Ancient Cities News

v1.0.0.4 Community Feedback Update

Lots of bug fixes, performance improvements, AI tweaks, tutorial improvements and many other adjustments to improve the game experience.

LATEST CHANGES:

.3 .4
- Multithreaded pathfinding and other CPU optimizations.
- A lot of graphical improvements and optimizations.
- Now you can select the settlement location when arriving to the local map.
- Both guided and reference tutorials extended and improved.
- Regional sea navigation.
- New tribe report : running out of food.
- Improved horse textures and animations
- Improved fence and palisade gates visualization.

LATEST FIXES:

.3 .4
- Regional trading and raiding tweaks and fixes.
- Increased chance to get missing knowledges from migrants.
- Starving tribesmen will eat from unprocessed resources in processing buildings.
- Issues with inaccessible constructions.
- Building resources and requirements tweaked.
- Tool lack report and tool count issues.
- Hunting and butchering tweaked.
- Slaugther and hunt deprioritized later in the day to avoid resource wasting.
- Camera zoom keys also in the regional map.
- Burying task erased when failing to go to a tomb.
- Obstacle grid updated when a construction is deleted.
- The dead are removed from buildings before dismantling.
- Amd GPU texture corruption, flickering and halos issues.
- Memory corruption crashes and freezes.
- Game freezes when it is not possible to migrate for an AI tribe.
- Game freezes sometimes after trading or raiding.
- Crash when deselecting resources in a dryer while someone is working on it.
- Some other rare crashes found in game reports.

KNOWN ISSUES:

- AMD 7000 Series crash to desktop. Please, check game forums.

PLEASE ENSURE YOUR GRAPHICS DRIVERS ARE UP TO DATE.

- Please send us a report if the game crashes and post report number in the forums.
- Please use the Steam 'Players' forum to post your feedback, bugs & issues.
- Please mod creators: Update & upload your mods when required.

WHAT'S NEXT?

- We will continue improving the base game as a platform for future expansions.
- New content updates not yet disclosed.

HOW CAN I SUPPORT THE CONTINUOUS IMPROVEMENT OF THE GAME?

- Please post a review on Steam to support the game development.

v1.0.0.3 Community Feedback Hotfix Beta

LATEST CHANGES:

.3
- Both guided and reference tutorials improved.
- New tribe report : running out of food.
- More horses and cattle texture variations.

.0
- Tribes in the regional map.
- Trading to other tribes.
- Raiding against other tribes.
- Child animations reworked.
- Different textures for wild and domestic goats.

LATEST FIXES:

.3
- Improved game loading times.
- Improved CPU & GPU performance.
- Amd GPU texture corruption, flickering and halos issues.
- Trading and raiding tweaks.
- Hunting and butchering tweaked.
- Building and corpses decay rate decreased.
- Building resources and requirements tweaked based on players feedback.
- Incorrect resource dropping on dryers when process done.
- Less big boulder density to improve building placement.
- Issues with inaccessible constructions.
- More straw resource from tall grass.
- Daily calorie eating increased when starving to help on recovery.
- Starving tribesmen will eat from unprocessed resources in processing buildings.
- Higher levels of overwork affects fitness.
- Increased chance to get missing knowledges from migrants.
- Game freezes when it is not possible to migrate for an AI tribe.

.0 .1 .2
- Random crash related with fleeing animals.
- Fixed some texture issues, related with Windows 11 crashes.
- Some animation improvements in the regional elements.
- The beginner mode has been adjusted to help new players.
- Compressed textures and other graphical optimizations.
- Dismantling has been accelerated to facilitate migrations.
- Guided tutorial issues when going to menu screen.
- Regional groups stuck in some situations.

KNOWN ISSUES:

- Driver issues related to AMD 7900XT graphics cards.
- Some graphical glitches for AMD cards in low settings.
- Multithreaded shader loading not working for AMD cards.

PLEASE ENSURE YOUR GRAPHICS DRIVERS ARE UP TO DATE.

- Please send us a report if the game crashes and write down report number.
- Please use the Steam 'Players' forum to post your feedback, bugs & issues.
- Please mod creators: Update & upload your mods when required.

WHAT'S NEXT?

- We will continue to fix bugs and improve the base game to serve as a platform for future expansions.

HOW CAN I SUPPORT THE IMPROVEMENTS IN ANCIENT CITIES?

- Please post a review on Steam to support long-term improvements to the game.

v1.0.0.2 Official Release Hotfix

LATEST CHANGES:

.0
- Tribes in the regional map.
- Trading to other tribes.
- Raiding against other tribes.
- Child animations reworked.
- Different textures for wild and domestic goats.

LATEST FIXES:

.2
- Random crash related with fleeing animals.
- Fixed some texture issues maybe related with Windows 11 crashes.
- Some small tutorial changes.
- Some animation improvements in the regional elements.

.1
- The beginner mode has been adjusted to help new players.
- Compressed textures and other graphical optimizations.
- Dismantling has been accelerated to facilitate migrations.
- Guided tutorial issues when going to menu screen.
- Regional groups stuck in some situations.

.0
- Wild resources numbers more differentiated between game modes.
- Same preference for any type of feeder.
- Gathering production increased.
- Tweaked migrant numbers.

KNOWN ISSUES:

- Saved games could become obsolete after a game update.

PLEASE ENSURE YOUR GRAPHICS DRIVERS ARE UP TO DATE.

- Please send us a report if the game crashes and write down report number.
- Please use the Steam 'Players' forum to post your feedback, bugs & issues.
- Please mod creators: Update & upload your mods when required.

WHAT'S NEXT?

- We will continue to fix bugs and improve the base game to serve as a platform for future expansions.

HOW CAN I SUPPORT THE CONTINUOUS IMPROVEMENT OF ANCIENT CITIES AFTER RELEASE?

- Please post a review on Steam to support long-term improvements to the game.

v1.0.0.1 Official Release Hotfix

After receiving your feedback, we have made this weekend hotfix.
It fixes some bugs, improves performance and helps new players in beginners mode.
More improvements coming soon!

LATEST CHANGES:

.0
- Tribes in the regional map.
- Trading to other tribes.
- Raiding against other tribes.
- Child animations reworked.
- Different textures for wild and domestic goats.

LATEST FIXES:

.1
- The beginner mode has been adjusted to help new players.
- Compressed textures and other graphical optimizations.
- Dismantling has been accelerated to facilitate migrations.
- Guided tutorial issues when going to menu screen.
- Regional groups stuck in some situations.

.0
- Wild resources numbers more differentiated between game modes.
- Same preference for any type of feeder.
- Gathering production increased.
- Tweaked migrant numbers.

KNOWN ISSUES:

- Saved games could become obsolete after a game update.

PLEASE ENSURE YOUR GRAPHICS DRIVERS ARE UP TO DATE.

- Please send us a report if the game crashes and write down report number.
- Please use the Steam 'Players' forum to post your feedback, bugs & issues.
- Please mod creators: Update & upload your mods when required.

WHAT'S NEXT?

- We will continue to fix bugs and improve the base game to serve as a platform for future expansions.

HOW CAN I SUPPORT THE CONTINUOUS IMPROVEMENT OF ANCIENT CITIES AFTER RELEASE?

- Please post a review on Steam to support long-term improvements to the game.

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After a long early access development and testing stage, we have completed the gameplay planned in our Early access roadmap.

But this is just the beginning, there is much more to come for Ancient Cities:

Going forward the development will continue, fixing bugs and improving the game. Our plan is to turn the game into a platform for future expansions to be announced in the near future.

A big THANK YOU to everybody who have supported the game development!

Stay tuned following us on Steam and Twitter!

If you want to support the long-term improvements to the game. Please, post a review on Steam

Uncasual Games team.