Changes Overview

• Added support for Multiple Victories and Succession Games
• Custom Map Overlay added, Overlay and Map Pin UI improvements
• AI improvements

Design

• Multiple Victory support
• On achieving a Double, Points or Ambition victory, players will be prompted to either accept victory or try to pursue another victory condition
• While pursuing additional victories, defeat can still occur if another player satisfies a victory condition
• Multiple victories are tracked in the Hall of Fame

• Succession game support
• Added ‘Send to Player’ option to in-game menu for Single Player games
• This is designed to support Succession games and can also be used generally for sharing saves
• Select a friend from the dropdown or enter their platform ID
• Games will appear on both the sender and recipients Current Games list on the main menu
• The Current Games entry will be deleted automatically after the recipient loads the game and can be manually deleted in Host Controls by both parties

• Other design changes
• Religious improvements may now be adjacent to improvements of different religions
• Launch Offensive now gives the unit and leader 20 XP
• Events can no longer end a war with a tribe that has a player ally
• Resources added during the game (events or other bonuses) can now be placed adjacent to resources of different types
• Holy site legitimacy events are now guaranteed to trigger on improvement completion
• Distant raid probabilities are now based on each player’s Prosperity rather than global Tribe Level
• Gadarat’s Subjugator trait spawns worker at cleared site rather than capital (Wonders and Dynasties)
• Akhenaten can build Altar of the Aten improvements which spread Atenism, a new unique religion for this dynasty. Disciple bonuses removed. (Wonders and Dynasties)
• Nebuchadnezzar I’s brother now recognized as Royal (Wonders and Dynasties)
• Occurrences no longer change or remove existing resources, or add resources to improved tiles unless the existing improvement matches the new resource (Wrath of Gods)
• Occurrences no longer add vegetation to tiles with resources that don’t allow that vegetation (Wrath of Gods)
• Added goal Declare War on Tribes Three Times to the Wrath of Gods scenario

Programming

• Enabled cloud games on test builds
• AI attack and retreat tweaks
• Added some AI flexibility in still getting kills when an attack doesn’t go as predicted
• AI is a little more careful with sacrificing its good units
• AI is less eager to buy tiles
• AI makes truce with other AI more easily when it detects a stalemate
• Adjusted the target number of units for the AI
• AI places more value on walls after reaching its unit target
• AI now tries to explore rival territory, if possible, to reveal cities
• Decoupled subject picking from events
• Missions now take an arbitrary list of subjects and relations

UI

• Custom Map Overlay added, giving a lot more flexibility in what is shown on a map overlay
• Map pins can now be added and removed using a grid of icons from the Overlay Customizer
• Map pin UI improvements
• Map Overlays can now be locked with right click
• Added option to set default map overlay
• Added option Advanced Help Text. Some tooltip information is removed when this option is not enabled
• Event triggers are now displayed at the top of events where relevant
• Added popup notifications for some bonuses (Diplomatic, Subjugator, King of Kings, Fickle Band)
• Landmark discovery popups no longer shown when starting an alliance
• Cloud games that were last played on a different version will be greyed out with a warning. Use Ctrl+click to load a game from an earlier version. Saves from later version cannot be loaded
• Added starting characters to SP setup stats screen
• Added support for cycling through occurrence tiles on click
• Added turns of/since conflict to player and tribe tooltips
• Mission subject info now shown in Encyclopedia
• Up/Down arrows cycle through encyclopedia entries
• Added yellow warning text to specialist “replaces” text
• Added visual flood effect for extreme Iteru flooding in Pharaohs of the Nile campaign
• Added Governor Project reminder category for religious dissent (Sacred and Profane)
• Added custom helptext for Ebbing Sea occurrence (Wrath of Gods)

Bugs Fixed

• Fixed yield previews getting stuck
• Fixed bug that could cause games to fail to start after selecting Learn to Play scenarios
• Fixed map generation for games with 2 human teams where the middle of the map is not suitable for player starts (e.g. Hardwood Forest)
• Fixed border expansions sometimes including urban tiles that belong to other city sites
• Fixed free improvement UI not triggering when completing Jebel Barkal
• Fixed free improvement UI not showing dynamic improvement text (i.e leader name on Stele)
• Fixed data issue with some tile status text
• Fixed succession list character links showing effects of being a leader instead of current character effects
• Fixed empty categories in cloud emails
• Fixed project net yield bug
• Fixed MP setup spacing and text wrapping issues
• Fixed rout preview sometimes being shown incorrectly
• Fixed Caravans consuming orders when they cannot move
• Fixed subject matching for characters in eventlinks
• Fixed Road To overlay not clearing after selecting tile
• Fixed some parts of the research UI sometimes being uninteractable
• Fixed note map pings
• Fixed AI build choices not respecting the Guilds law
• Fixed selected city widget not being interactable
• Fixed tribal units not getting allied territory water movement bonus
• Fixed toggle sizing on some resolutions
• Fixed Event Browser not using full screen
• Fixed Encyclopedia errors
• Fixed anarchy road building bug
• Fixed Lose a City goal not completing when losing a city due to an event
• Fixed ship harvest helptext showing xp is gained from harvesting
• Fixed player count not resetting when switching from premade to random map
• Fixed units counterattacking when they could not have targeted the attacking unit on their own turn
• Fixed AI trying to start a Caravan mission over and over when it’s not possible
• Fixed heir sometimes getting auto-married instead of getting a marriage offer
• Fixed portrait loading error when toggling mods in SP setup
• Fixed custom nicknames for leaders not being applied from events
• Fixed chat and pings not working when not your turn in network MP games
• Fixed players not being able to act after ending their turn when still their their teams turn with Strict (Teams) turn style active
• Fixed AI behavior for congested battlefields
• Fixed issues when removing tile visual effects, which were causing problems in the Pharaohs of the Nile scenarios
• Fixed Pharaohs of the Niles scenario 1 undo back over army deployment
• Fixed minor victory broken link in Pharaohs of the Nile scenario 6
• Fixed bug that could cause turns to be skipped in the Wrath of Gods scenario
• Fixed Occurrence effects applying multiple times to cities (Wrath of Gods)
• Fixed Occurrence overlay sometimes not clearing (Wrath of Gods)
• Fixed Occurrence terrain change notifications appearing for out of bounds tiles (Wrath of Gods)
• Fixed mod upload error
• Mod browser and upload page 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.