Darkest Greetings Underlords,

Thanks to all your reports following the release of 1.2 we’ve managed to get to the bottom of a few nasty bugs. Patch 1.2.1 is on it’s way to you via steam now and fixes quite a few of these major bugs. If you’ve yet to read the patch notes for 1.2 you can do so here.

Gameplay and Balance Changes

Movement

• Capped the acceleration speed of all units to prevent some fast units having jerky movement

Constructs

• It is no longer possible to build constructs on rooms other than shrines

Obey (Spell)

• Added recast time of 2.5 seconds, this should make it impossible to accidentally cast Obey on the same unit twice

Necromancer (Unit)

• Sacrificing a Necromancer in a Crypt or to a Vampire ritual will now cause their Ghouls to dismantle

Frost Weaver (Unit)

• Fixed death VFX to not be an exploding fireball
• Now has the fly ability and is able to cross over any terrain, excluding lava.
• Reduced movement animation speed slightly

Eternal (Unit)

• Fixed death VFX to not be a dying worker
• Now has the fly ability and is able to cross over any terrain
• Reduced movement animation speed slightly

Archon (Unit)

• Now has the fly ability and is able to cross over any terrain
• Reduced attack range from 3 tiles to 1.5 tiles

Dungeon Core

• Damage resistance has been removed (it wasn’t actually working)
• Health increased from 10,000 to 25,000
• Health regen increased from 55/s to 140/s

Level Changes

Heart Attack (Level 7)

• Lowered starting level of enemy units from 3 to 2

Belmorne’s Pass (Level 9)

Since the changes in  Patch 1.2 the overall difficulty of Belmorne’s Pass has been out of line with the rest of the campaign. We’ve made a major balance pass on this level to bring the difficulty back in line and generally lower the difficulty spike players were encountering here.

• Fixed missing bridge tile to the East of the map
• Fixed bridges using the water bridge tileset instead of the chasm bridge tileset
• You now get 10 minutes before each wave instead of 7.5 minutes
• Lowered the overall number of units by about 15%
• Lowered starting level of enemy units from 5 to 4
• Adjusted the layout to make it easier to find the Gold Shrine
• Revealed objectives are now visible for 6 seconds instead of 2 seconds

The Kenos (Level 10)

• Revealed objectives are now visible for 6 seconds instead of 2 seconds

Desperate Power (Level 11)

• Revealed objectives are now visible for 6 seconds instead of 2 seconds

Subjugation (Level 12)

• Revealed objectives are now visible for 6 seconds instead of 2 seconds

Equilibrium (Level 13)

• Revealed objectives are now visible for 6 seconds instead of 2 seconds

UI Changes

• Tooltip for Enemy prisoners now displays their torture progress in the activity section
• Prisoners are now slowed like your own units when you hovering over them
• Ctrl + Page Up, Ctrl + Page Down now adjust the game speed up or down by 5% respectively

Performance Improvements

• Reduced the performance footprint of the Mira AI player in level 10
• Fixed several underlying bugs in multiplayer that may have negatively impacted performance

Misc Changes

• Some minor under the hood changes
• Several new features added to the pathfinder for more complex pathfinding
• The “Stay awhile and listen” achievement condition of Level 13 has been reduced to 10 minutes

Bug Fixes

• Fixed an exception that could potentially prevent the loading of saved games
• Fixed a crash which would occur upon selling a Prison
• Fixed a visual issue where the spitroast cannon in the tavern would show a huge decimal number for it’s capacity
• Fixed an issue where unit shields would suddenly become giant
• Units will no longer train over level 10 if they were assigned to a barracks by dropping
• Fixed an issue where the fortify ritual would not correctly fortify walls
• Fixed an issue where the unlockables screen did not visualise if subitems are unlocked
• Fixed an issue where the unlockables screen would show top category items as unlocked even if there were locked subitems
• Fixed an issue where dropping lots of units at once could cause the UI to cease functioning
• Fixed an issue which caused the Sanctuary to incorrectly display the efficiency of it’s props
• Fixed a visual issue where defence shields would not show when a rampart was damaged
• Energy bill balanced
• Fixed an issue with imprisoned units tooltips where multiple sets of information would display at once
• Fixed an issue where the minimap would load in after a few seconds of the level
• Fixed a bug where sacrificing workers would randomly unlock 0, 50 or 100 mana as opposed to 50 consistently
• Fixed Juggernauts assigned to the wrong unit group by default
• Fixed a bug where status alert tooltips would not update correctly
• Fixed a bug where obey would not be castable at correct mana values if the player owned a mana shrine
• Fixed a bug where prisoners dropped into the spitroast cannon would float forver above the cannon
• Fixed a bug where the Camera would jump too far if micro-stutter occurs while panning
• Fixed a bug where in the event of a player not constructing a lair on level 12 all the player’s units would suicide to reach Draven’s lair
• Fixed incorrect description for the Wooden Door
• Fixed a typo in the description for besiege
• Fixed a bug where the launcher splash screen would cut off the WFTO image
• The manufacturing shrine will now correctly stop playing it’s working animation when not producing defence parts
• Fixed a highlighting bug on the spirit chamber props
• Fixed a bug where fighters in the arena would die after loading a save regardless of arena mode
• Fixed a bug where fighters in the arena would be instantly moved from the arena upon loading a save file
• Fixed a pathfinding issue where units would attempt to move into the arena even after being moved out
• Fixed a UI issue where units would be displayed as both level 1 and their correct level in the creatures UI
• Fixed a few issues with specific VFX not triggering at the correct time
• Fixed a small number of mistmatching textures
• Fixed a bug where unlockable themes would not unlock without owning the Founder’s DLC

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