Age of Wonders 4 News

• Added Ritual of Gloomveil
  
• This Spell grants all your Units Umbral Malady Immunity.
  
• This Spell is given by Umbral Dwellings and the Umbral Disciples Society Trait
  
• Updated text is not translated
  
• Units raised after combat will now receive ranks from the Wizard Tower upgrades and Astral Binding.
  
• Dark “Warlock” - Increased Weakening Bolts Frost damage from 8 to 10.
  

• Pushed a new iteration of the grammar engine along with grammar fixes for multiple issues in all languages.
  
• Fixed the “Cleansed” Achievement triggering whenever any player would build a Sanctuary Outpost. It now only triggers when you have built the Sanctuary Outpost
  

• Excluded the Umbral Abyss from Auto-Explore AI Behaviour
  
• Fixed an issue where the independent mission did not take into account that a city may change side.
  
• Fixed an issue where the AI would not construct Sanctuary Outpost as they were considered too far away.
  

• Fixed an issue where the Living Fog increased in size to be bigger than the Balor
  
• Fixed an issue where Elf-Reaver Tyrant Knights would break when affected by the Naga Transformation.
  
• Fixed an issue where the “Great Bombard” was affected by the Gloom Strider Major Transformation
  
• Fixed an issue where the Constrictor had a glitched Death Animation when affected by the Gloom Strider Transformation
  
• Fixed an issue where Ascended Eldritch Sovereigns would clip through the floor in Magehaven
  

• Fixed an issue where there were visible seams in one of the Umbral Abyss regions containing the other Fallen Tower Ancient Wonder.
  
• Umbral Seed Combat map has a more restricted camera now to stop the map’s edges from being easily visible.
  
• Fixed an issue in the Shadow Tear Combat map where the bridge over the gloom river was not walkable.
  

• Fixed an issue where the Infusion PFX where misplaced on the Godir Bow
  
• Fixed an issue where the Magical Wards minor transformation would not be visible on Mystic Potential Rulers
  
• Fixed an issue where the Ratkin Eyes would be removed when Awakened.
  
• Fixed an issue where the Legion of Zeal PFX would be in the ground for Afflictors.
  
• Fixed an issue where the Level Up PFX would not trigger when confirming a Hero Skill.
  

• Fixed an issue where the Production Cost of Mystic Capstone structures were too low.
  
• Fixed an issue where several spells did not receive an Overcharged effect
  
• Fixed an issue where Summon Summoning Rift was not considered a Hostile Action
  
• Fixed an issue where Summoning Rifts could not be Dismantled
  
• Fixed an issue where Cyphers of Dissonance applied to all Unit Types
  

• Fixed issues where the effects on Story Events (buttons) would sometimes not correctly handle the results of gaining/losing allegiance with an Umbral Dwelling when in the Umbral Pact stage.
  
• Fixed an issue where sometimes the effects of declaring a war would be falsely listed in a Story Event or one of the buttons in the event if it was not the Player that would be declaring the war.
  

• Fixed an issue where Mana Addicts would no longer give the Mana Addicts property to all your units.
  
• Fixed an issue where Empowered by Magic would not trigger if the unit first received Physical Damage.
  

• Fixed an issue where Cosmic Happening overview map markers would sometimes not be removed when the happening ends.
  
• Fixed an issue where Units with the Unit Enchantments that give Zeal of Faithful did not correctly get Angelic Potential and were condemned during the Dawn of the Lodestone Major Cosmic Happening.
  
• Fixed an issue where Astral Travel was still cast-able during the Phase Shift Nixing Cosmic Happening.
  
• Fixed an issue where the Call Blightfall Combat Enchantment could target friendly units, this now correctly only targets enemies.
  
• Fixed an issue where the Call Blightfall Combat Enchantment from the Blightfall Cosmic Happening did not inflict Diseased on targets.
  
• Fixed an issue where Call Blightfall could target friendly units.
  
• Fixed an issue with broken text inserts for the Call Arctic Blizzard Combat Enchantment from the Rays of Winter Cosmic Happening.
  
• Fixed an issue where there was an empty tooltip for the Wet status effects in Call Arctic Blizzard.
  
• Fixed an issue where Call Arctic Blizzards damage triggered on friendly units, this now only affects enemies.
  
• Fixed an issue with broken text inserts for the Call Blinding Sands Combat Enchantment from the Cosmic Winds Cosmic Happening.
  
• Fixed an issue where the Call Blinding Sands Combat Enchantment did not use the correct icon.
  
• Fixed an issue where the armies spawned by the Ravenous Visitants Cosmic Happening would not be removed when the Cosmic Happening Ends.
  
• Fixed an issue where the Immobilized effect from Invading Sylviculture was permanent.
  

• Changed that targeting of the Toll of Seasons to also include AI Players during Multiplayer games, in Single Player this was already the case.
  
• Fixed an issue where two additional flavor Narrative Events related to the Toll of Seasons would never show as part of the regular story flow.
  
• Fixed a crash that could occur in the Toll of Seasons due to a resource being incorrectly DLC locked.
  

• Fixed an issue where heroes in the crypt could not be inspected
  
• Fixed an issue where Reaver Culture Rulers could no longer use the intimidate option on Free Cities.
  
• Fixed an issue where in some languages the race name would display as red while there was no issue with this name.
  
• Fixed an issue where some settings would fall off the screen in the advanced setup while having the largest interface scale setting enabled.
  
• Fixed an issue where the teleporter button would show before the destination was revealed, or failed to show at all when there were multiple teleporters in one province.
  
• Fixed a crash that could occur when selecting a unit through the army panel and promoting it with Astral Echoes.
  
• Fixed a crash that could occur when you open the spellbook before a combat is resolved and then hover over an inspiration after the combat is resolved.
  
• Fixed an issue where remembered Transformations were removed from the Spellbook after a save/load cycle.
  
• Fixed an issue where Sanctuary Outpost income was included in the Outpost Header.
  
• Fixed an issue where the Faction selected after applying a filter remained displayed after pressing the "Random Faction" button
  
• Fixed an issue where the Faction would not show during the loading screen when the faction was randomly generated.
  

• Fixed an issue where controller prompts for the tabs in the army overview would not be shown on controller
  
• Fixed an issue where the first button in a story event screen would not be the default selection with a controller.
  
• Fixed an issue where the controller close prompt would be in the wrong location in the sector screen
  
• Fixed an issue where the sorting headers in the equipment list would not be reachable with a controller
  

• Fixed a crash that could occur when starting a game with mods that interact with Mystic Cultures
  
• Fixed a crash that could occur in faction creation when it failed to fill in the sliders correctly from modded data.
  
• Fixed a crash that could occur when alignment data wasn’t set up correctly from modded data.
  
• Fixed a crash that could occur when creating massive maps where it would go over the maximum province limit.
  

• A takeover involving both another client taking over the independents and a client controlling their own units and those of a friendly free city, will no longer break in multiple ways.
  
• Fixed a soft lock that would happen when two players trigger a takeover at the same time.
  
• Fixed Combat Takeover not properly triggering during Hotseat
  

• Fixed a rare case where the game got stuck in an infinite loop of out of syncs upon victory being achieved.
  
• Fixed an Out of Sync caused by a free city being occupied by a player.
  
• Fixed an Out of Sync related to city ruins assigning a side to districts.
  

• The sanctuary region now features a few more gold, food and mana nodes
  
• Removed the umbral spawner at the entrance of the Wizard's Story Region
  
• Slightly reduced the amount of mountains on the world map
  
• Slightly reduced the amount of Gloom on the world map
  
• Fixed an issue where there was a broken event image when the player reached a default victory
  

• Fixed that converted and routing units with umbral transformations did not count towards delaying Lithyl’s ritual.
  
• Fixed that player units with umbral transformations wrongly counted towards delaying Lithyl’s ritual when killed by players outside the umbral alliance.
  

• Fixed an issue where Consecrating Firestorm was not shown during Combat
  
• Fixed an issue where Consecrating Firestorm could not be cast in empty non-friendly provinces.
  
• Fixed an issue where Consecrating Firestorm could be cast in friendly provinces.
  
• Fixed an issue where Consecrating Firestorm could be cast in Ancient Wonder Provinces.
  

• Renamed the Rift Towers to Satiated Abductor Tower
  
• Fixed an issue where a Army on top of a Umbral Gate could not be attacked
  
• Fixed an issue where the Umbral Patrols were static and Dynamic Patrols would not spawn until turn 20.
  
• Fixed an issue where the Umbral Abyss Region with a Fallen Tower Ancient Wonder in it would not have a Beacon of Light
  

• Fixed a crash when an infestation tried to spawn a hero with the new subcultures
  
• Fixed an issue where releasing a city as a vassal would sometimes not spawn a new ruler for that city if it used to be a free city before and/or if its former ruler was recruited.
  
• Fixed an issue where the Tagfilters on Draft Structure Rank Bonuses were incorrect, resulting in several units not receiving their Rank Bonus correctly.
  
• Fixed an issue where the Wizard Tower: Teleportation Circle awarded +1 Rank to Magic Origin Units.
  
• Fixed an issue where the Shipwreck Pick Up was awarding too high reward sets.
  

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• Gain access to a new Thrall Resource and cast unique Ritual Spells & handle Events using their Eldritch might.
  
• Gain access to a powerful Sovereign Skill Tree that replaces the Warfare Skill Tree. Unique Minor & Major Specialization allow you to tap into the experience of being an Eldritch Ruler.
  
• Gain a unique piece of Equipment called a Relic, a base upkeep of 5 Mana and cannot equip Leg or Mount Items. They are considered Magic Origin Units with Floating World Map Movement and Slow Movement in Combat.
  

• 8 Achievements
  
• 6 New Music Tracks
  
• 5 New Premade Rulers
  
• New Realm Templates & Realm Traits
  
• Beetle & Death Beetle Mounts
  
• New Eldritch Interface Skin & Banner Emblems
  

• What can kill you in Umbral Abyss? Eldritch Realms overview pt.1 by ‪Fableheim‬
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• Unknown Realms can be started from the Realm Selection
  
  • Specific Trait Slots can be filled with Unknown Realms manually
• Unknown Realms/Traits are picked based on the chosen Complexity
  
• Unknown Traits are revealed as the Game progresses
  

• Default is Vassals Only
  
• Players Control the AI Units in separate Turns, so First Yourself, then AI Allies, then the opposing side.
  
• Spells from AI Allies can be cast if the Units belong to another Ruler
  
• Spells from AI Allies cannot be case if they belong to a Vassal or Independent Side
  

• The setting can be found in Advanced Setup > Combat > Multiplayer AI Takeover
  
• Default is On
  
• This settings forces Observe Manual Combat to Always
  
• Spells from AI Allies can be cast if the Units belong to another Ruler
  
• Spells from AI Allies cannot be case if they belong to a Vassal or Independent Side
  

• Changed from a Token to an resource Income
  
• Astral Echoes are gained through pickups as before, but are also gained by completing research.
  
• Astral Echoes are available to Mystic - School of Attunement and Mystic - School of Summoning, both schools use this resource in unique ways.
  

• World Map Gameplay “Echo Casting” - Use Astral Echoes to supplement casting points, letting you cast spells you lack the points for in tactical combat, and rush strategic spells as you would city production.
  
• Combat Gameplay “Starblades” - Now grants damage based on the affinity of the triggering spell.
  
  • Order - Radiant
    
  • Chaos - Fire
    
  • Astral - Lightning
    
  • Materium - Physical
    
  • Nature - Blight
    
  • Shadow - Frost
    
• New Hero Skill - “Overcharge Cast”
  
  • Replaces Combat Casting
    
  • Expert Battle Magic Skill
    
  • Grant your spells Overcharged for 1 turn
    
• Unit “Spellbreaker”
  
  • Attuned Cast - Changed from an Active Ability to a Passive
    
• New World Map Spell “Astral Divination”
  
  • Replaces “Cosmic Ablation”
    
  • Create & reveal new Astral Echoes in provinces near your Domain.
    
• City Structure “Altar of the All Seers” - Changed from +20 Mana/Knowledge income per Astral Echoes to +10 Astral Echo income

• World Map Gameplay “Arcane Inspiration” - Spells gain a Potential when first cast. This potential can be exploited once the spell has been used enough, locking it away for 10 turns.
  
  • Potential of Efficiency - Gain +10 x Spell Tier Mana per turn.
    
  • Potential of Advancement - Gain +10 x Spell Tier Knowledge per turn.
    
  • Potential of Gilding - Gain +10 x Spell Tier Gold per turn.
    
  • Potential of Manipulation - Gain +3 x Spell Tier Imperium per turn.
    
  • Potential of Growth - Gain +15 x Spell Tier Food in all cities per turn.
    
  • Potential of Control - Gain +10 x Spell Tier Stability in all cities.
    
  • Potential of Channeling - Gain +10 x Spell Tier Casting Points per turn.
    
  • Potential of Divination - Gain +3 x Spell Tier vision in all cities.
    
• Combat Gameplay “Arcane Weavers” - During Combat Spells are overcharged until cast the first time. When a spell is overcharged it gains a boost to its effectiveness based on its type:
  
  • Damage spells - +25% Damage
    
  • Healing spells - +25% Healing
    
  • Buff Spells - +2 Bolstered Resistance
    
  • Debuff Spells - +2 Sundered Resistance
    
  • Enchantment Spells - May cast +1 additional spell this turn.
    
  • Summon Spells - Gains +2 Strengthened
    
• Combat Gameplay “Dissonance” - Units inflict Dissonance with their attacks.
  
  • Deal 4 Lightning damage per stack when an overcharged spell is cast
    
  • Stacks up to 5 Times
    
• New Damage Type “Rift Damage” - Lightning & Frost Damage
  
• Unit “Spellshield” - Replaced Stunning Flash with Flash Freeze, inflicting Frost Damage and Frozen instead of Stunned.
  
• New Unit “Spellweaver” - Tier 3 Battlemage
  
  • Replaces the Spellbreaker
    
  • This unit specializes in supporting spellcasting, providing an overchannel, inflicting Dissonance and granting additional casting points over time in combat.
    
• New Hero Skills:
  
  • Sage Arcanist
    
    • Replaces “Resistance Training”
      
    • Novice Battle Magic Skill
      
    • Gain +10 Casting Points in combat
      
  • Ciphers of Dissonance
    
    • Replaces “Attunement: Star Blades”
      
    • Novice Battle Magic Skill
      
    • Base Magic attacks inflict Dissonance
      
  • Overcharge Cast
    
    • Replaces “Combat Casting”
      
    • Expert Battle Magic Skill
      
    • Grant your spells Overcharged for 1 turn
      
• New Spells
  
  • World Map Spell “Arcane Studies”
    
    • Replaces “Magic Shield”
      
    • Contributes +1 inspiration to a random spell’s Potential each turn.
      
    • -50% structure production income
      
  • Unit Enchantment “Ciphers of Dissonance”
    
    • Replaces “Attunement: Starblades”
      
    • Attacks gain 90% chance to inflict Dissonance
      
• New City Structure “Academy of Potential”
  
  • Replaces Altar of the All Seers
    
  • Grants +1 Inspiration to a random spell each turn
    
  • Recruited Battle Mage and Support units gain +1 Rank.
    
• New Special Province Improvement “Spell Arcanist Library”
  
  • Replaces “Mystic Abbey”
    
  • 10 knowledge income
    
  • +3 knowledge per adjacent Conduit or Research Post.
    
  • Counts as a Research Post
    

• World Map Gameplay “Echo Infusion” - Use Astral Echoes to empower your Magic Origin units. The cost of infusing a Magic Origin unit is based on the remaining XP required to rank up.
  
• Combat Gameplay “Astral Resonance” - Magic Origin Units gain Attunement: Astral Resonance, healing and empowering them when spells are cast.
  
  • When a friendly spell is cast, gain:
    
    • +10 Temp HP healing
      
    • +1 Strengthened for 3 turns
      
  • Combat Gameplay “Astral Connection” - Friendly Magic Origin Units in combat gain +5 Morale.
    
  • Damage Type “Lightning Damage”
    
  • New Unit “Summoner” - Tier 3 Support
    
    • Replaces the Spellbreaker
      
    • This unit is an extremely powerful support unit for its Magic Origin allies and has the ability to summon more of them.
      
  • New Unit “Astral Ward”
    
    • A stationary pylon structure that connects to a target friendly unit takes damage in their stead.
      
  • New Hero Skills
    
    • Spirit Summoning
      
      • Replaces “Attunement: Star Blades”
        
      • Adept Support Skill
        
      • Summon an Elemental spirit on the target hex based on the last spell cast by owner
        
    • Conjure Astral Ward
      
      • Replaces “Combat Casting”
        
      • Adept Support Skill
        
      • Summon an Astral Ward adjacent to the target friendly unit
        
    • Master Summoner
      
      • Replaces “Resistance Training”
        
      • Master Support Skill
        
      • Magic Origin units in this hero’s army gain +10 HP, +10% Damage and -10% upkeep.
        
  • New Spells
    
    • World Map Spell “Astral Divination”
      
      • Replaces “Cosmic Ablation”
        
      • Create & reveal new Astral Echoes in provinces near your Domain.
        
    • Combat Spell “Conjure Astral Ward”
      
      • Replaces “Magic Shield”
        
      • Summon an Astral Ward adjacent to the target friendly unit
        
    • World Map Spell “Summon Summoning Rift”
      
      • Replaces “Attunement: Starblades”
        
      • Create a Summoning Rift at target hex. Summoning spells may always target the Rift or adjacent hexes.
        
  • City Structure “Altar of the All Seers” - Changed from +20 Mana/Knowledge income per 5 Astral Echoes to +10 Astral Echo income
    
  • New Special Province Improvement “Astral Manalith”
    
    • Replaces “Mystic Abby”
      
    • +10 Mana Income
      
    • +5 Mana per adjacent Conduit or Research Post
      
    • Counts as Conduit
      

• Unit Recruitment is now tied to City Tier Structures.
  
  • Town Hall Tier 2 unlocks Tier 2 Units
    
  • Town Hall Tier 3 unlocks Tier 3 Units
    
  • Town Hall Tier 4 unlocks Tier 4/5 Units
    
• Unit Summoning is now tied to Wizard Tower Structures
  
  • Wizard’s Tower Level One:
    
    • Now unlocks the ability to cast spells that summon Tier 2 units on the World Map
      
    • Increased Costs from 200 Production, 100 Gold and 100 Mana to 300/150/150
      
    • Can now be boosted by having 5 population
      
  • Wizard’s Tower Level Two:
    
    • Now unlocks the ability to cast spells that summon Tier 3 units on the World Map
      
    • Now grants Tier 1 Magic Origin Units +1 Rank
      
    • Increased Costs from 300 Production, 200 Gold, 200 Mana to 400/250/250
      
    • Can now be boosted by having 10 population
      
  • Wizard’s Tower Apex:
    
    • Now unlocks the ability to cast spells that summon Tier 4 and 5 units on the World Map
      
    • Now grants Tier 1 & Tier 2 Magic Origin Units +1 Rank
      
    • Increased Costs from 400 Production, 300 Gold, 300 Mana to 550/400/400
      
    • Can now be boosted by having 16 population
      
• Unit Ranks have been reworked for all units. Units now obtain stats that make them competitive against units of higher tier as they gain ranks. At Elite and Legend rank units gain a stat boost that makes them equivalent to a unit that is a tier higher.
  
  • Soldier
    
    • +10 HP
      
  • Veteran
    
    • +10 HP
      
  • Elite
    
    • +10 HP
      
    • +10% Damage
      
    • +1 Armor
      
    • +1 Resist
      
  • Champion
    
    • +10 HP
      
    • Role passive (EG +1 Retaliation for Polearm)
      
  • Legend
    
    • +10 HP
      
    • +10% Damage
      
    • +1 Armor
      
    • +1 Resist
      
  • Evolve
    
    • Now requires Legendary rank
      
    • Units now require less XP to reach Legendary rank
      
    • The rank of recruited/summoned evolving units is now capped at Champion. It is therefore no longer possible to instantly evolve a new Unit.
      
  • Secondary summons have a separate Rank resource which means they gain +5 HP per rank
    
    • Astral Ward
      
    • War Hound
      
    • Flow Serpent
      
    • Fleshling
      
    • Splitterling
      
  • City Draft structures now grant bonus ranks to low tier units, reinforcing their relevance in the midgame.
    
    • City Structure “Mages’ Guild” - No longer gives +1 Rank to Support units.
      
    • City Structure “Blacksmith” - Now gives +1 Rank to Tier 1 units.
      
    • City Structure “Armory” - Now gives +1 Rank to Tier 1 and Tier 2 units.
      
    • City Structure “Smiths’ Guild” - Now gives +2 Ranks to Tier 1 and Tier 2 units.
      
  • Reviewed and Updated the Cost of recruiting units through the Rally of the Lieges
    
    • Tier II - Increased Cost from 75 to 80
      
    • Tier III - Increased Cost from 105 to 200
      
    • Tier IV - Increased Cost from 150 to 350
      
    • Tier V - Increased Cost from 225 to 600
      

• Empire Allied from 50 to 100
  
• Empire Vassalized from 50 to 100
  
• Conquered City from 25 to 50
  
• Gained level of Allegiance from 10 to 15
  
• Vassalized Free City from 50 to 100
  
• Cleared Ancient Wonder from 25 to 50
  
• Victory Bonus from 200 to 250
  

• Forged an Item
  
  • Tier I - 15 XP
    
  • Tier II - 20 XP
    
  • Tier III - 25 XP
    
  • Tier IV - 30 XP
    
• Completed a Bounty - 100 XP
  

• Lasher’s Sword and Shield
  
• Umbral Warrior’s Greataxe
  
• Umbral Direcaster’s Staff
  
• Demonslayer’s Bow
  

• Improved AI Movement Logic to reduce Split Stacking of Units
  
• Unit Composition Generator now understands how enchantments like “boon of the wolf” work.
  
• Unit Composition Generator now picks random subcultures for stacks instead of always using the default one.
  

• Hard AI
  
  • Changed additional Unit Ranks from +1 Rank for All Units to +1 Rank for Tier 1 and Tier 2 Units
    
• Very Hard AI
  
  • Changed additional Unit Ranks from +3 for All Units to:
    
    • +3 Ranks for Tier 1 and Tier 2 Units
      
    • +2 Ranks for Tier 3 Units
      
    • +1 Rank for Tier 4 and Tier 5 Units
      
• Independent Unit xp gain over gametime has been generally reduced, particularly for higher tiers.
  
  • Tier 1 - Reduced the chance per turn to gain XP from 66% to 60%
    
  • Tier 2
    
    • Increased the chance per turn to gain XP from 50% to 60%
      
    • Reduced the gained XP from 2 to 1
      
  • Tier 3
    
    • Reduced the chance per turn to gain XP from 66% to 65%
      
    • Reduced the gained XP from 2 to 1
      
  • Tier 4
    
    • Reduced the chance per turn to gain XP from 55% to 50%
      
    • Reduced the gained XP from 3 to 2
      
  • Tier 5
    
    • Increased the chance per turn to gain XP from 50% to 60%
      
    • Reduced the gained XP from 4 to 2
      

• AI is now less likely to cause collateral damage to its own units with AoE’s.
  
• AI will no longer stop using free buff/debuff abilities when it knows it’s losing.
  
• Lowered AI value of Bolstered/Sundered Resistance/Defense to prevent overvaluing.
  

• Added Combat Enchantment icons for Lightning Storm, Astral Storm, and Spell Jammer
  
• Updated Killing Momentum unit property & hero skill icons
  

• Added a new transition piece for Rivers in all Climes
  
• Added a new transition piece for when Astral Void is spawned next to ocean/rivers.
  
• Improved various Environment sets used by:
  
  • Fey-Blessed Fields/Endless Fields
    
  • Astral Deserts/Barren Oceans
    
  • Frozen Realm
    
  • Stormwreathed Isles/Hostile seas
    
  • Magic Victory Spells
    
• Tweaked the camera settings on the Hidden Wellspring Combat Map
  

• Improved the Lost Mage Ability VFX
  
• Improved Weapon Enchantment VFX
  

• Reworked music player to pick more relevant tracks based on:
  
  • Good / Evil Alignment
    
  • Early / Mid / Late Game Phase
    
  • War / Peace
    
  • Realm Traits
    
• Reworked the SFX system to better support Province Terraforming
  

• Archers can now destroy obstacles that have a new Flimsy tag.
  
• Flying Units that land when not moving (Most big dragons and racial units with Flying transformations) will now get wet when moving over water markers.
  
• If all your units die in battle, but your ally wins the battle, that will now be considered a victory instead of a defeat.
  
• Buff “Static Charge” - Now grants a 30% chance to apply Electrified to enemies.
  
• Debuff “Insanity” - Now prefers to target Allies
  

• Unit Passive “Cull the Weak”
  
  • Now applies to all Dark non-scout Units
    
  • Now grants Ranged and Magic base attacks a 90% chance to inflict Weakened.
    
  • No longer gives a stack of Regeneration and instead grants 10 Temporary HP once per turn, when attacking a Weakened unit with a Melee attack.
    
• Unit Enchantment “Brand of Wrath”
  
  • Now applies to Ranged, Battle Mage and Support Units as well

• Unit Passive “Focused Aggression”
  
  • Now grants only Ranged and Magic attacks +10% Damage per stack of Marked
    
  • Now grants Melee attacks a 60% chance to inflict Marked. Effects are increased for Single Attacks.
• Unit “Magelock”
  
  • Fire Heavy Magelock
    
    • Changed from a Full Action to a Single Action
      
    • Reduced base accuracy from 90% to 60%
      
    • Reduced damage from 36 to 34
      
    • Now has Breaching
      
  • Take Aim
    
    • Changed from a Single Action to a Full Action Continue
      
    • No longer applies Marked, instead granting 80% accuracy for 1 Turn or on the next attack.
      
• Unit “Magelock Cannon”
  
  • “Fire Cannon” - Now has Piercing and Breaching
    
• Unit “Dragoon”
  
  • Harrying Shot
    
    • No longer has a cooldown
      
    • Now has Breaching

• Improved generation of Spirit Dens
  
  • Better distribution of Spirit Dens when there are multiple Primal players on the map.
    
  • Better distribution of Spirit Dens to be closer to Gameplay Spaces
    
  • Better distribution of Spirit Dens to for players so players will encounter them more frequently and closer to their starting Position
    
• Unit “Spirit Tracker”
  
  • Spirit Finder - Increased Sense Range bonus from +3 to +6 to help locate Spirit Dens
    
  • Spirit Finder - Can now sensed Spirit Dens through diggable earth
    
• Unit “Animist”
  
  • Summon Primal Spirit - Now can only be used Once Per Battle

• The vassalage trade option is now increased in value, but the underlying treaties gained from the vassalage no longer have any value so the AI will no longer ask for anything in return for those when becoming a vassal.
  
• Bounties that fail because the player that made the bounty has made peace with the target player or city will now explain this in the bounty failed panel.
  
• Added support for Bounties to target Infestations.
  

• Rebalanced the Population Growth to better align with the intended speed/experience
  
• City Structure “Farmers’ Guild” - Now also gives +30% Food income.
  
• City Structure “Workers’ Guild” - Now also gives +30 Fortification Health.
  

• Global bonuses from Society Traits no longer apply
  
• City Cap penalties no longer apply.
  
• City Stability no longer affects Outposts.
  
• The Gold bonus from Ascended Champion no longer applies.
  
• The Mana bonus from Wizard Kings no longer applies
  

• Chaos Skill “Impressment” - No longer reduces Unit Upkeep for Tier 1 Units, instead they gain +50% XP.
  
• Materium Skill “Military Engineering” - No longer grants a free Work Camp, instead it reduces the turn duration of Outpost Upgrades by 1 Turn.
  
• Order Skill “Career Soldiers” - Increased XP bonus from +20% to +30%.
  

• Form Trait “Mount Masters” - Reduced cost from 2 to 1
  
• Form Trait “Eagle Mounts” - Reduced cost from 4 to 3
  
• Form Trait “Elephant Mounts” - Now grants units Large Target
  
• Form Trait “Mammoth Mounts” - Now grants units Large Target.
  

• Yaka - Changed the Race Mount from Horses to Lions
  
• Nimue - Changed the Race Mount from Boars to Zebra’s
  
• Wepwatep - Changed the Race Mount from Wolves to Panthers
  

• Heroes defeated by World Map Spells now properly follow the Hero Defeated flow, adding them to the Prison/Crypt.
  
• Hero Background Trait “Unstable” - No longer includes Frail
  

• Hero Signature Skill “Warding Bond” - Increased Damage reduction from 20% to 50%
  
• Hero Signature Skill “Rallying Blessing”
  
  • Changed from a Full Action to a Single Action
    
  • Increased Bolstered Resistance/Defense from 1 to 2
    
• Hero Signature Skill “Visions of Woe” - Changed from a Full Action to a Single Action
  
• Hero Signature Skill “Reckless Rage” - Changed from only applying to Melee attacks to applying on all Attacks
  
• Hero Signature Skill “Holy Retribution”
  
  • Increased Damage from 5 to 6
    
  • Now applies Condemned to the attacker
    

• Added Item Forge Blueprints
  
• Added two Peasant Polearm visualizations
  
• Ordered all item forge items to make sense instead of being ordered randomly. The order is Base Game > DLC > Pantheon unlocks.
  
• Slayer Infusions are now mutually exclusive.
  
• Base Item “Polearm” - No longer has Cavalry and Large Target Slayer, instead they have a modifier named Polearm which combines the two.
  
• Base Item “Pistol and Sword”
  
  • Pistol Shot - Now has Breaching
    
• Base Item “Magelock”
  
  • No longer grants Quick Stab ability
    
  • Now grants the Take Aim Ability
    
  • Fire Heavy Magelock - Now has Breaching
    
• Hero Item “The Magekiller”
  
  • No longer grants Quick Stab ability
    
  • Now grants the Take Aim Ability
    
  • Fire Heavy Magelock - Now has Breaching
    

• Fixed an issue in the Realm Overview screen while getting kicked from a Multiplayer Session.
  
• Fixed an issue where you could Save/Load a game during Multiplayer
  
• Fixed an issue where advice or tutorials would show up, even though they were disabled in the settings.
  
• Fixed an issue where Independent Turns would take a significant amount of time.
  
• Fixed the Teams option not being applied when the game is launched.
  

• Fixed Mod list getting duplicated if multiple players joined after a update, before the updated state was saved
  
• Fixed CRC checks passing Mod CRC into Game CRC resulting in CRC Conflicts between Client and Save
  
• Fixed Mod Conflict Dialogue formatting
  

• Fixed an issue where a session could soft lock if a Quest got declined while the Event wasn’t handled.
  
• Fixed an issue where a session could soft lock if a player was offline and attacked
  
• Fixed an issue where automated manual combat would not continue after leaving and rejoining the session.
  

• Fixed an Out of Sync that could occur due to Income Resources.
  
• Fixed an Out of Sync that could occur due to Heroes with terrain depended abilities dying
  
• Fixed an Out of Sync that could occur due to Units in Events
  
• Fixed an Out of Sync that could occur due to provinces not correctly checking if any player has vision on them and should therefore meet the owner of the province when they change sides.
  
• Fixed an Out of Sync that could occur due to the trespassing state not refreshing correctly when the diplomatic state with a Free City drops or when the player has indirect open borders through an ally and either their relation with their ally or the ally’s relation with the free city changes.
  
• Fixed an Out of Sync that could occur due to the AI gaining a new province through an Event such as “Clash of Claims”.
  
• Fixed an Out of Sync that could occur due to quests that fail to spawn not being cleaned up correctly.
  
• Fixed an Out of Sync that could occur due to Siege Damage per turn.
  
• Fixed an Out of Sync that could occur due to armies not being fully done refreshing their vision stats when refreshing their vision.
  
• Fixed an Out of Sync that could occur due to Free Cities not refreshing the trespassing status of armies in their domain when a player gains open borders with the city.
  
• Fixed an Out of Sync that could occur due to the order in which armies are registered to a province. On reloading this order could change and cause different results to happen.
  
• Fixed an Out of Sync that could occur due to Heroes not refreshing their relations when the owning Ruler would gain/lose affinity points.
  
• Fixed an Out of Sync that could occur due to independents taking over a player’s city
  
• Fixed an Out of Sync that could occur due to annexing a province with hostile stacks in it.
  
• Fixed an Out of Sync that could occur due to Units spawned on water not updating their Movement Points.
  
• Fixed an Out of Sync that could occur due to Rioting Cities being reloaded.
  
• Fixed an Out of Sync that could occur due to Siege Breaker units leaving a Siege.
  
• Fixed an Out of Sync that could occur due to occupying an Outpost that has a Work Camp build
  
• Fixed an Out of Sync that could occur due to income from Vassals not getting updated
  
• Fixed an Out of Sync that could occur due to the list of Bounty targets getting reordered on hotjoining. The list is now always ordered in the same way.
  
• Fixed an Out of Sync that could occur due to failed/completed City quests getting removed on reloading the session.
  
• Fixed an Out of Sync that could occur due to a Vassal City having updated its income.
  
• Fixed an Out of Sync that could occur due to occupying another players vassal
  
• Fixed an Out of Sync that could occur due to an Independents Vassalage state
  
• Fixed an Out of Sync that could occur due to a besieged City not canceling its production.
  
• Fixed an Out of Sync that could occur due to a newly created city not having all its combat spells.
  
• Fixed an Out of Sync that could occur due to the player no longer affording their Magic Material Treaty with another player.
  
• Fixed an Out of Sync that could occur due to armies that had been detected by another army’s true sight becoming concealed again and stop trespassing.
  

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