Becastled News

Hello everyone!

We want to share with you our progress on the update we are currently working on. Our goal is to bring more depth to combat and siege gameplay. Making it more fun and challenging to defend your city.

Also we are fixing issues related to AI and pathfinding that plagued game experience for many of you. We’ve completely rewritten AI for all units in the game. And it works way faster right now. Though we are not ready to share details on combat changes yet.



We are also working on an upgrade for the game map. The idea is to add more stuff to map generator, so that it will create more unique and interesting defense challenges. And we also want to include a map editor in the game, so that you could create and share custom maps.

Mountains, rivers, water cells and some other stuff. I think we will release these elements gradually with the next updates. For now I can share some concepts and early screenshots on how it looks



And our plan is also to release roads with one of the updates to the map editor.



That’s all for today, see you next time when we share more details on combat changes.

Hello everyone, check out our new update: Seasons!



Now each day of the game will progress yearly seasons. Each season has a set of possible weather events and visual effects. For example, heavy rain could start in summer and lightning might hit one of your buildings!



Or you could see aurora in the winter if you get lucky.



You should also prepare to survive a winter. Gather some stocks of food and wood as plants don't grow in winter.



In general new changes make the game world more intractable while creating a challenge in surviving winter.

We also fixed wall gap bug. When enemies were able to squeze between wall/tower and a cliff. Now we are filling these spaces with stones that blocks the path.



Patch notes:

• added: Seasons! You can select winter duration in game settings
  
• added: new resource: coal. Coal is now used to heat houses in winter
  
• added: new building: Charcoal kiln
  
• added: weather events: rain, thunder storm, hail, blizzard, aurora, strong wind
  
• added: map decoration: flowers
  
• added: map decoration: mushrooms spawn during summer under trees
  
• added: map decoration: butterflies during spring
  
• added: map decoration: fireflies in forests at night
  
• added: new building: greenhouse. It can generate food during the winter
  
• changed: max day time is now 8 minutes
  

Also a lot of small and big bugs were fixed for this release. Let us know in the comments what do you think about this update!