Songs of Silence

🚀 Road to Launch #3 - Campaign & Difficulty Settings 🚀 How we built Songs of Silence with our CommunityGreetings, heroes of Songs of Silence! ⚔︠We continue our Road to Launch series... (finally! 🥳) This week, we give you an insight on TWO key parts of ✨Songs of Silence✨!âš”ï¸ The Campaignâš–ï¸ The Difficulty Settings Early Access and player feedback (you!) enabled us to improve and even rehaul certain chapters! 🛠︠This also fueled development for the rest of the campaign. As for Difficulty Settings, both provided us with precious balancing inputs! 💡 âš”ï¸ The Campaign ⚔︠📖 Chapter 2 When we released into Early Access, chapter 2 was strongly criticized. 😤 It suffered from several issues, which led us to the following changes:We shortened and rehauled the first section for a faster, simpler navigation 🗺ï¸We improved the movement meter to indicate when a player may hide or not ðŸ“We reworked the forests and armies placed in the middle section to be more intuitive 🌲We fine-tuned the AI to be less punitive 🩹 Here\'s some before and after pictures below! 👇👇👇

Game AI[UP.1] AI Armies interact with locations to heal units and build garrisons[UP.1] AI Armies can move through locations they own[UP.3] AI Armies manage loot wagons in their reserves to cash them in later[FR1.0] AI retreat mechanic reworked to be less punitive and more intuitive[FR1.0] AI armies avoid marching if enemies are nearbyCommunity-Requested Feature Improvements[UP.1] Garrison units assist when breaking a siege on a location[UP.2] Choose your Next Hero (Skirmish) instead of randomly recruiting a new one[UP.3] Warning before quitting Multiplayer lobby when hitting ESC key[FR1.0] Armies enter owned but empty locations after breaking siege from outsideQuality of Life FeaturesPrioritized based on player & community feedback.Battles[HF.2] X2 / X4 Battle Speed-up for single player modes (Campaign + Skirmish)[HF.2] Exit & Load saves directly from battlesNEW - Battle Statistics[UP.3] Implemented Battle Statistics as a post-battle report on overall casualties[FL1.0] Setting to always / never display Battle Statistics in post-battle screenMovement System[UP.1] Smarter tolerance to collisions with terrain & other armies on the Map[UP.1] More granular display of Movement Points on Movement Meter[UP.1] Visual feedback when switching from non-marching to marching formationAnimations & Visual SequencingThe speed or order of certain actions and animations was a strong pain point.[FR1.0] Deselect player army upon exiting the Inspect screen[FR1.0] Quick selection between player heroes upon mouse click[FR1.0] Cash-in loot wagons at once upon entering location[FR1.0] Location entry, exit and pass-through run smoothly with no “breaks”

Ukrainian language support with Update 0.7.1!

Bugs squashedMap 01 - Dialogues are not retriggered when retreating from initial battle anymore.Unrest State - Fixed a bug where the unrest State persisted even when replacing an existing building in a location.Input Device Dropdown - The dropdown menu for input devices does not vanish anymore after entering a match room.Siege Exit - Armies inside a location under siege used to be able to exit the location in Skirmish / Multiplayer modes. Now they can’t.Battle Biome - You now enter the correct battle biome when breaking a siege as a defender.Combat Power Tooltip - Fixed the combat power display for Triune of Aranburg and Tribunal of War in the tooltip.Exploit fix - Recruitment cards can no longer be re-used after reloading a manual save.Adventure - The Explore card no longer appears playable after completing the Adventure.Garrison Units - Garrison spawned by an additional rank from the Light Link building are no longer lost when leveling it up.