We are very proud to present the second major content update for Wartales: The Great Gosenberg!
With this update, the gates to the Kingdom of Gosenberg have opened, giving you the opportunity to discover its capital, as well as new content for you to unlock, explore, complete and collect...

• Lead an investigation and unmask trader Wylla Ald Hoevendorp’s murderer.
  
• Question the townsfolk and accuse whoever you deem suspicious thanks to two new dialogue options.
  
• Bring the accused to justice by providing evidence at their trial which takes place in the Brokers' Palace.

• Rouste
  
  
  
  • Try your hand at the most violent and enthralling sport in Wartales.
    
  • Throw yourself into the fray (and the mud) with six of your best companions.
    
  • Take on the local team for a chance to win a prize provided by the generous: Broker Bernna.
    
  • Features a brand new “combat” system based on the current one, as well as new features, skills and equipment.
    
  
  
• 2 new arenas with their respective champions
  
• A new champion
  
• Explore a new region and its points of interest, including but not limited to
  
  
  
  • The Brokers’ Palace
    
  • The Embassy
    
  • The Brothel
    
  • A few Manor houses
    
  
  
• Explore a new Tomb of the Ancients including a new kind of puzzle
  
• New Location in Arthes County
  

• The unit level cap has been increased to 11 and enemy level cap to 12
  
• Unlock level 10 skills, allowing for new possibilities during combat, including changing weapons (same weapon type only, ex: dagger for dagger) during combat!
  
• Profession level cap has been increased to 4, includes a new bonus
  
• The 2 Arenas unlock 2 class specialisations
  
• Reworked the Compendium Forge page: you can now unlock craftable weapons and armour in groups of 3 at the cost of 1 knowledge point
  
• Added Forge Tier III as well as a new resource: Rimesteel
  
• 6 new traits have been added
  
• New camp animations have been added
  
  
  
  • Watch Stool
    
  • Lectern
    
  • Chest
    
  
  

• Added left-handed weapons (a whopping 14 of them!) including the Recoil Bomblet and Pungent Powder
  
• 8 belt/backpack items
  
• 12 cooking recipes
  
• 2 oils
  
• Weekly Bounty gear is now upgradable!
  
• Reworked battle pony armour: light/medium/heavy has been replaced by Tier 1/2/3, added a 3D model for the armour
  
• More fish to… fish!
  
• And much more for you to discover!

• Bandit Lairs balancing: now each skull corresponds to a wave of enemy reinforcements
  
• Fire Damage over Time reworked : You will no longer be able to get rid of fire so easily.
  
• Enemy ponies will now wear armour in battle, changes depending on their level.
  
• Readjusted the components necessary for certain crafts
  
• “Volunteer” trait changed 50% -> 10%
  
• “Pretending” trait changed 10% -> 20%
  
• “Stupid” trait changed 10% -> 5%
  
• “Worker” trait changed 5% -> 20%
  
• Increasing job levels will take longer
  
• Increasing companion levels will be faster
  
• Iron and wood loot in POIs has been adjusted
  
• Meat dryer balancing
  
  
  
  • 2 carcasses > 4 dried meat
    
  • 2 fishes > 10 dried fish
    
  • 2 meat > 10 dried meat
    
  • 2 rats > 4 dried meat
    
  
  

• “legendary presence” quest has been fixed
  
• “Tomb raiders” quest has been fixed
  
• “The ogress” (Weekly Bounty weapon) has been fixed
  
• Skills affected by range bonuses have been fixed
  
• “Ravagers” ingame achievement has been fixed
  
• “Eclectic Intellectuals” ingame achievement has been fixed
  
• Arthes scenario, alongside Vernalis should provide the intended reward.
  
• “Enhanced Vitality” has been fixed
  
• Steam achievements related to Tomb of the Ancients should be fixed
  
• Fixed a few bugs linked to “confessions”
  
• Allied posture (Attack/Defense/Flee) no longer locks troop positioning
  
• Allied units are taken into account for the captain’s skill (Valour Point gain)
  
• “Contusion” status should now impact health & carrying capacity as intended
  
• “Knife Throw” will no longer be triggered when a ranger tries to capture an enemy
  
• Other bugs fixed

• We have drastically increased performance when on the worldmap

• Some translations are missing for the Rouste, Pony armour and a few skills from the Arena of Berna
  

Thank you all for your patience following the delay of this update, it was great to see our players so understanding of the reasoning behind this and we hope that we've been able to exceed your expectations with Gosenberg after the extra time the delay afforded us.

Next up, the long awaited co-op update, following which we'll have another Community Update, alongside a new iteration of the roadmap, so keep an eye out...

Thanks for your feedback, understanding and most importantly, your support!

- Shiro Games

Hello everybody!

We're extremely happy to finally share with you all of the incredible stuff we’ve been preparing for Gamescom over the last few months!

We hope that you will be as excited about this news as we have been throughout development, and we can't wait to share even more details about what’s to come down the line.

Let's start!

Wartales | The Great Gosenberg | Next Free Major Update

Northgard | The Clan of the Eagle

Northgard | New Campaign Chapter

Dune: Spice Wars | House Corrino

And that's it for our Gamescom announcements and news!

We hope you enjoyed discover them, and are as excited as we are during their development!

More details will be share with you very soon, so stay tuned...

Shiro Games Team.

Attention mercenaries!

We’re very proud to release to you all the fourth community update for Wartales! This update is built primarily around some of the most popular community requests we've been receiving, addresses and implements a number of issues and suggestions we've seen over the last few months and massively changes multiple aspects of the game!

In addition, following a very successful beta period, the much requested Chinese localisation is now live!

So... let's take a look at what's new!

SYSTEM UPDATE - Fleeing merchants!

SYSTEM UPDATE - Suspicion

SYSTEM UPDATE - Choose your companies specialities

SYSTEM UPDATE - Partially-controlled ally!

NEW Ruin!

ECONOMY BALANCING

• Fangs selling price has been updated (is now 0 gold, as originally thought)
  
• Component selling price has been decreased
  
• Captain/Lieutenant wages have been increased
  
• Trade : You can now make bigger profits if you sell trade goods far from where you bought them but you can no longer make profits with trade goods in the same region where they are produced
  
• Refugee caravans can no longer buy or sell items
  
• You can now cross the path of “golden caravans” carrying all the items that are sellable by a caravan!
  

KNOWLEDGE

• “Path runners” will now provides 20% speed bonus on road (was 10% before)
  
• “Artful dodgers” will now provides -10% suspicion reduction speed
  
• “Career plan” (cf attribute point rework)
  

PRISONER SPECIALIZATION

• Prisoners can now learn their original faction passive ability lvl 6
  
• Since they have less power than your mercenaries, their wages are divided by 2
  
• You can now assign attribute points to prisoners when leveling up
  
• You now have access to a “Trust log” for your prisoners. You will now be able to know what affects them!
  

UNITS

Attention mercenaries,

Today we announced at the PC Gaming show that co-op is on it's way to Wartales very soon! Find out more below...

Changelist:

NEW SYSTEM Confessions!

NEW SYSTEM Relations!

REWORK Prisoners

Tombs of the Ancients

• If you do not want to solve a puzzle, you will now get some help: in exchange for Krowns or Influence, somebody might be able to solve it for you.
  

Starting options

• You can now select starting traits for your companions.
  
• You can now select the color of your pony’s dress.
  
• The willpower of your starting companions should now be 10.
  

Game over

• When you have no more torches, you are now expelled from the ruin with armor to repair and injuries instead of getting a game over.
  
• Important allies can now start Dying.
  
• If an important ally starts Dying, you can now instantly retreat.
  

Traits

• Some traits are now hidden. Your companions may come into the world with hidden personality traits or talents that can be revealed when the conditions are met.
  
• A lot of new traits have been added.
  

Camp

• You can now feed and pay your companions even if you don’t have enough krowns or food to do it. Your loss of Happiness will be adjusted to match the amount.
  

Camping gear

• Some camp equipment has become production camp equipment : workshop, brew barrel, meat dryer, skin drying rack and beehive.
  
• You now must assign a companion to them to make them work.
  
• Whipped companions work twice as fast on these.
  
• You can now assign a Thief to the chest to launder any stolen items.
  
• Watch stool now also reduces the prisoners' chances to escape when a companion is assigned to it.
  
• Lectern now generates knowledge points when a scholar is assigned to it.
  
• You can now play the lute minigame in taverns.
  

Economy

• We also did an economic balancing pass with several goals in mind: to make the start of the game smoother and to make the game more challenging with higher levels while making the management of very large groups more economically challenging.
  
• The purchase price of items depends on their level: at low levels, they are proportionally cheaper while at high levels, they are proportionally more expensive
  
• The selling price of items has been globally reduced.
  
• Krowns gained in missions are always proportional to the size of the troop and increase less and less as the troop grows.
  
• The influence cost of mission bonus negotiations increases proportionally to the gain in krowns
  
• The cost of recruiting now increases with troop size, rather than linearly.
  
• The cost in krowns for prisoners is increased.
  
• Wages increase more and more with the level of the companion and no longer linearly.
  

Items

• Like the crafted items, each item now has a prerequisite level to be equipped
  
• You can now upgrade the level of your legendary weapons in exchange of Krowns in a Companion Training Grounds.
  

World

• Directional signs are now placed in the regions to indicate the direction of the different villages
  
• Enemies aggro range now scales with the power of your troop. The more you have, the less they want to fight you.
  
• Rat invasions now respawn in Harag.
  

New options

• You now have a huge list of options for the game. For example, you can now choose new keybinds for your skill bar or disable the weather visual effects.
  
• An icon indicating the weather status of the day has been added next to the calendar
  
• Credits have been added.
  

Graphics

• Faces and hairstyles have been updated!
  

Skills

• Functional duo has been reworked : Now deals 40-60% of Strength to a target and applies Riposte to the engaged ally.
  
• Attack order has been reworked : Now deals 30-50% of Dexterity to a target and if this backstabs, the engaged ally launches an opportunity attack.
  

Bugfixes

• Fixed attacks during Rest happening too often.
  
• Fixed a crash when an unit has too many skills
  
• Bionn should now always be a woman.
  
• Animals should no longer disengage in combat for no reason.
  
• General gameplay, AI and optimisation based fixes
  

Note that this game is developed by a separate development team within Shiro, so will have no impact on the ongoing or long term development of Wartales.