Northgard News

Northgard Expeditions

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Hey Everyone!

We are proud to announce and release our 5th major expansion for Northgard: Expeditions!

This patch introduces a new way to enjoy Northgard content and free cosmetics you can craft with in-game rewards! (And only ever via in game rewards, you will never have to pay money for these cosmetics)

Expeditions are small quests structured in a few hidden steps. Each step asks you to accomplish in-game objectives such as Colonizing a specific tile, Producing resources or Reaching a certain amount of Happiness. Completing a step reveals the next one. Your actions are taken into account for every visible steps, so you can complete multiple objectives at once.

There are two types of expeditions:

DAILY TRIP

It is an expedition you can complete every 24 hours that reward your first games of the day!

WEEK-LONG JOURNEY

This expedition is given out each week, that selects its objectives within a difficulty-based pool. The first step will always be Easy, the second one is a Normal type, the third id Hard to complete and the last is Extreme. Of course, they offer rewards accordingly.

These expeditions reward you for completing Northgard content. They can only be achieved once.

Rig’s Saga expeditions focuses on the main story,
Conquest expeditions help you follow your progress in the game mode,
Achievements expeditions cover Steam achievements. As there are now included in-game, you can easily track them and get rewarded each time you unlock one. (available in a few days)

You bring back treasure chests from your expeditions. With each objective completed, you can open a chest revealing silver. The chest generosity depends on the objective difficulty. Conquer with peril and triumph with glory!

You can use your silver to craft cosmetics in the Treasures menu. You will find new Warchief skins and Townhall skins, offering you alternative in-game appearance for your Warchiefs and Townhalls. We also introduce a new type of cosmetic, the Decorations, to embellish your Townhall zone.

Each skin has its own Rarity, from Common to Legendary.

You can craft up to 57 different cosmetics:

12 Warchief skins, split in two collections: Brutal & Ceremonial.
20 Townhall skins.
25 Decorationss featuring banquets, fireplaces, gates and totems.

Completing all expeditions assure you to grasp the entire collection!

Your previous inventory remains untouched. Players who already own warchiefs skins from Rig’s Saga and townhalls skins from Conquest will keep them.

Rig’s Saga warchief skins and Conquest townhall skins are now part of the Treasure menu. They still require to complete Rig’s Saga on Extreme difficulty and to finish clan Conquests to unlock. Their initial requirements remain unchanged.

Equip skins and decorations directly from the Treasures menu.
Initial options to equip skins have been deactivated.

We are entering Season 6, The Sons of Sigurd, with this patch.

We brought some changes to the Ranked system.

From now on, a season now lasts three months and a new one automatically starts when the previous ends. Ranked totems are no longer buildings but Decorations you can acquire in the Treasures menu. They still require to get the according rank, thus getting Ranked totems remains the ultimate way to show off your rank.

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With this update, we also bring you another BIG surprise: The official Northgard Artbook!

With the french publishing house Omaké Books, we have created the first and only official Northgard Artbook: The Art of Northgard.

Within these pages, we'll be sharing an in-depth look at the development journey of Northgard. From the conceptualisation, research, and trial and error that led to our initial 2D prototype, all the way to the final release that our players have sunk mil-lions of hours into.

And as you guys come to everywhere in the world, we decided to make The Art of Northgard a bilingual Artbook. It then includes french and english in the same book!

You can now pre-order the Collector's Edition of The Art of Northgard artbook, which includes:

The Art of Northgard 178 page artbook
An exclusive A3 poster
A cardboard display stand with its 3 collector lithographs of the Clan of the Wolf, Boar and Stag
An exclusive Townhall to use in-game - only for the PC version
A numbered certificate of authenticity - limited to 1000 copies

The Collector's Edition is now available on pre-orders only for a delivery within the end of March.

Pre-order The Art of Northgard Collector's Edition here!

The Standard Edition of The Art of Northgard artbook will be available within the month of June. You'll be able to get your copy on the biggest distribution's websites as Amazon (and FNAC and Cultura for France) and independant libraries (only in France).

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We hope that you'll enjoy this update as much as we enjoyed developing it, we're incredibly excited to see some of the ways you will all customize your territory and to hear how you all feel about Northgard's latest (and definitely not last) update.

And of course, let us know your thoughts on the Official Northgard Artbook!

Shiro Games

Balancing Patch (December 2020)

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With the coldest of seasons beginning to descend upon Northgard, has Winter festival sprung to life once again! But the bitter cold winds, snow and perilous winters are not all that await us, as a number of huge changes to the plethora of clans vying for conquest have also arrived with Balance Update #5!

Check out what's new below!

[h3]Shieldbearers[/h3]
Defense

8 ⇒ 7

[h3]Eldhrumnir[/h3]
Your units regenerate health

during a feast

.
Regen Health 0.05 ⇒ 0.03

[h3]Scabbard of Gram[/h3]
Your Warchief wields the sword Gram. Enemies hit by Gram are frozen, along with the area around them. Gives +15% ⇒ +10% attack

, +15% ⇒ +10% defense

to Shield Maiden.

[h3]Chilling Aura[/h3]
Enemies hit by Gram are frozen for 3 ⇒ 2 seconds, along with the area around them. They are slowed and their attack speed is reduced.

[h3]Call to arms[/h3]
Every six months, homeland sends you up to 2 ⇒ 3 Militia to help you defend your territory. You can have a maximum of 2 ⇒ 3 Militia in your territory.

[h3]Call to arms II[/h3]
You can keep up to 4 ⇒ 6 Militia in your territory.

[h3]Call to arms III[/h3]
You can keep up to 6 ⇒ 9 Militia in your territory.

[h3]Trackers[/h3]
Health

50 ⇒ 55
Recruit cost 30 ⇒ 25

[h3]Mythical Lure[/h3]
A lure that attracts mythical beasts. They periodically come in groups hungry for some food

. Each wave cleared increases population growth by 2 ⇒ 5%, up to 20%. Destroyed if an enemy colonizes the zone.

NEW You can assign up to two villagers on Mythical Lures to become hunters.

[h3]Poaching[/h3]
Allows you to sell Hunting trophies in the Marketplace at the price of 2 ⇒ 1.5 Hunting trophies for 1 Kröwn

.

[h3]Feral instinct[/h3]
Trackers that participated in a mythical animal kill permanently gain + 1 ⇒ 2% attack power

(max + 50%). Lost on death.

[h3]Hindering Arrows[/h3]
Your Trackers fire hindering arrows, slowing targets hit.

Attack speed slow 20 ⇒ 30%
Move speed slow 40 ⇒ 50%

[h3]Starting Advantages[/h3]
Your units are tougher, larger and eat more than the other clans, and have a 15 ⇒ 10% attack power

and defense bonus

.

Specialized civilian units have a 40 ⇒ 30% production bonus, except Loremasters.

[h3]Under pressure[/h3]
You gain + 0.5 Happiness

and 1 ⇒ 0.5 Food

for each military unit in a non allied zone next to or within an enemy territory.

[h3]Poison[/h3]
Decreases target’s attack speed and move speed by 35% ⇒ 25% for 2 seconds.

[h3]Kindred Spirit[/h3]
Having Kaija, the Armored Bear or Shield Maiden in an area increases local production by [b]15% ⇒ 10%.

Stone

cost to build an Altar of Kings is reduced to 5. It gives + 2 ⇒ 3 Happiness

and produces Fame

[h3]Mercenaries[/h3]
Recruit Cost 50 ⇒ 45 (which brings the total raid cost down to 200 ⇒ 180).

[h3]Dragonmen[/h3]
Attack Power

13 ⇒ 12
Health

75 ⇒ 70

[h3]SwirlAttack[/h3]
Dragonmen sometimes execute a mighty swirling strike that damages all surrounding enemies.

Cooldown 0.5 ⇒ 0.8
Secondary target damage coeff 0.8 ⇒ 0.6

Usual Christmas theme decorations on Permafrost map.

Building’s window has been reorganized
A new toxicity report system has been implemented
A progression circle has been added above the calendar to show feast duration (disabled by default)
A progression circle has been added above the calendar to show duration before obtaining a new villager (disabled by default)
New pop-up added about community conduct (for the first multiplayer connection only).
A confirmation button has been added for building upgrades
Hovering over teammate's military path icons shows levels and how much experience they have
Link to patch note in the main menu has been actualized
An anti-aliasing option has been added to Northgard

You can’t buy Dragonmen anymore if you don’t have enough Dragon Essence.
Drakkar should no longer cross the entire map.
Minor bug fix on fight trails and FXs.

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This update will download automatically from Steam. If you have any problems with regards to this update, leave a comment below or contact us at [email protected] where our Support Team will do everything they can to assist.

Thank you to everyone who has provided feedback and suggestions over the last few months and of course, a massive thanks to our beta testers!

We hope you all enjoy this update and have a great holiday season!

- Shiro Games

Northgard clans - a quick guide

So you bought the excellent Viking game Northgard and have been playing it for a while now. You keep looking at those locked up clans in the menu. You stare at them, wondering if they are worth the investment; if you should get one, two or none of them. Confused and panicked, you ask yourself "what should I do?!" Worry not, for we have put together a small guide about them so you know exactly which Northgard clan will be suited to your needs.

The base game offers six clans to choose from: Stag, Goat, Wolf, Raven, Bear and Boar; and the add-ons will get you up to six more at the time of writing: Snake, Dragon, Horse, Kraken Ox, and the recently released Lynx clan which is especially quite fun.

Each one of these clans have different bonuses and for that reason, their play style and strategy are a little different so it's worth breaking down exactly what each does and what playstyles they support. It's worth noting a some of the newer clans can overlap with vanilla factions, although that doesn't mean they don't have their own unique style as well.

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Northgard hits 2 million copies sold, Clan of the Lynx DLC is out now

After recently announcing an impressive 2 million copies sold milestone, Shiro Games have released the Clan of the Lynx DLC for their strategy game Northgard.

Read the full article here: https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2020/09/northgard-hits-2-million-copies-sold-clan-of-the-lynx-dlc-is-out-now

Northgard's newest DLC adds a clan with giant attack lynxes

One of the more creative real-time strategy games of the past few years, Northgard has added a new DLC faction that gives players command over nature itself. Brundr & Kaelinn, Clan of the Lynx adds actual battle lynxes to the game, and they fight at the behest of the clan chieftain Mielikki, the beastmaster.

Mielikki may be blind, but her two lynx companions serve as both her eyes and deadly weapons. The wildcats are nearly grizzly-sized, and players using the Clan of the Lynx can use them to explore new territory or charge into battle. The Lynx Clan is focused on hunting, earning trophies for felling animals and getting an archery range that replaces the axe thrower camp. There you'll train trackers, who can fire several different arrow types depending on the situation.

You'll use your hunting trophies to unlock abilities in the new Path of the Hunter, which the Clan of the Lynx has as a replacement to Northgard's usual military path. Those new abilities include upgrades for the battle lynxes Brundr and Kaelinn, and for the keen-eyed new tracker units.

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