Dune: Spice Wars

• Princess Irulan is the eldest daughter of Shaddam IV. Involved in both the plots of her father and of the Bene Gesserit, she is used to making the best of a bad situation.
  
• Wensicia Corrino is the third daughter of Shaddam IV, trained from the youngest age for stewardship. Her independent mind pushes her to seek a more active role in House Corrino’s doings.
  
• Captain Aramsham is a proud officer of the Sardaukar, sent on Arrakis during the Spice Wars. Aramsham is an expert at using conscripts as cannon fodder to support Sardaukar legions.
  
• Hasimir Fenring is a sharp assassin mentat, one of the deadliest fighters in the imperium and the closest friend of Shaddam IV.
  

• Infantry are conscript swordsmen. Relatively weak when alone, their mastery of complex formations make them stronger with each ally infantry in their vicinity.
  
• Ranged Infantry are conscript riflemen. Like their melee counterparts, they get stronger when surrounded by their allies.
  
• Incinerators wield flamethrowers that bring agonising death to even the most armoured opponent.
  
• Sardaukar are the infamous elite swordsmen of the Emperor. Originating from the mysterious prison planet Salusa Secundus, the secret of their training and recruitment process is one of the most well-guarded in the imperium. They are as renowned for their legendary fighting ability as for their lack of mercy.
  
• Artillery Drones throw high-calibre explosives from a long distance. These dreadful siege machines need to be anchored to sound ground to operate.
  

House Corrino will be available in Dune: Spice Wars very soon, keep an eye out for news!

Hello everybody!

We're extremely happy to finally share with you all of the incredible stuff we’ve been preparing for Gamescom over the last few months!

We hope that you will be as excited about this news as we have been throughout development, and we can't wait to share even more details about what’s to come down the line.

Let's start!

Dune: Spice Wars | House Corrino

Wartales | The Great Gosenberg | Next Free Major Update

Northgard | The Clan of the Eagle

Northgard | New Campaign Chapter

And that's it for our Gamescom announcements and news!

We hope you enjoyed discover them, and are as excited as we are during their development!

More details will be share with you very soon, so stay tuned...

Shiro Games Team.

Hey Everyone!

Community Update #2 is now live!

This update brings a lot of changes to balancing following the various feedback and suggestions provided by the community, as well as notable changes to some well-established systems to give more variation to games. We tried our best to cater to the community's needs and make sure the Dune experience feels better for everyone!

With that out of the way, check out the full list of changes below...

• Spice tax increases faster overall, your Spice production will no longer be taken into account as much as it previously was
  
• The first Spice tax has been decreased in order to compensate for the changes
  
• The Fremen now start with 20 units of Spice
  
• Not paying the tax as the Fremen now reduces Authority and Intel production, as well as lowering your CHOAM exchange rate
  

• Unit models should follow their movements much more efficiently, resulting in a more responsive feeling, but also better handling of units moving at high speeds. They should also change their formation’s direction more efficiently resulting in a more cohesive look
  
• Military units now consume less supply at night
  
  
  
  
• Stealth units are detected from different ranges depending on the day/night cycle, further during the day and closer during the night.
  
  
  
  
• Military units now resupply while in shuttles or worm riding
  
• Balanced military unit stats and costs
  
• Balanced Command Points: more Command Points at the beginning, less at the end
  
• Elite units Command Points cost has been reduced (5 => 4)
  
• Nerfed demo unit HP and power, increased the cost for all demo units, including Command Points (3 => 4)
  
• For every level gained, units now gain an additional armour point
  
• Building health and armour has been increased
  
• Missile Batteries and Main Bases now decrease armour
  
• Units that are both stealth and melee have a speed bonus while in combat
  
• Mercenary upkeep has been increased: 30 => 40 Solari
  
• Stealth Drones and Combat Drones’ range have been reduced
  
• Harkonnen’s Cerberuses’ effect has been replaced, they now split into three units when they reach 10% HP
  
  

• New UH buildings for Smugglers and Sietch settlement buildings for Fremen that affect allies
  
  
  
  
• Villages can now be abandoned if they’re under a rebellion
  
• Village trait “Supply Cache” has been removed
  
• Construction time for buildings has been increased
  
• It takes less time to demolish a building
  
• Militia cost more Manpower
  
• Fremen Harvesting Tent construction time has been decreased
  
• Increased armour for Fremen Harvesting Teams
  
• You can now build in devastated villages
  
• Missile Batteries are disabled whenever a village has been devastated
  
• Freeing a village gives Authority
  
• Research Centers upkeep has been increased
  
• Reduced the time it takes to use the Atreides’ Peaceful Annexation
  
• Harkonnen’s Oppression debuff has been increased: 2 => 3 days
  

• Underworld Headquarters are faster to install
  
• Reduced the number of Underworld Headquarter building slots available in villages and in Main Bases
  
• Underworld Headquarters installation prices have been changed, upkeep no longer costs Solari, it now costs Authority
  
• Underworld Headquarter buildings now have a greater Solari upkeep but take half as much time to be built
  

• Balanced spying mission speed and cost
  
• There are now 4 assassination missions
  
• Counter-intel doesn’t give Command Points anymore
  
• Agents on CHOAM slots earn more Solari
  
• Spying slots in enemy factions are unlocked by completing the first two assassination missions
  
• Suk Doctors have been buffed: 2% => 5% extra Knowledge per Infiltration level
  
  
  
  
• More information on what is unlocked through the various Infiltration levels
  
• Level 2 Infiltration now allows you to see the locations of the faction’s agents
  
• Level 3 Infiltration now allows you to see the faction’s unit composition, as well as its operations that are ready to be launched
  
• An estimated time until the next Infiltration is reached is now provided
  
• Fixed Infiltration so that you have to keep X agents in the slots to remain at Infiltration level X
  
• Combat Drugs no longer reduces the unit’s supply and only slightly reduces the unit’s health over time in exchange for higher speed and power
  
• Nuke damage has been reduced
  
  
  

• The development trees have been reorganised
  
  
  
  
• “Spying Logistic”, “Stealth Gear” and “Atreides Delegations” have been reworked
  
• “Gridex Plane” now gives +10% CHOAM exchange rate
  
• “Crew Training Program” now gives +5% Spice production
  
• Balanced “Energy Markets” and “Water Trade” (0,4 => 0,2 and 0,2 => 1)
  
• “Underworld Contacts” now produces part of a village’s Spice production if it has an Underworld Headquarter
  
• “Spice Hegemony” has been reworked (10% Spice gathering rate => 5%, but villages in the same region as an allied Sietch produces +10% resources)
  
• “Paracompass” has been nerfed (30% speed/less daily supply drain => 20%)
  
• “High Command” gives 1 armour to every unit instead of increasing XP gain
  
• “Ground Command” lowers Solari upkeep of military units
  
• “Desert Command” now spawns a temporary unit after liberating a village
  
• “Diplomatic Maneuvers” has been buffed (5 Solari => 10)
  
• “Negotiation Tactics” used to raise Sietch relation, now it increases Solari generation of agents on the CHOAM
  
• “Sand Diplomacy” has been buffed (+30% Sietch relation/resources => +50%)
  
• “Sand Walk Mastery” has been reworked
  
• “Desert Mastery” now gives control of Deep Deserts if it’s surrounded by zones you owned by your faction
  
• “Field Work” has been renamed to “Riches of Arrakis”
  
• Pillage-related developments have been reworked
  

• Influence deficit reduces Landsraad votes instead of making you lose Landsraad standing
  
• Command Point deficit now only increases unit Solari upkeep, instead of all upkeep, as well as lowering the units’ power
  

• Worms take longer to appear
  
• Balanced worm attacks. Military units detect worms faster than harvesters. Ornithopters are even faster at detecting incoming worm attacks
  

• All factions start with less Influence
  
• Pariah status is extended up to 50 Standing
  
• Minor houses have less votes
  
• Better balance for “Water Seller Union” > 2 Solari gained instead of 1 per Water
  
• Reworked “Architectural Surveys” resolution (now affects Missile Batteries and the Main Base, but both of them have their power lowered instead of not attacking at all)
  
• Better balance of “Imperial Intelligence” resolution
  
• The Dune Governor win condition time has been slightly increased to allow for 2 Landsraad voting phases
  
• Added a reminder whenever a faction has the Dune Governorship charter
  
  
  
  
• The Dune Governor charter now increases the Influence cap and produces 2 Influence
  
• The Dune Governor charter now has priority over other charters if all conditions for appearing are fulfilled
  
• Improved AI voting regarding corruptions and Landsraad access
  

• Pillaging villages provide less Solari and cost more Authority to annex the village afterwards
  
• Pillaging now takes more time
  

• Councillor skills now have names
  
• Rabban no longer increases the length of the Oppression ability, and militias now have a power malus
  
• Piter de Vries: Stealth Drones and Ornithopters: 1 => 2 Intel gain
  
• Iakin Nefud: Combat Drugs Mission cost: -50% => -60% & Unit cost refund on death: 50% => 60%
  
• Drisq: Agents no longer all have the Merchant trait but instead Ornithopters move and recon faster
  
• Bannerjee: Gain more resources as well as 4 Authority from pillaging
  
• Lady Jessica: Force Treaty now actually forces the treaty. The cost in Influence is higher and increases every time you use it with the same faction
  

• Improved lobby list
  
  
  
  
• New multiplayer mode: “Kanly” ; faster 1v1 game
  
• AIso wait longer before replacing a player after a disconnect
  
• Allies can see the progression bar of an ally Atreides’ Peaceful Annexation
  
• Allies can see Sietches discovered by other allies
  
• Allies can see an ally Smugglers’ Underworld Headquarters as well as its buildings
  
• Allies can see an ally Fremen’s Sietch settlement as well as its building
  

• Deep Deserts and The Desolation are now less harsh
  
• 1.2x speed is now available in-game
  
• Tier 3 building districts have been changed for the Fremen
  
• Main Base districts take less time to be built
  
• Added voice lines for harvester orders
  
• Reworked game parameters UI to have tooltips and make it easier to extend
  
• New Carthag and Sietch Tabr visual effects
  
• Chemical grenade visual has been updated
  
  
  
  
• Alert sounds rework
  

• Fixed crashes when loading a save
  
• Fixed units behaviour when attacked from far away (i.e.: Missile Batteries)
  
• Fixed cancel resolution not working from client
  
• Fix potential server issue when trying to resolve an already resolved discovery
  
• Fixed some spying missions counted as "installing an operation" while they didn't provide any
  
• Fixed Atreides Merchants displaying incorrect count in Solari production breakdown
  
• Fixed special region village Authority cost with Local Dialect Studies
  
• Fixed Airfield range not updating when captured by another faction
  
• Fixed the harvester death animation if their refinery had been destroyed
  
• Fixed texts that referenced Landsraad only displaying the icon and not the name
  
• Fixed Recruitment Office construction animation
  
• Fixed clickable victory parameter buttons when not in game creator
  
• Fixed a sync path to no longer make units do weird back steps, especially with long paths
  
• Fixed units behaviour when following other units at short distances, which made them unable to attack while chasing or simply miss their mark
  
• Fixed village that could rebel while militia was deployed
  
• Fixed Landsraad UI not identifying a resolution with no available choices
  
• Fix: Removed factions not eligible to Landsraad from Imperial Audit
  
• Fix: Building construction possible in local Sietches without an alliance
  
• Fix: Landsraad crash when conceding at the start of the game
  
• Fix: Broken developments that were queued and finished from external sources
  
• Fix: Intel not getting production bonuses on villages
  
• Fix: Block missile batteries on devastated villages
  
• Fix: Relation displaying 0 for clients
  
• Fix: Alerts bar pushing the rest of the top UI away when there are too many alerts
  
• Fix: Sandworms sometimes not showing a roaming FX before attacking
  
• Fix: Units in shuttles and worms would not correctly update their recipient zone which could mean that a nuke on a main base could kill units on the other side of the map
  
• Fix: Requesting a shuttle now correctly clears all action queues
  
• Prevent pressing escape on startup options screen
  
• No more idle harvester alert whenever a rebellion is on a village with a harvester
  
• Disbanding texts are now normal (unit, village…)
  
• Fixed value rounding error in refund dialogs
  
• The options screen on first startup cannot be dismissed by pressing Escape
  
• Developments aren’t researched further if they’ve been completed using a POI or Spyware while they’re in the research queue
  
• Influence doesn’t weigh anything anymore during trades with AIs
  
• The Spying tab is now available after finishing a game
  
• An AoE attack cannot break a Non-Aggression Pact anymore if the unit belonging to that faction is in the attack zone
  
• Better handling of client disconnecting during loading
  
• Many typos and localisation issues have also been fixed
  
• Known Issue: There are instances of missing or bad translations affecting all languages except English, this will be fixed as soon as possible.
  

With the release of Multiplayer a few weeks back, it's time to look to the next major update and promised 5th faction to come to the game during Early Access, which we are proud to announce is House Corrino!

Hello everyone!

Multiplayer has arrived! We're so excited to release the first major milestone in our Early Access Roadmap. The time has come to lure your friends in with promises of spice, then sit back and see who the desert takes first. Or perhaps you'll help them, if doing so is to your advantage...

• Multiplayer (Dedicated Servers & Peer to Peer)
  
• New regions
  
• New resolutions
  
• New events
  
• New Underworld Headquarter buildings
  
• New buildings illustrations
  
• Confirmation before attacking a Sietch

• Balance & Tweaks of almost everything
  
• Rework of Harkonnen units
  
• Rework of the Wreckers
  
• Rework of the militia aggro system
  
• Improved AIs
  
• Faction limit for Fremen Sietches’ buildings
  
• Charters can now have flexible eligibility during deciding and voting phases
  
• Eliminated factions during decide and voting phase now properly get removed
  
• Removed spice freighters
  

Hello Everyone!

Today at the PC Gaming Show, we talked a little about Dune Spice Wars highly anticipated multiplayer mode which will allow to challenge your friends to decide once and for all, who is the rightful ruler of Arrakis!

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Hey Everyone!

Community Update #1 is now live! With this update, we have made a number of changes based entirely on the feedback and suggestions of our players since launch, bringing a ton of new content, reworks, bug fixes and more to the game ahead of our next major update (Multiplayer)!

Check out the full list of changes below…

• New 10k hegemony bonuses for every faction:
  
  
  
  
• Atreides: Permanent prod bonus upon being elected for a positive resolution
  
• Harkonnen: Can convert captured agents
  
• Smugglers: Can build Underworld Headquarters in enemies’ main bases with new buildings
  
• Fremen: Can build special buildings in allied Sietches
  
  
• Unit actions queue system (Shift + Right Click):
  
  
  
  
• Combat view (F3):
  
  
  
  
  
  
• Drones now beep boop
  
• New click feedback for actions with associated colors
  
• Auto pause when opening menus (can be turned off in game options)
  
• Added the option to remove communication requests
  
  
• New special region - White Rift:
  
  
  
  
• New special region - Acid Lake:
  
  
  
  
• New Underworld Headquarters buildings (Workers Guild, Weapon Dealers, Activist Quarters)
  
• Retake of some units' blocking radius to match with their unit size and reinforce their role in the roster
  
• Oppressed trait is removed upon rebellion
  
• Marauder Camp discovery
  
• Development Advanced Thumpers (Fremen)
  
• Village building (Investment Office)
  
• Harsher penalty for losing too much Landsraad Standing
  
• Mission complications UI rework
  
• Alert for the Council Speaker when they are allowed to reroll resolutions
  
• Kulon Caravan death animation
  
• Confirm prompts when clicking a button in the escape menu might make you leave your current game
  
• Can no longer miss click and exit selection when choosing a target for missions, worm riding or shuttles
  
• New input to cancel current unit actions (C by default)
  
• Any faction can contest an occupation
  
• Agent traits Mentats and Suk Doctors now have distinct visuals on the agent's portrait
  
• New icons
  
• Relation loss with targeted faction when a mission is detected
  
• Standing loss when you attack a main base
  
• Ornis now boost escorted harvesters for all factions but fremen
  
• Option menu reload create its own new save slot
  
• No longer see faction specific unlock conditions when playing another faction
  
• Spying window header (unify all windows)
  
• Auto remove outdated traits from structure village traits (for old saves)
  
• Shuttles now fly at random heights for a more organic fleet look
  
• Escorting units with an ornithopter is now correctly supported
  
• Visual Effect for ornithopter escort
  
• Agent traits are now active even when agents are unassigned (but not when captured)
  

• Load and Save game menus to be easier to use and allow custom names:
  
  
  
  
• Economic dev tree
  
• Ranged units and projectiles impact position is more directional (better combat readability and spectacle)
  
• Rebellions no longer try to liberate the village and only occupy it instead, until someone makes them stop
  
• Worm riding is cleaner and more fluid
  
• Black Market & Settled Hiereg discoveries
  
• Sandstorm effects
  
• Paracompass development
  
• Weapons Facility building (Smugglers main base building)
  
• Combat drugs adjustments
  
• Hegemony victory is now 30 000
  
• AI will stockpile spice a little bit less often
  
• AI targeting balance
  
• Agents timer is less exponential
  
• New Sandworms detection, roaming and attack delay values
  
• Infiltrator 40 power on first hit
  
• Discovery rewards and time to complete adjustments
  
• Ornithopters cost less solaris
  
• Spying operations infiltration requirements new values
  
• Council Eye now gives +2 max agents and given agents are now taken to compute total agents; they can't be dismissed or captured
  
• Vibrations (less vibrations generated while in combat)
  
• Craft workshop rework
  
• Improved AI recon
  

• Ornithopters sometime did not listen to a direct recon order and simply moved instead
  
• Missile batteries don't target shuttles anymore
  
• Locals units' factions are now more lore friendly
  
• Army models possibly not removed from their army (#Kulons)
  
• Iakin Nefud was refunding more for AI
  
• Long freeze when opening pause window
  
• Terrain deformations around main bases
  
• Military units will now automatically join nearby sieges when they are idle
  
• House guards passive could be bypassed by some damage types such as the combat drugs DoT
  
• Crash when trying to display multiple saves
  
• Set the "add to selection" action to same input as shift queue
  
• Allow pause space rebind, allow to pause via "PauseBreak" button
  
• Input key names are now limited in width
  
• A faction under NonAggression Pact cannot contest an occupation of the other part
  
• Crowd manipulation can't be launched on a village while it's militia is out
  
• Updated the report bug link
  
  
• Units:
  
  
• Stealth Drone health 200 > 100
  
• Stealth Drone power 12 > 15
  
• Stealth Drone armor 2 > 1
  
• Stealth Drone range increased
  
• Stealth Drone upkeep reduced
  
• Fedaykin armor 4 > 3
  
• Elite Militia power 15 > 14
  
• Mercenaries melee > range
  
• Mercenaries passive now works on enemy kill (was working on ally before)
  
• Mercenaries health 500 > 400
  
• Mercenaries armor 3 > 2
  
• Mercenaries training time reduced
  
  
  Also a lot of balancing, quality of life, fixes and changes that could not be listed here
  

Keep the feedback and suggestions coming, they're gonna be invaluable as we continue to develop the game over Early Access and of course, thank you all for your feedback since launch which has helped us compile this update!

Stay tuned, as we'll have a roadmap to share with you all later this week and more news on upcoming updates over the coming weeks...

Shiro Games

The reviews for Dune: Spice Wars are in, and we’re absolutely floored by the reception! Here’s some of what critics have to say about the game: