- some app crashes fixed
- safety checks for crashes and possible crashes added to see if they happen
Becastled
Patch 0.9103
Patch 0.9102
- Game performance slightly improved again
- Minor bugs and issues fixed
Patch 0.9100
- Fixed: units might freez and stop responding
- Game performance slightly improved
- Minor bugs and issues fixed
Patch 0.9036
- Fixed: food sources not being generated near and on starting cells
- Changed: archers prioritize targets based on unit types, focusing enemy archers first
- Changed: Large amount of enemies spawn in waves now
- Minor bugs and issues fixed
Patch 0.9035
- Fixed: Units freezing and running to map edge
- Added: classic unit commands — Move, Move‑and‑Attack, and Hold Position. Unit movement and behavior should now be more intuitive.
- Added: double‑clicking selects all units of the same type on the screen.
- Fixed: key bindings not loading correctly.
- Fixed: butchery not affecting fishermen and give bonus in a radius
- Fixed: used horses not loading correctly.
- Fixed: fake water resource on a faltland map
- Fixed: units being kicked in a pond being stuck there
- Numerous other minor issues and bugs fixed.
Patch 0.9034
- Added: classic unit commands — Move, Move‑and‑Attack, and Hold Position. Unit movement and behavior should now be more intuitive.
- Added: double‑clicking selects all units of the same type on the screen.
- Fixed: key bindings not loading correctly.
- Fixed: butchery not affecting fishermen.
- Fixed: used horses not loading correctly.
- Numerous other minor issues and bugs fixed.
Patch 0.9033
- Fixed: improved XP distribution on kill — now shared between attackers and those within range, allowing archers to gain XP from minibosses at greater distances.
- Fixed: vertical shooting range of enemy archers when targeting high ground.
- Fixed: wall positions not loading correctly for units.
- Fixed: assign workers and other UI elements visible during night battles.
- Fixed: militia could not be called in from some save files.
- Fixed: work slots with "waiting for worker" not loading correctly.
- Fixed: sawmills not finding trees in some cases.
- Fixed: animals blocking the path of recruits during training.
- Fixed: banner button hitbox issue.
- Fixed: night timer freezing after the game win screen.
The next patch will feature reworked unit controls with classic commands: move, attack while moving, hold ground, and defend position. This should eliminate much of the confusion and some pathfinding bugs for units.
Join dev live stream!
We will try to beat the game at hardest difficulty while doing a QA session.
Stream link: https://www.twitch.tv/manapotionstudios
See you tommorow!
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Combat update is LIVE!
It's a complete overhaul of combat system with new features and better performance. Thanks to everyone who participated in beta, it helped us to fix a lot of bugs and adjust how new mechanis work.
What's new:
- Improved combat with deeper combat mechanics
- Enemy towers: destroy them all to win a map. But be prepared - you’ll be attacked with greater force!
- Map editor, create and share your own maps
- Mini-bosses can spawn every 5th wave, make sure you are ready to meet them! Each is dangerous in it's own way
- New river map scenario
- You can call militia at night to help you fight
- New units leveling system
- Pikeman have really long spears now
- Swordsman have shields from the start and can cover from arrows
- Enemy paths, you can see how enemies will move across the map
- Hundreds of new sounds
- You can give banners with auras to your units or place banners on walls or towers
- Water will freez in winter creating new paths for enemies
- Sandbox mode
- Combat difficulty now adjusts to your wealth and army size, fights can be more challanging on higher difficulties
- Improved game performance
Let us know what do you think about new update in the comments!
Combat update is live on the beta branch!
- Improved combat with deeper combat mechanics
- Enemy towers: destroy them all to win a map. But be prepared - you’ll be attacked with greater force!
- Map editor, create and share your own maps
- New river map scenario
- New units leveling system
- Enemy paths, you can see how enemies will move across the map
- Mini-bosses, each is dangerous in it's own way
- You can call militia at night to help you fight
- Hundreds of new sounds
- Simplified mood system
- A lot of old bugs was fixed and hopefully not much new was created
Performance is greatly improved now, bigger cities and fights will run much more smoothly. Also game works pretty good on Steam Deck, give it a try if you have one.
There are still some bugs there that we want to fix before release on March 24, thought game should generally work fine. Let us know if you encounter any problems here or on discord.
How to join the open beta:
- Right-click on Becastled in your Steam library.
- Select Properties -> Betas.
- Under Beta Participation, choose beta.
- That’s it! You’ll just need to wait until March 13.
