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Posted May 14, 2018
"Wear it like armor and it can never be used to hurt you..."

Bastard, a standalone expansion for the turn-based medieval strategy/RPG Legends of Eisenwald, is now available on GOG.com, 10% off until May 21, 5pm UTC.
Get the rest of the Eisenwald series up to 85% off for the duration.

No good deed goes unpunished. Especially in a world as dark and twisted as this one. Bastard brings a detective mystery interlaced with social issues, harsh decisions, plenty of different endings, and of course challenging tactical battles.
Posted May 16, 2018
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aterdux: To be honest, GOG Galaxy integration is not that a straightforward thing. Believe it or not, once it worked with Legends of Eisenwald. We did the same for Blood of November. Then without changing any code on our part it broke.

Don't get me wrong, I love GOG, especially now where your games are lost on Steam and here you get much more visibility, but Steam development tools are superior by far. Hope it changes one day and things will work here better too!
Hi, please consider to fix the achievements of the old games and to add the new ones to Eisenwald: Blood of November and Bastard.

Maybe they are not the absolute priority and programming on GOG Galaxy is complicated, but in the end we consumers lose, and it would be nice to have the full game since we pay it like everyone else.

Take the time you need now that you have a new game to deal with, but please don't forget us.
Thank you for your work so far.
Posted May 16, 2018
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yogsloth: snip
On the flipside, there are some games that would not have seen a GOG release without Galaxy... so: damned if you do, damned if you don't.
Post edited May 16, 2018 by Mr.Mumbles
Posted May 16, 2018
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Pajama: Ah, I see, I don't use Galaxy so achievements have never been an issue for me. However, I do agree with what you say, it rubs me up the wrong way too when devs are happy to take our money (via GOG) but then just forget about us :(
Funnily enough, I use Galaxy because it's optional (if it wasn't, I would certainly be the first one out the door) and I like statistics, so time-tracking is pretty nice.

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HypersomniacLive: The false advertisement isn't entirely the dev's fault though, is it?
Not entirely, that is correct.

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yogsloth: Social media crap like "achievements" should be absolutely anathema to a DRM-free philosophy, and GOG's traditional core customer base doesn't care in the slightest about them, or anything else achieved with a third-party client.
I would be all for that (see my post in another thread...which also showed that there are enough people that do care) but since it's there, it should actually be working...or else remove it completely from the store page (advertisement) as well as the other implementations (display of percentage of achievements a person has).
Posted May 16, 2018
It looks like a game I'd buy. It has gameplay like older games I like and I can actually be a woman. I wouldn't buy it if I was forced to be a man.

The only thing stopping me from buying it, is they seem to want to put lots of political stuff in their games. They have an expansion solely dedicated to the American elections, and in this new Bastard game, they list it having "social issues that are challenging yet essential up to this very day".

I have not played it, so I am not judging the final product of it, but seeing all that is a turn-off for me. Seeing the screenshot about sodomy is a turn-off for me too. If I can have full choice in a game then everything's fine, because I can play any way I want with any view of the character I create, but having games/movies/people try to preach their own echo chamber views is really annoying, IMO.
Posted May 16, 2018
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aterdux: To be honest, GOG Galaxy integration is not that a straightforward thing. Believe it or not, once it worked with Legends of Eisenwald. We did the same for Blood of November. Then without changing any code on our part it broke.

Don't get me wrong, I love GOG, especially now where your games are lost on Steam and here you get much more visibility, but Steam development tools are superior by far. Hope it changes one day and things will work here better too!
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Alexim: Hi, please consider to fix the achievements of the old games and to add the new ones to Eisenwald: Blood of November and Bastard.

Maybe they are not the absolute priority and programming on GOG Galaxy is complicated, but in the end we consumers lose, and it would be nice to have the full game since we pay it like everyone else.

Take the time you need now that you have a new game to deal with, but please don't forget us.
Thank you for your work so far.
With everything that they could fix, achievements are not even the last thing I would worry about.
Posted May 16, 2018
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We will give it a shot to fixing achievements. As for other bugs to fix, I think we fixed most critical ones and those that are easy to reproduce in our dev environment. Some crashes are still an issue, however we don't have a clue why they happen.
Posted May 16, 2018
Having played Legends od Eisenwald (a fantastic quality game worth way more than its price, so hearthfelt congratulations, Artedux) just a few months ago I can say the problems are very, very few. Just a couple of apparently random crashes and some typos here and there in tens of hours of playtime, everything else works perfectly for me.
Posted May 16, 2018
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Enebias: Having played Legends od Eisenwald (a fantastic quality game worth way more than its price, so hearthfelt congratulations, Artedux) just a few months ago I can say the problems are very, very few. Just a couple of apparently random crashes and some typos here and there in tens of hours of playtime, everything else works perfectly for me.
Random crashes are the hardest thing to fix. So, I guess it's like a lesser evil in the game :) Sorry you have to live with them, if we knew how to fix them we would!
Posted May 16, 2018
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Enebias: Having played Legends od Eisenwald (a fantastic quality game worth way more than its price, so hearthfelt congratulations, Artedux) just a few months ago I can say the problems are very, very few. Just a couple of apparently random crashes and some typos here and there in tens of hours of playtime, everything else works perfectly for me.
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aterdux: Random crashes are the hardest thing to fix. So, I guess it's like a lesser evil in the game :) Sorry you have to live with them, if we knew how to fix them we would!
Oh, it was not a big problem, really. It happened just two or three times, and if you save often the game restarts fast as lightinings without you losing anything significant, so it was not really bothersome.
A minuscule price to pay for the enjoyment I got from the game.
Post edited May 16, 2018 by Enebias
Posted May 23, 2018
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aterdux: Random crashes are the hardest thing to fix. So, I guess it's like a lesser evil in the game :) Sorry you have to live with them, if we knew how to fix them we would!
Sorry to bump the thread, but I have a problem and I asked myself: who better than a dev could help me?

I am playing Blood of November. I need to get my 10th castle, but in order to do so I must declare war to one of the smaller factions.
Problem is, I think both leaders have been killed by bandits. How can I "officialize" the hostilities without them? Is there a way to declare war without talking to the leaders? Maybe I'm missing something obvious...
Posted May 30, 2018
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Kadlin: It looks like a game I'd buy. It has gameplay like older games I like and I can actually be a woman. I wouldn't buy it if I was forced to be a man.

The only thing stopping me from buying it, is they seem to want to put lots of political stuff in their games. They have an expansion solely dedicated to the American elections, and in this new Bastard game, they list it having "social issues that are challenging yet essential up to this very day".

I have not played it, so I am not judging the final product of it, but seeing all that is a turn-off for me. Seeing the screenshot about sodomy is a turn-off for me too. If I can have full choice in a game then everything's fine, because I can play any way I want with any view of the character I create, but having games/movies/people try to preach their own echo chamber views is really annoying, IMO.
I agree, unfortunately, most of the "new" and "upcoming" releases on GOG and most other game sites are of this variety. I've noticed this biasness going on for the past 3 years. they force a political view on you and say "choices you make matter" when, in fact it is the game makers and "mainstreamer fans" who make them make them that way, that are choosing for you. whatever "choice" you make it is often interrupted by a cutscene or dialogue cue undoing it and making your play character say "oh I'm sorry I didn't mean that I will try and be a nice guy now." I am so sick of this. In My Honest Opinion, I think the trailer for this game is how to judge it and I have judged accurately and your assumptions are pretty likely correct, a 90% probability.
Posted January 02, 2020
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aterdux: To be honest, GOG Galaxy integration is not that a straightforward thing. Believe it or not, once it worked with Legends of Eisenwald. We did the same for Blood of November. Then without changing any code on our part it broke.

Don't get me wrong, I love GOG, especially now where your games are lost on Steam and here you get much more visibility, but Steam development tools are superior by far. Hope it changes one day and things will work here better too!
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yogsloth: And herein lies the biggest problem with the existence of Galaxy. From the developer's perspective, GOG and Galaxy are one and the same, and having what appears to be mandatory integration into a separate development environment - where nothing works properly and is a pale, pathetic shade of Steam's system - is seen as an undue burden. It functions as a barrier to entry to the GOG catalog - a hassle and a nuisance to the developer... when, in fact, the entire purpose of a DRM-free gaming platform should be the simplicity of the deliverable.

Social media crap like "achievements" should be absolutely anathema to a DRM-free philosophy, and GOG's traditional core customer base doesn't care in the slightest about them, or anything else achieved with a third-party client.

PS: I just bought up all the Eisenwald games prior to this one to give 'em a shot. :)
That's an interesting opinion but personally i started to buy games on gog because of their achievements implementation haha. DRM-free nature of things was just a bonus for me. Steam achievements are boring and soulless.
Post edited January 02, 2020 by Sober_Witness
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