About Cantata

Commanders,

Thank you for your continuous support and feedback. We're listening! We're excited to roll out Hotfix 1.02. This update addresses several bugs and gameplay issues to improve your experience on the planet Shoal. We've also made some balance adjustments. If you continue to encounter issues, please reach out on our Steam forums or Discord. Here's what's new:

Bug Fixes

• Fixed an issue with flashing tooltips when hovering over UI elements.
  
• Fixed an issue where the AI wasn't properly accounting for some tile visibility costs when attacking (you can now hide in shrubs!).
  
• Potentially fixed a rare UI lockup bug related to moving units. If you still experience issues, please let us know on Steam or Discord and send us your player.log file.
  
• Fixed an issue where the mining rate was improperly displayed on units that don't have a mining rate.
  
• Fixed an issue with the 10 Crowns heal pattern not allowing the targeting of units.
  
• Fixed an issue where the enemy fog indicator wasn't properly displaying after a move that would hide an enemy in the fog.
  
• Fixed an issue around unit self-destruct not clearing the selected unit's UI and potentially bugging the unit.
  

Balance

• Removed default storage (Scimitars) from Melee Anusiya.
  
• Introduced a self-destruct project for The Eye.
  

Commanders,

From the heart of our development journey in Early Access to our official launch two days ago, your continued support and feedback have been instrumental in shaping Cantata. As we enter this new chapter, we remain committed to enhancing your experience. This hotfix addresses several concerns you've highlighted since launch, ensuring Cantata continues to evolve and improve. We're grateful for your patience, dedication, and insights. Below, you'll find a detailed list of the latest updates. Thank you for being an integral part of our journey.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed an issue where loading ammo or resources directly from one unit into the Bombard, Encampment, or Gunship would crash the game.
  Note: Undertaking this action previously could corrupt your game saves (including any subsequent autosaves). While this patch prevents the bug from occurring in the future, it won't rectify those already corrupted saves. If you have a save you absolutely don't want to lose or roll back to a previous save, please @ericd or @its.emma on the Cantata Discord with your save file, and we'll do our best to assist.
  
• Fixed an issue where deselecting a unit and moving the mouse after ordering it to move resulted in undefined behaviour.
  
• Fixed an issue where graphical glitches would appear around certain units when hovered for outlines.
  
• Fixed an issue where units would experience isometric sorting problems when moving behind another unit.
  
• Fixed an issue where loaded scrap and remains would disappear when attempting to load into region storage.
  
• Fixed an issue where interacting with default unit storage would crash the game.
  
• Fixed an issue where tall tooltips would clip the screen's top edge when hovered.
  
• Fixed an issue where the Engineering heal pattern was misaligned, making it difficult to target the desired interactable effectively.
  
• Fixed an issue where the healing amount wasn't accurately displayed in tooltips.
  
• Fixed an issue where health bars would extend beyond the tooltips.
  
• Fixed an issue where, under certain window settings, the initial portrait of a dialog speaker would misalign from the screen's bottom.
  

Features

• Unified tooltips for units/buildings to maintain consistent styling for unit/building information.
  
• Introduced a feature to view unit storage contents via tooltips.
  
• Enhanced attack preview in tooltips to display a skull icon when an attack would be fatal (replacing the previous -x display).
  
• Introduced tooltips for requirement details.
  
• Added tooltips for region storage while viewing unit UI.
  
• Ghost units no longer need whispers for attacks.
  
• Implemented the ability to load/unload in the Grand Bombard, Encampment, Builder Drone, and Gunship.
  

To Our New Commanders,

To prepare your journey to the front line, we have prepared a basic guide with some top tips to familiarize yourself with the world of Cantata so that you'll have an edge when leading the charge on the planet of Shoal.

This serves as a top-level intro to the human faction and a very brief look at the surface level of Cantata but there’s so much for you to dive in and discover for yourselves. If you have any tips of your own to share or have other questions, please join our Discord community or leave a comment on this post.

Best of luck on the battlefield!

-Captain Kat

Top Tips for Cantata

#1 - Moving the Camera

#2 - Levelling Up

#3 - Population Limits

#4 - Controls

#5 - Tooltips

#6 - Regions

#7 - Region Storage

#8 - Infrastructure

#9 - Building UI

#10 - Unit UI

#11 - Ammo & Attacking

#12 - Conscripts

Commanders,

Launch day has finally arrived! Cantata has been a collective journey and we want to give a huge thanks to the EA players for their patience and feedback as we turn this dream into a reality. This drop brings three new chapters of gameplay, a fresh tutorial, updated UI, bug fixes and much much more.

A few words from Lead Developer Kyle Kukshtell...

"With our official 1.0 release, Cantata has truly moved into the best version of itself. With the extensive feedback from all the EA players, we've done a lot to really "listen" to what the game is and try, at every step, to get out of the way and help the game blossom into itself.

With this release we think we've gotten there. The Campaign is now fully in focus, offering nine compelling maps across the strange planet Shoal that sees you alternating points of view from Commanding Officers from three very different factions. We estimate it's about a 30 hour game when played at a normal pace, and as such are excited to hear everyone's tales about what they see and feel as they explore the world we've created for you all. Explore the map, find Shoal's secrets, and see what it is that 10 Crowns feels here...

This patch sees *massive* performance gains in the game and most all lag has gone by the way side. It required a substantial overhaul of core parts of the game, but the game is so much better for it and plays more smoothly than ever before. We're also excited to talk soon about what the post-1.0 life on Cantata looks like, but for now, take a nice long sip of your favourite beverage, and jump into Cantata 1.0 to see what all we've got waiting for you!"

If you have any feedback, feel free to reach out on our Discord server!

See you in the field!

Afterschool Studios & Modern Wolf

1.0 Patch Notes

Major Features

• Adds in final Campaign Chapters 7, 8, and 9
  
• Adds in a new comprehensive tutorial for the game
  
• Adds in new UI look for The 111th Reign of Harmony and Prosper
  
• Adds in a new UI look for The Unified Spirit
  
• Adds in a new UI look for The People of Sun and Shadow
  
• Adds in a a "Neutral" UI look
  
• Adds in much cleaner tooltips for units and buildings
  
• Adds in more nested tooltip items for various tooltips
  
• Adds in final sounds and music for all campaign chapters and units
  
• Audio is now spatializes for most on-map entities in game
  
• Massive performance increases around all elements of the game
  
• Massive performance improvements around AI processing times + game no longer lags during AI turns
  
• Makes AI smarter and more proactive
  
• Large performance improves when multi-select moving units
  
• Adds in loading screens that contain hints and lore about the game
  
• Adds in nice transitions to starts of matches
  
• Adds tooltips for Region UI elements
  
• Adds in "Neutral" player that can be used as a special team for purposes of resource gathering (Scrap + Remains)
  
• Projects can use health costs for execution
  
• Projects can build to region inventory
  
• Adds in images for all remaining unit projects
  
• Adds in images for all perks
  
• Adds in images for all radiant and granted passives
  
• Adds in sounds for later chapter events
  
• Adds indication in tooltip if pop is preventing unit build
  
• Adds note in notification if damage was from surge
  
• Gets rid of weight as a consideration for map tile occupation - weight now only matters for loading
  
• Region nameplates simplified to show only the information you care about
  
• Heavily improves time to load save menu
  
• Juices up attacking with sound and visual cues (for some real 1.0 UMPH)
  
• Improves game start-up time
  
• Adds in indication in tooltip if a unit would be killed with an attack action
  

Bugfixes

• Fix issue where you could load enemies into your storage
  
• Fix issue where dead units would cause audio fetch issues
  
• Fix issue where non-visible AI units wouldn't path to their target locations
  
• Fix issue where multi-selected units couldn't move into tiles occupied by units of the same multi-select
  
• Fix issue where outposts built in owned regions wouldn't radiate supply into tiles of non-owned regions
  
• Fix tile outline for double height units
  
• Immobile mining units are blocked from being built on non-resource tiles
  
• Fix issue where projects could execute out of range
  
• Fix issue where units in persistent visible tiles only were "warping" between destinations
  
• Fix issue with projects not implicitly checking their execution range
  
• Fixes bug where you could build units in tiles you didn't have vision of
  
• Fixes issue where we were hearing duplicate button sounds when selecting a menu option that had a file browser in it
  
• Fix issue where region UI close sounds were playing on dialog advance
  
• Fixes issue where you heard region capture sounds at the start of loading new maps
  
• Fix issue where all players would see resource depleted notifications even if they weren't on the depleted resource
  
• Fix dialog text showing tag annotations
  
• Fix issue with tooltips clipping when trying to be repositioned on the screen
  
• Fix tooltip text for passives
  
• Fix lots of UI overlap and overrun errors when encountering large numbers
  
• Fix issue where units that killed themselves would error in tooltips
  
• Fix issues around counter attacking and opportunity attacked units erroring the game
  
• Adds in a default elimination victory for scenarios
  
• Fix issue where storage UI wasn't updating
  
• Fix issue where region nameplates weren't centred on regions
  
• Fix issues with player de-sync in multiplayer
  
• Fix issues where game would sometime leave lingering preview lines on the map
  
• Fix issues where some instances of previewed infrastructure placement would error the game
  
• Fix issue where outline colours weren't updated for units if their team was changed
  
• Fix issue where spawn triggers weren't properly accounting for spawned tiles
  
• Fix issue where you could see threat lines for non-visible units
  

Scenario Editor

• Adds ability to move selected units in editor
  
• Adds in ability to animate units to locations as a Trigger Action
  
• Adds in ability to hook into match failure with a custom trigger
  
• Triggers updated to no longer need "Target Player" — everything can be set in the scope of the conditions of a Trigger itself
  
• Objectives migrated to now have "Target Player" but this only matters for the purposes of what players see the Objective in their UI
  
• Maps can be set to have a target VP condition, a turn limit, both, or neither.
  
• Triggers have new timing options to better reflect the lack of player attachment
  
• Any trigger assigned to GameStart will play properly before the match starts, allowing you time to do match setup
  
• Adds in ability to test scenario editor maps without needing to go back to the main menu
  
• Adds in ability to press Enter in long text entry fields and not have the text box defocus
  
• Adds in grouping ability for objectives
  
• Various new trigger conditions and actions
  
• Adds in ability to flag existing units as impassable and adds triggers to set the option on specific units or location units
  
• Adds in ability to declare a starting camera position for a map (the camera is moved here before the map is faded in)
  
• Adds in ability for objectives to have "hint" locations that are displayed on mouseover and not necessarily attached to a condition
  

The People of Sun and Shadow

The Tribal Warriors

Artefacts & Structures

Hi Commanders,

We are thrilled to announce the Cantata: Dreamwalker Edition. Launching on August 15th, this deluxe version of Cantata will come bundled with an exclusive soundtrack, a wallpaper pack, and of course, the full version of Cantata itself. We've poured our hearts into this game. Here's a quote from the Lead Developer Kyle -

"I'm as excited as I am scared. My biggest hope is that we've delivered the best version of what Cantata wants to be. The game has changed a lot in Early Access (thanks EA players!), and I think the Cantata of today is the best the game has ever been, and am excited to now fully usher that into the world."

We look forward to seeing you on the battlefield.

- Captain Kat
Modern Wolf & Afterschool Studios

Canata's OST

Wallpaper Bundle