- Added keyboard and mouse support
- Splitscreen coop is now available from the first level
- Decreased the difficulty of certain levels
Lornsword Winter Chronicle
Release notes for version 1.7.518
🐜 Embark in a journey through the infinitely small in Empire of the Ants 🐜
Prepare to embark on a fantastic journey through the infinitely small and lead your colony to a hopeful horizon in Empire of the Ants!
Take part in the exodus of a doomed and lost colony
Based on Bernard Werber’s best seller, Empire of the Ants 🐜 will offer a strategic experience close to the iconic book saga.
Play as the Ant Savior, whose mission is to lead its “people” and rebuild a home, protect them, make them prosper and conquer new territories through different seasons.
Experience immersive adventures and defend your lands through tactical and strategic battles in a microscopic world of epic proportions.
Exploration, strategy, combat skills but most of all the local wildlife alliance will be necessary in order to emerge victorious from the many challenges that await you.
🐜 Take part in an Epic Adventure - Take the role of a brave ant with a 3rd person view and explore unique abilities that can help you in battle and exploration
♟️ A 3D Real-Time Strategy game with a progressive difficulty - The game promises an intuitive experience for newcomers, with the presence of tutorials to learn the fundamentals of RTS to help them get used to the game. At the same time, the game will offer a scalable difficulty and adaptable experience for veteran players who will discover new game mechanics as well as advanced strategies and combat skills
🏞️ Explore gorgeous environments and meet the local wildlife - The game will feature a photo-realistic forest to explore. Meet and encounter other ants and forest dwellers through your adventure and interact with them
📸 Photo-realistic - Unreal Engine 5 allows to push the boundaries of the photo-realistic effect on the plants and wildlife
🍂 Narrative based on the seasons rhythm - The game features a narrative that follows the rhythm of the seasons, the environment and gameplay mechanics will adapt.
🌙 Diversity of contrast and adaptation - The maps in the game will change based on the time of day (day, night, dawn, and twilight)
Empire on the Ants is set to release in 2024
🐜 Wishlist Empire of the Ants now
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2287330/Empire_of_the_Ants/
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Update notes for V1.6.369
Release notes for version 1.5.356
- Fixed a crash when (dis)connecting a gamepad at just the wrong time
- Fixed a bug where the final level does not finish if the player is too good
- Fixed the mini map overlapping some other UI in split screen
Major Update - Definitive Edition
We're really glad to introduce a major update for Lornsword Winter Chronicle!
Here is the list of changes made to the game in order to improve the experience:
1 - Graphics improvements
- Introduced dynamic lights
- Added ambient occlusion
- Increased available resolutions
- Better anti-aliasing
- Improved visual FXs
2 - Core gameplay improvements
- Added Minimap!
It greatly helps readability of the action and balances the easy and medium modes
- Added mine & farms flag control
- The player now has to hold to demolish
- Improved main character visibility
- Upgrades don't heal anymore
3 - AI improvements
- Reactivity is boosted
- AI personality traits were reinforced
- Deeper situation analysis from the AIs
- Better AIs reactions: tower rush, defend position...
4 - Tutorial & game onboarding improved
- Introduced "Learn by objectives" option
- Texts skimming
- Color helps
- Improved Timings
- Better balancing
5 - Visual improvements
- Redrawn in-game portraits
- Better cinematics visuals: drawings, lightings flickering
- Improved text readability
6 - Additional localizations
Lornsword Winter Chronicle is now available for the following languages:
- French
- German
- Russian
- Simplified Chinese
- Spanish
And many other improvements to make the game experience as smooth as possible.
Thank you for the continued support on Lornsword!
Second post launch update
Defenders of the Empire!
Our Second post launch update is now live on Consoles and Steam!
Here’s the main list of the changes:
- Fixed a crash when disconnecting the controller during level loading
- Fixed incorrect fade-in of levels after loading in rare cases
- Fixed incorrect mana usage when player is sprinting
- Shorter loading times for levels
Do let us know what you think of this second post launch patch on our Social Media channels:
- https://discord.gg/QkR3Png
- https://www.facebook.com/Lornsword
- https://twitter.com/lornsword
- https://www.instagram.com/lornsword_game/
First post launch update
Defenders of the Empire!
Here’s the main list of changes:
- Improved the visual quality of the terrain
- Improved general frame rates
- Faster Level loading
- Reduced the CPU load
- Fixed some visual stutters
Do let us know what you think of this first post launch patch on our Social Media channels:
- https://discord.gg/QkR3Png
- https://www.facebook.com/Lornsword
- https://twitter.com/lornsword
- https://www.instagram.com/lornsword_game/
Lornsword's Third Early Access update
Defenders of the Empire!
Our third Early Access update is now live on steam!
While working on the last chapter of the game we’ve kept improving the game overall. This update is focused around improving your visual and sound experience.
Here’s the main list of the changes:
- Building destruction visual improvement
- Sound design improvement (effects and music)
- Cinematics now play automatically
- All cinematics are now voiced (intro, chapter 1 and chapter 2)
Do let us know what you think of this third patch on our Social Media channels:
- https://discord.gg/QkR3Png
- https://www.facebook.com/Lornsword
- https://twitter.com/lornsword
- https://www.instagram.com/lornsword_game/
Lornsword's Second Early Access update
Dear defenders of the Empire !
Our second Early Access update is now live on steam!
For this update we’ve improved Corun and Eshee skills and the battle dynamics while re-balancing the economy.
Here’s the main list of changes:
Improved swordplay:
- Combo: 3rd attack deals additional damage
- New charged attack added
- Targets can now be staggered when being hit
- Impact and death visuals are clearer
- Corun and Eshee now damage enemies when using Void Walk through them
Global pacing change:
- Troops are now bigger on screen and come in proper hands of 5
- Hands under orange flag now synchronize their attacks
- Troop tiers and roles now have a greater influence on the fights
- Troops are now more reactive to your actions
- The economy dynamic has been sharpened
- Mine usage has more importance
Quality of life improvements:
- Troops following you can be all released in one tap using the top right trigger
- Far Sight is now faster to use
- Prologue maps now give you a skip option to play the mission without the hand holding dialogues
Do let us know what you think of this second patch on our Social Media channels:
- https://discord.gg/QkR3Png
- https://www.facebook.com/Lornsword
- https://twitter.com/lornsword
- https://www.instagram.com/lornsword_game/
Lornsword's First Early Access update
Our very first Early Access update is now live on steam!
We’ve made quality of life improvements, visual upgrades and better keyboard bindings!
Here’s the main list of changes:
- Campaign chapter selection added (you liked the Nil Roga battle? You can now play it again!)
- New music tracks added
- Difficulty balancing improved (easy, normal and hard levels have been adjusted)
- Alert icons made clearer (you shouldn’t miss them any more)
- Shadows buildings visual improvements
- Shadows units visual improvements (if you think a unit is new, it’s not, it’s just better looking!)
- Artifact Shines are now unique (they glow in the dark!)
- Music system improvement
- Keyboard binding improvement (a highly demanded change)
- Summoning is now a direct action (previously you had to hold the button to make it work)
- Outpost visibility improved (grass, could potentially hide it before, not any more!)
- Shadows headquarters now self destruct (in chapter 2 only - careful with your units, they can be caught in that explosion!)
Do let us know what you think of this patch on our Social Media channels:
- https://discord.gg/QkR3Png
- https://www.facebook.com/Lornsword
- https://twitter.com/lornsword
- https://www.instagram.com/lornsword_game/