Battle Worlds: Kronos news & patch notes

A new update (1.4.3) is available. Here's the changelog: Gameplay/UI: - Savegames can now be deleted in the LoadGameScreen by selecting a savegame and then pressing the button that appears on the right. - In a multiplayer online game you can now cancel ending your turn by clicking on the X in the message window - Intro is now only shown on the first startup per default. If you want to show the intro on every startup you can enable it in the settings menu. - Vision range is now changed immediately when diving/resurfacing submarines or choosing vision upgrades on unit level up Bugfixes: - fixed a Multiplayer bug that a player could do 2 turns in a row - damaged units should now smoke correctly after loading a level - Mission End Screen is now showed after 3 seconds delay - fixed Manual Cam Movement so posteffects are not turned on while zooming - fixed a graphic glitch in ProfileEditScreen - fixed leagues showing after logout - Remove blocking map object when first enemy is destroyed to remove game blocker - Fixed multiple clicks on a multiplayergame opening it multiple times - Fixed positioning of notifications - Fixed tactical map: now appears earlier - small changes in english tutorial texts - fixed a bug that water settings could not be changed after changing from one level to another - fixed some crashes/freezes

We've just released the free DLC "Trains" for our turn-based strategy game "Battle Worlds: Kronos". It features:

• An additional single player campaign (~ 15 hours of play time!)
• Four new unit types with new gameplay features
• Two new multiplayer maps
• One new singleplayer challenge map

Free for everybody who bought the main game! Take a look: Features & New Units And these are the things we've benn working on in the last six month since the release of the game: Improvements since launch Have fun! Your KING Art Team

We've just released the free DLC "Trains" for our turn-based strategy game "Battle Worlds: Kronos". It features:

• An additional single player campaign (~ 15 hours of play time!)
• Four new unit types with new gameplay features
• Two new multiplayer maps
• One new singleplayer challenge map

Free for everybody who bought the main game! Take a look: Features & New Units And these are the things we've benn working on in the last six month since the release of the game: Improvements since launch Have fun! Your KING Art Team

Hey everyone. The new update (1.3.3) is now available and contains lots of changes. Here’s the change log: - Technician can now carry up to 3 mines and defuse mines - The Hurricane’s hit points have been reduced - Several GUI bugs have been fixed - Memory usage has been reduced by about 25-30% - Performance is optimized - Elite units that were loaded into buildings or other units can now be transferred over to other missions - The Hacker can’t take over human units anymore - Vehicles of the Residents now also heal on level 1 wrecks - In tactical map view commands can’t be given anymore - Diver/Meteor can be produced in the airbase - Buildings can now be placed with PlaceUnitAction - Aerial units will not be blocked by low map objects like barbed wire anymore - Impassable terrain (with wrecks on it) can’t be passed anymore - Damage preview on skip animation fixed - Towers don’t turn on transverse axis anymore - Upgrade "Blitz" updated: If an enemy unit attacks one of your units and dies, it won´t fire any longer before dying. - Grid rendering fixed - Trigger event "All units destroyed" now also triggers, when units are not destroyed but hacked by Hackers and is therefore renamed to „no unit left“ - Technicians can defuse and pick up mines of their own team - Technicians cannot pick up mines, when the ammo-cap is reached. Deploy a mine to make room before picking up another one - Hidden submarines are now shown correctly after passing a bridge - Technician cannot "defuse" other units than mines any longer Additionally we taught the editor some extra things: - Buildings can now be placed with PlaceUnitAction - Orbital Drop / Orbital Extract can now be executed in parallel several times - OrbitalDropUnits can now be assigned to a squad in the builder Your Battle Worlds team

Hey everyone. The new update (1.3.3) is now available and contains lots of changes. Here’s the change log: - Technician can now carry up to 3 mines and defuse mines - The Hurricane’s hit points have been reduced - Several GUI bugs have been fixed - Memory usage has been reduced by about 25-30% - Performance is optimized - Elite units that were loaded into buildings or other units can now be transferred over to other missions - The Hacker can’t take over human units anymore - Vehicles of the Residents now also heal on level 1 wrecks - In tactical map view commands can’t be given anymore - Diver/Meteor can be produced in the airbase - Buildings can now be placed with PlaceUnitAction - Aerial units will not be blocked by low map objects like barbed wire anymore - Impassable terrain (with wrecks on it) can’t be passed anymore - Damage preview on skip animation fixed - Towers don’t turn on transverse axis anymore - Upgrade "Blitz" updated: If an enemy unit attacks one of your units and dies, it won´t fire any longer before dying. - Grid rendering fixed - Trigger event "All units destroyed" now also triggers, when units are not destroyed but hacked by Hackers and is therefore renamed to „no unit left“ - Technicians can defuse and pick up mines of their own team - Technicians cannot pick up mines, when the ammo-cap is reached. Deploy a mine to make room before picking up another one - Hidden submarines are now shown correctly after passing a bridge - Technician cannot "defuse" other units than mines any longer Additionally we taught the editor some extra things: - Buildings can now be placed with PlaceUnitAction - Orbital Drop / Orbital Extract can now be executed in parallel several times - OrbitalDropUnits can now be assigned to a squad in the builder Your Battle Worlds team

Improved, scalable UI

We've updated our UI system. The biggest feature is a new option in the settings that allows you to scale the UI up to 200% of its normal size. So if you're using a very high resolution or you want to play on your television you should be fine now. Other improvements include:

• Better text input (copy & paste, navigation in text fields)
• Hotkey for “End Turn”
• Hotkey for “Display unit info permanently”
• Option to disable the auto chat-login

Let us know if everything works!

Better Performance

We had some performance issues on OpenGL Systems (Mac & Linux). We tweaked a couple of things and the performance should be noticeably better on all systems, but especially on Mac and Linux.

• High quality settings: Only minor improvements here
• Medium quality: You should notice a substantial performance improvement here
• Low quality: Substantial performance improvements
• (New) Very low quality: This is a new, very fast set of settings

On our low specs Mac test system the performance went up from ~15-20 fps to 30-40 fps in Medium quality. Depending on your system your experience may differ. Please let us know how the performance changed.

Many small things & Bug fixes

AI for air raid defense turrets and guard towers fixed

Fixed tooltip hide/unhide units

The unit info now shows the amount of mines a unit carries

Buildings no longer hinder movement

Now units turn their turrets when attacking (where applicable)

The "Next Unit" and "Sleep" Buttons no longer open the transporter screen

Fixed a bug when a mine was deployed next to a hidden unit

Fixed a bug where hidden units had been visible for the enemy while they were moving

Fixed a bug when loading savegames from the main menu

Loca updates for it, fr, es, rus Changelog: http://forum.kingart-games.com/index.php/topic,13446.0.html

Improved, scalable UI

We've updated our UI system. The biggest feature is a new option in the settings that allows you to scale the UI up to 200% of its normal size. So if you're using a very high resolution or you want to play on your television you should be fine now. Other improvements include:

• Better text input (copy & paste, navigation in text fields)
• Hotkey for “End Turn”
• Hotkey for “Display unit info permanently”
• Option to disable the auto chat-login

Let us know if everything works!

Better Performance

We had some performance issues on OpenGL Systems (Mac & Linux). We tweaked a couple of things and the performance should be noticeably better on all systems, but especially on Mac and Linux.

• High quality settings: Only minor improvements here
• Medium quality: You should notice a substantial performance improvement here
• Low quality: Substantial performance improvements
• (New) Very low quality: This is a new, very fast set of settings

On our low specs Mac test system the performance went up from ~15-20 fps to 30-40 fps in Medium quality. Depending on your system your experience may differ. Please let us know how the performance changed.

Many small things & Bug fixes

AI for air raid defense turrets and guard towers fixed

Fixed tooltip hide/unhide units

The unit info now shows the amount of mines a unit carries

Buildings no longer hinder movement

Now units turn their turrets when attacking (where applicable)

The "Next Unit" and "Sleep" Buttons no longer open the transporter screen

Fixed a bug when a mine was deployed next to a hidden unit

Fixed a bug where hidden units had been visible for the enemy while they were moving

Fixed a bug when loading savegames from the main menu

Loca updates for it, fr, es, rus Changelog: http://forum.kingart-games.com/index.php/topic,13446.0.html

Version 1.3 has been released. Now you can upload your user-generated maps directly into the game and other players can rate them. The Battle Worlds: Kronos editor is now part of the game data and can be launched via Steam (Windows only). Have fun!

Version 1.3 has been released. Now you can upload your user-generated maps directly into the game and other players can rate them. The Battle Worlds: Kronos editor is now part of the game data and can be launched via Steam (Windows only). Have fun!

We've released a new version yesterday. It features some major improvements: Faster gameplay

• AI units now move in parallel making AI turns faster
• AI animations can now be disabled
• Units covering far distance accelerate over time

Multiplayer enhancements

• Leagues are now available for all players
• Players can collect points and gain ranks
• Players are now given a comprehensive Skill level

General fixes and optimizations

• Higher quality battle sounds for many units
• Counter-attack damage now displayed
• Revised AI algorithm for unit selection to reducing panning
• Balance tuning for numerous single-player missions
• Auto-login to multiplayer features

We've released a new version yesterday. It features some major improvements: Faster gameplay

• AI units now move in parallel making AI turns faster
• AI animations can now be disabled
• Units covering far distance accelerate over time

Multiplayer enhancements

• Leagues are now available for all players
• Players can collect points and gain ranks
• Players are now given a comprehensive Skill level

General fixes and optimizations

• Higher quality battle sounds for many units
• Counter-attack damage now displayed
• Revised AI algorithm for unit selection to reducing panning
• Balance tuning for numerous single-player missions
• Auto-login to multiplayer features

You don't know if Battle Worlds: Kronos is the right game for you (some feel it's pretty difficult...)? Try the demo and find out!

You don't know if Battle Worlds: Kronos is the right game for you (some feel it's pretty difficult...)? Try the demo and find out!

You want to build your own missions and multiplayer maps? Then take a look at the Battle Worlds: Kronos editor. You can get the editor here: Get the editor (Game required) ...and info about it here: To the forum

You want to build your own missions and multiplayer maps? Then take a look at the Battle Worlds: Kronos editor. You can get the editor here: Get the editor (Game required) ...and info about it here: To the forum

We’ve released a patch this morning that should fix the following problems:

• Fixed a bug where the menu would remain unresponsive for several seconds after starting the game.
• Fixed a bug where the game would continue to scroll the view despite the right mouse button not being pressed.
• Fixed a bug where multiplayer games did no longer show up in the Multiplayer Hub.
• Fixed a bug that prevented the unlimitted shootbacks upgrade to function properly.
• Fixed a bug that caused noticeable input lag and sound stuttering when issuing a move order to a selected unit.
• Fixed a bug that allowed players to toggle through enemy units with Tab that should be concealed by the fog of war.
• Steam achievements are now granted regardless of whether the user is logged in with his KING Art account.
• The minimum supported screen resolution has been lowered to 1024 x 768.
• Fixed a number of localization bugs in several languages.
• Various smaller UI tweaks.
• Tweaks in several single player maps.

We’ve released a patch this morning that should fix the following problems:

• Fixed a bug where the menu would remain unresponsive for several seconds after starting the game.
• Fixed a bug where the game would continue to scroll the view despite the right mouse button not being pressed.
• Fixed a bug where multiplayer games did no longer show up in the Multiplayer Hub.
• Fixed a bug that prevented the unlimitted shootbacks upgrade to function properly.
• Fixed a bug that caused noticeable input lag and sound stuttering when issuing a move order to a selected unit.
• Fixed a bug that allowed players to toggle through enemy units with Tab that should be concealed by the fog of war.
• Steam achievements are now granted regardless of whether the user is logged in with his KING Art account.
• The minimum supported screen resolution has been lowered to 1024 x 768.
• Fixed a number of localization bugs in several languages.
• Various smaller UI tweaks.
• Tweaks in several single player maps.