PATCH NOTES: Legends expansion content pack and Version 1.10 is live!

[Dancing Dragon Games]

Hello everyone,

Wish List the Legends DLC here: https://store.steampowered.com/app/2432430/Symphony_of_War_The_Nephilim_Saga__Legends/

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LEGENDS EXPANSION PACK CONTENTS INCLUDE::
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NEW CHAPTERS AND STORY CONTENT:
-Added 8 new chapters, which can be accessed at various points in the main story, and never expire. These chapters scale to your story progress (not your level) and offer many new types of map designs and challenges, as well as unique new artifacts released in the Expansion Pack. Several missing pieces of the main story are told in these chapters, as well as some pieces of the past, with foreshadowing to new aspects of the future as well]
-General Ragavi has been upgraded to a full-fledged story character, complete with portrait, and available conversations and bonds

NEW GAME+:
Too many options to list - you can do so much with New Game+! Finish a playthrough for a big haul of "Memory Fragments" which you can use to re-purchase old units, artifacts, etc, at the memory shop in home bases. You keep accumulating Memory Fragments when beating levels and doing more game clears. You can potentially have an entire army of undead, or, let's admit, multiple Dianas and Beatrixes! Craziness.

NEW ARTIFACTS:
-9 awesome new Unique Legendary Artifacts added, which are acquired via the 8 extra chapters
-8 New Artifacts of uncommon, rare, or epic quality new available for random drops or appearance in shops

NEW TRAITS:
-7 New unit Traits new available in the Expansion Pack
-6 of these are also available via new Trait Tomes

NEW ITEMS:
-2 new class change items, one to unlock Dark Mage, the other to unlock Necromancer
-"Mark of the Risen" use to summon Risen undead minion units into your army

NEW CLASSES:
-Field Cannon: T3 firearms unit with cavalry movement
-Oracle: T3 support class that casts a shield on your entire squad
-Arbalest: T3 Archery class that fires 3x the bolts at 40% strength, and comes with a large shield that protects against enemy ranged attacks
-Dark Mage "T4" Mage class that inflicts the very debilitating "Curse" effect
-Necromancer "T4" Mage class that greatly assists and controls in the creation and maintenance of undead units
-War Cat: A large beast (Like dragons) with all aspects of Light Infantry, scaled up to a giant panther
-Behemoth: A direct upgrade to the War Cat with a very powerful claw swipe
-Unlockable super duper secret flying class upon completing one of the new chapters
-Multiple "Risen" undead minion classes

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VERSION 1.10 UPDATE!
Alongside the Legends Pack, we are also launching a large free patch, which includes a bunch of QoL and is quite compatible with the Legends content, but also enhances the existing game! These updates include:

LUDICROUS DIFFICULTY!
They've gone to plaid! The brand new Ludicrous difficulty cranks up the enemy AI to become quite clever and ruthless. In addition, the game pulls back a bit on your resources, and gives the enemies a slight stat boost in addition to their far smarter AI. For all combatants, runaway offensive power has been curtailed in the mid to late game, keeping those engagements interesting all the way until the end. Go Permadeath on Ludicrous for the ultimate challenge!

Ludicrous difficulty requires competing Warlord difficulty to access.

HERO CLASS CHANGE
You can now change your hero's class to follow 3 archetypes - the existing heavy infantry archetype, a rogue, and a healer! Starting questions determine starting class, but you can switch any time in the home base.

HOVER TOOLTIPS
With both controller and mouse, you can get hover tooltips for various information, such as traits! We will continue to add more functionality to this new feature.

ENEMY CAVALRY CAN HIT AND RUN
Watch out, all enemy cavalry squads can now move after attacking, just like you can. This makes them especially deadly when used en masse!

FREEDOM OF MOVEMENT
You can now flip switches, take teleporters, and in some cases find treasures without using up your movement points or your action in a turn! It feels so much better now.

REVAMPED FINAL BATTLE
Don't want to spoil it too much, but the final boss is a lot more interesting now.

END GAME KILL/SURRENDER/DEFEAT/TURN TRACKER
After beating the game, you are now given a final tally of your turns taken, kills, surrenders, and defeats, with a window trim based on difficulty level! The game also tracks these in your save files along the way.

ARENA REWARDS REVAMP
We have rebalanced arena rewards to change up the incentive structure so you don't feel compelled to spam bronze arena a million times for the best outcomes. For example, S rank Platinum arena now yields a guaranteed unique legendary artifact!

QUICK VIEW UI EXPANSION
There is a new quick view mini-window to view squad leader traits and equipped artifacts for at-a-glance convenience!

RUSSIAN LANGUAGE SUPPORT
In addition to German, Spanish, French, BR-Portuguese, Chinese, Japanese, and Korean, Symphony of War now comes with Russian localization.

MULTIPLE BUG FIXES

Thank you so much for your continued interest and support!

Have a wonderful day, sincerely,
Phil

[Xyranius]

Awesome. I am so pumped for this.

[kwyee]

Exciting news! I'm especially pumped for New Game+ & Lunatic. I never felt I really got to stretch my army by end game.

The new content (especially classes, artifacts, traits, and items) seem reasonable in DLC.
It's a pre-purchase for me.

[Anubis]

Oooo I can't wait to see how those new character portraits are going to turn out! How about a sneak peek?

Also, have you thought about what you're going to do with the scrapped ending? A "what if" mini-campaign would be really cool.

[LEVI GAÚCHO]

Originally posted by Anubis:

Oooo I can't wait to see how those new character portraits are going to turn out! How about a sneak peek?

There are some spoilers in the official discord

[Eric]

Looking forward to this

[RatClarice]

Excited for the new classes.

[quasius]

Is this going to be more appended / post-campaign content or stuff that will mix into the current campaign?

[Anubis]

Originally posted by LEVI GAÚCHO:

Originally posted by Anubis:

Oooo I can't wait to see how those new character portraits are going to turn out! How about a sneak peek?

There are some spoilers in the official discord

Thanks, I managed to catch a glimpse of a few portraits. Devoa in particular looks fantastic and is a huge improvement.

[Benny]

Very exciting! Can't wait to see what you have in store for us!

[spinn72]

This sounds amazing cant wait for lunatic difficulty and the new classes!

[Blackadar]

Love the original game, looking forward to buying this!

[NTR Enjoyer]

Everything that I wished for. This game has such a complex unit build system and replayability being limited to only the campaign is such a shame.

[DeepEnd]

I have a question regarding the new Character art:

I have bought the artbook DLC, will that be updated with the new Character art?
Also, will there be an ingame option to switch between the new and old character portraits in the case where some players prefer the old art?

[Dancing Dragon Games]

Originally posted by DeepEnd:

I have a question regarding the new Character art:

I have bought the artbook DLC, will that be updated with the new Character art?
Also, will there be an ingame option to switch between the new and old character portraits in the case where some players prefer the old art?

I'll do my best to update the art book, yes. And yes, you'll be able to toggle between new and old.

[Albie There]

Excited for this, it has been a while since I was dedicated playing a game, this game is great.