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[/p][p]Hello again Nobles! Nice to see you again.[/p][p]We're pleased to announce King of the Castle 1.3.2 "ShinyQuarks"! What's inside?[/p][p][/p][h2]Fixing Save Files[/h2][p]Our last update, 1.3 "Morgrim", sadly introduced a bug to some player's save files. [/p][p]We had to change serialization to get Twitch Mode re-working and this caused issues with continuing and importing game saves. If you had this issue, you'd have seen a map had no events or a mid-turn screen (i.e. Taxes) that was blank.[/p][p]Rather annoyingly, this was also not easily reproducible as only a small number of players had this issue.[/p][p]We've now narrowed down the bugs causing this and this update means:[/p]
- [p]If you have a broken save you will now be able to open that game and find it magically fixed![/p]
- [p]Creating and playing with existing saves are both working as normal[/p]
- [p]Exporting and Importing saves are also both working as normal[/p]
- [p]And finally, we've made sure this works with exporting/importing saves to and from Windows 10 and 11, which caused a fair bit of the bugs.[/p]
[p]Of course if you do still have any issues please leave a comment below. Just make sure you've updated first![/p][p]This wouldn't have been possible if it wasn't for the following members of our community pitching in to help us. The following deserve huge kudos for this update:[/p]
- [p]Tony Hawk's Alpha Centauri[/p]
- [p]Morgrim Moon[/p]
- [p]Alx[/p]
- [p]Bonkoul[/p]
- [p]PhoenixRising3[/p]
- [p]And the incredible Shinyquarks, whose original discoveries on the Discord were invaluable in tracking down this error[/p]
[p]Thanks to each of them. We're very blessed to have them and all of our wonderful fans.[/p][p][/p][h2]A request from us[/h2][p]We'd first like to apologize for the save bug. It's a pain, but updating an older game like King of the Castle while supporting multiple Windows platforms was always risky.[/p][p]We've responded as quickly as humanely possible while making sure it was tested to high heaven, so I hope this goes some way to alleviating the disappointment some players had. [/p][p]A few did let us know about that disappointment by leaving negative reviews - To be clear,
this 100% fine with us and totally their right to do so.[/p][p]However, we also know that, though reviewers say they'll re-review once a problem is solved, in reality that doesn't always happen.[/p][p]We'd love to be wrong! And again, to be very clear,
this is also 100% fine with us and totally their right to do.[/p][p]However, King of the Castle got knocked into "mixed" recent reviews on Steam as a result. [/p][p]As a games studio, you're judged nearly entirely on this somewhat arbitrary value and, not to give too much away, we recently missed out on an opportunity because of it.[/p][p]We want to make more weird, cool games like King of the Castle - If you want us to too
then a review of King of the Castle would go a long way right now.[/p][p]Want to leave a negative review instead?
This is also 100% fine with us and totally your right to do![/p][p]Also, please don't pester negative reviewers to change their review or generally berate them. Not everyone likes KOTC and that's OK.[/p][p]We wouldn't ask if it wasn't so (annoyingly) important for us at the moment.[/p][p]And sorry to ask this so forwardly! It's probably not 'the done thing' but you taking 2 mins to write a review would really, really help us.[/p][p][/p][h2]A word on the Unity update[/h2][p]You might have seen we updated earlier to resolve a security issue in Unity. [/p][p]For the avoidance of doubt, this update includes all the changes from that fix. Updating straight to this version will include those changes.[/p][p][/p][p]That's all for now! Enjoy committing regicide against your mates, and hopefully we'll be back with some exciting news by the end of the year. [/p][p]See you all soon,[/p][p]S[/p]