INTRODUCTION

FARMING

ADDITIONS

• New Railing Block
  We have added a cool, decorative wooden railing to the crafting and building menu. It doesn't hold purpose for defense or anything other than looks. Using this railing block you can now create a pretty interesting porch for your cabin. Later on, this railing will serve as a minor defense against enemies.
  
  
• Advancement On Butchering
  Butchering was very basic prior. You would just click the dead deer body from anywhere on the map. It's changed now, it may not be as advanced as it should be but we will continue to improve on it. To skin a deer you have to go up to its body and wield your hatchet. You then can stab the deer once, blood will appear on your screen and you will gain the meat.
  
  
• Item Slot Indicator
  In-game there wasn't an indication to let players know which weapon they were holding if they were not directly looking at their player's hand. When you switch weapons now, you will see a little icon in the top left of your screen showing you what you are holding. This should help fix some old confusion around equipping items.
  

SMALL FIXES OR ADDITIONS

• Fixed most trees and tree colliders. Some are still buggy and will need to be fixed.
  
  
• Fixed a small crafting menu bug; items were not showing up first time clicked.
  
  
• Changed Iron Ore Model.
  
  
• Players now start with food and a hatchet.
  
  
• Tweaked survival setting again.
  
  
• Fixed animal colliders. Players were able to ride deer which didn't seem quite right.
  

OUTRO

INTRODUCTION

ADDITIONS

• We have added a workbench to Northern Regime. This item will now show up in your crafting menu and building menu. You can only place it outside on the terrain. We'll have different workbenches that will be placed inside your structure. Some items will require you to be near a crafting bench. Here is a small list; Bullets, pistol, rifle, wall, roof, platform, stairs, pliers, weapon repairs for all items including pickaxe, pistol, rifle, and hatchet. So, basically, every large item requires a crafting bench now.
  
  
• Weapon health and repairs. Previously the only items that needed repairs were your pistol and rifle. We have added repairs to your pickaxe and hatchet now. All repairs take pretty much the same amount of resources. The damage rate on your pickaxe and hatchet is not bad. Each strike with a pickaxe deletes -2 health and a hatchet is -3. Your weapons do not deplete in health while attacking deer or soldiers.
  
  
• Stones We added stones to the crafting and inventory system yesterday but now they are an item you can find. Before in-game there were the stones/rocks on the ground you could not pick up and that confused players, luckily now, you can pick them up. Each stone give +1 stone to your inventory.
  
  
• Hunger Increasing Health If your hunger is now over 70 percent it will slowly increase your character's health over time. It is not the quickest thing as a bandage would still be a more realistic approach, but if you aren't in combat and just wondering I guess there wouldn't be a reason to waste a bandage.
  
  
• Mouse Sensitivity Slider We have added a slider to adjust your sensitivity in-game. It is located in your setting page. Please note that you most likely need to go change it right away! If you hop in now it will most likely be set to 0 because the number doesn't exist in your save. So just go edit it and save your game and you won't any longer have that problem. The smallest sensitivity is 0 and the highest is 150. If 150 is still too small for you, we can raise the cap.
  
  
• In-Game Guide Book We have added a guide book for in-game use that uses illustrations to explain how to do specific things. I'd recommend you check it out I think it's pretty cool. Right now there are only four different pages explaining the basics, but we are going to be expanding on it every single day until we have covered everything. I hope even right now it will clear up a lot of the confusion.
  
  
• Trading Is In We have added trading. You just need to walk up to a camp and press tab near a soldier. A little trading menu will come up on your right. Right now you can only buy things from soldiers they won't sell you anything. This is the way it will be until we add friendly camps, with union soldiers. You can expect this with-in the next week or so.
  

SMALL TWEAKS

• Changes some of the levels for being able to craft a pistol and a rifle.
  
• Hunger and Temp do not go down as fast anymore
  
• Some food now increases hunger bar more.
  
• Optimization Boost When we added the new pickup system there was a lot of lag that came with it. We realized our code was actually pretty sloppy and misdirected. We have since cleaned it up and increased the average framerate by 15-20.
  
  
  

OUTRO + QUICK QUESTION

INTRODUCTION

CHANGES

• Resource Gathering
  
  We have changed the gathering of ores and other items. Some items still use the old system and will remain that way. Previously we used a timer system, you would click the ore, the timer would start, then at the end of the timer the object would disappear and you would receive the items. The changed version: Now you need to wield your pickaxe or hatchet depending on the mineral you are wanting to mine. You need to be with-in a short distance of the object, you then look at that object, click it and an animation will play of your character smashing the object. All items take the same amount of hits right now; 4. We're going to be changing that shortly.
  
  
• Destroying Doors
  
  If you haven't heard, we changed some camps to cabins. Before you had to shoot down the door in order to get through. This has been changed. Although it's been changed you can still shoot the door down. Now you can smash the door down with a hatchet or pickaxe.
  

ADDITIONS

• Melee Weapons
  
  We have finally added melee weapons to Northern Regime.
  
  Please notice I've only spent 8 hours on this system as I just began this morning, just saying this as it may be a little buggy for the start. Expect hot patches throughout today and tomorrow for this addition.
  
  You can now use a hatchet or pickaxe to kill soldiers and deer. We have yet to set it for bears, it's not urgent because we're not sure if it would even be possible to kill a bear that close. Enemies take about two hits. The reason we made it so low is because of that fact you have to get so close to the enemy just to be able to kill them. Deer currently take 5 hits.
  
  
• Sneaking
  
  Because we now have melee weapons the sneaking in Northern Regime will begin to expand. Enemies have only ever attacked if you were in their vision of sight which is about 90-120 degrees or so. Sneaking wasn't practical because they do attack if you fire off a shot. Now you should be able to get up behind someone and kill them without others knowing. Camps are quite small right now and the enemies are near each other, sneaking still isn't the most practical option because of that. We will begin to create larger camps that are more spread out. In addition, enemies will start patrolling. < This is not in currently but expect it sometime soon. We still need to add crouching to make these scenarios more realistic.
  

NEXT HOT PATCHES

• In-game Instructions Book
  We realize, from you guys ( Thanks again for all of the constructive critisim) That having the instructions on a web page is not the most optimal system. We also have noticed and heard from you all, that the instructions are outdated and not in-depth enough.
  
  We will be changing to an in-game booklet that will have many pages on every single item or system in the game. To better explain each system we will be using text and images/illustrations to define how they work. This is what I will be working on now and for the next 10 or so hours. I'm hoping this system will stop any confusion you have been experiencing.
  
  
• Sticks & Stones Confusion
  Because some sticks in-game are there just for decoration and others to be interacted with, we realize how users are finding this confusing for their first time. We are going to work on a different terrain detail that will stop this confusion from happening again.
  
  
• Minor Additions
  
  We may also be adding a map. It will take a while to brainstorm how it should work and then if we come up with a solid system we will begin adding it.
  
  We are also going to tweak hunger. When you hunger bar is high it will slowly increase health over time.
  
  
  Hunger & Temp have been changed to decrease a little slower than before
  
  A known bug that will need to be fixed is our experience and levels. For some reason they are not updating(experience) until you level up. It will be fixed in the next hot patch!
  
  

OUTRO

Introduction

Hot Fix 2

• Added crafting indications to display how many items you have compared to the number of items you need to craft that particular item.
  
  
• Added craft indicator message. Someone had said that they had no idea if an item was crafting or not. This is a small tweak but should make a huge difference
  
  
• Someone had said the voice clips for being hungry and cold were much too frequent and too annoying. We've increased the timing substantially. We agree, you really only need to hear or have an indication if you are cold or hungry
  every 5-10 minutes or so.
  
  
• We changed the model for the chests you can loot. They have now been changed to wooden crates. It looks and feels
  a little more realistic now.
  
  
• Added auto save message. We did not have a message to display when your game auto saved. Auto save before, also, did not actually save building only the items in your inventory and on your character.
  
  
• Added some minor terrain and world details. We are going to continue to do so as some players stated there aren't enough details. If you guys have any suggestions please feel free to comment what you'd like to see in Northern Regime's world.
  

Next Hot Fix

Bugs & Problems

• Floating Enemies. We noticed some enemies were missing their correct box colliders and went ahead and changed them to fit properly. You should no longer encounter floating enemies or animals.
  
• UI aspect ratio issues. Some people were having a hard time seeing their entire interface depending on their monitor size or aspect ratio. We found a compromise by changing the location of the crafting box, as well, as the inventory page buttons. Now all aspect ratios should be supported. If we would have known before that not all were, we would have made sure that was a known problem, we are sorry for that.
  
• A lot of items and their uses were unclear. In the crafting menu, we have added a description to each and every item. You can now spend some time researching the crafting list to figure out what everything does.This should clear up any confusion.
  
• Save Confirmation We realized there wasn't a confirmation when saving. This left users confused not knowing if their game had saved or not.
  
• We fixed a bunch of other small bugs and glitches some people were experiencing. We are going to continue to do so.
  

Northern Regime's Launch Information.

• Northern Regime is launching in just under 1 day, now. (Friday 17th)
  
• Our launch price will be 10.99 USD | 10.99 Euro | 11.99 CAD | 7.99 GBP | 259 Russian Rubles with a discount percentage of 10%.
  
• Launch hour: 1:00 pm Pacific Time - 4:00 pm Eastern Standard - 2200 central European time
  

• Updates will come out every third Friday starting on launch day which will be a Friday.
  
• The first update will come out the second Friday after launch, being 2 weeks rather than three.
  
• Patches and bug repairs will come out every second day depending on how severe they are. (We are not sure if updates will remove building we will update you on that soon)
  
• All in-game items will be saved when you update Northern Regime so you don't have to worry about starting over again.
  
• This will be the last update before Northern Regime's early access launch: Northern Regime Pre-Alpha 3.0
  
• Update intervals will work like this; A large update will be a whole 0.1.0, and small updates or large patches will be 0.0.5.
  

Northern Regime: 2.9.0.

• Modular Building & Saving. Modular building right now only includes a bed, walls, foundations, and stairs. We are going to expand adding many more items, firstly roofs, doors, and windowed walls.
  
• Hostile Bears We've added bears that will attack if in a certain radius. They also have health bars that appear above their heads. Bears will also make a noise if in a certain radius.
  
• Gun Reticle We have added a new dynamic weapon reticle. This reticle will sway as you move your mouse. This makes it more realistic as if you would need time to adjust to your target. The reticle will now also flash red if you hit an enemy. Before there was not such indication of hitting a target.
  
• Dawn - Dusk Cycle This was more a personal decision than anything else. I do not like playing video games in the dark. So our new cycle will go from morning then a somewhat dark pre-night(Dusk) then it will cycle backward to the morning. We will see the response, and if needed, switch to a full day and night cycle.
  
• Weapon Switching Small but a great change. To switch between your items you will now use the scroll wheel rather than your number keys. We did this because it feels much better, but it will also help free up the key inputs for building parts.
  
• Player Damage We have changed from the dynamic damage system, we didn't feel it was ready, also thinking it was too complicated and annoying to play a part of the in-game experience. We have switched to a basic bandaging system to heal yourself. You need to craft bandages so it will still be dynamic.
  
• Sounds & Music We have worked on the in-game sound effects, they will still need additional work as we are not totally happy with them just yet. The rifle shot has been enhanced and deepened. Previously the musket shot felt a little weak and unrealistic. The new sound now has some base and depth to it. An action instrumental song has been added thanks to our composer, Seth. This track will play while engaging in gun fights or being attacked. Increases immersion.
  
• Indicators Some really cool indicators will now pop up to help you while playing Northern Regime. I play NR quite a bit so I know how everything works, but I realized a lot of people won't understand. I've taken some steps to helping those players out. If your gun is broken and needs repairs a pop-up will tell you that. The same goes for when you run out of ammo or dismantle an object. We will continue to add more!
  
• Dismantling Constructed Items Building may be buggy in the start. There is still lots of work to be done, that being said we want the player to be able to dismantle and object like a wall and actually get that piece back in their inventory. We think this will be fair in the start.
  
• Enemy Camp Changes We have taken a few steps to increase the liveliness of enemy camps. Ai has not been our main focus recently. Later we will have camp members wandering, gathering, and constructing. For now, we have just given enemies more animations. Before they just stood there and watched you. Now, enemies may be sitting, leaning, or sleeping.
  

See You All On Day One!

Player Skills Tree

• Bush Craft: Increases wood yield by over 50 percent.
  
• Miner: Increases Ore yields by 50 percent.
  
• Rifle Expert: Increases bullet damage by 75 percent making all enemies a one shot kill.
  
• Survivor: Hunger and Warmth decrease at a much slower rate. Eating does 2x more.
  
• Veteran: Decreases enemy bullet damage by over 50 percent.
  

Player Anatomy Analysis(Injury System)

Localization

Building

Introduction

New Additions

Food


• New foods that can be found at camps and throughout hidden areas; Chocolate bars, beans, and beef jerky.
  

  Terrain Details

  
  
• Added new trees and bushes.
  
• Added large mountainscapes in the distance.
  
• Added a lot of small terrain details; rocks, sticks, tree branches, leafs.
  All of these detail additions really help make the world feel dense and mysterious. It's a small addition but makes the biggest difference.
  

  Textures & Models

  
  
• Added higher quality textures for the terrain and the character model.
  
• Added a much more realistic snowfall that actually appears on the grand near you for a particular duration.
  
• Added a super high-quality backpack model for the character. We decided to spend the money on contracting a very expensive artist for this, because the back of the character is something you will be seeing a lot of. It's important to have something visually stunning to look at.
  

  Sound & Audio

  
  
• We have been working on our custom sound effects. We have commissioned a small studio to create these. It's been going well, we are happy to have our own unique sounds.
  
• Our sound composer has been working super hard producing plenty of music for our soundtrack. We currently only have 3 songs in the soundtrack but we hope for around 12 or so by lunch. The music is really great and works well to set the in-game atmosphere.
  

  Crafting & Inventory

  
  
• We have spent an immense time on the crafting and inventory ui/mechanics. We have re-worked the ui for the inventory and the crafting menu. The crafting menu now has better icon images down by a professional. The inventory now has photo-realistic icons that make gathering items feel more satisfying. We haven't just been working on the visuals, we have also been working quite hard on adding awesome new items and crafting recipes. The most notable item we added was a rabbit snare. You'll be able to place as many as you want and they'll naturally trap animals you'll be able to cook then eat.
  

  Site & Steam

  
  
• If you haven't noticed, we launched a new trailer on our Steam page, also adding new screenshots. We'll most likely continue adding new images and videos as we get closer to launch because the game is changing so much in visual and just getting better generally. Our website has also been re-worked completely. We suggest you check it out pretty soon here we'll have a tutorial page for new players.
  

  Inventory & Weapons

  
  
• We want Northern Regime to be a pretty tough game. We have decided to add item health to tools, weapons, and traps. Previously you could use your gun or pickaxe for as long as you wanted to. Now they actually have health and durability. When a weapon loses all health it automatically is destroyed. In the future, we would like to make the particular tool you are using become less useful as loses durability. We also need to add toolkits. We have added a pickaxe and a hatchet; the pickaxe helps you mine faster, and the hatchet increases your yield.
  

  Combat

  
  
• Comabt is definitely getting better and more fun. We have added a weapon level system into Northern Regime. When you start out it is going to take you a while to kill an enemy(3-4 shots total) This is going to force the player to level up before taking on larger camps. There are 3 levels max, the 3rd level being a one shot kill. To level up you will need to craft rifle upgrades.
  

  Visuals

  
  
• Visuals are important to us(obviously not more important than gameplay). So we have been working a lot on different effects for the camera. The most recent is a radial blur. It's again a pretty small addition but it really does affect immersion. When scoped out it's pretty minor just around the edges, but when you zoom in it spreads quite far into the center making it feel like your character is actually focusing in on what you are aiming at. It makes combat really awesome and interesting.
  

Launch Plan