Warlord: Awaji

vR101 Moved the player closer to nearby homestead, to keep the tutorial focused Added a note in the tutorial for the player to confirm they are attacking the correct nearby homestead Lowered the tutorial nearby homestead distance check to 70 meters so the player must get closer to trigger it Increased starting resources slightly to compensate for players overbuilding in the tutorial Removed leftover K and J testing note debug buttons Fixed tutorial soft lock when you capture the nearby homestead before setting charge and battle mode, now it is non-sequential Amended “capture the farm” string to be “capture the nearby homestead” to avoid confusion with which settlement to attack Fixed the pause menu so it does not noticeably pass time while paused

Warlords,I hope you all have been having a fun summer. I sure enjoyed the 4th of July, and I survived it with all of my fingers intact (can't risk Awaji's release at this point). It is hard to believe we haven't had a dev log since March. So much has been finished and the game is truly in the final stage of development. A discord user started keeping track of the days spent "waiting for Warlord Awaji" right after the last dev log. He is on Day 133. I can safely affirm that the remaining days we will have to wait is far less than that number. The time until a release date can be announced may be measured in mere weeks, not months. Please have a little more patience as I bring everything together at the end here!This dev log will detail what I have been working on over the summer. That is, filling in the open world of Awaji. I will also discuss what remains to be done before release and touch on my reasons for Not choosing Early Access.New WorldWarlord: Britannia's map was an island roughly 9x9km in size. This equates to 81km^2, but that includes some water and empty areas, so realistically there was probably 40 square kilometers of play area. This area

Warlords,A few days ago ...just as I was heading out on a backpacking trip over the weekend... Unity announced that there has been a lingering security vulnerability in engine versions 2017 and later. They claim that there is no evidence to suggest any users or developers have been negatively impacted by this issue (afterall, the vulnerability it has been present since 2017), but have urged developers to immediately patch their engine versions for games in active development and any existing builds they have already published.Just this morning I patched the Warlord: Awaji Demo to secure it from this threat. I have also patched Warlord: Britannia, but since I haven't published an update for that game in almost 2 years, Steam is making me wait 72 hours. I have appealed to them just now, so hopefully they can approve my emergency build request by the end of the day or tomorrow, then it will go live. Steam is also taking precautions on their end to secure Unity applications that have not been patched yet, so if you want to play Warlord: Britannia before the patch, I would not be concerned.The version number in-game will be the same, since only the Unity Player was patched, not the

Warlords,Thank you all for your patience. I wanted to provide a brief update regarding Warlord: Awaji's development. I plan on releasing some news like this once every 2 months, so everyone knows I am still alive and kicking. I would love to provide a dev log in a more entertaining and digestible format, like a video, but I am a game developer first and foremost, not a content creator, so please understand this is the best I can do! Anyways, let's get to the news.The last demo update went very well. I feel like the combat ecosystem of the game is in a decent place, and it is fun to play, but you have not seen everything yet in terms of weapons. I have noted some suggestions regarding the melee combat, things like adding a basic parry/perfect block system. This could be interesting should time allow, but overall I feel like the combat is already a quantum leap above Warlord: Britannia, and will play out nicely in the open-world campaign.After the demo update released I pivoted to implementing the actual Warlord elements of the game. Namely, the camp, army, and open world mechanics like settlements and convoys. So far things are coming along very nicely and I have no doubts