The new demo is live!

[h3]Hey all,

The new demo version has also live, which contains many new features and improvements.

It would help us a lot if you could give us feedback on the version on Discord. If you don't want to do that, there is a reporting function directly within the game.
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https://store.steampowered.com/app/1368160/Heart_Of_Muriet/

[h3]Here is a list of changes and improvements for all the people who played earlier demos or play tests.[/h3]

[h2]UI Improvements[/h2]

The UI has been overhauled, and new icons have been added
A research tree now shows which research options are available for different magic schools and buildings etc.
Improved the strategy selection dialogue. It's going to be replaced with a much better system soon.
Reworked the send dialogue. This way, players can select the squads by themselves. It opens up the squad ranks like "veteran", "elite", and "legendary" (not yet done).
Improved start of the game with a loading screen.
Improved the look of screen fading.
Improved the look of the minimap significantly.
Improved tooltips - more compact and have a lot more useful information.

[h2]Battles[/h2]

New radar system (provides unit information on which enemies/building to attack) for formations and bases.
Big battles now scale a lot better as fewer attack targets get exposed to squads.
Melee units with shields now also have a block chance for melee attacks, not only projectiles.
Attack targets are prioritized by different factors, e.g. if the unit is good against it, it's close or if its a threat.

[h2]Buildings[/h2]

All buildings got a graphics overhaul
Added marketplace building that produces gold/mana to mitigate the problem of mined-out bases.
Added an alchemist building that can convert gold to mana and vice versa. The gold/mana conversion spells have been removed.
Added a "Mill" and a "Well" that improve the output of farms around them. This adds little settlers feeling to the bases.
Added a large farm building that adds more supply, though it's a lot more expensive.
Added a monastery building that currently holds research for all kinds of resistances. There will be new exciting units to train there soon.
Reworked placing buildings; if you click on a build slot, the selected building type and its influence/attack radius get displayed.
Reworked placing buildings: a right-click on the build slot changes the building type, and a double left-click places the selected building.
Rally points added for each recruiting building -> you can assign a different base for each of them (no multiselection of buildings yet).
Defence buildings now increase the visible area around the base.
Guard towers now ring a bell; units will leave their tents faster.
Training buildings can increase the training queue with an upgrade.
Training/construction buildings can have a second parallel training/construction queue.
Bases can now have multiple storages. Workers will use the one closest to deliver their resources.

[h2]Building and Guarding plots[/h2]

Added free moveable guard slots to bases that are not dependent on buildings.
Removed research, storage and portal slots from bases and migrated them to town slots.
Town slots can hold different buildings now, like farms, mills, wells and a lot more.
Defence slots can now hold archer towers, guard towers, portals etc.

[h2]New Units[/h2]

Added a ram unit, which can only attack buildings.
Added a ballista unit, which shoots big projectiles and can kill several units walking in a row.

[h2]AI Improvements[/h2]

Added a budget system for the AI to control their overall strategy in different stages of the game,
It can cancel attacks earlier if it realizes that it's loosing.
It is trying to reinforce battling armies on foreign nodes.
It is distributing its workers over several bases in a better way.
It is avoiding bases attacks which cross other bases.
It is withdrawing workers/armies from bases when there is no chance of defending the base.
The AI supporting magic schools as well as all the newly implemented features,

[h2]Worker improvements[/h2]

Workers repair siege units on bases, no matter if they are in tents, guarding or in battle.
Workers repair siege units in formations, only when in a battle or when the formation has stooped.
Workers distribute correctly onto resources when other workers build/repair buildings/units.
Workers drop gold/mana in front of the storage.
Workers have a better pickaxe hit effect on mana and gold.
Workers are able to handle several storages on bases as resources might be scattered over several patches.
Players can configure how many workers overall should be repairing/building on every base.

[h2]Wizard Tower improvements[/h2]

The wizard tower got a complete overhaul. It can get powerful upgrades depending on the magic school you choose to research.
Added poison bomb upgrade to the Wizard Tower (Nature School).
Added ice aura to Wizard Tower (Water School).
Added fire cannons to Wizard Tower (Fire School).
Added arcane missiles to Wizard Tower (Arcane School).
Added upgrades for parallel training queues and more training slots.

[h2]Magic Schools & Spells changes[/h2]

Added four magic schools, Arcane, Fire, Water and Nature.
Added gating mechanism for magic schools comparable to Ages in "Age of Empires". The higher your magic school, the more research, buildings, and spells are unlocked.
Added several research options which are only available for certain magic schools.
Added new spells for each magic school (Arcane, Fire, Water, Nature).
Added new research options/buffs for each magic school.
Heal spells do not repair siege units anymore, but repair spells do.
Healing spells do not heal siege weapons and do not resurrect units anymore.
Armour cannot be healed with spells but repaired by the blacksmith in the base instead.
Wizard UI changes: a right-click on the spell UI changes the level of the spell.

[h2]Sound and Music[/h2]

Music is adapting to the current game state, like peaceful building, tension, and battle.
Each building has a special sound when clicked.
Added a bunch of new sound effects in fights.

[h2]Map Editor[/h2]

File browser now has a new skin that matches the UI skin.
Maps can now be copied, with all quests, triggers and quest actions.
Added a guard slots editor.
Buildings can now be moved around without crashing the editor.
Army tents can now also be moved in the editor.
Player colours are now configurable via the map editor.

[h2]Misc changes[/h2]

Replaced the first level of the campaign, as it was mainly a story mission, which did not work out.
Fixed the tutorial to make it work with all the new features.
Improved some of the story dialogues.
Rebalanced the game and updated the AI to make it work with all the new features.
Rewrote a lot of the descriptions for spells, research, buildings and units.
Added a physical condition to units which influences what kind of spells/buffs/damage affects them.
Improved the visualization of buffs on squads.
Spells, building upgrades and buffs can now have levels.
Hundreds of bugfixes and improvements that would be too much to list here