Plausible Concept and Raw Fury have recently released patch 1.06 for Bad North on Switch.

After going through the holidays, the developers have now rolled-out the latest patch for the game. This free update contains various content, aesthetical improvements, and performance fixes. The new features include a new easy difficulty mode and gamepad layout cheatsheets among others.

Bad North launched on 20th August 2018 after a surprise announcement made during Nintendo’s Indie Highlights. The game is a charming but brutal real-time tactics roguelite.

Check out the patch notes below:

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
• 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

Polish

• Campaign Map updated with new visuals / animations / workflows
• Various aesthetic improvements to the islands
• Added several new island pieces to the island generator
• Pathways between levels on islands are more visible
• New fire effects
• Various additional UI / flow tweaks
• Improved Rich Presence for the platforms that support it
• 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

Bug fixes

• Fixed a very rare crash related to navigation
• Corrected the %age completion on Game Over, so it’s more accurate and doesn’t show 100% if you lose the final level
• Popups can be closed with the back button
• Fixed issue where hover effects on soldiers stick when pausing / winning the level
• Fixed issue where full squads could be sent to replenish
• Possible fix for occasional soft-lock in the campaign map
• Fixed a bug where clicking commander portraits in the map screen would result in incorrect audio
• Fixed one issue that could cause an infinite loading screen on new Campaign
• 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 commander flags getting stuck on houses
• Cycling through squads will show godrays, indicating the selected squad
• Fleeing archers will be able to shoot from the ship before their commander arrives
• Fix for the squad destination marker sometimes becoming invisible

Localisation

• Spanish: next turn shows the number of commanders available as per other languages
• German: Added missing translation for “Ready for action” in the upgrade screen
• Various languages: Fixed text clipping on “Fled” or “Dead” on the end of level screen