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Overview
Bad North is a stylised strategy fighting game. You control an army defending an island and must train and develop your forces efficiently. The simple visuals and knife-edge Viking combat along with the jeopardy of losing precious troops make this a lot of fun.
As the game proceeds and you win the simple early battles you can choose to upgrade your swordsmen, archers, pikemen and so on. This gives you better combat statistics. However, you must take care to position your troops effectively as once they are dead you don't get them back.
It's a simple take on a war-strategy game that combines puzzle elements with the combat. It soon builds into a rhythm of attack, defend, upgrade and then on to a new island. It's easy enough for most ages to be able to play, although to do well you need to work hard to manage your resources and protect your units.
As the game proceeds and you win the simple early battles you can choose to upgrade your swordsmen, archers, pikemen and so on. This gives you better combat statistics. However, you must take care to position your troops effectively as once they are dead you don't get them back.
It's a simple take on a war-strategy game that combines puzzle elements with the combat. It soon builds into a rhythm of attack, defend, upgrade and then on to a new island. It's easy enough for most ages to be able to play, although to do well you need to work hard to manage your resources and protect your units.
Game Details
Rating: PEGI 12+, ESRB TEEN
Release Date: 31/10/2018, updated in 2018
Platforms: Android, Mac, Nintendo Switch, PC, PlayStation 4, Xbox One and iOS
Genres:Action, Fighting, Puzzle, Simulation and Strategy
Developer:@RawFury
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Commitment
Bad North Jotunn Edition Guide
Duration: This game will take between 6 hours and 15 hours to complete.
Players: This is a single player game.
Players: This is a single player game.
Costs
Additional in-game purchases are offered for items that enhance the experience.
Bad North: Jotunn Edition is a free update for the game that adds new items, traits, commanders, progression and the ability to track progress between games. It also lets you unlock starting items and starting traits. There are new checkpoint islands, replayable levels and a very hard difficulty. There’s also a paid Deluxe update that extends the music and adds better portraits for commanders.
This game is free with Xbox Game Pass.
Bad North: Jotunn Edition is a free update for the game that adds new items, traits, commanders, progression and the ability to track progress between games. It also lets you unlock starting items and starting traits. There are new checkpoint islands, replayable levels and a very hard difficulty. There’s also a paid Deluxe update that extends the music and adds better portraits for commanders.
This game is free with Xbox Game Pass.
Age Ratings
This game has been rated ESRB TEEN.
The game was rated PEGI 12 for non-realistic violence towards fantasy characters Not appropriate for persons below 12 years of age. The examiners report expands this rating with the following: Combat involves the use of medieval weaponry such as swords, pikes and archery. Regardless of the type of weapon used against a character the results are the same, when hit there is a splash of blood and the character disappears.
Accessibility
Accessibility for this game is as follows:Difficulty
How you can adjust the challenge of play, and assistance the game offers when you fail or get stuck.
Select Difficulty: Select difficulty from a range of presets.
Cognitive Pressure
Low Pressure: Game tasks aren’t time-limited or with a high emphasis on performance. Or there is a low pressure play-mode available.
Adjust Speed: Adjust the overall speed of the game, or rewind play for a second attempt, to ease reaction times.
Tutorials: There are helpful tutorials, instructions and tips.
Reading
How much reading or listening comprehension is required, and how accessible this is.
Simple Minimal Reading: Minimal reading is required.
Any spoken content has subtitles: All spoken content has subtitles, or there is no speech in the game.
Controls
How you control the game, different options for alternative inputs and whether you can remap these settings to suit your needs.
Multiple Buttons & Two Sticks: Can play with multiple buttons and two sticks.
Mouse And Keyboard
Mouse Alone: Can play with just the mouse/mouse button/mouse wheel.
Mouse and Keys: Can play with mouse and multiple keys.
Touchscreen
Touchscreen controls for this game are:
One Tap Targeted: Play with touchscreen, tap in specific locations.
One Motion Targeted: Play with touchscreen, tap and swipe or hold gesture.
Motion Controls Not Required: You don’t need motion controls to play the game.
Remap Controls
You can customise the controls for the game as follows:
Select Preset Controller Mappings: Select preset button layouts.
Remap Mouse and Keyboard: Remap mouse and keyboard.
Invert X/Y Axis: You can invert the direction required to control looking and aiming.
Button Combinations
Specific button operation required to play
Holding Down Buttons Optional: Holding down buttons not required or can be turned off or switched to toggling the action on and off.
Rapid Pressing Optional: Quick, repeated button pressing not required or can be skipped or disabled.
Image
How you can adjust the visuals to suit your needs, and offer additional information if you can't hear the game.
No Busy Backgrounds: No distracting backgrounds or you can make them static or blank.
Adjust Head Up Display: Remove or resize head-up display to remove distraction and make more visible.
Bad North Jotunn Edition Wiki
Turn Off Blood: Reduce or disable graphic content of blood and gore.
Audio
How you can adjust the audio of the game and whether audio cues compensate for aspects of the game that are hard to see.
Balance Audio Levels: Set music and game sound effects separately.
Play Without Hearing: No audio cues are necessary to play the game well
System Settings
Android has accessibility settings including ways to navigate and interact, although not all games support this. Nintendo Switch has some built-in features, including a lockable zoom, that can be used on all games. Windows has extensive accessibility features. Some, like colour correction, work with games. Lots of accessibility software can be used with PC games, from voice recognition to input device emulators. PlayStation 4 has a range of accessibility settings. Some are system only, some work in games (invert colours and button mapping). Xbox One has a system features, the excellent co-pilot share controls mode and adaptive controller support for all games. iOS has a very extensive suite of accessibility settings including ways to navigate with voice and comprehensive screen reading, though most of the features don't work with games... read more about system accessibility settings.
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Developers | |
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Publishers | |
Engines | |
Unity 2018[Note 1] | |
Release dates | |
Windows | October 16, 2018[2] |
macOS (OS X) | November 16, 2018[3] |
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General information
- Publisher Discord server
- GOG.com Community Discussions
- GOG.com Support Page
- Steam Community Discussions
Availability[edit]
Source | DRM | Notes | Keys | OS |
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Epic Games Store | Jotunn Edition. DRM-free when launched directly from executable.[4] | |||
Gamesplanet | Jotunn Edition. Deluxe Edition also available. | |||
GOG.com | Jotunn Edition. Deluxe Edition also available. | |||
Green Man Gaming | Jotunn Edition. Deluxe Edition also available. | |||
Humble Store | Jotunn Edition. Deluxe Edition also available. | |||
Mac App Store | ||||
Microsoft Store | Jotunn Edition. | |||
Steam | Jotunn Edition. Deluxe Edition also available. | |||
Discord (unavailable) | Jotunn Edition. |
- A demo is available from GOG.com and Steam.
DLC and expansion packs
Name | Notes |
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Deluxe Edition Upgrade |
Game data[edit]
Configuration file(s) location[edit]
System | Location |
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Windows | %USERPROFILE%AppDataLocalLowPlausible ConceptBad NorthSavessettings HKEY_CURRENT_USERSoftwarePlausible ConceptBad North |
Microsoft Store | |
macOS (OS X) | ~/Library/Application Support/com.PlausibleConcept.BadNorthOSX/Saves/settings |
Steam Play (Linux) | <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/688420/pfx/[Note 2] |
Save game data location[edit]
System | Location |
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Windows | %USERPROFILE%AppDataLocalLowPlausible ConceptBad NorthSaves |
Microsoft Store | %LOCALAPPDATA%GOG.comGalaxyApplications51399757586222569StorageSharedFiles |
macOS (OS X) | ~/Library/Application Support/com.PlausibleConcept.BadNorthOSX/Saves |
Steam | Steamuserdata<user_id>688420remote |
Steam Play (Linux) | <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/688420/pfx/[Note 2] |
Save game cloud syncing[edit]
System | Native | Notes |
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Discord | ||
Epic Games Launcher | ||
GOG Galaxy | ||
Steam Cloud |
Video settings[edit]
In-game video settings.
Graphics feature | State | Notes |
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Widescreen resolution | ||
Multi-monitor | ||
Ultra-widescreen | [5] | |
4K Ultra HD | ||
Field of view (FOV) | ||
Windowed | ||
Borderless fullscreen windowed | Used in place of exclusive fullscreen. | |
Anisotropic filtering (AF) | ||
Anti-aliasing (AA) | MSAA, Supersampled, or Off. | |
Vertical sync (Vsync) | ||
60 FPS and 120+ FPS | ||
High dynamic range display (HDR) |
Input settings[edit]
In-game input settings.
Keyboard and mouse, touch | State | Notes |
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Remapping | ||
Mouse acceleration | ||
Mouse sensitivity | ||
Mouse input in menus | ||
Mouse Y-axis inversion | ||
Touchscreen optimised | Select the Touchscreen Mouse Behaviour setting. | |
Controller | ||
Controller support | ||
Full controller support | ||
Controller remapping | 2 preset layouts are available. | |
Controller sensitivity | ||
Controller Y-axis inversion |
Additional information |
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Controller hotplugging |
Haptic feedback |
Simultaneous controller+KB/M |
- Gamepad controls (Classic layout).
- Gamepad controls
(Quick Select layout).
Audio settings[edit]
In-game audio settings.
Audio feature | State | Notes |
---|---|---|
Separate volume controls | Effects, Music | |
Surround sound | ||
Subtitles | ||
Closed captions | ||
Mute on focus lost |
Localizations
Language | UI | Audio | Sub | Notes |
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English | ||||
Simplified Chinese | ||||
Traditional Chinese | ||||
French | ||||
German | ||||
Italian | ||||
Japanese | ||||
Brazilian Portuguese | ||||
Russian | ||||
Spanish | ||||
Swedish |
Other information[edit]
API[edit]
Technical specs | Supported | Notes |
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Direct3D | 11 | |
OpenGL | 4.2 | OS X ONLY |
Middleware[edit]
Middleware | Notes |
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Input | Rewired |
System requirements[edit]
Windows | ||
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Minimum | Recommended | |
Operating system (OS) | 7 | |
Processor (CPU) | Intel Core i3-2100T AMD Athlon X4 5350 | Intel Celeron G1610 AMD II Athlon X4 605e |
System memory (RAM) | 4 GB | |
Hard disk drive (HDD) | 200 MB | |
Video card (GPU) | Nvidia GeForce GTX 480M AMD Radeon HD 6790 DirectX 11 compatible | Nvidia GeForce GTX 470 AMD Radeon HD 7850 |
macOS (OS X) | ||
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Minimum | ||
Operating system (OS) | 10.8 | |
Processor (CPU) | Intel Core i7 2.93 GHz | |
System memory (RAM) | 4 GB | |
Hard disk drive (HDD) | 200 MB | |
Video card (GPU) | ATI Radeon HD 5750 1 GB of VRAM |
- A 64-bit operating system is required.
Notes
- ↑Unity engine build: 2018.4.0f1[1]
- ↑ 2.02.1File/folder structure within this directory reflects the path(s) listed for Windows and/or Steam game data (use Wine regedit to access Windows registry paths). Games with Steam Cloud support may store data in
~/.steam/steam/userdata/<user-id>/688420/
in addition to or instead of this directory. The app ID (688420) may differ in some cases. Treat backslashes as forward slashes. See the glossary page for details.
References
- ↑Verified by User:Baronsmoki on 2019-11-21
- ↑Bad North - Wikipedia - last accessed on 2019-09-26
- ↑Bad North :: Vikings are invading Steam on November 16th! - last accessed on 2019-02-05
- ↑Verified by User:Baronsmoki on 2019-11-21
- ↑Bad North 21:9 Review - last accessed on 2020-05-25