Release Notes: Version 0.5.2286

This is mostly a Quality of Life update for the existing Warfare 1 Public Release.

It contains a couple bugfixes, a new, hopefully better onboarding experience (such as integration to 3rd party sign-in providers, a better registration workflow), support for game invites and more clever tooltips. Client-Server communication has been also updated for enhanced stability.

Features

• BETA: You can now register (and log in) with your Google or Steam account, so you don't have to remember yet another password. You can of course also link your Google or Steam account to an existing Feudums account. Please note that we do not get your account credentials for these accounts, authentication is dealt by the respective 3rd party provider. It does not mean that using these are now mandatory - its just another option. Please note that our Google integration is pending validation (on their side), which, according to them, can take up to 6 weeks ... so it might take some time until it becomes fully accessible.

• The Registration workflow is now streamlined and our advisor on the Dashboard (AKA Great Hall) now makes sure to provide some guidance or warn the player about missing details that are required for online games (such as a unique House Coat of Arms or a valid House Name). Registration through Steam or Google (when the validation is done) is now basically just a mini  start  ->  next  ->  done  workflow.

• Game Invites. Okay, it's no biggie, but we thought it would be neat. You can now generate a game invite when you select a game in which you're playing (in the Worlds menu) or by opening the Game Menu while playing. You can then share this invite to anyone you want to play with so they can join your game. They just need to paste it into the "Use Invite" part on Worlds.

• Better tooltips. We have streamlined a lot of in-game tooltips, added new ones, and added more two-level hints.

• More Discord Rich Presence integration. Well, except that Discord Rich Presence is currently having some serious issues (on Discord's side - that's our luck, really). But once they fix it...

• Enhanced communication patterns. We hope that it will make client-server communication even more hassle-free - and faster - than before.

• Localization. Well, this is more like a possibility for the moment as we don't have translations. But we can now include community-made translations without much technical hassles.

Hopefully, life is going to be easier and more enjoyable with these changes. :)

Let's play and stay tuned. This update focused on a better onboarding and general UX, but the next update will focus on Warfare related balancing issues and additional in-game features for Battles and Companies.