Update 20 - Milestone Redesign & Co-Op

We are glad to say that our 20th milestone update is finally here. Apologize for the delay with getting this live and the announcement, wanted to make sure all the major changes worked well.

This update improves all areas of the game, as well as completely changes the way players join battles with much stronger focus on CoOp. From the reworked main menu and matchmaking to new gameplay rules letting players play in CoOp skirmish and CoOp survival both with other players or AI companions.

This updates also completes the long term project that improves and streamlines every chapter of the campaign, making it easy and fun on lower difficulties, and always an impossible challenge on harder difficulties.

We also looked intro rebalancing a lot of stats for all of the 3 playable races to fix any balancing and other issues.

Let’s take a closer look at this Milestone 20th Update. To make it easier to process the changes we have combined a lot of the changes into general categories.

• Redesigned the main menu GUI for battles

• Battles menu now shows player portraits

• Add Zombie portraits to the battle menu for survival mode

• New approach to battles menu that combines Survival and Skirmish into one menu

• New design of the battle window all the GUI for both CoOp and Survival

• New way to play Survival with AI partner

• Campaign re-design complete with all chapters polished and improved

• Special focus on improving chapters 3, 5 and 6

• Various improvements to the survival experience

• Polish and balancing to skirmish AI to better work in CoOp 2vs2 team environment

• Rebalancing of stats for humans, orcs and elves

• Rebalanced and fixed aspects of the siege – sieges now are typically faster

• Fixed couple of long-standing issues with AI

• Dozens of bug fixes all across the board