Dear players,

The first expansion to Scythe: Digital Edition is now available with a 10% discount for the first 7 days!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1021190/Scythe_Digital_Edition__Invaders_from_Afar/

• 2 new factions: Clan Albion and the Togawa Shogunate, with their own starting positions, abilities and units available in two cosmetic variants
  
• 2 new mats: Innovative and Militant
  
• 4 new music tracks (2 per new faction) which have been added to the free Soundtrack DLC
  
• Support for local and multiplayer games with up to 7 players (instead of 5)
  
• Official rules changes for some Crimean and Polanian abilities in 6-7 players games [see the official expansion rules page 3]
  
• A new background for the main menu featuring the Togawa Shogunate

If you don’t own the expansion you can’t play as Albion and/or Togawa, but you can play against them in online games created by owners of the expansion. This way, the community will not be split between owners and non-owners of the expansion.

Yes: when you create a new game, whether local or online, you can choose to play with or without the expansion.

This update adds several bugfixes, 25 new achievements and redesigned screens for the game creation menu and the online lobby featuring extra artworks by Jakub Rozalski.

If you experience any issue, please report it in this thread and we'll investigate:
https://steamcommunity.com/app/718560/discussions/0/1643164558917320083/

Happy invasions!
- Asmodee Digital & The Knights of Unity

Dear players,

The first expansion to Scythe: Digital Edition will be released next Tuesday. Add it to your wishlist today!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1021190/Scythe_Digital_Edition__Invaders_from_Afar/

- 2 new factions: Clan Albion and the Togawa Shogunate, with their own starting positions, abilities and units available in two cosmetic variants
- 2 new mats: Innovative and Militant
- 25 new Steam achievements
- 4 new music tracks (2 for each new faction) which will be added to the free Soundtrack DLC
- Support for local and multiplayer games with up to 7 players (instead of 5)
- Official rules changes for some Crimean and Polanian abilities in 6-7 players games [see the official expansion rules page 3]
- A new background for the main menu featuring the Togawa Shogunate

If you don’t own the expansion you won’t be able to play as Albion and/or Togawa, but you may play against them in online games created by owners of the expansion. This way, the community will not be split between owners and non-owners of the expansion.

Yes: when you'll create a new game, whether local or online, you'll be able to choose to play with or without the expansion.

See you next week for the release!

Cheers from the Factory,
- Asmodee Digital & The Knights of Unity

Dear players,

Today's update (build 1.428) implements several improvements suggested by our community:

Rather than selecting the destination of your unit during the Move action, you can now carry the unit with your mouse and drop it where it needs to go. You can toggle this setting in the Options.

A number of small tweaks have been made to the hard AI. Notable changes:

• Saxony should now be smarter about selecting the targets of its attacks. The AI will now not only take into account the enemy's power, but also whether there are any resources on a target hex or if there is a tunnel, etc.
  
• Polania will now try to pursue the 'territory control' objectives if they happen to draw any of them.

Good news for the impatient and the expert players: the minimum time limit of Play & Stay games has been lowered down to 10 minutes per player. Note that this extreme setting is not recommended for beginners who would be more comfortable with 45 min or more per player.

The Painted skins of several characters have been improved:

• Anna & Wojtek the bear (Polania Republic)
  
• Zehra & Kar the eagle (Crimean Khanate)
  
• Bjorn & Mox the musk ox (Nordic Kingdom)

The server's code has received an overhaul to better process the requests of the players, allowing for shorter response times and a lower susceptibility to connection issues.

• Recruit: fix for the bonus behavior at the game finishing action
  
• Local multiplayer: fix for hidden Objectives & Combat cards
  
• Move action: fix for the occasional freeze issue at the end of moves
  
• Autenticar / Autenticazione: fix for the authentication issue for Spanish & Italian languages

Rumors of the Factory's secrets have spread to distant shores. Mechs of strange designs are assembled and painted in new colors while invasion plans are being drawn...

Cheers from Europa,
- Asmodee Digital & The Knights of Unity

Dear players,

Today's patch allows you to enjoy online matches again! Thank you for your patience in this matter.

- Fixes for online stability issues that appeared late December
- Fixes for miscellaneous typos and localization issues

A blocking bug is preventing some of our Italian and Spanish speaking players from reaching the main menu. We have just found a fix for this issue and will add it to the next update. In the meantime, here's an easy solution:
1) Go to https://account.asmodee.net/profile/location
2) Change the language to English, French or German and confirm with Actualización / Aggiorna
We would like to apologise to our Italian and Spanish speaking players for this situation.

Have a great game!
- Asmodee Digital & The Knights of Unity

Dear players,

This week's update is a real feast for the eyes: new textures for the units, new artworks, a spectator mode and the glitter of gold coins passing from hand to hand!


All units of all factions have now two possible skins: Plain and Painted. You can view and choose which one to use in the Paintshop, available from the main menu.
Note that the Painted skins of some characters aren't final yet.

Painted Olga & Changa looking at two Plain workers


Do you enjoy the work of Jakub Rozalski? The main menu now displays a random background from a pool of 8 of his artworks, changing at every launch of the game.


You can now watch online games without playing to learn from your peers. Hit the "Spectate" button of any ongoing game in the lobby to watch the action. For extra convenience, this button is also available next to your friends' names in the Friends panel. Note that the Objectives and Combat Cards of all players remain hidden to the spectators to prevent any cheating.


As per the official rules, you can now give Coins to any other player in local and online games. In the lower right corner, click on the icon of a faction above the End Turn button to access the interface handling gifts of coins. This can only be done during your turn and outside of combat.



- Nordic Seaworthy: fixes for retreats to lakes. Note that workers are no longer allowed to retreat to a lake without a mech to transport them.
- Undo: the button can now correctly be used after selecting an action that cannot be paid for.
- Production: added a warning message when ending a turn after produing but missing the production of a hex with a mill.
- Tutorials: fixes and tweaks for several tutorial missions
- VFX: units moving or retreating after a fight will no longer leave their shadow hanging in the air mid-flight
- SFX: several new feedback sounds added for yet-silent buttons


- The first update of 2019 will bring improvements to the Hard AI, an optional drag & drop control for the Move action and further tweaks to the tutorials.
- As requested by the community, inviting offline players to Play & Go games has also been added to the roadmap for early 2019.


Enjoy the Paintshop update!
- Asmodee Digital & The Knights of Unity

Dear players,

Today come a new update and a preview of the next content.

- Play & Go: if you're not in the game at the start of your turn, an email notification will be sent to the email adress linked to your Asmodee.net account
- Camera: a new option to turn on/off all camera animations
- Final score calculation: skip the animation by clicking on the blur area
- Local game stats: two new tabs for Combat & Other
- Mech tab: the artwork now corresponds to your faction's Mech design
- Keyboard shortcuts: refreshed graphics
- Online: fixed freeze when attacking 2 hexes controlled by the same opponent in a single turn
- Graphics: reflection probes are now active only in Beautiful & Fantastic quality profiles. If you were experiencing issues with the texture of the map (black patches), switch to any other graphics quality in the Scythe Configuration window at launch.

Next in the pipes are improvements to the Hard AI, textured character models, gifts of Coins between human players, the Spectator mode for online games and more new features and fixes.

Thanks for reading!
- Asmodee Digital & The Knights of Unity

Dear players,

Thanks a lot for your feedback! This week's update is dedicated to all players who have shared with us their suggestions, error reports and logs, helping us tremendously in improving the game and cleaning up issues.

- Nordic Seaworthy: it's now possible to retreat to multiple territories after Combat
- Controls: permanent camera rotation
- Controls: new option to toggle the keyboard shortcuts on/off
- Local: when several human players are in a game, the Objectives and Combat Cards list are hidden by default. Click anywhere at the start of your turn to reveal their secret content.
- Online: it's now possible to resume Play & Stay games
- Online: it's now possible to create private games (invited friends only)
- Online: min/max ELO change indicator in online games
- Album: illustrations of Player Mats & Faction Mats added in a new tab

- Crimean Coercion exploit fixed
- Authentication issue fixed
- Combat softlock fixed
- AI rare freezes fixed
- Online stability improved
- Online: ELO and Karma ratings reset to their default values for the players whose ratings were under these default values due to technical issues (if you'd like to learn more on the ELO system, read this)
- Blocked objective completion during actions fixed
- Tutorial issues on 21:9 screen ratio fixed
- Fix for Worker loaded on a Mech was not getting his move if the Mech forced an enemy Worker to retreat
- Chatroom issue after the game summary screen fixed
- Various sound FX issues fixed
- Various keyboard-related issues fixed
- Various issues specific to the Mac OS version fixed

The new Factory track is available in game and in the free Soundtrack DLC:

https://store.steampowered.com/app/893130/Scythe_Digital_Edition__Soundtrack/

The digital adaptation of the cult board game Terraforming Mars is out. Compete with other corporations for a race to create life (and profits) on the Red Planet!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/800270/Terraforming_Mars/

Dear players,

Today's release is Scythe's full launch on Steam! Thanks a lot for your support and feedback!

• Hard difficulty AI
  
• Action Assist Display
  
• Camera Rotation
  
• Basic stats for local games
  
• Keyboards shortcuts (press Alt to display them)
  
• Extra sound FX
  
• Steam Content (badges, Trading cards and backgrounds)
  
• Mac OSX support
  
• New languages supported: Japanese, Traditional and Simplified Chinese, Brazilian Portuguese, and Russian.

• Players' Feedback implemented
  
• General Stability fixes
  
• Quality of life improvements
  
• Frozen animation bug when reloading a game

The end of the Early Access doesn't mean the end of the free updates: we plan to keep adding new features in the coming weeks and months:

• Bribes (see page 26 of the rulebook)
  
• Spectator mode for online games
  
• Textured character models
  
• Drag & drop during Move action
  
• More local game stats
  
• Camera customization (rotation, animations)
  
• More improvements to Hard AI

If you spot any issue, please report it on the forum and we'll investigate and fix it as soon as possible.
If you enjoy the game and would like to support it, feel free to write a Review on the game's page.

Cheers!
- Asmodee Digital & The Knights of Unity

Dear players,

Today is a big day for Scythe: Digital Edition, as you'll now be able to play online multiplayer games!


By logging into a free Asmodee.net account (not mandatory to play offline), you can now access the online multiplayer lobby which includes:
- synchronous games (Play & Stay) and asynchronous games (Play & Go)
- a friends list
- a lobby and in-game chat
- a karma system (more details here)
- an ELO system
- a wide range of statistics such as your personal ELO rating history, your top and averages scores, your combat performances, and more. All your stats can be sorted per game type (normal or ranked), per faction and/or per player mat.

• Tutorial: the Factory cards are now showing up when needed.
  Card album: the cards are no longer locked after leaving and launching the game (thanks to a local achievements cache)
  
• Transport: the resource load/unload animation is no longer triggered twice.
  
• Stars: it's no longer possible to achieve a 7th Star via the last Recruit action (e.g. by selecting +2 Power and maxing it at the same time).
  
• Performance: the framerate drops caused by multiple instances of the alternative food model have been fixed.
  
• The Factory card #14 now indicates when the player can't get an extra Worker.

The best is yet to come: the next patch will introduce the Hard AI, interface improvements, 5 new languages, Mac support, Steam trading cards...

Read the roadmap for more details:
https://steamcommunity.com/games/718560/announcements/detail/3080907124162793316
If you spot any issue, please report it on the forum and we'll investigate and fix it as soon as possible.
If you enjoy the game and would like to support it, feel free to write a Review on the game's page.

Thanks and see you online!
- Asmodee Digital & The Knights of Unity

Dear players,

August is going to be a busy month for Scythe!
While the biggest changes (online mode, Hard AI, 5 new languages...) are being ironed out, today's patch introduces the Album, Promo Cards and several ideas from the community.


- Promo Cards & Album
All Promo Cards of the original board game are now implemented; a total of 36 Encounter cards, 18 Factory cards and 27 Objective cards. They're all listed in the new Album menu.
Most cards are ready to use, however you'll need to unlock Achievements to access to the whole collection. Check your Album for all the details! To use your unlocked Promo Cards, simply toggle the option Promo Cards when creating a new game.

- SFX
Player Mat actions now play sound effects. More are coming, and we're looking forward to your suggestions.

- Traditional resources models
As requested, a new option replaces the Digital Edition resources models such as bread loaves and white oil barrels with the official Realistic Resources models such as sacks of grains and blue oil barrels.

- Expandable Top Tracker
As requested, the top tracker is now easier to expand and shrink. No need to aim for the arrows - simply click anywhere on the tracker to cycle between its 3 states.

- Expandable Player Mat
As requested, the Player Mat can now be enlarged by clicking on the little arrow above its top left corner.

- Tooltips in Options window
The various parameters of the Options menu are now explained with tooltips. Simply leave your mouse for a second over any element to display a description.


- Fixed: all achievement conditions
- Fixed: Saxony's Underpass ability was sometimes blocked by a river
- Fixed: Combat screen issues when using the button 'Center on the Battlefield'
- Added: missing warning for maxed-out actions (e.g. when you can't deploy more Mechs)
- and a bunch of fixes for smaller issues

If you enjoy the game and would like to support it, feel free to leave a Review.

See you soon!
- Asmodee Digital & The Knights of Unity