Hi,
For those of you who don’t know, I’m the only dev on Valeguard, which means I have to choose my updates wisely. I want to prioritize adding features/fixes that players are asking for when I can. I also want to thank everyone so much for posting bugs and feedback. I don't have a dedicated beta group so your feedback has been huge.
Below are some ideas, and a rough change list for the latest patch. Realistically some of these may shift down to get patches out more quickly. There will likely be at least one hotfix patch this week.
--------------- New in Update #1 ----------------
Usability Features
- New mouse wheel zoom
- Camera can pan when zoomed in with WASD (mouse pan in settings)
- Multi-unit box-selection
- Settings Menu: Audio, camera, and game reset options
- New Hero Select Menu (for starting a new game)
- Armor now shown in unit info on HUD
Hero Feats: Passive traits for each hero
*Feats are shown on hero-select when starting a new game.
- Ranged: Attacks from range with miss chance.
- Deadly: Can land critical hits for high damage.
- Hearty: Regenerates hit points faster.
- Heavy Armor Master: Receives more armor points per perk & repairs are more effective.
- Tinkerer: Helps maintain town structures.
- Prepared: Starts with a unique item.
- Quick: Faster move speed.
- Magical Attack: Ranged attack that always hits.
New Hero: Wizard
Ability: Tempest
New Events
Magic Beans
Beanstalks and Giants
New Enemy
Storm Giant
New Town Feature
The Lost Tower: Task workers to earn magic scrolls.
New Items
Magic Beans
Scroll Of Bunnies
Scroll Of Chain Heal
Scroll Of Ice
Bugs
Roads under houses
Multiplying workers
Population 100 and up
Double Trade
Black Market Description
Reduce Windmill boost
Unbuilt Walls at full strength
Various siege projectile bugs
3 - house Tutorial Bug
Clearable poison wells
House off road tutorial bug
Starting armor bug
Negative population on Ironhold
Negative weapons
Orc ballista is back
Spelling and grammar (sorry, there will be more I'm sure.)
Future Updates
Ideas for Update #2
- More events. I’m not sure how many this update will have but I want a LOT more.
- New Tower
- New Trap
- New Hero
- Structure Tooltips (click a building to get info)
- Help Menu (a place to find in-depth info and tips on mechanics)
- A few new items (non consumable)
- A new level (added to random pool)
- Balance (add difficulty in early-mid game)
Ideas for Update #3 (pretty fuzzy)
- Hero Variants: Unlockable alternate versions of each hero. (some ideas below)
- A paladin with a two-handed hammer, Smite ability, and DPS over Armor
- A melee Summoner able to summon a baby dragon
- Upgrade Help Menu
- Improve final boss battles
- Balance
- Ability Upgrades (at level 6 heroes can upgrade to a stronger ability that costs more energy instead of improving a stat.)
- A few new events