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[1.0.21] Release Notes - Visions of the Unseen

CHANGES AND ADDITIONS

  • Added a new minor faction: the Eyeless Ones.
  • Added new 10 side quests.
  • Added Faction-related diplomatic interactions.
  • Added loading tips.
  • Added the Vaulters' outgame view.
  • Added VFX to the unique quest weapons.
  • Added more data to the save files, in order to allow parsing for league/stats database.

AI

  • Allowed garrisons of AI empires to handle a siege on their own.
  • Improved the battle targeting of AI units.
  • Reduced the Dust and Food stresses, and increased the Industry stress for the AI empires.
  • Increased the importance of Industry when the AI chooses a city spot for its next city.
  • Added the use of the retrofit feature for the AI empires.
  • Improved the way AI empires manage their Empire plan.
  • Improved the way AI empires manage their construction queues.
  • Changed the way AI empires manage their researches: must-have technologies begin with a low heuristic value but increase a lot at each completed research.
  • Added an "after battle" analysis in order to adapt the unit designs of AI empires.
  • Refactored the unit design system used by the AI empires.
  • Improved the management of the "Slayer" abilities by the AI empires in their unit designs.
  • Increased the weights of resources marketplace technology and the assimilation technology for the AI empires.
  • Feedback have prerequisites to avoid strange messages from AI empires (for example: "We appreciate your peaceful behaviour" during a war).
  • Open/Close Borders and Map Exchange/Embargo are now used by AI empires.

BALANCING

  • Drakkens' Force status declarations increase their costs when they are used.
  • Removed the constraints upon land mass from Large and Huge map sizes (issues with too many regions are handled another way by the World generator).
  • Added Morale penalty (-1) to Ranged and Support units when there are enemies around.
  • Decreased by 30% Damage and by 10% Attack values of Ranged units and heroes.
  • Other unit tweaks: WW-Forest Spirit, BL-Infantry, BL-Ryder, AM-Battle Mage, RC-Berzerk, D-Drakkenling, Giant Ogre, Justicere, Ice Warg.
  • Unit capacities: Dark Proof added to Ice Warg, Slightly increased BL-Ryder Life Drain, reduced a bit power of Fire Rain AoE for Witches.
  • Hero default capacities: downgraded from Lv.3 to Lv.2 Industry and Damage boost capacities.
  • Tweaked Luxury Effects: switched Emerald and Grassilk effects, changed Hydromiel effects for Hero Upkeep reduction, slightly reduced Dust Orchid effect.
  • Increased the military technologies' weights of the 4th Era.
  • Tweaked the cost of some custom faction traits.
  • The "We are legion" faction trait requires the Conversion faction trait. Rage wizards technologies are now linked to a faction trait instead of the faction affinity.
  • Added prerequisites on terrain tag water for the shipyard.
  • Changed the descriptions of 4 Luxury Resources (according to their gameplay changes).
  • Changed the position of the "Mindless Slaughter" technology (Necrophages quest reward, Era 4).

BATTLE

  • Added an attack odds panel in battle.
  • Added the possibility to swap the units' positions in battle deployment.
  • Improved the battle targeting rules (decreased cases where units do nothing).
  • Added the battle deployment zone size in the Registry file.
  • The coloured area of the life bar is more visible in battle.
  • The life bar in battle is removed when de-zooming.
  • Reachable and attack tiles are now more visible in the Winter season.
  • Improved the targeting highlight in battle.
  • Clamped min and max Morale bonus from -6 to +6.

GUI

  • The colour palette can now be selected as a game options of the User Interface tab; includes a colour-blind mode that can be edited through the palette.xml file.
  • Added a custom tooltip on the terms' prices that explains what modifiers influence it, in the notification of diplomatic interactions.
  • When a notification is about a warning or a compliment, the contract is displayed for clarification.
  • Added the number of assimilated villages on each minor faction slot.
  • The real number of available assimilation slots is now displayed in the Empire screen (was capped by the number of assimilable minor factions).
  • Added tooltips on the "Army in battle" and "Army locked by other battle" icons.
  • Added a section in the districts tooltips to explain how to level them up.
  • Added the Battle Movement icon in the Unit battle tooltip.
  • Display of the World Seed value in the bottom left corner of the Options screen.
  • Sorted out the pillar faction trait (no arcana use when there are no pillars and set the right pillar price for Ardent Mage).
  • Improved the large version of the spells' icons.

ITEMS

  • Added Mastery Strategic Resource Cost Bonus system: the more you unlock item technologies, the more you get discounts on item strategic resource costs.
  • Increased by 50% strategic cost of items (to improve strategic resources rarity and to partially compensate the new Mastery system that can potentially decrease by 60% the strategic resources costs of items).
  • Increased by 20% Industry and Dust costs of items made of Iron or Dust.

MARKETPLACE

  • Improved the stock management in the marketplace.
  • Added a feature of auto-supply of stockpiles in the marketplace.
  • Reduced a bit the impact of the level up of units on the marketplace.
  • Changed the value of the Sellout Market Tax.
  • Changed values of the marketplace reference prices of stockpiles and heroes.

UNITS AND HEROES

  • Downgraded Industry Efficient and Damage Boost capacities (Hero default capacities).
  • Unit instant heal can now be modded to choose the used resource.
  • Renamed the "Low Damage" ability: now "Warrior Apprentice".
  • Removed Low Damage (Warrior Apprentice) ability of Support units but reduced their base attack values.
  • Sorted abilities to have Range ability on top of the abilities list.

IMPORTANT FIXES

  • Fixed an issue where an assert can be raised by the Trade Routes system (some region was not correctly excluded).
  • Fixed an issue where an assert can be raised when the Roving Clans lose their main city and have some roaming privateers.
  • Fixed an issue where a crash can occur when displaying info about an annihilated army which was a privateer army.
  • Fixed an issue where a crash can occur when loading a save where a unit is mistaken for a hero.
  • Fixed an issue where an unskippable assert is received by the host during gameplay.
  • Fixed an issue where a desync in MP games is caused by AI empires (when manipulating the construction queues).
  • Fixed an issue where audio is muted and audio options have no functionality when booting the title without headset or speakers plugged in.

And we ran out of characters. :) For the complete release notes, please check the official forum.

Thank you and enjoy!

~Amplitude