Changes Overview

• New National Ambition system introduced to allow earlier selection of your final ambition
• Launch Offensive changes
• Continent is now the default map script
• AI and performance improvements

Design

National Ambitions:

• The final ambition is now called a National Ambition and may be offered early, after a player has completed 5 ambitions
• The offer is triggered soon after the player reaches 70% progress towards one of the national ambitions
• National Ambitions are not used for tier counting purposes i.e. they do not make regular ambition offers harder
• All National Ambitions are listed in the Encyclopedia under their own category
• Added new National Ambition ‘+250 Food, Iron, Stone, Wood and Money per turn’. This replaces the previous ambition to stockpile 2000 of each resource
• Added new regular Ambition ‘Control 4 Hamlet class improvements’
• Adjusted ambition threshold calculations and ambition events to allow a greater variety of ambitions to be offered

Launch Offensive changes:

• Offensive effects do not apply to the leader unit
• Cannot launch offensive when on cooldown
• Leader unit goes on new launched offensive cooldown
• For team games, bonus orders from the offensive go to the unit owners

Continent map script changes:

• Continent is now the default map script
• Added new Extreme Terrain suboption ‘None’ and made this the default
• Tribal Lands placement option removed

Other design changes:

• Critical hits on cities are no longer possible
• Stun is now possible when attacking a unit in a city without any HP left
• Panic and Fireship effects now cause units that cannot retreat to become Disarmed instead of Stunned
• Enlisted units by a Zealot leader now return to full health
• Hidden units now always ignore ZOC
• Money Boost tech card moved to Coinage
• Free Trireme and Free Dromon tech cards removed
• National ambitions now offered at 70% completion instead of 75%
• National Ambitions event enabled in no events mode
• Fire shrines now have adjacent modifier to any improvement in the Mine class (now also affects Laurion Mines)
• Commander leaders always grant +10XP per turn to all units (previously units had to be idle)
• Free improvements are now allowed on resource tiles with a generic improvement ping. Placing a free urban improvement on a resource removes the resource without harvesting it
• Adjusted ambition threshold calculations so a greater variety of ambitions gets offered
• Events where the AI offers Truce on breaching a city now trigger when the city is captured instead
• Can no longer build roads and improvements in territory of an ally
• Water tiles no longer need to be adjacent to land in order to transfer them from one of your cities to another
• Units that earn XP past the maximum level convert that XP to training
• Ezana’s Evangelist trait only gives new units Christianity/Adept in city where he is governor (Wrath of Gods)
• 7 new events relating to Calamities happening to other players (Wrath of Gods)
• Reduced other religion opinion penalty duration for Venerate mission (Wrath of Gods)
• Increased chance of Scrub appearing on new Arid tiles on Ebbing Sea map from 2% to 10% (Wrath of Gods)
• Eruption and Earthquake intensities tweaked (Wrath of Gods)
• Made Calamities less common on the Rare and Very Rare settings (Wrath of Gods)
• Wrath of Gods scenario now uses a customized map script with more Volcanoes (Wrath of Gods)

Programming

• Rendering API change: Linux / Steam Deck now default to Vulkan. Windows supports Vulkan with a command-line switch -force-vulkan
• Epic Mac build now runs natively when run outside of the Epic launcher, i.e. using alternative launcher such as Heroic
• Improved UI responsiveness when cycling through workers
• Performance improvements
• AI combat improvements
• Improved AI use of Launch Offensive
• Improved AI order predictions when planning moves
• AI is more aggressive in moving towards enemy cities when at war
• AI more likely to place ranged units in forest when defending its territory with a Tactician leader
• AI fort building now less common
• AI tries harder to delay using anchored units so that land units don’t get stranded
• AI now less eager to build some wonders that are not very useful (e.g. Jebel Barkal without world religion)
• AI cares a little more about culture
• Invading organized tribes are less timid
• Added ALLOW_CITY_CRITICAL_HITS to globalsInt, for use by modders
• Mod manager no longer fully loads installed maps when fetching subscription info
• Unit XP overflow into training uses TRAINING_PER_XP for consistency
• Buildable projects now use a ProductionType such as YIELD_CIVICS. Non-buildable projects do not require this
• iCivics has been renamed to iCost in project.xml

UI

Setup screen changes:

• Removed Options Preset dropdown from Simple setup and added Event Level
• Added Reset Options button to Advanced and MP setup screens
• Added difficulty mode to Advanced setup screen
• Simple setup settings are saved separately from advanced setup settings. Going back and forth between Advanced and Simple screens retains only nation and dynasty settings
• Entering the setup screens with a premade map that restricts nation choices stored in the options file will no longer keep that map choice, to ensure all nations are shown
• Enabled DLC no longer gets reset every time

Other UI changes:

• Selected characters now appear in the upper right side of the screen and Ambitions in the upper left
• Added Net Yield Change to specialist build tooltip, which takes modifiers into account and subtracts yields for any replaced specialist
• Popup text minimum scaling reduced
• Removed background UI blur when events are active
• EffectUnit links now also include the effect icon by default
• Timeline screen slider is now disabled while advancing by season or by year
• Clarified City Site Number help text
• Wonder legitimacy bonuses now named per culture tier to differentiate them
• Can now queue the same tile multiple times without the unit executing the queued moves
• When the last tile in a move queue is right-clicked, the unit executes the queue
• Flipped luxury panel buttons
• Tweaked alignment for scenario-specific goal info
• Archetypes now shown in line of succession panel
• Strategic resource icons for unit production shown on city categories when available
• Temporary unit effects now show the remaining turn count on their icons
• Changed all happiness/discontent yield displays to use relevant icon instead of signed text
• Added worker list to tile tooltip when multiple workers are stacked
• Selecting a character centers the camera on job-relevant city or unit
• Research UI is now always shown regardless of selection
• Added reminder for pillaged tiles
• Added ability to hide improvement tooltips by holding CTRL
• Timeline now shows map terrain changes over time
• Timeline now shows current revealed-not-visible state for borders when it is set to show the current turn
• With a land unit selected, hovering over a water tile in anchor range will show “Must end move on land tile”
• Network games are now paused automatically when the game is over
• Cannot surrender a multiplayer game if you are the last player remaining
• World tile text now shows over city UI
• Unworked wonders show Requires Worker text with worker selected
• Right-click toggles tab panel menus off if already open
• Improved unit strength tooltip text
• Updated premade map descriptions
• Removed some of the yield breakdown from the specialist tooltip and added modified total yield
• Removed line break from event option tooltips that start goals
• Removed ‘New Event in Wizard’ button from Event Browser
• City links that do not open the city screen now pan the camera to the city when clicked (i.e. tribal raid notifications)
• Starting a game using a parameter string no longer updates the options file with the game’s settings
• Added custom savegame prefix to standalone scenarios
• Added more promotion and effectUnit information to encyclopedia
• Updated credits
• Updated Shapur’s dynasty description to clarify that Strike applies to melee and ship units (Wonders and Dynasties)
• Plague flies are only shown on units with the Plagued effect. Plague fog effect is confined to city territory (Wrath of Gods)
• Wildfire visual effect is less extreme (Wrath of Gods)
• Improvement pings are no longer removed by an occurrence rendering a tile impassable (Wrath of Gods)
• Boosted plague fog visibility (Wrath of Gods)
• Boosted volcano animation speed (Wrath of Gods)

Bugs Fixed

• Fixed Korean text sometimes not displaying
• Fixed text autosizing issues
• Fixed popup text not updating immediately after changing scaling
• Fixed assert when removing player ownership from a tile with a religion attached
• Fixed forest on lake tile in Middle East map
• Fixed bad city border preview on Old World Map by removing an urban tile to the west of Pella
• Fixed a threading issue that could cause server-side exceptions
• Fixed unit queuing bugs
• Fixed units not being selectable through overlays
• Fixed some UI elements not updating properly after undoing initial found
• Fixed occasional opinion arrow misalignment in event popup
• Fixed city recommendation assert
• Fixed workers and ships in cities with no defenses not taking damage from attacks
• Fixed clicks on parts of the UI selecting map elements behind them
• Fixed Continents map script bug
• Fixed Caravans being unable to travel through anarchy territory
• Fixed improvements being repairable inside hostile territory
• Fixed unit health bars appearing incorrectly for some attack previews
• Fixed the Ignore Map Nation Starts option not working on some maps
• Fixed Family Seat founding bonus not showing in the setup screens and in game before player has founded their capital
• Fixed Road To overlay not updating when changing mouseover tile
• Fixed flickering issue when hovering over build recommendations on some parts of the screen
• Fixed bug where AI could still win in some cases when player achieves victory on the same turn
• Fixed goal threshold bug incorrectly making ambitions invalid
• Fixed Barbarian Horde MP achievement not working in hotseat
• Fixed Greek and Assyrian capitol buildings not being shown when adjacent to rivers
• Fixed Allow Negative Cognomens option appearing when no characters option selected
• Fixed Free Court Minister encyclopedia entry with null icon
• Fixed encyclopedia prompt showing on traits with no encyclopedia page
• Fixed encyclopedia null references
• Fixed succession law preview tooltip showing wrong law
• Fixed Courtiers Added stat not increasing when recruiting an existing foreign courtier
• Fixed Organized tribes not healing
• Fixed some AI bugs
• Fixed research UI not updating immediately when yield rates change
• Fixed Carthage scenarios giving a lower-tier victory than earned if one of the goals was completed indirectly
• Fixed Portrait Editor loading issue
• Fixed portrait models potentially obscuring each other
• Fixed unit cycle tooltip sometimes not locking
• Fixed ship building on a tile that has turned to land
• Fixed nested link issue in governor candidate tooltip
• Fixed team color intensity slider
• Fixed map timeline GIF palette not representing border colors correctly
• Fixed citrus grove configuration
• Fixed ZOC display exception
• Fixed pillage notification links selecting units
• Fixed some dropdown appearance issues
• Fixed autobuild cities not repairing upon being founded with a damaged settler
• Fixed bug in effectCity help text yield breakdown
• Fixed occurrence effects after a new city has been founded
• Fixed sporadic disconnections in network and server games when one or more player slots are open
• Fixed pathfinding for hidden units
• Fixed AI bug that caused it to sometimes move units back and forth between the same tiles
• Fixed null pointer if an init phase EffectPlayer, i.e. from difficulty mode, uses miReligionOpinionChange (only affects mods)
• Fixed aiUnitTraitConsumptionModifier help text bug (only affects mods)
• Fixed repair yield purchase for Stateira (Wonders and Dynasties)
• Fixed Flood not displaying correctly in some cases (Wrath of Gods)
• Fixed Calamity level showing on in-game difficulty mode and game parameters tooltips, if the content is disabled in the current game (Wrath of Gods)
• Fixed calamity postprocessing profiles overriding postprocessing settings from graphics settings i.e. Motion Blur (Wrath of Gods)
• Fixed some rendering issues when terrain changes height (Wrath of Gods)
• Fixed calamity effects being removed from rivers too early in some cases (Wrath of Gods)
• Fixed eruptions displaying on volcanos obscured by fog of war (Wrath of Gods)
• Fixed double legitimacy penalty when abandoning a Demand (Wrath of Gods)
• Fixed trees removed from building improvements not being counted for demands (Wrath of Gods)
• Fixed issue where some global calamities that target tiles were instead targeting all tiles (Wrath of Gods)
• Fixed Wrath of Gods scenario victory event not triggering when next victory becomes impossible (Wrath of Gods)
• Fixed Wrath of Gods scenario duplicate victory threshold events in some cases (Wrath of Gods)
• Fixed Hurricanes not displaying correctly in some cases (Wrath of Gods)
• Fixed wrath generation issues casued by Undo / Restart Map (Wrath of Gods)
• Fixed mid and major raid Occurrences being invalidated (Wrath of Gods)
• Fixed Calamities causing city sites to become impassable (Wrath of Gods)
• Global Occurrence fixes (Wrath of Gods)
• Text and event fixes

Old World is available on Steam, GOG, Epic and Stove

About Old World

Set in classic antiquity, Old World is a historical 4X strategy game created by Soren Johnson (Lead Designer, Civilization IV). Players select a historical leader and use the innovative Orders system to dominate the competition. Leaders are mortal; once they die, the nation’s future depends on their heirs.