Good Lords, Fair Ladies!

Today is May, 19th and, as promised, an update has arrived. This time its primary focus is the new Sandbox mode with Attacking Wave Setup tool and other improvements. As usual, we have prepared a video…

…and a description. So, what exactly has been changed?

Attacking Wave Setup window

The old window has got a completely new, shiny look. Now you can set as many attacking waves and needed time for them to come.

Wave Presets

You’ve been asking us to add this to borrow this from Endless mode and add it to the Sandbox. And we did it: now you can select a challenge of any difficulty from the list of 14 presets!

Quick and Advanced Setups

We’ve added a casual tool: Quick Setup. Just move a couple of sliders, and you get yourself a nice (or probably not so nice) old wave! The old way of managing attacking wave is still there. It’s just called Advanced Setup now.

Unleash the Next Attacking Wave Button

Feeling ready to face the next attack, but it’s still a long time till it strikes? Just push the button and jump into fight!

Other additions to the Sandbox Mode

You can play in a new environment – Mystic Shores. There (well, anywhere you fight the King’s army) you’ll meet two new enemies: Royal Archer and Royal Crossbowman! From now on your army isn’t the only one to shoot bolts and arrows.

New Controls Layout for Pros

We’ve added a new layout for especially hardcore players. You can change it in Options – Controls.


More information about the Update is, traditionally, under the cut.

Details

Update 0.9.131

Features

• Reworked “Attacking Waves Setup” window in Sandbox Mode:
  
  1. Now you can set multiple attacking waves at once;
     
  2. You can choose pre-made attacking waves presets taken from Endless and Challenge Modes;
     
  3. A new way to configure attacking waves - Quick Setup - has been added in addition to the old way of managing attacking waves (which is now called Advanced Setup);
     
  4. The next attacking wave can be summoned instantly using a new button near the mini-map.
     
• Added a new input layout for pro-players (can be changed in Options - Controls).
  

General

• Added new environment for Sandbox Mode: “Mystic Shores”;
  
• Added new enemies (for Sandbox Mode only): Royal Archer and Royal Crossbowman;
  
• 2 maps from Challenge Mode are added to Sandbox Mode: Ideological Standoff and Cultural Divide;
  
• Zombies (Walking Corpses, Undead Hulks and Undead Horsies) are no longer counted as Undead and moved to Other Units faction.
  

Improvements

• Now you can see the area of attack of units that received “Attack Point” order by clicking on them;
  
• Now you can deselect part of your selected units by holding [Ctrl]+[Shift] and dragging your mouse across them. Non-selected units caught by the deselection box stay non-selected;
  
• The selection box works better on different camera zooms;
  
• Multiple UI and UX improvements.
  

Bug Fixes

• Fields’ color of Farm I was accidentally changed in the previous update and now reverted to the correct one;
  
• Enemy range units now have Accuracy stat in description;
  
• Fixed a rare bug with siege machines shooting farther than they are supposed to (when received Attack Point order);
  
• Fixed a rare bug when buildings with multiple buffs lose all the buffs instead of one;
  
• Fixed a very rare bug with some enemies freeze after they were thrown into air;
  
• Multiple localization fixes.
  

Yours, the Door 407 dev team