Hello survivors! Its finally here! The DLC Battle Of The Heodenings is finally available! Today, well go through the main features of the new DLC, and well also present the patchnotes of the 1.3 patch!

This mode redefines one of the main goals of Dead In Vinland: survive. Now, you are free to choose your team to survive as long as possible, in this endless, sandbox-y mode!

Batte Of The Heodenings

When choosing a new game, owners of the DLC will be able to choose either Story mode or Heodening, which will launch the endless mode of Dead In Vinland.

Choose your character

When starting a new game in Heodening, youll have to choose any 4 characters you want. Theres also a new option that will define your characters stats:

• Generated like in the story mode: they will have the same generation algorithm, so the same overall skills and traits.
• OR, Randomly generated: the game will follow the same generation rules than in the story mode (i.e. the same amount of total skill points on every character), but all their starting skills and traits will be procedurally generated!

Customize your character

Any time your want to add a character to your camp, you can first check their starting skills, traits, and fighting skills. If you want, you can spend 1 Orichalcum Bead to customize their starting skills. You dont have to recruit him/her right away, his/her skills will stay like this until you recruit him/her. You can also customize again and again the same character, even if its not really recommended since Orichalcum Beads are rather hard to get (you start the game with some to customize your starting crew).
Here, youll be able to spend 120 points on Innate skills and 300 points on Acquired skills. You can see that Innate skills cant be lowered under 20 points each, and Acquired skills under 10 points. You also have a 80 high cap for innate and 40 for acquired. These are the same rules used in the random generation. You can also spend 1 Orichalcum Bead to customize the starting Traits of the character. The game will then let you choose Trait between a choice of 5 for all the starting Traits (historic good and bad, and the 3 random bad ones)

Trade with the Gods

Now, you can trade with the gods in exchange of Orichalcum Beads:

• Loki sells useful items (Fire Crystals, Ancien Knowledge and Tinder)
• Freyja gives temporary powerful blessings or instant healing
• Thor gives temporary battle buffs.

The tributes

Now the tributes are endless: they start right away, and every week Elof will come ask for the tribute. The dialogs are at their minimal, and always the same: youll be able to pay him the exact amount asked, 25%, 50% or 75% of this amount, or 125%, 150% or 175% of this base amount (or nothing at all). Of course, if you give him more or less than asked, the Animosity gauge will still change accordingly. Youll still get retribution events every 10 steps of the gauge, and if you reach 100% animosity youll lose the game.

The map

To make the game truly endless, weve reworked the map for this mode. Every number of days (for now, its 25), all the empty cells of the map will regenerate a random content.

Fighting

Now the enemies you will face will automatically get an increasing number of random Traits the more days you stay on the island. We also made a new encounters table: you may fight harder stacks early on, but they will have 2 bad Traits until a few dozen days have passed. You may also encounter one of the 5 boss fights in the game.

Battle Of The Heodenings is available for $4.99/4.99/3.99. https://store.steampowered.com/app/969140/Dead_In_Vinland__Endless_Mode_Battle_Of_The_Heodenings/

New language!

One of the most requested language by the players is finally available! Thats right, Dead In Vinland now fully supports: oRussian (Community translation. Thanks A LOT to our awesome russian translators: Gedo, Barley, Egor, Kerrael, Xippy, Suzakua, Alex))

1.3 Patch

There are new features included in the 1.3 Patch:

• Advanced difficulty options (for all game modes
• Intelligence skill reworked
• Stats screen in the characters screen

Full patchnotes here! We want to thank all the players! Dead In Vinland has been out for almost a year now, and were so happy that weve kept working on it since the release! Theres only one last DLC to be released after this one

ONE MORE THING

Thats right, there was ONE LAST THING we still havent told you about! We are very happy to announce that were going to release Dead In Vinland on Nintendo Switch! Stay tuned!
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[ 2019-01-24 15:08:15 CET ] [ Original post ]