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Osiris server launched
Osiris server official launch The remaster is live, featuring almost a year of balance fixes, total reworks, aesthetic improvements and everything else for maximum London-taking carnage. And with it, we have our 4th ser…
Patch notes4 changesServer - Taking London
Patch 4.2 - Pre Osiris balance patch
Osiris balance patch Normally I'd say this is the last patch before the new server goes live, but I can't seem to stop tweaking at the minute so let's say it's one of the last. For those that missed it - a brand new ser…
Patch notes18 changesFixServer - Taking London
Patch 4.1 - Revolt & Valley Buffs
Patch 4.1 - Revolt & Valley Buffs 2 updates in 2 days! I'll be getting a job offer from Studio Wildcard any day now. After months of dodging meetings and saying "let's circle back to this", a member of the mayors union…
Security3 changesGameplay - Taking London
Patch 4.0 - Famine & Troop Desertion
Patch 4.0 - Famine and Troop Desertion With lords and ladies up and down the nation supporting vast armies filled with hungry troops, farmers have been under more pressure than ever... and the crops can simply no longer…
Security2 changesGameplay - Taking London
Osiris build official launch
Taking London Remastered (officially dubbed the Osiris build) has been launched! New look, new balance, new game. The details are covered in the event posted last week - this is just a heads up that we are up and runnin…
Patch notes2 changesBalanceServer - Taking London
Osiris Update - Taking London Remastered
It's been a while... but we haven't been idle. In order to make Taking London the game it deserved to be, we had to rebuild everything from scratch - new architecture, new engine - essentially, a new game. Some of you m…
Patch notes8 changesCompatibilityGameplay - Taking London
CRASH REPORT - possible account data loss on 12/08/2025
Crash report with possible data loss - 12th August 2025 While we take every precaution to avoid crashes, regrettably they still happen. In the worst case scenario, they cause progress to be lost on accounts. Yesterday a…
Patch notes8 changesPerformanceBalance - Taking London
Version 3.1.0 - Accommodation caps and gates
New features: You can now open or close your city gate to allow your troops to defend your city, or avoid attackers, respectively. Closing your gate will allow other players to freely loot any unprotected resources you…
Patch notes9 changesFixGameplay - Taking London
Version 3.0.0 - battle mechanics rework
Taking London 3.0.0 is here, with completely new battle mechanics! After the first few PVP spats, it's become clear the battle script - while technically complicated - lacks a practical depth, meaning the game has essen…
Patch notes10 changesGameplayBalance - Taking London
Server load optimisations to shorten maintenance
Good morning London Takers! The maintenance window has been growing egregiously long, especially due to the launch of the second server. After realising there must be something wrong with this as other, much larger game…
Patch notes2 changesPerformanceServer - Taking London
PLANNED SERVER DOWNTIME - 4th July
Hello London Takers! The server is currently offline, and is likely to remain that way until around 4PM GMT on 4th July; apologies for not posting this announcement sooner! This is a planned outage as the server busies…
Announcement1 changeServer - Taking London
Patch notes - 2.4.0
New features: Alliance portal: The functionality to join, create and otherwise interact with your alliance has been moved out of the Military Command and onto a screen accessible in the HUD, exposing much more QOL featu…
Patch notes6 changesFixGameplay - Taking London
Server 2 is coming on 5th July!
The moment you've all been waiting for... Since the full release on the 24th April, we've seen it all - gold mine-gate, market-gate, the great crash of 29/04, Wyddyrshyns-gate... we even had a cyber attack to deal with.…
Patch notes7 changesFixPerformance - Taking London
Patch notes - 2.3.0
New features: The automation screen now contains a section allowing you to create "trade rules" to automatically trade resources at the market when your specified criteria are met General gameplay The "overworked popula…
Announcement4 changesGameplayBalance - Taking London
Patch notes - 2.2.0
The second of two major balance patches, that were agreed by the community as necessary to ensure server 2 does not experience any of the balance issues the first one did. Balance patches The mayor "efficiency" stat no…
Announcement7 changesFixServer - Taking London
Patch notes - 2.1.0
Probably high time I started using Steam for patch notes rather than just the discord! Balance patches: Resources are no longer capped by the storage cap defined by warehouses, refineries and stables; instead, the stora…
Event6 changesBalanceGameplay
