Bad North update out now (version 1.06)

A new update has gone live for Bad North on Switch. Version 1.06 makes balance adjustments,  adds in features, improves performance, and fixes bugs.

The full patch notes are as follows:

Balance

• 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 stunlocked
• Early game enemy types appear a little sooner

Features

• Easy Difficulty mode
• Keyboard remapping
• Gamepad layout cheatsheets
• 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

Performance

• Improved Island Generation so failures are less likely
  • Should reduce the chance of having islands stuck under the fog
• Improved some framerate spikes due to garbage collection

Bug Fixes

• 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 (introduced in 1.04)
• Fix for potential progression blocker if some soldiers made it into a house but the commander gets stunlocked 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 units being invisible on some Mac Graphics APIs
• Fix for commander flags getting stuck on houses
• Cycling through squads will show godrays, indicating the selected squad
• Experimental touch mode on PC will correctly show pause buttons on-screen
• Fleeing archers will be able to shoot from the ship before their commander arrives
• Fix for the squad destination marker sometimes becoming invisible
• On PC, the game will remain visible when you tab out of it

Polish

• Miscellaneous UI polish
• On Switch, there is a lovely sound when you return to the game from home screen
• 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)
• Sparklier snow

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