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We recently released for all you A.I. loving comp stompers, which by our metrics is the majority of you, a new world map campaign mode to explore, strategize and vanquish upon. This mode offers a lot of replayability with over 40 new missions.
The first campaign map we've released is called “Divided Continents” and you'll have a variety of starting sceanrios as well as custom setup options. We'll be adding new world maps over the summer.
The race to claim territory is on right from the beginning, you’ll see your foes movements and will have to respond immediately during your preparation phase. Once complete each army in opposing territory will take part in the combat phase. You can fight battles manually and determine your deployment, or gain victory based on your army strength and battle conditions using the auto-fight function.
Earn coins as you claim territory and spend them on reinforcing your regions, expanding your armies and upgrading your forces.
Along the way to victory you will discover special quests, reap rewards and unlock new armies. Each territory confronts you with its own challenge and you’ll discover the advantages of certain army compositions. Each of the 4 factions capital introduces a new map and defeating it will remove that faction from the game.
Win victory points through battle and claimed territory. Once you’ve claimed enough for victory on the campaign you can carry on to dominate the continent entirely. Coloring in with your faction color as you see fit. The fewer turns you complete victory in, the higher your overall campaign score.
Here are some key features of the game:
DevBlog 45: World Map Update & Fixes
Greetings Harvesters,
Time to show you what we’ve been relentlessly working on the past few months. We are very excited to unleash this monster of a free update. So update, verify game files and let’s jump right in.
News: New World Map Campaign Mode
For all you A.I. loving comp stompers, which by our metrics is the majority of you, we have created a new world map campaign mode for you to explore, strategize and vanquish on. This mode offers a lot of replayability with over 40 new missions.
The first campaign map we’re releasing is called “Divided Continents” and you can choose your starting scenario:
The underdog – Starting with only three regions you must outmaneuver larger warring factions, seizing opportunities and grow to dominate the continents.
Second chance – With your allies separated on different side of the world map you must push back against the powerful factions surrounding you.
Besieged – Surrounded, your once great empire fights to unite remote enclaves and divided those factions that have arisen against you.
Custom – Play your way, select which faction begins where, their starting strength, difficulty and victory goals.
The race to claim territory is on right from the beginning, you’ll see your foes movements and will have to respond immediately during your preparation phase. Once complete each army in opposing territory will take part in the combat phase. You can fight battles manually and determine your deployment, or gain victory based on your army strength and battle conditions using the auto-fight function.
Earn coins as you claim territory and spend them on reinforcing your regions, expanding your armies and upgrading your forces.
Along the way to victory you will discover special quests, reap rewards and unlock new armies. Each territory confronts you with its own challenge and you’ll discover the advantages of certain army compositions. Each of the 4 factions capital introduces a new map and defeating it will remove that faction from the game.
Win victory points through battle and claimed territory. Once you’ve claimed enough for victory on the campaign you can carry on to dominate the continent entirely. Coloring in with your faction color as you see fit. The fewer turns you complete victory in, the higher your overall campaign score.
As you’ll see, we also have two other world maps in the works which we plan to release later this summer.
Let the strategizing begin in macro and good luck commanders.
News: New Multiplayer Map
Forgotten Fortress 3 vs. 3
The remains of a once glorious city rest in this valley. Time, conflicts and sandstorms have ravaged its former beauty. The twin rivers that helped make the city great are also the source of this place’s repeated conflicts. Once again, the strategic value of the land marks it as a battlefield.
Info: Changelog 26
General Changes:
Main Menu has been reworked. Season/Unlocks moved to Player Card. Added Achievement and Season Tree Widget to the bottom of the screen to make it easier to claim rewards. Moved social media buttons and quit game to the top right of the screen.
Graphical destruction and environmental issues on several maps are now fixed.
Victor Popov now has all his shoutouts modulated on Rusviet’s 6th mission “Battle For The Key”.
All Rusviet Mechs now have the radio effect when spoken language is set to Russian/Native.
The missing voice file has been added to the ingame cutscene on the Rusviet Revolution mission “Arriving at the depot”.
Players should correctly receive medals on challenge missions “Hold The Line” and “Stronghold” again.
Several fixes to gamepad controls.
Multiplayer Balance Changes: The Ward (exosuit)
Displayed effectiveness adjusted from Heavy to medium.
Reduced cost from 320 to 200 iron and 30 to 20 oil.
Princess Sita Al-Hadid
Rifle damage increased vs. unarmored from 50 to 75.
Rifle damage increased vs. light armor from 30 to 50.
Rifle damage increased vs. medium armor from 10 to 15.
Zolw (troop transport mech)
Increased its mortar explosion radius from 2 to 3.
Increased its mortar outer explosion radius damage modifier from 0.2 to 0.3.
Increased oil cost from 80 to 120 oil.
Rycerz (exosuit): Reduced population cost from 4 to 3.
Mocny (artillery mech)
While in motion, damage increased vs. medium armor from 110 to 130.
While stationary, damage increased vs. unarmored from 80 to 90.
While stationary, damage increased vs. medium armor from 90 to 110.
Reduced oil cost from 120 to 100.
Decreased time to veterancy for all Polania infantry by 10%.
Nagan (revolver mech)
Damage increased vs. medium armor from 60 to 70.
Damage increased vs. heavy armor from 70 to 80.
Splash damage increased vs. light armor from 20 to 30.
Splash damage increased vs. medium armor from 15 to 25.
Splash damage increased vs. heavy armor from 10to 20.
Common Units The Gunship: It’s effectiveness is now listed as "against heavy" instead of as "against light"
FYI: Unfortunately, save game files within battles are invalidated by this update
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Welcome. We've been quite and hard at work on our next update and shipping the Backer rewards. Let's jump into the news.
News: Backer Rewards Shipped!
It’s happening! We have now begun shipping the physical goodies to Backers!
We are eternally grateful to all our supporters during these trying times, especially for bearing with us during complications and delays. Your packages are now in the hands of the delivery company and hopefully they will arrive on your doorstep within the next weeks. We are shipping from Germany, so it may take a while to arrive – and please keep an eye on notes from the customs office!
Despite the wait, we are still very excited by these and hope you enjoy them as much as we are.
Here’s the full list break down on all our Backer rewards:
Monthly production updates: Available.
Access to all Alpha Versions: Provided.
Access to the Closed Beta: Provided.
Access to the Closed Iron Harvest Feedback Community: Provided.
Your Name in the Game’s Credits: Provided in game.
Digital Portrait Frame: Available ingame.
Digital Ingame Title: Available ingame.
Digital Manual: Available in your library on our website.
Digital Artbook: Available in your library on our website.
Digital Original Soundtrack: Available in your library on our website.
You-in-the-Game portrait as a player icon: Provided ingame.
Exclusive In-Game Skin for one of your mechs: Provided on our website and ingame.
Soundtrack on CD plus Digital: Available in Extended Version on 2 CDs and Spotify.
The Game on DVD: Available.
PLUS a Key for the Digital Edition: Available on our website.
Xbox One or PS4: Development cancelled. Please see below for refund options. PS5 and Xbox Series X|S available.
Metal Case for the Discs: Provided.
Two DIN A3 Posters: Provided.
Weapons manual book and PDF: Provided.
Special Diorama Box: Provided.
Iron Harvest Battle Bag: Provided. Image right
Three Faction Medals: Provided, see above image left
BIG Hardcover Artbook: Provided
High Quality Printed artwork signed by Jakub Różalski: Provided
We’re not done yet, we have a huge free update coming in the next month or so.
Amongst all the fixes and improvements made based on your feedback we will also be introducing a new World Map Campaign mode for single player vs. A.I. Here’s a teaser:
On the 1st world map we’ll release, you’ll have a choice of scenarios.
Or, you can customize and set up your own scenario to overcome.
With these setting, this is how it’ll look on turn 1, as your army ventures out across the land, choosing which battles to encounter and growing your factions strength.
Entering each province will expose you to new battles and skirmish set-ups. They'll be a lot of replayability in this game mode. More to follow details as we get closer to releasing it.
Once again we thank you for your patiences and understanding. We will be at your disposal to answer any questions.
- Your Iron Harvest Team
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DevBlog 43: New 2 vs. 2 Map, Bug Fixes and Balance Changes
Greetings Harvesters,
Winter is setting in and we’ve been hunkering down. This new update is ready for PC versions of Iron Harvest. It’s a big one and important so sadly it was unavoidable that saved games will be invalidated by it. Also our Backers should really update their address, this will be your last chance to do so. We’ll be in touch soon with shipping details.
Anyway, read on to see what’s new and happy gaming y’all.
News: New 2vs2 Map “Launch Facility”!
Hidden in the tundra of Northern-Alaska lies a convert testing and launch site for a new weapon with devastating capabilities. With the site hastily evacuated due to incursions by Usonian forces, its terrible technology now awaits those brave enough to persevere against their enemies and the freezing cold.
News: Backer Rewards Status Update
Info: Changelog 25
General changes:
Balance changes:
Mech cost rebalance: Mech and exoskeleton build costs have been adjusted to lower the barrier of building tier 2 mechs. On top of the cost changes, we increased the overall strength and toughness of tier 2 mechs. In doing so, tier 2 mechs will now be more accessible than before and clearly stronger than the tier 1 mechs.
All Exoskeletons: These man/machine units can now be reinforced at medic tents.
Mortar systems:
Anti-air turret: The current anti-air turret is rather expensive and very powerful. To bring it more in line with our vision we are reducing both the cost, damage, and HP. This should make building the structure more accessible while maintaining counterplay possibilities.
Sandbags:
Reserve costs: All units that have had their build cost changed have also had their reserve costs appropriately adjusted.
Ward (exosuit):
Salem (MG mech): Salem’s Overcharge ability should be powerful, but a less frequent threat on the battlefield. Additionally, the Overcharge damage against structures has been greatly reduced.
Revere (Missile airship):
Attucks (Stealth artillery):
Knox (Mech destroyer):
Stark (Melee mech):
Samson (Drone carrier):
Michal Sikorski (cavalry commander):
Rycerz (exosuit):
Straznik (MG mech):
Smialy (Scout mech):
Mocny (Siege tank):
Zolw (Troop transport):
Lowca (Mech Hunter):
Tur (Mega Mech):
Eisenhans (Exosuit):
Grimbart (Gatling Mech):
Isegrim (Tank Mech):
Erlkonig (Artillery Mech):
Stiefmutter (Gyro wheels Mech):
Wotan (Mech Hunter):
Kaiser (Mega Mech):
Groza (Exosuits):
Ognivo (Flamer Mech):
Kolokol (Bomber Mech):
Nakovalnya (Rocket Artillery):
Serp (Scythe Mech): The Serp is an intimidating mech that packs a punch in melee. The changes to MG damage we made to turn the Serp into a real threat while approaching a target.
Gulay-Gorod (Mega Mech):
Info: Backers Update Your Shipping Address
We know it’s been a long wait, as world events have conspired against us, but we are getting close to being able to ship out the Backers physical rewards. Just make sure your shipping address is up-to-date here.
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Small Hotfix & Patch update for Microsoft Store Xbox Game Pass for PC
Hey!
Just a quick update. This Hotfix should fix a variety of issues that have been reported by the community.
Fixed several issues causing the game to crash or games to become async in multiplayer
Fixed a progression blocker in the last mission of Operation Eagle
Increased cavalry commander health in multiplayer
The Patch should also release on the Microsoft Store soon, so the multiplayer will be united again. Please validate your steam files after the update if you encounter issues after the update! It looks like the steam update process is not very graceful handling our config files.
Devblog 41: Iron Harvest one Year!
One Year Iron Harvest! New Video incl. Outlook! New Map!
News: Iron Harvest Year One Video
News: Live Patch 25
News: New Map “Night Raid”
News: Kickstarter Rewards Update
News: PS5 & Xbox Series X|S Release Date
Info: Changelog
News: Iron Harvest Year One
Iron Harvest has been released one year ago, 1.9.20 (September 1st, 2020)! In this video we look back at our first year since release and tease some things to come. Go check it out!
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Some of the free updates in year one include:
10+ new maps
The new game mode “Drop Zone”
The Iron Harvest codex
Flying units and anti-air batteries
Ping system
New hero abilities
Unit skins & cosmetics
And we are now in our fourth season
We also released the Rusviet Revolution mini-campaign and the full-blown addon “Operation Eagle”.
Or 25th live patch will go live 1.9.21 (September 1st 2021) on Steam, GoG and Epic Store. The patch for the Microsoft Store Xbox Game Pass for PC will arrive with a small delay for technical reasons. Here are some of the highlights:
New Map “Nigh Raid”, see below.
New “Skip Mission” button that enables you to skip a mission after defeat.
You can now build Anti-Air turrets.
We adjusted the “easy” and “normal” difficulties. Since our AI improvements, some missions are harder than intended. With these adjustments, Enemy Units will have lower HP and much lesser DPS on easy and only lesser DPS on Medium (HP stays untouched).
Changelog: See below.
News: New Map “Night Raid”
The fighting has dragged on for weeks, with rain-steeped trenches and craters where once fields and forest were. A night strike has been ordered by high command in the hopes of catching the enemy by surprise and breaking the stalemate once and for all.
New: Kickstarter Reward Update
As more and more parts of the world go back to a somewhat normal situation, we finally can finish the last Kickstarter rewards and get them to Germany for packing and shipping. We can’t wait to show you the great artbook and the weapon’s manual – they turned out great. What we can show you already is the production of the signed art prints from this week! The creator of the World of 1920+ - Jakub Różalski himself - signed every high quality art print.
News: PS5 & Xbox Series X|S Release Date
As mentioned in previous DevBlogs, we are working hard on the console versions of Iron Harvest and the new console generation is progressing better than expected! Together with our Publisher Prime Matter we decided to bundle everything into one big version: The “Iron Harvest Complete Edition”, including the Rusviet Revolution DLC and the Operation Eagle Addon.
The Iron Harvest Complete Edition releases physically and digitally on October 26th on PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series S/X and will be available for 49,99 €/$.
Reminder for Kickstarter backers: Free console upgrade
If you backed the PlayStation 4 or Xbox One version, you can change your console pre-order (free of charge) to a next gen version of Iron Harvest.
You’ll see a "Digital Copy for PS4" or "Digital Copy for Xbox One" depending on your order. Below this element you’ll see "Digital Copy for PS5" or "Digital Copy for Xbox Series X/S".
Click one of the links, confirm and then you’re all done. Be careful, this action cannot be reversed later.
Info: Changelog
As always, we worked on many improvements and fixes based on your feedback.
Fixes
The "!" bubble on the main menu is now appearing again when season objectives are completed.
The Level Modern Times will now always ends after surviving for 5 Minutes
Prince will now behave correctly while using the “Lay Waste” ability
Prince will now use his abilities immediately when the target is withing range
Units will now walk on the frozen lake on Arctic Storm
Fixed a bug with the target selection of Lechs’ “Relentless Fury” ability and clarified in the tooltip that this ability will hit at most 5 targets.
Fixed a bug that could let Gulyay Gorod get stuck while retreating
Potential fix for the spinning train cannon
Smoothed out Brunhildes Mortar Animation
AI can now use the Skybike properly
Retreat Icon on Air Units is now fully visible
Wojtek Health now remains the same when Anna enters a garrison
Fixed a vulnerability in the codebase that could be used for cheating in multiplayer games.
… and more
Balancing Changes
Smokescreens There were some technical imperfections with smokescreens which we have fixed and we have adjusted some of the smokescreen behaviour. In general, smokescreen ranges have become smaller, and the duration became shorter. Additionally, Mocny's and Isegrim's smokescreens are now static and thus do not move with the unit anymore.
Polania Michal Sikorski: Michal’s ability to chase and kill retreating infantry was impacted by last patch’s change that prevents retreating units from tumbling. Michal's was already on the weaker side, and this change made him even weaker. We have increased his health to give more time to chase, kill and retreat before being caught in the crossfire.
Increased Michael’s health and that of his cavalry soldiers from a total of 690 to 820.
Increased Michael’s range in which he independently attacks targets in melee from 2 to 3 meters.
Mocny: Mocny feels underpowered compared to other artillery mechs. We increased the damage and reloaded cooldown of the deployed Mocny to give it more opportunities to make a difference on the battlefield.
Reduced reload cooldown when Mocny is deployed from 19 to 10 seconds.
Increased damage while deployed against medium from 75 to 90.
Increased damage while deployed against heavy from 65 to 90.
Saxony
Eisenhans: We want to bring Eisenhans closer to the player expectation without steering away too far from his role in the unit roster. We have increased his capabilities to deal damage by increasing the chance of his projectiles hitting moving targets, and by increasing their damage.
Increased projectile speed from 6 to 2 seconds.
Increased damage on unarmored from 30 to 60.
Increased damage on light/medium from 40 to 60.
Prince: Increased Prince’s repairspeed
Rusviet
Olga: Veterancy damage scaling was not properly applied to Olga's detonator, which was fixed in this patch. Her detonator now deals less damage when she is not a veteran, and more when she is veteran level 3 or 4. Her veterancy thresholds have been reduced slightly to accommodate for the change in detonator damage.
Reduced Olga detonator damage against unarmored from 150 to 120.
Reduced Olga detonator damage against light and medium from 250 to 210.
Reduced Olga detonator damage against heavy from 200 to 170.
Reduced Olga detonator damage against structures from 150 to 125.
Reduced Olga veteran threshold from 1500 to 1300.
Reduced Olga elite threshold from 4000 to 3500.
Usonia
We want to observe the state of the faction over a longer period and thus there are no Usonia specific changes this patch. Next patch might include balance changes for the faction.
Common
Gunship: The gunship has a similar role to Wotan and Nagan but used to cost only 2 reserve coins, we have increased that to 3. Additionally, we have reduced the anti-air capabilities of the Gunship to increase the number of effective ways to counter it.
Reduced anti-air MG damage On unarmoured from 10 to 3. On light from 4.5 to 3. On medium from 3.5 to 2.5. On heavy from 3 to 2. On structure from 0.1 to 0.5.
Increased reserve coin cost from 2 to 3.
Reduced splashradius for Gunship anti-ground weapon.
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Ground Forces Rally As We Tease Anti-Air Turrets, More Console Progress And Make Balance changes and Fixes!
Welcome to July’s DevBlog, which is accompanied by a free update to the game. Apologies for the technical hitches that prevented us from releasing this last week.
Read on for all the details, knowledge is power commanders.
Info: Anti-Air Turrets Tease
We’ve seen your feedback since releasing Operation Eagle. Thank you for it, and based on it we are happy to reveal that buildable Anti-Air Turrets are with with the next patch
However, you gameplay reasons, Anti-Air Turrets will be a base defense and so only buildable in the HQ zone. All factions can build them using engineers and they will serve as a building to protect HQs from air-based units if the players fear aerial assaults. Players will have to making the decision to invest precious resources into the, but our thoughts on balancing them will likely head in the direction that they are relative cheap, and that building two or more can be viable depending on how the game is progressing.
News: Backers Artbook Tease!
Looks great! We're making progress, but still waiting for all goodies to arrive at HQ before we can then package them up into the backers bespoke editions and send them out to you. We’re very grateful to our backers, not only for their support in getting the game made, but for waiting with us on the physical goodies. Hang tight!
If you haven’t seen them yet, we have photos of the metal figurine, medals and battle-bag here.
We’ll let you know the moment there’s more worthwhile news, so keep your postal address up-to-date here.
Info: Changelog 23
General Changes:
Balance Changes:
Common faction units
Skybike:
Gunship: The combination of aircraft movement and high damage output made the Gunship just too good of a pick in a lot of situations. We are tuning down the damage a bit to give the other dedicated anti-mech mechs more situations to shine.
Airlift:
Anna and Wojtek: Their strength and versatility gives them the edge over other early-game heroes and most groups of infantry available when they enter with Reserve 1. Tuning Wojtek down a bit reduces the overall power while maintaining Anna’s strength as a sniper.
Zolw (troop-transport mech):
Ognivo (flamethrower mech): Where Ognivo shines the most is when the veteran ability is unlocked. Reaching veterancy is a bit too difficult, therefore we decreased the amount of XP necessary to reach it.
Barracks and workshop: The longer build and upgrade times for Rusviet sets them a bit too far apart from the other factions in matches where it comes down to every second and every single bar of iron.
Salem (MG mech): Due to its high accessibility and high damage output in the early game, Salem is able to reach Veterancy too quickly, creating even more of an advantage. We delay the time Salem hits the battlefield and the veterancy upgrade to give enemy infantry a bit more breathing room.
Captain William Mason:
Admiral George Mason: The combination of George’s distinct attributes make him a difficult to counter. We are reducing his stats across the board to give players more room to come up with answers to him while keeping an eye on the fact this unit cannot be revived once killed.
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News: New Operation Eagle 2v2 Map “Beachfront Stronghold”!
This coastal fortress is the first line of defense against invaders from the sea. Gaining control over this war-torn area with its fresh wounds from previous battles is a big challenge, but vital for victory.
You’ll notice on the minimap one player from each team controls a forward AA, watching the skies for those early forays.
This new map is available to all players with the Operation Eagle DLC. If you don’t own the Add-on, you can still play it via ranked and multiplayer as well as skirmish mode if another play who owns Operation Eagle hosts the game.
Info: Standalone Now Upgradeable
For those of you not quite ready to bite the Iron Harvest bullet, you now have a cheaper point of entry.
Operation Eagle Is Now Available Standalone For €19,99 here on Steam
This means if you buy Operation Eagle, but not the main game, you can:
To play Usonian on GoG and Epic Games Store, you will need to already own the base Iron Harvest game when you buy Operation Eagle
Info: New Publisher
“O.K. so this past year was a challenge for everyone, but we released Iron Harvest together with DeepSilver and thanks to their support, we’ve been able to develop dozens of patches, new maps and even a big addon for you.
And you – the community – are just as incredible as you’ve always been since the Kickstarter days, and it has been a great privilege to meet so many of you on the events all over the world. Having no Gamescom, PAX or other events this year is another gut punch.
We long for the day we can meet you guys and gals at a gaming event, but the future is still bright. The same team that has worked on Iron Harvest on the publisher side has been added to “Prime Matter”, a newly created premium publishing label, with Iron Harvest as one of its legacy games.
While the team remains the same, it’s exciting to start something new and grow in a different direction. We’re working hard on the console versions, to finally get the Kickstarter physical assets to Germany to ship it to you and we can't wait to show you more, all under the new black and red (Rusviet?) flag of Prime Matter!” - Julian Strzoda (Iron Harvest Producer)
Rookie Tournament & Finding Players
The Multiplayer community is alive and kicking! (with those mech legs) If you’re ever curious about stepping up your game, but worried about instantly being stomped by the pros, then this is the tournament for you.
A great way to learn, meet like-minded commanders and hey there are prizes to be won!
Although, we also know many of you prefer comp-stomping A.I. in skirmish mode over Multiplayer (why not both?). Therefore, we’ve created a special channel on our Discord server for you to find like-minded commanders to team up with.
