons - Changed equipable items field of view to 80, up from 63 - Added "Teleport" text to all teleport machines in "The Ashes of Sker Hotel" - Set the text on Lucky to be the same in every level and localized - Localized text now falls back to English if it's not yet been localized
ISSUE FIXES
- Fixed an issue where camera shakes would be less intense if the game runs at higher than 60 FPS - Fixed an issue where you could get 2 trials active at same time - Fixed an issue causing the difficulty select menu to break if you switch between mouse to keyboard while in the menu
Once again, we'd like to invite everyone over to our Discord channel to chat with the devs and the community, and also please do leave the game a review over on the Steam page which supports our Early Access Beta journey!
Rule the waves 3 has a number of improvements over its predecessors. The most obvious one is the extension of the time period covered to allow for a truly epic scale. RTW3 starts in 1890, which means that the early game includes some really weird ironclad designs. The game mechanics have also been adapted to cover technology and tactics in that period, mainly shorter combat ranges and armor being stronger relative to gun penetration.
In the other end of the game in the post-WWII period up to 1970, the missile age has been incorporated. Where RTW2 had only the most modest beginnings of the missile age, in RTW3 you can design fully fledged missile cruisers with a wide choice of missile armament and missile defences. Various types of Anti-ship missiles and Anti-aircraft missiles are included, as are more modern light and medium AA guns. The technology of AA defences changes dramatically as the massive WW2 arrays of light and medium AA guns that are so distinctive of late WW2 battleships and aircraft carriers are replaced by fewer but more accurate radar directed weapons.
Jet aircraft are also now handled in more detail, and carriers have to be rebuilt to handle larger jet aircraft. Two new aircraft roles have been added, Heavy Jet Fighters and Jet Attack aircraft.
No other naval wargame allows for such a wide range, starting in the pre-Dreadnought era, progressing through the advent of naval airpower and continuing well into the missile age. Guiding your fleet through these major strategic and tactical revolutions makes for a lot of interesting and fun decisions.
But RTW3 is not only about increasing the time span. There have been many other improvements and additions.
For example, you can now group your ships into permanent divisions, and assign them roles relative to other divisions. In effect, you can set up the structure of your entire fleet. This will translate to battle, obviously with some modifications depending on the size of battle and the circumstances.
In RTW3 you can also now assign officers to command your ships. The officers will vary in quality and are differentiated by traits that can influence their behaviour, in battle and ashore. These traits are initially unknown but will show themselves gradually as officers progress through their careers.
Ship graphics have been improved in RTW3. Turrets have a national style, and it is now possible to make more detailed ship designs with visual adornments like ship’s boats, gratings and light AA guns being added. These will not affect the combat performance of the ship, but if you like creating beautful little ships, you will enjoy them in combat so much more.
Apart from these major changes there have been lots of smaller improvements:
* 8 nations are now in play. * There can be AI vs AI wars without the player nation being involved. * There is a new Baltic region. * Treaties now have tonnage restrictions, and the player can affect treaty negotiations. * Submarines are less abstracted and can now be moved on the strategic map.
We have also included a host of other improvements to the damage model, hit chances, air attacks, air combat and other aspects of the simulation. There have also been a number of UI improvements, many suggested by players of previous editions of Rule the Waves.
First of all, we would like to thank you all for celebrating Barotrauma 1.0 with us. Seeing so many of you upon and after the release has warmed our hearts like nothing else could in the cold undersea of Europa! We hope you’ve had a pleasant stay so far.
Since our 1.0 release, we’ve released two hotfixes to tackle some of the more severe issues that slipped through the cracks on release, with more fixes and improvements in the works. Thank you for being diligent with bug reports (and patient while waiting for fixes)!
In a couple of weeks, we will be releasing a larger patch to fix issues with the AI of your bot crewmates, as well as various other issues. Notably, bots not changing oxygen tanks, getting stuck on ladders, wasting ammo on crawler eggs and not getting on turrets will be addressed in this patch.
After the next patch, we’re going to keep fixing issues and improving the game in various ways with a second patch, which will hopefully be released later this spring or in the early summer. After that, we turn our eyes to the future and the next content update – we’re planning on reworking the traitor system later this year.
Read more about the upcoming patch and our plans on our blog now and stay tuned for the patch in the next couple of weeks!
Due to an unprecedented serious problem with the new build, we postponed the launch and missed the scheduled time, leading to the disappearance of the launch discount. We’re actively negotiating with Valve to bring it back. In the meantime, we strongly recommend everyone not to buy this game until the discount comes back. We sincerely apologize for all the trouble we’ve caused so far.
If you opened the game after the update to discover your save data gone in slot 1, don't worry! The game was accidentally saving into a folder called 'progress1' instead of 'progress'. If you have made any progress since this update, you'll need to copy it over from that folder.
Your old data should be back (as we are now reading from the correct folder).
Changelog
FIXED - Save slot 1 was accessing the wrong file location (any lost data should be back).
We aren’t foaling around. Prepare to get your hooves on a new set of in-game rewards via Twitch Drops!
Tune into supported Twitch streams hosted by select Conqueror’s Blade content creators between April 28 (14:00 CEST/08:00 ET) and May 5 (14:00 CEST/08:00 ET), rack up a certain amount of viewing time, then claim your rewards.
You can earn Premium Account time, Barding Schematics, the majestic Kiralyi Attire Set, and much more.
You can also claim one additional instant reward every day (up to a total of seven). Just watch for a total of thirty minutes per day to claim a Daily Reward containing either Spring Water or Fodder, which you can use in the Dark Horse Victory Event!
Your rewards will appear in your Drops Inventory when you’ve accumulated enough total viewing time from participating streams - don’t forget to claim them as soon as possible so you can work towards the next reward. Check out the Barding Twitch Drops rewards below:
April 28 - May 5
Watch for:
Twitch Drop:
0.5 hours
5x 1-Battle Super Unit XP Cards
+1 hour
1x 3-Day Premium Account
+1 hour
1x Horse Trough
+1.5 hours
1x Rare Barding Schematic
+1.5 hours
1x Random Rare Artillery Chest
+2 hours
1x Epic Barding Schematic
+2.5 hours
1x Kiralyi Attire Set
How to link your account and claim Twitch Drops
To claim your items, make sure you link your Conqueror’s Blade account with your Twitch account:
Log in here (use your Steam account if that’s how you play the game).
Make sure to log in with your correct established account. If you register a new account, rewards will automatically be assigned to that account.
Select ‘Link with Twitch’, and make sure you confirm the connection.
If you’re having trouble, our handy video contains some tips and tricks to help you get started with Twitch Drops:
Where to watch Conqueror’s Blade on Twitch
If you’re new to Conqueror’s Blade on Twitch, the following channels are all participants in the Content Creator Program and will be streaming Conqueror’s Blade throughout this event as their schedules allow. Remember to follow or subscribe to those you enjoy!
