Hey Kontras! Welcome to Kingdom-Crier #13!
QOL Improvements
We've been focusing on quality of life improvements over the last two weeks. We were able to complete and release passes on three major systems during this period - outlined below.
Buildings/Rooms/Beds
This update better surfaced the relationship between Beds, Rooms, and Buildings and softened some of the requirements to better reward your creativity.
Noble Fates 0.26.0.24
Props
Show the Room a Prop is inside of
Clicking that will select the Room (even if hidden)
Better indicate why a Prop cannot be Owned
Rooms
Show the Room's Category
Fix Multiple Room Detection Bugs
Show the Building a Room is inside of
Clicking it will select the Building (even if hidden)
Better indicate why a Room cannot be Owned
Room Types no longer depend on Props being included
Remove Stock Room Type
Buildings
Show the Building's Category
Better indicate why a Building cannot be Owned
Building Types no longer depend on Rooms being included
Replace Bunk Hall with Common Building Type
Add Bedrooms Building Type
Remove Stock Building Type
Workbenches
Ownable rooms can now include Workbenches
Workbenches become decorative if a room is owned by a Mortal
Add Prestige values to Workbenches that were missing them
Modding
Add alias keyword
References to the alias will be replaced with the id on load
Movement and Ranged Combat
This update was centered on resolving a number of annoying Mortal behaviors related to Jumping down, Climbing, and using Ranged Weapons.
Check out the improved ability to defend your Kingdom from the walls!
Noble Fates 0.26.0.28
Mortal Movement
Only Jump Down, Deploy Ropes, or Climb Ropes When:
Leaving as a Visitor
Engaging as an Enemy
Ordered to Move to a Specific Position
Ordered to Move to Engage an Enemy
Ordered to Pursue Enemies
Should Prevent a number of Stuck in the Basement Scenarios
Ranged Combat
Fix Line of Sight (was seeing through things before)
Improve Hit Tests (prevented a number of through the wall cases)
"Lean out" to Fire down from Ledges/Parapets
Most useful when combined with Hold Tactic on Wall's Edge
Grapple Hooks
Fix bug that prevented these from landing
Catapult
Fix bugs with non-penetrating boulders
Breacher
Now properly pursues with no LOS
Tactics
Add Hold Tactic
O Hotkey
When Holding, Mortals will not Evade or Move to Reach Targets
Add Tooltips to Tactics Buttons
Combat
Fix bug that prevented Attack Order from finishing
Fix bug where a Mortal would get stuck trying to return to Defensive Position
Incoming Attack Notification
Now properly pops up even if people are Enlisted
UI
Increase Brightness of Highlighted UI Elements
Compatibility and Conversations
This update focused on better surfacing Compatibility between Mortals and your Ruler and Streamlining Conversations.
It's much easier to drill in and tell a Mortal things that will improve their relationship with another Mortal.
Noble Fates 0.26.1.33
Save Compatibility
0.26.0 Saves can be loaded in 0.26.1 Builds.
0.26.1 Saves cannot be loaded in 0.26.0 Builds.
Compatibility
Gives an overview of the Compatibility between a given Mortal and your Ruler
The higher the Compatibility, the easier it will be to maintain their Esteem
Show Compatibility (and Warn if Low) when making a decision about a Mortal
Add Compatibility Tab to the Character Sheet
Add Compatibility to the Intro (under Kingdom)
Add Compatibility to Conversations
Conversations
Separate Gossip and Relationship Building
What's On Your Mind? - Build relationship
What have you Heard? - Learn about the World
Add Subject Filters to help find Subjects Faster
Rulers...
Kingdoms...
Jobs...
Gear...
Food...
Items...
Your Mortals...
Mortals...
Share Information About...
Add Up and Down Filters
These filter down to only the info that will produce an effect
Sorts information by amount
Other Mortals
Show Opinion of the Subject Mortal instead of Esteem
Esteem/Opinion Changes
Show Opinion changes when talking about another Mortal
Don't wait to progress the Conversation on these
Improve accuracy of calculation
Socialization
Mortals will now talk about their Ruler more often when speaking to one-another
Esteem Balance
Opinion/Alignment/Racial Esteem Deltas last longer
Lower scale of Opinion Esteem Deltas
Raise scale of Alignment Esteem Deltas
Raise scale of Racial Esteem Deltas
Lower scale of War Esteem Deltas
Lower scale of Raid Esteem Deltas
Reduce Importance of Opinion of Rulers
Remove redundant post-Raid Esteem boost
Attraction
Increase the chance that a Mortal will be attracted to multiple Genders
Show Suitors for Visitors
Good Mortals
Take Opinion of Interactor into greater account with Moral Interactions
Options
Added Option to Show Unlearned Opinions
Added Option to Show Unlearned Alignments
Information
Stop tracking history of what people have Eaten
Learn information that anyone in your Kingdom learns
Text Iteration
Reduce Empathy towards Raids
Reduce Empathy towards Declarations of War
Swaying Opinion
Swaying opinion now properly costs Esteem
Ongoing Contests
Screenshot Contest #2
Reminder - we're running Screenshot Contest #2. We've received some good entries, but there's plenty of time to take the crown!
Take a sweet new screenshot of the game and post it to #kingdom-shots on our Official Discord to enter. First Place will receive $75 USD, Second: $35 USD, and Third: $15 USD. The contest runs through 7/24 at 11:59 PST.
Full terms can be found on our User Echo.
Mod Contest #2
In addition, we're running Mod Contest #2. There have been a few excellent entries, but there's still plenty of time to compete!
Release a Mod on the Steam Workshop and share it in #mod-announcements on our Official Discord to enter. First Place will receive $300 USD, Second: $150 USD, and Third: $75 USD. The contest runs through 7/24 at 11:59 PST.
Existing mods will be considered if they have received significant updates after the previous contest.
Full terms can be found on our User Echo.
Community Content
cypr` built an impressive Village!
Scott (senses) captured a great action shot during an Epic Battle!
Somebody built a great Chateau for their ruler!
Mods
Karma Drak has dropped the amazing KArtistry mod!
Discord
Join the Official Discord to participate in Development and Contests!
Reviews
If you like the game and the updates, please consider leaving a Review for the game if you haven't already. These help players that may be on the fence to decide whether or not to support us.
Thanks for reading and thanks for playing!
The Noble Fates Team