Hammering out your way to play!
Today’s patch for SpellForce – Conquest of Eo is all about choice and setting up the game the way you want to play it! Now you can completely individualize your preferred difficulty setting from enemy aggression to antagonist power and AI behavior to economy as well as choosing the Circle Mages you face in the game. Pro Tip: Simply pick the ones you love to hate, to make victory that much sweeter!
We have also been busy with over 50 smaller and larger fixes and improvements to the game based on community feedback as well as major performance optimizations, so more people can enjoy a smoother experience.
Time to visit Eo and make your way from humble beginnings to becoming the greatest of mages – if you survive!
This is the complete list for the patch 1.1:
Additions
Added a variety of custom difficulty settings - set the game up exactly the way you like to play it
Added antagonist selection at campaign start - choose whom you face in game!
Display quality of slotted artefacts/glyphs in unit details
Added essence filters for inventories in the tower menu - filter your ingredients by essence type
Improvements
Several performance improvements on worldmap leading to reduced system memory usage, improved loading times and smoother framerates (especially on weaker systems)
Improved colors of crafting essences, to be better readable for people with various color vision deficiencies
Can now assign build lodge action also into known fog of war
Improved performance when gaining status effects in battle
Increased supported concurrent domains displayed per faction from 50 to 128 (looking at you, Instant Castle spam)
Tooltips correctly differentiate between "can cause"(30% chance) and "inflict"(100% chance unless resisted) status effect
Made description of Thunderstorm and similar skills clearer
Follower explains that it overrides Enslaved
Balance
Resistances are now stacked relative chance based on difference to 100% (30% Resistance Base = 30% Resistance, add 20% from Spell/Glyph= 30+(70*20%)= 44% Resistance). This allows units with 100% resistance to still be immune, while providing diminishing returns for stacking resistances and prevents immune murder stacks.
Steadfast now grants 50% resistance against status effects instead of full immunity
Life leech only works against Mortal units to make it less universally powerful
All summons in battle appear without actions to reduce summon spam strategies
Specific Titan Spells can only be kept active once, like Global Enchantments (affects Forgemaster, Lightbringer, Primordial Treant, Shaper Golem)
Consume Corpse now always heals the unit post battle for its healing value, but is rarer in levelups, so you don't have to hunt down or miss out on corpses in battle
Balanced Magic Coffer/Gift/Reputation Increase spell values
Made Dancers Potion and Unstable Elixir more viable
Lowered strength of Copper Rune of Ashen and Copper Rune of Elementalist to match other runes of same powerlevel
Enslaving a unit does not trigger moral loss/onDeath effects anymore
Increased Damage for Berserker Trait, increased resistance for Quick Reflexes, lowered Resistance of BathedInLight
Motivate has 1-turn cooldown and Motivate and Command cannot target the source unit (stops endless action exploit)
Fixes
Fixed savegame menu to show all savegames despite unknown files being present
Fixed flyers not being able to fly over destructibles
Fixed post battle unit state bugging out and not being displayed from then on
Fixed Leech City not working on Westguard's Bastion
Fixed Hokan Ashir having Purity troops, now has proper undead version
Fixed loop in Estwal settlement adventure and adventure existing more than once
Fixed Audale shops not properly unlocking the spells you bought
Fixed an issue that caused kennel upgrades to override enslaved for all units instead of only beasts.
When all combatants die during a battle, we now make sure one unit stays alive for winning faction to avoid errors with adventures
Implemented fallback to make saves work again where multiple locations are saved at the same position
Credits menu can now be exited with controller
Fixed an issue that caused the follower spell to not work once kennel feeding pits have been built
Fixed an issue where having a Draw result in a adventure battle caused the game to stop responding
Fixed an issue that caused certain sacrifice unit options in adventures to stop you from progressing the adventure
Fixed incorrect saved path adjustment if path was blocked or interrupted
Fixed cocooned unit aborting attacker's melee skill
Fixed crash in Silver Drift Hollow Mine adventure when fleeing from second fight
Fixed issue where spawning a primordial forest inside your domain wouldn't instantly apply additional modifiers from rooms
Fixed issue where apprentice join notification could break savegames
Made sure correct message is displayed when no valid crafting recipe was found