Kingdom Crier #35: Retooled Guided Experience and Paths!
Kingdom Crier #35 is here with an updated Guided Experience, Decorative Paths, a few QOL changes, and a Localization Progress Report!
The Guided Experience has been retooled so that all functionality is available from the start to better reflect the full experience.
The conversation step has been reworked to focus on recruitment to better align with its role in the game.
In addition, there's a new UI that reflects progress with the ability to skip to the Next Step or End the Guided Experience in-game!
Schnazzy!
We've added Decorative Paths to help give your Mortals proper paths between your Buildings.
Dress up those entryways...
Or leverage the cusomization options to make a zen Garden!
We've had early discussions about the roles Slopes, Floors, and Paths could play in movement speed but it's a sizeable chunk of work, so it's on the list of things we're considering for now.
We've updated the Dense Grass Visuals.
They also better reflect Density - nice work Matt!
[h3]Camera[/h3]
The Camera will now pan and rotate a little slower when zoomed in by default (tunable in the options).
As a bonus, height adjustments are now much less jarring. Embrace Verticality!
[h3]Dangerous Animals[/h3]
Dangerous Animals now act as a pack. This simplifies the logistics of clearing them off your lands.
NOTE: This also makes them more... uh... Dangerous. Be careful out there!
[h3]Confirmation Barks[/h3]
Mortals will now Vocalize when you order them to do something using their voice and pitch!
[h3]Imp Invasions[/h3]
We improved the performance both before and during Imp Invasions.
We halved the quantity (but not quality) of the loot they generate to lessen the burden of cleanup afterwards and improve mid-game balance.
[h3]Injuries[/h3]
Treatment Commands are not automatically issued for Injuries that need treatment.
Use Orders to assign your preferred Nurse or cancel the Command if you'd like to wait.
Restart the game and steam to make sure you're up to date!
Minor Updates like this arrive on the Experimental Branch first.
If you have the stomach for brief bouts of instability and want to help us out - switch to (or stay in) the Experimental Beta on Steam and participate in discussions here or on discord.
Expect occasional issues - but know that we appreciate you helping us make the game better!
Localization is well under way!
After much gnashing of teeth, the strings have all been harvested and are ready for translation.
We've chosen a partner to provide the initial translations!
We've chosen French, German, Korean, Japanese, Simplified Chinese and Russian to start with.
We're planning a public Beta, but we're still a month or more out - hang in there.
Join the Official Discord to participate in Development!
If you like the game, please consider leaving a Review. These can help players decide that Noble Fates is worthy of their attention.
Thanks for reading and thanks for playing!
The Noble Fates Team
Guided Experience
The Guided Experience has been retooled so that all functionality is available from the start to better reflect the full experience.
The conversation step has been reworked to focus on recruitment to better align with its role in the game.
In addition, there's a new UI that reflects progress with the ability to skip to the Next Step or End the Guided Experience in-game!
Schnazzy!
Decorative Paths
We've added Decorative Paths to help give your Mortals proper paths between your Buildings.
Dress up those entryways...
Or leverage the cusomization options to make a zen Garden!
We've had early discussions about the roles Slopes, Floors, and Paths could play in movement speed but it's a sizeable chunk of work, so it's on the list of things we're considering for now.
New Grass!
We've updated the Dense Grass Visuals.
They also better reflect Density - nice work Matt!
Quality of Life
[h3]Camera[/h3]
The Camera will now pan and rotate a little slower when zoomed in by default (tunable in the options).
As a bonus, height adjustments are now much less jarring. Embrace Verticality!
[h3]Dangerous Animals[/h3]
Dangerous Animals now act as a pack. This simplifies the logistics of clearing them off your lands.
NOTE: This also makes them more... uh... Dangerous. Be careful out there!
[h3]Confirmation Barks[/h3]
Mortals will now Vocalize when you order them to do something using their voice and pitch!
[h3]Imp Invasions[/h3]
We improved the performance both before and during Imp Invasions.
We halved the quantity (but not quality) of the loot they generate to lessen the burden of cleanup afterwards and improve mid-game balance.
[h3]Injuries[/h3]
Treatment Commands are not automatically issued for Injuries that need treatment.
Use Orders to assign your preferred Nurse or cancel the Command if you'd like to wait.
Patch Notes
Noble Fates 0.29.6.3 Released!
Content Update
Crash Fix
Fix for Crash when Marquee Selecting
Guided Experience
Retool the Guided Experience
Unlock all features immediately
Improve pacing
Progress even when sleeping
Rework Speak To Step
Add Progress tracking
Add Next button (skips to next step)
Add Exit button
Decorative Paths!
Under Decor -> Paths
Add Wood Chip Paths
Add Gravel Paths
Add Stone Paths
Decorative only for now
Dense Grass
Improve visuals
Double frequency
Camera
Improve handling of raising to higher levels
Slow down default near pan speed
Slow down default near rotation speed
Dangerous Animals
Members of a Dangerous Animal Event are now part of a Pack
That Pack will attack as one and defend eachother as you'd expect
This makes them more difficult to deal with
Be careful!
Confirmation Barks!
Add Confirmation when you give a Mortal an Order (right click)
Large Scale Imp Invasions
Improve Performance before and during
Halve the quantity of Loot
Props
Improve sliding behavior when placing
Add subtle variation to break up visual repetition of large structures
Rabid Animals
Fix bug that could cause Rabid Animals to leave the map
Work List
Sort by Count
Flowers
Improve immature Visuals
Ramshackle Props
Improve colorization options
Terraforming
Improve Terraform Block Highlighting
Trees
Add Slight Variation to Tree Heights
Mortals
Remove option to rename Illegitimate Child Families
Performance
Fix bug causing poor performance due to stale Transport Commands
New Game
Decrease the number of Years simulated at the start of a new game
Injuries
Automatically Issue Treat Command for Injuries
Principles
Fix bug with Organic Armor Principles
that caused them to affect Gloves instead of Gauntlets
*thanks for the report*
Restart the game and steam to make sure you're up to date!
Experimental Branch
Minor Updates like this arrive on the Experimental Branch first.
If you have the stomach for brief bouts of instability and want to help us out - switch to (or stay in) the Experimental Beta on Steam and participate in discussions here or on discord.
Expect occasional issues - but know that we appreciate you helping us make the game better!
Localization Progress Report
Localization is well under way!
After much gnashing of teeth, the strings have all been harvested and are ready for translation.
We've chosen a partner to provide the initial translations!
We've chosen French, German, Korean, Japanese, Simplified Chinese and Russian to start with.
We're planning a public Beta, but we're still a month or more out - hang in there.
Discord
Join the Official Discord to participate in Development!
Reviews
If you like the game, please consider leaving a Review. These can help players decide that Noble Fates is worthy of their attention.
Thanks for reading and thanks for playing!
The Noble Fates Team