Headline changes

• Changes to Religion founding requirements
• Improvements to Influence Mission events with negative outcomes
• Fixed memory leak

Design

• Christianity no longer has a tech requirement
• Manichaeism requires Metaphysics instead of Monasticism
• Tweaked Influence Mission events with negative outcomes to be better or rarer
• Tile buying costs increase slightly slower and more discretely
• Minor Cities now count as urban improvements (relevant for ambitions)
• Drought no longer creates sand tiles, minimum duration reduced from 3 to 2 turns (Wrath of Gods)
• DOTA mapscript now has a path width option (Empires of the Indus)
• DOTA mapscript Separating Terrain choice split into Inner and Outer Terrain, random option added (Empires of the Indus)

Programming

• Fixed memory leak caused by renderer per-frame allocations
• AI avoids building non-Settler growth units from cities that have zero citizens

UI

• Landmark discovery notification added even if popup is shown
• When a character mission (eg Imprison) can’t be started due to a blocking memory, turns left until the memory will be removed are now shown
• Updated law prerequisite event helptext to be clearer
• Trait effects on city effects are not listed in a neutral tile tooltip text unless the player has a character with that trait i.e. camp effect from the Butcher’s Mask
• Yields from military units in territory are always shown in help text, even if there is no military unit present i.e. Happiness from Walls
• Only player owned occurrence-affected tiles are listed in the turn summary. All visible tiles are still listed in the turn notifications
• Tribal Invasion bonus & concept helptext now mention that war will be declared as well
• Improvement pings are cleared when making tiles urban
• Points to victory no longer shown when points victory is inactive

Bugs Fixed

• Fixed Huns appearing near player starts
• Fixed units without harvest animations playing broken animations when cutting trees
• Fixed observer mode visibility after observed player surrender
• Fixed event predicates failing in Japanese and Chinese due to use of localized commas
• Fixed bug where wrong city is sometimes selected in bonuses
• Fixed lighting regression for standard shader
• Fixed dune display on Sand Hill tiles
• Fixed Hovel Ruins floor rendering incorrectly
• Fixed black circle in city widget religion list
• Fixed tech tree button behavior
• Fixed unit occlusion issues with city widget religion icons
• Fixed map editor null reference errors
• Fixed governor rating-affected yield showing wrong value if net yield is negative
• Fixed some color issues on events with ‘not’ requirements
• Fixed some help text for improvements in team territory
• Fixed settings indicating mirror map when that option is invalid for the map script
• Fixed FFA achievement triggering with 2 players
• Fixed Ruthless AI not taking Time Victory condition into account
• Fixed Buddhist/Hindu religious improvements being referenced in Tech helptext in Wrath of Gods scenario
• Fixed volcano occurrence not showing when it first appears in MP games (Wrath of Gods)
• Fixed Buddhist Disciple and Hindu Brahmin vision ranges (Empires of the Indus)
• Fixed invalid resource tiles on Indus Valley Duel premade map (Empires of the Indus)
• AI 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.