Greetings, brave Vikings!, exciting new content awaits in Update 0.11.07!

Nibble & Nap

Your Vikings' needs got a thorough overhaul (sleeping & eating). Each Viking now has a meter ranging from 0 to 25 indicating the need for food and sleep. A 0 on the sleep-meter means the Viking is well rested while 25 means extreme sleep deprivation. A food-meter at 0 means the Viking is well fed while 25 means your Viking is starving. Until now, different actions used up energy (like running, carrying stuff, letting time pass etc...). This is a thing of the past, now energy consumption is tied to specific actions or daytimes: SLEEP INCREASE: Each evening, the need for sleep rises 4 points. Vikings will also become increasingly tired when they work or carry goods. REGENERATION: If the sleep-meter reaches 15 or more points, the Viking needs and probably wants to sleep. Vikings assigned to a dwelling will go there to rest. Without shelter, Vikings will just go to an adequate spot and rest there. While resting in the open, sleep will regenerate at a rate of measly 2 points per 5 seconds. Resting in a dwelling will decrease the need for sleep by impressive 5 points per 5 seconds. As you can see, having your Vikings sheltered is pretty efficient! As soon as your Vikings are well-rested, they'll get back to work. FOOD CONSUMPTION: Every Morning hunger increases by 1 point. Every act of working also increases hunger. Light chores, like storing goods will increase hunger by 1. Hard work, like mining increases hunger by 4 points. FOOD REGENERATION: If hunger gets higher than 15 points, your Vikings will get hungry. They'll start searching for food near their current position. Different food now offers different nourishment (up to now, each meal did the same for a hungry Viking): -Mushrooms will reduce hunger by 3 per mushroom -Berries will reduce Hunger by 4 -Fish reduces hunger by 5 -Meat reduces hunger by 6 -Bread reduces hunger by 8 -Sandwiches reduce hunger by 10

New Game Mode: "Open Game" When starting a new game, you can now choose between "Normal Mode" and "Open Game" mode. "NORMAL MODE" is the mode you're already used to: it starts easy and levels will only contain game elements you've already unlocked, including buildings. Through your actions while playing, new game elements and achievements will be unlocked. In this mode, and only in this mode, your Vikings will accumulate Honor! "OPEN GAME" instantly offers all game elements right from the start: the mountain is more diverse, the enemies significantly more dangerous and you can construct all available buildings right away. However, you can't unlock further game elements and your Vikings won't accumulate Honor in this game mode.

Halloween The spirits of Halloween have risen in Valhalla Hills :)

Graveyards There will be the occasional graveyard guarded by skeleton-warriors in the mountains.

Progress We sped up progress in regards of unlockable content. You can now play larger maps faster. Also, farmers and bakers are now earlier accessible.

Vikings

The hunter will now go for the nearest animal, no matter if rabbit or wolf.

The lumberjack will now collect logs first, before cutting down more trees.

Ice Vikings and beasts now have a truce of some sort and won't attack each other anymore.

Your Vikings now don't have to be so close to a portal anymore if they want to open it.

The geologist can now find stones beneath the earth. A miner can mine for those.

Soldiers won't get bored anymore, they're now always on guard.

Military camps can no be built in steep places. Now your fighters can reach areas that were inaccessible before. *Fighters will now react immediately if their camp is relocated.

UI

You can now keep a closer look on your Vikings with an own observation-window. Please note: This feature uses up quite a bit of processing power. If your machine slows down noticeably you should probably turn this feature off.

Geologist signs are now clickable. If you click one, you will see what resource your geologist found.

The number of Vikings will now be constantly displayed.

Tooltips will now show nutrition facts.

OPTIONS

You can now choose in the options, if the scroll wheel should scroll to where the cursor is, or if you want to scroll to the screen center.

GRAPHICS

Depth of Field will improve the overall look of the game (activate/deactivate this in the Graphics Options, starts from 'middle' settings and is visible when you zoom in)

Vikings will now spill (fake)blood. This option can be de/activated in the Graphics Options

The Viking model went through some slight adjustments.

Our Vikings worked out. It's still not enough for a solid sixpack, but we're getting there ;o) As a side-effect they now look a bit more fierce. But who wouldn't on a diet like that?

There is a new Russian font.

Odds & Ends

Fix: Zoom speed for zooming in/out (Mouse wheel) has been normalized.

Camera controls now adapt better to terrain.

Relocateable buildings can now be repositioned by a simple right click after selecting them.

A troops supply can now hold 10 units of beer & 10 gold

Sacrifices on an altar will now grant all Vikings honor.

It's getting cold outside. Perishables will decay at a slower rate.

[ 2015-10-07 09:53:36 CET ] [ Original post ]