And that's not it! We have many new things coming in this update, we'll keep giving you new information
In the meantime, we'll be having another AMA on the 27th of June at 15:30 GMT (17:30 Paris time)!
It will be hosted on the Northgard TV.
If you want to ask a specific question, please post it on the form we prepared for the occasion!
We hope to see many of you! :-)
Small balance & Bug Fix patch - 1.2.9
Hello Northgardians!
First, we want to thank you for supporting our game and giving that much feedback! The multiplayer aspect of the Northgard Trials made your participation on Steam, Discord and Reddit more valuable than ever!
We just pushed an update for Northgard. Here's what's new:
Exotic Goods now only grants +1 per harbor (+2 if upgraded)
When launching mercenaries attacks, the amount of looted has been decreased from 80 to 50
The colonization speed the Wolf's tech "Conqueror" has been fixed
We added navigation arrows in the Player Profile tab
We fixed some issue with the friend's invitation feature (this was causing a lot of display issues in the lobby, with empty games, or duplicated games)
We fixed a lot of the text & translation issues (both for MP and Story modes)
We added 2 new dedicated servers to cope with the new influx of player!
EDIT 28/05/2018 - Patch 1.2.9225
We just pushed a small update that should fix a few things:
The Improved Trade Routes tech for the Clan of the Raven has been fixed
An issue in the lobby caused some players to get the 15min ban for no reason, this has been fixed
In rare cases, victorious players were considered as leavers, this has also been fixed
We added another 3 additionnal servers
Once again, thank you so much for your support! We're so glad to see that you enjoy the Trials!
We keep on improving the game and futher bug fixing updates will soon come
[Patchnote] Northgard Trials
Welcome to the Northgard Trials!
In this first update since the official release of the game, after overcoming the challenges and dangers of the colonization of Northgard with Rig, Halvard and the others, you’ll have to prove your worthiness and climb the ranks towards every Viking’s ultimate goal: the Rimesteel League!
This update brings into the game a completely new ranking system:
In Northgard’s new Multiplayer menu, you now have the possibility to choose to create a “ranked” type of game (for the moment, only on dedicated Servers).
Ranked games always have every Victory Conditions enabled.
When winning a ranked game, you’ll receive Glory Points (). The amount of you’ll get is based on the rank of the other players in the game. The higher rank your enemies are ranked, better will be the rewards.
We added a new Player Ranking page, which allows you to see your current rank and the result history of the last 20 games you’ve played.
You’ll start in the Wood league and earning will allow you to reach new leagues:
Wood League: 0 to 149
Stone League: 150 to 299
Iron League: 300 to 449
Gold League: 450 to 599
Rimesteel League: 600 and more
Every league will unlock a new aspect for your Townhalls (for both Single and Multiplayer games).
In a Ranked game, a disconnected player will be considered as a leaver if he’s not reconnected before 5 minutes. As a leaver, he will lose the ongoing game (with a penalty) and will not have the possibility to join any Multiplayer game (ranked or not) before 15 minutes.
A lot of you asked for it, so we made it!
Huge maps are now available for Single and Multiplayer games. With larger maps come new game modes:
FFA - 8 Players
4v4
2v2v2v2
Disclaimer: The generation for these maps may take a few moments at the beginning of games. Low configuration computers may have some trouble running this type of games (especially in end game).
As you know, we value a LOT the randomness of the map generation in Northgard. However, it seemed a bit unfair to allow the win and the loss of ranked games to depend in a large part on such a huge random factor.
In this update, you’ll have the possibility to choose to have balanced map generation!
Here are a few rules about this map generation:
<*>For the moment, balanced generation is only available for the following game modes:
Duel
2v2
3v3
4v4
2v2v2
<*>Balanced generation is built by team (not by player).
<*>Special Tiles and Neutral Factions are the only tiles that aren’t exactly the same in the two sides of the maps (if a team gets Thor’s Wrath, the other may have a Geyser).
<*>Some specific clans will get specific positioning in the map:
The clan of the Raven will have the most access to shores
The clan of the Bear will have the most access to fish tiles
We changed a few other things in the game. Next patch will add some major changes in the balance of the game. We felt that with the arrival of the Northgard Trials, we should let you apply the strategies you have been practicing in the last few weeks.
Here are the minor changes:
Warriors now have a damage bonus against Shield Bearers.
We changed the Gold income coming from trading with the Giants
Trade victory has been slightly modified:
You can now build a Lighthouse event if the Trade Victory isn’t enabled
Greater Trade Routes now grant +1, +3 and +6 happiness depending on the level of the route.
As a conclusion, I strongly advise the everyone willing to find other people to play with (or against) to join us on the official Northgard Discord Server!
Here is the link: http://discord.gg/Northgard
We’ve been working hard these past few weeks to fix the majority of the bugs you reported! Here is the complete Patch note for this update :-)
The ESC key now closes the chat window in priority
Trade Route will be stopped before reaching 0 Krowns (to prevent building from burning)
We added an effect on ongoing scenarios to help clarity of the campaign map. This should help new players understand their current objective!
We balanced a little some of the campaign scenarios:
Chapter V: there is now a clear sign showing when reinforcement will arrive
Chapter VI: answering one of Svarn’s request now also grants some happiness
Chapter IX: there were some text errors
We added the Turkish language to the game (sorry for the delay)
When entering an area with both an enemy unit and a neutral unit, the player can now kill the neutral unit before killing the enemy unit. This was abusively used by some players.
Once you finished a chapter at least once, you will have the possibility to choose to watch the first ingame cinematic
After last patch, the Clan of the Raven became a little unbalanced, thanks to its ability to colonize territories with krowns. We changed a few things about it:
We increased the Krown cost of colonisation by 10%
The Raven’s Fame 200 now also grant 1 happiness
In the Multiplayer game creation menu, we fixed a visual bug that caused the “AI number” line to switch place with the “map Size”
It is not possible anymore to upgrade the Gates of Helheim
When befriended, the Jotnar (on the Jotunn tile) won’t count as clan’s population
Scouts health bar sometimes disappears when scouting, this has been fixed
There is now a progress bar for the menders’ healing
We fixed a bug allowing trade routes to keep going even after reaching 0 food stock
When slaughtered by the Wolf Clan, sheeps will not provide gold anymore with Pillage
The Draugar Invasion alert sound has been added
Mercenaries in your territory will not count in wood consumption during winter anymore.
The “Hanging Out With Friends” achievement is now functional (so sorry for the trouble)
We fixed a wording issue with Fur Coats: it affect both civilians and military units
We fixed a Camera behavior bug when switching between military group of units
We addressed some UI issues
We fixed NULL ACCESS errors
Thank you all for your support and reporting the bugs your witnessed!
The next months will be dedicated to develop a new Multiplayer Ranking System with balanced map generation! A new clan will shortly follow this update ;-)
Happy Easter and enjoy your sheeps ;)
[Bug Fix] Patchnote 1.0.8796
Hello Northgardians!
Bug Fix
We fixed a few things that caused problems in the v1.0.8772
Crashes were fixed
Easy mode for Chapters 3 & 11 have been modified
French, German, Polish & Portugese translations have been fixed, Spanish & Turkish translation are still to be implemented
Games in campaign mode were counting as played game in the "Profile", they aren't anymore
Arrows, axes and spears were shot to the sky, it has been fixed
We changed a few wording and camera problems in some of the campaign chapters.
We fixed the non-functionning campaign achievements. To activate your achieivements, just play and win any other chapter in the difficulty level you did the rest of the campaign!
Other things to know
During the dialogues in the campaign's chapter, the game is paused, you can take your time to read everything, your units will not keep fighting ;-)
The MacOS version is now live and functionnal! If you encounter any issue on this version, pease report it in the dedicated thread :
http://steamcommunity.com/app/466560/discussions/0/1698293255121551686/
The Linux version of Northgard is yet to be optimized, and should be working soon on the majority of Linux Distributions. If your distribution is not compatible, an error message will warn you and give you the name of the libraries you'll need to download in order to make the game work properly! Here is the dedicated Linux Bugs & Issues thread:
http://steamcommunity.com/app/466560/discussions/0/1698293255121560931/
Once again, thank you so much for helping us patching the game! <3
We're working on the other achievement and campaign problem you met!
NORTHGARD OFFICIAL RELEASE - RIG'S SAGA IS OUT
Hello Northgardians!
We’re so proud to finally officially release Northgard to you!! :)
Before jumping into the patch note, we really wanted to thank all of you for supporting our game during this Early Access year! It’s been quite a ride :)
This major update is without a doubt the one we put the most work in. You’ll of course be able to enjoy the full version of Rig’s Saga. We also worked a lot on a new feature for our combat system, and we added A LOT of cool new things :)
As we reached the 20k users registered to our Rig’s Saga Beta, we knew that we had to deliver a very qualitative and fun to play campaign mode. We work very hard on these 11 chapters. I strongly recommend you to play the first chapter again, as we added new cool things (including Achievements, Easy and Hard mode, dynamic in and out game cinematics).
For each difficulty levels, completing the campaign will unlock specific Steam achievements
Completing every additional objectives for each chapter will also unlock Steam achievements
When having completed every chapter in Hard difficulty and having obtained every additional object, you unlock something quite special for your solo and multiplayer games ;)
We truly hope you’ll have fun playing this campaign =)
Disclamer: We know that some of the campaign dialogue are still to be translated, we're on it, and it should be done next week! ;-)
Mac & linux versions of Northgard
You asked for it, so we did it!
Northgard's Mac & linux versions will be released tomorrow, March, 8th :)
New Features - Solo & Multi player
Supply Penalty:
We know there has been some issue with rush tactics. So we decided to add to the current combat system a “distance to home” dynamic. Military units will have their attack power decreased depending on the distance their are from allied territory:
1 Tile: -0% 2 Tiles: -5% 3 Tiles: -15% 4 Tiles and more: -30% Please note that this rule will not affect mercenaries’ attack power and will not be implemented in the campaign scenarios.
Other changes:
AI behavior has been modified: its aggressiveness will be scaled on how close you are to victory
Silos now can only be built on tiles where a generating buildings are built. They now only improve food production of Fishermen, Hunters and Farmers
Feasts now grant:
20% production bonus for healers with Medecine
20% production bonus for Menders and Sailors
20% production bonus for Skalds and Sailors
Tool upgrades now grant
+15% production for Skalds
+15% production for Menders
+15% / production for Sailors (depending on your choosing)
+15% production for Healers
We changed the way villagers react to an attack in their tile:
Villagers who are building in a tile under attack will now run to defend the tile
Exception: villagers building towers will keep building!
You can now cancel the launch of a Mercenary raid by pressing the ESC button
The units of a defeated player will instantly be killed if they are situated in another player’s tile (ally and enemy)
You can now access the patch notes from the landing screen of the game
You can now travel to a healed unit by double clicking on their portrait
When decolonizing a TownHall tile, every member of your team will now earn some
We added many alert boxes regarding the players’ progression towards victory in multiplayer games:
Reaching 800 and 1000
Colonizing the Relic of Gods
Colonizing Helheim
Reaching 500, 1000, 1500
Colonizing the Magma Lake tile
When forging each of the Odin’s Sword peices
We added 8 new achievements related to Solo/Multiplayer games
We changed the way diseases work (again...)
We added more shortcuts, with the possibility to remap them. Here is the list of the functionalities:
Change minimap type, from ressources to military (T)
Select inactive clan member (U)
Select all villagers (G)
Select all scouts (H)
We added another mapping system for Bear clan. Select the Warband (E) and click (E) again to exclude Kajia
Affect only one unit (Ctrl (Hold))
Cycle through selection (Tab)
New Features - Multiplayer only
You can know choose to play on dedicated servers or to host games - this has been added after many Australian players (among other) encountered lag issues, sorry guys!
We added a profanity filter on Multiplayer games
In the lobby, you cannot choose a team if it is already full
Cosmetic changes:
We added lightning during bad weather
We added trails for combat units movement. This adds a lot of clarity (and coolness) to fights!
We improved the FX of the Draugar Portals and Wyvern attacks
You can now choose between 7 different environment when creating a Solo or Multiplayer game
Clan Balancing
Clan of the Wolf:
Pillage now also works on ally territory
Plunder healing effectiveness has been reduced (from 50% to 35%)
Clan of the Boar
Handiwork effectiveness has been increased from 10% to 15% for non-upgraded buildings
Lay of the Land now reduces the chance of being attacked by neutral units by 90% (previously 30%)
The Mender's Hut cost has been lowered from 60 to 50 and its Krown upgrade cost has been lowered from 50 to 25
Clan of the Stag: Advanced Silo bonus went from +2 and +5 (when upgraded) to +2 and +4
Clan of the Goat: You only get one sheep at the beginning of the game. However, at least one other sheep will ALWAYS be in an adjacent tile
Axe Throwers attack power has been slightly decreased (-5%)
As usual, we fixed many bugs:
Life bars of longships docks and harbors are now correctfully placed
Victory bars are now more logically scaled
We fixed an issue where sailors would spawn in the water once a player has lost its Town Hall
We fixed many visual problems with the Wyvern animations
We fixed a problem in the way the description of certain building was displayed
It was possible to walk through the Altar of Kings, this has been fixed
It it now possible to heal Vedrfolnir when given by an ally
We fixed a visual bug on the farmer’s food gathering animation
We fixed some issues with the tile transfer:
Towers will now have the right color
The notification “building not built” and “building empty” will now disappear
When launching mercenaries on Fields Tiles, you’ll get the right amount of
When targeting a tower, military units will not walk through rocks and lakes anymore
The miner’s upgrade tool now gives 15% more Stones
We fixed A LOT of “No Entrance”, “Null Access” and “EOM” bugs
The roadmap after the release
As we already mentionned, Northgard's development will not stop with this official release! We plan on working on the game much much longer, adding many gameplay features, game modes, and general content.
Between these MASSIVE updates, we'll keep improving the game, in terms of bugs, system compatibility and balancing.
In a few weeks, a balancing patch will be released to adjust the clans' specificities after the modifications of today's launch. Following this, we intend to work on a more complete multiplayer patch.
The next clans' release
With each of the major updates, we plan on releasing new clans to add to the diversity of the game.
Any resemblance to real months is purely coincidental
The last year has been quite a ride for us! Northgard's concept seduced way more people than we anticipated at first, and you, as a group of players passionnate about Strategy games, pushed us to deliver the best game we could. We could not have dreamt of a more helpful and dedicated community and it's clear that Northgard could not have been as complete as it is today without you!
For that, for your invaluable feedback, for you advice and feature requests,we say THANK YOU! The future will show that we will not let you down.
Enjoy Northgard, its campaign, its solo and multiplayer modes.
ShiroGames Team
Campaign Mode Trailer - Rig's Saga & Official Launch
Hello Northgardians!
Here is the official trailer for the campaign mode of Northgard: Rig's Saga! In this campaign, you'll be playing Rig, son of the Viking High King, in his quest for vengeance after the murder of his father. Through the different chapters, you get the help of his bannermen.
To completely finish the 11 chapters of the campaign, you will need to master all the clan's specificities and tame the wilderness of Northgard...
The campaign, and the full release of the game, will be available on March 7th, marking the end of Northgard Early Access period!
In the name and on behalf of all the Shiro Games team, I thank you so much for your support during last year. We hope you'll enjoy the campaign and the game ;-)
Finally, please let me assure you that we're not done working on Northgard! There are already so many clans, multiplayer features and gameplay innovation we want to implement!
Once again, thank you so much for believing in this project :)
Shiro Games
[COMMUNITY ANNOUNCEMENT] ShiroGames AMA Feb 15th - 17:00 TUC
Greetings Northgardians!
We're going to host another Ask Me Anything session Thursday, February the 15th at 17:00 UTC!
per harbor (+2
looted has been decreased from 80 to 50
). The amount of 
generating buildings are built. They now only improve food production of Fishermen, Hunters and Farmers
production bonus for Menders and Sailors
production bonus for Skalds and Sailors
and its Krown upgrade cost has been lowered from 50 
to 25 
Any resemblance to real months is purely coincidental 
