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    1. 🚀 Road to Launch #3 - Campaign & Difficulty Settings 🚀
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    3. How we built Songs of Silence with our Community
    4. Greetings, heroes of Songs of Silence! ⚔️
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    6. We continue our Road to Launch series... (finally! 🥳)
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    8. This week, we give you an insight on TWO key parts of ✨Songs of Silence✨!
    9. ⚔️ The Campaign
    10. ⚖️ The Difficulty Settings
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    12. Early Access and player feedback (you!) enabled us to improve and even rehaul certain chapters! 🛠️
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    14. This also fueled development for the rest of the campaign.
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    16. As for Difficulty Settings, both provided us with precious balancing inputs! 💡
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    18. ⚔️ The Campaign ⚔️
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    20. 📖 Chapter 2
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    22. When we released into Early Access, chapter 2 was strongly criticized. 😤
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    24. It suffered from several issues, which led us to the following changes:
    25. We shortened and rehauled the first section for a faster, simpler navigation 🗺️
    26. We improved the movement meter to indicate when a player may hide or not 📏
    27. We reworked the forests and armies placed in the middle section to be more intuitive 🌲
    28. We fine-tuned the AI to be less punitive 🩹
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    30. Here's some before and after pictures below! 👇👇👇
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    36. ⛰️ Terrain & Decorations
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    38. Between Early Access and 1.0 release, every campaign map (as well as skirmish) underwent a beautification pass. 💅
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    40. In practice, this meant adding...
    41. 3D decorations 🗿
    42. Improved terrain textures ⛰️
    43. Unique shaders and VFX 🌪️
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    45. Before and after pictures below! 👇👇👇
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    49. 🎁 Secrets...
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    51. A video game isn't really one without some secrets... 🤫
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    53. We sparkled them throughout the campaign to incentivise exploration.
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    55. We don't want to spoil you, so here's a hint of what to look out for... 😏
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    60. ⚖️ Difficulty Settings ⚖️
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    62. Its main objective: cater to multiple strategy playstyles - from hardcore to casual.
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    64. Below is an overview - straight out of our Game Design documents - how Difficulty Settings work.
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    66. Armies
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    68. Adjusting difficulties revolves around neutral and AI army compositions. 👹
    69. Adjust Hero levels / maximum army sizes
    70. Adjust army compositions for existing armies (neutral & AI)
    71. Adjust AI hero revive pools (max respawn with weaker / stronger armies)
    72. Adjust AI hero respawn timers
    73. Add additional neutral or AI armies to maps
    74. Add cards to AI Hero pools
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    76. Locations
    77. Adjust location balancing
    78. Adjust location starting state per difficulty (Prosperity level or ruined)
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    80. Objectives
    81. Adjust objectives dynamically between difficulty levels
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    83. In a Campaign chapter, it would show like this! 👇👇👇
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    89. And that's all for today folks! 🫡
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    91. As usual - have fun, and do leave us a review if you like the game! ✨
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    93. ⚔️ See you on the battlefield! ⚔️
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    95. Cheers,
    96. The Chimera Team
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