Northgard Conquest

Hey everyone!

We're really proud to finally present you the third major free update, and the biggest one yet: Northgard Conquest.

Northgard Conquest is a standalone game-mode that can be played solo or co-op, with a succession of various challenges offering a gaming expansion of +100 hours. The difficulty of the co-op mode will be based on strong collaboration between players.

Forget the lore, choose your clan and let's fight!







Northgard Conquest offers you the possibility to choose your own experience when facing the harsh challenges of Northgard Conquest.






If you want to challenge yourself and personalise your Clan with unique bonuses whilst counting on your own skills and decisions, then choose the Northgard Conquest solo-mode, defeat the other clans and claim the Throne.

Believe in your strengths, establish the best strategy, exploit resources in an optimal way and build the most formidable clans to endure Northgard’s relentless hostility!





Another addition is the ability to share your adventure and overcome the harsh obstacles with the power of collaboration in the new Northgard Conquest co-op mode.

Northgard Conquest encourages teams to experiment and discover every combo available in this game-mode! But beware, Northgard Conquest is a cunning opponent! Having two in a team means double power, double bonuses and of course, double the problems! But nothing is impossible for fearless vikings.

Plan a global strategy, divide the tasks, collaborate, and master the continent together!







Northgard Conquest introduces a brand new way to present and organize all the different challenges Northgard Conquest offers: The Conquest Map.



The Conquest Map is formed by several challenges, 3 of which are specific to each Clan (and adapted to their specialties) which remain constant. The other challenges are pulled from a random pool of challenges, which means that if you restart a Conquest with the same Clan, you will get a different map with different challenges!

As soon as you succeed in one of the 3 specific challenges, several different paths are unlocked and the choice of which path you take is up to you.










Conquest challenges are completely independent between themselves and will challenge you with various specific victory conditions and rules for each challenges. Here’s some examples:


Victory condition:

- Kill 3 Wyverns.

Special rules:

- Lots of Wyverns are spotted, it's time for a hunt!
- Town Halls are already protected by updgraded Watch Towers.





Victory condition:

- Find the legendary World Tree Yggdrasil, and be the first to conquer it.

Special rules:

- Yggdrasil is larger and cost twice the price to colonize.
- There is more Fishes, Fertile Lands and Deer in the map.





Victory condition:

- Gain enough territories and raise your Fame to obtain the title of King.

Special rules:

- Many Kobolds camp everywhere. Kobolds are more aggressive, respawn and expand quicker.
- For each decolonized Kobolds territory, earn 10 Fame .








As you progress through your Conquest, you'll get to choose specific favors to power up your clan and help you win the next challenge (applicable only to the Conquest game mode).



You can obtain these synergizing favors at the start of a Conquest!



And if you succeed in beating the entire Conquest of a Clan, you'll get a marvelous Town Hall skin related to it! You'll be able to use these skins in all modes:





















As the biggest major update yet, Northgard Conquest also includes a variety of specific elements as special units, buildings, resources, events or maps. During challenges, you’ll need to exploit them as best you can to succeed!





Valdemar was a Legendary King who died bringing battle to Helheim. He now wanders Northgard’s land to avoid death and reach Valhalla. He is usually surrounded by a group of Dark Vaettir who will not let you reach their King.





Unholy Ice Spirits that should not live on this side of Bifrost.





A Frightening Beast, unnaturally turned into something even more terrifying.








Valued resources coveted by overseas merchants.








Ancient and mystic gates that bring Death from another time in Northgard every Winter…





An ancient legacy for famous Kings. Assign Heralds to Pillars of Glory to earn Fame for your Clan.









Boats coming from Homeland will frequently bring you new Villagers to reinforce your Clan.






A mercenary ship could been spotted near your coasts. You must prepare!






Some of your units will be infected by a strange disease...






Death is coming...






Some strange gates are glowing, prepare to fend off the invaders!







Northgard Conquest introduces new specific map configurations that you'll be able to explore during challenges, like The Inner Sea.



This brand new map configuration will host challenges that encourage you to establish the best strategy and exploit all the available resources to succeed and conquer.








In addition to the basic difficulty modes (Easy / Normal / Hard), Northgard Conquest has introduced most challenging difficulty yet: Extreme Mode.

This difficulty will do everything in its power to stop you from reaching the Throne and will make Northgard an incredibly hostile continent, more so than it ever was.

But if this difficulty isn't challenging enough for you... maybe we create an even more difficult one that will make Northgard a true nightmare for you!






The arrival of Northgard Conquest marks the beginning of a new Multiplayer Season: Conquer the region and ascend to the top of the leaderboard by taking the Throne on your own!

• Complete a Conquest with the Clan of the Bear.

• Complete a Conquest with the Clan of the Boar.

• Complete a Conquest with the Clan of the Dragon.

• Complete a Conquest with the Clan of the Goat.

• Complete a Conquest with the Clan of the Horse.

• Complete a Conquest with the Clan of the Kraken.

• Complete a Conquest with the Clan of the Raven.

• Complete a Conquest with the Clan of the Snake.

• Complete a Conquest with the Clan of the Stag.

• Complete a Conquest with the Clan of the Wolf.

• Complete a Conquest on Hard Mode.
  

• Complete a Conquest on Extreme Mode.
  

• Complete at least 6 Conquests with different Clans.
  

• Complete a Conquest by winning all challenges.
  

• Win each of the 30 different challenges at least once.
  

• New in-game display system which allows you to easily see other players characteristics.
  
  
  
  
• Blizzard, Rats Infestation, Earthquake, Draugr Invasion and Frozen Sea are now announced 3 months in advance instead of 6.
  
• Changes in the ELO calculation to greatly discourage wintrading.
  
• Wisdom Victory: No need for active units anymore.
  
• Great Trade Routes will now be momentarily paused while the lighthouse is burning.
  
• All events get their own icons in the calendar.
  
• Kobolds power decreased a bit.
  

• Fixed settings defaulting to french after each update.
  
• Fixed an unlimited resource with multiple Trade Routes to exploit.
  
• Fixed the Hightide FX not visible for the clients in multiplayer.
  
• Fixed the unlocked tech count required for the blessings in campaign mode. The counter started at -1.
  
• Typos and small stability fixes.
  
• Fixed the Stone and Iron exchange rate with the Raven's homeland trade.
  
• Fixed the display of a player's rank history in the leaderboard.
  
• Fixed an old error in the ELO calculation. Two players of equivalent ranks should win/lose an equivalent number of points. Defeat should not have the player lose four times what the winner earned.
  
• Fixed a bug that allowed militia to leave territory.
  
• Scabbard of Gram lag improvements.
  
• Fixed an issue that didn't allow kraken fishermen to fish on coasts.
  
• Near the Sea Spirit: Totems were counted as buildings, while they were not supposed to.
  
• There were some broken achievements, they're now fixed.
  

We hope that you'll enjoy this update, as much as we enjoyed creating it!

We really proud of it as this update represented a huge challenge for us, so we hope that we succeeded in making Northgard Conquest a game-mode an amazing experience!




https://store.steampowered.com/app/466560/Northgard/