[quote]Oho Vikings! After weeks gathering your feedback, it is now time to unveil the Trade and Prestige update! We are also waiting for you to comment on the new Miklagard faction which joined the ever-growing Northgard universe! [/quote]

Trade & Prestige - available now

Trading with Miklagard

New Balancing

v3.6.3.40295

New Trade Victory!

• Trading with them using trading post and docks
• Eliminating Neutral Factions to absorb a part of their influence
• Defating opposing Clans and taking their influence
• Using your diverse knowledge and start with to importe your relation toward them

Bifrst

• Solo - after surviving each wave youll now be able to pick 2 bonuses among 6. (Instead of 1 among 3 previously)
• New Squirrel Shared Start-With - The clan gains the ingredients of the ally zones containing a Stove.

Balancing

Relic

Jrmunr

• Jrmunr gains of Lore have been reworked so the first zones of the territory now give more Lore and it is more interesting to forge early.

Clans

Owl

• Parasitic Vegetables
  • Reduce only Food Consumption in the zone
  • Reveal resources every 1 > 3 Months
  • Amount of resources received is capped at a Maximum of 80 Food and 50 Krwns
• Fame 200
  • Increase scouting speed of Norns by +100%.
  • Increased Lore gain from Shared Knowledge is removed
• Fame 500
  • Branches effects boosted by relation is removed

Hounds

• All military units base HP : 65 > 60
• Foxskin
  • Initial MoveSpeed is reduced slightly
  • Shredding Claws Ability
  • Max Speed Reduction -15% > -10%
  • Max Dmg Increase +15% > +10%
• Bearskin
  • Initial Defense 11 > 8
  • Def gain for each level +15% > +25%
  • At level 5 : 17.5 > 16 Def
  • At level 7 : 21 > 20 Def
  • Blade Breaker Ability
  • Atk Power Reduction -25% > -20%
  • Death Deceiver Ability
  • Make units invulnerable for 2 sec > 1.5 sec
• Boarskin
  • Initial HP 75 > 60
  • HP gain for each level +15% > +25%
    • At level 5 : 120 = 120
    • At level 7 : 140 > 150

  Stag

  
  
  • Glory of the Clan
    • Gains from Great Trade-routes have been adjusted to suit the new Trade Victory.
    • Increase all Fame gains by [strike]+30% [/strike]> +15%.

  Raven

  
  
  • Exotic Goods and Negociators have been adjusted to suit the new Trade Victory.

  Bear

  
  
  • Winter Festival now replaces Mining Efficiency.

  Boar

  
  
  • Menders
    • Prod +1 > +1.5 Lore.
  • Herbalism
    • Prod in zone per Mender [strike]+5%[/strike] > +7.5%.
    • Mender Heal Speed [strike]+20%[/strike] > +40%.

  Snake

  
  
  • The clan can no longer use Scorched Earth on its own zones.

  Ox

  
  
  • Torfin Provocation ability cooldown is increased to [strike]3 months[/strike] > 6 months.

  Lynx

  
  
  • Oskoreia ability cooldown is increased to [strike]5 months[/strike] > 8 months.

  Squirrel

  
  
  • Effects of Meals for allies scale from 50% to 100% with the relationship between the Squirrel and ally clan.

  Kingdoms (Lions + Stoat)

  
  
  • Kingdom weapon forges effects have been divided by 2, and their occurance chance increased from 10% to 20%. (so it should be roughly the same as before overall)

  Lion

  
  
  • Marchfield increases weapon forges chance to proc by [strike]+50%[/strike] > +25%.

Others

• AI - Rework of some system management of AI. Might result in slight AI behavior changes. More rework and tweaking are in the work.
• Conquest - Battles 1v3 and 2v6 have been rebalanced to be 1v2 and 2v4 instead, to adjust the difficulty following changes on the AI.

Miscellaneous

• Servers - Players from Russia can now connect by using the Russia in the Network section of the options

Bugfixes

• Fixed freeze issue due to Operatives Dwarves
• Bifrost - Fixed Owl branch not granting the effect in ally territory
• Bifrost - Fixed text issue for Vanaheim and Niflheim rules
• Bifrost - Fixed Owl nano branch not able to use the portals
• Cross of Vidar - Fixed crash when loading a checkpoint for mission 6

Known Issues

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• Bifrost - Not available for solo player on GoG and EGS
• Notification - Trade victory progression of other players are not notified (when playing on server)
• Some localization are missing

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[quote] Oho vikings! There are a lot of things happening in terms of discussions and informations at the moment. For that reason, we would like to keep you updated on all of that in one swift read[/quote]

DLC Closed Beta

Servers and bugfixes

Trade and Prestige

[quote]Now is the time to gear up in anticipation of Trade and Prestige... Northgard is now on sale at 75% off! Alongside the base game, the DLCs are also up to 50% off their original price. [/quote]

Base game

Additional contents

v.3.5.48.40204

Addition

Bugfixes

• Servers - Added tools to investigate the servers issues
• Bifrost - Fixed Gullveig tile colonizable with Wolf or Kraken abilities
• Bifrost - Fixed some crashes
• Bifrost - Fixed Muspelheim tower text
• Bifrost - Fixed Operatives Dwarves unable to use portal in Niflheim
• Stoat - Fixed crash in conquest Gold Rush when selecting a Duchy with a mine and a gold deposit in the tile
• Hound - Fixed bonuses text not displayed in conquest and Bifrost
• Conquest - Fixed bonus not unlocked when loading a save or playing in coop (won't work on bonus gathered from the update)
• Cross of Vidar - Fixed crash when loading a checkpoint in mission 6
• Neutral - Fixed Ljosalf spawning in other game mods than Bifrost

Known Issues

• Bifrost - Owl branch not granting the effect in ally territory

[quote]Hey vikings! It's been a while since we've called you in for a close beta. For the next clan, we want you to help us with what's to come! As with the Owl Clan, you will need to fill out a form and join us on Discord, here is all you need to know[/quote]

Participating in the beta test

A few questions you might have:

v3.5.45.40127-public-beta [quote]Oho vikings! It's time for the second week of the public beta. This time, we have updated the trade victory to answer your feedback and added something a lot of you have been waiting for a while...The balancing of multiple clans.[/quote]

Trade victory / Miklagard Faction

• Miklagard initial Krwns pool is composed of [color=#74AF4B][strike]500[/strike] > 1000 Krwns[/color]
• To reach Trade Victory you need to reach [color=#74AF4B][strike]40%[/strike] > 50% of the Pool[/color]

• 15% Step : Now gives less resources, no longer gives Stone and Iron, but gives 50 Lore and 15 Fame
• 25% Step : No longer send Military Units, but +5 Stone and +5 Iron every 6 Months

Clans

Hounds

• All military units base HP : [color=#C53D3B][strike]65[/strike] > 60[/color]
• Foxskin
  • Initial Move Speed is [color=#C53D3B]reduced slightly[/color]
  • Shredding Claws Ability
    • Max Speed Reduction [color=#C53D3B][strike]-15%[/strike] > -10%[/color]
    • Max Dmg Increase [color=#C53D3B][strike]+15%[/strike] > +10%[/color]
• Bearskin
  • Initial Defense [color=#C53D3B][strike]11[/strike] > 8[/color]
  • Def gain for each level [color=#C53D3B][strike]+15%[/strike] > +25%[/color]
    • At level 5 : 17.5 > 16 Def
    • At level 7 : 21 > 20 Def
  • Blade Breaker Ability
    • Atk Power Reduction [color=#C53D3B][strike]-25%[/strike] > -20%[/color]
  • Death Deceiver Ability
    • Make units invulnerable for [color=#C53D3B][strike]2 sec[/strike] > 1.5 sec[/color]
• Boarskin
  • Initial HP [color=#C53D3B][strike]75[/strike] > 60[/color]
  • HP gain for each level [color=#74AF4B][strike]+15%[/strike] > +25%[/color]
    • At level 5 : 120 = 120
    • At level 7 : 140 > 150

Owl

• Parasitic Vegetables
  • Reduce only Food Consumption in the zone
  • Reveal resources every [color=#C53D3B][strike]1[/strike] > 3 Months[/color]
  • [color=#C53D3B]Amount of resources received is capped at a Maximum of 80 Food, 50 Krwns, and 50 Wood (= 25 Lore)[/color]
• Fame 200
  • Increase scouting speed of Norns by [color=#C53D3B]+15%[/color]
  • [color=#C53D3B]Increased Lore gain from Shared Knowledge is removed[/color]
• Fame 500
  • [color=#C53D3B]Branches effects boosted by relation is removed[/color]

Boar

• Mender
  • Prod [color=#C53D3B][strike]+1[/strike] > +1.5 Lore[/color]
• Herbalism
  • Prod in zone per Mender [color=#74AF4B][strike]+5%[/strike] > +7.5%[/color]
  • Mender Heal Speed [color=#74AF4B][strike]+20%[/strike] > +40%[/color]

Squirrel

• Effects of Meal for allies scale from [color=#74AF4B]50% to 100%[/color] with the relationship between the Squirrel and ally clan

Snake

• [color=#C53D3B]Scorched Earth ability can no longer target ally zones.[/color]

Stag

• Glory of the clan increase all Fame gains by [color=#C53D3B][strike]+30%[/strike] > +15%[/color]

Others

• Ox - Torfin Provocation ability cooldown is increased to [color=#C53D3B][strike]3 months[/strike] > 6 months[/color]
• Lynx - Oskoreia ability cooldown is increased to [color=#C53D3B][strike]5 months[/strike] > 8 months[/color]

Conquest

• Battles 1v3 and 2v6 have been rebalanced to be 1v2 and 2v4 instead, to adjust the difficulty following changes on the AI.

Bifrst

• When playing solo, after surviving each wave youll now be able to pick 2 bonuses among 6. (Instead of 1 among 3 previously)

v3.5.44.40084

Bugfixes

• Servers - Added tools to investigate the servers issues
• Bonus - Fixed similar conquest bonuses overlapping each other
• Bonus - Fixed free upgrade amount granted from theses bonuses
• Bifrost - Fixed finished saves being loadable
• Bifrost - Fixed a crash when selecting a Paladin from the clan of the Lion while carrying a relic
• Rigs Saga - Fixed crash on mission 8 when loading the save and attacking a Wyvern (will not fix the current save, you need to restart or avoid attacking the Wyvern)
• Hound - Fixed Boarskin ability healing soul animals

Known issues

• Bifrost - Owl branch on ally territory will not grant the lore

[quote]After travelling through the Bifrost, it is time for our vikings to come back home... but they weren't expecting to land in the dangerous land of the Draugrs once again. Will you be able to triumph in Draugrheim? Here is all you need to know about the event.[/quote]

TEMPORARY GAME MODE

NEW TEMPORARY TOWN HALL SKIN

[quote]Oho Vikings! While we take care of the Bifrst mode, it's time to slowly turn toward the next update! An open beta will be opened containing the main change regarding Trade & Prestige...The trade victory rework![/quote]

The old trade victory

• It is a very self-centered way to play, and not a very interesting one. All a clan has to do is wait behind their borders, accumulate krwns, and wait for the numbers to go up.
• It does not really offer opportunities to opponent players. If they want to make it harder for a player targeting this victory they dont really have other options apart from eliminating them outright. If they cant, the clan is basically certain to win.
• The great trade-route is not that interesting in itself (except for Raven maybe), and so starting to trade with it immediately puts a target on the clans doing it, as this signals a move for victory. So generally most players just avoid it entirely.
• The reliance on one specific Knowledge (Shipbuilding) means the trade-route is not even an option for you to focus on Trading-posts instead. Making it irrelevant in many games simply due to map generations, clan selected, or else.

The new Trade Victory

• The trade with Miklagard can be done via trading post and Docks with the associated knowledge!
• Specific bonuses/gifts can be gained via trading with them, making this path more rewarding
• Knowledges and bonuses impact the relations to them like any other routes (Kraken says thank you) The goal is to reach 40% of influence toward the faction, and it won't be as easy as waiting in your territory for your influence to grow. you'll have to compete with opposing influences such as:
  • Miklagard itself - The faction start with an initial pool of Influence,
  • The neutral factions - getting rid of them on the map will let you absorb 50% of their influence, the rest fading slowly as time pass
  • Opposing clans - Same as the neutral factions. Get rid of your opponents to take a part of their influence!

Time for your feedback

• Do you find this iteration of the trade-victory more fun to play and interact with than the previous one?
• Do you see yourself interacting with it more than you did the previous one?
• What do you think of the rewards offered by the faction? (both gameplay and balance-wise)
• Do you see yourself playing with it in Pvp settings?
• Do you see yourself trading with the Miklagard faction even when not directly aiming at a trade-victory?
• Do you find the current values to be competitive and balanced in Pvp settings? If not why?

v3.5.40.39999 RANKED SEASON- The current season has been prolonged

Bugfix

• Bifrost - Servers available
• Bifrost - Fixed UI not displayed after reconnection
• Bifrost - Added security to avoid crash during Gullveigs fight
• Bifrost - Fixed Vanaheim map generation starting over and over
• Bifrost - Fixed second start-with from the clan of the Dragon not working as intended (no slots for thralls on allies production building)
• Bifrost - Owl Fixed Auto construction step for allies not smooth with the second shared start with
• Bifrost - Fixed upkeep discount on towers already built when unlocking the Guardian military path
• Bifrost - Fixed crash when brawler/berserker are fighting in the arena
• Bifrost - Fixed unit stuck on Gullveig tile after killing it with poison
• Bifrost - Fixed end winter bonuses not diplayed after reconnection
• Conquest - Fixed double bonus obtained and crash when opening the victory UI
• Cross of Vidar - Fixed crash mission 6 after cinematic in game
• Cross of Vidar - Fixed crashes in mission 1
• Rigs Saga - Fixed objective not validated in mission 4 when not building the Longship Dock on the Town Hall tile
• Wolf - Fixed krwn earned when killing a Berserker with Spoils of War
• Dragon - Fixed fame not increasing some bonus from the Dragon Essence
• Relic - Fixed Gefjuns Jar reducing food wood and krwn consumptions
• Military Path - Fixed free upgrade tower not consumed when used with Guardian path
• UI - Fixed Operatives Dwarves and Warchief visible in the forge building

Known issues

• Bifrost - Some generation of map may take time or not work (Idavoll, Muspelheim)
• Niflheim - Some unit may stay stuck after the fight against the Wyvern (Warchief mainly, to avoid dont send them to fight)
• Others - Various known issues from previous patch notes unmentioned in the bug fixes are still present (and known)
• Servers - Online functions are not available when connecting from Russia

Hello everyone! If you are trying to play from Russia, you may have noticed that the mutliplayer button is currently unclickable. Meaning you do not have access to our servers at the moment. This situation is unfortunately outside of our control and deserves some clarification. Starting this Friday, our servers could not be reached from Russia. Following a thorough investigation on our end, we can safely determine that the source of the issue is exterior to our infrastructure. We suspect the root cause to be outside of our control. Thanks to the help and comments from our community, we noticed that players could join our servers by using third-party tools, masking their country of origin. As we speak the issue seems to be limited to the Russian territory. To help us figure out how to solve this issue and asking for your assistance, we have opened a temporary Steam Forum. Help us here We will keep you updated on the situation via our usual social media channels. -Shiro Games [hr][/hr]

[RU]

v3.5.38.39885

Balancing

• Vanaheim

  
  
  • Gullveig fight have been updated

Bugfixes

• Bifrst

  
  
  • Fixed scouting assignation issue on the Bifrst
  • Fixed memory leak on Muspelheim
  • Fixed save difficulty
  • Fixed Gullveig tile being colonisable
  • Fixed wild boar tusks misplaced
  • Fixed Nomad Branch from Owl starting the fight against Gullveig
  • Fixed Scorched earth fearing unit on specific tile
  • Fixed a crash when placing a barricade
  • Fixed crash with the second start with of the Kraken and Stag
  • Fixed crash with Hounds relic
  • Fixed some various crashes
  • Fixed the golem event on Muspelheim (could hit one tile multiple time)

• Conquest

  
  
  • Fixed clan bonus not effective at the start of a mission
  • Surrounded and Bifrost conquest mission not starting/crashing

• UI

  
  
  • Fixed Midgard biome selection in custom game
  • Fixed crash when looking the lore tree of the Owl in the menu

• Building

  
  
  • Fixed burning time (a new system have been implemented, timing may be a little different than before)
  • Fixed crash when building the Monument to the Gods

• Others

  
  
  • Military Path - Fixed Guardian barricade causing a crash when placed
  • Hound - Fixed foes killed not letting down a carcass if no military unit were in the fight
  • Treasure - Fixed UI issue for the selection of clan for skin
  • Cross of Vidar - Fixed patrol stuck in mission 6

Known Issues

• All servers are still unavailable for Bifrost
• Chinese servers are unavailable for multiplayer

• Bifrst

  
  [expand type=details]
  • Muspelheim
    • Golem animation may flick a little
    • Thralls doesnt increase forge production on the Odins forge
  • Idavoll
    • Sometime the Oasis tile near a Town hall have foes on it
    • Killing the Sand worm doesnt trigger Boneyard
  • Nidavellir
    • Miner mine in the deposit
    • Scorched earth doesnt decrease stone ore from Rockfall
  • Niflheim
    • Nomad Branches cant use the portal
    • Ship will continue their animation once even after winter start (but production is correctly stopped)
    • No town hall on portal once colonized by a Kingdom clan
    • Torfins shadow cant use portals
    • Squirrel winter is coming notification is also displayed during said winter
  • Others
    • Second start-with from the clan of the Dragon doesn't work as intended (no slots for thralls on allies production building)
  [/expand]

• UI

  
  
  • Some UI are missing for Bifrost mode
  • Hovering the objective UI make it fade out
  • Checking allies lore tree doesnt display the correct information
  • Units from the Hound clan are listed as allies unit
  • Some text might show codes instead of actual words (Forge, Bifrost bonuses, etc)

• Clan

  
  [expand type=details]
  • Owl
    • Auto construction step for allies are not smooth with the second shared start with
    • Visual issue when reaching fame 500 in the lore tree
    • Specific root from the clan already placed doesnt transform into Nomad branches when taking the second conquest bonus of the clan
  • Goat
    • Visual issue on the feast discount with the second shared start with
    • Halvard ability doesnt sent automatically sheeps on your territory (you need to order them manually once used)
  • Snake
    • Conquest bonus that allows to use twice more scorched earth doesnt works
    • Clan knowledge and Stolen lore may cause some lore to be unlockable without having unlocked the previous ones
  • Lion
    • Can assign Subject on lore stone (this will not produce faith)
  • Kraken
    • Can assign villagers on happiness building (this has no effect for the clan)
  • Lynx
    • Sharp eye doesn't work
  • Squirrel
    • Can make the Banquet of Valhll (with no effect)
  [/expand]

• Bonus

  
  
  • Interaction between building bonus and allies construction (no slot use bonus)
  • No revive reduction for Lynx and Kaja with the conquest bonus
  • Killing unit with fire effect will not trigger boneyard

• Lore

  
  
  • Some lore doesnt work for other clan than the original owner
    • Veiled Threats
    • Pain Suppressant
    • Endless Tide
    • Harpoons (Kingdoms only)
  • Replacing an unlocked lore in the lore tree will count for a new unlocked lore
  • Stolen lore can be used further time if you take a lore from a clan in your game with Clan knowledge
  • Overcrowding doesnt allows Kingdom clans to build two smithy on a same tile
  • Carpentry mastery doesnt decrease upgrade cost of towers

• Building

  
  
  • Lighthouse can be build further time
  • Further barricade can be placed on a same border (only one is functional)
  • Jottun camp reward display the Wolf clan flag even if you dont play the wolf clan

• Others

  
  
  • Lobby - Players can select a same building if they click on it at the same time
  • Multiplayer - Reconnecting to a Bifrost game during bonus selection will not display the bonus UI
  • Military path - Guardian barricade cant be placed on ally territory
  • Units - Dragonkin can be untransformed for clan other than the Dragon
  • Sound - Some SFX are missing
  • Forge - Non-forgeable unit visible in the forge selection

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Jump into the bifrost

The path to Vanaheim

3.5.34.39794 Here are the detailed changes coming with the Bifrst patch

NEW GAMEMODE

• The Bifrost mode is now available to everyone
• Reach the final realm and face the vanir in their own home.
• If you die on the way, dont be afraid to try something different. There are many bonuses, synergies, and clan combinations to experiment with.

New achievements

• Bifrst Explorer - Finish a run of Bifrst in Classic or Challenge mode.
• Bifrst Survivor - Finish a run of Bifrst in Challenge mode.
• Midgard Explorer - Escape the realm of Midgard.
• Muspelheim Explorer - Escape the realm of Muspelheim.
• Niflheim Explorer - Escape the realm of Niflheim.
• Nidavellir Explorer - Escape the realm of Nidavellir.
• Idavoll Explorer - Escape the realm of Idavoll.
• Bifrst Ultimate Explorer - [spoiler]Finish a run of Bifrst in Classic or Challenge mode with each clan.[/spoiler]
• I.O.U - [spoiler]In a single realm of Bifrst, collect 1200 or more of a single resource from the shared pool.[/spoiler]
• Foreign Legion - [spoiler]Assemble an army composed of 10 different types of units or more.[/spoiler]
• Enter At Your Own Risk - [spoiler]Build 6 defensive buildings or more in a single zone.[/spoiler]

Bugfixes

• Snake - Fixed Stolen lore abuse in multiplayer
• Owl - Fixed free lore unlock abuse in multiplayer

Known Issues

• Bifrost - the mode is only playable in Peer-to-peer as of now. Servers will be open at a later date

• Muspelheim - Golem animation may flick a little
• Muspelheim - Thrall doesnt increase forge production on the Odins forge
• Idavoll - Sometime the Oasis tile near a Town hall have foes on it
• Idavoll - Killing the Sand worm doesnt trigger Boneyard
• Niflheim - Nomad Branches cant use the portal
• Niflheim - Ship will continue their animation once even after winter start (but production is correctly stopped)
• Niflheim - No town hall on portal once colonized by a Kingdom clan
• Niflheim - Torfins shadow cant use portals
• Niflheim - Squirrel winter is coming notification is also displayed during said winter
• Nidavellir - Miner mine in the gisement
• Nidavellir - Scorched earth doesnt decrease stone ore from Rockfall
• Vanaheim - Wild boar tusks are misplaced
• UI - Some UI are missing for Bifrost mode
• UI - Hovering the objective UI make it fade out
• UI - Checking allies lore tree doesnt display the correct information
• UI - units from the Hound clan are listed as allies unit
• Owl - Auto construction step for allies are not smooth with the second shared start with
• Owl - Visual issue when reaching fame 500 in the lore tree
• Owl - Specific root from the clan already placed doesnt transform into Nomad branches when taking the second conquest bonus of the clan
• Goat - Visual issue on the feast discount with the second shared start with
• Goat - Halvard ability doesnt sent automatically sheeps on your territory (you need to order them manually once used)
• Snake - Conquest bonus that allows to use twice more scorched earth doesnt works
• Snake - Clan knowledge and Stolen lore may cause some lore to be unlockable without having unlocked the previous ones
• Lion - Can assign Subject on lore stone (this will not produce faith)
• Kraken - Can assign villagers on happiness building (this has no effect for the clan)
• Lynx - Sharp eye doesn't work
• Squirrel - Can make the Banquet of Valhll (with no effect)
• Bonus - Interaction between building bonus and allies construction (no slot use bonus)
• Bonus - No revive reduction for Lynx and Kaja with the conquest bonus
• Bonus - Killing unit with fire effect will not trigger boneyard
• Lore - Some lore doesnt work for other clan than the original owner
  • Veiled Threats
  • Pain Suppressant
  • Endless Tide
  • Harpoons (Kingdoms only)
• Lore - Replacing an unlocked lore in the lore tree will count for a new unlocked lore
• Lore - Stolen lore can be used further time if you take a lore from a clan in your game with Clan knowledge
• Lore - Overcrowding doesnt allows Kingdom clans to build two smithy on a same tile
• Lore - Carpentry mastery doesnt decrease upgrade cost of towers
• Building - Lighthouse can be build further time
• Building - Further can be placed on a same border (only one is functional)
• Building - Jottun camp reward display the Wolf clan flag even if you dont play the wolf clan
• Lobby - Players can select a same building if they click on it at the same time
• Multiplayer - Reconnecting to a Bifrost game during bonus selection will not display the bonus UI
• Military path - Guardian barricade cant be placed on ally territory
• Unit - Dragonkin can be untransformed for clan other than the Dragon
• Text - Some text are not correct or not fully responsive (Faith to Lore)
• Text - Some localization are missing
• Sound - Some SFX are missing
• Forge - non-forgeable unit visible in the forge selection

[quote]Oho vikings! Let's have a look at even more biomes before the Bifrost update drops! [/quote]

Nidavellir - Down below

Idavoll - Far from all

[quote]Oho vikings! We are excited to introduce new biomes coming with the next update. Lets have a look at those first two environements.[/quote]

Muspelheim - Fight through the fire

Niflheim - Look beyond the ice

[quote]Oho Vikings! We're almost at the end of the Open Beta for Bifrst, and it is now time to tell you a little bit more about what to expect in your new adventure...[/quote]

A new adventure

Adapt and survive

Roam through the realms...

v3.5.31.39527-public-beta

New shared Start-With

• Clans can now choose between 2 start-with to share with their team, for even more combos and synergies.

Clans rotation

• List of available clans is changing.
• Clans available this week:
  • Hound
  • Eagle
  • Snake
  • Stoat
  • Bear
  • Stag
  • Raven
  • Boar
  • Ox
  • Owl

Changes and Improvements

Niflheim

• You can no longer scout or walk on the sea
• Revealing a portal will also reveal the other connected portal

Others

• All the bonus youve unlocked are now visible from the lobby and in-game (in the victory pop-up)
• Military units now appear on the Bifrst minimap
• It is now possible to switch between the Bifrst minimap and the other settings

Bugfixes

• Added security to avoid crash in winter caused by pathfinding issue for waves
• Fixed lobby choice when finishing a realm
• Fixed a crash related to Wyvern
• Bear - Fixed getting a second Kaja when taking the conquest bonus that make you start with it if you already summon it
• Stag - Fixed crash when taking the third conquest bonus from the clan when having 500 fame at least
• Stoat - Fixed Duchy being build on ally territory
• Raven - Fixed raids not granting resources when leaving
• Military Path - Fixed Guardian free upgrade not granted every year
• Military Path - Fixed Guardian tower not increasing max warband count
• Building - Fixed Silo not improving food production for Kingdom clan
• Building - Fixed free tower upgrade allowing to upgrade a same tower 2 time without having Great tower lore
• Building - Fixed based building proposed in winter bonuses
• Nidavellir - Fixed auto attack from the Wyvern not fearing unit
• Idavoll - Fixed Sand worm giving ressource when leaving instead of stealing them (solo player issue

Known Issues

• Stats - End stat game deactivated until we investigate on crashes
• UI - Unit on mini map doesnt have the correct size (too small)
• Lore - Issue with lore related to lighthouse
• Lore - Stolen lore allows to unlock advanced lore
• Lore - Overcrowding doesnt allow to build two Smithy for Kingdom clan
• Lore - Placed a winter bonus lore on an already unlocked one will give +1 lore learned
• Lore - Veiled Threats From Wolf and Pain suppressant from Rat doesnt work for other clan
• Lore - Endless tide from Kraken doesnt work for other clan
• Lore - Spoils of Plenty If placed on a lore already unlocked, doesnt grant the lure
• Building - Ghost mine cant be asked if the player asking it doesnt have necessary resources to build it
• Military path - Barricade from the Guardian path cant be placed in ally territory
• Military Path - Maximum warband granted by watch tower is directly apply when taking the path
• Kingdom - Harpoons doesnt increase fisher production
• Rat/Boar - Affected by happiness malus from house
• Goat - Warchief ability doesnt send sheep in your territory (you have to order them)
• Lynx - Sharp eyes doesnt work
• Owl - No Owls building FX
• Niflheim - Ship will continue to move in winter
• Niflheim - Killing the Wyvern while unit are frozen stuck them for the rest of the game
• Niflheim - Squirrel notification before winter is sent during winter
• Nidavellir - Iron golem may not be completely killed
• Nidavellir - Mine uses slot
• Nidavellir - Shaking camera during event deactivated until we investigate on the permanent Shaking issue

v3.5.30.39436-public-beta New week, new realms! We've been able to fix some bugs you've reported to us, but most of the work have also been to implement two new realms for you to test! Multiplayer in P2P is recommended

New Realms

• You will now be able to choose between two realms, the one you want to explore next.
• New realms are available:
  • Muspelheim
  • Idavoll

Clans Rotation

• Clans available this week:
  • Wolf
  • Lynx
  • Squirrel
  • Goat
  • Kraken
  • Dragon
  • Horse
  • Lion
  • Rat

Changes and Improvements

• A new mini-map setting specifically designed for Bifrst is available and selected by default when playing the mode. This setting will highlight objectives, incoming attacks, and allies requests especially.
• Kingdoms now start with the foraging post as one of their base buildings.
• Kraken now starts the game with the Hrgr as one of the base buildings.
• The open beta is now working on mac

Bugfixes

• Fixed krwn trading route available
• Fixed Portal objectives tiles spawning without unit
• Fixed crash when deleting a save
• Fixed free upgrade allowing to upgrade two time a same tower without having Great tower
• Fixed Kingdom not able to upgrade a building when a Viking clan choose an upgraded building from winter bonuses
• Fixed Silo/Foraging post not increasing food max stock
• Fixed Guardian tower not granting military xp
• Fixed two player choosing a same building locking it for both player
• Lynx - Fixed multiple Mythical lure placement
• Dragon - Fixed one attack not inflicting damage
• Hound - Fixed xp granted by carcass with an objective bonus
• Nidavellir - Fixed miner not able to mine gemstone
• Nidavellir - Fixed Horse Warchief not able to mine rock fall
• Nidavellir - Fixed Operatives dwarves not able to mine rock fall
• Niflheim - Fixed sailors working during winter

Known Issues

• Lore - Issue with lore related to lighthouse
• Lore - Stolen lore allows to unlock advanced lore
• Lore - Overcrowding doesnt allow to build two Smithy for Kingdom clan
• Building - Ghost mine cant be asked if the player asking it doesnt have necessary resources to build it
• Building - Silo doesnt boost food production for Kingdom
• Kingdom - Harpoons doesnt increase angler production
• Kingdom - if a viking clan unlocks a kingdom food building upgrade with winter bonus, the kingdoms won't be able to upgrade theirs
• Lore - Placed a winter bonus lore on an already unlocked one will give +1 lore learned
• Military path - Barricade from the guardian path cant be placed in ally territory
• Rat/Boar - Affected by happiness alus from house
• Military path - Guardian free tower upgrade are not granted
• Military Path - Guradian Tower doesn't increase warband max
• Goat - Warchief ability doesnt send sheep in your territory (you have to order them)
• Lynx - Sharp eyes doesnt work
• Kraken - Endless tide doesnt work for other clan
• Niflheim - Ship will continue to move in winter
• Niflheim - Killing the Wyvern while unit are frozen stuck them for the rest of the game
• Niflheim - Squirrel notification before winter is sent during winter
• Nidavellir - Wyvern auto attack doesnt fear
• Nidavellir - Iron golem may not be completely killed
• Nidavellir - Mine uses slot
• Muspelheim - Freezes
• Multiplayer - Playing on server might affect the game experience, especially on Idavoll
• UI - When finishing a realm, lobby choice not updated (reloading the save should fix it)
• UI - Presentation slide is inaccurate

v3.5.28.39316-public-beta Thanks to everyone who joined the open-beta, were working on every feedback we received. Were not gonna introduce new realms this week, instead well give you access to the other clans that were previously unavailable to let you experiment with the synergies and strengths of different clans.

Clans Rotation

• Stag
• Boar
• Snake
• Dragon
• Horse
• Lynx
• Rat
• Stoat

About the gamemode

• To start a Bifrst game solo, or with less than 4 players, you have to close player slots in the lobby until all the remaining players slots are filled.
• On Niflheim - When colonizing the zone with the Town hall ruin, the building seemingly disappears, but you can still assign a villager to where the town hall was to rebuild it. (The visuals will be fixed at some point, but currently the building foundation is invisible)

Bugfixes

• Fixed loading/joining save issue when not owning a DLC clan
• Fixed earning further time a bonus from an objective tile
• Fixed True Valkyrie not inflicting damage
• Fixed Niflheim generation not having 4 portals on main island
• Fixed Bifrost FX once opened not displayed for Host player
• Fixed issue with flag for the assault
• Fixed some crash (unit dying, pathfinding)
• Fixed freeze when killing the Wyvern

Known Issues

• Portal from other realm may spawn without unit
• Ghost mine cant be asked if the player who asked it doesnt have enough resource to build it
• In lobby, if two player select a same building at the same time it will be lock for both
• Niflheim - Some wave may be stuck when attacking
• Niflheim - Ship still work in winter
• Niflheim - No new Town hall for kingdom clan when colonizing a portal
• Niflheim - Crash may occur when selecting a portal tile
• Free tower upgrade granted with bonus allows to upgrade 2 time a same tower
• Nidavellir - Miner cant mine gemstone
• Nidavellir - Mines use slots
• Nidavellir - Operatives Dwarves cant mine stone from the event
• Further barricade can be placed on one border (only one should works)

[quote]Oho Vikings Summer is almost over, and it's time to let you discover the next game mode. For the most motivated of you, it's form your own squad and join the Public Beta branch to test out the new PVE game mode called Bifrost![/quote]

The new game mode - The Bifrst

The mode

The specificities

• No clan unique knowledges will be available at start
• Youll have only a few buildings selected beforehand.

• Share some of your start-withs.
• Share a part of the resources you produce.
• Build your buildings in the territories of your allies.
• Prepare your defence, raise towers and barricades.
• stand together against the attacks becoming stronger.

• Each year you survive, youll unlock new buildings, knowledge,etc...
• Find and complete additional objectives to gain collective bonuses
• Find the Bifrst on the map and use it to go to the next realms!

• Each realm is more difficult to survive than the last. Get all the bonuses you can before you escape.
• Go as far as you can through the realms
• If you die on the way try again with different strategies, synergies, and combinations of clans.

Your participation

What we expect from you

How to get access

Official release date

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[/tr][/table] This friday, we'll do a Stream on the content of the Open Beta, the new gamemode and everything around it! If you have questions about it, feel free to ask them there or in the comments below, we'll be sure to answer them! You'll find us at 4PM CEST (2PM GMT) See our twitch channel https://store.steampowered.com/app/466560/Northgard/ [hr][/hr]SOCIALS - DISCORD | REDDIT | X/TWITTER | FACEBOOK

[quote]Oho vikings! Its been a while since we talked about Northgard in itself. The game has been out for years now and we recently passed a total of 4 million players with Northgard in their hands! Thanks to all of you for following us for all this time. To celebrate, Northgard and its DLC are up to 75% off their original price. This goes along a little surprise that you can find below![/quote]

7 years worth of updates

A new aspect for the game

Thank you!

For the next update

[quote]Oho Viking! Northgard and its expansions are part of the Tacticon! For the occasion, the base game is 70% off its original price![/quote] [hr][/hr]

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Share the Starter pack with your friends!

Complete your collection with the Viking Age Edition

v3.5.15.38668

Balancing

• Conquest - Titanomachy map generation will not spawn cliffs anymore

Bugfix

• Notification - Fixed spam of relation notification when attacking an enemy with at least 30 relation and that didnt discovered you
• Notification - Carved in Stone (Coop) - Fixed spam of relation notification when colonizing the center zone
• Owl - Fixed Guardians of the Realm AOE attack in normal game

Known issues

• Goat - Cant call sheep on cleared tile with the Warchief if an enemy scout is on the same zone
• Hounds - Brawler cost issue if 4 villager are sent at the same time
• Hounds - Refund not working every time

v3.5.13.38575

Balancing

Owl Conquest - Titanomachy

• AI Titans have been adjusted

Bugfix

• Hound - Fixed Berserker life bar visible in Landvidi tile
• Owl - Fixed notification for relation spamming
• Conquest - Fixed "Lands of Oblivion" loading a save increasing the number of foes on portal tile
• Ranked - Fixed Ragnarok and Permafrost map being proposed
• Ranked -Fixed free concede message in FFA when a player disconnect from the game
• Ranked - Fixed an issue in the repartition of GP when a player near 0 GP was in a team

Known Issues

• Server issues
• Some text issues

[quote]Oho Viking! Northgard and its expansions are part of the Steam Summer Sale 2024! For the occasion, the base game is 75% off its original price![/quote] [hr][/hr]

Get the base game for a quarter of the price

Share the Starter pack with your friends!

Complete your collection with the Viking Age Edition

v3.5.9.38413

Hounds Balancing

Knowledge

Bloodthirst

• At a speed of [strike]1 HP per second[/strike] 0,75 HP per second

Units

Foxskin

• Attack Power [strike]12,5[/strike] 12
• Shredding Claws (Lvl 2 ability)
  • Each attack slows the target by [strike]-7,5%[/strike] -3%
  • With Hord Instinct each Foxskin increases this value by [strike]+2,5%[/strike] +1,5%
  • To a maximum of [strike]-20%[/strike] > -15%
• Hunters Mark (Lvl 3 ability)
  • No longer reduces the target speed
  • Increase the damages they receive by [strike]+35%[/strike] > +15%
  • With Hord Instinct each Foxskin increases this value by [strike]+10% [/strike]> +3%

Bearskin

• Death Deceiver (Lvl 3 ability)
  • Make the first unit in the zone to die invincible for [strike]3 seconds[/strike] > 2 seconds

Bugfix

• Cross of Vidar - Fixed raid in mission 4 getting stuck
• Hounds - Fixed foxes soul size when summoned from a dead Foxskin
• Hounds - Fixed Wild Hunt event not working when foes were killed in conquest mission God's Fury
• Hounds - Fixed Brawler not forging the sword in conquest mission Shards of Misfortune
• Hounds - Fixed carcass not collectable if too close to a border of a tile
• Hounds - Fixed a crash with the last bonus conquest if spectral doesnt have the space to be spawned
• Owl - Fixed Healing Herbs military experience earned when placed on the Clan of the Hound
• Owl - Fixed erudition lore not granting a free lorestone if placed in an ally territory before reaching 30 in relation
• Raven - Fixed life amount for the giant sent in raids
• Boar - Fixed herbalism not working as intended
• Stoat - Fixed an issue with Military upgrade that all could be placed on different Sentry camp
• Snake - Fixed tile discovered by Scorched Earth in conquest mission Lands of Oblivion
• Kingdom - Fixed camera position at the start of a game
• Conquest - Fixed foes being invisible when attacking in conquest Lands of Oblivion
• Conquest - Fixed hostility in conquest mission Gem cutter
• Save - Fixed some crash when loading a save
• Crashes - Fixed crash caused by special character in player tag
• AI - Fixed AI not building lighthouse
• Environment - Fixed crows life bar
• Achievement - Fixed Knowledge is power not unlocking
• Relic - Fixed relic being forged instantly when forged in first

Known Issues

• Translation issues in some texts
• Endless slowing effect after being hit by a foxskin (occasionally - details or videos needed )
• Server issues

[quote]We're almost a week since the Hounds is available in all gamemodes. It is now time to look for what's coming and going back on the road map previously shared.[/quote]

Claws and Jaws

Bifrst

v3.5.6.38277

Hounds Balancing

Star-with

• Berserkers now have a max amount of resources they can collect at once when absorbing a soul (80 max).

Knowledge

Bloodthirst

• When gaining Military XP, regain [strike]40%[/strike] of it as heath > 30%
• At a speed of [strike]0.5 HP per second[/strike] > 1 HP per second

Units

Foxskin

• Attack Power [strike]14[/strike] > 12.5
• Shredding Claws (Lvl 2 ability)
  • Each attack slows the target by [strike]-10%[/strike] > -7.5%
  • To a maximum of [strike]-50%[/strike] > -20%
• Hunters Mark (Lvl 3 ability)
  • Mark reduce target speed by [strike]-25%[/strike] > -15%
  • Increase the damages they receive by [strike]+50%[/strike] > +35%

Bearskin

• Blade Breaker (Lvl 2 ability)
  • Reduce targets attack power by[strike] -35%[/strike] > -25%
  • With Hord Instinct - each additional bearskin reduce it by [strike]-10%[/strike] > -2.5%
• Death Deceiver (Lvl 3 ability)
  • Make the first unit in the zone to die invincible for [strike]6 seconds[/strike] > 3 seconds

Boarskin

• Menders Legacy (Lvl 2 ability)
  • While regaining health, heals wounded units by [strike]1 HP per second[/strike] > 1.5 HP per second
• Blood Sacrifice (Lvl 3 ability)
• Boarskin sacrifices [strike]75%[/strike] of its health > 60%
  • Over [strike]5 seconds[/strike] > 4 seconds
  • And converts [strike]100%[/strike] of it to wounded units > 200%

Fame 500

• Berserkers can level up to level 7, each additional level requires [strike]200 XP[/strike] > 250 XP

Conquest Battles

• Hounds clan battle n2 is now No Gods No Master. (Previously The Great Hunt)
• The clan can now play the Age of Vampires battle.
  • The clan can only evolve 1 berserker, which is considered the Warchief of the clan, and has the nightwalker ability.

QOL

• Bloodthirst visual signal (on health bars) has been reworked to be more clear, and cause less confusion. (with some players thinking it would work as a shield and prevent taking damage for exemple)
• It is now possible to remove an animal soul from the arena having to avoid players getting stuck in some cases and having to destroy the building.

Other

Gate of Helheim

• Killing the Fallen Valkyries on the gate of Helheim and later summoned by the gate (when colonized) no longer give Military XP nor trigger any on kill effects. (Hounds Bloodthirst, Eagle Boneyard, Wolf Spoils of War, Lynx Trophies, and so on)

Lore Victory

• Direct gains of Lore accumulate Lore/ Faith for the Monument and the Victory. (Ruins, Ox Warcraft, Lion start-with, Hounds boarskin soul absorption, Eagle caches, and so on)

Bugfix

• Hounds - Fixed color displayed for the conquest Town Hall
• Hounds - Fixed animal souls from the last conquest bonus consuming wood
• Hounds - Fixed control group not working on Berserkers after evolving from their Brawler form
• Hounds - Fixed Brawler on forge not going back to No work state after finishing all forges
• Hounds - Fixed Berserker captured by Dragon not granting the soul of the Berserker with fame 200
• Hounds - Fixed Brawler not producing Fame on Pillar of Glory in conquest mission Vikings Glory
• Hounds - Fixed Brawler not producing food on Healer Hut
• Hounds - Fixed Brawler not mining molten rocks in conquest mission Shards of Misfortune
• Hounds - Fixed Silo not increasing food production for Brawler
• Hounds - Fixed Bloothirst not working when stolen by Owl, Snake, or Mimirsbrunr
• Hounds - Fixed crash when two unit died during a fight in the Brawler Camp
• Hounds - Fixed Boarskin dying when using his lvl 3 ability while Medecine was unlocked
• Hounds - Fixed Foxskin slow not applicated at the good moment
• Hounds - Fixed Brawler or Berserker being able to be assigned to other military camp
• Hounds - Fixed Brawler assignation limit on production building allowing to overcap the number of workers
• Hounds - Fixed a crash when killing foes on the Yggdrasil zone in conquest mission Battle for Midgard
• Hounds - Fixed Brawler stuck in Brawler camp when loading a save
• Kingdom - Achievement Improvised Carpentry will not be unlocked if a woodlodge is built
• Fixed host that can control guest unit in conquest mission Age of Vampires

Known Issues

• Hound - Last conquest bonus may cause a crash when used
• Hound - Fox soul summoned from a dead berserker is smaller than usual in the Brawler camp
• Some text issues

If you're just discovering how to play the Clan of the Hounds and want some advice on how to get the most out of it, we've got you covered! Larsman, a Northgard member and content creator, has made a quick guide on how to play the Hounds, a good way to catch up with people more familiar with that type of clan! [previewyoutube=O7T6DARxFNg;full][/previewyoutube] You can also find him on twitch on the following link twitch.tv/larsmanlive If you don't have the clan yet, you can buy it or wishlist it by using the link below! https://store.steampowered.com/app/2946220/Northgard__Garm_Clan_of_the_Hounds/

v3.5.5.38206

Bugfix

• Hounds - Fixed crash when collecting souls with a brawler when no warband slot are available to transform it in berzerker (Ctrl + right click to consume all carcass in a tile)
• Hounds - Brawler assigned to Longship Dock cant be attacked or attack a unit
• Hounds - Fixed Military Path that could be opened by clicking on Military Path notification from other players
• Hounds - Fixed a crash when hovering a Brawler camp in fire on an uncolonized tile with a villager
• Hounds - Fixed Improvised Carpentry not unlockable in multiplayer games
• Hounds - Fixed first conquest bonus allowing to level up a berzerker to level 7 before reaching fame 500
• Hounds - Fixed a crash in conquest mission Dystopia when a unit in Brawler camp was selected to be transformed in Ghost Warrior
• Hounds - Conquest Age of Vampires, Surrounded and How to Train your Wyvern will not appear in solo conquest
• Raven - Fixed raid sent with only the Giant from the relic
• Fixed Sailors and merchant counting for the same production on a same tile
• Fixed animation for the Guardian of the Realms in conquest mission Titanomachy when upgraded
• Fixed a crash when Militia would try to reach a decolonized tile
• Fixed some crash when loading a save
• Fixed some text issues

Known issues

• Brawler camp - Cancel fight button should not be clickable when only a soul is in the camp
• Raven - Giant life from relic doesnt scale depending on the number of mercenary sent with the raid
• GOG and EGS version will be released soon
• Cross of Vidar - Mission 4 raids may be blocked during the travel
• Owl - Giving Erudition before 30 relation doesnt give free Carved Stone when you reach 30 relation
• AI will not play on creative map in multiplayer
• Missing some localisations
• Some text issues

[quote]Hello Warchiefs, It is now time for you to find your savage roots and claim the Clan of the Hounds[/quote] [previewyoutube=Gh45bjjpHGw;full][trailer][/previewyoutube]

Unleash the beasts

The Claws & Jaws season

v3.5.4.38172

CLAN OF THE HOUNDS

• The clan of the hounds is now available in-game.
• The clan of the Hounds will join Ranked on a later date.

Bugfixes

• Cross of Vidar - Mission 4 fixed Mercenary from raid disappearing
• Cross of Vidar - Mission 10 fixed assault staying on tile instead of attacking
• Owl - Guardian of the Realms cant be placed on the volcano tile
• Owl - Fixed Iron Wood not mining Iron golem
• Owl - Fixed Hypnotic Spores not preventing foes to attack
• Dragon - Fixed Thrall not acquired with fame 200 in conquest mission where the clan start at the center of the map
• Dragon - Fixed Thrall not counted in production when assigned to Longship Dock
• Eagle - Wolf Den, Fox Burrow and Draugr Tombs can be closed on ally territory with fame 500 (Ruins and Shipwreck are not affected with this change)
• Ox - Fixed Tyr Chain Pauldron not granting defense
• Snake - Scorched earth cant be used on portal for conquest mission Battle for Midgard
• Lynx - Fixed Lynx disappearing when loading a save in conquest mission How to Train your Wyvern
• Raven - Fixed Mercenary from raid to be teleported at the start of the fight in conquest mission Death Match
• Achievement - Improvised Carpentry cannot be achieved in multiplayer
• Added security on map generation to avoid unit to walk under water
• Fixed map generation for conquest mission Fox Hole
• Fixed Knowledge from Beyound not working when stealed
• Fixed starting timer displayed not decreasing except for the host
• Fixed some crash when loading a save
• Fixed price for the Forester Town Hall skin
• Fixed some crash due to special letter in nicknames
• Fixed woodcutter cutting wood in a vacuum
• Fixed some UI element
• Fixed some text issue

Known issues

• Cross of Vidar - Mission 4 raids may be blocked during the travel
• Owl - Giving Erudition before 30 relation doesnt give free Carved Stone when you reach 30 relation
• AI will not play on creative map in multiplayer
• Missing some localisations
• Some text issues
• Crash - Brawlers gathering too much souls in one move whil there are no available warband will result in a crash

[quote]Hello Vikings! In todays Sneak Peek, Art Director Emak lifts the curtain on how we design each clan with a unique identity in mind[/quote]

Who is Emak??

The clans identity

The clans units

Final word

[quote]Hello vikings! In case you missed it, we revealed the latest clan that will join Northgard next week. In order to give you an idea of the clans gameplay and concept, we thought this would be the perfect opportunity to let Maaz tell you about his work regarding the Hounds! [/quote]

Who is Maaz?

The birth of a new clear clan

• Wolf gives you food
  
• Fox gives you Krowns
  
• Bear gives you wood
  
• Boar gives you lore
  

The iteration game

Final word

[quote]Oho Warchiefs! Last month the Claws & Jaws update added new wildlife to the lands of Northgard, now it is time to introduce a predator for this prey. Were proud to reveal Garm, the Clan of the Hounds, releasing on May 30th! [/quote]
Lost clansmen of the Clan of the Boar, the followers of Garm are few, but what they lack in numbers, they make up for in raw strength. Thanks to mystical rituals, their brawlers are able to transcend their state to become dangerous animalistic berserkers. For the first time since Northgards release we will be lifting the curtain and giving you a behind the scenes look at how we design a clan. Game Designer 'Maaz' and Art Director 'Emak' will share insights on the clans game design and art direction in Steam articles. The former will be posted on Saturday and the latter on Tuesday. Wishlist now on the page below https://store.steampowered.com/app/2946220/Northgard__Garm_Clan_of_the_Hounds/?utm_source=steamnews&utm_medium=community&utm_campaign=wishlist&utm_content=post1 [hr][/hr]SOCIALS - DISCORD | REDDIT | X/TWITTER | FACEBOOK

v3.4.38.37793

Balancing

• Sheep - Sheep spawn odds have been reduced (from 60% to 40%).
• Conquest Titanomachy - Added AOE attack to the Titan once lvl 5
• Map generation - 2 zones will always be left without foes around TownHalls

Bugfixes

• Fixed map generation for conquest mission Far from the Eyes
• Fixed map generation for conquest mission Left Behind
• Fixed loading Titanomachy save granting an upgrade to AI Titan
• Fixed winter assault in conquest mission Lands of Oblivion
• Fixed Militia/Sentry not entering ally territory if other tile was crossed by the units
• Fixed a crash when loading a save with Vedrfolnir scouting but the owner was dead
• Rigs saga - Mission 4 fixed first objective validated after building the Longship dock
• Cross of Vidar - Mission 3 fixed crash when overing lore info
• Snake - Fixed Scorched on enemy tile before 803
• Snake - Fixed Scorched earth for krwn building
• Snake - Fixed Scorched earth amount displayed for krwn reward
• Snake/Raven - Fixed krwn reward on tile with port for Scorched earth and raid
• Raven - Fixed recruited mercenary vanishing after a raid leaves a tile
• Dragon - Fixed Thrall not increasing sailor production
• Horse - Fixed Great tower upgrade without the lore unlocked
• Owl - Fixed UI displayed when Iron wood mine on neutral tile

Known Issues

• Crash may occurs when searching a ranked lobby
• Visuals - Sometime unit and building can walk/be placed in the water
• Dragon - Thrall are not counted in the world info on Longship Dock
• Translation - Missing some localisations
• UI - Some text issues

v3.4.36.37721

Changes

• Conquest - New visual background added

Bugfixes

• Kingdom - Fixed scouting time being too slow
• Foes - Adjusted Fox damages
• Snake - Fixed Scorched earth on ennemy tile to take into account production buildings
• Conquest - Fixed conquest invites (save didn't get corrupted)
• Rig's saga - Fixed mission 4 not being finishable
• Rig's saga - Fixed freeze in mission 9
• Squirrel - Fixed Rumor-Mongering relation gains for neutral

Known issues

• Snake - Scorched earth only recognize one krown production building for the amount collected
• Snake/Raven - Port doesn't count for the reward of Scorched earth and raids
• Snake/UI - Scorched earth krown reward displayed doesn't match the real amount collected

[quote]Hello Warchiefs! You've seen the updates for the beta now is the time to launch the Claws and Jaws update! Here is a recap of what's new in your games as well as when to expect new for the next clan...[/quote]

Claws & Jaws - available now

Foxes and Boars

Conquests

Regarding the AI

What's next

Claws & Jaws

Free Content Update

Whats New

Wildlife

Foxes and Fox Burrows

• Foxes are a new wild animal. They have the same aggressive behavior as wolves but are less powerful, way faster, and attack in numerous groups. So keep an eye on them.
• Fox Burrow is a new building equivalent to the Wolf Den. It spawns new foxes that will attack the adjacent zones if left unchecked.
• Closing it will grant 25 Fame and 75 Krwns.

Boars

• Boar is another new wild animal you will encounter in Northgard. It has passive behavior similar to a bear but is even more powerful. If you attack it, it will fiercely defend itself and its territory.

Environment and Map Generation

Sheep

• Sheep now grants a -50% wood consumption reduction during winter in the zone it is in (-30% previously).
• When several sheep are in the same zone, this bonus increases (but multiplicatively).
• Sheep can now spawn everywhere on the map.

Wolf Clan

• When sacrificing a sheep for food, the clan will get 100 food out of it instead of 80.

Dragon Clan

• The clan can send a sheep to the Sacrificial Pyre to gain 4 dragon essences.

Eagle Clan

• The clan can sacrifice a sheep to trigger a boneyard in the zone, calling a maximum of 3 hawks.

Rat Clan

• The clan can sacrifice a sheep to light up the Purification Pyres for 60 days.

Lynx Clan

• The clan can sacrifice a sheep to get 60 Trophies (but no Food).

Owl Clan

• Sheep reduce the food consumption in the zone by 35% (25% previously).
• This bonus also increases for each additional sheep in the same zone. Also multiplicatively.

Goat Clan

• Following those changes on sheep, the Sheperd ability of Harvald (Goat Warchief) has been modified.
• The ability is now active, and captures all wild sheep in the neutral zone where Harvald is.
• The ability then has a 1 month cooldown.

Spawn Hostility

• All clans on a map will now start with the same level of hostility on adjacent zones (Adjusted depending on the number of zones adjacent to their townhalls).
• However, this hostility might still be composed of different animals and be split differently for each clan.

Environment Difficulty

• Environment hostility (foes and hostile wild units presence) has been slightly reduced on easy maps.
• Environment hostility has been slightly increased on extreme maps.
• Normal and hard maps hostility should be the same as before.

AI

• AI Warband should not get stuck in a zone anymore.
• After decolonizing a players zone, in hard and extreme difficulty, the AI will continue pushing the assaults to the next zone until they reach the players town hall or are stopped.
• The AI will now use its civilian units to defend itself when attacked by foes.
• AI now handles its happiness correctly and will assign units to happiness production buildings.
• AI is now better at evaluating the outcome of a fight and how much strength it needs to win, so it should no longer send armies to die in fights against neutral factions.
• Raven clan AI no longer builds a harbor as its first building, but when needed.
• Dragon AI now correctly differentiates between thralls and villagers when assigning them.

Conquest

• Titanmachy All clans start with a Guardian of Realms. If two guardians meet, they have to fight to the death. When a guardian dies, its clan is eliminated. Make yours the best and defeat the others before they become too strong.
• Age of Vampires Your Warchief and the Erlking are the two last remaining nightwalkers. There can only be one left. Kill it before he gets to you.
• Battle for Midgard Yggdrasil is under attack from many realms. Portals are awakening, and armies are coming to destroy it. Resist the assaults and close the portals to end this.

Diplomacy and Balancing

Diplomacy

General

• When feasting for their team, a clan improves its relationship with all the affected ally clans.

Squirrel

• Meals prepared by the Squirrel for their allies improve their relationship with the affected clans.
• Rumor-Mongering now also increases all relation gains by +100%.

Stoat

• When collecting a Levy for their team, the Stoat clan improves their relationship with all the affected clans.

Rat

• When healing ally units, the rat clan improves their relations with this clan.

Bear

• When Kaija and/or Borgild provide an ally zone with the Kindred Spirit production bonus (fame 200), they improve their relations with this clan.

Clan Specific Balancing

Horse

• Both Warchiefs now cost only 100 Krwns to recruit (150 previously).
• Horse clan when exploring Ruins and Shipwrecks will only get half of the Krwns any other clan would get.
• But they also extract ore from those.
  • Exploring a Ruin provides +5 Stones.
  • Exploring a Shipwreck provides +5 Iron.

Raven

• Raids
  • Each mercenary killed during a raid increases the raid cooldown of the zone by +20 seconds.
  • Sons of Hrymr (giants) power depends on the number of mercenaries sent with them.
  • Killing a Son of Hymir sent on a raid increases the raid cooldown of the zone by +120 seconds.
  • Silos now also count as a source of Food when the zone is raided.
• Relic - New additional effect Raids now collect resources from the zone when they arrive rather than when they leave (making sure to obtain the resources of the raid even if the whole raid dies).

Ox

• After unlocking City Building, zones can be improved even if they do not contain the maximum number of buildings.

Rat

• Last Stand Shaman ability (Weapon Forge) effect is now capped to a maximum +300% Dmg increase.

Bear

• Winter Festival now reduces the clan units food consumption during winter by -30% instead of boosting food production.

Other

• Some of the Dwarf faction units now attack at distance.

Improvements

• Many optimizations.
• The game uses less CPU resources.

Bugfixes

• Added security to avoid 4v2 ranked lobby
• Raven - Added security to avoid mercenary from raid to stay on a tile
• Snake - Fixed lore not unlockable in Clan Knowledge
• Snake - Fixed Rapacious Exploitation not healing if an ally was on the same tile
• Snake - Fixed an issue where mythical animal from Mythical Lure wasnt killable if scared during the spawn by Scorched earth
• Snake - Fixed Scorched earth not granting ressources if used in snake territory
• Snake - Fixed Black Market not giving back ressource for the Snake trades
• Stoat - Fixed convert cost with Marches of Britany
• Stoat - Fixed Altar of Volvinius on duchy not increasing krwn levy
• Dragon - Fixed Thrall not working in conquest mission SHard of Misfortune
• Dragon - Fixed Thrall UI on ship not disappearing if killed by the Kraken
• Dragon - Fixed Thrall UI on ship visible in the fog
• Dragon/Stag - Thrall and boat reward are granted even if the clan doesnt start near the sea
• Stag - Fixed Glory of all clan not giving 30% of fame when unlocked
• Squirrel - Fixed achievement Just a little help for my friend not unlocking
• Ox - Fixed Heimdalls Hunting Pauldron artifact dealing damage to Valdemar in conquest mission The Cursed if other foes was on the tile
• Lynx - Mythical lure can be placed on other tile then the Town Hall in conquest mission Lands of Oblivion
• Owl - Fixed Guardian of the Realm placement on Nastrnd tile not destroyed
• Kraken - Added food icon on the fishery in the build menu
• Kingdom - Fixed an issue where monk stop healing if the Monastery change (upgraded, destroyed) while healing Vedrfolnir
• Kingdom - Anchorage can be build in conquest mission Gold Rush
• Kingdom - Fixed peon healing during fight on Town Hall tile
• Conquest - Fixed Draurg event in conquest Rough Seas
• Conquest - No more event conquest in conquest mission Gold rush
• Conquest - Fixed infinite spawn in conquest mission Cataclysm
• Conquest - Fixed pathfinding not taking in count destroyed tile in conquest mission Cataclysm
• Conquest - Fixed scout progression UI in conquest mission Lands of Oblivion
• Conquest - Added security to avoid a tile to not being colonisable in conquest mission Shard of Misfortune
• Conquest - Fixed some map generation in conquest mission Inner sea
• Conquest bonus free upgrade can be used without upgrading the Town Hall
• Conquest - Fixed bonus iron/stone not sending iron/stone
• Conquest - Fixed military forge not available when a military building from another clan was accessible
• Conquest - Fixed skin not showed
• Rigs Saga - Fixed a crash in mission 8 when the clan of the Bear was killed by foes
• Rigs Saga - Fixed performance issue after healing Vedrfolnir
• Story - Fixed camera zoom after cinematics
• Fixed an issue with pathfinding making some unit going out of the territory when not authorized (militia, civils)
• Fixed a crash when selecting a Town Hall of a player that was deleted in the creative editor
• Fixed Rat event notification for sickness villager
• Fixed Vedrfolnir freeze when loading a save right after healed
• Fixed villager disappearing when repairing a port and destroying it
• Fixed crash when claiming the artbook Town Hall skin (the skin was unlocked)
• Fixed crash if a player has special character in his name
• Fixed crash in the report system when down page after writing some word
• Fixed Vedrfolnir not healed if the first building that healed it was modified (upgraded, destroyed)
• Fixed ability that target a tile not clickable if the unit is on a tile where the ability cant be used (Sentinel for Falconner, Scorched earth for Signy)
• Fixed group selection not shown after loading a save
• Fixed free Odins forge with operative dwarves
• Fixed Operatives Dwarves not forging after repairing a forge on fire while assigned to it
• Fixed the SFX for the Upgrade zone button looping
• Fixed lore step when all lore are unlocked
• Fixed some localization issues
• Fixed some text issues
• Fixed some UI issues
• Separated team cant be choose if the map is balanced
• Added security when loading a coop conquest
• Added a toggle for Levy/Overwork SFX in the option

Known Issues

• Eagle - Foraging knowledge description doesnt mention Fox Burrows, but the effect does work.
• Some localization are missing

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version: v3.3.27.37496-public-beta Hello players! Following the previous changes, this new patch adds some more changes going in the same general direction and iterations on those previous changes to ensure everything is balanced.

Balancing

Clans

Rat

• When healing ally units, the rat clan improves their relations with this clan.
• Last Stand Shaman ability (Weapon Forge) effect is now capped to a maximum +300% Dmg increase.
• Burning a Sheep as Rat clan now provides 60 days of Purification Pyre (instead of 90 previously).

Bear

• When Kaija and/or Borgild provide an ally zone with the Kindred Spirit production bonus (fame 200), they improve their relations with this clan.
• Winter Festival now reduces the clan units food consumption during winter by -30% instead of boosting food production.

Eagle

• Feeding a Sheep to the Hawks now calls a maximum of 3 Hawks on the Boneyard (limiting the max amount of resources possible to obtain in this way).

Raven

• Relic - new additional effect: Raids now collect resources from the zone when they arrive rather than when they leave (making sure to obtain the resources of the raid even if the whole raid dies).
• Raids
  • Silos now also count as a source of Food when the zone is raided.
  • Each mercenary killed during the raid increases the raid cooldown of the zone by +20 seconds (previously +30).

Other

• Some of the Dwarf faction units now attack at distance.

Conquest

New Conquest Battles

• Titanomachy All clans start with a Guardian of Realms. If two guardians meet, they have to fight to the death. When a guardian dies, its clan is eliminated. Make yours the best and defeat the others before they become too strong.
• Age of Vampires Your warchief and the Erlking are the two last remaining nightwalkers. There can only be one left. Kill it before he gets to you.
• Battle for Midgard Yggdrasil is under attack from many realms. Portals are awakening and armies are coming to destroy it. Resist the assaults and close the portals to end this.

Bugfix

• Kingdom - Fixed Town Hall tile with 4 slot instead of 5
• Squirrel - Fixed Mongering-Rumor not increasing meal relation
• Stoat - Fixed shared levy increasing relation with enemy
• Fixed Supply malus in team game
• Owl - Fixed UI of second Invasive fruit roots
• AI - now correctly uses its military units when defending a territory attacked by a player (no longer stuck when tyring to enter the tile)
• Pathfinding -Fixed an issue where a player units wrongfully decided to cross a zone with neutrals (or foes).

Known Issues

• Month on the calendar are in Italian
• 1 ore unit missing on each deposit

• The previous mystery is yet to be discovered. Go back to your first discovery and find the title
• Enjoy a rest for this week

v3.3.25.37385-public-beta [quote]Hello players! Following your feedback, weve made a few new adjustments to the new foes and map generation. We also want to take this beta to introduce new balancing changes and tweaks to some clans and to the way you gain positive relations with ally clans.[/quote]

Foes

Boar stats
• 15 Atk (12 previously)
• 110 Hp (100 previously)
• 8 Def (8.5 previously)
• 5 Moves Speed (3.5 previously)

Map generation

Spawn hostility

• The overall number of hostile units close to a clans Town Hall will now also depend on the number of zones in contact with the clan's starting zone.

Balancing

Diplomacy

• When feasting for their team, a clan improves its relationship with all the affected ally clans. (Relation is passively enhanced for the entire length of the Feast)

• Meals prepared by the Squirrel for their allies improve their relationship with the affected clans. (Passively increases while the Meal is ongoing)
• Rumor-Mongering now also increases all relation gains by +100%. (Offering Well, Trade-Routes, Gift-Routes, Rumor-Mongering passive effects, and Meals).
• Rumor-Mongering passive relation gains have been readjusted to remain identical to the previous value even when multiplied with this new effect.

• When collecting a Levy for their team, the Stoat clan improves their relationship with all the affected clans. (Passively increases while the Levy is ongoing)

Horse

• Both Warchiefs now cost only 100 Krwns to recruit (150 previously).
• Horse clan when exploring Ruins and Shipwrecks will only get half of the Krwns any other clan would get.
• But they also extract ore from those.
  • Exploring a Ruin provides +5 Stones.
  • Exploring a Shipwreck provides +5 Iron.

Raven

• Each mercenary killed during a raid increases the raid cooldown of the zone by +30 seconds.
• Sons of Hrymr (giants) power depends on the number of mercenaries sent with them.
  • Sent with a full raid of 6 mercenaries, their power will be the same as currently.
  • Sent with only 1 mercenary, they have only a fraction of their max resistance.
    • 50 HP (instead of 100 max)
    • 6 Def (instead of 12 max)
• Killing a Son of Hymir sent on a raid increases the raid cooldown of the zone by +120 seconds.

Ox

• After unlocking City Building, zones can be improved even if they do not contain the maximum number of buildings.

Improvements

AI

• Improved the defense behavior.
• If the AI is attacked by a player, its military units stop whatever they are doing, and go defend right away.
• If the AI is attacked by foes, it use the right amount of civilian to defend itself.
• Improved a lot the Eagle AI : it stays on a recently cleaned zone to benefit from the boneyard heal + it can scout its treasures.

Bugfixes

• Silos can be built on shores without problems.
• Norms can produce lore outside their territory
• Kingdom - Guardians military path send militia
• Mimirsbrunn - Loading a save after unlocking Mimirsbrunn will not allows to pick any lore
• Stoat - Fixed Peon not healing on the Town Hall
• Lynx - Caring Siblings doesnt heal Lynx and Mielikki on enemy territory

known issues

• Stoat - Relation grant with a levy give too much relation (should be +0.8 for a 30% levy)
• Squirrel - Rumor-mongering doesnt increase relation granted with a meal
• Concede doesnt kill a player

Other

• investing foes disappearances in strange rituals

v3.4.20.37201

• Added log for 4v2 lobby
• Dragon - Fixed Dragonkin captured with negative life in conquest mission
• Fixed camera zoom after cinematics in campaign
• Fixed leave pop up premade spawning after leaving a premade
• Fixed skins in coop conquest

Known Issues

• Crash in coop conquest (P2P/Server) if players use pause
• Some localization missing

[quote]Hello Vikings! With the next update new animal foes will appear on your way through victory! Those are long awaited faces so youll be able to face them in your games. This new threat is already available in the public beta branch for you to test![/quote]

Fox and Boar

New map generation

• New system for an equal confrontation with the foes around
• More foes types on the map!

The Beta and the AI

v3.3.21.37220-beta [quote]Hello players! Big changes are coming to the ecosystem of Northgard; new animals are appearing, and this is changing the world for everyone. Here are the details:[/quote]

New contents

Foxes and Boars

Foxes

• Foxes are new animals. They have the same aggressive behavior as wolves, but they are less powerful, way faster, and attack in numerous groups. So keep an eye on them.
• Fox Burrow is a new building equivalent to the Wolf Den. It spawns new foxes that will attack the adjacent zones if left unchecked.
• Closing it will grant 25 Fame and 100 Krwns.

Boars

• Boar is a new animal in Northgard. It has passive behavior similar to that of a bear but will defend itself and its territory fiercely if you attack it.

Sheep

Sheep

• Sheep now grants a 50% wood consumption reduction during winter in the zone it is in (-30% previously).
• When several sheep are in the same zone, this bonus increases, but multiplicatively.
  • 1 sheep will reduce the consumption in the zone by 50%.
  • 2 sheep will reduce it by 75%.
  • 3 sheep by 87,5%.
  • And so on
• Sheep can now spawn in almost any zone of the map.

Wolf Clan

• When sacrificing a sheep for food, the clan will get 100 food out of it instead of 80.

Dragon Clan

• The clan can send a sheep to the Sacrificial Pyre to gain 4 dragon essences (but no food).

Eagle Clan

• The clan can sacrifice a sheep to trigger a boneyard in the zone, calling all its hawks (but granting no food).

Rat Clan

• The clan can choose to sacrifice a sheep to light up the Purification Pyres for 90 days (but granting no food).

Owl Clan

• Sheep reduce the food consumption in the zone by 35% (25% previously).
• This bonus also increases for each additional sheep in the same zone. Also multiplicatively.

Map Generation

Spawn Hostility

• All clans on a map will now start with the same level of hostility on adjacent zones (Meaning the overall power of hostile foes on adjacent tiles will be the same).
• However, this hostility might come in different animals and be split differently for each clan.
  • For example, clan A can start with 2 hostile zones adjacent to their town hall, containing 1 and 2 wolves.
  • Clan B can start with 3 hostile zones, containing respectively 1 fox, 1 fox, and 2 foxes.
  • The total hostility is the same for both clans, even if it materializes differently.

Sheep spawn

• Sheep can spawn in any zone (except for neutral faction camps and special zones).
  • The fewer natural resources the zone contains, the higher the chance of spawning sheep.
  • The number of sheep spawned depends on the distance of the zone from the clans town halls (the further away a zone is, the more sheep it might contain).

Difficulty

• Environment hostility (foes and hostile wild units presence) has been slightly reduced on easy maps.
• Environment hostility has been slightly increased on extreme maps.
• Normal and hard maps hostility should be the same as before.

AI

• AI Warband should not get stuck in a zone anymore.
• After decolonizing a players zone, in hard and extreme difficulty, the AI will continue pushing the assaults to the next zone until they reach the players town hall or are stopped.
• The AI will now use its civilian units to defend itself when attacked by foes.
• AI now handles its happiness correctly and will assign units to happiness production buildings.
• AI is now better at evaluating the outcome of a fight and how much strength it needs to win, so it should no longer send armies to die in fights against neutral factions.
• Raven clan AI no longer builds a harbor as its first building, but when needed.
• Dragon AI now correctly differentiates between thralls and villagers when assigning them.

Improvements

• Many optimizations.
• The game uses less CPU resources.

Known Issues

• Dragon - The Gauge UI and the buy thrall button will not disappear if you keep watching a multiplayer game after being eliminated

Other

• Boar menders sealed away the past of their clan

v3.4.16.37124

Bugfixes

• Added new logs to understand the 4v2 issue
• Owl - Fixed a crash in conquest when selecting a root
• Fixed some crash when loading a save
• Thor Wrath - Fixed Barricade construction near the center

Known Issues

• Performance issues
• Some localization missing

v3.4.14.37059

Bugfix

Multiplayer

• Season will end the 27/03
• Added security to avoid the join pop up while in a lobby
• Added security to avoid full lobby occurence
• Fixed crash when creating/joining a conquest lobby with special characters in player names
• Fixed lobby not starting if players wasn't ready
• Fixed spectator choosing lore for players
• Joining a premade while looking for a game will stop the search

Owl

• Owl - Fixed Parasitic Vegetable working for military units

Known Issues

• Performance issues
• Thor Wrath - Can't place a Barricade near the center
• Some localization missing
• Conquest Owl - Crash when selecting a root if you have special character in Player name
• Victory animations may not appear

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Base game

Additional contents

Bundles

v3.4.6.36929 Gp will be rollback at 07/03/2024 before the patch, and we have added a week to finish the ranked season.

• Fixed GP gain for team and FFA game
• Fixed lobby Finder misrepresenting the actual research for a lobby
• Eagle - Fixed boneyard not healing if an ally was on the same tile
• added security to avoid the "lobby full" occurences

• Performance issues - Will be addressed shortly
• Ubuntu 23.10 hdll error - Investigating
• Connectivity issues on joining multiplayer games - investigating
• Lynx - Oskoreia ability shortcut key might crash the game

[quote]Oho warchiefs! After a month of beta testing, it is now time for the Rivals and Allies update to be available to everyone! This content has been made to answer the communitys expectations after the lobby finder update, but it includes other content as well! Be sure to read the news entirely.[/quote]

Rival and Allies - Out Now

Multiplayer - an enhanced experience

QoL - UI and Visuals reworked

Bug report - help us help you

Any other things?

For the next update

On the Public beta branch

What to expect

[quote]Hello Vikings!! After the open beta period, we are now ready to release all the changes and new additions we wanted to bring to the game with this new release! The main focus of this update is to make playing Ranked Multiplayer more fair and balanced, and playing Conquest with your friends easier and more enjoyable. As well as to bring shiny new animations, UI improvements and more. This patch contains new features for the Ranked Multiplayer, Conquest, the UI, Clans balancing, and many bug fixes. [/quote] v3.4.3.36866

Ranked Multiplayer

• Gains and Loss of GPs have been adjusted to be more fair.
• Multi-queue (looking for different types of games) is now possible.
• A Join pop-up now appears when finding a lobby to ensure players joining are not AFK.
• Ranks - New players no longer start at 300 GPs and in Stone league, but as unranked until they play 5 Ranked multiplayer games.
• Ready Button has been added to the lobby. (The game will launch when all players are ready or when the timer ends)
• Disconnection - In team games, if a player fails to connect or loses connection during the game, their teammates will be allowed to concede without losing GPs after some time.

Conquest

Bonus

• All general conquest bonus values have been buffed to be more impactful.
• Some Conquest bonuses have been reworked to be more useful:
  • Bonus allowing a specific building to take no building slot now functions for all buildings producing a specific resource.
  • Bonus allowing for free updates of a specific building now functions for all buildings producing a specific resource.

Co-op

• Co-op bonuses - When playing Co-op Conquest, each player now has their own pool of bonuses to choose from.
• Conquest Co-op flow has been reworked for more simplicity.
• Conquest Map - When playing Co-op Conquest, a new visual indication has been added to highlight what Battle is selected by each player.

UI

Improvements

Menus

• Background Illustrations - Perspective effect added on illustration animations.
• Clan Selection - It is now possible to open the Lore-Tree of each clan from the selection screen.
• Clan Selection - You can collapse start-with descriptions of clans.
• Multiplayer Leaderboard and Multiplayer Profile have a new tab highlighting the Cosmetic Rewards that can be obtained at the end of the season.
• Multiplayer Leaderboard screen now displays up to the top 8 players in each category, but no longer lets you search through all ranked players. (Following new changes and limitations on multiplayer rankings)
• Custom Lobby - it is now possible to invite and join a custom lobby with a Lobby ID (just like for co-op Conquest)
• Treasures Skins - Hovering a unit skin now triggers a preview of its victory animation.
• Treasures Ornaments - Season Ornaments will now be available in the shop after a year. Before this they will remain available only to players who obtained them as end of season reward.

In-Game

• Victory/ Defeat - New end-game animations for each type of victory and defeat have been added.
• Pop-ups - In-game pop-up UI has been reworked to be more consistent.
• Camera - In-game camera has been improved to allow for closer zoom-in.
• Units now have icons next to their stats highlighting the categories they belong to (Military unit, Specialized worker, Animal, Draconic unit, etc)
• In-game UI - you can now check clans Fame titles by hovering the fame icon and no longer the icon of the clan. (Start-with bonuses are still accessible by hovering the clan icon)

Additions

Stoat Clan

• Duchies and Levies custom UI is now displayed when playing the clan, highlighting the state of different duchies and levies and allowing for direct trigger of levies.

Bug Report

• The bug report button is accessible from the main menu, lobbies, and the in-game pause menu.
• Alert messages are now displayed in a custom report window that let you describe the issue in more detail and send the report.

Balancing

Reworks

Ox

• Start-with
  • Torfin recruitment cost has been reduced from 250 to 150 Krwns.
• Military Training
  • Each camp upgrade provides an additional +5% Attack Power to the associated unit. (in addition to existing bonuses)
• Ferocious Charge
  • Has been changed to only focus on Warriors but make their weapon forge entirely free.
• Warcraft
  • Lore and Fame are now only gained on kills, but the values have been increased.
  • 50% of Military XP converted into Lore - instead of 30% previously.
  • 20% of Military XP converted into Fame - instead of 10% previously.

Lynx

• Start-with
  • Hunters have a native +10% production bonus.
  • Mieliki recruitment cost has been reduced from 150 to 100 Krwns.
• Trackers
  • Trackers no longer lose some of their buffs when using non-ranged attacks.
• Spoils of Plenty
  • The lures can now be placed from the building menu and no longer require Mielikki to do it.
  • The +10% production bonus to Hunters on Lures is removed because it is now a global start-with
• Fame 200
  • The mythical lure can now be placed from the building menu and no longer requires Mielikki to do it.
  • Each animal kill decreases the next Feast cost by -7.5% - instead of -5% previously.
  • Waves of the mythical lure now spawn +25% faster.
• Caring Sibling
  • The heal on Brundr and Kaelinn now triggers outside your territory if Mielikki is in the zone with them.
  • Mieliki is also healed when she is with at least one of the Lynx.
• Sibling Rivalry
  • Brundr food production now works everywhere and no longer just inside your territory
• The Wise One
  • Mielikki Lore production is no longer restricted to your territory only.

Buffs

Bear

• Start-With
  • Delay on Kaija recruitment has been removed.
• Winter Festival
  • Now replaces Freyas Blessing.
• Fame 500
  • Attack Power gain bonus has been increased from 1 to 1.5%.

Raven

• Start-With
  • Lore production when scouting has been buffed from +1.5 to +2.
• Fame 200
  • Trade-routes with Homeland prices have been reduced from 1.5 to 1 Krwns

Global

• Mjolnir (Relic) damages have been multiplied by x2.
• Shield Bearer Camps upgrade now grants +3.5% Def (instead of 2.5% before).

Nerfs

Eagle

• Boneyard heal effect is now divided among the wounded units in the zone (With a minimum and maximum heal value per unit) and triggers only if the zone is not in combat.

Snake

• Rapacious Exploitation heal effect on scorched-earth zones is now divided among the wounded units in the zone (With a minimum and maximum heal value per unit) and only triggers outside of combat.

Bugfix

• Owl - Fixed loot pouch with wood not giving lore
• Owl - Fixed null displayed in the lore tree if all lore was unlocked
• Owl - Fixed warning message for upgrade a zone after relic is built
• Stoat - Fixed Everything the light touches achievement not unlocking with duchies
• Stoat - Fixed levy shared without the lore
• Snake - Fixed Signy details depending of her age in game info
• Snake - Stolen Lore fixed Field Ration giving a positive food upkeep
• Boar - Sheeps can no longer be tamed
• Squirrel - Rumor Mongering no longer improves relations with other clans
• Goat - Fixed second conquest bonuses not allowing to unlock lore after Defensive strategy
• Eagle - Fixed number of scout that can spy while another are exploring a cache on the same tile
• Lion - Fixed Monument of God not counted as a religious building
• Conquest - Gold rush fixed trade event being proposed
• Conquest - Gold Rush fixed tile with 2 different deposit on it
• Conquest - Land of Oblivion fixed Scorched earth activation
• Conquest - Land of Oblivion fixed military unit not transforming in the fog
• Conquest - Rising from the Abyss fixed scout going under water when assigned to Marmenils camp
• Conquest - Rough Sea fixed raid being launched in Longship Dock
• Conquest - Newfound Knowledge fixed AI unlock lore SFX played for the player
• Rigs Saga - Mission 8 hide a text that should not be displayed
• Rigs Saga - Mission 11 fixed issue when starting after the cutscene (villagers couldnt be assigned to TH and Defense Towers couldnt be destroyed)
• Lobby Finder - Fixed research not possible if no custom lobby was created ever
• Lobby finder - Fixed pop up text when Gp difference is to big
• Added security for lobby finder
• Fixed leaving a lobby not leading to GP loss
• Fixed a crash when trying to access conquest while a save is corrupted
• Fixed Scout scouting without scout camp
• Fixed Scout being blocked when scouting a tile that gets colonized mid-way through the scouting
• Fixed some generation map issue on Ragnarok
• Added security to avoid loading screen to stay displayed when a game start
• Fixed Draugr event spawning draugr on Town Hall tile
• Fixed SFX unit played on movement from AI
• Fixed relation notification not showing the correct associated neutral faction
• Fixed Monument of god displaying that a villager can be assigned
• Fixed Town Hall skin Svadilfari and Slidrugtani displaying a transparent flag
• Fixed GP displayed in premade
• Fixed Warchief name
• Fixed some text issues
• Fixed some UI issues

Known issues

• GOG/ EGS players can see P2P servers as an option for Conquest and Multiplayer lobbies but they cannot be accessed. (An error message will appear tried)
• Some UI issues
• Some text issues might still be present

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3.3.31.36730-beta Attention everyone! Here is the last batch of change before the community update. If you want to discover the complete content of the patchnote, now is the time to try the public beta branch!

Balancing

Camp upgrade

• Shield Bearer Camps upgrade now grant +3.5% Def (instead of 2.5% before)
• Shaman Camps upgrade have been reverted to granting +5% Health
• Fantassin Camps upgrade have been reverted to granting +5% Def

UI

• Custom Lobby - it is now possible to invite and join a custom lobby with a Lobby ID (just like for co-op Conquest)
• Alert messages are now displayed in a custom report window that let you describe the issue in more detail and send the report.
• Report button is now also accessible from multiplayer lobbies.
• Multiplayer Leaderboards screen now displays up to the top 8 players in each category, but no longer lets you search through all ranked players. (Following new changes and limitations on multiplayer rankings)

Bugfix

• Squirrel - Rumor Mongering no longer improves relations with other clans.
• Snake - Field Rations can no longer result in positive Food consumption.
• Scouts can no longer get stuck while scouting a territory that gets colonized by another clan.
• Addition of a security to prevent getting stuck on loading screen.
• In-game chat now correctly refreshes when switching from general to team chat.
• Various bugfixes and improvements related to Lobby-finder, Lobbies, and Leaderboards.
• When leaving a ranked lobby, the penalty warning no longer disappears after a few seconds.
• Fixed display issue in resources UI.
• Various text improvements.
• Fixed Mimirsbrunn screen display problem.

Known Issues

• Close button in Hunting Path window sometimes does not appear
• Some texts translations might be missing
• Some texts might display missing values
• Lynx - Mythical Lure doesnt cost Food to build

v3.3.30.36663-beta

Balancing

Lynx

Start-with

• Mieliki recruitment cost has been reduced from 150 to 100 Krwns.

Fame

• Fame 200 Waves of the mythical lure now spawn +25% faster

Path of the hunter

• Caring Sibling Mielikki is now healed as well when she is with at least one of the Lynx.

Bear

Start-With

• Delay on Kaija recruitment has been removed.

Fame

• Fame 500 Attack Power gain bonus has been increased from 1 to 1.5%.

Blessings

• Winter Festival Winter Festival now replaces Freyas Blessing, as a Blessing exclusive to Bear.

Raven

Start-With

• Lore produced when scouting has been buffed from +1.5 to +2.

Fame

• Fame 200 Trade-routes with Homeland prices have been reduced from 1.5 to 1 Krwns.

Conquest

• When playing Co-op Conquest, each player will now have their own pool of bonuses to choose from.
• When playing Co-op Conquest, a new visual indication has been added to highlight what Battle is selected by each player.
• Some Conquest bonuses have been reworked to be more interesting:
  • [Building] requires no building slot > Now works not just with a specific building, but with all buildings producing a specific [Resource].
  • (Food, Happiness, Krwns) [Building] can be upgraded freely X times > Now works not just with a specific building, but with all buildings producing a specific [Resource].

UI

• Units now have icons next to their stats highlighting the categories they belong to (Military unit, Specialized worker, Animal, Draconic unit, etc)
• From your Multiplayer Ranked screen, or the Leaderboard screen there is now a new tab highlighting the Cosmetic Rewards that can be obtained at the end of the season.
• The Problem Report button is now a more discreet, and looks like this:
  

Bugfix

• Snake - Stolen Lore works as intended.
• Snake - Rapacious Exploitation colonization cost reduction now displays the correct value.
• Owl - After Clan relic is forged, zones can be upgraded correctly without warning messages saying the maximum number of buildings has not been reached yet.
• Lore/Faith menu - The exit button on the top right of the window is now correctly displayed.
• Localisation - Some text issues fixed.

Known Issues

• In Co-op Conquest, even if players have separate pools of bonuses, the bonuses are still the same for each player, they should be different ones.
• Problem report button might sometimes not appear on main menu
• During team game, text highlighting if youre currently typing in team or global chat will not be refresh when you press tab
• After the placement game, pop-up showing your current GP and league might now show up
• You can join a teammate with an invalid GP difference
• Joining a team game in premade will display a pop up asking you if you want to leave your premade (clicking no will let you play normally with your premade)
• You can see unranked player in the leaderboard

v3.3.27.36556-beta

Balancing

Ox

• Military Training (in addition to existing bonus) Each camp upgrade provides an additional +5% Attack Power to the associated unit
• Ferocious Charge Has been changed to only focus on Warriors but make their weapon forge entirely free.
• Warcraft Lore and Fame is now only gained on kills, but the values have been increased. 50% of Military XP converted into Lore - instead of 30% previously. 20% of Military XP converted into Fame - instead of 10% previously.

Lynx

Start-with



• Hunters have a native +10% production bonus.

  Lore

  
  
• Spoils of Plenty The lures can now be placed from the building menu and no longer require Mielikki to do it. (The +10% production bonus to Hunters on Lures is removed because it is now a global start-with)

  Fame

  
  
• Fame 200 - Mythical lure The mythical lure can now be placed from the building menu and no longer requires Mielikki to do it. Each animal kill decreases the next Feast cost by -7.5% - instead of -5% previously.

  Path of the hunter

  
  
• Caring Sibling The heal on Brundr and Kaelinn now triggers outside your territory if Mielikki is in the zone with them.
• Sibling Rivalry Brundr food production now works everywhere and no longer just inside your territory.
• The Wise One Mielikki lore production is no longer restricted to your territory only.

Bugfix

• Removed watermark in game
• No need to have named a custom lobby to research a game with lobby finder

Known Issues

• Red cross not showing up on lore/faith UI sometimes
• Lynx lure can be placed on a tile with natural Deer

[quote]Hello Vikings In order to answer the demands of the community to participate in the development of the game, we intend on having a persistent open beta to let you experience the update on your computer and tell us if it's working as intended! [/quote]

The content

Your report

How to join

Click on the scrolling option in "Beta Participation" and choose Public beta - Test the latest addition to the game![/olist]
[quote]As you figured, this beta will evolve with time, we'll take feedback on it if you have some! You can reach us easily on Reddit or on our social media like Twitter/X and Facebook! We'll also create a space to share some feedbacks on Steam and Discord so be sure to check there if you want to become an active participant of this branch! Thank you all for your patience and we hope you'll enjoy the start of this new year of development for Northgard! -Shiro Community Team [/quote]

[quote] Hello vikings! With this new beta you will get access to the latest changes and additions weve been working on regarding Ranked Multiplayer, Conquest, UI, Balancing, and more! Join the beta, test those features and let us know what you think! The more players join the beta, and the more tests and reports we have, the sooner we can detect and anticipate eventual problems and adjustments needed that might arise from those new changes. [/quote] 3.3.26.365089-beta

Ranked Multiplayer

• It is now possible to queue for multiple types of games.
• Addition of a join pop-up to make sure players joining a lobby are not AFK.
• Players no longer start at 300 GPs in Stone league, but start as unranked and will get a rank and GP amount after they played 5 Ranked multiplayer games.
• Ready Button has been added to the lobby. (Game will launch when all players are ready or when the timer ends)

Disconnect Feature

Conquest

• Conquest Co-op flow has been reworked for more simplicity.
• All general Conquest bonuses have been buffed to be more impacting.

UI

General

• At the end of a game new victory animations are now played, highlighting the type of victory achieved.
• From the clan selection screen it is now possible to open the Lore-Tree of each clan.
• From this screen you can collapse start-with descriptions of clans.
• In-game you can now check clans Fame titles by hovering the fame icon and not the icon of the clan. (Start-with bonuses are still accessible by hovering the clan icon)
• In-game windows UI have been reworked.
• Background illustration animation improvements.
• In-game camera has been reworked to allow for closer zoom-in.

Stoat

• A new custom UI has been added for the Stoat Clan, highlighting the different Duchies the clan has, and allowing for direct check and trigger of Levies.

Balancing

Lynx

• Trackers no longer lose some of their buffs when using non-ranged attacks.

Ox

• Torfin recruitment price is reduced from 250 to 150 Krwns.

Rat

• Shaman Camps upgrade now gives +2.5% Health instead of +5%.

Eagle

• Boneyard heal effect is now divided among the wounded units in the zone. (With a minimum and maximum heal value per unit)
• If the zone is in combat the heal is no longer active.

Snake

• Rapacious Exploitation heal effect on scorched-earth zones is now divided among the wounded units in the zone. (With a minimum and maximum heal value per unit)
• If the zone is in combat the heal is no longer active.

Global

• Mjolnir (Relic) damages have been multiplied by x2. (And yes, it really does deal damages)

Patch notes v3.3.18.36375

Bugfix

• Lore production: Fixed free faith/lore when Monument of Gods were active
• Conquest The Cursed: Fixed infinite Draugr spawn on online coop conquest

Known Issues

• Ranked: Uneven team in 3v3
• Ranked: illogical GP repartition
• Cross of Vidar: Black screen when ending some missions
• AI: diverse issues
• Localisation: Some text are missing

[quote]Hello Everyone! After a good month working on the previous update as well as planning the incoming year, we can now present what awaits you this year in Northgard! You can expect a new way of handling the updates, and some content added thanks to the feedback and suggestion of the active players of the community. Enough talk for now, here is the plans for Northgard in 2024...[/quote]

THE COMING UPDATES

Rivals & Allies

Claws & Jaws | Trade & Prestige

The future of conquest?

On the community

[quote]Now is the time to gear up in anticipation of future updates... Northgard is now on sale at 70% off! Alongside the base game, the DLCs are also up to 50% off their original price. Since this summer, you can also access bundle specific to your gameplay! Don't forget to check them out [/quote]

Base game

Additional contents

Bundles

Patch notes v3.3.16.36098

Balancing

• Guardian Tower cannot scout enemy territories if your scouts cannot do it.

Bugfix

• Lobby Finder : Added security to avoid crashes
• Rigs Saga : Fixed mission 4 not being finishable
• Cross of Vidar : Fixed mission 5 not being finishable
• Raven : Fixed sailor production
• Kraken : Rollback on unintended changes regarding bonus production

Known issues

• Missing some localisations
• Lobby issues might still arise. Please report your issue using Feature Upvote if you haven't already

Northgard v3.3.15.36088

Multiplayer

• Added security to avoid empty lobby when searching a game with the Lobby finder

Known issues

• Kraken: Reversed all previous unwanted changes on Kraken
• Lobby Finder issues: Lobby null, crashes at launch,etc....
• Raven : Sailors doesn't product the correct amount of krwn
• Rig's saga : Mission 4 can't be finished
• Cross of Vidar : Mission 5 can't be finished

Hey Everyone, In our efforts to improve the player experience in Northgard, we have put together this survey to help us understand the sentiments and opinions of our community towards key areas of the game, our ongoing development, and our relationship with our players. The answers you provide will ultimately enable us to more accurately identify which areas of Northgard requires attention and aid us organize the year! If you've got 10 minutes to spare, we'd massively appreciate it! Fill the survey Thank you all for your participation! -Shiro Community Team

Northgard v3.3.15.36065

Balancing

• Norns now consume Food like any other units.
• Guardian of Realms summon cost has been increased.
  • Base cost: 500 > 600.
  • Cost increase for each zone of distance to the center of the map: 300 > 400.
  • Minimum cost is now only available on the center zone, and no longer on adjacent zones as well.

• Fame 200 - Scouting enemy territories now requires an upgraded Town Hall

• Fertile Soil - Resources obtained are not multiplied when there are multiple similar resources in the zone. (For example, a zone with Fish and Deers will count as 1 source of Food, and not 2) The Fertile land created by the branch is no longer counted as one of the natural resources in the zone.
• Knowledges no longer give +20 Fame each, but a different value of Fame depending on their level.
  • Tier 1: +5 Fame
  • Tier 2: +15 Fame
  • Tier 3: +20 Fame
  • Tier 4: +25 Fame
  • Blessing: +35 Fame

• Added the annual community survey in the menu

Bugfix

• Fixed crash when searching a game with the lobby finder
• Total win made more accurate, still locked at 1000 if success unlocked
• Fixed UI telegraph for the guest during conquest mission Shards of Misfortune
• Fixed Iron golem not spawning during conquest mission Shards of Misfortune
• Fixed a crash in conquest mission Shards of Misfortune
• Fixed Fog of war hiding partially scouted tile
• Fixed a crash in conquest mission Cataclysm with Falconers
• Fixed Vedfrolnirs reward granted each time you load a save
• Clan of the Raven : Fixed scout forge and Rangers lore not improving the lore production of scout
• Clan of the Snake : Fixed Scorched Earth giving too much food from fish on coastal tile
• Clan of the Owl : Fixed Healing herbs not healing Vedrfolnir in Owl territory
• Clan of the Ox : Fixed Torfin having 100% projectile resistance
• Cross of Vidar : Fixed notification spamming in mission 4
• Kingdom : Fixed monk not producing lore when 3 of them were healing
• Fixed some texts
• Fixed some localization

Known Issues

• Some text localization might still be missing
• Ranked GP difference - It is an issue with finding your GP, click on the gear beside it and it should work after that

As is traditions, Steam is letting us celebrate winter! At this occasion, Northgard is now on sale at 75% off! Alongside the base game, the DLCs can now be picked up at 50% off their original price. Since this summer, you can also access bundle specific to your gameplay! Don't forget to check them out [hr][/hr]

Base game

Additional contents

Bundles

Northgard v3.3.11.35900

Balancing

• Minimum Lore amount required for Victory is now only available at the very center of the map, and no longer on adjacent zones as well.
• Minimum Lore amount required for victory has been increased (600 > 800).
• Lore amount increments for each zone of distance to the center of the map has been increased (600 > 800).
• When the territory of a player is under attack (except Monument zone which stops progress entirely) the amount of Lore collected by their Monument is reduced by -50%.
• Notification to all clans is now sent when the Monument construction begins, and not when it ends.
• Monument construction time has been increased (1 month > 2 months).
• For Kingdoms, only 1 subject can be assigned to the construction of the Monument.

• Owl Clan becomes available in Ranked Games today.
• Verdandi prod boost no longer affects villagers.
• Fertile Soil prod boost no longer affects villagers.
• Protection Rune Carving has been reworked:
  • Now only give Defence based on the Lore buildings / Groves in the zone.
  • Can now be placed in the territory of another clan to benefit them.
  • Values have been rebalanced accordingly.
• Guardian of Realms is available even when the Wisdom Victory is not (but it is just the unit and doesnt give access to the Owl unique victory)

• Levies prod boost no longer affects villagers.

• New texts and explanations tooltip have been added or adjusted for more clarity

Bugfix

• Added message when premade cant be joined
• Added security for lobby finder issues (lag, crash, lobby empty)
• Added security on win condition for Carved in stone conquest mission in coop
• Boar - Fixed last conquest bonuses
• Kraken - Fixed last conquest bonus not hurting myrkalfar
• Dragon - Fixed converted thrall controlled by AI
• Raven - Fixed homeland trade route giving ressources and krwn
• Fixed non balanced map for ranked
• Fixed permafrost map for ranked
• Fixed branch giving effect while Owl players wasnt discovered
• Fixed happiness flickering when mining gemstone during conquest mission Gems cutter
• Fixed Lighthouse not being constructible in Rough sea conquest mission
• Fixed Mimirsbrunn progression visible in the fog
• Fixed arachnophobia setting
• Fixed Taverner female model
• Fixed flickering trade route UI
• Fixed scout packed on same spot when spying a town hall
• Fixed some localization
• Fixed some text

Known issues

• Some localization are missing
• Healing herbs doesnt heal Vedrfolnir in Owl territory

[quote] Oho warchiefs! Here comes the new update for Northgard! In it, you will find a new clan but also a new lobby finder and lore victory rework. [/quote] [previewyoutube=CvOEzCSMT9U;full][/previewyoutube]

Clan of the Owl - Out now

Winter update, available to all

New conquest - Kingdoms on the rise

Lore victory rework - The most WONDER-ful time

Lobby Finder - The Lobby Finder is coming to town

The Winter festival is here!

For the details..

Concerning the beta-test

Ahoy Vikings!

[quote] If you want to stay in touch with what's coming to Northgard, here is a quick preview of what is currently in the works on our side and what to expect in the incoming update. [/quote]

Vrdr watches among the trees

Winter update

Lobby Finder

Lore victory

Beta test

NORTHGARD STREAM

Who hide among the trees?

Lobby Finder and Update

[quote]Hello Warchiefs ! Halloween just ended, and we are now approaching the release of the next major update for the game. A lot of things are planned for the next update, and there is one especially that we know you are waiting for. To achieve it, well need your help. [/quote]

A beta test to improve the multiplayer experience

Some questions you might have

[quote]Once again this year, the draugar make a terrible comeback in this season of fear and terror! Will you be able to triumph in Draugrheim? Will the southern kingdoms be able to face this unknown threat? Here is all you need to know about the event.[/quote]

TEMPORARY GAME MODE

NEW TEMPORARY TOWN HALL SKIN

[quote] Ohoi Vikings! Here is the new update for Northgard! Everything you need to know is here, either it is about the new Kingdom or about the new free update. [/quote] [previewyoutube=b_oOlsrLO4M;full][/previewyoutube]

Kingdom of the Stoat - Out now

Free update for everyone

New conquest

Diplomacy rework

A fresh look for Northgard

Kingdom military upgrades revamped

And more...

[quote]Oho Vikings! We are thrilled to introduce you to the newest significant content update that has arrived on the challenging shores of Northgard... one new clan is coming : The Clan of the Stoat & fresh new bunldes.[/quote] But before we delve into the details... All of these exciting updates will be unveiled and discussed in our outgoing livestream, you can come up. If you'd like, please take a moment to join us, take a look, and ask any questions you may have. This is the perfect opportunity! Link to our Twitch channel And if you're looking to get a sneak peek, here's the trailer for the Stoat Clan... Kernev is coming : wishlist now! [previewyoutube=upaBWxmX7g0;full][/previewyoutube]

But how about our fresh bundle offerings?

Starter Pack

The Viking Age Edition

Builders Pack

Warriors Pack

Strategists Pack

Who dare overlook the Clan of the Stoat... Get ready to welcome Kernev wishlist now!

[quote]nominoe a ginnigo hec`h aotrounzou e dibenn an eost - Nomino will present his lords at the end of august - With that news, we're proud to share that a major summer update is planned alongside a new faction! Here is a sneak peek at what you can expect from our next major update and release [/quote]

A new clan has arrived - The Stoat

What else is coming

[previewyoutube=tdQuJnRrVww;full][/previewyoutube] [quote]Ohoi Vikings! We are very pleased to present you all with the latest major content update to grace the perilous shores of Northgard: The Trials of Odin! In what is surely one of the most biggest and most impactful free updates we've released to date, you'll be greeted with new conquests, new warchiefs, massive clan overhauls/reworks, tons of balancing and more... But don't take our word for it, read on to find out more about what's included in this massive new update for Northgard![/quote]

Conquest:

Battles

• Death Match
• No Gods or Master
• Threats from the Underground

• Foxholes
• How to train your Wyvern
• The Great Hunt

• Glorious Lands
• Minopoly
• Rising from the Abyss

Bonuses

Spectator Mode:

A new spectator mode is available for multiplayer games!

Clan reworks and Balancing:

General changes

Relics

• Svalinn is removed.
• Bragaful is removed.

Viking Relics

• Unchanged

• Previous behavior is scrapped.

• Population Happiness requirement is reduced.
• Your workers have an increased production based on your Happiness level.

• Previous behavior is scrapped.

• Forge is 50% faster.
• Forged military units have a chance to summon a lightning bolt on their enemy when they land a strike.

Kingdom Relics

• Codex Aureus - unchanged
• Altar of Volvinius - unchanged

• Feasts cost -50% and use Wood instead of Food.
• During Feasts, the units in your territory inflict Burning Damages.

Rivalries

• Rivalries have globally been nerfed.

Events

• Sailors now get Fame for venturing on the sea when the Kraken is roaming.
• Ships will no longer be automatically destroyed during the event, the Kraken will only attack if too many ships are at sea during the event.

Victories

• If you stop all Great Trade-Routes, your Commercial Influence will slowly decrease over time.
• If several clans have Great Trade-Routes at the same time, the amount of Commercial Influence theyre getting out of it is reduced.

Knowledges

• Gives +10% Attack Power against Dragonkins > Draconic Units
• (Dragonkins, Draconic Nightmares, Draconic Jotnars, Surtr)
• Other effects are unchanged.

Buildings

Forge

• Forge upgrade cost: 10 > 5 Stones.

MarketPlace

• All prices have been reduced by 50%.

Ruins/ Shipwrecks

• Value of ruins and shipwrecks based on their distance to the player TownHall have been globally reduced.

Units

Bodyguard

• Bodyguard is now a controllable unit and can be recruited even if the warchief is not in the zone. (But can only be recruited if you have your warchief)
• If the warchief dies, the bodyguard dies as well.
• Cooldown before you can recruit the Bodyguard again: 3 > 6 months.

Clans:

Warchief

• Kar is the new warchief of the Kraken Clan.
• She is a Valkyrie, and as such, she also Heal near Hrgrs, and in zones under the effect of High-Tide with the knowledge of Valhalla's Reinforcement.
• Her stats have been rebalanced.

Start-with

• Wyrd is no longer a stacking resource but a flux and replaces Happiness completely.
• The clan is unaffected by Happiness maluses and bonuses.
• Wyrd abilities are removed (they are reworked into other elements).
• When you have a positive production of Wyrd, the Kraken will send you new Villagers.
• When you have a negative production of Wyrd you will instead receive Spectral Warriors under your control that can be sacrificed to apply High-Tide to the zone they are in.
• High-Tide can be applied to coastal zones.
• The maximum number of Spectral Warriors you can have under your control is increased by +1 for each Hrgr built, +2 if upgraded.
• Norns are renamed Seeresses.
• A Seeress can be evolved into a Valkyrie for 120 Krwns, and inflict a constant cost of -3 Wyrd.
• Valkyries possess the ability to be sacrificed to colonize a zone from start (required to forge units previously).
• Other start-with are unchanged.

Fame 200

• You no longer receive a fixed amount of Wyrd.

• Spectral Warriors increase the production of the zone theyre in by +15%.
• Other effects are unchanged.

Fame 500

• Your maximum number of Spectral Warriors is increased by +4.
• Other effects are unchanged.

Relic

• Previous effect of the relic is scrapped.

• You can call on the Kraken and trigger a Kraken event.
• During a Kraken event, when a boat gets destroyed you get the resources it contained.

Knowledges

• Knowledge is removed.

• Previous effect is reworked.

• High-Tide zones generate +1 Krwns, +1 Wyrd, and have +1 Building Slot.

• Replaces Blessing of Baldr
• You receive 3 Spectral Warriors.

Valkyries

• 17.5 > 14 Def

• Previous effect is now available from the start on Valkyries.

• If Wyrd production is positive: Enlightenment.
• The Valkyrie heals nearby military units outside of combat.
• If Wyrd production is negative: Corruption.
• The Valkyrie gains +25% Move speed and +10% Attack Power.

Warchief

• Surtr is the new warchief of the Dragon Clan.
  
• Surtr can be recruited for a cost in Draconic Essence instead of Iron.
• He is now considered a Draconic unit and benefits from bonuses that affect them.
• His stats have been rebalanced.
• He has a chance to enslave the enemies he slays.

Start-with

• There are no more limits on Thralls.
• Thralls do not need a Longship Dock to be purchased.
• Base price for Thralls has been adjusted.
• Thralls can be assigned to production buildings from the start and no longer require the knowledge of Hard Labor.
• Thralls can be assigned to the Forge.
• When assigned to buildings, Thralls no longer produce resources themselves but they instead boost the production of workers.
• Draconic Essence is consumed faster depending on the number of Thralls you have compared to your clan population.
• Other start-with are unchanged.

Fame 500

• The clan no longer gains bonuses for being behind on victories.

• Dragonkins can be sent to a Dragonkin Altar a second time to be turned into Draconic Nightmares.
• Other bonuses are unchanged.

Knowledges

• Knowledge is removed and is now a start-with of the clan.

• The part about capturing enemy units is now a start-with.
• Other effects are unchanged.

• Now replaces Eradication.
• Increases the number of Thralls you can assign by 2 > 1.
• or 2 if the building is upgraded.

• Now replaces Medicine.

• Draconic Essence gauge decreases 30% slower.
• Other effects are unchanged.

• Replaces Monster Slayer.
• Draconic units have +15% Attack Power.
• Instead of capturing enemy units as Thralls, if you have available Warband slots, they are instantly turned into Dragonkins and join your army.

Units

• New Forge for the Nightmares: Battlecry
• When the Nightmare takes a hit, it screams to intimidate nearby enemies and decrease their Attack Power by -30% for 3 seconds.
• Cooldown: 10 seconds.

Warchief

• Signy stats have been rebalanced.
• Her stats now only scale for the 3 first years but not after shes 18.

Ages

• Signy has access to Scorched-Earth from the beginning but can only use it on neutral and ally zones.
• Scorched Earth gives +20% Attack Power to Snake units and steals natural resources from the zone. (not in ally zone)
• Cooldown: 4 months.

• Raised by Wolves is removed.
• When Scorched Earth is applied to a zone, all wild creatures flee to adjacent zones, revealing them in the process.
• Other effects are unchanged.

• Signy no longer gets +50% bonus stats at age 17.
• You can have one more zone affected by Scorched-Earth simultaneously.
• Effects are unchanged.

• Scorched Earth can target enemy zones and gives +50% Attack Power to Snake units.

Start-with

• Swidden Field is removed.
• Instead Signy has access to Scorched Earth from the start.

Knowledges

• Previous effect is scrapped.

• Snake military units gather the natural resources and heal while standing on a burning Scorched Earth zone.
• (the first 2 months of Scorched Earth)

• Now replaces Medicine.
• Effects unchanged.

• No longer degrades the relation of other clans when you have units Cloaked among neutral factions units.

• When you have Cloaked units among neutral factions, they steal the resources that enemy clans send via trade-route.
• (it does not affect the relation gain)
• Other effects are unchanged.

• Attacking buildings to steal resources no longer burns them.
• Other effects are unchanged.

• Bonus is 100% more effective during the first 5 > 3 seconds of a fight.

Warchief

• Liv is the new warchief of the Raven Clan.
  
• She comes in with a brand new skin to celebrate this.
• Her stats have been rebalanced.
• She has a new active ability: Odins Eyes
• You can see through the fog of war for 1 month.
• Cooldown: 6 months.

Start-with

• Financial Optimisation is removed (Passive +15% bonus to Krwns production)
• You can no longer spend Krwns to attract new Villagers faster.
• Great Trade-Routes reduction (-10%) is removed.
• Trade-Routes with Homeland are no longer available from the start.
• New: You gain Lore when you scout new zones.
• Sailors assigned to Harbors can now either produce Krwns or Scout coastal zones. (They produce more Krwns than classic Sailors)
• Raids are now available from the start but cant target enemy zones.
• You can no longer choose how many Mercenaries you send on raid, they automatically send as many Mercenaries as you have Sailors assigned to the Harbor.
• Cooldown is no longer on Harbors but on the zones targeted by the raids.
• Raids prices have been rebalanced.
• Raids forge are removed.
• You can control Mercenaries.
• They only stay 30 seconds on the zone targeted and cant decolonize it.
• Each Mercenary steals some of the natural resources from the tile, but only when they leave the tile (IF they leave it alive).

Fame 200

• Raids can target enemy zones.
• Trade-Routes with Homeland are available at the Trading Posts and provide resources for a cost in Krwns.
• Other effects are unchanged.

Fame 500: Wartime Economy

• Previous Fame 500 is scrapped.

• Upkeep costs of all buildings are reduced by -15% and by -50% for Military Buildings.
• Mercenaries can be recruited at Military Camps to bolster your Warband. They do not consume Food and Wood but require a constant payment in Krwns to remain under your control.

Relic

• A Son of Hymir automatically joins all of your raids and gathers twice as many resources as a normal Mercenary.
• Raven Ships become unsinkable and are unaffected by Kraken and Frozen Sea events.

Knowledges

• Now replaces Coinage.
• Forging speed bonus is removed.

• MarketPlace prices are reduced by -25%.
• You send -25% less resources via Trade-Routes.
• Other effects are unchanged.

• Now replaces Shipbuilding.
• Previous effect is scrapped.

• Sailors produce +20%.
• All Great Trade-Routes provide +2 Happiness.
• For each 200 Commercial Influence, your next Villagers arrive +15% faster. (Max: +75%)

• Now replaces Medicine.
• Effects unchanged.

• Now replaces Weaponsmith.
• Military Units gain +6 > +4% Attack Power and Defense, for each active Merchant or Sailor. (Max: +30% > +20%)

Warchief

• Halvard is the new warchief of the Goat Clan.
  
• He comes in with a brand new skin to celebrate this.
• His stats have been rebalanced.
• He has a new passive ability: Shepherd.
• After participating in clearing a zone, wild Sheeps in the zone are captured by Halvard.

Start-with

• Military XP gains are no longer reduced for the clan.

Relic

• Additional Sheepfold is removed from Relic effects.

Knowledges

• Replaces Industrious as a stealable Knowledge.
• Previous effect is scrapped.

• Tools can be forged without Iron.

• Previous effect is scrapped.

• Halvard can be assigned to buildings producing Food or Happiness to increase their production by +60%.

Warchief

• Svarn is the new warchief of the Boar Clan.
• He comes in with a brand new skin to celebrate this.
• His stats have been rebalanced.

Fame 200

• Svarn heals wounded animals inside your territory and can Tame an animal to join him in battle.

Warchief

• Borgild is the new warchief of the Bear Clan.
• She comes in with a brand new skin to celebrate this.

Knowledges

• Now replaces Hearthstone.
• Previous effect is scrapped.

• Food production is no longer reduced during Winter.
• All other productions are increased by +15% during Winter.

Warchief

• Brand is the new warchief of the Stag Clan.
  
• He comes in with a brand (ahah) new skin to celebrate this.

Start-with

• The clan gains more Happiness and Fame from its territory. (+50%)

Fame 500

• Max gain of production and reduction of colonization costs 25% > 15%.

Relic

• Einherjars
• Max Atk +5 > +4.

Warchief

• Egil is the new warchief of the Wolf Clan.
• He comes in with a brand new skin to celebrate this.

Knowledges

• Now replaces Coinage.
• Trade-Routes produce +150% Krwns.
• Other effects are unchanged.

Warchief

• Horse Warchiefs stats have been rebalanced.
• Their mining speed has been increased.

Fame 500

• Production bonus on zones adjacent to a relic no longer stacks if there are 2 relics adjacent.

Knowledges

• Warchiefs produce 5 > 4 Lore for each ore extracted.

• Tool forge gives an additional +10% > +5% prod.

Knowledges

• Passive production of Military XP is removed.

• Upkeep costs of Military buildings are reduced by -30%.

Knowledges

• You can no longer sell Trophies.

• You can buy Trophies at the Marketplace.
• Marketplace prices are reduced by 30%.

Fame 200

• Effects of Meals are reduced by -50% for allies.
• Cost in Food for ally Meals have been reduced accordingly.

Shamans

• Previous effect is scrapped.

• After taking a hit, the Shaman next attack deals +60% Dmgs.

Start-with

• The clan no longer gains Lore when scouting new zones.
• Caches are no longer passively uncovered by Aviaries, but by active Falconers.
• Aviaries upgrade increased scouting speed by +50% > +20%. (But the bonus stacks for each upgrade)
• Caches content have been rebalanced.
• Tiles with multiple Ore deposits no longer count as multiple sources or Ore for generation of Loot Pouches.
• (So the max amount of Ore you can get in one clear is 6)

Knowledges

• Training Field
• If you have Griff you gain +3 > +1 Happiness.

Blood Eagle

• Blind effect lasts for 3 > 2 seconds.

Sentinel

• Wachkeeping ability gives +10% > +20% bonus production to the zone.

Unit

• Falconer's Forge increases Caches Spawn speed, and no longer scouting speed.

Start-with

• Recruitment cost in Faith: 100% > 150% of the cost in Krwns.

Buildings

• Give a base bonus of 20% > 25%.

• No longer gives +20% Faith production

Units

• Second hit only passes on 100% > 30% of the Damages.
• Champions base Atk is increased from 7 to 8.

Monks

• No more than 3 Monks can heal at the same time - the others keep producing Faith/ crafting Relics.

Relic

• Revive all units with 10% Health > 50% Health.

Knowledges

• Smithy increases defense to military units by 15% > 10%.

Visual Changes:

• Warchiefs are now bigger in scale.
• Outlines of units now appear in the color of their clan.
• Except for Warchiefs and Heros who appear with a gold outline.
• Pause UI has been reworked.

Audio Changes:

• Addition of new sounds.

Ranking Changes

• GPs wins and losses in Free-for-all games are now calculated differently to take into account the end position of the player.
• Players' end position in Free-for-all games no longer take into account the progress on passive victories. If a player wins by any Victory other than Domination, all remaining players are all ranked at the same lowest remaining position.
• (For example if 4 players remain and one wins with a Wisdom Victory, all 3 remaining players will be ranked in 4th position.)

Bugfixes:

• Fix - Performance issues when using the Spike Barricade
• Fix - Recruiting military units is no longer blocked on attacked tiles
• Fix - Starving sometimes didnt trigger
• Fix - Neutral factions no longer directly target the TH
• Fix - Decolonizing last Kobold tiles even while theyre attacking another territory now correctly eradicates the Faction
• Fix - Operatives Dwarves no longer appear as no-work if there are no activity they can be assigned to
• Fix - Healer Hut correctly displays the no-assigned icon when no units are assigned
• Fix - Spike Barricade repair message is correctly displayed
• Fix - Pseudo no longer resets when selecting some game options
• Fix - Colonizing and canceling repeatedly a zone for Lore no longer artificially increases Lore production in stat screen
• Fix - Blessing no longer overlap on top of lores unlocked in stat screen
• Fix - Texture correctly appears at the destruction of a building
• Fix - Crash when using Ram ability of Torfin has been corrected
• Fix - Ancestral Equipment no longer trigger a build complete notification when they spawn
• Fix - Giant Boar is no longer counted in Pop
• Fix - Lion TownHall can now be correctly spied on
• Fix - Kingdom Forts can no longer be used by Viking clans
• Fix - Squirrel meal window overlapping problem
• Fix - Hildegard model is correctly loaded
• Fix - Dragonkin female model sword fix
• Fix - SFX when joining a Lobby no longer plays twice
• Fix - Crash in P2P when Host leaves the game
• Fix - Freeze when launching a custom multiplayer game
• Fix - Report button in lobby
• Fix - Cross of vidar - Mission 2 fix secondary objective of Griff increment problem when colonizing a zone with a loot pouch.
• Optimisation - mission 10 Cross of Vidar
• Fix - Cross of vidar - Mission 10 save problem which loaded the wrong 3D model of Hildegard
• Fix - Rigs Saga - Mission 6 zone colonization icon now correctly displays the resource used for colonization
• Fix - Settings no longer reset at the application of a new patch (starting at the next patch)
• Fix - Fix multiple descriptions on Neustria biome
• Fix - Texts sometime appeared twice
• Fix - Pseudo length is correctly capped in Diplomacy screen
• Fix Lion Smith being in no-work when a relic is under construction in the same zone
• Fix Fame 500 horse in custom map that didnt created new deposits
• Fix Gayant Champion move speed to be the same as Jotunn Champion
• Added security for Conquests saves
• Fix - Multiple texts/localization issues
• Fix - Multiple UI fixes

[quote]Ohoi Vikings! Were working hard on Northgard and you can expect a ton of new changes this year. Keep in mind this roadmap is mostly tentative, hence why no dates will be revealed as of today. But enough talk, here is what you came for [/quote]

Northgard in 2023

The near future

Coming this year

A new kingdom will reveal itself

Other vikings arrive on our shores

What else?

[quote]Hey guys! As it has been one of your long time request, we decided to work on a spectator mode for Northgard Here is all the info you need to help us test this addition to the game [/quote]

Spectator mode

CHOOSE YOUR POINT OF VIEW

REAL TIME RESOURCES

STATS AND UI

OTHER DETAILS

The saga reaches its epilogue

Clan of the Lion

Clan of the Dragon

Cross of Vidar Missions

All Missions

• Made the secondary objectives hidden until completing the mission once.
• Minor UI rework
• Sheep have been added to some missions (best change ever)
• Fixed the AI
• Specific music is now played during each mission

Mission 6

• Minor map rework to make mission objectives clearer
• Second phase has been reworked and rebalanced to propose a higher level of challenge

Mission 7

• Enemy AI now periodically sends reinforcements to zones it already controls.
• Enemy tiles are decolonized faster

Mission 8

• Added +20 relationship toward the Dwarves at the start to avoid being in bad relations when colonizing zones near them
• Minor map rework
• Reworked the boss fight UI
• Reworked SFX for the boss fight

Bugfixes

• Kingdom of the Lion : Added 3D models for the fishermen
• Kingdom of the Lion : Operative Dwarves doesnt count in the livability
• Kingdom of the Lion : Fixed multiple UI
• Kingdom of the Lion : Can upgrade a tile without having all building slot used
• Kingdom of the Lion : Repair a building doesnt add livability
• Kingdom of the Lion : Save Vedrfolnir give faith
• Operative Dwarves : Fixed their forge to work as usual
• Rigs saga : Fixed mission 11 to not break events when saving
• Clan of the Kraken : Near the Sea does not produce Krowns during the mission greed Price
• Clan of the Boar : Fixed Hvedrung model to not show a horn below it
• Ceremonial Bonfire : Fixed trades to consume wood
• Fixed woodcutter idle animation
• Fixed some localization issues

Known Issues

• Some localizations are missing

The Cross of Vidar

The Cross of Vidar Campaign

The Southern Kingdoms

Features

• Southern Kingdoms have their own set of unique buildings, and unique units.
• Their buildings evolve in different forms, with different effects.
• They do not use Lore but Faith instead.
• They have some specific Knowledge, and Blessings are replaced with Vows.
• They cannot use Lorestones, Circle of Stones or other Viking artifacts to produce Lore, but can use them to produce more Krwns or Faith.
• The Chapel is your main building. It spawns new subjects, your base unit.
• Subjects produce Faith instead of Food.
• Buildings have no builder nor worker limit, but you can only assign additional workers if the Livability in the zone is sufficient.
• Workers in a zone with 8 Livability or more have a +30% production bonus and +10% bonus population growth.
• The Chapel protects all subjects in its zone from the cold and feeds them until winter comes. It also heals units assigned to it.
• Building upgrades cost less Stone. It is not necessary to upgrade the Chapel first.
• Feasts give +2 Happiness and apply Prosperity to all of your zones.
• Military units can be upgraded with different military upgrades.
• They have their own relics, different from the viking ones.

The Kingdom of the Lion

Start-with

• Zones with military camps gain +1 Livability.
• Killing a foe generates Faith if Hildegard takes part in the fight.
• Military units can be recruited using Faith instead of Krwns.

Fame 200: Religious Processions

• Feasts cost 3% less for each acquired Knowledge and Vow.
• Each military camp in a zone with Prosperity gives a +5% attack bonus to the associated units.

Fame 500: Rise of the Twelve Peers

• You can evolve Monks into Paladins for a cost in Faith.
• Paladins can be assigned a Relic and carry it with them, including into enemy territory.
• Relics require no building slot.

Knowledge

• Steelwork
  • Each military building in a zone with an active Smithy provides a +5% defense bonus to the associated units.
• Ost
  • Your next Sentry Camp upgrade is free.
  • Military XP gains are increased by 15%.
• Marchfield
  • Military upgrades unlock faster and have a higher chance to trigger.
• Chanson de Geste
  • Killing mystical creatures generates Faith
• Miraculous Healing
  • Religious buildings slowly heal units within their zones.

Relic: Lance of Longinus

• Clan units who died within the Lance's zone can be revived in exchange for Faith.

Achievements

Campaign Achievements

• New achievements for completing the new campaign main and secondary objectives.

Clan Achievements

• The Wonder Collector Capture an enemy Relic
• Midas was an amateur Build the Altar of Volvinius
• Faithbook Build the Codex Aureus
• Monk is not dead Build the relic of the clan of the Lion
• Do you have a moment to talk about our Lord and Savior? Carry a Relic into enemy territory
• Everything the light touches Control 5 forts or more
• Guess who's back? (everyone) Revive 20 or more units at once
• The Twelve Peers Raise an army comprised of at least 12 paladins

Changes

Global

• Rats now target houses and reduce Food production in the zone. Silos and upgraded Foraging Posts protect the zone against the infestation.

• Buildings placement on the construction panel has been changed.
• Several texts have been corrected.

Bugfix

• Pathfinding issues have been resolved.
• When a tower is attacked on a Landvidi zone, it now displays the units attacking the tower.
• When a special Townhall has already been unlocked by completing a Conquest, the notification for unlocking it is no longer displayed.
• It is no longer possible to transfer a tool or relic being forged to an ally by transferring the forge building.
• Spike Barricade now correctly appears on all zones.
• Helheim Invasion event now works correctly.
• It is no longer possible to open several building panels at once.
• It is no longer possible to send Food without assigned Merchants in Campaign 1 - Mission 7
• Mining progression is now correctly displayed.
• Damages inflicted by Kraken final Conquest bonus have been reworked.
• Thralls no longer gather more Food in a zone with a Silo if they are not assigned to a Food production building.
• Names can now be changed in Creative Mode.
• Several value roundings adjustments.

Known Issues

• minor UI issues
• Monks produce faith when building relics

[previewyoutube=QG_vZG9q7r8;full][/previewyoutube] 5 years ago, thousands of settlers embarked on a journey that landed them upon the shores of Northgard to set about building a new life and civilization, and now we are extremely proud to share that now over 3 million vikings have joined our clan! Thank you to each and every one of the 3 million who have accompanied us on this journey, we can't wait to continue it with all of you! Stay tuned for news on the upcoming Campaign expansion...

TEMPORARY GAME MODE

TEMPORARY TOWN HALL SKIN

[quote=author]Hey everyone! We are proud to present to you our ninth clan, the clan of the Eagle, which brings some exciting new mechanics and units to Northgard. Read on to find out more about what makes the clan of Hrsvelg so unique. [/quote] https://store.steampowered.com/app/2138500/Northgard__Hrsvelg_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.

Orphaned upon the fall of their parents 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.

• 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 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.

• 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.

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

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

• 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.

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

• 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%).

• 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.

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

• 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.

• All military units gain Cloaked ability.

• Merchants produce 20% more
  Krwns.
• 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.

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

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

• 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.

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

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

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

• 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).

• 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.

• 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.

• Optimized various game systems to improve multiplayer performances.

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

• Improved the font system for 4k monitors, so all the texts are displayed nicely (its 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.

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

• Improved various texts

• 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 wouldnt 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.

• 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

[quote=author]Hello everybody! We're extremely happy to finally share with you all of the incredible stuff weve been preparing for Gamescom over the last few months! We hope that you will be as excited about this news as we have been throughout development, and we can't wait to share even more details about whats to come down the line. Let's start! [/quote]
[h4]Northgard | The Clan of the Eagle[/h4] We start these announcements with the preview of the next Northgard clan, the Clan of the Eagle! [previewyoutube=RCI3G7_FXRQ;full][/previewyoutube] Carried by the winds, the agile explorers of Hraesvelg do not need to occupy a large territory, for they will easily 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 desert areas. They are led by Grif, the only survivor of an extinct clan... More details will be shared very soon! [h4]Northgard | New Campaign Chapter[/h4] As a long-awaited novelty, we are extremely happy to say that the next chapter of the Northgard campaign is coming... More details will be released very soon! But at this time we can only share with you some concepts of it. Tell us what you think about them and feel free to speculate in the comments about what we might be seeing in this highly anticipated expansion!
https://store.steampowered.com/app/466560/Northgard/
[h4]Dune: Spice Wars | House Corrino[/h4] As we have already shared with you, the Imperial House Corrino, rulers of the Known Universe for the last ten millennia are finally coming to Arrakis... The factions on Arrakis have become unruly, and as such, the Padishah Emperor Shaddam IV is left with no choice but to make a rare trip to the desert planet, alongside his feared Sardaukar in order to remind them of his dominion. While he holds a lot of power, he must also be careful to preserve certain essential relationships, most crucially with the Spacing Guild. Playing as House Corrino, players will experience a very different kind of economy to balance. Tip the scales of spice in your favor by receiving spice taxes or bribes from other factions while paying the Spacing Guilds fees to maintain interstellar travel at affordable rates and hold the empire together. House Corrino will join the battle in the next major update, releasing soon. Stay tuned for news...
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1605220/Dune_Spice_Wars/
[h4]Wartales | The Great Gosenberg | Next Free Major Update[/h4] We're incredibly excited and proud to present the second free major update for Wartales, The Great Gosenberg, which will bring hours of new content and gameplay!
Gosenberg, our beautiful capital, is a marvellous place, filled with beautiful architecture, the smartest and richest minds in all of the land and host to the most gifted of artists and performers. This historic city operates today as a central merchants hub, providing opportunities not only to the rich and powerful, but anyone who is savvy enough to dabble in the trades. Beneath the surface however, it seems there is a much more sinister side to this seemingly idyllic city, one that has spent years waiting to be uncovered... Gosenberg is yours to explore in Wartales this September! [previewyoutube=Fuj4C8VXrwg;full][/previewyoutube] https://store.steampowered.com/app/1527950/Wartales/ [quote=author]And that's it for our Gamescom announcements and news! We hope you enjoyed discover them, and are as excited as we are during their development! More details will be share with you very soon, so stay tuned... Shiro Games Team. [/quote]

Welcome, Vikings! We're very proud to announce that Northgard is free to play this weekend! The Steam Free Weekend starts on the 29th and ends on the 31st of July so you'll have plenty of time to hone your skills and work towards conquering this mysterious, newfound continent! And if you want to carry on playing afterwards, you can pick up the game at a massive 75% off! Northgard is a unique, immersive RTS based on Norse mythology where you control a clan of Vikings vying for control of a strange and dangerous new land. Witness the epic tale that is Rigs Saga, bring glory to your Clan of choice in Conquest and vy for control of Northgard by defeating your opponents and working with your teammates in multiplayer. Happy conquering vikings, we look forward to seeing you on the battlefield https://store.steampowered.com/app/466560/Northgard/ Shiro Games

[quote]Hey Vikings! After 5 years and nearly 3M units sold, Northgards story continues with Cross of Vidar, the follow up to Rigs Saga. [/quote] [previewyoutube=4_s2hovYVBg;full][/previewyoutube] The fight against Hvedrung united the six clans of Northgard, but it did not suffice to prevent the onset of Ragnark.
Forced to escape, our heroes will set foot on a foreign land and get involved in the quarrels of its leaders.
The stage is set for their ultimate fight against the dark powers of Ragnark. This Northgard Expansion arrives this winter.

[previewyoutube=o_gf4Mz3IKs;full][/previewyoutube] [quote=author]Hey Vikings! Sword & Solace, addresses numerous aspects of the game, with a particular focus on UI, Multiplayer experience, Military aspects of the game, and clan balancing. We would like to kick off this patch note by saying a big thank you on behalf of all the Northgard team to those of you that took the time to take part in our very first Open Beta! Here is a quick introduction as to why we have made some of the changes. UI Northgard menus had some inconsistencies regarding the way information and choices were presented depending on the game modes. This prevented certain things such as, but not limited to: playing in Extreme difficulty on a classic map, playing in co-op with an AI clan in single player mode and being able to search the existing lobbies whilst being in one. The aim of this version of the UI is to unify the different options and elements of the different game modes, thus adding new game options and providing the player with complementary information about those options. Multiplayer Here are the first steps towards, what we hope, will be a fairer system that will distribute players more evenly. We are now using the full scale of our GP system, which means that you will be able to go from 0 GP to 1000+ GP, and no longer get stuck in your progression after hitting 400GP. As we have previously stated, this is the first iteration of our new multiplayer & GP system. Improving it further will take time, experimentation, and cooperation. Military Previously, strategic choices offered by the military path werent all as viable from a competitive point of view. Thanks to player feedback, we decided to shuffle things around and give you the possibility to choose a Military Path, much earlier on in a game, that best suits you, or your clan's playstyle. We know that forging a weapon is a big investment, so we decided to reduce the cost allowing players to forge more than one weapon. We changed the weapons forge effects for almost all the units and they will all gain an ability now (warriors are no longer the only cool kids on the block!). Read on to find out more [/quote]


Global More contextual information about the different game options and their impact on the games. Profile Player rank is now displayed on the main menu, and both profile and multiplayer rank can be accessed from this new entry display.
Single Player New Custom Mode - allow for more customization options, such as setting each AI difficulty level, and coop with and/or against AI clans. Multiplayer It is now possible to check the list of existing lobbies after creating/joining one. You can now filter games based on all the settings of a multiplayer game. Clan Selection Animated backgrounds for each one of the different clans! More information about the unique aspects and overview of each clan.
Conquest Completed Conquest clan icon now also indicates the highest level of difficulty at which the Conquest has been completed. Other minor adjustments

A new tier has been added between Gold and Rimsteel: Gemstone. We have reworked how GP is calculated at the end of the game. All players will start this new season at 300 GP. In the first 10 games, you will win or lose more GPs, this means that you should reach a rank closer to your skill level faster. At the end of future seasons, GP will be recalculated based on the player rank in the previous season.
New tier ranges [table] [tr] [th]Tier[/th] [th]From[/th] [th]To[/th] [/tr] [tr] [td]Wood[/td] [td]0 GP[/td] [td]199 GP[/td] [/tr] [tr] [td]Stone[/td] [td]200 GP[/td] [td]399 GP[/td] [/tr] [tr] [td]Iron[/td] [td]400 GP[/td] [td]599 GP[/td] [/tr] [tr] [td]Gold[/td] [td]600 GP[/td] [td]799 GP[/td] [/tr] [tr] [td]Gemstone[/td] [td]800 GP[/td] [td]999 GP[/td] [/tr] [tr] [td]Rimsteel[/td] [td]1000 GP[/td] [td][/td] [/tr] [/table]
You will only be able to enter in a lobby if you are in the same GP range as the host. GP range is currently set to 150 GP difference. Family share accounts are no longer able to play ranked games. As we have previously stated, this is the first iteration of our new multiplayer & GP system. Improving it further will take time, experimentation, and cooperation.

Leadership Path
Bodyguard: 50 Military XP Your Warchief can recruit a Bodyguard. This unit will taunt nearby enemies in order to protect your Warchief. Your warchief produces Military XP for each military unit in the same zone (10 max) The cooldown to recruit a Bodyguard has been reduced to 3 months. Armed Wing of the Clan: 500 Military XP Your warchief benefits from all weapons forged. First Line of Defense: 1500 Military XP Your chief gives a 10%
defense bonus for all your units in the zone. Rally: 3000 Military XP Your Warchief can use the Rally ability: Your military units gain 30% attack speed and movement speed bonus for 5 sec. Guardian Path
Oversight:50 Military XP Access to a new building: Watch Tower. Watch Tower: Scouts nearby zones and produces Military XP. Their upkeep is less expensive than Defense Towers. Call To Arms: 500 Military XP Call to Arms is a passive ability placed on your Town Hall. Every six months, the homeland sends you Militias in order to help you defend your territory. The militia is a defensive military unit that cannot leave allied territory. You can have a maximum of 4 Militia in your territory. Suppressing Fire: 1500 Military XP You gain a free Watch Tower upgrade each year. Human units within a zone that contains an allied Watch Tower or Defense Tower gain +10%
defense. Each Watch Tower adds +1 to your maximum warband (+2 if upgraded). Hold The Line: 3000 Military XP You can place spike walls in a zone that will deal damage when an enemy tries to engage. Legions Path
Military Base: 50 Military XP Your Warchief can recruit a Bodyguard. When there is more than 1 military building in a zone, they produce Military XP. Reduce the cost of military buildings by 20%. War Effort: 500 Military XP Reduce the base cost of military units by 25% (does not affect the cost per Warband). Veteran: 1500 Military XP Bonuses from upgraded military buildings are 50% more powerful. Call of Valhalla: 3000 Military XP While in the Battleground zone your units have 30%
attack power and attack speed bonus. Battleground zone: In a zone where 10 clan units die, the zone becomes a battleground. You have 10% bonus Military XP.
General Changes Weapon cost 50
Krowns & [strike]10[/strike] -> 5
Iron, takes [strike]6[/strike] -> 3 months to forge. Weapons We removed all the stats from the forge, now if you want to improve it you have to upgrade camps (except Mercenary).
Warrior Charge -> Increases run speed when the engaged target is close enough and applies Breached Armor (10% less
defense) on the first hit. Shield Bearer Shield Wall -> When entering a zone with enemies, this unit will have 40% bonus
defense during 5 seconds. Tracker Feral Instinct -> When Trackers kill an enemy, they have a 20% chance (50% against animals) to summon their spirit animal. Axe Thrower Double Attack -> The second attack of this unit is quicker. Skirmisher, Dragonkin, Valkyrie, Shamans, and Mercenary are unchanged.
With the removal of stats from the weapon improvements, some units were at a disadvantage, such as the Trackers and Axe Throwers (due to their range) so we adjusted them accordingly. Axe Thrower Their range has been greatly increased. Tracker Their range has been greatly increased and their
attack by 15% Bodyguard Increase their
health by 10% Shield Bearer Increase their
defense by 1 and their projectile resistance by 10% Unit recruitment cost The cost of recruiting units has changed. Rather than each unit recruitment costing +6 more
Krowns for each military unit you already own, the cost increases by +6 for each military unit of the same type, and only by +3 for each military units of a different types. Allowing for a more diverse warband at a reduced cost.


Horse was too spawn dependent and only had one playstyle, going for Excavation -> QoL then full mid tree. We tried to change this by giving the clan more flexibility, allowing for other playstyles.
Starting Bonuses [strike]Villagers build and repair 30% faster[/strike] -> Eitria & Brok can build, repair, mine, and forge 20% faster. Eitra has an additional +30% bonus for builds and repairs. Brok has an additional +30% bonus for forges.
Fame 200: Craftsmen [strike]Upgraded tools get an additional +10% production bonus[/strike] When in the same zone, Warchiefs mine and forge 50% faster. Selling
Stone or
Iron earns +20%
Krowns. Neutral factions will accept
Stone and
Iron. Allies and neutral factions receive double resources.
Fame 500: Earth Legacy You discover 2
Stone and 2
Iron deposits in your territory. [strike]You can build a second Relic[/strike] -> Zones with or adjacent to an active relic gain +15% production. Lore Tree Metalcraft has been removed. Quality of Life replaces Erudition. Vlund Fire (New) replaces Mining Efficiency: [strike]Each Warchief mining
Stone or
Iron earns +4
Lore[/strike] -> Warchiefs produce 5
Lore for each ore extracted. Ancestral Influence: [strike]Relics don't use a building slot. Zones with or adjacent to an active relic gain +5% production.[/strike] -> Relics don't use a building slot. You can build a second relic (max 1 relic per zone). Forging a relic takes 50% less time.

We felt Stag was a bit underwhelming so we tried to redefine its personality and give it some cool tools to play with, mostly based around
Fame and expansion.

Fame 200: Supplies [strike]Each year a boat brings you +50
Food,
Wood and
Krowns, +25
Lore and +5
Stone.[/strike] -> Each 200
Fame a boat brings you +50
Food,
Wood and
Krowns, +25
Lore and +5
Stone.
Fame 500: Dedication -> Annexation [strike]Upgraded buildings gain an additional 10% production bonus.[/strike] [strike]All productions get +1% per 100
Fame.[/strike] -> For each 200
Fame, the Colonization price is decreased by 5% and unit production is increased by 3%.
Fame 1000: Valorous Leader (New) Your warchief gains the Valorous Leader ability. His base
defense also increases by 100% and his
health by 60%. Lore Tree Food Preservation For each Silo, gain +3
Food [strike]and +0.5
Happiness[/strike], +5
Food [strike]and +1
Happiness[/strike] if upgraded. Young and Proud [strike]Increases your military units'
attack power by 3% for every positive
Happiness you have.[/strike] -> Increases your military units'
attack power by 2% per zone you control (30% max). Glory of the Clan Increases
Fame gains by [strike]20%[/strike] -> 30% Increases gains from Trade Routes and Great Trade Routes by [strike]20%[/strike] -> 10% each 200
Fame. Relic: Hlidskjalf [strike]Gives your Warchief the Annexation ability. Whenever your Warchief decolonizes a zone, you colonize it for free.[/strike] -> You can train Einherjar by assigning them to Hlidskjalf. Einherjars are proud warriors that want to partake and die in the most glorious battles possible. Their base
attack power increases with
Fame and they benefit from all Warrior upgrades. They cost more
Krowns and consume 50% more
Food.

Draconic Frenzy Bodyguard is no longer counted in the effect. Dragonkin Dragonkin recruitment price increases by [strike]15[/strike] > 10
Krwns for each Dragonkin you already own.

With the Military Path reworked, we wanted to adjust the hunting path to give the clan of the lynx a bit more versatility. Sharp Eyes and The Great Hunt swapped positions. Nature Freedom has been removed. Experienced Hunters: replaces Nature Freedom Military units that participated in killing a foe permanently gain +5%
attack power (max +25%). Lost upon death.

Ferocious Charge Forged melee units can use Charge ability and gain 30% damage on a charge attack. Weapons are 100% faster to forge and cost 50% less.

Shield Mastery ShieldBearers' weapon is free. Increases the resistance of all military units by 5%

Banquet of Valhll The special victory of the clan of the squirrel has been decorrelated from the fame. Now it must have at least 8 active Cooks to prepare the meal, even during the preparation. Preparation time has been increased to 6 months.

Overwork Overworking gives a [strike]30[/strike] -> 40% bonus to your unit's production at the cost of their
health. Shamanic Care [strike]When healed by Eir, your units consume 50% less
Food.[/strike] -> While being healed your units consume -30% less
Food. Purification Pyres When the clan units kill foes or die, all your Shaman Camps pyres ignite. While active you produce [strike]+1[/strike] > +0.5
Lore and new villagers arrive faster.
Stats at the end of the game display more information. Improved KeyBindings. Complex key combinations can be used, like Ctrl-Alt-Shift-3. Extra mouse buttons can also be bound. Building a Training Camp is no longer required to build other camps. You can now recruit your Warchief in other military Camps except for clans: Snake, Dragon, Horse, Ox, Rat, and Lynx. The supply malus has been reworked. Continuing conquests is now done via the load game section .
Bear spawn correctly prioritizes spawns with fish nearby. Lorestones spawning in the second circle from a Townhall should be less frequent. If a Townhall is destroyed by the burning effect, the player will be defeated. Clan of the Dragon scouts will no longer trigger attack notifications while going through a neutral faction. Player units will no longer make side steps when trying to attack another unit. The second Stag bonus from Conquest has been fixed, Villagers are now correctly affected by silos. Rally point behavior has been fixed. You can now transfer zone with a tower on it. Rat can no longer use houses. Cooldown of Ancient Spirit ability is now correctly triggered. Killing Wolf's unit with Mjolnir should not trigger Spoil of War. Dwarven Operatives are now affected by Breaded Fish Filets. Fixed
Fame 500 Kraken: Spectral Warrior can't spawn in allied territory.
Current game saves aren't compatible. Epic Games Store and GOG can be disconnected from game servers.

Ohoi Vikings! We are proud to announce that our latest 4X/RTS Dune: Spice Wars has entered into Early Access and is available to buy now on Steam! After over 2 years of work, Dune: Spice Wars has finally launched into Early Access and we are unbelievably excited to have the opportunity to share our game with you all and work alongside you to develop and improve it over the coming months. [previewyoutube=B2TJHua1EQk;full][/previewyoutube]
For the initial stages of the Early Access period we are going to focus on working alongside you all to identify which areas of the game need improvement, expansion or iteration and from this we plan to outline a developmental roadmap that will detail exactly what's is to come and when you can expect it. We'll keep you updated on this front! While Spice Wars launches with more than enough content to sink hundreds of hours into, we have so much more in the pipeline and we can't wait to share it with you all.
All feedback and bug reports are absolutely invaluable at this time and will be paramount in our efforts to ensure that Dune: Spice Wars not only meets, but exceeds the lofty expectations of the community that has grown around this legendary franchise and will continue to grow alongside our game. As such, please submit any bug reports to our dedicated bug reporting platform HERE And provide your feedback either on the Steam Forums or via our Discord which can be found HERE.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1605220/Dune_Spice_Wars/

[quote]Over the next week (or so) we will be testing a new multiplayer lobby and rank system, which will involve close cooperation between ourselves and our wonderful community to understand and improve the current balance of the Northgard multiplayer systems and we'd like you all to get involved.[/quote] How do I access the Open Beta update? 1. Right click on Northgard in your Steam Library. 2. Select Properties, then the Beta Tab. 3. Enter the password - ezHZkuze5zaqe4 4. Select beta-new-update in the drop down. 5. Download the update and launch the game. Patch notes can be found here - https://docs.google.com/document/d/10hwsOUYrj9aUTVymPtajucLEF8YdO_Db7q04QlntIuQ/edit?usp=sharing Provide your feedback over on Discord - https://discord.gg/C5EzXsHvvg Key points to focus your feedback on:

• Impact of the first 10 games on your rank
• Your rank progression
• (Player) skill balance in lobbies
• Military paths

[quote=author] Hello everyone! Today we have released an update that addresses a number of issues that have arisen since the release of the Clan of the Rat. Whilst this update doesn't directly address the loss of progression some users are reporting, it does include implementations that will ensure that this does not happen again in the future and we are continuing to look into ways we can resolve the issues of those affected. Read on to find out more... [/quote]

General

• Sickness: Sick clan members regain 50% less health from healing.

Rat

• Production is increased by 50% > 30%.

• Your wounded units cost -50% > -30% Krwns to train as military units.

• Wounded units move and attack 30% > 20% faster.

• When killed, the Shaman will reduce all nearby enemies' defense by -30% > -20% for 5 seconds.

• Health: 75 > 80
• Attack: 15 > 12
• Defence: 10 > 9

• Move speed has been reduced (-33%)
• Defence: 20 > 16

Bugfixes

• Garms Incarnation heal and decay now properly affects the unit.
• Garms Incarnation active bonus display now reflects the right value.
• Eradicating a neutral faction now grants the appropriate reward.
• Missing SFX added.
• Achievement progress should now be correctly tracked.
• Missing houses notification does not trigger anymore when playing the clan of the Rat.
• Offering well icon doesnt appear as influencing a neutral faction when separated from this faction by a cliff.
• Rat conquest bonus transmitting sickness to enemy units now correctly attributes the kill of units dying from the sickness to the Rat clan.
• Rat can build Skirmishers camps during Hostile Lands.
• Players can build two different relics in conquest if they play the same clan.
• Ancient Graveyard research progression can no longer be seen through the fog.
• Display of eradicated neutral factions in the Diplomacy screen has been fixed.
• Chapter 8 secondary objective colonize Jtnar camp can be validated.
• Heal icon no longer displayed over mouse cursor when Shamans or Eir selected.
• New expeditions related to rat clan achievements have been added.
• Update no longer overrides and deletes current Stats and Conquests progress.

Known issues

• The Continue option for a mission in a conquest may not work (restart the mission is still available)
• Border scrolling may not work in Borderless or Windowed
• Issue with Overwork sound that stop too soon
• Blood Ties : No SFX and VFX

[quote=author]Hey everyone! We are proud to present to you our eighth clan, the clan of the Rat, which brings some exciting new mechanics and units to Northgard. Read on to find out more about what makes the clan of Dodsvagr so unique. [/quote] https://store.steampowered.com/app/1876990/Northgard__Dodsvagr_Clan_of_the_Rat/


Welcoming wounded and outcast villagers who have been forced out of their original clans without hesitation or prejudice, it is understandable why the many followers of the Rat dedicate their life, and sometimes their death, to the clan. The clan doesnt have time for feasts, or even sleeping in houses, only hard work is worth celebrating, but if you have enough energy to celebrate, then you could, and should have worked harder. The clan will work and fight tirelessly to get what they want, and to survive.

Powerful shaman and merciless warrior, Eir leads the clan of the rat with an iron fist. She taught her clan the ways of the shaman, so they could survive even the most severe injuries, and ensure their enemies do not. Some say that her mastery of dark practices goes as far as being able to bring back dead beasts from the depths of Helheim...

The shaman, trained by Eir, are powerful units that will fight fearlessly during the heat of battle, and take care of the injured in its aftermath. They can also lend a helping hand to their allies by healing them as well.

• The clan starts with more villagers but they arrive wounded. Wounded units are exempt from
  Happiness requirements.
  
• The clan doesn't have access to Houses, but all non-mystical buildings provide housing. Once max population is reached, extra villagers stack in a Population Reserve.
• The Shaman Camp replaces the Healer Hut and trains Shamans able to fight and heal multiple units and allies even outside your territory.
  
• When the clans units kill foes or die, the corpses are cremated at the Shaman Camp, producing
  Lore and attracting new villagers faster.
  
• Overwork replaces the
  Feast and boosts all productions at the expense of your worker's
  Health.
  

Fame 200

Fame 500

• Win with the Clan of the Rat

• Achieve 50 Victories with the Clan of the Rat

• Build the Relic of the Clan of the Rat

• Finish a Conquest with the Clan of the Rat

• Overwork the same worker 5 times.

• Keep the Purification Pyre burning for 12 months without interruption.

• House 10 Villagers or more in neutral faction houses in a single game.

• Have 10 Merchants working in the same zone.

• The Kobolds will now accept to sell their additional territories for
  Krwns to the clans they befriended.

• Cost [strike]60[/strike] 80
  Wood

• Your clan gets a 20% increase to production through feasts, [strike]-50[/strike] -40%
  Feast cost.
• You can build an additional Sheepfold.
• [strike]Your units regenerate
  Health during a
  Feast.[/strike]

Fame 500

• [strike]Your Defense Towers and your units gain 15% resistance in your territory when feasting.[/strike]
• Your units regenerate
  Health during a
  Feast.

• 
  Health = [strike]55[/strike] 50

• Buff to heal speed when Brundr and Kaelinn are together.

• Effect: Produce [strike]3/5/7/9[/strike] 4/6/8/10 to
  Food,
  Wood,
  Krwns, [strike]
  Lore.[/strike]
• Cost: 100 Meat, 100 Mushrooms | 200 Vegetable(Duration) | [strike]300[/strike] 200 Meat (Power)

• Effect:
  • New villagers will arrive at the Town Hall [strike]10%/20%/30%/40%[/strike] 30%/60%/100%/130% faster.
  • [strike]Units in your territory or neutral zones will slowly regenerate their
    Health over time.[/strike]
  • Produce 4/7/10/13
    Lore.
• Cost: [strike]200[/strike] 100 Fish, [strike]200[/strike] 100 Vegetables | 200 Mushrooms(Duration) | 200 Fish (Power)

• Cost: [strike]200[/strike] 100 Meat, 100 Vegetables [strike]100 Mushrooms[/strike] | 300 Vegetables(Duration) | [strike]300[/strike] 200 Fish(Power)

• The behavior and wording has been reworked to include all healing-units and not just Healers.

• Reduces your buildings' upgrade costs by 20%.
• Reduces upkeep from upgraded buildings by 20%.

• Addition of a tooltip displaying the current pop-growth bonus on the gauge of arrival of the next villager.

• Refund on upgraded Altar has been fixed.
• An adjacent zone means that it is connected (not separated by a cliff etc) so Ancestral Influence and Offering Well have been adjusted.
• Kaijas passive ability is fixed.
• In singleplayer, you can now have multiple Jotnar factions.
• Fixed issue during Jotunheim campaign mission: attacking enemy prevented you from trading with the other factions - it now works as intended.
• Fixed issue in Map Editor when adding neutral factions.
• Fixed achievement Dances with Wolves.
• Fixed issue where burning building from Raven Raids cant be repaired.
• Permafrost is now available.
• 
  Stones from Ragnarok are correctly displayed on the minimap.
• Sometimes units could walk under the lake, it has been fixed as well as High Tides not giving fish.
• Both Lynx dont cross zones after using Sharp Eyes.
• Breaded Fish Fillets affect Dwarven Operative.
• Freeze when clearing Nastrnd zone has been fixed.
• Bug on chapter 9 of the Campaign preventing units from attacking has been fixed.
• Conquest bonus reducing Relic cooldown by 50% now also works for Yggdrasil Root.
• Achievement requiring you to mine 150
  Stone in a single game now triggers correctly.
• Problem with placing Fields on some zones has been fixed.
• Rock Golems from eruption event are correctly displayed on the minimap.
• Boar can no longer colonize neutral faction zones like zones with wolves.
• Achievement for 500 victories no longer triggers at the same time as the one for 250 victories.
• Free upgrade for unupgradable units can no longer appear as Conquest bonus.
• Erudition knowledge now correctly allows a free Lorestone construction.
• Bifrost bridge no longer blocks unit selection underneath it.
• Multiple UI fixes.
• A couple of optimizations have been made.

Attention Mercenaries! We are proud to announce that Wartales has now entered into Early Access and is available to buy now on Steam!
Well, what a whirlwind of a few months it has been! From the announcement of Wartales earlier this year, to the mad dash to pull together a demo for the Steam festival, to the recent closed beta and final stretch of develoment before release, to right here, right now, orchestrating the release of our FIFTH game as a company...
First off, we'd like to thank everyone who joined us on our journey from the very start with the demo earlier this year, to have had such a positive reception and to see a community of dedicated and helpful players begin to form around the game at such an early stage was incredibly ecouraging for all of us here at Shiro. Secondly, a massive thank you to everyone who took part in the recent closed Beta, your feedback and suggestions have been incredible and it is largely down to you that we are now able to release Wartales into Early Access with pride.
A lot of content and features have been added since the demo and the beta, and throughtout Early Access we will continue to develop, expand, iterate and improve every aspect of the game, alongside all of you with your help and support. New regions, units, items, quests, features, functions, mini games and much more are well underway internally, and will be making their way to the game over time, and we can't wait to hear what all of you think! And we are all ears for any ideas and suggestions you might have that will help us realise the best possible version of Wartales.
There is no firm roadmap available at this time, as were still finalising a lot of our plans and working out the logistics in terms of timing but this is something we are discussing internally and hope to share with you all very soon.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8lLyziem3KA
Now it's time for you to write your story in the Wartales, and we hope you'll enjoy your journey throughout the Edoran Empire! Shiro Games. https://store.steampowered.com/app/1527950/Wartales/

Welcome to our spooky special event where you will be able to make battle in the terrifying new Draugrheim biome. In this temporary game mode, you will have to conquer your fears in the land of the living dead and face terrible new (eight-legged) creatures roaming the land of Northgard. Vikings, it is time to take back what is yours in the Night of the Living Draugar.
However, if you feel like some of those new creatures have more legs than you can tolerate, you can activate an arachnophobia mode in the options menu.
Finish a game of Northgard in the new Draugrheim game mode (if you dare) and earn a new Town Hall skin. You can claim it in Expeditions.



Clans Starting Bonuses: New: Trade routes with the homeland are available and earn more
Krowns. [strike]Gain +10%
Krowns from merchents and sailors[/strike] -> +15%
Krowns production. New: Earn
Fame by scouting Neutral Factions and enemy Town Halls. New: Great Trades Routes -10% discount. New: You can spend
Krowns to accelerate the arrival of new villagers in your Town Hall. Mercenaries from Homeland -
Fame 200 You can send Mercenary raids from your Harbors to raid beaches but not on tiles with a Town Hall. Mercenary raids can be upgraded in the Forge. [strike]Trade routes with the homeland is available and earn more
Krowns.[/strike] New: You can assign 3 more Sailors on a Harbour with a Lighthouse Sea Supremacy -
Fame 500 You can send Mercenary raids on zones with a Town Hall. [strike]You can assign 3 more Sailors on a Harbor with a Lighthouse.[/strike] New: Mercenary Raids will use Fire Javelins, damaging buildings upon raiding. Negotiators Replaces [strike]Ship Building[/strike] -> Mining Efficiency. Gain +2
Krowns production and +30% forging speed. Exotic Goods Harbor, Trading Post and Marketplace produce 1
Happiness (2 if upgraded). Others changes: Raid upgrades take [strike]3[/strike] -> 6 months to forge (with 1 smith). New: You no longer need to activate the faster recruitment of Mercenaries Raids and it no longer changes the raids' cost.

Howl of the Sea Master -
Fame 500 Chance to transform an enemy military unit into a spectral warrior has been reduced. Endless Tide Reduces the cost of military units by [strike]20%[/strike] => 15% Knowledge From Beyond Reveals the position of all neutral factions. Trade routes with neutral factions give +2
Lore per merchant and +20%
Krowns and relationship.

Supplies -
Fame 200 Supplies now arrive as soon as
Fame 200 is reached instead of at the new year. Resources are then received every 12 months from the first reception. Each year a boat brings you +50
Food,
Wood and
Krowns, +25
Lore and +5
Stone [strike]for each completed year, and again at the start of every subsequent year.[/strike] Known issue: The description of Supplies appears in English. Translations for all languages will arrive as soon as possible.

Spoils of War Gain some
Krowns for each enemy unit killed. Eradicate a faction, neutral or clan, earns 50 Military XP.

Mask of Gullinbursti Produces [strike]+10[/strike] => +6
Food. You can pay 150
Lore to summon one GiantBoar. It is controllable as long as it is not in combat.

Guerilla Tactics Permanently increases your military units' attack power by +1% for any unit slain or lost in enemy territory (30% max). Enemies clans relations are also affected when you are fighting a neutral faction.
All sailors produce +100%
Fame. The tech Knowledge from Beyond borrowed from the Clan of the Kraken with stolen lore and Mimirsbrunn no longer produced +100%
Krwns with trade routes.

• Fixed difficulty noted as extreme in saves and as hard in the information window.
• Fixed fame notifications not displayed for client.
• The AI will now avoid moving its spectral warriors into ally territory.
• Fixed merchants constantly stopping work when assigned after thralls to a trading post.
• Fixed the display of ore production by slaves.
• The free lore stone obtained with the knowledge "erudition" will still be free even after cancelling it's construction.
• Texts have been revised to be gender neutral.
• Torfin's throne produces +2
  Lore which was not displayed. It is now.
• Option map special from Ragnarok has been removed. This was irrelevant as the special map could be replaced by a volcano.
• When Kobolds spread to a tile with an object (i.e. ruins), the name display of that building/object will no longer turn into "Kobold Hamlet".
• Fixed wrong icon of the relic Edda of Vor displayed in the player list.
• Fixed description text of Mask of Gullinbursti relic. It cost 150
  Lore to summon the Giant Boar (not 200).
• Fixed villagers carrying hammers in longships in story mode.
• Fixed "High tide" which sometimes did not generate fish on lakes.
• Fixed broken food graphic displayed in end-game.
• THE WISE ONE from the clan of the Lynx, and Torfins Throne no longer produce
  Lore in the conquest mission Imported Knowledge.
• Fixed buildings that were burning after a raven raid. They stop burning after being repaired.
• Fixed warchief portrait hiding text in fame notification.
• Fixed Torfins shadow not attacking Wyverns and defense towers.
• Fixed several issues with neutral factions. When dwarves or myrkalfar attack an enemy clan, they continue to advance from tile to tile until they eliminate the clan or are killed. Previously, they could stagnate on a tile and cause colonisation issues, this is no longer the case.
• You can no longer see enemy unit status (starving, freezing) after using Warcry.
• The relic Gefjuns jar now summons new villagers on the town Hall as intended.
• In the conquest mission greeds price, the knowledge Wool trade no longer produces
  Krowns.
• Clicking on the notification of a built relic no longer leads to the player who built it if you have not scouted him.
• In the gem cutter conquest mission, trading gems now affect relations.
• Building an offering well near an eradicated neutral faction is no longer possible.
• The unit type icons in the healer hut are updated when healed units change jobs.

[quote]Hey everyone! We are very happy to finally present to you the sixth major free update to Northgard, Krwns and Daggers, available now! The Krwns and Daggers update brings a host of new features, gameplay additions and even a new neutral faction to Northgard. With an increased focus on diplomacy, and a complete overhaul of how you develop and maintain relations with your fellow factions, Krwns and Daggers is easily one of our most ambitious content updates yet! Read on to find out more about what to expect... [/quote]
[previewyoutube=s1wUnTy235M;full][/previewyoutube]

The relation system with neutral factions has been reworked. Each faction now presents 4 relation statuses offering new rewards and risks depending on how you treat the faction. All new interactions with Neutral factions and Clans are reunited in a new Diplomacy screen.

A new building is available to improve your relations with the neutral factions: the Offering Well.


The Dwarves are joining the Northgard party! Dwarves, well known for their mining prowess, will obviously have access to and supplies of many treasures and precious resources but come too close, and you might regret it... On the other hand, they might lend you a helping hand if you manage to gain their trust.
Interactions with rival clans are evolving: While scouting, the borders of territories under the Fog of War are now colorless.
By sending your scouts to spy on an enemy's Town Hall, you may access new information like their Lore-tree or resource stocks.
In addition, notifications regarding the other clans now feature the portrait of their Warchiefs.


Based on the information youve gathered, you can now declare an enemy clan as your Rival, for a gain, but at a cost:

• Town twinning boosts your population growth, but it also increases the population growth of your Rival.
• Eavesdropping gains you more
  Lore based on how much Knowledge your Rival has discovered that you have not.
• Target a Clan with less
  Fame than you with Bullying and you will gain more
  Defense against them, but if they come out on top, they get significantly more
  Fame in return.
• Manhunt places a target on your Rivals back by hitting them with an
  Attack malus outside their territory. In exchange, they get a bonus as long as they stay within their territory.

• Player names are now displayed in the chat, but they are colorless until scouted (and so are the borders).
• When a player pauses the game, the player name is displayed to all players.
• When a player ends the pause, the name of that player is also displayed.

• Stats for Squirrel Meals have been added.
• In
  Food stats, the
  Feasts are now indicated.
• In Forge stats, the Unit forged is now indicated.

• Coinage no longer unlocks trade routes.
• Trade routes are available since the beginning of the game.
• Trade routes without Coinage are less effective than before
• Knowledges replacing Coinage in the Lore Tree also benefit from the trade route bonus "Your trade routes produce +100%
  Krwns".

• [strike]The first Carved Stone is free.[/strike] Your next carved stone is free.

• [strike]Reveals all neutral factions.[/strike] Reveals the position of all neutral factions (without removing the fog of war).

• New unit: Emissary.
• New building: Lodge of Emissaries.
• New building: Offering Well.

• The Dwarven Prospectors.
• The Myrklfar's Levy.
• Ceremonial Bonfire.

• Neutral factions attack behavior reviewed to fairer.
• Jtnar now charges enemy units when attacked on their own territory.
• All factions except Jtnar now accept
  Wood via trade routes.
• Every clan of the Dragon in a game now has the same Dragon Essence gauge bonuses.
• Rumor mongering was reworked to match with the new neutral factions behaviors.
• The detailed flux of your resources (the tooltip over a resource stock) now displays the flux as a decimal value. Meaning you can know precisely how much
  Stone /
  Iron youre extracting and trading.
• Scouting speed is reduced by 20% in enemy territory.
• With the shortcut E you could lose the selection of Kaija by selecting/deselecting her army. This feature was removed.
• Eradicating a neutral faction no longer gives military XP (eliminating a member of the neutral faction will still provide military XP).
• Eliminating a player no longer gives you military XP.
• Several SFX have been added.

• Wounded debuff on Units is now correctly removed when healed.
• Wounded debuff only applies once under 80% of
  health.
• Oskoreia is no longer canceled when Mieliki is attacked.
• Achievement Let me borrow this is correctly unlocked.
• 
  Happiness detail now shows the entire list of entries impacting
  happiness and not just the X first elements.
• Multiple bugs about achievements/expeditions not triggering upon completion.
• Fixed value display for Knowledge value of great deeds.
• Fixed Snakes relic Stealth ability.
• Fixed Trading Caravan. Relations with neutral factions improved 20% faster as intended. (Instead of 10 before correction).
• Fixed victory condition cut-off in story mode.
• Fixed trade with the clan of the Boar. As the Boar, you can no longer trade with another clan.
• AI of the clan of the squirrel can no longer share a meal with an ally before obtaining A Helping Hand (
  Fame 200).
• Icon displayed after a loot no longer cancels a mouse click.
• The link to the "How to mod" button has been fixed.
• Fixed the Bodyguard from Tactician Military Path sometimes no longer following his warchief.
• Fixed cursor issue. You could sometimes no longer target an enemy unit with your military units.
• Fixed console spam causing lags in modded games.
• Fixed achievements in the expedition menu. Some of them were unlocked in the game but not on steam. It was the game that considered them unlocked too early.
• In the lobby, the dropdown list no longer closes automatically when youre selecting a clan and another player choses at the same time. The dropdown list still closes if youre selecting a color or team at the same time as another player.
• Myrkalfar no longer stall and teleport when they attack on server.
• Fixed army selection with E and a giant Boar.

[quote=author]Happy Tuesday Vikings! Today, were releasing a yet another MASSIVE balance patch that brings a plethora of changes to Northgard and each of the clans that inhabit these mysterious lands. With this update, we've made a number of changes and additions, heavily balancing the clans based on your wonderful feedback over the last few months and fixed a multitude of issues that have been reported in the time since our last major update! You can find the whole list of whats been addressed below![/quote]


Recipe

• Fish fillets :
  • +1 month cost: [strike]200 vegetables[/strike] 200 fishes
  • Mining / Forging Bonus [strike]25% / 50% / 75% / 100%[/strike] => 50% / 75% / 100% / 125%

• 1 clan : population x 2
  food
• 2 clans : population [strike]x4[/strike] => x 6
  food
• 3 clans : population x 6
  food
• 4 clans : population x 8
  food

Fame 200 - A Helping Hand

Fame 500 - Plot of the Thrones

Multiply the amount of
Fame it gives when you have extra population compared to your most populous opponent by 2.

Fame 1500 (3rd level) - Most Beautiful Banquet

• Unlock a specific new recipe at the Stove
• 1.000 Meat, 1.000 Fish, 1.000 Vegetables, 1.000 Mushrooms
• It takes 3 months to prepare
• While preparing this recipe, all other recipes are not available
• Every clan is notified and invited at the great Banquet
• When the preparation is complete, the game is won

Allowing or not
Fame Victory have no more relations with Special Squirrel Win Condition.

Fame 500 - Oskoreia

• Cast time : [strike]0[/strike] => 1.5 sec
• Oskoreia spirits disappear 10% faster

• [strike]30%[/strike] => 20% damage on the second arrow.

Weve heard that
Fame 200 Craftsmen became less impactful. We buffed it.

Fame 200 - Craftsmen

• -15% attack speed
• -15% move speed
• effect lasts 2s 5s cooldown

Fame 200

Mercenaries from Homeland (
Fame 200)

Sea Supremacy (
Fame 500)

• More Mercenaries : Add 2 mercenaries to the raid.
• Better Preparation: Reduce the time it takes to recruit by 1 month

• You can upgrade your mercenaries at the Forge
• Up to 3 times for 2 more mercenaries per Raid and a maximum of 8 mercenaries per Raid
• Better Preparation: Reduces the time it takes for Mercenaries to approach the coast by 15 seconds
• Fire Javelins: The mercenaries fleet throws fire javelins that damage and burn the zones buildings.

Fame 500

• 
  Food
• 
  Lore
• 
  Stone /
  Iron
• Wolf / Draugr Camps
• Special /
  Fame

Led by Andhrmnir, the Clan of the Squirrel knows better than most how to enjoy the present moment but not at the expense of being farsighted and expert at managing resources. Their talented cooks are able to prepare delicious meals that improve the abilities of the clan and their allies. For all that, their warriors and prowess on the battlefield should not be underestimated! Furthermore, with Ratatoskr as their totem animal, the clan is also adept at using manipulation and sowing discord in order to further their goals!

Named after the sirs cook, Andhrmnir displayed unprecedented skills in the culinary arts from a young age, despite fierce competition within the clan. As fearless and authoritarian in the kitchen as he is on the battlefield, Andhrmnir has everything one would expect from... a warchef!

• The clan hoards greedily in anticipation of winter 2 months before it begins and can count on a +30% increase in production during this period. However, they have a harder time during winter itself as they consume more
  Food and
  Wood (+15%).
• The Squirrel clan gathers ingredients in its territory, depending on the zones types.
• The Stove replaces the Brewery, where Cooks can prepare meals, providing massive bonuses.
• The clan can achieve the unique Ratatoskr Victory: reach
  Fame 1500

• You receive a set of random ingredients by boat and you increase your ingredient storage by 200.
• You can prepare Meals for your allies, for an additional
  Food cost.
• You unlock Gift Routes at the Trading Post.

• You gain
  Fame based on your extra population compared to your most populous opponent.
• Arrival of new villagers increases by 5% every 100
  Fame.

• Meat: Meat is a good source of protein and
  iron, harvested from big mammals such as deer and wild boars.
• Fish: Fish is a source of protein and phoshorus harvested from both freshwater and saltwater specimens.
• Vegetables: "Vegetable" is an umbrella word which covers pretty much every edible vegetal organism, including roots.
• Mushrooms: Mushrooms refer to any type of fungus that was found to be edible through painful-to-lethal trial and error.

• 
  Food,
  Wood,
  Lore,
  Krowns production bonus

• Forge speed bonus
• Mining speed bonus

• Winter resistance bonus
• Scouting speed bonus

• 
  Health regeneration
• Scouting speed bonus

• 
  Defense unit bonus
• Projectil resistance bonus

• 
  Attack power bonus
• Military XP bonus

• Units in Eldritch zones benefit from periodical production bonuses.
• Enemy units in an Eldritch zone have a chance to fight against their own kin for 5s.

• +1
  Food /
  Wood production bonus for each 100
  Food /
  Wood in stock (max +10). Not affected by winter malus.
• Your Silos do not require building slots.

• Meal bonus level: +1
• Meal
  Food cost: -20%

• Your next warchief recruitment is free. (no
  Krowns, no
  Iron)
• Reviving warchief cooldown: -50%.

• Every
  Krowns incomes gets +10%.
• Meals gain additional effects : +2
  Happiness +4
  Krowns.

• No other clan can befriend any neutral faction which has become your ally. This faction gains +20%
  Defense against all your enemies.
• It also becomes more aggressive towards them (this also affects Jtnar).
• Your units gain Cloak within these factions' territories.

• Ingredients production +20%
• You can benefit from multiple meals at the same time.

• Stoves can hold one more Cook.

• +1 level for Meals

• Win with the Clan of the Squirrel

• Achieve 50 Victories with the Clan of the Squirrel

• Build the Relic of the Clan of the Squirrel

• Finish a Conquest with the Clan of the Squirrel

• Win a game having shared all your meals with all teammates.

• Control a territory of at least 10 Eldritch zones.

• Gift 1,000 resources in one game

• Cooldown time for each ability is now displayed
• Jrmunr relic no longer displays your teammates lore
• Military XP is no longer displayed when hovering enemy military icon
• Losing control is replaced by taking control when you are taking an enemy tile
• Units are automatically selected when you recruit a warchief (Instead of warrior camp)
• You can no longer build an altar, then give it to your ally and build another
• Boar colonization cost for tiles containing foes now depends on the number and type of foes on the tile.
• Conquest battle befriend jtnar can no longer be played with the clan of the snake (Black market tech prevents this battle from beign feasible)
• Oskorea can now be used even if Mielikki is fighting
• Relations with neutral factions now scale with the amount of resources you trade with them.
• Befriended neutral factions now give 50
  Fame even if they were befriended by another player.

• Fixed several text issues with chinese localisation
• Fixed several display issues
• Double shot from the Clan of the Lynx can no longer target sheep
• Fixed year counter in conquest. Some of them were broken in several battles
• Its now possible to build a mythical lure on a thor wrath
• End-game stats will no longer be displayed in story mode
• Bartering in story mode is fixed.
• VFX from the relic of the clan of the horse is fixed. It gets removed with warchief death.
• Trades routes without merchants no longer produce happiness and lore
• Fixed several issues with the giant Boar from the relic of the clan of the Boar
• You could no longer use your relic if you built one and took the same relic you built from an enemy.
• Conquest Myrkalfars Uprising: you were sometimes not spawning in Ragnark biome
• In Inner sea conquest battle AI units were sometimes able to walk through the inner sea

[quote=author]Hello Vikings! Today, were releasing a huge (possibly even our biggest yet) balance patch that will bring widespread changes to Northgard and all of the formidable clans that inhabit it! Weve made a number of massive changes across the board, introducing new ways to approach the game and manage your people as you strive for conquest and you can see the whole list of whats new below! [/quote]

The Guardian Military path is still considered to be too weak, and as the vast majority of players usually choose between Tactician and Conqueror, it is being buffed: Militia behavior

• Militia is now controllable by player
• Militia still cannot leave the players territory
• Militia cannot be assigned to any other role
• The Militia respawn frequency has been increased
• The maximum of Militia is back to 2 / 4 / 6

• -50% WatchTowers upkeep

• Warrior recruitment cost: [strike]20 krowns[/strike]
  => 30 krowns
  
• Each new military unit increases the next cost by [strike]+5[/strike] => +6 krowns
  .
• The Watch Tower building cost : [strike]60[/strike] => 50 woods
  , upgrade remains unchanged.

• -5% attack power
  and defense
  penalty for each zone away from your territory beyond the first.
• Malus is lowered by 2 for each year passed since the beginning of the game.

• [strike]+50[/strike] => +30% attack power
  versus Mythical Creatures.
• Dragonkin are Mythical creatures.

• Defense
  [strike]4[/strike] => 3

• Players will now have the possibility to trade with two Jotunn Factions: the Skrymir and the Fjolsvin.
• Each of those factions can be befriended and grant the players a giant hero : Lg & Jafnadr.
• The Skrymir and the Fjolsvin are rivals: each player can only trade with one of the two factions, and befriending one will lock the possibility to trade with the other.
• When befriending a faction, you dont colonize their zone anymore.
• You can still trade with the befriended faction.

• Mielikki costs [strike]80[/strike] => 150 krowns
  

• Both lynx Move speed -15%

• Arrows don't cost wood
  anymore.
• Trackers now defend themselves in close combat as previously intended.
• Trackers in close combat no longer profit from special arrows advantages.
• Trackers [strike]11[/strike] => 10 attack
  

• Sacred Ram, Sacred Wolves and Sacred Bears stats have changed.
• Spectral animals now have the same stats than sacred animals.
• Sacred Ram:
  • PV 37.5
    / att 5
    / def 5
    / militaryXp 5 / HuntTrophy 5 / Meat 30
• Sacred Wolf:
  • PV 50
    / att 11
    / def 2.5
    / militaryXp 15 / HuntTrophy 15 / Meat 15
• Sacred Bear:
  • PV 62.5
    / att 10
    / def 13
    / militaryXp 50 / HuntTrophy 50 / Meat 80
• Waves increment is changed. Waves come every [strike]2[/strike] => 3 months.
• Sacred wolves and sacred bears don't have special attacks anymore.

• Placing Gleipnirs traps in a zone in combat is no longer possible.
• Traps must have been set before the fight starts, they can then be activated.
• You can now put 1 trap each year.

• First Bonus:
  • Townhall zone starts with deers. Hunters +10% production.
• Second bonus:
  • Archery Range give +3 max military pop (instead of +2) and Trackers are 10 krowns
    cheaper.
• Third bonus:
  • No change : Oskoreia calls the 2 last waves (not only the last one).

• Unlock SacredLure ability for Mielikki. Once placed, it periodically attracts Mythical beasts to the zone, more and more as time passes.
• Cost feast reduction by 5% (up to 50) for each animal killed.

• Mielikki wont die anymore by casting Oskeria.
• While casting Oskeria, wave max isnt reset.
• Spectral animals last longer.

• They are now 3 different Hunting Paths.
• The Hunt Trophy Path Completed can be chosen multiple times while one path is complete.
• Special arrows effects can stack.
• Trophy costs unlock have changed.

• Brundr & Kaelinn scout and use camouflage.

• Decolonization Speed +10% if Mielikki is in the zone. Same for Brundr and Kaelinn.

• +50% damage on Watchtowers.
• Target unit has 30% chance to burn.