Across Chessland kings compete for more than just land and resources, now the fight brings glory and renown to those that best their opponents. Who shall rise to the top and how will their fight to stay there play out?
This update main appeal is the introduction of ranked, with leaderboards for the top 10 players too.
Due to player count only 1 game mode and time format will be available at a time. Since we have added ranked, this updates mode will be ranked on rapid time (15m).
Added
New piece: Assassin, a costly but deadly piece that can quickly move behind any open space behind a piece, capturing 3 squares behind
Unit information in the forge
Game type display at the top of matches
ELO V2: Elo is more fairly calculated and "exchanged"
AI V2: This AI has a very naïve understanding of board value, which means they are much more aggressive when they can take a piece
New challenge: How will your build fair to a queen filled attack?
Titles: Show off your flavour of tile, currently only 2 for owning either the demo or full game. Will be more in the future. (if you see "developer" then you are playing against our team)
Board textures: You can now choose from a set of board textures in the settings. E.g. Wood, stone, default
Ranked: Winning/Losing means more internet points, yay-yay
Leaderboards: Top 10 Global
New animations: Board/piece load
Changed
Matchmaking: Uses additional filters in the background to speed up queue times
Bigegg can no longer promote into itself
Allow right click to stop placing piece in forge
Searching now shows game mode
Removed AA from pieces, resulting in slightly sharper icons
Options and forge now give feedback on actions
Fixed
Connecting to old games
Settings not being defined
Cured AI analysis paralysis
Issues with going between bot and online matches
Surrendering sometimes not working
Pieces being invisible when placed
Tiling of scrolling main menu background