Changes Overview

• Scout visibility changes
• Theology balancing
• AI improvements

Design

• Temporarily hidden units (i.e. Scouts bounced out of Trees) now become visible after 5 turns (or after attacking or moving)
• Temporarily hidden units can no longer occupy territory that they would not be able to occupy if not hidden (i.e. foreign territory while at Truce)
• Scouts are no longer removed from the map after establishing an Agent Network and instead get a 5 turn cooldown and are hidden for 10 turns
• Veneration Theology gives +10% spread chance, up from 5%
• Revelation Theology gives +20% spread chance, down from 25%
• Enlightenment Theology now gives +3 Happiness only for Monks in Monasteries of Religions that have that Theology
• Tribe unit behavior is less predictable
• Barbarians cannot enter a nation’s territory before raids are possible
• Increased Discontent per turn on Sufficient, Modest and Fragile Prosperity levels (Glorious, Magnificent and Great difficulty levels)
• Removed free Crossbowmen bonus tech
• Nomad effect now gives +25% strength in Arid as well as Sand tiles – affects Camel Archer, Libyan Cavalry and Elite Libyan Cavalry
• Highlands map script now has 27% more tiles to compensate for less useable area
• Bypassed events are less frequent and tied to event level
• Bypassed relationship penalty increased from 60 to 80
• Automatic (non-event) marriage will prefer candidates with a lower age difference
• Removed orders for refusing tribal truce in No Characters
• Tribes can only adopt world religions
• Poet trait gives positive opinion of other poets
• Further decreased likelihood of AI founding religions early based on AI Development and Aggression (applies for at most first 16 turns)
• Assault bonus to attack against forts no longer applies when forts give no defensive bonus
• Disabled some more ambitions in One City Challenge
• Rightful Heirs can no longer become Missing, Exiled, Imprisoned or Fugitive
• Games with two human players and AI no longer place the humans at opposite ends of the map and the AI in the middle. Instead, they are treated like a FFA.
• Added ambitions for building Wonders added in Wonders and Dynasties
• Delvers have an opinion penalty towards Stewards of the Land. These traits are now mutually exclusive (Wrath of Gods)

Programming

• AI improvements:
• AI water control improvements and bug fixes
• Tweaks to exploration and retreat
• Keep potential danger separate from actual danger
• Increased value of heir tutor mission
• No longer guards starting empty city sites unless there is another player nearby
• No longer imports horses until they can build horse units
• Hittite Scouts avoid chopping trees that will unhide them
• Further reduced AI emphasis on tile buying
• Tribe AI improvements

• Other programming changes:
• Performance optimization
• AI performance improvements
• Missing shaders in asset bundles are now replaced with game versions where possible (affects mods)
• Updated Epic dev tools and SDK

UI

• Turn timer changes:
• There are now 2 warnings that turn time is running out
• First warning triggers at 30 seconds remaining, turns timer text red and plays audio warning
• Second warning triggers at 15 seconds remaining, increases timer text size and plays audio warning again
• These times are configurable using a mod in globalsInt.xml

• Other UI changes:
• Renamed Rider projects from Import to Supply
• ‘Only Show Map Tacks For Worker’ option renamed to ‘Contextual Map Tacks’. Now shows improvement pings whenever workers, settlers or disciples are selected
• Improvement helptext and unit build option prereqs take into account tile owner rather than unit owner
• Added helptext warning when trying to build Improvement for teammate who doesn’t have required Tech
• Improved some luxury trade help text
• Yield production graphs also display the total accumulated up until the hovered point (after game is over and for observers)
• Learn to Play is removed from the main menu after completing all the LTP or LBP scenarios or on disabling the tutorial
• Added help text for event options that give archetypes in Roleplaying mode
• Imprisoned trait removed from characters on death
• Updated difficulty descriptions

Bugs Fixed

• Tribe AI fixes
• Fixed city and culture limits not showing on Encyclopedia entries for relevant improvements
• Fixed uneven distribution of tribal unit types
• Fixed some bugs with AI use of missions
• Fixed converting a game to play-by-cloud not working when not your turn in Strict turnstyle
• Fixed missions continuing for dead target character
• Fixed camera focus on tile bug
• Fixed changing capital clearing sent luxuries
• Fixed modded asset bundles not loading in some cases
• Fixed load/save error from adjacent unit effects
• Fixed bug with AI exploring units trying to harvest when they cannot
• Fixed AI peace offers sometimes using the no events popup when events are enabled
• Fixed yield stockpiling ambitions being offered when close to already being completed
• Fixed duplicate event option archetype help text
• Fixed tribal camp events not resetting with Reset Random Seed on Load option enabled
• Fixed bug preventing DLC related hints being shown in Encyclopedia
• Fixed potential null reference in Map Editor
• Fixed some temporary invisibility issues
• Fixed audio tracks not always being listed in Main Menu audio options
• Fixed tribal units with a raid target counting towards a tribal camp’s defend threshold or raid start threshold
• Fixed AI not knowing how to repair improvements that cannot be built (e.g. Towns)
• Fixed edge case with Carthage3 African Invasion goal not completing
• Fixed iGovernorCostModifier applying to orders (affects Darius dynasty and mods)
• Fixed unbuildable units and tech cards showing on the tech tooltip (affects mods)
• Fixed mod version mismatch being displayed incorrectly, preventing modded saves from being loaded in some case
• Fixed foreign occurrence effects on units, movement and visibility not being applied immediately (Wrath of Gods)
• Fixed some occurrence load/save issues (Wrath of Gods)
• Fixed some non-global Occurrences showing as global in helptext (Wrath of Gods)
• Fixed Wrath of Gods scenario map size
• Fixed wrath from difficulty not being applied in the Wrath of Gods scenario
• Fixed displayed prosperity level not matching effect 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.