Coming from the fine folks to destroyed the walls of genres and offered us every era of gaming in one slice with EVOLAND and its sequel, Shiro Games has attempted to mix quaint village building and combat with deep exploration with Northgard - a title heavily wrapped around Norse mythology.

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Raking up over 1,000 reviews in its first week on sale through Steam's Early Access initiative, the future seems bright following Shiro Games reputation as a genre-bending indie development studio. Shortly after its release, Northgard managed to push ahead of consistent well-performers like Counter Strike: Global Offensive and Rocket League. Leaving For Honor in the dust despite being radically different, it's clear Shiro Games has the audience's support when it comes to keeping Northgard healthy and growing. Expect many updates to come, with each new patch being listed atop each other in this unified post.

Northgard Update - Patch #8

Said to be one of the last bigger updates - at least quite so soon - as Shiro Games starts heavily investing their time developing the multiplayer aspect of Northgard, Patch #8 is mostly shrouded in mystery. We have a few details down below, but they're hoping for players to discover its major changes for themselves. Have at thee!

Changelog:

New Clan: The Clan of the Raven:

The Ravens can Colonize new tiles with either Food or Kröwns

Gain access to a clan specific building, The Harbour.

Changes to Other Clans

The Stag Clan:

They can now build the Hall of Skalds without upgrading their Town Hall.

Their Thane fame bonus has been replaced with additional Supplies.

The Goat Clan:

Knowledge "Healthy Food" has been replaced by "Barricades" which increase civilians resistance by 10% per building in the area.

All Clans:

The Happiness bonus for Wealth (Kröwns stocks) has been removed, it is now a Raven-specific knowledge.

Gameplay changes

You can now increase the maximum number of buildings by 1 if you’re willing to part with some Kröwns

The price of recruiting warriors now varies: the first warrior will cost 20K, the second 25K, the third 30K and so on. If one or several of your warriors are killed, the price will revert to the corresponding level.

Improved the ability to micro-manage combat and fixed several bugs related to fight handling.

Added Ctrl+1-9 shortcuts to allow creating groups of units or memorizing buildings!

e have increased the time it takes to colonize the Yggdrasil

Sailors’ tools can now be improved.

More Fish can be found in new maps.

The Great Explorers achievement has been fixed!

The AI has been significantly improved.

Northgard Update - Patch #7

Patch #7 comes soon after the team arrived back from PAX. They promised - and they delivered! There isn't much to this one other than a few tweaks here and there, but anything is a step in the right direction.

18 more Steam achievements!

Improved AI ability to defend itself and grow (especially in hard mode)

Buildings will now get darker when burning

Fish will create ripples and sometimes jump so they are more easily spotted

Various minor fixes (mainly bugs and UI related)

Northgard Update - Patch #6

Northgard is beginning to feel like the next Conan Exiles with the frequency of its updates. With update 6 coming just a day after update 5, it's a good thing they're not having to patch a console release. That'd cost them.

Granted, due to the dev team being at PAX East, don't expect another patch for the rest of the week. Here's the lot:

Disabled Victory conditions doesn't get displayed in tooltips

No notification for AI blessings unlocks when Lore victory disabled

Fixed Drag'n select with UI scaling

Give proper error message for "Shader linkage error"

Northgard Update - Patch #5

Citing it as a small update themselves, the developers of Northgard still consider Update #5 it a worthwhile improvement over the game's last build. Bringing UI changes, victory condition alterations and more stability tweaks for those running integrated Intel HD graphics, there's actually more here than meets the eye. Here's the good stuff:

Changelog:

General

You can now opt-out from different victory conditions when creating a new game

Redesigned UI for Trade route choice and Marketplace

Fixed "Eradication"

Technical

Replaced "Failed to init GL" with proper error message when OpenGL could not initialize

Added more tests/checks for "Shader linkage failure" and "Access violation"

Fullscreen Borderless is now the default unless you check "Exclusive"

VSync is now always ON by default

Some additional minor fixes

Northgard Update - Patch #4

Finally dealing with a few of the issues developed through the use of Intel HD GPUs typically seen in cheaper laptops and pre-build PCs, players should see a few of their problems rectified. There's a few other oversights fixed too. Check them out below;

Changelog:

Technical

Fixed Intel HD generating maps with dirt dots all over the place

Fixed Intel HD not showing territory borders

Added device used for rendering with driver version on title screen

Fixed "can't select building/unit" when UI Scaling is active

Gameplay

Fixed Advanced Medecine (was not working in some cases)

Fixed "next villager in X days" estimate (was not always correctly calculated)

Trade victory is now 8000 Krowns instead of 7000

Northgard Update - Patch #3

Bringing launch crashes from 5% to 1% through the last patch, Shiro Games are on the home stretch when it comes to launch issues. There's vsync support, 4K HUD scaling and some code designed to further pinpoint any major issues going forward. Here's the lot;

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Stability:

Dropped VS2015 dependency: you longer need to run (automatically or manually) vcredist.exe.

Improvements

Added ability to scale the UI (4K etc.) resolution support

Fixed "can't click on some part of the screen" on large resolutions

Added vsync option

Bug Fixes:

Upgraded house : correctly gives +3 pop instead of +2

Happiness : only wolf clan gets warriors happy bonus

Sheepfold : no longer give food production bonus to villagers when upgraded

fixed calculus of "we want better houses" with large population

various crashes fixes

Northgard Update - Patch #2

The second update - coming a day after the last - fixes a few smaller bugs present through the last build with a big focus being on culling AI rules that could potentially clash the game client. Here's everything that's changed;

Changelog:

Fixed achievements not unlocking

Fixed difficulties in placing buildings

Fixed Helheim spawning (too many) Valkyries

Fixed a few AI bugs triggering crashes

Random smaller bugs.

Northgard Update - Patch #1

Coming a single day over the game's initial launch day, Shiro Games issued the Northgard's first numbered patch to address the main issue of the game simply not launching for some players. Steam achievements make their appearence, too. Here's the lot;

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