Headline changes

• New Point Symmetry mirror option for MP games
• Healing Shrines now give Healer effect to all units
• New Ballista unit icon added

Design

• Added Point Symmetry option to MP setup when Mirror Map option is selected. This enables radial mirroring around the map’s midpoint, producing a layout symmetric in all directions from the center. Players will start in opposite corners of the map
• Healing Shrines now give Healer effect to all units including non-promotable ones
• Heliopolis gives 0.5 orders per shrine instead of 1
• Mourning trait no longer has a chance to make characters ill
• If the player doesn’t have enough yields to sell to cover debts, then a queued build with no progress is cleared to get enough yields to sell, if possible
• Added event for when AI forfeits a city site due to player having attacked the camp more
• Many event tweaks including a buff for the Shrine of the Unknown God

Programming

• AI avoids building Wonders in border cities, and especially in cities that are in danger of being captured
• AI uses disciples to build religious improvements before further spreading the religion, if possible
• Pathfinder prefers to keep units hidden, have them occupy good defensive terrain, and avoid marsh, all else being equal
• Added support for local storage for persistent scenario data

UI

• New Ballista unit icon added
• All Improvements filter shows all non-wonder improvements that can ever be built
• Removed crit chance from attack preview window when not applicable (i.e. attacking cities)
• Clicking cities listed for a selected luxury pans to city center
• Dead character portraits faded in Characters tab
• Trashed bonus cards faded in tech tree
• Non-improvement yield lost when building an improvement on a resource now shown on tooltip (with Advanced Help Text active)
• Leader General control immunity bonus no longer shown in archetype helptext, merged with extra movement unit effect
• Leading and trailing whitespace characters are now removed from manually entered player online IDs
• Help text for multiple traits from a bonus now properly takes fallbacks into account
• Renamed terrain target of Volcanoes or Mountains (Jerwan requirement) from “Mountains” to “Peaks”
• Actions panel now hidden when it would otherwise be empty
• DLC name shown in parentheses in dropdowns for map scripts
• Included map scripts shown on DLC Mechanics page in Encyclopedia
• Hid some redundant-looking missions in Encyclopedia
• Mod Browser UI is refreshed once workshop mod list is retrieved
• Traits that give yields now always show totals with Advanced Help Text enabled
• Orders history graph no longer subtracts unit consumption
• Schemer’s Adopt mission now shows a reminder when available
• Yield totals in the stats screen graphs now include all sources, not just income
• Alt-1 to Alt-9 switch players when observing a network game
• Improved eligible unit trait help text
• Made tech unlocks helptext more specific and consistent
• Removed outdated references to save importing in Carthage scenario descriptions

Bugs Fixed

• Fixed events not firing for killed units
• Fixed combat notification log categories
• Fixed children gaining archetypes randomly
• Fixed improvements from bonuses not being auto-placed on their intended tiles
• Fixed religion founding city randomisation
• Fixed Hamlet development turns tooltip being wrong before the hamlet has been completed and the Lighthouse is active
• Fixed Mirror Map being selected on map scripts that do not support that option
• Fixed entering observer mode and following a different nation after surrendering from a network game
• Fixed client Hall of Fame not being updated after completing a network game
• Fixed governor availability text not updating consistently
• Fixed options menu tooltips getting hidden behind dropdowns
• Fixed map generation bug that could result in a river delta on land
• Fixed trade network save/load bug
• Fixed a threading issue
• Fixed improvements with city effects that modify a city’s overall yield not showing up on calculations before building improvement (i.e Patrons culture bonus)
• Fixed character tooltip position
• Fixed some random seed quirks causing courtiers appearing on the same turn to be identical
• Fixed luxury availability not updating immediately on canceling a trade deal
• Fixed AI making urban over resources
• Fixed invalid trait warning text color being reversed
• Fixed tile tooltip null reference
• Fixed resources getting added outside of map boundary
• Fixed being able to target non-visible tiles
• Fixed Tough promotion being double-counted on defense
• Fixed tribe units sometimes not healing
• Fixed AI sometimes taking over player units that are not automated, if there was at least one actually automated unit
• Fixed automated workers unstacking
• Fixed Barbarians not moving in players territory when they end up there whilst not allowed to enter
• Fixed Theology help not showing potential effects that do not currently apply
• Fixed MP scenarios overwriting the game name
• Fixed religion opinion graph disappearing after player defeat
• Fixed difficulty defaulting to Custom and preset difficulty showing as Custom in the Barbarian Horde scenario
• Fixed Duel and Tiny map sizes and Tumbling Mountain map script being available in the Barbarian Horde scenario
• Fixed some combat events potentially displaying incorrectly in Heroes of the Aegean scenario 5
• Fixed Wrath icon in Wrath of Gods scenario sometimes not displaying colour
• Fixed mods subbed from Steam client not copying from workshop cache to Old World mods folder
• Fixed mod sub checker not being able to check again if modio authentication is slow
• Fixed mod sub checker sometimes not closing
• 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.