Battle for Wesnoth News

• The Deceiver's Gambit
  • Spells: clarified "Counterspell" description
    
  • S05: the allied AIs now attack at Dawn instead of Second Watch
    
  • S08: changed Trappers' dialogue to be less overtly hostile
    
  • S14: the final boss now heals less on lower difficulties
    

• Clear old time-of-day schedule before saving new one, resolves scenario file bloat (issue #10115)
  

• Resolve crash on attempting to download MP replay from server, when using cURL 7.85.0 or later (issue #10139).
  

• Updated translations: Arabic, Bengali, British English, Bulgarian, Chinese (Simplified), Czech, Italian, Japanese
  

• Necromancer:
  • Changes to emphasize the Necro's thematic plague ability, while lowering his/her durability closer to that of other mages:
    
  • hitpoints 76 -> 64, impact resist 10% -> 0%, cold resist 0% -> 10%
    
  • plague staff (melee impact) 6-3 -> 7-3
    
  • chill wave (ranged cold) 19-2 -> 20-2
    
  • shadow wave (ranged arcane) 16-2 -> 13-2, added "plague" weapon special
    

• UI support the multi-hex ranged attacks has been added
  
• Support for 800xN window sizes has been removed
  

• Added WFL `byte_index` function to convert between character indices and byte indices, accounting for multi-byte characters
  
• IPFs that affect color values no longer skip fully transparent pixels.
  

• Fixed the Pick Unit Advancement modification throwing lua errors on every recruitment
  
• Fixed unit appearance not being immediately updated when affected by an ability
  

• Fixed campaigns not using the correct map settings
  

• `Convert To Scenario` menu item added to `File` menu that allows converting an already opened map to a scenario.
  

• Added the foundation for multiplayer queueing
  

• Add `mvt_alias` and `def_alias` to `wesnoth.terrain_types`.
  

• Boost 1.70 or later is now required
  

• Updated translations: Bengali, British English, Finnish, Italian
  

• It is now possible to search help topics by name/id in the Help Browser.
  

• `[unit]dismissable` and `[unit]block_dismiss_message` keys added that allow marking an unit as dismissable, and what message to show if user clicks `Dismiss` button in Unit Recall dialog.
  
• Added [have_side] as a conditional tag. It takes the same arguments as [filter_side]. It returns true if a side matching the SSF exists, false otherwise. Added to the schema.
  

• GUI.pyw: use the Windows API through the `ctypes` library to detect the user's language on Windows (#9972).
  
• Fixed persistent WML being stored in the wrong folder
  

• Eastern Invasion
  • S04c: achievement now only triggers when escaping with all knights alive
    
  • S11/S99: flying units can no longer enter prison cells via the river
    
  • S12: fixed Dra-Nak (if present) having incorrect traits and portraits
    
  • S17b: AI is now more forced to recruit only higher-level units when gold reserves get too high
    
  • S99: prisoners now escape if their jailers are killed
    

• Added Show Tool Information toggle option in the menus and toolbar to allow hiding the informational tooltip on the edge of the screen that shows the current editor tool's usage and palette information
  

Updated translations: Arabic, Bengali, British English, Chinese (Simplified), Czech, Dutch, Finnish, German, Hungarian, Italian, Norwegian, Spanish, Turkish

• Switched default Pango/Cairo backend from CoreText to Fontconfig on macOS to fix issues with certain fonts such as Oldania ADF Std being unrecognized on current OS versions (issue #8488).
  
• Search filter should now be case-insensitive for more than just ASCII characters (#9328)
  
• Fixed the palette button not being clickable after scrolling in palette widget without moving the cursor
  

• Fix crash when weapon specials' filters lead to infinite recursion (issue #8940)
  

• Fixed the Load Game dialog forgetting the filename filter when changing directory
  

• Delfador’s Memoirs
  • Campaign removed! Replaced with “The Deceiver’s Gambit”
    

• The Deceiver’s Gambit
  • New campaign, replacing “Delfador’s Memoirs”!
    
  • _Yearning for adventure, a newly-trained apprentice from the magic academy at Alduin fights alongside Wesnoth’s king during a major war against the orcs of the north. Play a pivotal role during this time of turmoil, as despite a string of battlefield victories Wesnoth seems to be slipping inexorably into chaos..._
    

• The Hammer of Thursagan
  • Revised maps for Scenarios 1, 3, 4, 5 and 7
    

• `rich_label` now has the new event handler `on_link_click`. If set, it will be fired when the user clicks on a link set via the `` tag inside the `rich_label`.
  

• Updated translations: Bengali, British English, Chinese (Simplified), Czech, Hungarian, Italian, Spanish
  
• For translation statistics, wesnoth-tsg is now part of core, and wesnoth-tutorial isn't
  

• Dune Paragon:
  • Cost 78 -> 85
    
  • primary melee attack: description changed to scimitar, 13-4 -> 15-4, removed marksman
    
  • new secondary melee attack: 25-2 scimitar melee blade marksman
    

• A new "Customize Reach Map (Unit Movement UI)" option has been added under the advanced settings category. It provides highlight color, enemy highlight color, border opacity and tint opacity customization options for the reach map UI.
  
• The game will now default to 1920x1080 with a minimum of 1280x720
  

• [unit] no longer accepts hp_bar_scaling and xp_bar_scaling keys
  
• [fire_event][data] content is available in the fired event as $data
  

• Various fixes for the unit recruit/recall dialog
  

• Eastern Invasion
  • S04c: give Mal-Ravanal gold to recruit more units when their army becomes too small
    
  • forbid all Dunefolk units to take the Plague Staff
    
  • fix minor bugs with dialogues
    

• The South Guard
  • Major rewrite of the campaign
    
  • Adds an embedded tutorial, which is now the official starting campaign for new players
    

• Tutorial
  • Description changed to explain that the standalone tutorial is no longer the recommended one
    

• The PBL editor now validates whether DataURI images are too large
  

• New functions `gui.show_recruit_dialog()` and `gui.show_recall_dialog()` has been added which allow showing the recruit and recall dialogs in-game with a custom list of unit types or units respectively, along with some customizable features.
  

• Updated translations: Bengali, British English, Czech, Dutch, Finnish, German, Hungarian
  

• Dune Warmaster: HP 59 -> 61 scimitar damage 9 -> 10
  
• Dwarvish Explorer: physical resists reduced from 20% to 10%, melee damage increased from 10 to 11.
  
• Fire Wisps and Guardian - Fire Resistance changed from 50% to 70%
  
• Fire Wraith - Fire Resistance changed from 50% to 80%
  
• Orcish Crossbowman: melee 6-3 -> 4-3, experience to level 43 -> 57
  
• Added the Coastal and Iron Raider ship units
  

• The Modern theme has been renamed to Celes and received design updates to the titlescreen and common UI controls. The Default theme has been renamed to Parchment.
  
• A preference to show/hide the tips panel on titlescreen has been added under Display preferences (id `show_tips`). In the Celes theme, it can also be hidden by clicking the cross button located at the top-right of the panel.
  
• Submenus are now positioned at the location of the menu item that spawned them, rather than the location of the mouse cursor at the time of click
  
• An advanced preference has been added to not download icons for the in-game add-ons manager.
  
• The end screen for campaigns now properly wraps text
  
• The themes have been renamed from Modern and Classic to Celes and Parchment, respectively. The Celes theme has also been further expanded to cover more UI elements.
  

• [variables] in [side] no longer sets variables of the implicit leader unit (it now only sets the sides variables), to create a leader unit with variables, [leader] must be used instead. (issue #3742)
  

• Attempting to view the in-game manual no longer causes Wesnoth to crash