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Northgard (Switch): Software updates (latest: Ver. ???)

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On this page, you will find all there is to know about the various Software updates for Northgard on Nintendo Switch (originally released on September 27th 2019 in Europe and North America).

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Northgard – Ver. ??? (Hræsvelg: The clan of the Eagle)

  • Release date: September 15th 2022 (North America, Europe, Japan)
  • Patch notes:
The Clan of the Eagle

Carried by the winds, the agile explorers of Hraesvelg do not need to occupy a large territory, for they will readily venture outside to gather resources.  Their profound knowledge of the terrain and their ability to exploit it to its fullest allow them to survive in the most desolate areas.  They are led by Grif, the only survivor of an extinct clan.

 

The Warchief – Grif

Orphaned upon the fall of their parent’s clan, Grif was adopted at a young age by the followers of Hraesvelg. This demonstration of adaptability made them a perfect leader for the Eagle clan.

Star With
  • The Aviaries replace the Scout Camps. They train Falconers and reveal Buried Cacheson the map over time.
  • Falconers gain Lorewhen exploring uncharted lands. They can explore Ruins, Shipwrecks, and close Wolf Dens and Draugr Tombs even outside their territory.
  • You start with 1 Hawk. They turn a cleared zone into a Boneyard, providing natural resources from the zone and healing your units.
  • Resources are dropped in a Loot Pouch on the zone. It can be claimed by the Eagle clan, or left for an ally clan to collect.
  • Aviaries require no building slot and increase the maximum number of Hawks you can send on a Boneyard.
  • The clan gains no Fame for colonizing new zones.
Fame
Fame 200 | Nomadic Tribe
  • Clan units outside of the territory consume -30% Food and Firewood.
  • Zones can be upgraded using Food.
  • Houses and Military Camps in upgraded zones house +1 Pop and +1 Warband.
Fame 500 | Scavenging
  • Wolf Dens, Draugr Tombs , Ruins, and Shipwrecks can be explored a second time. Providing additional resources except Fame.
Sentinel
  • Replace: Colonization
  • Effect: Falconers can be assigned as Sentinel to a zone to increase its production, and the attack power of units in the zone.
Blood Eagle
  • Replace: Defensive Strategy
  • Effect: When a unit is attacked in a zone containing Hawks, they blind the enemy unit for 3 seconds.
Training Field

 

  • Replace: Feeling Safe
  • Effect: For each zone without foes bordering the clan territory, the clan gains +1 Happiness.
Rapine
  • Replace: Legendary Heroes
  • Effect: Decolonizing an enemy territory turns the zone into a Boneyard . Hawks collect resources from production buildings in addition to natural resources.
Foraging
  • Replace: Mining Efficiency
  • Effect: Resources gained from colonizing special zones, closing Wolf Dens and Draugr Tombs are increased by 60%.
Relic – Vidopnir’s Feather
  • Relic reveals a Forbidden Cache containing rare resources guarded by mythical creatures.
  • For each opened Buried Cache military units gain +2% Attack Power permanently (max: +10%).
  • Every time a Forbidden Cache is opened, all current military units gain +10% Attack Power until they die (max of combined bonuses: 30%).
Note

 

The clan is available in all game modes, and will be available in Ranked multiplayer in two weeks. A special channel is open on the Northgard server for you to provide feedback on the clan balancing so we can get the balance as close to perfect as possible for when the clan becomes available in ranked.


The Clan of the Snake – Rework
Start-With
  • The clan can use Swidden Field on its zones to temporarily increase production at the cost of a reduced production afterward.
  • The clan can copy knowledge of any clan they encounter.
Units
Skirmishers
  • Skirmishers can be used to attack enemy territories but they do not decolonize zones on their own.
Signy

 

  • Age 16: Raised by Wolves
     
    • Signy gains Cloaked ability.
    • When units are Cloaked among wild creatures, they neutralize their aggressivity toward the clan, and increase their aggressivity toward enemy clans.
    • When an assault is launched by the creatures, they reveal the zone they attack.
  • Age 17: Shadow of the Wild
    • All military units gain Cloakedability.
Techs
Black Market

 

  • Merchants produce 20% more Kröwns.
  • The clan can trade even with Factions and Clans at war against them.
  • When Cloaked on a neutral faction zone, units degrade the relationship between the faction and enemy clans.
Rapacious Exploitation
  • Each zone affected by Swidden Field provides +1 Happiness to the clan (max: +3).
Under Pressure
  • Skirmishers can attack enemy production buildings to steal the resources they contain.
Guerilla Tactics
  • Each unit slayed or lost in enemy territory permanently increases all military units Attack Power by +1% (Max: 20%).
  • This bonus is doubled during the first 5 seconds of combat.
General Changes
Abilities
Shield Wall (Shield Bearer forge upgrade)
  • Unit defense is increased by 40% when receiving the first attack in combat (rather than when the combat engages in the zone).
Cloaked
  • Units cloaked among wild creatures consume 50% less Food.
Buildings
Marketplace
  • It is now possible to buy the smallest amount of each resource at the Marketplace.
Mines
  • Ore extraction now functions with a gauge system. Miners increase the gauge, when full, 1 Ore is extracted at once from deposit and added to the clan resources (This is to avoid the problem of 0,5 ore being extracted from deposits, and deposits giving 14 ores total instead of 15 for example).
Neutral Factions
Dwarves
  • Dwarves when in good relations with a clan now just give one type of Ores (Stone or Iron) – randomly selected at the start of each game – The ores they sent players are extracted from the deposits on their territory. Eliminating the faction will allow a clan to colonize the zone to exploit the remaining resources.
Other
Scouting
  • There is now a maximum scouting time for a zone. On big and huge maps, time required to scout the farthest zones are thus decreased.
Performances
  • Optimized various game systems to improve multiplayer performances.
Creative Mod
  • Player names can be customized in the map editor
  • Units stats are now displayed without a factor in the Northgard Editor.
UI
  • Improved the font system for 4k monitors, so all the texts are displayed nicely (it’s crisp!).
  • In the multiplayer lobby, the players’ ELO are displayed correctly.
  • War notifications are now clickable, and it moves the camera to where the fight happens.
Controls
  • Add a special keybind (ctrl-e) to select all military units that can go outside the player territory.
Localization
  • Improved various texts
Bug Fixes
  • Fixed a bug where sometimes FFA placement at the end of the game was wrong
  • Fixed Navy color on the minimap
  • Fixed a memory leak in the map creator
  • Fixed a bug where myrkalfar raids wouldn’t launch
  • Fixed a UI glitch with modded games in the multiplayer lobby
  • Fixed Overwork SFX stop before the end
  • Fixed IA Squirrel cook meals
  • Fixed the achievements “Great explorer” is no longer validated by launching the campaign
  • Fixed some localizations
  • Conquest Kraken : the second bonus now works on Dystopia battle
  • Conquest Squirrel : can no longer produce Krown through meal on Greed’s Price battle
  • Krown productions from Skald can benefit from production bonuses like Feast
  • Heroes and companions are no longer consuming wood while outside their territory
  • The competitive event window no longer shift when the event is finished
  • When playing the squirrel clan, AI can now cook meals
  • “Operative Dwarf” now mine their ore correctly
  • When writing something in the multiplayer chat, the “/’ no longer opens the console.
  • Reset UI scale to 1x when switching off 4k.
Known Issues
  • P2P transfer issue if the Host leaves the game and there are several non-AI players
  • Some french sentences are not translated
  • Coop conquest: no reconnect button
  • Falconers are unable to scout enemy townhalls

Northgard – Ver. ??? (Clan of the Dragon)

  • Release date: November 25th 2020 (North America, Europe, Japan)
  • Patch notes:
  • After mining molten rocks, you could not unassign miners. It has been corrected.
  • Relic icon no longer blinks into the forge.
  • UI issue with selector on the story mod map.
  • You can now unassign villagers from a building on fire.
  • Fixed blacksmith switching their post while in no work.
  • When you were forging a relic, canceling it and choosing a new one to forge: the anvil icon was bugged.
  • Many SFX levels have been adjusted.
  • Fixed several UI issues.
  • UI system showing the number of villagers assigned in a building has been improved.
  • When destroying a building in an area, you should now be able to open the action menu as intended.
  • UI for (Buildings / units … ) prices have been harmonised.
  • Unassigning a unit from a building no longer displays unassignment icons on all buildings of the same type.
  • On Switch, notifications should no longer hide players names.
  • An icon for unassigning scout has been implemented.
  • Boats should no longer cross the land map.

Northgard – Ver. 1.0.3

  • Release date: November 15th 2019 (North America, Europe)
  • Patch notes:

No patch notes available.

  • List of changes:
  • provides various performance and stability improvements

Northgard – Ver. 1.0.2

  • Release date: October 23rd 2019 (North America, Europe)
  • Patch notes:

No patch notes available.

  • List of changes:
  • increases the font size
  • provides various performance and stability improvements

How to download updates for Northgard for the Nintendo Switch?

To download the updates for Northgard, you have three options:

  • let the console do its thing if you have automatic downloads activated, and didn’t completely turn it off

If not…

  • try to launch the game from the Home Menu while being connected to the internet. You should get a prompt when doing so: simply follow the instructions on screen;

OR

  • select the game > press either + or – to go to the Options page > select Software update > select Via the Internet.

To check that you have the latest version installed, simply select the game on the Home Menu, and press – or + to go to the Options: the version number is displayed just below the game title.

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