First Feudal news & patch notes

Hello there! Our second game is a PvP party game where your goal is to DIE FIRST! {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/31155142/46c5cc1183b4fd98d07c8cb71ae8441ccbf7c56d.png That's probably not what most of you wants, but our team wanted totally different project after five years of development of FIrst Feudal :) So, it would be cool if you check it out if you want to play something totally different too! Game link: https://store.steampowered.com/app/2493920/Try_Dying/

- Fixed an issue where Steam overlay and some Steam features were disabled

- Fixed rare crash occurred while peasant dies of starving during finding a path to the chest with food - Fixed a Taming tutorial quest for the Nomads origin

- Fixed rare issue where archers on towers were not attacking incoming enemies

Thanks to Poyraz Eyüp and Sakinolmamlazım for the Turkish localization! Minor fixes: - Prolonged crafts returns Wooden Bowls if crafting recipe require Water. - Fixed an issue where crafts returned only one Wooden Bowl even if recipe require few Water units.

{STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/31155142/bc338274ac5f7ba4a2bc9e60f1615ed85a6612a7.png New features: - External game Wikipedia https://firstfeudal.harpoon.games/ Lots of content is already added by the dev team, but feel free to expand existing articles or add a new one! - Import map feature which allows you to make a map based on an uploaded png image (you can use a part from the real world or some fantasy map, for example) - Rebalanced prices for almost all goods and rebalanced resource amounts for all events Minor features: - Spend and given resources are displayed near to the citizen. The amount of displayed resources can be set in the game settings. - Wooden Chest can now be upgraded to Big Wooden Chest - Added edict for changing priority of ranged weapons for a militia - Added edict for forbidding to plant new farms a few hours before the winter - Added new interfaces sound - Total price is now displayed near to the buy order on a trade tent interface - Chance to enslave enemy while playing nomads is now depends on citizens' amount: it's higher for small villages and lower for big villages. Characteristics of enslaved people will most depends on enemy characteristics (previously it depended only on citizens' characteristics) - Maximum amount of enemies is increased in the late game for the medium and high difficulty - Improved AI logic for bears which come with northern army - Improved AI logic for enemies who attack buildings - Buildings can be transferred or destroyed using hotkeys even if buttons with those hotkeys are not displayed in the bottom right menu Bugfixes: - Map 12. Bastion is fixed - previously this map became larger on save-loading. Same issue also could occur on some workshop maps - Fixed "invisible" wetlands on the maps - Ability to plant farms during the winter is disabled for the feudal lord - The event "Our region became calm and prosperous" will not occur so often. Previously, chance of this event weren't reset after event occurring - Fixed an issue where farmers don't plant part of the farms after the winter if some farms were destroyed by the event before the winter - Fixed a very rare crash caused by shooting using a bow - Fixed a crash which may occur when there are no chests and a hungry peasant is searching for food - Fixed an issue which caused buildings' animation to stop - Fixed an issue with Traders origin where Add Trait button can be blocked even if there was enough money to add a trait - Amount of required resources for building is now displayed properly for 100+ resource amount - Clicking on tools or seeds notification will select the not finished Tool Bench or Seed Extractor if there are no finished buildings - Description for the Tribe origin is expanded - Fixed an issue where price for items bought using a trade tent depended on set quality, even if those items have no quality parameter - Fixed an issue where current amount of food wasn't correctly displayed in the events if there were not enough food for decision - Fixed an issue where knocked down allies could move after save-loading - Fixed an issue where enemies enslaved by Nomads can get stuck sometimes during their job - Fixed Thrifty trait for the trader profession - Science exp for killing domestic animals is now given to Sheep Breeding/Animal Breeding sciences instead of Primitive Technology science - Fixed an issue where Autonomous Drill's recipes for the current recipe's group were not loaded after Drill's building - Small interface fixes - Text fixes

{STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/31155142/a6683df88ed3a78b84478fdd54611806918cb637.png New features: - External game Wikipedia https://firstfeudal.harpoon.games/ Lots of content is already added by dev team, but feel free to expand existing articles or add a new one! - Import map feature which allows you to make a map based on uploaded png image (you can use a part from real world or some fantasy map for example). This feature works only for 1600x900 or larger screen resolution. - Lots of QoL features and bugfixes. Full list of changes will be published upon release to default version If you want switch version to Beta - press RMB on the First Feudal in the games library -> Properties -> Betas -> and select version "beta".

- Fixed an issue where some items can be deleted from inventory on load - Fixed an issue where pop up with north army info always said that 6 bears will come - Fixed typos - Lots of improvements for Traditional Chinese localization made by our player eva08maicy02

- Fixed an issue where server app can have several lags sometimes while bear looks for food in player's chests - Game is built on older gamemaker version, which should fix some rare crashes - (1.4.4) Added in-game links to discord channel and to the steam workshop

{STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/31155142/2b280d0cf4cccc63813726fad540e596e1bc79a9.png New features: - Map editor to create custom maps and share it with steam workshop. Map pack from developers is already available in the game - We've reworked map generation: it became much faster, you can preview the map before launching a game and you can choose one of six different terrain types - New "Aristocrat" origin: noble feudal lord who serves his suzerain to gain his loyalty, which can be traded to various useful things - New trade events affecting goods price. Price changes during winter also moved to this system - New building: Arrow Basket. It can be placed on fortress wall. People shooting from this wall have 50% chance not to spend ammo on shot - Added crossplay between Steam and GOG game versions - Developer mode with additional functions. This mode can be enabled by creating a game with name "GodModeOn" and achievements will be disabled for this game Minor features: - Peasants called to arms will "reserve" weapon before taking it, so peasants will try to take different weapons instead of going to same chest. It will highly speed up gathering speed after calling to arms - Main square can now be built above farms and trees (they will be automatically destroyed) - Trees amount is increased for smaller maps and reduced for bigger one. It will make playing on different maps more balanced - Stone drop rate from quarries is increased by ~15-20% - Wolf and bear attack types changed to blunt. It will make beasts less powerless against buildings - Reduced amount of bears coming with north barbarians by 20% - Warriors attack priorities for beasts are now lower than for enemies - Improved AI behaviour for friendly archers on the castle wall - Camera speed is depends on current camera zoom - Minor interface improvements Bugfixes: - Achievement for all victories in the ironman mode is fixed (previously you could get it only during one game, and not after taking one and save-loading) - Warriors will not switch to peaceful mode after killing a beast, if enemies are still on the map - Fixed a rare crash caused by mover who tried to load up a long craft building - Fixed an issue where food price with low freshness can be negative on selling with trade tent - Dirty dish is no more marked as deficit - Fixed an issue where "Druid Among the Trees" buff checked old position for persons who sleeping or sitting on the throne - Fixed an issue where bear which tried to destroy a chest didn't notice relocating that chest and continued hitting nothing - Fixed an issue where Arrow Brazier can't be built sometimes

{STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/31155142/9c3c5420d26ca071e3dbf9688c67fd4298a95ca1.png New features: - Map editor to create custom maps and share it with steam workshop. Map pack from developers is already available in the game - We've reworked map generation: it became much faster, you can preview the map before launching a game and you can choose one of seven different terrain types - New "Nobleman" origin: noble feudal lord who serves his suzerain to gain his loyalty, which can be traded to various useful things - New trade events affecting goods price - New building: Arrow Basket - Added crossplay between Steam and GOG game versions - Developer mode with additional functions. This mode can be enabled by creating a game with name "GodModeOn" and achievements will be disabled for this game Full list of changes will be published upon release to default version If you want switch version to Beta - press RMB on the First Feudal in the games library -> Properties -> Betas -> and select version "beta".

{STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/31155142/04682d4c3eec081fb84cae8823751ddccbb4b069.png Halloween-themed buildings are enabled in the First Feudal till November 3st, so it's time to check it! And we are working on the next update which will include: - Map editor to create custom maps and share it with steam workshop. Also we will add map generation before starting a new game, so you will be able to easily re-generate maps if you are looking for something special - New "Aristocrat" origin: noble feudal lord who serves his suzerain to gain his loyalty, which can be traded to various useful things - New trade events affecting goods price Happy Halloween!

- Reworked all English texts - Fixed a rare issue with retreating enemies stuck on the map border - Fixed a rare crash caused by trading with merchant a few moments before he disassemble his tent - Fixed origin texts and texts with line breaks for localization mods, if those texts are missed in the mod and automatically replaced with English

- Fixed a crash caused by shooting a wolf with flaming arrow (for low lighting settings)

{STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/31155142/469518f8b938b9c86a613215c8c6c85b72b1b87e.png New features: - Added two new events. Happening of these events depends on player's behavior - how aggressive or friendly decisions he make during other events - Changes for "Druid" origin: • Peasants near any tree get happiness bonus similar to roof bonus and lightning will not hit storages near to trees. Tiles near to trees are displayed on the roof map • Darkness penalty is reduced and small visibility zone is added for citizens without torches • Added a map for displaying all tiles in 3-meter radius from trees • Light armor and ranged weapons have increased priority for peasants by default - Changes for "Nomad" origin: • Removed equipment craft quality penalty • Added 10% penalty for getting science points • Light armor and ranged weapons have increased priority for peasants by default - Heavy armor has increased priority for "Highlander" peasants by default - List of interface improvements: • Decision buttons locked for a short time after event appearing so buttons will not be pressed by mistake • Added a message after switching to strategic or tactics mode • Added blackout at the edges of the screen during the pause • Improved animation for stamina and health spending • Origin info added to the statistic screen • List of positive and negative effects is added to popup for next peasant timer • Fortress stairs can now be built only in right places near to the castle wall - Significantly increased stamina regeneration rate Minor features: - Farmer profession can now be unlocked by building seed extractor - Added "mute all sound" setting to the audio settings - Peasant "calls" neighbor peasants to battle after detecting an enemy (previously all peasants have separate enemy detecting radius) Bugfixes: - Significantly improved game memory usage especially on saving and loading. Previously lack of memory can cause a game crash - Fixed a rare crash caused by checking is lightning hit any storage or not - Fixed an issue where massive farm removing didn't work on farms planted before last loading - Fixed an issue in cooperative mode where only player who completed task heard the sound of it - Fixed an issue where peasant could return outside during snowstorm before getting "Warmed" buff - Fixed an issue where hunters with shields used block sometimes during hunting - Fixed an issue where starving peasant notification didn't disappeared after feeding peasants by event decision French localization for the new update is not ready yet and will be added in future updates

{STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/31155142/ed43946686e20158584515ede86f777fd7a39f4d.jpg New features: - Event decisions can now have long-term consequences in the form of new events - Implemented balance changed to all origins - Added lots of small interface improvements - Significantly improved game memory usage Full list of changes will be published upon release to default version If you want switch version to Beta - press RMB on the First feudal in the games library -> Properties -> Betas -> and select version "beta".

- Fixed an issue where braziers on castle walls were not working sometimes - Fixed an issue which caused increased map generation time - Fixed an issue where recently rotted food may displayed in player's inventory after opening merchant menu - Fixed an issue where one of decisions for passing caravan event contained info about nomad origin instead of merchant origin

- Fixed an issue where some food for nomads has wrong balance of meat and vegetables/cereals - Fixed an issue where feudal lord on the throne could lose fulness sometimes instead of getting it - Fixed an issue where hunter interrupted hunting too often to go to eat (especially if village has lack of food) - Improved logic for unloading loot for hunter (especially for cases with some interruptions) - Fixed an issue where animation of crafting/packing may continue after artisan/trader interrupted work to go to eat - Fixed unstable crash after craft interruption (for artisan and weaponsmith) - Fixed a rare crash caused by beasts after killing a wave of enemies - Fixed a rare crash caused by lightning strike event

- Fixed rare crash after spawning new animals - Fixed unstable crash after craft interruption (for artisan and smith)

{STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/31155142/65a9d224c93810900db2195ff6107c2d52508f05.jpg New features: - Origin is a special trait that affects all villagers, giving significant bonuses, new mechanics, and also penalties. You can choose one of five origins before starting a game: Tribe, Druids, Highlanders, Nomads, Merchants. Origin allows you to emphasize your play style from the beginning or try a new challenge when you become an experienced feudal lord. - The fortress system is completely reworked: the current fortress walls and towers are removed from the game, and they replaced by a wide fortress wall on which archers can climb to receive bonuses on defense, accuracy and firing range. So you can use all of your archers power to defend your village from any side. Also, durability of the walls will become much higher and enemies will have more archers and less melee warriors - Added new event: lightning can strike a storage placed not under the roof - Improved art of some game elements: crosshair cursor, mountains, death animation, burning animation - Main square can be relocated and throne can be built/relocated on the square now - Added saving for new game difficulty settings Minor features: - Added decision "Ignore" to the herbalist event - Peasants will follow the feudal lord after calling to arms instead of gathering on the square. They will stop following the feudal lord after receiving any order or if the feudal lord will go to sleep/sit on a throne - - Science tree is reworked a bit - Dirty dishes remain after some food. These dishes need to be washed before re-using - Reduced enemy damage to buildings - Added mass exchange for science upgrade points - Added notification for a happy peasants - Added info about second (not only current) profession to a resting peasant notification - Added animation for the wake up button after restoring all maximum stamina during sleep - Wound and burning debuff can now be applied to sheeps and cows - Trait "Highlander" renamed to "Berserk" (to avoid confusion with highlanders origin) - Science screen is automatically scrolled to the new available science after pressing on the science notification - Citizens can drink milk now - Citizens get Warmed buff during snowstorm if they drunk alcohol recently - Improved bonuses for light and heavy armor with researched "School of Warfare" science upgrade - Added maximum player setting for the multiplayer games - Roads can be built under doors now - Added description for some items - Improved shepherd logic, so he'll go home and drop loot less often - Minor improvements in AI logic - Increased durability of the whip Bugfixes: - Fixed an issue where mover or artisan took and droped items to chests instead of going to load prolonged craft buildings - Fixed an issue where a peasant couldn't sleep after force waking up (until save-loading the game) - Fixed an issue where science screen was closed after the second pressing a new science notification - Fixed an issue where milking/shearing animation could stuck after changing profession of the shepherd - Fixed an issue where Barn can be selected after pressing on the barrel notification - Fixed an issue with home calculations near mountains for new games (until save-loading) - Fixed an issue with wild animals who stayed near a knocked down peasants instead of going to attack other peasants - Fixed an issue where enemies could stuck in the map border while retreating - Fixed a lags caused by farmer who stays far away from the chest with seeds if path to this chest is blocked or chest has "Ignore" priority - Fixed an issue where people on fortifications can be damaged with melee enemies under the fortification Please note that new update doesn't support saves from previous versions but current version will be still able in Steam

{STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/31155142/3d2f12de53790f89b66972dd9133dfcd570b03cb.jpg New features: - Origin is a special trait that affects all villagers, giving significant bonuses, new mechanics, and also penalties. You can choose one of five origin before starting a new game: Tribe, Druids, Highlanders, Nomads, Merchants. Origin allows you to emphasize your play style from the beginning or try a new challenge when you become an experienced feudal lord. - The fortress system is completely reworked: the current fortress walls and towers are removed from the game, and they replaced by a wide fortress wall on which archers can climb to receive bonuses on defense, accuracy and firing range. So you can use all of your archers power to defend your village from any side. Also, durability of the walls will become much higher and enemies will have more archers and less melee warriors - Added new event: lightning can strike a storage placed not under the roof - Science tree is reworked a bit - Improved art of some game elements: crosshair cursor, mountains, death animation, burning animation - Dirty dishes remain after some food. This dishes need to be washed before re-using - Main square can be relocated and throne can be built/relocated on the square now Full list of changes will be published upon release to default version Please note that new update doesn't support saves from previous versions but current version will be still able in Steam If you want switch version to Beta - press RMB on the First feudal in the games library -> Properties -> Betas -> and select version "beta".

{STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/31155142/90808e0085f872b7dfe78ebc8e0cd16d4da187ef.jpg Hello everyone! Mid of the summer and 35°C, what a nice time to... work on the next update! The key features of this update are the origins and the rework of the fortification system. Origin is a special trait that affects all villagers, giving significant bonuses, new mechanics, and also penalties. Origin allows you to emphasize your play style from the beginning or try a new challenge when you become an experienced feudal lord. For now, we are working on five origins: • Tribe - chieftain (feudal lord) plays a most important role in the tribe. Feudal lord is few times stronger and smarter than any peasant and gets new stats faster. He can handle raids, wolves, and bears by himself and starts with copper sword. But he can't sit on the stone throne - he have to work with his villagers and defend them. And every villager's death is a real hit for the feudal lord. • Druids - children of the forest and friends of nature who can grow farms much better than anyone. Druids love forest and love to be among trees. After cutting a tree, they immediately plant a new one. But druids are not good at stone mining and can't build fortress walls. Druids don't need braziers to shoot incendiary arrows and feudal lord starts with short bow and pack of arrows. • Highlanders - real workers. They are masters of crafting, smithing, and mining. And their floors are as good for traveling as roads. However, highlanders avoid other people, so their village grows much slower. Also, they are tough warriors and feudal lord starts with copper shield. • Steppe nomads - perfect hunters and herdsmans, but worthless farmers. Ration of nomads is modest and they even have no need to wash the dishes. Their village grows really fast because they can enslave some of defeated enemies and can get more money from robbing caravans. But their artisans and weaponsmith are lazy at work. Nomads like light armor and their vitality is poor. Feudal lord starts with whip so he can "motivate" his lazy workers. • Merchants - experts of trading. Merchants can buy and sell anything at best prices, but they are terrible at crafting equipment. And they are good at solving problems with gold - they can get 50% discount or even buy a peasant for the village. Trading is available from the start and feudal lord starts with resources for the first trade tent. The fortress system will be completely reworked: the current fortress walls and towers will be removed from the game, and they will be replaced by a wide fortress wall on which archers can climb to receive bonuses on defense, accuracy and firing range. So you can use all of your archers power to defend your village from any side. Also, durability of the walls will become much higher. The release of the update is planned for mid-August.

- Fixed an issue where pop ups in the science menu weren't displayed

- Fixed an issue where Copper (and other "metal" sciences) was not displayed as unlocked after researching it until save-loading or getting science points in any science

- Added new notifications for blocked buildings for builder, artisan and weaponsmith - Fixed description for some farmer's notifications - Fixed an issue where trader calculated food freshness wrong if it was stored in the cellar and thermal insulation upgrade was unlocked - Fixed an issue where barn's filter resets after feudal lord drops any item into it - Added info about trait cost in the selection trait pop up - Fixed issues with some tutorial quests if player pressed Esc after adding an item from quest to production queue - Added workaround for getting "First Feudal" achievement if it was not unlocked when it should - Fixed typos - Added French localization for the last update

- Fixed a crash caused by notification about missed resource if resource stopped being deficit during appearing animation - Fixed a crash caused by price calculation if save with merchant tent was made in the 1.0 version - Fixed a crash caused by enemy spawn if save with delayed event was made in 0.18 - Fixed an issue where feudal lord didn't spend maximum stamina on relocating during the pause (it was recalculated only after unpausing) - Added animation for appearing "Call to Arms" button if player didn't press it yet

{STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/31155142/87b73813f8738c0f44c9861d914b104a5279af7d.png We've checked issues, which players have after the release, and read all feedback from players, so main features for this update are made to improve game interfaces and make them easier to understand. New features: - Peasants' notification description became more detailed and also notifications displayed in the peasant's inventory menu - Improved notification's displaying and added new types of notifications - New buildings: * Arrow Brazier - can be set up on the tower to give archers the ability to shoot flaming arrows. Flaming arrows damage enemies for 30% of their max hp over 10 seconds * Barn - can store up to 100 stacks of resources in each of 25 slots * Seed Extraction Table - seed's recipes moved to this bench from the kitchen - Added informational event with detailed description after researching a science - Added information with science points for every building, craft and other actions - Improved science interface - Improved chest's filter interface - Improved client-server interaction, which should fix lots of issues with loading or creating a new game - Added recommendation system for new craft recipes - Added German localization Minor features: - Added more information in the items, buildings, and recipes popups - Added speed-up buff while walking over the main square (this buff is similar to road buff) - Increased lighting radius of the campfire on the main square - Added new tips - Added new information event for winter mechanics - Increased amount of stone dropped from the stone quarry and reduced amount of stone dropped from the ordinary quarry - Added a system for lowering the client application speed if server application is lagging - Camera can be moved by cursor near to the edge of the screen now (only in the strategic mode) - Added list of unavailable recipes to the craft benches menu - Armor is sorted by sets in all lists (trade, filter, etc.) - Added "Continue" button to the statistic screen - Added highlighting in the trade menu for items which already added to another trade orders - Added timer for next caravan in the trade tent menu - Added silhouette of the peasant if place for building is blocked by peasant who went to sleep from this point - Added highlighting for feeding (pasture) zones for the selected animal - Improved art for the connection chest->craft bench arrows - Added more information in happiness popups - Added a message about feudal lord's hunger to the bottom menu - All peasants are automatically selected now after calling to arms - Improved optimization for the late game Fixes: - Fixed an issue where peasants with "ranged" combat weapon setting were lagging while trying to find arrows when there is no arrows in chests - Fixed an issue where enemies don't want to hit walls in front of them - Fixed a rare issue where peasants didn't change their profession from "warrior" after end of the battle - Fixed an issue where grown farms destroyed after winter comes (only not-grown farms should be destroyed) - Fixed an issue with movers, where they take items from chests and drop items to the same chest - Fixed "always" call to arm peasant's setting - Fixed an issue where aim behavior didn't change after getting on the tower (accuracy was higher and arrows flew farther than it was according to the aim) - Fixed an issue where peasant was selected instead of craft bench if peasant was near to the aim - Fixed rare issue with locked pause after loading the game - Non-food items were removed from food merchant goods - Fixed an issue where timer for new peasant shows wrong value after loading the game (this value were recalculated only after unpausing the game) - Reduced amount of science points gained for weapon crafting (it was higher than for other equipment) - Fixed an issue where thieves can steal from iron chests and barrels - Fixed an issue where feudal lord could stuck in the enemies and not be able to run away - Fixed an issue where enemies could go to knocked-down peasant if there weren't another targets nearby - Fixed an issue where arrows didn't paused sometimes - Fixed "Love of Neighbor" science upgrade, which get slightly less happiness bonus than it was in the description - Fixed cursor displaying in the main menu with non-standard magnification - Fixed an issue where wrong building hp was displayed until save-loading after researching a science upgrade which increases building's hp - Fixed an issue where feudal lord was teleported to the main square sometimes after loading the game - Fixed slightly incorrect gold amount in the events if feudal lord has Negotiator trait - Popup for the scroll in the top left screen corner become bigger when scroll with message is opened Known issue: French localization is not finished yet, we'll add it with hotfixes

{STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/31155142/ed43946686e20158584515ede86f777fd7a39f4d.jpg New features: - Improved peasant's notification interface - Improved science interface - Improved chest's filter interface - New buildings: Barn, Seed Extraction Table and Arrow Brazier - Improved client-server intercation, which should fix lots of issues with loading or creating a new game Full list of changes will be published upon release to default version If you want switch version to Beta - press RMB on the First feudal in the games library -> Properties -> Betas -> and select version "beta".