Medieval Legacy news & patch notes

Gameplay Changes: - The "Acceleration Elixir" now has an extra effect for pregnant characters, it will skip the remaining duration of their pregnancy and have their child start at age 2-3 - Adjusted a few of the starting scenarios to start with a female character (Squire, Herder, Cannibal, and Smuggler) - Forests will stop growing if more than 50% of tiles already have forests Balance Changes: - Tweaked the effect of the "love flower" slightly. it now removes all multiplicative changes to pregnancy chance so it will properly set pregnancy chance to 100% - The "love flower" crafting recipe now requires a miracle flower and aged wine - Swapped the positions of the "Bootlegging" and "Cutting Corners" skills - Increased wine requirement of the "Bootlegging" skill: 250 -> 300 - Increased food cost for townsfolk: 15 -> 18 - Increased employment costs for townsfolk - Reduced influence that efficiency has on mission rewards - Decreased shelf life of a handful of food items - Wheat: 8m -> 7m - Oats: 8m -> 7m - Beans: 10m -> 7m - Carrots: 8m -> 6m - Reduced fertilizer crafting cost: 8 -> 5 rotten food Performance Improvements / Stability Changes: - Added a warning and save pausing for low disk space (<50mb) to prevent save corruption - Changed the approach to accessing objects related to character (jobs, work site, missions, equipment, spouses, etc.) to be more consistent and with more aggressive data validation to prevent errors. - Updated how pregnancy and work position are tracked to have them in line with current design patterns and for additional flexibility in the case of new features related to them - Connected experience modifiers and job repeat modifiers (from effects like "Doubling Season" or "Ring Of Power") to use the same observer pattern that other character attributes use. This is to increase flexibility, remove hard coded equipment/skill effects and make future additions easier. - Added save management options in the main menu options - Worked on optimizing how the map is managed and loaded, there should be major improvements to load times especially for the larger map size. - Fixed the frame drop that occurred when enabling the small building toggle Bug Fixes: - Fixed wheat farms appearing dead when affected by the ring of seasons - Fixed invalid options appearing for the "upskilled" and "Star Pupil" events - Fixed an issue where the "ring of the glutton" would give x0.02 efficiency instead of x2 - Fixed an issue where the mission complete event would show the untranslated name - Added missing translations for ui text - Rescaled a few pieces of overlapping text - Fixed an issue where pregnant characters could be sent on missions - Fixed an issue where characters could become pregnant while on a mission - Fixed an issue where the risk mod for children and elderly applied to all risks instead of just sickness - Fixed the centering of tiles when the small building toggle is enabled - Fixed the color of ships in build mode - Fixed an issue where repairing items in the inventory would add materials instead of removing them - Fixed rival criminal missions removing status when rejected (they now properly add status instead) - Fixed the save preview only being translated when the main menu initially loads instead of whenever the language is changed - Fixed an issue that allowed the player to start expeditions from the King's castle - Fixed an issue where the "revolt" sub-plot from starving townsfolk would have unelectable options if happiness was too low - Deaths caused by the "revolt" event now show the proper death message in the grave menu - Fixed a visual issue where plots around the castle would have incorrect borders post violent ending - Fixed an issue that caused the "Elf" subplot to start the "Sea Monster" subplot instead - Removed unnecessary from job requirement text - Fixed valid equipment being removed when a character returned from a mission - Fixed a few instances of the hard difficulty applying the normal difficulty modifier instead - Removed double apostrophes in the guide

We have received feedback regarding the frequency and instability of new patches. To remedy this there is now a new opt-in testing branch. All future changes will live here until their quality and stability can be verified. Updates will be brought over to the main branch once they have been properly quality controlled and have enough changes to warrant a full update. How to access the testing branch: 1. Open the "properties" menu for Medieval Legacy 2. Select the "betas" tab 3. Select the "Unstable" option from the "Beta Participation" drop down The first testing build is now available on the branch, change log below: 1.0.16 Unstable V1

Gameplay Changes:
• The "Acceleration Elixir" now has an extra effect for pregnant characters, it will skip the remaining duration of their pregnancy and have their child start at age 2-3
• Adjusted a few of the starting scenarios to start with a female character (Squire, Herder, Cannibal, and Smuggler) Balance Changes:
• Tweaked the effect of the "love flower" slightly. it now removes all multiplicative changes to pregnancy chance so it will properly set pregnancy chance to 100%
• The "love flower" crafting recipe now requires a miracle flower and aged wine
• Swapped the positions of the "Bootlegging" and "Cutting Corners" skills
• Increased wine requirement of the "Bootlegging" skill: 250 -> 300 Misc Changes:
• Changed the approach to accessing objects related to character (jobs, work site, missions, equipment, spouses, etc.) to be more consistent and with more aggressive data validation to prevent errors.
• Updated how pregnancy and work position are tracked to have them in line with current design patterns and for additional flexibility in the case of new features related to them
• Connected experience modifiers and job repeat modifiers (from effects like "Doubling Season" or "Ring Of Power") to use the same observer pattern that other character attributes use. This is to increase flexibility, remove hard coded equipment/skill effects and make future additions easier. Dev-note: The above misc changes should have 0 impact on gameplay, they're listed just for increased transparency and so people playing the unstable build can keep them in mind for when issues arise
• Added save management options in the main menu options Bug Fixes:
• Fixed an issue where the mission complete event would show the untranslated name
• Added missing translations for ui text
• Fixed a few pieces of overlapping text
• Fixed an issue where pregnant characters could be sent on missions
• Fixed an issue where characters could become pregnant while on a mission

Major Additions:

Spanish localization Balance Changes:

Stats below the base level (8/10/12) now have a multiplicative penalty instead of an additive one. Should make lower stat levels more impactful on performance

Character starting stats are now dependent on their age, with children having lower stats

Adjusted how starting stats are inherited from parents, stat spread should be closer to the average of parent's stats

Adjusted the amount of experience needed to level up stats, lowered experience requirements for lower stats and increased them for higher stats

The "Acceleration Elixir" now adds stat experience from the job

Old age now applies an efficiency penalty. starts at age 60 and increases as they age, the impact is affected by their max age (strength)

Adjusted the recipe of cloth to make it harder to get the craftsman skills with "Craft X items" requirement: 2 Wool: 1 Cloth -> 6 Wool:3 Cloth

Increased the gold cost of the large manor: 3000g -> 8000g

Increased the gold cost of the castle: 10000g -> 30000g

Decreased base price of wine: 25g -> 20g

Decreased base price of aged wine: 60g -> 50g

Changed the food reduction effect of the "Ring Of The Berserker" to be multiplicative instead of additive: Hunger-(2 * Injury) -> Hunger*(1 - (0.1 * Injury))

Changed the sickness reduction for the "Strong Genes" skills: -4 -> x0.8

The amount of human flesh generated by the "Cannibalism" skill now scales with efficiency

The efficiency bonus for the "Private Security" skill has been reduced: +100 -> +50

The "Toolkeeping" and "Refined Metals" skills now reduce durability loss per turn by 3 points each instead of 2

Increased base durability loss per turn: 14/15/16 -> 15/18/24

Minimum durability loss per turn increased: 1 -> 5

The effects of the "Diligent" and "Forgetful" traits increased +/-2 -> +/-3

The effect of the "Healthy" and "Sickly" traits have been adjusted to scale better over the course of the game: +/- 3% sickness chance -> x1.25/x0.75 sickness chance

Age now affects sickness chance, infants and the elderly have increased risk. The added risk for elderly members is influenced by their max age Misc Changes:

Adjusted how efficiency, hunger, durability, pregnancy and risk are calculated, its identical from a gameplay perspective, but should have increased consistency, flexibility, and stability. future additions should be significantly easier.

Thanks to the structure change, there are now breakdown menus for hunger, durability, pregnancy and risk

The sell button on equipment will now open the sell slider if the combined stacks option is enabled

Updated the item sell dragging and item sell button to have consistent behavior

the sell screen will now appear if you sell an item with a count >= 2 instead of >= 4

clicking outside of a popup will close that window

pressing esc will close the top most menu

decreased base max age: 100 -> 80

The "Decrepit" and "Graceful Aging" traits now affect max life +/- 10 years.

Max age range is now 65(55 w/ "Decrepit") -> 105 (115 with "Graceful Aging" or "Full Of Potential")

Completing an entire run on the hard difficulty will give the scenario icon a larger crown

Changing difficulty mid run will render it ineligible for this extra challenge. This is shown by a crown on the difficulty option in the pause menu

The difficulty change is only locked in once the game is unpaused

Locked starting scenarios have a greyed out backing to better differentiate them from the unlocked scenarios Bug Fixes:

Fixed an issue where medical herbs would appear in the shop even if the plague's medicine removal effect was active

Fixed an issue that prevented players from starting expeditions from the castle

Fixed an issue where the "Jury Rigging" skill always gave +100 efficiency

Fixed an issue where the state of the no medicine and no food indicators would retain their previous state if the shop closed

Fixed an issue where willpower wasn't properly influencing character food cost

Fixed an issue where the "King's Crown" item had the incorrect description

Fixed an issue where the "Coordination" skill counted non-laborer characters

Fixed a corrupted file that caused the "A Concrete Killing..." event to not function properly

Fixed the "Prevent Curse" option in the "Cursed!" event

Fixed the text on the second option in the "War bonds, we insist!" event

Fixed a handful of broken guide links throughout the game

Fixed an issue where the "Ring Of Seasons" and "Green Thumb" trait wouldn't change farms to their in season appearance

Event Changes

Fixed a typo in the "Rejection" event

Fixed a typo in the "Nature, it speaks to me" event

Fixed a typo in the "Desperation" event

The length of storylines now scale with game stage

Crimes have been reworked to have their effects scale with your status (I plan on going through the other events and giving them the same treatment)

Readjusted the payment options for the debt, the 1st option now lets you repay in full

Marriage events will now generate characters closer in age to the targeted character

Events that add new family members now state their age QOL Changes

Added the ability to cancel items in the crafting queue (Items that started crafting before this update can still be refunded, but food returned will not have the correct expiration, and preserves will return only apples instead of the fruit used. Newly crafted items will have the correct data for returned items)

Added an auto butcher option for animals

Added the option to change feed priority for family members

Selling food or Crafting items with food will always prioritize items closest to expiration

Selling wine will prioritize wine furthest from aging

The combine stack button in the inventory now works with equipment. Should make things easier to manage for clothiers. Dragging the equipment to a family member will equip the item with the lowest durability, the losest durability will also be shown on the durability bar

Added the ability to move your home at the cost of some materials (The relocate option currently isn't available for the large castle available in final act) General Changes

The starting prices of items now correlate to their initial price trends.

Miracles flowers have been added to the loot tables for the "expedition", "raid", and "heist" missions

Crafted food will be available to eat the turn its ready Bug Fixes

Fixed an issue where characters returning from a mission will start working on a ownership dependent plot even if the player has sold it

Fixed water animation syncing when seasons change

Fixed the requirement check for the "Legendary Crafting: Inspiring Lyrics" skill, previously it didn't count job specific efficiency additions from skills like "Geodes" or "One With The Forest"

Fixed an issue where refusing to pay ransom on a character with the "Ring Of The Protected" would leave them in a permanently kidnapped state

The "ring of simplicity" now properly raises other stats

Fixed school costs scaling with child efficiency

Fixed a error that occurred if a character died while a non targeting event was in the queue

The "Desperation" event now properly checks if the player owns a dog/cat

Fixed the debt collection event starting again even if debt has been paid off

Fixed an error that prevented a sub-plot in the famine storyline from starting

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• Fixed the help button on recipes
• Added the ability to drag the tutorial popup
• Fixed an issue with the income projection menu
• Fixed an error with the forest clearing mechanic for woodcutters

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