Headline changes

• Schemers can be Ambassadors and Chancellors in addition to Spymasters and Agents
• Added new City Site Number game option choice – 6 per player
• Added new player UI option ‘High contrast Player Colors’

Design

• Schemers can be Ambassadors and Chancellors in addition to Spymasters and Agents
• Priest specialists increase happiness by 1/2/3 (from 1/1.5/2) and religion opinion by 2/4/6 (from 1/2/3)
• Bishop specialists increase religion opinion by 3/6/9 (from 1/2/3)
• In team games where one player has a tribal alliance, tribes are less likely to demand tribute from non-allied teammates
• Killing or hiring a tribe unit no longer immediately changes the number of turns until the next tribe unit spawns from the closest site
• Luxury resources are now more common on randomly generated maps
• The more expensive (350+ science cost) Courtier bonus card techs give two Courtiers instead of one
• Changed Tribe unit cooldown behavior to be consistent with player units
• Tribe units receive a 2-turn cooldown if acting on another players turn (was 1)
• Tribe units cooldowns are processed (reduced) before unit movement, not after
• Tribe units Stun cooldown becomes Attacked cooldown on turn end
• Immobile cooldown gets converted to Attacked at the end of the unit’s turn, similar to what happens with Stunned
• Increased tiers of later religion (Christianity, Manichaeism, Buddhism) disciple ambitions
• Removed repair improvements ambitions
• In the Barbarian Horde scenario, the Huns are no longer organized
• Carved Ivory (Aksum) is now a Precious Resource (Wrath of Gods)
• Huns won’t ask for tribute before turn 20 or repeat demands until at least 10 turns after first being met (Empires of the Indus)
• Added missing event for completing the Buddhist holy site (Empires of the Indus)

Programming

• Improved AI character selection for governors and generals
• Added tech path history to saves. Not shown in-game, for use by community save analyzers

UI

• Added new City Site Number game option choice – 6 per player
• Added new player UI option ‘High contrast Player Colors’
• Added modsets functionality to mods screen, to allow grouping mods that can all be enabled at once
• Added All Player filter to Map Search
• Map Search can now be closed by clicking any top tab, in addition to clicking the Map Search icon
• Updated Luxuries concept/link text to list all luxuries dynamically
• Added succession to Upgrade Character text
• Renamed Game option ‘No Organized Tribes’ to ‘Disable Organized Tribes’
• Text localization updates
• Repair recommendation no longer always assumes buying goods, instead depends on ALT
• Modifier signs for negative yields are no longer reversed
• Increased visibility of attack range outline for ranged units
• Added Urban to map pin options
• Luxury/source helptext improvements
• Updated Discord channel helptext on MP join screen
• Added Disable SRP Batcher troubleshooting option

Bugs Fixed

• Fixed missing holy city icons on city widget
• Fixed screen visibility lag after history screen has been opened
• Fixed MP serialization errors that result in ghost units and repeated animations
• Fixed event kills not advancing/routing when they should
• Fixed units being valid to convert to a different owner if the unit is on its own city or settlement
• Fixed consistency for yield help text with negative multipliers
• Fixed team color on mines
• Fixed repair recommendations always showing as dimmed
• Fixed tooltips remaining frozen when switching screens
• Fixed yield previews showing for invalid tiles with Current Tile or General filters selected
• Fixed event cycling while bonus placement is active
• Fixed popup processing after surrendering
• Japanese text localization fixes
• Fixed Korean decimal & thousands separator
• Fixed Game of the Week mapscript potentially differing depending on owned DLC
• Fixed terrain sometimes not updating after closing timeline
• Fixed tribal stun and immobilize in Simultaneous and Loose turn styles
• Fixed AZERTY keyboard shortcut issues
• Fixed Map Search player/tribe filter
• Fixed Precious Resource help text
• Fixed tribe killing goal getting invalidated too early in some cases
• Fixed duplicate floating text in some cases
• Fixed Buy Yields text on Road ping tooltip
• Fixed resource overlay and harvested icons overlaying each other when both are present
• Fixed unit widget healthbars rendering behind resource overlay
• Fixed character portrait interpolation settings (Tamil Male 05 and Rome Female 11)
• Fixed Rise of Carthage scenario 1 goals potentially not triggering when Tribe Level set to Weak/Passive
• Fixed possible portrait duplication in Rise of Carthage Game One scenario
• Fixed score list for The Hill scenario
• Fixed occurrences still affecting tiles after they became invalid for it i.e. Wildfire on water (Wrath of Gods)
• Fixed occurrences that reduce vegetation pillaging and destroying improvements by that mechanic (Wrath of Gods)
• Fixed some missing source improvement / project lists (affects mods)
• Fixed UI fragment modding with Remove tags
• 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.