Minor
- Guild siege UI and text fixes
- The crow from the Huginn unique crossbow can no longer pull bosses
Nordicandia
Patch 1.2.4
- Guild siege UI and text fixes
- The crow from the Huginn unique crossbow can no longer pull bosses
Patch 1.2.3
Major
- Guild Siege team sizes are changed to 1v1, 3v3 and 5v5 to allow for improved matchups.
Existing 10v10 sieges have been split into two 5v5 sieges.
Siege rewards (both loot and final rewards) are still better for bigger teams.
Minor
- Fixed an issue when saving the VSync option in game settings Patch 1.2.2
Major
- Finalized the remaining features for Guild Siege, now accessible at the Guild Siege NPC in Town.
Minor
- Added option to toggle Vsync in the video settings
- Added option to expand maximum guild members for opals, up to 40
- Helheim is no longer capped by a factor of your highest stage reached
- Helheim can now have up to 6 world affixes (up from 4), the 5th affix is added at depth 9, and the sixth at depth 11.
- Fixed the Find Guild dialog that was displaying an error
- Fixed avatar frame size in the guild member list
Patch 1.2.0
Preface
This is the season 3 patch which will release later today, and the main focus this patch has been to add the Guild Competitions.
Since guild competitions are a major and time-consuming feature, some other features have been slightly delayed, but will be released a couple of days after season launch.
The delayed features are: new unique items, the premium essence stash page and guild leaderboards (with guild rewards)
But fear not!
Season 3 will have more continuous updates with improvements and more exciting content, including new end-game options.
The developer will host a Q&A session on our Discord March 24:th at 16:00 UTC (two hours before Season 3 start), where you can ask questions.
Here's what's included in this patch:
Major - Guild Sieges
- Guild Sieges have arrived!
A Guild Siege is a competition between two guilds.
Each participant (character) enters their own arena instance, and battles against waves of increasingly stronger monsters, while trying to defend the center Runestone.
The winning Guild will receive points (and the losing Guild will lose points) and climb the ranks of the Guild Leaderboard (released later), where you can claim guild rewards such as new guild badges.
This system has been designed to allow for as many matchmaking options as possible, while also allowing players from different time zones to compete together.
I plan to expand on the guild points system later on with some guild-wide benefits and leadership choices.
You need to be level 10K to participate in a Guild Siege.
* Siege Rounds
The Siege creation round starts every Monday, Wednesday and Friday at 18:00 UTC, and is open for the selected guild members to join for 24 hours.
A character may join a siege once per round.
When the creation round ends, the challenge round starts immediately after and is open for another 24 hours.
Your Guild has to create a Siege before you can participate in the challenge round.
* Creating a Siege
There are currently 3v3, 5v5 and 10v10 sieges available.
Select which guild members you want to participate in the Siege this round.
You can create as many sieges as you want per round (24h), to allow all guild members to join a siege.
Only characters in game mode you select can join the siege (hardcore and softcore are separate).
Achieve a good siege result by killing as many high level monsters as you can.
* Challenging another Guild's Siege:
"Find Siege" will matchmake your selected team against another guild's created Siege.
Challenging participants can then choose their opponent and try to beat their score by joining the battle and killing higher level monsters than the opponent.
The opponent siege results will not be visible when selecting your opponent, only their character level.
* How to win a Siege
The Guild with the most battle wins against their opponent will win the Guild Siege, and receive a higher reward.
Rewards can be claimed in the Guild Siege window by each participant, and are available as soon as all participants have challenged an opponent, or when the challenge round ends.
Each participant also gains a loot reward immediately after the battle, depending on how many monsters that were killed.
Major (continued)
- Doubled the monster quantity in Helheim (inherently increasing the number of Relic of Blessing's dropped)
- Adjusted several unique item stats, including improving the stats on many of the unique caster weapons.
Minor:
- Tiny Movement speed potions can now drop from monsters
- Shields can now spawn Less Skill Cooldown affixes
- Added option to disable the pause dialog when approaching a boss
- Fixed some tooltips that were incorrectly displayed
- Fixed ability to reset your registered email password
Unique item balance changes:
- Replaced life leech% on Leechfest one-handed mace with physical damage% bonus
- Orc Slayer one-handed axe: Added scaling to the strength% bonus
- Huginn and Muninn one-handed crossbows: Added physical damage% bonus
- Sure Shot one-handed crossbow: Added physical damage% bonus
- Wand of Galvanism: Increased chain lightning chance on auto attack
- Molten Bow two-handed bow: Reduced bonus/converted damage
- Bow of Torching: Increased fire penetration
- Bow of Gluttony: Added local physical damage% bonus
- Spitfire: Increased fire area damage per second
- Staff of profusion: Added local attack speed bonus%
- Thunder Staff: Added lightning damage% bonus
- Chaining Staff: Added local poison damage%
- The Razor one-handed sword: slightly reduced base flat physical damage
- Arrowstream Bow: Added local physical damage%
- Gungnir Spear: Added local physical damage%
Nordicandia Season 3 Launch
Fresh Start 🌟
Create a new character and enjoy a fresh new season filled with more items, monsters and challenges to overcome!
Guild Competitions 🏆
Compete against other guilds by defeating waves of monsters, and show everyone who's the strongest!
New and rebalanced unique items ⚔️
Hunt for new Unique Items and find new potential in the rebalancing of existing Uniques!
And much more..!
Full patch notes for v1.2.0 will be posted closer to season start.
Whether you're a competitive RPG player that want's to chase that #1 rank, or a laid-back idle player that wants to grow in power with new builds and items, you'll be pleased to find enough to scratch that itch in Nordicandia.
Be sure to stop by the Discord and chat with the community and the game developer.
Patch 1.1.11
Major
- Added descriptions when you hover/click on a buff or debuff
- Additional performance/fps optimizations
Minor
- Increased radius in which world loot items can stack on eachother
- Fixed Frozen Arrow nova that didn't spawn correctly
- Fixed so monsters don't stack on top of eachother as much
- Fixed Arrowstream unique bow that was reducing FPS while active
- Fixed Mage Thunderstrike Shock mastery, which now correctly increases shock effect when you have points in the Idle mastery
- Fixed floating damage text from minions that wasn't affected by the visibility settings
Patch 1.1.10
Major
- Physical projectiles (such as those from caster monsters) can now be evaded and dodged
- Fixed an issue where you could upgrade a premium blacksmith page even if it wasn't empty
Minor
- Increased mixology general mastery buff duration
- Added an option in settings to toggle the blacksmith warning when leaving an item in the target slot
- Increased precision on some of the duration texts
- Fixed the chat mention highlighting
- Fixed so that S-item loot messages from other game modes no longer shows
Patch 1.1.9
Major
- Increased idle mastery buff durations to be dependent on your racial Stamina.
This means that all races gets increased idle buff durations, ranging from minimum 36 minutes in total on Undead (lowest stamina), up to 1 hour on Satyr (highest stamina).
- Merged the season and non-season chat rooms, so everyone can speak to each other.
Game mode event messages (such as hardcore deaths) will include which game mode it's coming from
S-rarity loot messages will only be posted to players in the same game mode type (normal/season)
- Added new premium stash page for Blacksmith Materials, which can hold an unlimited amount of Iron, Anvils and other Blacksmith Materials.
Minor
- Added 16 new Orc avatars
- Slightly reduced the life and damage of unique monsters, and also reduced the damage output of some monsters buffs. This should make idling a bit more predictable.
- Hardcore death announcements are now based on the top 50 leaderboard positions for each class
- Effects from Staff of Absolute Zero and The Purifier can now crit (when the debuff is applied on the enemy)
- Added a visual effect when wielding the Purifier
- Added clarification regarding top and bottom season progress rewards
- Added a button to move all source items from the Disassembler to inventory
- Added option to hide loot notifications in chat
- Added an option to mention a player in the chat menu (or by writing his/her character name, like "@Ubik hello"), this makes the text stand out more for the mentioned player
- Added a warning if you've left an item in the target slot at the blacksmith
- Being incognito will take you to a another instance in the Town (with no other players)
- Disassemble source items now also show the green upgrade icon on equipment you're about to Disassemble
- The Essence slot at the blacksmith is now hidden by default, and will show up after selecting an essence through the menu. This makes it more clear to use the Select Essence button until there's a proper tutorial on crafting in place.
- Fixed a skill inspection bug when the player had the retaliation skill activated
- Fixed so that tomes and other equippables are not placable at the Merchant NPC
- Fixed forked projectiles to use the correct projectile speed including less/more multipliers
Patch 1.1.8
Minor
- Summoned minions such as Hunter's Wolf now correctly move out of the way at the end of a stage.
- Opening a loot chest now has a chance to spawn a Mimic (an evil chest that will attack you and contains additional loot - does not occur in Niflheim)
- Increased the loot in random chests found in stages (and niflheim)
- Updated portal item graphics to make rarity easier to see
- Fixed Huginn unique crossbow that didn't remove debuffs correctly
- Fixed so that melee 1-handed melee weapons are required for warrior attack skills
- Fixed delays that occurred before other players appeared in Town.
- Fixed an issue where melee characters stopped attacking even though they seemed to be within range
- Fixed idle mastery auto-cast so they always use the range from the main hand weapon, and increased the range by 10% (making it more likely for a weapon to proc an effect after a nearby monster was slain)
Patch 1.1.7
Minor
- Clicking to cast a targeted movement skill now continues movement in that direction until you release the button (no longer need to re-click to move after casting teleport, pounce and backflip)
- Increased pet loot speed, the pet can now vacuum up to 60 items per second (there's still a 1 second delay before looting an item, so you can see the drops and show potential drop effects)
- Fixed idle mastery for chain lightning and infernal blast, and some other skills, that didn't properly attempt an auto-cast on cooldown
- Fixed multiplicative affixes that didn't stack properly on items (such as multiple shorter skill cooldowns on a single item)
- Fixed item spawns so that they stack on nearby items if possible (this should reduce clutter and make drops appear faster)
- Fixed some localizations (texts)
- Updated elemental seal design