Northgard News

v3.5.15.38668

[h3]Balancing[/h3]

• Conquest - Titanomachy map generation will not spawn cliffs anymore

[h3]Bugfix[/h3]

• Notification - Fixed spam of relation notification when attacking an enemy with at least 30 relation and that didn’t discovered you
  
• Notification - Carved in Stone (Coop) - Fixed spam of relation notification when colonizing the center zone
  
• Owl - Fixed Guardians of the Realm AOE attack in normal game

[h3]Known issues[/h3]

• Goat - Can’t call sheep on cleared tile with the Warchief if an enemy scout is on the same zone
  
• Hounds - Brawler cost issue if 4 villager are sent at the same time
  
• Hounds - Refund not working every time

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v3.5.13.38575

[h2]Balancing[/h2]
We’ve seen players expressing frustration with the first conquest battle, and the way the AI titans are rarely exiting their territory, so we’re addressing it by making sure the AI Titans spend more time outside their territory

[h3]Owl Conquest - Titanomachy[/h3]

• AI Titans have been adjusted

[h2]Bugfix[/h2]

• Hound - Fixed Berserker life bar visible in Landvidi tile
  
• Owl - Fixed notification for relation spamming
  
• Conquest - Fixed "Lands of Oblivion" loading a save increasing the number of foes on portal tile
  
• Ranked - Fixed Ragnarok and Permafrost map being proposed
  
• Ranked -Fixed free concede message in FFA when a player disconnect from the game
  
• Ranked - Fixed an issue in the repartition of GP when a player near 0 GP was in a team

[h2]Known Issues[/h2]

• Server issues
  
• Some text issues

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v3.5.9.38413



From the data we’ve tracked regarding the balancing of the Clan, the Clan doesn’t seem to be too strong overall (Winrate in ranked: 35% in Duel | 51% in 3v3 | 3% in FFA), but we’ve seen from your feedback many of you still find it too strong in some settings, so the strength of the Clan may be still unbalanced at higher ranks. We’ll be investigating this in particular, but in the meantime, we’re still reducing its stronger aspects to prevent potential exploits.

[h2]Knowledge[/h2]

We’ve seen many discussions about Bloodthirst, and the fact it’s breaking a fundamental rule about healing in combat, which is something we usually do not allow, as we’ve lately made changes to some clans to reinforce this (like the Eagle boneyard, and Snake Scorched Earth).
We usually prevent this because, on a large warband, this can lead to long and frustrating fights for the opponents, where it can feel like the enemy is not even taking damage.

We do allow it in some cases where it increases the survival chances of a few important units. We do, for example, allow it for Torfin with the knowledge Unstoppable, and the same logic applies to Hounds. As the Clan has the smallest warband among all clans, it is easier to target one unit to take down, and each unit lost is a significant setback for the Clan, so it needs ways to help its units survive the fight.
We will decrease the speed at which it heals the units to make it less frustrating to the opponents. Still, we do not want to remove the possibility of healing during combat, as it is already not fast enough to prevent a unit from being killed if targeted.

[expand][h3]Bloodthirst[/h3]

• At a speed of 1 HP per second → 0,75 HP per second

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[h2]Units[/h2]

[expand][h3]Foxskin[/h3]

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• Attack Power 12,5 → 12
• Shredding Claws (Lvl 2 ability)
  
  • Each attack slows the target by -7,5% → -3%
  • With Hord Instinct each Foxskin increases this value by +2,5% → +1,5%
  • To a maximum of -20% > -15%
• Hunter’s Mark (Lvl 3 ability)
  
  • No longer reduces the target speed
    
  • Increase the damages they receive by +35% > +15%
  • With Hord Instinct each Foxskin increases this value by +10% > +3%

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[h3]Bearskin[/h3]

Similarly to the heal during combat of Bloodthirst, we’ve seen many discussions about the fairness of Death Deceiver and the ability to make a unit unkillable for a few seconds. As this only affects one unit at a time and only lasts a few seconds, for us, it is a tool for the Clan to avoid losing a valuable unit without a chance to react and not something we want to remove. But we’ll make the effect last a bit less time to try and make it less frustrating to opponents.

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• Death Deceiver (Lvl 3 ability)
  
  • Make the first unit in the zone to die invincible for 3 seconds > 2 seconds
  • With Hord Instinct each Boarskin increases this value by +1 sec > +0,5 sec

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[hr][/hr][h2]Bugfix[/h2]
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• Cross of Vidar - Fixed raid in mission 4 getting stuck
  
• Hounds - Fixed foxes soul size when summoned from a dead Foxskin
  
• Hounds - Fixed Wild Hunt event not working when foes were killed in conquest mission God's Fury
  
• Hounds - Fixed Brawler not forging the sword in conquest mission Shards of Misfortune
  
• Hounds - Fixed carcass not collectable if too close to a border of a tile
  
• Hounds - Fixed a crash with the last bonus conquest if spectral doesn’t have the space to be spawned
  
• Owl - Fixed Healing Herbs military experience earned when placed on the Clan of the Hound
  
• Owl - Fixed erudition lore not granting a free lorestone if placed in an ally territory before reaching 30 in relation
  
• Raven - Fixed life amount for the giant sent in raids
  
• Boar - Fixed herbalism not working as intended
  
• Stoat - Fixed an issue with Military upgrade that all could be placed on different Sentry camp
  
• Snake - Fixed tile discovered by Scorched Earth in conquest mission “Lands of Oblivion”
  
• Kingdom - Fixed camera position at the start of a game
  
• Conquest - Fixed foes being invisible when attacking in conquest “Lands of Oblivion”
  
• Conquest - Fixed hostility in conquest mission “Gem cutter”
  
• Save - Fixed some crash when loading a save
  
• Crashes - Fixed crash caused by special character in player tag
  
• AI - Fixed AI not building lighthouse
  
• Environment - Fixed crows life bar
  
• Achievement - Fixed “Knowledge is power” not unlocking
  
• Relic - Fixed relic being forged instantly when forged in first

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[h2]Known Issues[/h2]
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• Translation issues in some texts
  
• Endless slowing effect after being hit by a foxskin (occasionally - details or videos needed )
  
• Server issues

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We're almost a week since the Hounds is available in all gamemodes. It is now time to look for what's coming and going back on the road map previously shared.

[h2]Claws and Jaws[/h2]

We're at the end of the Claws & Jaws seasons, as we already said, we are happy with the clan of the Hounds and the new wild life added to the game. After some rebalancing and while answering your remaining feedbacks, it is now time to redirect most of our energy toward the next update...

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[h2]Bifröst[/h2]

Aimed for the end of this summer, the next free major update will include a new PVE Game mode that will makes you roam around new biomes!

While we would love to tell more about this updates, there is still a lot of work to do but be sure to follow us on our socials to get any new infos as soon as we deliver them!

If you want to prepare your friends for the new PVE modes, tell them about Northgard being on sale until the end of the day as well as the Hounds being 10% off its original price until this friday!
See you later for new updates on the game

-Shiro Community Team

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