Howdy Friends,

How are you enjoying the Free Weekend? It's been so great to see Friendtown fill up with new faces, read your Friends vs Friends reviews and hear your excitement for all the updates and changes. Be sure to keep leaving us your reviews, take some time to try out the game and, maybe if you like what you see, consider picking it up. It's never been cheaper and there's never been a better time to play.

You may have also seen that we gave you a glimpse into the future yesterday with Wired Wrecks. We're going to dedicate today's bulletin to answering your questions about what's happening this October, how you can get hold of our first Premium Expansion, and why it's going to be the greatest thing to ever happen to Friendtown. Since opening, of course.




Let's break this down for you...

What is Wired Wrecks?

Why, it's the first of two Premium Expansions confirmed for release in 2023 for Friends vs Friends.

How much will it cost?

For now, it's only included as part of the Friends vs Friends Deluxe Edition. which is bundled alongside Premium Expansion 2. We are also looking into selling this seperately ahead of launch.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2432020/Friends_vs_Friends_Deluxe_Edition_Content/

When is it coming out?

Wired Wrecks will be releasing in early October. We'll have a final release date for you VERY SOON!

What's included in Wired Wrecks?

Within the Premium Expansion, you'll get the following

• 10 Card Backs
  
• 10 Hama (Key) Chains
  
• 5 New Skins

Are KlustR Jr. and the 5 new cards also included?

The new character and cards will be made available as part of a free update (for everyone who owns Friends vs Friends) around the launch of Wired Wrecks. You do not need to pay to play as KlustR Jr or use the new cards.

Wait, the new character will be free?

Yep! Although if you do pick up Wired Wrecks, you'll get 2 additional skins for KlustR Jr to give him some slightly different looks.

How about the Hyena, they look really cool.

Racco is super cool and you can find out a whoooole lot more about them in Wired Wrecks. Invites are open to their Workshop.

What's happening with Premium Expansion 2?

That's also due to release in 2023. We're not quite ready to talk about this one yet but let's just say you can expect similar (and also VERY different) things to Wired Wrecks.

Oh, and how are those console releases cooking?

They're cooking!

Hope we answered everything! But if we didn't, just let us know below and we'll be sure to reply.


We're already getting fanart for KlustR Jr. Our newest Friend seems to have won over many hearts and we're so excited to share them with you.

Thanks for sketching this midofox96 from our Discord.



Thank you for sharing all your fan art with us. If you've been making some for Friends vs Friends, why not submit it to the fan art category here? We've seen some fantastic pieces out there and some surely worthy winners.


We've got two very special shoutouts we want to make in today's Bulletin.

Firstly, we're super grateful for the support from the Moonstone Island team yesterday as they gave our Free Weekend a massive push across their networks. Thank you so much for connecting with us and telling the world about what's happening in Friendtown. You won't want to miss Moonstone Island when it releases on Steam next week, September 20! Especially since they also love some deck-building action.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1658150/Moonstone_Island/

Secondly, if you're loving Friends vs Friends and everything the Brainwash Gang are getting up to, then check out Laika: Aged Through Blood, a Western-Inspired Motorvania that you might spot some references to in Friends vs Friends. You've never explored a post-apocalyptic wasteland quite like this before.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1796220/Laika_Aged_Through_Blood/


Hey folks, it's me. The Mayor of Friendtown.

Sorry I can't stop for long, this Free Weekend is certainly keeping me on my toes. Everyone's asking for free drinks. Free food. Heck, I've had people asking if they can stay at my place for free. You know, I'd probably let them if they bring me my favourite packet of crisps but that would sort of be defeating the point of 'free' wouldn't it....

It's been so nice connecting with so many wonderful people, some discovering Friendtown for the first time, others coming back for a return visit. We hope you'll stick around and stay with us.

I'd also encourage each and every one of you reading this to tell just one friend about the Free Weekend. Share the love far and wide and let's really take over this...'Steam' place. Whatever that is.

Oh, and if you have stopped by and checked out Friends vs Friends, do take some time to leave us a review. It really helps us to grow, develop and expand, and let's us know what we're getting right. And equally, what we're getting wrong.

Right, better get back to it. Someone's currently moving their sofa into my house and looks like a weekend's supply of munchies. Perhaps if they're willing to share?

That's been me, the Mayor of Friendtown. And you're reading the Mayor's Message.

- The Mayor of Friendtown

Hey there girls and guys. In this update I added the talent system, but different as it may sound. There are shrines that needs specific items like boss souls to unlock for example the berserker talent where you can hold a great weapon in each hand. Try it out and in the next update I finally bring back the rebuilding logics and places to rebuild for benefits you will need in the future. I hope you enjoy the update.



Update Notes Version 0.4.0


Additions:

+ Added: Talent shrines where you be able to unlock talents
+ Added a room under the big tree. Entrance is next to the big tree
+ Added Steam Achievement: Shrine of fire
+ Added: Tips for specific actions in the game to give new players a better start into the game
+ Added logics to add a gem to weapons, armor and tools to raise the stats
+ Added item: Gem of strength (Tier I)
+ Added item: Gem of strength (Tier II)
+ Added item: Gem of strength (Tier III)
+ Added item: Gem of Armor (Tier I)
+ Added item: Gem of Armor (Tier II)
+ Added item: Gem of Armor (Tier III)
+ Added item: Gem of Harvesting (Tier I)
+ Added item: Gem of Harvesting (Tier II)
+ Added item: Gem of Harvesting (Tier III)
+ Added bird sound effects
+ Added fox sound
+ Added deer sound
+ Readded Memory fragments to mystic animals and enemy loot tables
+ Added biome entering info to the top screen



Changes:

- Changed: Arrows will be learned by picking up sticks or feathers
- Changed: Enemies will only knock back when the player deals critical damage now
- Changed: Range Enemies will no longer run away from you when you are too near. They will change to a melee weapon and behavior
- Changed: Normal enemies are able to dodge backwards now
- Changed: Dodging is not possible while attacking now to create a decision making combat feeling
- Changed: Event messages are a bit more at the left of the creen
- Changed: Event messages for new blueprints will show to which workstation the new blueprint is unlocked
- Changed: The selection box in the research table is replaced by a button bar to make it more intuitive
- Changed: Armor is more balanced now
- Changed: AI is more challenging
- Changed: To learn a blueprint you only need half of the crafting blueprints to learn it instead of the full materials
- Changed: Tanning rack needs cloth instead of leather (because it is not possible to research it the normal way)
- Changed: Tanning rack needs less nails to build and learn
- Changed: Nails are craftable in the workbench instead of the anvil now
- Changed: Bushes will offer 3-5 sticks instead of 1-4
- Changed: Trees will drop sticks sometimes
- Changed: Character state (Life, thirst etc.) is visible when open the inventory etc
- Changed: Double claw animations will use both weapons now
- Changed: dual wielding animations use both weapons now
- Changed: Meteorite will contain magic shards and ores instead of wood and other stupid stuff that makes no sense
- Changed: Crates in destroyed villages and other places (Not the ones at the roads) will contain more useful stuff and with a small chance they can contain leather armor and the new gems
- Changed: Dual wielding is not possible by default anymore
- Chanded: Reduced respawn time



Fixes:

- Fixed: When the Host is starting to build something the client will see the building part that is floating around
- Fixed: Building menu is closing when a ignitet torch is held
- Fixed: The object info window does not hide at some situations
- Fixed: Torch is missing to learn
- Fixed: When the character dies energy, water and hunger is still on the same level as at the moment the character died
- Fixed: Shields are missing in the armor Tab of the research table
- Fixed: Missing blueprint in the research table for the saddle
- Fixed: Broken stuff can be dismantled with the full amount of the needed crafting materials of it
- Fixed: dropping ammunition to a bow that has less than the max ammunition in it will fill it completely
- Fixed: Item Options (Right clicking an item) are very far off the place with different resolutions
- Fixed: Torch still causes building to be interrupted
- Fixed: Iron sword do not need iron
- Fixed: Stone Greathammer do not need stone
- Fixed: Iron armor and Shield will be erased when copper armor and shield will be learned
- Fixed: Open the building menu while hitting will cause the player to do a hit loop
- Fixed: Magic animals will drop Leather instead of animal hide
- Fixed: Stonemason workbench do not have the blueprint for stone bricks
- Fixed: Mount items are not stackable
- Fixed: Campfire is not placeable near other structures
- Fixed: Breeding food is not learnable
- Fixed: Dropping a range weapon with ammunition in it and picking it up will erase the info of the ammunition item
- Fixed: Road crates and barrels do not break when you hit them to exactly 0 durability
- Fixed: Resources do not respawn correctly



Known bugs:

All translations were corrupted due to a file renaming process. I had to use a tool to translate everything again so a lot of translations would be very wrong. Please tell me if you notice something and I will implement your correct translation

- Add more animations for the volumetric video;
- Add sound effect support;
- Add sky effect support;
- Bug fixes.

It is the modus operandi of working with a second version of the game, on which new patches and updates can be applied and tested before they are integrated into the regular live version of the game. This means that one or more updates can first be tested before they are made available to all players in Early Access.

Some of you probably have not done this before, so we have a small guide:

Prerequisite:
You must have Sengoku Dynasty in your library – obviously.

The procedure

• Open your game library.
  
• Right click on Sengoku Dynasty.
  
• Open properties.
  
• Select the tab "BETAS".*
  
• Enter this password into the field below the drop-down menu: 6RmK07O5em39LFLj1e4OvZGlrQ7OqI
  
• Click on "CHECK CODE".
  
• Use the drop-down menu and select “releasecandidate“. This is the public stage version.
  
• Click on "Close".
  
• Steam should now download this version of the game.

IMPORTANT! PLEASE SAVE YOUR GAME ON THE LIVE VERSION AS A BACKUP COPY BEFORE ACCESSING THE PUBLIC STAGING BUILD!

This is merely a precautionary measure in the very unlikely event that anything goes wrong!
The saves can be found under this path:

%USERPROFILE%/AppData/Local/SengokuDynasty/Saved/

Copy the entire folder into a zip file or store a copy somewhere else on your hard drive.

*Steam labels all those builds as "betas” even if they are technically not betas, don’t let it confuse you!

• Fixed the loss of control over the map zooming feature sometimes.
  
• Fixed the lack of localization for corpse actions (looting / skinning).
  
• Fixed Ul controls not changing back to mouse and keyboard when using LMB/RMB or dragging mouse wheel.
  
• Fixed red flowers sometimes are stretched and do not disappear in winter.

• Improved how auto-assigning of handheld items to Quick Slots works – now when you break or throw a holdable, and craft a new one, it will automatically go to the Quick Slot that was used to keep the same item type. It will also auto-equip the replacement if you didn’t equip any other holdable in the meantime.
  
• Improved how interactions with structures (like beds, containers, crafting, and production stations) work – now it is possible to use them while holding a hammer, so you can open a container or go to sleep while building, without the need to constantly unequip and equip the hammer back and forth. (Known issue - Keys F and T are transposed)
  
• Added a new inventory interaction that allows you to bulk-transfer all compatible items to a Dynasty Storage.
  
• Added a desaturation visual effect to all incompatible items in your inventory, when a dynasty storage is opened – it is much easier to determine, what can be stored, and what uses a different storage.
  
• Reworked how a forced season change sequence works. Now it will NOT happen in many problematic situations, like during sleep, dialogues, cutscenes, or camera sequences. Additionally, the management screen will appear BEFORE the season changes, so that you can make some last-minute adjustments.
  
• Added a respawn screen penalty message – the penalty itself isn’t new and was always there, but now you will be precisely informed what you lost when that wild hog mauled you.
  
• Improved Special Project Workplace Popup by adding information on how long it will take to finish the project, what the rewards for completing it are, and by adding a “Manage Job” button in Population Details to open the popup.
  
• Added a minor notification for discovered animal locations.
  
• Limited character inputs in text input fields
  
• Added Polish language.
  
• Updated UI Localisations
  
• Improved some information and visuals in Dynasty Management:
  
• · Added a yellow dash if there is no happiness or effectiveness change predicted.
  
• · Predicted effectiveness on season change now shows the bonus penalty value, instead of the total effectiveness value (which can be modified by other factors, like tools).
  
• · All missing Storage Buildings will now be displayed in red in the workplace popup.
  
• · Improved the looks of home/job assignment buttons in Population details.
  
• · Improved labels of home/bed assignment lists.
  
• · Added house icon to the home/bed assignment list.
  
• · + many other minor improvements.

• Rebalanced how Stone and Iron deposits work - now medium and large ones will spawn a smaller version of the deposit when mined, so they are even more useful.
  
• Simplified empty exterior segment setup and looks – now they are less intrusive when the hammer is equipped.
  
• Improved setup of item replacement – now items like kama, shovel or hoe will auto re-equip if they break, and a spare is in the inventory.
  
• Improved Tea Leaves and Tea Drink storage and need type to make more sense.

• Improved audio positioning for Deer and Boar SFXs
  
• Added Deer Nearby and Deer Alert SFXs

• Hare fur is now brighter and stands out in foliage more.
  
• Adjusted NPC sitting animations.
  
• Improved the ambient light to make the night brighter, especially during cloudy weather.

• Implemented additional safeguards to prevent overwriting and corruption of saves.
  
• Added a Pause during the Loading Screen. In-game time won’t pass when your game is loading.

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Just comment anything and I'll pick 5 random key winners in 24 hours!

Wishlist and follow me for more keys next week!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/796350/NatureFly

Just comment anything and I'll pick 5 random key winners in 24 hours!

Wishlist and follow me for more keys next week!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/796350/NatureFly

Just comment anything and I'll pick 5 random key winners in 24 hours!

Wishlist and follow me for more keys next week!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/796350/NatureFly

We are very pleased that many people enjoyed the game. We've collected a large amount of feedback from you.

Some bugs were found in the game, and we've worked hard to fix them as quickly as possible.

Critical Issue Fixes:

1. Fixed a performance issue that occurred with a large number of visitors in one room.
   
2. The game no longer lags when a large number of visitors arrive simultaneously.
   
3. Fixed some critical bugs with the fire drone. Sometimes fires never stopped.
   
4. The elevator now operates more efficiently and doesn't wait for a large number of visitors to start moving.
   
5. Hired workers have become less lazy and now adhere more strictly to their schedules.
   
6. Visitors no longer ignore signs that prohibit them from entering a room while they are sitting and waiting for their turn for a certain item at the station.

Gameplay Improvements and Balance

• Clerks and bureaucrats no longer significantly increase the station's appeal.
  
• The progression of the station's interest has been improved to prevent the game from becoming chaotic in the later stages.
  
• Reduced frequent flight arrival notifications; there will now be fewer of them.
  
• Couriers now only call during the initial days to avoid distracting the player. In the later stages, they may still occasionally call.

Minor Improvements and Fixes

• Removed extra unnecessary text that occasionally appeared at the bottom of the station (in space).
  
• Now when you click on a room, you can immediately see the levels of beauty, noise, and smell.
  
• In the first contact event, the Flight Board now opens one in-game day earlier.