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Prepare for the Ultimate Strategy Experience!
Our team has worked relentlessly to bring you the best version of Shields of Loyalty. Here's what's coming with the long-awaited 1.0 release – straight from our dev team's workspace:

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• Massive Performance Improvements – Faster AI, smoother animations, and snappier gameplay across the board.

• Simultaneous Combat Resolution – Damage effects, spell visuals, and support actions now play out in parallel for faster, smoother battles.

• AI Turn Optimisation – AI decisions (movement, spells, and abilities) now execute with less delay and more efficiency.

• Camera Movement Tweaks – Enhanced camera flow and zoom during battles.

• Faster Spell Effects – Weather, lightning, and special abilities now trigger more quickly and cinematically.

• Multi-unit Move System – Control up to 3 units simultaneously to speed up your army’s advance!

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• Full AI Rework – Smarter decisions, better positioning, and strategic use of spells and abilities.

• Cinematic Spell Effects – Camera shakes, flashes, and new visual cues for healing, buffs, debuffs, and elemental magic.

• Zone of Control (ZOC) – Adds tactical weight to unit positioning (coming post-launch if not ready at 1.0).

• Movement Cost Display – Clearly see movement costs per tile to optimise your pathing.

• Improved Pathfinding – Navigate around enemies, fire, storms and blocked paths with ease.

• Stack-aware Combat Logic – AI avoids overcommitting to heavily protected or weak target units.

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• Final Level Unlocked – Discover the climactic battle with epic terrain combining Darkwoods and Lava Desert tiles.

• New Maps Added – Several new battle maps included for campaign and custom games.

• Special Victory Conditions Update – Victory only triggers when you end your turn after objectives are met, so you can loot freely!

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• Void Faction Auras – Malphas, The Goat King, Succubus, Spider Queen, The Void (each with unique passive effects).

• Knight Faction Auras – New aura abilities for Aglovan and other Knight heroes.

• Warlord & High Priest Auras – Unique faction-specific buffs to enhance tactical depth.

• Mummy’s Curse Reworked – Balance adjustments for this fearsome spell.

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• Missing Spells Defined & Implemented – All T3 and faction spells are now complete and in-game.

• AI Spellcasting Behaviour – Magic-wielding enemy units now behave strategically, using spells according to situation and trigger logic.

• Spell Descriptions Finalised – Localisation and visual effects defined per spell type.

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• Updated Tutorial Texts – Reflecting the latest UI and gameplay changes.

• Upgrade Indicators for Units – Easily see which units are ready to be promoted.

• Attack Animation Revamp – Clean, focused, with the death blow and death animation aligned visually.

• New City/Castle/Ruin UI Graphics – Fresh designs for a more immersive experience.

• Hover Tooltips for Artefact Menu – Clearer indication when artefact management becomes available.

• Critical Hit Banner – Now displayed clearly in combat like other special effects.

• Dual Unit Display – Toggle between airborne and ground units when occupying the same tile.

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• Loot Buff – Cities and ruins now offer 1.5x increased rewards. More reason to explore!

• Mercenaries Added – Hire unique units in cities, tents, and mines. Stack size 1, temporary until mission ends.

• Event Sequences Reworked – More cinematic with camera pans, character dialogue, animations and return focus.

• Event Units Placeable via Editor – Enables richer scenarios with wounded units, narrative triggers and more.

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• Multiple Resolution Support – Full compatibility with:
  1920x1200, 1680x1050, 1440x900, 1280x800

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• Looted Ruins Are Marked – No more rechecking ruins! Icons now mark explored locations.

• Editable Unit Names – Customise your army even further.

• Victory/Defeat Animations – New ending animations to celebrate your glorious conquests (or noble sacrifices).

• Final Intro Dialogues per Avatar – New character-based opening stories tailored to your chosen hero.

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• Steam Workshop Support – Share and download custom maps.

• Zone of Control Finalisation – Tactical layer still under discussion.

• Modifiers Rework – Unified logic for Auras, Artefacts and Abilities.

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With all of these major updates, we are confident Shields of Loyalty 1.0 will deliver the strategic experience you’ve been waiting for. Thank you for your trust, your feedback, and your continued support through Early Access.

🗡️ Prepare your armies, ready your spells – the time of loyalty is upon us!
The Shields of Loyalty Team


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The summer of slaughter has begun.

Legacy: Steel & Sorcery is 50% off for the Steam Summer Sale until July 10, including both Supporter Editions.
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Now’s the perfect time to jump in. Since its launch, we’ve been continually updating the game with major updates, balance changes, and new tools to enhance the chaos. If you’ve been waiting, don’t.

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The latest patch dropped this week, and it’s packing serious heat. Or cold, rather.

The Frost Orb is now live for Wizards, offering high burst and powerful crowd control. It trades blocking for mobility and shuts down melee with style. Alongside it:

• Reworked Frostbite affliction, it now roots, slows, and bonus frost damage
• Added in-game text chat with multiple channels
• Lighting improvements to Greenwood and Crypt
• Balance and functionality changes for every class
• Dozens of bug fixes, new bandages and potions, better crafting flow

https://steamcommunity.com/games/2344320/announcements/detail/512962085601149096

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Meet the Devs #20 is up. Andrei goes into the next few updates, touches on Frost Orb, and lays out what’s coming down the pipe.

▶️ Watch the VOD

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Thanks to everyone who submitted. Applications are closed, and we’re going through them now. We’ll announce the new moderators next week.

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Once again, thank you for all the feedback and bug reports. We're building the game with you and can't wait to share more soon™!

Hello Founders!

As mentioned in an earlier post this week we are moving the game into the Early Access stage! With that move comes a pretty substantial update to the game as well! We have added a lot of new content and even a new game mode! For more details on these things please read below:

1. Third Map: We have added a third map to the game! The new map is set in a city that has recently been hit by an apocalyptic event, causing you and the enemy cults to fight for control of the abandoned and empty city.

   • This map is different not only visually than the other two but also features an infinitely long but narrow road

   • This adds a new challenge for players that will require them to change how they play

2. Cult Families by Map: We have made it so maps now only spawn certain families.

   • Each map now has two cult families assigned to it to pull enemies from

   • For bosses, the first two bosses only will spawn from the assigned families, but the final two bosses will be randomly chosen from all the other cult families

   • For the final boss, since we only have one currently, it will always spawn that one but once we implement more then this will be based on the map and families as well

3. New boss: We have added a new boss for the chronically online family! For the longest time it only had one boss so this one has been planned for quite some time. It has many unique mechanics that are completely new so we hope you have fun.

4. New game mode: We have added a 10 minute game mode!

   • This is a faster paced game mode that is more challenging to complete as enemies and bosses are spawning in more quicker

   • This mode is an alternative to the 20 minute game mode for when you want to play a quicker game and are on a time limit!

Some Minor Changes:

• We have improved performance slightly for late game! We will continue to try to improve performance further in upcoming updates.

• Fixed a game crashing bug when using lightning magic and taking the Arcane Mastery boss passive.

• Some other minor fixes as well.

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Hello! We are here with another set of improvements!

• Added data to save files
  
• Moved Gameplay Settings (Pirate toggle, asteroid speed toggle, manufacturing speed toggle) to only be present in pause menu.
  
• Pirate on/off toggle is now max pirate level setting so players can play whole game with pirates remaining at X level or completely turned off.
  
• Gameplay settings are now linked to the save file so each slot can have different pirate / asteroid / manufacturing values
  
• Extended Knowledge Base
  
• Added Employee Profile to Knowledge Base
  
• Added Resources List to Knowledge Base
  
• Added Resource Details to Knowledge Base
  
• Crusher now integrated with transit system. This means the crusher will no longer stop functioning if it happens to block the path to the shuttle when placed and will work in other scenarios
  independently.
  
• Asteroids now travel in both north and south direction
  
• Crusher no longer taking liquid resources
  
• Visual optimizations improving performance focused on shadow casting, improving batching and
  reducing triangle counts to optimize and speed up gameplay.
  
• Improvements to asteroid cloud shader to improve performance.
  
• Improvements to Gem Resource shader to improve performance.
  
• Fixed asteroid tags showing through Information Panel on Map Screen
  
• Reduced volume of extracted liquids for very large pools

As always Cube Corp wishes you a prosperous day!
-hube

Greetings Revolutionners,

We have an important update to share: the Mineral update will be delayed. We know this isn’t the news you were hoping for.

Our team has been working hard to deliver it on time, but we need a bit more time to ensure it meets the quality standards you deserve.

Since this is the second delay, we’ve decided not to set a new ETA for now. Instead, we’ll release the update once it’s fully ready, and it may even drop without a prior announcement.

Thank you for your patience and continued support.

The Revolution Team

Yesterday marked our Early Access launch, and it’s been a painful start. We’ve spent the last 24 hours reading every piece of your feedback, and we recognize we’ve fallen short of your expectations.

We hear you and we are taking your feedback seriously. Sorry for letting you down!

All 9 of us are pouring our hearts into making this game something you'll absolutely adore. We know it's not there yet, but we're committed to getting it there.

What we’re working on:

1. Play as Duo: This is our TOP priority! Duo's have not been easy to implement but we are motivated to figure it out and are working on getting this in the game ASAP!

2. Server Connectivity: We’re working to fix bug reports and connection issues mentioned in your feedback. 

3. Improvements: We’ll squeeze in as many bug fixes and  quality of life changes as possible in the next update.

Thank you for the feedback and for your patience.

~ Vela Team

Hello everyone,

I am happy to say that after months and months of work, High Above is getting ready to be played by you. But before I release the demo to the public, I thought that it might be a good idea to run a private playtest where I can test the upcoming demo with a smaller number of people. I want them to play it, poke it, see if the game plays well, makes sense, and most importantly, is fun!

Since you are one of the first people who followed High Above, it would be an absolute pleasure and honour to have you play the game first. To join the download queue and play the High Above playtest as soon as it’s available, just click the "Request Access" button on the game’s main Steam page.

The playtest will feature the Mediterranean-inspired rooftop theme. Just think of chilling out in Italian villages and small towns on a summer’s day.



If you play the closed playtest demo, it would be fantastic if you could share your feedback with me, either through the in-game survey or on our official Discord. And of course, share your creations on our Discord too! Can’t wait to see the rooftop retreats you’ll make.

So hit that Request Access button, download High Above when you get a notification from Steam, join our Discord, and share your thoughts and creations! Can’t wait to see what you will all build!


Until next time,

Alex


https://store.steampowered.com/app/3535760/High_Above/

Today, we're pushing a tiny update for Trombone Champ, which updates it to 1.26G!

Mod compatibility with 1.26G
This is a very small update, so we don't expect it to break anything that wasn't broken in 1.26F. But, if you rely on mods that are broken by this update, you can load the previous version of the game by right-clicking the game in Steam, going to Properties, choosing Betas, and then choosing the "last_update" beta branch. But please hop on the newest version as soon as you can!

Fixes:

• Fixed issue where "The Trombone Champ Collection" tooltip would appear in the Track Select screen when starting a new game and forced to play "Warm-Up."
  
• Added some additional code to the Steam Workshop uploader that should attempt to auto-delete a Workshop item if the upload fails. Previously, failed uploads could result in a blank item being added to the Workshop.
  
• Added a tiny arrow to the Collections button in Track Select to make it appear more clickable.
  
• Fixed metadata for "Taps" to display the correct song length.

Look forward to more updates soon!



Holy Wow Studios

We've just pushed a new build that should fix a variety of bugs (particularly related to the garden, though there were several achievement and combat related issues addressed as well).

Were you personally inconvenienced by these bugs, or any other? Are you owed repentance? Simply tell the password-doorman GIVEMESPORES in order to receive an apology. Much simpler than most things in life, no?