Changes Overview

• Clerics family changes
• Guilds law now allows building Elder specialists directly, skipping prerequisite specialists
• New UI system for placing free improvements and resources

Design

• Cleric family now gets free Divine Rule law on founding. Removed free Monasticism and Found Religion Project from Clerics
• Cleric seats can build Christian and Manicheist Disciples after the religions have been founded without the religion being present
• Cleric seats have double speed Disciples only for State Religion
• Religion spread no longer has a distance limit from the Holy City
• Guilds law now allows building Elder Specialists directly, skipping any prerequisite specialists. Hamlet happiness bonus removed
• Tribe-owned units no longer get a strength modifier against other tribes at strong and raging tribe levels
• Regents now become Royal if they usurp the throne or continue ruling after the rightful heir’s death
• Projects and specialists that are automatically removed from the build queue because they are no longer valid now refund any invested resources to the player’s yield stockpile
• AI governors now emphasize growth and build fewer growth units when city has no citizens
• Persia’s Shapur dynasty gets the Found Religion project (Wonders and Dynasties)
• Rising Stars are now less common and ask to become a Grand Vizier less (Behind the Throne)
• Opulence project now requires a luxury in addition to estates (Behind the Throne)
• Reduced probability of Occurrence ready events (Wrath of Gods)

Multiplayer Turn Style changes

• Loose turn style can be selected only with a turn timer
• Renamed normal turn style to adaptive
• Tight turn style is now the default
• Strict turn styles no longer allow players to perform any actions when not their turn (this also affects single player)

Programming

• Performance optimization
• Memory allocation optimization
• Bug reporting system improvements
• Improved AI valuation of Disciples and Religions
• AI now uses Cleric seat ability to build disciples of non-present religions
• Improved AI use of unit staging before an attack
• AI checks whether a city can have an effect from resources before building a project that gives that same effect (i.e. Riders Import Horses)
• AI knows to use units that do not require orders when it’s out of orders
• Improved sprite loading thread safety
• Added safeguards against unexpected UI resets from a game restart
• Added 3 additional resource categories to the default map script for use by mods
• Added support for partial counterattack strength for use by mods (replaced InfoUnit.mbMeleeCounter with miMeleeCounterPercent)
• Added support for upgrading rural improvements for use by mods
• Generalized event subject picking so it no longer needs an event, just a list of subjects
• Various missions started by the leader now no longer block all events with a leader subject
• UI mod files (UI/includes and UI/styles) are excluded from game CRC
• Added UI/templates to UI modding paths

UI

• Free improvements and resources are now added to the event queue and placed by clicking a valid tile
• Tooltip in tech tree shows the date team mates have discovered each tech, as well as for observers in MP games, and all players when the game is completed
• Games with custom names (i.e. Game of the Week) now show their name in the parameters tooltip
• Improvement net yield now includes Patrons Precious Resource culture bonus
• Border expansion preview has the correct border colors for families
• Added Items to Encyclopedia in their own category, with unique events listed
• Encyclopedia now lists DLC source for traits where applicable
• ESC clears luxury selection before opening menu
• City luxury tooltip improvements
• Valid unit types now listed for ‘New units start with ‘ helptext
• Improved luxury tooltip positioning
• Removed tile raw yield from the city net yield tooltip
• Added min height for OK button on turn summary popup
• Scripted tutorial events blur the background UI, preventing events being bypassed
• Added strength/weakness icons to concept links
• Improved Riders ‘Import Resource’ project helptext
• Yield and unit strength previews when assigning jobs now take into account the opinion change caused by the job switch
• Mission requirements in tooltips are no longer shown in some situations where these requirements are all met
• Ratings shown on character tooltip when they are 0 if they produce a yield (i.e. Schemer Agents)
• Removed resource ping from improvements dropdown. This was made obsolete by the new UI to place free resources
• Improved tooltips and interactions between Behind the Throne traits and imprison/assassinate missions

Bugs Fixed

• Fixed event job forcing not always working
• Fixed trade breakdown tooltip
• Fixed governor marker showing in city widget for No Characters
• Fixes to the Old World premade map – re-added dynasty start positions and fixed empty tiles warning
• Fixes to the Punic Duel premade map – removed underwater trees and fixed missing city name
• Fixed border expansion preview not updating after changes in player decision queue
• Fixed Stele placement not being restricted to chosen city
• Fixed a bug with AI unit effect evaluation
• Fixed Game.canStartOccurrence modifying the game state
• Fixed players being unable to surrender in MP games when they are the last active human player
• Fixed events checking for mutual attraction selecting divorced spouses
• Fixed incorrect amount of orders when ending the turn without founding a city
• Fixed temporarily impassable tiles getting counted for minor city creation
• Fixed leader bio paragraph indentation inconsistencies
• Fixed farm model roof bug
• Fixed visibility load/save error from terrain height change
• Fixed an AI bug that made it misjudge large battle outcomes and attack when it should be retreating
• Fixed number of improvement ambitions becoming impossible after losing control of a city
• Fixed mini tech tree names not being accounted for in scroll area
• Fixed council character tooltip positioning with selection active
• Fixed reference to Stun in Retreat helptext
• Fixed Guilds help text inconsistency
• Fixed top bar yield arrows for selected character
• Fixed events giving characters jobs getting invalidated when character is general of a unit on cooldown
• Fixed yield preview showing incorrectly when replacing an improvement with a specialist
• Fixed duplicate characters getting generated from events
• Fixed AI bug that caused retreat from non hostile AI units
• Fixed critical hit chance not resetting on General wisdom change
• Fixed flicker when hovering over improvement recommendations
• Fixed border expansion algorithm
• Fixed family and religion crest color and opinion display
• Fixed potential infinite recursion in AI bonusValue calculations
• Fixed another case of Carthage scenario 4 Epic Victory achievement not being granted
• Fixed Pharoahs of the Nile scenario 4 being continuable after winning
• UI modding fixes
• 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.