Main Branch 1.0.77503 Release 2025-04-30
Headline Changes
- New map script Rejuvenation added to the Wrath of Gods DLC. A barren desert that becomes more temperate and acquires resources over time
- Ships can now enter defensive formation, which works in the same way as Fortify for melee infantry. Ship promotion balance tweaked
- Added upgrade icon to city production buttons for specialists that replace an existing specialist
Design
- Ships can enter defensive formation, giving +10% defence against Ships per turn, up to a max of 30%. A counterattack is gained at maximum level and each attack against the ship removes one level.
- Grappler promotion immobilizes ships instead of stunning them and no longer has an attack penalty
- Fireship promotion no longer gives +10% attack
- Cockswain promotion gives +20% strength in National Territory instead of Rout
- AI more likely to break alliances with poor opinion
- Ruthless AI declares war on a winning player even if it's not completely ready to do so
- When a tribal alliance ends and there are tribal units in the same tile as player units, the tribal units are bounced, not the player units
- When a national alliance ends, a unit in its own territory never gets bounced
- Expose Agent mission takes 1 turn to complete (was 2)
- Rise of Carthage campaign tweaks and rebalancing
- Heroes of the Aegean scenario 2 rebalanced
- Slums worker discount removed and militia discount increased (Behind the Throne)
- New map script Rejuvenation added (Wrath of Gods)
- Occurrences that affect water movement (eg Hurricane) affect player-controlled water as well, both for water units and land units using anchored tiles (Wrath of Gods)
- Hurricanes remove Anchored status from ships (Wrath of Gods)
Programming
- Restart Game and New Map now generate a new game ID so that a new entry can be recorded in the Hall of Fame
- AI less averse to building Militia and Conscripts when it cannot build a latest upgrade regular military unit
- Pathfinder performance optimization
- Moved project spread to the Player class
- Memory refactor
- Testudo is now a unit effect
- Added delete functionality to Manage Mods tab for mapfiles with no ModioID/WorkshopID
- Added support for showing images of workshop maps in Manage Mods tab
- Added support for council positions that don't require any traits
- Added support in the game class for adding visual effects to tiles independently from the occurrence system
- Added support for yields with negative demand
- Added backwards compatibility for mods with zero-cost projects (notably fixes freezes in Projects+ mod)
UI
- Added upgrade icon to city production buttons for specialists that replace an existing specialist
- Added year of discovery to each acquired tech on the Tech Tree
- Can no longer see citizens, specialists, and happiness level of foreign cities without an agent
- Selection panel tooltips appear on the left
- Score/ambitions panel hidden with attack preview active
- Ambition display tweaks
- Added Net Yield Change to project build tooltips
- Improvement and specialist tooltip tweaks
- Added reminder count on tooltip for pillage reminders
- Decreased size of religion icons on city widgets and archetype/family icons near leader portrait
- Discord/Steam rich presence now updated after loading a save
- Added Save button to cloud host controls screen
- Notification URL icon shown in cloud game list
- Observer hosts of MP games can send messages only to everyone
- Added notification icon for City Damaged
- Added Increase Unit Movement Radius Visibility button to accessibility options to allow players to boost unit movement radius contrast
- Added spacing between archetype/ratings/items on character cards
- Source of counterattack damage in the combat preview is more specific
- Improved tooltip alignment and positioning
- Law tooltips now show F1 Encyclopedia links
- Encyclopedia updates
- Localization text updates
- Added explanation popup to target player when a mission has resulted in an AI or a tribe agreeing to declare war on that player
- Shrines are listed in city pagan religion help text, just as monasteries, temples, etc are listed for world religions
- Agent networks with agents now shown in Spymasters Agent Networks submenu
- Improved helptext for traits that can replace other traits
- Removed the Text tab from the Event Browser
Bugs Fixed
- Fixed DLC that is not owned being marked as disabled
- Fixed bug that forced some map scripts to put all players on the same continent
- Fixed increasing player count disabling Allow Duplicate Nations option
- Fixed Governor gendered helptext issue
- Fixed event browser not using selected language for event preview
- Fixed a bug that sometimes prevented the AI from declaring war to expand
- Fixed broken river segments in mirror maps
- Fixed missing available luxury highlights
- Fixed enlisted unit of eliminated nation becoming a rebel
- Fixed bug with AI understanding of how city attacks work
- Fixed character mission tooltip positioning inconsistency
- Fixed left unit healthbar always showing 0 damage in attack preview
- Fixed specialist tooltip net yield change to correctly account for the loss of a citizen
- Fixed tile tooltips revealing yields for foreign improvements when at Peace
- Fixed restarting a hotseat game losing player information
- Fixed map selection clickthrough issues
- Fixed F7 city list not sorting when agent tab is selected
- Fixed incorrect default number of opponents set in single player setup screen
- Fixed configuration of female scout and female worker combat portrait prefabs
- Fixed city recommendation icons appear for non-visible production buttons
- Fixed agent networks submenu player colors
- Fixed issues with city widget capture text
- Fixed data issue for culture on city tab
- Fixed data issues for specialist widgets and pings
- Fixed improvements placed in the map editor always getting raised to the hill height offset
- Fixed irrelevant tribes appearing in the tooltip of some character bonuses
- Fixed team/tribe diplomacy icon not updating in score area when diplomacy changes
- Fixed event text/goal mismatch
- Fixed incorrect number of players stored in the options file for multiplayer settings
- Fixed hotseat games restarting with the wrong active player
- Fixed modio maps not showing in mod browser
- Fixed modio maps not updating properly
- Fixed a couple of issues with maps on Workshop
- Fixed Modio API errors on uploading mods
- Fixed modio uploading all files in Maps folder
- Fixed modio maps reporting version issues if modVersion is blank
- Fixed modio maps sometimes not getting metadata embedded in the mapfile
- Fixed modio maps images not showing on manage mods tab
- Fixed possible null reference when map filename isn't the same as map display name
- Fixed mods with file information showing private full path filename
- Fixed mod uninstall button not working on Install tab immediately after an installation
- Fixed issues with loading mod units from asset bundles
- Fixed UI exception for non-civics projects when AI build recommendations are enabled (affects mods only)
- Fixed non-civics projects displaying the incorrect yield above the build queue (affects mods only)
- Fixed Enlist killing enlisted units if the enlist-on-heal amount was too low (affects mods only)
- Fixed Rise of Carthage scenario 3 not taking into account the final turn's yields for determining goal completion
- Fixed Rise of Carthage scenario 3 issue with rebels capturing cities
- Fixed Civil War affecting all players (Behind the Throne)
- Fixed missing Clergy in Wrath of Gods scenario
- Fixed Stele appearing in improvements list when it cannot be built manually (Wrath of Gods)
- Fixed crash caused by Inferno (Wrath of Gods)
- Fixed Occurrences sometimes occurring more often than they should for a given player (Wrath of Gods)
- Fixed map Occurrences not being added to mirror maps (Wrath of Gods)
Notes for Modders
- Five separate memory types (MemoryCharacter, MemoryTribe, MemorReligion, MemoryFamily, MemoryPlayer) are now one type, Memory. The base file name is memory.xml
- Mods that add memories need to rename files, e.g. memoryCharacter-add.xml should be memory-character-add or just memory-add. The dash after memory is the important part
- Event bonuses are now just Memory / Forget, for all memory types. Events should take care to apply the bonus to the right subject. For example, a Memory bonus applied to a SUBJECTCLASS_CHARACTER subject is the equivalent of the earlier MemoryCharacter bonus
- It is recommended to upload new versions of map mods in order to take advantage of fixes and new features
