Thank you very much for participating in Playtests and bring a great and meritoric feedback.
Moreover, already on 24.02.2024 we will release a demo with more content (additional side quests), new UI and we will also try to add changes based on your suggestions, which we will receive during this test.

Playtest update

According to your feedback we are working on most requested changes. We will try to implement them in DEMO. Stay tuned!

Game optimization
- We are working on issues that you reported. We will try to fix crashes and improve optimization.

Menu:
-Keybindings
-Max frame cap issue
-Resolutions problems

Savegames

Blacksmith:
-Adjustments to grinding wheel
-Anvil mechanic changes
-Melting iron in pot changes

Battlefield:
-New cinematic
-New 2 side quests (sabotage siege tower, shooting range)

Battlefied NPCs:
-Improved animations
-More dialogues
-New version of NPC (without sword) which will include new dialogue options

Cart adjustments:
-Free camera
-Better throttle
-Higher max speed
-Less damage on obstacles
-Improving dropping items system

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This time it will be closed, and only people who have signed up and added the game to the wishlist✅ will take part. So don't wait, just do it now!!!

This will be a test that will allow us to check out new content, improvements to the mechanics, and give us feedback on the changes we have made.⚡️

Moreover, already on 24.02.2024 we will release a demo with more content (additional side quests), new UI and we will also try to add changes based on your suggestions, which we will receive during this test.

Playtest update
Patch notes:
-Game optimization
-AMD FSR update
-Added shaders compilation
-Grinding wheel rework
-Added sidequests on battlefield
-Added sprinting
-Broken wheel cart workshop rework
-Broken cart quest rework
-Interactive NPC rework
-Placing items on cart rework
-Fixed issue with tasks didn't count
-New tower on battlefield
-New loading screens
-New animations for NPC
-More obstacles on battlefield
-New weight system in cart
-Player jump rework
-New weather system
-Cart movment rework
-New sounds effects
-Highlitings items on battlefield when player crouch
-Added drop trace when picking up a item
-Added armors on battlefield as a pickable item
-New clothes for NPCs
-A lot of small fixes

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Many players asked us after playtests to add the possibility of killing knights on the battlefield or giving them, lives. We thought it was a great idea and added such an option.

This is an important novelty, as it also makes moral choices that affect reputations come into play

Below is a video, so you can see it for yourself. What's more, we plan to make the playtests available once again🔥 for our community soon, so stay tuned and follo us here and on our socials

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Due to the fact that by far the most numerous group in our community are players from China, we decided to appreciate you dear friends and locate in our game a POI 🧭 with a Chinese merchant camp🎪.

There will be an opportunity to talk to the merchants ⚖️ there, and maybe even more 📖 ;)

In addition, they will have some special tasks 💰 for us to perform 🔥


Video - work in progress
Screens

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In one of the quests you will have to help a stranger repair his cart🪛. Returning from the battlefield🗻, he damaged his wagon wheel🛞, and you, as an experienced blacksmith, will be able to repair it.

In the game we try to reflect realism, so the wheels of the carts 🛒 will be able to worn out or destroyed if they are subjected to extra stress, you run them over a rock or a hole. Such obstacles in medieval roads were really quite a lot, so be careful

Remember, we are adding customization and enhancements↗️ to the cart that will affect its speed or durability🔥!!!


Development is moving forward all the time 🔧⬆️



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Big thank you a huge of feedbacks📝
You have given us a great deal of trust, countless amounts of feedback, ideas 💡, criticism and much more.... we are immensely grateful for this.

We know what you expect from us and if we can we will give it to you.
First of all, we will want to make improvements🆙, beyond the planned content

Previously planned activities

• additional city 🏰
  
• additional battlefield 🏞️
  
• supplemented history 📖
  
• additional quests✅
  
• and many others ↗️

Additional elements under the influence of feedback

• expand the functionality of the forge ⚒️
  
• add the possibility of selling products 🏪
  
• add the possibility of using in the game own products ⚔️
  
• add customization of the cart 🛒

You can also see a section of the survey where you can find the most popular expectations of the community

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Added➕:
-New cart movment
-New system for loading cart
-Improvments for animations
-Lighter footsteeps
-Quieter cart sound by default
-Highlighting items on battlefield while crouching
-Native resolutions
-Motion blur check in settings
-Changes footseps paths in Danburg

Fixes🔧:
-Leaving cart player stuck
-Broken cart near Aivar, interaction, leaving
-Blockers that checks if player are going outside map with cart
-Coliders in Danburg
-UI bug when dropping items from inventory
-Collision that blocks picking up items near cart
-Broken wheels double information about wheel status
-Cups mini-game win award
-UI that shows tutorial screens resized
-Hole that was near wall

We hope that this patch will provide better experince and we are waiting for your feedback espescially for informations about new cart movment and system loading, we want to know what do you prefer old system or new? Let's see who is better blacksmith.

Attention❕
We are still working on Antivirus issue and below we are posting another step what you can try to bypass crash.
Go to steam right click on Sword&Shield > Properties > Launch options > try to write some of them:
-dx11
-d3d11
-force-d3d11
-windowed -d3d11
-dx12

We have decided to extend the playtest time? As we have received a huge feeback and we already know that the demo will not appear in two weeks as we had planned earlier.

• Small fix update for playtest (probably tomorrow)
  
• Showing the demo at the next demo festival in October
  
• Implementation some of the things suggested in the feedback
  
• Adding more content to the demo vs. previously planned small fixes based on suggestions
  
• More languages
  
• Polishing

Release schedule for the compilation:

• Extending playtest💣
  
• Demo version during October Steam Fest 🗡️✅
  
• q1 2024 compilation of Prologue 💫
  
• q2 2025 Full game ⚡️

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- mechanics in the forge ️🔨
- battlefield and loot collection 🏞️🪙
- additional quests 🔧
- learning about the initial history of the kingdom and the storyline 📖

• show you, our community the test version that we have been working on so far, among other things
  
• collect feedback and possible proposals for improvements and changes. We added to survey in the end of the game

Release schedule for the compilation:

• Today Playtest Build 💣
  
• date depends on feedback during playtest - demo version 🗡️✅
  
• q4/q1 2024 compilation of Prologue 💫
  
• q1 2025 Full game ⚡️

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