Visual revamp: Buildings and combat

Hi everyone,

This patch includes some major visual updates, small gameplay changes and some important crash and bug fixes. The most important changes being a complete building revamp, some impactful combat visuals, and lingering battle remains. From this point on my focus will shift more towards content and quality of life updates.

Underneath is a full list of all the changes in this patch. Please try it out and let me know what you think!

change log:

Visuals

• All buildings are reworked to adhere to the new visual style.

• Nighttime has updated visuals for buildings, showing lights in the windows.

• Increased visual environment impact for Fahad farms and Ura mines.

• Explosions, tornados, Stone Giants, and Spidermechs now throw away units killed.

• Added visual cues to show troops not being able to attack or changing their attack pattern.

• Added remains for death troops depending on the faction. Remains stay on the map permanently.

• Destroyed buildings now spawn a faction-specific ruin.

• Added technicians to manage Monceaux catapults.

• Reworked impact VFX for Stone Giants.

• The hit VFX is increased in intensity for higher damage attacks.

• Improved shooting VFX of firearms

Gameplay

• All upgrades now affect your current troops.

• You can now hold shift while commanding your troops to give them additional commands.

• Chariots now move more dynamically and don't get stuck easily anymore.

• Monceaux catapults now can't move if their technicians are killed.

UI

• Replaced in-game fonts.

• Changed overworld map style.

• Added overworld map locations.

• Reworked dialogue UI buttons.

• Reduced campaign dialogue and increased dialogue clarity

Bugs

• Fixed a crash that could happen on completing Monceaux mission 2.

• Fixed a crash for some people when attempting to play the Battle mode.

• Readded mouse lock when playing fullscreen so your cursor will stay in the window when using a multiple-screen setup.

• Fixed a population bug with the Monceaux priests.

• Fixed Taji spawning with the wrong alliance on campaign mission 6.

• Removed gold text from rallypoint buttons.

• Fixed main missions being locked correctly when the correct factions aren't unlocked yet.

• Ability descriptions from heroes are now readable at lvl 1.

• Fixed a bug where the auto-revive boon would spawn additional chariots with the chariot.

• Fixed an issue where the priest health boon gave more additional health than stated.

• Rebalanced SFX volume of storm sounds.

• The distance some eco-buildings need to be placed apart is now the same for those buildings under construction as the ones that are already build.

• Removed a Monceaux castle that spawned on the Big Mine map in Battle mode.

• The game now correctly restarts instead of freezing in the main menu when one AI kills the other.