HeJ Vikings!

Last week was crazy? This week was monstrously crazy!


We Added one new language: Norwegian

Please welcome to the Localization team:

• GummyVader for Afrikaans
  
• Rufus for Ukranian
  
• Sembi for Ukranian
  
• Kafes for Turkish
  
• RubX for Dutch
  
• Dan the Norwegian Man for French, No I'm kidding, for Norwegian obviously.

We updated 4 lines this week.
Please check line 187, 188, 189 and 743

Highlight Stats

Yeah, this week was more crazy than last week look at these stats:

🥇 UKRANIAN (+85,52%)
🥈 RUSSIAN (+76,11%)
🥉 DUTCH (+75,63%)

Who had the best progression from the last week! But German, Afrikaans and Japanese had really nice results too!

Congratulations to the RUSSIAN team who've reached 100%!
Spanish and Portuguese and French are still at 100% since last week.


We're still looking for people to join @localization-team, for all languages except French, Spanish, And Portuguese. PM Sydnee or JiPay to be part of the team on our Discord server: http://discord.gg/tribesofmidgard

Once you're in, you can chat in that channel, AND your name will be in the credits of the game! Localization is important to us, so that everyone can experience the viking life no matter where they're from.

Hey Vikings, happy Wednesday and dev-update day!

As we postponed the dates for the Open Beta #3, we continue our quest to stabilize and to work on new features for another testing phase. This week we're:

👿 - Integrating Leveled Up Mini Trolls
🎯 - Preparing Challenges for the Open Beta 3
⛺ - Integrating Landmarks in the Land of Pools
💥 - Integrating new Visuals for Explosive Barrels
🏬 - Modeling in 3D the unique Merchant Stations
🐲 - Continuing drawing Concept Art for new Giant
🔥 - Integrating various VFX for all new Creature Spells
👊 - Continuing to improve Animations for Combat Feel
🌐 - Modifying Generation Rules to connect Shrines to Paths & update Elevations
🌠 - Testing various Visual effects with Post-Process, Particle Systems & Vegetation
🔨 - Fixing various Bugs related to Menus, Generation, Audio, Latency and Controller
🌇 - Researching various Features like Tech Tree Skills, UI and Construction Mechanics

She's got spiky javelins to toss at you! We're also integrating:
💀 - Unsunken Javelin Vikings

What do you imagine she looks like?
Post a sketch in the Artwork tab on Steam and we'll share your masterpieces! :D

Hey Vikings!

It's been a little while since our last Open Beta ended, and we're coming at you today with an update on how development's coming along! 👋 As you probably saw, we received a ton of helpful and thoughtful feedback from all of you during the past Beta, and we can't thank you enough for that.

Though, in order to polish the new features we're adding, we've made the decision to move Open Beta 3 to early December. ❄️

We hope you can understand why we're pushing the date back- it means more time to work on those features that were suggested, and to make the game as stable as possible for you all, some of our top priorities. We know how excited you are to play, and are grateful to have you by our side.

This will also be our LAST Open Beta before the game heads into Early Access. So, we're working our hardest to make it a memorable one!

And an update on some new features:

Next week, we'll start sharing all the new features we're working on for Open Beta 3! Most of them were suggested by you on our Discord, while streaming, and through the Steam forums here.

Remember the community chest idea? Well... it's coming to life! 😄✨



Besides the community chest, we're working on:

🔊 A command system for communication with teammates
⌨️ Keyboard mapping to assign your own custom keys
🔨 Ability to Auto Equip tools, weapons and shields when they break
🌎 Adding new languages into the game 
👋 Wild NPC merchants to discover in the world
💥 Explosive barrels for new ways to fend off enemies
🏕️ Creating new Camps in the Land of Pools
😈 Creatures that level up along their Biome Level with new Spells and Visuals
❄️ Updating balancing of enemies and Giant's Area of Effect attacks
⚔️ New enemies, like the Unsunken Javelin Vikings and the Helthing Boss
⬆️ New Armour set, new ways to gain XP and new emotes
🛠️ Fixing reported bugs (like loot landing in unreachable places and menus when using controllers) 

+ some others in the works!

For now, we kindly ask you to Wishlist our game here on Steam!

Every Wishlist means a lot to us, as we prepare for all that's ahead.



We'll be sharing weekly updates on our Twitter during the next weeks, to keep you in the loop and show you what we're working on. 

Thank you as always for your support and for being so patient. We're really looking forward to the next Beta, and can't wait to see you in Midgard once again.

Until then,

The Norsfell Team ❄️

HeJ Vikings!

This week was crazy! We have so much news to share with you for the localization update!


We Added two new languages!

• Czech
  
• Afrikaans

Please welcome to the Localization team:

• XCalibur for Afrikaans
  
• Rocket Rogue for Swedish
  
• Зулус for Russian
  
• Newbie for Dutch
  
• Nom the Raptor for Czech
  
• Totalthomate for German

We updated 3 lines this week. This means anyone who's working on the translations, please make sure to check the loc doc in Discord! :)


Congratulations to:

🥇 RUSSIAN (+23,21%)
🥈 THAI (+14,28%)
🥉 SPANISH (+4,77)
Who had the best progression from the last week!

Congratulations to the SPANISH and PORTUGUESE team who've reached 100%!

We'll add these languages in the next Open Beta Build!


We're still looking for people to join @localization-team, for all languages except French, Spanish, And Portuguese. PM Sydnee or JiPay to be part of the team on our Discord server: http://discord.gg/tribesofmidgard

Once you're in, you can chat in that channel, AND your name will be in the credits of the game! Localization is important to us, so that everyone can experience the viking life no matter where they're from.

Hey Vikings,

Back at it again with another weekly update! As we add more content, we also take time to fix all potential problems occurring from those changes and are doing some planning. We've also been doing plenty of play testing!

So this week, we're:

🐲 - Starting Concept of the Giant #3
🎧 - Adding necessary Audio to the Game
🎫 - Starting Application for PAX East 2020
👊 - Improving Animations/Balance for Combat Feel
🔪 - Finishing Mechanics of all the new Creature Spells
🔥 - Implementing various VFX for all new Creature Spells
💀 - Texturing Leveled Up Mini Trolls and Unsunken Javelin Vikings
👪 - Adding new Settings to activate Target Assist and other Support Options
🔨 - Fixing various Bugs related to Menus, Generation, Colliders, and Day Cycle
🌇 - Researching various Features like Armor/Shield Perks and Construction Mechanics

What're you most looking forward to?

Until next week, cheers!

Hey! Our first Dev-Updates on Steam have begun! We're going to be using Steam Community more often, and that includes having our development updates here.

To get you up to speed - we had our most recent Open Beta from September 5 to 10th, and we've been working on the next big update ever since then.

The focus last week was mostly on Creatures, as we want more variation in not only how they look, but how they counter you, including casting new spells and critical hit abilities.

Last week, we worked on:

🏕️ - Creating new Land of Pools Camps
💥 - Adding Explosive Barrels in Camps
🍀 - Creating New Icons for New Materials
🖌️ - Texturing different Leveled Up Creatures
📥 - Integrating Assets of Leveled Up Creatures
🏹 - Animating new Projectile Spells for Elf Archers
🛡️ - Adding AI Behaviors to Projectile and Shield Users
💣 - Creating remaining Spells for all Leveled Up Creatures
👿 - Modelling different Leveled Up Mini Trolls and Vikings
👻 - Drawing different Leveled Up Unsunken Javelin Vikings
⚒️ - Fixing various Bugs related to Menus, Day Cycle and Servers

Hi Vikings,

So we have some news to share! With the help of our translation team on Discord, we've begun the process of localizing the game. We're really excited and proud of what the team's been able to accomplish so far.

Thank you so much for the time you invested in Tribes of Midgard, it worked well!

What's New?

We welcomed "Noggin [F]" in the Localization team!

And Thai is now a new language!

Highlight Stats

Congratulations to the SPANISH and PORTUGUESE team who've reached 95%!

We need you!

We're still looking for people to join @localization-team, for all languages except French, Spanish, And Portuguese. PM Sydnee or JiPay to be part of the team on our discord server: http://discord.gg/tribesofmidgard

Once you're in, you can chat in that channel, AND your name will be in the credits of the game! Localization is important to us, so that everyone can experience the viking life no matter where they're from.

Hey Vikings,

The Beta 2 is OPEN!

Prepare to enter Midgard once again. This time... with some new additions.

A few notes before you dive in:

HP Display: Current known visual glitch where names do not show above avatar (but still display on Mini Map and World Map) when activating the Display Names option in the Settings

Creatures: May become stuck on Camps and spawn on each other

Controller Support: Menus are NOT well-supported with Controllers (in the Blessings Menu, you need to switch buttons to spend points, from acquire to cancel to cancel to acquire). Inventory Management also has known issues with Controllers. including that equipping an item may close the tab (we recommend having a mouse nearby just in case)

Name Display: Current known visual glitch where names do not show above avatar (but still display on Mini Map and World Map)

We’re sorry there won’t be a Community Chest for this Beta, as we’re still working hard at it, but want to keep you in the loop. Here’s a work-in-progress pic:

A reminder of the new features to look out for:

💪- Difficulty system that allows you to choose various options at game start
🌟- XP system that allows you to Level Up and carry progression from world to world
🛡️- Tech Tree system that allows you to unlock permanent Skills and specialize in a class
☠️- Ability to Self-Respawn if encountering any issues
🍷 - New potions to lend you some very useful abilities
⛺️- New Camps and Landmarks to discover in the world
👕- Updated Character Customization Menu and options
👕- New Armors, weapons and shields
⚔️- New Weapon Skills

If you need to find players, just visit to the Discord and use the #find-players channel! We’ll be hanging there too, to answer any questions you have or to help out if you run into any issues.

Have fun!

See you there,

The Norsfell Team ❄️

Hellooo Vikings,

So... The Open Beta 2 starts... TOMORROW! 😄 We're really glad to hear you wanted more time to play, so this time around, we're keeping it open for FIVE days:

September 5th at 4am ET to September 9th at 11:59pm ET!

How to Play:

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1106880/Tribes_of_Midgard__Open_Beta

You can pre-download the game on the Tribes of Midgard BETA Steam page, then at 4am ET Sep 5th, hit play and the game will be ready!

Some of the new features to look out for:

💪- Difficulty system that allows you to choose various options at game start
🌟- XP system that allows you to Level Up and carry progression from world to world
🛡️- Tech Tree system that allows you to unlock permanent Skills and specialize in a class
☠️- Ability to Self-Respawn if encountering any issues
🍷 - New potions to lend you some very useful abilities
⛺️- New Camps and Landmarks to discover in the world
👕- Updated Character Customization Menu and options
👕- New Armors, weapons and shields
⚔️- New Weapon Skills

+ more!

To see all these in action, check out our Dev Update video here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_SmccevnpaQ

You can probably guess that we can't wait, and are really looking forward to tomorrow. If you have any questions or are looking for a tribe team tomorrow, make sure to swing by the Discord!

See you then,

The Norsfell Team ❄️

Hi Vikings,

The Open Beta 1 is now closed (it was from July 26, 3pm ET to Sunday July 28, 11.59pm ET).

Open Beta 2 will take place at the end of August, so stay tuned for the announcement! We'll give you plenty of heads up.

Thank you so much for playing - we appreciate all the amazing messages and support for the game so far. We're reading through all of your comments and suggestions, and truly had a blast this past weekend!

Until next time,

The Norsfell Team ❄️