Multiplayer Update winterpenguin2023

The long awaited multiplayer update is finally here, sprinkled with some winter content available from december to january! It took a while to implement multiplayer and lot\'s of things have been rewritten, please report any bugs that you encounter, but hopefully there won\'t be a lot.

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New features:

• Winter biome

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• Freeze Status Effect, your units can get frozen, their movement speed and fire rate will suffer!

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• Frost Amulet, your units now apply freeze status effect to enemies!

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• Multiplayer through Steam and a fallback LAN option in case Steam is unavailable for some reason (like a pirated copy)

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• LAN uses port 4200 just in case you need it, dont forget to port forward

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• You can choose your faction and color as well for multiplayer

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• Toggleable events and artifacts for multiplayer, control how random you want the game to be!

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Please enjoy all our hard work, and share some screenshots of your multiplayer sessions!

Thank you all :)

GlassTower

It\'s finally here!!

Blackwood Division has reached enough polish to release it. Compared to the demo you will have lots of content to chew through:

• Perks - By playing the game you can unlock perks, mix and match them to add special effects to a game that will help you during a session a lot!

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• Aliens! - The official enemy faction is now here, battle against new units and building with unique abilities!

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• Gamemodes - you can play as the aliens against the division, or take up a challenge and fight the boss early!

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• Lots of balancing changes - We\'ve had hours of playtesting on all difficulties to make sure that any skill leveled player can enjoy the game, hopefully we\'ve reached an acceptable balance.

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• New projectiles - Explosions, plasma beams, rockets, melee are new/renewed projectiles that give more variety than just the old bullets.

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Development started on Blackwood Division in april 2025 and it\'s a small enough project that I was able to finish it this quickly, hopefully all of you will enjoy playing this small rts.

That\'s it, enjoy! :)

GlassTower

Hello all!

Here is the summary of how the game performed on Next Fest:

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We more than doubled the total wishlists, thanks! :)

I also wanted to show you a bit of the release update, which will be coming in a couple weeks hopefully.

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Here you can see our new not yet playable faction that will tie up the final things in the game that I wanted to do before release.

That\'s about it for this week, see you all later!

GlassTower

Happy Spooktober!

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I know i said the previous update would be the last before the Next Fest, but this patch features a small Halloween event and amazing QoL changes that i really wanted to get out to you all.

• You can now select multiple buildings and give all of them commands instead of just one

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• Jump to base button

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• Quick button to build things from your base

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• If only one unit is selected you can now see how much health it has exactly

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• You can switch between all the different selected entity types

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• Also zombies, spooky!

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Also, i just saw the first gameplay posted of the game!!!

[dynamiclink href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RQyhuQIp9Zc&t=1s\"][/dynamiclink]Thank you very much @FullThrough for covering the game! I hope you had fun :)

Have a nice week!

GlassTower

Hello again!

We have just a small update for you today!

This is the final update before the Steam Next Fest, so for this we made sure to polish some existing things:

• AI overhaul, hopefully enemies will feel more fair and like an actual challenge now

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• Perk system! This is not available in the demo, but it features selectable perks that will modify your gameplay.

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• UI changes, just to tie things together and make the ui standardized

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• Bugfixes and optimizations as always. Decals were causing crashes on starting a new game, this is fixed now, and placing buildings in some specific spots were also causing issues. Hopefully you will encounter that less frequently now.

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Share and Wishlist the game to help us deliver more updates <3

See you at Next Fest!

GlassTower

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Hello everyone!

We are here once again, but now with our first content update!

We have a bunch of new content for the demo that you will have to check out to find!

We will just list a few things that are relevant for the major point of this update, which is rebranding!

Blackwood Division now has a new face, logos, headers, etc... With that, the following content was added to the demo:

• New biome

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• The first boss of the game that we teased already

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• Bunch of bugfixes and optimizations

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• A new experimental \"earth shaker\" that can sometimes appear

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• Difficulty selection, and a temporary scenario game!

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With this we are preparing to release a content update and a partial overhaul for the launch build.

The demo might not be update as frequently anymore, depends on how big some updates are.

Let\'s hope that launching the full game in Q4 can happen smoothly :)

Hope you all are doing well,

GlassTower

Hello, everyone

Currently 700 of you have claimed the demo of the game, which is way more than I thought! Big thanks :)

Also thanks for everyone who has wishlisted the game!

I wanted to talk a bit about what can you expect following the release of Blackwood Division.

Many bugfixes of course, like hit effects not showing correctly, and also a sneak peek of the next update:

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As you can see I am working a big boy to cause havoc on your troops! This is a small part of my current efforts to implement meta progression into the game! I feel like this a crucial element that is currently missing from it, and the challenges and necronomicon just doesn\'t fulfill that role.

As for a release schedule, no clue. Updates will be a surprise for you and for me as well, but I\'m hoping that I can get out the next update before release. No promises!

Until next time!

GlassTower

Commander!

We have detected strange cryptids in Zone 13! We don\'t know them so we don\'t like them. Grab your units and destroy everything that moves!

From now on, you will be commanding our special task force against strange things:

[u]The Blackwood Division.[/u]

We are thrilled to announce that the playable demo for Blackwood Division is now available! :love_seagull::

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You can now find some of the cryptids our game has to offer! The demo includes most gameplay features, such as:

• 2 Unlockable Biomes\n

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• 4 Cryptids to encounter\n

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• 8 Unique artifacts to change up your gameplay\n

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• 5 Challenges to unlock\n

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• A Necronomicon to keep track of things you see in game\n

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• And a couple hours of gameplay time\n

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In other news: Blackwood Division will be featured in the next Steam Next Fest! We invite you to check out our page, play the demo, and see what awaits you, before the full release in Q4 2025!

Add Blackwood Division to your wishlist to support us and stay updated on our launch. :)

Thank you for reading this far! Happy hunting!

GlassTower