We’ve released our first ever update!
First of all, thanks so much to all the kind souls who’ve pitched in with feedback over the last few weeks. It’s been hugely invaluable - and, as you can see from this update, we’ve taken a lot of it on board. Over the next few months before the game’s release, we plan to continue responding to and recognizing your feedback as much as possible.
King of the Castle v0.7.1 includes:
Our brand new Twitch Extension!
- Our thanks to the many streamers and chat players who’ve requested this! We hope this will help all our players enjoy King of the Castle even more. No more wondering what region you’re in during a stream with hundreds of Nobles!
- This allows Twitch chat players to view their Region, their Wealth, their Scheme goal and Rebellion information.
- This is now available for everyone watching on Twitch immediately.
- Streamers can install the Extension at this link here, or go to the Creator Dashboard, go to Extensions, then search for ‘King of the Castle’ to install.
- Once a Streamer has installed it, Chat players should click and follow the Extension icon on the right hand side of the stream:
Dynasty games now change Events in the current game
- How your reign ends will affect your Heir or usurping Claimant’s next reign.
- Custom dynamic storylines in the Coronation, Meet the Nobles, and Your Ambition Events, as well as elsewhere in the game.
A new, illustrated facecam space
- We have a new, illustrated space for the streamer to place their facecams or Vtuber avatar - See above!
60 seconds Building Auction
- Based off feedback from multiple streamers and chat players, we’ve upped the amount of time the Building Auction timer runs for from 30 to 60.
Vital work to optimize the game for extra large Councils
- We saw significant wait times at the End of Turn for very large games (particularly ChilledChaos' stream), and have made a number of changes under the hood to speed up the game.
- We’re working on further changes to allow for even bigger games to run even faster.
Our new update also includes:
A number of key balance changes to the game:
- The Chiefs Scheme Ragnarok has been made more difficult - now the second stage of the Scheme will require the Chiefs to raise other regions' Trade to a combined total of 12 rather than 8.
- The challenges in the Monarch’s Ambition endgame storyline have been tweaked to be slightly easier at first.
- Based on feedback and analytics we’ve tweaked the requirements for 484 Events, increasing or decreasing the likelihood of seeing them.
The following smaller polish changes to King of the Castle:
- Colour of Wealth in Nobles List has been lightened and increased (special thanks to TheMadHatter115 on our Discord for this suggestion!)
- Resizing of Wealth stat change messages for readability.
- Stat Scheme Indicators now remove immediately when Rebellions occur.
- Updated the region select message to indicate that you need three Regions to start the game.
- Victory points indicators are now pluralized.
- Fixes to animations for Premium Nobles nameplates.
- Updates to the credits screen.
- Fixed an image on the options drop-down.
- Fixes to aspect ratio changes in the options menu.
We have some smaller, new features in the game:
- Ability to unlink Twitch accounts from the Main Screen.
- Game now displays the total number of Nobles on the Overview screen.
- Updates to our analytics system to help us better understand Event frequency.
We’ve resolved the following bugs:
- Fixed a bug with Noble Wealth that occurred in smaller games, including the Patrician’s Boat Race and Ascension Counts Scheme.
- Fixed Shields in Voting Results not reset being in larger games.
- Adding missing Foley in the Event screens.
- Fixes to Laws of the Land purchase screen to stop missed clicks.
- Range of fixes to content to stop commands being printed out, and characters/banners/images not appearing correctly.
- If the year passes 1000, the season and year will no longer overflow.
- Fixes to the Claimants page scheme title to stop text overflows.
If you have any feedback join the Discord or post below! We’d love to hear it and are keen to make King of the Castle even better.
Finally, don’t forget to wishlist the game. Only one player needs to own a copy to host a game, so together you and your friends can steer the Kingdom to glory… Or ruin.
Very probably ruin.
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