Yes, you read it right: you can play the Patch 1.1 today!
The new major update of Lakeburg Legacies is now available in Open Beta, allowing you to try it before its official release in a few weeks!
Note: The Open Beta is only available in english. Patch 1.1 will be available in French, German and Simplified Chinese once it officially releases.
But what's in this Patch 1.1? Well, good question: allow us to give you a little taste of what you can expect if you play the Open Beta right now!
PATCH 1.1
This new update is bringing a lot of new content to Lakeburg Legacies, including some much-requested features like:
Villager & Name customization
Castle expansion
Multiple Saves
New relationships
Dating UX improvements
Death feedback
New events
Congenital traits
Balancing
Villager & Name customization
Villager customization is now available in Lakeburg Legacies! We heard your feedback and we worked on this feature as soon as we can to make it available in this major update, as it was one of our priority.
Certainly one of the most anticipated features! You can now fully customize your villagers' portrait: from hair, to nose, beard and outfit! Also, a brand new renaming option is available to let your rename your villagers with some of the best names you may think of.
Castle expansion
The Castle has been entirely revamped, and has now two new buildings:
The Treasury: a new place to manage your taxes
The Chancellery: a new location to manage your villagers' satisfaction, depending on their class (Peasants, Artisans, Nobles)
Multiple Saves
It is now possible to have up to 5 different Saves on Lakeburg Legacies! This will make it easier to try different game styles and durations to find out which one suits you best. Or keep your old Save just in case and start something new š
New relationships
Villagers will now automatically share a relationship with their family and mentor or student. Memorable relationships will help you keep track of who used to be part of your villager's life before their relationship faded.
Dating UX improvements
We've heard your feedback and issues about the Dating system and we worked on making it smoother to use and improve your experience
Now, when you select a suitor, you can either go on dates as you usually do, or spend Hearts to have Tindra organize your villager's marriage immediately. This will be quicker but your newly found couple will only have a minimal Affinity (1/4).
Furthermore, weāve made the āAsk Tindraā area clearer: it now explicitly displays whether a topic is liked or disliked by the suitor. When you click the āAsk Tindraā button, only topics pertaining to the current date will be revealed.
Death feedback
Following your feedback, when a villager dies, they now keep their work clothes, and their tooltip displays their last job. This should make it easier to identify what building now lacks a worker.
More than 20 new death events have been added to the game and will also provide information about the main cause of death when a villager dies. You will now know what can be improved so this tragedy doesnāt repeat itself!
New events
You can now encounter 20 new events during your playthrough, in addition to the death ones! Some of them affect the new satisfaction system, while others allow young villagers to explore new work aspirations.
In addition, the conditions to trigger events have been adjusted, so itās now much easier to have them!
Congenital traits
This improvement should satisfy those of you who are interested in the genetics part of the game!
Congenital traits (that are passed from parents to children) are now upgradable. If two parents share a similar congenital trait, then their children have a chance of inheriting said trait from both parents, upgrading it to the next level. Of course, this will work with positive traits, but also with negative ones š
Balancing
ā ļøThe Stat and Skill associated with the Merchant job have been modified, so you might want to have a look at your building to make sure the villagers working there are the most efficient.
Adjustments have been made to the following parts of the game:
Economy
Events
Illicit buildings
Villagers
Dating
Relationships
A notable change is that we have adjusted the skills and potential of characters who can join your village through the dating or recruitment systems. It should now be easier to find characters whose potential better match the current state of your village!
The suitorsā age has been adjusted to reduce age disparity, and age difference now impacts the Affinity between two villagers.
HOW TO JOIN THE OPEN BETA
We believe with all this information you REALLY want to play the Patch 1.1 now, so here are the steps to follow in order to join this particular branch:
Go to your game library on Steam
Right click on Lakeburg Legacies
Click on āPropertiesā
Go to the āBetasā tab
Select "open_beta"
Update Lakeburg Legacies
Enjoy š
Your current Save will 100% work on the Open Beta if you decide to keep playing it on Patch 1.1 but you will not be able to come back to default as long as Patch 1.1 is not officially released (which will be in a few weeks).
Which means, to play on the Open Beta you have two options:
Continue an existing Save from default
Or start a brand new Save, starting directly on open_beta
You read the title correctly: an Open Beta of Lakeburg Legacies' 1.1 update will be available starting October 11 at 16:00 CEST!
OPEN BETA
In this Open Beta you will get to try out:
Multiple saves
Villager customization
Name customization
Castle expansion
We will give you more details on October 11: how to access the Open Beta, what to expect from it and also everything you need to know about the changes to the game!
This Open Beta will give you the opportunity to test and give us feedback about Patch 1.1 before it officially releases.
This month, we released Spirited Thief, a brand new turn-based tactical stealth game!
Spirited Thief is our second game as a publisher and it has been created by a solo developer, Koi Snowman Games. We hope you will enjoy this game as much as we do, even though you won't be able to use the power of love but instead set up traps and throw daggers at your enemies š
In Spirited Thief, you play both as a Spirit and a Thief: one is used for exploration, the other for infiltration. Let's get you prepared to steal some treasures!
Scout, loot, and get out in Spirited Thief, a tactical turn-based stealth game with a twist. Search ahead as spirit, Trin, and grab the goods as thief, Elaj. Just make sure you have the loot before the guards come looking!
Do not hesitate to leave a review if you enjoyed the game!
This week, we released Spirited Thief, a brand new turn-based tactical stealth game!
Spirited Thief is our second game as a publisher and it has been created by a solo developer, Koi Snowman Games. We hope you will enjoy this game as much as we do, even though you won't be able to use the power of love but instead set up traps and throw daggers at your enemies š
In Spirited Thief, you play both as a Spirit and a Thief: one is used for exploration, the other for infiltration. Let's get you prepared to steal some treasures!
Scout, loot, and get out in Spirited Thief, a tactical turn-based stealth game with a twist. Search ahead as spirit, Trin, and grab the goods as thief, Elaj. Just make sure you have the loot before the guards come looking!
Do not hesitate to leave a review if you enjoyed the game!
Here is a new update for Lakeburg Legacies! We are bringing a lot of bug fixing thanks to the reports you made both on Steam and Discord.
As you may have heard, a Patch 1.1 is planned to be released in the following weeks. This update will bring to life a lot of features based upon your requests and things we have identified internally. We cannot tell you much right now but amongst the several additions to the game, with the Patch 1.1 you'll be able to have Multiple Saves!
BUG FIXES
Fixed a bug that made taxes affect the Morale of all villagers, instead of affecting only the villagers of the selected class.
Fixed several bugs making portraits get mixed up between villagers.
Fixed a bug that made children sometimes get a random hair color, instead of the hair color of one of their parents.
Fixed a bug that made single adults unable to have Romance-type relationships.
Fixed a bug that made the total of workers tracked by the "Let's get to work!" objective go in the negatives. This bug will only be fixed for all future games, sadly current ones will still be affected.
Fixed several bugs affecting the calculation of the production time, including in some cases a miscalculation of the impact of a villager's relationships on their production time.
Fixed a bug that made the mentorship gauge of a youth disappear even though they could still improve their stats.
Fixed a bug that prevented teenagers from getting a new identity trait.
Fixed a bug that made it possible to launch production in the Banquet without spending any resources.
Fixed a bug that filtered villagers by "Necessary actions" even when the corresponding filter wasn't selected.
The notification on the Barter button is now correctly displayed when loading a save.
In the Options pop-up, the shortcut to open the Couples menu is now correctly displaying F instead of T.
The House summary interface can no longer appear above the Options pop-up.
Improving the Recycling upgrade now triggers a sound effect.
An Aspiration tooltip no longer appears when hovering the empty Aspiration slot on a baby's character sheet.
The icons for the Bothered, Disappointed and Disinherited traits now have the correct shape.
Fixed the value of traits affecting the service gauges, which in some cases were giving a malus instead of a bonus, and vice versa.
Fixed some minor bugs on events.
Fixed some small visual issues.
QOL
The Morale tooltip has been improved to make it easier to understand. Traits distributing Morale no longer do it on a permanent basis, but rather in a recurring way.
In buildings, a new filter now allows you to directly display all villagers (employed and unemployed) at once, ranked by their ā Potential for the job.
Villagers working a job that fits their Aspiration's corresponding skills can now earn Morale from their Aspiration trait.
BALANCING
Morale & Life expectancy
Decreased the malus of traits distributed by the four service gauges. Villagers affected by these traits will now lose less Life Expectancy and Morale, among other changes.
Villagers now have a higher Morale on average.
Events
The Drink or dare event has been simplified to give more player agency.
The Workaholic event now has more chances of being triggered.
Traits
Removed some incompatibilities between traits.
Steam Achievements
Due to the game's recent balancing, some achievements on Steam were nearly impossible to get.
The Dangerous liaisons achievement now unlocks when a married couple has 3 Adultery relationships between them (instead of 5 previously).
The Don Juan achievement now unlocks when one villager shares only Adultery or Lust relationships with at least 3 villagers (instead of 5 previously).
The Demographic wave achievement now unlocks after recruiting 35 characters in one game (instead of 50 previously).
Each kingdom needs a sovereign and decisions have to be made, whether it's to pair people up or decide where to allocate your money. People will be pleased, others will become increasily angry but your objective is for your kingdom to grow, to welcome more people and to deal with every day issues. Also what do you mean you don't have enough wood anymore?!
Today in that spirit, we partner up with the team from Brave at Night to create the bundle "Manage a Kingdom"!
Hello rulers! for this update, we're mostly focused on bringing you a much-requested feature: shortcuts! We've also worked on the stability in the relationships and we balanced the morale and the events.
However, before we jump on to the patch notes, we have a very special announcement to make: a 1.1 update is coming... soon!
Next to come: the 1.1 Update!
For the last 3 weeks, we've been working hard to fix the most urgent issues and bugs on Lakeburg Legacies. We've also worked on the balancing of the game ang added some of the most requested features (shortcuts, endless mode).
Thanks to your precious feedback, we've identified other areas that need to be added and/or reworked. This is why we're very excited to announce that we're working on a major 1.1 Update for Lakeburg Legacies
Since this will require a lot of work, this update will take several weeks to be released.
This also means that today's patch should be the last patch before the 1.1 Update, unless there are bugs that need to be fixed.
Patch 1.0.1.5
SHORTCUTS
New shortcuts are available to better navigate between the gameās interfaces! You can find them in tooltips, or in the brand-new Commands tab of the Options pop-up!
BUG FIXES
The Affinity level between two villagers no longer evolves between the dating and the wedding.
The potential (stars) of villagers for certain jobs no longer evolves between the moment they appear in the Recruitment pop-up and the moment they join the village.
The Morale, Work results and Traits tooltips now display values per month.
Optimized textures to make the game smoother while increasing assetsā quality.
It is no longer possible to meet or greet a dead villager.
It is no longer possible to trigger a softlock when opening the New Game pop-up while opening the Options menu.
The character sheetās UI no longer hides the name of villagersā personality traits.
The text on the āItās a match/failā screen is no longer blurry.
The character sheet of an unemployed villager used to show English text in the āCurrent occupationā box in all languages. Now the text is appropriately displayed in all supported languages.
Fixed a refresh bug on the buildings construction tooltip.
The āRaised by wolvesā achievement can now only be obtained if a homeless child no longer has a family to live with.
The āLove and hateā achievement can no longer be obtained through the death of oneās partner.
The āLet's get to work!ā objective now longer displays a negative amount of workers.
Fixed issues with some animations on the village map.
Removed a wrong icon for the Parenthood chances stat.
The notification on the Recruitment and Barter buttons is now correctly displayed when loading a save.
Fixed a display issue in the Build menu when all buildings have been built.
Fixed tooltips being placed incorrectly.
Harmonized text size in the Options pop-up.
Rounded the value of service gauges.
Expert traits now also display a special feedback on jobs associated with corresponding buildings.
There is no longer a double entry in the Journal when celebrating a wedding.
A single villager now appears in the Single part of the villagersā bar.
An exiled villager no longer consumes resources from the village.
Mentored children no longer affect the work ambiance.
Adultery relationships now give a production bonus instead of a malus.
Fixed the thresholds of the chances of having a child to match the true values.
Fixed an issue that made consumed and produced resources display incorrectly above buildings on the worldmap.
BALANCING
Morale
Morale bonuses are increased and maluses are reduced in identity traits, buildings, taxes, relationships,ā¦
The Entertained trait distributed by the Bardsā House now distributes +60 Morale at once (instead of +10 every 30 days for 120 days).
The Morale maluses given by traits distributed by the Activity and Safety service gauges have been reduced by 5.
Increased the bonus given by the Working Conditions upgrade.
The Working Conditions upgrade now also has a third level.
Events
Modified spawning conditions to make repeating events less likely.
More events can now include Teens.
Events now have a bigger impact on the game.
Some events (Stray cats, The Illustrious Minstrel, Musical tastes, Pony ride, A sticky brew, Weird tastes, Drink or dare) have been simplified and now use one carac/skill test instead of two to improve player agency.
For couples that break up voluntarily during an event, the Divorced and Heartbroken traits will now be distributed to one or both partners, depending on the context.
Economy
Modified the base production value to increase production in early game for all production buildings.
Reduced the slot prices in all buildings
Reduced the bonus given by the Efficiency upgrade.
Added passive production of Gold for all classes every 90 days:
Nobles now produce 1 Prestige and 1 Gold.
Artisans now produce 2 Gold.
Peasants now produce 1 Heart and 1 Gold.
Decreased Gold obtained through taxes: -25%
Genetics
Villagers now have more chances to inherit physical features from both their parents.
Couples
Married couples with a high Affinity level now have slightly less chances of triggering a positive event in the House.
Married couples with a low Affinity level now have more chances of triggering a positive event in the House.
The Divorced and Widowed traits are now temporary. They also now decrease the Affinity level with potential suitors and new partners for one year following the divorce or death of the ex-partner.
Barter
Decreased the amount of resources exchanged for Gold in early game.
Adjusted the evolution of the amount of resources asked and the amount of Gold offered.
Updated the Barter table according to the new balancing.
Encounters
The encounters algorithm has been reworked. Married villagers who share a high Affinity level with their partner now have a lot less chances of developing an Adultery relationship with another villager. They will now rather develop Friendship (66%) or Romance (33%) relationships.
For other adult villagers:
chances of Friendship relationships have been decreased (80% ā 65%).
chances of Lust relationships have been increased (10% ā 20%).
chances of Romance relationships have been increased (10% ā 15%).
Children and babies will no longer develop relationships with random strangers.
OTHER
Some service traits (such as Suicidal or Atheist) have been renamed.
Here goes the final (?) part of our optimization process on Lakeburg Legacies. If you experience any other performance issues or crashes, please feel free to join our Discord and contact us about it.
BUG FIXES
Optimized portraits to reduce memory usage and reduce crashes.
Optimized backgrounds to make the game smoother.
The death event of homeless villagers should now display properly.
Hello Rulers, for this update, we are mostly focused on fixing some bugs and we optimized the game even more!
BUG FIXES
Optimized animations on the map to make the game smoother and reduce memory usage.
Optimized textures on villagers portraits to make the game smoother.
Fixed some issues with fonts displaying text incorrectly.
Fixed several errors that could appear when switching between languages in-game.
Fixed a bug that made zooming out impossible after building a building.
Fixed a bug that made it possible for villagers as young as 16 to work in illicit buildings.
BALANCING
Events
Homeless child: The Royal couple can no longer adopt children through this event.
We're also very happy to announce that we finally found the cause of the very nasty crashes that some players got since the launch. This patch that we're releasing today will fix SOME of the issues, but we're already working on another patch that should bring an end to a lot of the crashes that players have been experiencing.
