March 2025

Proportional Representation

Lives Display

We’ve had excellent feedback in the play sessions regarding lives, except for one request that comes up frequently. The counter isn’t updated when players leave/join a team, and when you’re team can double in size over the course of a map, that’s not great.

One idea was to change the life counter, adding/removing lives as players joined/left a team. But how many lives should be added/removed when there’s 10 minutes left on the timer? Not the full amount, obviously. It also makes it unclear how long the team has left to survive.

We’ve settled on something slightly different. The life counter now works on percentages, allowing us to hide how many lives a team has currently. This means we can take away more than one life for each death, based on the amount of players on the team.

When the team has just 5 lives left, the life count is then shown, and each death costs 1 life. There’s also a warning in chat when they reach 5 lives to warn everyone. Hopefully this should add some tension when a team only has a few lives left.

Please let us know what you think of this change! There’s probably a bit of fine-tuning on the numbers for this one.

New Map - Edoras

“Edoras was the capital of Rohan that held the Golden Hall of Meduseld.”

Originally made by the Conwy build team, and reimagined by Jephrey, Edoras has been added! It’s an assault map between the Rohirrim and Uruk-Hai, with three team kits, two for Rohirrim, one for Uruk-Hai. It’s got six capturable flags, THREE rams, plus one breach based on a captured flag and two ballista.

Changed

• Enabled Uruk Berserker kit
  • I’m still working on restoring functionality of the rest of the sign kits

Map Updates

Skyhold

• Reordered the scoreboard slightly
• Western Tower no longer grants additional lives
• Mage Tower no longer grants additional lives
• Raven’s Retreat no longer grants additional lives

Map Pool

We’ve changed our the terms we use when talking about this.

• Map Pool - Refers to the maps currently on Castle Siege that can appear in a map rotation
• Map Rotation - The maps (and their order) Castle Siege currently has between restarts (viewed with /maps)

- Annakarl (by vote)
- Contario (by vote)
- Conwy (by vote)
- Fantasy Madness (by vote)
- Kaer Morhen
+ Edoras *NEW*
+ Falkirk
+ Frostnorst
+ Moria (by request)
+ Thunderstone

Balanced

Viking

• Healing from damage reduced (35% -> 10%)

Fixed

• Fixed rogue description not saying it can’t cap
• Fixing having a sign kit when a map ends leaving you on your old team
• Fixed some logic for displaying locks on the flag scoreboard when there shouldn’t be one
• Fixed being able to capture a charge flag when you shouldn’t be able to
• Fixed a bug where lives would be granted to your new team when switching
• Fixed holy bible item name getting longer and longer
• Fixed gaining a holy bible when using an enderchest when not priest
• Fixed map ending as soon as one player died on a team without lives

Removed

We take great care when deciding to remove something, to see if it can be reworked rather than removed as players have grown attached to kits and potentially spent money because of them.

• Removed Axe Thrower
  • Between Axe Thrower and Axeman, we weren’t sure which one we preferred to keep, and decided on axeman in the end