Battle Realms: Zen Edition News

The SM (Spectator Mode) and JM (Judge Mode) teams can now see Battle Gears and Techniques on Units, as well as training queues in combat buildings.

• We wanted to add Crypt/Keep into this too, as well as seeing techniques in the buildings, but at the moment the game really doesn't like the idea of having that happen.

• AI won't micro healers on medium and low difficulty profiles.
  
• Fixed a crash related to dismounting a horse and using the "Look Here" command.
  
• Fixed an issue with horse/rider damage sharing abilities that prevented some abilities from working correctly (i.e. Wolf Tower not slowing horses down, Stun Spear not affecting units on horses, Caltrops damaging riders instead of horses etc.)
  
• Game will now show the current key bind action if the player assigns a key that is already bound to a different action (thanks, Grubby!).
  
• Fixed Multiplayer lobby selection info not always showing correct data.
  
• Disabled key hold event in the game interface (holding keys forcing same key press event multiple times).
  
• Made allies nearby setting be considered only if there are actual teams with more than 1 player on them. That means players will always spawn randomly when playing 1vs1 or FFA games.
  
• Fixed an issue which denied combat units from training in buildings on fire.
  
• Fixed a 2001 bug that sometimes denied targeting enemy units that were queueing into training buildings.
  
• Fixed an issue where Pack Wolves did not always respond to owner's combat state (if owner is on passiveness wolves will be on passiveness as well).
  
• [UnitAI] Units will not prioritize attacking Lotus Brothers over other combat units.
  
• Restored AI behavior on some of the campaign missions to make them more fair.
  
• Fixed an issue where the attack cursor showed for Wolf Units when targeting allied horses (and allowed attacking them).
  
• Fixed an issue that made peasants stack resource at the same hut due to distance calculatioins. Peasants will now distribute resources evenly among huts.
  
• Fixed an issue that made units stack in each other when attacking buildings on Stand Ground order.
  
• Allied player abilities that harm units will not trigger combat alerts (i.e. Dark Pact, Budo's Whip).
  

UNIT TRAINING TIME

HITPOINTS & STAMINA

• All melee units spend less stamina when running, including horses and wild wolves.
  
• Units will now regenerate stamina and health when walking. The recovery rate is 50% slower than idling.
  
• Limping units (red health) will not recover unless they idle until their health bar becomes yellow.
  
• Red health units on a horse will recover health if the horse walks.
  

SIEGE SYSTEM

• All buildings will equally take 100% damage from any incoming attack. Armor Multipliers no longer apply to buildings.
  
• Techniques that provide Siege will now return to their previous iterations or remade to provide a different effect (i.e. Serpent Cannoneer’s Steel Cannonballs).
  
• Techniques that increase damage will NOT increase damage against buildings. Units only.
  
• All units' damage against buildings has been revised. It is somewhat of a middle ground between what you saw in the original and previous version of ZE (1.58.1). You would still need Siege units to effectively dispose of enemy structures.
  

BUILDINGS

• Dragon Watchtower Stun is now 6 ticks (vanilla value).
  
• Serpent Watchtower Blind is 15 ticks (vanilla value).
  
• Wolf Watchtower Slowdown is 15 ticks (vanilla value).
  
• Lotus tower damage 50 explosive / 50 magic (vanilla value is 60 explo/50 magic).
  

HORSES

• Horses will take 125% damage from piercing attacks and 100% damage from the rest.
  
• Horses HitPoints reduced from 400 to 350.
  

Dragon Clan

• Spearman Magic AM increased from 1 to 1,25 (Takes 125% damage from magic attacks).
  
• Chemist innate duration increased from 10 to 15 ticks.
  
• Chemist Starburst Rocket will be a single projectile (instead of 1 + 3 cluster rockets). We had to remove the functionality introduced in 1.58.1 due to its unpredictability. The projectile itself will also be less powerful.
  
• Archer Fire Arrows charges decreased from 15 to 10.
  
• PK Indirect Fire LoS reduction removed to avoid iffyness in PK behavior (until we come up with a better BG idea).
  
• Kabuki Stardust duration is 15 ticks (20 previously).
  
• Concussion Smash Explosive damage decreased from 60 to 40.
  
• Guardian’s Concussion Smash’s stun effect will no longer stack indefinitely.
  
• Guardian Cutting AM increased from 0,5 to 1,25 (takes 125% damage from cutting).
  
• Guardian Magic AM decreased from 1,5 to 0,75 (takes 75% damage from magic).
  
• Last Stand state increases Guardian attack speed by 20% and damage by 50%. Drain rate decreased from 8 to 6.
  

Serpent Clan

• Cannoneer’s default projectile is a new projectile called “Stoneball” which flies at a slow speed and hits 1 target only.
  
• The “Steel Cannonballs” technique replaces Cannoneer’s default projectile by Steel Cannonballs, which travel faster and hit multiple targets in a row (basically what Serpent Cannoneer used to be before).
  
• Restored default Cannoneer Mine functionality. We had no choice but to do this since the new functionality caused unexpected bugs for units on horses. Unfortunately, we were unable to find a way to fix it.
  
• Cannoneer’s “Steel Cannonball” projectile speed reduced from 15 to 13.
  
• Cannoneer's Mines Area of Effect changed from 4 to 2.
  
• Cannoneer's Smoke Duration decreased from 20 ticks to 15.
  
• Swordsman's Glass Sword will not kill undead creatures (Zombies, Spirit Warriors, Shamblers).
  
• Poisoned Weapons technique Yin cost decreased from 4 to 3.
  
• Crossbowman FatigueRecovery decreased from 6,25 to 5.
  
• Crossbowman StaminaWhenRunning increased from 1,25 to 2,5.
  
• Crossbowman’s Phosphorus Bolt LoS value increased from 11 to 12.
  
• Rebalanced Vetkin's Running stats a bit. He will have limited running potential.
  
• Musketeer’s base damage increased from 25 to 27,5
  
• Musketeer’s Sniper Scope damage increased from 25 to 27,5
  
• Musketeer’s movement speed decreased by 5%.
  
• Musketeer’s Sniper Scope movement speed increased 10%.
  
• Dark Pact duration reduced from 60 to 30 ticks.
  
• Bandit’s Paralysis Darts amount decreased from 6 to 4.
  
• Ronin Explosive AM increased from 1,5 to 1,75 (takes 175% damage vs explosive).
  
• Ronin Blunt AM decreased from 0,5 to 1 (takes 100% damage vs blunt).
  
• Ronin Cutting AM increased from 0,25 to 0,5 (takes 50% damage vs cutting).
  
• Ronin Magic AM decreased from 1,75 to 0,5 (takes 50% damage from magic).
  
• Ronin base damage increased from 25 to 30 (Yin Swords remain unchanged).
  
• Ronin's Cursed Swords AoE increased from 6 to 8 (legacy value).
  
• Glass Sword will no longer kill a Swordsman with full hp (even without technique).
  
• Glass Sword is 1 time use.
  
• Enforcer's default movement speed increased 10%.
  
• Enforcer's Hobnailed boots increase his missile avoidance from 0 to 3.
  
• Enforcer's Low Blow will now dismount units from horses.
  
• Enforcer's Low Blow will deal 80 units of blunt damage. Will not slow units down, but will stun them for 5 ticks.
  
• Utara now deals poison damage (5 damage / 5 ticks).
  
• Utara's stamina damage on hit removed.
  
• Budo's Whip ability affects all clans' peasants.
  
• Budo's Whip allied damage decreased from 40 to 30.
  
• Vetkin's damage increased from 12 to 16.
  
• Taro's damage increased from 17,5 to 20.
  
• Necromancer's attack increased from 15 to 18.

Wolf Clan

• Fixed an oversight that allowed Pitch Slinger's Scorched Earth to deal double damage with his mines.
  
• Wolves’ Den max. Wolf capacity increased from 8 to 12.
  
• Pack Master will only be able to get 2 wolves maximum.
  
• Wildeye's damage increased from 12 to 18.
  
• Gaihla's damage type changed back from Magic to Cutting.
  
• Gaihla's active Healing ability will now cost 20 stamina to activate.
  
• Druid and Dryad entanglement will no longer completely stun units. It will only immobilize and prevent them from using their active abilities.
  
• Druid’s base range damage decreased from 14 to 12,5 (legacy value)
  
• Dryad damage decreased from 23 to 20.
  
• Scorched Earth mines total placed amount increased from 16 to 20.
  
• Mauler’s base damage decreased from 15 to 14.
  
• Added 10 Stamina Activation Cost on Mauler’s Wrecking Ball BG.
  

Lotus Clan

• [Dark Canopy] Pitch Slinger's Scorched Earth will not penetrate Lotus Adept's Dark Canopy. Unclean One's Death Sentry and Warlock's Soul Chill will do that on the other hand.
  
  
• The Three Brothers will be put on a 30 tick cooldown when they are defeated akin to heroes in the Keep.
  
• The Three Brothers will grow stronger with Yin points like Zen Masters (10% per 1 Yin).
  
• Lotus Peasant hitpoints increased from 135 to 150 (equal to other clans’ peasants).
  
• Lotus Brothers will not be killed by Serpent Swordsman's Glass Sword but will be killed by Wolf Brawler's Zen Punch.
  
• Melee Brothers (Lythis and Tausil) hitpoints decreased from 400 to 375.
  
  
• Staff Adept's Dark Canopy will now cost 10 Stamina to activate.
  
• Staff Adept will be Siege by default.
  
• Staff Adept’s Iron Staves (damage) technique effect increased from 1,2 to 1,3 (vanilla value).
  
• Leaf Disciple Melee Counterstrike innate damage decreased from 5 to 2,5.
  
• Leaf Disciple Melee Counterstrike damage type changed from Magic to Piercing.
  
• Fixed an issue with previously incorrectly set fatigue recovery rate for Leaf Disciple (decreased from 3,75 to 2,5).
  
• Blade Acolyte speed decreased by 5%.
  
• Blade Acolyte base damage decreased from 15 to 14.
  
• Diseased One’s base damage reduced from 15 to 14.
  
• Warlock Stamina Siphon range decreased.
  
• Warlock's Siphon will work on any Lotus unit with the exception of Brothers and Heroes (not just T2).
  
• Warlock Dark Arson damage decreased 200 to 150.
  
• Warlock Ready Attack Animation fixed.
  
• Warlock Soul Chill range increased from 5 to 6.
  
• Warlock Soul Chill damage increased from 60 to 70.
  
• Yvaine's Ice Prison Stamina Cost decreased from 75 to 60.
  
• Yvaine's Ice Prison Duration decreased from 10 to 6 ticks.
  
• Infested One will regenerate health to 100%.
  
• Infested One will regenerate health twice as fast (like Wolf units).
  
• Infested One Fire AM changed from 0,25 to 1 (Will take 100% damage from Fire).
  
• Infested One Blunt AM changed from 0,25 to 0,5 (Will take 50% damage from Blunt attacks).
  
• Infested One Explosive AM changed from 1 to 0,75 (Will take 75% damage from Explosive attacks).
  
• Infested One Cutting AM changed from 1,25 to 1,5 (Will take 150% damage from Cutting attacks).
  
• Infested One Famine becomes a targetable ranged ability, range is equal to Kabuki Star Dust.
  
• Stamina Cost changed from 60 to 40.
  
• Koril's damage increased from 20 to 25.
  
• Soban's damage increased from 15 to 20.
  
• Zymeth receives his own weapon and projectile entries.
  
• Zymeth damage increased from 17 to 27.
  
• Zymeth is now Siege.
  
• Unclean Death Sentry LoS value increased from 8 to 12 (this gear will scout the area around better).
  
• Unclean Death Sentry will no longer cause horses to rear-up/dismount units.
  

Starting Army -> Starting Peasants

VFX

• Fixed weapon impact SFX/VFX issues regarding Spirit Warriors when hitting Lotus/Wolf buildings.
  
• Enhanced “Strong Explosive” VFX to reduce visual clutter.
  
• Enhanced “Strong Magic” VFX to make it a bit more visible.
  
• Added new Impact VFX for Cannoneer’s “Stone Cannonballs”.
  
• Projectile VFX and SFX fixes for Hurler's default Rock.
  
• Increase VFX uptime for Unclean One's Spreading Goo.
  
• Restored and enhanced Guardian's Last Stand SFX.
  
• Fixed and enhanced Guardian's Last Stand VFX.
  
• Increased visibility for Mauler’s Wrecking Ball VFX.
  
• Changed color/visibility for Leaf Disciple’s Counterstrike (to also denote the change from magic to piercing damage).
  
• Restored and revised Ronin’s Cursed Swords VFX (after death effect/innate ability).
  
• Fixed WorldMaster VFX: Dust_Cliff.lfx and Volcanic_Vent.lfx not looping
  

Crescent Island is an XS map for quick 1vs1 games.

The distinct feature of this map is that it has unique trees previously seen only in the campaign and only in the "Dragon's Spire" mission. You will also be able to find the White Wolf Skull Totem in there.

We hope you like it, and some action-packed skirmishes happen on it! Let us know if it can be improved further down in the comments.

The ZE version of Great Divide features:
- 2 more river crossing at the top and the bottom (center river).
- 3 more forest spots near the river crossings,
- Updated humidity settings (rain is now possible)
- Updated lighting and fog of war.

Added a map by Toki that was created specifically with our team's wishes in mind. You might've played the original V1 version of this, but V2 is the one that is now in BR:ZE. :)

- Both horse spawns have been moved into the middle of the map.

- Recalculated lighting.
- Updated tree shadows.
- Fixed player spawn points (no more spawning 1 peasant on the hill and 1 below).
- Fixed the incorrectly working horse spawn in the south-eastern region.

- Replaced with updated WOTW retail version - Winter Cataclysm

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[h3]Last Updated: April 25, 2023[/h3]

[h3]What's New:[/h3]
Any fresh changes will be posted here

The SM and JM modes can now see the Battle Gears and Techniques on Units, as well as the training queues in combat buildings.

• We wanted to add Crypt/Keep into this too, as well as seeing techniques in the buildings, but at the moment the game really doesn't like the idea of having that happen.

• Open your game library in the Steam Client.
  
• Select Battle Realms Zen Edition from the list of your games.
  
• Right click on the game and choose "Properties".
  
• In the newly opened window, navigate to BETAS tab.
  
• From the dropdown list, select the branch that says "BETA".
  
• Don't forget to update the game in Steam after that.
  
  Notice:
• In order to opt into the current release version (opt out of beta), repeat the same process, but select "None" instead of "BETA".
  

• Game will now show the current key bind action if the player assigns a key that is already bound to a different action (thanks, Grubby!).
  
• Fixed lobby selection info not always showing correct data.
  
• Friendlies' abilities harming players' units (like Budo's whip) will no longer trigger combat alerts.
  
• This time finally fixed range units stacking when ordered to attack buildings while on stand ground.
  
• Disabled key hold event in the game interface (holding keys forcing same key press event multiple times).
  
• Made allies nearby setting be considered only if there are actual teams with more than 1 player on them. That means players will always spawn randomly when playing 1vs1 or FFA games.
  
• Fixed an issue which denied combat units from training in buildings on fire.
  
• Fixed pack wolves not responding to owner's combat state (if owner is on passiveness wolves will be on passiveness as well).
  

• [h3]All melee units spend less stamina when running, including horses and wild wolves. The value is roughly 20-25%[/h3]
  
• [h3]Units will now regenerate stamina and health when walking. The rate is 50% slower than idling.[/h3]
  

Starting Army -> Starting Peasants

Buildings

[h3]Town Squares of all clans will only unlock 1 tower instead of 2 previously.
Total amount of towers that can be built are now 3:

• 1st is available with the first Peasant Hut.
  
• 2nd with the Town Square.
  
• 3rd with the Keep.

[/h3]

VFX/SFX

• Fixed weapon impact SFX/VFX issues regarding Spirit Warriors when hitting Lotus/Wolf buildings.
  
• Fixed some Worldmaster Map effects that were not looping correctly:
  - Dust_Cliff.lfx
  - Steam.lfx
  - Volcanic_Vent.lfx
  
• Projectile VFX and SFX fixes for Hurler's default Rock.
  
• Enhanced Master Warlock Speech FX.
  
• Increased VFX uptime for Unclean One's Spreading Goo.
  
  
• Restored and enhanced Guardian's Last Stand SFX.
  
• Fixed and enhanced Guardian's Last Stand VFX.

Dragon Clan

• Spearman's Magic AM increased from 1 to 1,25 (Takes 125% damage from magic attacks).
  
• Archer's Blunt AM increased from 0,75 to 1 (Takes 100% damage from blunt attacks).
  
• Archer's Fire Arrows charges decreased from 15 to 10.
  
  
• Powder Keg's Indirect Fire will no longer reduce his Line of Sight.
  
• Power Keg's Shrapnel Keg cost decreased from 50 rice / 50 water to 40 rice / 20 water.
  
  
• Kabuki's Stardust duration decreased from 20 ticks to 15.
  
  
• Guardian's Concussion Smash Explosive damage decreased from 60 to 40.
  
• Guardian's Cutting AM increased from 0,5 to 1,25 (takes 125% damage from cutting).
  
• Guardian's Magic AM decreased from 1,5 to 0,75 (takes 75% damage from magic).
  
  
• Guardian's Last Stand state now increases Guardian attack speed by 20% and damage by 50%.
  
• Guardian's Last Stand Drain rate decreased from 8 to 6
  
  
• Samurai's Seppuku range decreased from 5 to 4.
  
• Chemist's innate duration increased from 10 to 15 ticks.
  
• Chemist's is now excluded from Calisthenics (HP Technique).
  

Serpent Clan

[h3]Restored default Cannoneer Mine functionality. We had no choice but to do this since the new functionality caused unexpected bugs for units on horses. We were unable to find a way to fix it unfortunately.[/h3]

• Cannoneer's Mines Area of Effect changed from 4 to 2.
  
• Cannoneer's Smoke Duration decreased from 20 ticks to 15.
  
  
• Crossbowman's FatigueRecovery decreased from 6,25 to 5.
  
• Crossbowman's StaminaWhenRunning increased from 1,25 to 2,5.
  
• Crossbowman's Blunt AM increased from 0,5 to 1 (Takes 100% damage from blunt attacks).
  
• Crossbowman's Phosphorous Bolt Line Of Sight value increased from 11 to 12.
  
  
• Fan Geisha's Dark Pact duration reduced from 60 to 30 ticks.
  
  
• Muskteer's Sniper Scope cost decreased from 50 rice / 50 water to 40 rice / 20 water.
  
  
• Ronin's Explosive AM increased from 1,5 to 1,75 (takes 175% damage vs explosive).
  
• Ronin's Blunt AM decreased from 0,5 to 1 (takes 100% damage vs blunt).
  
• Ronin's Cutting AM increased from 0,25 to 0,5 (takes 50% damage vs cutting).
  
• Ronin's Magic AM decreased from 1,75 to 0,5 (takes 50% damage from magic).
  
• Ronin's base damage increased from 25 to 30 (Yin Swords remain unchanged).
  
• Ronin's Cursed Swords AoE increased from 6 to 8 (legacy value).
  
  
• Swordsman's Glass Sword will no longer kill a Swordsman with full hp (even without technique).
  
• Swordsman's Glass Sword is 1 time use.
  
  
• Enforcer becomes a Siege unit.
  
• Enforcer's default movement speed increased 10%.
  
• Enforcer's Hobnailed boots increase his missile avoidance (higher chance for projectiles to miss).
  
• Enforcer's Low Blow will now dismount units from horses.
  
• Enforcer's Low Blow will damage enemy stamina 40%.
  
• Enforcer's Low Blow will deal 80 units of blunt damge. Will not slow units down, but will stun them for 5 ticks.
  
  
• Vetkin will spend more Stamina when running.
  
• Vetkin's damage increased from 12 to 18.
  
  
• Utara now deals poison damage (5 damage / 5 ticks).
  
• Utara's stamina damage on hit removed.
  
  
• Budo's Whip ability affects all clans' peasants.
  
  
• Budo's damage increased from 15 to 25.
  
  
• Taro's damage increased from 17,5 to 20.
  
• Necromancer's attack increased from 15 to 18.
  

Wolf Clan

• Druid and Dryad entanglement will no longer completely stun units. It will only immobilize and prevent them from using their active abilities.
  
• Wolf Druid and Dryad entanglement duration is decreased from 5 ticks to 3,5 ticks.
  
• Wolf Dryad damage decreased from 23 to 20.
  
• Druid missile damage reduced from 14 to 13.
  
  
• Pack Master will only be able to get 2 wolves maximum.
  
• Wolves' Den capacity extended from 8 to 12 wolves (equivalent of 6 horses in other clans' stables).
  
  
• Pitch Slinger Scorched Earth AoE reduced from 3 to 2.
  
• Pitch Slinger Scorched Earth damage decreased 60 to 50.
  
  
• Scorched Earth mines total placed amount increased from 16 to 20.
  
  
• Gaihla's damage type changed back from Magic to Cutting.
  
• Gaihla's active Healing ability will now cost 20 stamina to activate.
  
  
• Wildeye's damage increased from 12 to 20.
  

Lotus Clan

• Lotus Brothers will grow stronger with Yin points like Zen Masters (10% per 1 Yin).
  
  
• Staff Adept's Dark Canopy will now cost 10 Stamina to activate.
  
• Leaf Disciple Melee Counterstrike innate damage decreased from 5 to 3.
  
  
• Warlock Ready Up Animation fixed.
  
• Warlock Dark Arson damage increased to 150.
  
• Warlock Stamina Siphon range decreased.
  
• Warlock's Siphon will work on any Lotus unit (not just T2; excluding Brothers).
  
• Warlock Soul Chill range increased from 5 to 6.
  
• Warlock Soul Chill damage increased from 60 to 70.
  
• Warlock Soul Chill will penetrate enemy Staff Adept's Dark Canopy.
  
  
• Unclean One's Siege reduced from 1,75 to 1,25.
  
• Unclean One's Goo will decrease unit attack/gather/build animations speed by 10%.
  
• Unclean One's Death sentry Line of Sight value increased from 8 to 12 (this gear will scout area around better).
  
• Unclean One's Death Sentry will now penetrate enemy Staff Adept's Dark Canopy.
  
  
• Lotus Infested One can no longer be healed.
  
• Lotus Infested One will regenerate health to 100%.
  
• Lotus Infested One will regenerate health twice as fast (like Wolf units).
  
• Lotus Infested One Fire AM changed from 0,25 to 1 (Will take 100% damage from Fire).
  
• Lotus Infested One Blunt AM changed from 0,25 to 0,5 (Will take 50% damage from Blunt attacks).
  
• Lotus Infested One Explosive AM changed from 1 to 0,75 (Will take 75% damage from Explosive attacks).
  
• Lotus Infested One Cutting AM changed from 1,25 to 1,5 (Will take 150% damage from Cutting attacks).
  
  
• Lotus Infested One Famine becomes a targetable ranged ability, range is equal to Kabuki Star Dust.
  
• Stamina Cost changed from 60 to 40.
  
  
• Yvaine's Ice Prison Stamina Cost decreased from 75 to 60.
  
• Yvaine's Ice Prison Duration decreased from 10 to 6 ticks.
  
  
• Koril's damage increased from 20 to 25.
  
• Soban's damage increased from 15 to 20.
  
  
• Issyl haste will increase unit attack/gather/build animations speed by 10%
  
  
• Zymeth receives his own weapon and projectile entries.
  
• Zymeth damage increased from 17 to 28.
  
• Zymeth is now Siege.

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• Rewritten all joining code to cover more P2P issues and address more scenarios.
  
• Lobby will now tell the name of players attempting to join.
  
• Fixed the native map transfer feature.
  
  
• Moving boulders won't be valid attackable targets anymore.
  
• Boulders will now stop early at low speeds instead of endlessly moving.
  
  
• High end AI profiles may use boulders now.
  
• High end AI profiles may dodge rolling boulders.
  
  
• Restored AI escape functionality that allowed them to run to other rice fields when they couldn't defend their own base (Skirmish only).
  
  
• Enemy BGs like Unclean's Death Sentry will trigger combat alerts if they harm players' units.
  
• Fixed units casting spells (geishas, druidesses, etc..) to targets at ranges longer than expected.
  
  
• Fixed a bug that made players see the "invalid target" cursor when hovering over hostless trained horse while having both unmounted and mounted units in the same selection.
  
  
• Fixed missile and hybrid units looping reloading animations quickly.
  
• Fixed a bug where siege units would run into melee when player commanded to attack to a unit behind a friendly building.
  
• Fixed a bug where AI units swapped targets endlessly when trying to engage watchtowers.
  

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• Fixed miscellaneous issues caused by Guard order.
  
• Applied small adjustments regarding the animation fix to avoid breaking unit animations in campaign cinematics.
  
• Fixed some issues with setting rally points on Wolf buildings.
  
• Fixed a number of campaign missions revealing units where it shouldn't happen.
  
• Made Skirmish game modes prioritize the player profile over the default one.
  
• Made snow render in 16:9 aspect ratio.
  

- AI started bypassing previously set limitations in general.

- Nightvol AI, who is your opponent if you play the campaign on 'Hard' decided to be extra frisky.

- Changing difficulty from Hard to Normal or Easy didn't help.

- Siege, as a cherry on top, added a heap of tediousness to some of the campaign missions.

- Most of the original campaign functionality is brought back with its limitations intact.

- "Hard" difficulty of the campaign will be more forgiving.

- Changing difficulty to Normal or Easy works as it's meant to be.

- Necromancer's Spirit Warriors, Kenji and Otomo are Siege units to aid with the initial missions of Kenji's Journey. Siege overall is a tad more forgiving for non-siege units.

• Updated Skirmish [ZE] Maps (minor changes and lighting).
  
• Fixed Kenji 2 and 3 Dragon and Serpent portrait variations (Dark Red portrait for "Evil Kenji", Light Yellow for "Good Kenji")
  
• Fixed Lotus Channeler "Unit Selected/Ready Up" animation that never played since 2001 unless she had ravens with her.
  
  
• Fixed a bug that prevented units from properly cycling their idle animations if a save game had been loaded. Previously they would loop the last animation they had used.
  
• Fixed a bug that prevented missile units from properly cycling their animations after missile attacks. Previously they would loop the last animation they had used. You would often see a small stutter in the animations which meant the animation was prevented from being played. This prevented many units from properly utilizing their innate abilities (i.e., Chemist's Healing Herbs, Kabuki's Orb Juggling, Powder Keg's Salting the Ground).
  
  
• Secondary projectiles emitted from primary projectiles (i.e. Pitch Slinger) will no longer take unit's base weapon damage and instead read their dedicated weapon entry.
  
• Added 1280x800 resolution.
  
• Restored most of campaign levels' former functionality.
  
• Fixed certain battle gears applying damage multiple times to mounted units and horses.
  
• Fixed wrong AI usage of Lotus Warlock's Stamina Siphon usage.
  
• Fixed a visual bug that would have BGs shown as active whenever a unit with an active BG (like Sniper Scope) entered a WT and then exited.
  
• Fixed a bug that had units occasionally stuck when trying to mount a horse in narrow spaces or map edges.
  
• Zymeth will now cast lightning strikes on nearby enemies when activating his Battle Gear.
  
• Fixed some buildings and other structures showing wrong VFX when they get destroyed.
  
• UnitAI will exclude peasants from being prioritized over military units, this won't apply to easy AI profiles.
  
• Improved player reveal algorithm: it will no longer reveal players under specific scenarios like in some of the campaign levels.
  
• Units will now properly calculate range/direction when casting spells, they will also follow their targets if they reposition. For example, previously Lotus Brothers would proceed to cast their Dark Blessing even if their targets got out of range, they would also proceed to cast the spell while misplaced or facing wrong direction. This should work correctly now.
  
• Fixed a bug that caused horse to rear up from damage sources that didn't actually affect them i.e., being shot while protected by Dark Canopy.
  
• Fixed force repair cursor on neutral buildings not going opaque when it should.
  
• Fixed UI showing some BGs as active when they weren't.
  
• All Heroes and Lotus Brothers will be considered to be from the same "unit category" meaning double-clicking or ctrl-clicking on one hero will select all heroes.
  
• Lotus Brothers' speed won't be considered in pathing groups therefore the overall group speed will not equalize to their speed when moving.
  
• Game will no longer consider wild animals as allies/enemies on double-clicking or ctrl-clicking.
  
• Added additional text to unit tooltips next to units' name, indicating whether a unit is siege or not.
  
• Added a warning popup when setting or having already set the game difficulty to Hard.
  

[h3]Siege Changes[/h3]

[h3]Due to secondary projectiles emission fixes, Pitch Slinger and Chemist's Starburst BG needed rebalancing:[/h3]

The Starburst Rocket explodes into 3 smaller rockets that are supposed to cover wider range. Due to how it had been previously implemented, it was near-impossible to see that, it looked like 1 rocket dealing huge damage.

Note: if the rocket impacts a building, all 4 rockets will immediately explode in it without flying off. The same applies to units.

[h3]General Unit Balancing[/h3]

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