Total War: WARHAMMER III Update Patch Notes June 13

Posted on June 13, 2024 by Michelle Pereira

UPDATED June 13

Hotfix 5.0.5 June 13

Hey everyone,

We've got a couple of quick fixes for you today in Hotfix 5.0.5, focused on Black Arks.

Fixed an issue where executing the Sacrifice to Mathlann would unintentionally spawn multiple Black Arks, leading to spam. The fix ensures that characters are only added to the recruitment pool without spawning, preventing the spam.

Minor adjustments to AI-controlled Black Ark behaviour, improving end-turn performance.

We'll also be looking at adding further improvements to Black Arks in future updates to help them move more meaningfully within the AI framework.

Thanks for your ongoing feedback and bug reports. If you experience a bug or issue while playing, remember to report it over in our dedicated bug reporting sub-forum.

See you on the battlefield!

—The Total War Team

⚠ IMPORTANT

If you experience any issues after downloading the update, please take a moment to Verify the integrity of the game files first to ensure there were no issues when downloading. A step-by-step guide can be found in this article.

If the issues persist, please visit our support site for additional troubleshooting steps and assistance.

🧱 MOD WARNING

Please note that user-generated mods may have compatibility issues with new game updates. If you are encountering performance or stability issues following a release, is recommended that you disable any mods you're running. If you continue to experience issues, please visit our support site for additional troubleshooting steps and assistance.

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Hotfix 5.0.4 June 4

Greetings!

We've just rolled out Hotfix 5.0.4.

Here's what we've got today:

Confederating minor factions will no longer increase the cost of confederating Legendary Lords in the Great Book of Grudges

Fixed an issue where the Nurgle Plagues button could sometimes become permanently disabled in multiplayer campaigns

Fixed an issue preventing Anvil of Doom characters from performing melee attacks under certain circumstances

Added some missing VFX and audio to Thorek's Anvil of Doom melee attacks, including a fresh new effect where his anvil runes glow brighter when making a strike!

Made Malakai's gun a tiny bit less eager - it now fires its bullets in sequence instead of firing every bullet immediately on the first shot

Added audio to Malakai's third shot in his firing sequence

Fixed an issue where several different Legendary Heroes (I've got my eye on you, Ghoritch!) could spawn at a random character that did not belong to the player

Fixed health bar not filling correctly on unit information panel in campaign

Fixed an issue where Hero character names and icon outline did not match the player's colour

Fixed an issue in multiplayer campaigns where the Tomb Kings Mortuary Cult HUD button was locked if another player was Dwarfs

Fixed an issue where Chaos Lords of Nurgle and Chaos Sorcerer of Nurgle variants were missing their Nurgle Authority skills

Fixed the bandits caravan event not triggering

Fixed an issue where some generic combat skills in the Daemon Slayer's skill tree used the hero variants (three levels instead of two that lords usually require)

Fixed crash when loading a saved character in the army setup

Fixed an issue where horde factions could infinitely recruit capped units by creating and loading a save immediately after recruiting them

As always, thanks for your ongoing feedback and bug reports. We'll be back in the coming weeks with Patch 5.1. Until then, we'll see you on the battlefield!

—The Total War Team

⚠ IMPORTANT

If you experience any issues after downloading the update, please take a moment to Verify the integrity of the game files first to ensure there were no issues when downloading. A step-by-step guide can be found in this article.

If the issues persist, please visit our support site for additional troubleshooting steps and assistance.

🧱 MOD WARNING

Please note that user-generated mods may have compatibility issues with new game updates. If you are encountering performance or stability issues following a release, is recommended that you disable any mods you're running. If you continue to experience issues, please visit our support site for additional troubleshooting steps and assistance.

For the latest news and announcements, drop by our official social channels.

Hotfix 5.0.3 May 14

Greetings!

We've just rolled out Hotfix 5.0.3, bringing with it the changes to Age of Reckoning which we mentioned in our past updates, alongside a plethora of tweaks and fixes!

Here's what we've got:

Age of Reckoning

We've done quite a large balance pass of the Age of Reckoning system in order to try and simultaneously make it less hectic and scale more reasonably, while also maintaining its difficulty to ensure players don't easily max it out every cycle:

Grudge targets are now defined based on the factions you share a land border with rather than all "met" factions.

While the intent remains the same that we want Grudge targets to scale up/down depending on your local situation, we overlooked some issues that were detrimental to the current gameplay if you revealed too much too quickly beyond your own lands. We will continue to monitor the situation with the above change.

The second reward bracket (Skruff) no longer provides negative Control and Growth and the first reward bracket (Elgi) has had it's negatives slightly reduced. This should make the system feel less punishing if you only manage to reach the second bracket as it acts more like a neutral stage now.

Age of Reckonings and their subsequent rewards now last for 15 turns (from 10), however we have increased the percentage of grudges required from your local area each cycle to ensure it's still challenging.

Grudge targets now scale based on campaign difficulty.

We have squished the amount of grudges in the world along with how many grudges are gained by hostile actions, while this shouldn't create too much of a gameplay difference as the Grudge Targets will scale to match, it should make swings in Grudge Targets feel significantly less drastic.

Following the number squish, we've reduced the base cost of confederating to 7.5k settled grudges (From 15k)

Additional starting grudges have been added to the world (especially around the Darklands/Chaos Dwarves)

We fixed an issue with sacking settlements not fully clearing the grudges from the target, allowing you to double dip.

This fix also fixed an issue where enemy settlements would sometimes display grudges for a different culture (such as "Undead Actions" when the region is owned by beastmen).

We've also made the following adjustments to the Grudge Settler units and army rewards granted by the Age of Reckoning to smooth out its impact on the early and late game:

Base size of Grudge settler army has been changed from 15 -> 10

Added a further +3 grudge settler army size to the "Way of The Clans" technology (for a total of +5)

Added a further +2 grudge settler army size to Thorgrim's "High King" skill (for a total of +5)

The cap for maximum units reserved in your grudge settler unit pools has been reduced from 20 -> 2

The cap for grudge settler units in your army has been reduced from 5 -> 3

Added +1 to the unit cap in army to the warrior guild tech.

Added a further +1 to the unit cap in army to the Call Upon Oaths of Old tech (for a total of +2)

Grudge Settler units are no longer free to recruit.

Added -20% grudge settler unit recruitment cost to the warrior guild tech

Frost Wyrm Rescaling

As part of 5.0.3 we're making a pretty significant change to the Frost Wyrm by reducing its size by roughly a third. (See below)

Envisioned as a mid-tier fast mover, the Frost Wyrm was placed roughly in the brackets of large fast creatures like the Carnosaur, but the unit was also around the size of a Dread Saurian. We've heard your thoughts on the unit's performance since its release and concluded that the Frost Wyrm's concepted role and performance bracket was unworkable at its current size.

Size is an important balancing factor for our entity level simulations. Generally speaking, being larger exposes you to more potential attackers at the same time, owing to a larger attackable surface area, and so particularly large monsters must be paired with massive health pools, powerful defensive layers or dangerous abilities to survive. The Frost Wyrm was a mid-tier monster stuck in the body of a top-end supremacy-monster. Our reduction instead scales it similarly to a Carnosaur, compacting its stats into a less vulnerable package.

Additionally, we're making the following stat changes to the Frost Wyrm:

```
Armour: 80 -> 110
```
```
Bonus vs. Large: 0 -> 25
```

Max Entities Hit by Splash Attack: 6 -> 5 (this concentrates the weapon strength of the unit on fewer targets, improving its lethality)

Give the unit a spin and tell us what you think!

General Fixes

Fixed oneshot group vocalisations not triggering, particularly on unit selections and order responses ("Chosen of the Gods!" and all that good stuff)

Fixed 'Channel Magic!' always resulting in a loss of Winds of Magic. They say the house always wins but we're here to make that statement a bit less absolute.

Corrected a collision issue with the Thunderbarge that was causing most projectiles to phase through the balloon

Fixed an issue where certain plague symptoms could disappear/become unavailable when playing as Festus the Leechlord

Fixed an issue where Chaos Lords of Nurgle would not ascend to Daemon Princes when playing as Nurgle factions

Fixed an issue where Chaos Lords of Nurgle would not gain a trait when ascending to Daemon Princes

Pestigors now have 0 recruitment cost for Beastmen

Adjusted Dwarf grape shot to be in line with the imperial grape shot. Curtailing excessive shockwave radius around each projectile.

The Dwarf Dragon Slayer has found his unique axes stashed away under 2000 dead goblins and stopped stealing clothes from the Doomseekers. No wonder he's a Slayer.

Steam Tanks with Helblasters no longer benefit from the Helblaster upgrades in the imperial gunnery school. Units are not intended to double dip in multiple categories.

Fixed the effects provided by Miao Ying's quest item set

Balthasar Gelt's unique skill "Will of the Patriarch" now correctly increases Battle Wizard recruit rank

Fixed Chaos Sorcerer Lords and Heroes missing certain Marks of Chaos upgrades

Fixed the Gunnery School upgrade "Ballistics Plating" not functioning

Reverted oversight causing final transmutation to deal about a quarter the intended damage when not overcast

Fixed the Runesmith skill "Learned Intuition" having a lord's army scope instead of a hero's army scope.

Fixed an issue where some mounts could be stolen post-battle, sorry Bubebolos.

Fixed an issue that caused the Rot Beast to be available to all players, regardless of ownership. (Consider it a moldy, rotting taster.)

Fix reinforcement popup opening whenever the list of reinforcement updates.

The "Righteous Fury" skill shared by Warpriests and Arch Lector's now provides different effects.

For Arch Lectors:

Weapon Strength for flagellants: +10% -> +15%

```
Frenzy
```

For Warpriests:

Weapon strength for flagellants: Removed

```
Frenzy
```

Reduced the number of uses for the "Call of the Wild" amber college ability from 3 to 1.

The Beacon of Dawn Landmark now generates Slaanesh corruption for Morathi and the favoured corruption for all Daemon and Warriors of Chaos factions instead of always granting undivided corruption.

Fixed assembly_kit_example.pack presence in mods folder for Assembly Kit on Microsoft Store.

Cathay - fix Dragon Emperor's Wrath button notification still showing after the action has been performed

Fleshounds of Khorne were playing the wrong vocalisation tags, resulting in vocalisations cutting out - fixed

Fixed campaign conversational VO being able to trigger when multiple panels are open and one of them closes and also stopped the lord/hero panel that appears when selecting a lord/hero in campaign from blocking conversational VO

Fixed an issue where Gyrobombers were still being handled as single entities on the campaign, causing health inconsistencies.

Fixed an issue where the Lord Magistrate's unit card's colours were being tinted the wrong colour depending on your faction

Fixed an issue where unique herdstone settlements (Altdorf, Kislev etc.) weren't using the herdstone battle map when attacked

Fixed an issue where certain event feed notifications had a chance to cause a crash.

Fixed the tooltip in the Greenskin technology tree for Oglok the 'Orrible's trait displaying the wrong effects

Fixed an issue where Khalida's frontend poison attack benefit would simply state "phase name" when hovered over. Not very helpful, Khalida!

The Gate Master no longer misplaces his sword and shield when toggled into melee mode.

Added clearer collision impact sounds for land ship and steam tank

Where an effect applied only to Flamers and Exalted Flamers of Tzeentch (and sometimes Changebringers), it now always applies to Changebringers and Burning Chariots of Tzeentch as well

Fixed the portholes on dragon units being too zoomed in

Fixed an issue where mousing over spell lore selections in the custom battle menu would display the wrong text.

Reduced clipping of the chaos lord of Nurgle's arm and shield

Miners weapons are fixed ( now receiving blood properly )

Fixed some weapons that were appearing too blurred with TAA on.

Fixed the Gate Master and Exalted Hero of Tzeentch Heroes having the wrong "Mentor" skill

Beastment Rewards of dread will now always maintain the same original order instead of changing order based on the cost (this is to avoid an issue where sometimes the rewards will go on a third line instead of maintaining 2)

When playing a battle in multiplayer, battle speeds selected by the other players will now be highlighted.

Fixed an issue where confederated lords that had a loyalty rating (dark elves, skaven) would immediately drop to zero loyalty and rebel if confederated while that lord was in the pool or wounded

Fixed an issue where the Huntsman General's "Experienced Hunter" skill was giving regular empire archers upgraded crossbow bolts from crossbowmen instead of upgraded arrows.

Added modifier preview to buildings that provide factionwide resources (such as oathgold)

Mother Ostankya - fix curses showing in prebattle when reinforcing an ally instead of blessings

Individual entities will no longer attack while the unit is routing. This was particularly pronounced with Katarin on her sled.

Fix a placeholder army ability showing in multiplayer if one player takes control of daemon armies spawned from Malakai adventures

Fix funds field in multiplayer battles not being coloured red when the game version doesn't match

Fixed some abilities and attributes not being grouped together in the expanded view of the unit information panel

Fix war coordination button sometimes becoming active after a quest battle even when having no allies

Fix trade resources appearing as dy_resource after using the Slaanesh dominate mechanic in multiplayer

Fix mount icon in item set tooltip showing as weapon instead of the correct icon

Made Grom's Recipe UI top bar behave like it did in wh2, where it opens the panel when clicked

Fixed a rare crash caused by a lord gaining a mount while the army contains 21 units. (A rare occurrence itself, caused by armies which have lost their lord without replacing them yet recruiting up to fill all 20 slots with units before a replacement returns)

Fix some units in frontend lord selection not showing in the correct order

Fix selecting the 'show only unequipped item' checkbox in magic item panel and then switching to ancillary tab causing the ancillary tab to not filter out equipped items

Added diplomatic relations icon and tooltip to dilemma faction element, so it's easier to tell the relation with the faction from the dilemma (especially useful for dilemmas that give diplomatic relation)

Added stricter controls on rebel faction to prevent them generating invalid characters that can cause further issues.

Fixed Multiplayer Chaos Dwarf Ownership flag.

Fix chaos dwarfs technology notification appearing after all technologies have been researched

Fixed Skrag the Slaughterer has matched combat animation that leaves enemy body on battlefield

Fixed Vampire Coast Raise Dead marker not having a tooltip when attached to a settlement

Fix Visions of the Old Ones unit details tooltip appearing in an odd location that was causing parts of it to go out of screen

Fix corruption preview for agents entering a region not showing increased values from technologies

Battle Balance

Beastmen

Pestigors:

```
Recruitment Cost (SP): 650 -> 0
```

Gor Herd

```
Recruitment Cost (MP): 700 -> 600
```

Daemons of Chaos

Chaos Furies

```
Number of Entities: 40 -> 60
```
```
Additional Hit Points: 121 -> 90
```
```
Morale: 35 -> 50
```
```
Armour: 20 -> 25
```
```
Entity Mass: 150 -> 250
```

Dwarfs

Malakai Makaisson

Malakai has had his missile weapon adjusted from a triple shot scattergun to a triple shot rifle, in order to maintain consistency with his lore.

```
Projectile number: 3 -> 1
```
```
Spread: 1 -> 3
```

Armour Piercing missile damage: 70 -> 100

```
Base missile damage: 30 -> 50
```
```
Penetration: 3 -> 4
```
```
Bullet Mass: 20 -> 25
```

Thunderbarge

```
Additional Hit Points: 12820 -> 11320
```
```
Melee Defence: 10 -> 4
```
```
Armour: 120 -> 90
```

Projectile Penetration Resistance: 4 -> 20

Projectile Penetration Resistance: 4 -> 20

The Spirit of Grungni

```
Additional Hit Points: 14840 -> 12340
```
```
Melee Defence: 10 -> 4
```
```
Armour: 120 -> 90
```

Projectile Penetration Resistance: 4 -> 20

Projectile Penetration Resistance: 4 -> 20

Flame Cannons

```
Effective Range: 200 -> 240
```

Grudge Throwers (Grudge Settlers)

```
Recruitment Cost (SP): 0 -> 700
```

Flame Cannons (Grudge Settlers)

```
Recruitment Cost (SP): 0 -> 1200
```
```
Upkeep Cost: 325 -> 300
```
```
Effective Range: 200 -> 240
```

Hammerers (Grudge Settlers)

```
Recruitment Cost (SP): 0 -> 1200
```

Irondrakes (Grudge Settlers)

```
Recruitment Cost (SP): 0 -> 700
```

Longbeards (Grudge Settlers)

```
Recruitment Cost (SP): 0 -> 750
```

Quarrellers (Grudge Settlers)

```
Recruitment Cost (SP): 0 -> 600
```

Slayers (Grudge Settlers)

```
Recruitment Cost (SP): 0 -> 900
```

Gyrobombers

```
Additional Hit Points: 812 -> 1054
```

Gyrocopters

```
Additional Hit Points: 312 -> 346
```
```
Base Missile Damage: 6 -> 8
```

Armour Piercing Missile Damage: 16 -> 18

```
Miniminum Range: 10 -> 0
```

Gyrocopters (Brimstone Guns)

```
Additional Hit Points: 312 -> 346
```
```
Base Missile Damage: 12 -> 14
```
```
Armour Piercing Missile Damage: 2 -> 4
```
```
Miniminum Range: 10 -> 0
```

Gyrocopters (Trollhammers (Grudge Settlers))

```
Recruitment Cost (MP): 800 -> 1000
```
```
Recruitment Cost (SP): 0 -> 1000
```
```
Upkeep Cost: 200 -> 250
```
```
Additional Hit Points: 312 -> 346
```
```
Miniminum Range: 10 -> 0
```

Empire

Hochland Long Rifles

```
Recruitment Cost (MP): 850 -> 900
```
```
Recruitment Cost (SP): 850 -> 900
```
```
Upkeep Cost: 213 -> 225
```

Nuln Ironsides

```
Recruitment Cost (MP): 950 -> 875
```
```
Recruitment Cost (SP): 950 -> 875
```
```
Upkeep Cost: 238 -> 218
```

Amethyst Ironsides

```
Recruitment Cost (MP): 1250 -> 1075
```

Khorne

Chaos Furies (Khorne)

```
Number of Entities: 40 -> 60
```
```
Additional Hit Points: 121 -> 90
```
```
Morale: 35 -> 50
```
```
Armour: 20 -> 25
```
```
Entity Mass: 150 -> 250
```

Nurgle

Toad Dragon

```
Recruitment Cost (MP): 2400 -> 2100
```
```
Recruitment Cost (SP): 2400 -> 2100
```
```
Upkeep Cost: 600 -> 525
```
```
Morale: 85 -> 75
```
```
Turn Speed: 60 -> 90
```

Chaos Furies (Nurgle)

```
Number of Entities: 40 -> 60
```
```
Additional Hit Points: 121 -> 90
```
```
Morale: 35 -> 50
```
```
Armour: 20 -> 25
```
```
Entity Mass: 150 -> 250
```

Slaanesh

Chaos Furies (Slaanesh)

```
Number of Entities: 40 -> 60
```
```
Additional Hit Points: 121 -> 90
```
```
Morale: 35 -> 50
```
```
Armour: 20 -> 25
```
```
Entity Mass: 150 -> 250
```

Tzeentch

Chaos Furies (Tzeentch)

```
Number of Entities: 40 -> 60
```
```
Additional Hit Points: 121 -> 90
```
```
Morale: 35 -> 50
```
```
Armour: 20 -> 25
```
```
Entity Mass: 150 -> 250
```

Campaign Only

Obsinite Gyrocopters

```
Additional Hit Points: 330 -> 366
```
```
Base Missile Damage: 18 -> 10
```
```
Armour Piercing Missile Damage: 8 -> 20
```
```
Miniminum Range: 10 -> 0
```
```
Projectile Velocity: 45 -> 60
```
```
Base Reload Time (Seconds): 9 -> 8
```
```
Calibration Area: 13 -> 3
```
```
Projectile Mass: 3 -> 4
```

Warriors of Chaos

Chaos Sorcerer Lord of Nurgle (Death)

```
Additional Hit Points: 4622 -> 4180
```

Chaos Sorcerer Lord of Nurgle (Death) [Mount: Chaos Steed]

```
Additional Hit Points: 4960 -> 4708
```

Chaos Sorcerer Lord of Nurgle (Nurgle)

```
Additional Hit Points: 4622 -> 4180
```

Chaos Sorcerer Lord of Nurgle (Nurgle) [Mount: Chaos Steed]

```
Additional Hit Points: 4960 -> 4708
```

Chaos Sorcerer Lord of Nurgle (Death) [Mount: Rot Beast]

```
Additional Hit Points: 5786 -> 5486
```

Chaos Sorcerer Lord of Nurgle (Nurgle) [Mount: Rot Beast]

```
Additional Hit Points: 5786 -> 5486
```

Abilities

Army Abilities

Call of the Wild

```
Number of Uses: 3 -> 1
```

Character Abilities

Hurricane of Death

```
Recharge Time (Seconds): 90 -> 120
```

Initial Recharge Time (Seconds): 90 -> 120

Delay until damage is dealt (Seconds): 0 -> 1

Mistwalkers’ Barrage

```
Spread: 0 -> 10
```

Feast of the Maggot Lord

```
Target Intercept Range: 100 -> 30
```

Spells

Soul Stealer

```
Winds of Magic Cost: 16 -> 18
```

The Fate of Bjuna

```
Active Time (Seconds): 20 -> 18
```

Traitor-Kin Upgraded

Phase Stats:

```
Direct Damage Amount: 133 -> 100
```

The Dwellers Below

```
Armour Piercing Vortex Damage: 1 -> 4
```
```
Branch damage: removed
```
```
Effect Duration: 1 -> 5
```
```
Starting Radius: 5 -> 20
```

Dwellers below and its upgrade's performance was too volatile after our previous round of changes. So we've elected to return its damage application to a more standard vortex arrangement, but leave the new randomized flailing branches imparting forces for spectacle.

The Dwellers Below Upgraded

```
Armour Piercing Vortex Damage: 4 -> 6
```
```
Branch damage: removed
```
```
Effect Duration: 1 -> 5
```
```
Starting Radius: 5 -> 20
```
```
Expansion Speed (Per Second): 40 -> -20
```

The Fate of Bjuna

```
Active Time (Seconds): 20 -> 18
```

Final Transmutation

Phase Stats:

Direct Damage Amount: 33 -> 133

This is a reversion to the accidental overwrite of this in 5.0

Unit Abilities

Coruscating Blast

```
Base Missile Damage: 75 -> 50
```

Armour Piercing Missile Damage: 175 -> 125

```
Radius: 5 -> 4
```

Spear of Grungni

```
Base Explosion Damage: 75 -> 15
```

Armour Piercing Explosion Damage: 15 -> 75

Thunderburner

```
Recharge Time (Seconds): 1 -> 30
```

Direct Damage Amount: ~50 per second -> ~150 per second

Thunderburner Upgraded

```
Recharge Time (Seconds): 1 -> 30
```

Direct Damage Amount: 0 -> ~50 per second

Whirlwind of Death

```
Duration (Seconds): 6 -> 4
```

Delay until damage is dealt (Seconds): 0 -> 0.75

```
Armour Piercing Vortex Damage: 2 -> 4
```
```
Explosion Force: 50 -> 200
```
```
Starting Radius: 4 -> 0.1
```
```
Expansion Speed (Per Second): 1 -> 100
```

Whirlwind of Death Upgraded

```
Duration (Seconds): 6 -> 4
```

Delay until damage is dealt (Seconds): 0 -> 0.75

```
Explosion Force: 50 -> 200
```

Endless Whirlwind of Death

```
Duration (Seconds): 6 -> 4
```

Delay until damage is dealt (Seconds): 0 -> 0.75

```
Armour Piercing Vortex Damage: 2 -> 4
```
```
Explosion Force: 50 -> 200
```
```
Starting Radius: 4 -> 0.1
```
```
Expansion Speed (Per Second): 1 -> 100
```

Endless Whirlwind of Death Upgraded

```
Duration (Seconds): 6 -> 4
```

Delay until damage is dealt (Seconds): 0 -> 0.75

```
Explosion Force: 50 -> 200
```

Once again, thank you all for your bug fixes and feedback since the release of 5.0 and Thrones of Decay. As always, please keep talking to us about your experiences over in the CA Community or the Total War Discord server, and keep reporting your bugs over in our dedicated bug report forum.

See you on the battlefield!

—The Total War Team

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If you experience any issues after downloading the update, please take a moment to Verify the integrity of the game files first to ensure there were no issues when downloading. A step-by-step guide can be found in this article.

If the issues persist, please visit our support site for additional troubleshooting steps and assistance.

🧱 MOD WARNING

Please note that user-generated mods may have compatibility issues with new game updates. If you are encountering performance or stability issues following a release, is recommended that you disable any mods you're running. If you continue to experience issues, please visit our support site for additional troubleshooting steps and assistance.

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Those are the patch notes on June 13 for Total War: WARHAMMER III.

Enshrouded Update Patch Notes June 13

Posted on June 13, 2024 by Michelle Pereira

UPDATED June 13

Changelog for Patch #4- V 0.7.2.1 June 13

Version number: 535584

Here is a brand new patch for Enshrouded, with fixes and improvements. Thanks again to all of you who reported issues. The game keeps getting better as we iron out the kinks, thanks to you!

And now for the good stuff...

MAGE CHANGES AND CLASS BALANCE

We’ve been monitoring player feedback since the release of the latest changes to mage builds. As we mentioned before, balancing is an evolving endeavor that will continue as we expand the game. Your feedback is an important part of Enshrouded becoming the best game it can be, so please share your thoughts and anecdotes on combat situations on our Discord server at discord.gg/enshrouded. You remain as always our favorite part of making Enshrouded happen.

BUT ALSO

We are still investigating an issue with green luminescent blocks emitting too much light. It’s not you, it’s them.

CHANGELOG

Jump pads are now saved correctly when placed in the player base. Additionally, fixed an issue that caused the placement preview for self-crafted jump pads to be incorrectly rotated.

Fixed several instances where ladders wouldn’t allow proper climbing. Example locations are in the settlements in the Blackmire, Mark of Sameth, and Willow Crush.

Fixed several small level design issues with points of interest in the Blackmire area.

Tweaked the song quest location markers to better point at the target areas.

Shallow brown mud no longer prevents stamina regeneration. We experimented with this feature to communicate the feeling of being stuck and having to use a lot of energy to move around. However, it had the potential of getting players stuck at the bottom of climbing walls, which is not what was intended.

Fixed a potential exploit that allowed circumventing mud or tar debuffs by using the skill Bee Sting.

Moved banners to the crafting recipes offered by Valory the Bard.

Removed the spear-throwing Vukahs from the Springlands area.

Added two new dagger models for the Kindlewastes tier.

Fixed an issue with the Eternal Ice Arrow that could lead to the ammo being consumed, which is incorrect, of course.

Fixed a visual issue with the Noble Dress vanity set.

Fixed an incorrect behavior of the skill Merciless Strike, which offered the action several times in a row without allowing the enemy time to replenish their stamina.

Improved the ambient sound system for better detection of the area around the player.

Fixed a few instances where the camera would clip into the terrain or props.

```
Fixed the collision of secret doors.
```

Improved double-jumping uphill. Before, the jump could get unintentionally interrupted when the player character was directly facing a cliff.

Improved enemy pathfinding when they are walking or jumping down.

Fixed an issue with some attacks of the Wispwyvern boss that also affected players outside of the boss arena area.

Fixed an issue with tamed beasts that get stuck while trying to follow the player.

Fixed an issue when switching between mouse & keyboard and controller or vice versa while in a menu that led to unintentional character movement.

Fixed an issue that could lead to a visually incorrect terrain texture after fast traveling.

Fixed a random crash reported by players.

Reworked the display of damage numbers on enemies to reduce the occurrences of visual overlapping.

Added a warning when trying to chop wood or terraform without the permission on that server due to the defined user role.

Fixed a small UI issue with quick-move actions between backpacks and chests.

The “Barrier lifted” message from the Hollow Halls gates is now correctly displayed at the beginning of the game when having previously quit the session while the barrier is lifted.

Improved the display of used and available skill points.

Fixed cases where the enemy stun bar did not correctly show.

Improved the collapsing and un-collapsing of quest categories in the journal.

The “Feats of the Flame” widget showed incorrect text overlapping in French and Thai localizations, this has been fixed.

Fixed issues with the display of the game summary widget at the start of the game session.

Fixed some cases where world map markers were difficult to click when a quest area was active nearby.

It is no longer possible to kick players who themselves have the server permission to kick other players.

Improved the warnings and hints about setting passwords for peer-to-peer server hosts.

```
Fixed several typos.
```

Enshrouded Hotfix #12 June 6

Version number: 533348

Changes

Fixed an issue with mouse & keyboard controls when playing Enshrouded on Linux.

Fixed a crash that could occur at the start of the game.

```
Fixed a crash in multiplayer.
```

Dedicated server hosts will need to update the version as well.

Changelog for Patch #2- V 0.7.1.1 April 17

Version number: 516139

Greetings Flameborn!

Here is a brand new patch for Enshrouded, with fixes and improvements. Thanks again to all of you who reported issues. The game keeps getting better as we iron out the kinks, thanks to you!

And now for the good stuff...

Enshrouded Update Patch Notes V0.7.1.0 Mar 26

Changelog

Fixed a crash in the building menu when having a very high number of building block types in the backpack or magical chests.

Fixed an issue that would lead to decorative elements at buildings being temporarily dislocated.

Fixed missing sounds. Sorry we can't be more specific this is all they told us.

Re-potted wheat now correctly gives wheat seedlings, not yucca ones. Botany is hard.

Fixed an issue in workstations that progress on a current recipe was reset when re-selecting the same recipe from the list.

Several improvements have been made to the wildlife movement. It should now behave more naturally when walking or fleeing.

Wildlife straying into player bases no longer has the dismantle prompt. This isn't how it works.

Fixed a bug where rotating the camera could inadvertently cancel a dismantle action.

Improved behavior of enemies that get attacked by players with ranged attacks but can’t find a path to the players. They now run around more than just standing still in panic.

Fixed an issue with lighting that caused the Blue Luminescent Blocks to have a green tint. Sorry to everyone who used the blocks to fake water, the fake water looks less polluted now.

Fixed a case where resetting the skill tree granted more skill points than intended.

Server-wide quests and personal quests are now sorted in the quest journal.

Those are the patch notes up through June 13 for Enshrouded.

Gray Zone Warfare Update Patch Notes June 13

Posted on June 13, 2024 by Michelle Pereira

UPDATED June 13

HOTFIX 5.3 IS OUT June 13

Update your game and dive into the latest version of Gray Zone Warfare.

Key Improvements:

🔸 Fixed Hotfix 5.2 performance issues.

🔸 Fixed task-related issues.

🔸 Reduced rubberbanding.

🔸 Improved AI behavior against multiple players.

We appreciate your patience and support.

HOTFIX 5.2 IS OUT June 4

How to update to Hotfix 5.2?

1. Safely Exit your game in the Base Camp

2. Restart Steam (Go Offline and Back Online in Steam Settings)

3. Make sure your whole squad has the update

Hotfix 4 is out! May 24

How to update to Hotfix 4?

1. Safely Exit your game in the Base Camp

2. Restart Steam (Go Offline and Back Online in Steam Settings)

3. Make sure your whole squad has the update.

GZW Patch 1 Live Now May 22

Hey everyone,

Patch 1 for Gray Zone Warfare is now live, addressing over 200 issues players have reported. We're already hard at work on future patches, so stay tuned.

A huge thank you to everyone who attended our Public Test. We appreciate your feedback and support, which are invaluable in helping us improve the game. Your input directly influences future updates and enhancements.

PATCH NOTES:

[FIXED] An issue where vegetation sometimes didn't react appropriately to shooting

[FIXED] An issue where the main menu song would keep playing after joining a server

[FIXED] An issue where the character could get stuck in a crouch in 3PV

[FIXED] An issue where the character could get stuck in a levitating pose in 3PV

[FIXED] An issue where the Add Member button was active even if the squad was full

[FIXED] An issue where the squad member status wasn't displayed properly

[FIXED] An issue where squad invitation pop-up didn't appear after adding a friend

[FIXED] An issue where the squad invitation notification was not displayed under specific circumstances

[FIXED] An issue where squad chat was present after leaving the squad

[FIXED] An issue where sounds near open doors did not play properly

[FIXED] An issue where some vegetation wouldn't make any rustle sounds when players walked through it

[FIXED] An issue where private chat was present after blocking a friend

[FIXED] An issue where players were unable to perform any action after vaulting

[FIXED] An issue where players were unable to open the loot menu when looting AI

[FIXED] An issue where players were able to through a grenade through a wall under specific circumstances

[FIXED] An issue where players could get stuck on the first loading screen with a network error

[FIXED] An issue where canceling provision/medical animation may render the player unable to do any actions

[FIXED] An issue where the pilot wouldn't warn players before flying off

[FIXED] An issue where only 1 item appeared in vendor stock

[FIXED] An issue where getting killed by a landing helicopter could lead to a friendly fire report

[FIXED] An issue where friends had incorrect offline status in some situations

[FIXED] An issue where fallen stairs had improper collisions

[FIXED] An issue where empty magazines would refill after connecting to a server

[FIXED] An issue where dead bodies would sometimes sink below ground

[FIXED] An issue where clicking outside of the confirmation prompt closed the prompt completely

[FIXED] An issue where the blood effect after hitting an enemy was not always present

[FIXED] An issue where AIs could not shoot players when they got too close.

[FIXED] An issue where AI in Sawmill were spawned without ammo

[FIXED] An issue where AI could spawn partially below the ground

[FIXED] An issue where AI could disappear near bushes or water in towns

[FIXED] An issue where a variant of the Type 51 pistol was set up incorrectly, resulting in missed shots

[FIXED] An issue where a dead AI would stand up and stay in an A-pose

[FIXED] An issue that blocked the progression of quests Art of Deception and It's in the water

[FIXED] Broken landscape near Foxtrot 2 LZ

[FIXED] Several spots where players could get stuck

[FIXED] The reticle on Viper RD red dot sight

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[FIXED] Various client crashes
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Changes

[CHANGED] Reduced hitches when flying the helicopter

[CHANGED] Players can now re-bind voice chat activation, map, health panel, inventory, tasks to a different key

[CHANGED] Increased the time between character wipes to 1 week (up from 1 hour)

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[CHANGED] Improved Shotgun Slug damage
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[CHANGED] Improved prone movement on sloped or uneven surfaces

[CHANGED] Added a reminder to claim DLC rewards from the messenger

[CHANGED] Added safeguards to prevent exploiting of grenades to kill players and AI in FOB

[CHANGED] Improved quest item spawn locations for the quest The More the Merrier

There were many crashes that have been resolved, so rather than listing a bunch of them, they are labeled as "various crashes"

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What’s Next?

While our first major update, featuring the Day/Night cycle and more, is coming later this year, we are committed to releasing additional patches to continually enhance optimization, stability, and reduce rubberbanding.

Patch 2 is just around the corner. Stay tuned, and thank you for playing Gray Zone Warfare!

Every Move Matters,

MADFINGER Games Team

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Hotfix 3 is out! May 7

How to update to Hotfix 3?

1. Safely Exit your game in the Base Camp

2. Restart Steam (Go Offline and Back Online in Steam Settings)

3. Make sure your whole squad has the update.

Hotfix 2 is out! May 2

How to update to Hotfix 2?

1. Safely Exit your game in the Base Camp

2. Restart Steam (Go Offline and Back Online in Steam Settings)

3. Make sure your whole squad has the update.

What is the wiping feature?

We've listened to your feedback, and an account wipe option is now live in #GrayZoneWarfare. After wiping, all your progress will reset and the game will shut down smoothly. Upon relaunching, you will go through the character creation and get Edition Content and starter gear again.

Opt for a character wipe to switch factions or to recover from a missing head/secure container bug (Note: This problem might reoccur until we release a proper fix).

This action is irreversible and has a 1 hour cooldown period.

Hotfix 1 is out! April 30

First hotfix of our Early Access is out, here what it entails:

[FIXED] An issue that players would sometimes spawn without heads, clothes, or secure containers

[FIXED] 2 separate issues where the anti-cheat would prevent players from joining a server

[FIXED] 3 separate server crashes

Plus, we've made some tweaks:

[CHANGES] Default antialiasing settings are now set to FSR for graphics cards lacking DLSS Frame generation support.

[CHANGES] Improved antialiasing quality for FSR, focusing on boosting Performance.

Thanks for your feedback and thanks for helping us shape the future of Gray Zone Warfare. More fixes coming soon.

Those are the recent patch notes up through June 13 for Gray Zone Warfare.

Another Crab’s Treasure Update Patch Notes June 12

Posted on June 12, 2024 by Michelle Pereira

A compilation of the last few patches for Another Crab’s Treasure, which released on April 25, 2024.

The complete patch notes are below, in descending order, from latest to oldest:

UPDATED June 13

Minor Patch 1.0.103.3 June 12

YOU CAN SCROLL THE MAP NOW YOU'RE WELCOME

PATCH V1.0.103.3 HAS BEEN PUSHED TO STEAM!

Most important change: we caved to audience pressure and you can scroll around on the Location tab now! View all the pretty art! Go nuts!

Patch Notes:

MAP CONTROLS!!!

You can now move and zoom the map on the Location menu. Look at all the pretty art, go nuts!!!

FIXES

Fixed multiple SFX and voice lines in Voltai's fight being played silently

Fixed multiple instances of NPCs persisting in a spot after having moved on in the story

Improvements to camera collision, especially when using Dispatch

Removed some fun visuals from the Felix Cube, as it would occasionally cause weird player physics interactions. Sad.

You can no longer use Self Repair to restore Shell Health reduced from self-inflicted damage such as Munch and Twinkle.

Removed access to Assist Settings from Title, as assist settings are saved specifically to individual save files.

Game can no longer be paused during the credits (esc key will skip them normally). This eliminates a bug where killing Kril via the pause menu during the credits could result in weird behavior.

SAVE STABILITY

Improved the save backup system, increasing the scenarios in which it'll replace an unusable file with a backup if available.

Eliminated a very rare scenario where a save file could show up as corrupt in the main menu despite being technically playable.

BOSS FIXES

Fixed a ghost hitbox on a colossal late-game boss.

LEVEL FIXES

Small geometry updates to Expired Grove, Unfathom, and Bleached City

Fix geometry in Scuttleport that could lead to the player getting stuck

Fixed a content skip in Expired Grove that was a little too easy (don't believe it was useful for speedrunners, don't kill us!)

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Removed floating props in Slacktide
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LOCALIZATION

Updated translations for "Lv" across various languages

Updated description of Rubber Band to reflect that it doesn't make you fully immune to electricity damage anymore.

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Updated credits.
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BALANCE

Stowaway Weight on Sea Cucumber Reduced from 6 to 5

A certain late-game tentacled boss's HP increased by ~14%

Minor Patch v1.0.102.5 May 23

Got a fresh new patch for you!

Most important thing here is some save file safety fixes! We'll occasionally get reports of save files being corrupted for one reason or another. Some of these we're working to fix, and others are much less preventable, due to hardware crashes and such. So we figured a good place to start is to add a backup system.

If you ever need to access your backup file for some reason, it can be found in the same folder as your save file - but the game should load it automatically if something goes wrong with your main save.

GENERAL

 Added a save backup system that should help stem the tide (haha) of people losing progress due to save corruption. Ideally in a worst case scenario, folks will only lose one save point's worth of progress instead of ruining their entire file.

 Fixed an issue where having no readable files in your save list would show "new game" button even if some of them existed, but were corrupt

COMBAT

Fixed an issue where a certain colossal lategame enemy would not release you from a grab properly

You can now always use Spearfishing on said colossal enemy. It used to be only when they were in a specific animation, but this was unclear to players.

Fixed an issue where your hammer could attack as if it was the standard fork after a cutscene.

Fixed an issue where enemies could hit your dropped shell to hurt you. This was especially prevalent in the final boss fight.

LEVEL FIXES

Improved collision in Roland's arena for clipping issues

Improved collision in the endgame sequence

Emergency Patch v1.0.102.4a May 17

Hey gamers! Nick, who normally makes the update thumbnails, is out of the office today. Could you tell?

We just located a bug that's urgent enough to skip the normal Beta process, so I'm uploading the fix here as an emergency patch.

🔥 Fixed an issue where upon loading in, your location would very frequently be reverted to the previous Moon Snail Shell, even if you saved & quit somewhere else. This was particularly messing up people's progress in locations where Moon Snail Shells were few and far between, such as The Unfathom.

That's literally it! Hope you enjoy!

Note that this is not the total extent of our save issues - this issue would exclusively affect the player's position, and not damage their progress in any other way such as reverting any killed bosses. We continue to hunt down other issues related to save files, and the community on Discord has been extremely valuable so far in this process. Thank you for your patience!

Hotfix v1.0.102.4 May 16

New patch coming in hot! Thanks as always to our beta branch players for testing this in advance!

Our biggest priority right now is investigating the save file corruption happening to a small percentage of players. It's not going to be easy, but we're fast-tracking some features that will hopefully get us better information from user error reports and minimize the damage, even if finding the real source of the issue takes longer.

GENERAL

Better error reporting for save file issues to help us track it down

Unique Broadsword Rangoon no longer respawns in Expired Grove

Fixed Hermit Mimic acting strangely in Open Ocean

Fixed an issue where getting your hammer destroyed would also cause your DEF stat to not respect your currently worn shell.

Fixed an issue where being electrocuted while rolling did not stop the roll

"Another Chance" now properly grants invincibility to let you survive multi-hit grabs that you revived during

Prevented "windbox" hitboxes such as the Frogfish vacuum attack from affecting the player while climbing

Fixed an issue where getting grabbed while climbing would disrupt the grabber's physics

Fixed an issue where Flotsam Vale's Inkerton could be interacted with prior to ambushing you.

Fixed an issue where hitting an enemy would cause the game to get softlocked and spawn the hit vfx particle every frame in very rare cases.

OPTIONS

Added 16:9 resolutions to the Resolutions list for those with ultrawide monitors who wish to play at standard resolution

ABILITIES

Mantis Punch teleport should behave more consistently

BOSS FIXES

Fixed a bug where Magista could hit you with a ghost hitbox after she's done her spin attack

Pagurus can no longer be fished while he's burrowing away.

LEVEL FIXES

Fixed grapple point in Scuttleport facilities

Updated Border colliders in New Carcinia

Removed a problematic urchin in Slacktide

Updated Level Border Collision in Flotsam Vale

Geometry collision updates in Unfathom to prevent softlock issues

Improved collision in Voltai's Arena to reduce cases in which Kril phases through it

LOCALIZATION

Fixed a mis-typed italics tag present in all languages except English

Improved a variety of Russian translations including a misgendered lobster in Slacktide

BALANCE

Stowaway Weight on Sea Cucumber Reduced from 6 to 5

A certain late-game tentacled boss's HP increased by ~14%

QUALITY OF LIFE

Highlighted the text that tells you that you actually need two Old World Whorls to upgrade your charges after the first time.

Minor Patch v1.0.102.3 May 10

Another patch is live! Thank you to our beta branch players for helping us test these changes :)

IMPORTANT FIXES

We fixed the cursed issue with the blue pufferfish. You can kill blue pufferfish to your heart's content.

We updated our audio plugins to hopefully fix an issue where some users had no audio whatsoever.

We've gotten many reports of the game failing to save progress, but are still unable to reproduce the issue -- so now after you save, the game will check whether the save worked. If it didn't, it will display an angry message and boot you back to the Title screen. PLEASE show us if you encounter this and send us your log file. - Instructions for how to do so are in the FAQ channel in discord.

We have a possible fix to the issue where the game would give you Umami Crystals for free upon reloading the game. Let us know whether you're still experiencing this or not.

Added an option for "FPS Limit" in the settings for users reporting high GPU usage

GENERAL FIXES

Fixed some achievement issues where they would not trigger. Now if you enter an MSS the game will check whether or not you have completed the achievement EXCEPT for "This Kills the Crab" and "You Fell Off" (in which you will have to re-trigger those again)

Fixed an issue where Shell UI wouldn't update language when the Language setting changes

Inadvertently fixed an issue where a Decoy could be placed on umami replenishers to infinitely restore umami

Fixed an issue where spinny part of the Felix Cube shell could become offset

Fixed an issue where smokescreen caused Pagurus to teleport

Fixed an issue where Heikea's camera clips thru the floor

Fixed a rare issue where you could get stuck in Heikea's grab attack the same way you could get stuck in the Duchess's

Fixed a bug where Kril would take damage from enemies hitting a Decoy

Added a 1 second buffer after swapping your hammer before you can block to prevent soft locks happening by doing it too fast.

Fixed an issue where the Fortify effect would last forever even after the visual expired

Added an extended floor only firth collides with so he doesn't fall off the sides

Fixed a small issue where killing a boss without aggroing them (gun) would make their dead icon never show up on the Map

Wad of Gum no longer triggers on attacks that deal no damage

Fixed an issue where hammer dash would yeet you

Prevented a soft lock at the end of the game where Kril's shell could go out

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Fixed final boss arena collision
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Fixed an issue where Umami Crystal count would increase for no reason upon returning to title and back to the game.

Made bobbits "X marks the spot" look slightly different from hidden items

Made it so you dont need to jump to aim at hidden items

Fixed an issue where you could scroll off the Status page and open the Shellfish Desires menu accidental

Fixed save slots without a save file appearing as an error in title save menu (introduced in 1.0.102.1)

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Infinite Stowaway Sale Fix
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Removed previously sold Sand Dollars from shop. Sand Dollars are already infinite

Fixed Infinite loading bug caused by some shells in the player corpse

Fixed an issue where you could climb on the Consortium's back after it died

Fixed an issue where Topoda's fast movement during his sandstorm ability would cause the player to get flung into the air

Fixed an issue where certain costumes would appear completely black permanently after being gunked

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Self-Repair logic fixed to not overheal
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Fixed an issue where taking off the gun would remove it from the shell collection menu

Fixed an issue where Kril could get stuck in a climbing animation when leaving a climbable surface in certain situations.

FEATURES

Kril can now use Adaptations without a fork. Have fun, speedrunners!

LEVELS

Improved floor collision in gas canister such that player can't get stuck

Fixed Pagurus's map piece randomly floating in the open ocean

Small fixes to platforming in Scuttleport Facilities

Various platforming and encounter fixes in the final area of the game

Replaced some rocks in the Unfathom that players could get stuck on

Fixed two collision issues in the Unfathom that allowed disc drive gates to be easily bypassed-Fixed an issue that caused a rock in the Unfathom to have a corrupted mesh

Fixed a collision issue with a crack in a tile platform in The Bleached City

Fixed a hole in the Expired Grove that Kril could get stuck in

Moved an item out of the wall in Flotsam Air Pocket cave

Fixed an issue where nemma and some urchins were floating in the void if you return to the pinbarge post fall

Fixed a small hole in the terrain near Topoda

Fixed an issue where you can walk around the trigger for Topoda's fight

Improved camera interactions with coral assets

Improved camera interactions in small interiors such as milk carton and gas canister homes such that visibility is maintained during close quarters combat

Fixed a rock hole in shallows where kril could get stuck

Fixed z-fighting issue that caused flickering on a weapon rack in Fort Slacktide

Fixed collision issue with Fort Slacktide rubble that could cause player to get stuck

Fixed an issue where the player could become trapped on a rock in Trade Route Detour

Fixed New Carcinia bell not colliding with Camera

Patched up a hole in the coral in New Carcinia

Increased visibility on a key point of interest in the Sands Between

Slowed down the speed of a powered moving platform in the Sands Between

Cleaned up collision on rocks in the Sands Between

Improved collision on treasure chest such that Kril can't get stuck

Fixed player being able to walk up a certain trash pile in The Open Ocean

Fixed missing caustics in The Open Ocean

Fixed Kril being able to get stuck in beverage cup lid

Fixed a rock in the grove you could get stuck in

Fixed a rock in Trade Route Detour could repeatedly make player respawn to their death

Removed troublesome urchin from the return route of an end game platforming challenge

ENEMY RELATED

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Polished up Bobbit worm visuals
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Bobbit worms now release you and fling you much earlier if you have a shell. This prevents situations where they drag you under the map before releasing you.

Pushed a fix to Topoda sending players under the map with mantis punch

Fixed an issue where Petroch could be softlocked by hitting him with a bobbit trap before he spawns

You can no longer focus on Petroch before the fight starts

Actually fixed the issue where Topoda's brain would break if Smokescreen was used on him during his sandstorm phase

BALANCE

Nerfed hammer slightly by adding an extra third of a second before the Hammer's first attack cancels.

Rubber Band now only halves electric damage and entirely removes the electric stun.

Stunpounder's chain lightning attack damage reduced from 90 → 75

Stunpounder's chain lightning attack radius reduced by 25% to reduce the amount of doubled hits

Stunpounder's big lightning attack replaced entirely with an electric ring that can be jumped over, but the windup time is faster.

Stunpounder and Voltai: Electric ring damage buffed from 40 → 60

Puffer Quill stowaway weight reduced from 3 → 2

Rusty Nail+ stowaway changed to 6 ATK -5 MSG, Req. 8 RES

Bobbit Trap lockdown time reduced on bosses and extra large enemies.

Bobbit Trap extra lockdown time on Lv.3 upgrade is also reduced.

Praya Dubia Health increased from 3000 → 7000

Praya Dubia Reduced Damage from orbital laser from 95→ 70

Mantis Punch Base Damage reduced from 250 → 220

Puffer Quill stowaway -DEF reduced to -10

Reduced the amount of time you are invincible after swapping shells by 0.5s (It was too easy to abuse the mechanic to dodge damage even once kril finished the swap animation)

Hotfix v1.0.101.1 May 1

General

⭐ Added a cap to certain force values in Kril's physics, preventing or at least MASSIVELY reducing instances where Kril would get launched into the void by a strong enemy attack.

⭐ Entering an Moon Snail Shell now checks ALL your achievements, solving issues where save files that had previously collected broken achivements would not be able to obtain them retroactively.

Fixed several physics issues relating to Topoda's boss fight that could result in the player getting pushed through the terrain or other weird behavior

Fixed instances where your shell wouldn't be properly insured when respawning at a Moon Jelly or an area entrance.

Additional tough enemies in Open Ocean now die permanently when killed

Fixed several places where the player could get stuck on geometry or wind up out of bounds in the Expired Grove

Several fixes to floating sand crates in Slacktide

Fredrick can no longer be re-bought for 1 microplastic when dismissed, now costs 3000

Nemma and Konche will now properly leave their spot at the start of the Sands Between as the plot progresses.

Fixed SFX functionality on a certain colossal late-game boss.

Balance

Puffer Quill Stowaway ATK buff reduced from +10 to +5 (Sorry! It was fun while it lasted)

That's all for now! Hope you enjoy!

Those are all the patch notes up through June 12 for Another Crab’s Treasure.

Load-Bearing Towel Finally Removed from Gamer’s Room

Posted on June 12, 2024 by Nick Coffman

MUNCIE, Ind. – Local gamer Samuel Teskey is getting a fresh start in life after the crusty towel that’s taken up a corner of his bedroom was finally removed earlier this week.

Teskey’s mother, Janey Teskey, confirmed the removal of the towel over a gossipy cup of coffee with her ladies that best friend Marie Garrett then posted about to Facebook.

“I have been looking for that towel since New Year’s Day. It’s part of a set and Samuel knows he’s not supposed to just run off with it,” Janey lamented as she stirred sugar into her fourth cup of coffee. “I don’t condone him using the towels to clean up his sweaty gaming sessions, but if he is going to do that, he needs to not do it with the good towels. We have specific towels for that kind of mess.”

As the gossip session lingered on, Janey voiced concerns about her adult son and his gaming addiction.

“I just don’t know where he got his addictive personality,” Janey wondered after ordering another cup of coffee. “We raised him to be better than that. He should be out meeting other people his age and giving me grandkids. Not holed up in his room sweating through another match of Call of Halo and crusting up my good towels.”

Moved to tears by her son’s crusty towel antics, Janey was on the verge of giving up when nosey neighbor, Annie Wellington, chimed in with advice.

“You have to hide your towels,” the well-to-do Wellington said while sipping her $10 latte. “My son, Timothy, was also wiping his gamer sweat on our good towels. It almost drove me and my husband to divorce. But on a hunch, we hid the towels. All of them. The good, the bad, the rags. We don’t know what he’s wiping up with now, but we don’t care. Our towels are safe and uncrusty.”

The Facebook post ended with Marie bragging about how her non-gamer son has clean towels and a life.

“Upon hearing Janey and the others relay their towel horror stories I’m forever grateful to my boy Kyle. He’s not a gamer, just the occasional Nintendo and his towels have never been crusty and he’s on track for a good career and normal life. I pray for my gal pals and their boys.”

At press time, Janey hid her towels in her backyard while her son grunted through another sweaty gaming session.

Every Bond Girl Ranked by How Hard I’d Fumble

Posted on June 12, 2024 by Matt Fresh

The James Bond series is known for many things. Globe-trotting adventures, blood-pumping action, diabolical villains with overly theatrical lairs, strange henchmen that have a single quirk that encapsulates their entire persona, elaborate death traps that take just long enough for Bond to escape before he’s killed, and so on. Perhaps the thing which the series is most known for next to Bond himself is the Bond Girl.

Bond Girls come in many forms. Some are femme fatales, some are outright enemies, some are allies and some are just one-night stands. Some of them are just as badass and skillful as Bond, some of them are complete ditzes only there for eye candy and some of them are Denise Richards as a nuclear physicist. While they all come from different backgrounds, have different motivations, different skills, and different amounts of plausibility, the one thing every Bond Girl has in common is that they are the most beautiful women on earth. James Bond has the most rizz that anyone with rizz has ever rizzed.

There’s a reason that all men want to be James Bond and that’s because all the women want to be with him. Even the Bond girls he doesn’t sleep with are still charmed by him. I on the other hand am the exact opposite. Men don’t want to be me and women don’t want to be with me. I write entertainment satire on the internet for goodness sake. I have negative rizz. The only thing I have any skill at is fumbling. It’s why my mom has no choice but to resign to the fact she will get no grandchildren from me and I have no choice but to accept my fate of dying alone while playing Mass Effect. I fumble women so much that I’d win a medal at it if being bad at dating was an Olympic sport so I’d stand no chance at even existing as a human in the vicinity of a Bond Girl. Even if I was James Bond I would fumble them all. Not some of them, not most of them, all of them. But not all fumbles are made equal so here are all the Bond Girls ranked based on just how hard I would fumble.

75. Bibi Dahl

Bibi Dahl is a teenager so I wouldn’t even attempt anything. I’m not Drake.

74. Zora

Zora and Vida are introduced fighting to the death for the affections of a man. Naturally Bond ends up with both of them. I of course would end up with none of them but I do have a better chance with them than any other Bond Girl. They live in a camp in the woods so I can amaze them with my city-boy hipster knowledge of retro gaming.

73. Vida

Vida is the girl that Zora is fighting so everything I said about Zora applies here as well. My one true shot is by letting them play Kirby 64 on my Switch while I explain the lore. That gives me a 0.01% chance to not fumble which is 0.01% higher than my odds to not fumble any of the other Bond Girls.

72. Nancy

Nancy is one of Blofeld’s Angels of Death, twelve women who think they’re part of clinical allergy research but are actually being brainwashed by Blofeld to release bio-weapons across the world. Nancy is pretty nondescript. We never learn that much about her and the only thing of substance she does in the film is seduce Bond minutes after he’s already slept with another one of the women. The reason she’s ranked so low is because of the very little things we do know about her. For one, she seduces Bond because being at a research institute of all women means she’s very horny so as long as I can be the only man there I have a shot provided my presence doesn’t make her become a lesbian which I will admit has happened once already so I don’t rule it out. The other thing is that she’s there to cure a potato allergy so she must absolutely love potatoes and my mom makes tons of potatoes so she can come over for dinner. She’ll immediately leave after meeting my family but it’s still the farthest I’d ever get with any of Bond Girl.

71. Ruby Bartlett

Ruby is the other of the Angels of Death that Bond sleeps with and much of what I said about Nancy applies to her as well. I have a higher chance of fumbling her however since she resembles a librarian and I have a thing for hot librarians. What can I say I like to be shushed.

70. Ling

I don’t know much about Ling other than she’s some kind of agent who helped Bond fake his death after sleeping with him. If she’s an agent she’s clearly a capable woman who would have no trouble disposing of me. But she also lets Bond get away with making comments about how Chinese women taste different than other women so who knows what else she’d put up with.

69. Caroline

Caroline is an MI6 psychological and psychiatric evaluator which means I’m either going to become the basis of years worth of research or a chance for her to fix me. It’s 50/50 honestly.

68. Marie

Marie is a henchwoman to Blofeld who has information that Bond needs. He rips off her bikini top and chokes her with it until she talks. You’d have to choke me with a bikini top to get me to work up the nerve to talk to a hot French woman in a bikini and even if I did, nothing of value would come out of my mouth. Luckily I’m Canadian so this beautiful French lady and I already have one thing in common that may help my odds. We hate Quebec.

67. Felicca

I approach her,

“Hi Felicca”

She gives me a steely stare

”Okay, bye Felicca”

66. Rosie Carver

Rosie Carver is a bit of a ditz. She’s not very good at her job as an agent and generally just never really knows what’s going on or what to do. This would give me a slight advantage as I too never know what’s going on or what to do. I imagine her quirky, ditzy demeanor would make her somewhat easy to talk to, although since I am incapable of talking to attractive women it would still be difficult and I eventually would blow it. She probably wouldn’t even realize my fumbles the first few times which is good but it’s only a matter of time before I say or do something that even she understands means I am not gonna be a guy she goes home with.

65. Countess Lisl von Schlaf

My tombstone would read, “Matt Fresh, Eaten Alive by a Cougar”

64. Manuela

Manuela is a Brazillian agent who helps James Bond on his mission in Moonraker by helping him obtain vital intel on villain Hugo Drax and then helping him unwind in his hotel room. He successfully seduced her by asking what there is to do for five hours in Rio if you don’t samba. Now my chances with her are extraordinarily slim since despite them being my holy grail, Latinas don’t seem to go for my ghastly white complexion, and there’s only one thing my tongue is worse at than rolling Rs. However, I also don’t samba so it seems she’s already willing to help out a fellow like me. Perhaps I too could bed Manuela if I simply ask her what there is to do for three minutes in Rio if you don’t Samba.

63. Aki

Aki is a Japanese intelligence officer and is one of the more capable Bond Girls in the whole series, saving Bond multiple times. She even helps turn him into a Japanese man. Yes, you read that right, there’s a Bond movie where he disguises himself as a Japanese man, the 60s were a wild time. I doubt Aki would do any of that for a man as unremarkable as me but never discount what a woman who’s willing to give her man the Mr. Yunioshi makeover will deal with. Perhaps I have a shot.

62. Magda

Magda would hit me so hard that I would only remember as much of our encounter as anyone remembers about the movie Octopussy. So not much.

61. Saida

Saida is a belly dancer which automatically means she’s too hot for a schlub like me. My cousin had a belly dancer at her wedding and when she approached my table I turned a shade of red that isn’t even in most paint swatches. Imagine what would happen to me if I tried talking to one. However, Saida tries to seduce Bond almost immediately upon meeting him even though he’s a friend of her recently murdered lover 002 so perhaps she’s just horny enough to not mind all of my many deficiencies. Then again if there’s anyone that’s unappealing enough to turn off a sex-happy belly dancer it’s me.

60. Chew Mee

“Chew Me, well don’t mind if I do, oh what’s that, you’re calling the cops, okay I’m leaving.”

59. Natalya Simonova

I know some of you are thinking that I ranked Natalya fairly low solely as some kind of deranged retribution for the annoyance of escorting her around in the Goldeneye video game. But that’s only partly true. Natalya is just a normal woman. She’s not an agent, not a henchwoman, not a high-stakes poker player, not a rich and high-ranking member of society. She’s just a regular person who goes to work, chats with her friends, and lives an average life. Until of course, she ends up in the middle of a Bond movie and becomes a Bond Girl and the bane of every N64 gamer’s existence this side of Navi but I digress. She is still a smart, attractive, independent woman so I, of course, have no chance but her comparative normalness to the other Bond Girls means I have a chance at least at not fumbling her as hard as the others. Plus she was friendly to and put up with Boris before he was revealed as a traitor and I only yell that I am invincible about half as much.

58. Thumper

Oh no Thumper, please don’t choke me with your thighs. /s

57. Bambi

Oh no Bambi, please don’t choke me with your thighs. /s

56. Kissy Suzuki

Kissy marries a yellow-faced Bond in a fake ceremony to allow him to remain undercover as a Japanese fisherman. She’s a pretty terrible character all things considered in that she doesn’t get very many lines and doesn’t really do anything other than run around in a bikini for no reason. As such we don’t really know much about her as a person, certainly not enough for me to tell how hard I’d fumble but she’s cute and looks good in a bikini so my odds of success are poor based on that alone. Could I get a fake marriage with her? Maybe, I don’t know enough about her to definitively say I couldn’t. At least that’s what I’ve deluded myself into thinking. I’m so lonely.

55. Linda

Linda is a woman frustrated with the pool of men available to her. When we see her in the movie, she’s on her yacht complaining on the phone that the only men she finds are “playboys and tennis pros” and that she wants to find a “real man”. Well Linda I may not be a real man but I’m certainly no playboy or tennis pro.

54. Lupe Lamora

Lupe is the girlfriend of drug lord Franz Sanchez. Turns out that drug lords do not make good boyfriends because Sanchez frequently abuses her and when she steps out on him he has that man killed. She is so starved for a decent man in her life that she declares her love for James Bond despite barely knowing him and only sleeping together once. Seeing as how she is so desperate for a decent guy who will treat her well, I figure I have a better shot at her than I do most Bond Girls. Unfortunately, as I mentioned before, Latinas are to me as Moby Dick is to Captain Ahab and so even if her desperation drove her into my arms, the pressure of finally snagging my white whale would lead me to self-implode.

53. Miss Taro

Miss Taro is an informant for Dr. No who sleeps with Bond to keep him occupied long enough for an assassin to arrive. Now I’m not saying that I would put my life in danger by pretending to be a spy who needs to be preoccupied long enough for an assassin to arrive but I’m also not saying that I wouldn’t do that. However, I am me and therefore the ruse would be given up quite quickly and I would be shot.

52. Paula Caplan

Agent Paula Caplan commits suicide by cyanide capsule rather than divulging information under torture and she’d do the same rather than talk to me.

51. Dr. Molly Warmflash

Dr. Warmflash is the MI6 physician and I’ve seen enough romcoms to know how you charm and seduce a physician. You go for frequent checkups and during those checkups, you flirt with them until eventually, you wear them down enough for them to be okay with breaking the code of ethics. It’s a classic play. Having said that, I’m not charming enough to simply make pointless doctor’s appointments repeatedly which means I will have to actually injure myself each time so I have a legitimate reason to be there. I will be in so much pain that I won’t be charming or attractive, I’ll just be a big blubbering baby and the only way she’ll go out with me is out of pity.

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TNA Against All Odds 2024 Live Stream: How to watch

Posted on June 12, 2024 by Jake Skudder

TNA Against All Odds 2024 will be taking place this Friday, but how can you watch all of the action via live stream?

Fans across the globe will be able to watch the event live via the Triller TV (formerly FITE TV) live stream on Friday, June 14th 2024. As of writing, the cost of the event on Triller is $9.99 (in the UK).

TNA Against All Odds 2024 Live Stream Options

In terms of options beyond Triller, you can subscribe monthly to the TNA+ subscription service, which gives you access to multiple ‘Premium Live Events’ from the company.

It’s not just PLEs that you can get on there either, as TNA shows their IMPACT show weekly on the streaming service too.

TNA Against All Odds Matches

Here are all of the matches currently confirmed for TNA Against All Odds 2024:

Tag Team Match: Mike Santana & Steve Maclin vs The Rascalz (Trey Miguel & Zachary Wentz)
TNA Knockouts World Title Match: Jordynne Grace (c) vs. ??? (Open Challenge)
TNA World Tag Team Title Match: The System (Brian Myers & Eddie Edwards) (w/Alisha Edwards) (c) vs Nic Nemeth & Ryan Nemeth
TNA X-Division Title Match: Mustafa Ali (c) vs Trent Seven
TNA World Title Match: Moose (c) vs Matt Hardy
Sami Callihan vs. Jonathan Gresham (Countdown to TNA Against All Odds)

Hard Drive Does Pro Wrestling Stuff?

Yes, we cover pro wrestling news, including WWE, AEW, New Japan and sometimes the indies, so make sure that you keep checking back for everything you need to know about this great sport.

You can check out more of the content we have via our Minus World section (which also has real gaming news) and if you want to see more pro wrestling or combat sports you can check out my site FightFans!

The Creators of Slay the Princess Want to Go Isometric for Their Next Game

Posted on June 11, 2024 by R. Anthony Mahan

Tony Howard-Arias and Abby Howard are the couple behind Black Tabby Games, the creators of visual novels Scarlet Hollow and Slay the Princess. Ahead of the latter game’s upcoming free major update, they sat down with Minus World to discuss making two games with two people, what makes a horror game, and what the future may hold in store.

Minus World: Let’s start with a simple question: How did Black Tabby Games come to be? I know Abby was already a cartoonist beforehand, but what inspired both of you to get into game development?

Abby: Well, we were sort of both winding down on our various projects, so I was trying to work on the next thing, and it wasn’t really working for me, and we got talking with a friend of ours about dating simulators, and then just decided “Well, we have the skills for that!”

Tony: “We can do that!”

Abby: “We could try it out!” And then that, within the course of two hours, became the first drafts of Scarlet Hollow, so it was great, it was very fun.

MW: And if you don’t mind me asking, what were you doing beforehand, Tony?

Tony: Oh, just tech stuff. I was doing a startup that was building non-profit organizing software with friends. Non-profits do not have money, so…

MW: It’s in the name.

Tony: (laughs) Yeah, right?

MW: One thing I enjoy about both of your games is the emphasis on choice. I love games that act as a sort of personality test, where how you play says something about who you are. How much did that approach inform the choices in Act 1 of Slay the Princess, and the design of the Princesses in Act 2?

Abby: I suppose it’s the primary factor. It’s kind of trying to decide to reflect the player … I mean, Tony says this a lot, that the game is kind of its own mirror to show the way that you interact with the game, the way that you interact with these choices, and this moral dilemma.

Tony: Yeah, they all sort of spun out from the choices the player made rather than us having a bunch of Princess designs that we then tried to build choices around.

Abby: It was a little bit of a mix. We started with a list of five, kind of, ideas of “Well, we probably want a Princess like this.” The Adversary, The Damsel, and The Beast were, I think, pretty front and center there. But then it was kind of a thought experiment of “OK, so you made this choice. What does it say about you, and how would she react physically?”

Tony: Right, it’s like, at its core, the first chapter was written before [Abby had] done much in the way of art. I kind of drafted that up while Abby was visiting her family, as like “Hey, look, surprise! Extra project!” So, in that sense, the initial scenario has relatively simple setup, where there’s a lot of options players can take, but it’s set up in such a way that we can be very, very exhaustive, so there is just a logical flow of “OK, well what happens if you fight her and lose?”

Abby: Yeah, “What does this say? What does it lead to?”

Tony: What does bringing down a knife do, and then…

Abby: Every time I leave the house for an extended period of time, you get so busy. I should leave the house more often, see what happens.

Tony: (laughs) I’m busy enough!

MW: I’m not very assertive, and the first Princess I got was The Tower, and I’m like, “Oh, that makes sense.”

Abby: (laughs)

MW: But then I’m like “OK, you have to die,” and then I got The Fury, so I’m glad that’s getting expanded on in The Pristine Cut.

Abby: Ooh, yeah. Her chapter is very interesting. It’s a lot of fun. So a lot of the game has a lot of this sort of poetic metaphysical stuff, and then this one was a nice blend of the metaphysical and flesh, which is my specialty, so I got to go really wild with it! It’s fun.

MW: There’s been some speculation online that Scarlet Hollow was primarily written by Abby and Slay the Princess by Tony. Has the writing division been different at all between the two games?

Abby: It’s so hard to say.

Tony: Yeah, there’s large amounts of both of us in both of them. Generally, the online consensus is correct in that Abby writes the first drafts for Scarlet Hollow, and I write the second drafts, and I write the first drafts for Slay the Princess, and she writes the second draft. But also in both games, before any word processors are connected with fingers, we exhaustively talk things through, so it’s a very collaborative process.

Abby: Yeah, like I can point to lines that either one of us have written, but at the same time, so much of it is a collaboration.

MW: So the final products of both games, you’d say, is equal parts both of you?

Tony: Yes, definitely.

Abby: Yeah, they definitely wouldn’t be what they are without the other. It’s kind of hard to explain, I think, to people who haven’t done a collaborative work before. But yeah, it’s kind of wild how it blends together like that.

MW: You’ve mentioned dealing with crunch before. I did want to make sure you’re both taking care of yourself.

Abby: Aw, that is so sweet. We try.

Tony: (laughs)

MW: But I also have to ask, if you don’t mind, is this like a self-imposed deadline?

Abby: It’s usually driven by a variety of factors. For this one, there are certain deadlines that we actually have to hit for other people to be able to finish their jobs, for Slay the Princess and…

Tony: Things that have not been announced.

Abby: Yeah. We have to make sure that it’s done in time for those people to be able to finish their jobs in time without having to crunch, so hopefully we succeed at that.

MW: So there’s a publisher that you’re answering to?

Tony: I can neither confirm nor deny anything.

MW: Oh, suspicious. The mystery unfolds. But I do hope you’re both OK, because I love your work, but…

Tony: Well, that’s really appreciated. We’re gonna take a nice rest after this chunk of work is done.

Abby: Yeah, at least a week, and then I’ll get right back to it, because I can’t stay away for long from work, that’s for sure. But yeah, it’s been a little rough. Some of the other deadlines have been somewhat self-imposed, but it’s more because there’s a season where you don’t want to release a game, so we have to avoid releasing in that season, and in order to hit that, we…

Tony: Generally, you want to avoid anything between November and February.

Abby: And with Scarlet Hollow it’s also really hard to hold off on releasing something after it’s done, so Episode 4 was released, I think, in December, which is usually not a time when you want to necessarily release a game. It could’ve waited until February, but we did not want to. We wanted people to play the game.

Tony: Right, that episode also went through a comical series of delays because we just kept misscoping the climax of it, where it was supposed to be ready by October, and then it just kept taking longer. We got COVID or some nasty bug in the middle of it, and then it was just, like, I’m pretty sure by release week we had a series of delay updates on Steam that were getting comically shorter, of like: “We’re delaying by a week! We’re delaying by an extra two days! We’re delaying by, like, five hours! Hold your horses!”

MW: And I remember that, because I’ve been following you for a while. My inner asshole gamer was like “Oh my God!” But you’re not a huge publisher, so I’m being reasonable there.

Abby: Thank you!

MW: You’re releasing The Pristine Cut of Slay the Princess as a free update, and eventually you’ll have the fifth episode of Scarlet Hollow, continuing the trend of how you buy the game and then every episode so far has been free. I love the generosity there, how much content you’re giving for no additional price. Was that mostly for moral reasons, or was there sort of an economic factor to it?

Abby: Moral reasons for me. I just feel like if you’ve bought the game, you’ve bought the game.

Tony: Yeah, not enough people do that.

Abby: I want people to play the game! Like, that’s most of what I want. I mean, I’ve done webcomics forever, and publishing work is basically a way for me to be like “Oh, here you go, a nice physical copy for you to have on your shelf,” but you can also still read it for free, because what I want to do is make sure that people can actually read it and encounter it and love it, but at the same time, of course, then it leads to things like … as a studio, we were not going to make enough money to finish Scarlet Hollow.

Tony: Yeah, that’s kind of where Slay the Princess came from. Still a passion project! You never say this without someone being like “Oh, so Slay the Princess is a cash grab!” No, we obviously care immeasurably about both of our games, but…

Abby: And it has succeeded in that! So now we can do stuff like take our time with Episode 5 and make sure we don’t wind up with a three month-long crunch.

Tony: Yeah, and with The Pristine Cut being free, I do think there is something to be said for when somebody buys a product, we want them to have the best version of that product possible. We don’t want to release something, figure out a way to make it better, and then nickel and dime people from there.

Abby: We care about the integrity of what we’ve made, and then knowing that there’s more coming, I’m just like “Wait, wait! Don’t play it yet! Wait until it’s out!”

Tony: But that’s why we did a smaller free update back in March, where it was like “Well, we’ve finished a lot of our overhauls of the ending of the game. It’s tighter now. It hits some emotional beats harder. We’re not going to wait until everything else is ready, we’ll push this out.” And also with The Pristine Cut, the game has made plenty of money. There’s no need to just continually greedily push for more.

Abby: Especially since it’ll drive people to the game who hadn’t heard of it yet, having a big release like that. So yeah, we don’t need to make it DLC, we can just give them the proper game.

Tony: If people want to throw more money at us, that’s what the Supporters’ Pack is for, that’s what merch is for, that’s what Patreon is for, but those are just bonus things for people who want that bonus stuff.

MW: And I’m once again saying things you know for the readers’ sake, that the first episode of Scarlet Hollow is free.

Abby: It sure is. Get ya hooked!

MW: I know Disco Elysium has been a big influence on your game writing (and it’s taking a lot of restraint for me to not just talk to you about Disco Elysium all day). Are there any other games you’d say you’ve taken inspiration from?

Tony: Writing-wise, there’s different types of influences, like Disco Elysium is probably the most contemporary influence, where I don’t think we played that until many episodes into Scarlet Hollow. For older influences, just that early 2000s-era BioWare was pretty big for me, so the original Mass Effect trilogy, the first Dragon Age, Knights of the Old Republic, I think those were like the first choice-driven games that I played. I obsessed over them, I had my frustrations, and … you know how it is. All part of a process that informs growth.

Abby: And then, of course, there is a lot of influence from outside games.

Tony: Yeah, music, movies, TV shows. It’s also so hard to tell when something is a strong influence on your writing versus something that I just really like the writing. We played SOMA for the first time while working on Slay the Princess, and it deeply resonated with us because of a lot of the themes it handles for identity and the self and, you know … just the body horror components. But it’s hard to tell “Did that resonate, or did that have influences?” Who knows?

Abby: I suppose that’s kind of a different kind of influence, in something that gets you really hyped to make things. Something that motivates you to do a really good job because you want to have an impact the same way that something really amazing like SOMA had on us.

MW: This might be more of an Abby question. Both of your games are unquestionably horror stories, but in many ways they’re unconventional. It’s not non-stop terror, there’s comedy, drama, and a lot of … Gretchen would not be in a horror movie. This is a bit philosophical, but in your opinion, what defines a horror story? Is there a line between “horror” and “non-horror with a scary part?”

Abby: This is definitely something I’ve had to give a lot of thought to because of questions like this, because it’s sort of just something that pours out of me naturally, like, “Yeah, this is what I make!”, and then people are “Now how do I categorize this?” And I’m like, well … we just do. But for this one, I do think horror is very much defined by its themes, by its imagery, by the rising tension, falling tension, and breaking tension. Like, it’s something that is not unique to horror, but the combination of those things is unique to horror. You can tell when something is horror. I don’t think horror should be strictly defined by, say, something that scares someone by how many jumpscares it has, by whether or not you are being pursued by a creature of some variety that is going to get you. Those are all aspects that you can use in horror, but at the same time, I think really it is about an exploration of the dark in life. It is staring into the shadows and thinking to yourself “What is the worst thing that could be in there?”

Tony: Right, it’s confronting the things in the world that make you uncomfortable.

Abby: Yes, that is what is horror to me. Things that don’t even have blood in them could be horror as long as they make you feel really bad.

Tony: Right. I feel like of all of the spaces where horror is made, the audience for games has some of the strictest definitions, as they so often do. I’ve seen so much discourse around whether either of our games qualify as horror.

Abby: If we have to put a warning that’s like “Please don’t let your twelve-year-old play this unless they’re really cool.” (laughs)

Tony: Slay the Princess is particularly interesting on that front because so much of it is you get out of it what you put into it. So if you don’t explore those darker tendencies, there’s … the edges of the void around you, but not everyone sees The Fury. Some people free The Damsel and then sit down with The Prisoner and then just have a good time with everyone, and you get to the end and they’re like, “I don’t understand why this was a horror game.”

Abby: It’s fun. It’s really interesting how different people’s experiences can be with it. I wish I could know what that was like, but I made the thing, so I don’t know!

MW: On the subject of genre conventions: Visual novels are traditionally a Japanese genre, with even most Western VNs adopting an anime artstyle. How familiar were you with VNs before founding Black Tabby, and was there any particular desire to defy the conventions of the genre?

Abby: I was somewhat familiar. I hadn’t played too many myself. Like, we did as research, honestly, before starting Scarlet Hollow, and the ones I really liked are ones that probably I should not say I really liked (laughs) … The Song of Saya was very good.

MW: I think I’ve heard of that one.

Abby: There’s really bad stuff in that one, but it was good. I can’t ever recommend it, but … I think it’s kind of famous for being something that a lot of people enjoy, but…

Tony: But that everyone’s like “Uhhh, well, I’m not sure if I can rec this one.” (laughs) I would say that when we started the studio, at least for me, the stronger points of influence than visual novels were things like the Telltale games, like Life is Strange, those sort of more three-dimensional choice-driven narrative games, and just visual novels as a medium felt like a better and easier application of the skills we already had. Like Abby is a traditional pen-and-paper artist, so her style lends itself to that, so it was more about taking structures that were, in the West, explored in other games, and just using the medium that worked for us.

Abby: Mmm-hmm, something that leaned itself into my skills.

Tony: Yeah, we didn’t have to learn 3D modeling or animation or anything like that.

MW: From what I can tell, Scarlet Hollow has been your main passion project, and Slay the Princess was at least originally meant a smaller side game. What has your reaction been so far that Slay the Princess has been the more popular of the two?

Tony: I think as soon as we made the first announcement, it was like, “Well, of course.” It’s a little self-evident there.

Abby: It’s an easier sell, like it has a very basic … you can say what it is in a sentence and it intrigues people. Scarlet Hollow is like a very in-depth mystery, like you really have to get invested in the characters. Personally, I love all my children equally, so both projects still mean just as much to me, and especially when I’m working on one, I usually am like “Oh, I also miss working on the other.” Except I don’t know how much I’ll miss working on Slay the Princess after this particular crunch. So I’m very excited to go back to working on normal people in a somewhat normal town. I miss those.

Tony: Something that’s really important for us as a studio is to really be introspective about what we’ve done, what’s worked, what hasn’t worked, what have the challenges been. When we started work on Slay the Princess, part of it stemmed from a realization that we love Scarlet Hollow dearly, but it’s like … especially until it’s fully finished, it is a harder sell, where it is an early access unvoiced visual novel.

Abby: And it’s not in an anime artstyle.

Tony: And it’s not in an anime artstyle!

Abby: Because I’m not good at drawing anime. (laughs)

Tony: And it’s like, it’s doing well now thanks to Slay the Princess. But some of the challenges beyond that are like when you try and sell Scarlet Hollow to someone, you have to follow a marketing model that’s more like what you would do in book publishing or film marketing, where you have more space to give a pitch. And the real pitch for Scarlet Hollow never got shorter than a couple short paragraphs, whereas Slay the Princess in part started with “OK, what is something that we can talk about really quickly? What is a snappier concept that transfers more easily?”

Abby: And I suppose it didn’t quite stem from that, because that’s kind of more of a marketing thing that evolved naturally out of the fact that it was always going to be, supposedly, a smaller project. And it still is a smaller project somehow than Scarlet Hollow, which is massive.

Tony: But when you are marketing games in general, you have under five seconds to get someone’s attention, and if you don’t get that, they move on. So it’s like you’ll see with a lot of indies, they’ll put their logo at the beginning of a trailer. And that’s the thing that kills them, because someone won’t wait three seconds until the logo fades away and then you get to a hook. I think the fact that with Slay the Princess we were able to really use the game’s personality as a way of talking about it was helpful. Where, again, Scarlet Hollow, I’ve never found a way to talk about it that isn’t “Here’s the back cover of a book giving you a multi-paragraph pitch, and the art is pretty, and we have names attached to it.”

Abby: But now we have “Yeah, the people who made Slay the Princess?”

Tony: They made this one!

Abby: They made a sprawling complex mystery game with horror in it. Interested? And people are! It’s very nice.

MW: More than once I’ve seen people assume Slay the Princess is somehow connected to Slay the Spire. Obviously they don’t have a monopoly on slaying things, but how familiar were you with Slay the Spire beforehand? Was there ever a talk about potential confusion?

Tony: Let’s see how many hours I have in Slay the Spire. It’s quite a few…

Abby: It’s so funny. People are like “Oh, is that a sequel?”

Tony: …186 hours, so I’m familiar with it. (laughs) I think there was a very light thought after we settled on the title of “Oh, if this is popular, there’ll be a very small search boost on Steam.” We started with the premise of prisoner in a room, in more of a SCP-type setting in the very, very initial pitch. “What if there was this creature who is whatever other people think that creature is? What are the limitations in you being sent to deal with it?” Abby suggested a princess motif.

Abby: Because you’re going to a place to interact with a captured person, it seemed princessy to me.

Tony: “Save the Princess” (ironically) seemed like a good title there, we realized “Slay” was a word, and to our disbelief there was nothing else called “Slay the Princess” out there, so we just took it and ran with it.

MW: Scarlet Hollow has lots of silly joke names and icons for its achievements, which I love, and the achievements in Slay the Princess’s demo followed that same format, but not in the game proper. Was there a particular reason for this?

Tony: Just didn’t feel tonally in line with it.

Abby: And it also meant I could use art from the game. “Do we need achievements at the very end?” is the worst for me, because I’m super burnt out at the end of having finished an entire episode, and then I have to draw a bunch of little joke art. Which is really fun, and I love doing it for Scarlet Hollow, but for Slay the Princess I was kind of like “Ah, you’ve just met The Damsel, you’ve met The Adversary.” It doesn’t lend itself … well, it could lend itself to jokes, but it’s the extra labor.

Tony: I think it’s the type of humor both games have. Both of them are us, and they’re similar there, but Slay the Princess derives more of its humor from dramatic irony and stressed banter, where outside of the big scary moments in Scarlet Hollow, the characters have more fun with each other. So the tones are a little different there.

Abby: And you can be a very silly guy in Scarlet Hollow.

Tony: You can! There’s not quite an “eat the sludge” equivalent in Slay the Princess. (laughs)

MW: I know you have plans for a third game after Scarlet Hollow and The Last Halloween are completed. I don’t want to ask too much about something so far off, but are there any concrete ideas in place already?

Abby: We’re gonna, I think, go for isometric with that one.

Tony: Yeah, we might go feel like a proper CRPG, but we’re not sure about that. There’s part of me that’s, like, visual novels are such a runt of the litter medium that it would feel bad to abandon them.

Abby: Yeah, it feels like abandoning them a little bit, but at the same time I want to experiment with isometric artstyles. Now that I have all of these skills, I’m like, “I want to see what it looks like when my little guys move around!”

Tony: Right, and you know I think there’s also some questions there about the volume of art Abby has had to crank out for Slay the Princess and Scarlet Hollow.

Abby: I think it’s almost 4,000 at this point for Slay the Princess?

Tony: (laughs)

Abby: …Oh, is it more than that?

Tony: It’s way beyond! Yeah, there’s close to 4,000 sprites or individual frames in the base game and we’re probably adding another thousand or two.

Abby: And every time she moves I need to draw an entirely separate image. But if I just have set animations for “This is when you’re walking, this is when you’re scared,” that sort of thing. Like, it’s still a lot, but it’s nowhere near as much as just … every single time something happens, I have to draw an entirely new image.

Tony: There’s a thing that I get really jealous of with isometric RPGs too, and just, like, kind of more open-exploration RPGs. Their scene transitions are so effortless, right? In Disco Elysium, if you’re deciding you’re switching from looking into this to looking into that, as the player, you move your guys there. There’s no big “Here’s a new scene, we’re setting it up!” and all of this other stuff.

Abby: Yeah, you just move over there. And also it means that I can just draw one big background and you’re on it, instead of having to draw a different background for every single angle that you see.

MW: And I love your backgrounds, by the way.

Abby: Thank you! I really love drawing background work, like, oh my gosh, it’s so much fun. Especially Scarlet Hollow, I get to fill the rooms up with stuff! It’s great.

MW: It kind of gives me an old Mad Magazine vibe, where there’s so much stuff that it feels like the stuff in front is almost an afterthought.

Abby: Yeah, I love busy backgrounds!

MW: Finally, the most devastating question of them all. Which princess would be most willing to accept a bag of boiled peanuts?

Abby: The Damsel. She’ll take anything. She’ll just be like “Thank you! This is the best thing I’ve ever seen in my life! Thank you!”

Tony: …I could imagine The Witch enjoying them.

Abby: Oh, she would, but you offering them means she can’t take them.

Tony: Yeah, but she could maybe enjoy them in secret after killing you.

Abby: That’s fair, but she wouldn’t be the most willing to take them.

Tony: No no no, it must be The Damsel.

Abby: She would just sit there and be like “Is that so? Oh my goodness!”

Manor Lords Update Patch Notes June 11

Posted on June 11, 2024 by Michelle Pereira

UPDATED June 11

Patch 0.7.975 June 11

Bugfixes for the main branch

Hi everyone,

Here's a changelog with the latest fixes. The new patch is available on the main branch, so if you participated in the pre_release, remember to set betas to "none".

Version 0.7.972->0.7.975

Gameplay & balance:

Food cart & Firewood cart will now keep importing until it reaches their storage limits

Made livestock order imports slightly faster by reducing the livestock merchant's travel distance

[Experimental] Added 4 more handcarts to the lv2 storehouse [Side note: Considering handcart resources or handcart upgrades costing wooden parts in the future - opinions welcome]

Minor changes:

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Improved loading times
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Added a concurrent sound limit to hoe & sow sound effects (they clogged the audio buffer when too many people were farming in the same spot)

Added the localization key & icon missing for item_143 (Honeycomb)

Chimney smoke won't generate very far from the camera where it was barely visible

[Experimental optimization] Animal random pathing calls reduced very far from the camera where they can't be observed

[Experimental] Bumped up pathfinding priority of farming tasks

Blood cover should now disappear from clothes on disbanding

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Further farming optimizations
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Crashfixes:

Fixed a weird crash caused by a character somehow triggering import of a non tradable item (Timber)

Fixed a crash related to a barter building being invalid

Bugfixes:

Fixed workers stuck in the transport task (for instance at the malthouse) because the task targetRotation didn't account for ground slope adjustment

Fixed livestock being stuck at following task if the livestock trader gets unassigned mid journey

Fixed the pause toggle not being visible on the fields

Fixed characters sometimes loading with a weird rotation

Fixed free traders clogging pathfinding and making a lot of villagers and/or traders freeze because they were waiting in pathfinding queue

Fixed character sometimes ghosting through walls to their ungarrison location

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Fixed Food Cart showing as "abandoned"
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Fixed people not consuming food from the Food Cart

Fixed the "pause" toggle not working on the Firewood Cart and Food Cart

Fixed Dyers setting up Food stalls (because they had Food stored at their workplace)

Fixed trading post workers not respecting the export trade rule in case where the goods are already transported to the trading post for export but the player changes their mind

Fixed the interior box being visible during the construction process of a townhouse (variation G)

Fixed the building card border scale animation

Further fixes for broken character rotations

Fixed livestock import not working if the target surplus has never been set and the player is using orders

Fixed livestock imports ignoring other region trade rules

Fixed custom livestock orders importing form on-map regions

Fixed livestock order merchants trying to import horses that trade route merchants were riding on

Fixed pasture/stable space not updating when exporting animals

Fixed resources mined in surface and deep mine not registering as produce, leading to storehouse workers ignoring them sometimes

Fixed recruits stuck in a loop of moving armaments between burgage plots

Cosmetics:

Field material adjustments to reduce tiling artifacts

The next step

For the first month after release I tried to be careful not to make any risky changes, my goal was to stabilize the main branch (get rid of the most common, annoying issues). I'll keep reading the feedback too see if that build is stable enough to last us a bit longer, I'd be a nice time to go into the "dev cave" and do some more fun experiments & changes to push the game forward and finally add some new features.

Thanks for playing!

Greg Styczeń
Lead dev

Patch 0.7.972 is now available on the main branch May 31

Lots of bugfixes, balance & quality of life improvements

Hi everyone,

The first official Manor Lords patch (0.7.972) is ready. If you have participated in the beta, remember to turn "betas" to "none" to access it.

Saves: We recommend you begin a new save to enjoy all the fixes and changes.

Mods: Please remove any mods you have before beginning a new save to ensure you can play without interference from an outdated mod.

Patch Overview

Here's an overview of some fixes and additions that were worked on during the beta testing:

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The rate of Hildebolt's claims
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The famous "None" people spawning in huge numbers and refusing to do any work

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The clogged Trading Posts
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The game being stuck at the summary screen after a victory / game over

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Very weak archer damage
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Inefficient sawpits, which also triggered "generic storage full" problem banners

Barter and trading got a lot of fixes, with on-foot traders now being able to carry 5 items per trip & a new Trading Post setting to only allow trade between the player controlled Regions

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Overly high ale consumption
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Problems with optimizations in large cities

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Marketplace efficiency
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Problems with farming, like crops erasing in the winter, inaccurate overlays & inefficient harvests

Too harsh oversupply/undersupply systems

People and/or livestock staying homeless even though there is living space in the settlement

Ability to add militia staying the same regardless of the order the player hires mercenaries and retinues

Sheepbreeding development branch spawning sheep too frequently

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King's tax added
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A toggle to allow market stall setup for certain families

Extra construction reserve UI, for instance reserving planks at the joiner's shop

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Combat animation variety
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Easier Inter-Region Trade

To make trading between Regions easier, I made sure that the players can use Trading Posts to trade between their own regions without using Barter / Pack Stations.

Mourning

Whenever a person dies, there is a 30 day mourning period that blocks growth. You can now preview this in the Building Panel of the Burgage Plot or by pressing TAB.

Corpses

Carried corpses now have a visual representation.

Armor Variations

New upgraded retinue armor variations & new militia helmet were added.

King’s Tax (Annual Royal Tax)

I reimplemented a mechanic called "Annual Royal Tax" or "King's Tax" (I'm still deciding on the naming). No tax for the first 5 years, 1 Treasury per citizen after 5 years, 2 Treasury per citizen after 10 years, 3 Treasury per citizen after 15 years. In theory, it should slightly punish bad workplace optimization and make it more difficult to hoard huge amounts of cash.

Granary

The Large Granary building got a rework. The doors now properly animate.

New patron saint

A new unit patron was added - St. Maurice

Market stall toggle

I added an "Allow market stall setup" toggle to prevent the workers/inhabitants of certain buildings from setting up market stalls.

Construction Reserve

You can now also set a construction reserve for buildings using planks for crafting, like the Joiner's shop.

Lady of the Manor’s character model

Full Changelog 0.7.972

Major Changes

The King’s Tax (or Annual Royal Tax, name undecided):

The tax is collected annually from all players (main player and AI) and goes to the liege. It is calculated per population, serving as a counterbalance for players hoarding huge wealth despite non-optimized economies.

Currently, players can incur debt without consequence. In the future, failure to pay will result in losing the king's favor and eventually facing the king's army as enemies.

Global/Local Trade Switch for Trading Posts:

Players can now switch trade to "local only" in the trading post for each type of good, allowing them to exchange goods between their own regions while ignoring free merchants. Two trading posts (one in each region) are still required to make this function work. Employed traders will prioritize traveling to the location with the best prices to commence trade, potentially including regions owned by other Lords. The transport distance factor is reduced to make it more predictable for players where traders will go (to the place with the best price). Regional wealth is still required to exchange goods between regions with a trading post to maintain regions as independent economic units, simulating a more realistic economy.

Gameplay & Balance

Resource Management & Agricultural Adjustments

Food Consumption: People now pick a random food resource instead of eating food in a specific order.

Crop Fertility: Fertility is no longer drained after crop growth reaches 100%, making early harvest micromanagement less necessary. Yield may still increase over 100% growth if max yield is not reached.

Yield Cap: will now never increase past 100% growth to avoid confusion about exceeding 100%. Even when fertility reaches 0%, there will still be a small possible yield.

Harvesting Efficiency: When harvesting, crops are directly added to the field inventory instead of the villager inventory to reduce bottlenecks from harvesting walk times, especially for large fields.

Oxen Prioritization: Prioritized oxen plowing over transporting resources to the granary and warehouse to reduce oxen walking back and forth from the plowed field every time new resources are available for transport.

Plowing Shed: Plowing shed now adds 2 livestock worker slots.

Food Distribution: Food-producing residential plots no longer stock up on their produce before sharing with the marketplace.

Sawpit Log Storage: Increased sawpit log storage space to 5.

Economic & Trade Developments

Baron Region Claims: Lowered the rate of the Baron claiming regions and adjusted it to better reflect game settings.

Worker Camp Upgrade: Removed the worker camp upgrade intended for colony regions; it will be re-added when properly implemented.

Trade Route Establishment: When establishing a trade route, merchants no longer all spawn at the nearest trade point but are distributed to circle between various trade points.

Archer Damage: Archer damage increased from 4 to 13.

Trade Logistics Development: The "Trade Logistics" development branch now lowers the cost of new trade routes by 50% instead of clamping it at 25.

Trade Route Costs: Increased the base cost of opening a trade route from 12 to 20 (before the good value multiplier). Reverted the cost of opening new trade routes to linear scaling.

Market Oversupply: When the market is oversupplied, players can still export goods at a lower price. The price multiplier for oversupplied goods is now 0.75x for oversupplied and 0.5x for critically oversupplied.

Market Oversupply Rate: The rate at which the market becomes oversupplied no longer depends on the value of goods, ensuring equal rates for all good types.

Better Deals Development: The "Better Deals" development branch reduces the foreign import tariff by 50% instead of removing it completely.

Global Market Supply: Tuned global market supply to rebalance itself faster, aiming for a closer to one-year cycle if not trading.

Quality of Life & Infrastructure

Ale Consumption: Reduced ale consumption by 75% (approximately 1/3 per family per month).

Building Placement: Made building placement steepness limits harsher to prevent trading posts and churches from looking awkward on sharp slopes.

Soldier Approval Factor: Soldiers no longer trigger the "unburied bodies" approval factor when corpses are in their proximity.

Hitching Post: Hitching post is free again to reduce the chances of players getting stuck without an ox, hitching post, or the ability to order an ox.

Sheep Breeding: Capped sheep breeding to a maximum of 1 new lamb every 10 days.

Water Fetching: Villagers are now only allowed to fetch water from the well nearest to their home, except in case of a fire.

Maximum Yield per Plant: Increased the maximum yield per plant from 2 to 4 (Hunting Grounds policy still reduces it by half).

Plant Yield Rate: Plant yield rate reduced by half to encourage early harvest only in emergency mode.

Militia Squad Limit: The militia squad limit is now 6, regardless of whether the player has a retinue or mercenaries. This will be connected to a rank system in the future.

Fertility Regeneration: Doubled the fertility regeneration rate effect on fallow fields and from fertilization.

Plant Growth Rate: Adjusted crop growth to match crop rotation (to hit 100% at harvest as often as it can on auto).

Tree Growth Rate: Slowed down tree growth rate by around 30% to enhance forest management impact.

Trading Post Workers: Increased the carrying capacity of on-foot trading post workers from 1 to 5.

Royal Tax Calculation: Royal tax is calculated as follows: No tax for the first 5 years, 1 Treasury per citizen after 5 years, 2 Treasury per citizen after 10 years, 3 Treasury per citizen after 15 years.

Granary and Storehouse Worker Slots: Adjusted Granary and Storehouse Worker Slots: unified to 3 families for level 1 and 6 families for level 2.

Minor Fixes

Trade and Market Adjustments

Mindfulness System: Applied the "mindfulness" system to free merchants to reduce clumps and traffic jams.

Trade Location: Moved the location of trades further off the map to ensure space for all trade wagons, even if the trading post is placed on the map edge.

Trader Transactions: Allowed traders to make transactions without entering the shed if the trading post is clogged, as long as they are within the general building bounds.

Marketplace Logistics: Improved marketplace logistics efficiency and optimization.

Market Supply Reset: Reset market supply on loading old saves (from builds 0.7.954-0.7.956) due to mismatched global market supply stock values.

Market Stall Workers: Capped the number of workers supplying a single market stall to 2 to reduce market clogs with the increased market supply frequency. The number of stalls is now reduced back to the number of families divided by 5, with a minimum of 1 to ensure functionality in towns with fewer than 5 families.

Market Supply Optimization: Further optimized market supply functions for smoother late-game town performance.

Trading Post Thumbnail: Added the missing trading post building thumbnail.

Trading Post Price Range: Trading posts now display a price range for imports, indicating whether they can buy from other regions or foreign trade sources.

Optimization and Performance

Default AA: Changed default AA under DX11 to TAA.

Spatialization Update: Added a spatialization update call for recruits teleported home when rallied to ensure proper collision calculations.

Follow Mode Optimization: Updated "is close to camera" value in follow mode to prevent optimization of animations or sound effects for characters near the camera.

Firefighting Behavior: Made firefighting villagers ignore anti-clogging behavior at narrow pathfinding points.

Pathfinding Updates: Minor unit in-town pathfinding updates.

Destructible System: Swapped the old UE4 destructible system for a new UE5-friendly chaos-based debris system currently used for chopped firewood cutter logs.

AA/Upscaler Selection: Tweaked default AA/upscaler selection during first-time launch for specific GPUs (e.g., RTX properly defaulting to DLSS).

Pathfinding Thread: Added another pathfinding thread for handling multiple end-game cities.

Harvest Prediction Optimization: Optimized harvest prediction and fertility changes to reduce stutter.

Log Display: Limited the log display to store only the last 100 entries to improve UI optimization.

Idle Task Optimization: Optimized the function for finding friends to do idle tasks like conversations.

Door Opening Animations: Optimized door opening animations.

User Interface and Accessibility

Mourning Period UI: The residential panel now has a "mourning period left" UI element that displays the number of days of mourning until the burgage plot can bring in more family members.

Mourning Icon: Added mourning icon to the building floater.

Save Restrictions: Disabled the ability to quick save during the game over/victory cinematic. Disabled manual save after being defeated and added a tooltip explaining why saves are disabled. Disabled quick save and autosave if the game was lost.

King's Tax Rate Multiplier: Added king's tax rate multiplier to the game setup settings.

Victory Camera: After continuing the game after a victory, the camera returns to the player's main region instead of levitating over the map edge.

Currency Icon: Unified the currency icon in the mercenary company panel to clarify payment with the treasury, not regional wealth.

Accommodation for Homeless: Added an accommodation call for homeless people after a fire, ensuring they are quickly re-assigned to available burgage plots.

Family List UI: Aligned "workplace/reassign" buttons vertically in the family list due to most families having more than one member.

Font Fix: Fixed old fonts being used in the family entry widgets.

Fertility Overlay: Made fertility overlay colors and colorblind symbols more accurate with the percentages displayed in the field's building panel.

Building Panel UI: Tweaked building panel header buttons/toggles to improve readability and distinguish buttons from toggles.

Market Stalls: Set "Allow market stalls" to ON by default for all workplaces and artisan workshops to aid new players in setting up stalls without confusion.

Popup Queue: To avoid popups like "royal tax increase" from interrupting visit mode, they are now queued and triggered after the player returns from visit mode, after around 1-2 seconds.

Transaction Popup: When trading between regions, the transaction popup will now display over both trade buildings, depending on which is closer to the camera.

Region Borders: Region borders will show under the cursor even if the camera is low, clarifying where region territory ends.

Region Calculation for UI: Tuned how "current region" is calculated for the UI to make it more comfortable to build on the edge between two player-owned regions.

Crash Fixes

Fixed a crash when doing a sequence of livestock import, export, and import because "home" wasn't cleared properly during export, and the same animal was reimported.

Fixed a rare crash if a handcart fails to spawn, likely if the trading post was built so that part of it crosses the map edge.

Fixed crash on startup if OpenXr SDK is installed.

Fixed a crash when deleting a building if there are pathfinding obstacles being verified (for instance, soon after loading a game).

Fixed the player being able to reassign a family to another Region, which could crash the game.

Bug Fixes

Gameplay Mechanics

Fixed victory status not resetting after starting a new game, leading to a game over screen not appearing if the player lost/won multiple games without turning the game off.

Fixed crops dying in the winter instead of actually increasing yield by absorbing nutrients from the snow as intended for winter crops.

Fixed oxen sometimes "ghost plowing" a field when they are waiting for their guide.

Fixed plow and ox sometimes misaligned on 12x game speed.

Fixed farm workers not accounting for oxen plowing the farms in some situations, leading to a lot of unnecessary collisions on the field.

Fixed crop rotation unplowing the fields.

Fixed disbanded mercenary group becoming immediately available again after save/load cycle.

Fixed the trading post export transactions not moving regional wealth between the regions correctly if owned by the same lord.

Fixed paused taverns fulfilling the entertainment requirement.

Fixed attempt for never-ending fires if a fire was triggered after the building was already on fire.

Fixed livestock sometimes being unaccommodated after order even though there is stable or pasture space due to being transferred to the region twice (once when buying and once when livestock merchant brings it to the building).

Fixed livestock traders traded between on-map regions, possibly sometimes paying twice because the ownership changing function was called both on pickup of livestock and on dropoff.

Fixed the game getting stuck on the game summary screen infinitely after winning or losing the game.

Fixed "none" people populating the town after a raid sometimes who just stand around waiting forever and possibly crash the game while reloading.

Fixed the employed traders going to trade points even though the trade route for the traded good is not opened yet.

Fixed the farm workers moving to transport tasks early even though there is still plenty of crops to harvest.

Fixed predicted yield not showing correctly in the field building panel.

Fixed people not resetting rotation after dismounting.

Fixed farming oxen not respecting work area limits.

Fixed bandit camps respawning on loading because "lastBanditCampSpawnedDay" didn't save properly.

Fixed villagers not setting up market stalls to sell their home produce like vegetables if they are unassigned.

Fixed granary workers stealing ale from the tavern.

Fixed livestock exports getting interrupted by sheep herd behavior.

Fixed livestock trader job not triggering an import task when buying livestock from another region.

Visual and Interface Fixes

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Fixed the blurry desktop icon.
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Fixed the save/load menu header not translating after changing the language.

Fixed the front lighting not being visible in the retinue editor if bounced light approximation is turned to low or off.

Fixed floating feedback text spawning during the cinematic mode.

Fixed autosave triggering during the cinematic mode.

Fixed the gilded aventail hounskull helmet appearing blurry in the retinue editor.

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Fixed the forest mask not drawing.
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Fixed the wrong yarn basket carrying animation.

Fixed the wrong apple basket carry animation.

Economic and Resource Management

Fixed "storage full" triggering for wrong buildings sometimes (for example, sawpit having 1/1 logs).

Fixed attempt for oxen bringing too many logs to the sawpit and crossing the storage limit.

Fixed free merchants sometimes got stuck if a trading post was built so close to the edge that a portion of it was outside of any region bounds.

Fixed horse wagon rotations getting a bit too wonky on slopes.

Fixed a bug where a unit could no longer move due to being forever stuck in "waiting for pathfinding to finish" if another unit with a lower squadID got completely destroyed.

Fixed traders not importing from on-map regions even though the price is better than buying from trade points.

Fixed farm workers & farm oxen stealing planks from fields which are getting "fenced up."

Fixed "homeless" problem banner not disappearing after upgrading homeless camp to a worker camp.

Fixed animals not getting removed from stable space / pasture space after death.

Fixed animal corpses not disappearing over time.

Fixed a dirty fix for families moving into homes but not registering correctly and not displaying in the UI, leading to a "secret" family living in one of the burgage plots. The reason is still unknown and being investigated.

Fixed wealth getting transferred when doing barter.

Fixed bartering traders always return 1 item regardless of the barter value and carrying capacity.

Fixed bartering traders packing too much stuff in their origin region when barter value is more than 1x.

Fixed trading post exports not proceeding with transactions once the trader reaches the destination.

Fixed multiple markets sometimes distributing multiple instances of the same good type to a plot, for instance, a single plot would "eat" 2 leather, leaving houses on the outskirts forever undersupplied.

Fixed crop rotation to fallow causing farmers to harvest itemID_0, which was invisible in the UI and stopped supply dumps from being cleared because they were never considered as fully empty.

Fixed farmers getting stuck in pickup-putdown handcart loop when multiple farms are used.

Fixed unnecessary harvest data recalculations triggering in the winters.

Fixed a bug with trading between regions where during selling items the wrong region would pay for the transaction.

Fixed free merchants not applying the foreign import tariff when selling their goods to trading posts if another region was exporting the traded good for a lower price.

Fixed trade wagons sometimes traveling with empty inventory.

Fixed traders doing "major trades" even without an established trade route.

Fixed workers ignoring storage filter settings.

Fixed the "current year" always incrementing in January, regardless of the month the game was started in, also leading to the tax being calculated inconsistently [fix for new saves only].

Fixed market supply percentages not displaying correctly because it still accounted for uninhabited homes.

Fixed a bug with workers not setting up market stalls if there are less than 5 families in the settlement.

Fixed squad icons disappearing/flickering when disbanding certain squads.

Fixed export price showing even though trade is locked because there's no trade route established and no interregional trade available.

Fixed foreign market supply incrementing instead of decrementing when off-map trade was being done by trading post workers.

Fixed disband/remove squad sometimes affecting wrong squads if multiple squads are selected when pressing "disband" or "remove".

Fixed "Not enough funds for import" warning displaying even though there is enough.

Fixed apiaries leaving invisible items in supply dumps after demolition.

Cosmetics Updates and Fixes

New Additions and Visual Upgrades

Added a new patron saint banner graphics: St Maurice.

Added a carried dead body visualization.

New upgraded retinue helmet variation: Pointy bascinet.

New upgraded retinue body variation: Coat of plates.

New upgraded retinue helmet variation: Hounskull bascinet with a gilded cover.

New militia helmet variation - banded bascinet with a mail aventail.

Reworked LV2 granary model with proper animated doors.

Added new 6 "short" attack animations to reduce animation repetitiveness during combat.

Added new "inch forward" battle locomotion animations which should greatly reduce the weird "wiggling" effect when groups push each other.

Lady visit mode: If you pick the green lady portrait, the visit mode character should now be female.

Animation and Model Adjustments

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Combat animation clean up.
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Made debris piles align to ground slope.

Fixed the throw torch animation ending abruptly.

Increased location precision for animals standing in the stables.

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Fixed the praying animation.
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Adjusted the two-handed weapon default idle pose to give it a more natural stance.

Improved the precision for snapping terraforming meshes (like mines or sawpits) to ground.

Made leaf clumps smaller and disabled the parallax mapping since it caused distortions and wasn't very visible anyway.

Tuned field dirt UV wiggle to make those huge vegetable gardens players were making less wavy.

Fixes and Adjustments

Fixed the armor clipping through the leg of the upgraded retinue puffy sleeve upon body variation.

Fixed some mail armor variants clipping with helmets on T3 militia units (militia mail will get their own unique variations soon).

Fixed the wrong door orientation for LV2 cottage variation B (with a planked gable).

Fixed the TAB building floater residential data not showing in 0.7.969.

Fixed a potential bug when a family assigned to a smithy is unassigned while a family member is rallied, and the function that unequips their smithing aprons may, by mistake, unequip their body armor or/and helmet.

Fixed player army UI not getting updated after squad array changes because of non-player commanded units getting removed.

Fixed recruit distribution sometimes assigning new militia recruits to an invalid unit

Thank you for all of your continued feedback and reports through the beta patches.
I hope you enjoy the update! Please share your thoughts and feedback on Manor Lords in a Steam review if you have a moment. It helps a lot!

Thank you for playing!

Greg Styczeń,

Lead developer, Slavic Magic

If you’d like to keep up to date with the latest news and announcements:

Steam Discussions | X | Facebook | Instagram | Discord | Reddit

Those are the patch notes through June 11 for Manor Lords.

Richter Scale Shattering Earthquake Caused by Gamer Deepening Voice After Discord Call Joined by Girl

Posted on June 11, 2024 by Traye Holland

WORLDWIDE NEWS – States of emergency have been declared as various cities around the globe have been hit by Richter Scale-shattering earthquakes after a voice call on Discord channel ‘Da Pisscord’, populated almost exclusively by men, was joined by a single girl.

“We believe that once the young men realized that a girl had joined the Discord call, they attempted to sound more masculine by deepening their voices,” said Dr. Albert Heidelberg, Professor of Geophysics at Stanford University and renowned expert on seismology. “As they kept talking lower and lower in an attempt to outdo each other, they eventually brought their voices to such a low register that it triggered tremendous seismic activity. Hundreds are presumed dead.”

Earthquakes have occurred in many major cities, such as Los Angeles, London, and every other hometown of Discord members on the call, reportedly causing billions of dollars worth of infrastructure damage and leaving many people without power or shelter. Military and emergency response crews have been mobilized in an attempt to manage the developing crises.

“That was them talking?” asked Jenny McDouglas, also known by her Discord alias ‘bubblegumzyns,’ the girl who joined the Discord call on that fateful day. “I thought they were doing some weird kind of Mongolian throat singing or something. I got on the call to see if anyone wanted to play Rainbow Six Siege. Next thing I know my apartment started to shake and all my pictures started falling off my walls.”

Experts have advised all male users of Discord to please talk within their normal vocal register whenever a girl joins their Discord call. Experts added that artificially deepening your voice is not only a threat to public safety, it also does absolutely nothing to increase your chances of getting laid.

“The earth cannot handle the weight of all the pathetically fake deep voices of so many horny gamers,” said Dr. Heidelberg.

“I don’t know what they’re talking about,” said Stephen Armstrong, known on Discord as ‘PepperoniBrony’, in a ridiculously low register as the room trembled. “This is my actual voice. I’ve sounded like this since I hit puberty. Guess I just have more testosterone than most other guys. Did you guys talk to bubblegumzyns? Was she cute?”

Before Stephen could provide further comment, National Guardsmen entered the room and restrained Stephen, covering his mouth with duct tape to prevent further catastrophes.