Hello Everyone!
Hope you are all having a good start to the new year.
A new update for Wooden Battles is here! The Winter Mode is now removed from the game, but there have been some major changes to Conquest Mode.
Conquest Mode now has 2 new factions, Purple, and Teal. The map has been expanded to make room for the new factions.
A tech tree has been added to the game. You will notice that all of your units are now locked, except for the rifleman. You have to unlock them in the tech tree. Each unit also has several upgrade options, and after unlocking all the upgrades, you can unlock weapons for the unit. Currently, the weapons are the same as the ones from challenge mode, but I will modify it later.
To unlock stuff in the tech tree, you use Battle Points. Battle Points are earned by fighting battles. The number of points you get depends on whether you win or lose, whether it's a fort battle, the size of both armies involved, and the disparity between the armies.
To help unlock some units early on, the Neutral faction will now spawn small armies randomly on neutral territories that don't have forts. Once all the neutral areas are gone, they will no longer spawn units. You can battle the neutral armies early on to get some easy Battle Points.
Several bugs have been fixed in this update as well. Sometimes when you encounter an enemy army in Conquest mode, you were only able to Simulate it, clicking Play Battle wouldn't work. That issue should be resolved now. There were some issues with AI and Battle Simulations, these should now be resolved.
Some people had issues with mouse sensitivity on different display resolutions. I made some changes to the way mouse input is handled, so it might fix these issues, but it could create new ones.
There are a few other known bugs that I haven't fixed yet. Sometimes your armies disappear in Conquest Mode, and sometimes the AI would get stuck in their bases. I haven't been able to replicate these consistently yet, but I will try to fix them in the next update.
I'm not sure what I will do in the next update yet. People have suggested I add metal blocks, custom structures, structures to Conquest Mode, new units, turrets and so on. The list is quite big, I'm not sure yet what I will add next, but I will figure something out.
That is it for now, hope you enjoy!
Thanks!