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Game News Glorious Companions resurfaces, releasing in December

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https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/1001040/view/4655123109553537146



We are finally ready to announce that the new era of Glorious Companions is coming to Steam this December! For the last few months, we have been really focused and dedicated to refresh the game and rework a lot of things.

From the 30th of September to the 7th of October, we will be attending Steam Turn-Based RPG Fest and it’s a great opportunity to try out the demo of Glorious Companions! It will not only be free, but it will also present all the changes we’ve made throughout the recent period of time. During this time you can also grab the game 50% cheaper and it will be the only occasion to do that before the december’s re-launch.

Let's focus a little bit more on what you may expect in the refreshed version of Glorious Companions!

Prologue storyline with cutscenes (and voice over!), dialogues, story quests and more. After this prologue (available in the demo as well!) the game allows for more free exploration with some main quests/goals included.

Whole new handcrafted world map. With new places to visit, explore and challenge.

Improved unit control in battle - long gone are the days when you had to change actions to attack enemy or had to rotate to move backwards. Movement and attacking is now omnidirectional and contextual - just hover mouse over the enemy to attack or on the ground to move.
Despite these changes, units facing still plays a big role in combat - attacks of opportunity are made only in front of the character and backstabbing enemies gives multiple bonuses.

We added journal for easier bookkeeping of active and finished quests. There is also a tab with all tutorials that player already encountered.

Visual and mechanical upgrade to neutral enemies. Animals even got array of new skills and passives to provide You with better challenges.

A lot of new points of interests with various interactions - some of them will even provide unique quests or challenges.

Above all, we prepared over 60 new battle maps - there are custom maps for story battles, for new dungeons and each biome on the map got their own unique maps in various sizes!
Challenging dungeon battles with new enemy types with their own weapons and unique abilities. These battles will take you through series of encounters one after another - better prepare for it!

We made some changes to the equipment as well. It now comes with various tiers that modify their stats and bunch of enchantments with secondary effects (burn, poison etc). There might be even some more new mechanics for them - stay tuned!
 

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Good to see they are at least trying to salvage this game. Mixed (51%) reviews don't speak well for it.
 

BrotherFrank

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I remember trying this out a while back and thinking it was ok and had potential.

The mixed reviews are more likely because the pace of updates has been glacial.
 

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The mixed reviews are more likely because the pace of updates has been glacial.
I think the developers ran out of money and had to work on other games for a few years.
If so, then it's rare occurrence of this tactic actually working.

Good for them. Releasing a big update for a mixed game long after launch is purely something you do because you care, not for the money.
 

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At least there are handcrafted battles and no procedural junk like that other game... that's a +1 from me.

if you enjoy TB game just go pirate battle brothers to try and buy it only if you like it

game is good and fun, most of the codex like the game in spite of proc gen

most of turn based hand crafted games are junk relative to BB
 

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There might be people that want to play more games their entire lifes than only battle brothers again and again, so I'm not sure where you are going with this advice
 

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