NORSE Update 1.0.7.3 Changelog

Steam post image NEW Content! (Skirmish Missions & Maps)

A new set of missions have been added to the game via Skirmish maps! These are smaller, optional combat-focused missions that appear throughout the game that have no deadline; these new missions will allow you to further level up any characters of your choice. Skirmish missions can be encountered like any other missions, by unlocking them on the map. By progressing through turns on the map via either new or pre-existing save(s), mission markers will periodically drop onto the map and the player can then launch into them at any point during the campaign. A new game is not needed to access these missions, unless it's a late-game save, since there would not be enough turns before A Debt of Blood to access Skirmish mission(s). *Please note, these new missions are not repeatable. The new maps/missions names are the following:

• The Wolf Wood

• Silver and Shadows

• Blood Soaked

• The Beast Men

• The Eagle's Challenge

• Greybeards

An example of what this new mission marker looks like can be seen below:

Localization (Additional Language)

• By popular demand, NORSE: Oath of Blood has been translated to Polish (Text only) a big shoutout to DrSkillzDeficit for his contribution in this endeavour!

  • PLEASE NOTE: Steam, Epic, and GOG achievements have not yet been translated [UPDATE] Polish Achievements are now translated. No client update was needed for this. Thank you for your patience!

Additional Localization

• Fixed formatting mistake in the crafting entry in the points list of changes for Huntsman worksite construction

• Fixed 'At the Gates' state being written as one word in the tutorial explanation

• Fixed text not being localized on some project complete sequences (Ritual Circle, Makeshift Camp, Master Loomhall, Lumber Camp)

User Interface

• Improved enemy highlighting when hovering mouse over enemy alert tiles, now all enemies that cover that specific tile will get highlighted

• Alert tiles will now be displayed for enemies that start the encounter with alert active

• Highlights on units now clear reliably when you stop hovering the mouse over units

• Updated description on Glima and Sound of Death abilities

• Improved tooltip when targeting units that are out of range

• Improved info text above ability bar when hovering units

• Tutorials can no longer be triggered while screen is black

• Fixed issue where the game could get stuck if mission is restarted just when a tutorial starts

• Added notifications message about not enough AP to do action or move, and notification about not being able to switch to other player units

• Fixed tooltip on Wolf Fang ability displaying incorrect number

• Fixed tooltip for explanation when lacking AP, which used the incorrect term

• Fixed damage preview not taking armor piercing into account

• Hovering units in the turn order now behave the same as hovering the unit in the scene

• Fixed issue where you were unable to select unit by clicking on them when standing outside combat areas outside of combat

• Changed how Turn Slots look when selecting a unit for open slots to indicate that the unit's turn has not started yet.

• Added New Turn Start announcement when the turn starts to clarify when this happens

• The turn order slot now displays a flash animation when a unit starts its turn

• Made the mission difficulty icon more high quality and look consistent between the different screens that uses it

• Fixed issue where ability tooltip did not update properly when inspecting passive abilities retaining the range and cooldown information, this is now cleared when displaying passive abilities

• Fixed Trade Item slot price layout issue

Save System

• When save file types exceed the limit, it now deletes the oldest file instead of the newest

• Save files that are automatically generated no longer reuse files that don't follow the naming convention if the save file got renamed at some point and will instead delete the file and make a new one

• Fixed issue where village events that are meant to trigger during turn progression would trigger early if loading a save made after the event was queued to execute on next turn progression

• Dead enemies now keep the elevation they were saved at when loading a save

Optimization

• Adjusted optimization logic to not interfere with primary cutscene characters, fixing cloth animation issues

• Removed some redundant enemy AI calculations

Achievements

• Fixed an issue where the "No Escape, No Mercy" achievement would not be granted when killing a unit held via Meat Shield ability

• Made "The Warlord's Sight" achievement increment every time the Vulnerable status effect is inflicted on any enemy by any hirdman

• Made "Rend and Ruin" now only trigger when attacking people and animals, not inanimate objects

• Made achievements not count individually for each Hirdman, but instead use the sum of all of them

• Achievements that have been changed will convert the data from individual to shared amount on load

Enemy AI Improvements

• AI now handles abilities that combine push with other forms of damage better, as it won't avoid performing attacks that also pushes if it isn't colliding with anything

• Fixed AI actions for Outcast Shieldbearer and Svein Bloodhammer so they don't engage already

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Village

• The Great Market project now actually reduces the price of trading once completed

• You can now send less units than there are slots available if you so choose as empty slots won't be filled up automatically once mission starts

• Ingebjorn no longer have the Bruiser trait and have his initial rank reduced from 3 to 2

Ability Changes

• Wolf Fang now inflicts 1 Rend

Combat

• Made Rend status effect work the way it was intended

• Fixed flee status effect so it behaves as intended

• Death's Kiss ability now only resets the cooldown when an enemy is killed

• Fixed issue where Warden status effect would trigger a counterattack, even when the attacker was out of range

• Fixed issues with fleeing status effect

• Player actions are now blocked while performing delayed abilities

• When player knocks enemy into ally with active alert, they now targets the enemy correctly when performing the combo attack

• Fixed issue where in some particular circumstances, the player's turn could end when an turn enemy begins

• Fixed issue where sometimes you would be unable to move the unit

• Fixed softlock when there are multiple player units available but all of them have a charged delayed ability

• Fixed issue where player would be unable to perform actions when starting the turn of a unit with a delayed ability active that couldn't be performed

• Added Injured status effect which is now inflicted when health reaches the injury threshold

This effect has two levels, when you reach At The Gates the level increases At the lowest level it blocks the health from going past 50% and at the highest it blocks it at 33%

• Fixed issue where you would start in the same area regardless of where you approached the encounter that was intended to have multiple options, you now get different starting area on supported encounters

• Charge ability is now interrupted if killed or somehow gain the special effect where you can't move during a charge

• Fixed issues with charge that would sometimes result in units ending on top of each other

• Fixed issue where On New Turn events would sometimes trigger on incorrect unit when using fixed player turns

• Fixed issue where turn would lock when unit is selected if you had cripple status effect

• Ram ability is now restricted from targeting units at different elevation than yourself

• Fixed issue with Wild Boar which had a range of 0 preventing it from performing attacks, this is now set to 1

• Fixed issue with Enrage ability where two units could end up on the same grid position

• Fixed issue where boars would face the wrong direction when striking after the charge

• Updated Boar's Charge ability - now boar can't use charge ability when it is in engagement

• Fixed glitching issues during movement which in some cases when moving down from high ground could cause issues where the unit disappears and can't be used anymore

• Fixed rare cases where units are inexplicably unable to move during combat

• Alert is now interrupted if the unit is constrained by a status effect

• High ground tiles now blocks line of sight when standing at non high ground tiles

• High ground now cause full cover on all non high ground neighboring tiles

• Fixed issue where units not yet spawned would occupy tiles within combat area

Audio

• Fixed issue where soundscape volume did not activate if camera starts inside the volume

Graphics

• Updated the physics colliders for Arn's cape so it follows his body better

• Fixed deforming mesh issue on the legs on Wildborn Coat model

Animation

• Tuned animation settings on all basic attacks, dodges, and hits

• Tuned animation settings on knockbacks

• Tuned all ability animation settings to make them blend better and be more responsive

• Adjusted some animations when needed to play well with the adjusted settings

• Fixed shield flipping issue on one of the Ram attacks

• Fixed issue where movement animation would interfere with attack animation when attacking diagonally

• Updated particle effects and animation speed on Hail of Arrows animations so the actions and outcome seems more plausible

• Adjusted arrow shoot and attach logic to be able to handle multiple shots (as well as none) in a single animation

• Fixed issue where if a unit was prone while at the gates he would stand up when prone buff ended

• Fixed animation issue when animals are targeted by Enrage ability

• Added support for playing additive animations

• Made additive animations for Take Hit and Dodge that is played when alert attack deals damage or misses while the target moves

• Fixed issue where Berserkr enemies would slide towards the target when using charge

• Fixed issue where unit held by Meat Shield could change animation pose when inflicted with prone, now the unit remains in the meat shield animation until released

Missions

General

• Fixed issue where you would not receive any items or resources after a mission if you had failed the mission and complete it after choosing the retry mission option

• Fixed issue where the game would get into a bad state if you retry mission after losing

• Increased the size of the deployment area in appropriate encounters in Battle of the Borg, Blood in the Water, Tides of War, Into the Lair of the Beast and Iron Will

Battle of the Borg

• Fixed last stand cutscene where Arn was invisible

• The mission will now end if Ivarr Whalerider falls in battle

Wild Hunt

• Fixed runestone not activating the first time you click it

• Fixed behavior of the Alpha Wolf in the wolf encounter, now it waits until the second turn before moving down

Night Terrors

• The mission will now end if Karl Gudmundson falls in battle

Utlagi Camp

• Removed a fallen tree that was laying unnaturally on the ground and moved a nearby one to make it lay more naturally