Headline changes

• Unit and tech tree rebalances
• AI will no longer found religions very early, before it is possible for players to do so
• Network code improvements
• Added player option Manual Bonus Placement

Design

• Crossbow strength reduced to 6 from 8
• Polybolos strength reduced to 8 from 10
• Windlass now requires Coinage instead of Manor
• Windmills require Windlass instead of Hydraulics. Watermills are still available at Hydraulics
• Free Court Soldier moved from Infantry Square to Stirrups
• Free Court Merchant moved from Chain Drive to Cartography
• Free Court Merchant moved from Fiscal Policy to Manor
• Free Longbowmen moved from Manor to Battle Line
• Free Horse Archer moved from Land Consolidation to Composite Bow
• AI no longer gets shrines and pastures for free as part of their initial development handicap, to prevent very early religion founding
• Judaism no longer requires Labor Force
• Lowered civics cost of Fisher, Trapper, Rancher, and Gardner specialists to match other rural specialists
• Schemer order buying now costs an extra Legitimacy point every time it’s used. Cost increase resets for each leader
• Kartir event triggers less often
• Game of the Week no longer varies city site numbers
• Slight rebalance to Gatherer cognomen line (Empires of the Indus)

Programming

• Network code improvements
• AI no longer skips laws and basic improvements in order to save for future Wonders
• AI pushes culture harder in its highest culture cities
• Non-raider tribe AI tweaked to keep them more focused on nearby targets
• Pathfinder tweak to prefer single tile paths whenever possible
• Border renderer and shader optimizations

UI

• Added player option Manual Bonus Placement. This skips the popup prompt when placing a bonus improvement from an event or city founding bonus
• Tribe sites now display both Next Unit turns and Development turns
• Road map pins now appear with the Contextual Map Tacks option enabled when Engineer units are selected
• Added tooltips to ping improvement dropdown
• Renamed ‘Exploring’ trait to ‘Traveling Afar’
• Adjustments to reduce blur on text displayed on world UI
• Reintroduced very simple lighting to the minimum detail level for standard shaders
• Removed random option from City Site Number options
• Added explanation to non-city site camp tile tooltips
• Improved helptext for General traits which aren’t valid for some units
• Worker positions with and without height overrides are no longer mutually exclusive
• Cities owned by Tribes or in Anarchy now show in the Timeline Screen
• When gifting, hiring, or recruiting a unit, the helptext specifies that the cooldown is for the unit (and not the action)
• Rendering layer cleanup
• Added rendering layer for minimum detail objects, which will always render to the timeline and minimap. This means minimum detail rivers will now always render in the timeline and minimap
• Removed “Reduce Animation Detail” option and replaced with “Disable Idle Animations”
• Occurrence end chance increment, current and minimum durations added to Occurrence helptext
• Changed color of unit health bar difference to green, when health is increasing (Zealot kill or heal action)
• Order movement now shows below yield preview
• Adjusted selection circle animation for tutorial
• Added some references to bonus UU techs to Tech Encyclopedia and Culture links (with advanced help)
• Forest and Jungle on Mountains are now partly hidden, for clarity
• Disabled Mirror Map option on Desolation & Ebbing Sea mapscripts (Wrath of Gods)
• Added description for Vassalize Tribe mission (Empires of the Indus)
• Added description to the Hinduism tooltip (Empires of the Indus)
• Edited World Religion concept to include Buddhism (Empires of the Indus)

Bugs Fixed

• Fixed unit banners being visible when they shouldn’t in some cases during hotseat games
• Fixed text outside of viewport bounds sometimes not clipping
• Fixed custom overlay icons not showing correctly on first opening
• Fixed barbarian widget sorting incorrectly with rivers
• Fixed barbarian widget cutting out the revealed-not-visible effect past the edges of the icon widget
• Fixed pathfinder avoiding ZOC tiles from unseen units
• Fixed color of requirements for adopting State Religion when you have no cities of that religion
• Fixed units getting temporarily rendered twice when upgrading
• Fixed AI sometimes moving its ranged siege units when it doesn’t need to
• Fixed characters getting randomly married if currently targeted by a marriage mission
• Fixed skull highlights for attack previews
• Fixed fog of war revealing the same tiles multiple times
• Fixed rivers not updating their appearance in sync with changes to terrain detail level
• Fixed world pins over vegetation having the shadowed outlines of vegetation drawn on top of them
• Fixed volcano effects sometimes not applying to mountains when the volcano is on the edge of the map or in MP games
• Fixed AI saying it will leave a city site and then not doing so
• Fixed Next Unit tooltip hitbox
• Fixed women being able to birth children from different fathers on the same turn
• Fixed player notification issue with occurrences
• Fixed prereqs for repeatable techs showing up in searches that bring them up
• Fixed non-urban city sites in Donut map script
• Fixed lakes sometimes being placed next to ocean
• Fixed worker particles turning pink when a worker is selected in some cases
• Fixed Trade Network overlay getting locked on after building roads
• Fixed bug that allowed very small islands to count as connected to a continent for player start placement purposes
• Fixed Tumbling Mountain script creating occasional gaps in the mountain
• Fixed hotkeys getting evaluated multiple times per frame
• Fixed null reference in tech tree search
• Fixed bonus card search issue
• Fixed a bug with AI evaluation of city effects that give Legitimacy, should build Kushite Pyramids more urgently now
• Fixed floating text produced by combat causing visual issues with fog of war
• Fixed pathfinder path simplification bug
• Fixed pathfinder not updating correctly when a unit receives a new effect or loses an existing one
• Fixed map editor null reference
• Fixed Ask to Declare War mission (tribe) having no effect in No Events mode
• Fixed Traits added or removed by Occurrences intermittently not working on Semester/Season turn styles
• Fixed tribe AI sometimes not moving
• Fixed improvement yields from adjacent improvements that belong to a different team
• Fixed minimum detail rivers not showing when initially loading a game with minimum settings
• Fixed blocky rivers on minimum terrain detail in some scenarios
• Fixed tribe widget upgrade timer text cutting box out of clouds
• Fixed inconsistent capitalisation in DLC names
• Game Editor UI fixes
• Fixed Jerwan Aqueduct flickering between turns (Wonders and Dynasties)
• Fixed Rejuvenation replacing Trees with Scrub (Wrath of Gods)
• Fixed hide vegetation not working during Calamities in some cases (Wrath of Gods)
• Fixed portrait interpolation issues with Hun portraits (Empires of the Indus)
• Fixed iTradeValueModifier not being reflected in Nation summary (affects mods only)
• 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.