Patch notes

Polybolos now have +50% attack (was +50% attack vs Ranged)

cannot be adjacent to other

AI builds fewer Militia, Conscripts and obsolete units

Polybolos now have +50% attack (was +50% attack vs Ranged)

cannot be adjacent to other

Increased defensive modifier of Garrison/Stronghold/ by 10%

Reduced from Ambassador and from Spymaster. Adjusted Chancellor and .

Swapped base ratings for Schemers and Scholars

Tribal units no longer move if they have been previously moved by their ally on that turn

Tribal units no longer retreat to their settlement when closer to allied territory

Increased water margin at map edges for some mirrored map scripts, to ensure both sides have a water pass

Lowered The Gatherer and The Resourceful cognomen levels (from 30/50 to 20/40) and values (300/100 for harvest/ to 200/50) Empires of the Indus

AI builds fewer Militia, Conscripts and obsolete units

AI places a lower priority on attacking expansion targets if it's short on

AI always guards city sites even when it believes no other player is nearby

Added some Mac crash debugging

Improved display of rivers on tundra tiles

Added Pillaged filter for Improvements in Map Search

Unit type help improvement

Cut down on character life event announcements

Random traits and ratings are now only shown in the turn summary for the leader and the heir

Religion conversions are only shown for leader, heir, family heads and the first character to convert after founding

Hovering on timeline shows year at hovered position instead of currently displayed year

Add Urban / Road ping tooltip improvements

Legacy helptext adjustment

Added reign time to character help for former leaders

Fixed conquest games as Tamilakam sometimes not getting marked as completed

Fixed hotseat surrender issue

Fixed point mirrored Coastal Rain Basin and Arid Plateau map scripts sometimes not generating enough mountains, leading to strange river generation

Fixed missing religion opinion details on city / helptext

Fixed trashed UU tech cards being placed on the discard pile on

Fixed some client null reference exceptions

Fixed cognomen help null reference

Fixed tooltip buy costs

Fixed unit consumption link always showing the active player's unit breakdown

Fixed minimap ping placement

Fixed player alliance ambitions being offered in games with 1 or 2 teams

Fixed some heir and leader assassination achievement issues

Fixed religion context menus not being clickable in some situations

Fixed city effects sometimes being counted twice in previews and helptext

Fixed text issue with abdicate mission helptext

Fixed some bugs with AI movement

Fixed loading save with no settlement improvement on a city site

Fixed cycling through Map Search results

Fixed team alliance contact inconsistencies

Fixed unlimber audio overriding subsequent selections

Possible fix for some UI system issues

Fixed building improvements over jungle not granting cut jungle achievement Empires of the Indus

Fixed text in Rise of Carthage scenario 2

Schemers can be Ambassadors and Chancellors in addition to Spymasters and Agents

Added new City Site Number game option choice - 6 per player

Added new player UI option 'High contrast Player Colors'

Schemers can be Ambassadors and Chancellors in addition to Spymasters and Agents

Priest specialists increase by 1/2/3 (from 1/1.5/2) and religion opinion by 2/4/6 (from 1/2/3)

Bishop specialists increase religion opinion by 3/6/9 (from 1/2/3)

In team games where one player has a tribal alliance, tribes are less likely to demand tribute from non-allied teammates

Killing or hiring a tribe unit no longer immediately changes the number of turns until the next tribe unit spawns from the closest site

Luxury resources are now more common on randomly generated maps

The more expensive (350+ cost) Courtier bonus card techs give two Courtiers instead of one

Changed Tribe unit cooldown behavior to be consistent with player units

Tribe units receive a 2-turn cooldown if acting on another players turn (was 1)

Tribe units cooldowns are processed (reduced) before unit movement, not after

Tribe units Stun cooldown becomes Attacked cooldown on turn end

Immobile cooldown gets converted to Attacked at the end of the unit's turn, similar to what happens with Stunned

Increased tiers of later religion (Christianity, Manichaeism, Buddhism) disciple ambitions

Removed repair improvements ambitions

In the Barbarian Horde scenario, the Huns are no longer organized

Carved Ivory (Aksum) is now a Precious Resource Wrath of Gods

Huns won't ask for tribute before turn 20 or repeat demands until at least 10 turns after first being met Empires of the Indus

Added missing event for completing the Buddhist holy site Empires of the Indus

Improved AI character selection for governors and generals

Added tech path history to saves. Not shown in-game, for use by community save analyzers

Added new City Site Number game option choice - 6 per player

Added new player UI option 'High contrast Player Colors'

Added modsets functionality to mods screen, to allow grouping mods that can all be enabled at once

Added All Player filter to Map Search

Map Search can now be closed by clicking any top tab, in addition to clicking the Map Search icon

Updated Luxuries concept/link text to list all luxuries dynamically

Added succession to Upgrade Character text

Renamed option 'No Organized Tribes' to 'Disable Organized Tribes'

Text localization updates

Repair recommendation no longer always assumes buying goods, instead depends on ALT

Modifier signs for negative yields are no longer reversed

Increased visibility of attack range outline for ranged units

Added Urban to map pin options

Luxury/source helptext improvements

Updated Discord channel helptext on MP join screen

Added Disable SRP Batcher troubleshooting option

Fixed missing holy city icons on city widget

Fixed screen visibility lag after history screen has been opened

Fixed MP serialization errors that result in ghost units and repeated animations

Fixed event kills not advancing/routing when they should

Fixed units being valid to convert to a different owner if the unit is on its own city or settlement

Fixed consistency for yield help text with negative multipliers

Fixed team color on mines

Fixed repair recommendations always showing as dimmed

Fixed tooltips remaining frozen when switching screens

Fixed yield previews showing for invalid tiles with Current Tile or General filters selected

Fixed event cycling while bonus placement is active

Fixed popup processing after surrendering

Japanese text localization fixes

Fixed Korean decimal & thousands separator

Fixed of the Week mapscript potentially differing depending on owned DLC

Fixed terrain sometimes not updating after closing timeline

Fixed tribal stun and immobilize in Simultaneous and Loose turn styles

Fixed AZERTY keyboard shortcut issues

Fixed Map Search player/tribe filter

Fixed Precious Resource help text

Fixed tribe killing goal getting invalidated too early in some cases

Fixed duplicate floating text in some cases

Fixed Buy Yields text on Road ping tooltip

Fixed resource overlay and harvested icons overlaying each other when both are present

Fixed unit widget healthbars rendering behind resource overlay

Fixed character portrait interpolation settings (Tamil Male 05 and Rome Female 11)

Fixed Rise of Carthage scenario 1 goals potentially not triggering when Tribe Level set to Weak/Passive

Fixed possible portrait duplication in Rise of Carthage One scenario

Fixed score list for The Hill scenario

Fixed occurrences still affecting tiles after they became invalid for it i.e. Wildfire on water Wrath of Gods

Fixed occurrences that reduce vegetation pillaging and destroying improvements by that mechanic Wrath of Gods

Fixed some missing source improvement / project lists (affects mods)

Fixed UI fragment modding with Remove tags

Text and event fixes

Changes to Religion founding requirements

Improvements to Mission events with negative outcomes

Fixed memory leak

Christianity no longer has a tech requirement

Manichaeism requires Metaphysics instead of Monasticism

Tweaked Mission events with negative outcomes to be better or rarer

Tile buying costs increase slightly slower and more discretely

Minor Cities now count as urban improvements (relevant for ambitions)

Drought no longer creates sand tiles, minimum duration reduced from 3 to 2 turns Wrath of Gods

DOTA mapscript now has a path width option Empires of the Indus

DOTA mapscript Separating Terrain choice split into Inner and Outer Terrain, random option added Empires of the Indus

Fixed memory leak caused by renderer per-frame allocations

AI avoids building non-Settler units from cities that have zero citizens

Landmark discovery notification added even if popup is shown

When a character mission (eg Imprison) can't be started due to a blocking memory, turns left until the memory will be removed are now shown

Updated law prerequisite event helptext to be clearer

Trait effects on city effects are not listed in a neutral tile tooltip text unless the player has a character with that trait i.e. camp effect from the Butcher's Mask

Yields from military units in territory are always shown in help text, even if there is no military unit present i.e. from Walls

Only player owned occurrence-affected tiles are listed in the turn summary. All visible tiles are still listed in the turn notifications

Tribal Invasion bonus & concept helptext now mention that war will be declared as well

Improvement pings are cleared when making tiles urban

Points to victory no longer shown when points victory is inactive

Fixed Huns appearing near player starts

Fixed units without harvest animations playing broken animations when cutting trees

Fixed observer mode visibility after observed player surrender

Fixed event predicates failing in Japanese and Chinese due to use of localized commas

Fixed bug where wrong city is sometimes selected in bonuses

Fixed lighting regression for standard shader

Fixed dune display on Sand Hill tiles

Fixed Hovel Ruins floor rendering incorrectly

Fixed black circle in city widget religion list

Fixed tech tree button behavior

Fixed unit occlusion issues with city widget religion icons

Fixed map editor null reference errors

Fixed governor rating-affected yield showing wrong value if net yield is negative

Fixed some color issues on events with 'not' requirements

Fixed some help text for improvements in team territory

Fixed settings indicating mirror map when that option is invalid for the map script

Fixed FFA achievement triggering with 2 players

Fixed Ruthless AI not taking Time Victory condition into account

Fixed Buddhist/Hindu religious improvements being referenced in Tech helptext in of Gods scenario

Fixed volcano occurrence not showing when it first appears in MP games Wrath of Gods

Fixed Buddhist Disciple and Hindu Brahmin vision ranges Empires of the Indus

Fixed invalid resource tiles on Indus Valley Duel premade map Empires of the Indus

AI fixes

Text and event fixes

2nd tier tech costs increased to 160 (from 150)

Moved Free Horseman tech bonus card to Coinage (from Land Consolidation)

Improvement cost reductions - : 40 (was 60), : 60 (was 80), Grocer: 80 (was 100), Fair 100 (was 120)

Winning at a difficulty gives the achievements for that level and lower. Hardcore now gives all difficulty achievements

Rebels no longer attack your teammates, unless there is nothing better for them to do

Barbarian units of settlements that have been converted to named tribes are converted to raiders, if possible

Critical hit chance is now rolled only at the beginning of the turn or after an attack

Initial leader death immunity changed to 30 turns on Lengthy Mortality and 10 turns on Realistic Mortality (from always being 20 turns)

Moved some AI functionality from Ruthless AI to Competitive AI Aggression Level: Stealing Cities and Sites being attacked by other players, shorter grace period before building Wonders, founding Religions or claiming vacant City Sites near other players, not accepting Truce when about to capture a City

Ruthless AI now just gives opinion penalty towards the player when they are close to victory or in a strong alliance

Reduced frequency of 1-tile-wide inland mountain passes, most are now increased to a width of 2

Tight turn style now prevents all actions with military units when not your turn (instead of just preventing attack and movement)

Invested tech progress is reimbursed when a player receives the tech for free

Eagle Eye promotion now available to range 1 units that don't have a fixed range (Persian Unique Units)

Builder workers can no longer stack inside a teammates territory

Removed citizen loss from base-game Plague Wrath of Gods

Removed marsh tiles from DOTA maps Empires of the Indus

Jungle can no longer be cut outside of city territory Empires of the Indus

on give as much as they do on trees Empires of the Indus

Organized tribes (The Huns) are placed farther away from human starts and their settlements are mirrored in mirror maps Empires of the Indus

Charge (Yuezhi Unique Unit ability) is now only blocked by Improvements or Vegetation, not terrain type Empires of the Indus

Tamilakam Supremacy change now gives XP to the new leader and makes them Royal Empires of the Indus

The number of Rebels for avoiding a change in Supremacy now depends on level of family seat Empires of the Indus

Significant improvements to late game worker recommendation lag

AI performance optimizations

Minor Unity update to 6000.3.15f1

Increased range that AI can anchor ships to bridge lands from 10 to 20 tiles

Improved AI anchoring

Initial leader death immunity turns moved to mortality.xml

Improved Send Luxury tooltip

Hide cost on "Add Urban" button

Selected tab is now un-highlighted when map search is open

Tribe opinion rate shown even when leader opinion modifiers sum to 0

Yield totals always shown in the stats screen, even when there is only one player shown on the graphs

Fixed city widgets getting occluded by clouds and world geometry

Fixed units only partially occluding city widgets when selected

Fixed scrollbar getting hidden on popups

Fixed road objects not being removed correctly

Fixed overlays not toggling off with a worker selected

Fixed helptext for tribal peace in no characters mode

Fixed AI not using engineer generals to build roads as often as expected

Fixed map script dropdown data issues

Fixed some Spanish text issues

Fixed tech tree state not persisting

Fixed some UI glitches in observer mode

Fixed city assets not drawing in revealed observer territory

Fixed Alliance victory not getting recorded in some cases

Fixes text getting cut off in bug report popup

Fixed helptext for aeRelationshipNone subjects

Fixed critical hits not occurring during routs with critical hit preview option

Fixed event helptext for TraitInvalid subjects

Fixed missing hurricane variants for and related resources

Fixed play by cloud emails sometimes including incorrect information

Fixed duplicated icon for Tactician Leader General units

Fixed some shrines sometimes being unavailable when using Randomized Improvements option without all DLC

Fixed tech requirement sometimes not showing on improvement helptext

Fixed mirror maps not enforcing connected human starts

Fixed some unintended 1-tile-wide mountain passes that were possible to occur in mirror maps

Fixed SubjectAny trait check for characters

Fixed SubjectNot helptext display

Fixed Mods Not Found popup getting cleared by screen switch

Fix mod overwriting from subbed Modio mods. Better logic for version mismatch ! display on Manage tab

Fixed mod uploads with line endings on Mac

Fixed goal counts in some cases in Rise of Carthage scenario 2

Fixed Rise of Carthage scenario 3 goal failing to trigger when Syracuse eliminated quickly

Fixed Heroes of the Aegean scenario 1 loss achievement not triggering

Fixed some event helptext is Heroes of the Aegean scenario 4

Fixed Gudit's Intimidate mission appearing when she is not the player's leader Wonders and Dynasties

Fixed Ranger leader not giving strength modifier in Jungle Empires of the Indus

Fixed family tree screen for Tamilakam following Supremacy leader changes Empires of the Indus

Text and event fixes