Arcane Wilds Playtest News

Update 0.4.15 smoothes mission experience and unit attack behavior.

Patch Notes:

Mission:
- Missions no longer have time limits (except Horde missions)
- Military Hospitals are now available in missions

Gameplay:
- Idle units that are attacked now counterattack automatically
- Automatically attacking units return back if they moved away too far
- Reduced attack range of melee units from 1 to 0.5

Menu:
- Lobby join filters are no longer saved between game restarts

User Interface:
- Quickcast: Abilities can be executed on the release of the keyboard shortcut

Update 0.4.14 adds cheater AI difficulties and a lot of quality of life improvements and bugfixes.

Patch Notes:

AI:
- Cheater AI is now available in custom lobbies
- Resolved an issue where armies of the AI could wait indefinitely

Mission:
- Wave spawned through side objective does no longer chase indefinitely
- Combat unit stats rebalancing
- Quickselect keys now work correctly on the home island
- Added a hint for players to build a depot

Gameplay:
- Harvesters now distribute faster to available resources
- Commands to targets that are not reachable are no longer executed
- The relic can no longer be dropped into an unfinished harbor

Academy:
- Rebalanced medal difficulties

Stability:
- Resolved a crash when building fence gates
- Carriage attack projectile is now visible
- Resolved a crash that could occur when removing AI from the lobby
- Host no longer stops the game when UI errors occur

Other:
- The game now pauses in solo play when the main menu opens
- Chat messages duplicates no longer appear during pause

Update 0.4.13 introduces a new spellcaster, the Standard Bearer who empowers nearby troops.

Patch Notes:

Features:
- Standard Bearer replaces Field Medic
- New cannon ability: Cannon retreats fast without the need of turning first.
- The military hospital now heals nearby units when essence is stored inside it.
- Exploding burrowed barrels now causes a chain reaction

Standard Bearer abilities:
- Place standard: Units near the standard have faster movement speed
- Parry: Melee units near the bearer receive extra armor
- Incite: Ranged units near the bearer deal more damage (previously the cannon's 3rd ability)

Visuals:
- New Firing Range model
- Improved various icons

User Interface:
- Edge scrolling and mouse capture can be set in video settings
- Build dragging of palisades completes on mouse release

Modding:
- Error handling improvements
- UI variables can be initialized separately
- Mod ui references are now strings instead of imports
- Type reps usage syntax is now always with "." instead of ":".

Update 0.4.12 brings customizable health bars, faction rebalancing and introduces Steam Cloud.

Patch Notes:

Steam:
- Mission saves, academy progress and user settings will now be synced between devices through Steam cloud.

Balancing:
- Health and damage was adjusted across all units, upgrades, abilities and structures to make veteran and elite upgrades less impactful
- Cleric heal over time duration doubled but health per second halved
- Sharpshooter cost increased to 120
- Structures are repaired faster

Other:
- Healthbar visibility and color can now be configured
- Resolved an issue where a Saloon that was upgraded directly to II would not give the one time fame bonus
- Tribal Ritual II requirement is now correctly removed from tooltip once acquired
- Damage vs structures is now shown in the attack breakdown tooltip

Modding:
- Lobby members having mismatching lua files, will now cause an error indicating this
- Unit range UI now allows decimal places
- Production charge UI now use string input
- Units with speed 0 no longer get pushed while aiming
- Resolved a crash when editing the terrain under a structure
- Testmap was removed but uploaded to the workshop

The first Arcane Wilds Playtest is going live today!

This is your chance to try out Arcane Wilds in an early stage and give your feedback and suggestions back to us developers.

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