Big update today! Sorcerer King Beta 2 adds the Tyrant and Guardian sovereigns, world-cracking geomancy spells that turn the land itself into both a weapon and a resource, and proper quests for all the minor factions. Your Steam client will update your game automatically next time you log in.

The Guardian sovereign seeks to protect the world with magic that can restore the land, and starts with the noble Ranger hero whose task is to build up an elite party of heroes without attracting too much attention from the Sorcerer King.

The Tyrant sovereign, on the other hand, sees the Sorcerer King as a competitor. The Tyrant himself and his Warlord champion grow stronger as the Doomsday Counter increases and can secure victory not only by defeating the Sorcerer King in battle, but by co-opting the apocalyptic Spell of Making to his own ends.

Geomancy allows the player to ‘harvest’ mountains, forests, and fertile land to stockpile the goods they need to craft the finest weapons, armor, potions, and scrolls that can give their armies the edge on the battlefield. The price is steep, though, as cracking the world like this pushes the Doomsday Counter forward and the Sorcerer King closer to ultimate victory – and hastens the spread of the corrupted Shadowlands the Sorcerer King’s minions call home.

We’ve also enabled several new maps, fixed a ton of bugs, added a ton of content throughout every phase of the game (new monsters!), and cleaned up a bunch of interface issues.

Sorcerer King still has a ways to go – the next big things on our list are the big rework to the crafting system, additions to tactical combat to make it a little meatier, and improving the endgame to take into account the actions you’ve taken during the course of the game – but the release of Beta 2 today is a big step forward for the game.

As always, thank you very much for helping us to beta test Sorcerer King, and please don’t by shy about dropping feedback and bug reports on the Steam forums or the official boards at sorcererking.com.

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Read the full patch notes here: http://forums.sorcererking.com/459275/page/1/