Hello everyone!
We are beyond excited to announce the delivery of "The Age Advancement Update," the first part of our roadmap! 🎉 But that's not all this update is packed with tons of new features and countless bug fixes to enhance your overall game experience! 😉
What is the Age Advancement?
Our game now features an age advancement system reminiscent of the classics, designed to keep strategy fresh and engaging. Here's a quick overview of the system:
🔥 Age I: Focuses on building a strong foundation with basic economy and resource gathering.
⚔️ Age II: Introduces military expansion and resource optimization.
🏰 Age III: Unlocks the full potential of your armies and all game mechanics for maximum strategic depth.
Each age introduces new buildings, units, and technologies to support your evolving strategy and playstyle.
Age Advancement Breakdown
🔥 Age I: Ember Age
Available Buildings: House, logging camp, mining camp, and barracks (only basic infantry units).
Primary Focus: Resource gathering and building a solid economic foundation.
⚔️ Age II: Legion Age
New Buildings: Archery range, stable, towers, and market.
Technologies: Advanced military upgrades and more efficient resource gathering.
Focus: Military expansion and better resource management.
🏰 Age III: Dominion Age
New Buildings: Siege workshop and special civilization bonus buildings.
Technologies: Final military and economic upgrades.
Access: The most powerful military units and advanced game mechanics.
Our Approach to Balancing
We wanted to ensure progression is both flexible and fun! There are no mandatory building requirements to advance ages meaning you can develop your own strategies without being forced down a specific path. However, we’ve implemented some building limits per age to maintain early-game balance and ensure fair competition.
Improvements and Bug Fixes:
- Fixed UI issues with unit groups assigned to number keys.
- Resolved tower placement issues for the Norvion faction.
- Fixed cursor moving to secondary screens in different display modes.
- Corrected the bug where soldiers could walk over destroyed walls or gates.
- Resolved the issue preventing ramp construction after destroying a tower on walls.
- Fixed the Veridia statue technology issue.
- Addressed invisible AI towers in strategy mode.
- Corrected material issues in Norvion buildings in strategy mode.
- Fixed the problem where crossbow units would shoot the ground when far away.
- Resolved UI issues with building interfaces in strategy mode.
- Fixed worker units getting stuck in rocks on the Barren Dunes map.
- Corrected health bar positioning issues in strategy mode.
- Solved the problem in the tutorial's lumber collection task.
- Addressed the issue causing characters to deal double damage with a single hit.
- Fixed visual issues with gate iron bars in strategy mode.
- Optimized control code for the Sword Camel unit.
- Added more variety to camera shake effects during attacks.
- Corrected soldiers getting stuck during formation battles.
- Fixed the issue where some characters dealt multiple damage in a single hit.
- Enhanced indicators showing where units would move when exiting buildings.
- Added the ability to send units directly onto walls from buildings.
- Made visual changes to certain structures of the Veridia, Solvong, and Norvion factions.
- Improved Ranger formations.
- Fixed issues in the tutorial related to wood and stone gathering tasks.
- Corrected positioning issues in Finisher animations and smoothed out camera transitions.
- The attack input of the archers has been changed.
- Sound has been added for arrows whooshing through the air.
What's Next?
This is just the beginning! We've crossed the first milestone of our roadmap, and we can't wait to share even more updates with you. Stay tuned for our next big reveal, and thank you for being an amazing part of this community. See you on the battlefield! 🛡️🔥