10/10/2008: Fall from Heaven II 0.34 Released
Fall from Heaven 2 version 0.34 released today. This version adds the following major features to FfH:
1. The Illians, rulers of a former age survive in the worlds snowy wastes after the death of their god. Now you can guide them through the rituals required to resurrect their god and reclaim their dominion over Erebus.
2. Explorable Lairs. You can have your units explore the ancient dungeons, barrows, ship wrecks and ruins. They may find treasure, allies or powerful enemies within the lairs.
3. New Challenge modes have been added. These game options create alternate rules for the game like the Final Five mode where the player with the lowest score is removed from the game every 50 turns until only 5 players remain. Or the Increasing Difficulty mode where the game difficulty increases as the game goes on.
4. The Trophy Hall. Earn achievements by winning games under various conditions or accomplishing feats within games.
Check out the full change log for all the changes in 0.34 or join us in the Fall from Heaven forum to discuss the mod.
Download: Fall from Heaven II 0.34.
08/15/2008: Fall from Heaven II 0.33 Released
Fall from Heaven 2 version 0.33 released today. It includes significant changes to the Balseraph and Elohim civilizations, improved performance in games with lots of units and a mini-game called Somnium. In Somnium players can challenge AI and human player to a card game and win attitude bonuses and gold.
Check out the full change log for all the changes in 0.33 or join us in the Fall from Heaven forum to discuss the mod.
Download: Fall from Heaven II 0.33.
12/16/2007: Fall from Heaven II 0.30 Released
Fall from Heaven 2 version 0.30 (codename "Shadow") has been released. This version introduces two new religions to the game, the Empyrean, who worship Lugus the god of light and the Council of Esus, who worship the god of deception. It also adds two new playable civilizations, the mysterious Sidar and the Svartalfar, dark cousins of the Ljosalfar.
Check out this thread for more information.
Download: Fall from Heaven II 0.30.
10/05/2007: Fall from Heaven II 0.25 Released
We owe a huge thanks to the playtesters who played and reported issues on our 0.24 BtS beta. Because of that work we are now able to release Fall from Heaven II version 0.25, the first public version available to run on Beyond the Sword.
The new version contains the updates brought from Beyond the Sword (Advanced Starts, Enhanced AI, Events and Vassals being some of my favorites) as well some new FfH features. The spell system has been rewritten from the ground up so that the AI can understand its use. Unique Features were also added in this version, rare features that can appear on random maps and give special benifits like the Mirror of Heaven or the Broken Seplucher. We also added a host of new game options, select Wildlands to double the amount of aniamls that appear in the game or Labruscum to have the barbarians start with several cities scattered around the map.
09/15/2007: Fall from Heaven wins 1st place in GameFlood's $25,000 Mod & Map Contest
We are proud to announce that the fine folks over at GameFlood awarded us 1st prize in their Mod contest. The contest went through 2 phases, the first was a public vote to determine the top 10 mods in each category and the 2nd was a review of the mods by industry experts. Fall from Heaven came in 1st place in both rounds to clench the title. The experts had the following to say about Fall from Heaven:
“This mod is, BY MILES, the best mod in recent memory.” – Graeme Bayless of Kush Games
“#1 in my book by far. This one is hard to even view as a mod …truly a mod masterpiece” – Dustin Hansen of Polystew
Thank you to GameFlood, the judges and the community members that voted for us. The prize winnings have been donated to the wonderful people at Unicef (who knew that our twisted tales would end up making the world a better place).
08/25/2007: Kael is interviewed on Polycast (episode 23)
The fine folks over at Apolyton were good enough to invite me to join in their podcast, answer interview questions and generally talk about Civilization. Check it out to hear about my first modding experience (Christian Strip Poker) and some behind the scenes information on creating Fall from Heaven and what it was like to work with Firaxis on Beyond the Sword.
You can download it here or check it out on iTunes.
07/13/2007: Fall from Heaven II 0.23 Released
This is the last version of Fall from Heaven 2 for vanilla civ. It contains hundreds of art and balance polish changes to really clean it up and make it ready for its final version. You can download it here.
06/15/2007: Fall from Heaven: Age of Ice announced
IGN posted an interview with Kael about the scenario the team created for inclusion with Beyond the Sword. Check out the full article for details and screenshots.
05/25/2007: Fall from Heaven II 0.22 Released!
The team released version 0.22 today. It contains a large number of balance changes and 4 new major features: Mana Effects, Affinity, Animal Packs and the Trophy Hall. Check out the changelog for the full details.
Red lighting struck, opening an abyss in the middle of the village. And a foul beast crawled from beneath, shrouded in shadows and engulfed in vile flames. There would be no sunshine for those in its path.
