Release Notes for Bad North: Jotunn Edition

Jotunn Edition Update (24 July 2019)

Features & Changes

• 4 new items
• Hero Traits
• See the enemy types you will face before playing a level
• Shared gold
• Checkpoints
• Replayable Levels
• Very Hard difficulty
• Choose the look and loadout of your starting commanders
• Unlock Items and Traits for your starting commanders
• Track your unlocks in the new Codex
• Replaced the red shielded vikings with a new enemy type
• Units are more effective at retreating from enemies on command
• Units (including shielded enemies) can be knocked off of ships
• Rebalanced all attacks that launch units
• Delete your old Save Games
• Commander stats

Update 1.07 (23 January 2019)

Bug Fixes

• Fix for Game crashing on Windows systems with Citrix, or other virtual display drivers
• Fix for reduced total campaign gold (introduced by 1.06)
• Fix for viking brute archers having too much stun damage (introduced in 1.06)
• Fix for Game Over being triggered if the final level is the only level left
• Fix for blurry fatigue icon in loadout screen
• Fix for gamepad movement pointer disappearing if rapidly reselecting units
• Fix for certain enemies occasionally teleporting off of their ships when disembarking

Update 1.06 (31 December 2018)

Balance

• Plunge can now drop from a height of 2 at upgrade level 1 and 2
• Slight buff to archers
• Replenish can begin before all units make it to the house, if some are delayed
• Fixes progression blocker if commander is stunlocked
• Early game enemy types appear a little sooner

Features

• Easy Difficulty mode
• Keyboard remapping
• Gamepad layout cheatsheets
• Loadout / Deployment order is retained from turn to turn
• Game will detect if you trap yourself on the campaign map and trigger a game over

Performance

• Improved Island Generation so failures are less likely
• Should reduce the chance of having islands stuck under the fog
• Improved some framerate spikes due to garbage collection

Bug Fixes

• Possible fix for game sometimes hanging at start
• Fix for archers sometimes shooting through cave walls
• Fixed issues where units would occasionally stick on each other (introduced in 1.04)
• Fix for potential progression blocker if some soldiers made it into a house but the commander gets stunlocked on their way there
• Fix for squads occasionally forgetting to follow their commander back out of a house
• Improved handling of corrupted campaign save files
• Fix for units being invisible on some Mac Graphics APIs
• Fix for commander flags getting stuck on houses
• Cycling through squads will show godrays, indicating the selected squad
• Experimental touch mode on PC will correctly show pause buttons on-screen
• Fleeing archers will be able to shoot from the ship before their commander arrives
• Fix for the squad destination marker sometimes becoming invisible
• On PC, the game will remain visible when you tab out of it

Polish

• Miscellaneous UI polish
• Squads will now exit the house and pretend they were helping, if they were replenishing when the battle was won
• Corpses get highlighted like grass
• Flee will popup an icon once the ship is considered fully fled (50% to the fog)
• Better highlighting of right click to move on PC
• Sparklier snow

Update 1.05.1 (4 December 2018)

• Corrupted user save and user settings files will be handled and reported
• Fix for agents not rendering correctly on certain Macs
• Added Command line param: NoAutoPause - The game will no longer pause when tabbed out
• Added Command line param: NoAlienFX - Disables AlienFX lighting.
• [EXPERIMENTAL] Added Command line param: TouchCursor - Emulates touch controls for Windows & Mac