Bad North just got BIGGER with the new Bad North: Jotunn Edition update. UPGRADES/META PROGRESSION - Added 4 new Items – Mines, Jabena, Philosopher’s Stone & Holy Grail - Added Hero Traits – unique buffs for commanders - Unlock Items and Traits to equip your Starting Commanders - View details of all upgrades seen in the game in the new Codex view - Rebalanced all abilities that launch units (bomb, Warhammer etc.) - Nerfed the Warhammer, tweaked it’s targeting and added a 3rd upgrade level - Plunge attack is buffed and scales with Infantry level (veteran / elite) - When losing an Item Island you can see which Item you would have won CAMPAIGN - See enemy types you will face before playing a level - Number of enemy types correlates to total enemy numbers - Movement of the Viking Frontier is more controlled & moves faster in harder difficulties - Jabena Item allows one Commander to deploy on two Islands per Campaign Turn - Optionally allow restarting of levels, as an option when starting a campaign - Added checkpoint islands that provide a fixed point you can return to, rather than restarting your campaign - Very Hard difficulty is unlocked after completing Hard - Ability to delete old campaign saves ECONOMY - Gold is now deposited in a shared Gold Bank, rather than distributed to commanders - Total Gold in a campaign is more controlled, less RNG - Some rare Islands will have a high gold count, but corresponding threat level - Philosopher’s Stone Item adds additional Gold into the economy COMBAT - Replaced the old red-shielded enemies with a new enemy type - Most enemies (including those with shields) can be knocked off of ships - Your archers are slightly more likely to target non-shielded troops - All archers (except brutes) are more likely to target stunned troops - Enemy archers are more likely to target shielded troops - Axe-throwers are more likely to target shielded troops with axes - Infantry are more responsive when ordered to retreat from enemies - Pikes are more able to form up near stunned enemies - Archers are better at targeting when close to terrain - Units are less likely to get stuck on sharp corners of terrain - Longships landing now do significant stun damage, instead of knockback COMMANDERS - Choose the look and loadout (item + trait) of your starting Commanders - See stats for kills and losses in the Upgrade screen - See home and death islands in the Upgrade screen - View dead Commanders in the Upgrade screen - Holy Grail Item allows you to resurrect one Dead Commander - Banner Icons altered to give visual representation of Commander Traits - Additional facial features, including new hair styles and gray streaks CONTROLS - Updated Camera controls for mouse / touch to improve responsiveness - Added alternate mouse behaviours for single button mice and touchscreens - Added alternate gamepad mapping VISUALS - New UI for all Island Rewards and Won Game - Updated unit outlines to be much crisper, especially with MSAA - Less visual clipping between shadows, tiles, longships and land - Tweaked coloration of the islands - Updated graphical effects for fire and smoke - Updated effects for bomb explosions

Balance - Fix for reduced total campaign gold (introduced by 1.2) - Fix for viking brute archers having too much stun damage (introduced in 1.2) Bug Fixes - Fix for blurry fatigue icon in load out screen - Fix for Game Over being triggered if the final level is the only level left - Fix for game pad movement pointer disappearing if rapidly re selecting units - Fix for certain enemies occasionally teleporting off of their ships

New Features - Added Easy Difficulty mode - Loadout / Deployment order is retained from turn to turn - Game will detect if you trap yourself on the campaign map and trigger a game over Bug Fixes - Plunge can now drop from a height of 2 at upgrade level 1 and 2 - Slight buff to archers - Replenish can begin before all units make it to the house, if some are delayed - Fixes progression blocker if commander is stun-locked - Early game enemy types appear a little sooner - Improved Island Generation so failures are less likely - Should reduce the chance of having islands stuck under the fog - Improved some frame rate spikes due to garbage collection - Fixed a very rare crash related to navigation - Corrected the percentage completion on Game Over, so it’s more accurate and doesn’t show 100% if you lose the final level - Popups can be closed with the back button - Fixed issue where hover effects on soldiers stick when pausing / winning the level - Fixed issue where full squads could be sent to replenish - Possible fix for occasional soft-lock in the campaign map - Fixed a bug where clicking commander portraits in the map screen would result in incorrect audio - Fixed one issue that could cause an infinite loading screen on new Campaign - Possible fix for game sometimes hanging at start - Fix for archers sometimes shooting through cave walls - Fixed issues where units would occasionally stick on each other - Fix for potential progression blocker if some soldiers made it into a house but the commander gets stun-locked on their way there - Fix for squads occasionally forgetting to follow their commander back out of a house - Improved handling of corrupted campaign save files - Fix for commander flags getting stuck on houses - Cycling through squads will show god rays, indicating the selected squad - Fleeing archers will be able to shoot from the ship before their commander arrives - Fix for the squad destination marker sometimes becoming invisible - Campaign Map updated with new visuals / animations / workflows - Various aesthetic improvements to the islands - Added several new island pieces to the island generator - Pathways between levels on islands are more visible - New fire effects - Various additional UI / flow tweaks - Squads will now exit the house and pretend they were helping, if they were replenishing when the battle was won - Corpses get highlighted like grass - Flee will popup an icon once the ship is considered fully fled (50% to the fog) - Added sparklier snow

- Corrupted user save and user settings files will be handled and reported - Fix for agents not rendering correctly on certain Macs - Game will no longer auto-pause when tabbing out. - Added support for touch controls. [Experimental] - Updated Support URL