The Wargroove Discord members among you may have seen that last week Chucklefish CEO Tiy divulged some information on what the development team are currently working on, and details on what you can expect in upcoming minor and major patches across all versions. Today we wanted to go into a little more detail!
An official caveat though, the below isn’t a finalised list of content, nor can we 100% confirm that all of these features will make it into the upcoming updates, as some are still in development / testing stages, so keep that in mind! Updates also still need to go through various approval processes, so we can’t estimate exact release dates just yet.
So what’s next for Wargroove?
While we’ve been keeping our heads-down in development since the last major QoL patch, we’re constantly reading and listening to feedback from all around the player-base – be that from the online competitive scene, map-making fans as well as casual players who are keen to see more content to get stuck into. As such we have 3 updates in the works:
v1.3.0 ‘Minor’ Patch
Korean Language will be added! 이제 워그루브를 한국어로 만나보실 수 있습니다!
Bug fixes
Some technical stuff laying the foundation for PC Mod support
PC Mod Support Patch
Adds mod support via Steam Workshop – check out this Commander mod preview where we recruited one of our office dogs!
This patch will follow closely behind v1.3.0 and will be in open beta to get player feedback
v2.0 ‘Major’ Update
BIG brand new content – full details to be revealed at a later date…
Lobby listings, so that players can find publicly hosted games
Unit balance adjustments to a number of units and Commanders
Quickplay map rotation – New maps will be chosen and weather will also be turned off in Quickplay mode.
This update will also include new Map Editor options – there’s quite a lot of ideas we’re testing at the moment, so here we go…
Gizmos – New place-able entities with an on and off state such as levers and chests. Using gizmos you can override terrain (e.g. draw bridges) and will also be able to enter new actions to set and toggle the gizmo state, as well as new conditions to check it.
Counters – We’re adding new actions to perform arithmetic between counters as well as setting the counter to random value, and load/storing counter values to some other variables (HP, Groove etc.). There’s also a new condition to compare counters.
Actions can now play sounds
Metalocations – We’re adding support for ‘metalocations’ which indicate where things last happened on the map, for example the last attacker, last defender, last recruit, last unit used, last movement path, last death etc. There will also be new actions for locations, such as copying a location area, moving location by (x,y) and boolean operations between locations.
Unit Modifiers – We’re also enabling players to modify the damage that any unit/structure receives as a percentage, including making them invulnerable. We’re also looking into a teleport unit action for the editor.
Map upload slots will also be increased so users can upload more maps at once.
As we mentioned earlier, we want to keep you updated on what we’re working on, but be aware that not all of the above may make it into the final update list as we continue implementing and testing new features, so do wait for the final patch notes which will be revealed when each patch is ready to deploy!
There’s still even more announcements on the way for Wargroove, so plenty still to look forward to in 2019! For now, come join us on the Wargroove Discord where we’ll be chatting about some of the changes we’re making, and don’t forget to submit your maps ahead of the next Community Maps Spotlight this Friday. You can also vote for your favourite map to receive the Community Choice Award in the Wargroove subreddit.
Bye for now!
Quality of Life 1.2.0 Patch Out Now!
Hi all,
Shortly after launch we announced that we were working on a quality of life patch, combining some community feedback we received and adjustments we wanted to make. Well good news –Wargroove Patch 1.2.0 is available now!
A quick PSA, you may also find yourself needing to update to the latest version in order to access the game’s online features after the patch, so do make sure you’re up to date if you have any issues.
If you do by chance find any bugs please do report them to the support section in the Wargroove Forums. If you’d like to chat to the developers and share your thoughts, you can also find us lurking in the Wargroove Discord server!
Full Patch Notes:
Checkpoint system:
While playing in campaign mode, you can set a checkpoint in a mission
If you are defeated, you can retry from the checkpoint
You can set a checkpoint whenever you want, but you can only have one active at a time (the previous gets overwritten)
Difficulty system overhaul:
Five difficulty presets, Story, Easy, Medium, Hard (Default) and Custom
Hard difficulty is the default, and is the standard rules of the game. It’s the only mode where you can obtain S-ranks
Medium difficulty is a bit easier and still lets you obtain up to 3 stars
Easy limits you at 2 stars
Story limits you at 1 star, and is VERY easy
Multiplayer:
You can now add CPU players to online games
There’s now a message clarifying that you must join a match if you don’t have any in progress
A number of fixes to Quick Play timers
You can no longer suspend Quick Play matches and play other games in the meanwhile, since they’re supposed to be realtime
9 maps designed specifically for co-op have been added
Fix issue where user’s couldn’t get into Online multiplayer
Fix issue were main menu could not be invoked during opponent’s/AI turn
General Quality of Life
The effectiveness chart on unit info and recruit screens has been reworked to be far more readable and informative
Skipping battles, captures and cutscenes is now much faster
Display the S rank requirements on the overview screen for a mission
“Exit” has been renamed to “Suspend” to avoid confusion
You can now see teams on the Overview screen
Fix international text input on Switch
Display the Controller Select Applet on Switch less often
Add Korean font
Resigning will now destroy all units simultaneously instead of one at a time
New options:
Add “Movement Speed” option that allow you to set all units to move faster
Add “Confirm End Turn” option to avoid accidental end of turn
Add “Damage Range” option to display minimum and maximum damage on previews, instead of average damage
Fog of War:
Allies now share vision
Eliminated players can still see their team vision; eliminated teams become spectators
Spectators can view the current team’s vision
Hide enemy income and funds
Don’t spawn effects or show building colours inside fog of war
Don’t show battle and capture animations unless at least one of the units is visible to the current player
Fog of War now updates faster
Fix “sonar” bug that allowed you to obtain extra information within fog of war
Fix allies being able to move units into each other and becoming stuck
Fixes and tweaks:
Fix Tenri’s groove charge rate to the intended value
Change Ryota’s groove to allow him to dash through his own units
Fix team options; all teams should display correctly in 2v2 matches
Fixes for Vines and Crystals acting as Units
Fix for 7-2; commanders no longer change team after suspending
Fix sound effects in Cutscene editor causing crash
Fix Cutscene Attack animations causing crash
Fix Empty dialogue event boxes causing crash
Layering of actors and props in Cutscene editor should now work as expected
Fix crash when entering non-numeric text into Counter events
Fix issue with Tutorial 1.3 where user could get stuck when asked to select a barrack
Misc language fixes
Misc minor fixes
What's Next for Wargroove?
First of all, I want to say how humbled and thankful we all are here at Chucklefish for an incredible launch week. It’s truly been amazing, we’ve already covered the cost of development and are throwing ourselves into improving the game further.
So what’s next for Wargroove?
Short Term
We’re working on a number of quality of life fixes and hope to get them to you asap. We’ll try to get things done as quickly as possible.
Some of those quality of life improvements will include:
The ability to skip battle scenes more quickly. With various options on how this will work.
The ability to force fast map movement to ‘always on’.
Tooltips and more info for the effective/vulnerable charts.
In multiplayer, the host will be able to fill open spots with CPU players.
Display S rank requirements. (Tip for now, it’s always based on number of turns.)
Improved icons/mouseover for effective/vulnerable unit listing
Make it more difficult to accidentally end a turn.
Multiplayer Lobby improvements
Various bug fixes
Modding is also coming soon and of course a PS4 version of the game is in the works.
Long Term
As we continue to update the game and address user feedback, we’re also looking into a larger content update, DLC and more. More info on this at a later date. But I think you’ll be pleasantly surprised.
