Root Digital 2.0 Patch Notes - Hirelings & Landmarks!

The Woodland is getting wilder! Hirelings & Landmarks arrives with new ways to shape the map, and fresh faces to sway the balance of power!

Alongside the new expansion, we’ve shipped a broad round of polish based on your feedback. You’ll notice tighter rules fidelity with the tabletop game, steadier performance, and smarter opponents — all aimed at improving the overall experience.

Jump in, explore new combos, and tell us what you uncover — your reports have been instrumental in making Root Digital the best it can be!

General Improvements 

• By popular demand, the Marquise Field Hospital timing now matches tabletop in all modes except online async play.

• Added ‘Bluff’ option when creating a game. If enabled, priority is passed to take actions regardless of the contents of players hands. Applies to Ambush, Field Hospital, Feline Physicians, and Rabbit Scouts. Only available in live timer games.

• Vagabond and Eyrie AI have been significantly improved, bringing their scores more in line with other base factions.

• Automatic camera movement is now optional and disabled by default.

• Added a deck count to the supply window.  

• Added several more hotkeys for common functions and an index listing them in settings.

• Added an option to include a Screenshot when submitting feedback.

• VFX highlight now appears on the “maximize prompt” button.

• “Anytime” actions such as Exposure have been streamlined to minimize unnecessary extra prompt windows.

Bug Fixes

General Fixes & Improvements

• Marquise can now select any clearing for their first Homeland on the Mountain map.

• Marquise no longer counts spent wood for Rule using Soup Kitchens.

• Vagabond “Anytime in Birdsong” cards can now be used before Refresh and Slip as intended.

• Murine Brokers no longer occasionally grant multiple cards to opponents.

• Guessing Exposure incorrectly no longer lets Eyrie skip adding to the Decree.

• Correct Expose guesses no longer reveal the card to other players.

• Fixed an issue where Marquise was unable to choose all legal homeland locations on the Lake Map.

• Keepers in Iron can now choose homeland clearings correctly on the Winter Map.

• Improved several areas where AI made strange choices.

• Fixed many issues involving the Undo function.

• Improved certain areas of the Tutorial which caused confusion.

Visual & Animation

• Dominance animations now show the correct faction backgrounds for the Duchy and the Corvids.

• Some assets on the Lake map no longer overlap buildings and tokens.

• Warriors no longer appear inside the tower on the Mountain map.

• Clouds in Strategic View now blend smoothly.

• Vagabond “Quest Completed” animation now plays as expected.

• Keepers in Iron relics and Vagabonds no longer cause trees to disappear on the Winter Map.

• Trees no longer clip through the Marquise Keep when a Favor card removes the token.

• The Duchy Citadel icon now appears the same as it does in tabletop.

User Interface & Experience (UI/UX)

• On Steam Deck, tapped cards and tooltips now dismiss correctly.

• Available faction icons are larger and easier to select on large-UI mobile devices.

• Some HUD elements are no longer off-screen on some tablets.

• Selecting Bird cards now works correctly when suited cards are also available for the Keepers in Iron on mobile devices.

• Gamepad support has been improved.

• Vagabond icons now display correctly when using the Ferry on the Lake map in Strategic View.

• Expose now highlights the correct clearing in Strategic View.

• Wood highlights for Marquise are more visible in Strategic View.

• Vagabond targeting to strike a Keepers In Iron relic is now clear when multiple relics are stacked.

• A confirmation now appears when ending the Vagabond’s turn with actions remaining.

• Increased highlight size to attack the Keep when the model isn’t present.

• Save and Exit / Resign now return you to the correct Local/Online screen.

• Vagabond is now able to review their quests during item damage selection.

• Eyrie faction information no longer covers clearings in Strategic View on affected screens.

• The Marquise Keep clearing is now more clearly indicated when playing with Adset.

• Lost Souls and revealed Lizard cards can now be opened while the Sway Ministers screen is minimized.

• The restore prompt button no longer overlaps constructed card icons.

• Improved expanded rules for Marquise wood cost visualization.

• Field Hospitals prompts no longer block Riverfolk purchase prompts at turn start.

• Winter map icons no longer cover neighboring clearing costs.

• Improved the clickable region to attack buildings on the Winter Map.

• Fixed an issue where the prompt to use a Partisan card wouldn’t appear during combat.

• Added additional entries to the Action Log, and improved several existing entries.

Localization

• The Pacifist (Heroic) challenge description has been clarified.

• Fixed several areas where localization was incorrect or missing.

Multiplayer & Online

• Additional game settings now display when viewing lobbies.

• Chat no longer cuts off the last line at certain resolutions.

• Cards are no longer dealt face down to players after being discarded by the AI in Pass and Play.

Technical / Rare Occurrences

• Fixed several potential errors which would have resulted in softlocks.

See you in the clearings!