Genre: Real Time Strategy (RTS), Role-playing (RPG), Simulator, Strategy
Stronghold Kingdoms
Era Changes & New Worlds
Today’s community-driven update tweaks honour costs, lowers raze requirements and teases upcoming game worlds!
Increased opportunities for small Lords to flourish, greater balance in the political landscape and new strategic challenges for veteran warlords. These were our goals with the gameplay changes made during our transition to the newer Era system and today we continue to refine the Era rule set. Implementing your most requested changes surfaced in the official Kingdoms forum and on social media, today’s Era Worlds Update is a direct response to your feedback.
Era Worlds
Reduced Rank Required to Raze - Can’t wait for the joy of finally wiping a pesky village from the map? Now you can begin razing as soon as you’re ranked as Earl! By reducing the required rank down from Prince, we are giving players access to a full range of combat options much earlier in their play experience.
Increased Honour Costs for Ransacking - Community feedback suggests ransacking on current Era worlds is too powerful to allow for a balanced combat experience. As a result we have adjusted the honour costs required to launch a ransacking attack on fellow players.
Reduced Parish Building Costs - A well-developed capital village is the backbone of any flourishing parish, so we have reduced the amount of flags required to construct new guilds and structures.
Adjusted Glory Race Goals - Houses will now need to obtain 25% additional Glory to complete a round on EU worlds and double the previous amount to complete a round on Global Conflict and Global Realm words. All other Era worlds’ races remain unchanged.
New Worlds (Coming Soon)
We would like to thank all the players who have made this update possible by sharing their thoughts, feedback and suggestions on our official Stronghold Kingdoms forum. Rest assured we have much more planned for you this year including Global Realm 3, Europe 5 and more. Prepare to explore new worlds, wage war across new world types and check out the upcoming Events System! You’ll need the practice, Sire. As some say our greatest nemesis could be plotting his return…
Kingdoms Dev Update
Events System & 500k Downloads Giveaway
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fcadpMj_BAM
New Gameplay The first major gameplay update for Stronghold Kingdoms in 2018 will come in the form of our brand-new Events system! Rewarding players of all ranks for everything from their skills in battle to industrial efficiency, Events are designed to change the way you play on a monthly basis. In our latest weekly Firefly community video, Kingdoms' very own Lead Programmer Matt Smith reveals more on Events and their impact on game worlds. He also gives us a quick update on development in general and a little of what players can look forward to this year.
Community Q&A Along with the above highlights from their full discussion, Matt and Nick also provide a number of answers to your community questions. These were collected over the course of the past week and picked from discussions in the forums and on social media over the last few months. That said if you have questions of your own just let us know in the comments and we’ll try to include them in future videos!
Giveaway To celebrate more than 500,000 Lords and Ladies downloading the mobile version of Stronghold Kingdoms we're running a giveaway! Naturally half a million downloads is cause for celebration, so we're giving all players a chance to win the below prize pack:
5 Random Packs
1 Super Random
1 Ultimate Random
1 x 7-Day token
Want to win? Follow these instructions:
Watch the above video
Click on the link in the description
Enter your details
Come back in a week to see if you're a winner!
On Thursday January 25th 10 entries will be selected at random to win, receiving the above prizes in a redeemable code delivered straight to their inbox.
Good Luck!
What's Next for Stronghold?
New Stronghold Reveal in 2018
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zw79RHYr-5M
We’re kicking off the year with a short announcement on the status of our upcoming Stronghold game! It gives us great pleasure to announce that we have now entered into full production on the next mainline Stronghold for PC.
Planned for late summer, our full gameplay reveal will include the following:
Title & Setting - It may surprise you to know that 'Stronghold Next' is just a code name! So we'll be announcing this along with the game's setting.
Planned Features - We'll be talking single player and multiplayer plans for Stronghold Next and the return of some fan-favorite features.
Game Mechanics - Fresh gameplay will give you exciting new ways to play and strategic options for decimating foes on the battlefield.
New Units - Our debut gameplay footage will include a few of the new units you'll be using to besiege your friends at launch.
As with Stronghold Crusader 2, Stronghold Next will be digitally self-published by Firefly Studios and released when it’s ready on Steam. Please look forward to more Stronghold Next information in the coming months and if you have questions about the game let us know!
Along with announcements and interviews we’ll be hosting community Q&As where the Stronghold team answers YOUR questions. So tell us what you want to know in the comments and we’ll do our best to answer them in future videos.
Happy New Year!
More Free Cards!
Level Up and Claim 32 Strategy Cards Weekly
There are two types of Lord in Stronghold Kingdoms, those who joyfully collect their free Veteran cards and those who’ve just logged in for the very first time. We know how much players rely on this steady supply of free cards, so we’ve decided to give you more by increasing the number of free cards you can collect per week! The Bonus Cards Update is now live and also improves the mobile version with new features and bug fixes:
Added a Menu option to shrink or enlarge the game controls.
Added an additional information panel on village buildings.
Improved controls for donating to Capitals.
Added the ability to mark players as Allies or Enemies on the world map.
Number of free cards more than doubled at each Veteran Level.
All you have to do to claim these extra cards is rank up! Our latest update boosts the Veteran rewards for ALL levels, giving both new and experienced players more strategy cards on a daily basis. To climb up the Veteran levels all you have to do is achieve your Veteran milestones.
