Eador: Masters of the Broken World
Update notes (December 4)
New update for Eador is available today.
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Update notes for 1.5.0:
New:
- Added minimap (F2 to toggle).
- Added tooltips for non-active dialogue options (like ‘Not enough gold’).
- Added descriptions for Scout's available actions before a fight start.
- Hiring ‘Cavalry’ guard now requires ‘Warriors guild’ instead of ‘Barracks’.
- Added 8 new site types.
Fixed:
- Map generator bug which led to impassable locations.
- ‘Empty’ slot in enemy’ army description when attacking a province.
- Income tooltip preventing clear view for construction queue.
- Missing price for spells used by units during tactical combat.
- Incorrect damage prediction when using a flank or running attack.
- Bug in medal rewards distribution.
- Bug that caused often healed units to receive a Healer’s medal.
- Inability to see HP loss of huge units positioned in upper rows of the tactical map.
- Elf druid didn’t get advantage of Commander’s Ranged tactics skill.
- Events in uninhabited provinces.
Update notes (July 24)
New update 1.4.5 is now available for Eador.
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Update notes:
Changed:
- Improved tooltip’s information display about dealt spell damage during a fight.
Fixed:
- All game freezes upon turn change on the tactical map should be fixed now.
- Movement for flying units.
- ‘Dragon form’ spell bug.
- Game freeze caused by attacking some sites.
- Items that weren’t put in the inventory but reemerged after an event caused the game to freeze.
- Bug in the ‘Drainage of swamp’ event.
- ‘No magic can be used’ setting bug in auto-combat.
- ‘Magic weapon’ spell restoring more ammunition than needed.
- ‘Blizzard’ spell not blocking enemy heroes.
- ‘Taint’ skill affecting golems, demons and undead.
Update notes (June 19)
New update 1.4.4 is coming later today.
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Update notes:
Changes:
- Added and improved sounds for a number of units.
- Changed balance (characteristics, skills, upgrades etc.) for a number of units.
- Improved tooltip display during tactical battles.
- Income tooltip is now shown at the bottom of the screen after finishing a turn on the strategic map.
Fixed:
- Foreign quarter's buildings not increasing gold income.
- Incorrect health display for province guards under player’s control after their bribery.
- Units hatched from the eggs of ‘Black Widow’ shown on the victory screen.
- Units immobilized by ‘Slyboots’ ability being able to retreat in close combat.
- Income calculation for the Hippodrome building.
- ‘Roots’ spell bug.
- Catapult and Ballista units can no longer attack other units at close range.
Allied Forces DLC + Linux version
Today we're releasing a new DLC for Eador called Allied Forces.
As you know, Eador doesn't exactly lack in the unit department, especially after last month's update. However, we thought that the benefits of befriending one of the seven races in Eador could be a bit more rewarding.
So there it is, inside you'll find 14 brand new units (two for each race) with their unique skills and abilities.
Let's take the gentlemen on this picture as an example:
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- Orc Witchdoctor - the witchdoctors can inspire their kin, improving their fighting ability. Moreover, they can harm their enemies with the «Scream of Urugu,» a curious spell never studied by the magicians too preoccupied by loftier matters.
- Dwarf Guardsman - these elite dwarven warriors are armed with long halberds, and wield them with great efficiency despite their short stature. Their ability to strike with blazing speed often surprises their opponents thinking themselves safe behind the cover of their troops.
- Lizardman Turtleback - while untrained and unprepared for regular formation fighting, the lizardmen have invented another way to protect themselves from an attack from behind. The strongest and most resilient among lizardmen become Turtleback warriors, armored with a great tortoise shell on their back, able to deflect almost any attack.
- Elf Ranger - elves who completed their training at the «Maple Branch» school are called rangers. These warriors are skilled at tracking and ambushing, and their training includes not just the mastery of a bow, but outstanding swordsmanship as well, making them able to stand their ground in melee.
Nice, right? You can get the DLC here for $3,99.
There's even more good news — along with new content we also release the long-awaited Linux version on Steam. Yes, it's taken us quite some time but the promise has been kept and hopefully it would have been worth the wait. Please let us know how it plays, Linux folk.
Update notes 1.4.2:
New:
- Added Linux support.
- Added new sounds for a number of units.
Fixed:
- Incorrect pop-up tips for some abilities used in a battle.
- Exploit that let players hiring trolls in their lair after hero’s defeat.
- ‘TODO’ text shown instead of the Scout’s ability name.
- ‘Life Drain’ spell’s function.
- Crystal of Power giving the same quest repeatedly after player refused completing it once before.
- Icons for golem ingots.
- Incorrect HP display for province guards.
- Bug that affected desert trolls lair and mercenary guild.
- Savegames on Windows XP.
- AI units movement being weird during tactical battles.
- Crystal golem no longer has magic immunity.
'Sacred Gift' DLC — Free content update
Emergency patching helped the game to stay alive but it wasn't us who truly saved Eador. First and foremost the game survived thanks to the players, their patience, critique and understanding of the situation.
This is why we decided to celebrate the one year anniversary of Eador. MotBW with a free content update humbly named 'Sacred Gift'.
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The DLC adds the long awaited shard multiplayer — now you can challenge your friend over the shard's reign, against each other only or with AI Masters.
Besides, we've added a set of 17 new units:
- Ice Demon
- Black Widow
- Fire Giant
- White Wizard
- Black Wizard
- Fire Dragon
- Cursed Dragon
- Storm Dragon
- Succubus
- Tainted Unicorn
- Dark Treant
- Desert Troll
- Clay Golem
- Crystal Golem
- Obsidian Golem
- Crystal Gargoyle
- Obsidian Gargoyle
These units are based on the old ones but with new abilities. For example, Black widow can lay eggs in dead bodies of fallen enemies, letting it create new spiders; and Succubus gains a 'Mental slave' spell at level 10.
Looking back at our experience, it's quite risky to state that the game is completely bug free. But we hope that today's Eador can be considered beatable, playable and stable.
Thanks for being with us this year!
Full changelist for version 1.4.0:
New:
- Multiplayer shard battle (via Internet) — 2 players + AI.
- Multiplayer battle on a tactical map (via Internet).
- 17 new units.
- 2 new sites.
- 7 new spells.
- A lot of new abilities and upgrades for the new units.
- New types of province guards.
- Generation of random settings for a new shard for custom shard battle.
- Province tooltip now shows active rituals.
Fixed:
- More cases causing Invalid Pointer Operation.
- Bug that caused enemy army's freeze in a province after being captured by the player.
- Bug that caused order for province exploration to be canceled after speaking with traveling trader of rarities.
- Bug that caused difficulty change in config.exe.
- Length limitation for player's name.
- Heroes can't attack enemy castle anymore if it's already besieged by another of the player's heroes.
- Bug that caused mirroring the army upon province attack.
Update Notes — April 14th
New update 1.3.2 is coming today.
Here's the change list:
New:
- Additional set of hero names.
- New icons for province's types.
- Added Italian localization.
Fixed:
- Game freeze during turn time.
- Several game crashes caused by Invalid Pointer Operation error.
- Several game crashes caused by Access Violation error.
- Game freeze during turn times caused by uprising bugs.
- Alliance quests not working properly in some cases.
- Game freeze on watching or participating in arena fights.
- Some other bugs caused by arena fights.
- Inability to exit shop window for the second player in the strategic hotseat.
- Game freeze caused by meeting another Master's hero in a neutral province.
- Bug that caused a hero to die while exploring Stronghold province.
- Bug that caused a game freeze in some cases when trying to resurrect a hero.
- Unavailable hexes after using 'Polymorph' spell
- Incorrectly registered quest's result after suppressing guards' uprising in a province.
- Hero stayed in the halflings’ province after refusing their alliance.
- ‘Chalice of Life’ ritual not healing player’s hero.
- Inability to attack province guard through radial province menu (guard window).
- Astral bonuses interface bug on attacking a shard.
- Inability to give hero an order to move to another province after loading a save in some cases.
- Bug that caused identical default province name for all languages.
- Heroes under AI control will now always have names which are different from player’s.
- Some other small changes and fixes.
Update Notes — March 14th
Initially we wanted to tie the most wanted fixes together with the free content update. But as the latter obviously took way too long to finish, we decided to split those apart.
Update 1.3.0.
Improvements:
- ‘Hotseat’ mode for strategic map (shards).
- Optimization of AI turn's calculation. This should fix most crashes in the late game, at big shards, with having many heroes etc.
- Spanish localization.
- Sound updates for most units (53 out of 71), others will be updated in the future patches.
- Additional damage bonuses for flanking attacks and attacks from behind in tactical battles.
- Units can now be turned in any direction in tactical battles.
- Savegame files are now 10 times smaller.
- Borders of domains for every player on the strategic map (shard).
- Customization of the difficulty level for custom game on a shard (like starting gold, gems, population etc.).
- Ranged attack display for some units (like devil or catapult).
- Quick access menu.
- Some updates for interface and graphic assets.
Fixed:
- An unnecessary scrollbar on the Statistics screen.
- Crystal will now give heroes various quests depending on the chosen difficulty, not only the task for killing bowmen.
- Infamous 'Swiftness' skill bug that gave the AI an ability to attack player's units more than once per turn in tactical battles using units like harpies and centaurs.
- Infamous 'Polymorph' spell bug that caused inaccessibility of some hexes in tactical battles.
- Mismatch between colors for coat of arms in the Profile screen.
- Many other fixes.