Thrive: Heavy Lies The Crown News

Greetings fair Nysians,

From our entire team, we wish everyone a happy and safe holiday season! The year isn’t quite over yet - so we’re releasing a update packed with significant quality of life improvements, bug fixes and enhancements to Thrive: Heavy Lies the Crown.

In your feedback across our Discord and Steam forums, you requested for us to add Edge Scrolling, to span across your provinces with ease. We're excited to confirm this is now available, as well as a complete rework of our vegetation system! Here are the details of everything we’ve released as part of our December update:

Added:

• Edge Scrolling - Found in the setting and off by defaut
  
• Vegetation System improvements (see comprehensive breakdown below)

Fixed:

• Fixed hunters lodge workers trying to hunt outside their territory
  
• Updated tutorial steps for a better experience
  
• Fixed Wyramxa outpost units not targeting player units
  
• Fixed military unit patrol order
  
• Fixed issue with caravans bunching up or setting stuck in towns blocking trade routes
  
• Updated battle report after destroying towns and outposts to be clearer
  
• Fixed bug with wells that stop water production after being rebuilt

Changed:

• Optimized unit pathfinding and terrain detection
  
• Added estimated completion time to building production UI
  
• Updated camera far clip plane to be based off zoom height
  
• Optimized save data
  
• Updated lighting systems

Vegetation System Overview
As the ruler of Nysamor, your duty is to take care of your people. Each province within the kingdom has slightly different resource availability, but regardless of the type of leadership you choose to lead your civilians, providing them with access to the proper resources, open grassland and plains to ensure flat buildable land is ideal for agriculture that will sustain everyone.

Current New

Our team has been hard at work overhauling the vegetation within each of the biomes, and we're excited to highlight the significant improvements and enhancements that this change has had on game performance, frame rate, lighting, and visuals of Thrive: Heavy Lies the Crown:

• Improved Gameplay Performance
  
  • Smoother gameplay with most PCs seeing a 10-30% improvement in FPS over the old system, representing a notable percentage increase in performance.
• Increased Grass and Vegetation Density
  
  • Significantly increased the density of grass and vegetation, enhancing visuals without impacting performance on both low- and high-end systems.
• Road Building Enhancements
  
  • Roads now automatically remove grass when being built, improving the overall appearance and functionality.
• Enhanced Lighting Effects
  
  • This update includes visual improvements to lighting for a more polished look.
• Optimized Rendering Performance at 4K
  
  • Rendering performance is significantly improved, ensuring smoother visuals at higher resolutions.
• Improved Vegetation Rendering
  
  • New vegetation assets have streamlined rendering code, paving the way for easier future improvements.
• Ultra Shadows Upgrade
  
  • Ultra shadow settings now use 4K shadows, resulting in much cleaner and more detailed shadow rendering.
• Better Visuals on Low-End PCs
  
  • Low-end PCs using lower graphics quality settings retain more visual fidelity, minimizing the trade-off between performance and quality.

Current New

Now is your time. This is your land. Your kingdom. Your war to win. Long may you reign, and long may you thrive.

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Greetings! We’ve loved seeing you all playing and taking over the world of Nysamor throughout our first month of Thrive: Heavy Lies the Crown’s Early Access. As we continue to support the game post launch, we’ve crafted a development roadmap to guide you through what lies ahead.

Your feedback, suggestions and bug reports have been invaluable since we launched, and have helped us shape our plans on the road to full launch in just a few months’ time! We wanted to begin by expressing how grateful we are for your commitment to ensure your kingdom’s survival. The team has worked tirelessly to deliver the best possible experience in Thrive: Heavy Lies the Crown and there is plenty to look forward to!



This week, our December update includes the ability to use edge scrolling to span across your provinces with ease - a highly requested feature from the community, and much more.

Amongst the list above, we’re most excited to deliver some major beats in the new year:

February:

• Influence System
  
  • A new feature that limits the amount of provinces, alliances and military units from the start of a new game. This acts like a currency that is spent to acquire more of these items; but once they’re lost and destroyed, the currency returns. When a new game is started, you’ll begin the game with a small amount of influence, which scales with your province's population or upgrade level of your Keep. You’ll never lose influence bonuses even if your population decreases.
    
• Militia
  
  • Before a player gains access to more reliable combat units, they have no way to protect themselves in the event of an attack. To tackle this problem, players should be able to temporarily hire citizens into a militia, aimed at dealing with the incursion. New unit types will include:
    
    • Bowman (sling or arrow)
      
    • Spearman (spear or pitchfork)
      
    • Scout (knife)
• Riots
  
  • If the Happiness level of a class of citizens is below a certain threshold for an extended period of time and they do not emigrate or die, the people will find ways to make their voices heard. Immediately after a Revolt begins, citizens of that class will take to the streets in a large crowd, yelling and waving torches and pitchforks. Property damage and penalties on Provincial Tax Income can occur!
    

• Decorative Buildings
  
  • Including the ability for players to decorate their cities in a unique way, regardless of what level you’re at - neutral, Benevolent or Tyrannical. Giving your structures a new look also combats pollution and improves the beautification of the province, which impacts civilian happiness and the bonus output of the structures themselves.
    

April:

• Improved Wyrmaxa
  
  • Wyrmaxia are the hostile, antagonistic communities of Nysamor that want you off their land and focus on destroying your town. We’ve made tweaks to the intelligence of the patrols, attacks and defences during battle that will improve the combat with each encounter.
• Wall Functionality
  
  • With every wall you place to defend your province in battle, you’ll be able to move them with ease, plus you’ll see an improved destruction animation each time the enemy damages them.
    

These releases are only a part of what's to come - alongside them, we’ll continuously work on hotfixes and improvements to the game. This is a journey we embarked on together and we couldn't have asked for better rulers to lead us to prosperity. From all of us, thank you for your ongoing support!

Trust your instincts, and there’s no doubt that you’ll Thrive.

If you’d like to stay updated with all future developments, be sure to follow us on:

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Greetings fellow Nysians,

Patch 0.1.0181e is here! Thank you for your patience as we continue to work through our list of community reported bugs and issues. Here is all you need to know about our latest patch, available now:

Bug Fixes

• Trade routes no longer lock resource slots when making changes to trade routes.
  
• Resolved the potential of the fog of war appearing when loading autosaves
  
• Building Texture updated
  
• Roads now load correctly after becoming Benevolent or Tyrannical
  
• Trade routes no longer disappear
  
• Fixes to Caravans sometimes not deploying correctly
  
• Adderbeast now despawns correctly
  
• Fixed possible tutorial softlock during game saving or loading
  
• Fixed possible crash during game loading (occurred while ALT-tabbing).
  

How to install a Patch on Steam:
Click on Library to see your games list
Click Downloads at the bottom of the Library window
If the new build does not download automatically, click the Download Now button to manually download the new update.

For any players experiencing issues please keep in touch with us on Discord with as much detail as you can - whether reporting bugs, issues, or sharing your thoughts with our team that will help us to shape the future of Thrive: Heavy Lies The Crown: https://discord.com/invite/thrivehltc

Greetings fellow Nysians,

Patch 0.1.0181 is here! Since we launched two weeks ago, our focus has remained on responding to audience feedback on balance, optimization, performance and most importantly, resolving issues with some players save game files disappearing. We’re continuing our efforts to provide regular patches/hotfixes for the issues you’re reporting and soon, we’ll be sharing our plans for our future roadmap. The team could not be more excited for what’s ahead, and as always thank you for your ongoing support for Thrive: Heavy Lies the Crown!

Bug Fixes
Save Systems Optimization & Fixes
Balanced Building Overlap Negative Effects
Well and Farm Production Changes & Production Fix
Balance Update for Wheat Farms, Pig Ranch, Outfitter & Lumberyard
Fix for Archers Being Invisible
Forrester Hut Balance for More Efficient Planting & Harvesting
Adjusted AOI Range for Logger Camp, Quarrier, & Miner Camp for Increased Efficiency
Happiness Level Balancing for Late Game Housing
Fix for Thrall Building Production & Efficiency
Slowed Fire Spread
NPC Town Trading Unlocked at Beginning of Play
Curator Unlock Requirements Adjusted


How to install a Patch on Steam:
Click on Library to see your games list
Click Downloads at the bottom of the Library window
If the new build does not download automatically, click the Download Now button to manually download the new update.

Keep an eye out for what’s in store as the game evolves with each update, bringing even more depth and enjoyment to our players.

For any players still experiencing issues please keep in touch with us on the Steam Discussions board or in Discord - whether reporting bugs, issues, or sharing your thoughts with our team that will help us to shape the future of Thrive: Heavy Lies The Crown:
https://discord.com/invite/thrivehltc

Greetings, Nysians!

We have released a new update today that changes the ways save files are made.

The focus is fixing the issues people are having with singleplayer saves, as well as improving multiplayer’s save functionality.

When you now start a new game, you will be asked right away to name your save file at the province select screen, resulting in a save file being created as soon as you load into your chosen province. This new method of saving should prevent new save files from disappearing. We have also turned autosaving back on and these will be nested under newly created saves.

Thank you so much for your patience while we worked to solve these issues. Our dedicated team is continuing to work on other bugs and issues you have reported and we should have more news to share in the coming weeks.