Fantasy Map, Onboarding Aide, Notifications Redesign, Community Forums, and Fixes

Today's release adds the new Fantasy map to the Fantasy 1 test realm, tightens site placement boundaries, and revamps the full onboarding process: the original screen-dimming tutorial is replaced by an advisor who coaches you. Alongside it, the Notifications panel has been updated to be a closer companion to Live Alerts, the new community forums are live, and a few Ion Cannon bugs are fixed.

Everything in this update

Fantasy map

2 changes

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New The new Fantasy map is available to review on the test realm called Fantasy 1. This is the first piece of art created specifically for RealmConquest. #

Changed The Fantasy map is much smaller than the Earth map. #

Onboarding & advisor

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Changed The onboarding tutorial has been rebuilt around a single characterful aide, Don Trask. The old full-screen spotlight overlay that dimmed the map is gone; guidance is now non-blocking. #

New A new advisor lives in the command rail. It stays quiet when idle, shows a soft gold badge when there is new advice, and pulses red for urgent threats. On your first join a realm it opens once to say hello, then collapses to the rail. #

New It has two views: Now shows the current step with its reward, a single command action, and a "Show me where" pointer; Journey shows all onboarding steps as a tracker. #

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Changed The old dimmed, guided onboarding system was replaced with this lightweight pointer that aims a small callout at the HUD element it is talking about. Press Escape or click away to dismiss it. #

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Notice Motion is restrained and fully respects reduced-motion: pulses and cross-fades are disabled when your system prefers reduced motion. #

Intel & notifications

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Changed The Intel modal's existing Notifications panel has been redesigned as a companion to Live Alerts. Urgent incoming threats still live in the alert drawer; the Intel panel now carries the longer-lived notification record with matching categories, colours, unread state, and actions. #

Changed Notifications now filter from one left rail: All, Intelligence, Relations, Resources, Military, Colony, plus a separated Archive destination. This replaces the old split navigation where section tabs and category filters competed for space. #

Changed The category treatment now lines up with the live alert language: each category keeps its own type colour, while the active view is marked in gold. #

Changed The Archive is now a focused browsing view. The unread-only filter and Read all control are hidden there, and the header shows the active view and its count instead of controls that do not apply. #

Fixed Cleaned up the notifications layout so the existing panel reads as one integrated alerts history instead of stacking a separate section nav beside the category filter. #

Battle reports

1 change

Changed The Battle Report system has been redesigned with a clearer battle summary, combat flow, and result breakdown. View an example battle report. #

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Player HUD

1 change

New Hover your commander name in the top bar for a quick at-a-glance card: your avatar, rank badge and ladder position, alliance, and your crystal and relic counts, without opening your full profile. Clicking the name still opens it. #

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Community

1 change

New The new Discourse Community forums are live at /community. They are still being fully implemented and organized. Your RealmConquest login carries over to the forum with no separate login. #

Strategic weapons

3 changes

Fixed Fixed an Ion Cannon target coverage gap on relics and garrisons: hostile units stationed there can now be struck the same way hostile units stationed on a colony or outpost can. #

Fixed The Ion Cannon can no longer be aimed at wreckage. #

Fixed The Ion Cannon button no longer shows up when you select your own moving squads. #

Conquest

1 change

Fixed When another commander conquers one of your colonies, they're now automatically marked as a personal enemy (red) on your map and Players board. #

Map & UI

2 changes

Changed Coordinate displays are now standardized as X: 733 Y: 1066. #

Changed Map placement boundaries were tightened so colonies and normal outposts leave more space between them. #

Changelog

1 change

Changed Patch notes now live in the standalone Changelog section instead of the devlog, using a new layout. #

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