DSS war party News

Update Change Log

• German translation
  
• Fixed all reported bugs
  

Wishlist DSS 2 here
https://store.steampowered.com/app/3582440/DSS_2_War_Industry/

Dev Log
DSS was originally planned as a hobby project, but after over a year of unemployment, I decided to go professional and give it a shot on the market.
I've been reading up on game marketing and have spent a significant part of development making the game more appealing — improving the HUD and allowing city defenses to be built freely, anywhere on the map.
That said, I know I'm working in the "ugly but deep" category of games, so most of the marketing will focus on the demo (coming next month).

Other new features include:

• Three times more resources, buildings, and soldier types
  
• Skills and a technology tree
  
• A new villain introduces horde waves
  
• Tactical controls during battle
  
• (Maybe multiplayer)
  

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[h2]Development[/h2]
Whenever I ask playtesters about the game, they only talk about the menu. I want to focus on the gameplay, but have finally given in to the pressure.



I have also been working on more options for those who like city building.



[h2]News[/h2]
[h3]Update cancelled[/h3]
I have cancelled the April update (which contained three times as many resources). The menus got way too bloated and complex. This is also the reason I started a full rework of the UI. The next update is planned for September. I know the updates are too infrequent, but paying playtesters before each release is a cost I need to keep down. Join the beta if you want to try the latest stuff.

[h3]Music crash failure[/h3]
I made a big mess-up: I updated the game engine (monogame) and there was a new DLL file, for playing music, that I missed adding to the Steam installation. I heard nothing for a few weeks, but one day I suddenly got a flood of crash reports. Steam had featured DSS in the RTS festival, and that was weird because I clicked "NO" to participate. Thousands of new players downloaded the game, and it crashed instantly for all of them!

- This was my first blog, let me know if I should do more.

I have updated the game with a workaround. The music crash is muted and will instead keep playing without music
I still don't know why it crashes, it only happens to some users, and it seems to depend on the windows .net framework.

Cover art: the Basilic, a huge siege cannon in bronze

[h2]Update change log[/h2]

• Fixed city selection during building
  
• Easy mode starts with extra money
  
• Displays missing resources in cities
  

[h2]Dev log[/h2]
Been working on a huge content update that will triple the amount of resources, buildings, and soldier types. It all centers around experience and upgrades. My goal is to reward specializing your cities into a medieval industry; which hopefully should make city management much more interesting.

Technology tree

Some of the new units

Metals overview

The XP update is expected to release in April.