Hey! Balancing patch for the AI behavior at the Reaping level of 4+ (see details below) is on the way which brings some balance to difficulty level and AI behavior. We also would like to explain a couple of things about how it works. The difficulty in the game is set by several matrices—the complexity changes smoothly from chapter to chapter due to the increasing coefficients for AI, so at the beginning of the game we weaken enemy's AI, and in the end we strengthen them to keep up with the developed player's units. The second matrix—regulates the increasing levels of the Reaping, which add up to the parameters of the chapters and, most importantly, changes the key AI settings—its responses to defense, attack, tactical depth of analysis, priority of targets. So, for example, when Harvest level is more than 7, AI attempts to attack units that already have injuries, and on difficulty 2, it almost does not see protection and happily attacks those who would receive no damage.
We constantly collect impersonal combat stats—how many turns and round combat lasts, what units are the most effective, what AI did and how it affected the game. We also constantly read your feedback and recommendations on Steam and Discord and thus we have decided to improve the behavior of AI at levels 5 and above, allowing AI to analyze the field better, respond better to units in defense and counter-attack, better choose its goals.

CHANGELOG:

The maximum Reaping level is limited to 10
Updated localization for the Italian language
A small update of the Ens faction (sometimes in combat they had difficulties with making tactical decisions and stood in place in a counterattack instead of attacking the player)
Fixed a bug that allowed to increase the level of Reaping multiple times by quickly clicking on the event pop-up
Fixed the UI bug on the level up screen (numbers shifted)
Fixed the UI bug on the level up screen on resolutions less than 1378x768
Fixed the names of the Reaping for the Italian language
Multiple corrections of spelling and punctuation in the Russian language (many thanks to all who helps us find them)
Removed extra scenes from the Steam build
Fixed a bug with a window that comes up on the first occasion when party doesn't have enough strixes and Gleda is not in the team
Fixed a bug when Mact "came back to life" in Opakum
Fixed a bug where the party selection would not save after combat for Thorn's and Pheng's parties
Fixed incorrect selection of units in the team management in multiplayer
Fixed the display of the arrows for Friza's military company on the map after 53 days
Fixed a bug when the Reaper was not visible during the encounter in the forest
Fixed a bug where icons on the multiplayer screen disappeared when zoomed
Fixed the inability to give "The Hurricane's Soul" to Assassins

WHAT WE ARE DOING NOW:

We are not only correcting mistakes. You write a lot to us about what the game lacks in your opinion. We are working now on:

Finishing the multiplayer. We are currently testing: getting daily chests, opening combat chests, leveling up for all the 54 units, correcting mistakes. By the end of April, we plan to deliver you "clans" in online battles and the ability to fight versus AI, which will allow us to do everything that we wanted for the multiplayer version.
We will add a number to represent the degree of morale (now it is not clear how it changes from your choices)
We are working on a battle log for both singleplayer and multiplayer
We are working to allow you to see unit's stats and skills during the positioning phase in combat in singleplayer
We are working to allow you to see unit's stats and skills during the positioning phase in combat and enemy's turn in singleplayer
Fixed and are testing the incorrect behavior of skills that manipulate rounds
Fixed and are testing the incorrect behavior of skills that manipulate rounds
Fixed and are testing the display of targets for random attacks

We have also started the re-editing of the text in English. You will help us greatly, please, if you point directly, just pictures where the problems are the most obvious - we have performed a full correction of the text by two literary editors in London and New York and all the comments that we sent to this early proofread were often written off to "literary preferences". We are not native speakers, sorry, help us understand where and what is done in particularly poor language.

IMPORTANT:

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If you having issues with launching the game on Mac, please open Properties of the game via Steam, choose Launch option and copy-paste this here: -force-glcore

In Unity, there is still an unresolved issue with running on some Linux X64 builds with the detection of the available resolutions. To solve the problem of "Receiving unhandled exception in funlockfile" you need to run the game in windowed mode - solutions for full-screen mode do not exist yet, it is up to Unity.[/olist] If you're facing any bugs or issues, please, report about it via discussions or our Discord channel. We will do our best to fix every problem as soon as possible. Please, write an honest review about the game in Steam or GOG. Your support will help us to bring more players. Thank you. http://store.steampowered.com/app/691690/Ash_of_Gods/

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Ash of Gods
AurumDust

Developer

AurumDust

Publisher

2018-03-23

Release

Indie Strategy RPG Adventure Singleplayer

GAMEPLAY

Ash of Gods is the story of three separate protagonists rising in response to a centuries-old menace once thought to be mere folklore.

Ash of Gods’ storyline is constantly evolving in response to players’ choices, sometimes even resulting in death. But, the death of a character is not game over. Instead, the story moves forward with the death of that character and previous choices continuing to impact future events.

Combat in Ash of Gods is a blend of both traditional turn-based strategy and CCG gameplay. While individual tactics will depend upon the skills and classes of your characters, you will unlock and accumulate cards that have the power to unleash powerful abilities, sometimes altering the course of an entire battle.

WHAT MAKES ASH OF GODS UNIQUE

Decisions with Major Impacts

Every decision, whether on or off the battlefield, has the capacity to alter the course of events and the fate of your party with major repercussions. But, even the death of your leader is not the end of your journey.

No Random Dice Rolls

There are no dice throws to determine chance-to-hit or the force of a blow. In Ash of Gods, true tacticians must master the skills of their classes and harness the powers granted by their limited supplies of cards, or suffer the consequences.

AI that Adapts to You

Ash of Gods’ AI adapts to your style of play to ensure a consistently challenging experience with no room for cheap tactics or invincible team builds.

PvE and PvP Multiplayer

Work with a friend to battle the AI in PvE challenges, or challenge other players and compete for a spot on the leaderboards. Unlock new characters, upgrades, and cards to customize your tactics even further.

Rewards for Risk

Expend your own HP for a last-ditch attack. Go into battle with a smaller team to get better cards and quicker rounds. Take the shorter, but more dangerous route to save on resources. Ash of Gods rewards those willing to take the risks.

THE STORY

After 700 years, peace in Terminum is about to end. The Feast of the Spring Equinox is in full swing when the town bell begins to ring. Captain Thorn Brenin, the bodyguard Lo Pheng, the scribe Hopper Rouley, and many others, do not yet know that the reapers have returned and intend to drown the world in blood so that they may awaken the sleeping gods.

Written by the award-winning fantasy author, Sergey Malitsky, Ash of Gods is a story-rich game full of memorable characters, powerful dialogue, and deep lore. Malitsky is currently working on a new novel stemming from the events of Ash of Gods.

THE ARTWORK

Inspired by the works of Ralph Bakshi (The Lord of the Rings), classical Disney animation, and the prolific Soviet studio, Soyuzmultfilm (The Snow Queen), Ash of Gods features intricately hand-drawn illustration and animation. Rotoscoping, a technique in which a scene is first filmed with a live actor to use as reference, instills every frame of animation with incredible detail and a true sense of life.

THE MUSIC

The original soundtrack is a collaboration of Adam Skorupa, Krzysztof Wierzynkiewicz, and Michal Cielecki, whose previous work includes The Witcher, Bulletstorm, Painkiller, EVE Online, Call of Juarez, and Shadow Warrior. Every track was recorded live by professional musicians, often using traditional instruments rarely encountered in contemporary recordings.

MINIMAL SETUPProcessor: Intel Core 2 Duo 2.5 GHzMemory: 2 GB RAM
Memory: 2 GB RAM
Graphics: Nvidia 9xxx / ATI 2xxx
Storage: 5 GB available space
RECOMMENDED SETUPProcessor: Intel Core i5 3.0 GHzMemory: 4 GB RAM
Memory: 4 GB RAM
Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 760 / AMD Radeon R9 280X
Storage: 5 GB available space

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