Age of Darkness: Final Stand - Content Update v0.7.1
Dear Protectors of the Light,
We appreciate your loyalty and devotion to fighting off the Veil while we continue to make improvements to the world of Age of Darkness.
The Watchtower continues to be an integral Building for those who need assistance finding their way in the Darkness. Between Death Nights, the Watchtower will indicate the straight-line direction of the next closest unrevealed Point of Interest, regardless of distance.
Along with this new feature, we have focused on bug fixing and Quality of Life improvements. The most notable being improvements to collision to prevent Nightmares stacking on top of each other during Death Nights. We have also fixed resourcing issues with Farms, Unit stats, troublesome Tier 1 Nightmares appearing in every Death Night along with addressing notable crashes and save / load issues.
For those who are scared of the dark, let the Watchtower guide you and put you on the right path. Stay alert and keep a watchful eye out, this update may be light but there are many exciting things happening behind the scenes that we will be announcing soon…
As always please continue to report bugs to our Steam forums or in the bug reporting channel on our Discord, as we’re constantly monitoring those channels.
Check out the full patch notes below:
Release Notes
Improvements
The Watchtower points to unrevealed Points of Interest.
Additional Changes
Improvements to collision to fix Nightmares stacking during Death Nights.
Watchtower Radius changes colour if overlapping with another Watchtower.
Balancing
Changed the Arbalest attack time from 5.8s to 5.3s to reflect v0.6.2 stats.
Changed the Arbalest Range from 5.5 to 6 to reflect v0.6.2 stats.
Changed Sentinel Gold and Iron costs to reflect v0.6.2 costs.
Reduced the Archer range to 3 to reflect v0.6.2 stats.
Changed Fire Sconce Wood cost from 30 to 50.
Changed Grand Ballista Tower Iron cost from 70 to 75.
Changed the resource value of the Farm from 0.28 to 0.31 per tile.
Changed the resource value of the Refined Farm from 0.49 to 0.60
Changed the gold upkeep for the Farm from 20 to 16.
Crashes
Fixed a crash that would occur when pressing Q+W simultaneously within the build menu.
Fixed a crash that would occur when selecting Farms.
Fixes & Changes
Fixed an issue where the Hero is respawning at The Keep when dying within Triage Tent radius.
Fixed an issue where the first arrow fired by an Archer is a fire arrow regardless of the Skill being purchased.
Fixed an issue where Archers would disappear if a garrisoned Tower was sold.
Fixed an issue where Farms were providing the incorrect amount of food per tile.
Fixed an issue where food resources decrease incorrectly when building a House in a Farms radius.
Fixed an issue where Tier 1 Nightmares appear in every Death Night
Fixed an issue where the Triage Tent UI doesn't display the required villagers needed
Fixed an issue where the emboldened FX would appear on Buildings being constructed.
Fixed an issue where Buildings appear darker after construction.
Fixed an issue where the Day / Night Timer was incorrect after loading a save file.
Fixed an issue where Resource progress bars do not increase after loading a save file.
Fixed an issue where the Trade Bazaar resource stockpile increases when the game is paused.
Fixed an issue where the Death Music begins playing at the start of the Death Night countdown.
Known Issues
A fix for these issues will come in a future update.
Units may have difficulty pathing around Buildings.
On some occasions Spitters may not move or respond to player units. [
} Vizargo’s Veiled Coil ability can sometimes linger on the ground.
Aelis’ Queen’s Rage ability can sometimes linger on the ground and on units.
Where possible please ensure all drivers are updated to ensure the best and smoothest performance.
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We greatly appreciate everyone who has taken the time to let us know about these bugs and crashes you’ve encountered. If you come across any bugs or crashes in the future, please report them to us either through the Steam forums, our Discord server in the ‘bug-reporting’ channel or using the in-game bug reporting tool.
Have a question about the game? We have a handy FAQ we’ve posted on the Steam forums that you can view. If your question hasn’t been answered there, we’ll be doing our best to keep up with questions here, on the forums and our Discord server.
Have a question about the game? We have a handy FAQ we’ve posted on the Steam forums that you can view. If your question hasn’t been answered there, we’ll be doing our best to keep up with questions here, on the forums and our Discord server.
Since the release of v0.7.0 you’ve noted some changes to Age of Darkness that weren’t listed in the patch notes. Thank you for your reports both on Steam and in our Discord server, and a special thanks to Catbert7 for their comprehensive post on the forums. You can find our full list of changes below.
We mentioned in our v0.7.0 Content Update that we’d added in Multiplayer code that may cause some issues. While it’s all under one game, we’re working on 3 different game modes at once - Survival, Multiplayer and Campaign - and in some cases we’ll want to have the values differ across these modes (although not always). When compiling our release build for v0.7.0, it appears we ran into some merge issues. These changed values have come through from testing other game modes and previous balance data. After looking into other changes raised by the community, for example movespeed showing as 1.6 instead of 1.7, we’ve noted a UI display issue on our ‘to fix’ list. These values have not changed in the backend, but are currently rounding incorrectly in the UI.
We’ll be releasing a patch soon (not before the coming weekend - you’ve got time to finish your saves!) that will fix a lot of these unexpected changes, as well as adding the Point of Interest update for the Watchtower that we spoke of in the Watchtower blog.
For future releases, we’ll be putting in more checks around our branching and merging system, both manually and automated.
As always, if you come across any bugs or crashes in the future, please continue to report them to us either through the Steam forums, our Discord server in the ‘bug-reporting’ channel or using the in-game bug reporting tool.
Have a question about the game? We have a handy FAQ we’ve posted on the Steam forums that you can view. If your question hasn’t been answered there, we’ll be doing our best to keep up with questions here, on the forums and our Discord server.
Age of Darkness: Final Stand - Content Update v0.7.0
Dear Protectors of the Light,
No longer will you need to fear every Death Night expecting it to be your last, cowering behind your defences and awaiting to see where the Nightmares will come from, only for them to choose the path less travelled and sneak past you to decimate your Keep.
The Light has bestowed upon each Faction the Watchtower building, to ensure you are prepared for each Death Night. This building shows the direction from which the ravenous horde will come from. Within its large radius a path will appear to give you an indication of where to place your defences, there is a limit of 2 structures that can be built, so place them wisely.
With each new and exciting addition to Age of Darkness, previous save files may not always be compatible with each update, with this in mind we have added in Save Game Error Handling. If a save file is not compatible with the latest update, an error message will clearly appear on the file.
We are aware that there may be some bugs hiding in the darkness that we might not have found and fixed. This is because we are preparing for something exciting that you have all been waiting for.. Multiplayer! As we have been hard at work on it, there has been some code added in to support Multiplayer that may cause some unforeseen problems.
While the Nightmare corruption is taking more of a toll on the land, the further out you venture the Veil continues to poison all that is good in the world. Keep your villagers safe and continue to prepare your loyal armed forces for what is to come, may there be many victories on your horizon!
As always please continue to report bugs to our Steam forums or in the bug reporting channel on our Discord, as we’re constantly monitoring those channels.
Check out the full patch notes below:
Release Notes
Improvements
New Building: Watchtower
New Feature: Visible Land Corruption
New Feature: Save Game Error Handling
Localisation for New Features
Additional Changes
Lightning tutorial panel triggers once the Death Night fog rolls in.
Updated Point of Interest art indicative of reward tiers.
Updated ‘Attack Speed’ to ‘Attack Time’ on Unit hoverboxes to better reflect the stat.
UI added to Training Hall to show it has been boosted by the Trade Bazaar.
Updated the Keep description.
Triage Tent moved to the ‘Other’ category in the Resources Panel.
Autosaves box will automatically be ticked when loading in a save.
Added text highlighting to Vizargo and Aelis’ descriptions.
UI Improvements on Custom difficulty screen to stop text overlapping in Non-English languages.
Crashes
Fixed a crash that would occur when Aelis remains the only one that can be selected with F2.
Fixes & Changes
Fixed an issue where Nightmares would not roam during the night.
Fixed an issue where players could not animation-cancel Pikemen.
Fixed an issue where Queen's Rage can't be cast using the hotkey after loading in a save.
Fixed an issue where Units would play the wrong animations after loading in a save.
Fixed an issue where the Hero doesn't move after loading in a save after upgrading on Forgiving and Horrific difficulties.
Fixed an issue where Units would lose their Faction modifiers after loading in a save.
Fixed an issue where Buildings would be built with the wrong banner after loading in a save.
Fixed an issue where having all Units in groups except for the Hero, will display the Hero as an enemy when they are selected with F2.
Fixed an issue where a Unit could get stuck after being ejected from a tower.
Fixed an issue where a Training Hall being constructed would charge gold for a Unit if it’s in a control group with a built Training Hall that is training a Unit.
Fixed an issue where moving the camera using the Mini-Map will highlight the Buildings AOE that is behind the Mini-Map.
Fixed an issue where a green circle would appear on the Mini-Map after loading in a save file.
Fixed an issue where Burster’s VFX trails were observable in unlit areas.
Fixed an issue where construction dust VFX would appear around buildings when loading in a save.
Fixed an issue where fire VFX would stay on screen after using fire arrows.
Fixed an issue where the yellow Rally Point line from Training Hall would appear under the food crops.
Fixed an issue where wounded Nightmares would have flickering health bars above them.
Fixed an issue where the Building Units icon above the Training Hall stays after all Units have finished training.
Fixed an issue where the scroll buttons would disappear if 2 or more Buildings of the same type are in a control group.
Fixed an issue where ‘Point of Interest Captured’ text would stay on screen after capturing a POI.
Fixed an issue when cancelling a Hero Ability, the action grid slot would stay highlighted.
Fixed an issue where stone and iron resources were showing the incorrect value after selling a quarry.
Fixed an issue where the incorrect voice line will play on completion of Workshop Research advancements.
Fixed an issue where using the hotkey to remove villagers from a selected Resource Building would remove it from a random Building.
Fixed an issue where the game would not display on a third monitor.
Fixed an issue where the Heroes statistics panel would not scale correctly on a 1280x960 resolution setting.
Fixed an issue where 'Nightmare Fuel’ would overlap with the UI on the Blessings pop up in Polish.
Fixed an issue where the Crystal Scout Blessing icon overlaps the name in Polish.
Fixed an issue where the Motivated Layman Blessing text overlaps the icon in Polish and German.
Fixed an issue where ‘Press desired input’ Text is overlapping with the UI in French.
Fixed an issue where ‘Select Faction’ on the Hero select screen is not localised in non-English languages.
Fixed an issue where the Hardship description would overlap the UI bounds in German.
Known Issues
A fix for these issues will come in a future update.
On some occasions the first arrow fired by an archer will appear as a Fire Arrow despite the player not having Fire Arrows unlocked.
On some occasions Spitters may not move or respond to player units. [
} Vizargo’s Veiled Coil ability can sometimes linger on the ground.
Aelis’ Queen’s Rage ability can sometimes linger on the ground and on units.
Glowing Nightmares can stack on a Death Night.
Where possible please ensure all drivers are updated to ensure the best and smoothest performance.
--- We greatly appreciate everyone who has taken the time to let us know about these bugs and crashes you’ve encountered. If you come across any bugs or crashes in the future, please report them to us either through the Steam forums, our Discord server in the ‘bug-reporting’ channel or using the in-game bug reporting tool. Till next time Protectors of the Light… AoD Social Links:
As you explore the coming update, you’ll see that the terrain gets more and more grim the farther from the Keep you travel. You may be asking yourself what purpose this serves! Well, for starters, it looks phenomenal. But it also currently delineates where Nightmares get more difficult, Points of Interest get more rewarding, and resources get more abundant. While we’ve always had these different tiers of terrain, it was previously not visible to the player. Now you know exactly when you can expect to start encountering tougher foes and that all-important Iron.
That’s what it does right now, but we are also looking at what it might do in the future. Internally we’re discussing lots of different effects the different terrain types could have on gameplay. Some things may impact the economy (such as less food from farms on poor land) and some things may directly impact how you navigate the terrain (such as areas that deal damage to units that get too close).
Nothing is set in stone yet, and we want to ensure that whatever we add makes mechanical sense within the game as well as within the world of Age of Darkness.
We’re also assessing the feasibility of creating entirely new environments, and different rulesets for those environments (and even for different PARTS of those environments). But all of this is likely to be a ways down the track.
In the meantime, enjoy the sights.
As always, if you come across any bugs or crashes in the future, please report them to us either through the Steam forums, our Discord server in the ‘bug-reporting’ channel or using the in-game bug reporting tool.
Have a question about the game? We have a handy FAQ we’ve posted on the Steam forums that you can view. If your question hasn’t been answered there, we’ll be doing our best to keep up with questions here, on the forums and our Discord server.
In a recent poll we held on Steam and Discord, we asked players what they feel is the main reason they lose in Survival. More than half of all participants answered that it was the unpredictability of the Death Night’s pathing that ultimately brought their Keep to the ground. Luckily, we’ve had the Watchtower in the works for a little while to help remedy this exact problem!
The Watchtower is a new Light building that, unlike the Fire Sconce and Tower, does not remove Horrify or even provide much vision. What it does instead, is show the exact path the next Death Night will follow in a massive radius around it.
This is an extremely powerful thing to know. If you know exactly where the path is ahead of time, you can focus all your resources on the most efficient chokepoint, negating much of what makes Survival challenging (it is, after all, also a game about exploration as much as it is a game about preparation). So, the Watchtower comes with some caveats:
You probably won’t be able to build it before Death Night 1. In this iteration it requires some Iron. In a future update it will likely require a small amount of Dark Essence. Since the first Death Night tends to play out close enough to the keep that the nightmares take extra time to pose a threat (allowing you to be a bit more flexible in your defense placements), we feel this is a fair trade-off for not having the Watchtower available at this point.
It won’t display the exact path until the crystal is revealed. This is to ensure there’s still some time pressure around deciding where you need to build.
You’ll only see the Death Night’s path highlighted where you have vision. The detection radius of the tower is enormous, but the vision is not, so you’ll have to send some scouts or build some other structures if you want to see the entirety of the path.
Now, this means that when you first build your tower, if it isn’t in the lead up to a Death Night, it may look like it is doing nothing. We’ve got some improvements on this front that will just miss this update, but will be out soon.
The most important of these is the Point of Interest indicator. Once placed, the Watchtower will provide a visual clue indicating the direction of the next-closest Point of Interest relative to the tower’s position. This has no range limit, so if all you care about is tracking down Points of Interest, then one tower will get you there.
Hopefully the Watchtower helps alleviate one of the things you, the players, said was most frustrating, without compromising the difficulty that makes Age of Darkness satisfying to play and progress on.
Stay tuned for v0.7.0 in the coming weeks!
As always, if you come across any bugs or crashes in the future, please report them to us either through the Steam forums, our Discord server in the ‘bug-reporting’ channel or using the in-game bug reporting tool.
Have a question about the game? We have a handy FAQ we’ve posted on the Steam forums that you can view. If your question hasn’t been answered there, we’ll be doing our best to keep up with questions here, on the forums and our Discord server.
Aid us with your thoughts by taking our Player Survey. Your feedback and suggestions will help us to improve and shape Age of Darkness: Final Stand as we journey towards v1.0.
Let us know what features you’d love to see implemented, as well as what you’d like to see improved!
As always, if you come across any bugs or crashes in the future, please report them to us either through the Steam forums, our Discord server in the ‘bug-reporting’ channel or using the in-game bug reporting tool.
Have a question about the game? We have a handy FAQ we’ve posted on the Steam forums that you can view. If your question hasn’t been answered there, we’ll be doing our best to keep up with questions here, on the forums and our Discord server.
Have a question about the game? We have a handy FAQ we’ve posted on the Steam forums that you can view. If your question hasn’t been answered there, we’ll be doing our best to keep up with questions here, on the forums and our Discord server.
Team17 Age Of Darkness: Final Stand Factions Livestream!
Protectors of the Light!
The Factions update came out last week and the fine folks at Team17 are going to be showing off the latest changes and additions on their Twitch channel on Tuesday at 16:00 BST!
Have a question about the game? We have a handy FAQ we’ve posted on the Steam forums that you can view. If your question hasn’t been answered there, we’ll be doing our best to keep up with questions here, on the forums and our Discord server.
Age of Darkness: Final Stand - Content Update v0.6.2
Dear Protectors of the Light,
Together we stand against the Darkness, but individually we have our own strengths and weaknesses, in this exciting update we bring you Factions which will be rallied by our Heroes. Edwin leads the charge of The Order, Aelis the fearless leader of The Rebellion and Vizargo taking the helm of the shadowy Volatists.
Each Faction will have different starting Units as well as different stats and buffs to play to their unique strengths within the world. To give each Faction a unique look and appearance, Units and Buildings have been given Faction specific signals and colouring. But this is only the beginning of how Factions will look on the journey towards v1.0.
We know our brave defenders of the realm want to know more about the Nightmares they are fighting against, so to aid in the battle the Veil has granted you a blessing! You can select an Enemy to see all their stats along with their unit description to help you strategize on how you tackle them.
As the time passes you will need more valiant fighters to keep the Veil from creeping in, so keep your eyes peeled as this is not the end for what we have planned… new champions will rise.
As always please continue to report bugs to our Steam forums or in the bug reporting channel on our Discord, as we’re constantly monitoring those channels.
Check out the full patch notes below:
Release Notes
Improvements
New Feature: Factions
New Feature: Enemy Select
Triage Tent Research cost has been lowered.
Triage Tent Rescue Radius has increased.
Triage Tent revival speed has increased.
Localisation for New Features
Additional Changes
Heroless Icon added to save files with the Heroless Hardship applied.
Save Files will display ‘Custom’ if saved on a Custom Difficulty.
Updated Triage Tent Tutorial to include Hero Revival information.
Updated Vizargo’s Veils Claw Description to more accurately depict the ability.
.Updated UI hoverbox text for the Training Hall and Siege Factory.
Updated the + & - UI in the Resources panel to have a disabled state.
Updated the Unlimited Frame Rate option in the Settings menu to be located after 120 FPS.
Updated Credits to include T17 QA and Volmi Games.
Crashes
Fixed a crash that would occur when pressing ‘F2’ during the loading screen.
Fixed a crash that would occur after conquering a Point of Interest.
Fixes & Changes
Fixed an issue where the game thinks shift is being held and tries to just queue all of your movements.
Fixed an issue where Units could not path correctly around Catapults.
Fixed an issue where Attack-Move would not register when clicking on impassable terrain.
Fixed an issue where the camera would not focus on a selected Building until you close the popup.
Fixed an issue where the title would freeze when pressing F1 or F2.
Fixed an issue where Aelis’ guards would not attack enemies.
Fixed an issue where Aelis’ guards would jitter after an attack-command move.
Fixed an issue where Vizargo’s Impaling Wrath ability would not activate.
Fixed an issue where there was a delay in Vizargo responding to move commands.
Fixed an issue where Vizargo’s range for Impaling Wrath remains when selecting a Unit after the skill has been selected.
Fixed an issue where Bursters were dealing damage outside their AOE radius.
Fixed an issue where enemies weren’t being agroed.
Fixed an issue where Buildings would need to be double clicked to be selected.
Fixed an issue where Units would be Ejected from Towers.
Fixed an issue where if trying to build walls on impassable terrain the walls are built on a different area of the map.
Fixed an issue where once the Hero has Respawned at a Triage Tent every death afterwards causes them to spawn at the same Tent.
Fixed an issue where Units queued in the Triage Tent would not be in the correct order.
Fixed an issue where when Units are removed from the Triage Tent their countdown timer remains.
Fixed an issue where Unit icons would not show when selected.
Fixed a visual issue with Vizargo’s Impaling Wrath FX.
Fixed an issue where the Triage Tent Radius would appear white.
Fixed an issue where the name of the Save File could not be changed.
Fixed an issue where Unit icons in the Triage Tent queue are misaligned.
Fixed an issue where when the UI is Set to 125% The Hardship Icons on the Custom Difficulty screen become smaller.
Fixed an issue where the Splash Art does not scale correctly in windowed mode.
Fixed an issue where the Hero Spawn VO was not playing.
Fixed an issue where the incorrect text was appearing in the Emboldened tutorial in Russian.
Fixed an issue with text wrapping in the Villagers menu.
Fixed an issue where Vizargo's Veiled Coil description was not localised for non-English languages.
Fixed an issue where the Hotkey Overrides text for various buildings was not localised for non-English languages.
Fixed an issue where the Upkeep text on the Resource hoverbox overlaps the gold icon in German.
Fixed an issue where the users could not send through Feedback reports.
Known Issues
A fix for these issues will come in the following Patch Update.
Save Files from previous games will not be compatible with this update it is recommended to start a new save file.
Several fixes have been made in regards to the units getting stuck. However there may still be edge cases where this is occurring.
Where possible please ensure all drivers are updated to ensure the best and smoothest performance.
--- We greatly appreciate everyone who has taken the time to let us know about these bugs and crashes you’ve encountered. If you come across any bugs or crashes in the future, please report them to us either through the Steam forums, our Discord server in the ‘bug-reporting’ channel or using the in-game bug reporting tool.
Have a question about the game? We have a handy FAQ we’ve posted on the Steam forums that you can view. If your question hasn’t been answered there, we’ll be doing our best to keep up with questions here, on the forums and our Discord server.
