Old World News

Both Old World and its first DLC The Heroes of the Aegean are on sale this week for 25% off -- the highest discount since release.

Even more exciting, we have a new DLC to share with all of you! Old World - The Sacred and The Profane is out now with a 10% discount. Enjoy this new DLC pack that features 350+ new events, over ten new character traits, six new historical figures with their own event chains, as well as religious clergy characters with their own missions and projects (to name but a few things).

If you are a returning Old World player, we'd love to hear your feedback and reviews, positive or negative, whether on the base game or the DLC!

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Thanks to everyone for all the support of Old World's development!

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A hotfix update, 1.0.64777 release (01/12/2023), has been released today on the main branch.

This reverts the underlying network code changes that were made as they caused issues for Server mode games. LAN support is unaffected and still available.

The main branch has been updated!

Notable changes:

• City Discontent Level can now go negative. Discontent increase rate reduced by 4, citizens now give -5 family opinion
  
• Added Portuguese to available languages
  
• Added support for LAN games
  
• AI and performance improvements
  
• Many bug fixes and UI improvements
  

Full notes can be reviewed here:
https://github.com/MohawkGames/main_buildnotes/blob/main/Old%20World%20Release%20Update%202023.01.11

The test branch has been updated!

Notable changes:

• City Discontent Level can now go negative. Discontent increase rate reduced, citizens now give -5 family opinion
  
• Repair project is now 1 + (10% of HP)/turn instead of (20% of HP)/turn
  
• Performance improvements
  
• AI improvements, including reducing their overbuilding of forts
  
• Many bug fixes
  

Full notes can be reviewed here:
https://github.com/MohawkGames/test_buildnotes/blob/main/Old%20World%20Test%20Update%202023.01.05

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.

A hotfix update, 1.0.64602 release (01/03/2023), has been released today on the main branch.

This fixes a bug where the game could get stuck playing unit animations on the AIs turn. It also fixes tribal settlement ambitions failing to complete which was causing problems for some scenarios.