Runs were taking far too long (45–60 minutes, even longer for first-time players). Our target is 20–30 minutes, and 40–60 minutes for new players.
To tighten pacing, we streamlined several node events and reduced transition times between encounters.

Changes:

• Reduced effect durations in Odin’s Trial, Goldmine, and Hunting Grounds.

• Decreased load times between nodes.

• Overall, this removes roughly 1 minute per year during a run.

• Battles remain the same pace, but the time between battles is now significantly faster.

Win 10 victories in a run to challenge the Jarl Leader.
Defeat them to claim the throne and become the new leader until another player dethrones you.

View the current top Jarl directly from the main menu.

Access a full in-game database containing:

• All Vikings

• All Abilities

• All Passives

• All Equipment

New end-of-battle screen showing all Vikings and their combat stats.

Starting a new run above level 1 now unlocks most nodes immediately, giving you full freedom to choose your route and build strategy.

• Chain Lightning Strike – Chains to 2 targets for 50% damage each.

• Soul Harvest – Permanently gain +5 Damage, +30 Health, +30 Armor per kill.

• Berserker Rage – +10 Damage per attack (max 10). Resets when hit.

• Whirlwind Assault – Hit all enemies for 20% damage.

• Execution Chain – Reset cooldown on kill, chains up to 5 times.

• Vengeance Strike – Bonus pure damage equal to 150% of damage taken.

• Contagion Spreader – Spread all status effects to adjacent enemies.

• Phoenix Fury – Revive with 50% HP, gain Haste, deal 100 AoE fire damage.

• Blood Pact – Sacrifice 20% current HP to deal that as pure damage.

• All Vikings now have +25%–50% Health.

• All Vikings now have +30%–50% Armor.

• Blacksmith Armor:

  • Easy: 2 → 4

  • Hard: 4 → 8

Old:

• Raiders: +10% Damage

• Warden: +15% Armor

• Skirmisher: +1 Speed, +5% Damage

• Berserker: +2 Speed

New:

• Raiders: +5% Damage, +5% Health

• Warden: +15% Armor, +10% Health

• Skirmisher: +3% Damage, +3% Health, +3% Armor

• Berserker: +1 Speed

• Slight reduction to raw damage values.

• Increased Health, Armor, and added new stat bonuses.

• Status effect bonuses significantly increased:

  • Healing, Shield, Regen, Haste, Slow, Poison

• Full pass on tooltip formatting and wording.

• Added colored highlights to clearly display key effects.

• Shop now prevents swapping Vikings by dragging onto occupied slots; an alert appears instead.
  (Still allows merging from shop → player inventory.)

• Fixed player level data not saving correctly.

• Duplicate Runes now return to inventory instead of being consumed.

• Fixed duplicate database entries when fighting non-PvP opponents.

• Various spelling fixes on the map and tutorial screens.

• Removed the “I’m Stuck” button from the Goldmine.

• Added SFX when applying a rune.

• Updated multiple passives for clarity.

• Tavern Relic container now scrolls when holding more than 8 relics.

-Fixed an issue when dragging a rune or equipment onto a unit that was full and having the rune or equipment follow the unit you are dragging around.

-Fixed an issue when buying a unit and dragging it ontop of another unit in your party that it wouldn't swap them. Now it will sell the unit you overlap with and swap it.

-Disabled the ease in animation when buying and swapping units. This was causing an error to happen where the unit would get stuck in an invalid state.

-Fixed an issue where you drag your unit out of the grid to try to swap the unit with another causing it to get in a stuck state.

-Fixed an issue where runes and equipment wouldn't swap.

-Remove the right click buy option. This was only meant for testing.

-Removed animation when a unit snaps back to the grid.

Thanks to everyone who submitted bug reports and thanks to andraxxusbear for the detailed report as well.