Hi Travelers,

Hope you had a wonderful Christmas and a great time playing Sands of Salzaar! In this busy festive season, our dev team is also working nonstop on bug fixing and game optimization, and here comes the freshly-packed new update V1.0.0.6!

This update features some improvements and fixes you might care about, it includes an adjustment of favor system, as well as a tweak of the resource system that now the resource income and outputs should be in a reasonable curve, and continue to fix some English localization issues.

Besides that, an in-game tutorial is under development since we’ve noticed the voices from the new members of the community. After fully testing, it will be packed in the following update and meet you guys soon!

For more information, check out the detailed patch note below:


- Random quest - invitation will be auto-completed through talking to faction leader

- Maximum Evade rate has been changed to 25% by strength

- Besides Prestige, it’s also allowed to join a faction when the personal Favor with lords reaches above 10

- Based on the cultural attributes, added a new guardian’s art display for each faction (Ifrit faction included)

- In the tournament, there is a chance of looting [ultimate spell book] when Brawl Title reaches Lv.4

- Optimized MOD support, now game version number will be auto-upgraded when building a MOD, and notification also will pop up if the mod version is too outdated for launching

- Increased the Utar amount from in-wild collectibles & dungeon loot

- Added an NPC - Medicinal Herbalist in Tavern, who has the ability to upgrade potions to a higher level
- Slightly adjusted the location of some chests, and added a few new POIs

- In the tournament of Umbra Cliffs, now reduced given talent points & buffed the quality of rewarded gear

- Fixed wrong food cost taken while playing as Sultan

- Fixed a bug that caused the wrong message informed in World Msg UI section, even these tribes had been eliminated

- Fixed a bug that caused the wooden staff was not dropped from Dungeon - Abandon Mine of Redstone keep

- Fixed a bug that caused random quests could not be claimed when the player was under a WANTED status

- Fixed a bug that caused the first quest of Umara could be accepted repeatedly

- Fixed wrong description of skill - Spirit Step: Stealth

- Fixed a bug that caused hostile prestige to not be worked functionally while capturing a city by siege

- Fixed a crash that occurred when intending to disband a faction

- Fixed a bug that caused the option of fabricating Ballista missing when Ballista workshop has been
constructed (Previously required to reload to fix this error)

- Fixed a bug that caused Dark Wizard could not be recruited from Wizzard’s college in Dakn City

- Fixed some text errors

- Fixed untranslated texts of the Grellkin Tower section

- Addressed and fixed some save loading issues due to system environment & compatibility

If you encounter any issues when playing the game, please contact us in our Discord channels or fill in this bug report form for submission. We will quickly look into and try fixing them in future updates!



Besides, the ongoing walkthrough collection event is about to close on Dec. 31st. Don’t miss out on your last opportunity to submit your personal tips/walkthrough guides in Discord Tavern with a chance of taking home $50 Steam Gift Cards!

Also, like before, we would like to share some great pieces of gameplay guides contributed by our amazing community. Take a look:

Beginner’s Guide
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2691938665

Guide & Tips
https://youtu.be/zBl7B4YQiRg

Spirit Witch - Hard Mode Gameplay
https://youtu.be/RjOqaQNSOPM

Thank you guys for creating content helping fellow travelers get a wider picture of the mysterious desert land. There will be more official community activities and content updates for the upcoming new year. Stay warm and tuned! XD

Hi Travelers,

Christmas is coming up, and we are also preparing some festive dishes to celebrate the end of year! Thank you guys all for supporting us from Early Access to 1.0 full release during 2021. In the upcoming New Year, we will be bringing more new content to Salzaar Desert - Just check out our Roadmap here:

https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/1094520/view/3128311518032017482
Okay, without further ado, let’s jump into our freshly released V1.0.0.5! In this update, we add a combat speed adjustment setting that has been anticipated by many players since launch, and continue to fix some English localization issues as well as adjust the food resource system when you play as Sultan. For more details about this update, check out the full patch note below:


- Add combat pace settings in combat UI (Only single-mode)



- Najima’s skill [Sky Gazer] has been changed to Ranged Damage from Skill Damage so that it will no longer trigger its passive effect permanently.
[SKY GAZER]’s inner CD increased by 3s, but now deals more damage and reduced passive cooldown by 60%

- Adjusted skill duration, summoning gaps and upgrade lv requirements of [Bahar Whirlpools]

- Adjusted map design of Umbra Cliffs

- Adjusted map design of Red Stone Valley

- Now player has a chance to gather a small amount of stones/wood in [Tavern Brawl]

- Buffed affixes’ attributes of some low-level legendary gears

- Random Quest - Ask for surrender, it will be counted as quest completed when going with the [WIN OVER] option

- The food capacity of Sultan has been increased to 30 (Saved slot will be auto-updated after 1 day)

- Fixed an unmatched description of NPC personality

- Fixed a bug that caused recruitment failed and an unexpected dialog displayed when a player was trying to convince someone who was in a faction

- Fixed a bug caused units info from opponents missed during the Dakn gladiatorial contest

- Fixed wrong description of Shahid’s Command skill [Dodge]

- Fixed a bug caused giantify effect mistakenly overstacked when casting a shapeshift spell while giantify effect lasts

- Fixed a bug that caused an unexpected map close when editing the customized marker in the world map by pressing M hotkey

- Fixed a bug caused a wrong system alarming msg: Food Shortage after Sultan intended to upgrade the population system with food resource

- Fixed wrong description of [Spirit Step] from Swordmaster

- Fixed Skill - (Shard) elemental ignition unmatched description with its actual effect

- Fixed wrong amount of wood resource taken when donating in Umbra Cliffs

- Fixed a bug that caused [Thunderclap Spear] wrong lightning chain effect triggered after casting an AOE skill

- Fixed a bug that caused wrong expiration dates displayed in the trading page

- Fixed a bug that caused The nameless unlock requirements not worked functionally in legacy page

- Fixed the fight title [Professional] unmatched descriptions with actual required exp in [Tavern Brawl]

- Optimized some EN text errors

If you encounter any issues when playing the game, please contact us in our Discord channels or fill in this bug report form for submission. We will quickly look into and try fixing them in the following updates!



Besides, don’t miss out the ongoing walkthrough collection event in Discord Tavern! Share your personal tips/walkthrough guides for Sands of Salzaar in our Discord with a chance of winning $50 Steam Gift Cards for your Winter Sale!

We’ve been seeing some really nice gameplay guides/tips that our players share on YouTube, media sites and Steam Community, check out a few below:

Tips & Tricks
https://www.indiegamewebsite.com/2021/12/17/sands-of-salzaar-tips-and-tricks/

Beginner Guide
https://youtu.be/zinmfxmnkTI
English Modding Guide
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2691183192
Arcana Training-Related
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2689300939
We would like to express our gratitude to all players who contribute their personal gameplay experience and knowledge to help fellow travelers in our community. Our dev team will also offer more official support, working on adding in-game guides and English mods in future updates.

Stay tuned for more community activities underway, and wish you all a safe and joyful holiday season! XD

Hello Travelers,

Five days past the official launch and we are truly grateful that we can share this thrilling desert journey with players around the world. In the past few days, we’ve been receiving lots of feedback, suggestions and support from our community and continuously fixing in-game issues with daily patches. Now it’s time to sit down around the fireplace, talking about our future dev plans and bringing you the freshly-released update V1.0.0.4!

For upcoming weeks we will release updates regularly about once or twice a week while later on move to a more steady pace of iteration.

First of all, we would like to address those major in-game issues that players are most concerned about:

Localization is one of the most discussed topics to be improved among players’ feedback, especially regarding UI issues of English texts (including incomplete display of dialogs, text truncation and overflow…) and some misleading translation of quests.

To better locate these issues, we will run a thorough localization QA test after launch to find and fix them. This might not be a short-term project considering the huge amount of in-game texts but we will keep optimizing it step-by-step in the following weeks.

As for an open world RPG, our initial aim is to encourage players to freely explore the desert, shaping adventure differently and becoming stronger in every playthrough based on the Legacy system as well as experience and discoveries borrowed from previous runs. However, we are also aware that such an idea of a highly open-ended design might lead to unclearness of directions for many players especially at the early stage - such as about how to use skills or follow certain quests.

Therefore, in future updates, we are planning to optimize those in-game systems to be more comprehensible to use as well as adding some tutorials and guides to assist new travelers in order to provide a better gameplay experience.

Those basic functionality bugs like game crash, freezing, blackscreen as well as lost save files and save loading issues will be continuously addressed in the upcoming patches.

Talking of old save loading, though we would encourage players to try the new game and embark on a brand-new journey in V1.0, we also designed an old save conversion tool to help those Early Access players convert their old saves to be compatible with the new version in terms of skills and arms units porting. However, it is worth noting that some custom buildings and old equipment entries cannot be fully ported to the new saves due to version differences, while saves with mods installed will also require updates of specific mods for 1.0 compatibility.

For those individual save issues, our team has been continuously fixing them one-by-one in recent updates based on players’ reports and save files provided. If you encounter any save issues, please also send a ticket in our Discord or submit a bug report form directly :D

In V1.0, we totally reworked in-game stats in all aspects in order to adjust combat difficulty, skills, arms units, resources acquisitions and the economy growth curve that players had required for optimization during Early Access. However, according to current players’ feedback, there is certainly scope for more improvement in game stats balancing, especially regarding the mid-late stage of the game.

In this sense, we will continue to adjust overall gameplay difficulty in terms of combat, resources acquisitions and equipment stats in the following updates, and keep them layered in different runs as well as further distinguish stats systems of each difficulty level in both Story and Sandbox Mode.

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Based on the above discussions, here’s our post-launch roadmap addressing the expected major updates in the future:



December
- Fix UI issues of English texts;

- Keep troubleshooting and fixing major bugs reported by players;

- Keep fixing missing saves and save loading issues;

- Sustainly fix crashing and lagging issues;

- Add more guidance info at the early stage of the game;

- develop options to adjust combat speed;

- Combat optimization such as on difficulty balance, equipment entries, resource acquisition;

- Improve the early-stage game experience by adjusting legacy skills, sorting combat items and more;

January
- Keep optimizing combat stats including difficulty, resource acquisition, and more;

- Keep improving localization;

- Sustainly optimize combat maps and siege maps;

- Optimize modding environment by providing dungeon MOD samples, maintenance and update on MOD Wiki pages;

February
- Enable playing as a tribal chief at the start of the game in Sandbox Mode;

- Optimize siege maps with more new siege buildings;

- Keep improving game performance to address lagging issues
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Also, we might adjust the update plans according to the actual development progress and will definitely let you know how they’re coming along in future blogs.

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Also, besides the roadmap, we are bringing you the newly-released update V1.0.0.4. Please check out the update log below:

New Additions:
- Now NPCs who teach magics in each region will provide hints about the number of Arcana skills you can obtain according to your Arcana Talent

- New UI Added - A new Combat Shortcut Bar



Adjustments:
- Before the player’s level reaches lv.10, it will no longer assign a higher level NPC as the target in the random quest - debt collector

- Nerfed ⅓ obtainable Favor of NPC Lord

- Added an ATK range to Weapon - Staff such that Witch’s shadows now own the ranged attack ability instead of dealing melee attack only

- Increased the gear drop rate from dungeons as well as the diversity of Lv.1-10 gears that could be obtained from dungeons

- Optimized map art of Twinluna Valley & West Docana Desert

- Random quest - Retrieve runaway villagers, reduced ¼ range of the 3 villagers‘ spawn area

- Random quest - Tavern Brawl, the quest object will no longer be settled in the city of Ifrit

Bug Fixes
- Fixed a bug that caused wrong ownership of the lord title when the lord had been exiled by the faction. (With the update, All save slots will be converted to the correct version, which the ownership of lord title will be given back to the NPC)

- Fixed a bug that caused a wrong duel target addressed while the target was in another team in the random quest - Debt Collector

- Fixed a bug that erroneously caused a city lord to be in the wild when trying to convince him to join your team but your team was already full

- Fixed a bug that caused the actual effect of Sultan’s skill Epoch Crystal Core is unmatched with its description

- Fixed a bug that caused wrong quest target appearance in the map when random quests - redemption & chase are expired to complete

- Fixed a bug that caused a non-response issue when the number of magic skill pages to be learned exceeded your learning capacity (now it’s able to auto-hide “Self-learned” skill pages)

- Fixed wrong stats & description of skill [Aegis Aura] from Role - Sentinel

- Fixed a bug that caused talent [Malitia] not to be applied functionally

- Fixed a bug that caused the error when loading save slots, now after improving system compatibility, some of them will be able to load functionally (We’re looking into the associated UI display issue and will fix it soon)

If you have any other feedback or suggestions, please let us know in our Discord channels or submit a bug report form which we will be checking regularly. We are also hosting a variety of prize-giving events in our Discord Tavern. Join us and have fun with other fellow travelers!



Stay tuned for more updates underway and we will see you then!

Hi Travellers:

We’ve been busy on the game content update recently, but in this post we’d like to talk about other community supports we’re planning. We’ve seen a host of incredible creations from our amazing community in early access. Turing into V.1.0, we'd like to bring you the further steps:

Sands of Salzaar has been packed full of weird and wonderful mods from the community since EA launch. And you may notice some of the mods are temporarily not running in the new game version because of the updates of game environment parameters/system compatibility with 1.0 Full Release.

We’ve keen to see that more creation masterpieces from the community will be playable and readable among the players from different areas. And this is already in our consideration -
The team will be working on fixing the version gap and try providing updated English mods in our further plans.

Feel free to fill our form here if you have any aimed mod from the Workshop that you hope to be localized later on!

Besides, let’s have a glance at what we’re doing now:
A Walkthrough collection event is ongoing for the community. Rules are quite simple and reward is promising - write down your personal shares/tips and a chance to take home a $50 Steam Gift Card in our Salzaar Tavern!

We can’t wait to see what you will bring up to us! Join the event before Dec 30th!

Hi Travelers,

A short spoiler about what we are now working on - Update V1.0.0.4 is underway to meet you guys tomorrow, fixing issues like magic learning skills, optimizing maps and increasing availability of certain gears when players explore dungeons.

For more details, check out the current content in V1.0.0.4 below. Also, please note that this is only the preview and we will keep adding new content into the update:

New Additions:

- Now NPCs who teach magics in each region will provide hints about the number of Arcana skills you can obtain according to your Arcana Talent.

Adjustments:

- Added an ATK range to Weapon - Staff such that Witch’s shadows now own the ranged attack ability instead of dealing melee attack only.

- Increased the gear drop rate from dungeons as well as the diversity of Lv.1-10 gears that could be obtained from dungeons.

- Optimized map art of Twinluna Valley & West Docana Desert.

Bug Fixes:

- Fixed a bug that caused a wrong duel target addressed while the target was in another team in the random quest - Debt Collector.

- Fixed a bug that erroneously caused a city lord to be in the wild when trying to convince him to join your team but your team was already full.

- Fixed a bug that caused the actual effect of Sultan’s skill Epoch Crystal Core is unmatched with its description.

- Fixed a bug that caused wrong quest target appearance in the map when random quests - redemption & chase are expired to complete.

- Fixed a bug that caused a non-response issue when the number of magic skill pages to be learned exceeded your learning capacity (now it’s able to auto-hide “Self-learned” skill pages).
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Besides the upcoming update, we are currently preparing a future roadmap based on players’ feedback and suggestions from the community. It will address the patches on the horizon as well as those Quality of Life updates in the future, including localization, quest guides and more.

If you encounter any in-game issues or have any advice for our game, please contact us in our Discord channels or fill in this bug report form for submission. The devs will quickly look into the issues and update the game regularly in the following weeks.



Stay tuned and see you guys tomorrow!

Hi Travelers,

Hope you had a great weekend in the Desert of Salzaar! Based on all your precious feedback and bug reports for V1.0, our dev team has been working on optimizing the build in the past few days and here comes the freshly released Update V1.0.0.3!

In this patch, the damage and HP of the BOSS Ifrit Lord has been reduced for better gameplay balance in terms of difficulty. Also, players no longer have to complete the Story Mode in order to unlock the Sandbox Mode. You are now able to freely explore the desert when launching the game even for the first time.

As for text UI, the issue of missing dialogs when learning Magics has been solved, and the devs will keep fixing Magic learning bugs for your heroes. Besides, the task of purchasing Ifrit Seared Beef becomes easier as now you can buy the item from Fleur and Mireton as well.

For more details about V1.0.0.3, check out the update log below:

Adjustments

- Sandbox mode initially opens to all players now, without story mode completion required



- Increased ATK range of Alpha Wolf

- Improved the accuracy of Archers

- Allowed to purchase Ifrit Seared Beef in different locations - Fleur, Mireton and Diresprings when accepted the quest - Beef with the Grunts

- Allowed to purchase Rose Cake from Fleur when accepted quest - Rose Cake

- Greatly nerfed HP & DMG of Lord Ifrit

- Increased Mana recovery in the main storyline when fighting to Swordmaster from Ruha

- Nerfed HP & DMG Ice Princess, and reduced her Ice Dragon Summoning duration from 30s to 12s

Bug Fixes

- Fixed a bug that caused Spirit Witch taken wrong DMG when casting [Dread Bolt] to controlled minions

- Fixed a bug where Sultan dealt DMG mistakenly to allies when casting banner or shield skills

- Fixed a bug that caused the dialogs box to not work functionally while teaching/learning Magics

- Fixed a bug that caused Shaman’s Drake form not to be immune from stunned & frozen while under Shock or Frost effects

- Fixed a bug that caused Lightning chains to deal DMG mistakenly to allies

- Fixed a bug where the Skill [Sky Gazer] was repeatedly triggered

- Fixed a bug that prevented Skill [Rehabilitation] from healing injured troops

- Fixed the wrong description of some item expirations

- Fixed a bug that occurred in the skill bar when dragging & dropping unsaved skills

- Fixed a bug that caused equipment duplication when enchanting it

- Fixed a bug that caused laggy or stuck issues due to map collision

- Fixed a bug where the quest “Into the Abyss - The Akhal” was stuck when you refused to wipe out the Dakn faction

- Fixed a bug that caused the recommendation letter not to be delivered to leaders of any factions in random quests

- Fixed a bug where NPC Ishtar disappeared mistakenly when completing the quest - On the Hunt for Rabia (New Save Slot Required)

- Fixed the unmatched description/name issues of some dungeon mobs

- Fixed a bug that caused the CD of Return Scroll not to be shown correctly

- Fixed a bug that caused abuse of resource earning from the random quest - Accuse ruler

- Fixed a bug that prevented quest pathfinder from reaching heroic statues of Crying Rock & Zagros Mountains

- Fixed a bug that caused the wrong version of Dakn units obtained from Dakn recruitment

- Fixed a bug where troop recruitment in Akhal faction was erroneously displayed and didn’t work when the relationship favor point was above 50

- Fixed a bug that caused the quantity of T6 troops not to be counted correctly in Manage Garrison section

Besides releasing the update, we also noticed that many of the players' requests from Steam Community are regarding localization optimization. The team is currently discussing and will keep optimizing the translation to offer a smoother English gameplay experience to everyone.

Therefore, if you encounter any localization errors or other in-game bugs, it will be really helpful if you could contact us in our Discord channels or fill in this bug report form for submission. The devs will quickly look into the issues and update the game regularly in the following weeks.



Also, in our Discord Tavern, we are holding a variety of celebration events and prize-giving content creation activities. Come take a look with a chance of winning $50 Steam Gift Cards and have a nice stay with all fellow travelers around for leisure and chat!

If you’re a streamer/YouTuber and interested in reviewing and making content for our game, you can also request access by filling in our Content Creator form or contacting us by email (indie@xd.com).

Until next time!

Hi Travelers,

Great to see you again! The game has been out of Early Access for over 30 hours and we are very delighted to see so many new travelers have already embarked on the Salzaar desert journey and keep providing us with valuable feedback. Thank you all for your continuous support and suggestions!

Based on your feedback, we are now releasing the V1.0.0.2 patch, fixing a couple of English text display errors, units stucking and some unclickable bugs that you guys are concerned most as well as brawling skill issues.

We are carefully reading all your bug reports and advice, and will absorb them into our future development. The dev team will keep optimizing the build and localization to improve your English gameplay experience. If you encounter any in-game problems, send a ticket in our Discord OR fill in this bug report form. Our devs will definitely help look into it.

For more details about this update, check out the patch note below:


- Default skill will be auto-equipped if the roles haven't equipped any specific skill in [Brawl Tavern]
- All roles will respawn with a Healing Orb & Mana Orb now
- Slightly nerfed mobs/encounters’ power
- Skill Type/Descriptions has been added to Brawl Skill Bar



- Refined [Recommended Lv] Stats for map exploration/dungeon
- Nerfed part of Dungeon Boss by reducing ATK attributes (dynamic change by team members)
- Added a Brawl Skill page for NPC Selene

- Fixed Dialog UI for English text display, mainly in some NPC Chat Bubbles
- Improved [Legacy Skill Page] & [Talent Skill Page] UI display
- Fixed a bug that caused the wrong location of heroic Soul of Umbra Cliff
- Fixed a bug that caused assistance to be executed mistakenly under the WANTED status
- Fixed a bug that caused NPC ATK in [Brawl Tavern]to be half reduced
- Fixed some wrong descriptions of NPC interaction events
- Fixed a bug that caused some dungeons unclickable due to map collision
- Fixed a bug that prevented units from moving on the map due to map collision
- Fixed a bug that caused Skill [Bounty Frenzy] to not be worked functionally to armors
- Fixed a bug that caused the MIND CONTROL effect to not be worked functionally
- Fixed a crash that occurred due to the parameter of MAX inventory capacity being over changed in some MODs
- Fixed a bug that caused [Item Merge] UI unfunctional in some MODs
- Fixed a bug that caused Storm Wizard 100% chance to make damage while he’s casting a lighting spell
- Fixed wrong description regarding arcane potion/attack potion
- Fixed a bug that caused non-response while clicking the resource bar in the upper left corner

Besides taking your thrilling desert adventure, <Sands of Salzaar> Discord server will always be the right place for you guys to take a rest and have some fun, no matter if you're the returnings or new to this game! We’d love to give out the solution for you: either you got some questions/issues while playing the game, or just would like to meet other travelers and drop some parties in the community.

Besides, we recently have a Walkthrough collection event ongoing. Rules are quite simple and reward is promising - write down your personal shares/tips and a chance to take home a $50 Steam Gift Card in our Salzaar Tavern!



If you’re a streamer/YouTuber and interested in reviewing and making content for our game, you can request access by filling in our Content Creator form or contacting us by email (indie@xd.com).

Hi travelers,

After the long march through the great desert day and night, we are finally here! Sands of Salzaar is now out of Early Access with Version 1.0 and up to 40% off for the first two weeks!

Take a look at the brand-new desert landscape in our official full launch trailer:

To celebrate the full release, we will hold a variety of content creation activities and gift giveaways in our official Discord server. Besides, if you encounter any in-game issues or bugs, please report in our Discord channel and we will definitely help!



We can’t express our gratitude enough to all you guys for having been so supportive of the title since EA with your valuable feedback and suggestions. And now, without further ado, let’s dive into sprawling dunes and check out our V1.0 update details:

Brand-New Sandbox Mode
In this new game mode, you are free to explore the great desert at your own pace without engaging in set plot choices except that you still need to face the inevitable challenge of the Ifrit Ghoul invasion.



Three Different Difficulty Levels Available
- Normal: Recommended for newbies. With such difficulty setting, you could enjoy the main story and exploration more without struggling with your life.

- Hard: Recommended for experienced travelers. AI factions will be smarter, and travelers will face more challenges, such as higher damage in battles, limited times to dodge roll, etc. And more skills are needed to recruit NPCs.

- Epic: Recommended for hardcore travelers. AI factions will become extremely difficult to deal with, and they will recruit top-tier soldiers, deploy teams and launch attacks dynamically. You will face great difficulty in the journey.

Added five random quests related to travelers' titles and merits. In these quests, NPCs may invite you to join a tribe; or your superiors may assign you to capture specific towns, or ask you to persuade a rival tribe's sultan to surrender; or even incite you to want to overthrow them, etc.

- Adjustment on the skills and value of some bosses,and increase the challenge of boss fights with more strategy required.

- Added plenty of new Mobs that will get stronger as the traveler's strength increases.

- Adjustment on the loot rewards of dungeons: We have improved the diversity of equipment loot drops, and increased the drop rate of some senior gears.

All playable characters’ skills reworked
In past versions, our players often report that the skills of different professions are not distinctive enough.

To make their skills more distinguishable, we have reworked all classes, for example, the new Swordsman is positioned as a master swordsman equipped with a newly-designed set of magnificent swordsmanship. The remade Sultan becomes more like an inventor specializing in technology research, capable of creating unique ancient machinery to arm himself.



All heroes reworked
- Modified all heroes' skills: Each hero will cast unique skills, and fight in a more distinguishable way.

- Redesigned the growth curve of upgrading heroes: Each hero has a specific growth curve in "Spirit", "Stamina", "Strength", and "Agility".

- Command Skills: added exclusive command skills for each hero, allowing them to strengthen specific units, and the effects increase when the favorability grows in the Favor system.

- New voices and dialogues lines for all initial tribe leaders.

All arms units remade
The basic properties, attack types, armor types, talents of all troops have been reworked in order to show more clearly the characteristics and upgrade paths of different arms units.

Legendary Elite Troop
Each tribe now owns its unique "Legendary Elite Troop". Besides, some epic creatures among neutral factions and monsters might also meet the qualifications for "Legendary Elite Troop", such as dragons. "Legendary Elite Troop" will have the most powerful abilities, but will also have difficult recruitment conditions and upper limit of units.

Skill pages redesigned
We have redesigned 36 skill pages with different styles consisting of exclusive skills. Each profession or hero has at least 3 skill pages to build your unique fighting style.

Also note that the skill pages are not at your free disposal, which means you need to find out the right fighting style to build up an elite troop. We also have enriched the skill descriptions, hoping to help you train your teams more strategically!



Brawling in Tavern
"Not good at persuasion? Just answer with your fist!"A fresh gameplay mode - Brawling in Tavern will hit the desert. Travelers can learn simple brawl skills, and fight with strong wrestlers in small taverns. Sometimes your friends might lend you a helping hand.



Tournament
All tribes will regularly hold “Tournament” where you will encounter masters of tribes with some professional fighters by defeating whom you will get generous rewards.

Heroic Statue Challenge Adjusted
With heroic statues established in each area, Heroic Statue Challenge will open 1~3 times every 10 days regularly. Travelers will obtain powerful equipment after winning the challenge. The strength of the "heroic statue" is greatly enhanced and will continue to be enhanced when you level up.

Troop Crystal System
Players can utilize magical jewels to give arms units unique abilities. That is to say, arms units can also be buffed with equipment. Not anymore fixed ability values and skills. These magical jewels can be obtained from various high-level dungeon maps and purchased from jewel merchants.



Tribal Title System
Travelers can be rewarded in the tribe for their merits, obtaining noble titles and fiefdoms as well as leading their troops with their granted titles to fight in the desert!



NPC Favor System
Each NPC now has unique personalities. With random events happening all the time, their different characteristics will lead to distinguished results, which will further affect relationships between NPCs.

NPCs in the protagonist team will also be initiating different events according to their own personalities and will dynamically change their relationships. The player-character can provide advice to NPC fellows and their behaviors might change accordingly.



AI Rebellion System
When the relationships between the city lord and its tribal leaders start off a bit rocky, a rebellion might be triggered by the city lord to form a new tribe.

Additional attributes for gears
Added a large number of new attribute entries to equipment, which can potentially buff your gears and weapons with new skills or special effects. A Rare attribute entry can also make your gears more valuable to trade - merchants will be eager to buy your Rare equipment with tons of Utar!

Adjustment on players' economic growth curve
We have reduced the pace of acquiring resources, and adjusted the acquisition difficulty of Utar, Jade, and other resources. Town earnings and high-level troop recruitment costs have also been adjusted. Besides, some extra resources will be used in some new systems, such as salary and tournament systems, etc.

Rework Trading System
We have rearranged the distribution of product types and quantities in each area for trading.



A lot more voyaging merchants and NPCs
They will sell all kinds of animals, skills, mounts, or brawling skills.



New assistant legacy & special legacy skills such as healing, summoning, and armor.

Removal of some old legacy skills such as "Sword Slam", "Guardian Mastery" and "Charge".

Reworked a number of Talents: Rearrange and adjust their functions and values.

New building - Medical Stations
Added Medical Stations in all major cities where you can spend resources to heal troops, or you can disband your team in exchange for some resources.

New Tribal Landmark
Added landmarks to some special towns.

- Remade the illustrations and models of professions

- New heroes' models: New stand-ups for the initial rulers of the major tribes.

- New tavern hostess models: [Sumayah] and [Basha]



- New icons for special tribal buildings: More than 40 new building icons designed based on tribal characteristics.

- Adjustment on the map and landscape: refined the sandbox map and landscape of major main cities.



- Adjustment on the team interface

- Modified the skill bar interface

- Adjustment on the inventory interface

- Modified the legacy page

- Adjustment on garrison management interface

- Adjustment on the interface of tribe main city

- Fixed the bug of abnormal Talent reset

- Fixed lagging issues

- Fixed the bug of the random quests guide

- Fixed the bug of being unable to appoint city rulers

- Fixed the bug of equipment effects not being triggered

- Fixed the bug where all NPCs would lose equipment durability when the main character entered specific battles and exploration dungeons

- Fixed the bug where the main character's skills were unable to be deleted from the skill bar



In our Discord tavern, we’ve prepared the following prize-giving content creation events for everyone:

1. Gameplay Guide Collection!
Write down your personal gameplay guides or tips you would like to share in any aspect! As long as they are decent TIPS for newbies!

Post it to any forums or communities where you prefer to share, like Steam Community.

Ensure to join our Discord to fill out the entry form with a generated POST LINK, with a chance of winning $20-50 steam gift cards!

2. Montage Assist!
Boldly share your story by making a funny or motivational video to us or among the community. We’d like to make a funny cut which is made by your mind-blowing clips!

Upload your video/clips to any platforms preferred to share, like YouTube.

Ensure to join our Discord to fill out the entry form with a generated VIDEO LINK. The selected participants might take home $20-50 worth of steam gift cards!

Stay tuned for more, and we will see you in the desert!

Hi Travelers,

1 Day Countdown to the 1.0 Full Launch on Dec 15th (PST). Our team is working on some final polishment for the biggest update so far!

The course of development can’t do without your generous support and enthusiastic feedback,
and on this occasion, we’d like to answer some questions you may care about and announce an upcoming giveaway event for the community


A: 7:00 PM, Dec 15th (PST)


A: We decided to keep the same price as the EA version. As it’s very close to STEAM winter sale, we will put on a 40%off discount along with the 1.0 full launch.

What we’ve learned from the community is that <Sands of Salzaars> possesses its own potentials and sparks in its gameplay. And that makes it more clear in our vision - we believe that <Sands of Salzaar> could be made possible through bringing new content consistently by the team efforts and community creation. So this update is just a big step, but not the final, dozens of updates will meet you guys soon!


A: Please check in detail with the POST below
https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/1094520/view/3128308981371869601

[Upcoming community event]

Yes! To celebrate, we’re excited to announce there will be a couple of events ready to kick off on Dec 16th in our discord ready to take home a $50 steam gift card as your loot? Oh! there are also some cookies for participants, several $20 steam cards will be the prize to send out during the events!

• A walkthrough collection event!
  Write down your personal gameplay guides or tips you would like to share in any aspect! As long as it’s a decent TIPS for newbies!
  
• Montage Assist!
  boldly share your story by making a funny or motivational video to us or among the community. We’d like to make a funny cut which is made by your mind-blowing clips!

*Notes:

1. POST your walkthrough to any forums or communities preferred to share, like steam community etc
& Upload your video/clips to any platforms preferred to share, like youtube etc.

2. Ensure to join our discord to fill out the entry form with a generated POST LINK


AND MORE, free giveaways like CDKEYs also will be sent out during the celebration!
Again, Join our discord to check more event details. See you there!

Hey Traveller,

We’re thrilled to announce that <Sands of Salzaar> v1.0 full release version will be launched on Dec.16, 2021 (Dec.15 PST)!

Huge thank you to all of you, who played the game during EA, your advice and feedback have been invaluable to us. After receiving so much care and support, our team can’t wait to bring you a new desert of Salazar and meet you there!



For more details about V1.0 Update, please check our last blog:
https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/1094520/view/3128308981371869601

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MUST-DO suggestion: Join Our Discord!

If you’re looking for a campfire in the desert of Salzaars, then please join our Discord to get some supplies and meet companions for your journey!

To celebrate the launch, A bunch of giveaways events will be regularly organized in the channel. I bet it’s your turn to win an up to $100 steam gift card!



If you’re a streamer/YouTuber and interested in reviewing and making content for our game, you can request access by filling in our Content Creator form or contacting us by email (indie@xd.com).