Patch Notes: v2.0.0-beta.3009 (Beta)

The Garrison Returns

• The Garrison overhaul is back on: skirmishes and squad fatigue, weekly upkeep with salvage patrols, outpost fortifications, a second garrison slot with doctrines, depth-scaled manning with tower call-ups, granular call-up picking, and Military requisition pay. The "returning July 15" notice is gone.

• Outpost fortifications now survive a rotation — recall a garrison and re-station on the same floors and the walls you built are restored (overruns and abandoned bands still lose them).

• You now choose exactly which parties reinforce an under-manned hold, instead of an automatic highest-OVR pick.

• Repelling a probe now yields salvage — a quarter of a patrol's haul.

• Veteran squads run a tighter watch: Wardens-rank squads patrol every 2–6 weeks and haul 10% more.

• Standing watch grants +1 XP per week, and the garrison roster now shows each warden's tenure and progress toward the Wardkeeper badge.

• Two new Hall of Fame milestones — First Wardkeeper and Held the Storm — and a new Taurus Drive, The Unsleeping Watch (39 weeks on the wall).

• The Tower Garrison tutorial has been rewritten for the full shipped system, in every language.

New Additions

• Czech (Čeština) is now a fully supported game language.

• New Registry tab — the Star Chart: a guild-wide ledger of every hero's Drive and evolution road, grouped into eight deed constellations, with progress bars, restlessness warnings, Proving alerts, and click-through to each dossier. This is a work in progress and I may turn it off for next week's live patch if it's not coming together quickly.

• Sparring Pit rivalry challenges now actually happen: rivals demand matches you Allow or Forbid from the Guild Hall, with morale, respect, and injury on the line — unanswered demands auto-resolve after 4 weeks.

• New Game+ now lets you choose the next run's game mode (Standard, Academy Only, or Crown Cup League) instead of always inheriting the previous run's.

• Rename any item from the Armory — and reset it to its original name whenever you like.

• A Metamorphosis grimoire can now rewrite a dual-class hero's second class instead of always replacing the primary.

• Pick a hero on the Quest Board and contracts that advance their ambition are marked with a ✦ Ambition badge.

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Combat Economy

• Failed and critically failed quests no longer pay their gold reward.

• Catastrophic raid failures no longer pay the 1,000g minimum — the floor now applies only on victories; stalemates and withdrawals pay their raw value.

• Assassin's Contract auto-success and Shadow Operations failure mitigation now actually pay the gold they promise.

• Party chemistry's gold effect now has its own line in the battle report breakdown.

Tower Fights

• Siege Breaker Kits, Tower Boost consumables, damage-burst maps, the Chronicler's bestiary book, and broker/noble tower intel now actually apply in tower battles.

• Military Garrison Support and Temple blessings now reduce tower casualties accurately.

• Boss-hunter traits now fire in tower fights on deep floors, and trait-based death reduction applies there too.

• Conquering Floor 100 grants every surviving fighter the Tower Conqueror trait (+50 fame).

• Giant Slayer now keys off the bosses actually present in an encounter instead of raw quest difficulty — it triggers far more often on mid-game hunts and slightly less on late-game contracts.

• Quest encounters now lean toward enemies that fit the contract — a den raid draws brutes and bosses, not random fauna.

Life and Death

• Undying veterans and death-save effects (Death Defier, Temple Divine Protection, the Chirurgeon's kit) now protect on raids, not just quests.

• A Salvation Grimoire is now consumed when it saves someone in the tower or a garrison skirmish — no more infinite one-shot.

• Heroes who miraculously survive a tower wipe now carry their scars, stats and all.

• Skirmish injuries are shortened by injury-reduction effects (up to 50%), and the death-chance floor from lethality settings is now enforced as advertised.

• Prayer of Resurrection and the Resurrection Covenant now state clearly that they cover quests only.

Guild, Contracts & Staff

• Auto-renewal now adds the renewal years to the remaining term — an auto "3-year" renewal delivers three more years, and staff who prefer 1-year terms no longer quit a month after "renewing."

• A refused extension locks negotiations for the rest of the year, not forever.

• Overseer's negotiation cooldowns now decay weekly like every other staff pool's, and extension-rejection consequences apply to them properly.

• Every hiring path now inherits the auto-renewal master toggle — trade acquisitions, direct trades, mulling accepts, and league signings no longer slip through unflagged and silently lapse at week 48.

• The "nobody at the front desk" warning now actually fires when auto-renewals run without a Receptionist (at the worst 1.30× rate).

• Vanguard guilds now accurately earn their promised 2.5× patron Annual Renown on elimination and protection quests; the never-implemented Champion's Challenge perk is removed from the specialization screen and tutorial.

• Mess Hall Tier 1 now grants its +1 morale per week.

• Repair All no longer requires Armory Tier 2 — the Improvement System is now the Armory T2 unlock instead.

The Commander

• The Commander now checks every advisory condition every week — expiring stars, burned-out members, role gaps, tired or under-manned garrisons, and party fixes reliably land in the Ledger instead of starving behind a weekly dice roll.

• Mutiny is now more reachable: a genuinely bad-fit commander escalates through the full unrest story arc to ultimatum and deposition over roughly 15–22 weeks, while a good commander never leaves calm.

• Party-fix advice is graded — ignored, expired, or vindicated when the untouched party loses a winnable quest — and missed reckonings get voiced over the following month instead of being dropped.

• Young commanders visibly misjudge up to ~20% of their reads (signing verdicts, advice, auto-deploy picks) and grow out of it as they mature.

• Guild Assessment trend arrows now compare against last week instead of themselves — they were always flat before.

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Garrison

• Garrisoned and at-event members no longer show as available in the training pickers.

• Injured wardens can no longer be called up into tower fights, and a shorter new injury can no longer overwrite a longer existing one.

• Garrison member rows now show equipment-inclusive OVR, matching the card header and the dossier.

• Displayed garrison upkeep now equals what you're actually charged — party count, doctrine discounts, and a second garrison's drain on reserves included — and the Week Summary shows renown and requisition per hold.

• The garrison doctrine badge now actually renders on hold cards.

• Garrisons ceremonially stand down when level 100 is defeated — no more post-conquest renown trickling from a war that's over — and a skirmish death that breaks a party below strength now shrinks or recalls the hold with a proper notice.

• Meal buffs are consumed by garrison duty instead of persisting on the wall forever.

• Fallen wardens receive proper garrison death causes in the memorial, and busy heroes show "On Garrison Duty."

Quests, Trade & Economy

• Proving quests no longer advertise gold they never pay, and no longer carry a bonus objective that can't resolve.

• The Diplomatic Summit quest shows a proper tier name instead of a raw number.

• Faction-exclusive quests now show a quest-giver who actually belongs to the offering faction — name, title, and portrait all match.

• Inbound trade offers are auto-triaged against the same week's market prices the offer card shows, so a "Bad Deal" no longer sits in your inbox past your decline threshold.

• Challenge-match wagers now appear in the transaction ledger and Treasury breakdown, winners gain +5 morale each, results post to the Live Feed, and forfeits are recorded in your history.

Rival Challenges

• You can no longer stake gold you don't have — unaffordable wager tiers are disabled, and a stale wager downgrades to Friendly instead of driving the treasury negative.

• Challenge battles are seeded: reloading no longer re-rolls the outcome.

• Pressing Escape on the results screen now records your fought result instead of silently converting it into a forfeit.

• Injured members can't be drafted into a challenge, and injured rivals stop being fielded against you.

Interface & Display

• The Week Summary quest debrief shows injured heroes' names instead of internal IDs.

• The ambition dossier now shows the class a hero actually evolved into, even after a later Metamorphosis grimoire changed their class again.

• Compound Drives show a per-condition checklist, environment-variety Drives list exactly which locations are visited, and the Social Butterfly Drive lists which teammates you've quested beside.

• Staff tier badges now agree between the hire-comparison list and the dossier — both show potential.

• Legacy "Prodigy" potential now reads S-Tier everywhere, instead of S-Tier on one screen and F-Tier on another.

• The level-up popup and the Seminars enrolled list now scroll instead of pushing their buttons off-screen.

• The Crown Cup battle counter says "standing" instead of "alive" — nobody dies in the Cup.

• Commander legend bonuses display flat values correctly (no more "+56%" for a +0.56 bonus), and party-optimization suggestions that can't be applied show why instead of doing nothing.

• A crash screen now shows your emergency backup (guild name, year and week) and exactly how to restore it.

Exploit Closures & Fair Dice

• Pausing a construction no longer frees an Overseer slot — paused projects count toward capacity everywhere, workshop station builds now respect the same cap (they previously had none), and a re-hired Overseer resumes only as many paused projects as they can manage.

• A crafter mid-workshop-job can no longer also be assigned to a construction, renovation, or station crew.

• Reloading a save no longer re-rolls tower loot, battle-narration outcomes, Crown Cup results, Trial By Fire, quest-completion bonuses, relationship formation, or the commander's auto-deploy picks — the dice are cast once.

• Tower material rewards now draw uniformly (the old shuffle was biased).

• Commander mutiny messages, desertion outcomes, and signing-verdict wording no longer change on reload.

• A commander killed in a tower battle now vacates the post immediately, with a single feed notice.

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• Buy missing renovation or fortification materials right from the panel — per-material buttons plus one-click "Buy all missing."

• Item comparisons can toggle to base stats, so a soul-bonded equipped item no longer makes a genuinely better replacement read as a downgrade.

• The Rival Challenge and Crown Cup roster pickers gain a filter-by-party dropdown.

• Retirement career cards show how many of that exact role you already employ ("Have 2" means two Blacksmiths, not two crafters).

• The academy career-track picker shows each class's favored stats — highlighted green where they match the student's strengths — plus a rarity-dot legend.

• The garrison call-up toggle shows the true post-bench fighter count and an OVR preview ("more bodies, not more power"), and re-stationing near old fortifications tells you whether the walls will be restored or abandoned.

• Manually accepted faction contracts now rate their risk with your party's full effective OVR, matching the preview.