Ashborne Games and THQ Nordic has released RTS political sim The Guild 1 Remake: Europa 1410 in Early Access. The release introduces a reimagined character creation system, a dynamic economy, and new dioramas for various actions and events. New version of the game also brings many improvements and bug fixes, known from testing period. Moreover, the developers prepared an updated demo for players who want to try the game before purchasing.
Early Access Highlights
- Character Creation: Players can choose profession, name, surname, dynasty backstory, crest, and portrait. Backstories influence stats for both the character and heirs.
- Dioramas: New dioramas for courting, travelling preacher, travelling bard, and more.
- Soulmate Fair: Players can find the perfect match by clicking on a chosen partner and choosing between sending a gift or sweet-talking to progress toward betrothal.
- Building Interactions: Many actions have been moved from menus into buildings, allowing interaction with objects and characters to trigger actions.
- Master of Business: Dynasty member serve Master of business. Proper training ensures competence.
- Economic Update: Prices now depend on supply and demand, season, skills, and building improvements. Special effects for certain events will be added to further impact the economy.
Main Changes
Gameplay
- AI now acts for their own benefit and profit.
- Economy and pricing affected by seasons, stock, and availability.
- Time speed options adjusted.
- Players can no longer vote for themselves when applying for the highest position in a chamber.
- Stock availability and replenishment rates of valuable raw materials lowered.
- Visuals and Animations
- Character now visible when visiting certain buildings.
- Crowd density setting added.
- Prison bars texture for imprisoned characters.
- Interior scenes and dioramas for well, fountain, shrine, rostrum, pillory, physician, prison, and guilds.
- More character portrait and family crest variants.
- Construction visual effects, loom and knitting visuals, grindstone and lathe animations.
- New background visuals for character creation.
- Children animations and visualizations added.
Audio
- Narrator voiceover in German by Aart Veder.
- Several UI and notification sounds added.
- Various ambient sound volumes tweaked.
UI
- Sorting, search, and hide out-of-stock functionality in Marketplace.
- Notification for when courting is stopped.
- Item tooltips now show buy/sell price breakdown.
- Bug report and Discord buttons added to menus.
- Roadmap button in main menu.
- Various readability and visual improvements.
Texts
- German language text added.
- Countless texts and descriptions updated.
- Known Issues
- Duplicate entries in City Archives.
- Cannot remarry after spouse dies.
- Children visualizations disproportionate.
- Character and cart pathing may not stick to roads.
- Characters may A-pose in dioramas.
- Children may accuse you of crimes.
- Some items may not list effects.
- Game may freeze when using items that target buildings.
- Beehives currently missing.
- Occasional performance issues and short freezes.
- Icons for interactive objects in dioramas may be misaligned.
- Options and consequences of cart waylay actions may be unclear.
For mode details check out official developers’ notes.
