Age of Gladiators
Age Of Gladiators II Announced!
I'm proud to announce the store page has gone up just an hour ago, so you can find more information about the game here:
Age Of Gladiators II - Store Page
I will continue to keep everyone posted here.
It's been a truly exciting time this last year with all of you. I have listened to many of your amazing suggestions in the forums and anything I could not implement in the first game, I applied to the sequel; namely a 3D combat system and more in-depth strategy.
I hope you enjoy the unique and exciting sci-fi setting of Age Of Gladiators II.
Build your story! Build your empire!
New Update - New Portraits, Bug Fixes
The following items were completed during this small patch:
- Added four new portraits (3 male, 1 female)
- Fixed a minor grammatical error on the battle screen
- Removed the morale loss indicator on the arena screen when the fight purse perk has been selected
- Fixed bug where gladiators received losses on record when losing in an exhibition match
Will be adding more changes in the coming months!
New Update Now Live - Expanded Save/Load System
New Update Now Live - More Portraits, Gladiator Origins, Automatic Leveling, and More!
Here are some of the changes:
- Over 70 new gladiator origins have been added to the game (an example of a past life can include horse thief, street urchin, ex-soldier, cook, baker, marauder, and more). Origins also provide a small stat bonus to fighters when they are born depending on the type.
- Different places of birth have now been added to each fighter.
- Automatic leveling has now been added to the game as an option if players want to see how their gladiators level on their own.
- Four new portraits added to the game.
- Few more minor bugs have been fixed.
Hope you enjoy!
New Update Now Live - Female Gladiators, Long Campaigns, Combat Stances, and More!
Here are some of the changes:
- Option to use female gladiators now added to game. This will only work for new games and is a selection on the set up screen.
- A Long Campaign option has been added – this will take players much longer to get to Rome if selected.
- Over 60 new after-battle messages added depending on gladiator cause of death.
- Combat stances (aggressive, normal, defensive) have been added for gladiators – this can be set before battle on the fighter presentation screen.
- Beast baseline stats and monetary rewards have been increased slightly.
- Right mouse key increases gladiator attributes by 10 (or maximum number of skill points if less than are 10 available).
- Space bar now ends turn.
- Clean house mail and counter mail reminding players that they can execute fighters and staff for their gold savings.
- Several minor bugs fixed.
Hope you enjoy!
Major Update Now Live!
Here are some of the changes:
- Exhibition matches against beasts (wolves, panthers, tigers, bears, and lions) have now been added to the game. This gives players another avenue to advance starting-level fighters (10 or lower) and earn a bit of money while waiting for regular fight days.
- Feed permanently injured fighters to hungry animals.
- Age Of Gladiators can now be played with Steam in offline mode.
- Various retirement texts now added to the game depending on play style.
- Human owned gladiators can now be given instructions to try and spare defeated foes (enemies can still be executed by crowd vote though).
- Stat added in office to show gladiators freed by player.
- Increase enemy boss recruitment of fighters by 5%.
- Players now start with 70,000 denarii.
- Added keyboard shortcuts for main navigation (Stable, Staff, Market, Recruit, Office).
- Adjusted reputation gain and loss to be significantly smaller each time.
- Showman now has a 25% purse bonus instead of 100%.
- Gladiators in Hall of Fame: view history button now available.
- Animal Kills now show up as stat for gladiator.
- Added a burn rate mail message warning a player if they are potentially spending too much money each day.
- Updated Blacksmith tooltip to be more clear that they buff weapons and armor, not maintain them.
- Staff life savings now seized upon execution.
- Version number added to splash screen.
- Fixed map so that Brundisium pin is now showing after reaching Rome.
- Fixed a small formatting bug when viewing enemy fighters.
Latest Update Now Live!
Here are the changes:
- Fixed occasional bug where game crashed after end turn was hit.
- Fixed occasional bug where game crashed when selecting a boss to fight.
- Gladiators previously human owned and reacquired from enemy bosses now show as being in transit back to player stable.
- Interest rates lowered slightly for loans.
- Adding a skill point to health now adds 5 extra HP instead of 1.
- Fixed tooltip hover message over blacksmith armor skill.
- Morale loss: this has been decreased slightly for certain actions.
- Morale boost from pay raises has been increased from 5 morale points to 25.
- Added weapons/armour status and information when rolling over gladiator name in stable.
- Split Stable upgrades into increasing or decreasing morale sections.
- Adjusted stable upgrades to be cheaper, food is now a set cost (on previous save games, you will need to end a turn to see proper maintenance costs in ledger)
- Fixed bug where reversed stable improvements were not properly reconciling with maintenance amount in ledger.
- Fixed a bug where fatigue recovery time would be thousands of days and added a maximum to all additional fatigue from fighting while already tired.
- Merchant: added an additional 150,000 to origin.
- Selling price of gladiators to enemy bosses: selling price should closely match the recruiting price and then increase with levels and attributes. This is to prevent overpaying by AI bosses.
- Enemy bosses now offer different prices for gladiators based on their evaluation talents.
- Added a tooltip to the fight hype text explaining that higher hyper fights will result in more challenging enemies.
- Changed tooltip background to an opaque black instead of gray for increased visibility of text.
- Company logo screen will switch to splash screen after a few seconds.
- Perks: fatigue removal changed to fatigue reduction (50%)
- Fixed numerous tool-tips to be more informative
- Critical damage: this reported clearer on the gladiator expertise screen
You may need to restart your Steam for it to immediately update to the newest build.
Next update will look at adding some additional portraits, beasts, and some additional fun changes. As well, now that I have more information on the bug where the game crashes sometimes when facing a gladiator in the arena that you previously owned, I will be working on that one next.
Next Few Updates
Next update will include the following:
- Bugs: will be looking at the infinite fatigue bug, the rare game crash that has been reported on the End Turn, and more.
- Gladiator Portraits: more are being worked on (including a couple optional female ones as well.)
- Stable Upgrades: will be making it clearer which upgrades increase morale and which ones decrease it.
- Morale: will be looking at this and making sure it is as balanced and well-explained as possible.
- Stable: rollover tool-tip on stable page to show which weapon a gladiator is equipped with and its condition.
- City Balancing: will be looking at each city to make sure the challenge is as balanced as possible.
- Retirement text: will be adding some flavor text based on score. Akin to Mount & Blade, Pirates, etc...
Lions, Bears, Bugs (Fixes) And More!
Some additional things I am strongly considering for a future (but very near) update:
- Lions and bears! This will likely coincide with an exhibition "training" match system that has been suggested by a lot of players. This will allow people to train a gladiator once a day in non-death matches against animals. I am still working on the concept and will be fleshing this out further in the coming days.
- Additional Battle Text: during battles describing the action in more detail. This will be in addition to the turn based messages currently seen.
- Gladiator Origins: expanded origins based on what country they come from: Italia, Carthage, Africa, Germany, etc...
- Sponsorship: will be looking at potentially increasing the percentage for this, or lowering the cost slightly for each sponsorship tier.
- Hall Of Fame: will likely be adding the ability to view a fighter's win-loss and injury history in the hall of fame.
- Steam Workshop: will be looking at adding this for people.
There are many more fantastic suggestions that I am also looking at and sorting. If you are interested in leaving your own feedback, please visit the Game Suggestions Thread in the discussions section.
Small Update
This will not disrupt users in-game or any save files. Steam may need restarted to see new changes.