We just released a small patch for you all. As you might remember it isn't that long from our previous patch, so this is nothing near that exciting I'm afraid.

We have mostly dealt with some horrible issues on the backend and hopefully fixed some bad memory leak problems for ourselves and all server owners out there.

Hard-Mode has also received it's first tweaking on the earlier waves to make it a bit more easy for you all, so let us know how it feels now. 

As always download the latest patch from here.


Love,
Worm

Finally after much excruciating hard work from the NordInvasion Dev team, we are proud to release our next major milestone patch, 0.3.0. This includes the fabled hard mode and many balances across the entire mod.

• New Features
  
• Added new game mode: Hardmode
  • Available to all players level 32 or higher
    
  • Players over level 39 will no longer get loot in Normal mode
    
  • Three entirely new troop trees to fight against including the power of the Norse Gods
    
  • New Legendaries which can only be found in HardMode
    
  • Hardmode will only be run on official NI Servers. Any other servers running hardmode will be disconnected
    
• Added new map: Swadian Outskirts by Hande
  
• Added new menu and loading screens, including new music
  
• Added 4 more legendary weapons
  

• Changes / Fixes
  
• Horses take more damage before their speed is slowed
  
• Fixed deployable shields
  
• Double arrow/bolt/throwing weapon ammo quantity and removed them from support slot
  
• Raised level cap to 52
  

Greetings Swadians.

To check out the new database optimization and what it can handle, as well as test how much load our biggest servers can take, we have decided on hosting a event of sorts.

So today at around 16:00 to 17:00 GMT we will be putting up a 64 man EU server for some large battle goodness! We hope as many of you as possible will join in on the fun and slay some Nords with us.

Unfortunately to get this running EU5-10 will be shut down while the large server is running, thanks for having patience with us on this. And if the server allows it there might be more medium to large servers, no promises there though


Love,
Worm

To bring in the new year, we are releasing our biggest patch yet, including the first reveal of the support classes. The full changelog is listed below:

• New Features
  
• New Map: Swadian City - by Hande
  
• New Map: Jeldan Citadel  - by Temuzu
  
• Added first 2 support classes - Nurse and Tinkerer
  
• Added small medic box, and small ammo crate items (both craftable by Alchemists)
  

• Changes / Fixes
  
• Horses now significantly slow down after taking damage
  
• Added Horse Troughs to every map as a free way to heal horses
  
• Added a remade version of Mountain Pass - By Hande
  
• Removed collision meshes from skeletons
  
• Christmas Hats no longer drop
  
• Lots of backend optimisations to hopefully speed things up/decrease load
  
• Bodkin Arrows received +1 damage
  
• Weapon/Item slots are now locked in game, you have to use website to control them
  
• Assassins spawn less of them and they are weaker. Plus various other nerfs
  
• Higher waves (16+) have been made harder with more random troops
  

The team over here at NordInvasion want to wish you all a Merry Christmas, and we hope you take a break from killing Nords to spend some quality time with the family. The new year is likely to come with some awesome updates and we've been hard at work despite the holiday season!

Best Wishes to everyone and have a great Christmas!

Around 2AM GMT our web server host had to perform some maintenance, this was scheduled to last only around an hour. During the upgrade process our server had an issue with one of the boot files getting corrupted. Sadly there is nothing we could have done to fix this as the server would not boot, meaning we were locked out. After talking with the server hosting company, we got this resolved and the sites are now back up to 100% capacity.

We apologize for any inconvenience caused during this time and we always strive to keep the server up and running so everyone can enjoy the mod

With the support class patch looming ever closer, we have laid some of the ground work and added a few more surprises in this next patch.

• New Features
  
• Added Foraging on all maps
  
• Added a new map: Hidden Cave courtesy of Azan
  

• Changes / Fixes
  
• Fixed glitching spots on village and town
  
• Miscellaneous bits and pieces
  

UPDATE: We are currently reviewing applications

With the massive expansion of mod, we are looking to hire on some new developers to help us make this mod even more of a success than it currently it! To apply for a position, please send an email to iamamodder(at)nordinvasion.com with the subject: "NordInvasion Mod Application" and the following information:

Name
Forum Nickname
InGame Nickname
Position Applying for
Location
Portfolio (Examples of work previously done)
Any Miscellaneous stuff
A funny joke

• Must be able to make quality 3D Models
  
• Experience with exporting to BRF
  
• UV Unwrapping for textures
  
• Extra: Rigging/Animating
  

• Experience with photoshop etc.
  
• Can make quality textures
  
• Miscellaneous 2D artwork
  
• Extra: Signatures/promotional artwork
  

• Experience with the module system
  
• Extra: Knowledge of HTTP and Web Requests
  

• Experience with the map scening in warband and making AI meshes
  
• Will be in charge of all map making, and fixing map bugs/glitches etc.
  

• Will create new quests, crafting blueprints, activities, etc.