Battle for Wesnoth News

• A Tale of Two Brothers
  • Add achievements and relevant code.
    

• Dead Water
  • S05 "Tirigaz": the orcs now use real ship units, instead of static images. Orcish gold reduced to compensate.
    

• Dusk of Dawn
  • S02 "A Dream": remove "fearless" trait, but spawn more higher-level woses instead.
    

• Eastern Invasion
  • S02 "Escape Tunnel": Now uses the core Dwarvish Miner unit, instead of a modified 8 gold version.
    
  • S04b "Ill Humours": AI Dunefolk are no longer immune to the swamp's poison (although their AI shouldn't let them move into poison range regardless).
    
  • S04b "Ill Humours": Gweddry now gains control of the Dunefolk villages when they switch sides.
    
  • S05 "Northern Outpost": Randomness no longer influences the minimum/maximum number of bandits who spawn.
    
  • S06b "Soradoc": Removed a mechanic that wasn't explained in the objectives - Yannic will no longer be rescued automatically after you've defeated three enemy leaders.
    
  • S07a "Capturing the Ogres": Gweddry can no longer gain gold, in addition to his preexisting 0 upkeep.
    
  • S07a "Capturing the Ogres": Ogres will now become more aggressive after 10 turns, preventing an infinite turn gold/XP exploit.
    
  • S07b "Ogre Crossing": Suriving AI ogres now flee if Grug is killed.
    
  • S07b "Ogre Crossing": Objectives now explain that the ogres will join you once you reach the north shore.
    
  • S09 "Castle in the Ice": slightly reduce number of wolves and drakes.
    
  • S10 "Dark Sanctuary": Orc spawn now scale even further after many turns have elapsed (especially on Skirmish/Easy difficulty), making infinite survival impossible.
    
  • S11 "Captured": Reinforcement orcs now use income, not a one-time gold boost.
    
  • S11 "Captured": The Skirmisher ability no longer lets you to bypass the orcish guards.
    
  • S11 "Captured": Dacyn can no longer be healed without alerting the orcs.
    
  • S13 "Spoils of War": Changed dialogue to clarify what's going on before the scenario start.
    
  • S13 "Spoils of War": Owaec can no longer recall units (he's separated from the army), even if you manage to claim a keep.
    

• The Hammer of Thursagan
  • Shortened turn limits on several long scenarios.
    
  • Decreased player gold from 100 to 80 on most scenarios.
    
  • S08 "The Siege of Kal Kartha": increased enemy gold.
    
  • S10 "The Underlevels": Karrag can now be optionally fought before you kill all other leaders, and the scenario has been rebalanced accordingly.
    

• Heir to the Throne
  • Fixed a serious issue where the "Replacement Weapons" tweak would trigger on all sides' recruits, not just Konrad's.
    
  • If Konrad reaches Elensefar while Delfador is still with him, the player is no longer forced to give up Delfador in return for his raven.
    
  • If Konrad completes his first battle without gaining any recruits, Delfador now gifts Konrad his raven.
    
  • Moremirmu: significantly increased hitpoints, but decreased speed and damage.
    
  • Jeniver: increased gold generation from 4 to 5, increased blowgun damage from 4 to 5.
    
  • Clarify and expand a number of dialogue hints relating to special events and interactions.
    
  • S01 "The Elves Besieged": added a turn limit and rebalanced enemies.
    
  • S02 "Flight of the Elves": made enemy gold more predictable. Fixed Konrad winning after killing only 2 enemy leaders, instead of all of them.
    
  • S03 "Blackwater Port": Haldiel and Simyr are now loyal companions, but killing all enemy leaders is much harder.
    
  • S06 "The Isle of Alduin": Elrian is now a loyal companion, but the scenario requires you to choose between gaining Elrian or learning to recruit Mages.
    
  • S07 "Muff Malal's Peninsula": Moremirmu is now in a safer position, and much less likely to get bad RNG and die early.
    
  • S15a "Valley of Death I": added a new item reward, to 1) make this scenario a more viable pick and 2) allow for item-heavy playthroughs.
    
  • S22 "Glamdrol": allying with the Stoneskins now costs less gold, but Konrad will lose if he doesn't pillage enough gold to meet his pledge.
    
  • S30 "The Sceptre of Fire": made Li'sar more difficult to assassinate with Fire Wraiths. This strategy should still be possible, but it should now require more significant investment.
    
  • S30 "The Sceptre of Fire": Delfador can now continue recruiting even while searching for the Sceptre.
    
  • S47, S48, and S50: a few enemy units will now defect when the Sceptre is first used against human opponents.
    
  • S50 "The Battle for Wesnoth": added an epilogue for Blackwing the raven.
    

• Heir to the Throne, Classic
  • Fix unachievable tutorial achievement.
    

• Of Pearls and Pirates
  • Added to mainline.
    
  • This is a new peasants + merfolk campaign, and an extension to the tutorial.
    
  • 5 scenarios, novice level.
    

• Son of the Black-Eye
  • Jetto now starts as Orcish Slayer.
    

• Winds of Fate
  • Lower recall costs further.
    
  • Adjust and replace some characters that tie-in with the other campaigns.
    
  • S01 "The Hunt": fewer forest lions.
    
  • S06 "Landfall": tweak enemy starting gold
    
  • S08 "Overlook": more consistent enemy spawn recognition
    
  • S09 "Ancestor": add wind ambience by Alexandr Zhelanov
    
  • S11 "Crosswind": fix issues with non-clasher units attempting to read their secrets
    

• Updated translations: Bengali, British English, Chinese (Simplified), Czech, French, Greek, Hungarian, Italian, Spanish
  

• Ships:
  • Adjusted gold costs for most ships.
    
  • Removed the "naval" weapon special, allowing ships to ram targets on coastal land.
    

• Wose Shaman
  • Hitpoints: 56hp -> 60hp
    
  • Cost: 27g -> 31g
    
  • Swamp defense: 30% -> 40%
    
  • Melee damage: 12-2 impact -> 14-2 impact
    
  • Ranged damage: 11-2 impact slows -> 6-3 impact slows
    

• Added the Redtail Cat.
  

• The campaign menu now has a landing page instead of defaulting to the first campaign (PR #10825)
  
• Abbreviated “vision” and “jamming” in the sidebar, so that the number fits on-screen
  
• Fixed the in-game help not showing a list of units with a particular weapon special.
  

• Dusk of Dawn
  • Remove custom "Troll Earth-Shaker" Rocklobber advancement to avoid confusing beginners.
    

• Eastern Invasion
  • Add weather effects to several scenarios.
    

• The Deceivers Gambit
  • S13 "Revelry, Revisited": fixed way too many enemies spawning after many turns had elapsed.
    
  • S13 "Revelry, Revisited": added more dialogue between the orcs and humans.
    

• The Hammer of Thursagan
  • The first scenario is now slightly easier.
    

• Added graphics for rails going over water and chasm.
  

• Updated translations: Bengali, British English, Czech, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Italian, Spanish
  

• Heir to the Throne
  • The finale's farm burning difficulty option now explains which option is the standard and which option is especially challenging.
    
  • The finale's farm burning difficulty option will now trigger automatically if you miss it.
    
  • Once unlocked, Carcyn now also includes a port on the north shore.
    
  • Fix Li'sar not using her elite recruits in Crossroads and Siege of Elensefar.
    

• Add new wml.valid_var function to validate a WML variable path
  
• Bugfix: Indexing a vconfig now returns a table with tag/contents keys
  

• Updated translations: Bengali, British English, Catalan, Czech, French, Finnish, Galician, Hungarian, Italian, Spanish
  

• Add a 'priority' attribute to abilities and weapon specials with values (`[chance_to_hit]`, `[damage]`, etc).
  • Values set by lower priority specials are considered as the base value for higher priority specials' calculations.
    

• Using `[chance_to_hit]` with a negative priority is now preferred over giving weapons `parry` and `accuracy` attributes, as the sidebar UI shows it.
  
• You can now test if a WML variable is empty with `[variable]blank=yes`
  
• It is now possible to place `[set_variables]` (note the plural) in `[modify_side]` and `[modify_unit]`
  

• Fixed giving quick trait to leaders with 4 moves in multiplayer.
  
• Removed the `SPECIAL_NOTES_ARCANE` macro, the note is automatically added to any unit with an arcane attack.
  
• Fixed a crash when a unit has no random traits available.
  

• 5p - The Wilderlands:
  • Fixed lag during AI turn (issue #10419)
    

• Updated translations: Ancient Greek, Arabic, Bengali, British English, Catalan, Chinese (Simplified), Czech, Finnish, French, Galician, Hungarian, Polish, Spanish
  

• The load-game dialog can now see the directories used by the development version (1.19.2 and later)
  

• Dusk of Dawn
  • Added to mainline.
    
  • This is a new troll campaign.
    
  • 4 scenarios, novice level.
    

• Heir to the Throne
  • Add new "Heir to the Throne" revision to mainline.
    
  • Rename existing HttT campaign to "Heir to the Throne, Classic"
    
  • Merge "Battle Training" into HttTC.
    

• The Deceiver's Gambit
  • Revised Delfador and Garard's dialogue (again)
    
  • "Stirrings of War" and "The Ambassador" are now regular battle scenarios.
    
  • "Fort Garard" now grants all Loyalist recruits; Delfador no longer has to wait until "Ring of Swords"
    
  • "The Sylvan Seer" part 1 puzzle now varies with campaign difficulty.
    
  • "Ring of Swords" now has a slightly larger map.
    
  • "Galcadar" no longer restores your recall list from TDG part I.
    
  • "The Traitor" no longer has special village razing mechanics.
    
  • Deoran is now a battle unit, not a support unit with complicated abilities.
    
  • Most AI allies now go last in the turn order, so they're more predictable.
    
  • Various other adjustments and bugfixes.
    

• The South Guard
  • Restored S01's intro storytext.
    
  • Moved some S03/S04 scenario hints to S01/S02.
    
  • Added some additional hints to S03/S04.
    
  • Replaced most maps' ford terrain with bridge.
    
  • Added a more stylish UI for S02x's companion selection choice.
    
  • Allied sides are now at the end of the turn order.
    
  • Fixed several RNG-related tips not triggering.
    
  • Various minor bugfixes and tweaks.
    

• Updated translations: Bengali, British English, Czech, Finnish, Galician, Hungarian, Italian, Polish, Spanish
  

• Dwarvish Miner:
  • hitpoints 25hp->22hp
    
  • experience 20xp->24xp
    
  • cost 11g->10g
    

• Merman Hoplite:
  • hitpoints 52hp->58hp
    
  • cost 45g->44g
    

• Merman Triton
  • cost 46g->41g
    

• Merman Netcaster:
  • ranged damage 9-2 -> 8-2
    
  • cost 26g->25g
    

• Merman Entangler:
  • cost 42g->37g
    

• Merman Spearman:
  • hitpoints 43hp->47hp
    
  • cost 22g->25g
    

• Merman Javelineer:
  • hitpoints 58hp->60hp
    
  • melee damage 8-2 -> 9-2
    
  • cost 55g->48g
    

• Mermaid Enchantress:
  • experience 46xp->75xp
    

• Mermaid Siren:
  • ranged damage 15-3 -> 14-3
    
  • cost 42g->58g
    

• Mermaid Priestess:
  • experience 61xp->73xp
    

• Mermaid Diviner:
  • cost 49g->57g
    

• Skeleton Rider:
  • axe damage 6-3 -> 10-2
    
  • hitpoints 36hp->38hp
    
  • experience 33xp->46xp
    
  • cost 14g->17g
    
  • resistances now identical to Chocobone
    
  • improved movement costs and defense
    

• Bone Knight
  • trample damage 7-2(charge) -> 10-2(charge)
    
  • hitpoints 50hp->58hp
    
  • movement 8mp->7mp
    
  • cost 26g->32g
    
  • resistances now identical to Chocobone
    
  • improved movement costs and defense
    

• A registry for abilities has been added as `[units][abilities]`. Any ability defined there can be added to a `[unit_type]` by just specifying their `unique_id` in the new key `[unit_type]abilities_list`, like this: `abilities_list=heals_8,cures`. The unique id for an ability is the value of its new `unique_id` key which falls back to `id` if unspecified. The `abilities` key is also supported under `[effect]apply_to=new_ability`.
  
• A similar registry for weapon specials has also been added as `[units][weapon_specials]`. The corresponding key is `specials_list` and is supported inside `[unit_type][attack]` as well as in EffectWML `apply_to=new_attack` and `apply_to=attack`'s `[set_specials]`. `unique_id` is also supported inside weapon special definitions.
  

• New key `title_position` added to `[part]` that allows changing the position of the title text.
  
• Enemies that can't be attacked are not highlighted when showing a unit's potential movement.
  

• Remove [filter_adjacent_student] and [filter_adjacent_student_location] from abilities used like weapons because shorthand from existing filters[filter_student][filter_adjacent] and [filter_student][filter_location][filter_adjacent_location].
  
• Deprecate [filter_adjacent] and [filter_adjacent_location] from abilities and weapons specials because shorthand from existing filters[filter][filter_adjacent] and [filter][filter_location][filter_adjacent_location] for abilities or [filter_self][filter_adjacent] and [filter_self][filter_location][filter_adjacent_location] for weapon specials.
  
• Fixed [resistance_defaults] leaking on random maps, causing OOS errors in unrelated content.
  
• Fixed a crash when the sides defined for a scenario are not all consecutive.
  

• Build System:
  • Changed CMake to not directly pull in boost-system (fixing build issues on archlinux using boost-libs >1.89.0-2)