Kingdom Wars 2: Definitive Edition News

Hey Everyone,

Some good news - after quite a long break we are back to work on KW2DE, and have two solid updates planned for you in February and March. We apologize for the delay with this update, but we are back now - and there`s quite a bit more we plan to do with KW2DE.

The goal of the upcoming updates will be balancing, performance and graphics. The 7th update is almost ready and will be launched this or next week. Here`s a look at some of the updates:

-Big stability updates, fixing a number of rare (yet common) crash issues
-Main menu reworked with new distance fog and other graphical improvements
-Major improvements to the ground view graphics and camera
-Major rework to performance in Survival mode - expect much better results
-Balancing changes to Survival mode - less zombies, but they are a lot tougher, especially in later waves
-Mutliplayer stability issues - fixing all of these annoying can`t connect issues
-A lot of minor polish and fixes

And while we are on a topic - we plan to start promoting KW2DE in the near future, and hoping to attract some new players later this February and March. So if you are one of the older players and been waiting for some fresh blood - stay tuned.

Hey Everyone,

KW2DE is on 30% off week-long sale, and if you were on a fence - now is a great time to get the game. We expect player population to jump this week so we`ll see some proper multiplayer battles again

We are continuing post-release work on the game with next update scheduled for early November.

Also in time for the Halloween we`ll have a big theme changes for the game menu and GUI. Can`t wait to show you that scary Halloween set next week:)

Hey Everyone,

It`s time to share our plans for continuing updating KW2DE and what the future holds.

To start things off - some bad news - KW2DE release really didn`t go as we planned. There was too much confusion about releasing KW2DE as a new release due to compatibility issues; and lets face it - this type of strategy gameplay is not what majority of our Kingdom War players are looking for - open ended world map gameplay.

However - we did have a large number of players who did enjoy KW2DE, so we don`t plan to abandon KW2DE and discontinue updates. But we are pulling the plug on the Undead expansion... as lets face it, there`s just not enough interest in the title to warrant months of work on this free expansion pack.

Upcoming Updates
Our focus for the rest of 2019 and early 2020 will be Medieval Kingdom Wars, but that`s actually good news for KW2DE. Both games now use basically the same game engine and share majority of code - so whatever we do to MKW to improve combat, performance e.t.c. will all be copied to KW2DE and released same time as MKW updates. And we still have big plans for improving MKW - and thus KW2DE.

To start things of - big performance and ground camera improvements are on the horizon. We also hope to continue on improving visual aspects of our game engine.

Stars End
However - as some of you might know, we do have another project going into Early Access now - Stars End, so there will be a bit of a delay before the next update for KW2DE is out - looking for early November.

And to preempt possible complaints about working on another game - Stars End is designed by separate two developers, using completely different engine and completely independent from the two other Kingdom Wars developers. But since Stars End is launching soon, it would take all of our team couple of extra weeks to help out there - thus the delay.

Thanks again for your support, and looking forward to bringing your Update 7 in a few weeks.

Hey Everyone,

We are happy to present another major update, addressing one of the top player requests - a ground view camera. Now you can view the action in all it`s low-poly glory up-close and personal, with the sky, mountains and so on.

Also, we spent some time reworking the sound system for better combat sounds, as well as worked on Unit AI. And of-course we looked into addressing one of the bigger flaws of KW2DE - performance in later game survival, it should be significantly better. This update comes with another couple of dozen features and improvements.

And so introducing Update # 6:

Major New Features

• Added Ground View camera available on Max Camera Settings
  
• Added distance fog visible with the ground view camera
  
• Completely reworked sound system for much better combat sounds
  
• Added over 180 new combat sound FX
  

Major Additions & Improvements

• Major performance increase in Survival, especially in late game survival
  
• Major visual update to how the game looks in ground view
  
• Various improvements to how enemy unit AI reacts to nearby units and buildings.
  
• AI now scans for targets near them
  
• AI now will now prioritize which buildings to attack
  

Fixes and Balancing

• Stances now work correctly for units
  
• Survival has been rebalanced to be easier at earlier waves
  
• Survival game performance should be better at later waves-Minor adjustments to how peasants gather wood
  
• Disabled a non-functioning formation for cavalry that breaks changing formation
  
• Fixed bug that caused some abilities to work for non existent map objects
  
• Autosave for skirmish/survival modes is now enabled by default on first run
  
• Draw distances has been normalized for all settings
  
• Changed default skirmish colors for players (can be changed in skirmish menu)
  
• Potentially fixed a rare multiplayer issues with players going out of sync
  

P.S. There`s an issue in ground view with camera jumping when view is around mountains, we expect to have a solution for this ready this weekend, it`ll be a hot-fix.

Hey Everyone,

It`s been almost a month since our last update, and I`m glad to say that the major 6th update is very close. We are looking to release it later this week.

With our 6th update we are adding some major new features - like ground view camera to be able to see action up close, as well as admire sights from the ground - the sky, the mountains, carnage of battles and all that.

In addition update features improved sound system with better quality of battle sounds. There are also some improvements to the performance, especially in the late game skirmish and survival, and dozen of others fixes.

Also for these on the fence about getting the game - we`ll have a sale coming up in early September. We hope to see more player activity during the sale week and it should be much easier to find a multiplayer match then.

Looking forward to releasing update 6 in a few days!