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Main Branch 1.0.79872 release 2025-09-24

Steam Reviews: Help Guide the Next Update

Design

• [p]Temporarily hidden units (i.e. Scouts bounced out of Trees) now become visible after 5 turns (or after attacking or moving)[/p][/*]
• [p]Temporarily hidden units can no longer occupy territory that they would not be able to occupy if not hidden (i.e. foreign territory while at Truce)[/p][/*]
• [p]Scouts are no longer removed from the map after establishing an Agent Network and instead get a 5 turn cooldown and are hidden for 10 turns[/p][/*]
• [p]Veneration Theology gives +10% spread chance, up from 5%[/p][/*]
• [p]Revelation Theology gives +20% spread chance, down from 25% [/p][/*]
• [p]Enlightenment Theology now gives +3 Happiness only for Monks in Monasteries of Religions that have that Theology [/p][/*]
• [p]Tribe unit behavior is less predictable [/p][/*]
• [p]Barbarians cannot enter a nation's territory before raids are possible[/p][/*]
• [p]Increased Discontent per turn on Sufficient, Modest and Fragile Prosperity levels (Glorious, Magnificent and Great difficulty levels)[/p][/*]
• [p]Removed free Crossbowmen bonus tech[/p][/*]
• [p]Nomad effect now gives +25% strength in Arid as well as Sand tiles - affects Camel Archer, Libyan Cavalry and Elite Libyan Cavalry[/p][/*]
• [p]Highlands map script now has 27% more tiles to compensate for less useable area[/p][/*]
• [p]Bypassed events are less frequent and tied to event level[/p][/*]
• [p]Bypassed relationship penalty increased from 60 to 80[/p][/*]
• [p]Automatic (non-event) marriage will prefer candidates with a lower age difference [/p][/*]
• [p]Removed orders for refusing tribal truce in No Characters [/p][/*]
• [p]Tribes can only adopt world religions[/p][/*]
• [p]Poet trait gives positive opinion of other poets[/p][/*]
• [p]Further decreased likelihood of AI founding religions early based on AI Development and Aggression (applies for at most first 16 turns)[/p][/*]
• [p]Assault bonus to attack against forts no longer applies when forts give no defensive bonus[/p][/*]
• [p]Disabled some more ambitions in One City Challenge[/p][/*]
• [p]Rightful Heirs can no longer become Missing, Exiled, Imprisoned or Fugitive[/p][/*]
• [p]Games with two human players and AI no longer place the humans at opposite ends of the map and the AI in the middle. Instead, they are treated like a FFA.[/p][/*]
• [p]Added ambitions for building Wonders added in Wonders and Dynasties[/p][/*]
• [p]Delvers have an opinion penalty towards Stewards of the Land. These traits are now mutually exclusive (Wrath of Gods)[/p][/*]

Programming

• [p]AI water control improvements and bug fixes[/p][/*]
• [p]Tweaks to exploration and retreat[/p][/*]
• [p]Keep potential danger separate from actual danger [/p][/*]
• [p]Increased value of heir tutor mission [/p][/*]
• [p]No longer guards starting empty city sites unless there is another player nearby[/p][/*]
• [p]No longer imports horses until they can build horse units[/p][/*]
• [p]Hittite Scouts avoid chopping trees that will unhide them[/p][/*]
• [p]Further reduced AI emphasis on tile buying[/p][/*]
• [p]Tribe AI improvements[/p][/*]

• [p]Performance optimization[/p][/*]
• [p]AI performance improvements[/p][/*]
• [p]Missing shaders in asset bundles are now replaced with game versions where possible (affects mods)[/p][/*]
• [p]Updated Epic dev tools and SDK [/p][/*]

UI

• [p]There are now 2 warnings that turn time is running out[/p][/*]
• [p]First warning triggers at 30 seconds remaining, turns timer text red and plays audio warning[/p][/*]
• [p]Second warning triggers at 15 seconds remaining, increases timer text size and plays audio warning again[/p][/*]
• [p]These times are configurable using a mod in globalsInt.xml[/p][/*]

• [p]Renamed Rider projects from Import to Supply [/p][/*]
• [p]'Only Show Map Tacks For Worker' option renamed to 'Contextual Map Tacks'. Now shows improvement pings whenever workers, settlers or disciples are selected[/p][/*]
• [p]Improvement helptext and unit build option prereqs take into account tile owner rather than unit owner[/p][/*]
• [p]Added helptext warning when trying to build Improvement for teammate who doesn't have required Tech [/p][/*]
• [p]Improved some luxury trade help text[/p][/*]
• [p]Yield production graphs also display the total accumulated up until the hovered point (after game is over and for observers)[/p][/*]
• [p]Learn to Play is removed from the main menu after completing all the LTP or LBP scenarios or on disabling the tutorial[/p][/*]
• [p]Added help text for event options that give archetypes in Roleplaying mode[/p][/*]
• [p]Imprisoned trait removed from characters on death[/p][/*]
• [p]Updated difficulty descriptions[/p][/*]

Bugs Fixed

• [p]Tribe AI fixes[/p][/*]
• [p]Fixed city and culture limits not showing on Encyclopedia entries for relevant improvements[/p][/*]
• [p]Fixed uneven distribution of tribal unit types[/p][/*]
• [p]Fixed some bugs with AI use of missions[/p][/*]
• [p]Fixed converting a game to play-by-cloud not working when not your turn in Strict turnstyle[/p][/*]
• [p]Fixed missions continuing for dead target character[/p][/*]
• [p]Fixed camera focus on tile bug [/p][/*]
• [p]Fixed changing capital clearing sent luxuries[/p][/*]
• [p]Fixed modded asset bundles not loading in some cases[/p][/*]
• [p]Fixed load/save error from adjacent unit effects[/p][/*]
• [p]Fixed bug with AI exploring units trying to harvest when they cannot[/p][/*]
• [p]Fixed AI peace offers sometimes using the no events popup when events are enabled [/p][/*]
• [p]Fixed yield stockpiling ambitions being offered when close to already being completed[/p][/*]
• [p]Fixed duplicate event option archetype help text[/p][/*]
• [p]Fixed tribal camp events not resetting with Reset Random Seed on Load option enabled[/p][/*]
• [p]Fixed bug preventing DLC related hints being shown in Encyclopedia[/p][/*]
• [p]Fixed potential null reference in Map Editor[/p][/*]
• [p]Fixed some temporary invisibility issues [/p][/*]
• [p]Fixed audio tracks not always being listed in Main Menu audio options[/p][/*]
• [p]Fixed tribal units with a raid target counting towards a tribal camp's defend threshold or raid start threshold [/p][/*]
• [p]Fixed mod version mismatch being displayed incorrectly, preventing modded saves from being loaded in some case[/p][/*]
• [p]Fixed edge case with Carthage3 African Invasion goal not completing[/p][/*]
• [p]Fixed iGovernorCostModifier applying to orders (affects Darius dynasty and mods)[/p][/*]
• [p]Fixed unbuildable units and tech cards showing on the tech tooltip (affects mods)[/p][/*]
• [p]Fixed foreign occurrence effects on units, movement and visibility not being applied immediately (Wrath of Gods)[/p][/*]
• [p]Fixed some occurrence load/save issues (Wrath of Gods)[/p][/*]
• [p]Fixed some non-global Occurrences showing as global in helptext (Wrath of Gods)[/p][/*]
• [p]Fixed Wrath of Gods scenario map size[/p][/*]
• [p]Fixed wrath from difficulty not being applied in the Wrath of Gods scenario[/p][/*]
• [p]Fixed displayed prosperity level not matching effect in the Wrath of Gods scenario[/p][/*]
• [p]Text and Event fixes[/p][/*]

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