* Event Period: 7th June 2023 (9 AM) – 5th July 2023 (8:59 AM)

* Main Event:

1) Powerful Master Pugilist! 7th June 2023 (9 AM) to 5th July 2023 (8:59 AM)

* Event Details

1) Powerful Master Pugilist!

- One character per account from level 99 can take part.

- Characters can be registered by nickname irrespective of their Battle Strength.

- Start the event by clicking on the icon at the top of the screen.

- You’ll get a reward for achieving new Battle Strength through punching, but only once per level.

- You’ll find the quest details and your rewards in the quest window and the event interface.
l  The rewards for each achieved Battle Strength will be sent to you by post.

l  Rewards will be removed from the Letter Box at 8:59 AM on 5th July 2023.
* Note
l  * You will get items that match the character that opens the Avatar Cube or Weapons Cube.
l  You receive the Seraphim avatar (30 days) which includes a special socket.

Hear ye, Hear ye, Esteemed Generals of the Alliance!

I, Maxim, descend upon you carrying a veritable treasure trove of joyous tidings! From that fateful day when I donned the crisp uniform of Dorado and ventured into the vast and wild battlefield of Conflict of Nations, one particular gripe has echoed through the ranks louder than a sergeant's bellow - the slightly confounded ELO in the Alliance Ranking system.

As persistently as a homing pigeon with a message of utmost urgency, you've all pointed out that the ELO computation was as representative of your alliances' stellar capabilities as a potato is of a hand grenade. The War Office has been inundated with your dispatches, each one a creative suggestion for a new, improved way of calculating ELO, reflective of true alliance skill.

Huzzah! The day of reckoning is upon us. We are currently in the bowels of the strategy room, grappling with a total revamp of the Alliance leaderboard. And yes, my comrades, this overhaul includes that tricky, ill-famed ELO! The objective isn't just to spruce up the rankings, but also to boot out those indolent alliances snoozing atop the leaderboard like a gentleman after an excessive Sunday roast.

In an act worthy of a dramatic drumroll, this will also usher in the much-anticipated alliance events! Our shiny new leaderboard will finally be a true mirror to your alliances' combat skills and competitive spirit. Moreover, it will pave the way for dedicated events across our vast alliance community, promising fair play, equitable matchmaking, and no holds barred competition!

Fear not, this isn't the last dispatch you'll receive on the subject. Keep your eyes as wide as an owl's at midnight for more news from the War Office in the coming weeks! Just one small note of caution: the update will automatically update the leaderboard to reflect alliance activity over the recent past. Until then, tally-ho!

Dev - 4.10.4

War Robots: Frontiers servers are scheduled to enter maintenance at the following time:

• Maintenance Time: 07/06/2023 at 08:00 UTC
  
• Estimated Downtime: 1 hours

The game servers will be inaccessible during this time. Keep an eye on our official social channels and Discord for further updates, and to find out when War Robots: Frontiers servers are live again.

Thank you for your patience!

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GIRL GENIUS - ADVENTURES IN CASTLE HETERODYNE will have a demo at STEAM NEXT FEST. (Jun. 19- Jun. 26)

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The castle is festering with deadly traps, rogue machines, and mad scientists... Prove that you can tango with the best of them, and knock a few screws loose.

Fight for control over the Castle, as it reveals itself to be a mechanical monster, controlled by a malicious AI.
And if that wasn't trouble enough, a painfully PINK impostor is trying to steal the deed away from right under your nose!

Imagine if only home-ownership was this easy...



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Is it Children’s Day today? Almost! We missed it by a notch, but we’re still here to present you the



Download it now to introduce yourself to the story of Brewpub Simulator. As a university dropout, you inherit your Grandpa’s old, decrepit brewpub. Along with it, you get a chance to prove yourself, make some moolah, and discover beer recipes.

• De-ruin an old brewpub 🧹
  
• Customize it (to a degree - it’s a demo after all) 🔨
  
• Meet your lawyer Harvey and try to be friends with him 🧑‍⚖️‍📝
  
• Make beer and drink beer sell beer 🍻
  
• Be serious about it or go crazy! 🤪

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Hello there!

Here is a small update with some changes and bugfixes! Thank you all for your feedback, it helps us a lot to improve the game!

• Add a tutorial during the first battle to provide key information to newcomers
  
• Update credits window
  
• Option menu can be called from top right corner icon from a majority of screens and by pressing escape
  
• Fixed an issue with the progression indicator for the dungeon displaying wrong number
  
• Fixed an issue with the player icon being at the wrong spot on the dungeon map
  
• Fixed an issue which cause the game to soft lock during Temple 4 and 5
  
• Fixed an issue with special effects being applied every turn
  
• Fixed an issue with certain artifacts displaying incorrect values
  
• Fixed an issue with certain tooltip displaying misleading information
  
• Fixed an issue with certain window triggering other windows from behind
  
• Fixed a common issue with certain window where some elements were display behind corners
  
• Fixed an issue with certain type of cards being applied multiple times
  
• Fixed an issue with cards which affect other cards from discarded pile

It has not been an easy month for the Tenebrae team. We were swamped by the daily routine unrelated to the project. Important life events and various activities distracted us from our work. Several artists went on extended leaves for various reasons, and some were on sick leave unable to carry out their tasks. Undoubtedly, all this will have an impact later, closer to the game's early access release, when deadlines start to loom.

But despite all the challenges, we're still on track to meet our goal.

At the beginning of May we finished working on Walter's sprites. Patreon subscribers, to whom we have already shown the result, are lamenting the fact that a handsome older man is not a romantic interest in our game. But we do have a great series of stories on his behalf as additional content to the game.


Right now we're drawing sprites of Jane Holland – the mother of our protagonist. We've already shown her sketches on Patreon and hopefully in the next report we'll be able to show you the results.

In May, we managed to put together a 3D model of the new background and furnish it beautifully. It's going to be a cosy kitchen, which we hadn't originally planned at all. But the plot inclines us to believe that this location is very important and we can't do without it.


Unfortunately, at the moment we don't know what to do with finalising the backgrounds. The drawing of the location with the gazebo has been put on hold and we don't know if the artist will be able to come back to work on the project.

At the very beginning of the article we mentioned the leaves and the problems with free time of our artists. This month we have written three technical tasks for the game illustrations, but we have only drawn three sketches for one series and started work on another one.

But look how cool it is!


This is the sketch for the illustration that will go into the updated Tenebrae demo.

• Programming

After getting a lot of feedback about players wanting to see a more explicit difference between the heroine's thoughts and direct speech, we have implemented two ways:

• Highlighting speech in bold.
  
• A slight darkening of the text during internal dialogue.

We don't know yet which of these we will choose, but technically we like the second option better, as it doesn't affect the text size and outline in any way, and we won't have any problems with text-box overflow.

In the meantime, we've implemented a notification to the player about losing unsaved progress when exiting the game to the main menu. It was supposed to be included in the demo version, but something went wrong and we forgot to implement this feature in a hurry.

• All month we've been publishing one story per week, written on behalf of Friedrich, to Patreon subscribers. There's one last story left to come. His early series reveals a lot of lore and backstory, but there's no room for romantic experiences.
  
• The early series of stories on behalf of little Beatrice has undergone revision and been translated. A couple of illustrations are already finished for publication in June.
  
• The stories on Charlie's behalf have been completed. This series includes fourteen short stories in which the reader observes the emergence of a person in a difficult life situation.
  
• A late series has begun from the perspective of Jane Holland. The focus group has already appreciated the ambiguity and unpredictability of the plot. They liked the metamorphosis that happens to the characters and the way they transform over the course of the narrative.

Apart from the storybook, we managed to progress with one scene in Silvan's storyline. It was a heavy scene emotionally. The screenwriter reread the lines hundreds of times, writing a little bit at a time. We try to work for quality rather than quantity, and avoid watering down the lines and engaging in graphomania. We strive to check every frame so that it carries something meaningful and important, not forgetting about the emotion and rhythm of the text.

Thank you for following our project.
See you next month!

Greetings Pharaohs,

We’re deploying a new update that brings several QoL improvements as well as bug fixes to Pharaoh: A New Era. As always, the team is grateful to the community for its everlasting support and love for the game.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1351080/Pharaoh_A_New_Era/


NEW - Three more overlays added

• Bazar overlay - displays food access to houses
  
• Magistrate overlay - displays courthouses access to houses
  
• Problems - displays various problems in your city :
  
• Risk of life, collapse, crime, disease, and malaria
  
• No road access
  
• Buildings’ entry & exits that are not connected
  
• No access to the workforce
  
• No raw material available for manufactured goods production buildings
  
• No resources available for services buildings (i.e. mortuaries, scribal schools, libraries, senet houses, and zoos)
  
• Entertainers missing on performance venues

Most overlays now display information when you hover on the buildings. Furthermore, we added an option to display columns on overlays just like in the original game


With this new update, you can now manage which events must be displayed as a notification or should be hidden. This setting can be used in a new tab in the ‘option’ menu.
Please note that requests, gifts, or invasions cannot be hidden nor displayed as notifications.

We also added a few new events :

• Population milestone
  
• Warning for the lack of a working dock when a water trade route is open

Flat mode just got better with this new QoL update. Starting today, you can flatten any building with a right-click. If you right-click again the building comes up. To return to a normal view, you just have to click on the button next to the minimap or press ‘F’ (hotkey set by default).

The flat mode can now cover a good part of the needs related to map rotation. With this new addition, we believe that the mode will be more practical to use.


The burial goods needed are now displayed :

• In missions’ objectives
  
• In rating overseer
  
• In the information panel of monuments that requires them

While fixing bugs that affected ferries, something interesting occurred and we decided to keep in-game. Before, if the path of different pairs of ferries crossed, they’d stop working. After fixing this, we figured out that walkers are now able to shortcut their way to go straight to a ferry landing even if it’s not the one connected to their departure.

We think that it's a neat addition, especially for bigger cities where distance can be a problem. Anything that allows path optimization is more than welcome.


You can now put to sleep mode all interactive buildings. Sleep mode is enabled by clicking on the Zzz button displayed in the building user interface. If you don’t want to shut down the entire industry but put to sleep mode a few buildings when lacking workers or temporarily over/underproducing certain resources, you have now a great tool to do it.

• In Pyramid Scheme, the first request for Granite now triggers properly
  
• In Pyramid Scheme, the trade route to Dunqul Oasis now sells and buys the proper resources
  
• Fixed soft lock occurring in Timna (Campaign sandbox) when responding in time to the recurring Men-Nefer request
  
• In Henen-nesw - Sauty trade route can now reopen
  
• In Henen-nesw - prevents a double event after receiving a gift
  
• In Meidum - trade with Abu is now possible
  
• In On -Saqqara trade route can now reopen
  
• In On - the Temple Complex Building to Ra is available now
  
• Swapped the entry and exit point in Gateway to Atlantis
  
• In Rowarty - Mycenae can no longer trade right from the start. The trade route opens later.
  
• In Behdet - the recurring perfect flood event is now a failed flood event
  
• In Iunet - The Temple Complex building to Bast is now available
  
• In Itjtawy - Balanced the wage down/wage up events to slow down general inflation
  
• In Maritis - Fixed the timeline. Events now happen three years sooner.
  
• In Thinis - the trade route to Men-Nefer can now reopen

• Added mission-type icon in campaign view when choosing a monument or a military-focused quest
  
• Decreased clouds size
  
• Fixed several things on storage to prevent stuck resources
  
• Removed scripted event pause option
  
• Workforce priorities are now properly saved
  
• The uncapped Zoom option is now properly saved
  
• Stockpiling toggle in the Overseer of Commerce is now properly saved
  
• The industry shuts down toggle in the Overseer of Commerce is now properly saved
  
• Individual resources in gifts and requests are now properly displayed (i.e. blocks of sandstone, etc.)
  
• Fixed overseer of commerce when stockpiling
  
• Fixed entertainment overlay with Bast Temple Bonus
  
• Reduced animation update calls
  
• Fix parts of events text not finding their localization
  
• Changed format for animations from json to binaries
  
• Houses now check upgrades once during the daily update
  
• Improved management for irrigation ditches networks
  
• Much more complicated optimizations implemented
  
• Fixed house devolution delay that used to be too long in some cases
  
• Fixed devolution for the modest estate when missing luxury goods
  
• Added festival square animation
  
• Fixed trade road links on the world map when cities cannot trade
  
• Hunters and Firefighters are now properly visible
  
• Fixed issue with old save and building entry and exit points
  
• Fixed the issue where saving a game with corrupted walkers would corrupt the save
  
• Fixed issue where monuments would corrupt the save
  
• Fixed some cases of gatherers not finding collectibles
  
• Pre-built monuments are no longer counted in the Monument rating
  
• Added new illustrations for calamity events
  
• Added new illustrations for some wraths and blessings
  
• The game now prevents unpausing using the space bar when fullscreen events are displayed
  
• Fixed minimap blocking click when reduced
  
• Drag on the minimap is now enabled
  
• Added commerce overseer button on the world map
  
• Fixed an issue where carpenters would block pyramid construction
  
• Added a tooltip on religious buildings that displays information on God’s moods.
  
• Fixed delete button displaying a smaller instance of itself on hover in the save window
  
• Fixed pause keybind not working after discarding some popups with a right-click or escape
  
• Fixed display of the Nile which was retracted by one tile
  
• Fixed dropdown menu displaying “empty” instead of “buy” in bazaar user interface
  
• Fixed title screen music that wouldn’t loop nor play again when coming back to the main menu
  
• Increased animation’s menu speed
  
• Added a quick-load button to the main menu - it will load the last save used before quitting the game