Major Update: Sandbox Mode, New Missions

Hello Kingdom Lords!

A huge update has just dropped, bringing new story content, fresh hero abilities, balance changes, UI improvements and tons of fixes!

What’s new

CAMPAIGN

• Two new missions were added, expanding the main campaign’s storyline.

• The final mission was reworked – you will now face King Lich head-on. The previous version of the final mission was moved to the bonus maps section.

SANDBOX MODE

• Two new maps for 2 and 4 players were added.

• Battle against bot-controlled kingdoms.

• Flexible difficulty settings: from a walk in the park to a hardcore challenge.

NEW HERO ABILITIES

• Thief – evades enemy attention and avoids area-of-effect attacks.

• Ranger – heals their pet.

• Knight – gains a second wind at a critical moment and survives in battle.

• Mage – teleports himself or an ally off the battlefield.

• Barbarian – uses a battle horn that stuns surrounding enemies.

BALANCE

Buffed:

• Thief – increased damage.

• Mage – health increased.

• Possessed – damage and lifesteal from abilities increased.

• Succubus – basic attack now drains enemies’ health, healing wounded allies; maximum number of summoned demons increased to 3.

Nerfed:

• Monk – damage and evasion reduced.

Other changes:

• Building health adjusted.

• Delay in spawning workers after their death increased.

INTERFACE IMPROVEMENTS

• Building overlay: Now displays accumulated gold, attached characters and current tasks (on/off with the Tab key).

• Hotkeys: build – C, cast spells – Ctrl.

• Added emotion icons for all heroes.

• Removed hotkeys for locking onto units and buildings.

FIXES AND OPTIMISATION

Gameplay:

• The “Raise the Dead” spell now removes the hero’s body, which was preventing their resurrection.

• Fixed hero leveling on the Training Ground – they are now more willing to train and can reach levels 3 and 5 depending on the building’s level.

• Fixed score saving when replaying a level.

Technical:

• Fixed bugs causing characters to get stuck and issues with their behaviour.

• Fixed the display of enemy units and effects in the fog of war.

• Fixed an issue with the advisor’s dialogue overlapping.

• Fixed bugs in the save system.

• Improved the optimisation of grass and plant rendering.

Visuals:

• Updated the models for the Healers and Orcs guilds.