Thronefall News

Dear Queens and Kings,
This week we implemented some long-wished-for quality of life features. They are meant to speed up things a little bit when growing your realm and deploying troops during daytime. Along with that we also did some small balancing tweaks and minor bug fixes. Here are the details:

Quality of Life:

• The player character’s horse (it’s named Hasty by the way) is 30% faster during the day

• You can now move while you are dead to influence your respawn position

• Your units now immediately teleport to their target location when you place them during the day

• The required button hold time of the unit command button when putting your units in “hold position” mode got reduced from 1 sec to 0.5 sec.

• When purchasing buildings, the coin bar now fills up ~20% faster



Enemies:


• Barrel Knights no longer have the "Armored Against Ranged" tag, they take significantly more damage from ranged attacks now.

Player Units:
• Fire archers splash damage dealt reduced by -10%

• Fire archers "only" deal +200% damage against siege units (down from +300%)

Fixes:

• fixed some rare save/load bugs on Neuland

• it’s possible again to resign/retry during the first day

• when getting defeated in the first night, the “retry day” feature now works as expected

• leaderboard and in-game perk selection screens now display the correct level name


We hope those changes make expanding your realm even more joyful. As always, thank you so much for being such a fantastic community!

All the best,
Jonas & Paul

Dear Queens and Kings,
After extensive testing on the beta branch we now finally feel ready to roll out the save game feature we announced a couple of weeks ago. Due to its technical nature we expected this one to be quite error prone in its first iterations – and it was. It was amazing how thoroughly you tested this update and there is no way we could’ve found all those little issues without your help. So a *massive* Thank you to everyone who helped to polish this update with us.


Here is what changed:
• Your games get now *saved* after sunrise every morning. That means you can leave your sessions anytime and just continue them at a later point. When selecting a level there is now a “Continue” button if you left a running match.

• If you got defeated you can now choose to retry from the last morning too. No need to grind through the whole level all over again if you wish to explore the same strategy anyway.

• This option is also available in the pause menu, allowing you to instantly restart from the last morning.

• We added a score bonus of 10% for finishing a level *without* retries

• When deciding to restart the level from the beginning you can now immediately re-pick your perks and weapon without returning to the main menu. This works from the pause menu as well as from the victory/defeat screen.



That’s it for this update. As always, thank you for being such a fantastic community. Right now we’re working on an exciting new feature we can’t wait to share with you!

All the best,
Jonas & Paul

[h3]Dear Queens and Kings,
[/h3]We just rolled out an experimental update to the beta branch. It is something many of you have asked for, and rightly so: Saving your progress in ongoing matches.

[h3]New Features:
[/h3]If you quit during a play-through you can later choose to continue your last run when selecting a level in the overworld. Every map has its own savegame, so you can have simultaneous ongoing sessions in different levels.

With this comes another much requested feature: When losing (or resigning in the pause menu) you can now choose between two ways to retry the level: Either restart the whole level from the beginning or rewind to the last morning before you got defeated. This means you no longer have to grind through the whole level all over again if you just lost by an inch and like to explore the same strategy again.

However, if you really want a fresh start we have yet another new quality of life feature for you: When restarting the level you can now pick a new loadout of weapons, perks and mutators instantly without heading back to the level select menu.

[h3]How to access the beta branch:
[/h3]Please note those changes aren’t yet live on the default branch of Thronefall. Here is how you access the beta branch: Right click Thronefall in your Steam library and click on properties. There in the Betas tab select the publicbeta branch.



The beta branch is meant for testing so you might still encounter some smaller issues along the way. That being said, we’re very grateful for your help! A feature like this is inherently complex and it’s almost impossible for us to catch all of the bugs on our own. If you feel like it please give it a spin and report any issues you may find.

We hope you’re as excited as we are for this new update. We’ll roll this out to the default branch as soon as all major bugs are fixed. Thank you for being such a fantastic community!

All the best,
Jonas & Paul

tl;dr:
Those features are now live on the beta branch: - saving progress during ongoing matches, you can quit and resume your session at a later point
- after defeat you can chose to retry from the morning before
- instantly restarting and picking a new loadout without returning to the menu

Dear Queens and Kings,
This week's update provides a couple of bug fixes and quality of life improvements we wanted to roll out before focusing on delivering more content. Among many other things we’ve implemented a much requested feature: You can now select all units belonging to a building by holding the unit command button next to it. This makes it a lot easier to sort the different parts of your army, especially if they’re all mixed up after a hard night of fighting. You can find the detailed patch notes at the bottom of this post.



Thank you so much for thoroughly stress-testing the new map Uferwind we released with the last update. We’re so happy about the warm reception and appreciate the comprehensive feedback you shared with us!

Along with that also a big thanks to everyone who participated in the community survey. We understand a lot better which parts of Thronefall you enjoy and which parts still need some love. It will be an invaluable resource for future design decisions. We’re already working on some exciting new things and can’t wait to share them with you!

As always, thank you folks for being such a fantastic and supportive community.

All the best,
Jonas & Paul

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[h3]PATCH NOTES 1.25:
[/h3] New Features:

You can quick-select units directly at their corresponding barracks. This allows you to separate and manage your units more easily.

Lightning Staff Bug Fixes:

- The lightning staff active ability damage was not affected by any upgrades or perks except for the blacksmith upgrades. This bug should be fixed now. Castle center upgrades and perks should affect it correctly now. (Big ooopsie!!)

- The lightning staff no longer deals double damage to its primary attack target (this bug fix is a small nerf, a lucky coincidence considering the buff above)

Light Spear Bug Fixes:

- Assassin’s Training upgrade cooldown reduction is actually applied to this weapon now (Oops.)

More Bug Fixes:

- Big harbors now adjust their income correctly when upgrading them immediately

- Fixed some navigation problems for flying units on Uferwind

- Archery range shows its hp bar when damaged

- Fixed a bug for the Big Harbors perk that only increased the boat and income capacity by one instead of the promised two. This bug fix is a buff to an already strong perk so the upgrade cost of big harbors is increased by +3 when playing with this perk to compensate for this change. (The initial build cost remains unaffected.)

- Bow and Dagger can no longer stab into the air

- Golem splash damage can no longer damage air units

- Upgrading destroyed buildings respawns them now (when playing with the God of Destruction mutator)

- Builder’s Guild can no longer upgrade the blacksmith, which caused a bunch of spinoff bugs that should all be fixed as well now.

- The blacksmith does not make any upgrade progress when destroyed during the night

- Firewing no longer gets unnecessarily close to enemies because its attack range has been reduced to match how close it gets to enemies. In return that distance has been increased by a small amount.

- Unit anchor circles are more visible on Frostsee

- Units should no longer be able go get stuck outside of the level boundaries (for real this time)

- Fixed some minor issues on Uferwind. One of the boats is no longer positioned inside of the dock. The houses in the middle of the map are slightly more separated to prevent pathfinding issues for units.

- Treasure Hunter Perk shows the correct amount of gold in the tooltips

- Fixed a bug where the anti-air telescope perk caused the boss fight on Frostsee to crash and softlock the game

- Elite Warriors perk no longer gives the barracks an abnormal amount of health

- Fixed a problem with Builder’s Guild that allowed you to upgrade buildings during the night.

- Adjusted hitbox of the gold mine to make it less likely to be attacked from a different height level (mainly relevant for one specific spot on Durststein).

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[h2]The time to call the champions for the event has come. Drumroll.......[/h2]

[h2]Champions🏆[/h2]

1st place: ItsMe_Raven with 66295 points
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2nd place: LTU_Adas with 65441 points
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3rd place: Lich46 with 64691 points
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Congratulations to you 3!!

You folks blew us away with how far you pushed this challenge. The race was fierce to the very end!

As this was our first Thronefall community event, if you have any feedback, and / or ideas for the next event, or if we should do things any differently, please make sure to tell us, replying here or on Discord. We're keen on experimenting with some different ideas here to see what works best for Thronefall.

Thank you all for participating in the Desert Lightning challenge!

[h3]Take care![/h3]