Wargroove update launches tomorrow (version 1.2.0), patch notes

Chucklefish has announced that a new update for Wargroove will be issued tomorrow. With version 1.2.0, various quality of life improvements will be implemented.

The official patch notes are as follows:

Checkpoint system:

• While playing in campaign mode, you can set a checkpoint in a mission
• If you are defeated, you can retry from the checkpoint
• You can set a checkpoint whenever you want, but you can only have one active at a time (the previous gets overwritten) 

Difficulty system overhaul:

• Five difficulty presets, Story, Easy, Medium, Hard (Default) and Custom
• Hard difficulty is the default, and is the standard rules of the game. It’s the only mode where you can obtain S-ranks
• Medium difficulty is a bit easier and still lets you obtain up to 3 stars
• Easy limits you at 2 stars
• Story limits you at 1 star, and is VERY easy 

Multiplayer:

• You can now add CPU players to online games
• There’s now a message clarifying that you must join a match if you don’t have any in progress
• A number of fixes to Quick Play timers
• You can no longer suspend Quick Play matches and play other games in the meanwhile, since they’re supposed to be realtime
• Seven maps designed specifically for co-op have been added
• Fix issue where user’s couldn’t get into Online multiplayer
• Fix issue were main menu could not be invoked during opponent’s/AI turn

General Quality of Life

• The effectiveness chart on unit info and recruit screens has been reworked to be far more readable and informative
• Skipping battles, captures and cutscenes is now much faster
• Display the S rank requirements on the overview screen for a mission
• “Exit” has been renamed to “Suspend” to avoid confusion
• You can now see teams on the Overview screen
• Fix international text input on Switch
• Display the Controller Select Applet on Switch less often
• Add Korean font
• Resigning will now destroy all units simultaneously instead of one at a time 

New options:

• Add “Movement Speed” option that allow you to set all units to move faster
• Add “Confirm End Turn” option to avoid accidental end of turn
• Add “Damage Range” option to display minimum and maximum damage on previews, instead of average damage 

Fog of War:

• Allies now share vision
• Eliminated players can still see their team vision; eliminated teams become spectators
• Spectators can view the current team’s vision
• Hide enemy income and funds
• Don’t spawn effects or show building colours inside fog of war
• Don’t show battle and capture animations unless at least one of the units is visible to the current player
• Fog of War now updates faster
• Fix “sonar” bug that allowed you to obtain extra information within fog of war
• Fix allies being able to move units into each other and becoming stuck 

Fixes and tweaks:

• Fix Tenri’s groove charge rate to the intended value
• Change Ryota’s groove to allow him to dash through his own units
• Fix team options; all teams should display correctly in 2v2 matches
• Fixes for Vines and Crystals acting as Units
• Fix for 7-2; commanders no longer change team after suspending
• Fix sound effects in Cutscene editor causing crash
• Fix Cutscene Attack animations causing crash
• Fix Empty dialogue event boxes causing crash
• Layering of actors and props in Cutscene editor should now work as expected
• Fix crash when entering non-numeric text into Counter events
• Fix issue with Tutorial 1.3 where user could get stuck when asked to select a barrack  
• Misc language fixes
• Misc minor fixes

Wargroove’s 1.2.0 update launches at 5 AM PT / 8 AM ET / 1 PM in the UK / 2 PM in Europe.

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