At the conclusion of this Mid-Autumn Festival, Chapter Two is now available!
In this version, numerous performance issues have been optimized. In addition to the story line, I also added various weapon types and adorable animals(?) as new content.

Dear players,

Thank you for your feedback. The contents of this update are as follows:
1. Increased the maximum limit of Heart of Spirit consumed for Rune Refinement, with a maximum of 9999.
2. Fixed the issue where enemies outside the field of view could not be targeted in free camera mode.
3. Optimized the algorithm for battlefield enemy spawns, now prioritizing spawn points closer to the player.

Note: To ensure the best gaming experience, please make sure you have downloaded the latest version of the game.

Hey everyone! This update is not as grand as usual, but it brings important stuff for smoother gameplay!

Please note: Most of the new features are available in the demo, but you can gain access unlimited game in Warnament's closed beta for as much as $0.99! It includes multiplayer mode, full technology tree, 3 more political institutions, scenario editor & a standalone map editor app.

Head over to our itch.io page or straight to https://warnament.com to start playing in a few clicks!

• Added tutorial scenario, that will start when you hit 'New Game' for the first time. A little campaign, in which you get to play for the Weimar Republic, will show you the basics of recruiting troops, attack your enemies, use artillery and interact with buildings
  
• From now on, the size of armies of your friendly neighbourhood AI countries will depend on your relationships with them: if you don't like each other very much, expect higher concentration of military force in the bordering provinces
  
• Fixed the bug that made AI-controlled players aggressive, even if a player selected 'peaceful' option for bots
  
• Optimized client-server interaction while playing in multiplayer, the data transfered amount decreased by approximately 33% (multiplayer available in closed beta)
  
• Added /ping command in multiplayer, for checking connection status

If you haven't done so already, please add Warnament to your wishlist on Steam:

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1201700/Warnament/

This is the best way to show us that you're waiting for the game to come out, and provides us with superior motivation for releasing the game sooner!

Want some more Warnament? We got you! Here's what you can do:

• Join our merry gang on Warnament's Discord Server to chat with devs and fellow players, and send your feedback straight to the devs
  
• Subscribe to our YouTube channel, and watch weekly videos about the development process
  
• Join our mailing list to get the latest news about the game
  
• Follow Warnament on Twitter

See you in 2 weeks, when the next Warnament update is out!

Updated(September 30, 2023)
+ New stage. ( Difficulty : Nightmare )
+ Fix HitPoints.
+ Fix Code.
+ Uploading scores to the Steam leaderboard is now optional.
+ etc...

Whether they’re a potent source of goals or one of your team’s key defensive strengths, set pieces are an integral aspect of every football match and every manager’s tactical approach.

Many elite clubs have added set piece specialists to their coaching teams in recent seasons as they seek to find that extra 1% to help them edge out their most fierce rivals.

Their arrival on the scene has led to many of you making suggestions on our forums and socials for us to upgrade the way our Set Pieces system works in FM.

Now in FM24, the most complete edition in our series to-date, expert insight from key industry contacts means that Set Piece Coaches are making their debut and will help to power a refreshed Set Piece Creator.

Visit the Football Manager Website to find out more about this feature.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2252570/Football_Manager_2024/

Dear gardening fans,

Today we're delighted to be moving a step closer to the release of Garden Life with this new milestone: the opening of our Discord server!

Come and chat with the community, and don't miss out on any upcoming announcements about the game!

JOIN US ON DISCORD!

See you there!

Warm wishes,
The Garden Life Team 🌼

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Captains,

Joining the Public Test is a great way to earn containers that drop Premium ships, permanent and expendable camouflages, and other valuable items!

All information on how to get involved is available on a dedicated page of our official website.

Leave Feedback

Starts: Sep 28, 06:30 PM CEST (UTC+2)
Ends: Oct 3, 07:30 AM CEST (UTC+2)

During the 1st Round of the Public Test, we have noticed an increased amount of game crashes. We suspect that the root of the issue might be connected to the special camouflages that ships receive when selecting the Last Voyage of Transylvania, so we might have to disable these camouflages at some point during the 2nd round of the Public Test.

Captains, thank you for participating in the first round of the Public Test for Update 12.9! Your feedback helps us to improve the version and fix errors. Check out the changelog and join the second session of the Public Test!

• Fixed several textures in the Kure Port.
  
• Made various improvements to Last Voyage of Transylvania, including changes to bot itineraries, ship type modifiers, spawns of some ships and their HP.
  
• Fixed an issue that caused sounds from Last Voyage of Transylvania to play in other game types.
  
• Fixed an issue when submarines exceeded their maximum speed while switching between periscope and submerged states in Last Voyage of Transylvania.
  
• Fixed textures of the camouflage that ships received in Last Voyage of Transylvania.
  
• Fixed several other minor issues.

Update 12.9 delivers a new Halloween Operation and the Salvage for Victory event in the Armory, as well as a specially decorated Kure Port and new iteration of Personal Challenges as a part of Early Access to the new Japanese Battleship line.

Take a look at the Developer Bulletin, and welcome to the Test!

Progress through combat missions on the Public Test Server to earn Community Tokens. These Tokens can be exchanged for various rewards in the Armory, including rare permanent camouflages, containers, and other in-game items.

The rewards for activities on the Public Test Server may differ from those on the Live Server.

Please note: The Battle Pass rewards on the Public Test Server differ from the rewards on the 12.9 Live Server.

A one-time reward is given for the first time you log in to each of the 12.9 Public Test sessions: 100 Doubloons and 750 Coal.

In Public Test 12.9, players will also have access to special combat missions with rewards on the live server.

Earn 12,000 Base XP in Random and/or Co-op Battles, as well as in Operations.

Live Server reward: 1,600 Community Tokens.

Earn 1,000 Base XP in Random and/or Co-op Battles, as well as in Operations.

Live Server reward: 1,000 Coal; 2,500 Free XP; 200 Community Tokens; and 500,000 Credits.

This combat mission will only be available on the second and third days of each round of the Public Test.

Deal damage, earn Base XP, and earn "Destroyed" ribbons.

• Can be completed in Random and/or Co-op Battles, as well as in Operations.
  
• Will be available to complete throughout the entire Public Test of Update 12.9.

Live Server reward: 3x Tactical Special container and 1x Supercontainer.

Win battles, earn Base XP, deal damage and get "Destroyed" ribbons.

• Can be completed in Random Battles and/or Operations.
  
• Available for completion three times per day at the following times: 11:00–15:00 UTC; 17:00–21:00 UTC; and 22:00–02:00 UTC.

Live Server reward: 5,000 Free XP; 700 Coal; 800,000 Credits; and 10,000 Elite XP.

Combat mission details will be available in the Public Test client.

Players who log in to the Public Test Server for the first time will also receive a one-time reward per account: 250 Doubloons, 2x More Coal containers, and 1x Tactical Special container.

In total during Public Test 12.9, you can obtain up to 8,500 Community Tokens; 25,100 Coal; 4x Tactical Special containers; 2x More Coal containers; 1x Supercontainer; 14x Pioneer camouflages; 150,000 Free XP; 24,400,000 Credits; 280,000 Elite Commander XP; and 450 Doubloons.

• The research prices for ships and ship modules will be substantially discounted.
  
• Ability to redistribute Commander skills for free.

If you are logging into the Public Test server for the first time since Update 12.8, you will additionally receive the following bonuses:

• All researchable Tier VI and VIII ships with 21-skill-point Commanders.
  
• 500,000,000 Credits; 30,000 Doubloons; 250,000 Coal; and 90 days of Warships Premium Account.
  
• Sets with expendable economic bonuses and 50 signal flags.

If you've fought at least one battle on the Public Test Server in Update 12.8, your account will be copied from the Live Server to the Public Test Server.

Tom here, your Community Manager for Headbangers: Rhythm Royale! Today I have exciting news to announce in Coo-munity Flock 7, but before we get into that we'd like to explain two features of Headbangers.

As we announced last month, Headbangers will contain an all-free battle pass system. Work your way through our battle pass to unlock new outfits, neck noises, taunts and more!


Alongside this, there’s a shop where you can spend your hard-earned breadcrumbs to unlock certain cosmetics. You unlock crumbs at the end of each Headbangers game, and you gain more crumbs based on how far you progress through our rhythm minigames. There’s no way to purchase crumbs- they’re only obtained by playing rounds of Headbangers!


So, we have the shop and our battle-pass, however there’s a third way you can unlock cosmetics- with our Season 1 DLC, a paid cosmetics pack for Headbangers! Before we breakdown all the cosmetics in DLC 1, we’d like to say that our paid DLCs are entirely optional and cosmetic-only! Headbangers DLCs are separate from our battle pass and breadcrumbs in-game currency.

For each DLC Pack, you will unlock 4 full costumes, 4 garments, 1 taunt, 5 taunt voices and 1 neck sound. DLC 1 will cost 3.79. Here’s a look at all the cosmetics in DLC 1:

Starting with the 4 full costumes (from left to right), we have The Croner Pigeon, The Classical Pigeon, The Electro Pigeon and finally, The Glam Rock Pigeon.

The 4 garments in the 'Flock and Roll' DLC are The Hippie Haircut, the Grunge Haircut, The Liverpool Glasses and The Guitar Necklace!


Alongside the 4 full costumes and 4 garments in DLC 1, 'Flock and Roll' also includes 1 taunt, 5 taunt voices and 1 neck sound.

It’s been an im-peck-able day and now we want to introduce you to the Pigeon Pass. With the Pigeon Pass, you unlock the first three seasons of paid DLC content for Headbangers: Rhythm Royale. This means you’ll get all the cosmetics seen today, plus paid content for our second and third DLCs! The Pigeon Pass is again paid cosmetics only and costs £11.99, a cheaper price than buying all three DLCs separately.

In case you missed it, Headbangers: Rhythm Royale is now available to Pre-order!

Savvy pigeons that pre-order Headbangers Rhythm Royale will snag a pre order exclusive sombrero to add to their wardrobe of customisable items, with a deluxe edition also available, containing the base game plus the Pigeon Pass that grants players access to three unique DLC packs. The first DLC pack available, ‘Flock & Roll’, features four full costumes, four garments, a taunt and five taunt voices, and one neck sound, with content for the two remaining DLC packs being available before April 2024.


The standard version of Headbangers Rhythm Royale is available for £19.99/$19.99/€19.99, with the Deluxe Edition being available for £29.99/$29.99/€29.99.

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A new regular update [0.8.0.1058 (b12311299)] is now live with the following changes:

Added

• Character portrait customization
  
• Social Conflict allows movement while being engaged in debate
  
• Two armies can be merged or exchange units with
  
• Notification shows nearby armies that can be paired
  
• More female portrait pieces
  
• Ending the game is now possible with two different outcomes for now:
  
• Lose in 50 years if not in Viceroy rank
  
• Win if you reach Viceroy rank
  
• Winning and losing the game end screens
  
• Tutorial event that launches Social Conflict
  
• New Tradition: Bread and Circus
  
• New Tradition: Light Mathemagic
  
• Cooldown indication for units' Abilities in Conflict
  
• Conflict Resolution Ability Icons
  
• Losing army retreats and shows white flag
  
• Winning army stays still for a while before it can pursue losing army
  
• 5 ‘Mood category’ events
  
• Virtuous traits now give skill changes
  
• New Companions and one Military unit
  
• New hairstyles and clothing

Updated

• Major game balance changes:
  
• Units and Companions have a new unlock location—more spread out to different Professions and to different Profession levels
  
• Resource production amounts changed
  
• Some buildings that increase production make the refinement ratio worse
  
• Some buildings make the refinement ratio better
  
• Raw material refinement ratios have changed, leading to higher consumption
  
• Worker amounts from building upgrades
  
• Fiefdom maximum size from building upgrades
  
• Profession unlocks come earlier from lower level buildings than before
  
• Armies can target other armies
  
• Other caravans visible when own army is selected
  
• Army action cursors changed
  
• Social Conflict Tutorial
  
• Movement indication in Conflict Resolution when clicked or dragged
  
• Armies dismiss at fiefdom and not instantly
  
• Artificer is changed to a level IV companion. Modiste to Level III
  
• Bread and Circus tradition checkbox to enable & disable its effect in Fiefdom View
  
• Conflict Special Abilities icons and text
  
• Conflict Unit and Companion cards
  
• Pregnancy set as its own event category
  
• Family members rebalanced in conflict resolutions. Skills have diminishing returns from 10 to 20 and more from 20 onwards.
  
• UI scaling works in Coat of Arms creation screen 
  
• Army tooltip layout
  
• Few events were missing outcome texts
  
• AI Plans stop in a better way inside host plans
  
• AI Upgrade Building Plan no longer checks happiness requirements when moving workers
  
• AI Upgrade Walls Plan no longer checks happiness requirements when moving population
  
• AI Fiefdom Growth Plan can no longer aim for population growth. Building upgrades are emphasized
  
• AI Plan Optimize Workers can now also start 'Aim for population growth' plan
  
• AI Fix Shrinking Population Plan now correctly removes the bad overseer
  
• AI Optimise Workers Plan has Assign Overseer action if AI has idle characters at home
  
• AI's Plan for War is renounced if AI hasn't declared war in 5 years

Fixed

• Tutorial step unresponsive
  
• Wards will no longer change to their assigned characters' caravan
  
• Conflict Victory screen shows defeat on winning side of the screen
  
• Problem with trade duration if you place too much resource in the balance
  
• Profligate (Bribe) action preview effect stays sometimes on screen after action done
  
• Map interactable in some map modes with Escape window open
  
• Ally armies ignore enemy armies
  
• A lesson in Negotiation event needs equal feudal level target
  
• Military conflict winner was not always correct
  
• Travelling Salesman event missing one outcome text
  
• AI Condition on Overseer Happiness changed
  
• Champion of Virtues now correctly gives Virtuous traits
  
• "New Tradition" screen shows correct tradition icon
  
• Many events didn’t launch

Known Issues

• UI scaling might cause some buttons to go outside the screen on some resolutions. To fix this, reduce the UI scaling percentage in Video Settings.
  
• Character customization images might fail to load occasionally. The UI still works and reopening the menu sometimes fixes the issue.
  
• Building upgrade ‘Cementation Process’ increases crop consumption instead of metal ore consumption
  
• Slow Production spy mission is missing description
  
• Tutorial points to a button that doesn’t exist
  
• Army doesn’t stop at intersections
  
• You can select to (re)play Tutorial by pressing RMB on Tutorial button
  
• House member can be stuck in delegation for months at a targeted fiefdom

- Great Houses of Calderia Team -

As announced earlier this week, the Icarus build is available for opt-in. So far, there have been no reports of serious issues and at least a few players have reached the end. This is good news for my goal of promoting Icarus to the default build in a little over a week.

I'm trying an experiment regarding weekly updates:

I have been posting these updates just as topics in the discussion forum. Some players have suggested I post them as news items. Based on wording in Valve's Steamworks documentation I had (incorrectly) believed that there wasn't a way to post small weekly updates that weren't tied to a build. Apparently I can do that, I just need to manually set the visibility of announcements to appropriate values. Let me know if you think this is better and has the appropriate visibility.

Also, I thought I'd introduce a topic for players to discuss:

One of the things that delight players is when they do something unexpected or contrary to what they are expected to do, and the game acknowledges the action in some small way. Implementing these is work that most players will never see, but I think the value that it gives the players who do experiment with something weird is sometimes worth it.

So for players of Starcom: Unknown Space, is there anything you tried to see what would happen? I'm specifically looking for things that the game doesn't current react to. If your experiment related to some narrative important content, please use spoiler tags.

Until next week!