Help WFTO Become the "Labor of Love"
Darkest greetings Underlords,
The year is quickly approaching its close and the incredible Steam Autumn sale is once again upon us, with incredible deals all round (including WFTO at up to 75% off!). And alongside them is the reincarnation of the Steam Awards for 2018.
For our long-time fans you may remember that we made our bid last year, hoping to be your nomination for the “Labour of Love” award. Alas we were unsuccessful, but we feel 2018 has been a big year for the game, as we sent it out on a high with the massive Patch 2.0 and The Under Games expansion. So today we approach you once more, hat in hand, to humbly request your nomination for this prestigious honour.
As before we’re hoping that this announcement doesn’t appear self-serving, but instead accurately reflects what we - and hopefully you, our wonderful fans - feel about the journey of WFTO over the past six years.
We’d like to believe that our commitment to the game, and our dedication in listening and reacting to the community, are indicative of our continued love for WFTO and its fanbase.
To illustrate our full bid, we’ve updated our infographic to contain a full summary of our journey to War for the Overworld 2018. Afterwards, you may also like to check out our previous bid, as it remains very relevant today.
If our graphic has already convinced you then you can vote on our Store Page right now. If not, then read on for our run-down of an awesome year!
War for the Overworld in 2018
We don’t believe that it’s an exaggeration to say that 2018 has been the best year yet for WFTO. At the end of 2017 we promised that Patch 2.0 and The Under Games expansion would be the largest combined content drop ever - it turned out to be just that, and then some!
The Under Games introduced a whole new type of campaign, built around more skirmish-like gameplay, and included 2 new game modes and 3 new Underlords, each with their own unique traits and playstyles. It has become a distinctive and highly-replayable experience, unlike anything in WFTO thus far. But it also had this lot going for it:
- A campaign which expands the story and lore of WFTO, and builds upon the relationships between the devilish Underlords
- New units, including the mighty Thunderling and volatile Banshee
- New items like the Moongate, Mana Vault, Alchemine Storm Vortex and Infernal Urn, Reincarnation and Thunderling Potions
New Units, Items and Features galore!It was a huge expansion, but the greatest wealth of content came in the free update - the gargantuan Patch 2.0 “Untold Depths”. This also included many features developed for The Under Games, made free to all.
This content drop touched more parts of the game than any patch before; it’s the largest single patch we’ve ever released, and included hundreds upon hundreds of changes. Any part of Patch 2.0 alone would have made a great feature for a patch, but together they redefined the WFTO experience.
There were so many changes in the patch it’d be impossible to list them all, but here are a few highlights:
- Remastered Main Campaign - We revisited the main campaign, smoothing and polishing the experience, and remastering the story with new cutscenes.
- Scripting in the Map Editor - We released our scripting tools in the form of Mighty Script, allowing creators to make their own scripted scenarios and campaigns. (As we expected, it didn’t take long for our community to get busy - check out the Steam Workshop, or our recent October Community Spotlight.)
- Map Editor Support for Nearly All Game Modes - We added support to the Map Editor for the new games modes introduced in The Under Games, and the fan-favourite My Pet Dungeon mode!
- Underlord AI Completely Reworked - We rebuilt the Skirmish AI from the ground up. It’s now more menacing and challenging than ever, capable of using the Veins of Evil to its fullest, just as a player would.
- Sacrifice Ritual - We added this fan-favourite as a callback to a certain older dungeon management game that you might know, allowing you to sacrifice units to receive a special one in return.
- Much More - We added new unit variants for the Empire including the Wizard and Lord of the Land, new terrain themes (Sanguine and Obsidian), and more spit and polish than a Chunder would give to their anvil!
Patch 2.0 to us represented a chance to make good on many of our community’s long-standing wishes, and also to revisit some areas of the game that we felt needed a little love.
We also placed a special focus on opening the game up as much as possible for the community to develop their own content, to keep the game alive as we moved on as a dev team.
Mighty Script puts the power in the player's handsLove For All Time
All in all, 2018 has been an incredible year! Though we are now done with mainline development on WFTO as we look towards the future and new projects, we have not left War for the Overworld out in the cold. As our firstborn, it will always hold a special place in our hearts, and we plan to continue to support it. We will be returning to it at occasional intervals to answer your issues, and maybe even introduce a few small new features.
Rest assured, War for the Overworld will always be our first love, and we hope to see it alive for many years to come through both our continued support, and the community content pouring into the Workshop.
Looking at War for the Overworld today, it is a very different game from the one we first launched in 2015. Thanks to your support we’ve been able to dedicate ourselves to it for three and a half further years, to make it ever larger and greater. For all of us, this has always been a labour of love, and we hope that you will consider us for your nomination in the Labour of Love category.
If you believe that it may just match your criteria for that great honour, then you can vote for us on our Store Page. And remember, you can still grab the game and its expansions at a great discount!
You can also nominate us for the “Best Developer” award, if you believe that Brightrock Games are worthy of your vote.
As always, thank you for your encouragement and support.
Cheers,
– Brightrock Games Team
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