The Tamer can now join your caravan from Mka and Kanic settlements!
Specialized in Earth damage, he's very helpful in battle, creating opportunities for your other caravaneers. During exploration, he can summon his beasts to join the caravan as powerful supports with various effects. Some of his beasts were part of the Kickstarter campaign rewards, and we’re very happy to finally share them with you!
He starts with 2 attacks: Bull Charge: Deals Earth damage to 1 enemy and moves it backwards. Applies Impaired. Voracious Ambition: Applies Exalted to self but decreases the caravan’s Hope.
He can then unlock: Sprint: Deals Earth damage to 1 enemy. If the enemy is slower than him, applies Easy Target. Taming: Deals Earth damage to 1 enemy. Moves the target forwards and applies Slowed. Scorpion Sting: Deals Earth damage to 1 enemy and applies Poison. Swarm of Locusts: Deals Earth damage to 1 enemy and applies Haste to self. If the target is in the backline, applies Blinded.
New Log Tabs: "Encyclopedia" and "Memories"
The Caravan Log now has two new tabs: The Encyclopedia contains entries with information about Uwando that you can gather while exploring.
The Memories tab contains a list of all the Memories you can obtain in-game, allowing you to track the ones you're missing.
New Memories
You can now obtain a bunch of new Memories linked to the Encyclopedia. We want to encourage players to discover new entries by granting more Memory Points to spend in the Crystal Library when you do so.
New Quest
A new quest, “Riddle Duel,” is now available. You can unlock it by wandering between the Northwest Desert and the Terracers Territory.
Character Customization
You’ll see a new "Customization" button in the caravan’s menu, right under your caravaneer's sprite. This feature will allow our Kickstarter backers to use their skins once they’re delivered (which should be very soon).
New Rules
Equipment Level Scalability
Equipment now has levels. The higher the level, the bigger the bonuses. You will find the best equipment in the most difficult regions, allowing you to continuously improve your gear as you discover Uwando.
Hope Impact on Shield
Your Hope level will impact your units’ Shield in battle. Desperate caravans will have less Shield, while optimistic and hopeful caravans will have more. This should give more significance to the caravan’s Hope.
Balancing
Replaced some “Sand” tiles in the desert with a new biome that costs fewer Supplies. The goal is to smooth the early-game difficulty curve and give players more control.
Burn now deals Fire damage instead of Pure damage.
Rebalanced the early game to account for the Hope impact on Shield.
Bug Fixes
Zoom/unzoom was sometimes blocked until the camera was moved.
Some attacks displayed incorrect damage previews (most cases have been fixed).
Some attacks displayed incorrect Shield gain previews.
Fixed various text-related issues.
Fight consumables' FX were not displayed correctly.
Death animations were not playing correctly when the “Explosive” effect was applied.
Attacks and abilities impacting units’ stats were not working correctly.
An edge case was causing item duplication during trade.
UX Improvements
Better display of Blinded, Protected, and Immune effects in combat.
You can now see all potential targets of an enemy’s attack when hovering over it, in addition to the current target.
At the beginning of a fight, Hope and weather modifiers will automatically be displayed.
Recruiting a hero will now trigger a major notification.
Completing a quest will now trigger a major notification.
Completing a quest step will now trigger a minor notification.
What’s Coming Next
We’re working on several updates simultaneously, each with different deadlines:
We’re still improving performance and fixing remaining issues, which will be addressed in upcoming small patches.
The next major update should add new upgrades, traits, and followers to add variety to your build and improve exploration balancing. The exact content is still to be determined.
We’re working on the main questline, which will significantly extend the game content. Two new questlines (with the Nebulous and a new faction, the Azore) will be part of a dedicated patch in a few months. The exact release date is TBD. They will include two new maps, new units and bosses, and a fast-travel option that you can unlock as you explore Uwando. The final part, allowing you to reach Umama and attempt to save the world, will be the main feature of the full release patch. We will provide a more detailed roadmap as soon as possible.
Your feedback is always welcome on our Discord server! :)
-Goblinz Studio
Patch 1.1.2
Patch 1.1.2 is here! Even if we’re mostly working on 1.2 and new content for later, we still have a lot of small improvements to make.
Balancing
Swordman ability now gives the “Barrier” trait instead of “Immuned” (it was a bit overpowered, sorry!)
Bugfix
A blocker could happen when you were using an attack removing a debuff
“Burning” damage were stacking for each stacks, which wasn’t intended
Broken text issue on some Abilities
The Trait “Voracious Ambition” wasn’t working properly
“Ruins” service quest wasn’t working correctly
You could obtain some upgrades in inconsistent order
“Caustic rain” weather could create a high density of monster groups next to each other
“Poison” damage were not display
Broken text in “The Art of Forging” quest
“The Art of Forging” : tweak an event outcome dealing 0% damage
Broken text in Yayah
Other various broken texts (biomes, weathers, traits, etc.)
Several edge cases were preventing “Blinded” to destack
Units were visually overlapping in fight sometimes
Big delay between the skill and its animation sometimes
Attack tooltips could be cut at the edge of the screen in the Caravan menu
“Ardent” trait wasn’t working properly
Pyromancer ability could remove destroyed SE and gain bonuses from it
Fix broken texts in questboards from various cities
UX
Several improvements on attack tooltips
Better target wording of AoE skill
We now have different feedback on target depending if we’re showing potential target or actual target (in a enemy’s preview for example)
“Column” and “line” AoE texts are now used properly
“Poisoned” damages are more clearly displayed
Add a feedback when a skill miss its target (because of “blinded” effect for example)
See you soon for the 1.2 update!
1.1 update out now!
Hi everyone! Here comes our first major update: “Uwando’s Mysteries” !
With this update, we wanted to polish some features that are already present in-game (such as Weather and Effects) while adding more content and variety to the game.
Weather
We have made several retakes on the weather system. Here are the weathers you can face in Uwando:
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Scorching heat
[/th] [/tr] [tr] [td]Fight: No effect. Explo: No effect.[/td] [td]Fight: Increases Fire damage, reduces Wind damage. Explo: The soil and plants dry up.[/td] [td]Fight: Greatly increases Fire damage, greatly reduces Wind damage. Explo: Soil, plants and animals slowly die.[/td] [/tr] [tr] [th]
Rain
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Caustic downpour
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Strong winds
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Hurricane
[/th] [/tr] [tr] [td]Fight: Increases Wind damage, reduces Water damage. Units have a 25% chance to be moved at the end of their turn. Explo: Vision reduced by 25%.[/td] [td]Fight: Increases Wind damage, reduces Water damage. Units have a 50% chance to be moved at the end of their turn. Explo: Vision reduced by 50%.[/td] [td]Fight: Greatly increases Wind damage, greatly reduces Water damage. Units have a 75% chance to be moved at the end of their turn. Explo: Vision reduced by 75%.[/td] [/tr] [/table]
Weather can now change at any moment, not just when entering a new region.
Effects
Effects now scale with the launcher’s level, making them much more impactful in the mid-game. For example, applying “Poisoned” with a lvl 2 caravaneer will deal more damage per turn than with a lvl 1 caravaneer.
Quests
Five new quests are available in Musawenkosi, Totong, and Kanic’s settlements of Unum and Fikri.
Monsters & Monster groups
We aimed to create new monster groups and diversify some existing ones.
Predators
Predator groups can now contain up to three different hyenas. They have various synergies with each other, making them unpredictable. [table noborder=1] [tr] [th][/th] [th][/th] [/tr] [tr] [td]Hyenish Nurse[/td] [td]Hyenish Bully[/td] [/tr]
Gigants
Gigant groups now include a third type, focusing on shield support. This addition reinforces the group’s archetype while varying the threats you’ll face.
Honey Gigant
New group: Limuloids
Hidden in the depths of Uwando, Limuloids are a new threat found in Underground and Palatine Ruins. [table noborder=1] [tr] [th][/th] [th][/th] [/tr] [tr] [td]Limuloid Harpooner[/td] [td]Limuloid Fisher[/td] [/tr]
New group: Fire Beasts
Though volcanic areas are rare, they are worth visiting to discover these charming creatures. [table noborder=1] [tr] [th][/th] [th][/th] [/tr] [tr] [td]Sparkling cuttlefish[/td] [td]Blazing slug[/td] [/tr] [TAG-207]
New group: Beasts
Beasts are found in the fertile lands of Uwando. They’re not very aggressive but can provide a good amount of meat if hunted. [table noborder=1] [tr] [th][/th] [th][/th] [th][/th] [/tr] [tr] [td]Plowing rhinopterous[/td] [td]Crunchyrock[/td] [td]Plaincleaver[/td] [/tr]
A new caravaneer: the Swordman
The Swordman can now join your caravan! A born fighter who deals massive physical damage, he’s less tanky than the Protector but can still serve as a decent frontline for your team. He’s called Swordman for a reason
With his upgrades, you can make it evolve either as a damage-dealer or more into a damage/tank mix.
Exploration Abilities upgrade
Your caravaneers’ abilities can now be upgraded, just like their attacks! Over 20 of these upgrades are included in this update.
Traits
12 new traits are now available for your Caravaneers.
Traits can now be leveled up if a caravaneer obtains them multiple times during a run, amplifying their effects.
Bugfixes
Fixed many broken localization keys.
Improvements of performances and loading times.
Various minors fixes.
Known issues
Effect damage calculations may occasionally be incorrect.
In specific situations that we cannot yet reproduce, some attacks may heal enemies instead of dealing damage.
Hope still does not impact Shield.
What’s next
As the whole team returns from vacation, we’ll address the known issues ASAP in patch 1.1.1, which should be live in early September. This patch might also include some content that wasn’t ready for the 1.1 release.
We’re still on track to release version 1.2 by the end of September. We’ll keep you updated!
Your feedback is always welcome on our Discord server! :)
-Goblinz Studio
Activating Cloud Saves - Please Read!
Hello everyone!
As some of you has been asking, we're finally ready to activate the Cloud Saves on Sandwalkers!
It should be seemless for the vast majority, and allow you to share your saves via the cloud between different Computers, including from different OSes. For exemple, you can start your game on Windows and continue it on MacOS. However since the game isn't officially supported on Steamdeck yet, I can't assure you cloudsaves will work there, but it should. I'd be more than happy if you could confirm though :D.
Now two things that I feel are important to tell you, please take a minute to read it :
- As I said, it should all be seemless, but I'd rather anticipate every situation. So, should you have a conflict somehow with the cloud. The first thing to do is to BACKUP YOUR SAVES To do so, find your save files :
Windows %USERPROFILE%/AppData/LocalLow/GoblinzStudio/Sandwalkers/
Linux ~/.config/unity3d/GoblinzStudio/Sandwalkers/
If you're on Windows, you can press Windows + R and paste this : %USERPROFILE%/AppData/LocalLow/GoblinzStudio It will open the GoblinzStudio folder directly if you have trouble finding it
Make a copy of the Sandwalkers folder anywhere else on your computer ; in case anything goes wrong, you'll be able to copy back this folder into the GoblinzStudio folder and get back your save
Then, you can try to launch the game and solve the conflict the way Steam handles it (depending on the situation it's going to be different, but do not hesitate to hop on Steam Forums and ask for help)
- If you already played the game on two different computers and know which save you want to keep First of all once again, backup your saves before launching the game! The cloud should synchronise the first saves you'll play the game with. Keep in mind that the cloud uploads your game files to the cloud when closing the game, and download them from the cloud when you launch the game. It might also try to synchronize when opening Steam, but I'm not sure on the exact way it works on Steam side
If you're playing on two different Windows computers, you can manually copy the Sandwalkers folder from the PC you want to keep the save from to the other one. But generally, the safest trick would be to open, play a bit, save, and quit the game on the PC you want to keep the saves from. Once you're sure the cloud is synchronized, you can then play on any computer with your account
If you can't see the Cloud activated on the game yet, you can try to relaunch Steam as this is sometimes required for it to be taken into account
But then again, all this long post will probably be useless according to my tests. But better safe than sorry!
Have a wonderful day,
-Thomas
Patch 1.0.5
Hi everyone, here comes a big update with some changes on attacks & recruitment. We are approaching the end of our optimization phase and are starting to work on new content for the game. We should be able to tell your more about that soon!
Patch 1.0.5 - 04/07/2024
Attacks
“Shield bash” now applies “Slowed” even if the target has no Shield
Pyromancer’s “Burning swarms” now deals damage to all enemies
Pyromancer’s “Fire coat” attack was reworked
Fire Resistance (3) ⇒ +10 Shield & Thorns (1)
“Forgotten ritual” now heals a flat amount of HPs instead of giving “Health Regeneration” effect
“Genius” refactoring
“Incendiary cocktail” (formerly “Glue grenade”) now deals fire damage
“Explosive prototype” now deals base Air damages in addition to its random effects
“Tonic” now deals Air damages to one target and apply either haste (2) or an agility bonus to the launcher
All Genius attacks have an “Intelligence” ratio now
Prob on attack’s effects were changed
Tweak many attacks & upgrades values
Equipments HP/Shield bonus are drastically increased to give an actual impact
Quests
“Delivery” service will not direct you to a specific place instead of any place.
“Ruins” service was leading to a broken underground map: it should now be fixed.
Recruitment
Recruited caravaneers’ level is now correctly applied on their stats.
Once they’re recruited, you will directly select your caravaneer’s upgrades
Caravaneer recruitment pool are now handled differently:
Their content is refreshed every 100 caravan’s movement
You can recruit each caravaneer only once
UX/UI
“Support” screen is now always displayed, even if you cannot get any follower yet
Events & quests outcomes previews now work correctly: the item previewed should always be the right one
Tweak some attacks & upgrades tooltips to make them more readable
Attack tooltips’ size no longer depends on unit’s position
Quest rewards are now always displayed in the quest book
World
There is now a path going east from Lecwasi when you start the game
The “roads” upgrades in the Crystal Library now create road with reduced supplies cost compared to the nearby biomes.
Other fixes
Fix several issues linked to effects’ stacks depletion
“Infested” effect is fixed!
“Insidious seed” attack and its upgrade are back
Several broken localization keys were fixed
Caravaneers sometimes had a duplicate of their sprite
“Space Gem” icon is now displayed correctly
“Immuned” effect icon is now displayed correctly
“Poison” damages are now displayed correctly
Missing upgrades on Archeologist when leveling-up
Fix an issue causing the 3rd Fragment to never be dropped after completing Terracer’s questline.
You cannot stun a unit forever anymore, sorry!
Other minor fixes
Patch 1.0.4
Bugfix
Fix a blocker on “Jet Fetish” quest: some players didn’t see the button to bring the Fetish to Musawenkosi
“Death Pulse” attack not giving shield when it kills an enemy
Remove duplicates of heroes sprites in combat
Some broken localization keys
Terracer’s Queen was level 1 in combat
Broken values displayed on some followers
The “Yoz Sea” area now turns permanently into a fertile land after finishing “Yoz the twice-born” quest
Patch 1.0.3
Following yesterday’s patch 1.0.2, here comes patch 1.0.3 with some extra fixes! We’re still in the optimization phase, but we’ll soon share an Early Access update with more content and features to come.
Hotfix
Players will now be able to find Wood for the Agromancy quest, even if the quest is already active
Players will now have the required items for “Umama’s root” quest, event if they were affected by the bug removing them too soon.
User experience
Remove a spoiler from reputation screen
Localization
Fix broken keys on quest boards
Bugfix
Attacks with effects on the launcher were applied incorrectly in case of AoE. For example, the larva was applying its self-heal 4 times, as it has 4 targets.
Hope related traits now apply their effects properly
All Hope loss are now applied correctly (Traits, Events, Attacks)
Reputation levels are now correctly displayed and named
Remove Princess Egg when you choose to fight the royalists
Wrong values on “Max Weight” Crystal library upgrades
Unclickable Caravan button in exploration
“Static shock” now grants 2 stacks” Haste” instead of 1
Patch 1.0.2
Hotfix
Temporarily removed “Insidious Seed” attack from the Botanist as it can cause crashes.
User experience
You can now end a run manually through the pause menu.
Clearer feedback on fetishes & consumables items when they’re not unlocked yet
Balancing
“Rest” buttons in cities now give more bonuses even when your Reputation is low
Rebalance some caravaneers’ attacks (Death Pulse, Umama’s night song, Serrated chitin,...) Having two angry ants playing before you could do anything was a bit frustrating.
Remove heal from Dragonopter AoE, increase slightly the monotarget attack heal.The AoE heal was buggy and quite frustrating. We choose to increase the other attack’s self heal slightly to keep the tactical challenge in this fight while making it more fair.
Reduce speed of some enemies. Same than Red Ants on the previous patch: we don’t want big packages of enemies playing before you. We tried to slow them and to spread them more in the turn order.
Update Supplies cost when moving on road tiles to 0. Roads should now be the late-game shortcuts that we aimed them to be.
“Mysterious Sprouts” tiles now gives 6 Supplies. Many players were deceived by their visuals and were frustrated to gain no Supplies on them. We now give a small amount, in addition to their previous rewards.
Defeating enemies will now always gives you some food
Localization
Fixed some broken localization keys
Bugfix
Attacks that move unit now do it correctly
“Protected” effect is now removed when the caster dies
“Blinded” effect now destack correctly when it makes you miss an attack
We added Wood in the “Agromancy” quest area (sorry discord people, we know you were looking for them)
Fix a blocker on “Umama’s root” quest removing the items before you could use them in an event
Consumables can now be changed for another one before a fight
Optimization
We are still working on the optimization, but you should already see some improvements with this update:
Reduction of RAM consumption
Improve overall performance in long game sessions
Coming soon
More work on optimization especially with the perfs dropping as the game session last.
Fix the most critical bugs in priority (crashes, blockers, experience-breaker bugs)
Continue to make high-priority tweaks on balancing
Those are our main priority right now to make sure you can enjoy the game.
Once the stabilization phase is done, we will share an Early Access roadmap with you! Stabilization and polish will still be addressed as we start to work on new content for the game.
Super Small Hotfix - Sandwalkers 1.0.1 v2
Hey everyone!
We're pushing a small update that just fixed a special kind of tile in the desert giving you only 1 supply where it should give you 12 of them. That is a low risk update and was quickly tested on our side, but can have a huge positive impact on your survivability :D
There is another patch coming early next week, with some bigger changes and fixes, that were not a good idea to push live at 6PM on a Friday! For exemple, allowing you to abandon a run and start a new one without having to go and get vainquished in a fight on purpose, or slowly starving your caravan to death
This change, and many fixes are coming early next week! We'll tell you more when it's there
Thanks for playing Sandwalkers and providing us feedback. We try our best to be active on the forum and Discord so we can answer your questions and gather your feedback and suggestions - they really help!
Have a wonderful weekend everyone!
Sandwalkers 1.0.1 - Hotfix #1 -
Hello everyone!
First of all, thanks for playing Sandwalkers! We already had some great feedback and we cannot thank you enough for taking the time to post them Here's a first patchnote about what's been fixed and what we're still working on!
Patch 1.0.1
Hotfix
Temporarily changed “Insidious Seed” attack from the Botanist as it can cause crashes.
User experience
The “new run” button on the title screen will no longer offer to erase your save. This has been changed to either start a new run, or continue a run you've started but not finished yet.
You can still reset your save through a dedicated button in Options>General in the title screen
Reworded some skill tooltips that weren’t clear enough
Fixed misleading descriptions on Shield upgrades in the Cristal library, since it’s not giving +20 flat Shield but +20% max Shield
Balancing
Red ant speed has been nerfed from 6 to 4 Having two angry ants playing before you could do anything was a bit frustrating.
Starting max supplies are increased from 15 to 20 While we want the desert to be challenging in early game, we feel like adding 5 Supplies will slightly help most players in their first runs.
Increased Supplies gain on Desert cactus & animals Again: we want you to be challenged, not to suffer from neverending starvation
Localization
Korean language is now named correctly in the language settings
Bugfix
Fixed the dynamic counter in the description of the “Repairs” quest
Double clicking the “Leave Place” action for the first time was hiding the UI sometimes
Effect stacks not decreasing correctly in fight (visual bug only)
Mac
Fixed issues related to specific resolutions, preventing you from closing some screens (like the Map)
Linux
Cinematics will now play normally
As a precision, the changes on Mac are more general and the game should now have the right resolution everywhere, including Steamdeck. Even if not officially supported yet, this and the tweak on the Linux version should make the game playable on Steamdeck
Coming soon
This is some stuff we know about, but that couldn't make it into this patch without threatening either the integrity of the game, or the integrity of our hard working developpers :D
We’re aware that the introduction cinematic is missing some subtitles and are working on it: it will be tackled in the next hotfix!
We’re tackling a memory leak issue causing freezes and performance drops the longer a play session lasts. As a workaround, you can save and restart the game ; this should make things better even if it is not ideal
Still working on improving the attack tooltips clarity
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