Last Updated: April 1, 2023

What's New:

Any fresh changes will be posted here

• Open your game library in the Steam Client.
  
• Select Battle Realms Zen Edition from the list of your games.
  
• Right click on the game and choose "Properties".
  
• In the newly opened window, navigate to BETAS tab.
  
• From the dropdown list, select the branch that says "BETA".
  
• Don't forget to update the game in Steam after that.
  
  Notice:
  
• In order to opt into the current release version (opt out of beta), repeat the same process, but select "None" instead of "BETA".
  

• Game will now show the current key bind action if the player assigns a key that is already bound to a different action (thanks, Grubby!).
  
• Fixed lobby selection info not always showing correct data.
  
• Friendlies' abilities harming players' units (like Budo's whip) will no longer trigger combat alerts.
  
• This time finally fixed range units stacking when ordered to attack buildings while on stand ground.
  
• Disabled key hold event in the game interface (holding keys forcing same key press event multiple times).
  
• Made allies nearby setting be considered only if there are actual teams with more than 1 player on them. That means players will always spawn randomly when playing 1vs1 or FFA games.
  
• Fixed an issue which denied combat units from training in buildings on fire.
  
• Fixed pack wolves not responding to owner's combat state (if owner is on passiveness wolves will be on passiveness as well).
  

• All melee units spend less stamina when running, including horses and wild wolves. The value is roughly 20-25%

  
  

• Units will now regenerate stamina and health when walking. The rate is 50% slower than idling.

  
  

Starting Army -> Starting Peasants

Buildings

Town Squares of all clans will only unlock 1 tower instead of 2 previously.
Total amount of towers that can be built are now 3:

• 1st is available with the first Peasant Hut.
  
• 2nd with the Town Square.
  
• 3rd with the Keep.

VFX/SFX

• Fixed weapon impact SFX/VFX issues regarding Spirit Warriors when hitting Lotus/Wolf buildings.
  
• Fixed some Worldmaster Map effects that were not looping correctly:
  - Dust_Cliff.lfx
  - Steam.lfx
  - Volcanic_Vent.lfx
  
• Projectile VFX and SFX fixes for Hurler's default Rock.
  
• Enhanced Master Warlock Speech FX.
  
• Increased VFX uptime for Unclean One's Spreading Goo.
  
  
• Restored and enhanced Guardian's Last Stand SFX.
  
• Fixed and enhanced Guardian's Last Stand VFX.

Dragon Clan

• Spearman's Magic AM increased from 1 to 1,25 (Takes 125% damage from magic attacks).
  
• Archer's Blunt AM increased from 0,75 to 1 (Takes 100% damage from blunt attacks).
  
• Archer's Fire Arrows charges decreased from 15 to 10.
  
  
• Powder Keg's Indirect Fire will no longer reduce his Line of Sight.
  
• Power Keg's Shrapnel Keg cost decreased from 50 rice / 50 water to 40 rice / 20 water.
  
  
• Kabuki's Stardust duration decreased from 20 ticks to 15.
  
  
• Guardian's Concussion Smash Explosive damage decreased from 60 to 40.
  
• Guardian's Cutting AM increased from 0,5 to 1,25 (takes 125% damage from cutting).
  
• Guardian's Magic AM decreased from 1,5 to 0,75 (takes 75% damage from magic).
  
  
• Guardian's Last Stand state now increases Guardian attack speed by 20% and damage by 50%.
  
• Guardian's Last Stand Drain rate decreased from 8 to 6
  
  
• Samurai's Seppuku range decreased from 5 to 4.
  
• Chemist's innate duration increased from 10 to 15 ticks.
  
• Chemist's is now excluded from Calisthenics (HP Technique).
  

Serpent Clan

Restored default Cannoneer Mine functionality. We had no choice but to do this since the new functionality caused unexpected bugs for units on horses. We were unable to find a way to fix it unfortunately.

• Cannoneer's Mines Area of Effect changed from 4 to 2.
  
• Cannoneer's Smoke Duration decreased from 20 ticks to 15.
  
  
• Crossbowman's FatigueRecovery decreased from 6,25 to 5.
  
• Crossbowman's StaminaWhenRunning increased from 1,25 to 2,5.
  
• Crossbowman's Blunt AM increased from 0,5 to 1 (Takes 100% damage from blunt attacks).
  
• Crossbowman's Phosphorous Bolt Line Of Sight value increased from 11 to 12.
  
  
• Fan Geisha's Dark Pact duration reduced from 60 to 30 ticks.
  
  
• Muskteer's Sniper Scope cost decreased from 50 rice / 50 water to 40 rice / 20 water.
  
  
• Ronin's Explosive AM increased from 1,5 to 1,75 (takes 175% damage vs explosive).
  
• Ronin's Blunt AM decreased from 0,5 to 1 (takes 100% damage vs blunt).
  
• Ronin's Cutting AM increased from 0,25 to 0,5 (takes 50% damage vs cutting).
  
• Ronin's Magic AM decreased from 1,75 to 0,5 (takes 50% damage from magic).
  
• Ronin's base damage increased from 25 to 30 (Yin Swords remain unchanged).
  
• Ronin's Cursed Swords AoE increased from 6 to 8 (legacy value).
  
  
• Swordsman's Glass Sword will no longer kill a Swordsman with full hp (even without technique).
  
• Swordsman's Glass Sword is 1 time use.
  
  
• Enforcer becomes a Siege unit.
  
• Enforcer's default movement speed increased 10%.
  
• Enforcer's Hobnailed boots increase his missile avoidance (higher chance for projectiles to miss).
  
• Enforcer's Low Blow will now dismount units from horses.
  
• Enforcer's Low Blow will damage enemy stamina 40%.
  
• Enforcer's Low Blow will deal 80 units of blunt damge. Will not slow units down, but will stun them for 5 ticks.
  
  
• Vetkin will spend more Stamina when running.
  
• Vetkin's damage increased from 12 to 18.
  
  
• Utara now deals poison damage (5 damage / 5 ticks).
  
• Utara's stamina damage on hit removed.
  
  
• Budo's Whip ability affects all clans' peasants.
  
  
• Budo's damage increased from 15 to 25.
  
  
• Taro's damage increased from 17,5 to 20.
  
• Necromancer's attack increased from 15 to 18.
  

Wolf Clan

• Druid and Dryad entanglement will no longer completely stun units. It will only immobilize and prevent them from using their active abilities.
  
• Wolf Druid and Dryad entanglement duration is decreased from 5 ticks to 3,5 ticks.
  
• Wolf Dryad damage decreased from 23 to 20.
  
• Druid missile damage reduced from 14 to 13.
  
  
• Pack Master will only be able to get 2 wolves maximum.
  
• Wolves' Den capacity extended from 8 to 12 wolves (equivalent of 6 horses in other clans' stables).
  
  
• Pitch Slinger Scorched Earth AoE reduced from 3 to 2.
  
• Pitch Slinger Scorched Earth damage decreased 60 to 50.
  
  
• Scorched Earth mines total placed amount increased from 16 to 20.
  
  
• Gaihla's damage type changed back from Magic to Cutting.
  
• Gaihla's active Healing ability will now cost 20 stamina to activate.
  
  
• Wildeye's damage increased from 12 to 20.
  

Lotus Clan

• Lotus Brothers will grow stronger with Yin points like Zen Masters (10% per 1 Yin).
  
  
• Staff Adept's Dark Canopy will now cost 10 Stamina to activate.
  
• Leaf Disciple Melee Counterstrike innate damage decreased from 5 to 3.
  
  
• Warlock Ready Up Animation fixed.
  
• Warlock Dark Arson damage increased to 150.
  
• Warlock Stamina Siphon range decreased.
  
• Warlock's Siphon will work on any Lotus unit (not just T2; excluding Brothers).
  
• Warlock Soul Chill range increased from 5 to 6.
  
• Warlock Soul Chill damage increased from 60 to 70.
  
• Warlock Soul Chill will penetrate enemy Staff Adept's Dark Canopy.
  
  
• Unclean One's Siege reduced from 1,75 to 1,25.
  
• Unclean One's Goo will decrease unit attack/gather/build animations speed by 10%.
  
• Unclean One's Death sentry Line of Sight value increased from 8 to 12 (this gear will scout area around better).
  
• Unclean One's Death Sentry will now penetrate enemy Staff Adept's Dark Canopy.
  
  
• Lotus Infested One can no longer be healed.
  
• Lotus Infested One will regenerate health to 100%.
  
• Lotus Infested One will regenerate health twice as fast (like Wolf units).
  
• Lotus Infested One Fire AM changed from 0,25 to 1 (Will take 100% damage from Fire).
  
• Lotus Infested One Blunt AM changed from 0,25 to 0,5 (Will take 50% damage from Blunt attacks).
  
• Lotus Infested One Explosive AM changed from 1 to 0,75 (Will take 75% damage from Explosive attacks).
  
• Lotus Infested One Cutting AM changed from 1,25 to 1,5 (Will take 150% damage from Cutting attacks).
  
  
• Lotus Infested One Famine becomes a targetable ranged ability, range is equal to Kabuki Star Dust.
  
• Stamina Cost changed from 60 to 40.
  
  
• Yvaine's Ice Prison Stamina Cost decreased from 75 to 60.
  
• Yvaine's Ice Prison Duration decreased from 10 to 6 ticks.
  
  
• Koril's damage increased from 20 to 25.
  
• Soban's damage increased from 15 to 20.
  
  
• Issyl haste will increase unit attack/gather/build animations speed by 10%
  
  
• Zymeth receives his own weapon and projectile entries.
  
• Zymeth damage increased from 17 to 28.
  
• Zymeth is now Siege.

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Highlights:

• Lobby Networking Optimized

• Native Map Transfer is back!

• AI Profiles made more comprehensive

Full Changelog:

• Rewritten all joining code to cover more P2P issues and address more scenarios.
  
• Lobby will now tell the name of players attempting to join.
  
• Fixed the native map transfer feature.
  
  
• Moving boulders won't be valid attackable targets anymore.
  
• Boulders will now stop early at low speeds instead of endlessly moving.
  
  
• High end AI profiles may use boulders now.
  
• High end AI profiles may dodge rolling boulders.
  
  
• Restored AI escape functionality that allowed them to run to other rice fields when they couldn't defend their own base (Skirmish only).
  
  
• Enemy BGs like Unclean's Death Sentry will trigger combat alerts if they harm players' units.
  
• Fixed units casting spells (geishas, druidesses, etc..) to targets at ranges longer than expected.
  
  
• Fixed a bug that made players see the "invalid target" cursor when hovering over hostless trained horse while having both unmounted and mounted units in the same selection.
  
  
• Fixed missile and hybrid units looping reloading animations quickly.
  
• Fixed a bug where siege units would run into melee when player commanded to attack to a unit behind a friendly building.
  
• Fixed a bug where AI units swapped targets endlessly when trying to engage watchtowers.
  

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- The Battle Realms Team

• Fixed miscellaneous issues caused by Guard order.
  
• Applied small adjustments regarding the animation fix to avoid breaking unit animations in campaign cinematics.
  
• Fixed some issues with setting rally points on Wolf buildings.
  
• Fixed a number of campaign missions revealing units where it shouldn't happen.
  
• Made Skirmish game modes prioritize the player profile over the default one.
  
• Made snow render in 16:9 aspect ratio.
  

Highlights:

• Campaign Troubles, Siege & Relentless AI

- AI started bypassing previously set limitations in general.

- Nightvol AI, who is your opponent if you play the campaign on 'Hard' decided to be extra frisky.

- Changing difficulty from Hard to Normal or Easy didn't help.

- Siege, as a cherry on top, added a heap of tediousness to some of the campaign missions.

- Most of the original campaign functionality is brought back with its limitations intact.

- "Hard" difficulty of the campaign will be more forgiving.

- Changing difficulty to Normal or Easy works as it's meant to be.

- Necromancer's Spirit Warriors, Kenji and Otomo are Siege units to aid with the initial missions of Kenji's Journey. Siege overall is a tad more forgiving for non-siege units.

• Lotus Brothers, Heroes & Double-Click / Ctrl-Click

• Siege & Non- Siege Tooltips

• Cannoneer Mines' Proper Functionality

• Kenji II Becomes a Damage Dealer

Technical & Gameplay:

• Updated Skirmish [ZE] Maps (minor changes and lighting).
  
• Fixed Kenji 2 and 3 Dragon and Serpent portrait variations (Dark Red portrait for "Evil Kenji", Light Yellow for "Good Kenji")
  
• Fixed Lotus Channeler "Unit Selected/Ready Up" animation that never played since 2001 unless she had ravens with her.
  
  
• Fixed a bug that prevented units from properly cycling their idle animations if a save game had been loaded. Previously they would loop the last animation they had used.
  
• Fixed a bug that prevented missile units from properly cycling their animations after missile attacks. Previously they would loop the last animation they had used. You would often see a small stutter in the animations which meant the animation was prevented from being played. This prevented many units from properly utilizing their innate abilities (i.e., Chemist's Healing Herbs, Kabuki's Orb Juggling, Powder Keg's Salting the Ground).
  
  
• Secondary projectiles emitted from primary projectiles (i.e. Pitch Slinger) will no longer take unit's base weapon damage and instead read their dedicated weapon entry.
  
• Added 1280x800 resolution.
  
• Restored most of campaign levels' former functionality.
  
• Fixed certain battle gears applying damage multiple times to mounted units and horses.
  
• Fixed wrong AI usage of Lotus Warlock's Stamina Siphon usage.
  
• Fixed a visual bug that would have BGs shown as active whenever a unit with an active BG (like Sniper Scope) entered a WT and then exited.
  
• Fixed a bug that had units occasionally stuck when trying to mount a horse in narrow spaces or map edges.
  
• Zymeth will now cast lightning strikes on nearby enemies when activating his Battle Gear.
  
• Fixed some buildings and other structures showing wrong VFX when they get destroyed.
  
• UnitAI will exclude peasants from being prioritized over military units, this won't apply to easy AI profiles.
  
• Improved player reveal algorithm: it will no longer reveal players under specific scenarios like in some of the campaign levels.
  
• Units will now properly calculate range/direction when casting spells, they will also follow their targets if they reposition. For example, previously Lotus Brothers would proceed to cast their Dark Blessing even if their targets got out of range, they would also proceed to cast the spell while misplaced or facing wrong direction. This should work correctly now.
  
• Fixed a bug that caused horse to rear up from damage sources that didn't actually affect them i.e., being shot while protected by Dark Canopy.
  
• Fixed force repair cursor on neutral buildings not going opaque when it should.
  
• Fixed UI showing some BGs as active when they weren't.
  
• All Heroes and Lotus Brothers will be considered to be from the same "unit category" meaning double-clicking or ctrl-clicking on one hero will select all heroes.
  
• Lotus Brothers' speed won't be considered in pathing groups therefore the overall group speed will not equalize to their speed when moving.
  
• Game will no longer consider wild animals as allies/enemies on double-clicking or ctrl-clicking.
  
• Added additional text to unit tooltips next to units' name, indicating whether a unit is siege or not.
  
• Added a warning popup when setting or having already set the game difficulty to Hard.
  

Balance:

Siege Changes

Due to secondary projectiles emission fixes, Pitch Slinger and Chemist's Starburst BG needed rebalancing:

The Starburst Rocket explodes into 3 smaller rockets that are supposed to cover wider range. Due to how it had been previously implemented, it was near-impossible to see that, it looked like 1 rocket dealing huge damage.

Note: if the rocket impacts a building, all 4 rockets will immediately explode in it without flying off. The same applies to units.

General Unit Balancing

Final Words:

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- The Battle Realms Team

We are still sorting out some screen resolution issues related to 2560x1080 and alike. Sorry for the inconvenience.

Thanks to everyone for reporting! In this little update we've tried to sort out most of the reports.

Changelog:

• Fixed wrongly set training time for Mauler in Wolf Quarry (reduced from 25 to 20 ticks).
  
• Demoness will regenerate HP up to 100%.
  
  
• Implemented a bunch of fixes for some of the Campaign levels.
  
  
• Made Gather Points from Peasant Huts apply to Wells.
  
  
• Fixed double- clicking on mini-map that previously didn't allow units to run when "units walk by default" setting was checked.
  
  
• Fixed double- clicking making units run when ALT was held while "units walk by default" setting was off (default behavior).
  
  
• Buildings that can't be built due to tech limitations (campaign) won't show up on peasant building menu.
  
  
• Reduced offset for building corners to avoid pathing issues when units avoid buildings.
  
  
• Made the game consider "attack ready" animations as "Idle" for some units so they can still recover hp/stamina when entering those animation states.
  
  
• Improved building placement and starting points in the Wolf Swamp mission (Campaign) to avoid excessive AI relocation.
  
  
• Added additional Raider as a starting unit for the "Shinja and Necromancer" mission (Campaign).
  
  
• Fixed a bug that caused horses to excessively loop rear up animations when on Stand Ground.
  
  
• Removed FPS related game warnings, and increased time threshold for the network ones.
  
  
• Made missile units engaging buildings on Stand Ground apply the same logic they use when engaging units, so they can reposition properly without stacking.
  
  
• Game will now reset AI profile properly when player changes difficulty in Settings and when reloading a save game. Previously this led to AI playing better than it should have on difficulty settings like Normal or Easy.
  

We have confirmed issues with some of the resolutions (for example 2560x1440) and are currently looking into it. Sorry for the trouble!

Changelog:

• Game speed and its slider have been set to maximum by default (instead of 50%).
  

  With the update 1.58, we've equalized maximum single player speed to maximum multiplayer speed. The slider itself wasn't touched so a number of players might've felt a slowdown of the single player game by default.
  
  In the legacy version, maximum multiplayer speed was about 60% of the single player speed slider. The single player speed itself could go up to 200% of the normal speed, resulting in something that was never really intended. Now both speed and its slider are the same across all game modes and will remain like that in Zen Edition.

  
  
• Added an option to disable team shared combat alerts to the in-game clan menu (called by pressing TAB).
  
  
• Fixed a bug that made Bandit's new tutorial loop in some cases (Serpent Kenji's Journey).
  
  
• Kenji will now become a Siege unit to combat the initial Journey's tediousness after 1.58 Siege System changes.
  
  
• Necromancer's Spirit Warriors now become Siege units to combat the initial Journey's tediousness and add more Siege capabilities to the Serpent Clan after 1.58 Siege System changes.
  - Added a flashy Sword Glow effect to Spirit Warriors.
  
  
• Fixed an oversight that resulted in Poison not preventing healing effects.
  
  
• Fixed an issue with updated abilities for Dragon Kabuki and Serpent Cannoneer (Star Dust and Smoke Bomb) resulting in VFX showing only for 1 magic object from 1 unit.
  
  
• Chemist's Innate Ability (Healing Herbs) will no longer reduced allies' damage (oversight).
  - Chemist's Mandrake Spore Rocket (Shrine Battle Gear) will do that instead.
  
  
• Demoness (Witch Transformation) will count towards Population Cap (oversight).
  
  
• Lotus Aviary will require Crypt to be built (oversight).
  
  
• Dragon Well will require Stables to be built (oversight).
  
  
• Updated a number of archives across the game that carried over some experimental game assets.
  

Changelog:

• Fixed a bug with resolutions that rendered the game "zoomed-in" in some cases. The game should display properly now.
  
  
• Fixed a bug that looped Otomo's tutorial in Kenji's Journey (Mission #1), preventing the mission from being complete.
  
  
• [Steam Multiplayer] Fixed a bug that allowed joining a game at the time of the host starting it partially breaking the lobby in the process.
  
  
• Removed the "(legacy controls)" comment from the attack-move/force-move switch in the game's options. Attack-move does not behave like the "legacy BR move", more information on it can be found in the original announcement for 1.58.
  

• Updated Codebase | D3D Upgrade | Visual Updates

• Codebase has been updated to modern standards. It has been cleaned, improved and overall provides better performance across the game.
  
  
• D3D7 has been upgraded to D3D9, which eliminates most of the graphical issues you might have experienced before, most notably the glitchy mini- map, shadow bugs and other visual artifacts.
  
  
• Proper support for AMD GPUs has been implemented. AMD videocard users will no longer experience any abnormal stutters or FPS issues simply caused by the game's dislike for AMD (most notably - extreme fps drops with buildings on fire).
  
  
• All textures across the game have been updated with the help of neural upscaling technology with some of the additional fixes from our artists.
  
  
• Support for a number of resolutions has been added, including 2K and 4K (alas, the UI remains stretched on any aspect ratio that isn't 4:3 or 5:4 as updating the game's UI in particular proves to be very difficult).
  
  Newly added resolutions: 1152x864, 1280x720, 1280x960, 1366x768, 1600x900, 1600x1200 , 2048x1080, 2560x1080, 2560x1440, 3840x2160
  

• Reduced Input Lag | Controls Overhaul

• Global Unit Control Changes:

1. Units will now force-move by default (won't be auto-aggressive during movement).
   
2. Units will now run by default instead of walking.
   
   
3. CTRL modifier key will make units attack-move (instead of force-move- its previous behavior.
   
4. ALT modifier key will make units walk (instead of making them run - its previous behavior).
   
5. CAPSLOCK key will display units' health bars.
   

Attack-Move causes the selected unit group to move to a location. If any enemies are encountered along the way, the group will attack that enemy until it is killed. They will repeat this until all encountered enemies are dead, then resume moving to their original destination.

However, there are incidents in which a player should use force move rather than attack move. Examples include rushing past base defenses to attack more important units and structures, retreating from a more powerful enemy army, and using units to serve as a distraction rather than a threat.

• Guard Command Improved

Previously, the Guard command was pretty much broken and was only useful to make units follow other units. Unit that was supposed to guard something or someone would still be auto-aggressive and attack anything losing the Guard order in the process.

• Behavior Control Orders Become Toggles

• As is with any toggles, if any behavior order is active, and you press the same key again, it's going to deactivate (toggle off) unless you have units in your selection that have no behavior orders.

If there are units that have no behavior order in that selection, pressing the same key will toggle that order on for them first, and only then you will be able to disable the order (by pressing the same key, again).

• You can clear all behavior orders by pressing the Stop command (S by default) or by ordering units to attack (will not reset Stand Ground on ranged units).

• Unit portraits will now show what order unit has on.


• Pressing Stand Ground on Hybrid units (Kabuki Warrior, Dragon Warrior, Samurai and Bandit) will force them to use their ranged weapon, this is essentially a melee-to-ranged switch for this type of units.

• Hotkeys & Controls Reference Screen

• Multiplayer | Networking

• Steam Multiplayer

• Fixed numerous issues with hosting/joining lobbies.
  
• Fixed a number of crashes that would occur when starting games.
  
• Fixed all the possible desync triggers we could find. We are almost sure there are none left.
  
• Redesigned the main lobby screen a bit.
  
• Fixed an issue in the lobby listing that only displayed local lobbies. Now all lobbies from around the world will be displayed.
  
• Ping will now display properly. It will also get colored according to its value (white is good, yellow is bearable, orange is suspicious, and red is downright awful).
  

• LAN & Direct IP Removal

1. Piracy concerns.
   
2. Ed Del Castillo's goal of centralizing the community.
   
3. Security issues that currently can't be resolved due to the game's age and Steam network not really properly supporting LAN.
   

• Balance Overhaul

1.58 Update - Balance Changelog

• Unit Training Time

• The Siege System

Chemist (default attacks), Chemist (Starburst Rockets BG), Powder Keg Cannoneer (default + all BGs), Archer (Fire Arrow BG), Dragon Warrior (Flame Sword BG), Teppo, Kazan, Otomo

Raider, Musketeer (Blast Shot BG), Cannoneer (only after technique)

Mauler (only after technique), Hurler (Lava Rock BG), Sledger (default attacks), Pitch Slinger (default attacks), Shale Lord, Grayback, Longtooth

Staff Adept (only after technique), Unclean One, Warlock (Lythis' Dark Arson BG), Master Warlock (default attacks), Shadow Steed (Flame Breath BG)

• The Poison System

In the legacy game, Poison units would deal 50% of their initial base damage upfront and then 50% overtime. Base damage and poison were closely interconnected hence why Zen Masters like Shinja dealt very little damage.

- Nightvol, Hordeling, Spirit Warrior, Spirit Wolf, Shale Spider, Zombie, Shambler
- Last Stand Guardian
- Unclean, Infested, Diseased
- Necromancer, Shale Lord, The Three Brothers

• Geisha Overtime Healing System

In 1.58, we introduced "Overtime Healing" in order to encourage unit preservation and making combat less forgiving for players with Geishas. Now there’s a good chance that focused attacks will overpower geishas’ overtime heal, so if units stay in combat while being healed, they will most likely die.

• Horses

In order to encourage "ground combat" and delay the "horse stage" we made a decision to lock Stables behind 3 combat buildings for each clan. It's not an ideal solution and we will come up with something better in the future.

• Artificial Intelligence Redone

Many of our players have highlighted the increase in campaign/skirmish AI difficulty. That was only partially purposeful, there was a bunch of bugs that resurfaced with us restoring some of the AI features. This should be solved now.

• Visual Updates

1.58 Technical & Gameplay Changes list

1.58 Update - Technical & Gameplay Mechanics Changelog

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- The Battle Realms Team

• This is the most important update for BR:ZE, and thus it is the most complex to develop. We're working in multiple directions, but the majority of the dev time has been dedicated to ensuring that the D3D (DirectX) update goes smoothly.
  
• For the longest time, we've been working with the outdated C++ '99 codebase of BR (which is indeed more or less updated to modern standards by now).
  
• We're still a team of only 4 people learning to navigate the inner workings of BR in an agile manner.
  

• State of the Update 1.58 📊

• Preparing for the Release 📢

• Sneak Peeks 👀

Here's a comparison between the legacy Lotus Clan UI and ZE UI

And here's the Dragon one

Forest Temple (Wolf) Techniques. A bunch of things like this had to be redrawn for the update.

• Go Open Beta! ⚠️

• Final Words 💬

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- The Battle Realms Team

• State of the Update 1.58 📊

• Sneak Peeks 👀

• Final Words 💬

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- The Battle Realms Team