Bulwark Evolution: Falconeer Chronicles News

I've just uploaded the latest free expansion to Bulwark. Yey we can now all go over the edge.


Lets start off with a new video that sort of reintroduces Bulwark and shows some of the new features
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This one had a long time cooking, but it's finally here and it comes with a lot of new content as well as plenty of bits and bobs. Here's the full changelist

[h2]New Content[/h2]

• Added a literal Edge to the Ursee, south of the Mongres Expanse
  
• Added many more rocks and cliffs to the Edge and the general southern area
  
• Added Admiralty settlement, which increases unit cap +10
  
• Added Gallery Borgia location, which increases unit cap +10
  
• Added Silence of the Cycles settlement, which increases unit cap +10
  
• Added Leviathan's Toothache settlement, which increases unit cap +10
  
• Added three Squidbelly mercenary market locations where mercenaries can be hired
  
• Added Rekker Freehouse Capital units to the mercenary market
  
• Added Murenal Freebooter Capital units to the mercenary market
  
• Added Mantaraider Freebooter Heavy Fighter units the to mercenary market
  
• Added DLC Verne Bannerless units to the mercenary market
  
• Added DLC Piranha Bannerless units to the mercenary market
  
• Added random ambushes to the Edge area
  
• Added random hostiles spawn to the Edge area
  
• Added new top-tier buildings to the Mancer faction
  
• Added a wider arch to stone curtain walls to pass foundations or balconies
  
• Added Mancer battlement props to pie-shaped foundations
  
• Added a Mancer stone first-floor tower
  
• Added an Imperial stone first-floor tower
  
• Added a Freehouse stone first-floor tower
  
• Added a Bannerless stone first-floor tower
  
• Added a memorial location and the wreckage of Oberon's Gate to the Maw
  

[h2]QoL Improvements[/h2]

• You can no longer build near a ‘for sale’ small settlement
  
• Made it so that enemies from random encounters are also shown on the map
  
• Removed the curtain wall going to normal bridges over a foundation or balcony
  
• Made the little foundation extension appear at the same height as its parent
  
• Splinter balance is now shown when buying units from Commanders
  
• Resource flow is no longer hidden when opening a dialogue
  
• The selected tower political overlay is now always visible in resource flow mode, for every tower
  
• Prevented the command Flagship from setting a course across the Edge or into the Maw
  
• Commanders and Captains now correctly show up in freebuild
  
• You can now buy units for free in freebuild
  
• Zoom in photomode allows for greater and smaller FOV values
  
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[h2]Balancing[/h2]

• Prevented random Imperial houses from spawning
  
• Random encounters are matched better with respect to your fleet, having a chance to scale upwards
  
• Slowed down some of the smaller airships for more coherent air fleet behaviour
  
• Shuffled a few Merchant Princes around to make space on the soultree (they changed faction)
  
• Rebalanced the soultree a bit
  
• War levels in normal mode progress a tad more slowly, allowing for a longer low-intensity war to occur
  
• Balanced defending units from other factions to be 140% tougher
  

[h2]Visuals[/h2]

• Improved the Maw/Edge visual effects further
  
• Changed the nighttime colour setup to be moodier and added purple tones.
  
• Added more detail to existing Mancer top-tier buildings
  
• Added more wave splashes on shores and optimized the overall system
  
• Corrected wind direction across sails, flags, waves and windmills to be more consistent
  
• Fixed the stone aqueduct model gaps and other general visual fopars
  
• Fixed the balloon-spawning shader
  
• Added more detail to capital Aairship balloons and added detailed rigging to most
  
• Added an underside to the Mawspring, for folks trying to place it in the Maw or on the Edge.
  
• Fixed up map layout placenames
  
• Revamped Shard settlement
  
• Revamped Imperial Thunderstrike balloon and added more rigging and general detail.
  
• Revamped Bannerless capital Airship balloon and added more rigging and general detail.
  
• Revamped the Imperial Surveyor balloon and added more rigging and general detail.
  
• Revamped the Freehouse Surveyor balloon.
  

[h2]Bugfixes[/h2]

• Fixed stone quarry’s not improving inside Maw
  
• Fixed a bug where the naval gun would jump around on a settlement that just turned hostile
  
• fixed free house top tier houses from having a weird glow
  
• The player fleet health bar is limited to 100%
  
• fixed a major issue where freebuild would autosave over slot 1
  

As always let me know if any bugs pop up and how these additions feel to you.

And here's a little sneak preview of a location I have been dying to share , especially for those deep into the Lore or those that played the Falconeer. A place that felt underwhelming for its significanse in the games. The Gate Memorial

Cheerio,
Tomas

Hi everyone,

About time to update you all with some more visuals from the coming update, so sit back and enjoy some new stuff. The Edge of the World update is also slated to come to steam mid february ;).

[h3] Please support the game's visibility:[/h3]
Before I continue, let me also impress how much any user review is appreciated, even critical ones, they are there to learn from, but also they influence the steam algorithm and the amount itself is critical to the survival of the game. As you can see the review numbers are still modest in this genre and hitting 1000 user reviews in the first year is definitely one of the biggest goals for any game to reach. Every review is appreciated beyond believe and powers me on to keep adding more to this game and universe, thank you.


[h3]On with the Important stuff!:[/h3]
Here's a video look off that new Bannnerless building, the "Leviathan's Toothache" as it's now called.
this one is going to get a little refurbish likely as it will match some new enemy units that I've just finished.
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[h3]New Enemies[/h3]
Here' are those new enemy units I'm adding as a Bannerless clan. They represent the most criminal and least constrained Bannerless Clan and also will be the ones raiding your traderoutes. More like actual Pirates. There's what basically amounts to a missile frigate called the "Verne" and a smaller fast airship called a "piranha"

[h3]Squidbelly Mercenary Market[/h3]
There is also a new location on the Ursee called the "Squidbelly Mercenary Market" these are dotted across the map and aren't for acquisition rather they are neutral locations where you can buy units directly, These units are attached to your escort fleet only and serve as an early game source of units for splinters.

This new green stone style architecture is a really new discovery for me, quite into it. It has a whiff of freebooter to it which is exciting for various reasons.
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The market sells some basic units, that freehouse capital ship of the last blogpost but also it sells some Freebooter units previously only sparesly seen in random encounters (if at all).

Here's the default list of units it will sell. You can also get rid of your existing units at the market, a much requested feature.

• Freehouse Warbird
  
• Freehouse Wrekker Capital Ship
  
• Freebooter Mantaraider
  
• Freebooter Murenal
  

[h3]Another new unique building that raises population cap[/h3]
The Imperial Admiralty is somewhat less dramatic than the other two new buildings I showed off last time, as someone on the forums mentioned. This actually gave me the kick under the ass to finally do what needed to be done. Make Shard proud of its historical legacy and make it more unique. Befitting its important role in the War of the Tree. Thus the Borgia Gallery was borne, a hub of spycraft and a memorial to their most illustrious spymaster (play the Falconeer to understand that ;). It also got some much needed fortifications making it a much tougher nut to crack.


Finally here's a little preview vid of the new units in action above "Leviathan's Toothache" .
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[h3]Thank you all![/h3]
And thanks everyone for the maintained support, I know this game and myself are doing things differently and experimentally sometimes, but the fact so many of you let me know you are enjoying all this work really helps me keep going. This industry isn't kind to things that go off the beaten path and the fact that I'm still here making this games fairly on the outside of things is a testament to Steam and the gamers therein like yourself.

And don't forget to leave a recommendation, it's literally survival out here.
Cheers,
Tomas

Hi everyone.

Not much words today.. cuz the images are good. Quite happy with these three new buildings/settlements that will be perched near or atop the edge in the upcoming update.

Each of these new locations is offcourse unlockable and with them you can gain the three buildings each raising your unit cap. An oft requested feature. Each faction gets one and they will represent each faction's attempt to claim the Edge for themselves.

[h2]So here we go[/h2]
Friendly reminder, the "edge of the world" is the actual edge. With plenty of new real estate.
I am not sure what this one is going to be called , but it's looking pretty 'totem-esque'. What's your suggestions, lemme know and it might make it into the game.
I've called this one Ursee Orthanc,, but well that's what it is a lovely homage. Ingame it's called Silence of the Cycles and its a beacon and research base for the Edge.
The imperial one is simply called the admiralty, hope it looks the part.

So that's the tease for today, there will be new units and a new mercenary guild locations to directly buy units. And quite a bunch more stuff. Hard at work making some of those

Here's a little tease to end it of a freehouse capital ship I'm working on :


Alright that's all for today, hope you enjoy a little peek.
Don't forget to leave a user review. It's literally beyond purchase the most valuable thing you can grant me in 2025 ;), survival!

Cheerio,
Tomas

Happy 2025

releasing a small maintenance patch, that had been on beta for a bit.
cheers and enjoy the new year! More to come soon.

• made traderoute resource icons smaller and scala-ble on map to be more discernable
  
• the inventory centers on the heal button if you only have the surveyor and no taskforce
  
• interval of waves reduced if your fleet is still small (auto balancing in total conquest mode)
  
• reduced height of house overlap prevention check to prevent weird placings (edited)
  
• prevented an issue where your traderoutes on the map would go invisible after long play
  

Hi everyone ,

A small update to the beta branch with the following changes

• made traderoute resource icons smaller on map to be more discernable
  
• the inventory centers on the heal button if you only have the surveyor and no taskforce
  
• interval of waves reduced if your fleet is still small (auto balancing in total conquest mode)
  
• reduced height of house overlap prevention check to prevent weird placings
  
• potential fix for traderoutes suddenly not being shown on the map properly.
  

cheers!,
Tomas