Siberian Dawn News

In the Steam Winter Sale you can now get 20% off the first Mission Pack for Siberian Dawn.

Training Run in the free base game only scratches the surface of SIberian Dawn to give you a taste of the game but Mission Pack 1 gives you the full Core game with 18 extra unique units, 3 larger missions and the Bond system that gives you the choice of a Guild to have contact with and with that a whole new unique set of cards that you can gain. So much more than the base game, with the full tactical and narrative elements available for you to test your skills.

So get out there this Christmas and save the innocents of the Union from the threats of the Dawn.

Have a happy holiday and get ready for more to come in 2019.

Stephen

Another new update today. Currently busy redoing Orientation to make it easier for new players to get into the rules of the game but that is going to take a little while as I want to get it right and there are a couple of other changes beyond this that also need doing, but here we have a small update that adds a couple of things.



Training Run now has 2 additional Objectives added before the final Objective to make the Mission path clearer, Recruit Grunt and Deploy Grunt. Just having 1 Objective originally might have left the layer wondering what they were doing and how to get to that Objective, but adding the new Objectives before that one will hopefully give the players a clearer path to start the Mission.



Orientation and Oversight have been updated so they match the various changes I made in the Intuitive updates, for things like the red pods and displaying Event recap.



Still have more to add to the game but want to get the parts that help the player the best they can be first, then it is on with Mission pack 2 and beyond.

The third and final part of the Intuitive Updates has been uploaded today and although it only adds two things they are the biggest additions so far and both make additions to the Information Display, along with a few updates to things already in game. The additions are all detailed below.


When an action is ready to be resolved a line of text is now displayed at the bottom of the Information Display giving a summary of the cost and effect of the action so you can clearly see what it is going to cost you and the results of that action. Due to this I have removed Deploy details from Unit information as that is now replaced by Action Tag lines


When a card had a keyword or term in their text it was hard to find details about that term in the Reference section, but now each card in the game has the relevant reference sections linked to the card. When a card is selected and it is displayed on the Information display you will see a couple of numbers in the top right corner split by a /. This is showing that the Information display has multiple pages of data for that card. If you click on the Information Display you can cycle through the data and see all the relevant terms linked to that card. So if for example you have a Scout selected you can now quickly find out what Recon or Stealth means but just clicking on the Information Display.


If the card is a deployable Unit then the second page of the above mention reference will be relevant to the current status of the Unit. So if they are Focused or in Light Cover it will tell you what benefits that gives the Unit.


The bonus circles that were added to the Influence display in the previous update have now had their art changed to make them integrate with the Influence tracks better.


Removed mention of Influence Conflict from Focus card and changed to Influence Bonus for Influence action or defence. Altered word order on cards where an action gives Bank a Ü amount. Corrected wrong text on Letalis Contact card. Changed Investment and Logistics “Resource” definition to “Asset” in Information Display.


So the Intuitive updates are finished and I hope this improves your experience on the game, let me know what you think, but what is next on the updates? Well now it is time to have a good look at how I can help players get into the game from the start so that will be the focus of the next update.

The second part of the Intuitive Updates was uploaded today and it brings another batch of upgrades to Siberian Dawn to improve the experience and expand the Hub. The additions are all detailed below.

Also let me know how you are getting on with the game, what you think of these additions, if they are helping, and what else you would like to see. Feedback is important as that lets me know if what I am doing is going in the right direction, and if there are areas I can pay a bit of attention on to help you enjoy the game more.


Total Distance between one of your Units and the enemy is now shown in brackets next to Unit Distance on the Information Display. This includes any bonuses or penalties that might be applying to the Distance for that Unit, so the value of a Unit and the opposite Hostile might be different if they have different bonuses at that time.

Unit cards previously had their Distance value on the information display shown as Range, now it is correctly shown as their Distance value.


Extra Defence, from effects such as Cover or being Shielded, is now shown next to Unit Defence on Information Display. Units with the Shield ability in Cover now add the Defence bonus for the Cover to their Shield value.


Deployed Units with a Rank equal or higher than Overseer now display their Rank as red, same as cards in the market. They also now can’t be controlled if their Rank is not lower than Overseer and any abilities they give will be lost until the Overseer’s Rank can be raised. This brings it inline with how all the cards you control behave, and was how it should have been from the start.

Deployed Units cards now have sections glowing gold if they gain Union, Shielded, Support, or Recon from other Unit on that Flank.
Hostile Units also have the gold overlay if they have the benefits.

These new display options can be switched on / off in the Options with the Card Overlay option, which also controls the display of red Ranks for Market cards, and was previously called the Red Rank option.


The Deck view sub hub that can be opened by clicking Rank (R) has now been expanded. Previously the Resource deck view was the Resource draw deck and Discard deck combined as RP but now they have been split into the draw deck RP and discards deck DP. The draw deck is still arranged by card type but the discards view is arranged by card order in the deck with the most recent card to be discarded being number 1. This change is to help the player when they are using abilities like Recycle that take the top card of the discards and puts it back on the draw deck. Now the player can see what the card on top of the discards is.


For every 10 Influence a side has on a Flank their Units gain a +1 action bonus. Now on the Influence track these bonuses are shown as +1 overlays so the player can quickly see what bonuses a side is getting.

The display options for the Influence display have also been expanded to allow you to turn these bonus displays on or off with digit display, or to just have the Influence display clear of any overlays.


Captives were showing a red Raze action at stages when they didn’t have the Raze action available yet, and the 10 minimum Influence Objective was not completing if Influence was on exactly 10.

Today I have uploaded a new update for Siberian Dawn, this update is the first of the intuitive updates, aimed at making the game clearer, and presenting vital information in an easier to access way. Below I go through what is in this update, and I hope these additions help players enjoy the game more, and there are still several other improvements on the way, to make Siberian Dawn a more intuitive experience. Thank you to those who have provided the useful feedback that has helped with this.


Previously when you selected a card or another item in the game it would show you the actions currently available for it on the 6 Pods of the Control Hub, it wouldn’t show you any actions that were currently unavailable for the item due to something like not having enough Command or no Burn actions left.

Now the Control Hub will show the unavailable actions as red Pods and if you click one of these a screen will show why you can’t currently perform the action, giving you more feedback now on what you could do with an item.


You can only purchase cards in a Market if they have a lower Rank than yours, and previously if a card didn’t have a lower Rank this Rank was shown on the Information Display as red. Now if a card in a Market doesn’t have a lower Rank the Rank of that card is shown as red on the card itself as well as on the Information Display, making it clearer at a glance what can be brought due to Rank.


If there are no actions to be resolved by the Resolve Button it will now show a “?” during the Resource and Tactics phases, if you click this it will bring up the Help overlay that shows what all the elements on the Hub are, along with some vital points about each one to help you understand what they do or to give a helpful reminder during a Mission.


The Bond selection section on the Mission menu now also contains the speciality of the Bond you are picking so you can easily see what area the benefits of the Bond are, and what sort of resources it affects.


The Options menu has now been expanded to contain the Help menu. This is where you can turn on or off the first 3 additions above depending on how you like your Hub to look. The Influence Display option has now also been moved there.


Before you could click on the Information Display to get a recap of the current Event, this has now moved to the Vitae Pod [V] as clicking on the Information Display will soon do something else, which is mentioned on the Help Overlay.


A small update was made previous to this one that fixed a bug where performing the requirement for the final Objective of Mission 1-2 didn’t trigger the completion of that Objective, this has now been fixed.

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