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Veterum

Ancient wilds have awakened. Insane prophets predict a coming apocalypse. Blood cults openly perform sacrifices... You will lead the last army of the Order of the Gatekeepers and stop the coming chaos. Not just humans are ready to join your banners, but also tough dwarves, mysterious elvers and half-wild turans. But keep in mind that not everyone will be happy to fight side by side with other races.

Travel across an open world full of mysteries and dangers. Complete quests. Find rare artifacts and equip your soldiers with them. Improve unit stats, learn new active and passive skills.

Show your tactical genius in challenging turn-based battles. For each battle, choose the fighters who are most suited to take on specific opponents. Consider unit line of sight, facing, morale and accumulated fatigue. Change the battlefield: build barricades, dig ditches, freeze rivers, chop down trees. When fighting night creatures, make fire and light the battlefield. Crush your enemies with all the power of iron and magic!



Key features:
Detailed combat system takes into account unit morale and fatigue, as well as facing and line of sight, level of illumination of each cell of the battlefield, weather effects and much more.
Interactive environment: almost every object on the battlefield can be interacted with.
Before the start of the battle, you can use one-time scrolls to make it rain, poison enemies or build a catapult.
Open world: despite the presence of a story campaign, you decide where to send your army.
Each playthrough is unique: quests, random battles, goods in cities and much more are all randomly generated.
Ability to adjust the game to your liking: choose the overall difficulty level plus adjust hit chance, the amount of HP, rewards received and much more.
Convenient unit and map editor. You can create your own missions and share them with other players.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1864690/Veterum/

[Vlad_Konung]

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[Vlad_Konung]

Work on Veterum is in full swing, the time for publishing news is categorically not enough. It is advisable to spend a couple of evening hours not on a diary, but on modeling or writing code.



Thanks again to everyone who played the shared Veterum demo and sent in an exceptional link! The message detection has been scrutinized and studied in the notebook. We have devoted the last two months to working with them.





✅ Full list of changes since the tech demo:

- fixed (hopefully) all bugs;

- added "low" feature. You can shoot through "low" units;

- units standing below the arrow (in water, under walls, etc.) no longer interfere with shooting;

- improved visualization of shooting. Interference is shown that overlaps lines or simply reduces accuracy;

- colored circles are drawn under the units;

- the camera can be scrolled outside the game map (before there were difficulties with the arrangement of units before the battle);

- the inactive zones at the bottom of the screen have disappeared from the map;

- added new artifacts for units (now there are 98 of them);

- Increased chance of getting injured in combat;

- added a new gameplay setting: 1 Morale can occur at the start of each unit's turn;

- Changed the algorithm for obtaining rewards for units after the battle. Rare medals have become easier to obtain;

- Enemies learned a couple of new tricks;

- seriously expanded the functionality of the map editor;

- The mechanics of fortresses have been reworked. The height difference between the fortress walls and the ground is played out more correctly;

- new models of units and terrain objects, in-game art;

- something else I forgot to mention...





We wrote a short gameplay trailer:





Of course, closer to the release we will record a new one.



Please add Veterum to your Steam wish list, subscribe to the discord channel and twitter:

Veterum on Steam:
https//store.steampowered.com/app/1864690/Veterum/

[Alain]

Looking awesome, Veterum looks like a game that's right up my alley. Love the art direction and vibrant retro feeling!

[Vlad_Konung]

Hey warriors! We are happy to announce that Veterum demo is now available on Steam!
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1864690/Veterum/

In this demo, you will immerse yourself in our ancient world and complete 4 story missions, as well as 4 side quests! Enter the towns, recruit troops, buy equipment and join the battle! Use the elements of the environment to destroy the enemy, or intimidate him and watch him flee!

If you enjoyed playing Veterum, we will be very grateful for your support! Add the game to your wish list and share it with your friends. Your support is very important to us!

You can also write your suggestions and ideas for improving the game in our discord:
Veterum в Discord

[Vlad_Konung]

⚔️ Warriors!

We really wanted to make it in time for the strategy festival on Steam, so we rushed to release the demo. Not everything went perfectly, but we got quality feedback and realized what players want. So, here is the major update of Veterum!

First of all, the changes affected the strategic part of the game:
on the world map, the strength level of enemy armies grows gradually;
the algorithm of getting random missions has been redesigned;
the complexity of missions is shown when you receive them and during their execution;
balance edits (more gold and experience for units, reduced cost of army maintenance, pleasant prices in stores, better attitude to the player on the world map);
added goods for trade (iron, grain, wool, etc.);
many small improvements in the army camp;
reduced pauses between attacks in combat;
redesigned save system;
fixed (hopefully) bug with incorrect current date detection in Windows 11;
fixed all identified bugs;
added high-quality English translation.

⚠️ Old saves will not work!

Add Veterum to your Steam Wishlist to not miss the news!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1864690/Veterum/

[Vlad_Konung]

Important tweaks to the generated missions

⚔️  Warriors!

The system of random mission generation has undergone major changes. Finally, difficulty levels and threat levels are generated and calculated correctly, as originally intended by the authors. Of course, work in this direction will continue, but it will be a fine-tuning of the balance. And. of course, we have fixed another batch of bugs.

Changes in version 0.8.3:
fixed a bug with battles in arenas. Remember, these are difficult fights against dangerous opponents!
the difficulty of random quests is now generated correctly. Previously, too big "step" was used, which made missions either too easy or, more often, too hard;
the difficulty of side quests is now correctly reflected in the panel on the left;
slightly adjusted algorithm of random maps and armies generation;
fixed a bug with double army pay. You noticed that something was wrong, didn't you?
added names of geographical objects to the world map;
correct accounting of units left in towns when calculating threat levels;
when resting (the "Wait" button) in cities now spends only half of the army's salary;
some other small things.

These changes were not easy for us, it took us a lot of time to find hidden bugs and inaccuracies in the generation logic.

Please add Veterum to your Steam wish-list, subscribe to the Discord channel and Twitter:
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1864690/Veterum/
https://discord.com/invite/ZEFE6KMVDw
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