Age of Darkness: Final Stand News

Target prioritisation, mini-map changes, and more!

Dear protectors of the light,

Good news: there’s a brand-new update coming in just two short days, on the 27th of January! Even better news: we’ve made tons of changes that will hopefully make your Nightmare obliteration that much more fun!

So without further ado, let’s talk about item number one on our list, target prioritisation.

Fire at will! Which one’s Will?

You’ve all asked for it, (over and over again) and we shall provide! From the moment this update goes live, you’ll be able to tell your units to prioritise weaker, stronger, or closer enemies depending on what you want to accomplish.

Each unit can have its own priorities, so if you want your melee troops attacking the closest enemies while your ranged units lay down the finishing blow on those close to death, you can!

Mini-map or maxi-map?

We’ve made some more small changes to the mini-map to hopefully make things a little clearer for all you map-watchers out there.

You’ll notice that when you first load up the update there will be five new buttons around your mini-map.

Here’s what they do:

Spyglass - Enlarges the map for a closer look at that sweet, sweet cartography.
Exclamation mark - Toggles all icons on/off.
Coins - Toggles Point of Interest and Resource Vein icons on/off
Helmet - Toggles player buildings and units on/off
Skull - Toggles enemy units and crystals on/off

All of these new buttons will be visible on both the enlarged, and regular sized versions of the mini-map.

It Follows

Naturally we couldn’t make it too easy for you to defend your land, because where's the fun in that, so we’ve made some Hardship changes to increase your suffering.

Dangerously Familiar will now no longer limit a range at which Elite Units can follow you. As they are now untethered from their Points of Interest, once they have been provoked, they will chase you indefinitely, so it’s kill or be killed before they wreak havoc and destroy your Keep!

We have a few more Hardships planned for updates soon that will ensure you’re carefully managing your Hero’s health bar and maximising your time in-game.

See you tomorrow!

That’s all we’ve got for you today folks. Come back tomorrow for another blog detailing a new unit that’ll really roll your stones!

Age of Darkness: Final Stand - Patch v0.3.1

Dear Protectors of the Light,

We hope you all had a wonderful New Year and we have loved seeing you all continue to post on Discord during the Holidays. Now, with the New Year comes what you’ve all been waiting for…. New Updates!

We have an exciting upcoming Content Update releasing at the end of this month that will be launching a lot at you, however until then, we have a Patch Update to kick off the new year!

In our V0.3.1 Update, we’ve made a few Quality of Life improvements and fixed some bugs that had been hanging around for a while now!

Check out the full patch notes below:

[h2]Release Notes[/h2]

[h3]Improvements[/h3]

Stopping the construction menu from snapping back to the main Keep menu when an Upgrade completes.
Hazy Skies has been reduced to 25% and now affects all Towers, Ballista Towers and Grand Bellow.

[h3]Fixes[/h3]

Fixed an issue where the Eyesight Skill does not affect Archers in Towers.
Fixed an issue where difficulty icons could appear on the Impaler control menu.
Fixed an issue where the Impaler is able to be built without the required research.
Fixed an issue for the missing UI displayed on the Siege Factory information hoverbox.
Fixed an issue where the Player is able to stack Treasuries.
Fixed missing Localisation in multiple languages for the Trade Bazaar description in the Tutorial Menu.
Fixed missing Localisation in multiple languages for Tax Earnings.

[h3]Known Issues[/h3]

Game will crash when the player tries to build Walls while their Houses have a Debuff placed on them due to a Loan, a fix for this is already in testing for our next Patch.

Where possible please ensure all drivers are updated to ensure the best and smoothest performance.

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We greatly appreciate everyone who has taken the time to let us know about these bugs and crashes you’ve encountered. 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.
Till next time Protectors of the Light…

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Age of Darkness: Final Stand

A Special Announcement from the Age of Darkness Dev Team

Dear Protectors of the Light,

On behalf of the entire development team, we wanted to take the opportunity to thank our community for all your incredible support since the Early Access launch of Age of Darkness: Final Stand.

It’s been amazing to see all the engagement on both Steam and Discord, with the team actively looking at new and emerging strategies players make in their runs. Because of that we wanted to share some player stats from the last two months with you all.

This data represents a small subset of our community, only those who have opted in to share their gameplay data and analytics all in the name of faithfully defending their land against the Nightmares:

Since launch the team has been working tirelessly to make sure you have as stable of a gameplay experience as possible, having done nine patches, with two of those being major Content Updates. Reflecting back on this effort our team will be taking a well deserved holiday break, so for the next 3 weeks you won’t see any new patches or updates, along with us being a bit quieter on our socials.

However we love staying connected with our players so as always, please continue to post your thoughts and feedback on the latest update on Discord and Steam Forums! Although we may not respond as quickly, we will still be lurking in the background reading your posts and listening to your feedback, with a standby team in place, should we find everyone’s Keeps on fire.

However I’m sure you’re all excited for what the New Year will bring, as are we! We’re very eager for what’s to come! In January we will have a juicy new Patch Update to address Quality of Life improvements and Bug Fixes along with a new Content Update later in the month.. In the New Year we will add more Languages for Localisation to make the game even more accessible to all players.

The wheels are still turning in the background for our Campaign and Multiplayer, as we know how hungry you all are for these new gameplay modes! We’ll be teasing what we're working on throughout next year as we continue on our path out of Early Access.

Speaking of, here’s a little holiday present for you before we disappear.

We are immensely proud of the game we have created and how well it has been received, we hope you continue along with us on this journey and help us stop the Darkness from creeping in.

See you in the New Year Protectors of the Light…

Age of Darkness: Final Stand - Update v0.3.0

Dear Protectors of the Light,

We’re happy to bring you our latest Content Update!

This is our last Update before the holiday period and we wanted to make sure we were able to release some tasty treats for you. With our V0.3.0 Update you can look forward to a New Nightmare, a New Building, New Malices and Blessings along with a host of Quality of Life improvements.

We’ve got work scheduled out for the next year looking to deliver on a host of new Patches, Content Updates and eventually Campaign and Multiplayer.

While we’ll be on break until early next year, we will have a team of people on standby and checking in periodically. So as always please continue to report bugs to our Steam forums or in the bug reporting channel on our Discord, as we’re constantly monitoring those channels.

Check out the full patch notes below:

[h2]Release Notes[/h2]

[h3]Improvements[/h3]

Added in a brand new Nightmare, The Burster.
Added in a new Building, the Treasury.
Added in the new Catalysing Injuries Malice, an area of effect malice that can damage your units and surrounding buildings when the Nightmares destroy your defenses.
Added in the new Rigged Defenses Blessing, an area of effect blessing that can damage enemy Nightmares as they destroy your defenses.
Added new iconography to the Mini-Map. Players will now be able to see their Hero location, Points of Interest, Elite Enemies and discovered Crystals at all times.
Increased the range and damage-per-second of Grand Bellow Towers.
Treasuries, Trade Bazaars and Storehouses will now correctly display what they are buffing above the surrounding buildings.
All negative values in-game (costs, negative gold, villager count etc) now display in Red to indicate it is a negative value clearer.

[h3]Crashes[/h3]

Fixed an issue where the game could crash on placement of the Fishing Lodge.
Fixed an issue where the game would crash if pressing F10 when loading into the game.

[h3]Fixes[/h3]

Fixed an issue Dark Essence would display the Food Icon in the Resource Grid.
Fixed an issue where the Daybreak Blessing wouldn’t work under some conditions.
Fixed an issue with the Trade Bazaar not displaying the correct sell amounts for resources.
Fixed an issue where the Rally Point flag wouldn’t show when the game was paused.
Fixed an issue where certain Skill Tree items would not correctly display the percentage chance.
Fixed an issue where attack speed could be displayed in the negative when using Queen’s Rage and certain Skill Tree Skills.
Fixed an issue with the Booster Skill not working correctly.
Fixed an issue where the Mini-Map could display undiscovered Points of Interest there as you load into the game.
Fixed an issue with the Heroless Hardship appearing on the End of Game Screen regardless of if it is active or not.
Fixed an issue with the Nightmare Difficulty not displaying in red on the Save Game Screen.
Fixed an issue with the player being able to Tab between Crystals after discovering one.
Fixed an issue with Edwin’s health being displayed incorrectly.
Various Localisation fixes for the Fishing Port, Trade Bazaar and Treasury.
Various UI bug fixes.

[h3]Known Issues[/h3]

We’re aware of an issue where in some cases the player can increase the Death Night Counter on the Final Night to 4 Billion Enemies when placing houses in areas illuminated by new Fire Sconces during Final Stand. This has only been found to occur on Development builds.

The Treasury

Dear Protectors of the light,

Today we’re talking about the most interesting of subjects: financing a growing empire! How does one gain a large amount of gold in a short amount of time? With a loan from your local Treasury of course!
Let’s take a look at how you can use bureaucracy to increase your revenue and start raking in that sweet, sweet gold…

[h2]Passive Income[/h2]
As most financial advisors, bankers, and thieves know, the best way to make money is to just take it from others (not legal advice), so if you place the Treasury in a well populated housing district, each of the surrounding houses will give you more income than usual. The Treasury provides a valuable service to your settlement by keeping its citizens gold (mostly) safe, and don’t let anybody tell you otherwise!

[h2]Risky Investments[/h2]
Another important part of being a financial powerhouse is the giving and repaying of loans. With the Treasury, you are now able to take out loans of all sizes, starting with a small loan of 500 Gold. This must be repaid in full (plus 10% interest of course) within a set time or you risk defaulting, which will reduce the income of houses surrounding the Treasury until you manage to pull together the funds to repay. So make sure you weigh the risks before taking the reward!

[h2]IOU[/h2]
And that ladies and gents, is our final blog for this update! Of course, there’s more to come, like quality of life changes to the mini-map, and a new blessing and malice, but you’ll have to read about those in the patch notes once the update is released tomorrow. See you then!