12/30/2023 0 Comments Northgard raven clan![]() ![]() Northgard’s terrain is split into tiles, which need to be colonised, and can only support a small number of buildings, meaning that if you choose the former, you’ll likely need to destroy a hunting stand, lumberjack station, or training camp to build the mine. If one of the stones falls in your territory, you’ve got two choices: either build a mine next to it and get to the frantic work of breaking it apart with pickaxes, or wait until it gestates into a tough-as-stone magma monster. ![]() It’s not just for show, either: every few years it will erupt, depositing weird glowing stones across the map. Sitting at the centre of every generated Ragnarok map, the volcano acts as a constant reminder of the apocalyptic setting - if the blasted earth and constant reddish gloom don’t sell the effect well enough. In addition to the threat of rival clans, itinerant wolves, and the inexorable crawl of winter, Shiro’s latest update (which comes after they outlined plans for the future of the game and introduced the new Snake clan in paid-for DLC) adds ghost pirates, dark elf raiders, and portals that let cranky zombie Draugr step out of their hell dimensions to menace your homestead. My little troupe of Vikings would invariably get sick, and invariably some of them would die, and I would curse my short-sighted management that had left my clan with no food, wood, or reason to live. I was never ready for winter in the original game: a time of scarcity when food is harder to find, when wood supplies are raided to feed vital fires, and when shivering troops lose much of their combat effectiveness. I wasn’t ready.īut then I’m never ready in Northgard. The whimper was me, realising that the blobs of molten rock that its eruption deposited around my territory would soon turn into angry stone golems and start punching my precious villagers to death. ![]() The bang came from the volcano at the centre of Northgard’s map - a new feature added to the Viking-themed strategy game as part of its free Ragnarok update. It turned out that the end of the world came with a bang and a whimper. Update Night is a fortnightly column in which Rich McCormick revisits games to find out whether they've been changed for better or worse. ![]()
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