Changes Overview

• Leader archetype balancing for Heroes, Builders, Zealots and Diplomats
• Added Road Improvement Ping (Map pin)
• Rebel chance icon added to Cities Screen and City tooltip
• MP setup and observer mode improvements

Design

• Hero leaders can now Launch Offensive after attacking. This still puts the Hero unit on cooldown, so they cannot act after Launch Offensive
• Add Urban (Builder Leader ability) stone costs doubled (20 on flat and 40 on hill)
• Spending Civics to Enlist (Zealot Leader ability) no longer expires after 3 turns, but the effect is removed when the leader is removed from the unit
• AI now requires a Diplomat leader to start a National Alliance. Increased probability of an alliance offer
• Duplicate nations are now allowed even with preset leaders, as long as dynasties are not duplicated
• Mounted units no longer get attack bonus into Marsh. Renamed Flat to Open for Mounted Attack bonus
• Harbors give 100% bonus to adjacent nets, up from 60%
• AI now aims to have have a minimum of about a tenth of its units be its Unique Unit
• Eliminating the last unit of a tribe outside of a camp now also counts as eliminating the tribe and triggers elimination events
• Specialist builds are allowed to continue after their improvement has been pillaged
• Map options limiting the number of city sites now concentrate sites around player starts
• Consorts can now be Regents without needing to be Royal. Ill characters will not be picked to be Regents
• Added repair cost to Town and Village improvements
• Free-for-all player starts no longer try to separate human players
• Ambitions that require Wonders now consider Wonders owned by teammates to be impossible to acquire
• When a preset character joins a preferred family their children now join the same family
• Reduced the amount of Forest on the Desert map script. Removed option to specify starting inland or on the coast
• Tribe units can now heal after moving
• In No Events / No Characters, truce offers cost nothing if you’re winning the war
• Unit position swaps clears temporarily hidden state of the swap initiating unit
• Characters with an active mission on them (like marriage) cannot be auto-married in the meantime
• Great Lighthouse now applies faster upgrade bonus to existing hamlet class improvements, not only newly constructed ones
• Added initial turn timer time stockpile. Slow adds 3 minutes, Medium 2 and Fast 1

Programming

• Fixed several memory leaks (more improvements here coming next update)
• Memory allocation optimization
• Minor MP performance optimization
• Improved AI for Zealot leader enlisting
• AI no longer attacks civilians if doing so puts their units in danger of being killed
• Unhardcoded some AI diplomacy parameters, made warState.xml more mod-friendly
• Updated AWS SDK to 3.7
• Modio version upgrade
• Unity package updates
• Added option for CRC tracing when loading mods

UI

• Added Road improvement ping
• Cities with effects that give Rebel chance are marked with a Rebels icon in the city list screen and city tooltip
• Default player name in MP and network server name are now taken from the online platform nickname
• MP Setup screen newly added players duplicate the parameters of the previous player
• Cloud game hosts can now rename the game using the host control popup
• In sequential turn network games, observer view automatically switches to the next player when the observed player’s turn ends. This is disabled after manually switching to a different player
• Observers now use their set language rather than the language of the observed player
• Chat hotkey no longer works for non-host observers
• Population in the city list screen is now a link to city specialists
• Worker build action button yields no longer subtract unimproved tile yields
• Map Overlay Customizer now has seperate options for Urban and Rural Improvements
• Renamed the City Number options and City Site Density to City Site Spacing
• Show Foreign Family Colors option now also applies to city widget crests
• Clicking a General portrait on a selected unit now selects the character
• Law tooltips now show family opinion changes instead of family class opinion
• New Place Bonus decisions get sorted to the front of the event queue
• Improvement pings no longer removed after a terrain change if the improvement is still valid or after a resource is added if the improvement matches the resource
• Added foreign opinion helptext to specify the portion of the Ruthless AI opinion that is due to a player alliance
• Added character archetype crest to mission targets
• When a unit cannot complete a move, camera pans back to unit location and fatigued sound is played
• Right-clicks on UI widgets now work with a tooltip locked
• Moved some help text to the advanced help text option
• Temporarily hidden units show a timer
• Temporary hidden status is ignored for damage preview if unit has to move for previewed attack
• Last choices for customized leaders are remembered
• Succession list helptext (tooltip for the Inheritance button) shows archetype icons
• Removed Follower list when selecting families
• Remove the separate popups for dead/retiring governor, agent and general
• Improved goal instructions in Learn to Play scenarios
• City religious improvement tooltip now includes unfinished and pillaged improvements
• Added tribe elimination notification

Bugs Fixed

• Fixed AI development claiming more than the nation’s share of city sites when using limited City Site Number options
• Fixed agent tab not properly updating after assigning agent character
• Fixed setup screen bug with number of players
• Fixed modified trade values not being calculated in trade bonus helptext
• Fixed city culture tooltip flicker
• Fixed overlay customizer not updating toggles when re-opening after making unsaved changes
• Fixed locked overlay highlight switching off of Custom when toggling customizer
• Fixed improvement filter issues, include unfinished improvements
• Fixed pillaging, burn and launch offensive not clearing hidden status
• Fixed some issues with temporarily hidden units
• Fixed retry cloud upload directing to succession UI
• Fixed map selection with character assignment UI active
• Fixed double state religion reference in happiness help text
• Fixed AI leaving Wonders unfinished if interrupted
• Fixed not being able to change language when it’s not your turn
• Fixed popup and decision processing when not the active player’s turn
• Fixed foreign characters showing on 1st turn of Hotseat game
• Fixed custom nickname bugs
• Fixed improvement net yield help text to include income from adjacent tiles that belong to a different city
• Fixed game reload inconsistent state
• Fixed pathfinder not being reset when a new tile is revealed
• Fixed implicit conversion with maiMinStats/maiMaxStats
• Fixed Recruit button not appearing with no orders
• Fixed assassinating heir mission not giving achievement when heir exploring
• Fixed AI not building most projects
• Fixed map scripts sometimes generating marsh on hills
• Fixed Regicide achievement not always triggering
• Fixed characters incorrectly showing under Court filter
• Fixed tile widgets not always updating after place bonus decision resolved
• Fixed not being able to retire when there are no opponents in SP
• Fixed possible null reference when a city is razed
• Fixed Mounted unit attack bonus incorrectly being listed in tooltips as a negative defensive modifier
• Fixed tribal unit movement bug
• Fixed extra divider in improvement tooltip for improvements with no yields
• Fixed event trigger text not always showing correctly
• Fixed camera hotkeys not working in map editor
• Fixed MP setup when playing scenarios where player order doesn’t match scenario save
• Fixed new tribe leaders not following their tribe’s religion in Wrath of Gods scenario
• Fixed mod infos initialization, source effects were not being properly set on new game. Fixes Rebel text in the Wrath of Gods scenario
• 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.