Palisade 0.49: Workshop maps, LAN beta and ally support

Steam Workshop

• Publish maps from the editor to the Steam Workshop, subscribe to maps other players made, and play them in Skirmish. A Workshop map shows the creator name Steam reports for it.

Map editor

• Painting, camera controls, undo and saving are faster, and the tools fit smaller windows.
• New Map shows a thumbnail of the template with its start sites marked.
• Play in the editor starts the battle directly, without a second briefing.
• A map's author field is now Credit, and library cards label it as text the author typed.

LAN play (beta)

• The desktop full game has new Host LAN and Join LAN buttons on the multiplayer menu. LAN matches work with Steam closed and with no internet connection.
• Host LAN opens a lobby and shows the address other players can use. Join LAN scans the network and lists the hosts it finds under Available matches. You can also type a host's address on the Join screen.
• LAN is a beta. A lobby has no passcode, so anyone who can reach the host's address can join an open lobby. Lock and kick work as before. Your system may ask for network access the first time you host.

Multiplayer: Teams

• Teammates whose supplied land touches can now help each other. Drag from an ally's border tile onto hostile or unclaimed ground to attack with your own troops from that border.
• Drag from an ally's border tile into your own land to give that ground to the ally at no cost. The outline previews while you drag. Your capital, palisades and occupied buildings stay, and a gift that would cut your land off from your capital is refused.
• The AI does not use these orders yet. Everyone in a lobby needs the same game version.