Balancing Hot Fix 2.04
In response to various player reports concerning Elara the Vile (the fire boss on Moorweg) we're trying out the following adjustments, to make the fight feel more even on default settings:

• Elara damages herself with her destructive fire and slowly loses some health over time. Additionally her max health is reduced by 10%.
• Damage of the fire storm reduced by 40%.
• Fire projectiles (primary attack) damage reduced by 35% and damage versus the player additionally reduced by 25%.
• Meteor strike attack remains unchanged (just listed for clarification here)

• Fixed bug where Reset Progress button didn't work for some users

Dear Queens, Dear Kings,
The time has come. Thronefall’s full version is out now!

We poured our hearts into this the last couple of months and we’re incredibly excited to finally share it with you. Here’s a quick rundown of what awaits you in this update:

Moorweg: Venture into the misty marshlands of Moorweg, where the terrain is as challenging as the enemies you will face. Utilize the environment to your advantage.

Freifort: Defend the bustling fortress of Freifort. Placed at the top of a beautiful hill with the autumn winds in your back you are well prepared to face any foe who dares to approach here.

Totend: Prepare for the ultimate showdown in Totend, a realm shrouded in darkness and mystery. Face off against the most formidable foes, including the former ruler of the kingdom, who brought the darkness to these lands.

Potion Vials: Support your allies and weaken your enemies with Potion Vials. Throw vials to damage adversaries and heal friendly units, making it a versatile choice for those who value both offense and support.

Battle Axe: Wield the devastating Battle Axe to crush your enemies in close combat. Especially effective against siege weapons, this weapon offers high damage and sustain but requires you to face foes head-on.

Blood Wand: Channel dark magic with the Blood Wand. The longer you attack a single target, the more damage you inflict. Activate its ability to sacrifice a portion of your health for a powerful attack.
New Perks & Mutators: Lots of new options to experiment with your loadout and to discover wild new strategies.

Future Wave Preview: Plan ahead by viewing upcoming enemy waves during a match. Access this feature through the pause menu and scroll through to strategize your defenses accordingly.

Save File Reset Option: Start anew whenever you wish with the new game progress reset option available in the settings menu.

Color Scheme Cycling: Customize your visual experience on the fly with a new hotkey that allows you to cycle through different color schemes during gameplay.

Updated Death Visuals: Return as a fancy ghost when falling in combat.

New Content Integration: All new maps, weapons, perks, enemies, and color schemes have been added to Eternal Trials, enriching the endless mode with fresh challenges.

Summoning Circles Added: Discover summoning circles on every map, offering new strategic elements to enhance your defenses.

Unlocked Building Choices: Enjoy complete freedom in building your kingdom with all structures unlocked from the beginning of Eternal Trials.

Experimental Balancing:
Shorter Early Stages: Early stages now have fewer waves for a quicker progression.
Adjusted Difficulty Curve: Early stages are a bit easier again.
Enhanced Final Waves: Final waves in each stage are tougher, providing a more epic and satisfying challenge. Within each stage, the difficulty curve is steeper.

We fixed a lot of bugs, but here are some noteworthy ones:

Infinite XP Exploit Resolved: Fixed an issue where players could gain infinite experience by continuing a lost match.

Bridge Gold Displayed Correctly: Bridge gold is now accurately counted and displayed in the pause screen.

Localization Improvements: Enhanced translations and text clarity, particularly for German localization.


With Thronefall’s Early Access period coming to an end we’d like to mention the wonderful people that helped us shape Thronefall into what it is now.

First of all a massive thanks to you all! Thank you for providing us with an endless stream of support, thoughtful feedback and kind words.Thank you for creating a warm and welcoming community around our little game, thank you for playtesting the many iterations of it and thank you for joining us on this journey!

We’d like to thank our amazing community manager Sacha Torikian, who carefully sorted and relayed all community feedback to us, allowing us to truly focus on the development of Thronefall.

We’d like to thank our community moderators Armaxton, ItsMe_Raven, LTU_Adas, Pothencial, SigEnderman, Yän and Zetas2 as well as long term members Anael, BadWolf, donner, Dustbunny, Gertimoshka, GhostMiner, Haidabo and ORANGUTAN for making sure everybody is having a good experience in the Thronefall community. We’d also like to thank FlediX2, who no doubt was the most relentless playtester and found even the rarest bugs.

We’d like to thank our friends and families for tolerating and supporting us through all parts of development — the easy and the tough.

We’d like to thank our former professors and fellow students at the Game Design program of our alma mater HTW Berlin for setting us up to make games for a living.

It’s likely we missed a couple of people here, as so many were so kind and supportive during development. On this behalf, thank you to you all!

We hope you enjoy the new content and we can’t wait to hear what you think! You can join us on Discord here: https://discord.gg/gVYctptyg8


All the best,
Jonas & Paul

Dear Queens, Dear Kings, in anticipation of the release tomorrow, here is the exact time Thronefall's 1.0 version will unlock:

We can't wait to finally share it with you and hear what you think! Thank you all for the ongoing support, thoughtful feedback and for being such a great community!

All the best,
Jonas & Paul

https://discord.gg/gVYctptyg8

Dear Queens and Kings,
We’re excited to finally share some more details on Thronefall’s Full Release with you. Let’s start with the most important one: Thronefall will leave Early Access on October 11th 2024!

As promised, we will also launch a big content update with that. Here’s what to expect:
The Full Release will come with three brand new levels (more than ever before in a single update): Moorweg, Freifort and Totend. As always they’re coming with unique challenges, new enemies and some boss fights!

Get ready to hone your skills with the Potion Vials, the Battle Axe and the Bloodwand. But that’s not all, we will also add 11 new unlockable Perks and 3 new Mutators to the game, allowing you to get even more creative with your strategies and customize each play session to your liking.

Along with the new content we introduce, we want to make sure your overall experience playing Thronefall gets even more enjoyable. We’ll add some of the most requested features such as being able to preview information on *all* the coming and past waves while in-game and the option to reset your campaign progress, in case you’d like to start over with a clean slate.

Of course all the new content gets added to the Eternal Trials mode as well. With improved balancing and more content than ever, we’re excited to start a new season (and chapter) for this beloved mode.

We can’t wait to share all of this with you soon! Thank you all so much for being such a fantastic community for the past 1.5 years. Your feedback and support was invaluable! It is thanks to you that we had the chance to turn Thronefall into a better game than we possibly could have dreamed of and it really means a lot!

All the best,
Jonas & Paul

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Brave Commanders, brilliant Strategists, and Thronefall enthusiasts, the time has come to celebrate the champions of our “Tournament of Twisted Tactics”! We are excited to present the five winning strategies that stood out with their ingenuity and style!

Without further ado, let’s honor our victors:

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🥇 1st Place – Playing With Mouse & Feet Only
" Insanity" by FlediX2

" You have to beat Nordfels, Durststein and Frostsee under the following restrictions:

• Mouse Only (You may only control the player with the mouse; the escape key is excluded from this)
  
• Feet Only (You may only use your feet to control the mouse; the escape key is excluded from this)
  
• Castle Only (You may only have the castle constructed after the last night)
  
• Deathless (You may never die)
  
• 1 Restart (You may restart once! This restart cannot be used after a death or after your castle centre is destroyed. It may however be used to undo a building, wrong upgrade or mistake which did not result in death or loss. I would've loved to make this no restarts, but accidentally built a harbour in the middle of Frostsee and had to restart)
  
• One session (You have to complete all three maps back to back. No major breaks are allowed)

Mutators:

• No Units Pact (You won't buy any barracks)
  
• No Towers Pact (You won't buy any towers)
  
• No Walls Pact (You won't buy any walls)
  
• God of Death (You won't die)
  
• Wasp God (eh, why not)"

Video of the run

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🥈 2nd Place – Nordfels Blinfolded
"The Blind King" by LeonReg

"Playing Nordfels blindfolded. You get lost very easily since you don't hear that you're colliding with walls or buildings yet it's still fun!"
Video of the run

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🥉 3rd Place – No Units, No Towers, No King Damage on Durststein
"The Peasants Are Revolting!" by Tim von Ahsen

"My peasants decided that the real monster was my militarist regime. So, they disarmed the king, drove off the soldiers and burned the towers. Will the revolutionaries manage to protect their homes, farms, and mines? (No units or towers. The king must never attack. Durstein.)"
Video of the run

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🏅 4th Place – Never leaving the top of the hill on Sturmklamm
"King of the Hill" by Quontavious

"Don't leave the top of the hill on Sturmklamm for any reason. I put on the no units and no towers pact."
Video of the run

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🏅 5th Place – No Walls, No Units, No Economy, No Towers on Wildbach
"Wildbach Minimalist Build" by Kuhpunkt

"No walls, no units, no economy, no towers - couldn't get around building a temple for the final round."
Video of the run

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Thank you all for participating!! We truly appreciate everyone who took part in the Tournament of Twisted Tactics. We'd love to hear your thoughts on the event—what you enjoyed and any suggestions you have for future challenges.

Feel free to share your feedback with us here or on Discord![discord.gg]

Thank you for your continuous support. It helps us a ton and means a lot to us!!

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🎺 Hear, Hear, dear Queens and Kings! 🎺

Gather 'round, masters of strategy and creative thinkers, for a competition like no other! This is your moment to shine with clever plans, innovative approaches, and stylish victories in Thronefall! We challenge you to outwit, outplay, and outmaneuver your opponents using nothing but your creativity and tactical brilliance. Whether it’s an unexpected gambit, a unique formation, or a daring last-minute reversal, now is the time to show us how you can turn the tide of battle with sheer wit and style!

The event’s deadline is on September 19, 9 AM CST / 4 PM CET. All entries must be submitted by then, and we'll announce the winners shortly after the review process is complete!

• This is a competition rated purely by creativity and style. Everything's allowed!
  
• You can select any level, weapon, perks, mutators, whatever you need to win with style.
  
• Before September 19, 9 AM CST / 4 PM CET , post a video and a detailed description of your strategy in the #twistedtactics channel on our Discord[discord.gg]. It has to be an uninterrupted clip of any length.
  
• After the deadline, we will review the submissions and choose the winners. (Community votes will play a significant role in the results, so make sure to vote for your favorite submissions!)

Our 5 most creative tacticians will be rewarded with:

• The Champion Discord role
  
• 2 Steam keys to share with your friends
  
• A place in our glorious Discord and Steam's Hall of Fame, where your name will be remembered forever...

Join our Discord server[discord.gg] and show your fellow strategists the genius of your tactics!

Dear Queens and Kings,
Thronefall will leave Early Access soon and with that we plan to roll out a *big* content update. So big in fact that it will bring three brand new maps to the game — as many as we added during the entire Early Access period combined. To reflect that we’d like to increase Thronefall’s price from 9.99$ to 12.99$ (or the equivalent in your country’s currency).

Since games cannot go on discount immediately after a price increase and we do want to release Thronefall’s full version with a celebratory launch discount we unfortunately have to apply the pricing changes some time before the actual release.

It is very important to us to be transparent about our pricing and we want to give you a heads up early enough to make sure everyone gets a fair deal: We’re going to publish the new price of 12.99$ on September 3rd. Until then you'll be able to pick up Thronefall at the old price.

We can’t wait to finally share more about the upcoming content with you soon. As always, thank you all so much for the continuous stream of feedback and support — it means a lot to us!

All the best,
Jonas & Paul

Dear All, this is a small patch to fix two bugs that were brought to our attention:

• Tooltips were not showing when the tutorial was played in the same session. This is now fixed and they should show correctly at all times.

• In the Japanese localisation balancing parameters were not displayed correctly in tooltips and showed the source file name instead. This should be fixed now as well.

Thanks a lot for pointing those out so quickly!

All the best
Jonas & Paul