Hi everyone. Welcome to our May community blog, designed to give you a glimpse into what’s going on behind the scenes at ION LANDS and 505 Games. Today, we’ll be addressing a selection of community questions that have come through, as well as showcasing a few new screens from Nivalis. Let’s get going!


Today, we’re treating you to some work in progress meals you can enjoy in Nivalis. Got a favorite? Let us know in the comments. We’d love to hear your thoughts.




Speaking of work in progress content, if you’re new around here, you may have missed our behind the scenes deep dive into the audio design for Nivalis.

Last year, as part of Save & Sound 2023, our composer Harry Critchley spoke about his work on Nivalis. Take a look if you haven’t already:




Reminder! Got any questions for the team? Leave them here in the comments or message us across any of our social channels and we’ll do our best to cover as many as we can in our next blog. For now though, let’s go through some of the questions we received last month.

How many apartments/houses will be available for rent? Will we be able to customize our home as we wish in a flexible manner?
In Nivalis you will be able to rent out more than ten apartments and you can decorate them all as you like. One of your apartments can have a classic touch, the other one can be more futuristic. It’s completely up to you how you want to design your home.

Any chance Nivalis will be playable on Steam Deck?
We are fully aware of the popularity of the Steam Deck and our aim is to make Nivalis playable on it. However, we cannot fully confirm it yet, but we are very optimistic that this should be possible.

Will we see changeable weather in Nivalis?
Yes, the weather will change in Nivalis. There will be sunny days, but also cloudy and rainy days. For the latter ones, we don’t recommend going out on the sea and rather stay in the city.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1488490/Nivalis/

On May 31, "Jiang Hu Wen Qing" was officially released

Celebrate this day, add customer service, complete the task, and you can receive a gift package code containing 10,000 game vouchers

Customer service QQ: 212860270 (Note: Jiang Hu Wen Qing)

Welcome, Commanders, to our next major update! Over the past few months, our team has been thinking: how can we improve your connection to your favorite mercenaries? That's when we came up with a new relationship system. Let's see what it is and what else has been added in this update:
We know you love DMing with our girls. But what if you could meet them, talk to them, flirt with them, share an ice cream cone, or soak in a hot tub with them? Introductions: Relationships.

• Some girls have a special Relationship meter and level. You can increase this meter by sending the right DM replies or by giving them special items.
  
• As a girl's relationship meter fills up, your relationship level with her increases. Each new level unlocks new bios, dates, and outfits (skins).
  
• Dates are a new type of reward that allows you to take your girls out on a date. It involves different storylines, interactive dialog and some very… intimate situations.
  
• Bio shows you more details about your favorite girls. Learn their nicknames, star signs, personality types, life facts, and more.
  
• Outfits are mercenary skins — and by reaching relationship level 20, you can unlock exclusive outfits for your favorite girls.
  
• The path to relationship level 20 is quite long. Love takes time to develop! But you can speed it up by giving gifts. Gifts come in all rarities, and certain girls have preferences for what they like and what they love. Gifts can be obtained from PvP chests, daily/weekly quests, and from special shops.
  
• With the release of this feature, two girls become dateable: Kitty and Regina. More will become datable with new events — including Mitsuki!

In addition to this new system, we've made other improvements to the game.

• Updated UI for Love Chats. Now there's more focus on the conversation and your conversation partner. Also, the gallery button has been moved to a more prominent location.
  
• Each mercenary already has two outfits: regular and… enhanced. You can now choose between them if you prefer your mercenaries to look less revealing. This does not apply to commanders. Not yet.
  
• Free daily, weekly, and monthly deals are no longer available. This has been the case for new players for some time already, but is now rolled out to everyone.
  
• However, free rewards for contests on our Discord are now available! Join our server and keep an eye on the #community-events channel.
  
• Fixed a bug that would show you didn't have enough space for PvP crates when you had empty slots.
  
• Fixed a number of other minor localization, animation, graphics and UI issues.

New features:
- The host can now be not only a human, but also an AI (recommended for 2-3 people)
- The Steam connection status is now displayed in the main menu
- A rewind button during gameplay has been added to the main screen

Fixes:
- Numerous adjustments aimed at stabilizing the game. Unexpected behaviors and errors should be significantly reduced
- Fixed the error with selecting the player with the lowest score (sometimes the host was selected)
- Adjusted the placement of timers so they do not obstruct the player or their answer

• Rare cards drawn during gameplay are not marked with an asterisk.
  
• Significantly increased the hate gain coefficient for the Knight class.
  
• Fixed some items that had no attributes.
  
• Corrected some typographical errors in the text.
  
• Celestial Crystals are now available for sale in every city.
  
• Fixed the issue with black borders in the shop display at 16:10 aspect ratio.

Hi,
Calling all puzzle lovers!

Thanks for checking out Dot Piece Puzzle!
And we're so happy that many player have been enjoying our game!

To show our appreciation, we're having a limited-time sale.
During the sale period, you can get Dot Piece Puzzle for 20% off the regular price.


Dot Piece Puzzle is a simple puzzle game where you fit scattered dot pieces together by referring to a sample dot art.
There are 59 different dot patterns in total.
You'll start with easy puzzles and unlock more difficult patterns as you go, with 290+ different ways to play.

Challenge yourself with difficult puzzles in the high difficulty mode "Kurayami(it means Darkness)" where the sample dot art is not displayed.

Dot Piece Puzzle is a casual game to a game that can be enjoyed by puzzle enthusiasts.
We hope you'll enjoy playing it in many different ways.

◆アプリの安定化や不具合の修正

Hello! It is StickyStone Studios.
We want to share bits of what we were working on after the Prologue release!

One of the feedback we have received a lot was unconventional projectile colors. Some even said that the bullet colors of char and enemies were swapped, making it difficult to get used to the game at first.
During our deep dive into the topic, we found out that there are 300 million color-blind people in the world, with every 1 out of 12 men having it to a certain extent.


98% of color blindness is in red-green zone, meaning 1/12 players could not play Anger char in the Pride Region. So we fixed this:









For the Sorrow region, The Silent Ruins, we have chosen an urban design. As the main topic of the lore is about humans leaving robots behind, this whole region is about the reminiscence of the once most populated places mech's creators used to live in.

Currently, we are working on making environments more visually readable and harmonic. As well as filling it with more content.

Mechs in the Sorrow Region are more technologically advanced and are much more disciplined, making them more fierce than any foe you have met before.

Chargers - shine red before ramming you

Enemy Projection - weakened holograms

Icy Demolisher - Freeze arrow across the map

If you consider joining, submit your request here. If someone decides not to participate, we will call you : )
https://forms.gle/6HjBZn3fWpva4JdT7

Join our Discord
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1956770/MOODS

- StickyStone Studios

After 11 years of development, Muchacho Bean is finally out!!
Be a Muchacho and join us on this adventure on our official Discord server:

https://discord.com/invite/HvxwKUetkT

We are here to announce the Fair Play Violations list (4/23/2024 - 05/30/2024) based on your feedback and verification by our official technicians. We have issued all the penalties to the following players.




We will keep working on the frontier of the anti-cheat war. And we will continue to force a zero-tolerance policy against all kinds of cheats/hacks, and bug exploitations.

We hope everyone can abide by the Fair Play Agreements and help us keep a clean environment for everyone in the world of Myth of Empires.

Please do not hesitate to contact us or report anything suspicious in-game via the game support link:
https://ordersystem.mythofempires.com/?lang=EN-US