Jun 3, 2021

Second Hotfix [v1.00b] & a short note on future patches

Tainted Grail: Conquest - ard_berlin

Hello! First of all, we want to thank you all for your support! We hoped that you're going to like the game but we weren't expecting such a positive response! We're really humbled and we're trying to read everything you say, see what needs to be fixed, and prioritize fixes - because, really, the amount of feedback is so huge! :D Thank you!!!

Quality of Life:

Portal to the Village is more visible and has an icon on the minimap.
Moonring's passives contain their minion's short description.
Fixed disappearing items loot on higher resolutions.
Wyrdness events shoudln't block you from progressing.
Gamepad general tweaks and fixes.
Blood Mage's ultimate values should be properly displayed.

Passive Skills:

Temporarily removed Full House mastery (Apostate) from the game.
Path of the Protector should properly change Barriers duration.
Fixed some passive skills combinations which were breaking their behaviour.
Slow Thinker and Rewarded Restraint now correctly show cards played.
Defensive Dance now properly adds barrier after dealing a hit with maneuver card.
Persistent Defense Barrier gain reduced from 15 to 10.
Intimidation now correctly applies Vulnerable to other enemies.
Doomsday now correctly grants ultimate charges.
Waiting for an Opening provides Barrier only once.

Cards:

Forward Planning now correctly reduces cost of cards.
Awakening no longer promotes Ethereals.
Duplicating Perfect Defense gives another 50% chance instead of adding to 100%.
Greedy Strike is capped at the enemy HP.
Finishing Touches no longer drains 6 Energy.
Fire Shot effects order fixed.

Items:

Wyrdstone Heart now properly heals when used from inventory.
Stagfather's Charm Hugely Boosted.

Enemies and Allies:

Soul Harvester now displays correct intent when attacking allies.
Soul Harvester's Harvested Soul attacks their master on Hit received and loses 20% damage.
Necromancer's Undead Spawn reduces their master Armor on Hit received.
Woolsey now displays intent.
Woolsey is no longer promotable by summoners.

Our current plan for the next few weeks is:

- From now on we're going to try to publish fixes to the game in smaller, more focused batches. As you'll see from patchnotes today, today's hotfix is touching upon many different issues you've reported. It took as this long precisely because of that: the more things are in a patch, the longer it takes to test it. In order to try (we hope this will work) to push fixes faster we're going to work on them in a more "focused" manner. So, for example, next big patch will probably contain only story-related fixes (and hopefully translations), and the next one after that will be related only to balancing... And so on.

- We've been investigating the causes of various crashes and optimization issues. We really hear your feedback and we're unhappy that the game sometimes doesn't work as well as it should. We have ideas on how to approach these issues and we're going to start to work on some major improvements in these areas. We don't know how long they're going to take (because they will require some proper research) but we hope that within the next few weeks the game should run better & smoother.

- At the same time we have some really cool ideas for the future of Conquest - we do want to introduce some events and work on additional content, but before we're ready to announce that we need to wrap up the issues that we've already started (like implementing localizations).

So thank you all once again for your support. We're humbled and grateful for all your reviews and comments - it's amazing to see that you care so much!

Jun 3, 2021

EU4: 1.31.4 Majapahit is now LIVE!

Europa Universalis IV - BjornB

There might be unforeseen consequences if you load a <= 1.31.3 save in 1.31.4 - so it should be avoided if possible. If you still want to load an old save - make sure to create a backup if possible. You can also finish off your ongoing save in the previous version before updating. For instructions on how to revert to a previous version, please go here!

As usual, please report any issues in our bug report forum or submit a support ticket. Thank you!

################### # Gamebalance ################### # Other - Should a foreign country become the Emperor of the HRE then all of their European provinces, which have a connection to their capital, will be added to the Empire. ################### # Interface ################### # Tooltips - Add new line to "Proclaim Erbkaisertum" tooltip explaining that it removes vassal princes from the diplomatic relations of the emperor. - Fixed Piracy in Palembang tooltip containing wrong ruler name. - Fixed issue where tactics difference would be displayed incorrectly in siege phase tooltip.# Other - Added new icon for "Missionary Strength against Heathen". ################### # Script ################### # Decisions - Forming Malaya will now ask the player if they want to update their ideas. - The decision "Flee to Brazil" will now properly set your capital to Brazil - regardless if it was in Europe or elsewhere on the world before.# Events - The event "The Completion of Borobudur" has now additional modifiers of its Mean-Time-To-Happen, which will drastically increase the chance for that event to happen for Sunda and Majapahit. - The event "The Completion of Borobudur" triggers for Sunda only when they have fulfilled the mission "Restore Borobudur".# Ideas - The Samoan Idea "Fa's Samoa" now grants you +10% Governing Capacity instead of the +5% Administrative Efficiency.# Missions - Adjusted some mission icons for the Indonesian Mission Tree. - Fixed issue with Palembang having duplicated missions. - The Ayutthayan mission "Royal Absolutism" will now ask the player if they want to update their ideas while switching to Siam. - The Maori mission "Centralize the Realm" gives now monarch points if you are no longer tribal instead of trying to enact the Polynesian Kingdom. - The Maori mission "Loyal Subjects" will no longer require that all estates have less than 10 influence. Instead, it will now require that every estate has less 40 influence and a loyalty of 65 or higher. - The Maori mission "Own a Center of Trade" will now upgrade only ONE of your Centers of Trade instead of every single one. - The Maori mission "Riri Wars" will give you now +100 ADM power and 0.15 years of Manpower if there is no rival left for getting a CB against. - The Maori mission "Expand the Trade Routes"'s requirement is now consistent with itself, meaning the amount of trade buildings you need to have is always 3 or 2 with 20 light ships. - The Maori mission "Gain Mana"'s requirement has been nerfed to having 1 stability down from 3. ################### # Bugfixes ################### - All province modifiers, which are granted by estate privileges, will now properly affect provinces, which weren't owned by the country at the point when the privilege got enacted (for example: newly conquered Christian provinces will now be affected by the Dhimni privilege if active). - Fixed issue with custom nations overriding others in MP. - Declare War interface no longer falsely suggests that Emperor's allies are called to war. - The define_heir effect can now allow random higher stats than given if fixed = yes isn't specified. - Non-active countries now have their revolutions crushed just like everyone else so they don't pop back up as revolutionary if released later on. - Majapahit and Khmer national disasters will now trigger as expected. - Fixed the monarch names of Fars. - Can now stop building spy network via diplo menu of a country whom you took the capital of. - Fixed issue with not being able to speed up progress on monuments construction after continuing save. - Changing displayed Unit Type or Technology Tier does not close Sprite Pack list in Nation Designer. - Conquering a province with a monument under construction now cancels construction. - Fixed a CTD related to AI disbanding mercenaries. - Fixed a CTD when tooltipping siege in outliner. - Fleet basing rights are now granted automatically by war allies. - Fixed issue where "Left the Empire" would not tick down over time. - Fixed issue for subjects not fabricate claims. - Last federation advancement now inherits properly without auto-settling, and gives all tribal land correctly. - Various issues with CBs and war goals fixed. - Fixed OOS related to leader initialization. - Fixed OOS related to naval modifiers. - Fixed issue where a hotjoin request would be duplicated if player cancels hotjoin and request it again. - Fixed some issues related to monument events. - Fixed a CTD in eventwindow related to selecting an event picture to display. - Fixed an issue for pending events not loading property if they do not have an end date set. - Fixed an issue for events not showing up when playing coop in MP. - Fixed a CTD related to building spy networks.

Jun 3, 2021

June 3, 2021 Update

Black Squad - BS_SUN

RANK CAP INCREASE

The former rank cap was General of the Army. Now the cap has more grades up to General of the Army 7.
In order to support your reach to the extended ranks, there is a boost event just after the maintenance. The custom channel gives more EXP by 100% boost till June 17, 2021.

The Korean War Memorial Event

Also there will be The Korean War Memorial Event throughout June. Updated daily missions and a new 7 day attendance are waiting for you. Complete daily missions to get Special Old Boxes. And additional exp/gold boosts every 13:00 – 15:00, 19:00 – 21:00 UTC. The events stay till July 1, 2021.

WEAPON BALANCING

The adjustments have been applied to all modes.

-Recoil increased-RPM decreased

-Spread slightly narroewed

-Range slightly shortened

Bullet 30% Bonus Deals

Every bullet purchase gives 30% more bullet after the maintenance.
The deal is available till June 30, 2021.
Each 1+1 deal is available once per account.

NEW ITEM

BLUE WHALE series items arrives RANDOM BOX SHOP. The items of this series are obtainable from ALL BLUE WHALE BOX, as well as 30D packages and packages for respective permanent items are also available at SHOP.
TOY GUN items, available with Summer Point, arrives at RANDOM BOX SHOP.
The components of OLD BOX, GOLDEN BOX, SPECIAL OLD BOX have been replaced.

Miscellaneous

Spring Point has been removed.
MINT CHOCOLATE items have been removed from RANDOM BOX SHOP.
Items at EXCHANGE has been rotated.
Item sets of Arms Race & Supply Raid have been updated.
Weapon of the Month has been replaced to MJOLNIR series.
Attendance Check at Mission has been updated.
The sales of 500 Bullet via Special Price deal, available only once per account, is out of sale.

Jun 3, 2021

Welcome to the Garden

The Garden Path - of_wing

Hey there and welcome to our Steam community!

I’m Louis Durrant, the sole developer of The Garden Path. This project has been a labour of love for me for some years now, and I’m very proud of how far it has come in that time.

As this is my first post here, it felt only fitting to welcome you to the garden and explain a little about how the world works behind the scenes. So, without further ado, welcome to the garden...

Deciding how big the garden should be was more difficult than I had anticipated. I want players to feel like there's a thrill to exploring, but that they'll soon have it mapped roughly in their heads.

To have curated the entire space should be a tremendous challenge, but most players should feel content that they have shaped a corner of the garden to their liking.

Originally, I had intended on having the world be entirely randomly generated so that every gardener had a completely unique place to explore. In the end, I settled on making the garden a collection of different ‘acres’ (randomly generated puzzle pieces).

Some ‘acres’ will be more interesting than others, while some will be rarer. Each, however, should offer something new to uncover.

With this system, players who enjoy rebooting and rebuilding their garden might experience some deja-vu, but ultimately will be met with a fresh new world to explore each time. Meanwhile, players dedicated to their original garden can continue to explore, expand, and enjoy the environments.

Every ‘acre’ is approximately 9 screen sizes, and every garden is made up of 36 ‘acres’. It’s pretty big. As is the most important metric: running from one side of the map to the other certainly takes a fair bit of time.

But with flora and fauna to examine, as well as charming characters to chat to on the way, players will feel satisfied in finding something new every time.

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My goal for The Garden Path was to create a game where players could have a tranquil space to kick back in, feel safe, and get lost in their garden. With this system in place, I think the garden will be a cozy and comfortable home-away-from-home.

Thank you so much for reading, I hope you enjoyed reading a bit about the garden. Expect more updates to follow as I continue working on The Garden Path.

Until then...

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