Hello, Magistrates! It has been almost two months since we last released our development plan. During the test in September, we received a lot of feedback, which inspired us greatly and we have been fully focused on the development since then. With the unremitting efforts of our players and developer team, the time has come to unveil the mystery for everyone.
In the September test, some players have already experienced the Refugee system where you have to provide supplies to refugees to keep them alive, let them in to the refugee camps inside your borders to take care and nourish them, and appease their mood to prevent riots. Although it was a bit harsh and heavy, it proved to be a unique theme leading up to unique experiences in each playthrough. This puts a lot of pressure on resource management and production as intended, which promotes tactical gameplay, but we acknowledge it had some issues with balancing, which we now hope is in a much better state and this system is more enjoyable overall.
In addition, during and out of the challenge, players can collect "story fragments" from various locations in the game world to unlock "Ding Hong's Biography", in which stories and events from Hongye revealed. You can also gain experience and unlock several cosmetic structures in the game, purely aimed at making layouts look more beautiful and tidy.
We also have added a checkpoint mechanism. As we observed, the "courier station" in the previous test got a lot of attention, but it was still severely lacking. In order to increase the stakes and improve the feeling of connection between the lands, we strengthened courier station mechanics, and created a checkpoint system around this.
In addition, the "Spectacle Buildings" are updated and improved with groundbreaking functions. Now they will be more than fancy looks, and provide you with some unique or improved functions, be prepared to change your layouts when you unlock them!
Finally, peaceful times are coming to an end in Ballads of Hongye. As country goes to war, Hongye must do its part with its Magistrate's leadership! More news on war and battle in Ballads of Hongye soon!
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1. Correctly reflect the effects of an Insect Swarm on the corresponding population of the affected building 2. Fixed a performance issue caused by some of the recreational buildings.
Optimizations:
1. Repair Division now only effective for the plot its constructed on. You can build multiple of them in different regions. 2. Yan zhiao description (modified) 3. Adjustment of layout for Ding Hong's Diary 4. Added tips and clues for story, advisers will mention and nudge you to right direction now. 5. When Jiang Ziya's recruitment skill is used, there will be a BUFF prompt now. 6. New collapse performance for blueprint buildings 7. Market order value adjustments 8. Adjusted tips on the Recruitment tab of Recruitment panel: when adviser level is enough to unlock the skill, it is displaying as intended now.
Patch Notes[09.07.2022]
Bug Fix:
1. Waterfall no longer clips through the terrain. 2. Fixed an issue causing a failure even though the conditions are met in the last stage on East Ridge in Challenge mode.
Optimizations:
1. Gold mines now produce gold, as intended. 2. Market interface now displays year number and current date 3. Repetition is reduced for avatars and images in the market order panel. 4. Insect Swarms no longer cause a population loss. 5. Adviser House now negates crime within its radius, this change is also reflected in the building description. 6. After synthesizing a blueprint at the Design Institute interface, added the population requirement at the position above the card 7. Added happiness display to talent 8. Optimized the turn actions when the horse is standing still during "whip and ride" 9. The Conscription House has a new feature that reduces the probability of local crime 10. Adjusted the clarity of the building terrain line 11. Optimize the smoothness of placing roads
New Things:
1. Added the main interface of the winter snow scene 2. Add 5 blueprint buildings
Patch Notes[09.06.2022]
Bug Fix:
1. Fixed the road preaching has no refreshing npc next to the sign building road 2. Fixed the annual meeting interface pops up when the tax stamp animation is not finished broadcasting
Optimizations:
1. Famous county list adjusted to default open 2. The mouse hover Hall of Fame token can see the ranking skills effect description 3. The adviser tips on the new "holy talent" and other quality introduction 4. Adjust the identity of the adviser such as the "Knowledgeable" label position 5. The interface value reaches billion, accurate to 2 decimal places, such as 120 million, hover Tips show the actual value 6. Adjust the problem of duplicate cards dropping from the challenge. 7. Replace the Hall of Fame icon 8. Adjust the description of Huo Qubing‘s anti crime skill 9. Replace the performance of irrigation facilities 10. In the market and night market sales interface, the description of "market balance" is changed to "Holdings".
New Things:
1. New talent: Hongye County can share part of the monthly salary of the advisor for the challenge 2. In the game settings added the mouse wheel trigger map custom configuration options.
Patch Notes[09.06.2022]
Bug Fix:
1. Fixed the issue that some of the locked buildings could be directly placed 2. Fixed several overlapping dialogue bubbles and UI elements in certain cases 3. Fixed eartquake icon, it now correctly displays itself when there is an earthquake happening. 4. Fixed a camera jump issue while using the quick-switch region buttons
Optimizations:
1. Wang Yangming: "unity of knowledge and action" Active skill duration has been changed to 15 days 2. Shen Wansan: Cooldown for the skill that opens a night market is changed to 60 days 3. Adjusted basic attributes of Qin Hui to have high profit and competition 4. Adjusted the effective level of Qin Hui's self benefiting skill at the expense of others to level 3, and the effective level of power skill to level 5 5. Adjusted Huo Qubing's anti crime skill, it now independently triggers on its own.
Patch Notes[09.05.2022]
Bug Fix:
1. Fixed a crash sometimes caused by an earthquake 2. When using Fountain of Thought while choosing a building, plans that will carry over now from Hongye now correctly displays the info cards for comparison. 3. Fixed an error popping up when courier station was selected while there is transportation ongoing 4. Fixed Shang Yang's salary returns will not only be returned to Hongye County, but will also be returned to the plot to which the work belongs. 5. There were no special effects for the primary fire in some cases, and effects would only trigger after the second trigger. This issue is fixed now. 6. Fixed some display issues with the English font 7, Fixed a angle jump issue after using Whip and Ride function in other zones, the camera would occasionally jump to the Hongye Adviser House 8, Fixed some texture issues in certain recreational buildings 9. Fixed an sudden camera angle change issues during the Season Vale during its challenge 10. After failing some challanges, refugees would carry over to the next attemp, this issue is now fixed.
Gameplay Optimization:
1. If the application for the city promotion does not meet the conditions anymore, a prompt will pop up; 2. Added tips to cards the synthesis interface 3, Monthly salary adjustment interface default setting is "all of them" 4. When completing the order, pop-up prompts will be covered in an orderly manner 5. Wang Mingyang's skill can be refreshed by other adviser skills and those skills can be stacked 6. When challenging a plot, default plans that are already being carried over will no longer be displayed in Fountain of Thoughts UI.
Patch Notes [09.02.2022]
Bug Fix:
1. Fixed an issue prevented Heating Facilities from negating effects of Frost. 2. Some tutorial bubbles correctly display themselves now. 3. Ship animation now correctly starts after Wharf is successfully built. 4. Fixed a camera issue which would cause the camera to stuck in place after reloading. 5. Fixed horse drafting when the ability unlocked through Whip and Ride is used 6. Repair the problem that pedestrians do not gradually disappear 7. Pedestrians now correctly move out and move in as intended, they are no longer stuck in place in some cases. 8. Flood and Drought no longer trigger continuous population loss 9. Fixed vacancy issues in Ding Hong's Diary UI 10. Fixed the issue of unintended building card unlocks when failing second and third challenges. 11. Fixed cycling failure issue that would sometimes occur when you fail the Season Vale challenge. 12. Mr. Meng's Morgue can be rebuilt now if it is accidently destroyed. 13. Refugee camps and tumuli appear in the challenge plot as intended now. Occasionally, they used to appear out of bounds. 14. Upgrading heating facilities, flood channels and irrigation facilities now increases their radius as intended. 15. Fixed a visual bug with several names 16. Fixed the "New" label untranslated problem in the English version 17. Fixed the text error in the traditional Chinese version 18. Fixed some building models, movements and special effects are incorrect
Gameplay Optimization:
1. Ledger - Adjusted Adviser Work Log descriptions 2. Slightly reduced the occurrence of donations while happiness state was Happy. 3. The amount of production buff from spring rain during spring 4. optimizations for refugee donation event 5. optimizations for the "United as One" event 6. Insect swarms no longer appear during winter. 7. Reduced the number of refugees perishing during refugee disasters 8. Design Institute synthesis interface optimization 9. The new idle advisor ranking and the plot counselor ranking will also be refreshed together 10. Adjust the special skills of the top three strategists in the Hall of Famous Ministers to (1) Speed Up: effective when advisor is working, speeds up construction by 10% (2) Worked Hard: effective when advisor is working, improves the overall ability of the strategist by 80 points (3) Cost Control: effective when advisor is working, reduces building maintenance money consumption by 5% 11. Added stepping and riding sounds for horse while patrolling the city on foot and riding horses 12. Adjusted numerical values for donations 13. Talent and landscape icon replacements 14. Refugees - adjustment of relevant values for donation events 15.Task dialogue optimisations such as screen interfaces for repair division etc 16.Adjusted several talent descriptions 17.Adjust residence descriptions 18.Optimised some steps while obtaining the story fragments 19.Mystery Merchant building enlarged, and can be easily spotted now. 20.Earthquakes can now destroy tumuli 21.Adjusted level of lamps in bath and opera houses 22.Optimised light exposure in saltpeter mine, stone mine, jade mine, copper mine, clay mine and gold mine 23.Animation optimisations with animation durations in stone and saltpeter mines razing 24.Fixed graphical issues with pine and wood camps. 25.Employee number and position adjustments for Repair Division 26.Improved Irrigation Facility model and performance 27.Optimised several character dialogues from story, some of the dialogue was missing. 28.Optimised some parts of Chinese localization 29. The probability of triggering the petition has increased, and the petition can now be triggered in Hongye 30. Updated the avatar of advisor Er Jin 31. Increase the bid amount of the opponent's town in the skill Donation 32. Adjust the first annual ceremony of the time 33. Airship paddle resource replacement
New Features:
1. Publicity system (posters, banners, city tour, public speeches) 2. Order and Delivery system for the Market 3. Scandals 4. City fame and popularity 5. Best City Award Ceremony 6. Night Market:Can be activated by the Shen Wansan skill 7. New advisor Shen Wansan with a skill to open/access night markets 8. A new adviser attribute affecting the construction speed and amount of resources returned from razing buildings 9. New mystery merchant icon, check it from map after unlocking it. 10. New disaster management icon, the disasters that can be managed will be marked, and players no longer need to jump repeatedly to check 11. A new industry chain button has been added to the challenging rewards building plans. You can view the relevant industry chain 12. A new industry chain button on the new building drawings has been added to the blueprint interface. You can view the relevant industry chain 13. On the evaluation screen of the first and second phases of the challenge, you can now view the construction target of the next phase
Patch Notes [08.31.2022]
Bug Fix:
1、Consturiction cost now displays correctly on the building menu for roads 2、Optimised an inconvenience while riding through the city 3、Fixed an issue sometimes causing a crash when reloading the game in fullscreen mode 4、Selecting a building from surplus column now correctly displays the selected buildings. It used to display previously selected buildings along with the currently selected ones. 5、Post station ruins used to highlight connected land when selected, display is corrected now. 6、Fixed the issue of switching building skins removing the switch skin button from UI 7、Fixed an issue causing an unintended major population loss 8、The completion goal of the West Ridge tutorial prompt now correctly matches with the actual goal 9, Winter Warehouse character animations are corrected, some parts used to be floating. 10、Insect Rack would cause some resource losses while there was an insect swarm active, it was not intended and fixed now. 11、Fully leveled watchtower had a mismatch problem with the snow, which is changed to not affected by snow as intended. 12, Fixed the issue where after entering the save game menu after pausing the game, UI would sometimes disappear. 13、Some roads would randomly become indestructible, you should be able to destroy any roads now. 14、maintenance surplus value at the end of the month and the actual maintenance surplus value were inconsistent at times, is should display correct info at all times now. 15、Fixed the issue while out of a challenge, even though surplus is positive, a failure would be prompted unintentionally.
Gameplay Adjustments:
1, People's spontaneous efforts for disaster relief are increased. 2, Chance of finding ancient tombs and subsequent rewards for removing it are increased. 3, Adviser basic attributes are adjusted to provide more impact on the gameplay 4、Optimized the rules of industrial competition, and adjust some values related to industrial competition 5、The working population required for security buildings has been reduced 6. Residence related expenses are reduced. 7. Reduced the basic salary of advisers, and adjusted the salary satisfaction standards to lower the dissatisfaction rate of advisers due to their salaries. 8, Ledger- Adviser work log content display changed from daily to monthly work results. 9、A new adviser "Wu Jiaqi" with a skill to recover 50% of the loss from industrial competition.
Join the Upcoming Playtest!
Hello there , Magistrates! Ballads of Hongye is having a small-scale playtest on August 29, 2022(PDT). This closed test includes fourth land, "Season Vale" in addition to several new features such as refugee system and new storylines. Our current focus in the test is to mainly improving and optimising the performance of the game, therefore we have to set some requirements if you want to join the test. We are sorry for the inconvenience.
Q: What are the requirements to participate in this test? A: GPU - Equivalent of GTX1080 or above, 16 GB system memory
Q: How can I participate in this test? A: You can apply to participate in this test in the following ways 1. Join our Discord server, take a look at the announcement channel and join up if you meet the requirements. 2. Click here to fill out the registration form
Test Notes. 1. Test is not under any NDA, so you are free to share and publish anything related to the game and its content. 2. Participants are chosen on a first come, first served basis. We have limited slots and we do not plan to expand the cap at the moment. 3. These requirements are not asked to play the full version of the game when its released, but simply help us pinpoint performance related issues.
Will Hongye Survive? We are on Steam's Survival Fest!
Hello, Magistrates! The Steam Survival Fest has begun and since we are in on it, we would like to emphasise natural disasters, which have been a very important survival element in Ballads of Hongye. While developing your county, as the seasons cycle and weather changes, you may have to face various natural disasters. In early summer, during the rainy season, prolonged rainfall may lead to floods, whereas in autumn, reduced frequency and intensity of rainfall may cause a drought. These disasters, directly or indirectly, affect crop yields, citizens and economy. So you need to build countermeasures; special facilities to reduce or negate the impacts of these disasters.
In our current development plan, disasters are not only confined to the borders you control but may also occur in other counties you have yet to discover. The survivors may escape from disasters and destruction and knock on your city gates as refugees. It is up to you to evaluate the situation and make a choice. Help your fellow countrymen or let them fend for themselves? What outcomes will these choices have? Will there be any security risk or insufficient resources in the end? It is your adventure, your responsibility to discover the possibilities, make your decision!
When faced with a calamity, it's much better to have a community that supports each other in the face of danger. Join us on Discord to talk about what other disasters and situations you'd like to see in the game.
