Work on the balance continues. The most significant changes have been made to the pricing system in stores. Another edit of the Morale change in battle. Also, we couldn't deny ourselves the pleasure of adding some blood to the battlefields....

Other changes:
- Prices in cities have become 5% more favorable. Reduced the influence of the Relationship with the city on prices;
- the algorithm for determining the chance of enemy attacks while moving around the world map has been redesigned;
- the cost of some unit improvements has been changed;
- mission completion message became prettier;
- increased requirements for medals received by mages;
- minor adjustments to the calculation of rewards in battle;
- if the outcome of a battle is predetermined, the losing side's Morale decreases rapidly, while the winning side's increases;
- if all enemies run away from the battle, the player is offered to end the battle immediately;
- the visual effect of rain became less intrusive;
- most side quests now have a “think about it and come back later” option in dialogs;
- blood splashes when taking damage from spells. Blood splatters leave bloody stains on the battlefield;
- added visual effect for changing relations with cities;
- added the ability to disable walking in place;
- added many decorative tiles;
- fixed a few minor bugs, minor edits.

Greetings, warriors!

We are pleased to present you version 0.9.0. This is an important version, marking the transition to the final stage of development - work on balance. The main change is a decrease in the amount of experience and gold gained by units. Hiring units has become more expensive by one and a half times, which makes this event more significant for the player.
On high difficulty settings Veterum has finally become hardcore! Dear hardcore players, boldly put the maximum number of enemies and enjoy bloody battles!

Other changes:
- The algorithm that determines the amount of reward for completing missions has been changed. Completing missions has become more profitable;
- 5 new units (you won't be able to see all of them in the demo version);
- cornflower dust now also appears on manually created maps;
- the difference in the cost of goods in different cities has been significantly reduced;
- finally fixed the old bug with incorrect determination of the race of the killed enemy;
- corrected the change of Battle Spirit in battle;
- added unit highlighting;
- the selected unit now steps in place;
- added a visual effect to show enemies suddenly appearing on the battlefield;
- the game now remembers the location of the proposed mission (in the demo version due to the limitation of the world map it may not always work correctly);
- a lot of changes in the characteristics of units and the cost of their improvements;
- adjusted the number of enemies depending on the difficulty level selected in the settings;
- some maps have been finalized;
- a lot of minor improvements and corrections...
WARNING: Old saves will not work!

Veterum will be released in 2025, most likely in the fall. We don't know yet if it will be early access or a full release.

Happy New Year and Merry Christmas to everyone!