Wildermyth News

Just a quick heads up that we're participating in G-Fest, an online festival for Chinese players, as we continue to work on our Chinese localization. We're happy to be here and we're excited to bring our stories to China!

This patch we're shipping an update to our underlying graphics library, along with a bunch of tool improvements and a few long-requested features.

The graphics options tab has expanded significantly, and hopefully will work better on a larger variety of machines.

We've added a back button for comics, and a way to speed up unit movement. Weddings are now announced during intervals, and create history lines.

As for the tools, we've made a slew of big and small improvements to the comic editing experience. Mod authors, translators, or anyone who wants to write their own events should be interested. In particular, text now highlights to show you feedback as you type!

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We aim to ship a patch every 2-3 weeks. You can find our roadmap here. If you're liking the game, you can help us out by leaving a review :-)


New Victory Event: Troubled Sleep
Weddings can now happen as tidings during intervals
New Tidings
Added a back button when viewing comics
Added two new hair styles (1 backer reward - thanks!)
New interface option to speed up or skip movement
Graphics Library Update
* Now using libgdx 1.9.10 / lwjgl 3.2.1 / glfw libraries
* Now possible to pick a display mode and refresh rate
* Separate control to limit FPS
* Default fullscreen behavior should be borderless windowed
* Made HDPI behavior more consistent on Mac
* Graphics sliders show numbers
* Possible to adjust point light limit
* Can now configure pixel multiple from graphics options
Source mod of event now visible in story dialog (upper right)
Mods and mod authors are now listed in the credits
Added a warning to Ulstryx Ch2 when time is getting low
When a hero has 2 identical history lines, only 1 will show
Fixed some typos
Fixed bug with Bard and Thrusk targeted in same attack
Fixed history customization from the legacy browser
Fixed a rare bug where reloading (loading?) a mission would fail
Fixed bug with frog head disappearing in certain panels
Tools: added contextual colored text to comic editor
Tools: much more thorough, detailed, and specific comic text errors
Tools: typing < now adds > and opens an auto-complete window
Tools: auto-complete roles, aspects, stats, and tags
Tools: fix a crash when typing '.' in panel split editor
Tools: limited scroll rate for some lists
Tools: rearranged the order of some roles to put common ones first
Tools: thumbnail lists previews now a more reasonable size
Tools: fake individuals now have positions (for .directionTo. tag)
Tools: comic editor 'optionals' promoted to 'settings' dialog
Tools: settings dialog allows to preview role aspects/classes
Tools: mod campaigns can now specify splash image from mod folder
Tools: now possible to force npcs to generate with last names
Tools: mods can now define custom credit lines (see example mod)
Tools: view/edit long name from comic editor
Tools: new cheat to add LP from company character sheet
Tools: may now paste copied elements onto lists directly
Tools: actors copied between panels now preserve visual size
Tools: holding shift while moving a comic actor moves them all
Tools: fixed: Escaping from an edit in a dialog would close it
Tools: optional role outside of .exists tag shows an error
Tools: added recruitCostAdjustment aspect for recruiting from legacy
Translate: personality nouns and adjectives may now use tags ()

Heroes in Wildermyth fight off waves of bugs with staves, spears, and terrifying thorn-vine-arms. Devs fight off waves of bugs with keyboards and mice. Who has the easier job? You decide.

This patch, we've got art updates to the HUD as part of our ongoing UI reskin. We've also got new/reworked events, and a whole raft (or barge? wagonload?) of bug fixes.

Work continues on the thrixl campaign in the background....

We aim to ship a patch every 2-3 weeks, and you can find our roadmap here.

-WM Devs


New Event: Spotted
Reworked Event: Splinter
Several new and updated Tidings
HUD art pass, and HUD performance work
Stone stunt now interrupts enemy movement
Warrior backslam now works with gem arm shield
Skeleton theme no longer gets aging debuffs
Adjusted some calamity track names
Guardian and Interfuse class abilities now show in character sheet
Heroes with two skin colors now mix the colors (blue skin + deepist)
Prevent duplicate "fought in X company" history lines
Splinterblast particles now show correctly when targeting the scenery
Multiple status effect particles will show on monsters now
Added dotted line feedback to show interfusion ability direction
Combine soulsplitting announcements to 1 line
Changed objective animations and colors
Crow peck is now once per turn instead of every-other
Screen particles should look better at high resolutions
Doom Track and Archives should look better at high resolutions
Fixed bug where a transformation could replace the wrong weapon
Fixed bug where soulsplitting was too eager to damage scenery
Fixed bug with soulsplitting/calcify interaction
Fixed bug where calcify didn't show in tooltips
Fixed bug where pet bird was behind inactive weapons
Fixed animation timing issues with indignance
Fixed bugs where status animations would play on dead monsters
Fixed blank monster cards, and show number if there are 4 or more
Fixed crash bug with heroes with $ in name
Fixed a rare case where wrong generic boss would show up
Fixed missing text for Will of the Forest attack
Fixed bug where spirits caught in caves would show as outside
Fixed bug where hero with pet could get pinecone pet
Fixed bug where hook quests would stick around if 2nd hero retired
Fixed bug where Aid was healing for wrong amount
Fixed a rare soft-lock during interval
Fixed some visual issues with certain tooltips
Fixed a rare soft-crash that affected some events
Fixed "and " for hook quests with no volunteer.
Fixed several typos
Fixed a layout bug when switching players
Fixed a new game bug when you have no playable legacy heroes
Fixed bug where recruit dialog "pick" button didn't check playability
Fixed missing traps feedback when defending with one stunned hunter
Tools: much better expression display and validation (for effects)
Tools: better event debugging for tidings using pick events
Tools: better feedback in pick events for some fail cases
Tools: added Romanian to known languages for community translation
Tools: can now use lowest() and highest() in place of min(), max()
Tools: Fixed some bugs with mortal choice / pick events interactions
Tools: fixed validation bug for effects with parameters

Hero portrait stars now based on level instead of abilities
Windwalk no-longer breaks stealth
Additional logging to try to catch startup crashes
Fix ambush tooltip to say 2 heroes instead of 3
Fix hard-to-read text on Legacy Points help screen
Tools: fixed crash on mod config

Chinese players:

We have some great news to announce. We've been working with WhisperGames to localize Wildermyth into Simplified Chinese.



As a text-heavy, story-driven game, Wildermyth is rather difficult to localize, but we've been working on the Chinese localization for several months, and made we've made pretty good progress. Based on our current pace, we expect to release the Simplified Chinese version in 2020 Q3.

We will keep you posted about the exact release schedule.

Thank you for all your support and we hope you enjoy the game!


Regards,
Worldwalker Games LLC & WhisperGames Team