We're releasing the patch a day early as we've made a number of fixes that we want to deploy ASAP. We've been busy this week working on mostly backend systems related to beginner protection, healing and incoming quest/XP mechanics.

Gameplay

Beginner protection will now be applied to newly registered players on all worlds. This protection will last for 24 hours on Classic Worlds and 12 hours on Speed Worlds. Going forward, we can easily tune these numbers subject to player feedback. Players under beginner protection cannot be the target of any mission types during this window. The protected player can freely raid Scuttlers, but cannot send missions to other players unless they want to exit protection early. If the protected player wishes to opt out, they can target an external player with a mission at which point they will be prompted with a confirmation to end beginner protection early. We'll be looking into adding some kind of visual indicator for beginner protection soon.

Fortune is a system that's been active in the background and is now linked into the battle reports alongside the new Research building functionality. Fortune is a -15% to +15% random swing that will boost or diminish combat efficacy for the attacking army only. Your 'Tech Level' is combined with this value. We have some other exciting systems in development that will further synergise with this.

Healing is now live! Effective immediately for all Worlds, all damaged units (except Vanguard) will now gradually restore lost hit points. Currently we've set this to be approximately 10% of their total health per day for Classic Worlds. We'll be watching and tuning this very carefully over the coming days to make sure it feels balanced. This healing rate will be increased to 10x for Speed Worlds. 'Boost healing' that will burn resources is WIP but will require more time as it needs UI adaptations.

• Units will only heal while 'resting'. A unit is considered to be resting while not assigned any mission. Guards posted at an external destination are on an active mission therefore are not resting.
  
• While selecting units to be sent on a mission, the game will pick the units with the most health first. So consider selecting smaller increments for battle if you want your wounded to rest up.
  
• Resting units that are sent on missions will have their healing timer reset so be mindful of their healing tick intervals:

Melee - 1 tick per 12h.
Ranged - 1 tick per 24h.
AoE - 1 tick per 24h.
Siege - 1 tick per 3h.
Coloniser - 1 tick per 3h.


General

• Skeev is feeling even more festive.
  
• The world select UI has had a complete design overhaul.
  
• Improved the visual responsiveness of settlement nameplates, the World Map should load slightly faster as a result.
  
• Improved settlement spawning logic to improve Scuttler positions in relationship to new players.
  
• Fixed Alliance chat history failing to load, and several other message centre discrepancies (please let us know if you spot more, these can be very tricky to reproduce!)
  
• Fixed several issues with character customisation preferences failing to load in the War Room and Diplomacy scenes.
  
• Fixed Vanguard recruitment perk failing to activate at Barracks level 6.
  
• Fixed incorrectly generous recruitment scaling granted by Barracks and Factory on Classic Worlds.
  
• Fixed an issue with building nameplates intersecting into scaffolding for some factions.
  
• Fixed a nameplate double layering issue causing them to appear darker than intended.
  
• Fixed an issue that was causing nameplate animations (such as the upgrade arrow + timers) to distort.
  
• Fixed "Accept frienf invitation" spelling - sorry frienfs!

Introducing our first 'Classic World' server which is officially live in game!

Step into a brand-new era of warfare designed for strategists and visionaries who want to take their time and leave a lasting legacy.

Classic Worlds are a slower, more deliberate way to play EDYN.

+30 Days War Campaign: Battle over an extended period with opportunities to craft alliances, plan calculated strikes, and wage long-form war campaigns.

Secure your place in history with exclusive cosmetics awarded to the most dedicated conquerors.

With a more relaxed pace, Classic Worlds offer the perfect environment for methodical players who thrive on strategic depth, tailored for players who want to dominate the battlefield on their own schedule, with less time pressure and more strategic control!

Fear not, If you’re craving fast-paced action, our 10x Speed World #3 is ready for you! Dive into quick and competitive gameplay designed for thrill-seekers and adrenaline junkies.

Strategize your rise to power in Classic World #1 or race to the top in Speed World #3, there’s a place for you in EDYN.

Don’t miss your chance to forge your path in these new worlds. NOW LIVE!

Join the fight today!
Play now and shape the future of EDYN.

— The EDYN Team

Hi all,

We've just pushed a big update ahead of the launch of Speed World #3 and Classic World #1. Please ensure that you update your game before trying to play. Both new Worlds will be deployed within the next hour at 6pm GMT/UK time (converted to your local time here -> 6 December 2024 at 18:00).

For reference, all of our Worlds to date have been Speed Worlds, including Thor's World event. They run x10 faster than Classic. If you've loved the fast paced competitive landscape of the previous Worlds, then expect nothing short of the same, with all of the latest gameplay improvements and tighter numbers. If you've found in the past that the time commitment was a bit overwhelming, or you simply like the idea of engaging with slower burning World and its denizens over a period of weeks and months, then please consider signing up to our very first Classic World - my personal favourite version of EDYN!

Mac Support Added
We've been testing a Mac build of EDYN in-house throughout the week and we're happy that it's stable enough for us to deploy. Mac users can now download and play on Steam. We'll update the store page with the system specs we've tested on. Please let us know how you get on.

Skeev's Shop Open For Business!
We're testing out Skeev's shop with a couple of basic items for now, and enabling the purchase of EDYN's cosmetic exchange currency "Shards", a reference to the fragments of EDYN's meteorite found strewed across the land. Skeev bestows great value on these Shards and will trade cool cosmetic only goodies in return. We plan to use Skeev's shop as a hub for our incoming quest system and also be a placed where ranked rewards can be found. More info coming soon!

Gameplay

• Research building v0.5 is now live. The Research building was always intended to be utilised as an end game resource burning option, we've now just implemented the first step of its functionality. As the Research building is upgraded, it will increase the colony's "Tech Level" by 0.3%. The Tech Level is applied to attacking forces only. The unique trait of this building is that you can continue to upgrade it beyond level 30. The Tech Level will continue to scale indefinitely. With Research v1.0 that we are working on, it will add a talent tree style system where you will be able to purchase nodes to apply powerful global effects all of your armies and colonies.
  
• If all units die in a raid, a report is not generated for the defeated army - nobody has survived to tell the tale!
  
• Barrack/Factory perk updates - Both buildings now have a new level 30 perk that will unlock the ability to train two unit different unit types at once.
  
• We've relaxed the Colony unit's recruitment increment from +1 hour to +45 minutes per order (not applicable to Classic Worlds).
  
• Resource numbers and building costs have been tuned to ensure a smoother overall levelling experience and should result in less wasted overflow at max level/end game.

Visual Improvements

• You can now preview all of the incoming and previously unlocked building perks from the building upgrade UI. Tooltips have been added to explain their function (We're in the process of adding tooltips literally everywhere!).
  
• We've added a new radial variation for selecting colonies that are controlled by the player. This allows you to "Set Active" a colony, which is a shortcut and the equivalent of using the drop down menu from the top of the UI.
  
• We've refined and expanded the drop down list that displays your colonies. You can more many more now and see additional information.
  
• Your Alliance banner is now displayed above your colony nameplate.

General and Fixes

• We've done an optimisation pass that has mainly targeted textures bringing down the entire install size by 30%~. This has made an improvement to memory size and loading times. We will be doing a lot more to improve the speed of the scene loading times. This is a top priority for us now.
  
• Players will need to have the latest version of the game to join a World.
  
• A new font has been added to increase text legibility
  
• Mission tab now hides when inspecting a building.
  
• Mission counter refreshes faster now.
  
• Fixed an issue with settings preferences failing to carry over to the next application launch.
  
• Fixed text and scale alignment issues in both the upgrade and recruitment building UIs
  
• Fixed a bug in the War Room that would fail to update the mission type to 'Transfer' from 'Guard' if the player changed the origin colony via the drop down menu.
  
• Fixed several frontend display errors in the battle reports. Notably the Siege unit failing to show its health adjustment during combat.
  
• Fixed Message Centre loading/latency issue. Should be super snappy now.
  
• Fixed an animation glitch related to a building upgrade being completed while not in focus.
  
• Fixed an issue with reports not being generated during a colony capture.
  
• Fixed several shader and texture issues related to buildings and character props. Also resolved the low quality texture problem of the Jackal skins.
  
• Fixed several building nameplate scale inconsistencies.
  
• Fixed 'instance of reference not found' error.

Known Issues

• The Mech Croc cannot equip and body/head slots currently. Working on a fix ASAP.

The Thor’s World event has arrived, and it’s destined to be legendary!


Create your character on Thor’s World and permanently unlock the “Pirate” title—a rare and prestigious prefix that travels with you across all worlds, forever!

Join the fight to take down 63 MAX-LEVEL RAID BOSSES to restore order to this fractured world!

Will you reinforce the raid bosses to delay your rivals, or seize the opportunity to bring them down? Each boss must be captured on the world map before the chaos subsides—but strategy is key. Reinforce to buy time, or strike to claim glory.

Only ONE player will walk away with the legendary title of 'Ferret Lord'—awarded to the conqueror with the most captured boss bases. A title for eternity.

Starting November 29th at 15:00 GMT, the event will end when all the Ferret Bosses are defeated.

**UPDATE**

A massive congratulations to our newly coronated Ferret King ZeOwl, and his freshly elected and esteemed Ferret Lords:

Final placements were as follows:

ZeOwl : 11 ferret villages
Linkey : 9 ferret villages
Galdan : 7 ferret villages
VOID : 5 ferret villages
CARON : 5 ferret villages
Akai : 4 ferret villages
Handles : 4 ferret villages
Spain : 3 ferret villages
RabidKerBbal : 3 ferret villages
Hornetdragon : 2 ferret villages
EnderTheCrusad : 2 ferret villages
Metallic : 1 ferret village

We hope everyone enjoyed taking part in our very first event mode. The team at EDYN loved watching the progress and politics over the last week!
We plan to have many more events in future and plan to get really creative with some of the themes and rewards. We've learned a ton from hosting this!

Once again, thanks to all of the players that took part and for being great sports.

Patch notes released a little early today as we have a bit of a surprise event planned in the next couple of hours. Details will be posted very soon.

General

• Skeev is feeling festive.
  
• Improved responsiveness of the double-click to upgrade function, improved visuals and you should now feel a nice burst of dopamine when you see a building complete its upgrade process.
  
• The active mission counters will now persist when the mission tab is collapsed for improved tracking. Also fixed a scale and alignment issue with the list itself.
  
• Increased the font size and added further visual polish for all unit recruitment.
  
• Fixed a latency issue when making massive recruitment orders.
  
• Increased the scale of the world map and settlement buttons.

Message Centre

• Chat overlay icon will now glow when new world + faction messages are posted while hidden.
  
• Notification icons will now appear over the message centre for friend requests, Alliance invites, Alliance messages and Diplomacy events.
  
• User uploaded banners for Alliances are now fully working.
  
• You will get a confirmation prompt before being able to exit the Alliance via the profile.
  
• Fixed messages being duplicated when sent in diplomacy mode.
  
• Fixed display issue where Alliance messages would be carried over into the chat overlay.

Gameplay

• We've done a visual overhaul to the battle reports to improve presentation and legibility. We've done further tuning to our combat calculations to more closely align with our Rock-Paper-Scissors vison. The unit's power (its blue number) is dynamically adjusted into a 'combat rating' during battle in relation to how proportionately it counters or is countered by the other army as a whole. The green number; the hit points are adjusted accordingly.
  
• Step right up! We're implemented the first part of the unit queue system. This will restrict the Barracks and Factory to being able to recruit one unit type at at time. We've been listening to feedback about the army system being more of a sheer number game, so we're aiming to make recruitment a lot more strategic. Training too many of one unit can now leave you open to being countered by another. We are trialling this, and if popular we can expand it to allow additional unit types to be queued but only sequentially.
  
• Fixed an issue with the Espionage success rate being calculated incorrectly. Upgrading the Watch Tower will now correctly apply an increasingly moderate boost to your Espionage mission odds, whilst also slightly reducing the odds of your enemies.

Full details on our Discord channel.

Minor bug fixes, including: character customization with equipped items, duplicate banners on the world map, war room special cases.