Talisman: Digital Edition Patch Notes - 12/09/2022

Hi Talisman fans!

Today we've rolled out the latest patch for Talisman: Digital Edition. A good number of these fixes came about because you reported them either on our Discord or on the Steam/Gog forums. So from everyone working on Talisman here at Nomad Games, thanks for your help and support!

Check out the official patch notes below, and don't forget to download the update if you want to play with your friends - you all need to be on the same version to play together (including cross-platform play!)

General Fixes:
• We’ve made it so that you can’t use the ‘No More Lives’ house rule while The Dancing Skulls ending is active. This is because during this ending, You can only resurrect if you have at least 1 life point which you can gain from defeating enemies (or trading in trophies depending on rule choice) or other card encounters. If you have the No More Lives rule switched on, you've basically made it incredibly difficult to get resurrected, to the point you're limited to 2 cards from the realm region's deck. So it could also become impossible to do so. So in order to avoid people getting stuck in this situation, we’ve made this change.
• Certain Legendary versions of cards weren’t causing challenges to trigger as they should, so we’ve gone ahead and fixed those cards. The Legendary Deck versions of Self Portrait, Wraith and Giant will now add to challenges when encountered.
• The Devil's Minion was previously unable to use weapon inventions during psychic combat despite the fact they can use regular weapons that are meant for psychic combat. We’ve fixed this, so now all you Devil’s Minion players can use invented weapons to your evil hearts content.
• We discovered and fixed an issue with the Witch Doctor's Evil Eye ability. If you land on a character in the centre space for the first time and there is someone already there, it's ok to use his ability. However, the game was allowing you to keep using his ability on the following turns despite not moving to land on the other character. We’ve fixed this now, so he can only use his ability when he lands on someone.
• A minor fix, but sometimes the Werewolf card wouldn’t appear properly when you encountered it - it should now be visible.
• We fixed an issue where the use of the Horn of Dread could lead to locking the game if the owner dies and then the new owner who uses it straight away loses a life.
• We fixed a bug with the Enlightened destiny card, where it would not give the player a chance to trade in 1 light fate to gain a spell. Even if the player had room for a spell in their inventory and there are no anti-spell/magic effects in play, the game still wouldn’t let them use it. This has now been fixed, and the Destiny should function properly.
• When the Ifrit Invasion card from the Fireland expansion was drawn while the Cataclysm version of the board was in use, the card wouldn’t let you roll for its effect. We’ve fixed this issue, so now the card should function as expected even when using the Cataclysm board.
• We’ve added some more localisation fixed based on feedback from the community - thanks to everyone who pointed out text that needed updating!

Crash Fixes:
We’ve rolled out a ton of crash bug fixes in this patch, including fixes for:
• An occasional crash downloading Avatar and Challenge textures
• An occasional crash when selecting cards in a network game
• An occasional crash in CURL on Android
• A very infrequent crash when saving the game
• And more!

Nomad Account Updates:
We’ve now added a ‘delete account’ button to the game, so that you can delete your Nomad Account directly through Talisman: Digital Edition. Be careful with this feature however, as you won’t be able to get your account back!

We’ve also updated the email that we send when you sign up for a Nomad Account to enable email account verification. Previously you could enter any old email address and have a valid email address without needing to confirm that email was actually you. So now we’ve added a ‘confirm email address’ button to your email, so we can just confirm you are who you claim to be.

As always, thanks for the support everyone!

New Features

• New Side Quest - Cull the Horde
• New Side Quest - Hair of the Dog
• New Side Quest - Personal Library
• New Side Quest - Blacksmith's Armor Notes

• New Region - The Damned Estuary (Boss arena)

• All Regions - Audio pass
• All Regions - Lighting pass
• All Regions - Breakables pass

• New Enemy Boss - The Festering Congregation

• New Behavior - Nearby enemies after killing a player will receive a healing buff
• New Behavior - Archivist will respawn until killed
• New Behavior - Skeletons will taunt the player
• New Behavior - Skeletons have destructible armor
• New Behavior - Skeletons have damage modifiers based on heat/cold damage
• New Behavior - Skeleton archers have a change to shoot ethereal bolt
• New Behavior - Dihedral Priest become 'dizzy' if receiving hard hit to the head
• New Behavior - Dihedral Deacons throw spear on death
• New Behavior - Dihedral Clerics throw potion on death
• New Behavior - Critters can be killed

• New Weapon - Writ of Subjugation
• New Weapon - Ballista

• All weapons have visual upgrade changes
• All weapons have underwater behavior changes
• All weapons have sprinting behavior changes

• Add difficulties Easy, Normal, Hard
• Add the option to skip the intro sequence
• Add in-game camera shake intensity setting
• Add purchasable ammo from blacksmith

• HUD - Additional low health indications
• HUD - Additional damage indications
• HUD - Quest complete notification

• Add multi-tiered death penalty
• Add hotbar saving

• Waiting for other players' notification when waiting at a load zone for other players

• Gamepad magnetism and aim assist
• Gamepad UI navigation

• Add pickup VFX for mana, gold, health vials and health potions

Bug Fixes and General Tweaks

• UI: New Fonts
• UI: Scaling and sharpness pass on all menus

• Save System: FIXED: Library main doors’ wood blocks not saving
• Save System: FIXED: Gates with infected that go from Town to the Cruxfirth Archives not properly saving
• Save System: FIXED: Infinite loop if you named profile 'Default'

• Enemy: Infected horde bonus adjustments
• Enemy: FIXED: Skitterflys breaking in the Black House Bog region
• Enemy: FIXED: Skeletons making weapons bloody
• Enemy: FIXED: Lichanthrope not having a stun animation
• Enemy: FIXED: Undecaying Honor opening door in clotted being triggerable before appropriate time

• Weapon: Orthogonal Hymnal mana consumption rate is now fractional rather than whole number
• Weapon: FIXED: Peat burner not damaging the player
• Weapon: FIXED: All melee weapons hit effects playing multiple times on a single hit

• Item: FIXED: Throwing health potions never colliding with the world
• Spell: Tweak Discharge VFX

• Coop: Further refinement of inventory handling
• Coop: FIXED: Global footstep sounds
• Coop: FIXED: Various incorrect attenuation settings
• Coop: FIXED: Host alt-tabbing suspending the game improperly causing desync
• Coop: FIXED: Client PP water effects appearing/disappearing oddly
• Coop: FIXED: OverTime objects occasionally being added multiple times (and didn't clear on death)
• Coop: FIXED: Dead enemies falling through the ground on client
• Coop: FIXED: Weakpoint FXs not visible on client

• FIXED: Random lines throughout world while 3DFX mode is on
• FIXED: Auto-award of quest behavior on loading saved game
• FIXED: OverTime damage not properly applying at low framerates
• FIXED: Various lore items having wrong texture backgrounds
• FIXED: Various floating assets across the world
• FIXED: Boat going into reverse after 10 minutes of completing intro

Good evening @everyone - using the naughty tag here to give you all a quick heads up.

We are pushing a new patch live for all platforms this weekend to fix some blocking issues people experienced and some other nasties that popped up.

At the moment our socials are holding silent, so we won't be putting together blogs / social posts or assets to make noise about this until after we've reviewed the social state of things on Monday.

HOWEVER - thought you would all like the upcoming notes for what will be hitting your systems shortly.

Hot fix patch:

Trophy/Achievement fixes

- Modern Gorefare
- Taking the plunge
- Rhythm is a dancer
- It's a horror game
- Fresh Prince of Grindstone
- Crowning achievement
- Slacker
- Video killed the radio star
- IMANOK CODE
- Sonically Youthful

Other fixes:

- Fixed issue where players are blocked with double deliverys of the same arcade cabinet
- Fixed issue where PC icons can disappear after credits
- Game crash when using certain brands of TV

This should be hitting Xbox, PlayStation and Steam shortly, Switch may take a little longer but will be getting the trigger pulled to set it live as soon as it's greenlit, regardless of if that is tonight, saturday or sunday.

We'll put together proper blog / steam and social support to spread this beyond forums next week, but for now - standby and keep an eye on your updates!

5.513 Necromancy And Reclamation
(Released September 12th, 2022)

* Fix a few bugs with the necromancer power level calculations
** Thanks to Dismiss for reporting

* MP Clients can no longer see AIP history by clicking on the AIP button
** There's a bug that causes nasty errors here that I haven't had a chance to fix yet. I suspect the problem is the client is getting a refreshed copy of the history from the host before it's done looking at the old list, and it's causing the game to think the history is infinitely long.

Mods

Dyson Sidekick
* Dyson Sidekick: You start with a small sphere. Reaper Ravagers now have a notification

DpsHud
* Now also tracks metal losses per line! Toggle between showing damage versus metal losses with the Tilde key (to left of #1). Note this keybinding only works if DpsHud mod was enabled on startup of the app.

Outguard Party
* Reclassified 'Mobile Super Factory' as Utility. Can now be deployed to any planet.

Reclaimers
* Number of Deep Space Outposts at maximum is now a faction setting (0-5, use 0 to disable). DS Outpost spawning no longer always spawns up to the max (3 is default) even if it causes overlaps. Instead if no good candidate exists it will despawn an outpost instead of creating one so the number of outposts can fluctuate up and down in interesting ways.
* Near Space Outposts now mark up on their own without needing constructor there. NS Outposts no longer show % progress to mark up above 100% when at maximum mark level.
* For each three NS Outposts one additional constructor will be produced.
* Research ship now halts movement (clears orders) when being hacked.
* Research ship less likely to get trapped, it is valid for it to move onto planets with remaining science now, it just prefers others.
* Its too easy to end up ordering batteries to move to a different planet when they are drag selectable in galaxy view, so not showing in galaxy view.

Points of Interest
* Assassin AI now has special Dire ship group including two unique ones: Dire Corrosive Guardian and Dire Assassin Guardian.

Update 1.2.120

What's new in version 1.2.120:

• Updated engine from Unity 5 to Unity 2017
I can't believe I shipped this game on Unity 5, which was already old back in 2018. Maintenance is impossible on such an expired version of Unity so this update drags it up to 2017. Slightly more quaint than ancient now. Quaincient.

• Added Ukrainian language support
Thanks to Olga Sushytska.

• Added Arabic language support
Thanks to Eternal Dream Arabization, who also led me patiently through the labyrinthian funhouse of bidirectional text.

Converting from Unity 5 to Unity 2017 and adding RTL text support required a number of under-the-hood changes so if you see anything weird, please let me know through the support form.

Polish Update and other Improvements

Greetings, friends!

Today we're updating ATOM RPG with a fair quantity of new fixes and optimizations, as well as the highly awaited, fully reworked Polish localization many of you were expecting for a long time now.

Please, enjoy! And should there be any feedback about the new translation, please feel free to message us at support@atomrpg.com.

Best wishes, Atom Team

Change log:
• Added reworked Polish language localization;
• Fixed various minor typos and errors in the game texts;
• Optimized game to perform better on low-end hardware;
• Fixed several minor community-reported bugs.
• The game resources were repacked to speed up loading time on older HDD.

The clan of the Eagle:

Carried by the winds, the agile explorers of Hraesvelg do not need to occupy a large territory, for they will readily venture outside to gather resources.

Their profound knowledge of the terrain and their ability to exploit it to its fullest allow them to survive in the most desolate areas.

They are led by Grif, the only survivor of an extinct clan.

The Warchief - GRIF

Orphaned upon the fall of their parent’s clan, Grif was adopted at a young age by the followers of Hraesvelg.

This demonstration of adaptability made them a perfect leader for the Eagle clan.

Start-with:

- The Aviaries replace the Scout Camps. They train Falconers and reveal Buried Caches on the map over time.
- Falconers gain Lore when exploring uncharted lands. They can explore Ruins, Shipwrecks, and close Wolf Dens and Draugr Tombs even outside their territory.
- You start with 1 Hawk. They turn a cleared zone into a Boneyard, providing natural resources from the zone and healing your units.
- Resources are dropped in a Loot Pouch on the zone. It can be claimed by the Eagle clan, or left for an ally clan to collect.
- Aviaries require no building slot and increase the maximum number of Hawks you can send on a Boneyard.
- The clan gains no Fame for colonizing new zones.

Fame:

- Fame 200 | Nomadic Tribe
* Clan units outside of the territory consume -30% Food and Firewood.
* Zones can be upgraded using Food.
* Houses and Military Camps in upgraded zones house +1 Pop and +1 Warband.

- Fame 500 | Scavenging
* Wolf Dens, Draugr Tombs, Ruins, and Shipwrecks can be explored a second time. Providing additional resources except Fame.

Techs:

- Sentinel

* Replace: Colonization
* Effect: Falconers can be assigned as Sentinel to a zone to increase its production, and the
attack power of units in the zone.

- Blood Eagle

* Replace: Defensive Strategy
* Effect: When a unit is attacked in a zone containing Hawks, they blind the enemy unit for 3 seconds.

- Training Field

* Replace: Feeling Safe
* Effect: For each zone without foes bordering the clan territory, the clan gains +1 Happiness.

- Rapine

* Replace: Legendary Heroes
* Effect: Decolonizing an enemy territory turns the zone into a Boneyard. Hawks collect resources from production buildings in addition to natural resources.

- Foraging

* Replace: Mining Efficiency
* Effect: Resources gained from colonizing special zones, closing Wolf Dens and Draugr Tombs are increased by 60%.

Relic - Vídópnir’s Feather

- Relic reveals a Forbidden Cache containing rare resources guarded by mythical creatures.
- For each opened Buried Cache military units gain +2% Attack Power permanently (max: +10%).
- Every time a Forbidden Cache is opened, all current military units gain +10% Attack Power until they die (max of combined bonuses: 30%).

Note

The clan is available in all game modes, and will be available in Ranked multiplayer in two weeks. A special channel is open on the Northgard server for you to provide feedback on the clan balancing so we can get the balance as close to perfect as possible for when the clan becomes available in ranked.

The clan of the Snake - Rework -

Start-with

- The clan can use Swidden Field on its zones to temporarily increase production at the cost of a reduced production afterward.
- The clan can copy knowledge of any clan they encounter.

Units

- Skirmishers
* Skirmishers can be used to attack enemy territories but they do not decolonize zones on their own.

- Signy
* Age 16: Raised by Wolves
* Signy gains Cloaked ability.
* When units are Cloaked among wild creatures, they neutralize their aggressivity toward the clan, and increase their aggressivity toward enemy clans.
* When an assault is launched by the creatures, they reveal the zone they attack.

* Age 17: Shadow of the Wild
* All military units gain Cloaked ability.

Techs:

-Black Market

* Merchants produce 20% more Kröwns.
* The clan can trade even with Factions and Clans at war against them.
* When Cloaked on a neutral faction zone, units degrade the relationship between the faction and enemy clans.

- Rapacious Exploitation

* Each zone affected by Swidden Field provides +1 Happiness to the clan (max: +3).

- Under Pressure

* Skirmishers can attack enemy production buildings to steal the resources they contain.

- Guerilla Tactics

* Each unit slayed or lost in enemy territory permanently increases all military units Attack Power by +1% (Max: 20%).
* This bonus is doubled during the first 5 seconds of combat.

General Changes

Abilities

- Shield Wall (Shield Bearer forge upgrade)

* Unit defense is increased by 40% when receiving the first attack in combat (rather than when the combat engages in the zone).

- Cloaked

* Units cloaked among wild creatures consume 50% less Food.

Buildings

- Marketplace

* It is now possible to buy the smallest amount of each resource at the Marketplace.


- Mines

* Ore extraction now functions with a gauge system. Miners increase the gauge, when full, 1 Ore is extracted at once from deposit and added to the clan resources (This is to avoid the problem of 0,5 ore being extracted from deposits, and deposits giving 14 ores total instead of 15 for example).

Neutral Factions

- Dwarves

* Dwarves when in good relations with a clan now just give one type of Ores (Stone or Iron) - randomly selected at the start of each game - The ores they sent players are extracted from the deposits on their territory. Eliminating the faction will allow a clan to colonize the zone to exploit the remaining resources.

Other

- Scouting

* There is now a maximum scouting time for a zone. On big and huge maps, time required to scout the farthest zones are thus decreased.

- Performances

* Optimized various game systems to improve multiplayer performances.

- Creative Mod

* Player names can be customized in the map editor
* Units stats are now displayed without a factor in the Northgard Editor.

- UI

* Improved the font system for 4k monitors, so all the texts are displayed nicely (it’s crisp!).
* In the multiplayer lobby, the players’ ELO are displayed correctly.
* War notifications are now clickable, and it moves the camera to where the fight happens.

- Controls

* Add a special keybind (ctrl-e) to select all military units that can go outside the player territory.

- Localization

* Improved various texts

Bugfixes

- Fixed a bug where sometimes FFA placement at the end of the game was wrong
- Fixed Navy color on the minimap
- Fixed a memory leak in the map creator
- Fixed a bug where myrkalfar raids wouldn’t launch
- Fixed a UI glitch with modded games in the multiplayer lobby
- Fixed Overwork SFX stop before the end
- Fixed IA Squirrel cook meals
- Fixed the achievements “Great explorer” is no longer validated by launching the campaign
- Fixed some localizations
- Conquest Kraken : the second bonus now works on Dystopia battle
- Conquest Squirrel : can no longer produce Krown through meal on Greed's Price battle
- Krown productions from Skald can benefit from production bonuses like Feast
- Heroes and companions are no longer consuming wood while outside their territory
- The competitive event window no longer shift when the event is finished
- When playing the squirrel clan, AI can now cook meals
- "Operative Dwarf" now mine their ore correctly
- When writing something in the multiplayer chat, the “/’ no longer opens the console.
- Reset UI scale to 1x when switching off 4k.

Known Issues

- P2P transfer issue if the Host leaves the game and there are several non-AI players
- Some french sentences are not translated
- Coop conquest: no reconnect button
- Falconers are unable to scout enemy townhalls

Hello, crusaders!

We’ve prepared a hot-fix 1.4.3l (1.4.4d for macOS) with some very important changes:
Firstly, we’ve fixed the issue with Chinese font. We apologize to our Chinese players for the inconvenience, and we are working on a plan to prevent such issues from happening in the future;

Secondly, we’ve listened to your feedback regarding the Treasure of the Midnight Isles DLC, and you’ve provided some very convincing arguments why the Last Azlanti mode should be optional. So, if you start a new game in the rogue-like mode, you can opt out of Last Azlanti, and have multiple saves. However, please keep in mind that to get a tailwind for the next party, you still need to let your current party perish. More changes for the DLC are planned in the next updates.

We’ve also fixed a snowy island in the rogue-like mode that could cause the game to crash, so if you encountered this issue, you can continue playing now.