Gobs and Gods news & patch notes

This update focuses on two main things:

• Visual improvements: your gobs now have eyes

• Much higher replayability with new campaign starts and the Iron Gob mode

New campaign starts:

When beginning a campaign, you can choose from several starting options:

• The normal start.

• Start with 5 gobs, skipping the early-game “tutorial” quests in exchange for higher gob wages.

• Start with the Chosen Gob: instead of the usual main quest, your goal is to keep the chosen gob alive and make him become the Supreme Grand Master.

Iron Gob mode

You can select this option when starting a campaign to play without save scumming. Be careful: some of the new starts will end your campaign if you lose all your gobs. In Iron Gob mode, this means the campaign stops there.

Graphical improvements

• Your gobs now have eyes!

• Add a breathing animation

• Redrew hills and mountains.

• Fixed some tile ordering issues.

• Improved the fog of war.

Other changes

• Increased the number of teeth on the worldmap

• Increased goblin wages.

• Incontinent gobs now accept heavy boots (they still refuse heavy body armor).

• Health/essence wells can spawn in some dungeons

• Fixed obstacles placement in dungeons to prevent doors from being blocked.

• Fixed quest generation logic, making it easier to obtain some unique quests.

• Fixed an issue where the king could give quests that led to strange dialogs.

Update 1.4 brings a major rework of the God’s Path system, new quests and lore, and a few new achievements to challenge you!

God’s Path Rework

When making choices in many dialogs, you may get the opportunity to advance one of the three God’s Paths: Nurturing, Nerdy, or Sadistic.

These paths already change the gobs available for hire, but we felt, and some players told us, that following a path should bring more meaningful rewards

What's new:

• the God’s Path window lets you track your advancement on each path (Sadistic / Nerdy / Nurturing).

• Killing a gob, overfeeding, or inventing potions now grants an advancement only the first time.

• The new Path Altars on the worldmap allows you to advance a path of your choice.

• Advancing on a path now grants:

  • Free skills and spells

  • And a new unique passive bonus specific to each path

Quests

There is now one late-game quest associated with each path, all granting unique rewards:

• "Merry Footmas"

• "Sadism Contest" (actually already in patch 1.3.9, but unannounced so far)

• "Unhanging the Moon" (which was already available since a few patches ago)

And a long quest chain deepening the lore of the goblin world. It starts with 3 "normal" quests proposed by npcs:

• "Writing History"

• "Enemies of Old"

• "The Unexpected Downsides of Geology"

Completing all three unlocks the late-game quests "Kingly Blessing" and "Deposing the tyrant, also with their unique rewards.

New achievements

• One achievement has been added for each late-game quest.

• "Around the world in 80 days" challenges you to finish a run in less than 80 days.

Looking Ahead...

I hope you will enjoy this update, and as always, feedback is welcome!

I’ll now focus on preparing the next patches. I heard a gob prophet whisper of animation improvements (with goblins finally opening their eyes!), as well as new alternative starts to diversify your runs. Stay tuned!

Main changes

• Spells rework:

  - spells no longer have a level. Upgrading a spell / picking it on several mage towers gives additional casts per cycle.

  - mage tower allow to choose one of three spells. - make most spells more powerful (often targeting several gobs instead of just one)

  - a bit less mage towers on the worldmap.

• makes "what are the news" more often relevant

• skill altars: cost candles but give permanent +1 (once max per altar)

• advancing a path changes the mood of gobs (depending on their own path)

• moods malus when reentering a dungeon immediatly

• gobs armor are fixed between dungeon levels

• UI improvements:

  - make theme a bit more coherent

  - improve items color / level

  - show selected gobs icons above order bar

Small tweaks, improvements and fixes

• Fly: reduce essence leak ( can be prevented by 'magic defense')

• Sadism -- nerfing a bit 'expert' perk. (mutliplier 1.8 to least armor part, instead of 2)

• Alchemy: damages increased (!) with skill level.

• Alchemy: improved recipes UI

• reduce a bit loot quantity after a fight

• Squire: improve bonus

• Good mood for: opening a chest; opening door to nowhere

• reduce whip damages vs armor

• Inventory sort: fix 'by time'

• fix crashes after latest nephew quest

• doubling red flash on damages

• Fix equip pet whim in fight

• fix Poison (Greater belllow??)

• fix raised dead weapon not visible

• fix KingBonus: bonus / malus on other gobs are temporary

• fix Damages Label showing armor damaged when armor already 0

• fix talks speed in combat

• fix lich items weird position

• fix pet whim when completed during a fight

• fix minos pncs position on buildings

• sort buttons on minimap

• fix some shadows

• fix heavy armor expert perk not giving expected bonuses

• and maybe a new quest somewhere!

Changelog:

Enemies and mobs:

• rebalance stats to make enemies more unique
• add new enemies powers.
• ai can use more special skills (nets, swap, backstab, trolling,...)
• many new mobs

Gameplay updates:

• revamp all range weapons, especially guns, wands and crossbows
• modify weapons "apprentice" perk to give wider access to weapon special attacks
• modify essence regeneration: essence now regenerates with time at night, at a rate dependent on the moon.
• add throwing nets, usable with the 'trap' skill
• add a few new items
• add a Battle Log, which can be activated from the "gameplay options" menu. (still a bit experimental however)

Other changes:

• change loading screen
• dead pnj: explain why they talk
• nets and spiders webs
• "magic defense" lowers many debuff effects and some spells damages
• more alchemy recipes from npcs
• faster saves
• fix dungeon generation
• fix lines of sight
• more details on game rules in tooltips (stats effect,...)
• faster saves
• statue effect fixes
• moods are impacted by more events
• show kingdom banner on villages
• some whims prevent unequipping an item for a time
• adding "Pet BFF" whim
• mob shadows on worldmap: reworked to avoid lag when loading a new part of the map
• and many other tweaks and fixes.

• Fixed statue effects that were not correctly applied to goblins