Hey guys! The Winter Festival is here and it comes with A TON of cool changes! The game’s balance has been completely redone, and we truly hope you’ll have even more fun playing Northgard :-)
I. It’s the Winter Festival again!
- Permafrost is the default biome during the winter festival.
- Villagers can build snowmen
- Giant Trees have winter decoration.
- Axe Throwers throw snowballs
- Some Deer have red nose.
- Bears on Permafrost are white
II. General Changes
1. Lore Related Changes
A LOT of different Lores have been modified to make the game more enjoyable and intuitive to play:
- Trading lore doesn’t exist anymore.
- Shipbuilding now allows the Lighthouse.
- Coinage now allows the trading routes.
- Mining Efficiency is now at Tier I in Wealth Tree, replacing Trading
- New Mining Efficiency: +50% speed mining. No more additional ore.
- Eradication becomes a generic Lore, no longer a Stag specific lore. It is a Tier II in Growth Tree, replacing Mining Efficiency.
- New Eradication: Silo bonus +10%. -50% upgrade costs. No more happiness bonuses.
- Recruitment is now triggered when sacrificing a Dragon unit or slaughtering a sheep or a giant boars
- Medecine : +50% healing speed (no more Healers can bring food when they do not heal).
- Military Strategy get a max set at 25%
This patch will introduce two new Lores that fill holes in some of the clans potential. These will grant us more flexibility when balancing the game or designing new clans:
- Tier IV in Growth branch ⇒ Shiny Happy People: -20% required happiness based on your population
- Tier IV in Wealth branch ⇒ Trading Caravan: Trading Route gets +20%. Affinity with neutral factions grows quicker
2. General Relic Related Changes
- Mjolnir: does less damage during a shorter time.
- Skull of Hrungnir: gets a 1 year cooldown and you can summon more than 1 zombie giant.
3. Miscellaneous Changes
Coming with the rework of the Lore tree, the following changes will help balance things up:
- Healers can bring food when they do not heal. No need for Medicine lore anymore.
- The Townhall provides +1 krowns.
- Basic Mining speed has been slowed down.
- Skirmishers are no more accessible to all clans. They are exclusive to the Snake clan.
- New tool for Scouts: +15% scouting speed, run between territories
- Forge building cost is reduced: 60 wood, 15 krowns, 30 sec build time
- Spectral warriors and Myrkalfars can be found in any Biome, not only Ragnarok.
- New Altar of Kings: +3 Food / Wood / Krowns / Lore, +1 happiness, 50 fame
- Supply lines penalty decreasing with time -5% per year
- There can be more than one Bear in a zone, depending on difficulty and Townhall distance
- We added a cooldown for the first recruitment of the Warchiefs (This includes Kaija, but not Signy).
- Projectile Resistance is now an ability.
- When playing in multiplayer with or against AIs, it is now possible to have an infinite pause.
- You can keep exploring a Ruin or Shipwreck an ally started to explore without starting over.
4. Neutral Faction Changes
A few things have changed regarding the Neutral Factions behavior to give them a fair impact on the game:
- Trading with neutral factions improves trading over time.
- Trading with them prevent them from attacking you (works with Kobolds and Myrkalfar).
- If you have a positive relationship with a neutral faction, they won’t attack your territories.
- Blain gets the thunder attack, like the Raven's Giant Mercenaries.
III. Clan Balancing
- Fresh Fish replaces Hearthstone
- Foresight replaces Recruitment
- Near the sea Spirit:
+1 Krown and +1 Wyrd for 4 building on coastal zone.
Now replaces Shipbuilding
- Knowledge from Beyond now allows the trading routes.
- Fame 500 - Howl from the Sea Master:
During the Kraken event, your clan is feasting.
- Quality of Life replaces Negotiate
- Warcry cooldown is now shared between both warchiefs.
- Metalcraft:
Now replaces Mining efficiency
Warchiefs mining and forge speed is increased by +60%
- Excavation: Every Warchief Mining stone or iron produces +4 lore
- Draconic Frenzy:
+100% att if a military unit fights with no other allied military unit in the zone.
- Dragonkin:
20% projectile resistance is now displayed
Attack power 12 => 13
Move speed +10%
- Blood, Sweat & Tears replaces Medicine
- Capture: Chance to capture is doubled if warchief is in zone
- Skull of Hrungnir:
You can now summon more than one Undead Giant.
We added a 1 year cooldown after each Undead Giant recruitment
- Slave Trade replaces Erudition
- Skirmishers are now exclusive to Snake clan.
- New Signy:
She has new stats and she grows quicker
Age 16: Signy gain ranged attack
Age 17: Signy can go through neutral foes zones like skirmishers
Age 18: Signy gain Scorched Earth
- Scorched Earth:
Like mercenaries, Signy pillage resources in enemy territory depending of the zone production
- Under Pressure:
+20% att and supply penalty reduced for Skirmishers. +10% to other military unit attack.
+0.5 happiness and +1 Food for each military unit in a non allied zone next to or in an enemy territory
- Guerilla Tactics:
Military units gain +1% Attack Power per unit lost or killed in an enemy territory (max 30%)
- New Black Market:
+10% merchant production & allows Trading Route
+50% income from Trading routes with enemy clan
This clan gains no resources from you and diplomacy is decreased
- Rapacious Exploitation
Now replaces Negotiate
Bonus of special tiles (such as Thor’s Wrath or the Geyser) is doubled
Rapacious Exploitation no longer allows scouting neutral ruins
- Gungir: The Clan of the Snake's Relic:
Unlock the Stealth Ability to all military units
Stealthy units won’t get attacked by Watch Tower for 5 seconds when entering a tile.
- Legacy:
Now replaces Hearthstone
Altar of Kings production and happiness +50%
- Herbalism:
Active menders gives +5% production and +10% Lore production in Mender's hut Zone.
+20% Healing speed.
- Simple Living replaces Sharp Axes
- Lay of The Land replaces Mining Efficiency
- New Bartering:
Allows Trading Routes.
You can trade every resource to neutral factions.
Trade routes with neutral factions +1 happiness per trading route
- Osmosis replaces Negotiate
- Mask of Gullinbursti, the Clan of the Boar's Relic:
+5 Food production. Summon a non controllable giant boar from all forests.
Boars into allied territory are pacified.
You can sacrifice boar from your territory for food (500).
It regenerates its health quickly.
- Shield Maiden and Kaija get projectile resistance like Shieldbearers.
- Kaija costs 40 Food and 40 krowns
- Hibernation: Units regenerate during winter in allied territory
- Winter Festival:
50% penalty winter prod
+3 Happiness in winter
+50% on Trading Routes in Winter
- New Negotiator: +2 krowns, +20% commercial influence
- Exotic Goods replaces Erudition
- New weapon in the Forge for Raven Mercenaries: they get 20% projectile resistance.
- Mercenaries Raid: Longer time before appearing in enemy territory.
- Starting Bonus: Starts with 40 lore
- Fame 200: Also gives 75 lore
- Fame 500: All productions gets +1% per 100 Fame
- Lore Hero Emblem:
Altar of kings cost no stone
Gives +2 happiness and earns fame
Hero Emblem replaces Recruitment
- Food Preservation:
+3 food for each Silo (+5 if upgraded)
+1 happiness per silo.
Now replaces Hearthstone
- Glory of the Clan:
+20% fame on fame gains.
+20% on Trading Route and Great Trading Route
- The Value of Great Deeds:
Skalds produce 1 krown (+1.5 if upgraded).
Skalds tools are free and -50% forge time
Now replaces Mining Efficiency
- Starting Bonus: Can build only one SheepFold
- Shepherd:
2 free sheep.
Can build a second Sheepfold.
+10% sheepfold production
- Industrious replaces Recruitment
- Amenities replaces Eradication
- Conqueror:
+75% attack power versus Tower
+75% decolonization speed
- Spoils of War: Villager, Warrior, Skirmisher, Draugr, Warchief give 5 krowns less.
- Horn of Managarm: It is possible to summon a white wolf individually.
This update will download automatically from Steam. If you have any problems/queries with regard to the update, leave a comment below or contact us at [email protected] where our Support Team will be ready to assist.
Thank you to everyone who provided feedback and suggestions over the last few months and of course, a big thank you to the beta testers!
We hope you all enjoy this update and have a great holiday season!
- Shiro Games