Warhammer Underworlds - Shadespire Edition News

[h3]Highlights[/h3]

• Leaderboards
  
• Introducing Exalted
  
• Queue Changes
  

The glimmering reflections throughout the city of Shadespire reveal your repute. Does the plinth you stand on tower over those you fight against?

[h3]Leaderboards[/h3]

Hitting the ladder button will bring up the all new leaderboard screen - compare your performance to other players across the world. Where do you sit against the highest ranking players?

• Exalted leaderboard
  
• Warband-specific leaderboard
  

[h3]Introducing Exalted[/h3]

Once you’ve hit Rank 1, the fight to be the very best isn’t over. Beyond this top rank, you’ll be titled Exalted and Warhammer Underworlds: Online will show you a new number that represents your ranking in relation to other players that have also become Exalted. Using the new leaderboards, you’ll be able to find out if you really sit at the top.

• New highest rank: Exalted
  

[h3]Queue Changes[/h3]

On startup, you’ll notice a change to the way you play matches in Warhammer Underworlds: Online. We don’t want to split those looking for games into two separate queues, so to reduce wait times, Casual and Ranked queues have been merged into a single queue, now called Play Online.

• Merged Casual and Ranked queues into Play Online
  

[h3]Bug Fixes[/h3]

• Tireless Assault now checks that the fighter is alive and not discarded
  
• Cards that score after the condition is met now check if a card was drawn as an action. This affects the following cards: Awe-inspiring, Call of the Waaagh!, Khorne Sees Us, No Escape, Ranger Strike, Massive Assault, Drag Them Down, and Swarming Spirits
  
• Incredible Strength and Great Strength now work together again
  
• Fixed random instances of the game stalling on the loading screen
  
• Fixed tutorials from stalling when run a second time
  
• Fixed panning issues after Victory screen displayed
  
• Fixed some charge and line of sight issues
  
• AI will no longer attempt to shoot through blocked hexes
  

- Inspired or assisted by community feedback! Note: You should see 1.1.7 in-game once you have the update.

- Inspired or assisted by community feedback! Note: You should see 1.1.6 in-game once you have the update.

[h3]Settings Update [/h3]
We've reworked the settings system backend and added a number of new graphics settings. Some settings are divided into sub-groups. Click on the drop down arrows on a group to see the options inside.

[h3]Reconnection System[/h3]
This system is in a beta phase. Our initial goal is to support players who have client crashes, and players who are disconnected due to server issues.

• Getting disconnected during a match will take you back to the main menu and will only give the option to 'Reconnect' to the same match. Pressing this option will make the client try to reconnect to the server you were dropped from.
  
• The server will continue to the match after a player has disconnected. It will stay active for three timeouts by the disconnected player. If that player doesn't reconnect in that period, it will grant a concede victory to the remaining player.
  
• Disconnecting during board setup or re-drawing your hand is still counted as a concede, only disconnecting during or after fighter placement will enable the reconnection system.
  
• You cannot reconnect to bot matches.
  

[h3]UI Clarity[/h3]
We're working on clarifying a lot of in-game info, one of the key steps in this is showing more valuable information on fighter HUDs.

• Added Move and Defence characteristics to fighter HUDs.
  
• Added popup text when a fighter’s attacks have a special effect, such as Cleave, Trapped, or Ignore Knockback.
  
• New fighter HUD visualisation for the number of upgrades a fighter has.
  

[h3]Card Fixes[/h3]

• On Your Feet no longer removes Shardgale damage from other fighters.
  
• On Your Feet now allows you to choose a target if there is more than one valid target fighter.
  
• My Turn no longer triggers if the potential target is dying.
  
• Multiple cards that applied +1 damage were stacking incorrectly during attack reaction chains. We have reworked the effects for these cards so they are individually applied, instead of having a generic '+1 Damage' effect.
  
• Lightning Strikes now only triggers off of the specific charge-attack.
  
• Stopped Reflected Injury from triggering with dead fighters.
  
• Updated Scything attacks to check if they should be canceled by Maddening Cackle.
  
• Multiple consecutive Gorefist reactions no longer lock the game. This is the first part of a reaction rework where reaction cards won't run their own effect logic, meaning cards that can react to their own effects (eg. Gorefist vs Gorefist) won't stop after the first effect or get bugged.
  

Bug Fixes - Fixed an issue with some audio clips where they wouldn’t track the current volume.
- Fixed an issue where dice would disappear too fast.
- Fixed the main menu camera from not panning correctly in some instances.
- Fixed Objective markers not appearing in some instances.

- Inspired or assisted by community feedback! Note: You should see 1.1.6 in-game once you have the update.

Note: You should see 1.0.21 in-game once you have the update.

General Fixes:

• Fixed Objectives not appearing on state loading/reconnection
  
• Improved 'Save Deck' functionality: Pressing ‘Save Deck’ will now show a popup until the client gets the proper response from Playfab. This will stop players from thinking their deck has been saved when it hasn’t.
  
• Stopped Reflected Injury from triggering with dead fighters.
  
• Updated scything attacks to stop when using an inspired weapon and the fighter gets uninspired.
  

Along side of all the cool stuff we’re working on, you might have also seen that Warhammer Underworlds: Online is available on Geforce Now, NVIDIA’s cloud-based game streaming service!

That means players will have the means to stream our game on Nvidia Geforce Now compatible devices, including Mac and Android!

Check out the Nvidia’s website for more information and be sure to let us know how you're enjoying it!

https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/geforce-now/

Note: You should see 1.0.19 in-game once you have the update.


General Bug Fixes

• Fixed an issue with the first tutorial crashing the first time you play it.