9 Kings News

Another chunky patch! Hope you guys like the surprises we've got for ya :)

• ABRAKABADRA: new decree that turns enemies into FROGS!
  
• Increased max number of enemy troops
  
• Battle cry on final battle!
• Yeaaaaaaaaargh*
  
• Anticipated Expansion year to improve player's strategizing capabilities.
  
• Offering card was updated! You now have one more card to delete plots (and get a cool bonus out of it)
  
• Exploration decree is now stronger!
  
• Optimized explosion FXs drastically improving end game performance.
  
• Optimized Shaman AI, improving game performance.
  
• French language is now available (santé!)
  
• Endless mode difficulty curve is less steep in the early years.
  
• Endless mode difficulty curve should be harder in later years.
  
• New Baron mode: try your skills in a higher difficulty!
  
• Boss battles are now more challenging
  
• Units killed by the Mangler will now also make Demon's Altar stronger.
  
• Several new UI indicators and tooltips added.
  
• Hovering over card types now tell you what card type they are. Now you can make sure you know what is a tower and what is a summoning building!
  
• Improved UI during battle.
  
• Adding Enchantments to plots will now trigger a correspondent text FX
  
• Cemetery plots now shows its summoned Skeletons stats.
  
• Boar and Shaman plots now tell you their buff effects.
  
• Added a delay in the Merchant event to prevent misclicking.
  
• Made sure that when your castle is at its max level, Castle cards stop appearing in the game.
  
• Fixed a very weird Unity glitch that cause the game to not properly shut down on some computers.
  

Let us know how the Endless Mode is feeling for you! We're still balancing it out and would love to hear your experiences.

And oh! If you haven't yet, don't forget to wishlist the full game. It really helps!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2784470/9_Kings/

Love,
Sad Socket team

[PATCH NOTE] 9 Kings 356

This patch improves performance across a wide range of builds and introduces new QoL features. Please keep us posted on your experience with the game!

• Overhauled unit spawn/death performance, significantly improving builds with high unit counts.
• Buffed the “Burglary” decree (now has double the effect).
• Castle cards now only appear when your castle can still be leveled up.
• Leveling up a tile now triggers a “LEVEL UP!” FX.
• View mode now works properly during diplomat events.
• Improved the re-roll system.
• Spore (Mycelium) stats are now displayed on its plot.

We keep working on optimizations and you should now experience fewer bugs than ever. We're also throwing in a few surprises! Check it out:

- Two new surprise decrees. Play the game and find out what they do!
- QoL: Added an option where all your building effects can be triggered simultaneously.
- Units marching now follow your chosen game speed.
- Improved damage/upgrade indicator (performance & visuals).
- Improved spell performance on Endless Mode.
- Improved unit spawning on Endless Mode.
- Fixed a bug that caused "Bargain" decree to not work properly.
- Balancing improvements.

Greetings, everyone!

Today we're proud to announce that we'll be joining forces with The King is Watching in a future Steam bundle that will include both games at a discounted price.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2981670/The_King_is_Watching_Demo/

For those who haven't checked out The King is Watching yet (you should), it's an extremely addictive roguelike kingdom builder, somewhat similar to 9 Kings, but also entirely different. We had tons of fun playing it, and we're sure you'll have fun too :)

https://store.steampowered.com/app/3122250/9_Kings_Demo/

If you enjoy both games, but can't decide which one you should get, now you can be the king of both!

More on this soon! Make sure to join us in the Steam forums ;)

Love,
Sad Socket team

Hey, everyone! We've been working on bug fixes with full force and wanted to share a hot-fix with you asap.

- Fixed 8 potential causes for Endless mode game crash
- Revamped scaling on Endless mode so that the progression feels fairer.
- It is now possible to go beyond year 42 (phew)
- SFX mixing tweaks
- Attack speed stat improvements

Expect more optimization updates soon! Please keep us posted on your experience with the current version, specially regarding the Endless Mode. We're listening, pumped, and determined to make this build flawless!

Love,
Sad Socket team