It is easy to overlook that Manor Lords was created by only one man. When it first began, developer Slavic Magic was the title for Grzegorz Styczeń’s solo studio. For the reason that recreation’s success – it is a common function on our record of the most effective metropolis constructing video games – he is expanded to rent extra builders, however the crew stays small. Nevertheless, Styczeń excels in listening to the group, and the most recent replace is not any completely different. It makes quite a few high quality of life enhancements and fixes so many bugs that I barely know the place to start out.
Manor Lords releases a beta check for all of its updates, and 0.8.046 is not any completely different. The place this patch does differ, although, is the sheer scope of it. By my rely, there are over 350 fixes bundled into this mammoth replace, and lots of of them repair our greatest points with the sport.
Crucial modifications have an effect on assets, upkeep, and storage. These are all interlinked, however influence all the pieces in a different way. When accumulating assets with the firewood cutter and logging camp, now you can verify a field to guard a sure useful resource space, which makes your employees mechanically skip deforesting areas close to weak assets.
Upkeep calculation has modified from ‘time since’ to a typical ‘sturdiness counter,’ which helps circumvent some cheesing strategies, and there is now an opportunity your employees will get injured and even die if buildings are ill-maintained. The ultimate main replace tweaks Granary and Warehouse employee conduct, and storage employees can provide their stalls from storage buildings solely.
Elsewhere, there are stability modifications, a bunch of updates to the sport’s AI, and practically 150 bug fixes. Cosmetics, optimization, audio, and UI have additionally been checked out.
It is no shock that this has gone down extraordinarily nicely with gamers. One Steam consumer says that it is updates like these that present the crew “loves what they’re engaged on” and that they’re “significantly impressed.”
Manor Lords is presently on sale for $25.99 / £22.74, matching its lowest ever value. If you wish to see the patch notes in full and discover ways to set up the beta, you will discover them right here.
Being a beta replace, there’s each probability that some fixes will not work completely at first, or will introduce new, unexpected bugs to the sport. Nevertheless, the intense dimension of this replace is a press release of intent from Slavic Magic, and hopefully probably the most egregious issues can be addressed earlier than the replace is totally launched. For now, although I can not wait to get right into a recent playthrough the place my oxen will transport timber to the closest recipient, somewhat than whichever one their bovine brains resolve is most worthy.
