Northgard News

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- The Shiro Games Team

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/

Save the date, as the eagerly anticipated Conquest update is making its way to Northgard on October 22nd!

Including the new standalone mode "Conquest", which brings 100+ hours of content, brand new adaptive challenges, formidable new foes and the opportunity to master the continent with a friend in the brand new co-op mode, alongside a host of other additions, this is one of the biggest Northgard updates yet!

Hey everyone!

We were at Gamescom last week (in the business area), and we had a lot of exciting news that we shared with journalists that we want to share with you today!




First of all, this was the first time that we've had a booth of this kind of quality, and we were so proud of it! This is why we would like to thank you guys for making Northgard a successful game and for participating in the growth of Shiro Games

It's so satisfying for us to see that our work is paying off, and it's at this kind of event that we see the evolution of our beloved indie studio.

This is only the start of the Shiro Games adventure, and your support drives us onward. So that's why during the last few months, we prepared a lot of new exciting content that we hope you will enjoy as much as we enjoyed creating them.

Let's start with the news!





We know that you were waiting for the next huge update of Northgard, and it's coming!

We're proud to present you the 3rd major free update, and the biggest one: Northgard Conquest.


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


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

The missions are completely independent between themselves and will challenge you with specific victory conditions and rules for each mission.


Challenges examples

• Valdemar the Cursed:
  
  • Defeat a powerful boss in an undead infested land.
    
  
  
  
• Winter Has Come:
  
  • Permafrost map with blizzards every winter.
    
  
  
  
• The Uprising:
  
  • Ragnarök map with numerous and very aggressive Myrkalfars.
    

These missions are completely adapted to the strengths of the clans, which means that you'll get adapted missions depending on if you start the Wolf's campaign and then the Stag's one.

As you progress through your conquest you'll get to choose specific rewards to power up your clan and help you win the next mission (only work in Conquest mode). If you succeed to beat the entire campaign of a clan, you'll get a marvelous Townhall skin you'll be able to use in the online mode.




Northgard Conquest is planned for Fall 2019, you'll get more information about it very soon!







We're glad to announce you that our beloved Northgard will be available on consoles (Nintendo Switch, PS4, Xbox One) from the 26th of September on digital edition (you can already pre-order it on the Nintendo Eshop), and then on physical edition!

Additionally, you'll be able to get a physical Signature Edition of Northgard, which includes:

• The region free copy of Northgard
  
• An art Book
  
• The soundtrack
  
• An art Card
  
• A certificate
  
• Two Metal Pins
  

Click here to get more information about it!


The consoles version of Northgard includes a brand new control system that allows you to do all the in-game actions in an ergonomic and instinctive way: The Dynamic Control Wheel.



Consoles version content

• Solo mode
  
• Campaign
  
• Coop and competitive online mode
  
• 6 clans
  
• Ragnarök and Relics updates
  

Finally, we're proud to announce the boardgame version of our beloved game: Northgard Uncharted Lands!

This boardgame is the faithful adaption of Northgard, and as the video game, you'll find similar game systems on the boardgame version.



Caracteristics:

• Play time: 25mn / Player
  
  
• Actions system:
  
  • Move,
    
  • Attack,
    
  • Recruit,
    
  • Build,
    
  • Move,
    
  • Explore...
    
  
  
  
  
  
• Harvest system:
  
  • Gain Food,
    
  • Wood,
    
  • Lore,
    
  • Fame,
    
  • Trade resources...
    
  
  
  
• Seasons system (Summer / Winter)
  
  
• Deckbuilding system (add a new card to your deck)
  
  
• Tile laying system
  
  
• 5 clans available with specific starting powers:
  
  • Wolf,
    
  • Bear,
    
  • Stag,
    
  • Goat,
    
  • Raven
    
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Components:
  
  
• Viking models and unique Warchiefs models
  
  
• Modular board tiles
  
  
  
• Over 100 cards with unique effects
  
  
• Special Viking and Warchief dice
  
  
• Resource tokens and building tokens
  
  
• Creature Models:
  
  • Wolf,
    
  • Bear,
    
  • Valkyrie
    
  • Draugr
    
  
  
  
• 5 Clan boards

The Kickstarter campaign will start Fall 2019, We'll have more to come soon!
And that's all!

We hope that you enjoyed reading this and are excited as we are!

This is only a preview of this news, you'll be able to find all the details soon.

This is important to us to thank you again. Without you, Shiro Games is nothing! Be sure that we're working on so many huge and different projects that we can't wait to share with you!

Stay tuned for more information, and have a good time on Northgard!