World Map & Basic Diplomacy

• The world map gameplay is now active. (Long-term playtesting is not yet complete.)

• Basic diplomacy features have been added:

  • You can join or leave a faction.

  • If you own a fief, only armed independence is currently possible.

  • A future update will introduce a method to peacefully relinquish a fief and become independent.

• All cities now feature culture-appropriate exterior and interior designs. Biomes are not yet applied.

• Global Illumination (GI) is now active on the world map.

• City and village interiors now include a small amount of procedural variation.

🏙 Cities & Sieges

• Elite units can be hired in cities. → In a future update, this will be restricted to cities belonging to your own faction only.

• Cities can now be conquered:

  • Siege preparation time: 75 seconds (at 1× speed).

  • If AI reinforcements arrive as defenders, they cannot retreat until the siege begins.

  • The siege battle map is not yet implemented.

• AI factions currently conduct highly aggressive expansion and conquest.

⚔️ Units & Combat

• General unit balance has been completed.

• Shield durability has been added:

  • Shield infantry can now block 1–2 hits from monster units.

  • Destroyed shields, and shields from fallen soldiers, remain permanently on the battlefield.

🕊 Peace Negotiations

• The cost of entering peace negotiations is now based on the total troop count of each nation.

⚠️ Known Issues

• No hiring restrictions on elite units → early game is too easy.

• No racial armor restrictions yet.

• The player can declare war on a third faction right before battle even when not a king.

• Joining and leaving kingdoms currently has no limitations.

• Player-owned and AI-owned cities/garrisons do not yet affect finances properly.

🔧 Next Update (Save Compatible)

The following features are planned for the next update package. This entire set of features is expected to be completed as a single combined update, and existing save files will remain compatible.

• More detailed diplomacy system

• Clan scout functionality for player kingdoms

• Fief distribution and a clan-influence political system

• Siege battles added to the battle map

• Replacement of infantry attack animations with new full-body animation sets (If the experiment does not improve gameplay, the current animations will remain.)

📌 Estimated development time for the entire update package: Within ~2 weeks (This estimate accounts for all features above, not only siege maps.)

🛠 Post-Update Features (Save-Breaking)

The following major update will not be compatible with existing save files:

• New character face and body proportion adjustments

• Fix for the Bruton weapon scaling bug

• Basic dungeon implementation

• Addition of six remaining factions

• New unit types for factions that currently lack variety

• New faction-specific weapons

• Item rarity/grade system for weapons and armor

📌 Target: All features planned for release within this year

🎯 Final System Update Before Story Content

Before story quests are introduced, one final system update is planned:

• Complete rework of stats and perk systems

• Biome and elevation variety in village interior design

• Expanded siege battle map variations

📘 About Story Quests

• Story content will focus on dungeon expeditions and neutral hero hunts, structured as linear chapter-based quests.

• There are many chapters, so it will take time, but:

  • Goal: Implement story content by February

  • March target: Voice recording + 12-language localization