Major Update #3 - University and Research Tree, Army's Cost Rebalance

Greetings, My King!

Long time no see! When the Major Update #1 was released, we also published a Survey in the game, which heavily focused on the game's future development. One of the questions was about the new features that you would like to see the most in the game. The most popular answers were Technology Tree and Battle Visualizations as drawings in the letters.

We are extremely happy to announce that the Technology Tree is officially released today as a free update to the core game. The Battle Visualizations on the other hand will launch in a month as a small, optional DLC. Have fun and let us know what you think about those new additions!

Studies - Research Tree

A new University building has been added to the game. The University building unlocks the Research Tree (called Studies in the game). Each research takes time and requires a specific gold investment. Currently, there are 12 different researches, each with 3 upgrade levels:

• Regiment Formation - recruitment limit +10/20/30% units during one cycle,

• Prosperity - happiness growth +10/20/30%,

• Fortress Engineering - fortification defense +10/20/30%,

• Defensive Strategies - enemy siege happiness penalty -5/10/15%,

• Siege Innovations - happiness removed during your sieges +5/10/15%,

• Generalship - academy generals have stats increased by +1/2/3,

• Spycraft - academy spies have stats increased by +1/2/3,

• Effective Communication - messengers speed increased by +10/20/30%,

• Patriotism - manpower growth +5/10/15%,

• Command Expansion - generals limit +10/20/30%

• Construction Techniques - construction, repair and upgrade time of buildings -5/10/15%,

• Trade Routes - trade income +!0/20/30%.

Other Changes

• The maintenance cost of the army has been significantly increased.

• The diplomacy has been updated. Other countries should now be more open to agreeing to our requests, while they were too eager to reject all the offers previously.

• The battle algorithms have been updated. The units (other than archers) will now focus more on attacking the units located in the first enemy line.

• An issue that caused black screen at the start of the game has been fixed.

• An issue with neutral/friendly countries immediately taking over "our" rebel regions after the player has defeated an enemy country has been fixed.

• An issue with some countries bankrupting out of nowhere or displaying as rebel-controlled has been fixed.

• Issues with the tutorial not working as intended have been fixed.

Some additional commentary about the increased maintenance army cost. Once recruited, the army previously had almost no cost and we wanted to make it an important part of an ongoing economy. Be careful, recruiting tens of thousands of units without proper economic backbone might result in bankruptcy.

Battle Visualizations

The Chronicles of Battle DLC is coming your way on April 4th, 2025. We hope that you will enjoy this addition to the game and decide to support further development of King's Orders. Add Chronicles of Battle to your wishlist on Steam to experience the battle visualizations at the launch date.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/3418000/Kings_Orders__Chronicles_of_Battle/

We hope that you will enjoy all the new content coming your way! Let us know what you think about the newest changes in the comments. We are reading them all and discussing internally. Thank you for playing King's Orders!

Best regards, King's Orders Team