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Map Terrain Update

Protectors of the Light,

As you explore the coming update, you’ll see that the terrain gets more and more grim the farther from the Keep you travel. You may be asking yourself what purpose this serves! Well, for starters, it looks phenomenal. But it also currently delineates where Nightmares get more difficult, Points of Interest get more rewarding, and resources get more abundant. While we’ve always had these different tiers of terrain, it was previously not visible to the player. Now you know exactly when you can expect to start encountering tougher foes and that all-important Iron.



That’s what it does right now, but we are also looking at what it might do in the future. Internally we’re discussing lots of different effects the different terrain types could have on gameplay. Some things may impact the economy (such as less food from farms on poor land) and some things may directly impact how you navigate the terrain (such as areas that deal damage to units that get too close).

Nothing is set in stone yet, and we want to ensure that whatever we add makes mechanical sense within the game as well as within the world of Age of Darkness.

We’re also assessing the feasibility of creating entirely new environments, and different rulesets for those environments (and even for different PARTS of those environments). But all of this is likely to be a ways down the track.

In the meantime, enjoy the sights.





As always, if you come across any bugs or crashes in the future, please report them to us either through the Steam forums, our Discord server in the ‘bug-reporting’ channel or using the in-game bug reporting tool.

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Have a question about the game? We have a handy FAQ we’ve posted on the Steam forums that you can view. If your question hasn’t been answered there, we’ll be doing our best to keep up with questions here, on the forums and our Discord server.

Speaking of which, you can also chat with our team and ask them questions on our official Discord server here!

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Introducing the Watchtower

Protectors of the Light,

In a recent poll we held on Steam and Discord, we asked players what they feel is the main reason they lose in Survival. More than half of all participants answered that it was the unpredictability of the Death Night’s pathing that ultimately brought their Keep to the ground. Luckily, we’ve had the Watchtower in the works for a little while to help remedy this exact problem!

The Watchtower is a new Light building that, unlike the Fire Sconce and Tower, does not remove Horrify or even provide much vision. What it does instead, is show the exact path the next Death Night will follow in a massive radius around it.



This is an extremely powerful thing to know. If you know exactly where the path is ahead of time, you can focus all your resources on the most efficient chokepoint, negating much of what makes Survival challenging (it is, after all, also a game about exploration as much as it is a game about preparation). So, the Watchtower comes with some caveats:
  • You probably won’t be able to build it before Death Night 1. In this iteration it requires some Iron. In a future update it will likely require a small amount of Dark Essence. Since the first Death Night tends to play out close enough to the keep that the nightmares take extra time to pose a threat (allowing you to be a bit more flexible in your defense placements), we feel this is a fair trade-off for not having the Watchtower available at this point.
  • It won’t display the exact path until the crystal is revealed. This is to ensure there’s still some time pressure around deciding where you need to build.
  • You’ll only see the Death Night’s path highlighted where you have vision. The detection radius of the tower is enormous, but the vision is not, so you’ll have to send some scouts or build some other structures if you want to see the entirety of the path.


Now, this means that when you first build your tower, if it isn’t in the lead up to a Death Night, it may look like it is doing nothing. We’ve got some improvements on this front that will just miss this update, but will be out soon.

The most important of these is the Point of Interest indicator. Once placed, the Watchtower will provide a visual clue indicating the direction of the next-closest Point of Interest relative to the tower’s position. This has no range limit, so if all you care about is tracking down Points of Interest, then one tower will get you there.

Hopefully the Watchtower helps alleviate one of the things you, the players, said was most frustrating, without compromising the difficulty that makes Age of Darkness satisfying to play and progress on.

Stay tuned for v0.7.0 in the coming weeks!



As always, if you come across any bugs or crashes in the future, please report them to us either through the Steam forums, our Discord server in the ‘bug-reporting’ channel or using the in-game bug reporting tool.

[h3]AoD Social Links:[/h3]

AoD Discord - Join our official Discord server AoD Website - Official Website & Blog Twitter - Follow us at AOD_FinalStand Facebook - Like Our Facebook Page Reddit - Join the r/Age of Darkness: Final Stand community
YouTube - Subscribe To Our YouTube Channel

Have a question about the game? We have a handy FAQ we’ve posted on the Steam forums that you can view. If your question hasn’t been answered there, we’ll be doing our best to keep up with questions here, on the forums and our Discord server.

Speaking of which, you can also chat with our team and ask them questions on our official Discord server here!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1426450/Age_Of_Darkness_Final_Stand

Protectors of the Light, we need your help!

[h2]May 23: Thank you so much for all your responses. This survey is now closed, but please feel free to keep posting your suggestions and feedback![/h2]

Dear Protectors of the Light,

Aid us with your thoughts by taking our Player Survey. Your feedback and suggestions will help us to improve and shape Age of Darkness: Final Stand as we journey towards v1.0.

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Let us know what features you’d love to see implemented, as well as what you’d like to see improved!

As always, if you come across any bugs or crashes in the future, please report them to us either through the Steam forums, our Discord server in the ‘bug-reporting’ channel or using the in-game bug reporting tool.

[h3]AoD Social Links:[/h3]

AoD Discord - Join our official Discord server AoD Website - Official Website & Blog Twitter - Follow us at AOD_FinalStand Facebook - Like Our Facebook Page Reddit - Join the r/Age of Darkness: Final Stand community
YouTube - Subscribe To Our YouTube Channel

Have a question about the game? We have a handy FAQ we’ve posted on the Steam forums that you can view. If your question hasn’t been answered there, we’ll be doing our best to keep up with questions here, on the forums and our Discord server.

Speaking of which, you can also chat with our team and ask them questions on our official Discord server here!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1426450/Age_Of_Darkness_Final_Stand

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Till next time Protectors of the Light…

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AoD Discord - Join our official Discord server AoD Website - Official Website & Blog Twitter - Follow us at AOD_FinalStand Facebook - Like Our Facebook Page Reddit - Join the r/Age of Darkness: Final Stand community
YouTube - Subscribe To Our YouTube Channel

Have a question about the game? We have a handy FAQ we’ve posted on the Steam forums that you can view. If your question hasn’t been answered there, we’ll be doing our best to keep up with questions here, on the forums and our Discord server.

Speaking of which, you can also chat with our team and ask them questions on our official Discord server here!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1426450/Age_Of_Darkness_Final_Stand

Team17 Age Of Darkness: Final Stand Factions Livestream!



Protectors of the Light!

The Factions update came out last week and the fine folks at Team17 are going to be showing off the latest changes and additions on their Twitch channel on Tuesday at 16:00 BST!

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Go on over, and make your case for why your favorite faction is the best!

Till next time Protectors of the Light…

[h3]AoD Social Links:[/h3]

AoD Discord - Join our official Discord server AoD Website - Official Website & Blog Twitter - Follow us at AOD_FinalStand Facebook - Like Our Facebook Page Reddit - Join the r/Age of Darkness: Final Stand community
YouTube - Subscribe To Our YouTube Channel

Have a question about the game? We have a handy FAQ we’ve posted on the Steam forums that you can view. If your question hasn’t been answered there, we’ll be doing our best to keep up with questions here, on the forums and our Discord server.

Speaking of which, you can also chat with our team and ask them questions on our official Discord server here!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1426450/Age_Of_Darkness_Final_Stand