Update 33

Localization

• New language support: Spanish
  
• New language support: Polish
  
• New language support: Korean
  
• New language support: Japanese
  
• A lot of changes and rework on the French localization
  
• Chinese localization improvements
  
• German localization improvements
  

Gameplay

• Added new types of starting bonuses that adjust game difficulty. Previously only group-wide buffs existed. There was a good variety there, but we felt it was still too restrictive and not exciting enough. So we added a new bonuses that provide one-off benefits, like getting an extra unique unit to join your party from the start, a bag of gold, a unique weapon etc. We hope this will give players more options and help tailor the run to better suit your needs and playstyle.
  
• Certain starting bonuses now have restrictions to prevent players from taking bonuses that directly counteract one another. Like taking a defensive bonus and one that reduces defense in exchange for attack. This should make it more difficult to pick a bad combination of bonuses.
  
• Added helpful tooltips to starting bonuses to help make better decisions.
  
• Defeating enemy heroes grants a lot better rewards. These fights are some of the toughest in the game, and we felt that they should be better compensated.
  
• Enemy heroes spawning locations are adjusted to take more factors into account. The end-result is that you'll get to encounter the enemy sooner after their spawn and it will be less trouble to hunt them if you choose to do so.
  
• Enemy hero's power calculations have been adjusted to produce more consistent challenge. There were a few edge-cases where the power was too high or too low.
  
• Reworked damage-over-time component for following talents: "Puncture", "Firestorm", "Shatter Strike" and "Shatter Throw". These have been buffed slightly for late-game and against high-health targets.
  
• Following talents have been buffed by increasing their charges by 1: "Witchcraft" and "Giant's Bane"
  
• Buffed "Conjured Thorns" talent.
  
• End-boss nerfed a little bit.
  
• Changed 3-piece set bonus of "Forest Sentinel" item set, it now permanently increases health of all healed allies by a small amount.
  
• Added "Earth Caller" unit to altar of "Gravesand" settlement. This makes a summoner unit available earlier on in the game for those who are into summoners.
  
• Increased levels of defenders found on the altar in settlements of the starting zone. This should help a bit in defending your settlements early on. You still have to spend money to restore those units on the altar, so it's not a complete freebie.
  
• Changed passive health regeneration formula, units regenerate slightly more health when low and slightly less when high. In general you should see slightly higher health regen.
  

UI and Graphics

• Reworked squad building screen, making difficulty choices more intuitive.
  
• All heroes and bosses now have animated portraits.
  
• Added new unit frames for giants, bosses and heroes to make them stand out a bit more.
  
• Minor map improvements, added a few environmental particle effects to give more character to certain areas.
  

Controls

• Moving camera around with a mouse will result in smooth transitions. It feels a lot nicer.
  

Performance and bugfixes

• Minor performance improvements related to terrain
  
• Large number of minor bugfixes
  
• Fixed a major memory leak