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Season's Greetings & Hotfixes

Season’s greetings Underlord, It’s that time of year once more when the peasants of the Empire are tucked up all cosy and nice in their warm, safe houses, preparing great feasts while their offsprings eagerly await the

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Full War for the Overworld update

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What changed

6 fixes7 additions6 changes1 removal
  • Events
  • Gameplay
  • Maps
  • Workshop
  • UI and audio
  • Fixes
changedSeason’s greetings Underlord, It’s that time of year once more when the peasants of the Empire are tucked up all cosy and nice in their warm, safe houses, preparing great feasts while their offsprings eagerly await the daring charity of a rather portly home invader. What overbearing joy… They can enjoy it while it lasts, for soon the plan will come to fruition and their homes will be invaded by a somewhat less charitable bunch. Not even their goodly Emperor Uther will be able to protect them from the oncoming apocalypse. But first there are preparations to be made, and I have special plans for loyal minions such as yourself. For now though you should enjoy this brief reprieve.
addedSeason’s Greetings from BrightrockWhile we’re at it something arrived for you through the swirling snow of the Aether, a sort of message as it were, from a team of Engineers claiming to know you personally. Does “Brightrock Games” ring a bell? It seems they’re starting their own holidays now and will be back to work in the new year. They sent you a card as well – oh, how delightful! Steam post image This one again? I’m not sure whether that’s a compliment or an insult! I trust you’re not being too lenient on them Underlord? Charity is not a virtue you are meant to possess. In any case it seems they’ve not left without doing some work: they mention something about working on hotfixes, whatever that means, right up until their closure today. Here, they sent a list of everything they’ve achieved since their last message.
addedCrucibleAdded player high score to the Leaderboard section on Lobby and
changedCrucibleIf a Boss Kill artefact cannot be picked up normally it will instead spawn at the Dungeon Core
addedCrucibleAdded a map ping when a Goldstone is being attacked
addedCommunity TranslationIt is now possible to add a custom image as the workshop image to a Community Translation file

War for the Overworld changes

changedSeason’s greetings Underlord, It’s that time of year once more when the peasants of the Empire are tucked up all cosy and nice in their warm, safe houses, preparing great feasts while their offsprings eagerly await the daring charity of a rather portly home invader. What overbearing joy… They can enjoy it while it lasts, for soon the plan will come to fruition and their homes will be invaded by a somewhat less charitable bunch. Not even their goodly Emperor Uther will be able to protect them from the oncoming apocalypse. But first there are preparations to be made, and I have special plans for loyal minions such as yourself. For now though you should enjoy this brief reprieve.
addedWhile we’re at it something arrived for you through the swirling snow of the Aether, a sort of message as it were, from a team of Engineers claiming to know you personally. Does “Brightrock Games” ring a bell? It seems they’re starting their own holidays now and will be back to work in the new year. They sent you a card as well – oh, how delightful! Steam post image This one again? I’m not sure whether that’s a compliment or an insult! I trust you’re not being too lenient on them Underlord? Charity is not a virtue you are meant to possess. In any case it seems they’ve not left without doing some work: they mention something about working on hotfixes, whatever that means, right up until their closure today. Here, they sent a list of everything they’ve achieved since their last message.
addedAdded player high score to the Leaderboard section on Lobby and
changedIf a Boss Kill artefact cannot be picked up normally it will instead spawn at the Dungeon Core
addedAdded a map ping when a Goldstone is being attacked

Season’s greetings Underlord, It’s that time of year once more when the peasants of the Empire are tucked up all cosy and nice in their warm, safe houses, preparing great feasts while their offsprings eagerly await the daring charity of a rather portly home invader. What overbearing joy… They can enjoy it while it lasts, for soon the plan will come to fruition and their homes will be invaded by a somewhat less charitable bunch. Not even their goodly Emperor Uther will be able to protect them from the oncoming apocalypse. But first there are preparations to be made, and I have special plans for loyal minions such as yourself. For now though you should enjoy this brief reprieve.

Season’s Greetings from Brightrock

While we’re at it something arrived for you through the swirling snow of the Aether, a sort of message as it were, from a team of Engineers claiming to know you personally. Does “Brightrock Games” ring a bell? It seems they’re starting their own holidays now and will be back to work in the new year. They sent you a card as well – oh, how delightful! Steam post image This one again? I’m not sure whether that’s a compliment or an insult! I trust you’re not being too lenient on them Underlord? Charity is not a virtue you are meant to possess. In any case it seems they’ve not left without doing some work: they mention something about working on hotfixes, whatever that means, right up until their closure today. Here, they sent a list of everything they’ve achieved since their last message.

Patch 1.5 Hotfixes F6-F14 (December 14th to 21st)

Crucible

  • Added player high score to the Leaderboard section on Lobby and

  • Summary screen at all times

  • Rejigged the order some VO lines play in

  • If a Boss Kill artefact cannot be picked up normally it will instead spawn at the Dungeon Core

  • Added a map ping when a Goldstone is being attacked

Community Translation

  • It is now possible to add a custom image as the workshop image to a Community Translation file

  • Made the way community translation works more flexible. This should not affect existing translations

  • Improved translation parser’s tolerance to empty lines, which can occur when manually editing CSV files

  • Crucible map names & descriptions now have translation keys

UI Changes

  • Replaced Sapper Icon on Map Editor Mutators Menu with Crackpot

  • Introduced some updated unit portraits for a number of units

  • Crucible Available” arrow now has a kickass fade in

Bug Fixes

Crucible

  • Leaderboard now correctly shows 10 players instead of 9

  • Fixed an issue where your camera could become locked if you played two Crucible levels in a row

  • Unlockable worker skins are no longer unnlocked until you unlock them… Sorry 😉

  • Fixed an issue where Respite would not correctly add extra time to the wave timer

  • Fixed a bug where the “Earthquake” line would play constantly if the player had used replacement earth in a specific manner

  • Fixed an issue where the display of number of waves cleared could be corrupted (no effect on leaderboards)

  • Worker skins from this mode now correctly animate when mining

Community Translation

  • Fixed an issue where a community translation that was missing a key would report an our of range message

  • Fallback to primary language should always work in the event of a missing key/error

  • Fixed an incorrect translation key for the Crackpot Flash-Bang

Source

Steam News / 22 December 2016

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