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Official Game News
New Glory Season & Achievements Update! (Update v.0.9.1.2 – Steam Patch 208)
16 Jan @ 5:47am - BartoldGV
Hello wariors!
Let us welcome you to the new Glory season! The top players of the just ended season have earned their rewards and titles, so time to compete against the others and fight your way to the top of the ladder!
A little explanation for the new players: Glory is a season-based ranking which rewards you for activity in the faction v faction v faction PVP. The seasons last about 2 months and the top players are rewarded with unique titles and gold. Also, every Thursday night you’ll get Contribution Points – an in-game currency used to purchase special items from the Glory Quartermasters. The amount of earned CP depends on your position in the leaderboard, so climb up!
As always, the update also includes a lot of quality of life improvements and fixes to reported bugs. Check them on your own!
See you in battle!
Mounts Progress:
We’re making steady progress with implementation of the mounts system. We’re heavily iterating on the mounted combat, since its core has already been implemented, to provide you the best possible experience. However, it’s a huge – most probably the largest in the entire history of Gloria Victis – and multi-layered feature, requiring many additional mechanics. We’d like to give you an insight on one of them: the mounts progression!
We feel that the implementation of mounts will be a perfect moment to expand the progression-related content. For this reason, we’re going to give you more freedom and let you become a tamer! Each player will be able to own a number of different mounts at a given time, although only one will be available at the given time, until a player visits the stables to select another mount as the active one.
It will be important to select the right mount depending on a situation, as you will be able to train them within a variety of builds. Your mounts will be described by a set of statistics – it means that you will be able to train a mount into various builds suitable for specific scenarios: open-field combat, scouting and chasing or simply a way to travel – all within the potential of your current mount. But to let this happen, a mount will have to earn experience – not only for combat but also for riding. Since this mechanic will allow the tamers to search for many mount’s builds and make a living on trading the well-trained horses, it will also add the end-game progression after reaching level 100!
Also, it will have a great positive impact on the game’s player-driven economy. We’re going to create a dedicated market for mounts, which will be accessed from the stables, so skilled tamers and mounts vendors will have a chance to get famous and rich doing their trade.
We’re excited to see the mounts system coming closer and closer to the final shape!
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Changelog v.0.9.1.2
Rankings & Achievements:
As it was announced several times, yesterday was the last day of the previous Glory season – a day where gaining Nation Points is not possible and the scoreboards of other season-based rankings (Glory and Arena) are frozen, except for the Guild ranking as players donate their NP to the guilds on this last day, helping their guild climb up the rank table. For this reason, as in the beginning of the former season, by the start of each new season each player’s Nation Points are wiped, giving each guild equal chances to win the new season and encouraging guild members to donate NP to their guilds.
Moreover, we’ve updated the mechanics of titles earned in the rankings. The titles for performance in Arena and Weekly rankings are being disabled after the following season’s end, which increases their value but we felt that the player’s progression should be more permanent.
For this reason, the titles earned for the player’s performance in these ranking will now also be additionally rewarded with achievements counting the number of times the player earned a given title, including the already earned ones!
Moreover, the same system has been applied to the titles for position in the Glory ranking. The exception is the God of War/Goddess of War title – besides of an achievement, a player will also earn a permanent title (Primaeval God of War/Primaeval Goddess of War), as well as the God of War's Hood skin, so earning the top place in the Glory ranking in the past will be additionally rewarded. Moreover, the skin has been finally added to every player who has ever earned this title in the past but hasn’t received the skin yet due to the bug.
Thanks to these changes, you will be able to track your achievements more precisely and their value will increase, as now they will be counting how many times you’ve earned a given title. Good luck on your way to glory!
New achievements:
– Performance in the Glory ranking:
- God/Goddess of War – Make 1st place in the Glory rank table at the end of the previous season
- Warlord/Warlady – Make the 2nd place in the Glory rank table at the end of the previous season
- Champion – Reach the 3% of top players in the Glory rank table at the end of the previous season
- Veteran – Reach the 7% of top players in the Glory rank table at the end of the previous season
- Pretender – Reach the 15% of top players in the Glory rank table at the end of the previous season
- Gladiator – Reach the 35% of top players in the Glory rank table at the end of the previous season
- Highest Glory level – the highest Glory level ever earned by a given character
- Arena Master – Take 1st place in the Arena rank table
- Duel Master – Take 2nd place in the Arena rank table
- Duel Veteran – Take 3rd place in the Arena rank table
- Duelist – Reach the top 10% of players in the Arena rank table
- Highest Arena level – the highest Arena level ever earned by a given character
- Earn max level
- Earn max level in any craft
- Earn max level in all crafts
- Number of crafted top-tier items
- Number of items reinforced to +7
- ”Valley of Death” tournament victories
- Number of the nation’s MVP earned in the ”Valley of Death” tournament
- State of War victories
- Number of looted enemy players
- Number of revived players
Gold for positions in the rankings:
Since Glory has recently become a nation-based ranking, we had to adjust the rewards to prevent over-inflating the market with gold. However, we didn't want to reduce the values of individual rewards too much. For this reason, we decided to change the number of players of rewarded with gold – from now on, its given to the top 30 players of each nation (the previous limit was top 100 players, but it counted players of all nations from a given server. Moreover, rewards for the top 3 positions in the Arena ranking have been increased to equalize them with the values for Glory.
Current rewards in gold:
- 1st place – 50 gold
- 2nd place – 20 gold
- 3rd place – 15 gold
- Top 10 – 4 gold
- Top 20 – 2 gold
- Top 30 – 1 gold
– Updated the automatic State of War triggering (tokens placed by guilds Brandon, Ragi and Sirius) mechanic to prevent an edge-case when the Open SoW would start on Sunday instead of Saturday
– Optimization improvement related to calculating the current modifiers coming from equipped armor
– Updated the NPCs aggro mechanics
– Several Improvements to the recently updated starting Midlandic questline
– Improved the text formatting in the effects’ tooltips
– Improved scaling various tooltips in the game to the text
– Several minor improvements to the tooltips' interface
– Improved the date formatting in Notifications Center
Fixes:
– Fixed a bug causing that vice-leaders of guilds didn’t earn Guild Points for controlled guild castles
– Fixed an edge-case bug preventing Midland players from taking reward for the starting questline
– Fixed a bug causing that some Midland players couldn’t start the quests at Dunfen Farm and O’Nar’s Farm after completing the starting questline
– Fixed an edge-case bug preventing players from purchasing goods from the Glory vendors despite having enough Contribution Points
– Fixed a bug causing that the NPC guards of the spawn chambers/platforms in main buildings of player-controlled castles aggroed on enemy players from far distance, despite not being able to reach them
– Fixed replacing the enemy chat messages with words from the lore-based languages – it’s now case-sensitive
Official Game News
Midlanders’ quests updated! (Update v.0.9.1.1 – Steam Patch 207)
9 Jan @ 9:16am - BartoldGV
Hello warriors!
This weekly update introduces a massive improvement to the starting quests of Midlanders nation. An epic story of war and vengeance, taking place in new breathtaking locations, awaits you! The changes done to these quests are a part of the planned updates which will introduce a group of new quests – read below for details!
Moreover, we’d like to give you the date of the new Glory season’s start! The current season will end on Thursday, Jan. 16th. We’re finishing the work on many improvements to the rankings system, including the rewards and their UX and other aspects related to the seasons themselves. For this reason, the end of the current season had to be postponed a bit so we can finish the implementation of all the planned improvements – but we're on the final straight!
See you in battle!
Changelog v.0.9.1.1
Quests:
We’re following the plan of adding new questlines for Midlanders and Ismirs so they will have as much available quests as Sangmarian players do now. For this reason, we had to update the existing starting Midlanders’ questline to make space for new quests in their starting areas, the same way as the Sangmarian quests have been implemented and as we did for Ismirs recently.
Moreover, we took the opportunity to improve the overall flow of this questline. Since only a few mechanics were available when this questline was originally implemented, we now added much more variety to it. We also updated the locations these quests take place at. Since it was a complete overhaul, we had to reset the progress of these quests for all players who have started but not completed them, to avoid potential technical issues.
However, we believe that these quests will be much more enjoyable now, so these players can get the best possible experience when playing them. Now we will work on adding a brand new questline for Midlanders, and then do the same for Ismirs.
– Updated the Midlandic starting questline (“The first day on duty”) and its locations
– Wiped the progress of the Midlandic starting quests for the players who have started but not completed them, to avoid potential technical issues
– Updated the position of Great Hunt events in the Midland’s starting areas
Quality of Life:
– Improved and re-introduced the “One To Rule Them All” mode for Valley of Death tournament; from now on, the central flag will appear at a random time after the tournament starts, and capturing it will end the tournament before the regular time ends
– Increased the Nation Points regeneration when playing a dice game against another player
– Improved the farming system – from now on, removing weeds and watering plants shortens the growth time
– Updated the Valley of Death tournament’s interface displayed right after the tournament’s end
– Added a confirmation box when removing a player from a guild
– Improved switching between different level of details of the player-built Bloomery
– Improved the quest markers’ visibility on the minimap
– Added 15 new voice SFX sets for humanoid characters
– Added an SFX for clicking a dialog option
– Added displaying a combat tutorial notification after dying in PVP to help new players improve the combat skills
– Added a name prefix to all the recipe scrolls
– Improved the placement of the NPC enemies in the Ismirean starting areas
– Numerous minor interface improvements
– The Christmas content has been disabled
Fixes:
– Fixed a bug causing that the current main server didn’t refresh in the same session in which it was changed
– Fixed a bug causing that players could obtain Nation Points in the Valley of Death tournament which could lead to balance issues
– Fixed an edge-case bug causing that the season-based guild ranking could display only part of the data
– Fixed a bug causing that the Sangmarian players couldn’t earn 3 stars in the “Rite of the One” world event
– Fixed a bug allowing to upgrade various structures above the main building’s current upgrade level
– Fixed an edge-case issue causing that character could be damaged while unlocking the inventory/deposit slots, either when spamming the button or when playing with high ping
– Fixed a bug causing that stackable items (i.e. crafting materials and food) had the quality affix displayed
– Fixed a bug causing that destroying a decoration removed one of the existing workshops, if a player has built one
– Fixed a bug causing that some resources belonging to the player-controlled locations didn’t spawn properly at the server’s start
– Fixed an edge-case bug preventing players from taking reward for a dynamic event
– Fixed assigning rewards for the Valley of Death tournament: Glory Points and Contribution Points magnified by the score and player titles for achievements during a tournament
– Fixed a bug causing that a player standing on the rooftop of a respawn chamber in wooden keep, upgraded up to level 1-3, would not be lootable
– Fixed a bug causing that NPCs could walk through the player-built Lumbermill upgraded to level 3
– Fixed a bug causing that the nation assignment of a siege engine remained after its respawn
– Fixed a bug allowing players of different nations to control a siege engine at the same time
Official Game News
Christmas Content & Player-Built Decorations! (Update v.0.9.1 – Steam Patch 206)
19 Dec, 2019 @ 7:09am - BartoldGV
Ho ho ho, warriors!
The Christmas time has come but Santa Claus has lost all the gifts and needs your help to find them. He’s generous though, and your efforts will be paid well – you can obtain some new skins for free!
Moreover, among many other changes, this update introduces a long-awaited feature: player-built decorations! Check them on your own and have fun decorating your favorite places – including the Guild Castles!
P.S. In response to the request made by our players, placing the tokens on Guild Castles will be disabled from December 22nd to January 2nd. This way you’ll have a chance to spend this special time with your families and friends without worrying that your Guild Castle will be burned to the ground. 🙂
Merry Christmas, Happy New Year and see you in battle!
Christmas:
– Added a Christmas quest which allows you to obtain a new Christmas skin for “Stand” decoration, as well as its base version which you can build and material required to craft more decorations – the quest can be started in the capital city of each nation
– Added 4 Christmas events which allow you to obtain several precious rewards: a recipe for Christmas Gingerbread, good or top quality food and potions, several Christmas-only consumables, Decent equipment reinforcement, mid- to high-tier equipment and one of the top-tier Longswords or Master equipment reinforcement
– Added 2 Christmas skin for the just-introduced player-built decorations (read below for details): Christmas Sleigh and Christmas Training Target
Have fun with the Christmas content – ho ho ho!
Player-Built Decorations:
Always wanted to fill your guild’s castle with all the pretty things like fountains, garlands, statues, park benches and a proper Christmas tree? Now you can – with the player-built decorations!
– The decorations can be placed everywhere except for the major nation-controlled locations (castles, forts and temples), the central areas of the capital cities, world events areas or the building areas of enemy Guild Castles
– Decorations placed inside the ally Guild Castles building area will be protected from destroying by an enemy, except for the time of a launched State of War
– There are 6 categories of decorations: Furniture Large, Furniture Small, Garden, Special, Special Small and Stand
– To place a decoration, you have to own its item which can be crafted using Decorative Materials or Supporter’s Decorative Materials – the former can be purchased for Contribution Points from Glory Shop, while the latter one is available at the Supporter’s Shop
– Recipes for the decorations are available at Glory Shop
– Every character has received a bunch of free skins for all categories of the decoration
– For the optimization purposes, there’s a limit of decorations that can be placed at a given area and a limit of up to 5 decorations per character that can be placed at the same time
Time to get creative!
Valley of Death Tournament:
– Increased chances to select the recently added tournament modes compared to the chance of launching a classic VoD
– Introduced a new tournament mode: “Reinforcements”, where the losing nation gets help from the NPC soldiers once every minute
– Improvements to the tournament’s interface
– Updated the descriptions of tournament modes
– Temporarily disabled the “One To Rule Them All” because ending the tournament so quick was taken for a bug by the players – it will be restored once it’s improved
Quality of Life:
– We have learned from your feedback that getting no Nation Points as a reward for killing most of the players was pretty much frustrating. For that reason we added a system which guarantees the nation points, even if the defeated player had none, for the first kill on that player in the server session. It might seem a pretty small change but it should greatly improve the overall Quality of Life.
– Increased the number of NPC enemies using bows if they won’t be able to reach the player – it will be triggering mostly in the cases of players trying to attack them from the places they couldn’t reach. [Reminder: there are different types of NPC enemies, including those which prefer to use bows – we have increased the number of those who prefer to use melee but switch to bows only if they can’t reach the player.]
– Damage from the boiling oil no longer breaks the stuns, (it now works just like the bleeding effect regarding the stuns)
– Introduced additional tooltips and UI improvements for the crafting window
– As we received a few reports of players not seeing what hits them, while they were actually hit by an arrow, we have added a slightly different chat message while being hit by archers
– Improved detecting the diving depending on the camera angle to reduce starting diving randomly; at the same time, the player can use Spacebar to swim upwards
– Added prefixes for the names of items such as skins or decorations to make it clear to understand what those items are for.
Fixes:
– Lots of fixes on mobs/resources spawn places based on players in-game bug reports
– Fixed the issues Servant's Helm recipe
– Fixed an edge-case bug causing that players could get stuck at the spawnpoint for new players in the Midlanders capital city
– Improvements on mobs respawn times and places at Ismir Quests
– Improvements on AI shooting distance checking, previously they haven'tt been making any correction on the distance so on the longer distance they were shooting too low to hit the target
– Fixed an issue allowing to kick the main building object, while it should only be targettable via Siege Engines [fix was put live a few days ago to prevent exploiting ASAP]
– Fixed an issue which made player shooting at the full range without loading power bar if the arrow was shot without any loading at all
– Fixed an issue where “kill mobs” events/quests could be misplaced around the world not allowing players to calculate their kills and proceed the quest in some edge cases
– Temporarily turned off Valley of Death “One To Rule Them All” affix for further improvements and tests on our end
– Fixed an exploit which allowed to run around instead of following Siege Machine while using it
– Fixed an issue with a wall section in Dunfen which had different heigth on server and client, preventing players to go through a nearby tower
– Changes around the Twinfall which players reported as a potential exploit for jumping over the walls
– Fixed an issue where the players were snapped back because the server was finding some objects without collision [such as small benches] as potential colliders and pushing players back
– Fixed an issue allowing players to jump from the bench to bench without standing up
– Fixed a bug preventing players from opening the “Hearth” workshop by clicking on the static campfires
– Fixed a bug allowing the players to “eat” the “Privilege” item used to upgrade workshops in Guild Castles
Supporter Shop and Contribution Points balance changes:
As you may, or may not know our team doesn’t have and never had any budget or investor different than our very own personal money and the support of our awesome Community. After introducing Supporter Shop thanks to your help, we were able to double our team size which allowed us to improve our game much faster than previously. A great fact of our game growth is that within 2 years we have implemented more than 100 updates, and we are able to communicate with you on a daily basis. Another thing which makes us happy is that, in comparison to 2017, our average player numbers increased more than 4 times, and twice in comparison to 2018!
It is awesome and gives us the strength to work hard every single day for you!
Enough said, without the Supporter Shop it couldn’t be possible, as our team is still at least a few times smaller than the very most MMO studios around the world. Within the last few months, we have added a few new places where players gain CP, including levelling up your characters, or those which set your account as a mentor which gives up to 5000 CP for one single levelled up account. In the end, it made quite a disbalance between Ambers to CP prices ratio, and we had to do some tweaks on that matter.
The exact changes are:
– Prefixes: We have added 3 prefixes “Skin”, “Heraldic”, “Decoration” to proper item names. We made that to keep it clear those are just visual cosmetics and player can’t buy the weapon or the armour for real money.
– Market Limit Increase: From now, the increase of the limit is done by 1 (instead of 5 like before). Price in CP reduced from 5000 to 1990. Amber price reduced from 700 to 140. Gold price changed from 5 to 2. Players who had those cards not used will get them multiplied by 5.
– Unlocking slots: Reduced gold price of unlocking some of the last slots – both deposit and inventory. Overall unlocking all the slots is cheaper by 96 gold! Removed unlocking cards from the Glory shop. Changed mechanics of cards to unlock slots – from now, using the card won't increase the price of unlocking further slots. We have changed this mechanic to not let new players make mistake and “waste” the card for slot worth 1 silver.
– Experience boost cards: Effect time increased from 2 to 4 hours of logged in time. Reduced Amber prices from 100 to 50 and from 200 to 100. Changed CP price from 600 to 800 and from 1100 to 1475.
– Traveller's Pack: Reduced Amber price from 1100 to 800
– Sign Crafted Item: Reduced CP price from 400 to 365. Reduced Amber price from 60 to 20. Increased quantity of items in bundle from 15 to 50. We want to encourage you to show everyone your crafting skills!
– Attributes and Abilities Reset Reduced Amber price from 700 to 600. Changed CP price from 3200 to 7275.
– Fresh Start: Reduced Amber price from 1300 to 1000.
– Re-customization: Reduced Amber price from 1250 to 600. Changed CP price from 5600 to 7275. Updated description to ensure players that contains also gender change.
– New Life: Reduced Amber price from 4000 to 3500.
– Nation Change: Changed CP price from 10000 to 15620. Since we added this item, there appeared a single nation change for greenleafs and free nation change to the dominated nation.
– Character Cap Increase: Reduced Amber price from 1600 to 1100. Changed CP price from 12000 to 12560.
– Character Name Change: Changed CP price from 12000 to 10610.
– Guild Name Change: Reduced Amber price from 10000 to 7500. Changed CP price from 30000 to 37350.
– Introduction of items required to craft Decoration Item spawners both for CP and Ambers.
– Implementing skins for Decoration Items [all players have part of them unlocked by default]
Official Game News
“Valley of Death” Tournament updated! (Update v.0.9.0.6 – Steam Patch 205)
6 Dec, 2019 @ 4:37am - BartoldGV
Hello warriors!
A new weekly update is live! One of the biggest changes is the long-awaited improvement to the “Valley of Death” Tournament formula. From now on, every tourney will be different thanks to the several new game modes added to reduce the repetition – read below for details!
Also, there are further improvements to the combat system and controller, balance tweaks, quality of life improvements and various bug fixes. Check them out!
See you in battle!
Changelog v.0.9.0.6
“Valley of Death” Tournament:
From now on, every single VoD will be different – thanks to the new game modes! At the beginning of each tournament, a game mode will be selected randomly, preventing repetition. Each modifier has its own set of additional rules which will have impact on viable tactics, i.e. bonus points for controlling the central flag – or no central flag at all! Or modified respawning rules, or… many more, so check them on your own!
– Introduced new tournament modes – besides a classic tournament, there are 12 new modes which modify some of the tournament rules or add new ones, so every tournament will promote different tactics and playstyle; the mode is selected randomly at the beginning of each tournament from the following ones:
1. Classic: the good old classic set of tournament rules
2. Minor Flags Hunting: minor flags generate 2x more points
3. Killing House: Flags generate only 1 point but kills generate 5x more points for the nation
4. Tie Break: gain 200 points more than enemies to win before the time ends
5. Hold The Flag!: Flags generate points only if the defender is nearby but the maximum score is decreased to 300
6. King Of The Hill: Each nation's top-score player generates 3x more points for the nation for kills, killing the enemy top-score player generates 10x more points for the nation and the maximum score is increased to 500
7. Catch'em All!: capture all the flags to win before the time ends
8. Regroup!: all killed participants respawn at the same time, once every 30 seconds
9. One To Rule Them All: capture the central flag to win before the time ends but capturing time of the middle flag is increased by 30 seconds
10. Invasion: a random nation controls all flags from the beginning and receives 2x more points from them, plus this nation can move on the map before opening the ways but this nation can't re-capture any flags
11. Blood Bath: no health regeneration, bandaging or first aid – prove your real skills or die!
12. Wingman – there is no central flag but all the minor flags generate 1.5x more points
Other changes related to the “Valley of Death” tournament:
– Updated the tournament registration interface
– Updated one of the tournament respawn points, since it allowed players to leave the spawn area before the tournament has started
Controller & Combat:
– Introduced diving – when diving, stamina drain is doubled and movement is 25% slower
– From now on, the stacks of cleave effect are diminishing when hitting the friendly players, until having only the last one of them – thanks to this change, the combat will become more tactical and fighting in one big so called "zerg blob" will be less efficient
– Updated the damage values dealt by the NPCs when shooting bows
Quality of Life:
– Updated the player looting system in order to solve the reported problems causing that the looting time used to end sooner than displayed on the interface, which was caused by the multi-layer security preventing from exploiting this system – the scale of the problem used to increase greatly with the ping spikes on the player’s end; the entire system has been significantly optimized, so we hope to hear back from you that these problems are gone!
– Updated the collisions of player-built furnaces to prevent players from getting on top of them, which could be used to reach elevated areas
– Updated the resources available in the mines of Guild Castles, so GCs of the same tiers now have comparable mining resources (Leaktown, Twinfall and Order of the Original Faith’s Keep for tier 2, and castles Audunstede, Skergard and Aquitania for tier 3), which improves the Guild Castles balance
– From now on, the crafting events in the capital cities are available after reaching level 40 to reduce the information spam for new players who usually aren’t ready to complete such events
– From now on, the crafting events in the PVP areas are available after reaching level 90 to prevent a situation when a player would reach the high-risk areas before getting ready for it, and to eliminate an exploit when a player would reach the event area right as it starts with a character from an alternative account – this shouldn’t be a problem for actual crafters, since it’s an end-game content and most of the dedicated crafters have already leveled up their characters
– Improved the training arena by adding a path between the main arena and the stands at the 1v1 small arenas
– Restored the missing Guild Recruitment Board in Mereley
– Added the basic Food and Herbs Merchants to all nation-controlled farms and added the Novice’s Sickle to their assortment, so you won’t have to go back to the capital for seeds and basic tools when farming
– Removed the Bucket of Water from the assortment of Food and Herbs Merchants
– Increased the vendor price of the Bucket of Water to make collecting water from wells equally effective to purchasing them from vendors
– Minor server-side optimization improvements
Fixes:
– Fixed the reported bugs causing the quest markers being displayed wrong or not being displayed at all
– Fixed displaying the name and description of the player-build pots with boiling oil
– Fixed an edge-case bug which could prevent players from logging it
– Fixed a bug causing that a player hit by a battering ram received double damage
– Fixed a bug causing that unstucking wasn’t interrupted if it was started on autorun
– Fixed an edge-case bug which could prevent players from taking the quest reward from Haldor in the Ismirean starting quests
– Improvements to switching to the underwater effect
– FIxed displaying the informations about player-built barricades
Official Game News
Combat system and Ismirs’ quests updated! (Update v.0.9.0.5 – Steam Patch 204)
26 Nov, 2019 @ 8:47am - BartoldGV
Hello warriors!
This weekly update introduces massive improvements to the starting quests of Ismir nation. A brand new epic tale of war and vengeance, taking place in breathtaking locations, awaits you! The changes done to these quests are a part of the planned updates which will introduce a group of new quests – read below for details!
Also, this update introduces several significant improvements to the combat and controller which were requested by the players, and many other quality of life improvements. Check them on your own!
See you in battle!
Changelog v.0.9.0.5
Quests:
We’re following the plan of adding new questlines for Ismirs and Midlanders so they will have as many available quests as Sangmarian players do now. For this reason, we had to update the existing starting Ismirs’ questline to make space for new quests in their starting areas, the same way as the Sangmarian quests have been implemented.
Moreover, we took the opportunity to improve the overall flow of this questline and add, since it was the very first questline implemented with very little mechanics available back then, to add more variety to these quests. We also updated the locations these quests take place at. Since it was a complete overhaul, we had to reset the progress of these quests for all players who have started but not completed them to avoid potential technical issues.
However, we believe that these quests will be much more enjoyable now, so these players can get the best possible experience when playing them. Now we will work on adding a brand new questline for Midlanders, and then do the same for Ismirs.
– Updated the Ismirean starting questline (“Enemy at the gates”) and its locations
– Wiped the progress of the Ismirean starting quests for the players who have started but not completed them to avoid potential technical issues
– Updated the position of Ismirs’ training arena in the capital city, excavation site and Great Hunt events
Combat/controller:
This update introduces the improved detecting the blocks direction for keybinds. First of all, it solves the bug causing that the block wouldn't proceed while holding one keybind, then clicking another one and releasing the first key. It was making the clunky feeling which was not happening at any other part of the controller.
Second – there are two ways to start the block in our game, by mouse movement and by keybinds. The mouse movement requires moving the mouse at least a little bit to change the side of a block and clicking the block button. Because many users used to click the block button first, then move the mouse, it caused a misleading and confusing feeling. For that reason, since a very long time (literally forever) there is a slight delay (exactly 40ms) before applying the block with the mouse movement, so the mouse button input can be received before the mouse movement.
However, the keybinds haven’t had that delay, which made them a bit faster and – as many players have reported – a slightly better option in the end for that reason. The keybinds blocks will now also have a slight delay – a bit longer than the 40ms for mouse movement, to compensate the difference coming from the time it takes to move the mouse and balance the chances of players using both ways of blocking. The very most of players won't find any difference, but it will bring more balance between those two methods of blocking. Also, we have added another layer of the anticheat measurements in terms of trying to create any kind of an auto-block.
Another change which we will be testing [we tried to put it this update, but due to finding some issue its not in-game already], will be burning down the stacks of cleave effect on friendly targets, until having only the last one of them. Thanks to this change, the combat will become more tactical and fighting in one big so called "zerg blob" will be less efficient. We hope this change will be introduced in the very next update to be tested by everyone.
Quality of Life:
– Improved detecting the blocks direction for keybinds – first of all, switching between different blocks works better but what’s also important, this change improves the balance between blocking with keybinds and mouse movements
– Minor server-side optimization improvements
– Added the /socialmedia chat command which enables a notification with links to the Gloria Victis social media
– Improved the interaction detection when targeting various interactive objects
Fixes:
– Fixed a bug causing problems with detecting bow shots into the practicing targets – only the first few arrows during a game session were detected correctly
– Fixed an edge-case bug preventing players from collecting the daily activity rewards
– Fixed a bug causing displaying the Assists points as Deaths in the siege scoreboard window
Official Game News
Player-built pots with boiling oil and other weekly improvements!
21 Nov, 2019 @ 7:57am - BartoldGV
Hello, warriors!
A new weekly update is live – from this day, you can build pots with boiling oil on the walls of your guild’s castle to fry the enemies! This update also expands the means of tanks and medics to gain Glory Points and adds several quality of life improvements, as well as bug fixes. Check them out!
See you in battle!
Changelog v.0.9.0.4
Quality of Life:
– Added a possibility to place the pots with boiling oil on maximally upgraded long versions of straight walls and outer diagonal walls in Guild Castles in order to give the defenders more variety, to diversify the viable castle layouts and to increase the variety of the Fortification Points distribution [known issue: the button to build the pot with oil is displayed on all upgrade levels, while it should only be visible on level 6]
– Increased the ballistas respawn time from 5 to 10 minutes to tweak the recent changes done to ballistas, which were required to allow defenders of the Guild Castles to place enough ballistas on walls to cover most of the deadspots, where attackers could easily break through walls and destroy the main building without any opposition, as Guild Castles can now be attacked from multiple directions
– Added the Glory assists for tanks and medics, recently introduced to PVP, when fighting against NPCs
– Updated stopping the fire on burning buildings and fortifications – from now on, stopping the fire is unified and requires buckets with water and now you can stop fire on every burning object
– Balanced the damage dealt by NPC enemies with shield bash to make it comparable to damage a player would deal
– Added a new tutorial explaining the dependencies between heavy armor and different weapon types and updated the NPC enemies at the starting quests to present this tutorial in practice
– Added increased regeneration of the Nation Points (if they are negative) when playing the dice game and updated displaying system messages during a game
– Improved the guild’s history messages
– Added displaying English names of locations on the flags tooltips on the map below the names in selected language to improve communication between players from different parts of the world
– From now on, notifications of the same type displayed on the left side of the screen are being stacked in order to improve the notifications UX
– Replaced the Olive Seeds currently owned by players, which were added to the game accidentally, with Olives (at 1:1 ratio) which will have 3 months-long expiration time
– Minor improvements to various interface texts and their translations
– Minor improvements to resources placement
Fixes:
– Fixed a bug causing display issues of some equipment models on lower graphics settings
– Fixed displaying the imposters of equipment models on video cards with Shader Model lower than 4.5
– Fixed a bug allowing players to get into the spawn chamber of stone main building in the Guild Castles
– Fixed collisions of the stone main building’s brackets
– Fixed a bug causing spawning a Sangmarian NPC guard in Castle Audunstede if it was controlled by an Ismirean guild
– Fixed a bug allowing to survive a few attacks from NPC enemies while having 0 HP when using specific potions
– Fixed a bug allowing a player to use the siege engines while displaying an emote
– Fixed the camera position when detaching from a siege engine
– Fixed a bug causing that arrows could go through specific models
– Fixed a bug causing that the church model had a slightly different scale depending on the currently displayed level of detail
Official Game News
Optimization update! (Update v.0.9.0.3 – Steam Patch 202)
14 Nov, 2019 @ 9:13am - BartoldGV
Hello warriors!
Another update is live! This week we introduced the long-awaited optimization changes which should significantly improve the client-side performance in large battles – so get ready for the massive fights on the Saturday’s Open State of War!
Moreover, we updated the Glory assists system, so the tanks and medics will now be properly rewarded for their efforts in battles! There are also numerous improvements to the Freebuilding system and many fixes to reported bugs. Check out this update and good luck in battle!
Also, don’t miss the PVP event this weekend! It will start at 10:30 PM GMT (Friday, November 15th). Join us in the arena on [Europe] Eaglewood server and fight for fame in 5v5 battles. The winners will be immortalized on the in-game monuments and every participant will be rewarded – to arms!
(The event will take place on Friday to allow the European players to join it, as it takes place on EU this time. These events can't be hosted on Saturdays as they used to due to the Open State of War on that day, and they end too late in the night for EU players to run it on Sunday evening. However, the next event will be run on the American server and will take place on Sunday to allow its native players to join it.)
See you in battle!
Changelog v.0.9.0.3
Optimization:
This update introduces a huge optimization improvement for the humanoid characters, designed to improve the client-side performance – namely in the large-scale battles – by using an innovative technique for rendering the equipment models called “3D Imposters”.
The effects depend on the PC specification so they may vary quite a lot but our internal tests showed a significant performance boost (for both GPU and CPU usage), which scales with the number of NPCs and players displayed on the screen.
Since this optimization is meant directly to decrease the overhead from multiple characters, the biggest differences will be visible while being in massive fights, like the Valley of Death tournament or State of War battles on Guild Castles.
Glory Assists:
We’ve improved the Glory assists system. From now on, you will receive Glory Points points for more actions (“assists”) taken in combat, including not only dealing damage but also for blocked damage and reviving other allies. After reviving a player, the medic will receive a share of the Glory Points this player will earn for up to 2 minutes after the last combat action taken by such a player.
Thanks to this change, tanks and medics will now be rewarded for their efforts in battles as well as the other fighters which, as we hope, will lead to more variety of used characters builds.
Freebuilding:
This update includes several significant tweaks to Ballistas requested by the Community. Until now, these siege engines were very easy to take down with bows. It caused that the defenders could have lost one of the most important tools within the first few minutes of a siege. This update solves this problem, giving the defenders an actual chance to hold a castle for a while – although ballistas can still be taken down quite easily by a well aimed stone shot from a catapult. Read below for details:
– From now on, the main buildings have more ballistas slots available to turn on (+4 on stone keep, +2 on wooden one) – you can place more ballistas on those buildings when they are at level 2 and higher (we are aware that extra slots are being displayed and can be turned on at level 1)
– Updated the default gates permissions in guild-controlled locations so only the leader and vice leader of the guild owning given Guild Castle will be able to open gates, while the other members will teleport through them; the default permissions are now being set right after capturing a Guild Castle
– Doubled the durability of stone and wooden main buildings in the guild-controlled locations
– From now on, the ballistas have reduction against piercing damage so it will be harder to take them down with bows
– Increased the durability of ballistas by 50%
– Ballistas now cost 5 Fortification Points instead of 10
– From now on, ballistas have a nation set right after being built, so players from the same nation will not be able to destroy them without enabling Friendly Fire (which will be punished with the traitor status) anymore
– Fixed a bug allowing players to respawn their ballistas during the active State of War – from now on you can turn off a ballista but can’t turn it on while the SoW is going on
– Fixed a bug causing ballistas to disappear after server restart in some cases
– Fixed a bug preventing players from placing the main building in Guild Castles before 3 minutes have passed from its destruction
– Fixed a bug causing problems with generating resources by the workers in Guild Castles
Quality of Life:
– From now on, changing the nation will reset your ranking points – this change will encourage players to take part in their own nation’s ranking rather than switching nations just to get on top of the other nation’s ranking
– Removed a map render from the arena respawn window
– Improvements and fixes in two Sangmar questlines
– Halloween changes to world events has been withdrawn
Fixes:
– Fixed a bug preventing Mentors from receiving rewards when their proteges reach the 40, 60 and 100 level thresholds – you should now be able to take the rewards via the Notification Center
– Fixed a bug causing displaying the burning building indicator on the screen even after you moved the camera out of it
– Fixed an issue allowing players to set up their “respawn point” in once visited location using an arena teleport exploit
– Fixed a bug with displaying the English names of items under non-English translations which made it difficult to use the Market window’s search engine [Applied earlier in a hotfix]
– Fixed a bug causing economic points was not returned fully to the pool, when destroying workshops of higher than base level
– Fixed some edge cases bugs in Final Battle of State of War system
– Fixed a bug causing that a player could get stuck under the stairs when leaving one of the Valley of Death tournament’s respawn points
– Fixed a bug allowing players to get on top of the Market Keeper’s platform in Baalhammon
– Multiple minor fixes and improvements to localization and UI, including improved global messages regarding the completion of world events: Ragi, Brandon, Sirius and Catacombs
Official Game News
New Glory Season has started! (Update v.0.9.0.2 – Steam Patch 201)
5 Nov, 2019 @ 7:30am - BartoldGV
Hello wariors!
Let us welcome you to the new Glory season! The top players of the just ended season have earned their rewards and titles, so time to compete against the others and fight your way to the top of the ladder!
A little explanation for the new players: Glory is a season-based ranking which rewards you for activity in the faction v faction v faction PVP. The seasons last 2 months and are rewarded with unique titles, as well as gold. Also, every Thursday night you’ll get Contribution Points – an in-game currency used to purchase special items from the Glory Quartermasters. The amount of earned CP depends on your position in the leaderboard, so climb up! (As always, there are several quality of life improvements and fixes to reported bugs.)
See you in battle!
Changelog v.0.9.0.2
Rankings:
As it was announced several times, yesterday was the last day of the previous Glory season – a day where gaining Nation Points is not possible and all season-based rankings are locked, except for the Guild ranking as players donate their NP to the guilds on this last day, helping their guild climb up the rank table. It was known that the previous season’s scores were biased as it started without wiping the NP owned by players at the moment of its start. For this reason, as already announced, by the start of each new season each player’s Nation Points are wiped, giving each guild equal chances to win the new season and encouraging guild members to donate NP to their guilds.
Also, with this update the top guilds (1st, 2nd, 3rd and the rest of top 10) are being rewarded – depending on their place in the rakning – with:
1. Titles for leaders and viceleaders of the rewarded guilds
2. Special icons displayed on the nameplates of all members of rewarded guilds
3. Indication of the place taken by each of the rewarded guilds displayed in all windows showing existing guilds
On the other hand, thanks to all the collected data and feedback from our players, we’ve been able to improve the formula of Glory ranking which rewards the players for activity in the faction v faction v faction PVP. From now on, the Glory ranking is separate for each nation.
First of all, it helps to the problem of one nation being penalized with no means to gain enough Glory to compete the enemy faction players if the other 2 nations keep fighting each other in the distant part of the world. Second, this change reduces the advantages of joining the most powerful faction of the moment, giving real chances to the growing nation’s players. We hope that with this change we will see even more fierce battles – we wish you best luck in them!
Guild Castles:
As announced, the “peace time” introduced at the launch of Freebuilding system for Guild Castles, is finally over – you’re able to conquer guild provinces controlled by the enemy again! Also, lifting the “peace time” means the return of the Open State of War as well, where all Guild Castles can be sieged on Saturday in their set SoW time by guilds which will set their tokens. Reminder – since the Freebuilding system was just introduced, abusing any potential bugs which would disturb the SoW balance (such as getting under buildings and walls to attack enemies or prevent being attacked) will be considered as exploiting and punished respectively.
Get ready for war!
Quality of Life:
– Blocked the possibility to enter the regular and corner towers on upgrades 5 and 6 through windows, allowing to bypass the further layers of fortifications – from now on, towers can be effectively used to join separate layers of fortifications
– Added tooltips to player-build furnaces that will help to understand automatic production system
– Added a bar to player-build furnaces that is showing fuel usage
– Limited the distance from witch you can interact with player-build furnaces
– Updated the player’s rotation when kicking – until now, kicking was the only attack which was not slowing down character rotation, for that reason now it has the very same rules about rotation clamp as every other attack; with this change the players will have to aim at their target before kicking, which will remove the spinner Lee Sin moves from the battlefields
Fixes:
– Fixed a bug causing that if a gatetower has been built right in front of another building, moving through doors could end with the player being spawned under such a building
– Fixed an issue which could cause that the enemy activity wasn’t detected near the Tenebrok Lumbermill, reducing the effective range of alerts regarding the whole Tenebrok area
– Fixed_a_bug_that_was_preventing_players_with “_” in_the_nickname_to_leave_the_guild_or confirm_other_ingame_actions_that_require_writing_down_character_nickname 🙂
– Fixed a bug causing hotkeys (including ESC key) to be blocked while using the Market window’s search engine until the window is closed
– Multiple fixes to spawners, flying objects and spawners in the game world
Others:
– Reworked the duels and group duels backend code for optimization purposes – if you’ll notice any problems coming from this change, please report them in-game!
– Updated the localization system for optimization purposes. On this occasion, we’d like to thank a lot our Community translators for their help and dedication!
See you in battle!
Official Game News
Halloween & Improvements to Freebuilding! (Update v.0.9.0.1 – Steam Patch 200)
30 Oct, 2019 @ 6:18am - BartoldGV
Hello warriors!
Ready your weapons – Halloween content is in-game now! Challenge yourself in one of the world events and fight for unique Halloween-themed rewards – read below for details!
Moreover, this update includes dozens of improvements to the recently introduced Freebuilding for Guild Castles. Thank you all for your precious feedback committed to our Discord!
As it was said at the beginning of this season, the Nation Points can’t be earned or lost at this day and the scoreboards of other season-based rankings (Glory and Arena) are frozen today. However, it is the last chance to donate your NP to your guild as the Guild Points. Tomorrow, when the new season starts, the Nation Points collected by a player will count from 0 as the new season will begin.
Also, we’d like to announce that the recent Glory season will end on Tuesday, Nov 5th. As it was said at the beginning of this season, its last day – Monday – will be a dedicated day of the season's end. It will not be possible to earn or lose the Nation Points at this day and the scoreboards of other season-based rankings (Glory and Arena) will be frozen then. However, it is the last chance to donate your NP to your guild as the Guild Points. When the new season starts, the Nation Points collected by a player will count from 0 as the new season will begin.
Take your chances and climb up the ranking ladders over these last few days of this season. The fame and rewards await!
See you in battle!
Changelog v.0.9.0.1
Freebuilding:
– Updated the terrains of all Guild Castles to improve the balance of the defensive value of all Guild Castles – from now on, siege engines should only be able to get into the building area via main roads and they will get high damage overtime when trying to access that area by the rocks; also, to prevent Guild Castles being fortified only in front, it’s now possible to climb up the rocks surrounding the building areas on foot in some places; in effect, it will now be more important to make a complete layer of walls rather than building them as close to the edges as possible, as they can be destroyed by siege engines from nearby and then accessed by infantry
– From now on, building and upgrading the Main Building doesn’t consume the Fortification Points which means that you can spend more points on fortifications
– Introduced player-built workshops for each crafting profession which can be selected from the drop-down list under Workshop in the Building window – taxes from using these workshops go to the guild’s account, so it might be a good idea to provide access to them to all players of the same nation through a dedicated gate with proper permissions set on it, encouraging allies to use workshops at your Guild Castle
– Fixed a bug preventing players from setting the siege engines on fully upgraded towers and gates
– Fixed a bug preventing players from destroying the Well
– Fixed the Building Points cost of the player-built inns
– Fixed a bug preventing from interacting with NPCs at the player-built stalls until you got very close to them
– Fixed a bug that made the palisade in the suburban area of the Aquitania Castle unbreakable out of the State of War time
– Fixed a bug causing displaying the Stone Main Building preview when placing the Wooden Main Building
– Minor improvements and fixes to the User Interface and translations
With all these improvements done, we realize that the peace time with no State of War enabled should be extended to let you adjust the layouts of your Guild Castles. For this reason, the State of War suspension is extended until the beginning of a new Glory season (Tuesday, Nov 5th).
Halloween:
– Updated the catapult’s ammunition model – fire the pumpkins at will!
– Updated some of the world events: Volcano, Pride Long Forgotten and Abandoned Route (second stage of the Sea Wraiths event), adding Halloween-themed bosses to them
– Added Halloween-themed rewards which can be obtained in the mentioned world events
Quality of Life:
– Added a possibility to set the custom colors of the blocks indicators to prevent issues when they are not visible enough on specific backgrounds
– Updated the movement physics of siege engines – it will be harder to push them up a steep terrain at Guild Castles, as they will slow down and break their chassis much quicker in such a case
– Due to the recent update of Guild Castles placement, the catacombs entrances have been replaced to move them away from guild castles suburban areas
– Added NPC archers guards to the nation-controlled forts: Tenebrok, Rodrock, Greenport, Scarsdale, Seaclaw, Ulfgard
– Updated the Contribution Points earning, introducing the maximum cap of owned CP which is set at 40.000 (players already owning more won’t lose the CPs exceeding the limit) – CP won’t be earned after reaching the cap until the player spends some of them; thanks to this change, which affects only the edge-cases, we were able to increase the number of Contribution Points earned every week for the position in the Glory ranking, so the vast majority of players will now earn more CP every week after this update
Fixes:
– Fixed a problem with flying boars between Lublin and Dunfen (boars are not happy with this solution)
– Fixed a bug causing that the Nuker placement at Mudmine could spawn on the ground when the location was controlled by Ismirs
– Fixed the Logistician in the Waterford Castle
– Fixed a bug causing that the last tick of the bleeding effect applied during a duel could kill the player and apply the traitor status on the other player when the duel ends
Known issues:
We are working on fixing the bug causing that the building points aren’t always returned to the available pool – the issue seems to be more complicated invasive than we originally thought so we need some more time to fix it. Anyway, we want to assure you that we’re working on it and remind that the points are refreshing to correct state after each server restart.
Hotfix 2019-10-31
– Added 65% melee damage reduction to the stone-made fortifications
– Added 50 fortification points to the pool of each guild controlled flag
– Updated Twinfall so it has a lumbermill now and actual mine location
– Slightly expanded the available building areas at Twinfall and Order of the Original Faith’s Keep to allow for more variety in the castles layouts
– Added a collider to prevent placing siege camps at the back of Order of the Original Faith’s Keep and Leaktown
– Updated the models of workshops and inns so they will take less place with the same functionality
– Fixed all known issues related to the suburban palisades
– Improved physics of siege engines movement – adjusted damage multiplier of siege engines on steep terrain
– Fixed a bug allowing players to get more fortification points that intended by placing and removing ballistas when points were already distributed
– Fixed a bug allowing players to have more building points than intended by canceling build in repair scaffolding window
– Fixed a bug causing that the economic points had no cap
– Fixed a bug preventing players to build a structure that costs exact amount of points as left in the pool
– Fixed a bug causing wells to be undestroyable in specific places
– Added possibility to place ballistas on regular towers
– Scaffolding of all economic structures are now spawning closer to chosen place
– Multiple minor fixes to resources and NPCs placement
– Adjusted position of two quests related to Mudmine
– Multiple adjustments and fixes to game world terrains
Official Game News
Freebuilding for Guild Castles! (Update v.0.9.0 – Steam Patch 199)
24 Oct, 2019 @ 10:43am - BartoldGV
Hello warriors – and builders!
It is time to grab an axe, hammer and trowel to raise the walls of your own settlement! The Freebuilding for Guild Castles – one of the most extensive Gloria Victis updates of all time, in terms of how much it change the world and gameplay, and how much work it required – is finally live!
Moreover, this update introduced the improved balance of Guild Castles’ placement and many balance tweaks to the nation-controlled locations.
Hammers in hands – build your castles!
Changelog v.0.9.0
Freebuilding & Guild Castles Update:
The Freebuilding system has been added to the Guild Castles and the latter have been updated. We have also added 2 new Guild Castles, so now there are 3 castles of each type, providing equal access to Guild Castles for all nations. For this reason, for the next few days tokening the guild provinces will work only on grey flags (2 new guild provinces and any abandoned ones). Costs of the State of Wars triggered on any Guild Provinces for tomorrow (Friday) have already been compensated.
Since the Freebuilding is a completely new system which fundamentally differs from the way the Guild Castles have been created before, all fortifications in the Guild Castles had to be wiped. However, thanks to this system, you have a lot of freedom when designing your castle's layout – we can't wait to see your creativeness in action! Moreover, you have a few days to build your castles before they can be attacked – read below for details.
– Added two additional guild provinces to provide equal access to each of the 3 tiers of Guild Castles to all nations
– Moved Lublin, Audunstede and Leaktown to balance the placement of provinces and gain space in the central area of the map for the endgame content which we’re going to add in the near future
– Redesigned and flattered terrains of guild controlled provinces
– Guild controlled locations are divided into three types: Forts (Lublin, Norfolk, Greatfall) are smaller, but have the largest arable fields with the best land quality. Strongholds (Order of Original Faith, Twinfall, Leaktown) are medium-sized locations in places that facilitate defense, and they have the largest pool of fortification points. Castles (Audunstede, Skergard, Aquitania) have medium fortification points available and largest pool of economic points
– Maximum upgrade level of workshops in all guild controlled provinces is 4. Since maximum level of economic buildings is limited by province economy points it is up to players what workshop on what level they prefer to have.
– Castles have predefined palisades around suburban areas that can be upgraded
– Reduced bottleneck on the keep staircases to allow more players to take part in the fight inside the building and improve importance of external fortifications
Nation controlled locations:
– Reworked Lord Wraths Abbey - adjusted buildings and defensive fortifications to be same as in other temples. The highest fortifications ring is is static, same as in Hordun and Lordly Heaven
– Moved Mudmine with quest areas around them. It balances and unifies placement of small flags on the world map
WiP and known issues:
– Catacombs entrances near Lublin and Greatfall forts will be moved to new locations
– Terrains and grids will be polished and adjusted
– Some locations have a wooden main building. Respawn point of wooden main building is located near it. To prevent balance problems in the near future it will be possible to set the main building on fire, which will increase the difference between a wooden and stone building in favor of a stone building. In turn, smaller groups will find it easier to defend the wooden main building.
– Shorter versions of the straight walls will be added asap to improve the workflow of designing the fortifications layouts
Introduction to the Freebuilding system
From now on, every guild owning a guild province is able to set up fortifications and buildings on its own!
The area where fortifications and buildings can be placed is limited and defined by a grid. The grids resemble a chessboard. The grids are adapted to the terrain, and each province has a unique grid shape based on the terrain.
The maximum number and level of fortifications are limited by fortification points - different provinces have a different number of available points. Each part of the wall, tower or gate costs the appropriate amount. Higher levels of fortification have a higher cost, so it is worth paying attention to the number of available points and adjusting the number of fortifications to the preferred level.
It is up to the players whether they prefer more wall lines of a lower level or one line on maximum upgrade. Buildings such as towers, gates, and the main building can be equipped with defensive systems such as boiling oil or ballista - these systems also consume fortification points.
Players can create their fortifications using 13 predefined models - the main building, a straight wall short, a straight wall regular, a diagonal wall (short and regular), two straight corners: internal and external, four diagonal corners: internal, external and their mirror images, gate, regular tower, and corner tower.
As a part of the Guild Castles balance update, the Guild Castles have been divided into three types, each offering its own benefits:
– Forts (Lublin, Norfolk, Greatfall) are smaller but have the largest arable fields with the best land quality.
– Strongholds (Order of Original Faith, Twinfall, Leaktown) are medium-sized locations in places that facilitate defense, and they have the largest pool of fortification points.
– Castles (Audunstede, Skergard, Aquitania) are locations with the largest pool of economic points that will allow to place more economic buildings, for large guilds that can handle defense with slightly fewer fortification points.
Due to technical limitations of other systems, in the first iteration, some objects in the suburban areas of the Guild Castles will have to remain in the predefined places. It applies namely to the resource buildings, such as farms and lumbermills, to storehouses generating supplies and key environmental objects, such as bridges. In exchange for that, castles (Audunstede, Skergard, Aquitania) have predefined palisades around suburban areas that can be upgraded.
Different types of Guild castles may have different pool of available economic buildings in the future. You are now able to place among others: workshops, crafting stations, stalls with merchants and the Market station.
Maximum upgrade of all workshops placed in guild controlled provinces is level 4. Since the maximum level of economic buildings is limited by province economy points it is up to players what workshop on what level they prefer to have.
How to start?
The leader and vice leader of the guild that holds the province have full access to the Freebuilding system, they are the ones who will choose and place scaffoldings in desired places. Other members of the guild can help by bringing materials. There is no experience or gold reward for contributing materials and finishing structures.
The first step is to build the Main Building – the centre of the castle. It can be integrated into the walls, there is no requirement to encircle it with walls on all sides. However, despite its great durability, it can be destroyed by siege engines!
After capturing the flag, the Main Building will be the only building available for construction. To enter the upgrades overview, use the table next to the flag or select the Building window from the "Provinces" tab in the guild window.
After selecting the main building from the list of fortifications, the builder will see the "ghost" of the building and will be able to place it by moving his character and aiming with the mouse to position the building on the grid – the building can be rotated in increments of 90 degrees by using the mouse wheel.
After selecting your preferred place, confirm your choice by clicking the left mouse button. If you want to interrupt the selection of a place, right-click. The flag will be moved so that it will stay in the centre of the target main building.
After setting the building ghost, return to the province construction menu and click the gear icon of the main building to confirm the build. After confirming an upgrade with “start construction” button, a scaffolding will appear near the flag, in which it will be possible to place materials and complete the construction.
Construction can be cancelled from the scaffolding window by clicking the appropriate button. Materials already in scaffolding will not be returned if construction is cancelled.
If the building is already built, you can mark it for demolition in the province construction window by clicking the corresponding gear icon and then the demolition button. After that, the building can then be destroyed by hand and siege machines.
In order to prevent a situation where the entire castle is destroyed quickly by a single person, demolition takes as much time as in the case of attacking the enemy structures. However, you can use the siege engines which can be found in the suburban area of each castle to destroy the buildings in your Guild Castle which you want to remove.
Walls, gates, and towers
Once the main building is ready, the rest of the buildings will appear in the list of available fortifications. At this point, you can proceed to the construction of the palisade surrounding your province using the appropriate parts. Similarly to the main building, open the construction window using the table in the main building or the "provinces" tab in the guild window.
Select a fortification module you want to built and move your character while aiming with the mouse to set it in the preferred place. A scaffolding will appear nearby the desired tile location on the grid, to which materials should be delivered. After all required materials are delivered the structure can be completed.
To avoid excessive building deconstruction due to mistakes or changing your mind, it is best to build structures one at a time by adding "ghosts" of subsequent parts of the walls to existing, already built fragments – it will save time and materials if the structure is misaligned.
It is worth considering the construction of the gate and towers - towers can be equipped with ballistas, and the gate is the only building that will allow you to take defensive positions on the walls! It is not possible to put gates and towers directly next to each other and in a distance of one tile from them.
Upgrade to higher levels
To upgrade an existing fortification to a higher level, use the province construction menu. Choose the fortifications whose level you want to raise and click the gear icon assigned to them. Then click the "upgrade" button in the window of the fragment. A scaffolding will appear near the selected model to which materials should be delivered.
The maximum upgrade level of the fortifications is limited by the number of available fortification points and the level of the main building. The maximum level of the main building is determined by the level of the guild. The higher the guild level – the higher the maximum fortification level.
Work in progress and further iterations
Because the system required many changes and new features, it is not fully complete. It will be developed and polished in the near future, considering players suggestions and opinions.
At this point, you can set up temporary buildings as workshops, in which you will soon be able to choose which workshop shall they represent. We decided on such a solution so that guilds could already integrate economic buildings inside the wall layout.
The terrain and grids will be polished, and additional short diagonal wall model will appear. In the next iterations, there will likely be a preview of the grid when constructing buildings and ghosts of structures not yet built to facilitate the design and matching of models.
Thank you in advance for your constructive feedback and suggestions for improvements!
Hotfix 2019-10-25
It's the first hotfix to the Freebuilding system – thank you all for your precious feedback! You can expect more fixes to come in the following days – for details, please read the main changelog.
See you in battle!
Changelog v.0.9.0f1
– Fixed a bug preventing players from leaving the spawnpoint in the Last Stand forts (Dunfen, Mereley and Serai) and in the guild-controlled forts (Lublin, Norfolk and Greatfall)
– From now on, the player-built objects inside Guild Castles tagged for destruction are receiving 10x more damage from melee and siege engines attacks
– From now on, it is possible to destroy the Main Building in Guild Castles with melee attacks if it’s tagged for destruction
– Fixed a bug causing that the Battering Rams didn’t always spawn in the suburban areas of Guild Castles
– The preview versions (“ghosts”) of player-built objects are now showing their level 2 upgrades to show the maximum size of a structure to be placed
– Added a short version of the diagonal wall module to make it easier to close the Guild Castles layouts
– Adjusted the bridge placement at Twinfall so the gates can now be placed with the doors right in the front of it
– Updated the way the resources are spawned in the mines of Guild Castles – each node used to spawn a random resource from its pool and, after gathering it enough times, replaced with another type of the resource; in most cases, it was misinterpreted as static resources, giving an impression of Guild Castles being unbalanced – from now on, the mine resources at Guild Castles are not randomized so that issue will not happen anymore
– Adjusted the maximum durability of different Main Buildings
– Improved the order of listing the available fortifications in the Building window
– Fixed a bug causing that the Nuker placement at Mudmine could spawn on the ground when the location was controlled by Midland
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