Armello News

Hope you’re all well, it’s been a minute. We’ve been busy with chaos and development in the studio and I’m happy to confirm that a much needed patch has landed live. This attends to major issues that have been solved with outright bug fixes but also design improvements so I’m not going to divide ‘em into features or bug fixes. Instead there will be one ominous category referred to as “The Lot”.

Below the notes, I wanted to share some studio insight into why this patch took the time that it did. Check that out if that sort of insight interests you. The TLDR is that we sincerely appreciate your patience as we worked on these bugs and we really hope you dig it.

• Fixed players who disconnect or abandon not being correctly replaced with AI
  
• The Party Menu now contains a "Go To Multiplayer" option that will take your straight to the Multiplayer Game Select screen.
  
• Stranger Games rulesets are now back! Click on the "?" on the game mode panel to see this week’s rules.
  
• Custom Private Multiplayer games are back, the party leader can change and set custom rules after you've started a Private game.
  
• Fixed drop shadows on main menu items being drawn twice
  
• Fixed an issue where Skeeve's Shop could not be exited if opened from the inventory screen
  
• The public multiplayer queue now prevents lobbies that contain AI from entering it
  
• Fixed extra peril symbols added by curse of fate not recognizing burned rot cards.
  
• Updated multiple areas where white text was hard to read against the tapestry background.
  
• Updated alignment of buttons in the GDPR mode select screen
  
• Fixed Hero mastery XP earned while offline not correctly syncing when a connection is re-established
  
• Fixed Hero select portrait tiles layering above the clan banner in hero select
  

• If a player fails to complete hero select for an online game in the time allowed, buttons may become unresponsive. It is safe to abandon and seek a new game if this occurs
  

So I wanted to make a few acknowledgements and perhaps open a little window into our dev process. First and foremost, I want to recognise that the bugs that shipped with v2.0, along with the time that it has taken to remedy them is unacceptable. Those that have been cutting down hordes of AFK AI, and those bummed that they can’t mess with House Rules in their game nights - we see you, and thank you for sticking around long enough to read this.

As to the why, our biggest issues boil down to resources at the moment. The studio is growing rapidly to support expanding ventures both old and new, and how we make games is completely different to what it was when Armello was just a wee child. Ah the simplicity of so few platforms, the lack of server infrastructure. They were beautiful, basic days.

Our processes are changing and growing and we're on the hunt for key people to assist us in that growth. Luckily we are hiring, and we are doing our best to scour the globe for talented folks to join the crew. Hey, if that’s you - please hit us up.

I say this to provide insight rather than excuse. Every time we cook the goose, and we’ve done our fair share of goose cooking (bird clan unconfirmed), we learn a little more and we grow a little more. Your continued support is why we do this stuff, and we are sensitive to the fact that ruined experiences for you, ultimately hurt us.

Sincerely, thank you for your extended patience. I hope you dive into some custom games and immolate each other’s faces off. Tear down some friendships and have fun while doing it. May the dice roll in your favour, and ours.

What's up everyone, hopefully you're all having a good week and livin' yo best lives. I come bearing the delicious fruits from the intricate codery orchard, and they are ready to be eaten.

As always, thank you so much for your bug reports and your patience, this patch is LIVE.

• Fixed Thai system language players (and others) seeing a 'Steam Not Authorized' on game start
  
• Commendations are now correctly applying and awarding.
  
• Resolved further issues stopping GDPR-Offline players from starting Single Player games (not being able to Ready in Hero Select).

• Players sharing DLC in private multiplayer lobbies may have difficulties readying up.
  
• Season 1/Wyld Chests may not correctly open.
  
• A.I may not immediately take over when someone disconnects from a multiplayer game.
  

Lena’s here with some exciting news.

If you’ve read our patch notes you might already know that as a part of the 2.0 launch, we’ve rolled out something called Community localisation. It is a way for the community to help us polish the existing Armello localisation AND get rewards in the process.

In the past (almost) 4 years, we’ve received very useful feedback from various community members about Armello’s translation. You’ve made valuable and meaningful suggestions, pointed out mistakes and overall were very eager to make the game truly localised, not just translated.

Now, we finally had the opportunity to implement a tool that we hope would allow you to make Armello even better in your own language.

I am also really excited to see that some of you have already jumped in and started making your suggestions. All of us in the studio are grateful that you found the time to help us and I can’t stress enough the importance of your contribution. Thank you!

Now, to the details.


Our project is hosted here (you’ll need to create an account to contribute).
All 12 of Armello’s supported languages are up and running, awaiting your suggested improvements.


The process is pretty straightforward - you make suggestions, or leave a comment, and others will vote on it. We review your suggestions and can add them to the game!

As this is a work in progress, and we’re testing this together with you, there might be questions along the way, so of course feel free to reach out to us when you need to. We’ve created a separate subforum for the translation-related discussions as well, right here .


We’ll be handing out either an Armello base game key OR a DLC key of choice to the top 10 monthly contributors. At the end of each month, we’ll determine who the top contributors are by analysing all of the strings that can be implemented into Armello offer a Steam key of the contributors choice, simple as that.

Please be patient with us whilst we work out these new processes, we’ll review and refine the reward scheme moving forward.

Howdy folks!

Here are a couple more fixes for you. Enjoy and you'll hear from us after the weekend!

• Fixed an issue where players would be faced with an indefinite loading screen when attempting to access the Clan Grounds, Store, or any other screen that required server information. Folks experiencing this can reactivate their DLC!
  
• Resolved an issue where Hero models in Hero select became invisible while editing loadout.
  
• Fixed an issue where the main menu text would go black after leaving or exiting a Multiplayer game. (We think this has fixed all cases, but please send us a bug report if it still occurs!)
  
• Fixed an issue for players who have their system language (not game language) set to Turkish, and would experience tiles/terrain missing.
  
• Resolved an issue where accessing Clan Grounds while you have a game available to reconnect to would cause an NMA/hard lock.

• Players with their system language in Thai will get a 'Steam not authorized' message. (We are tracking and investigating this issue!)
  Please note that you can workaround this issue by changing your system language
• Commendations not awarding/functioning correctly (we have a fix for a future patch)
  
• A.I not taking over a player who quit (currently investigating!)
  
• The King is not playing his victory specific death animations.
  

Thank you for your continued vigilance and bug reports! Get on in there and kill that King.

HEY folks, hope you're all well! If we haven't met, I'm Darcy and I'll be your LoG host for the day, how are the appetizers? Today we'll be serving a couple of hot juicy fixes from the codery oven straight to your plates.

We've also got some known issues and workarounds for you.

• Fixed an issue where selecting 'Offline' in the introductory Privacy Statement caused significant menu/visual issues (This often made Ghor appear with 99 stats, aka the notorious Ghor99 bug)
  
• Resolved an issue where quest results would not correctly display the actual outcome. (showing false successes and false failures)
  
• Fixed an issue where pressing ESC shortly after entering options/credits submenu would cause significant visual issues.

• Players who own DLC may experience an infinite loading screen upon entering an area of the menu that requires server data (Clan Grounds, Inventory, Store, etc. etc.)
  This is our highest priority bug. A partial workaround for this issue is to turn all DLC off in the Steam Library. Unfortunately this means users impacted by this issue will not be able to access their DLC heroes until a fix is implemented.
  
• In-game land/tiles appearing blank or missing.
  This is impacting users who have their system language set to Turkish. A temporary workaround is to change your system language and restart the Armello client.
  
• Steam not Authorized appearing on game launch.
  This is impacting users who have their system language set to Thai. A temporary workaround is to change your system language and restart the Armello client.
  
• Commendations screen not functioning correctly
  In this patch, we've implemented additional logging/tracking to more accurately determine the issue.
  
• A.I not immediately taking over a disconnected/player who quits a public multiplayer game.
• Main menu text going black after returning from Multiplayer.
• Wyld Chests may not open correctly.

Bless all of you and your continued reports and patience. We're hard at work with fixes for the above known issues, hopefully we have some good news for you soon.