The new demo is live!

Hey all, The new demo version has also live, which contains many new features and improvements. It would help us a lot if you could give us feedback on the version on Discord. If you don't want to do that, there is a reporting function directly within the game.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1368160/Heart_Of_Muriet/

Here is a list of changes and improvements for all the people who played earlier demos or play tests.

UI Improvements

• The UI has been overhauled, and new icons have been added

• A research tree now shows which research options are available for different magic schools and buildings etc.

• Improved the strategy selection dialogue. It's going to be replaced with a much better system soon.

• Reworked the send dialogue. This way, players can select the squads by themselves. It opens up the squad ranks like "veteran", "elite", and "legendary" (not yet done).

• Improved start of the game with a loading screen.

• Improved the look of screen fading.

• Improved the look of the minimap significantly.

• Improved tooltips - more compact and have a lot more useful information.

Battles

• New radar system (provides unit information on which enemies/building to attack) for formations and bases.

• Big battles now scale a lot better as fewer attack targets get exposed to squads.

• Melee units with shields now also have a block chance for melee attacks, not only projectiles.

• Attack targets are prioritized by different factors, e.g. if the unit is good against it, it's close or if its a threat.

Buildings

• All buildings got a graphics overhaul

• Added marketplace building that produces gold/mana to mitigate the problem of mined-out bases.

• Added an alchemist building that can convert gold to mana and vice versa. The gold/mana conversion spells have been removed.

• Added a "Mill" and a "Well" that improve the output of farms around them. This adds little settlers feeling to the bases.

• Added a large farm building that adds more supply, though it's a lot more expensive.

• Added a monastery building that currently holds research for all kinds of resistances. There will be new exciting units to train there soon.

• Reworked placing buildings; if you click on a build slot, the selected building type and its influence/attack radius get displayed.

• Reworked placing buildings: a right-click on the build slot changes the building type, and a double left-click places the selected building.

• Rally points added for each recruiting building -> you can assign a different base for each of them (no multiselection of buildings yet).

• Defence buildings now increase the visible area around the base.

• Guard towers now ring a bell; units will leave their tents faster.

• Training buildings can increase the training queue with an upgrade.

• Training/construction buildings can have a second parallel training/construction queue.

• Bases can now have multiple storages. Workers will use the one closest to deliver their resources.

Building and Guarding plots

• Added free moveable guard slots to bases that are not dependent on buildings.

• Removed research, storage and portal slots from bases and migrated them to town slots.

• Town slots can hold different buildings now, like farms, mills, wells and a lot more.

• Defence slots can now hold archer towers, guard towers, portals etc.

New Units

• Added a ram unit, which can only attack buildings.

• Added a ballista unit, which shoots big projectiles and can kill several units walking in a row.

AI Improvements

• Added a budget system for the