- Patch Notes - Version 0.13.1 - 28 May 2024
A new version of the game was released. Here’s all the changes: Improvements & Bugfixes Added additional checks for handling Player out of game to avoid potential Leaderboard bugs Added Timestamp to server-side Debug Logs Fixed bug in production build where Steamworks was disabled, leading to some new players being authenticated anonymously To play Border Clash and participate in our Closed Beta, please join our Discord Community. Free Demo coming soon! Thank you for adding Border Clash to your WISHLIST!
- Update 0.13.0 - Adding Bots to Multiplayer Games - 20 May 2024
A new version of the game was released. Here’s all the changes: Game Features Add Bots to Multiplayer Games Added French Translations (Special Thanks to our community member ErZ) Flexible Deploy Limit - Starts at 5, increases by 1 every 5 turns Stable Gold Price Inflation (Market) Add Science Progress and Military Score to End-game Scoring Add 'Industrialization' Technology (+50% Resource Production) Test removing Market Spread (difference between purchase/sell value) Balancing Increase Income per Country from $25 to $30 Increase Gold Price from $50 to $75 Increase Price for Research Points from $110 to $130 Increase Cost for "Gold Mine" (+3 Gold per Turn) from 5 to 6 Research Points Nerfed Science Point generating technologies: +1 point costs 4 SP (3 before) +2 points costs 8 (6 before) +3 points costs 15 (12 before) The second tech where you'd get +2 points for 8 was removed => maximu…
- Update 0.12.0 - Localized & Translated to German - 21 March 2024
A new version of the game was released. Here’s all the changes: Balancing Removed "Idea Generation" Technology from current Meta (3pt, +1 Science Point per Turn) Features Added Localization Support Translated Game to German UX Improvements Add Language Selection to Settings Player Avatars are not updated when a player resigns Bugfixes Fixed bug in Unit Select dialog where "leave behind" message would wrongly show when selecting 0-0-0 units To play Border Clash and participate in our Closed Beta, please join our Discord Community. Free Demo coming soon! Thank you for adding Border Clash to your WISHLIST!
- Patch Notes - Version 0.11.1 - 7 March 2024
A new version of the game was released. Here’s all the changes: Balancing Increased Income per Player from $25 to $50 Increased Starting Units 10 starting units in games with 2 players 8 starting units in games with 3 players 6 starting units in games with 4 players Improvements Normalized Audio & Background Music Levels Added SFX Feedback in Country Pick Mode Bugfixes Fixed bug where Players couldn't pick countries in Country Pick Mode Fixed bug where Military Power did not count Units tied up in Attacks Fixed Leaderboard Scrolling Issues To play Border Clash and participate in our Closed Beta, please join our Discord Community. Free Demo coming soon! Thank you for adding Border Clash to your WISHLIST!
- Update 0.11.0 - Achievements are LIVE - 6 March 2024
A new version of the game was released. Here’s all the changes: Features Added 43 Steam Achievements Replaced Unit and Resource Icons Added "Welcome Screen" for Demo Build Added Feedback Form Improved Post-Game Feedback Dialog (with Rating) Added Email & Discord Link to Feedback Dialog Added "Socials" to Home Screen UX Improvements Fast Battle Animations as Default Prioritize resolving the player's battles first in Singleplayer games Always Pre-select strongest Unit in Deploy Window Bigger Icons + Outline for Country Action Menu Close Turn Summary with SPACE Close Advisor with SPACE Deactivate Single Player Options when Tutorial is selected Remove View Mode Options from UI Venezuela Resources were hidden behind Brazil No "Units retreating from battle" message when skipping battle animations Tutorial Improvements Several Advisor Text Improvements Add second "Sell Gold" Hint Add Hint to s…
- Patch Notes - Version 0.10.1 - 20 February 2024
A new version of the game was released. Here’s all the changes: Improvements Updated Documentation to reflect past game changes Finished linking between individual Help pages Tutorial: Advisor now hints player to build troops Tutorial: Advisor now hints which technology a player should research first Bugfixes Fixed bug where Turn Timer was not cancelled correctly resulting in double turns Fixed bug where move/attack cursor was not reset after turn phase force-ended on time Fixed bug where auto-rejoining games did not properly re-initialise the clients user interface Fixed broken color tags in help pages To play Border Clash and participate in our Closed Beta, please join our Discord Community. Free Demo coming soon! Thank you for adding Border Clash to your WISHLIST!
- Update 0.10.0 - New Meta for Season 1/24 (Ladder Reset) - 17 February 2024
A new version of the game was released. Here’s all the changes: Balancing Players now receive 5 Oil at start of game (before 3) Added new Technology "Gold Mine" (+3 Gold per Turn) - (previous "Gold Mine" was renamed to "Basic Income") Added new Technology "Paratroopers" (+5 Soldiers per Turn) Players now generate 2 Science Points per turn (before 1) Cost of Science Points reduced from $150 to $110 Increased Cost for all Technologies by 1-2 points to account for increased Science Point generation Features Increase Difficulty of 'Brutal' Singleplayer Mode Fast Battle Animations for Multiplayer Games Show "Player Ready" Icon in Player Avatars Added 1-2-3 Hotkeys to select units in Unit Deployment Panel Display Country Names on Mouse Hover Determine Player Position and Leaderboard Score for all Players after a game UI / UX Swapped Turn Summary and Turn Announce animations Improved Unit Depl…
- Update 0.9.8 - Player Avatars and Turn Summary - 1 February 2024
A new minor version of the game was released. Here’s all the changes: Improvements Show List of Player Avatars (including countries and military power) Added a "Turn Summary" at end of turn Added animation to announce the next turn Zoomed out map a bit more to improve full map visibility Removed "Research Finished" Notifications and Icons Display Dice in Unit Build Screen To play Border Clash and participate in our Closed Beta, please join our Discord Community. Free Demo coming soon! Thank you for adding Border Clash to your WISHLIST!
- Update 0.9.7 - Smarter AI Opponents - 21 January 2024
A new minor version of the game was released. Here’s all the changes: Balancing Balanced Research Costs Decreased cost for 'Base Camp' from 3 to 2 points Decreased cost for 'Debt Monetization' from 6 to 5 points Decreased cost for 'Base Camp II' from 8 to 6 points Increased cost for 'Shooting Practice' from 6 to 7 points Increased cost for 'Drone Support' from 10 to 12 points Increased cost for Jets from 5 Steel to 8 Steel. Improvements Improved Attack Evaluation for NPC (smarter attacks) NPC to launch Multi-Invasions NPC to consider Region & Science bonuses when deploying (Improved country value evaluation) Added a probability based "aggressiveness" to NPC Personalities which influence attack decisions NPC to prioritize unit deployment in continents with majority ownership (Region focus) NPC to avoid having single Tanks or Jets in country after deployment NPC to change Unit Purchase St…
- Update 0.9.6 - Singleplayer Tutorial - 17 December 2023
A new minor version of the game was released. Here’s all the changes: Additions Advisor - Single player games now contain a difficulty setting "Tutorial" which features an advisor who explains all important game concepts in a first, easier mock game Added Basic Feedback Dialog to Main Menu - will also open at the end of Singleplayer games to collect feedback Improvements Weaker NPCs in Tutorial Harder Single Player Game Mode "Brutal" Removed Region Bonus Table from UI Added Tooltips to Move & Attack Actions in Country Context Menu Increased Text sizes on Tooltips and Research Tooltips Select Units Dialog to show error message when leaving no unit behind Selected "Units View" as Default View option Added audio hint when deploy limit is reached Bugfixes Fixed bug where Default Audio Settings had SFX at 0 for new players Fixed bug where 2 Players were having same color after re-hosting a 6…
- Update 0.9.5 - New Game Phase & No Movement Cost - 14 December 2023
A new minor version of the game was released. Here’s all the changes: Game Mechanics Remove Movement Cost - Movement and Attacks do not cost anything anymore. Oil to build units - 1 Oil is now required for any unit to build 4 Game Phases - Removing the cost attached to troop movement allowed for splitting up the turn phases into 4 distinct phases (vs. 3 before). and re-ordering them. The turn phases are now: "Deploy -> Attack -> Battle -> Build" This allows for a much cleaner, faster and less complex game without losing any of the game's depth Improvements The full Border Clash Wiki is now also integrated in interactive Help Pages within the game, access via (?)-Icon on top of the screen First turn deploy phase now has 3x the time so players can check out the map and think about strategy at the start of the game Change Timer Settings in Game Creation to "Time per Phase" Removed Timer fo…
- Update 0.9.4 - UX Improvements - 28 October 2023
A new minor version of the game was released. Here’s all the changes: Balancing Increased starting resources to 5 soldiers (before 3) and 2 research points (before 1) Reduced impact of win rate on Leaderboard for first 90 games Improvements Created Border Clash Wiki Add Settings and Help menu icons in game Improved Unit Display modes (Military strength summary vs. detailed units view on zoom) Centered units in countries' unit display Drag map with middle mouse button press+hold Bugfixes Fixed bug where in some cases players did not authenticate against Steam but used a cached log in info, making same-device account switching impossible Fixed incorrect label in 'Create Game' dialogs that still displayed 80% for Win Condition instead of 70% Fix broken Research Analytics Tracking To play Border Clash and participate in our Closed Beta, please join our Discord Community. Free Demo coming so…
- Update 0.9.3 - Replace Influence System - 12 October 2023
A new minor version of the game was released. Here’s all the changes: Game Mechanics Replaced Influence System - Income is now fixed at $25 per player and $25 per owned country Replaced Region Bonus - Owning a region now doubles the resource production within that region Add Technology to get Double Income from Regions ("Region Bonus Technology") Balancing Reduced amount of resources on the map a bit Improved Resource Balancing between Regions - Every Region now produces 1 Gold Balanced Technologies against each other Improvements Changed Military Win Condition back to Percentage of Country Ownership Reduced Military Win Condition from 80% to 70% for faster games Display Research Points on Research Button as an Indicator Bugfixes Fixed bug where Highlighting only displayed one attack arrow for Border Clashes To play Border Clash and participate in our Closed Beta, please join our Discor…
- Update 0.9.2 - New Research System - 6 October 2023
A new minor version of the game was released. Here’s all the changes: Game Mechanics New Research System using Research Points New Win Condition "Science Victory" Improvements NPCs using new Research System Drag Map with Mouse Zoom in moving towards Mouse Position Zoom out moving back towards Center Faster Battle Animations Displaying Oversea Connections on Map Adjusted Zoom Levels Switch between Build/Research Screen with Hotkeys Ignoring Player Input on Game Map (Drag, Zoom etc.) while a Dialog is open (Build/Research etc.) Bugfixes Fixed bug where the main game menu would not re-appear after finishing a game To play Border Clash and participate in our Closed Beta, please join our Discord Community. Free Demo coming soon! Thank you for adding Border Clash to your WISHLIST!
- Update 0.9.1 - Singleplayer Difficulty Modes - 27 September 2023
A new minor version of the game was released. Here’s all the changes: Game Mechanics Added 5 increasingly more difficult game modes for Single Player Games: Easy - Weak Bots - Starting Country Advantage Casual - Weak Bots - Balanced Game Standard - Regular Bots - Balanced Game Challenge - Strong Bots - Balanced Game Hard - Strong Bots - Starting Country Disadvantage Improvements Country Pick mode "Random" now produces fair results Add Win Statistics and Steam ID to Player Profile in Main Menu Bugfixes Fixed Players randomly getting new Unity IDs Fixed Singleplayer Results recorded twice To play Border Clash and participate in our Closed Beta, please join our Discord Community. Free Demo coming soon! Thank you for adding Border Clash to your WISHLIST!
- Update 0.9.0 - Balancing, UI and Smart Bots - 17 September 2023
A new major version of the game was released. Here’s all the changes: Game Mechanics Map Removed Quebec-Great Britain connection Income Player Base Income - Add a $150 base income for any player and reduce influence based income from $2,5 per player and point to $2 per player and point Smarter NPCs NPC to not deploy in back country anymore NPCs to sell excess resources NPC to acquire and and defend regions (for region bonuses) NPC to purchase high level units (tanks and jets) Research preferences for NPC NPC to move units from back country to the front NPC to have personalities (NPC can have different preferences, strategies, levels of irrationality etc.) Improved NPC Attacking NPC to not always attack with all units NPC to use Military Strength for evaluation (instead of number of units) NPC attack evaluation to determine optimum number of troops to leave behind to defend NPC to purcha…
- Update 0.8.6 - Bugfixes & UX Improvements - 8 September 2023
A new version of the game was released. Game Mechanics Added first Late-Game Technologies (Level 4) Added Drone Support - "Attack with 1 Extra Die" Added Base Camp II - "Increase Country Deploy Limit by 2" Change Scientific Method to "Unlock All Technologies" (includes Level 4) Remove Steel Cost from Soldiers, Cash cost increased from $80 to $100 Improvements Even Faster Battle Resolution in Single Player Mode Added new User Interface Setting "Auto Confirm Actions" Bigger UI for Unit Selection Dialog Add Oil Fast-Buy Button to Unit Selection Dialog Remove Combat Bonuses that don't apply anymore after a unit loss Move Camera with Arrow Keys in addition to WASD Increased Size of Resource Icons on Map Added a Hotkey to Toggle Game UI on/off (CTRL + U) Removed "Player picked X" Info Messages in Country Pick Mode Descreased Default Zoom a bit Bugfixes Fixed a bug where one-time combat bonuse…
