NovaMundi – Icons of Status [0.42.3]

NovaMundi is an exploration game with tactical combat in which you lead a group of indigenous warriors to traverse the vast and dangerous territories of the Andean mountains seeking to unite the Muisca populations and prepare them to stand against the upcoming invasion efforts from European powers in the XVI century.

NovaMundi is available now on Steam Early Access! GET IT NOW (or wishlist it) if you like what you see!

Version 0.42.3 has been in the works for a long time now, however it’s still a minor version because it focused in a small but long requested UI improvement, as well as balancing the start game experience. We were derailed a bit by work in Emerald Woods, client work, but also there’s some ongoing work to add animations for the missing weapons, which you will see probably in the next version.

The biggest UI change is the status effects affecting the expedition members are now displayed as icons with tooltip instead of the text, so it should be much more readable now.

Special and Magical modifiers applied to weapons of enemies are now tied to the “danger level” of the game, i.e. they will become stronger as days go by. Spanish trailblazers are also now equipped with European armor.

Some improvements to the start game experience: Your first explorer will now start with a cursed charm that will resurrect him once. We added this to prevent early game situations that might doom you. The first battle against two raiders is now much less risky.

Minor UI improvements

• Display a notifications when a expeditionary dies on an accident
• Tooltip responsive size tweaks

New Cover Art

We also have a new cover art for the game, created by Cesar Gutierrez; this is part of our efforts for publicize the game highlighting its combat aspects since that may be more appealing for the general segment of strategy players. We’ll see how that goes but the new art is no doubt amazing.

The Steam page has been updated to use this new art as well.