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Main Branch 1.0.82189 Release 2026-02-18

Headline changes

• [p]Major Unity and rendering system update [/p][/*]
• [p]Improved graphics performance and memory optimization[/p][/*]
• [p]Unique Unit (UU) tech bonus cards are now unlocked through culture instead of tech[/p][/*]

Known Issues

• [p]Portrait Age Interpolation is not working and has been disabled regardless of the player setting[/p][/*]
• [p]Fog of War can flicker on and off following movement in some cases[/p][/*]
• [p]Unit models and banners can fail to display consistently during AI turn[/p][/*]
• [p]Free promotion icon partially hidden[/p][/*]
• [p]Cycling to a stacked unit can show their icon behind other units[/p][/*]
• [p]Volcano display issues[/p][/*]

Design

• [p]Unique Unit (UU) tech bonus cards are now unlocked through culture instead of tech[/p][/*]
• [p]First tier UU bonus cards have had their cost increased from 100 to 200, give 2 units, and require a city with Strong culture[/p][/*]
• [p]Second tier UU bonus cards require a city with Legendary culture[/p][/*]
• [p]Zealot leader general now performs a Heal action after each kill, instead of being able to Apply Enlist[/p][/*]
• [p]Fervent (Piye's unique trait) now enables Apply Enlist as a leader general, at a cost of 100 civics (Wonders and Dynasties)[/p][/*]
• [p]Ballista strength reduced from 6 to 5[/p][/*]
• [p]Carthage city founding bonus reduced from 200 to 100 civics[/p][/*]
• [p]Founding Christianity no longer requires ownership of a Jewish city, now requires 3 Jewish cities globally[/p][/*]
• [p]Engineer promotion and general trait allows road building instead of bonus against siege/ships[/p][/*]
• [p]Added new national ambition - Control three of each Legendary Improvement[/p][/*]
• [p]Changed Control Six Legendary Cities national ambition to Control Five Legendary Cities[/p][/*]
• [p]Send 20 luxuries is now a tier 9 ambition instead of a national ambition[/p][/*]
• [p]Disciples can now clear vegetation[/p][/*]
• [p]Cannot build an improvement that removes vegetation if the unit cannot clear the vegetation[/p][/*]
• [p]Traders no longer get a court merchant when founding their seat [/p][/*]
• [p]Prevented building improvements on Marsh, except for Farms with Centralization[/p][/*]
• [p]All fresh water sources supply fresh water to their own tile in addition to adjacent tiles[/p][/*]
• [p]Remove Free Silk and Free Ebony bonus tech cards[/p][/*]
• [p]Moved Free Porcelain bonus card to be unlocked by Coinage and reduced tech cost accordingly[/p][/*]
• [p]Free Porcelain and Free Perfume bonus cards now give 2 instances of their luxuries[/p][/*]
• [p]Autonomous Rule project is removed when a city is breached[/p][/*]
• [p]Characters cannot give birth more than once a year (relevant for non-yearly turn scales)[/p][/*]
• [p]Free laws that replace an existing law do not increment the law change count[/p][/*]
• [p]Raiders can capture empty cities and city sites[/p][/*]
• [p]Adjustments to Family Archetype character tendencies:[/p][/*]
• [p]Champions have more Zealots and less Heroes[/p][/*]
• [p]Riders have more Heroes and less Zealots[/p][/*]
• [p]When randomly assigning archetypes, characters with governor effect traits are much more likely to be assigned a governor archetype, and similarly general archetypes for characters with general traits[/p][/*]
• [p]Killing Raiders now contributes towards goals to kill units of their original tribe[/p][/*]
• [p]Raiders are less stubborn about raiding, if the shortest path is blocked, and will hit opportunity targets instead[/p][/*]
• [p]Doubled Master/Elder Scribe money per Citizen, to +2/+4[/p][/*]
• [p]Anchoring and Unlimbering states are not interrupted by attacks that apply new cooldowns (i.e. Immobilize, Stun)[/p][/*]
• [p]Killed civilian units now count for Assyrian orders, Hero Leader Training, Epics Culture, etc[/p][/*]
• [p]Units can pass through hostile civilian units, as long as they don't end their movement on their tile[/p][/*]
• [p]Families and Religions suffer -40 opinion for 20 turns when their Workers and Disciples are killed[/p][/*]
• [p]Improvements to Carthage campaign persistency[/p][/*]
• [p]Increased maximum effect of god opinion on religion opinion in Wrath of Gods scenario (200 -> 500)[/p][/*]
• [p]Reduced Tribal raid range in Wrath of Gods scenario[/p][/*]
• [p]Disabled Venerate mission for and demands being given by Abandoned god in Wrath of Gods scenario [/p][/*]

Programming

• [p]Unity updated from 2022.3 to 6.3[/p][/*]
• [p]Graphics code converted to Unity's Universal Rendering Pipeline[/p][/*]
• [p]The URP upgrade improves graphics performance, letting the game render with fewer draw calls and use fewer shader variants[/p][/*]
• [p]Many UI optimizations[/p][/*]
• [p]Memory leak fixes[/p][/*]
• [p]Improvements to Safe Mode[/p][/*]
• [p]AI border expansion tweaks[/p][/*]
• [p]AI law value correction to avoid frequent changes[/p][/*]
• [p]Better AI legitimacy evaluation[/p][/*]
• [p]AI builds slightly fewer units[/p][/*]
• [p]Updated unity packages (relay and lobby replaced by multiplayer services)[/p][/*]
• [p]Added Latin supplemental characters U+100 to U+17F to Avalon, Trajan and Judson assets, to assist Polish translation mods[/p][/*]
• [p]Added support for bonus cards to use bonus names in tooltips (affects mods only)[/p][/*]

UI

• [p]Families are now shown before Religions on the tab panel[/p][/*]
• [p]Swapped Worker Filters and basic actions panels on Selected Worker UI[/p][/*]
• [p]Valid Improvements, Rural, and Urban worker filters show improvements valid anywhere in the city rather than just for current tile[/p][/*]
• [p]Restart Game button renamed Reroll Game. This keeps the same map and preserves nation/dynasty of random AI opponents but now rerolls the random seed[/p][/*]
• [p]New Map button renamed to Reroll Map. This button is not shown for games on predefined maps[/p][/*]
• [p]End Turn button can now always be clicked on your turn, will cycle to required items if needed[/p][/*]
• [p]Added hotkey for suppressing tooltips (hold Ctrl + X)[/p][/*]
• [p]Added hotkey for extending turn time (Alt-E)[/p][/*]
• [p]Added Reset option when editing hotkeys[/p][/*]
• [p]Added Unimproved Resources overlay to Overlay Customizer[/p][/*]
• [p]Character XP is now shown when they have upgraded at least once but progress to next level is 0[/p][/*]
• [p]Added Peak Legitimacy and Peak Legitimacy per Leader to Hall of Fame (requires regenerating HOF for existing games, won't display on very old saves)[/p][/*]
• [p]Added on-map icon to units that have been disarmed[/p][/*]
• [p]Updated ZOC help text[/p][/*]
• [p]Enabled gold cost to buy yields for recommended improvements tooltip[/p][/*]
• [p]Added color-coding for Send/Return text in Luxury Management[/p][/*]
• [p]Improved consistency of city build production cost tooltips[/p][/*]
• [p]Trait opinion of leader now shown in trait tooltip even without advanced help text[/p][/*]
• [p]Pagan religions are shown in the Adopt State Religion menu even without Divine Rule, with explanatory text[/p][/*]
• [p]Yields from disciples on improvements are shown when disciples are selected[/p][/*]
• [p]Anchor mission help text includes water control range[/p][/*]
• [p]Condensed enlist ability help text[/p][/*]
• [p]Greyed out effect for dead character portraits applied more consistently[/p][/*]
• [p]Improved Settler Found City tooltip[/p][/*]
• [p]Cities with zero yield are included in the nation yield breakdown[/p][/*]
• [p]When a non-server network game has disconnected human players and the turn timer is counting down, a warning is displayed next to the turn time [/p][/*]
• [p]Improvements to Citrus resource, Grove, Ruins and Alter of the Aten models[/p][/*]
• [p]Improvements to Luxury Management display, especially when no luxuries available[/p][/*]
• [p]End Turn button now always active, clicking it will cycle to decisions preventing turn from ending[/p][/*]
• [p]Free improvement bonuses now show as normal event popups first[/p][/*]
• [p]Place improvement overlay not shown while bonus event is active[/p][/*]
• [p]When placing free improvements, ctrl+click is required to replace existing improvements[/p][/*]
• [p]Games with custom victories are skipped for unloaded scenario mods in Hall of Fame[/p][/*]
• [p]Improved fidelity of shadows on high settings[/p][p][/p][/*]

Bugs Fixed

• [p]Fixed Valid Improvements worker filter [/p][/*]
• [p]Fixed map generation sometimes placing trees under water[/p][/*]
• [p]Fixed Hall of Fame display for scenario custom victories[/p][/*]
• [p]Fixed units passing through hostile civilians cancelling under construction improvements [/p][/*]
• [p]Fixed Dynasty being displayed as "default" with selected Archetype[/p][/*]
• [p]Fixed starting a game with more instances of a nation using a preset leader than existing dynasties for that nation[/p][/*]
• [p]Fixed hotkeys not triggering unit cycling[/p][/*]
• [p]Fixed per citizen generic specialist help text[/p][/*]
• [p]Fixed Timeline screen display issues[/p][/*]
• [p]Fixed Marshes affecting display of adjacent tiles[/p][/*]
• [p]Fixed Rebel units from events sometimes not being assigned to a player[/p][/*]
• [p]Fixed some popup scaling aspect ratio issues[/p][/*]
• [p]Fixed exception during loading of incompatible asset bundles[/p][/*]
• [p]Fixed Coastal Rain Basin boundary mountain range[/p][/*]
• [p]Fixed Hardwood Forest player start position issues[/p][/*]
• [p]Fixed missing clutter materials on Honey groves[/p][/*]
• [p]Fixed opinion graph hover exception[/p][/*]
• [p]Fixed hotkey assignments sometimes incorrectly being labeled as conflicts[/p][/*]
• [p]Fixed inaccurate opinion sometimes showing in city governor tooltip for Grand Viziers[/p][/*]
• [p]Fixed some Chinese text localization issues[/p][/*]
• [p]Fixed stun, immobilize, and panic effects sometimes being applied to units inside cities[/p][/*]
• [p]Fixed events that kill units not incrementing stats and goal counters[/p][/*]
• [p]Fixed temporarily hidden unit pathfinding[/p][/*]
• [p]Fixed some AI unit movement cases where it would trip over itself when there were units in the way[/p][/*]
• [p]Fixed some minor AI combat issues[/p][/*]
• [p]Fixed audio bug that occurred when only one music track was enabled[/p][/*]
• [p]Fixed some unit panel icon issues[/p][/*]
• [p]Fixed some tribal events incorrectly remaining after tribal elimination[/p][/*]
• [p]Fixed Caravan mission button saying that there are no players when out of orders[/p][/*]
• [p]Fixed some cases where city effects were not displayed[/p][/*]
• [p]Fixed boundary tiles in Caucasus on the Old World map[/p][/*]
• [p]Fixed character opinion load/save bugs[/p][/*]
• [p]Fixed family seat icon data bug[/p][/*]
• [p]Fixed State Religion reminder not opening submenu[/p][/*]
• [p]Fixed build specialist tile highlights not showing with border expansion[/p][/*]
• [p]Fixed Foreign Marriage mission in No Events mode[/p][/*]
• [p]Fixed temporarily hidden units sometimes still being rendered for other players[/p][/*]
• [p]Fixed village upgrade turns and improvement help text with Lighthouse[/p][/*]
• [p]Fixed Bulwark Cuirass UI issue[/p][/*]
• [p]Fixed Unyielding Banner reassigning general to non-player units[/p][/*]
• [p]Fixed scores not updating after effectPlayers change[/p][/*]
• [p]Fixed event decisions not getting restored after clearing selection[/p][/*]
• [p]Fixed tutorial videos not showing in the encyclopedia on Linux[/p][/*]
• [p]Fixed missing theology info on tech tooltips[/p][/*]
• [p]Fixed bonus yield text bug[/p][/*]
• [p]Fixed Unit Seen notification not firing if unit becomes visible mid-move[/p][/*]
• [p]Fixed Default Governor bugs[/p][/*]
• [p]Fixed Peaks adjacency requirement being ignored by Clerics on Sand tiles[/p][/*]
• [p]Fixed Encyclopedia display issue[/p][/*]
• [p]Fixed Research UI not showing after renaming landmark[/p][/*]
• [p]Fixed MP games with one human team getting stuck after victory[/p][/*]
• [p]Fixed Ask to Declare War mission helptext[/p][/*]
• [p]Fixed tile tooltip to show improvement defensive modifier in neutral territory[/p][/*]
• [p]Fixed overlay customizer issues[/p][/*]
• [p]Fixed load/save error that was possibly invalidating replay data[/p][/*]
• [p]Fixed scenario selection getting cleared when moving to MP setup screen[/p][/*]
• [p]Fixed Occurrence effects not being removed when ended by an event/bonus (Wrath of Gods)[/p][/*]
• [p]Fixed Veneration jealousy penalty being applied to both religion and god in Wrath of Gods scenario [/p][/*]
• [p]Fixed tech helptext not listing non religion-based project unlocks in Wrath of Gods scenario[/p][/*]
• [p]Fixed Carthage scenario 3 load/save bug[/p][/*]
• [p]Fixed ModManager panel trying to update when not active[/p][/*]
• [p]Text and event fixes[/p][/*]

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