Old World News

The test branch has been updated!

Test Branch: 1.0.68373 Test 08/23/2023

Design

• New map option City Site Number that limits the number of city sites available based on the number of nations. Options are Unrestricted (default), Restricted (3 city sites per family per nation), Family Seats (1 city site per family per nation) and Capitals (1 city site per nation). Tribal settlements will still appear in places that would have been city sites but these cannot be settled by nations.
  
• Tribe units now occupy empty settlements, when given the chance
  
• Game of the Week games now much less likely to have non-default city spacing
  
• Egypt now has -20% costs for same adjacent buildings (down from -25%)
  
• Map generator tries to place at least as many free city sites as starting locations on a given land area surrounded by water and mountains.
  

Programming

• AI performance improvements
  
• Improvements to AI value estimate of effects
  
• New features for modders:
  

• Cognomen can now add a memoryCharacter
  
• Added SetHeight to bonuses
  
• Added EffectUnitUnlock to EffectUnit
  
• Description field added to many xmls
  
• Enabled adding custom variables to UnitTypes
  
• Removed hardcoded assumption about water heights
  

UI

• Can now assign hotkey combos that are only used for inaccessible debug hotkeys
  
• Added map option help text for default selections
  
• City site widget no longer blocks clicks when it has no help text (when the tutorial is disabled)
  

Bugs Fixed

• Fixed several causes of replay data getting discarded
  
• Fixed Modio mod tags not adding/deleting on mod updates. Added image size validation to ensure between 256 and 2048 pixels width and height.
  
• Units can no longer spawn on the same tile as other, non-allied units
  
• Fixed bugs with Toggle Names on the mini Tech Tree
  
• Fixed pick later found panel nation help sometimes incorrectly showing preset leaders
  
• Fixed free city site location sometimes not getting revealed
  
• Fixed AI cache initialization
  
• Fixed null reference errors in sprite repo when using portrait mods
  
• Can no longer divorce Olympias in Learn to Play 3
  
• Fixed mission effects playing after entering and exiting city screen
  
• Fixed load/save error with pings that have been placed but not yet been validated
  
• Fixed initial settler tooltip data being treated as cached and not being populated
  
• Fixed editor not assigning tribe tile owner when placing a settlement improvement
  
• Fixed unit status not updating after tile ownership change
  
• Text and event fixes
  

These changes can be accessed on the test branch. To switch to this version:

Right click on Old World in your library, and hit properties, then navigate to the Betas tab and use the dropdown menu to switch from 'none' to the test branch.

The main branch has been updated!

Headline changes:

• AI combat improvements
  
• Combat damage preview improvement
  
• Fixed issue with minimum distance between city sites
  

Design

• The minimum distance of AI nations from human players now scales appropriately with the city site density setting
  

Programming

• AI combat improvements
  
• AI no longer attacks when there is no value in doing so
  
• AI no longer makes attrition attacks if attacking unit is in danger
  
• AI has a better understanding of counterattack damage
  
• AI has a better understanding of the Zealot general ability to not die with more than 1 HP
  
• AI more mindful of enemy units that can stun
  
• Improved speed of Modio mod browser
  

UI

• Combat preview damage text next to unit health bar now shows the unit's maximum damage even if the target has less HP or a Zealot general
  
• Leader is now included in reminders for available tutor targets
  
• Critical hit preview now updates when a unit's critical hit chance changes
  
• Added confirmation dialogs for load hotkeys
  
• Added tooltip info for added turn for building outside territory (only affects forts)
  
• Added tooltips for traits in leader customizer
  
• Added scroll bar to founding panel to allow use of leader customizer with high UI scaling
  
• Added strike bonus to unit attack preview summary against cities
  
• Added game log entry when other nation declares war on you on your turn
  
• Map Editor - reformatted right-side utilities to compress and shrink vertical size. Removed not-working map autosize button
  

Bugs Fixed

• Fixed issue with minimum distance between city sites
  
• Fixed trait helptext showing hidden subjects
  
• Fixed bug with capturing some Roman cities in Carthage 4 scenario
  
• Fixed traits being added to a character while iterating over their traits
  
• Fix for index out of range crash
  
• Fixed bug allowing players to build improvements and roads in non-allied player's territory
  
• Fixed bug in sprite repository asset unloading and loading, which resolves sprite sheet errors when loading games with modded art assets
  
• Fixed bug with delayed random traits and relationships
  
• Fixed rare trade network bug
  
• Fixed some cases where a rival unit in your borders was not getting bumped out of the way when you moved one of your units into its tile
  
• Fixed potential border expansion preview issue
  
• Fixed some AI city effect valuation issues
  
• Fixed citizen count bug when upgrading a building with a queued specialist
  
• Fixed some dynasty specific intro events not firing
  
• Fixed grayed out "Found Capital" button showing wrong helptext when no Family selected
  
• Fixed nicknames not being assigned for new custom characters in events
  
• Fixed intro events not triggering in some circumstances
  
• Fixed being unable to make truce with an AI after they declared war via an event without having met the player
  
• Fixed achievement Alexander The Great not triggering for Alexander Dynasty
  
• Fixed Customize leader option not being remembered
  
• Text and event fixes
  

The test branch has been updated!

Notable changes:

• AI combat improvements
  
• Combat preview damage text next to unit health bar now shows the unit's maximum damage even if the target has less HP or a Zealot general
  
• Bug fixes
  

Full notes can be reviewed here:
https://github.com/MohawkGames/test_buildnotes/blob/main/Old%20World%20Test%20update%202023.08.11

These changes can be accessed on the test branch. To switch to this version:

Right click on Old World in your library, and hit properties, then navigate to the Betas tab and use the dropdown menu to switch from 'none' to the test branch.

The test branch has been updated!

Notable changes:

• Fixes to minimum city site distance and minimum distance between players
  
• Improved speed of Modio mod browser
  
• UI improvements
  

Full notes can be reviewed here:
https://github.com/MohawkGames/test_buildnotes/blob/main/Old%20World%20Test%20update%202023.08.02

These changes can be accessed on the test branch. To switch to this version:

Right click on Old World in your library, and hit properties, then navigate to the Betas tab and use the dropdown menu to switch from 'none' to the test branch.

The main branch has been updated.

This hotfix patch fixes a border expansion bug introduced in the last main update