We have a feisty little patch for you all today, including bug fixes and new UX that allows Keepers players to pick their retinue! (Thanks to Nitrorev for the good suggestion, and keep an eye out for this approach being used for other token selections.)

Please be sure to give us your feedback in our Discord channel[discord.gg], in-game or via the Steam forums! We’re eager to hear your thoughts.

Gameplay
• During setup, Keepers automatic relic placement will now place relics in forest as close as legally allowed to their starting Warriors.
  
• Fixed an issue where Keepers could get into an invalid state during Advanced Setup.
  
• Players should now be able to select another move after canceling Prowess as Hundreds.
  
• The Lord of Hundreds should now play a celebration animation for a Victory on the End of Game screen.
  
• When moving warriors with False Orders in a clearing with an odd number of Warriors (specifically with the Warlord), the value is now rounded up instead of down.
  
• Keepers should now be able to Encamp in clearings with a face-down Corvid snare.
UI
• Relics tooltips will now display the info of all relics in their clearing or forest.
  
• The Duchy brigadier prompt selection should now only have 1 button displayed with the white outline at a time.
  
• Improved spacing and resolved overlap issues on Winter Map.
  
• In the Keepers tutorial, instructions should no longer overlap the prompt to add cards to your retinue.
  
• The Enable Controller support prompt now appears when players land on the home screen for the first time, rather than at launch while the cinematic plays
  
• The X and Y buttons on the gamepad should now be localized properly for different platforms
  
• Gamepad settings should now default to top-most / first selection in a menu.
  
• Users should now be able to ban factions while playing with Adset and Faction Draft disabled.
  
• Fixed an issue where Clockwork bots would get extra buildings and warriors when playing with Adset
  
• Placed Waystations should now display a card draw symbol on the player detail page.
  
• Improved the clarity of messaging when an ambush is prevented by another ambush.
  
• When the player doesn't remove any items with the Lavish mood there should now be an accurate action log entry.
  
• The Looting Banner should now be enabled and disabled properly during the Battle.
  
• The Tooltip indicating the Draw Rate should now display properly.
  
• The Disable Faction draft option should no longer appear when Advanced Setup is turned off.
  
• Players using gamepad are now able to tooltip decree icons for more info.
Art
• Animation should now be smoother during Vagabot mouse click.
Localization
• Russian language should now display accurately on HUD.
  
• Spanish prompt header for the first mood choice should no longer covered by art.
  
• Chinese Characters should now display properly.
  
• Font should now be easier to read for Chinese characters and Japanese characters.
  
• Non-English languages should no longer have blank areas.

The following issues are known to the dev team and will be addressed in future patches!
Localization
• German, Czech, Russian, and Japanese translations are currently incomplete for the Marauder DLC.
  
• There are currently possible mistranslations in Italian Coffin Makers text and Polish Sway Minister text.
  
• Descriptions of Delivery Mission are flipped in non-English languages. (e.g. Normal displays as Heroic, Heroic displays as normal)
UI
• The new Keeper retinue selection is not currently enabled with gamepad support.
  
• The Time Out clock should be visually synced to server time but is currently appearing too late.
  
• Warriors and Tokens overlap in certain placements.
  
• Riverfolk Warriors are not removed from Coffin makers when Recruit is undone.
  
• Mob Token does not play Death Animation when it is killed.
  
• During the Marauder Tutorial, the Retinue modal starts at the top, then moves down so the text does not overlap.
  
• Steam notifications are not displaying Root icon.
Gameplay
• During gameplay, the Keepers in Iron AI will sometimes leave 4 or more Warriors in a single clearing, leaving them vulnerable to Live off the Land at the end of the turn.
  
• If you run into this issue, please send us feedback through the in-game Settings menu!
  
• Players cannot currently choose which Waystations are removed during Keepers matches or which
  Waystations are damaged in Battle..
  
• In the Egg Collector challenge, when you move into a clearing with an egg and create a Warrior, selecting Undo brings the egg back but does not uncreate the Warrior.
  
• Players cannot choose which resource to use when crafting Wild icons.
  
• Undoing a revolt when at supply limit removes Warriors previously on the playmat.
  
• If a player uses Scorched Earth on a clearing, the Electric Eyrie can still place Warriors in the clearing with Swoop.
  
• Players can remove mountain passes adjacent to Scorched Earth clearing while playing Scoundrel.
  
• The Eyrie Dynasty AI appears unable to determine that they will enter Turmoil by the end of the turn even without opponent action.
  
• Players are unable to play with random factions enabled online while playing Adset with the faction draft turned on.

We’ve got another Hotfix headed your way to address bugs reported since The Marauder Expansion Release! A big thank you to all of the players who took the time to report and for playing Root Digital!

• UI
  
  • Mob Icon should now have a vertical line to the left of the token in the Hundreds Tutorial.
    
  • Placeholder accounts no longer appear at the bottom of the leaderboard
    
  • The Devout Knights ability banner will now be positioned correctly during combat when using the Quick Battle setting.
    
  • During the Marquise tutorial, Rule Flag tip should now be easier to read.
    
  • In Quick Battle, the Corvid Embedded Agents banner should now appear entirely on-screen.
    
  • Multiple icons should no longer display for each faction.
    
  • Players should now be able to minimize the sway prompt and simultaneously open the supply and discard pile.
    
  • “Hundreds is choosing a Homeland Clearing” text should now display to prompt opponents.
• Gameplay
  • Controller Support prompt should now appear immediately upon launching the game.
    
  • Hundreds can no longer recruit to a Warlord in a Keep or Snare clearing.
    
  • Eyrie AI set to easy and normal difficulty should now be less likely to make decree choices that send it into turmoil.
    
  • AI should now choose to remove warriors in combat before their own warlord in almost all cases.
    
  • Bitter Mood should now be selected when a Hundreds player has no warriors in supply.
    
  • Eyrie Players can no longer select a clearing with a warlord.
    
  • A Vagabond aiding the Hundreds should no longer be able to get items the Hundreds removed from the game with their Contempt for Trade.
    
  • Players should now be able to ban a second vagabond in Advanced Setup.

Please also see our list of known issues since the release. We’re working on these for an upcoming release. Again, a big thank you to all of the players who took the time to report!

• Localization
  • German, Czech, Russian, and Japanese translations for expansion content are incomplete. (We are waiting on source files from localization partners, so we are unsure of the ETA on these for the moment.)
• UI
  The prompt to enable controller support displays before it should, leading to it displaying improperly
  • When many relics are in the same clearing, their values overlap.
    
  • Relic tokens have inconsistent shapes.
    
  • Placed Waystations don't display the Card Draw symbol on expanded player info.
    
  • Ambush blocked by the Scouting Party needs its own label.
• Gameplay
  • Cancelling a move with Prowess forces the player to battle or not be able to take the action.
    
  • Additional Relics are currently placed too far from Keeper's starting point.
    
  • During gameplay, the Keepers in Iron AI will sometimes leave 4 or more Warriors in a single clearing, leaving them vulnerable to Live off the Land at the end of the turn.
    
  • Players can enable Disable Faction Draft and Random Factions with Advanced Setup not enabled.
    
  • Players cannot ban factions with Disable Faction Draft enabled.

Here’s our Day One hotfix for the Marauder Expansion Steam release[news.direwolfdigital.com]. We appreciate all of the feedback, and hope you’re enjoying the new expansion!

• Gamepad
  • Pressing R3 and L3 concurrently will no longer disable camera controls.
    
  • Controllers should remain usable in games where chat is disabled. Additionally, closing chat will now reenable camera movement.
• Pass & Play
  • Games should no longer be freezing during Pass & Play mode.
• Gameplay
  • Spread Sympathy Icon should now appear during Revolt.
    
  • Lord of the Hundreds should now be prompted to choose which pieces to lose when taking hits during a clearing with both mobs and strongholds.
    
  • Vagabond Ability hints now correctly display next to the Vagabond they refer to.
    
  • Paper on Recruiter is now positioned correctly when Recruiter idles.
    
  • Opponents of Woodland Alliance players can no longer inspect supporter piles.
    
  • Eyrie can no longer build in a clearing after being ambushed and removing all of their warriors.
    
  • Cancelling after clearing a build should now return the Command action to the player.
    
  • Hundreds players should now be able to undo a choice on the Mood Selection prompt.
• UI
  • Various text improvements in Chinese.
    
  • Various fixes for Japanese Characters on the Create Game screen.
    
  • Icons in the second tutorial should now be visible.
    
  • Hundreds play should now play a minor defeat animation at the end of the game.
    
  • Tokens from Corvids and Hundreds should no longer overlap and should be better aligned on gamemat.
    
  • Keepers and Hundreds should now display in the Relationships sections of the gamemat for Vagabond.

The Marauder Expansion is now available on Steam, with mobile platforms coming soon! Additionally, we have a lot of fixes for gameplay, UI improvements, and pesky bugs.

The Marauder Expansion has arrived on Steam!

• Two New factions challenge your woodland rule!
  
  • Lord of the Hundreds – Oppress the Woodland and burn it to the ground if need be. You suffer no dissent.
    
  • Keepers in Iron – Lead your exiled order of devout knights into battle to recover ancient relics. For glory!
• New Challenges!
  • Six new challenges with both Normal and Heroic modes test your strategic wiles!
• New Achievements!
  • Eight new achievements push you to conquer the Woodland as never before!
    
  • For more details, check out our article here[news.direwolfdigital.com].

• The Card icon should now appear on bases inside the Woodland Alliance player info view.
  
• Victory Points should now display black text when Sway is prompted.
  
• Improved placement of hinting arrows in tutorial for all zoom levels
  
• Icons should now display properly until a faction is selected during Advanced Set-up.
  
• Improved visibility of selection highlights on map elements while in strategic view
  
• Vagabonds shouldn’t overlap on Lake Map when in the same forest.
  
• Warriors should no longer clip into each other on the battlefield with higher warrior counts.
  
• Improvements on flag visibility in Mountain Map.
  
• Clearing Suit and Rule Flag hints should now be better aligned.
  
• Undoing crafting should no longer cause flickering.
  
• Winter Map forest and clearing highlights should now have the same opacity.
  
• Riverfolk Cards should now animate to the hand of their new owners when purchased via services.
  
• Vagabond Circle should now be smaller and not appear when walking through a cleared path on the Mountain Map.
  
• Highlights should now appear when targeting a Garden in Strategic View.
  
• Widescreen monitors display for 32:9 ratio is now supported.
  
• Cards should no longer overlap when mousing over.
  
• Player should now be able to select Mountain Paths on Gamepad during Pass & Play.
  
• Minimize button for Vagabond Selection should now be closer to the Maximize button.
  
• Vagabond should now appear on the Turn Order info page.
  
• Forests should now highlight yellow when selected via gamepad on the Mountain Map.
  
• Opponent-facing text should now be correctly localized.
  
• Loading icon should now remain visible when Skipping Replay.

• Corvid Plots should no longer overlap sympathy/revolt cost.
  
• Corvid daylight actions should now be able to be selected via gamepad.
  
• Corvid Death should now have a sound when a Corvid warrior dies.

• Various text corrections and fixes to Challenges.
  
• Various fixes to prompts under Available Quests.
  
• Cancelling out of Convert Ability should no longer cause an infinite loop.

Thank you so much for playing Root Digital! If you have any questions, shoot us a message through the in-game Feedback button or email us at Support@direwolfdigital.com.

With this patch, we’re ramping things up in more ways than one, introducing the Skip Replay option– designed to get you back into the action faster than before. In addition to this new feature, we have a ton of new improvements, backend fixes, and bug fixes.

• Skip Replay Button: Players rejoining an async game can now skip replays of the match. Additionally, players can now skip replays when rejoining a match after losing connection.

• Action Log:
  • Players should now be able hover over cards in the action log to check out the details.
    
  • The action log should now show the correct amount of Warriors placed on Coffin makers when spending Supply as Riverfolk.
• Advanced Setup:
  • Vagabond Warrior should now start on the board.
    
  • When setting up as the Eyrie on the Winter map, upper left clearing should now be available as a starting option.
    
  • Eyrie Dynasty Leader should now be found when one is expected.
• AI:
  • AI should now be able to successfully take over for resigned players.
• Art/Display:
  • Settings, Action Log, Expand, Minimize, and Supply tooltips should now have consistent font sizes.
    
  • The Action Log tile should now stay in place on the screen when the window is open.
    
  • Eyrie’s Roosts should now animate into the match when reloading a match.
    
  • Chinese Characters should now display larger.
• Audio:
  • The Timer sound effects should now be dismissed along with the timer.
• Expansions:
  • Starting the app offline should no longer prevent players from accessing purchased Expansion content.
• Gamepad:
  • Gamepad supports Skip Replay with a button press.
    
  • Total Domination Challenge should now prevent faction changes.
    
  • XBOX Button should now display when using Steam Deck or with a gamepad on Steam.
• Gameplay:
  • Various stability improvements and localization fixes.
    
  • The Undo button should no longer appear unless the player can undo an action.
    
  • Destroying an Automated Alliance Sympathy should win the game or at least tie the players.
    
  • Spread Sympathy for No Such Clearings should now be in the adjacent space with the fewest enemy pieces.
    
  • Spread Sympathy should now be skipped if all 10 Sympathy tokens are on the playmat.
    
  • Deployed Warriors and Warriors in Reserve should now always equal 25, and display total number of warriors on the playmat correctly.
    
  • The Mayor should now be “Exhausted” after redoing his move.
    
  • Enemy Warriors should now return to the original clearing after Undoing the Convert action.
    
  • When using Propaganda Bureau in a clearing with a Keep or Corvid Snare token, undoing the action should now return the Opponent’s warrior without removing the other player’s warrior.
    
  • Players should now see AI faction setup correctly in Live Games.
    
  • Field Hospital prompt should now display the correct number of Warriors.
    
  • Players should now be able to enlist the Arbiter’s help after Ambush ends.
    
  • Players should now be able to use Mayor on a Minister.
    
  • Placing a Trading post and undoing it when there are no Warriors in Reserve should resolve correctly.
    
  • Using Mercenaries damaged by Vagabond should now cause hostile status to Vagabond, not Riverfolk.
    
  • Players should now have the option to use Exposure after using Improvements.
    
  • Players should be able to use False Orders at any point.
    
  • Propaganda Bureau should no longer remove Warrior when undoing the action.
    
  • Crafting Master Engravers should no longer be able to be undone.
    
  • Tax Collector should be activated during Charismatic Leader’s recruit ability to prevent turmoil.
    
  • Undoing an Eyrie Leader selection should not leave a player without a leader when starting a turn.
    
  • Riverfolk services should now remain accessible when undoing an Eyrie Emigre action.
    
  • All players should now be able to see the number of warriors on Coffin Makers.
    
  • Players should now be able to properly select a destination clearing when using False Orders on Warriors in the pass clearing (Mountain Map) and bottom clearing (Lake Map).
    
  • Placing a Trading post and undoing it when there are no Warriors in Reserve acts correctly
    
  • Players should now be correctly removed from Live Lobbies when they close the client.
    
  • Players experiencing Online Play access issues should now see the correct error message.
    
  • Players should no longer receive “Your Turn” notifications if they’ve been resigned due to timing out or other reasons.
    
  • Undoing or redoing moves with the Mayor no longer refreshes the Mayor’s ability, preventing unlimited moves. Instead the Mayor should now be correctly exhausted.

Critters,

We have a small patch for you ahead of the holiday weekend, aimed at specific gameplay improvements and DLC sync issues.

Happy Playing!

• When a Vagabond receives an exhausted third bag, it now refreshes as expected and increases the Vagabond’s carrying capacity
  
• Users can no longer undo using Scorched Earth, Strike, or Revolt when doing so destroyed a face down Raid token
  
• Fixed issue where users could not sync DLC purchased with other devices

Critters, lend us your ears—

Today's patch, version 1.31, includes a variety of bug fixes focused on improving interactions related to the Coffin Makers card. As always, if you encounter anything in game that seems a little funky, drop us a line using the in-game feedback option, or via email to Support@DireWolfDigital.com.

Thanks for playing Root!

• Start of Birdsong ability resolution order has been reworked to preserve more strategic options, i.g Using Saboteurs to remove an enemy Coffin Makers before it triggers, getting warriors back in supply from Coffin Makers, and spending that on Riverfolk Services.
  
• An additional window has been added to resolve Field Hospitals at the start of players’ turn that owns Coffin Makers. 
  
• The camera now remembers your last zoom level when returning to a game, including whether you were in strategic view or not.
  
• Users are now able to send feedback without being logged in.
  
• Improved the accuracy of a number of tooltips, including 

• Fixed a crash trigger that could occur when specific combinations of factions were in a game with Coffin Makers crafted. 
  
• Removed various loc strings that, albeit rare, could sneak into the game

Psst…Have you reviewed Root yet? Take a moment to let us know if you love the game!



All updates are now live on iOs, Android, and Nintendo Switch.

Critters, gather 'round—

Today's patch, 1.30.5, contains a variety of bug fixes with a focus on removing exploits caused by the Undo Ability.

Undo Ability Bug Fixes

• Fixed an issue where undoing Vagabond strike wouldn’t return the warrior it had removed to play
  
• Undoing the crafting action as Riverfolk will now return the correct warriors
  
• Fixed an issue where players would still have access to the abilities of Eyrie Emigre after undoing crafting it
  
• Undoing placement of Roost at start of turn will no longer allow extra cards to be played to the Eyrie decree

Other Bug Fixes

• Vagrant Vagabond can no longer choose casualties for opponents in battles it didn’t instigate 
  
• Fixed a softlock that could occur when using Advanced Setup if AI selected Marquise as their faction
  
• The number of items in a Ruin displays correctly in games with two Vagabond characters 
  
• Fixed an issue where factions could choose illegal clearings for their starting pieces on the Mountain and Lake maps
  
• The wrong faction's warriors will no longer be highlighted when using False Orders
  
• Improved building highlights when playing in strategic view
  
• Fixed an issue where Marquise could softlock while placing homeland clearings with Advanced Setup
  
• Players can now view sway rules reminder tooltip on Switch

We love hearing from you and appreciate your ongoing support as we work hard to make Root the best digital experience it can be! If you come across any issues or need assistance, drop us a line at support@direwolfdigital.com or via the forums.

Psst… If you're having a blast with Root, please take a moment to rate and review the game. 

Thanks for playing!

The Corvid Conspiracy and Underground Duchy have been busy digging into the latest expansion this past week. As a result, we’ve got some fixes to the various gameplay and UI issues you all have reported with our 1.30.3 update.

The new 1.30.3 server update is live now for all platforms and will updates for the following issues in multiplayer games:

• Fixed an issue where a player could skip discarding to hand size at end if turn if they Exert.
  
• Fixed an issue where Harrier could use Glide ability to leave a clearing with a Corvid Snare.
  
• Fixed an issue where Sawmills would still produce wood when in a clearing with a revealed Snare token.
  
• Fixed a number of issues that could cause the game to hang.

We also have a new 1.30.3 client that can be downloaded through Steam and will soon be available soon through iOS, Android, and Switch. It will have those above fixes for games outside of multiplayer as well as the following:

• Fixed an issue where the icon for Embedded Agents would disappear from battle results.
  
• Fixed an issue where cards revealed through Exposure would be revealed to all players.
  
• Fixed an issue where rejoining a multiplayer match while the Corvids are revealing a Plot would leave the icon on screen.

We hope you’ve been enjoying the new Underworld expansion!

As always, if you encounter anything in game that seems like it shouldn’t be that way, please message us using the in-game feedback option or through an email to Support@DireWolfDigital.com.