Gedonia 2 announcement and a roadmap for the future
Hello everyone! I am very happy to share some exciting news with you!
Gedonia 2 is now in development
I am now working on a sequel for a game. I am aiming it to be much better than the first game, and it is without the doubt the most ambitious game I've ever attempted to make. It's still very early, and the game is years away from release, but I managed to make a small teaser trailer for the game and a steam page for you to check out. Go there for more info, and Wishlist the game Now, because it would really help me out!
Why didn't you just continue expanding on original Gedonia?
While the first game still has a lot of potential to explore, there are some issues that prevent me from infinetely evolving it over the years. First one, of course is not being able to add multiplayer, but also some fundamental shortcoming in animation/scripting/stat scaling etc. A lot of these things are baked into the core of the game at the moment, and I could only fix them by remaking the game from scratch.
What will the second game be about? With Gedonia 2, I aim to explore Eastern regions of the map, like Esnon, Vubros and Osnein. The game will have completely separate storyline and explore different era of the world.
Are you still working on the game alone? No, I am happy to report that I've got some funds from the sales of the original game, and I hired a small tem of artists and writers to help me out! So there will be atleast 6-10 people working on the game in the future.
What's next for the first Gedonia
Don't worry, I'm not abandoning the current game, in fact, I came up with a roadmap for future releases. Check it out:
As you can see, we will explore different regions of the world with the first and second game, with the first we will go west and south, and with the second one we will go east.
Thank you for your support!
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Update 1.39b
Hello everyone! The game was just updated with patch 1.39b
Fixed visual bug with enduring set
Fixed bug with interface scaling resetting sometimes
Fixed bug with secondary weapons not evolving sometimes
Update 1.39a
Hey everyone! I am happy to announce that I came back from my summer vacation, and I am ready and excited to work return to work at full force!
Expect some cool announcements and updates in the next upcoming months.
Let's start by small update 1.39a:
You can now grow high level resources on your farms at your homes
All staffs now have baseline mana regeneration bonuses
Enemies are less likely to body block your projectiles after death
Player arrow on world now correctly showsdungeon position, while you are in a dungeon
Fixed bugs with summon and enchant weapon, caused by empty main weapon slot
Mod placement now correctly loads objects in the world
You can now get fish rain achievement with fish jewelry set
World events icons in Northern kingdoms now correctly removed, when events are completed
Fixed the bug with stealth archer and added effects
Loot window now scales with huge containers, and contains up to 10 items
Poor Durval is finally released from being under a horse in a main menu
Sorting and stacking button added to the player chest
Fixed the bug with incorrect showing of ranged and melee bonuses in talents tab
Fixed bugs with shielded enemies death animations
Added a dialogue option for a guard near Northern Kingdoms path
Arcane barrage doesnt target allies anymore
Patch 1.38a
Hello everyone! Game was updated with patch 1.38a
Bug fixes:
Fixed bug with secondary living weapon not getting experience
Fixed bug with regroup breaking dead companions sometimes
Fixed new food items not cooking properly
Fixed Necromancer access stone in Northern Kingdoms
Fixed teleportation spell between NK and Gedonia
Killing ghost questgiver in the swamps now correctly cancels the quest mark
Fixed being able to craft with full inventory and losing an item
Fixed arcane beam not targeting enemies sometimes
Fixed Drain Health stuck on casting bug
Fixed few small interface issues
Fixed companions falling underground in frozen cave
Cutscenes or form changes don't remove your buffs anymore
Balance changes:
All bard sets now add bonus health and damage to non-suumoned companions
Arcane sphere from arcane living staff now correctly scales with player level
Area of damage for runic upgraded shadowwave was fixed
Whirlwind invincibility from crusher set duration increased to 4 seconds instead of 2 seconds
Blood master minions now scale correctly from blood magic bonuses and runic forge bonuses
All heavy epic sets got more armor and health now
Magic overload with mastery now costs 200 mana to use
Enchant weapon attack and summon weapon damage was increased
Skeletons and abomination get more health on higher levels
Apocalypse jewely set - increased damage of actual attack for focus the element
Dark knight dark pact buff gives more damage and health regen
Melee and ranged talents in talents tab give more damage to be comparable with magic damage bonuses
Patch 1.37a
Hello! New update was added to the game:
Frozen temple reworked, now it spawns AOE traps instead of increasing speed of enemies
Fixed poisonous leeches, now they deal more damage but drain less health
Increased damage of volatile skeletons
In frozen temple bodies of dead enemies disappear faster
Pathc 1.37a
Hello! New update was added to the game:
Frozen temple reworked, now it spawns AOE traps instead of increasing speed of enemies
Fixed poisonous leeches, now they deal more damage but drain less health
Increased damage of volatile skeletons
In frozen temple bodies of dead enemies disappear faster
Patch 1.36a
added npc that trades research papers for marks of ascendancy in explorers camp
added npc that trades ancient husks for marks of ascendancy in the temple of living weapons
enemies in totem trials get 30% of hp and 15% of damage per difficulty, instead of 40 and 25
fixed few small bugs and issues
Quick patch 1.35c
Game was update with quick patch 1.35c
Fixed the bug with house in northern kingdoms not saving properly
Fixed with Durval companion not saving properly
Fixed bugs with dungeons mode campaign not being able to start
Update 1.35a - Northern kingdoms
Hello everyone! I am happy to say that Northern Kingdoms has finally arrived!
This is the biggest single update the game has ever received. I've had an idea for it for years, and been actively designing and developing it for 6 monts straight. It's a huge, expansive, gorgeous zone with real feeling of frozen winter. The zone is actually bigger than the whole Gedonia. It's not as dense with content ofcourse, but there are still a lot to do there. The benefit of this is that the draw distance in the zone is much larger than in Gedonia, and the zone looks great. Here is what you should know about it:
You can get to it through Gedonia desert, and it requires level 45 to enter
The zone is quite difficult, so before going there, you should get the best equipment you can get and farm few expeditions to improve your skills.
There are new caves, dungeons, towns, events, quests, enemies and resources. There are a lot of stuff there, you can see all of it through the map.
You can build another house at the center of the zone.
Reworking epic tier sets
I've decided to rework a system of getting epic tier sets. Originally, I had about 10 different sets, all of them were given in Citadel of Evil dungeons, and that was an end of it. Then, after adding more endgame content and more sets, the whole system because kinda janky. Half of playstyles were locked behind random drops, and after you got your set you were basically done with progression. That didn't feel right, so I decided to change it.
Now, after completing Citadel of Evil and starting Expeditions, you would be able to purchase any epic tier set you want in the specialized Explorers shop.
By default, epic sets are weaker, on the same level as Kainite armor. All bosses in endgame dungeons, expeditions and totems from Northern Kingdoms now drop marks of ascendancy, which can improve your armor a few times, making it much much stronger.
The anvil for improving epic sets is near runic forge and the shop
Tier set bonuses now 2 items/5 items instead of 3 items/5 items. That way you can actually combine two epic sets with different bonuses to further customize your build.
There is a lot more sets now, more than 2 dozens actually, and there will be more added in the future
Other updates
Main:
Max level cap is increased and is now 80. Experience requirements after level 50 now also increased.
Added character select screen to loading in the main menu
All runic effects from runic forge were nerfed. After testing some time I've felt that they become too powerful, and were overshadowing other types of progression.
Companions basic dodge chance reduced.
Changed voice acting for Wyanna nd Ernest in main story cutscenes, and added voice acting to some secondary quest cutscenes
Armor and magic resist calculations were changed. The cap is now 90%, but after some thresholds, armor values on items give less reduction. This was done so Highly armored characters were basically invincible, so getting to the cap is now harder. You will need about 190 armor or magic resist to get to the 90% cap
I've felt that Magic overload became too obligatory for most magic builds, and the ability by itself was boring. Magic overload was nerfed, and most magic damage was recalculated, Now base damage of magic scales better with level, and Magic overload is not required for dealing constant damage in endgame.
Effects of custom dishes you cook is now scales with your level
Difficulty and reward of advanced and expert expeditions are increased
Now to the particular skill trees changes. For the most part these changed are aimed to make some specs better at endgame, and you won't notice a lot of changed for levels 1-40, with a couple of exceptions.
Ferocity
I am pretty happy with ferocity overall, it's a simple and straightforward spec, so there isn't a lot changes.
Changed Crusher armor 5-items bonus to get you more stamina
Powerful strike with axes and maces now has different animation, which is quicker than the older one
Added a bunch of new cool heavy armor sets for Ferocity users
Combat mastery
Combat mastery was fine too, just changed a couple of epic sets
Buffed snakebite set, it is now literally bites enemies with actual snakes, which is pretty cool.
Added a couple of sets for agile warriors
Enchant weapon attack damage was recalculated. It scaled too much on higher levels and was too powerful.
Banditry
Banditry received massive changes, to amke assassins and rogues actually viable at endgame.
Banditry now requires 15 skill points instead of 7, and each skill point gives a chance to evade damage
New passive - glancing strikes
New mastery - toxis fumes
Damage of poisons is increased
Vanish was nerfed for characters with low agility, now if you have agility lower than 3, it has a chance to fail
Enemies have better chance to see you in stealth and sometimes attack the spot where they think you can be
Overall endgame damage of daggers was improved, and armor has a new stat - crit multiplier
Added new epic tier set
Dark assassin set was buffed and changed
Bows
Rangers had a lot of trouble at endgame previously, because after spending their cooldowns, they only had basic shooting for damage dealing. Here are the changes:
Explosive arrows, multishot and frozen arrows preparations now have actual effect with duration for applying, and can be stacked multiple times with different skills/armor
New mastery will allow you to stack up to 3 explosive shot/multishots/frozen shots per use
New passive skill "focused multishot" will allow you to fire a multishot in one single target, which would help to deal massive damage to single targets in long range
Added a bunch of cool archer tiers - stealth archer, mystical archer, commander archer, sniper
Sniper set changed and buffed
Added quivers with infinte arrows to craft or drop
Defense
Shield block now depletes stamina relevant to the damage dealt, This would make it harder for lower level characters to cheese higher level enemies at teh start of the game.
Shield bash damage increases better with player level
Added epic tier set for tanks
Elemental magic
Overall I was pretty happy with elemental magic, with few small exceptions. Base damage is now increased, after Magic overload was nerfed. Other stuff:
Invoke elemental is completely changed (for like fourth time), and I am very happy with the result. Not gonna spoil it, but the game ability is pretty useful now
Added frost mage epic set
Freeze effect was nerfed, now it has capped duration.
Nerfed OP elemental mastery trinket
Holy magic
Holy magic on endgame was pretty lacking, mainly because damage of main abilities was scaling well, It's now fixed, and some other stuff fixed too
Holy hammer now targets enemies better near the target of the throw, it knocks enemies down and scales better with player level
Judgement scales damage better with player level
Paladin seal damage and holy amgic bonus scales with player level
Metropolitan set now has new changed use for divine weapons mastery skill, which is insanely powerful
Dark magic
Dark magic was definetely in a good place, so there aren't many huge changes
Weak curse damage increased
Dark knight epic set is improved with a bunch of new effects
Drain health scales better with level
Arcane magic
Other than nerfing magic overload, the arcane magic tree had a lot of other changes:
Added new passive - evasive blink. It's pretty fun and powerful new skill, which basically adds dodge to mage type characters. I imagine it will become essential for most magic characters. It has some drawbacks for most mages, instead arcane mages
Arcane warrior and arcane mage sets were buffed and changed with a lot of cool changes
Nature magic
Werewolf form was reworked. Now it slows down during attack, so it's not that easy to strafe around enemies, but the werewolf rage will allow you to move faster for some time
Druid set changed
Spirit bear power increased
Flower guardian damage scales better with player level
Blood magic
Blood magic was changed a lot. Previously most damage abilities from blood magic were useless at endgame, and it was mostly used as health restoration tree for melee fighters.
Here are the changes:
Bloody spikes reworked for an extremely powerful wave aoe attack
Blood demon deals more damage, has different attacks, uses bloody spikes and hemmorage differently, and overall is mostly ranged based fighter now
Blooddrainer set changed
Added new epic set of Master of Blood which focuses on summons and dealing damage with blood ablities
Bard and speech
Bard was quite powerful, mainly because serenade of serenity was healing dead companions, making them immortal essentially. This was fixed. Otehr changes:
Added new passive - dark magician, which would allow you to spoil your skeletons and minions with your cool music
Fixed the bug with serenades duration degrading after some time
Can't use bard abilities while mounted anymore
Ancient armor set was reworked
Bug fixes
Fixed bug with Armalak running while not mounted
Fixed the bug with take all button not working
Improved shadows mystery in Volflar fields
Fixed not being able to escape a dialogue with mastery fishing rod, aslo changed its description
Fixed few small issues
Whats next?
After release of this update I will hang out for some time to check for any troubles and add small fixes, if neccessary. I am planning to take a break for a summer and spend it with my family, and actually doing some physical activity and improving my health. When I return to work in September, I will start to work on my next big project, which I will announce when I will be ready. I will still slowly work on Gedonia updates here and there, and maybe add more major updates in the future, but it will definetely be slower. I still have places I want to explore in this world, but I'm also excited to start working on the next big project.
Thank you for your support!
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New loot in Northern Kingdoms
Hey everyone! I wanted to share some details about new epic loot coming in Northern Kingdoms update and give overall more info about it.
First of, here is a preview of new environments coming in the update, if you havent seen it yet:
Living weapons
The biggest part of the new loot are new Living Weapons. The idea behind them is that they evolve over time, by getting experience from killing enemies and completing different challenges. Each weapon has 3 stages, and after evolving to the next stage, it will change it's appearance, improve stats and improve a unique mechanic, that is tied to it.
There are about two dozens of different weapons, that you will be able to choose from, and they cover most of the playstyles in the game. You will be able to earn your first weapon quite easily, and you will be able to earn additional weapons, by completing challenges in the region.
Jewelry sets
One thing that was lacking before in epic equipment was jewelry. You had a few epic jewelry pieces as reward for epic faction quests, but that was about it. Now, you will be able to get a bunch of new jewelry sets in Northern Kingdoms.
Jewelry set consists of necklace, two rings and a trinket. Unlike armor sets, you will be able to combine different sets. For example:
Here you have 2 different necromancer jewelty sets. Both of them give 200% dark damage bonus for 2 pieces, one is basically making your skeletons into active damaging ability, by allowing you to spam explosive skeletons who instantly explode, which is really fun. The second one gives you an option to run around with bone serpent all the time, and having a bunch of free mana pool. Or, you can just combine 2 pieces from one set and 2 pieces from another and get +400% dark magic bonus.
There are two dozen sets coming with 60 different items, so there will be plenty to choose from.
New armor sets
Other than that, I've prepared a few new epic tiers, that give even more options for different playstyles, things like frost mage, stealth archer, archer with companions, spear-oriented warrior etc.
How would you be able to get all this cool stuff?
All over the Northern Kingdoms there will be different challenges that will reward you with this stuff. These challenges will have an option for increased challenge and better loot, so they will still be challenging even for experienced players.
Other than that, there will be much more in the update: New crafts (yes, quivers with infinte arrows are coming), new pets to collect, new quests to complete, abilities and balance changes and much much more.
But when is this all coming out?
I am on track to complete the update in May. I would also require a short period of testing for it, so it might come out at first half of June at worst. Hopefully it will work out, and I'm really excited for you guys to try it out.
Thank you for your support!
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