Dear Queens and Kings,

This update brings a couple of quality of life improvements and small fixes for issues you folks reported. We’ll cover the most important here, you can find a full list of changes at the end of the post.

Over the time we got a lot of feedback on how difficult telling apart your units can be at times and we totally get that. We believe we finally found a good solution for this. Your units come in two shades now. One for ranged and one for melee units, since this is often the most important information you need to grasp in the heat of battle. You should now be able to tell at the first glance which is which. Additionally they display little icons showing their exact type over their heads while you command them. This makes it a lot more comfortable to sort your troops, no matter day or night.

I (Paul) have to admit the Steam Deck is my favorite way to play Thronefall. It’s just such a great fit. Until recently though the small UI was hard to read. That got much better with the UI scaling option we’ve introduced in the last update, but some of the text was still quite small. We increased the text size in some areas of the game (perk descriptions, building choices, etc.) a bit, so that it should now be much more legible on the Deck and other small screens. This also should allow us to finally get that Steam Deck verified badge for Thronefall. :)

Thank you for all your extensive feedback and continued support. Developing Thronefall with you is so much fun!

Cheers,
Jonas & Paul

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CHANGES:

• Player units have now different colors for melee and ranged
  
• Player units display unit icons over their heads while in command mode
  
• Increased text sizes in some areas of the game for better legibility on small screens
  
• Rounded edges of floating UI elements for more coherent look
  
• Added toggles to disable tips and tooltips (separately from each other)

FIXES:

• V-Sync is now enabled by default (for new players)
  
• Fixed sizing of some overlapping UI elements on max scale
  
• Fixed the “All Content Unlocked” achievement
  
• Fixed duplicate unlock messages when playing the bonus levels
  
• Fixed a bug where the interest perk made the treasure chest overflow

- Added WASD, Ctrl and Q back to the default keyboard map as hidden key bindings. We wanted to optimize the keyboard layout for new players. The changes that happened to existing players were unintentional. If you're playing with the default key bindings, it should all work the way you're used to again. We appologize for the inconvenience.

Some minor balancing changes while we were at it:- Chaos God Mutator: Does no longer apply to exploding enemies at all (they just spawn in normally). Attack delay after spawning decreased to 3 (down from 5). Score bonus decreased to +45% down from +50% (as the attack delays etc in recent patches made this mutator a bit easier).
- Golem Hero: +20% health and +10% attack damage to make the hero a bit more competitive with the other hero options in Eternal Trials
- Support Mage Hero: +200% health to make the hero a bit more competitive with the other hero options in Eternal Trials (this is intentionally a rather safe / minor buff as the risk of healing becoming too overpowering is quite large)