General:

- Motion blur, strongly criticized by you, flew out of "Dream". I hope that nobody will have motion sickness anymore.
- We've improved the game's stability a bit. To improve it even more we will have to update the engine. Expect this in the next few weeks.

BALANCING PATCH [JULY 2020]

Hello Vikings!

Today, we’re releasing a comprehensive balance patch designed primarily around feedback and suggestions posed to us by the community since our last balancing patch back in March. We’ve made a number of major changes and even introduced some new mechanics with this update and you can see everything we’ve been working on below!

Warning!

Please note that we have introduced a backup system for the game progress save file. As with any new system, there is a risk to lose your progress. Please make a copy of any files starting by "stats_" contained in your "save" folder.

GENERAL CHANGES

GUARDIAN PATH REWORK

- Call to Arms

Now placed in third ⇒ first position.
REMOVED | Converts all civilians in the area into Militia. They can’t go outside of your territory.
NEW | Call to Arms is a passive ability placed on your Town Hall. Every six months, homeland sends you 2 Militia to help you defend your territory. Militia is a self-sufficient unit that patrols within your territory and attacks any incoming threats. You can have a maximum of 2 Militia in your territory.
NEW | Each kill on allied territory gives +100% Military Experience.

- Garrison

Now placed in first ⇒ second position.
Each Defense Tower adds +1 to your maximum warband (+2 if upgraded).
REMOVED | Converts all civilians in the area into Militia. They can’t go outside of your territory.
NEW | You gain 1 free Tower upgrade each year.
NEW | You can have a maximum of 4 Militia in your territory.
BUGFIX | The XP gain bonus of the guardian Path (which used to be on Garrison) no longer gives double XP to players that kill units of a guardian player on his territory.

- Suppressing Fire

Now placed in second ⇒ third position.
Human units within an area that contains an allied Defense Tower gain +30% defense.
REMOVED | You gain 1 free Tower upgrade each year.
NEW | You can have a maximum of 6 Militia in your territory.

QUALITY OF LIFE FEATURES

- New hotkey on Shift+Left click to add/remove a unit from the selection
- New hotkey on Ctrl+Left click to select units of the same type within a selection
- New hotkey on Ctrl+[1-9] to create a new group with the selection (already exist within the game, but never got exposed in the Options)
- Select cycle is now called “Go next in Unit/Building type” for clarity purposes
- New toggle to choose rather Icons or Military are displayed by default on the minimap
- New toggle to choose to display World Info by default or not

NEW TILE

VEGVISIR

Source of incredible knowledge, this new zone is protected by 3 spectral warriors and can be colonized with Lore only. Increases building, repairing and forging speed by 30%.

BALANCING & BUG FIXES

- Silos
Cost: 100 ⇒ 80 Wood

- Bragaful
Under 500 Commercial Influence: 6 ⇒ +3
Between 500 and 1000 Commercial Influence: 8 ⇒ +6
Between 1000 and 1500 Commercial Influence: 10 ⇒ +9

CLANS BALANCING

THE CLAN OF THE WOLF

- Veiled Threats
Improves your Trade Routes Kröwns income by 75% ⇒ 50% if you have a Warchief and by 150 ⇒ 130% with the Warchief in the same zone as the Trading Post. You can trade even when at war.

THE CLAN OF THE SNAKE

- Poison
Decreases target’s attack speed and move speed by 20 ⇒ 35% for 2 seconds.

- BUGFIX
Scorched Earth now loots resources on neutral factions.

THE CLAN OF THE GOAT

- Sheep
NEW | Having at least one Sheep in an area reduces the need for Firewood by 20% during winter for this area. This effect also lasts all year long if the Sheep is in a Sheepfold.

- BUGFIX
The former sheep bonus was active all year for all clans and has been corrected.

- Food Trade
NEW | Food trade also increases your Trade Routes Kröwns income by 70% on tiles with a natural food source.

THE CLAN OF THE DRAGON

- Whirlwind
Dragonkin frequently ⇒ sometimes executes a mighty swirling strike that damages all surrounding enemies.

- Buy Thralls
Price increases by +40 ⇒ +50 krowns each time
Price decreases -2 ⇒ -4 Krowns each month

THE CLAN OF THE BOAR

- Starting Bonuses
Learning a new Lore gives 20 Fame instead of 15.

- Greater Blessings (requires 500 Fame )
Freya: Winter penalty is massively reduced (70% for Food , 70 ⇒ 50% for Wood ).
NEW | Baldr: +5 Happiness and +2 Lore production
Jörd: Warchief ⇒ Your army and upgraded towers get +10% attack

- Osmosis
NEW | You obtain 1 Happiness for every 3 colonized zones. Zones with Forests, Swamps, Poisonous Swamps or Fish provide 1 Happiness .

- Handiwork
NEW | Handiwork also grants -10% building upkeep costs.

THE CLAN OF THE RAVEN

- Recruits (requires 200 Fame )
NEW | Sailors also produce +100% fame .

Thank you all for your support and all of the feedback you have provided over the last few months, it has been absolutely invaluable in our work. Keep the feedback and suggestions coming!

See you in Northgard!

- Shiro Games

Version: 1.3.0-4

Fixes
HOTFIX(4): Fixed task-message remaining if you never use the probe in the \"Points of Power\"-quest. Visit the Info Hub in Rookie Harbor to get rid of old bugged tasks.
HOTFIX(4): A few more language fixes.

Changes
HOTFIX(4): Checked scaling of all enemies, slightly adapted some stats and also generally increased credit gains, especially in lategame.