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ORX on DreamHack Beyond 2022 + Experimental Branch Update
Greetings, everyone!

ORX is a part of DreamHack Beyond event on Steam — and we think it's a great time for a sale! We've also updated our Experimental Branch with performance improvements, fixes and QoL changes.

What is DreamHack Beyond?


DreamHack Beyond is a two month long celebration of gaming and the gaming community. Throughout the Season, there’ll be tournaments to compete in, contests to join, streams that show the action, and prizes to win.

During the DreamHack Beyond ORX will receive a 10% Discount starting October 14th and until October 23rd!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1071140/ORX/


Visit Sales Page



Experimental Branch Update



We've also updated our Experimental Branch with performance improvements, fixes and QoL changes!
For the full list of changes read the version patch notes
https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/1071140/view/6366426385490007907

If you’re passionate about ORX and want to play an even bigger part in the future of the game then look no further than Experimental Branch. This version of the game contains everything from bug fixes and improvements to new additions and balance changes — also updating more frequently than the Live branch of the game. For instructions on how to enable Experimental Branch and where to leave feedback check our dedicated post
https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/1071140/view/3270200273196147868

That's it for Today! See you in the next Steam update!
Don't forget to follow us on Social Media for the newest updates and silly memes! We also invite everyone to join our cozy Discord, where we hold weekly community events and streams. We also have a very special Card Collecting Game on our server, featuring amazing art from the main artist behind ORX — we're already working on adding dueling to this game, so it's a good idea to start collecting cards now!


ORX Lore — The Beginning
Greetings, Kings and Queens!

A lot of games have deep lore behind them — and ORX is no exception! The lore of ORX is surprisingly intricate and vast, but as with all things it has its beginnings.

Today we're starting a series of Lore Diaries about the world of ORX! In the first episode you will learn about the mysterious Grey Traveler, a seemingly all-powerful book and it's dark secret and 9 wars that have split the Humanity apart.



If you’re passionate about ORX and want to play an even bigger part in the future of the game then look no further than Experimental Branch. This version of the game contains everything from bug fixes and improvements to new additions and balance changes — also updating more frequently than the Live branch of the game. For instructions on how to enable Experimental Branch and where to leave feedback check our dedicated post!
https://steamcommunity.com/games/1071140/announcements/detail/3270200273196147869

And that's it for Today! Stay tuned for more news and updates to come, and, of course, the next episode of Lore Diaries.

Don't forget to follow us on Social Media for the newest updates and silly memes! We also invite everyone to join our cozy Discord, where we hold weekly community events and streams. We also have a very special Card Collecting Game on our server, featuring amazing art from the main artist behind ORX — we're already working on adding dueling to this game, so it's a good idea to start collecting cards now!


ORX — Introducing Experimental Branch
Greetings, everyone!

We were tirelessly working on fixes and new additions to ORX — and now it’s time for another patch! However, from now on we’d like to test everything out before deploying a live version of the game. Which means… that’s right — Beta Testing is back!

Introducing Experimental Branch! This branch will receive more frequent, but also more experimental updates. They might contain everything from bug fixes to new content — and we want your feedback on everything!

Unlike our previous beta initiative, this Experimental branch is open for everyone. If you’re passionate about ORX and want to play an even bigger part in the future of the game — this is a place for you! All you have to do is follow the instructions below!

How to Join



  1. Open ORX Steam Preferences by right clicking the game in your Library and selecting `Properties…`
  2. Click the Betas section
  3. Select the Experimental Branch from the drop list and wait for ORX to update
  4. Play the beta and don’t forget to leave your feedback!


Want to switch back to Live version of ORX? No problem!

  1. Open ORX Steam Preferences by right clicking the game in your Library and selecting `Properties…`
  2. Click the Betas section
  3. Click the drop down menu and select ‘None’ option.
  4. Wait for the game to update and you’re good to go!


DISCLAIMER: Changing to Experimental branch may corrupt your save data. Right now we don’t have an option for you to backup your saves, so be aware that you might lose all your progress.



What’s new in the Experimental Branch?



New Cards
We’ve added a number of faction and neutral cards focused around indirect buffs and making more playstyles viable. For example, with cards like Voidwalker Guild and Memory of The Fallen you can now play Rune Guardians in a completely new way focused around units!



Tier 3 Card Upgrades For Dune Reavers
Previously we’ve added more upgrade tiers for the Rune Guardians faction. This time we’re adding an extra tier to Dune Reaver cards! This change will also affect the costs and power of numerous cards.



We really want to get as much feedback on the Experimental Branch as possible from you, so all ideas, suggestions and general thoughts are very much appreciated! You can share them at:



Experimental Branch will receive lots of updates in the future, and depending on situation they might be quite frequent. If you decide to switch over to Live version of the game just follow the steps described in this guide. And of course we will let you know if a big update will be added to Experimental Branch — so keep an eye out for news! Until next time!

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Title: ORX — Interface Improvement Patch and New Localizations
Greetings, fellow orx slayers!

Today’s update features a new approach to tile placement visuals, as well as Korean and Traditional Chinese localizations.

Previously the user experience for placing tiles wasn’t perfect — sometimes it was hard to tell which way the piece is facing and how it can be connected to other tiles. So we’ve decided to take a new approach and remake this whole system!

We’ve completely reimagined the approach to player’s interaction with tiles and added a new hint system to help make things even more clear. Now whenever you hover over a card or try to place it, every tile will show its faces in corresponding colors, as well as all available connections.



Now once you begin placing a tile it’s more apparent that you’ve entered “Placing mode”. We hope that this will add much needed clarity into the game!

You can also enable tile borders hint for cards — so they always appear on top of any tile card in your hand. To enable the hint system simply navigate to Settings category in the Mani Menu and click “Show Card Tile Borders Hint”



Of course, we are always looking for ways to enhance your experience further, so please don’t hesitate to send us feedback using one of the options you can find below.

Speaking of making the game available to more people — we’ve also added long awaited Korean and Traditional Chinese localizations! If ORX doesn’t automatically pick up your preferred language after the update — select the language from the list in the Settings tab in the menu!

Aside from making improvements to user experience we’ve also fixed multiple bugs and made some changes. They include things like much awaited Ultra-wide monitor support, smooth camera movement and improvements for moving units in the command issuing mode.

Here’s the full list of fixes and changes:

General

  • Ultra-wide monitor support
  • Added smooth camera movement and zoom
  • Pressing Alt now shows HP bars of every object and orx
  • Default pause (not full pause) now has a separate icon
  • New option: shows a hint that helps you understand the border connections of a tile card
  • More hints on the game map when placing tiles
  • Improved army control for Dune Reavers — now when moving your army you can't select anything until you issue the command


Fixes and improvements

  • Depository now correctly gives gold upon dawn
  • Arc of Scribblers now rises the card’s price instead of not doing anything
  • Lord’s Favor now correctly displays a percentage increase instead of fraction
  • Removed HP bars for roads
  • HP bars of orx inside the fog of war are no longer visible
  • Changed the mission preview screen to accommodate more orx
  • You are now able to place the roads under Dune Reaver units
  • Fixed Bazaar card description
  • Fixed Interest Rate card description
  • Fixed the freeze after defeating the Final Boss
  • Fixed visuals for sunny weather
  • Fixed visuals of Spinx tile


As always, if you encounter any issues — reffer to any platform of your choise below and let us know about your problem!




That’s it for todays update! Thank you for your support thus far and all the amazing feedback you provided! Stay tuned for future news and updates — we’re not stopping yet!

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ORX on TactiCon 2022
Greetings, everyone!

It's time to get tactical! We're happy to announce that ORX is a part of TactiCon event on Steam! And just for a limited time during the event we're bringing back ORX Demo — straight out of our magic vault!

Untouched by the time, ORX Demo still presents a great opportunity to try out ORX if you're new and take a look at how the game looked previously if you already own the game.

What is TactiCon? TactiCon is a digital convention hosted on Steam celebrating strategy video games — highlighting the brilliant and creative minds who develop strategy games and gathering the players who love them.

Catch us on September 22-26 on the event page and try out the Demo!

Enter TactiCon





Also don't forget about our Steam Guide contest — only 5 days left before the submissions close!
For details read our official announcement for the contest
https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/1071140/view/3307353067772223000

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ORX — Steam Guide Contest
Hello, orx slayers!

Have an awesome strategy? Know secret intel about ORX? Have the perfect deck for beating every act? Share your knowledge with the players and win a month of Discord Nitro — it’s time for the Best ORX Guide on Steam!

How To Enter


1. Write a Guide on Steam in one of the 5 categories:

  • Basic guide
  • Advanced tips guide
  • Sephiroth guide
  • Rune Guardians guide
  • Dune Reavers guide

Entries close on September 27th — be sure to submit your guide until then!

2. Join our lovely Discord and share your guide in #🆘┤help channel with #BestORXGuide in the message and add 💚 reaction for voting. Don’t forget to mention the category you’re applying for!

3. Vote for other guides you find interesting and helpful — both on Steam and Discord!

We’ll pick 5 winners — one for each category, — and announce them on September 28th!
Let the wisest and the most knowledgeable win!

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ORX — Fatigue System and Future Plans Update
Hello, Kings and Sultans!

Today we’ll explain the Fatigue system and once again talk about our future plans and community events.

Contents



  1. Fatigue system explanation
  2. Future plans update
  3. Build-a-Castle Phase Two
  4. Friday Community Stream

Fatigue System


We’ve introduced the Fatigue System a couple days ago in the patch 0.9.2.1 — so what is it and why was it added? We found that players would create very small decks, built around looping the same cards over and over — without experiencing any consequences. While we’re not against the idea of playing ORX with a small deck — we don’t want it to become a go-to strategy. Hence why we came up with the idea of Fatigue — a system that would disincentivize using small decks over bigger ones.



So how exactly does it work? Every time you play all the cards from your deck, you increase the fatigue. Each stack of fatigue subtracts 1 second from the wave timer — up to a maximum of -5 seconds, — meaning when you reach 5 stacks of fatigue each subsequent one will subtract 5 seconds from the timer.



We’re constantly monitoring player feedback and already made some changes to the fatigue system — so let us know what you think of this system and how it plays!

Future Plans


Recently we’ve introduced our first feature update into the game — The Righteous Crusade. It consists of various balance changes, new mechanics and, of course, new cards. The changes are focused around Rune Guardians, making the faction more flexible in terms of playstyle and enhancing the late game options for it.



If you were wondering if we got something in mind for Dune Reavers — we absolutely do! The marauders of the sands are next on the list and will receive a similar-sized update, aimed at making them even more fun and engaging to play. Expect changes to the warriors, Barracks and new faction cards! We’ll also take a look at command issuing interface for warriors and make it more comfortable to use — all according to your feedback.

The update also introduced Low graphics settings and a new system for texturing. As we stated in the update — these are only the first steps from our long list of performance optimization improvements. We have also recruited the help of the Unity team, so we’re confident that we can make ORX run smoothly, even with huge ORX hordes and giant castles.

Apart from these changes, we’re continuing our work on:

  • Adding new Localizations
  • Eliminating various bugs
  • Implementing Ultra Widescreen support
  • Adding 4K resolutions

If you encountered an issue or have a suggestion — share them on the platform most comfortable for you. We’ll be sure to read and answer your feedback on all of them!





Build-a-Castle Contest


Our castle-building, power-flexing, architecture-appreciating contest is moving to phase two! The entries are now closed, and we’ve selected the most popular submissions which will enter the next round. We invite everyone to vote for their favorite submissions on our Discord and help us pick the three most impressive builds, voting ends on September 16th! The winners will be announced during our Friday Community Stream and published in the announcements channel on our Discord, and here on Steam.

Friday Community Stream




We’re continuing our silly-goofy streams with ScaryRussianWizard! If you liked watching her here on Steam — be sure to join us this Friday, at 2pm GMT and watch fellow ORX enjoyers put her to the ultimate test — community challenges! That’s right, this time we’re asking our community to come up with challenges which we’ll have to beat on the Community Stream — become a part of our Discord family and share your own suggestions on our server!

That's it for Today! Stay tuned for more news, patches and updates coming up! In the meantime keep sharing your feedback and ideas — we’re always looking forward to those! You can do it here, in Steam Discussions or join our lovely Discord community.

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v0.9.2.2
—max fatigue decreased (from 10s to 5s)
—time before wave at later stages of the game increased

we will be looking at this further to see how it performs, so it is subject to change

v0.9.2.1
—fatigue system introduced (reduces time before ORX wave arrives when the player reshuffles his deck)
—ORX wave spawn times increased to counter balance fagitue
—defense penetration now works as a % (not as flat)
—same artifact drop in rewards removed
—several ORX spawn point bugs fixed
—rotate/confirm interaction reverted to 9.1 behavior

ORX — The Righteous Crusade
Hello, fellow orx slayers!

It's time for the first Content Update since the Early Access launch — featuring more cards and mechanics, as well as fixes to some of the most commonly seen issues players had reported! We're hoping that this patch will improve your experience with ORX — and, rest assured, this is the first of many more updates to come, in the upcoming weeks and months.

Patch contents:



  • New cards for Rune Guardians
  • New neutral cards
  • Balance changes for orx
  • New stats: defence and defence penetration
  • Extra upgrade tiers for Rune Guardian’s cards
  • Low Graphics Settings option
  • Textures and memory usage improvements
  • IMPORTANT - Fixes for the black screen issue
  • IMPORTANT - Fixed unlocking Dune Reavers
  • Other various bug fixes, additions and changes



New Content and Balance Changes


We’ve received a ton of feedback regarding game’s difficulty and lack of viability for different strategies. We take your suggestions very seriously and, honestly, agree with a lot of them. Some of the changes, however, will take time to implement, so don’t expect from Today’s patch any radical changes — but they’re noticeable nonetheless!

Firstly, we’re moving towards allowing players have more control over Corruption. Now if you decide to skip the card rewards from the vault, your corruption will go down. To accompany this change we’ve also made it so orx buffing cards and curses now change dynamically — by lowering the corruption level you will also lower the potency of orx cards, and vice versa!

Next we’ve made some changes to Rune Guardians to improve build variety and long play strategy. Now all Rune Guardian cards have a tier 3 upgrade available — the stats for previous tiers were also adjusted to accompany this change.



In addition to this we've added a number of new cards which allow you to focus on other strategies, outside of building one mega-castle.




Next time we'll be taking a closer look at Dune Reavers to address your feedback and make them even more fun to play with!

We’ve also added new stats — defense and defense penetration. We hope that they’ll allow us to create an additional level of strategy and make dealing with orx less one-dimensional. This is a first stat addition out of series to come!

Speaking of orx — their difficulty and attributes were rescaled to reflect the new balance. Hopefully, they’re much more of a menace now, without becoming an undefeatable plague!



This is our very first attempt at addressing balance and replayability issues — remember, we’re not stopping until it feels truly great to play ORX!

Low Settings Option and Other Graphics Changes


We’re introducing the next change in the line of performance optimisations — sprite atlases and texture rework for reduced memory consumption!

We’ve also added Low settings option for Graphics settings — it includes even further texture optimisations, lower texture resolutions and disables certain VFX. You can find the option to enable low graphics under the the resolutions list in the Settings.



Oh, and for machines running ORX without a problem we’ve added experimental VSync option and made the game capped at 120 FPS!

As a reminder, this is only the beginning of our performance optimizations. We think of Lower settings as a temporary solution for lower-end machines — our end goal is to make ORX run well on any machine!

Bug fixes


We’re happy to report that we finally solved the issue causing the black screen to appear.
And if you were one of the unfortunate players unable to unlock Dune Reavers — this problem has been solved as well! Hopefully, after this patch we won’t see any of these anymore.

Full Patch Notes - v0.9.2.0



    Bug fixes
  • Fixed an issue that lead to black screens
  • Fixed an issue with locked dune reaver faction after completing the 1st act
  • Fixed an issue when player could redraw in game-full-pause state
  • Fixed a vfx error on caravans
  • Fixed multiple number fields to format text correctly
  • Fixed errors that lead to disabling of certain weather effects (rain, snow)
  • Fixed an error that would deny the player from receiving cards on reward
  • Fixed an issue when starter cards weren't correctly removed after the first playthrough
  • Fixed an issue when you could grant a double enchant to infinite cards
  • Fixed an issue that lead to a pathfinding crash in boss fights

    Optimization
  • Sprite atlases and certain textures reworked to reduce memory consumption
  • Low graphic settings introduced (reduced texture memory usage, disabled certain vfx)
  • VSync option introduced. Right now it's an experimental feature, so let us know how it performs!
  • Game now caps on 120 fps

    Corruption system
  • Corruption rework. Now ORX cards level and de-level depending on current corruption letting the play modify the power of the ORX deck dynamically
  • Skipping rewards in vaults now reduces corruption

    Content and balance
  • New rune guardian cards added to improve build variety and long play strategy
  • All rune guardian cards now have a tier 3 (except some cases such as certain road tiles)
  • New starter events for rune guardians
  • New neutral cards added
  • New attributes added: defense and defense pen.
  • ORX difficulty and attributes rescaled to reflect new balance

    UX
  • New attribute icons are now visible on cards (defense and defense pen. also attack speed is now also visible)


Friday Community Stream




Don’t forget about our Weekly Community Streams! If you enjoyed our pre-recorded stream on Steam — be sure to join us playing live this Friday, 2 pm GMT! Head over to our Discord server, open the Events list and hit ‘Interested’ to not miss the start of the stream!


Also don’t forget about our Build-a-Castle Contest — 3 winners will receive a month of Discord Nitro subscription! Read the details on how to enter the contest in our previous post:
https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/1071140/view/3346759006185391598

And that’s it for Today’s update! Let us know what do you think of the changes — join our friendly community on Discord and share your feedback, we’re always there to help and discuss anything!

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