New week is upon us, and the astrologists proclaimed it the Week of the Community! Join us as we share our plans on community contests and events, status of known issues and plans for the future!
Friday Community Stream
Liked watching our pre-recorded stream? Then join our Discord and watch ScaryRussianWizard slay hordes of orx live — this Friday, Sep 9 at 2 pm GMT! During our weekly Community Streams we answer questions, listen to some tunes and just have fun. Join the family!
Build-a-Castle Community Contest
Are you the Michelangelo of Rune Wardens? Do orx faint at the mere sight of your castles? The map is too small for your grandiose builds? Then share the biggest, most powerful castle with the community — three winners will receive a Month of Discord Nitro subscription! Top 10 participants will also be knighted and get a special role on our server!
How to Enter To enter just post the screenshot here on Steam with the tag “Build-a-castle Contest”, go over to our Discord and share the build in the 🏰┤build-a-castle channel. Do this until September 11th 11:59 pm GMT and you’re in! Next week, on September 12th we’ll select the most voted screenshots and start the final round of voting which will last until September 16th. The winners will be announced on our Friday Community Stream and published in announcements channel on our Discord, and here on Steam.
Upcoming Community Events
The fun doesn’t stop with the Build-a-Castle contest, and we’ve prepared even more community events for you to participate.
The best guide for beginners contest
Weekly movie nights
Weekly game nights
And more!
We also have an addictive card collecting game on our Discord, featuring art from the main artist behind ORX — which we’re actually planning to expand into a fully fledged card game. So get the good cards early, before anyone else — join the server now!
Plans for the near Future
As we’ve already mentioned in one of our previous updates — ORX will learn Korean and Traditional Chinese languages this week!
However, we’re also hard at work on a lot of important and highly requested things like:
Better User Experience for the game’s interface
Fixing critical bugs like crashes, freezes and black screens
Optimizing the game’s perfomance and unlocking FPS limit
Localisation problems. If you notice any inconsistencies in text, bad translations or outright missing descriptions — let us know here in Steam Discussions or on our Discord!
Rest assured, this is done in parallel with fixing critical bugs and doesn't affect our progress with solving those issues. Stay tuned for the upcoming patches!
Known Issues
We take your reports seriously and are dedicating a lot of time to fix the issues. However, some of them turned out to be harder to solve than we initially anticipated. So here's the status update on the most important ones:
Black screens upon launching ORX. Currently we’re solving these on a case-by-case basis so if you encountered this problem — please, report this via Google Form
Dune Reavers not unlocking after completing Act 1. This randomly happens to some players, and, unfortunately, the logs don’t tell us why. While we’re actively looking for the cause behind this you can try resetting all progress and completing Act 1 once more. To do this go to Settings and click ‘Reset all progress’ button.
Crash on start up. We’re planning to roll out fixes for these in the nearest patches.
Ultra Widescreen support. Will be implemented very soon.
Due to the nature of some problems we will be deploying some of the fixes gradually, so stay on the lookout for the upcoming updates.
As always, if you encounter any issues, please share them at:
Video of the Day Today’s video of the day features Wanderbots! He likes slaying orx, he likes building castles — but what does he have to say about ORX in Early Access? FInd out by watching the video!
That’s it for Today! Thank you for your support of ORX! We’re amazed by the amount and quality of the feedback and suggestions we make. Only together with you, our dear players, we can make ORX the best it can be — so keep the discussion going!
ORX — Beginner Tips and Patch Notes
Greetings, Kings and Queens!
We’re already 4 days into Early Access! Today we have tips for playing ORX, patch notes and awesome video to share.
First up, we want to talk about tips for beginner players. If you find yourself struggling while playing ORX — check out our Tutorial to help you understand the game’s basics.
Need more tips for playing Rune Wardens? Become the master of runes and decimate orx with impenetrable defences after this episode of Factions Explained!
And last, but not least are Dune Reavers! Watch Factions Explained episode about them and become the fiercest warrior Karrak Desert ever known!
Still not sure about some aspects of ORX? Come ask any questions you have in our Discord! We have a very helpful community and our team is always happy to help you as well!
Patch notes ver 0.9.1.14
We continue our crusade against the bugs, and are making solid progress! In the last couple days we’ve fixed pathfinding bug, some critical crashes and implemented first batch of game performance optimisations!
Fixed bosses death animation causing a progress soft lock (this time for good)
Improved garbage collection (should bring less lag spikes in late game fights)
Improved orx collision performance (should bring less constant cpu lag from large armies) — Improved object pool (should reduce lag on ultra fast attack speed units during firing)
Cairns visuals updated
Trickster boss now does not spawn in act 1
Rune of gust visuals updated
Locale fixes here and there
A pathfinding fix that should solve problems with huge spawns leaving stuck units in terrain and breaking pathfinding in lategame.
Fixed an issue when some players experienced a black screen on game start (this won't help with all black screens since there are a few more cases, but will solve this one)
Hotfixing an error in one of the recent patches with black screen in some menus
We’ve also made some balancing changes to card enchantments:
Infinite enchant now increases the cost of the card by 1X after every use
Vigor now doubles the amount of charges on a card
Static now reduces the cost of the card in half if it was in your hand at the time of redraw (it can go to 0 after a few redraws)
As always, if you have encountered a problem, be sure to share it on the platform of your choice
Video of the Day
Today’s video of the day pick goes to Aavak! He covered ORX before Early Access, but what does he have to say about the game now? Find out by watching the video!
That’s it for today’s update! Be sure to join our cozy Discord where you can:
Join the Militia and help the community unlock awesome rewards
Play an addictive card collecting game, featuring awesome art from the main artist behind ORX
Have fun by participating in Weekly Friday Community Streams
Learn and decipher the mysterious orxish language
And we have even more activities planned for our beloved community — so join now and don’t miss out on the fun!
v0.9.1.16
— Polish localization fix
v0.9.1.14
— Bounty hunter dune reaver card disabled for further optimisation
v0.9.1.13
— Hotfixing an error in one of the recent patches with black screen in some menus
ORX — Performance Improvements and Community Stream announcement
Greetings, Kings and Queens!
This is the ORX third day of Early Access recap: we have some news about performance improvements, announcements to make, and a video to share!
First up, we want to announce the Community Discord Stream. Enjoyed watching our pre-recorded stream? Then join our Discord and watch ScaryRussianWizard slay hordes of orx live — Today at 2 pm GMT! During our weekly Community Streams we answer questions, listen to some tunes and just have fun, join the family here:
We’re hard at work fixing the bugs you report. Major problem reported by a number of people was a performance drop especially during Acts 3 and 4. We’re happy to announce that the newest patch we’ve implemented is the first batch of optimization aimed at improving game stability and FPS! If you experienced performance problems before — try ORX now, and let us know how it runs on your PC.
It’s only the first part of our optimization plan — we’re aiming to improve performance, lower CPU usage, work on rendering, improve performance for integrated GPUs and tweak more stuff. So expect ORX to run even smoother in the future!
Thank you so much for taking time to let us know about the issues you encounter. We aim to continuously improve both fun and quality aspects of ORX with every update.
Video of the Day
We adore Splattercat and his videos. And as it turns out, he likes ORX! He covered our demos throughout the years and gave a lot of positive feedback. But what does he think of the Early Access version of ORX? Let’s find out in his recent video!
Today is also s very special day. Happy Birthday to the Game Director and the main man behind ORX - bell himself! Let's take this time to celebrate the life and creativity of bell, wish him the best of luck and success in all of his endeavors!
And that’s it for Today — we’ll continue updating you on everything important in the upcoming days, so stay tuned for more! 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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v0.9.1.12
— Fixed an issue when some players experienced a black screen on game start (this won't help with all black screens since there are a few more cases, but will solve this one)
v0.9.1.11
Enchants functionality changes — Infinite enchant now increases the cost of the card by 1X after every use — Vigor now doubles the amount of charges on a card — Static now reduces the cost of the card in half if it was in your hand at the time of redraw (it can go to 0 after a few redraws)
Other stuff — cairns visuals updated — trickster boss now does not spawn in act 1 — rune of gust visuals updated — locale fixes here and there
Bugs and optimisation — A pathfinding fix that should solve problems with huge spawns leaving stuck units in terrain and breaking pathfinding in lategame. Please let us know if you see this breaking after this patch <3
v0.9.1.10
Game systems optimisation
— Improved garbage collection (should bring less lag spikes in late game fights) — Improved orx collision performance (should bring less constant cpu lag from large armies) — Improved object pool (should reduce lag on ultra fast attack speed units during firing)
v0.9.1.9
— Fixed bosses death animation causing a progress soft lock (this time for good)
