Update Notes 0.6.84: Children of the Monolith
Honor, courage and cutting-edge technology (with a little bit of stubborness) have just become an integral part of Driftland! The last playable race, the Dwarves, await your wise orders and a bunch of great new features based on your feedback came with them, as well! This Update is BIG!
New race: Dwarves
- Building-repairing Explorers and 3 unique Heroes (Berserker, Engineer and Geomancer) with 3 unique and powerful Aerial Machines (Glider, Zeppelin and Frigate), making for a total of 7 new Units!
- Enriched gunpowder or Lava Bomb? 12 new Dwarven skills to further customize your Heroes (and 3 skills of the Aerial Machines, too)!
- Unique Geomancy magic with 5 new spells, like resource-revealing Soil Speach!
- New architecture, sounds and music (with choirs singing in Dwarven)!
- New fiery biom type!
- Dwarven language (the 4th language created for the game)!
- 3 new Achivements (Dwarven Adept, Dwarven Leader and Dwarven Overlord)
Anti-magic Defences
- Dwarves can raise Anti-Magic Statues, buildings that accumulate Empire’s Mana, forming a barier that absorbs enemy spells!
- Humans can unlock magic resistance of their buildings in 2 new Advancements in Paths of Progress!
- Dark Elves can build Palisades around their islands, and unlock their field of magic resistance in 2 new Advancements in Paths of Progress!
- Wild Elves can unlock Mallevah’s Favor spell with 2 new Advancements in Paths of Progress, gaining a ritual that protects their land from enemy magic!
Race-unique Behaviour
- Dwarven Explorers will look for damaged structures and repair them!
- Wild Elven Explorers will plant healing roseberry bushes for all your Units!
- And there’s more to come!
Other Improvements:
- Each Hero now starts with a Basic Skill (for example: Knights join your ranks with Shield of the Emperor while all the Rangers learn Eagle Eye during their training)
- Reworked, more readable Skill Shops (Blacksmith, Shooting Range, Library, Castle and Marketplace)
- New Paths of Progress Advancements (including Dark Elven Ritual of Avulsion - spell that allows you to extract island’s resources with your magic)
- Updated animations
- Updated loading screens
- New Single Player starting screen
- New Credits screen
- Bug fixes
With all the playable races now in the game, our main focus will be on Campaigns, Multiplayer and balance of the game. As always, huge thanks to everyone in our Community for your neverending support!
May your lands remain unshattered,
- Luke