Patch 1.14.9
AI:
- Fixed a rare crash in attack prediction (issue #4068)
- Experimental AI: fixed guardians being used for village actions
Campaigns
- A Tale of Two Brothers:
- S3: modify castle illumination tip on easy mode
- S3: modify castle illumination tip on easy mode
- Dead Water:
- S3: modify starting dialogue
- S3: modify starting dialogue
- Descent into Darkness:
- Update campaign description
- Update maps for S1 and S6
- S4: reduce difficulty on easy and normal modes
- S11: reduce difficulty just after Malin turns into lich
- Update campaign description
- Eastern Invasion:
- S9: add dialogue on victory
- S9: add dialogue on victory
- Heir to the Throne:
- Remove 'Princess' as a direct address
- S15, S23: Add explicit hints on EASY. (PR #4329)
- S15: Improve one branch of the victory dialog. (PR #4334)
- Remove 'Princess' as a direct address
- Legend of Wesmere:
- S23: Landar's normal death dialogue now (properly) not used
- S23: Landar's normal death dialogue now (properly) not used
- Northern Rebirth:
- Remove 'Princess' as a direct address
- Remove 'Princess' as a direct address
- Sceptre of Fire:
- S5: tell player that gryphon riders can now be recruited
- S9: objectives changed to be more accurate upon moving to the volcano
- S5: tell player that gryphon riders can now be recruited
- Secrets of the Ancients:
- Fixed number of scenarios in campaign listing
- Fixed number of scenarios in campaign listing
- Son of the Black Eye:
- S10: add dialogue on victory
- S10: add dialogue on victory
- The Rise of Wesnoth:
- Tweaked dialogue in various scenarios
- Fixed number of scenarios in campaign listing
- S17a: prevent time over defeat if player chooses to defeat remaining saurians
- Tweaked dialogue in various scenarios
- The South Guard:
- Update campaign description
- Highlight narrator and gameplay explanations with colors
- S1: create Sir Gerrick if player skips scenario with debug
- S4: revise end of scenario dialogue
- S5: add narrator warning when siding with bandits and reduce difficulty
- S6b: create Urza Afalas if player skips S5 with debug
- S6b: kill elves on side 1 if player got to this scenario with debug
- S8b: fixed bug with shifted ToD schedules near campfires
- Update campaign description
- Under the Burning Suns:
- Various bugfixes (objectives, allied vision, unit spawns, event firing)
- Updated various maps
- Add additional animations to cutscenes and events
- S2: add dehydration explanation to objectives
- Various bugfixes (objectives, allied vision, unit spawns, event firing)
Graphics
- Own portraits for higher level bats
- New Water Serpent and Cuttlefish portraits
- New Wolf, Great Wolf and Direwolf portraits
- Additional wolf/dog portrait for custom units
- Separate Mudcrawler portrait
- New Walking Corpse portrait for mounted variation
Language and i18n
- Updated translations: British English, Chinese (Traditional), Czech, Dutch, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Portuguese (Brazil), Russian, Spanish, Turkish, Ukrainian
- Changed the :help command's output to split over multiple lines
- Added translatable explanations of :droid, :help and :idle's arguments
Multiplayer
- A New Land:
- Help menu can be accessed in any turn and doesn't pause the game
- Bottleneck in the spider's caves removed
- Swapped positions of Gryphon and Drake
- Guards can't be tricked off position, leaders won't destroy buildings
- Guards and Spiders are loyal – AI income has been adjusted accordingly
- AI income increases gradually in lategame (very slowly)
- Help menu can be accessed in any turn and doesn't pause the game
- The Wilderlands:
- Fixed default village_gold being too high, disadvantaging player 5
- Fixed default village_gold being too high, disadvantaging player 5
Packaging
- Added HighContrast icon variant
WML engine
- Fixed [music] ms_after= affecting the previous track instead of the intended one
Miscellaneous and bug fixes
- Update various references of mermen to merfolk or mer
- Adjust several maps to use different castle graphics
- OpenMP support has been removed
- Clarify descriptions of income and upkeep in the help and in tooltips. (PR #4337)