The Guild - Europa 1410: Demo Update #1

Hear ye, hear ye!

A birds-eye view of Herle

We're excited for you to jump into our demo update! Give it a try here: https://thqn.net/tge-demo-steam

In case you experience any issues or encounter any bugs, we would appreciate it if you could report them using the following link: https://bugreporting.thqnordic.com/#/projects/197/the-guild-europa-1410/add-issue

Gameplay

• Added: New tutorial Map “Herle”

• Added: Tutorial missions (only available on Herle)

• Added: Worker state machine states for work-life cycle, unemployed, and go-to-house

• Added: You can now batch assign idle workers and unassign workers to tasks and crafting goods

• Added: You can now assign workers to repeat certain tasks

• Added: "Sign Up for Public Service” now influences Unrest

• Tweaked: You can now unassign workers while they are working on an ongoing task (such as gathering ingredients), but doing so while they are in the middle of the task will cause you to lose progress on that task

• Tweaked: Accident Chance is now measured per 120 minutes

• Tweaked: Storage slots in sheds increased from 2/3/4 to 4/6/8

• Tweaked: Effect of “Accident Protection” improvement from +10/+20/+30 to +5/+10/+15

• Tweaked: Burglary protection decreases based on crime level (-4/-8/-12)

• Tweaked: Chance for catching the queen bee reduced

• Tweaked: Starting crime rate in quarters increased

• Tweaked: Increased AP cost of skill training

• Tweaked: Lowered starting taxes

• Tweaked: Lowered cost of waylaying carts

• Tweaked: AI and its actions based on economics:

  • AI is now less likely to place items in their storefront, and is more likely to sell by using carts

  • AI is slightly more likely to attack carts

  • AI will be a bit more patient when sending carts to buy ingredients

  • AI is less likely to leave office positions

• Tweaked: Duels now start immediately after the challenge is accepted

• Fixed: “Socialize at inn” now improves opinion with people

• Fixed: Beehives generated too much revenue

• Fixed: Constructed buildings were not shown after loading a savegame

• Fixed: Duels were not loaded properly when loading a save that was made after the duel has begun

• Fixed: Victory conditions and challenges were not passed on to the heir

• Fixed: Training Bonus 2 did not require having Training Bonus 1

• Fixed: Business improvements relating to gathering ingredients now work properly

Visuals and animations

• Added: Worker animations now reflect their current task

• Added: Additional work stations for workers in buildings

• Added: Building interior entrance point for character animations depicting arrival

• Added: Logic for character animations relating to walking in/out

• Added: Smoke effect for chimneys

• Added: Light beams and dust visuals to various interiors to improve ambience

• Added: More character portraits

• Added: Color variants for characters

• Added: Flowerbed visuals in the Alchemist’s business

• Tweaked: Grass colors depending on the season

• Tweaked: Slightly improved snow visuals

• Tweaked: Character visuals optimization

• Tweaked: Occlusion settings for some ambience and foley sounds

• Tweaked: St. Barbara’s Church for visual improvement

• Tweaked: Interior glowing glass material to be more atmospheric

• Tweaked: Decreased visual effects when quarter values change

• Fixed: A-posing characters

• Fixed: Building highlights, crests, and building icons in the city are visible in dioramas

• Fixed: Missing textures in the backdrop of building interiors

• Fixed: Snow on items located indoors in interiors

Audio

• Added: Fisherman splash sounds

• Added: Stillwater sounds

• Added: New songbirds audio

• Added: Voiceovers for various events and circumstances:

  • Ranking up in profession

  • Worker promotion

  • Worker low in energy

  • Selecting workers for hiring

  • Unassigning a worker from a task

  • Clicking on a worker for the purpose of dragging and dropping them

  • Start voting in an election

  • Start of spying

  • End of spying

  • Evidence gained from spying

  • A building upgrade is ready

• Tweaked: Insect sounds

• Tweaked: Hammering sounds in the Innkeeper’s business

• Tweaked: UI sounds rebalanced

• Tweaked: Rain sounds are now quieter

• Tweaked: Area around the city walls is now quieter

• Fixed: Background music stops after creating and loading a save inside an interior

UI

• Added: New button to set filter for building highlight overlay

• Added: UI for setting tasks to be automatically repeated by workers in the business management window

• Added: Borders for family crests based on rank

• Added: Dynasty rank now visible in the Family Tree

• Added: Dynasty wealth now visible in the Family Tree

• Added: Dynasty renown now visible in the Family Tree

• Added: Number of dynasty members now visible in the Family Tree

• Added: Background color behind the words illegal/legal in law tooltips based on the act’s legality

• Added: “Unguarded Cart” tooltip and warning sign on “Send” button for a cart that does not have an escort

• Added: Names for carts instead of numbers

• Added: Visual effect when minimizing windows in certain situations to explain how to re-open the window

  • Ongoing event button for elections and trials when minimized

  • Event button when event is minimized

  • City Archives button when tutorial prompts are closed

  • Planned event list button when a new event of important priority is added

• Added: Warning that items cannot be moved from the character’s inventory to other places, such as selling in the Marketplace, or moving from the character’s inventory to carts

• Tweaked: Cart windows' positioning to prevent obstruction of other elements

• Tweaked: Size of the tooltip area for District and Quarter in the City Overview menu to be larger

• Tweaked: Carts in the city do not need to be clicked anymore to view information; hovering over the cart will show details of the cart’s owner, items inside, and destination

• Tweaked: Background colors for icons relating to various status effects

• Tweaked: Progress bars in events made more visible

• Tweaked: Background appearance for planned events to reflect whether an event happened in the past, is in progress, or will happen in the future

• Tweaked: Tooltips for top HUD buttons adjusted so that the cursor does not cover them upon hovering

• Tweaked: Position of element showing the remaining turns to not overlap with the reset camera button

• Tweaked: Adjusted the position of the cart’s integrity so that cart names fit better

• Tweaked: UI layout for “Improve Skill” menu

• Tweaked: Law names now break into a new line instead of scaling down in size to maintain readability

• Fixed: Upcoming Events window causes keyboard input not being registered

Quality of Life

• Added: Double-click to enter interiors

• Added: Right-click to exit interiors

• Tweaked: “Camera Parallax” effect disabled by default

Texts

• Added: Tutorial texts to the City Archives under the “Tutorial” section for posterity

• Tweaked: Text for Crime status effects

• Tweaked: Sturdiness text from integrity to maximum integrity

• Tweaked: Description of Sacred Scent to reflect that it gives +1 Action Point

• Tweaked: Renamed the chevron icon under a building’s name from “Upgrade” to “Upgrades” to denote that it will show a list of upgrades implemented in the building

• Tweaked: “Cheaper Repairs” building improvement description now indicates that it lowers repair costs by 10% instead of 5%

• Tweaked: Bed and Portal improvement descriptions so they specify the exact type of energy regeneration based on the energy tooltip, whether it is per turn or per hour

• Tweaked: Quarter status effect names changed from Poorly Maintained, In Disrepair, and Declared Ruinous to Unkempt Streets, Filthy Streets, and Crumbling Streets

• Tweaked: Adornments improvement text to say it increases opinion with citizens only, instead of citizens and workers

• Fixed: Descriptions for Pillory, Fountain, and Well for the city upgrades were not updating after completing the upgrade

• Fixed: Jan Žižka tooltip text

Known issues:

• There may be delays in notifications for completing goals

• When unassigning workers while they work on an ongoing task (such as gathering ingredients), you may lose progress on that task

• Previous saves are not compatible with the demo update - please start a new game

• Double-clicking to enter a building might not work reliably on rare occasions