Bad North

UpgradesAdded 4 new Items – Mines, Jabena, Philosopher’s Stone & Holy GrailAdded Hero Traits – unique buffs for commandersUnlock Items and Traits to equip your Starting CommandersView details of all upgrades seen in the game in the new Codex viewRebalanced all abilities that launch units (bomb, Warhammer etc.)Nerfed the Warhammer, tweaked it’s targeting and added a 3rd upgrade levelPlunge attack is buffed and scales with Infantry level (veteran / elite)CampaignSee enemy types you will face before playing a levelNumber of enemy types correlates to total enemy numbersMovement of the Viking Frontier is more controlled & moves faster in harder difficultiesJabena Item allows one Commander to deploy on two Islands per Campaign TurnOptionally allow restarting of levels, as an option when starting a campaignAdded checkpoint islands that provide a fixed point you can return to, rather than restarting your campaignVery Hard difficulty is unlocked after completing HardAbility to delete old campaign savesEconomyGold is now deposited in a shared Gold Bank, rather than distributed to commandersTotal Gold in a campaign is more controlled, less RNGSome rare Islands will have a high gold count, but corresponding threat levelPhilosopher’s Stone Item adds additional Gold into the economyGeneral CombatReplaced the old red-shielded enemies with a new enemy typeMost enemies (including those with shields) can be knocked off of shipsYour archers are slightly more likely to target non-shielded troopsAll archers (except brutes) are more likely to target stunned troopsEnemy archers are more likely to target shielded troopsAxe-throwers are more likely to target shielded troops with axesInfantry are more responsive when ordered to retreat from enemiesPikes are more able to form up near stunned enemiesArchers are better at targeting when close to terrainUnits are less likely to get stuck on sharp corners of terrainLongships landing now do significant stun damage, instead of knockback

Patch 1.06 ReleasedNew Features- Added Easy Difficulty mode- Added Controller layout cheatsheets- Loadout / Deployment order is retained from turn to turn- Game will detect if you trap yourself on the campaign map and trigger a game overBug Fixes- Plunge can now drop from a height of 2 at upgrade level 1 and 2- Slight buff to archers- Replenish can begin before all units make it to the house, if some are delayed- Fixes progression blocker if commander is stunlocked- Early game enemy types appear a little sooner- Improved Island Generation so failures are less likely- Should reduce the chance of having islands stuck under the fog- Improved some framerate spikes due to garbage collection- Fixed a very rare crash related to navigation- Corrected the %age completion on Game Over, so it’s more accurate and doesn’t show 100% if you lose the final level- Popups can be closed with the back button- Fixed issue where hover effects on soldiers stick when pausing / winning the level- Fixed issue where full squads could be sent to replenish- Possible fix for occasional soft-lock in the campaign map- Fixed a bug where clicking commander portraits in the map screen would result in incorrect audio- Fixed one issue that could cause an infinite loading screen on new Campaign- Possible fix for game sometimes hanging at start- Fix for archers sometimes shooting through cave walls- Fixed issues where units would occasionally stick on each other (introduced in 1.04)- Fix for potential progression blocker if some soldiers made it into a house but the commander gets stunlocked on their way there- Fix for squads occasionally forgetting to follow their commander back out of a house- Improved handling of corrupted campaign save files- Fix for commander flags getting stuck on houses