News Update July 2nd- Gundabad Awakes!

A few weeks ago we discussed the upcoming Full Release on Steam coming August 8th, as well as some upcoming changes to the game such as new Save Game behavior and a new Tutorial Quest 4 (Deck Building). You can read more about that in the original news story here.

The changes are in testing currently and will be rolled out when we roll out the next Encounter—Gundabad Awoken—later in July so that we can resolve any issues with this rollout before we go to the Full Release.

Additionally, you may have noted that we've updated the Steam Store description for the game. We hope you like the changes.


Let's take a deeper look at Gundabad Awoken, the free new encounter coming in late July. This new encounter takes place in the hills and mountains near Gundabad, and we've crafted all new locations in which you will be adventuring.

Hold Back The Horde!
One of the new features in Gundabad Awoken is the “Horde” objective. Now, we can’t give away too much of how or why you might encounter it, but we can talk a little bit about what it does and why.

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Locked and Timed with a Bolster frame in this case means that each round the value of this objective will increase by one to reflect the growing hordes of Sauron’s minions that bear down upon you.

The Upkeep ability is where we are trying something a little new. This card will pull from a random pool of effects, with each point of value on the objective being an extra roll of the dice. If you let this effect stick around for too long, you will be overwhelmed by its effects.

Here are a few examples of things that this Horde might to do you…

1. All Enemies gain +1 Attack for this round
2. Summon an Enemy from a random pool of choices
3. Sauron gains +1 Resource

We have more than these available to us, but this is just a taste of what you can expect in Gundabad Awoken. We wanted to create a new experience with our third encounter, since encounters allow us room to challenge both ourselves as designers and you as our players. We look forward to seeing what you make of it.



Locations
The first location we want to share with you is part of the Mine of Gundabad, which is currently controlled by hordes of Orcs.

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This next location is deep within the mines of Gundabad where the Dwarves of old once forged mighty works.

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If you need technical assistance for the game, please remember that if you don't see the answer within the forums or on discord, you can always file a Helpshift here:

https://asmodee.helpshift.com/a/lord-of-the-rings-acg/


There's a fan set up and run discord channel where you can reach out and talk to fellow players and look for multiplayer friends to play with.

You can check it out here.



Don't forget that you can check out our Twitch channel at https://www.twitch.tv/ffigames every two weeks at 1pm Central US time / 6:00pm UTC.

Our next stream will be tomorrow, Wednesday, July 3rd. Make sure you don't miss this broadcast, as we'll have a special guest with us to talk about the game's evolution.


That's all we have this week. Until we meet again, may the stars shine ever on your adventures!