Metal March: Beginner Experience

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Released: Jan 24, 2023
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11 Aug 2023Developer post
Version 6.0 Update and Official Release!
With all of the game's foundational content complete, we've moved from Early Access to Official Release! New race Savage Unites has been added. New region Red Mountain has been added. Added 2 new troops from the Relic Guardians from World's Roof. Added 10 new achievements. AI cal
With all of the game's foundational content complete, we've moved from Early Access to Official Release!
New race Savage Unites has been added.
New region Red Mountain has been added.
Added 2 new troops from the Relic Guardians from World's Roof.
Added 10 new achievements.
AI calculation speed has been slightly improved.
Added Honor difficulty. In Honor difficulty, enemies are stronger, their troops and magic grow faster, and there's more room for strategic exploration during battle.
Fixed an issue that caused text to go out of frame in tip popup.
Fixed an issue where cards displayed in the UI would show a few tags.
Added 3 Silver Coin Pouches and 3 Crimson Stone Piles to each region. This will hopefully reduce the total number of battles, making them less tiring.
? region can no longer be traversed.

We've changed the balance of defense. We hope this will alleviate an issue where units with higher defense felt more valuable.
The damage of the Fire Dagger has been recalculated. It now deals about 20% more damage than before.
Conflagrate damage increased by 30%.
Intelligence has been changed to only increase the effectiveness of Destruction magic cards. Instead, it now increases the effectiveness of Weapon cards by 2% for every increase in Strength.
The effectiveness of Resurrection has been increased by 100%. While many other resurrection-related effects have been increased, we still haven't balanced this card.
Death Bringer's Raise Dead troop summon reduced from 21 to 15.
All weapons have had their damage increased by approximately 10%. Previously, we thought it was efficient because of the large number of weapons that could be used multiple times, so we concluded that the weapon cards were actually handicapped because they tended to stiffen the hand, even though they were 10% weaker than normal destruction spells.
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02 Jun 2023Developer post
Version 5.0 Update
New region The World's Roof added. Added Endings. Added a dictionary to the main menu. The dictionary contains a list of units and spells for each race. Added region capture rewards. Each time you capture a region, you get a buff that lasts. Added a 4th line to talents. Added 5 n
New region The World's Roof added.
Added Endings.
Added a dictionary to the main menu. The dictionary contains a list of units and spells for each race.
Added region capture rewards. Each time you capture a region, you get a buff that lasts.
Added a 4th line to talents.
Added 5 new Encounter events.
Fixed some encounter-related errors.
Improved troops with the same speed to be able to shuffle their order internally over turns.
Six new achievements have been added. One has been added to the Beginner Experience.
Changed troop skills to be available when the leader is silenced.
Fixed an issue where tooltips would sometimes not change color when their damage was changed by buffs or debuffs.
Fixed the description of the Pulsating Rune.
Fixed an issue where the AI would sometimes ignore taunts.
Wagons have been changed to appear earlier in the region.
The troop replacement screen has been improved to allow for drag-and-drop troop placement changes.
Fixed an issue with the Slave Trader and Altar of Sacrifice not reflecting troop numbers correctly.
Fixed an issue where certain josa were not substituted correctly in the Korean environment.

Rewards have been rebalanced across the board. Experience gain has been increased, and encounter rewards have been adjusted across the board.
Leadership growth per leader rank has been increased from 50 to 60. As the player's growth has been adjusted, the enemy's growth has also been increased.
Silver Mine income has been reduced again by 20%.
The purchase cost of higher tier troops has been reduced by 4% to 18%.
Some underused talents have been buffed.
The amount of troop rewards from the encounter "Jail" has been changed to be based on your leadership, not the enemy's.
Groove Keeper damage increased from 6-11 to 8-14.
Regeneration effectiveness reduced by 20%, but duration increased from 2 to 4.
Entangling Roots level 1 duration increased again from 1 to 2, and cost increased from 3 to 4.
Healing Aura effectiveness for Cleric reduced by approximately 12%.
Slient duration increased from 2 to 4.
Chill cost increased by 1.
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11 Apr 2023Developer post
Version 4.2 Update
The AI has been improved to use Wait and Defense. However, we only use simple conditions for now, in case battles get too long. We'll tweak this further as we get more feedback. Fixed a bug where the upgrade status view was displayed on the troop detail screen. Fixed an issue whe
The AI has been improved to use Wait and Defense. However, we only use simple conditions for now, in case battles get too long. We'll tweak this further as we get more feedback.
Fixed a bug where the upgrade status view was displayed on the troop detail screen.
Fixed an issue where magic was duplicated on some encounters.

The cost of Massive Purification has been increased by 1.
Animate Dead cost increased by 1.
Sacrosanct cost reduced by 3, but duration reduced by 1.
Into the Dark cost reduced by 1, but the number of areas of effect has been reduced.
Cleric's Healing Aura effectiveness has been increased and changed to revive allies for an amount equal to the excess healing. Level 1: Increased from 8 to 12 Level 2: Increased from 8 to 13 Level 3: Increased from 9 to 15
Sniper maximum damage has been reduced, but health and armor have been slightly increased. Physical Armor: increased from 10 to 15 Magic Defense: increased from 12 to 20 Level 1: Max damage reduced from 95 to 86, health increased from 56 to 62 Level 2: Maximum damage reduced from 104 to 94, health increased from 62 to 68 Level 2: Maximum damage reduced from 114 to 103, health increased from 68 to 74
Forest Elf racial passive "Circle" effectiveness increased from 3% to 5%.
Combustion damage increased by nearly 20%.
The amount of troops replenished from each store and camp has been reduced by 25%.
The amount of troops that can be replenished from a wagon at once has been reduced by 60%.
Demolition talent effectiveness increased from 2/4/6% to 3/6/9%.
Premeditation talent effectiveness increased from 3/6/9% to 5/10/15%.
Leadership growth per leader rank increased from 40 to 50.
Enemy growth has been adjusted. They are now roughly 20% stronger as a simple average.
All income has been increased by approximately 20% on average.
Magic damage that scales with intelligence increased from 3% to 5%.

We tested the proposal to make enemy positions invisible during initial deployment, but surprisingly it had little effect on the difficulty of the game. Not being able to see the enemy's location caused us to deploy troops conservatively, which only delayed the start of the full-scale conflict and led to a sharp increase in combat fatigue. The source code remains, so I'll test it again later if I think of a way to make it better :)
We're currently making a number of balance adjustments to the game, but these updates are a mix of adjustments made for The World's Ceil update, so we haven't done a thorough calculation of what we're balancing.
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24 Mar 2023Developer post
Version 4.1 Update
The roadmap has been updated. Since most of the core elements we envisioned updating in the Ascending From The Underground update have already been updated in other updates, it became awkward to maintain the size of one major update, so we thought it would be a good idea to merge
The roadmap has been updated. Since most of the core elements we envisioned updating in the Ascending From The Underground update have already been updated in other updates, it became awkward to maintain the size of one major update, so we thought it would be a good idea to merge the remaining parts into the other remaining major updates.
Added the feature to preview the next grade in the cards preview pane.
Your health is displayed with a shield value.
Fixed an issue where penetration attack passive descriptions were not displayed.
Fixed an issue where enemies always displayed as level 3 in the battle results window.
Fixed an issue where stat points on talents were not being applied correctly.
You can now right-click to release the relics.
Fixed an issue where hovering over the location of a cloaked target would highlight the troop icons in the queue.
Leader experience is now displayed in your campsite and shops.
Forest Dweller has been renamed to Forest Nymph.
The Deep Forest Beast has been renamed to Grove Keeper.
The Royal Guard has been renamed to Nature's Champion.
Guardian of Forest has been renamed to Treant.
Some localstrings have been changed.
Added or changed the category of some units. World Eater : changed from Beast to Eldrich. Forest Nymph, Treant : Added the categories Plant. Fire Wisp, Lava Giant : Added the categories Non-Living.

Arcane Reinforcement talent effectiveness increased from 4% to 8%.
Swift Mend talent effectiveness increased from 6% to 12%.
Recovery from all cards increased by 30%.
Wolf Rider leadership requirement increased from 90 to 102. Level 1 damage reduced from 35-42 to 30-36. Level 2 damage reduced from 38-46 to 33-39. Level 3 damage reduced from 42-50 to 37-44.
Twisted Being leadership requirement increased from 100 to 105. Level 3 damage reduced from 26-38 to 24-32.
Skeleton Mage's attack type changed from pure damage to magic damage. Level 1 damage increased from 55-62 to 62-73. Level 2 damage increased from 60-68 to 68-80. Level 3 damage increased from 66-75 to 76-88.
Skeleton Mage life drain changed from magic damage to pure damage. Level 1 damage reduced from 60 to 50. Level 2 damage reduced from 66 to 55. Level 3 damage reduced from 72 to 61.
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16 Mar 2023Developer post
Version 4.0 Hotfix 2 Update
Added whether the camping buff is active to the expedition screen. Fixed an issue where buffs gained from random encounters would disappear faster than their duration. Fixed an issue where reserve troops would sometimes disappear when dragging them. Fixed an issue with the encoun
Added whether the camping buff is active to the expedition screen.
Fixed an issue where buffs gained from random encounters would disappear faster than their duration.
Fixed an issue where reserve troops would sometimes disappear when dragging them.
Fixed an issue with the encounter "Unfinished Thesis".
Fixed an issue with the + not showing in the card names in the encounters.
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16 Mar 2023Developer post
Version 4.0 Hotfix 1 Update
Fixed an issue where the Korean font was blurred depending on the location. Fixed an issue where you could not interact with the Mercenary Group when you restarted the game after saving.
Fixed an issue where the Korean font was blurred depending on the location.
Fixed an issue where you could not interact with the Mercenary Group when you restarted the game after saving.
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15 Mar 2023Developer post
Version 4.0 Update
The Korean font has been changed. Fixed an issue where setting values for sound-related options were not saved. Unit ratings are now displayed before the name of the unit. The engine has been updated to 2022.2.10f1. The model of the farm has been changed to a windmill. Improved t
The Korean font has been changed.
Fixed an issue where setting values for sound-related options were not saved.
Unit ratings are now displayed before the name of the unit.
The engine has been updated to 2022.2.10f1.
The model of the farm has been changed to a windmill.
Improved the performance of the model's outline display algorithm.
The display of regions has been changed from a tree to a hexagonal tile format. We've expanded the number of paths you can travel, which should allow you to be more selective in your expeditions. This feature was added because you couldn't progress if enemies were blocking your path, which we don't think is necessary anymore.
Region loading is now faster, and performance on the expedition screen has been optimized.
There are new nodes in the region: Unknown Random events will occur at these nodes, and you won't know what to expect until you reach them. There may be a battle, but you may also gain something, lose something, or gain a reward in exchange for losing something.
There are new nodes in the region: Transport Carriage At this point, you can pay a wagon vendor a small amount of money to gather troops so that your leader can resupply the troops he is currently employing. After paying, a certain amount of troops will be available for hire at the Wagon after 24 hours. This will make it easier to use troops that are often underutilized due to supply issues.
Due to the addition of new locations, the overall region is now a bit larger.
Fixed a bug where values were being saved differently depending on the language when saving preferences. Some users may see some option values change after receiving this update.
The image for each nodes has been changed.
The UI has changed from a blue toned color scheme to red.
Sanctuary UI has been improved.
The Wishing Well UI has been improved.
Improved the UI of the difficulty selection screen.
Combat locations now display the appearance of one of the featured enemies.
Combat locations will now display the type of enemy that appears.
Tooltips for spots have been changed to be above the rest of the UI.
Fixed an issue where it was not possible to see enemy movement and attack range when holding LShift.
Added a map feature that allows you to check your expedition status while in combat and camping. (Default shortcut M)
Improved the day and night dial images.
Removed shadows from 3D texts and added outlines.
Spellstones have been renamed to Ruby, as they previously had a similar icon and name to Magic Stones, which caused some confusion, but hopefully will be clearer now.
Added tiers to relics.
We've changed the reward structure for Altars of Sacrifice. Previously, it rewarded certain tiers of magic with certainty, but now the rewards are more granular and probabilistic. We hope this will increase the rarity of rare tier magic and make it more valuable to sell in the shop.
The start screen has been rearranged and the race symbol images have been improved.

AoE cards can now be use over obstacles.
The amount of money you receive from battle rewards has been reduced by about 25% across the board. Instead, the daily income coming in from silver mines has been increased from 30 to 100.
The total amount of troops appearing in all types of shops has been reduced by about 40%, in exchange for the addition of transport carriage.
The ability to avoid battles has been removed. It is no longer necessary, as the widening of the paths in the region has created enough space for bypassing.
Removed an algorithm that allowed the AI to use range magic when a player's troops are in stealth to predict the location of the stealthy troops.
Sniper health increased by 5%.
Magic effectiveness that increases with intelligence increased from 2% to 3%.
Damage bonus from camping increased from 5% to 15%.
Archery Training, Swordsmanship Training, and Arcane Enhancement talents increased from 3% to 4%.
Added 23 new artifacts. They now also provide leader stats based on the tier of the artifact.
Troop experience gained from battles has been reduced by 50%.
Increased the cost of unlocking the first troop slot from 1 gold to 5 gold.

We updated the Unity Engine to version 2022.2.10 with the expectation that it would resolve some internal issues, but instead we encountered a serious issue that broke connections between various prefabs. We tested as much as we could and got it back up and running, but the biggest problem is that whenever we modify an existing prefab, it is again breaking connections between random objects for unknown reasons. Unfortunately, I wanted to warn you in advance that until this is fixed in the new version of the engine, the client may be quite unstable. I'll do my best to double-check before each new release to make sure I'm not introducing another issue, but if you run into any issues like the game freezing, please let me know. I'll try to make a hotfix as soon as possible.
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08 Mar 2023Developer post
Preview the next update
In the next update, we'll be making some major changes to expeditions. Up until now, maps have been simple tree nodes with lines connecting them, but now they'll be tiled, allowing for more selective and strategic exploration. Whereas before you were simply deciding which way to
09 Feb 2023Developer post
Version 3.0 Update
A new region has been added : Necropolis A new race has been added : Necropolis But in Beginner Experience, Necropolis is locked. Several local strings have been changed and added. Fixed an issue where some of the optional items were miss-linked. It has been changed to automatica
A new region has been added : Necropolis
A new race has been added : Necropolis But in Beginner Experience, Necropolis is locked.
Several local strings have been changed and added.
Fixed an issue where some of the optional items were miss-linked.
It has been changed to automatically deactivate when the battle begins with the relic replacement window on.
Attack range icon for range unit changed to bow.
An error was found that failed to create a region with a very rare probability. I'm trying to resolve this error by try to recreate internally few times if the creation fails.
Fixed an error that continued to occur inside when the battle was lost.
Due to changes in the experience table, the previous save cannot be continued.

Leader experience table has changed. Now, as leadership levels increase, the next experience requirement increases, also, as the expedition progresses, the experience gained from the battle increases. This is expected to reduce the value of the grinding and reduce the fatigue of the expedition.
Now you can also avoid fighting with the garrison. But you're less likely to succeed in avoiding a battle with them, and you're more likely to be ambushed by them.
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27 Jan 2023Developer post
Version 2.3 Hotfix 1 Update
Errors caused by numerical notation differences in the environment of a particular language have been corrected. But inevitably, if an error has already occurred, the expedition must be restarted.
Errors caused by numerical notation differences in the environment of a particular language have been corrected. But inevitably, if an error has already occurred, the expedition must be restarted.
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26 Jan 2023Developer post
Version 2.3 Update
Added support for 4:3, 16:10 resolution. The attack range marker has changed color and has been added for a more clear view. The black part of the chessboard became darker. Optimized the game initialization process. It is expected to improve by 50-80% on HDD compared to the previ
Added support for 4:3, 16:10 resolution.
The attack range marker has changed color and has been added for a more clear view.
The black part of the chessboard became darker.
Optimized the game initialization process. It is expected to improve by 50-80% on HDD compared to the previous one.
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24 Jan 2023Developer post
Metal March's Beginner Experience has been started!
Hello, I'm greeting you from the BlueTale team. We're excited to finally introduce you to Metal March: Beginner Experience, a free trial game of Metal March. This version game is includes 1 race and 1 region, a total of 2-3 hours of playable time. You'll see the overall flow of t