Hello Early Access players!
We start the new year by resolving some important issues and bugs.
Thank you to community members that sent descriptive bug and issue reports on our Steam forum!
If you have an issue with the game or believe you've found a bug, please head on over to our Steam forum at our bug report forum or pop by our Discord.
Patch notes:
- Important: Resolved an issue where the King could be incorrectly captured in a Shieldwall. Note to players: The King cannot be captured in a Shieldwall in the Copenhagen ruleset of Hnefatafl.
- Important: Resolved an issue where an Edge Fort win condition would not be triggered correctly.
- Minor: Piece count in UI for each faction was not updated correctly when loading a game
- Minor: Reset button in UI was available to click when it was not supposed to be available.
- Minor: EditProfile UI window in Start Menu was enabled when leaving an active game returning to Start Menu.
- Minor: When viewing your Statistics in Edit Profile UI, the scroll speed of the scrollable view is now faster when using the mousewheel.
Going forward, we're developing faster now at the start of the new year. Viking Chess now have two developers working on the game, so we will try to release more frequent updates the coming weeks. We are aiming to release the game out of Early Access quite soon.
Upcoming content the next weeks:
- Improved visuals in some areas
- More unlockable prefix titles for your Player Profile
- Feedback when unlocking an unlockable
- Another AI improvement patch
- Steam Achievements
We're considering one last "heavy" feature for Viking Chess; A custom game editor, where you can setup a boardstate placing pieces on the board and setting up game parameters. Could be used for many things, like creating variants of Hnefatafl with different board sizes and number of pieces, strong/weak King rules, custom win conditions. You can either challenge the AI on a custom board or create a custom game lobby in Multiplayer. We want feedback from the community on this feature, please tell us in the comments or our Discord or our Steam Forum if this is a feature you would really, really like to see in the game.
As always, thank you for playing Viking Chess and leaving good reviews for our game!
Viking Chess currently has a positive rating on Steam, which is great!
All the best
- Kenny G
