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Main features
New Faction System creates a new territory-bound entity in the game, that governs over several villages. These factions have diplomatic interactions between them, fight over territory, and can declare war and peace;
New Ongoing Battles that you, the player, can jump in to try to sway the battle in favor of your allied faction. This includes the already existing bandit and grokker attacks;
Faction opinion allows you to strengthen your relationship with factions, and get perks such as trader discounts;
Better investigating AI: NPCs that are investigating will now look around for a bit, then give up;
Patch notes
Gameplay
Villages & Tribes now belong to the new Factions;
Sites exert influence on the nearby region, blocking other factions from settling there;
Factions have opinions of eachother, that can raise and lower with world events;
Empire-type factions can declare war on each other, conquer cities, and negotiate peace;
Factions have generated names and heraldry (Shields and emblems);
Ongoing battles of the world now appear in the world map, and you as the player can jump in a battle to sway it’s outcome;
Factions have a more detailed opinion of the player, that rises when you help them through quests or battles, and lowers when you steal or attack them;
“Friendly” factions have lower prices at all traders;
NPCs that are now investigating (? over their head) will look around for a bit, then give up. This will no longer prevent exiting turn-based mode;
UI
Tweaked the aggro and investigating marker position (!! and ?);
Added some help topics for the Look key (Alt) and butchering mechanic;
In the crafting screen, added ingredient counters (”?/N”) in all relevant places;
Added the appicon;
In the Codex, the current tracked quest now has a small indicator on the quest list;
Quest markers and player marker in the world map are now animated;
In the trade screen, the item tooltip also is shown when hovering over the name;
Added trader signs outside of shops to make them stand out more;
Balance
Reduced crafting cost of the “Blacksmithing Hammer” from 3 ingots to just 1 ingot;
The skills “Cleave” and “Crowd Push” switched places in the Axes skill tree. Cleave takes 3 unlock points, and was a requirement for 2 other skills, meaning that you had to save up too much if you wanted the extra skills;
Increased the enemy turn speed slightly (Soon will be an option);
Rebalanced quests CRs a little bit. They will now be considered slightly easier than they previsouly were;
Removed range restriction from “Inspect” action. If you can see it, you can inspect it;
Removed some very generic quest names (e.g. “Caution!”), making it clearer what you’re fighting;
Modding
Faction simulation uses a new format I’m trying out, allowing you to create events in the “faction_history_events.toml”;
World events were also moved to “event_blueprints.toml” to allow editing;
Bugfixes
Fixed the missing description of the Spiked Club item;
Fixed Small Knife not providing the “Strike” action;
Fixed axes not providing the “Chop” action;
Fixed random crash when opening the world map;
Fixed Dodge Chance not being affected by the Agility stat;
Fixed some quirks with the mouse controls that made them feel slightly unresponsive;
“Small Knife” sprite now correctly colors the sprite in accordance to the material;