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v4.17.3

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4d ago

New Features

- Basic emotes are now live! Taunt your enemies or vulnerably express your emotions after a series of “strategic” mistakes. - New settings and mail UIs are now live. These mark the first of our UI rework, with more on the way!

Changes

- Profile picture selection is now skipped during initial account creation for a smoother flow. You can still change your profile picture once you reach your base - You can now tap on resource nodes in unexpanded territory to view the node type and hint text - Expansions in progress now cycle between expanded and unexpanded shading and have more workers on them to help differentiate between expanded and unexpanded regions - Move mode text now changes based on whether you need to select a building or if you are in the process of moving it - The confirm button for buildings in move mode is now greyed out when a building is in an invalid location to make it clearer when you can click it

Balance Changes

This update brings our first wave of changes to help smooth out the early game for new players. There’s still more to come, but this tranche focuses on early missions: - Reduced expansion times for the first 10 expansions - Reduced Toolshop build time to 5 minutes - Reduced Ancient Artifact build time to 1 hour - Reduced Dragonfruit Orchard build time to 2 hours - Reduced Trooper rank 1 -> 2 promotion timer to 15 minutes - Reduced Logging Camp gold cost to 2250 and changed both normal and advanced logging camps to unlock at level 7 - Reduced Hospital build time to 15 minutes - Updated the Silver Wolf mission encounter from mission “Frontier Justice” to use actual Silver Wolf units instead of stand-in rebel units - Mission “Tools of the Trade” now requires a noisy chainsaw instead of a jackhammer - Mission “Birds of Prey - Part 7” no longer requires a raptor cutlet - Mission “We Can Do It!” now only requires 2 noisy chainsaws, 1 jackhammer, and 1 arc welder - Mission “Boar-B-Cue” now only requires 1 spiral cut honey boar and 1 90% boar-meat hotdogs - Mission “Time to Get Wood” moved to start at level 7 and now rewards 500 stone and 1200 XP upon completion - Mission “Warehouse? There House” XP rewards increased to 1250. - Missions “Time to Get Wood” and “Warehouse? There House” now complete upon building creation rather than completion - Mission “Baked Goods” now starts after “Build a Bakery”. Some users may get this mission even at higher levels since this mission originally was gated off by another chain that doesn’t start - Mission “Move Along” removed, and rewards reallocated to mission “Baked Goods” - Mission “Everybody Must Get Stone” now starts at level 6 - Mission “Tools for Zoey” now only requires a new custom toolkit mission item - Mission “Leaving the Stone Age - Part 1” removed with rewards from part 1 reallocated to part 2 - Mission “Leaving the Stone Age - Part 2” renamed to “Leaving the Stone Age” - Mission “The Lonesome West” now rewards 125 stone on top of existing rewards - Missions “Porcine Pugilist”, “Birds of Prey - Part 1”, and “Renewable Raiders” now instantly spawn all required encounters - Mission “You’re Gonna be Popular” now rewards 5 merits on top of existing rewards

Bug Fixes

- Fight again button should now appear for raids after resuming from a PvP battle. Note that layouts are still not remembered yet. This will be fixed in a future update - Unit stats screens will be closed when a battle ends rather than staying open - Friendly PvP invites sent simultaneously between players will automatically accept the invite rather than have both players stuck on the accept countdown screen with a PvP notification - Fixed small sliver of health/armor bar that would remain even when a unit had 0 of it

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v4.17.3

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4d ago

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v4.16.0 Release Notes

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27d ago

New Features

- You can now log in with Apple or Google accounts in addition to email. If you have an existing account that was created with an email, you can link these social providers on MadronaID and sign in with them. If you sign in with a social login that matches your existing email-based account, it will automatically link them. - We’ve implemented an anonymous login method to make it easier to hop into the game as a new player. At any time, you can link your anonymous account to a login method through the game settings. We highly recommend linking a login method to your anonymous account to ensure your game account does not get lost.

Changes

- This update is the culmination of a massive overhaul of our backend systems. Over 100k lines of code were rewritten during this effort to fix several core architectural issues that we’ve noticed as we’ve grown, enabling us to prepare our systems to scale to a wider audience and, more importantly, lay the foundation for the numerous new features we’ve been cooking up. While this update is a massive win on the development side, we want to preface that on the player side, this update takes shape more as a bugfix/optimization update and should not have any major functional changes. That being said, please be sure to open a bug report if you are seeing any weird issues around connecting/staying connected to the server. - One unfortunate tradeoff we had to make due to this architectural shift was disabling the ability to interact with friend bases when the friend is online. You’ll still be able to visit bases that are online, just not assist or fight their encounters, and you’ll have the usual options available when they’re offline. Given that our position is that the whole assist system needs an overhaul and the level of effort that would’ve been required to implement a system to keep the base in sync with live external interactions, we felt that this was a worthwhile tradeoff for the time being to focus on delivering the features and content you have been looking forward to. We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause. - Previously, in the stats info panels for units, abilities that could stun would indicate their duration to be 1 turn longer than they actually were. This has now been corrected for clarity, and the change has no gameplay impact - We’ve updated a few more buildings with redrawn art as part of our ongoing effort to modernize the assets

Bug Fixes

- Fixed enemy units sometimes displaying incorrect cooldowns on weapons - Fixed prep time issues on several units, such as the Mammoth Artillery's second attack - Spawn-on-death units now respect prep time - Fixed issues with freeze and ammo reload not pausing accordingly - Fixed an issue that incorrectly ignored global cooldown, causing some abilities to be used too frequently - Fixed issues with some buttons being unresponsive - Fixed an issue where selecting an ability while animations are running would become deselected when it becomes your turn again - Engine update to fix a crash that would occur on Windows - Improved error handling during app startup to reduce the chance of getting stuck on loading screens - Fixed issue where defense coverage would disappear when zooming to certain levels - Fixed issue where intro cutscene wouldn’t play after signing out and creating a new account - Fixed an issue that would cause some new missions on the mission screen to take a few seconds to start after tapping on them - Fixed an issue when viewing guild UI from a mail link - Fixed a localization issue for a countdown timer in guild UI modals

v4.15.0 Release Notes

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97d ago

New Features

- Level 65 is here with new units, buildings, missions, and more! Once you reach level 65, you’ll start earning prestige again. Note: current XP gained towards prestige will carry over to advancing your level. - It’s time to put your graphic design skills to the test. Initial guild icon customization is now live! Get creative, hoist your new insignia, and strike fear into the hearts of your rivals. - The Ridgy-Didge is now available to fight as a repeatable boss! Apparently, Bogan’s “Emperor” sandworm wasn’t exactly the top of the food chain, seeing as its *meaner* cousin is back for revenge. Slay the Ridgy-Didge to claim its razor-sharp teeth and the skulls of its bygone lunches. You might even pacify one of its adult worm henchmen and use it to fight for the glory of the Empire! Also, to let Floyd study it for research or something. That'd be nice too. Keep an eye out for it every week at Bogan’s House. - Our artist Reed has spent much of the past year updating many of the early game art assets to look sharper on high-resolution screens while preserving the classic BN style. The initial focus has been on buildings, especially early-level content. Along the way, we have also added improvements like seamless grass, increased zoom, and some enhancements to raider buildings to boost the visual quality of early NPC maps. There is still more work ahead, but we have reached a solid milestone and are excited to finally share these assets while continuing on with further levels.

Changes

- We have made significant improvements to memory management in Battle Nations. Most memory leaks have been identified and fixed, and we’ve optimized away high allocation patterns. As a result, we’ve lowered the minimum RAM requirements for preloading assets to 2GB, down from 4GB. Additionally, longer play sessions should result in less frequent OOM crashes, and memory-constrained devices should be less likely to enter low memory mode. As a reminder, if the OS sends the game a low memory warning, the game will stop preloading assets to avoid being killed by the OS, and thus your load times will increase. If this happens and your device has more than 2GB of RAM, we recommend closing other background apps and then restarting the game. - We’ve lowered all naval units that previously had a player level 66 unit rank prerequisite to a player level 65 unit rank prerequisite. - Solar Power Plant has undergone extensive renovations.

Bug Fixes

- Fixed issue with environmental DOT causing spawn on death units not to spawn in certain situations. - Updated engine to fix a couple of different high-volume crashes on Windows systems. - Updated Steam SDK to try resolving hanging issues seen on some Windows systems. - Improved handling of network errors during battle. - Fixed the garrison range issue that would cause garrisons to not deploy on some maps, like New Haven. - Fixed an issue that would occur if a player equipped abilities on a unit that was preplaced in a battle. Previously, the attacks would be preset and would not work, but now they will use the ones the player equipped.

v4.9.7 Release Notes

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331d ago

New Features

Added friends button and navigation arrows to jump to the next and previous friend base when visiting a friend
Additional backend optimizations to fix long load times for social features
Added a friend counter in the friends list
Added a red bubble counter on the friend invites button to indicate how many pending requests you have
Localized social feature messages

Changes

To help mitigate the issues we saw during the friends rollout, the following limits have been added:

Implemented a 100 friend limit. Any friends over 100 have been automatically unfriended for you
Implemented a global assist limit of 50 assists. Each day, you’ll be able to make 50 assist actions, which recharge every 22 hours based on when you assisted your friends

Bug Fixes

Fixed the issue that would prevent building buildings that only allowed one instance after visiting a friend base
Fixed the issue that would show an upgrade icon on a friend's base
Fixed the issue that would prevent doing an expansion after visiting a friend’s base
Fixed the issue that would prevent doing an upgrade after visiting a friend’s base
Fixed the issue that would show your friend’s resource limits instead of your own after visiting a friend’s base
Ensure the gold/nanopod blade appears when visiting a friend’s base
Fixed the issue that would prevent active animations from playing on a friend's base for buildings with active jobs
Fixed the friends menu silently failing and not allowing it to be opened
Fixed the issue that prevented exact username matches from appearing at the top of the search results
Fixed issue with building assist limits not being reset after the refresh interval
Fixed issue with hospital assists not working
Fixed issue where profile pictures in the incoming assistance window weren’t displaying the correct picture
Fixed issue where battle background texture would pop in after the loading screen came down
Fixed the assist sound not playing when assisting at a friend's base
Fixed mission button not appearing when at NPC/world map locations
Fixed missing button click sounds on the friends menu and mission window
Fixed issue preventing Silver Wolves from spawning in Bernmonth/Recoil Ridge

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